seasaltkeys | Day 28 [Video/Action]

[Once again, the feed clicks on during a gym battle, in the last few moments, since Roxas dropped the gear in excitement. Sparky is striking his victory pose as there is a fried Gengar not too far away.

Morty nods in approval and comes forward to congratulate Roxas, although our young hero appears to have other plans. He practically snatches the badge and TM from the stunned gym leader, and runs towards the exit, scooping up the gear on his way out. Sparky has to run to catch up and the feed ends abruptly. This ends the video portion.]

[Once outside, Roxas falls to his knees and is breathing pretty hard, pokegear and TM scattered around him, but the badge is held firmly in his hand. He'll be fine in a few minutes, but it should be obvious that someone really doesn't like ghost pokemon. See Day 13 for details. Once he recovers, he'll want to go for ice cream, so for action people in Ecruteak, feel free to encounter him in front of the gym or while getting ice cream. Video people, all responses will come after he's gotten ice cream and he won't want to talk about what happened.]

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You are lucky. I normally enjoy small, peaceful towns, but Cheerygrove's environment became tiring rather quickly.

That was what it was like for me and Violet.

I prefer a city like Goldenrod.

I think most would agree with you on that point. It's a shame I could spend so little time there. Perhaps I should visit it with the girls soon; they'd certainly enjoy the change of scenery.

It's nice place to be. They probably would.

It would help showing them the depth of the differences between worlds. Our planet has no cities as populated.

It doesn't?

We have no skyscrapers, and many live off the land. Thus, settlements so densely populated would be impratical, even if we had the citizens to fill them.

[He nods a bit, but it's kind of going over his head]

So it's mostly like farmland and stuff?

[He nods.]

Yes. Our agriculture is one of our main strengths and a great source of exports. A great part of our land is covered by forests or the small desert to the west, but we cultivate most of it.

I think I get it.

It is part of the reason the kingdom needs a strong army. Monsters often threaten the crops, and we must be able to fight back.

Monsters? Are they like pokemon?

They are, in that there are multiple species and they attack people, but the similarities stop there. Monsters are vicious and prey on humans, with no hope of peace with them.

...They sound like heartless.

I think they play rather similar roles, from what Aerith told me of them. Though monsters would never have the power or inclination to destroy whole worlds.

Even though they attack villages and stuff?

They attack villages for resources, or out of aggressivity. But they are sustained by the world just as much as humans. Dark powers and cataclysms might strengthen monsters, but that is temporary; they'd not be able to thrive very long on a barren world.

But you still have to fight them.

Every time we leave the relative safety of the towns. The monsters near Baron are mostly weak, but Eblan is not so lucky.

At least you're safe in the towns. Heartless can show up pretty much anywhere.

Is there no way to erect barriers against them?

I don't think so.

Is there nothing they dislike or fear?

...My keyblade?

[He says it with a little smile, since he's pretty proud of his abilities]

While that is good to hear, I doubt you could protect all the worlds at the same time. Unless you have enough keyblades to encircle all the worlds that need help.