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"I'll try to make the best of the situation," he muttered before turning to Dave. "This Radiance, though, it sounds promising. Is there only one person in Sojavena who knows about it? I wonder if the Wardens in Sunward have heard of it, given they protect the embodiment of the Sun."
"You mean how we can attest to how we couldn't have succeeded without your help? Anyways," Koa said, shaking his head and turning to Dave. They had to focus on what they could deal with right now. The idea of radiance fascinated him. The power of the saints... "This radiance thing sounds really promising but if we want to ask the Escarpa for help we have another problem. I don't know if any of us are strong enough to. From what little I could research, they're very... reserved? It seems like they don't trust strangers easily without a good show in battle. Unless they allow us to fight as a team, then maybe we have a shot."
"The way Beetle described it, Radiance is a power associated with 'saints', which is apparently what legendary Pokémon are called over here, and also legendaries are real because this universe is a cartoon." He rolled his eyes. "There aren't a lot of them alive, and only some of them use Radiance, and this Wandering Light is the main one around here. Apparently some rare wild Pokémon have it too, and some people here and there who achieve 'mastery of their own souls'. Which, I don't know, sounds like spiritual mumbo-jumbo to me but so does being here in the body of a fucking dog. Beetle also said something about a monastery or something where people try to gain it through meditation, but it sounds a lot easier if someone can 'pass it on'.""Hm. I'm familiar with Radiance," Mhynt said. "I don't have the powers now. But if it behaves at all like how it does back home, perhaps I could help with training... when we find a means to gain that blessing."
"I don't know if it's the same here," Mhynt said as a preface, "but in my world, Radiance was a power derived from a being of great light. From there, that power was passed down, bestowed, and diluted over time, but Legends who were around at the time of that blessing still had it the strongest. I have a direct blessing from that power, which was also what allowed me to transform into Lunala.Okay, hang on, can you elaborate on what you know about this power exactly?
And for that matter, do you have any clue why this Owen guy would be here? Was he part of our group and just never made it to Frontier Town, or what? Or... you said something about him being captured before you came here? So do you think whoever captured him sent him here somehow?
"Our cloud buddy might already be doing that to an extent."
"As for fighting them, I don't know, but we can at least go there and ask. Maybe they'll be willing to exchange information if we tell them we'd like to get to the bottom of what happened to that Brisa girl."
Okay, now she was making this sound like some sort of bizarre supernatural steroid drug. What the fuck. (And... wait, what was that bit about transforming into a fucking Lunala?)"Radiance lets you do things that no ordinary Pokemon can do, but it has a few side effects in my world. For one, it makes you larger. Owen, for example, had grown to something like thirteen feet tall as a Charizard. It also strengthens your impulses if you do not regularly meditate or otherwise keep your emotions in check. The effects are weaker on immortal Pokemon who can handle the power better by default.
"If your Radiance is completely out of hand, that energy erupts from your body all at once in a massive explosion. That could be a problem, but I haven't heard any stories of that in this world... Unless, of course, they naturally have a better check on their powers here than a nondivine being trying to harness it."
“I’ve been wanting to talk to the Escarpa for a long time, I just didn’t think it would go over well if we couldn’t hold our own in a fight,” Jade said in a low voice. She took a deep breath and added, “But we managed to beat the rangers, even if it was just a test. So I want to find them now. Brisa thought they might be able to help.”
Dave blinked. "Excuse me, what? You met her and just, what, never brought it up? Brisa as in Brisa Escarpa, half-human daughter of Jesse Stranger?""I forgot. You met Brisa, didn't you? Do you still have that, uh, earring thing...?"
Jade nodded, fishing it out of her bag. Brisa's sky-blue feather earring, fashioned from dungeon gold.
Christ. Dave rubbed his face. "Well, first of all, Jesse Stranger vanished some five years back. In his study there was a convenient diary where he wrote about how Ignatius Voclain had threatened to kill Brisa if something happened again." He thought back. "He had this note with a list of names, most of them struck through. The ones that weren't included Gerome, Voclain, 'Dakota' and 'That fucking lizard prick in the stupid fucking hat', which is almost definitely Nolan unless there's another lizard prick with an even stupider hat around. Best guess at the point of the list is he was trying to work out who was human or had human ancestry." He left the implication for Gerome unstated.Laura nodded, glancing at Dave.
"So, you checked out a cabin that belonged to Brisa Escarpa and Jesse Stranger...? Did you find anything out while you were there?"