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|first_appearance=''[[Mario & Luigi: Dream Team]]'' ([[List of games by date#2013|2013]])

'''Pi'illoper''' is a [[Beanish]] [[List of characters|character]] who appears in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Dream Team]]''. He is a self-proclaimed expert and enthusiast on [[Pi'illo]] culture who resides in [[Wakeport]], his house containing several Pi'illo-related artifacts in its basement. He wears a blue coat and has a mask with the Pi'illo symbol on it covering most of his face. [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] confront Pi'illoper because he has [[Bedsmith]]'s pillow, who is the only one that can build the [[Ultibed]].

''Why had the evil Antasma come? The answer: stones. For the Pi'illos had ever guarded two precious stones. The first was called the Dream Stone. Embedded within this wondrous stone was all the power of beautiful dreams. There was another: the Dark Stone. And within this slept all the power and danger of the world's nightmares. Both stones held a terrible strength, for they could fulfill the desires of whoever held them. Antasma looked upon the Dark Stone with ravenous eyes and decided it would be his and his alone... By insidious means and black arts, he spirited the Dark Stone from the sanctuary where it slept. But he would not go unchallenged. Dreambert discovered the plot and led many Pi'illos to confront Antasma. They surrounded the stolen stone, but the fiend would not yield, and the battle was soon joined.''

''The Pi'illos were fundamentally a peaceful people, and they held to this tenet as best they could. However, with their land and culture held hostage, their fury grew terrible and they fought without mercy. At Prince Dreambert's command, the Pi'illos hurled themselves into the fray in an all-out attack on Antasma. None would permit Antasma's dark designs to come to fruition, even if it meant their own lives were forfeit. For all knew that the Dark Stone, that nightmare in crystalline form, must never be used. Yet even when the battle went ill, no spirit quailed, for the Pi'illos knew they had a powerful ally. The power of this ally was without equal. And it stood with the Pi'illos. It was the Zeekeeper. The bird of legend.''

''The portal to the dream world closed on Antasma, and the Pi'illos seemed the victors at last. But the Dark Stone had fragmented, and now the nightmare chunks fell from the sky, shimmering in the darkness. The soft bodies of the Pi'illos began hardening into stone, and one by one they collasped onto the grass. Before long, neither victors nor the fallen stood on the field of battle. Only silence remained. Who knows how much time has passed since that dark day? None know, but know this last: When all movement on the plain had ceased, a single rabbit appeared. It bounced like a stone in the surf and then seemed to find a Pi'illo it knew among the fallen many. Then, as if to protect the Pi'illo, the rabbit lay against the stone, closed its eyes, and slept. From then on, nothing marked the passage of time on the island but the silence of the stone Pi'illos.''

''Buh huh huh huh huh! Oh hello, loyal reader! It is I, Pi'illoper, your humble author and bed lover, wrecking the [[fourth wall]] to add a word! As my imaginary friends know, I have always had a great passion for the noble Pi'illos, and it led me to self-publish these little screeds! Some might call it fan fiction... I snort at that! How much fan fiction has TEN volumes? Huh? Not many, I'd bet. Did you read them all? Buh huh huh! Not to toot my own horn here, but who'd imagine I could write  a masterpiece with such a dearth of historical materials? Which reminds me, my imaginary lawyers advise me to assert that this work is not affliated with Pi'illo Castle or any official Pi'illo anything! All this humble author hopes is that you might read these and gain a greater appreciation for the Pi'illo folk, be these tales real or imagined!''

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|SpaEM=Possibly a corruption of "frikis" (nerds) + masculine form of suffix "-oid"

|DutM=From "sluimeren" (to slumber) and suffix "-spear" (from William Shakespeare)

|ItaM=From "cuscino" (pillow) and the suffix "-filo" (-phile)

|FreE=Koussinger

|FreEM=From "Koussinos" (Pi'llo) and probably "singer" (to mimic)

|KorM=From "오덕후" (''odeokhu''), a synonym of Korean word "오타쿠" (''otaku''), and "누더기" (''nudeogi'', tatters)

|RusM=From "засыпать" (''zasypat'', to fall asleep) and "-лог" (''-log'', a suffix for scientists)

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