Morgana's Refresh

Today was nice because Morgana had acquired a lot of Emerald Shield Fragments from a mud monster in Birchwild Grove. It was nice in theory, because emeralds were nice, but less nice in practice, as emerald was both useless and worthless on UNOVR and even if this had been real life, Morgana would have just thrown them into a glass jar and put them on her bookshelf or something.

"Functionally useless!" she declared, sitting cross-legged on a standing stone. Her fingers dripped with mud, which was also smeared all over the stone. And her dress. And hair. Actually, she was coated head to toe in mud, which was ironic considering she'd already earned the Muddy Boy/Girl title before the accursed Mud Monster. "Monetarily worthless!"

Guilottine Flatflipper the Piplup poured her a cold drink, which Morgana snatched and drank down, wiping her mouth. She drank another glass, then used the third to wash the mud off her hands. "Guillotine, we have to do something," she announced as she scrubbed, "You know. Find a buyer for these worthless, worthless gems."

<The Guild Leader CLAW might be interested, I suppose?> Guillotine offered tonelessly. She was already resigned to Morgana's brand of nonsense, and did not expect this suggestion to go very far.

"No, no. She seems more like a ruby kind of person. A-ha! Perhaps Ruby would be interested," Morgana said, making a very, very logical connection. She stood up, dusting off her incredibly mud-drenched skirt as if that was going to somehow clean it. "That's it! I'll send them to Ruby!"

She snapped her fingers and a small, coaster-sized pink Dreamer portal appeared, floating around the other side of Piplup. It was actually Guillotine's Poke Pet, but it mostly served as a handy disposal for recyclable aluminum cans and spare emeralds.

<I would think Ruby is also a ruby kind of person,> said Guillotine, skeptically watching as Morgana poked a muddy emerald through the portal. It disappeared with a cool OMMMM sound effect, like the music they played at those meditation retreats. The girl stopped to consider Guillotine's point, eyes narrowed. "Hmm," she conceded. "...Who else then? Cygnus seems like a topaz kind of person, so that's a dead end."

<Does he...>

"And Chadwick, why! Clearly a sapphire kind of person. Much like myself, actually."

<This seems like color-coding based on their outfits. That's what you're doing, isn't it.>

"Ohohoho! You've seen through my plan. Clever Guillotine." Morgana slid smugly down from the rock, leaving a long brown dirt smear behind her. "Fine then, gather up those emeralds and let's go pass them out to orphans in the forest. Perhaps one of them will be a fairy godmother in disguise and will grant me three wishes!"

<That's Jirachi, and... okay.> Shaking her round head, the Piplup carefully gathered up the remaining emerald shards and floated after Morgana, mini-portal in tow. She wasn't sure how many orphans they'd find just wandering around in Birchwild Grove, but hopefully they were wearing green.

PIPLUP IS NOW VERY RARE (+15)