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17th treasure [video]

[Ah, such a lovely day this is. Seriously, it has everything needed for perfection: a wobbly video feed, a fluffy lime green afro taking up most of said feed, a Relicanth swiftly swimming away from said afro, and an original score -crashing waves, Eevee screams, the shouts of a hundred furious souls- that matches the action perfectly.]

Look at that fish go-

[For a man who has to deal with an Eevee screaming in his ear and digging his claws in his shoulder, Ash sounds much too gleeful. The image starts to turn around, shaking even more as it moves.]

-and look at those turtles follow!

[Ash also sounds much too cheerful for a man being pursued by dozens of angry Tirtougas. He might even sound like he's laughing.

...He is laughing. Oh hell.]

Looks like they're gaining on us. Afrodite, show them what we can do!

[Not that anyone else will get to see what exactly that is, because Evo chooses that moment to try and get away from this madness, hitting the Gear in the process.]

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Let's just hope that particular bookseller doesn't have too much influence over his peers.

I've been hoping that as well, though for all I've found... it seems to be rather endemic, I'm afraid.

There's always the possibility to create a petition and show them that there is strong interest in foreign materials, but those are rarely legally binding.

Exactly... and I'm sure offworlders aren't their largest consumer base, so it's not like they'll lose business.

Unless we could get the locals to sign it too, but they seem content with their current book selection.

Precisely... and who knows how deep this sentiment runs? Perhaps the view that foreign materials are unnecessary isn't unpopular enough for them to benefit us in that regard.

And since we have nothing to offer them in return for importing those books, other than our patronage, our chances of changing their minds are low.

[Yet not nonexistent.]

Exactly. Furthermore, the library system seems to have the same problem, and I'd rather not completely deprive myself of ways to access books.

Even a restricted source of information is better than nothing, without even taking into account its use as a source of entertainment.

Precisely. If nothing else, it doesn't seem to be the result of active censorship, so it's not as though there's active malicious intent behind it. That's really the only good thing you can say about the situation, though...

Whatever their intent, the results are the same. But it does give one hope that the situation might change.

If nothing else, information from other regions does have a chance of trickling in slowly... and it's difficult to spend any length of time here without learning some form of patience.

Along with some form of lowered standards concerning logic and physics, I assume?

That goes without saying.

...I've lowered my standards concerning everything else. Might as well go all the way.

That's the spirit. I'd suggest not going too far down that rabbit hole, though.

Because that way lies madness and sentient garbage?

...the sentient garbage is actually less unusual for me if you apply certain explanations to it, but the fact that it's apparently a biological organism... yes, definitely.

...I'd mention the fact that it can reproduce, but that would explain a lot about regular garbage.

Well, as I was saying, it would make sense if it was some sort of magical construct or some sort of spirit that happened to be possessing garbage. However, the fact that it can reproduce at all, much less in the same manner as the majority of Pokemon and with Pokemon that aren't garbage, sends it straight back into dangerous territory.

You have to wonder why any other species would even want to breed with garbage, possible or not. That sounds like an easy way to get rare and nasty illnesses that might not be apparent on a Poison-type.

...differing standards of attractiveness and the fact that no matter how likely it seems, Pokemon only get sick once in a blue moon, I suppose... but ugh, I would hope that my Pokemon have better taste than that.

You could always just tell them not to do it, but then that might convince them to pull a romeo and Juliet on you.

Somehow, I suspect I wouldn't even feel bad about them rushing into a stupid, easily avoidable death.

Even if you had to deal with a whole scene's worth of wailing and melodrama from the rest of your team after the fact?