>>21053019Oh, but you had to get all finicky, you just had to get that heroic helper feeling again. Unable to deal with not paying him in return for saving you, you queried him regarding a central issue that's been plaguing his village recently.
These mushroom mons depend on eating 'shrooms for survival (don't worry, it's not cannibalism), because there's fuck all for them to eat in the middle of the marshes. Gotta farm that shit, harvest that shit, distribute that shit, help out the community and all.
That routine all went to pieces as soon as a monster dropped in from the sky and decided to make it his life's purpose to terrorize the mushroomers. The Muck Monster they call it.
Day by day as Sporrest says, the monster creeps and lurks and snatches their 'shrooms, eating them all up and causing the villagers to either heavily ration their portions or starve to death. There are attacks, fights, everything you can imagine, but nobody can seem to catch this beast or even identify what kind of Pokemon it is, and anyone that tries to becomes a dead man that has no tales to tell.
Sporrest remains the only person with the balls to continue harvesting, if only because his own personal grudge against the Muck Monster.
