[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

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Ah, well that seems to be a different story. The soldier salutes you and takes the two treasure maps to examine. "Sha! I know not if these maps to ought of worth might lead, but when next I am on leave, perhaps try we shall! An expedition we shall mount. Take what you will!"

He offers you a nice leather-and-steel shield, a short sword of bronze, and a spear with a few simple woodburned designs. It takes him a while to find a helmet big enough for you. None of these have any official insignia such as the Eye, but you think an expert will easily be able to ID the era.

Terra bows back to the soldier, and accepts all the weapons/armor with a grateful smile.

"Thank you, sir. May you have......great fortune with these Maps that I could not have myself..."

That said, he straps on all the arms and armor to himself (probably with a little help from the soldier) , and bid them farewell and good night as he leaves. When he purchased those Treasure Maps and had them checked over by Nathan/Shiva, he didn't think that he'd get anything out of them for a looooong time, but with this trade he's gladly proven himself wrong! Or serendipitously right, if you count being *LURCHED* to the King's era to be a looooong time!

He of course notices that his newly bartered equipment didn't bear the eye sigils that so profusely marked the campsite, and so (if its possible) he goes back over to the Artist he met earlier and requests they paint Purple Eyes on them, plus Kazesidhe on the Shield, and a small pic Child of Garlic on his helm. If he going to purchase 'ancient' armaments for himself, he might as well go the extra mile and decorate his stuff! Who knows, it might increase their value too!

Order: Make the trade to get the Helmet, Spear, Short Sword, and Shield (And learning how to put them on/take them off), then go to the artist to customize it with Purple Eyes/the Legendary Pokemon he described if possible, before heading back to the group's campsite. Surely Nathan will have double-take upon seeing Terra decked out in soldier gear!

The artist agrees without any hesitation. He's just using paint, which ought to fade away after 1500 years, so you might want to get them restored to original condition before selling them, or think of some excuse maybe.

It looks pretty cool, though, because Legendaries are one of this artist's specialties.

[Iron]

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What are you using for a light source?

Gustav Bubbles the coat of mud off of the banks. You don't unearth anything interesting that way.

But when he jumps into the center of the lake, he comes back with a busted chainmail and a short sword caked in rust and mud!

Heart its using Rose as a light source to illuminate the darkness around him. When Gustav bring back the chainmail and the short sword, Heart salute greatly him! "Great job Gustav! We may have find something neat." Heart did not dare to touch the sword just yet. "Honedge its know by his ability in absorb the energy of anyone who would dare in enter in contact with him...maybe if I clean the sword, maybe that would make him a little more happy?" With all the care of the world, Heart did not direct touch the blade, with the fear of be a real Honedge and try to absorb his life force. When they are earth, Heart give some orders. "Gustav, I need some water source here to clean the blade. Restrain your strengh as much possible. Just in case this sword be a possessed spirit." Heart also use a piece of clothes from his own (to protect his hands so that way not get his life energy be absorb) and begin clean the blade, taking a away the rust and mud as better he can.

Frrrrsht! You wipe and clean away all the gunk from the naked sword. This exposes a blue gem, which starts glowing in the moonlight. The hilt sprouts a tiny little blue thread, and leathery straps begin hardening around the steel like an animal growing a scaly hide. This process is very very slow, and the item/Pokemon? does not move at all.

*roll*

When the pokemon finally have awakened, Heart kneel before the sword pokemon. Gustav and Rose did the same thing as his master. Heart bow his head. "Welcome back to the world of the living, might and powerfull sword pokemon. I did not wish to disturb or cause any trouble to you oh noble ghost pokemon. My name is Heart. ArcHeart. Descendant of a long line of knights from the maiden of flames Ark. I also come from a distant future from this one. How you feel Honedge?"

All it does is flash its gem. It looks like Honedge will need a LOT of time to recover its strength.

[Iron]

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"Found some ghost pokemon at the camp." He says pointing at the soldier camp. "Also found a strange black seed that my ghost pokemon seem to like, thought you might know more about it." He hands the seed to Nathan for him to look at. When Spira gets his cloak the first thing he notices is the pattern on the back of it. "Wow that looks similar, but not quite like the badge for Hearthome," Spira sweeps back his trench coat revealing the badge for 1925 Hearthome on his shirt pocket

looks something like this

can't upload picture from phone, do that monday...

the three circles of the badge are in a triangular formation at center with a single curved line coming from each of them in a clockwise fasion. Spira take his hat and trench coat off and puts them in his bag, putting the cloak on over his bag. {OOC I got tired of my phone erasing everything i typed when i tried to upload the pic...}

Nathan looks at the camp whenSpira says there are Ghost types over there.  Obviously, he doesn't see any.  "...I'll take your word for it.  Just one more reason to not go over there..."

When Nathan's handed the seed, Gallade takes a step back and eyes it warily...

