He is in fact good at clothes. He selects things that, to the limited extent possible from the rack, end up looking like combinations a nobleman on Scadrial might wear. A very, very eccentric nobleman.

"I can do that." Gold is the only conventionally valuable material he has on him, so he takes off a relatively large and ornate ring (the contents having been transferred to other storage, of course). "How much would you estimate this is worth here?"

The cashier tallies up the set of clothes he's picked out, and then says, "I can give you these and four thou in change," she says.

"I don't think I will. Thanks for your help; the situation with Larry could have gotten a lot messier without the translation idea."

"You're welcome - oh, one question first. Just how legendary a space human are you?"

"Only mostly. For instance, I'm not even probably fictional."

"I don't actually know whether I count as powerful by whatever scale you use on this planet. Does it have a name, by the way? I did lose to that flock of Murkrow, if that helps estimate, but I think I could probably win if I went in knowing they were dangerous."

"Planet's called Earth. And they were reportedly numerous and pretty high-level for wild unevolved Murkrow, but regular humans, directly attacked like that, would've been dead, and a weak to average wild 'mon would have run off or fainted versus that many opponents. My team could take the flock, based on Larry's description, but not without casualties."

"How did you manage to be very long-lived, then?"

"I'm still not sure I want to describe how my abilities work. But it's an intersection between two unrelated powers, neither of which is transferrable."

"Damn. I will keep looking for legendary 'mon and ask them, then, I guess."

"Where does one look for legendary 'mon? If they're in the habit of granting favors, I might need one to send me back."

"I haven't found any yet. I'm planning to check Lake Valor next, see if I can find Azelf."

"The former, basically. But I've already checked Lake Verity as thoroughly as I could, so if the lake guardians exist at all they may require something I don't know about to show up."

"Are any of the legendaries psychic? Those would probably be easier to look for."

"Yeah, actually all three of the lake guardians are reputed to be psychic, among other legendaries, pretty common."

"Good. And once they're found, you talk to them, throw a ball at them, or nobody's ever gotten that far?"

"I wasn't planning to capture a legendary 'mon, unless it seemed to be obviously not as bright as they're supposed to be. It seems disrespectful. I'd try to talk to them. Some people have ambitions to capture legendaries, though, or Larry wouldn't have made such a fuss about you."