[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

*thankful look to Nathan* "Yesyes, checking out and exploring the full place - or, as far as we can with our resources - now that we're down here already is my plan and desire likewise! ( ÒωÓ)و☆ I'd just like to... make looking for this poor creature a priority potentially down here somewhere, is all, heaven knows whether it is injured or needs help or whatever, eek ! (>0<; )"

[Iron]

Magmortar is unconscious, having enough HP to take 3 hits from the Sword, much like Milotic.

Heavy Ball is perfect for capturing this big monstrosity. It works.
This Pokemon has 5 disobedience, of course.

If you move the rubble, a human can slip through the wrecked conduit. You see some red flashing lights, an everpresent green glow, and lots of steam in there. The humming has not changed, sounds like there are multiple big machines that way. You also hear... ocean waves?

[Dragonstrike]

"We should probably get some of those hazmat suits before we go in there.  If there's a radiation leak..."

Nathan doesn't finish that sentence, but he probably doesn't have to.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Heavy Ball is perfect for capturing this big monstrosity. It works.
This Pokemon has 5 disobedience, of course.

Yay, perfect! \(^o^)/ Shiva carefully picks the Heavy Ball up and immediately sends it and its content straight to a PC Box of hers. This Incineragmortar is huge, scary and very likely an experimented-on abomination of a Pokemon - but still is a POKEMON at the end of the day, and Shiva can't help but to emphasize with them. The League and/or the military will hopefully appreciate this capture...

If you move the rubble, a human can slip through the wrecked conduit. You see some red flashing lights, an everpresent green glow, and lots of steam in there. The humming has not changed, sounds like there are multiple big machines that way. You also hear... ocean waves?

How curious and very interesting, especially these machines and ocean waves catch Shiva's attention.

Well, and she's picked up and carried along one of these hazmat suits already for situations like these!~ "Uhm, alright, people.... Yes, me too feels that we souldn't walk in there unprotected, heaven knows what may be further ahead. Okay, you want to go back and quick-get some suits for yourselves while I clear the rubble and free the way for us to pass through this hole in the wall all together?" A bit more timidly she adds "Of course you all... don't have to come if you deem it way too dangerous or so, it's up to you whether you want to proceed with me or not - but I, well, would kinda appreciate it regardless if I am not all by myself...?"

That rubble shouldn't be an issue at all for HugePower'd Azu combined with Rock Smash. "Be careful though, my dear, please don't be too rush! Break this stuff in a controlled manner."

[Iron]

You suit up and crawl through the conduit cleared by Azu.

In one direction is a passage leading down to what appears to be a sea cave. Looks very rocky and the waves sound like they are in deep water. There are metal railings leading down there. It's very warm in that direction.

In another direction is the room that must be the green glowing room. Thick cables run in and out of that room. The hum comes from another huge machine looming through the mist, a gigantic thick tube surrounded by turbines connecting the central tube to the wall. It is the source of the glowing light, in shades of green and blue. There are a lot more big forms in the mist, possibly furniture or other mechanical things, but you can't see them from here.

[Dragonstrike]

Nathan's made it a point to recall Gallade to his pokeball for safety reasons.  The trainer came prepared for this eventuality, though, and has his Metang accompanying him.  He's likely more familiar with what happened in Tandor than most of those present, so he makes it a point to give some advice.  "If we're dealing with Nuclear energy, then it's probably advisable to use Steel type pokemon primarily if you have any on hand.  Steel's not as affected by the radiation as other types are.  Don't want any of our pokemon to be adversely affected if we can avoid it..."

Aside from that, he's still following Shiva's lead for the most part, casting wary glances at various corners, trying to keep an eye out for danger before it strikes.

[Spiritmon]

Quetzal and Aegislash get summoned right from their balls. "Did someone say..."steel"? We are ready to fight against any possible enemy." Since Heart know the Mega Ring need recharge after last battle, he change Quetzal Delta Steelixnite for a Rock Plate. Might come in hand very soon.

