117th moon [audio]

[paladinlost]

...You'd think finally seeing my loved ones after so long and recalling precious memories of my comrades would lessen the pain of our separation, yet it somehow feels stronger than ever.

[Cecil's voice has been left rough by a week of disuse, filled with wistfulness by what occured during said week, but there's happiness there that only grows when he speaks again.]

Still, my world is in one mostly intact piece and my kingdom has avoided burning to ashes, freezing solid or worse. That calls for a celebration! Thus, for the next three days I will be paying for everyone's drinks and meals at the Merry Medicham. Please do not hesitate to come and partake to your stomach's content. I'll take care of the tab.

[Limited time offer only. This paladin is not responsible for any stomachache or illness incurred by overeating.]

Comments

[islandshore]

I wonder if they'll ever top the moon and dream proms. Only thing I can think of is parallel dimensions at this rate.

[But maybe he just jinxed it. Hard to say, really.]

Heh. Either way, hope those kinda catastrophes aren't too common on your end.

[paladinlost]

If no Legendary pokémon is willing to break the barriers between dimensions for us, a prom in this world's Underground might be interesting, if it has one. Terrible for Ice-types and Grass-types among others, however.

[For reasons Riku can surely guess.]

We'had two, seventeen years apart. For my future granchildren's sake, I hope it's not the start of a pattern.

[islandshore]

Huh. What, like some crazy cavern party or something?

[How would that even work? Well, if nothing else, it would be different.]

Eh, at least seventeen years is a... somewhat generous gap. I guess. Certainly more generous than all the chaos here.

[paladinlost]

In a cavern large enough to fit all of Johto, potentially.

[Undergrounds are great like that.]

It could have been far worse, indeed. There was that one incident in between, but it was over and done with in less than a week. That hardly counts as a problem.

[Except for the 'prelude to the planet-eating moon' part, of course.]

[islandshore]

Heh. I'd question the logistics, but for all we know, there's some hidden labyrinth of tunnels buried under the sands of time.

[Okay, that sounded tacky. Still.]

I don't know. A week might not be much, but the severity of the incident's still a factor, if you ask me.

[paladinlost]

Frankly, at this point I'd be surprised if there weren't hidden tunnels.

[Hidden tunnels seem like they'd fit right in this world.]

...No one dies, no permanent damage was caused, but our opponents learned far too much about us. That's... practically harmless.

[islandshore]

But are those opponents gonna be able to use that info later? They still got any dangerous agendas?

But I guess even if they do, that's the lesser evil. Definitely when compared to, y'know, casualties.

[paladinlost]

...There is a non-negligible possibility that both that incident and our recent almost destruction were linked, but as the True Moon is gone I can hardly look for clues to prove that theory.