"...your Ghosts were interested in it, huh?  Hmmm...I'd say it probably has some kind of benefit for Ghost types, then...could boost the strength of Ghost moves, or it might do something else..."  Not sure if Nathan knows much about what kind of item it might be or what it might do.  That's @Iron's call.  Regardless if he knows, holding the item does make Nathan slightly uncomfortable, so he hands the item back as soon as he's done examining it.
EDIT: "...nope, don't know what it does, unfortunately.  It appears to be an actual seed of some kind, so...it's definitely not a Miracle Seed or similar...you could try to give it to one of your Ghosts to hold and see what it does, I suppose.  This isn't exactly a topic I'm super familiar with, unfortunately.  I grew up on a ranch and am also an amateur historian, I guess you could say.  If you wanted to test that in a battle at some point when we have access to convenient healing machines again, I'd be more than happy to help with that."

And finally, when Spira comments about the cloak and the design Nathan sewed onto the back...

"...that's because those interlocking four circles in the upside down triangle pattern are the general shape of the Hearthome Gym Badge.  Well, in 2017, anyways.  Didn't know what else to put on the cloak, to be honest, but I had a good feeling about that.  Weird question, by the way, but what type does the Hearthome Gym specialize in using in 1925?  And those other badges...which gyms are those from, if I may also ask that?"  (Nathan was inevitably going to ask that, so I figured I might as well get that out of the way now)

Just some casual conversation in the meantime while waiting for everyone else to show up.

"Hearthome specializes in Ghost, and it's where I trained." Spira takes Toya's pokeball out and lets him out. "Toya, I know you tried to eat this earlier, but do you think you can hold this seed without eating it?" The Dusknoir puts a hand to its face, thinking, then nods. "The four badges on my coat are ones I earned here in Creshire. He points to Cress City's badge, "I got this one from Ettie of Cress City, the other three are from (Iron only told me the Cress City one, so excuse the creative license here) Corsage, where I started my adventure in Creshire, Wineberry and Ginger." (If those cities don't have a gym, please correct me on this so I can keep my posts accurate.)

That info is in your Notes tab on your character sheet, actually. Replace Wineberry with Botanville and you're in business.

[Spiritmon]

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What are you using for a light source?

Gustav Bubbles the coat of mud off of the banks. You don't unearth anything interesting that way.

But when he jumps into the center of the lake, he comes back with a busted chainmail and a short sword caked in rust and mud!

Heart its using Rose as a light source to illuminate the darkness around him. When Gustav bring back the chainmail and the short sword, Heart salute greatly him! "Great job Gustav! We may have find something neat." Heart did not dare to touch the sword just yet. "Honedge its know by his ability in absorb the energy of anyone who would dare in enter in contact with him...maybe if I clean the sword, maybe that would make him a little more happy?" With all the care of the world, Heart did not direct touch the blade, with the fear of be a real Honedge and try to absorb his life force. When they are earth, Heart give some orders. "Gustav, I need some water source here to clean the blade. Restrain your strengh as much possible. Just in case this sword be a possessed spirit." Heart also use a piece of clothes from his own (to protect his hands so that way not get his life energy be absorb) and begin clean the blade, taking a away the rust and mud as better he can.

Frrrrsht! You wipe and clean away all the gunk from the naked sword. This exposes a blue gem, which starts glowing in the moonlight. The hilt sprouts a tiny little blue thread, and leathery straps begin hardening around the steel like an animal growing a scaly hide. This process is very very slow, and the item/Pokemon? does not move at all.

*roll*

When the pokemon finally have awakened, Heart kneel before the sword pokemon. Gustav and Rose did the same thing as his master. Heart bow his head. "Welcome back to the world of the living, might and powerfull sword pokemon. I did not wish to disturb or cause any trouble to you oh noble ghost pokemon. My name is Heart. ArcHeart. Descendant of a long line of knights from the maiden of flames Ark. I also come from a distant future from this one. How you feel Honedge?"

All it does is flash its gem. It looks like Honedge will need a LOT of time to recover its strength.

"Hmm...I guess its not fully awake just yet. Still need some time to recover from that state...." Heart then look to Gustav. "Gustav, can you use a Heal Pulse to acceleraty the process of recovering? We cant stay all the day in this place. Just one might be enough to help recover his strengh."

[Iron]

To Shiva: "Well, Milady, the stone Pokemon the castle's walls had constructed. When they did flee, the castle was no more. As to me the tale was passed, I did understand that there were three stages to these stone creatures: a terrestrial crawling form, a floating swollen form, and an elongated form that could fly beyond the sight of men. Only with the Altar of Fame and the shiny flowers did it evolve."

He also explains that this story would have taken place around 5000BC!

