The Queen of the Citadel

[bnw_void_npcs]

[The feed from the Warp Band flickers and focuses briefly on the face of an unhappy looking young man with his hands bound behind his back before it rotates back around. A severe looking woman is seated upon what seems to be a throne...]

What a curious device. I can see the use though. Am I speaking to the people of Union and Caldera? I am Frea, Matriarch of the Valkyrie tribes of the Citadel. Some of my girls said you gave them a run for their money. Good. It keeps them on their toes.

Anyway, here’s the deal. I've got… about twenty of your people. They’re getting a bit homesick and I don’t really want to keep them. Fact of the matter is, I've got a bit of a situation and they were ripe targets with all that food they were carrying. There’s an enormous Pokémon that’s been thrashing around our territory and burning just about everything it can get to. It’s driving the game away and has messed up a few of our tribes already. My people need food, and this sucker doesn't seem keen on leaving. So here’s my thought. First, I’ll return your people and their equipment to you. Can’t give back the food, already got eaten, sorry about that. If you can help us drive off this Pokémon, though, we can work it off. You scratch my back, I scratch yours, you know how it goes. We've got some things you guys might find interesting and valuable, but I can’t exactly part with any of it while I have an enormous monster of flame and steel beating down my door. Sound good?

[Those who have penetrated far enough into the Rolling Plains have made visual contact with something interesting. Far to the north at the end of the plains, there is a single tree, enormous in size. Frequent flocks of large flying types with mounted female riders can be seen coming to and fro, and the more keen-eyed among you can see that there appears to be an entire city built into the tree. The tree itself, clearly this “Citadel” Frea mentioned, seems to touch the sky, not even fully visible due to the cloud cover.]

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[Video]

[toxicrevenger]

[Pamela's not happy to see that the Unionites are injured. Still, she makes an effort to keep her expression neutral. The living wood gets her attention, too.]

Thank you. Now let's get down to what you're willing to offer Union, and what you know about this giant fire/steel Pokemon you'd like us to help you fend off.

[Video]

[bnw_void_npcs]

The Valkyrie tribes have long roamed these grasslands, herding Miltank, Tauros, and Bouffalant and going where the wind takes us. Our flying Pokemon are second to none and I note your cities both seem to lack good red meat, to say the least. We have much we can offer.

Regarding the Pokemon, it is exceptionally powerful. Those who try to face it find themselves gripped with an unnatural fear, this is no ordinary Pokemon. It stands perhaps fifteen feet tall and crawls on four mighty legs. It's head is armored by bone as strong as steel, and it bleeds molten flame.

[Video]

[toxicrevenger]

[Pamela listens calmly through Frea's description of her people's ways and what they can offer. It's when she describes the Pokemon that her eyes widen in surprise. Holy crap that's a disturbingly powerful Pokemon.]

My goodness. No wonder you're having so much trouble with it.

[Then she regains her composure and moves along.]

The good news is that our people are numerous and organized, and we believe in using our talents to reach out to other civilizations. I can accelerate the growth of plants, so if there's a place where you have crops planted, I can help speed those along so you'll be able to feed your tribes. We have Rangers, Guards and the Swords of the Savior who are all trained in combat to varying degrees.

[Video]

[bnw_void_npcs]

That's good at least, trained fighters can probably handle this thing better than we can. We're not what you'd call "organized".

[Video]

[toxicrevenger]

[And yet their raids were still pretty cleverly done.]

I see. We'll do what we can to help. Some of our Enlightened are able to speak and understand Pokemon fluently, so we'll have someone ready to try reasoning with it and fighters ready in case talking to it fails.

[Video]

[bnw_void_npcs]

It doesn't seem terribly conversational but if that works I'm not complaining.

[Video]

[toxicrevenger]

How are your food supplies at the moment? We can have supplies brought in for the short term to tide your people over.