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(RPJ)Chapter 278: Shopping
🕑 Added 2024-10-12 14:26:27 +0000 UTC"I see, well please try not to create any disturbances while you are here." he said more as a formality than anything. I could tell he was uneasy about allowing me in the village but by law he couldn't actively chase me off. "You can relax I have no intention of causing problems. As I said just stocking up before passing through." I tell him reassuringly. He looked unconvinced but nodded and let me through all the same. The architecture of the village was mostly wood and stone with heavily sloped rooves clearly designed from snow.-
Sinnoh was a cold region due to it's northern position on the globe and even "hot" parts that weren't volcanic never exceeded sixty degrees Fahrenheit. The far northern part of the region and mountains around Mt. Coronet were even perpetually covered in snow year round. Anyways the buildings were made for the snow that came in the later months of the year. The size of the village wasn't overly large with a population of maybe a thousand or so people total. The layout of the place was also fairly standard with the buildings set in nice neat rows for efficiency and the shops being on the main street or near it.-
In the middle of the street was a pokecenter and next to that a pokemart. The there were the restaurants and stores lucky enough to have spots on the main street as well. I saw lumber, herbs, jewelry, food and of course a few general stores for the daily necessities. Besides the league buildings that were purposely made to stand out there were only three buildings that looked different than the others. The first was a small transportation hub that rented out pokemon to take people to and from Canalave and Jubilife.-
I wasn't too surprised about this as I knew that services like this tended to pop up in these small villages and towns that were between the cities. I hadn't seen any in Hoenn mostly because I rarely entered these sort of places and went through the wilderness instead. The second outstanding building was an icecream shop oddly enough. It was built similarly to the rest of the village but was painted white and red and had a large neon sign in the shape of an icecream cone. I made a mental note to pay the place a visit.-
Finally but certainly not least was a pokemon breeder at the edge of the opposite side of the village. This building was made of metal and designed like the other league buildings but had a paint job of grass and clouds in a sky on it's walls. There was a large high fenced area connected to it that I assume was the location that the young pokemon and breeding pairs of pokemon stayed. When I walked through the village taking stock of the different services available here I made a plan as to how I was goin g to spend my time here.-
I had told the guard I wouldn't be here long and I meant it so my plan was not much more than grabbing some supplies to recoup my losses from the naming party and checking out the icecream parlor before grabbing a room at the inn and sleeping till I left in the morning. My first stop was a general store that had the more basic of things and a few knick knacks but that was all. I purchased a large quantity of meat and some vegetables while replacing a few of my seasonings that were getting low.-
"Feeding an army kid?" the old shop keeper asked curiously when I went to check out. "Just my pokemon and myself, foraging and hunting is good and all but still need to go to a store for some things." I said honestly. "Picky eaters?" he asked and I nodded. "Nothing for it I'm afraid since I am a master chef and they've grown used to meals at that level, not that I'm complaining since I quite enjoy cooking." I say with a shrug. "To each their own I suppose. Me though? Can't cook worth a damn, leave that to my wife." he joked.-
I left the store after that and headed to the herb shop to see what they had and was a bit disappointed with the selection as while not bad it also wasn't anything special either. I only ended up buying some native strains of herbs and fungi of middling quality as well as the only interesting thing in the shop, a finned blue vine root. Finned blue vines were a rare mutated species of the common silver vine that comes about when one of the plants manages to draw nutrients from a water stone.-
No one was certain how exactly this worked either as it wasn't something even someone with the plant manipulation ability was able to replicate. When one tried it the final result was entirely different despite the process being nearly identical. Not to say that it was worth much despite this as the vines root was the only part worth anything to an alchemist and only then as a stabilizing agent for more volatile recipes. For beginner alchemists this was quite a useful property but once an alchemist reached Adept or higher mastery any alchemist had at hand easier to acquire ingredients for the same purpose.-
Hell I myself had no less than twenty different ingredients that could stabilize my works depending on the composition without any side effects. I had one for each type of energy and then a few for general purpose or healing type potions and supplements. The only reason I went to buy this root myself was merely for my personal collection. After the herb shop I headed towards the icecream parlor that was empty save the woman I saw through the glass windows cleaning the tables and floor.-
A little bell rang when I pulled open the door and the woman smiled as she turned to greet me. "Welcome to the best icecream parlor in Sinnoh! Please give me a moment to finish up and I'll be happy to serve you, please look over the selection in the meantime!" the woman said with a bright smile. "Not that it's my place but I happen to have a cleaning solution that wouldn't leave a residue behind on your wooden tables." I offer after seeing the suboptimal results of the chemical solution that was clearly used on the tables.-
"That's quite kind of you but I can't really afford to buy more expensive solutions, sorry." she said slightly less friendly than before. "Ah I apologize I wasn't trying to insult you or anything nor am i trying to sell you anything. I'm an alchemist you see and happened to create such a thing on accident while experimenting is all. It's been taking up space in my bag since I have no need for it and figured it would be better in your hands than my own is all. As a bonus it also smells like oran berry." I clarify with a chuckle.
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Cole Bromley
Thanks for the chapter!