[Mikaruge108]

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"Found some ghost pokemon at the camp." He says pointing at the soldier camp. "Also found a strange black seed that my ghost pokemon seem to like, thought you might know more about it." He hands the seed to Nathan for him to look at. When Spira gets his cloak the first thing he notices is the pattern on the back of it. "Wow that looks similar, but not quite like the badge for Hearthome," Spira sweeps back his trench coat revealing the badge for 1925 Hearthome on his shirt pocket

looks something like this

can't upload picture from phone, do that monday...

the three circles of the badge are in a triangular formation at center with a single curved line coming from each of them in a clockwise fasion. Spira take his hat and trench coat off and puts them in his bag, putting the cloak on over his bag. {OOC I got tired of my phone erasing everything i typed when i tried to upload the pic...}

Nathan looks at the camp whenSpira says there are Ghost types over there.  Obviously, he doesn't see any.  "...I'll take your word for it.  Just one more reason to not go over there..."

When Nathan's handed the seed, Gallade takes a step back and eyes it warily...

"...your Ghosts were interested in it, huh?  Hmmm...I'd say it probably has some kind of benefit for Ghost types, then...could boost the strength of Ghost moves, or it might do something else..."  Not sure if Nathan knows much about what kind of item it might be or what it might do.  That's @Iron's call.  Regardless if he knows, holding the item does make Nathan slightly uncomfortable, so he hands the item back as soon as he's done examining it.
EDIT: "...nope, don't know what it does, unfortunately.  It appears to be an actual seed of some kind, so...it's definitely not a Miracle Seed or similar...you could try to give it to one of your Ghosts to hold and see what it does, I suppose.  This isn't exactly a topic I'm super familiar with, unfortunately.  I grew up on a ranch and am also an amateur historian, I guess you could say.  If you wanted to test that in a battle at some point when we have access to convenient healing machines again, I'd be more than happy to help with that."

And finally, when Spira comments about the cloak and the design Nathan sewed onto the back...

"...that's because those interlocking four circles in the upside down triangle pattern are the general shape of the Hearthome Gym Badge.  Well, in 2017, anyways.  Didn't know what else to put on the cloak, to be honest, but I had a good feeling about that.  Weird question, by the way, but what type does the Hearthome Gym specialize in using in 1925?  And those other badges...which gyms are those from, if I may also ask that?"  (Nathan was inevitably going to ask that, so I figured I might as well get that out of the way now)

Just some casual conversation in the meantime while waiting for everyone else to show up.

"Hearthome specializes in Ghost, and it's where I trained." Spira takes Toya's pokeball out and lets him out. "Toya, I know you tried to eat this earlier, but do you think you can hold this seed without eating it?" The Dusknoir puts a hand to its face, thinking, then nods. "The four badges on my coat are ones I earned here in Creshire. He points to Cress City's badge, "I got this one from Ettie of Cress City, the other three are from (Iron only told me the Cress City one, so excuse the creative license here) Corsage, where I started my adventure in Creshire, Wineberry and Ginger." (If those cities don't have a gym, please correct me on this so I can keep my posts accurate.)

That info is in your Notes tab on your character sheet, actually. Replace Wineberry with Botanville and you're in business.

Quick edited ^^. I have trouble viewing the full character sheet mobilly, not sure if its my phone or the Android version of Google Drive that hates the character sheet. (I'm not at a physical keyboard most weekends)

[Iron]

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Heart its using Rose as a light source to illuminate the darkness around him. When Gustav bring back the chainmail and the short sword, Heart salute greatly him! "Great job Gustav! We may have find something neat." Heart did not dare to touch the sword just yet. "Honedge its know by his ability in absorb the energy of anyone who would dare in enter in contact with him...maybe if I clean the sword, maybe that would make him a little more happy?" With all the care of the world, Heart did not direct touch the blade, with the fear of be a real Honedge and try to absorb his life force. When they are earth, Heart give some orders. "Gustav, I need some water source here to clean the blade. Restrain your strengh as much possible. Just in case this sword be a possessed spirit." Heart also use a piece of clothes from his own (to protect his hands so that way not get his life energy be absorb) and begin clean the blade, taking a away the rust and mud as better he can.

Frrrrsht! You wipe and clean away all the gunk from the naked sword. This exposes a blue gem, which starts glowing in the moonlight. The hilt sprouts a tiny little blue thread, and leathery straps begin hardening around the steel like an animal growing a scaly hide. This process is very very slow, and the item/Pokemon? does not move at all.

*roll*

When the pokemon finally have awakened, Heart kneel before the sword pokemon. Gustav and Rose did the same thing as his master. Heart bow his head. "Welcome back to the world of the living, might and powerfull sword pokemon. I did not wish to disturb or cause any trouble to you oh noble ghost pokemon. My name is Heart. ArcHeart. Descendant of a long line of knights from the maiden of flames Ark. I also come from a distant future from this one. How you feel Honedge?"

