[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Geodude happily comes along, if it means digging.

You walk an hour or so. There can be no mistaking the mud puddle - it's the only one nearby deep and slick enough to give the mighty Trax a pause. Geodude gets right to work with his spadelike hands, engineering a convenient slope without any instruction from you.

Lucifer flies above, Frisking or searching for a glimmer in the muck. This is invaluable because it's getting late in the evening and the light is bad.

Well, the mudhole is filled with tire tracks, caved in sides, and general muckery making it hard to search, so it takes a lot of work. Haneal must be very careful not to burn the possibly-fragile bead necklace, so the dirt must be baked slowly and from a distance. Then Geodude breaks it up and throws the dirt far away. This strategy lets you go through a lot of dirt quite quickly. You've assembled a pretty good team for this task.

Geodude backs up and points to Haneal. It's time for a Magnitude.
Power: (1)
That's actually perfect for this situation. The tiny earthquake disrupts the mudhole just enough, like tilling a garden. It's only a few clumps later that the amulet appears, just one tiny corner of it glinting in the fading sunlight! You snatch it up and confirm that it is indeed the Miltank trinket, composed of pearly beads strung together in a clever pattern. It looks like a little water will put it in great condition again; nothing broken.

This took you a few hours, so it's no wonder Tramp and Belle couldn't find it!

It's entirely dark now, and you're five miles from town. Are you going to camp out, or work your way back in the dark? Or a third option?