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???; fourth wall
[...This all would be a lot more enjoyable if the past week hadn't been so shitty.
"This all" being the sudden reappearance of Ondorus' monstrous features; his pointed ears, and the spiral-ridged horn attached to the front of his skull. Along with those comes his magic, with which he patches himself up. All is well...
....
yeah no not really. He can make an effort not to wallow, but recent events have him in a rather somber mood.
For now, though? He's got his species back. He's got his magic back. He can play with his Pokemon (...the ones still with him), showing them forms of different elemental spells. Deliberately avoiding any earth-based ones. He can let them touch his ears and poke his horn, just sort of...existing in monstery solidarity.
And hey, look! Wherever they happen to be at the moment, chances are they're not alone. A small, ever-changing crowd of other monsters are here to play. Some slimes, some weegulls, some ants, the occasional buffamoo or mushroom, a handful of ignis and tundras...and, of course...
...a big cuddly pile of woolies. Because it's not a rune party until the woolies arrive. also ondorus emits wooly magnet beams or something
The univir's smiles are a little forced, but the atmosphere of serenity is real, wherever they happen to be. Come hug a wooly. You know you want to.]
"This all" being the sudden reappearance of Ondorus' monstrous features; his pointed ears, and the spiral-ridged horn attached to the front of his skull. Along with those comes his magic, with which he patches himself up. All is well...
....
yeah no not really. He can make an effort not to wallow, but recent events have him in a rather somber mood.
For now, though? He's got his species back. He's got his magic back. He can play with his Pokemon (...the ones still with him), showing them forms of different elemental spells. Deliberately avoiding any earth-based ones. He can let them touch his ears and poke his horn, just sort of...existing in monstery solidarity.
And hey, look! Wherever they happen to be at the moment, chances are they're not alone. A small, ever-changing crowd of other monsters are here to play. Some slimes, some weegulls, some ants, the occasional buffamoo or mushroom, a handful of ignis and tundras...and, of course...
...a big cuddly pile of woolies. Because it's not a rune party until the woolies arrive. also ondorus emits wooly magnet beams or something
The univir's smiles are a little forced, but the atmosphere of serenity is real, wherever they happen to be. Come hug a wooly. You know you want to.]
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The group of monsters trails along behind Ondorus, who is experimenting with the...current travel situations. This route seems to have just begun, and they're already at its end?...What city is this?]
How about that...
[He stops, humming in perplexed interest, and his tagalongs catch up to him in a small crowd.]
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Hey!
[tries to run up to him, but slows down, in an effort not to trample over the strange creatures that are gathering around him]
Hey, uh, this is a long-shot, but do you know what's going on around here?
[Nooot going to bring up the horn, or the ears, or anything else weird about him yet. At least, not yet. The mutations kind of disensitized her to that particular bit of strangeness]
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Not yet. But I hope to find out. [...or wait she probably means-] -Are you in need of any help?
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...The distances, too. If I'm right, I've just walked a path that would normally take a week to travel.
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[stops herself, and takes a deep breath]
...nevermind. [He just said he was trying to figure this out too, didn't he?] But, what about these little guys? Were they here when you got here, or...?
[Glancing back at the monsters. After all, they do seem rather fond of him. Fonder than most wild pokemon would be, anyway]
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[A weegull peeps shrilly from a branch overhead.]
They're not the only things out-of-place I've seen today. The way this world interacts with other worlds has, to my knowledge, always followed a strict pattern - but within the past day, that pattern appears to have lifted. From the irregular appearance of elements from other worlds, to the reversal of whatever process changes our abilities and forms...even the logic of Johto itself is altered.
[tl;dr, unicorn man, tl;dr]
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["Hmm" indeed. Things are supposed to make sense, dammit.
...Any "dignified wise dude" image Ondorus may have had going there is being ruined by the wooly that's playing with the trailing edge of his cape.]
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Really, Kayneth is more than happy to have his magic back, but... well, given that his emotions had been put through the wringer earlier, it wasn't something he could appreciate that much.
