Pokemon Tabletop United

"Uhh..." Coralei is slightly taken aback by the aggressive show of support and surreptitiously takes a pace backwards towards the stage and away from her biggest fan. Setting her face straight she turns to address Lucian.
"I guess it's understandable to be having cold feet right now... I certainly can't rightly claim we didn't get into a few scrapes now and again before the thing was done and a couple of the people I graduated with even called it quits before they finished the whole journey, but that wasn't because they were scared! They just realised they had other things that they thought would be a better use of their time.

I can't deny that I probably got more out of it than most of you will either! Or than everyone else who set off as the same time as I did for that matter, but I have kept contact, and none of mine died out there or anything!
As well as people doing jobs like mine you'll find a lot of finished pilgrimage cards at pedigree breeders, labs and in the council house. People here have to come to appreciate what someone with a wealth of life experience can bring to their business.

Besides that, you're not children! Everyone in this room is an adult!"
Coralei studiously avoids looking at Caroline.
"I'm reasonably sure even the youngest of you is probably older than I was when I got going, and look where I am now. No sense giving up before you've even had a go is there?"