One moment, Laia is sitting down for the start of the floor session.
The next moment, some kind of bizarre-looking monster is going at her with an enormous golden ring.
The moment after that, she's somewhere else.
One moment, Laia is sitting down for the start of the floor session.
The next moment, some kind of bizarre-looking monster is going at her with an enormous golden ring.
The moment after that, she's somewhere else.
She appears to be on a small farm. In front of her is a farmhouse and a shed. To her right is a pair of large dogs with brown and blue fur. To her left is a pen full of what are probably sheep; they have pale yellow fur and blue heads. (The pen does not actually appear to be closed off in any way. It's not clear what's stopping the ?sheep? from leaving.)
...maybe the dogs are keeping the sheep in? Hopefully they do not keep Laia in. Or object to her going and knocking on the farmhouse door, which is her plan for figuring out where she is.
The dogs do not impede her in this!
The door is answered by a young couple wearing some sort of bizarre foreign style of clothing.
"Hello?" says the young man, in a language she has never heard before but somehow understands perfectly. "I'm the owner of this ranch, and this is my wife. Did you need something?"
"Hello, I'm Songbird Laia Solandra and I'm lost, some kind of monster transported me here just now and I would like to know where I am."
"This is Floccesy Ranch, between Floccesy Town and Virbank City in the Unova region. You said you were brought here by a wild Pokémon? Did you see what it looked like?"
"It was too fast for me to react but I think it was - blue and purple? With gold on it too."
That is definitely not enough information for him to guess at which Pokémon it might have been.
"Well, let us know if you need any help — food, water, borrowing my Xtransceiver, anything like that. We're not too far from Virbank or Floccesy, you could probably make it there before it gets dark, but if you're really worried you can stay the night."
"People don't usually talk about the continents as having names — dear, do you know?"
His wife shakes her head. "If you were talking about one of the continents with multiple regions, maybe, but this one just has Unova, unless you start counting the island chains."
"And Orre."
"I guess. Er, what region are you from?"
"Ours is called Earth," says the man.
"You're an alien?" says the woman. "Are you actually human, or do you have some sort of Zoroark arrangement going on?"
"I don't know what a Zoroark is! Or why I can speak to you! I'm a human, this is what I really look like." ...she looks down at herself to check. "Yeah."
"A Zoroark is one of the species of Pokémon on this planet — they can disguise themselves as other species. The aliens I've heard of look a lot weirder than you," says the man.
"She might be a — what was it called, it was on the news the other day—"
"Faller?"
"Yeah."
"I don't know how we'd tell one way or the other. ...And it's not like we can get her home either way."
"...well, somebody will probably come looking for me sooner or later if I'm needed on Golarion but on the presumption that it might be later or even never," she has no idea how many people that thing snapped up, if it was hundreds of them the archmages might call the convention off rather than haul everyone back from other planets, "what do I need to know? I'm a cleric - of Shelyn, is She known here -"
"Well, if you're from another planet, I don't know what sorts of things you know already," says the woman. "The Unova Champion is Iris? We've got stricter laws than some places about riding Pokémon on roadways? ...I've never heard of Shelyn, the Legendaries people here are most likely to care about are Reshiram, Zekrom, maybe the Swords of Justice, Victini if they go in for superstition..."
"She might be called something else in Unova," says the man. "It's not like I know what people in Johto call Zekrom."
"I'm new to this language and I don't know what things are and aren't Pokémon but - are you using the same word to talk about monsters and also gods?"
"Every planet I've ever heard of has Pokémon," says the woman.
The man frowns. "That might just be because we only hear about other planets when their Pokémon crash here, though."
"...I guess. Pokémon are... living creatures that aren't humans? If you saw the Herdier and the Mareep outside, those are Pokémon. When you called yourself a 'cleric,' it sounded like you were saying that you were working closely with a Legendary Pokémon — a Legendary Pokémon is an especially powerful Pokémon, where only one exists for the entire species."
"...any living creature at all that isn't a human? Wow. Okay. Well, there is only one Shelyn but She does have a brother?"
"There are Legendary Pokémon who are siblings," says the woman. "I saw a TV special about Latios and Latias the other day. What sorts of things is Shelyn associated with?"
"Well, I definitely haven't heard of her, even by another name!" says the woman. "The biggest ones here are Reshiram, associated with truth, and Zekrom, associated with ideals. But Shelyn also sounds nice!"
(Her husband looks a little uncomfortable at the mention of Reshiram and Zekrom.)
"...Did that make sense to you, dear?" asks the woman.
"Is there some other word you could use there?" asks her husband. "That question didn't really make a lot of sense in our language."
"Like. Shelyn is Neutral Good, which means She can have clerics who are that or Chaotic Good or Lawful Good or True Neutral, and those are all alignments."
"I would guess they're both Good," says the woman. "I don't know if they're Lawful or Chaotic, most laws don't really apply to Pokémon. I don't really know how I'd tell what 'alignment' the trainers they've worked closely with are."
Her husband looks incredibly uncomfortable.