[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

You make your way to the manor that functions as the gym. A figure is in the mist atop the cast iron balcony to the rear. He disappears as you approach the big wooden doors, toughened with age. Leering faces are carved onto its wood, so real that Apsis Leers back.

There's a big iron knocker on the door. When this is slammed down, twin torches light up and the doors open on their own, allowing you into the lobby.

The floors of the lobby are marble, but the center holds a pool completely covered in wood made to appear like boardwalks or docks. There are antique armchairs and cushioned benches placed around the edges of the room, as well as a handful of Pokemon-style beds (almost like a dog bed). There are doors to either side, presumably leading deeper into the manor, but your gaze is drawn to another door in the opposite wall, styled much like the entryway. It's the only door on that wall, and it seems to receive or draw in all the shadows from elsewhere in the room. The floor turns to boardwalks again at this point, an unusual feature in such a grandiose mansion.

There is a large chandelier on the ornamented ceiling, dripping with crystal. Gas lamps adorn the walls, flickering with blue light. To the best of your knowledge, these are ordinary lamps...but one never knows. There are also candles, dripping black or white or golden wax onto mantels and end tables. Altogether, they provide just enough light to see by, but they send a great many shadows dancing across the big open room, moving as candlelight flickers or as you shift awkwardly in place.

A man dressed like a butler comes to receive you, though you notice he has six Pokeballs at his belt. "Have you come to challenge the Gym Leader of Corsage Port?"