...furthermore, he had been teleported here after caving and trying to drown his sorrows at a bar in Goldenrod, so it seemed like the entire universe was conspiring against him. It was a feeling he was more familiar with now that he'd been in Johto for a while, but that didn't mean he had to get used to it.
So, here he was, half miserable and half pissed as hell, and he was looking at...
...
What was he looking at, exactly? Even with the changed features it wasn't particularly difficult to recognize Ondorus, but...]
...what are these, exactly?
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Monsters from my world. [...]
[...you're kind of exuding waves of discontent, there, buddy...]
This has been a very strange few days, all in all.
[A wooly is waddling over to investigate the newcomer.]
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Yes, it certainly has.
[...man you can definitely hear the strain in his voice
let's talk about something else
like science]
In any case... well. I can't really say that these monsters seem much stranger to me than the ones that are native to Johto...
[...he pauses, giving the wooly a scrutinizing look.]
Actually, it seems as though there are some species that have parallels between this world, your world, and mine.
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Is that so...For some reason, I'm not surprised.
[The wooly closest to Ondorus bleats, and he pats it on the head. It sits down abruptly. He chuckles.]
Are you hungry, Lord El-Melloi? I was thinking of eating soon. [And that weegull poking its beak into my bag isn't going to wait around for midnight snack. Let's have a monster picnic.]
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[It seems obvious, but you'd expect things to be more extreme...
...well, dealing with Pokemon for so long has made him a little more tolerant of animals, so he'll... experimentally pat that sheep
it seems well-behaved enough]
I'm a bit hungry, yes. What are you having?
[it's not like there's anywhere else he has to be...!]
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Nothing too refined, for which I apologize. I hadn't anticipated meeting with anyone on the road, and packed accordingly.
[Still, what he takes out is pretty nice. A small tupperware container (...or whatever equivalent, you know what i mean) with some kind of
okay what i'm imagining here is some kind of mixture of meat and vegetables over rice with a small amount of sauce, and there's some kind of crackers or thin bread in there too? god i don't know how to food. this is a no-junk-food zone, population ondorus. (also a fork to eat it with)
he gave kayneth the nicest-looking thing in the bag, apparently, because whatever he's getting himself is a lot more like typical travel rations. also bread and berries for the monsters here you go guys]
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It's quite alright. This is far better fare than I generally expect to get on the road, so I can't complain at all.
[...it's not the sort of thing he usually likes, but circumstances have forced him to be much less picky than he was back home...]
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It's been far too long since we last spoke in person. Over a month? [Something is obviously bugging Kayneth. Let's talk about something that...probably isn't related. Hopefully? The chances of it being this-weekend-related are pretty high.] How did the event in Vermilion turn out?
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Well, that isn't particularly unusual in a place like this. Everyone seems fairly spread out...
[...AND SO HIS MOOD GOT EVEN WORSE]
Extremely poorly.
welp, i'm laughing
I - I see. [COUGHS well this is awkward
uh
damn] My consolations.
[maybe he should suggest swapping magic demonstrations...but at this point it'd be obvious he's just fishing for a pleasant topic... ]
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[you know what, fuck it]
You seem troubled. Is there something we can talk about that would take your mind off of whatever's bothering you?
[feelings.]
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...well, I suppose you could start by telling me more about the monsters that are here. As I said, many of them do have analogues in my world, but I suppose it could be interesting to hear about the differences.
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This one is a wooly. They're fairly self-explanatory - generally rather docile and curious, and they tend to get along well with humans due to not being able to cause much damage.
["Behhh."]
That's as a general statement, of course. There are unusual members of any species. [golden-fleeced ones, for instance.]
The one that appeared and vanished again about a minute ago is a tundra. It's one of a variety of less corporeal monsters, elementals of sorts. They're rather capricious and wild monsters, with little in the way of culture or custom. The elder of my people keeps a similar creature as a pet.
[He pauses to take a few bites of his food.]
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