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138th moon [video]

Between the Grimer, the weather moves, the fires and everything else, I'm starting to believe my garden is cursed.

[Considering the state of the tomato plants shown on the network, Cecil may have a point. Of course, the solid centimetre of Grimer residue covering the whole plot can't be helping, either. As a hand appears on camera to lift the sad remains of a leaf, he sighs.]

Does anyone know of a way to confirm the presence of any such curse? And how to dispel it, if necessary?

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[Jane's brow furrows as she observes the, uh...carnage.]

...This is going to sound like a silly question, and no doubt you'd have to reapply it at regular intervals, but have you tried using Repels in the area? Directed to the plants and not yourself - though, I would think some Pokemon visitors would be more beneficial to a garden than others...

[She's just. Flashing back to the days of her youth when she liked gardening, and no one was making her pumpkins disappear.]

I tried that... five years ago, I believe? My Grass-types were saddened at the thought of not taking part in the gardening, and frankly playing in the yard was not a particularly pleasant experience for the whole team, but it did keep the Grimer far away.

[Despite that impressive victory, there is very much a 'but' in his voice.]

However, that was also the year with the abnormal April rain and puddles, and the soil took ages to recover from that. I'll have to try it again and hope the weather is kinder next time.

Would your Pokemon be adversely affected if the Repel was sprayed on the outer border of the yard, then? Even if it was on the outside of a fence, just to keep the Grimer from entering the area...but if that's too much for them...hm...I don't see why they would be going to your garden in the first place.

As they've been regularly invading my garden for the last nine years, I've long given up on understanding their motivations.

[They're just a fact of life now, like 4th Wall Weekend.]

Perhaps I could spray the fence with repels and attempt to grow thorny bushes next to it once more... Two forms of protection against unwanted visitors are better than one, surely.

That would be a deterrent for most creatures, I think! Still, you've got to keep in mind that Grimer are usually pretty...goopy? Gaps in things are likely not an issue, and it's very possible the poison in their bodies could make quick work of thorn bushes.

Oh, I've no doubt that such thorn would be unable to stop them. They would, however, make slipping through the fence a very unpleasant experience, which may deter the more cowardly among them.

[A beat.]

Deliberately planting an organism, knowing the whole time that it'll eventually succumb to poison, for the sake of slowing down an invasion may be somewhat unethical, however.

Maybe somewhat. My gardening days are quite a long ways behind me though, so I am definitely not the best authority on botany ethics.

Long behind you? Have you not had the time or space recently? I do hope you've not also had to deal with repeated failures.

Ah, well, it wasn't so much that as I got frustrated with it, primarily because my pumpkins would up and disappear no matter what methods I went to keep my potential harvest in my garden and untouched.

Well, that's just rude. Stealing the fruits of someone's labor and potentially ruining someone meal plans in doing so... If none of your methods worked, I must assume you've not identified the culprit?

Oh, no, it was a friend of mine. She was in much more need of the pumpkins than I was - I just hadn't believed her methods were true until I couldn't deny them.

...Her greater need implies a high risk of starvation, yet the methods necessary to fix that particular problem tend to be both well-known and impossible to deny.

This is true, but considering she lived roughly four centuries in my future, and was zapping my pumpkins away through time and space, it wasn't as if I was finding such a predicament very believable when my life was, to my knowledge, incredibly mundane and not given to flights of scientific fantasy.

[Cecil says nothing for a very, very long time.]

Surely there were more easily accessible pumpkins to be found within... a decade or so of her time, unless that specific variety died out.

[Jane just offers a sigh and a shrug, almost as if to say "Oh, you," to a Roxy who isn't present.]

Frankly, I wouldn't know. I'm sure once I stopped gardening out of frustration she got her gourd fix elsewhere.

I would hope so, if she was willing to go that far to fulfill it. Yet now you cannot take up gardening again, for the passage of time could not stop her from taking them once more...

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