[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Tangrowth Encounter Round 2

Valder uses a Potion: Piloswine now has 5/7hp.

Helping Hand
(6)(4)(5)(1)
Azurill does a flip and a squeak to cheer on Cottonee!

Night Slash 1
(1)(2)(3)(3)(1)(4) Again, Lucky Chant saves the day. Calam separates some of the vines from their fellows, clearing a path for Swiftfire and Apsis to race down.

Acid Spray 1
(4)(6)(5)(6)(3)
Apsis destroys a large section of vines directly around the pearl, but they're growing back already where Calam cut them! The acid does a pretty good job of "cauterizing" the vines where it hits.

Haneal follows Apsis, granting cover. He also launches an Ember at Tangrowth C, already burned.

Ember 1
(3)(2)(1)(6)(1)
(6)(4) Tangrowth C takes 3 dmg. 1/10hp -3 pain.

Claydol performs another of its special Rock Slides, moving slightly to find another good spot.

Rock Slide 1, targeting Piloswine, Azurill, Cottonee, and Calam.
(5)(2)(1)(4)(4)
(6)(3) They each take 1 dmg.
Flinch: (3)(5)(3)

A Tangrowth slides its arms sharply into play on Apsis' hood, setting the necklace a-jiggle.

Knock Off 1
8 dice, -1 pain, -2 actions = 5 dice
(6)(5)(3)(6)(4)
(6) Apsis takes 1 dmg and loses the Serene Necklace. 13/15hp.
It lands in the area already cleared, so it will be easy to obtain after the battle.

The wounded one seeks sustenance from Piloswine again.

Megadrain 1
7 dice, -2 actions, -3 pain = 2 dice
(4)(6)
3 Str + 2 power +1 STAB -3 vit = 3d6+1
(6)(1)(3) Piloswine takes 2 dmg 2/7hp. Tangrowth now has 2/10hp.

Rose scales the cliff to launch a perfect, spiraling Flame Wheel. (Since Rose doesn't know Fire Spin yet, and doesn't have the XP to learn it, I'm assuming you meant Flame Wheel.)

Flame Wheel 1
(2)(3)(2)(6)(3)
3 Str + 2 power +1 STAB -4 vit = 2d6+1
(6)(2) Tangrowth C faints.
Burn: (6) Also, it's on fire! The vines it was shepherding retreat entirely.
Rose flings ash about triumphantly.

Flame Charge 1
(6)(6)(6)(4)(1)
Swiftfire maintains a very clear path to the pearl. With those actions defending it, there won't be any need to spend an actual action eating it or getting to it.

Cottonee levitates a bit higher to get in range of Claydol. She needs to be close enough that she can suck energy across the distance, but luckily she does not need contact.

Mega Drain
(6)(5)(4)(4)(1)(6)(6) Critical hit!!
9 dice, -3 vit = 6d6+1
(1)(4)(4)(5)(1)(4) That deals a lucky 5 dmg to Claydol.  3/8hp
Cottonee is fully healed.

Powder Snow 1
6 dice, -2 pain, -2 actions = 2 dice
(6)(4)
(6)(5)(6) Tangrowth takes 4 dmg. 4/10hp
Freeze: (2)

Helping Hand
(5)(2)(1)

Calam is not needed on the vines, so he goes for Tangrowth.

Night Slash 2
(6)(4)(4)(6) Crit.
(3)(3)(1)(5)(6)(4) Tangrowth is barely hanging on with 1hp.

Acid Spray 2
(5)(5)(1)
(4)+ Tangrowth D Faints

Apsis chokes down the Clamperl Pearl. She makes a face of immense distaste. You can see a slight bulge where it's working its way through her body.

Haneal razes the vines back, giving the party plenty of time to decide what to do with all these Tangrowth. Claydol is out of reach of these embers and they wouldn't be very effective anyway.

Speaking of Claydol...it uses Teleport.

Teleport
8 dice, -2 actions = 6 dice
(5)(3)(5)(4)(4)(1) Yep, it's gone! (Definitely counts as defeated though). You cannot see where Claydol went at all. However, surveying the remnants of the battlefield and the Skull Ruins, you can see that the vines have not stopped growing over the Ruins. They've given up on the path for now, it seems.
Patrolling one of the distant walls of the Skull Ruins, you can see another Tangrowth. Plus one more scaling a wall of moving vines. They are tiny at this distance.



Everyone gets 5XP to distribute among your Pokemon, and 7Xp for themselves for their heroic actions defending the path!

In the destruction of Tangrowth flesh, you each find one Common/Uncommon Berry of your choice (so it CANNOT be Aspear, Lum, or Sitrus). These half-formed berries will need one full day to ripen properly.

Let me know how you as a party handle the Tangrowth. Minimum XP bid is 1. 2 of them have lethal afflictions that will soon kill them if not treated. You can assume the vines will not return here today.