All it does is flash its gem. It looks like Honedge will need a LOT of time to recover its strength.

"Hmm...I guess its not fully awake just yet. Still need some time to recover from that state...." Heart then look to Gustav. "Gustav, can you use a Heal Pulse to acceleraty the process of recovering? We cant stay all the day in this place. Just one might be enough to help recover his strengh."

A Heal Pulse from Gustav fixes some of the dings and dents in the sword Pokemon's body, but it does not regrow the tassel or the scabbard. This is more akin to recovering from fainting than recovering HP.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

To Shiva: "Well, Milady, the stone Pokemon the castle's walls had constructed. When they did flee, the castle was no more. As to me the tale was passed, I did understand that there were three stages to these stone creatures: a terrestrial crawling form, a floating swollen form, and an elongated form that could fly beyond the sight of men. Only with the Altar of Fame and the shiny flowers did it evolve."

He also explains that this story would have taken place around 5000BC!

What the elusive 'Altar of Fame' is, Shiva began to piece together more and more until she was carefully sure that it could only mean THIS ONE place. The place which in their time is occupied with ghosts, Ghost Pokemon of strength that goes beyond the ordinary and a sheer neverending amount of treasures...

She gasps lightly upon hearing that the flying castle was active THAT long ago, was her own exemplar of a Comite just as old?! It's hard to imagine for her, but incredibly fascinating. She bows a bit to the juggler soldier in thanks. "I see, I thank thee for this further words... Me too did guess that these brown stones from space have 'evolved' two times. The 'shiny flowers' though..." Shiva doesn't dare to show her Deyo Flower in a glass as she can't be sure how he'd take that, so: "I believe I have seen some of these growing at places of impacts on my travels. They're beautiful, they indeed are - but more mysterious than the stars in the sky."

[Dragonstrike]

"Hearthome specializes in Ghost, and it's where I trained." Spira takes Toya's pokeball out and lets him out. "Toya, I know you tried to eat this earlier, but do you think you can hold this seed without eating it?" The Dusknoir puts a hand to its face, thinking, then nods. "The four badges on my coat are ones I earned here in Creshire. He points to Cress City's badge, "I got this one from Ettie of Cress City, the other three are from (Iron only told me the Cress City one, so excuse the creative license here) Corsage, where I started my adventure in Creshire, Botanville and Ginger." (If those cities don't have a gym, please correct me on this so I can keep my posts accurate.)

"...huh.  Guess that means Hearthome has been using that type for well over 100 years, then...that's interesting to note..."  Nathan pulls out his journal and writes that down somewhere.  Given he just said some might call him an amateur historian and how protective Nathan was of that journal the 'prior day', Spira can probably assume that's where Nathan keeps most of his historical notes.

The appearance of a Dusknoir surprises Nathan a little.  Spira had been using so many unevolved pokemon that he hadn't expected a very strong, 100% fully evolved and rather disobedient Ghost to show up.  It seems well mannered for now, though, which helps Nathan remain calm. Gallade's relaxed for the time being as well if Dusknoir isn't likely to be causing any trouble.

"...Ettie?  I feel like I should know that name...hmmmm..."  Nathan flips through his journal again.  "Botanville, Ginger, and Corsage as well...hmmm..."  What kind of stuff might Nathan know about the histories of those gyms, @Iron?  Would be interesting to compare it to his knowledge of the present day gyms.  (And by extension, what does Nathan know about modern day Botanville?)

[Iron]

To Shiva: "Well, Milady, the stone Pokemon the castle's walls had constructed. When they did flee, the castle was no more. As to me the tale was passed, I did understand that there were three stages to these stone creatures: a terrestrial crawling form, a floating swollen form, and an elongated form that could fly beyond the sight of men. Only with the Altar of Fame and the shiny flowers did it evolve."

He also explains that this story would have taken place around 5000BC!

What the elusive 'Altar of Fame' is, Shiva began to piece together more and more until she was carefully sure that it could only mean THIS ONE place. The place which in their time is occupied with ghosts, Ghost Pokemon of strength that goes beyond the ordinary and a sheer neverending amount of treasures...

She gasps lightly upon hearing that the flying castle was active THAT long ago, was her own exemplar of a Comite just as old?! It's hard to imagine for her, but incredibly fascinating. She bows a bit to the juggler soldier in thanks. "I see, I thank thee for this further words... Me too did guess that these brown stones from space have 'evolved' two times. The 'shiny flowers' though..." Shiva doesn't dare to show her Deyo Flower in a glass as she can't be sure how he'd take that, so: "I believe I have seen some of these growing at places of impacts on my travels. They're beautiful, they indeed are - but more mysterious than the stars in the sky."

"In craters they do grow. The berserkers did chew them before battle, themselves to numb against pain and injury."