Also Aegislash get ready in Heart back. "Dont worry Lancelot. We are able to do this." Then Heart had a idea. Something he learn back when he recruited Palpitoad when Moltres was still a egg. Ah the memories. He formed a little ball of fire, but it was not to much heated, and was more using light instead of pure fire it floats from his hand and banish the darkness in the cave around them. "Heh. Just a little trick I learn a time ago. Earthpowers rock!"

Heart show rock fingers after doing his magic trick. The ball of light float until it was in Shiva hands. "Just something to help guide Shiva. You are our brave leader so use this light as you see fit! To make the light disapear just say "Chill Out''. Its the magic word to make the ball of light disapear."

Action: Summon ball of light to light the path a bit. But he also let Shiva go in the front. 

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

You suit up and crawl through the conduit cleared by Azu.

In one direction is a passage leading down to what appears to be a sea cave. Looks very rocky and the waves sound like they are in deep water. There are metal railings leading down there. It's very warm in that direction.

In another direction is the room that must be the green glowing room. Thick cables run in and out of that room. The hum comes from another huge machine looming through the mist, a gigantic thick tube surrounded by turbines connecting the central tube to the wall. It is the source of the glowing light, in shades of green and blue. There are a lot more big forms in the mist, possibly furniture or other mechanical things, but you can't see them from here.

.....AHAHAHAHA, successfully bypassed the locked door of the glowing green room! Shiva's totally amused by this outcome and can't help but to chuckle a bit through all the dread and seriousness of the scenario.


Huh, a sea cave.... It will definitely be explored later. With Heart's tiny ball of light and Nathan's advice about Type Advantages (and after being immensly flattered and flustered by being called 'brave leader' awww), it's time to press on in direction of that room with the dense steam and mist and the omnipresent green glow.... Shiva kinda feels excited yet all anxious as well, so many machines and electronics here.

First of all: With Quetztal and Whimsicott combining their Tailwind it should be possible to clear enough steam to see the surrounding at least a tad bit more clear. There's also the option of Primal Espeon's Icy Wind and FLASH, or a held-back Hurricane from Whimsi, or held-back Gusts or similar from the Pokemon of the others. Defog would be soooo useful here!

Second: This weirdly calm, lordly emotion felt and mentioned here (by the very bottom), where appears to be the peak of this emotion according to Shiva and Gallade (has been recalled into his Premier Ball), is it this central tube which is the source of the glowing light? Does it feel and look...safe to approach? What's inside this tube, does its insides look alive??? Is there...any sign of something alive in this room? Shiva checks for all of this very carefully. Nucleon are deemed 'safe to be around', but that may not prevent a potential exemplar of them to jump at suprise visitors...!

[Iron]

Good plan for blowing away the steam. It is successful, though you're seeing that the tube is producing more steam constantly. Looks like it is supposed to go into those turbines, but something went wrong and much of the steel is melted away. There's only the smallest melted hole in the steel tube, not even big enough to see inside, but this is the source of all the light and most of the steam.

The geiger counter in your haz suit is going crazy.

As for your question about the safety of the tube, there's an easy answer to that. Five or six blackened human skeletons are scattered around the base of the tube. One particularly broad skeleton is still wearing a mechanical exoskeleton, used in the lifting of heavy items. The facemask is shattered. The owner looks like they curled up in the fetal position, their broad back to the ceiling.

There are also some vulpine Pokemon skeletons around the room, all blackened and irradiated. A few tufts of fur and scales announce that two of them were Flareon and Vaporeon respectively. Another was probably still an Eevee. The rest cannot be known.

The emotion you felt comes from near the tube but not inside it.

[Dragonstrike]

Nathan doesn't need Gallade or Calams' help in this instance to know that yeah, bad stuff happened here.  This area is clearly not safe for anything that's unable to withstand nuclear radiation.  It doesn't stop him from voicing his thoughts on the scene, but he's very much uneasy about being here.

"...let's not spend any more time here than we have to.  I'd rather we not end up like those people and pokemon...I guess they were caught off guard by whatever happened here...it definitely looks like something was overheated, and then things likely spiraled out of control from there...everyone was probably trapped when that automatic system sealed off the conduit and possibly other potential escape routes...even if someone was coming to rescue them, that help obviously didn't get here in time...what a horrible, horrible way to go..."

Nathan falls silent after that last remark.