[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

The rodents pick up on Shiva's hesitation and don't attack.

Poliwhirl's will: 6 dice, -3 pain penalization, -1 paralyzed = 2 dice
(6)(3)
Pokeball's Seals: 2 dice
(5)(4)

Poliwhirl was caught!

He's an Oversized Pokemon (note this in your Notes, Sage). So his HP is 6+ your Vitality.
His ability is Water Absorb.
His Happiness will be 0, and his loyalty 0.
His moves are Water Gun, Hypnosis, Double Slap, and Wake-Up-Slap.



Since no one took any damage at all during that battle, I presume you'll be walking onward toward the doctor. You can talk as you do so!

The herbalist lives in a little shack at the end of the southward path. Beyond his shack is a big pond and a stream. On the far side of the pond you can see a sizable island with a little fishing dock on it, all built up out of trash and random junk with boards overtop. Herbs are growing all over this island and around the pond.

Inside the shack is a little old man with a hunchback. Bundles of red and gold herbs hang from the ceiling, and his walls are lined with drawers full of more modern medicines. When Shelmet's problem is described to him, he takes a half hour to mix up a Secret Potion while you wait in his comfortable parlor with some drinks (what he calls Fireweed Tea).