[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Ventus gets no answer except a low growling.

"Good enough for me," he growls back, and unleashes Slowpoke.

This...partially works. Ventus finds himself no longer on the dark beach, but on top of a huge obsidian cage, its door hanging partially open. It has a heavy latch from both sides of the door. All is dark here too, but there's a small circle of light emanating from a red-glowing crystal on a jetblack spear or post, hanging at about eye level. By this light he can see a black, cinder-covered rocky ground beneath the cage, and some shadows moving on the edge of the red light, growling.

Affixed to the outside of the cage, just below your feet, is a strange circle of wood, with a few charred threads clinging to it.

Inside the cage is something you never, ever expected to see: the sleeping form of Shiva, curled up on some cinders as if they were luxurious pillows.

Purple and red swamplights float in the distance. Sometimes they swirl, sometimes they simply bob along.