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It started out like any other day. Wake up late, large breakfast, oppress the peasants, and then this happened. This thing appeared out of nowhere—literally nowhere; he can sense its mind and that mind did not exist until it was existing right on top of him—and then it swallows him. All the Lord Ruler sees is what looks like a gigantic mirror reflecting a reptilian mouth, and he's suddenly on the wrong side of it. Starts trying to destroy the creature, of course, but nothing he does meets any resistance.
Wherever he is, it doesn't look like the inside of any snake he's ever been swallowed by.
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unprophesied_of_ages
unprophesied_of_ages
"Snakes. Long, narrow reptiles, head is mostly mouth. Or mirror, in this case. One of those appeared out of nowhere and swallowed me. Instead of the inside of a snake, I found myself on a planet full of other wildlife with bizarre powers."
unprophesied_of_ages
It really says something about this world that that's the incomprehensible part.
"OK, we don't have the same classification system.
Cylindrical, a few feet thick, cold blood, eats smaller animals? Regular eating, usually, not whatever this one did."
"OK, we don't have the same classification system.
Cylindrical, a few feet thick, cold blood, eats smaller animals? Regular eating, usually, not whatever this one did."
the_very_best
"I don't really keep track of the blood temperature of Pokémon. But anyway, I don't know of any Pokémon with mirrors for mouths. Seems like that would make it hard for them to eat."
unprophesied_of_ages
"I have no idea whether it counts whatever it did as a successful meal.
But if that wasn't a Pokémon, then aside from being even more confusing that apparently means I do need to find a legendary."
But if that wasn't a Pokémon, then aside from being even more confusing that apparently means I do need to find a legendary."
the_very_best
"I haven't necessarily memorized all of the hundreds of kinds of Pokémon, so there's also that."
unprophesied_of_ages
"Where would I find a list? I can memorize them, but I'd need the information from somewhere first.
Actually, this is probably a priority, considering how important Pokémon seem to be here."
Actually, this is probably a priority, considering how important Pokémon seem to be here."
the_very_best
"I mean, you need at least one to safely leave town - you might be able to manage alone but nonlegendary humans can't - and even if you stay in town there's Pokémon-related stuff everywhere, so, yes, they're important. How much information do you need attached to your list?"
unprophesied_of_ages
"How to recognize them and which ones to stay away from, mostly. The other main thing is that it should be comprehensive enough that if there's a mirror-snake Pokémon I'd find out about it.
There have to be encyclopedias of this kind of thing, right?"
There have to be encyclopedias of this kind of thing, right?"
the_very_best
"Sure, but if you just wanted a list of names or something I could call that up on my Pokétch. Sounds like you want a library. Lucky I know where one of those is too, huh?"
the_very_best
So they depart the clothing boutique and she gets on her flaming horse again and rides same down the street and over a few blocks. Library! It has books!
unprophesied_of_ages
The problem with books is that they're written. Rashek is lucky that Earth's language tends to have one sound per character and few multi-letter phonemes, so by using the same trick as for speech he can relatively easily make the connections to the spoken words.
He finds a book on Pokémon that seems to be searchable by appearance, a shorter book on legendary Pokémon, and a map. And notes the locations of books that might describe the selection of metals on Earth.
He finds a book on Pokémon that seems to be searchable by appearance, a shorter book on legendary Pokémon, and a map. And notes the locations of books that might describe the selection of metals on Earth.
the_very_best
Bella finds other books and reads with a Pokémon curled up across her lap being scritched behind the ears.
unprophesied_of_ages
Rashek can read as fast as he can turn pages, but there's no reason to reveal that. He limits himself to merely fast, and before long he has the information he came for. Including about the metal, while he was pretty sure nobody was looking.
Turns out the reason emotional Allomancy did nothing to the hat birds was because Murkrow are Dark type and immune to Psychic. He flips through the notes on Pokémon of a similar type, so as to know what to stay away from.
More importantly, there is no Pokémon that looks like the thing that brought him here and none known to do interplanetary travel. Legendaries it is, then.
Turns out the reason emotional Allomancy did nothing to the hat birds was because Murkrow are Dark type and immune to Psychic. He flips through the notes on Pokémon of a similar type, so as to know what to stay away from.
More importantly, there is no Pokémon that looks like the thing that brought him here and none known to do interplanetary travel. Legendaries it is, then.
the_very_best
"You about done?" asks Bella, when he's gone through his books.
unprophesied_of_ages
"Just about.
That thing that brought me here was definitely not a Pokémon, incidentally. You don't have to doubt your breadth of knowledge."
That thing that brought me here was definitely not a Pokémon, incidentally. You don't have to doubt your breadth of knowledge."
the_very_best
"Didn't think so. You seem confused enough about Pokémon that I'd be surprised if they existed where you came from. Must be boring."
unprophesied_of_ages
"We do have some animals, but they're rarely more intimidating than you'd think from their size. And you have much more variety here."
the_very_best
"Hundreds and hundreds. There are songs. I still remember most of the words to the Electric Pokémon Song."
unprophesied_of_ages
"Just hundreds? We have more, probably at least thousands of species. But not very many matter."
the_very_best
"Then I guess it's arguable if we really have more variety," shrugs Bella. "Anyway. You're going to go legendary hunting?"
unprophesied_of_ages
"I think I have to, if I'm ever going to get back. I think Sendoff Spring might be a place to start; there's supposed to be an interdimensional portal of some kind."