020 [Video/Action for Olivine]

[soggypastry]

[This has been a terrible couple weeks for one ex-Sergeant Farron, between Serah, Sora, Vanille, and Snow disappearing and the altercation with Leon that she doesn't know what to think of, even after almost two weeks. And with the last bit of hope she'd been holding to get Hope and the others home gone because getting the badges won't get them home

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[video]

[puppet_paladin]

...Those contraptions are more sensitive than I thought.

[Because cooking mishaps are always easier to comment on than distant looks and disappearances.]

[video]

[soggypastry]

It's because they're in the Center. They can't afford to risk a fire because of the people and pokémon staying here.

[So much easier for them both, really.]

[video]

[puppet_paladin]

That seems like a lost cause, considering the number of Fire-types they must see daily. Is your meal salvageable?

[video]

[soggypastry]

Pokémon fires are easier to contain than kitchen fires.

[That and there's generally someone with the pokémon; a kitchen fire can easily burn unattended for a while before anyone sees it.]

Yeah, I just overcooked it. I ate worse in the military.

[video]

[puppet_paladin]

Their fires do seem rather restricted, at times.

[His tone of voice has a slight touch of 'luckily'.]

It'd take a particular lack of talent for cooking to obtain a meal that reaches the level of a military ration.

[video]

[soggypastry]

It's a part of them. No reason it wouldn't be restrained to their bodies unless they wanted to let it out somehow.

[Said with the knowledge that comes with training a rather cocky Ponyta up to a protective Rapidash; they have very tight control of their flames by evolution point, those horses.]

It's not as hard as you'd think, actually. Just leave things sitting for too long and it happens.

[video]

[puppet_paladin]

Even when they let it out, it seems less damaging than a Fire spell would be.

[Which is probably the only reason Ilex Forest is still standing.]

I think you'd have to start out with subpar ingredients, too.

[video]

[soggypastry]

Because they're mostly still in control of it. They actually know what they're doing.

[Which is probably the only reason anyone with a fire-type isn't burned beyond recognition.]

You'd be surprised. The stuff the military uses is actually high-grade. It's just the way that it's cooked.

[video]

[puppet_paladin]

Hopefully none of them will ever attempt to show off the true extent of their powers.

[Knowing the limits of a level 100 Arcanine's power is not one of his priorities.]

In that case, perhaps I should set some of Baron's budget aside to research proper cooking methods, next year.

[video]

[soggypastry]

A lot of that depends on their temperament. Some would be more willing to keep it under control than others.

[She has a level 100 Rapidash, but she's never seen him use his full power and...honestly, she doesn't want to see that.]

Might do some good. Good food can help soldiers keep fighting for a longer time than you'd think.

[video]

[puppet_paladin]

And I truly doubt the more uncontrolled Pokémon would even allow themselves to be trained by humans.

[Barring a few rare cases, of course.]

...Our tradition is to forget about the rations and eat the local monsters. Even average food would be a step up.

[video]

[soggypastry]

They'd put up a fight about getting caught, at least. We'd have heard about it by now if that happened.

[There's rare cases for everything, though. They might have missed it entirely.]

Considering it's less likely to be poisonous for humans, it might be a big step up. Could be worth looking into.

[video]

[puppet_paladin]

And their lucky or unlucky trainers would undoubtedly have bragged about it, if the capture was particularly difficult but ultimately successful.

[Not that Cecil really knows what a difficult capture is like.]

Poison is not too much of a problem, near Baron. But every year, we have squires foolish enough to try to eat a cockatrice. Being petrified is hardly pleasant.

[video]

[soggypastry]

Like I said, we'd have heard about it by now if it happened, so it probably hasn't yet.

[Light has...some experience with tricky captures, but only one, and that was a long time ago.

And...petrified, Cecil? That's earning you a confused look, but she can get the basic meaning of it anyway.]

No one tried to tell them not to?

Re: [video]

[puppet_paladin]

Unless said Pokémon came out of an egg.

[It's not his fault XIII has strange status ailments.]

They're told by everyone, from the infirmary's white mages to their superior officers. Yet they still try it. A generous man might say that they are accidentally confusing cockatrices and helldivers, but that generous man would have to be colorblind.