[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

You grump your way into Stair City. Route 04 splits into three civilian entrances:
1. A magnificent stone stairway, cut into the mountains, winding around a small peak of the Great Divide and descending down into the city. Like Route 04, this has market stalls and tourist attractions set into it in wide stone spots. Small waterfalls wend their way through it.

Machop and Machoke are busily maintaining it.

2. A broad moving escalator, which flows smoothly like a black river around corners and over obstacles. There are slowdown zones where you can hop sideways onto slightly slower tracks as you approach your destination. This also leads to other moving sidewalks, many of which appear to be flowing masonry! There are lots of signs branching out on metal poles, including directions to every destination in the city. Biggest among those are the Grand Pokemon Center.

3. A normal, sloping street. It's very wide, and full of carts, trainers, and Pokemon. Pedestrian only. This big, simple ramp is how most of the jaded citizens enter and exit the city.

There's also a system of train tracks, a monorail, AND a subway! All of which are free inside city limits.

Coming up the escalator or the end of Route 04 is a group of about 20 people. Most of them have Pokemon out. They are the source of the shouting - they perceived your combat with the Tangrowth and are on their way to help. You see an Officer Jenny on an Ariados, two grim League Shieldmaidens, a grinning man you'd call a League Bureaucrat, three ordinary cops, and a Pokemon Ranger with a Tangrowth of her own. (Ventus can easily slip away from these people). Also with them is a Nurse Joy, in official brickprint Stair City uniform, and a dozen normal trainer volunteers (many of these guys are not with the authorities). Three of the volunteers have Magnemite, and one has a Magneton. Nurse Joy tries to make a big fuss over anyone she can capture.


Stair City attractions
There are many, many, many sights to see in Stair City.

A. The Gym takes the form of a vast steel fortress, with train tracks running in and out of various apertures, including several that are 20m off the ground. Steam rises from a few smokestacks within it. It doesn't look like this fortress is manned for defense, though there is a really big spyglass up there. Also a Metagross pacing vertically up and down the walls.

B. The Grand Pokemon Center is a combination hospital and magnificent hotel. You can pay extra for resort lodgings. Those with a Trainer Card can get free rooms, but these are shared with one or more other persons (you can pick a person or get assigned one). There's also bunk style housing en masse. At the center of the GPC is an open courtyard the size of Ginger Town, where people and their Pokemon play. It has a pond, paths, a big jungle gym, and a running track. The four towers of the Grand Pokemon Center each have a big pool at the top. Two of these pools are connected by an aqueduct spanning the two towers. Big plexiglass curving walls keep these pool areas from being dangerous, but the ceilings are open to the air.

C. The Department Store is here in Stair City! It's wreathed in escalators swirling around a tower, diving in and out. Every 6th escalator panel is a vidscreen, showing ads for awesome products. There are floating screens too, which you can summon to assist you in finding things in the massive building.
They have some stuff you can't buy anywhere else. About half the square footage is devoted to entertainment, like big inflatable Pokemon or museum-like displays. Gotta draw those customers in.
The top floor is for bartering! Using money on this top, open air floor is discouraged, though people still use it to sweeten a deal.

D.  Telperion University, Stair City Extension.

A nod to the layout of Telperion University in Botanville, the entrance to the Extension is out in the open air. The underground portion is guarded by a gazebo on a hill. Stairs lead to two outdoor "rooms", which are just wide spots in the stairs.
The esteemed library is underground.

E. The Shelter for Disobedient Pokemon
This foreboding gray concrete building has Pokemon and Eggs for trainers to adopt. Everyone you see working here looks sad, and few trainers come out with a Pokemon. A green roof lessens the fearful demeanor of the building a bit.

F. The Fountain of Pokemon Brotherhood
A gorgeous masonry fountain, each stone polished and fitted. The fountain performs many tricks, such as sending a stream of water jumping from one port to another or trickling into a waterfall. Little boats float in it, some professional and anchored to the fountain, others mere cardboard creations that won't last long. Some areas are good for splashing about, and the center is full of coins!
A sign explains that the fountain's water is all generated by Water Pokemon. Once a little water is contributed from every water species in the world, all the coin-tossers' wishes will come true at once! (Other people disagree and say only worthy wishes will come true). There's a board showing all the contributing species since they started keeping records.

G. The Building Yard
This is a unique feature of Stair City, rife with innovation. It's just a big scrapyard, full of parts, broken down automobiles, and even shattered Healing Machines (a dozen of them!). There are cranes and scaffolds everywhere, and racks of tools you can borrow, and three trained Machoke you can rent ($400 an hour). Engineers post job notices here when they want workers.
Someone is cheating and building a sculpture from the scraps, while another is hard at work on a Team Rocket style Kangaskhan robot.

It's only 10' tall though.
A few paper-pushers are on hand to work out the patent rights.
Things you build can be purchased, traded, or simply experimented on and then scrapped again. If it doesn't leave the Yard, it's all free!

H. Tournament Plateau
They hold unusual games and tournaments here. The upcoming event is a Little Cup, where only first stage, non-fully-evolved Pokemon can participate!

I. Stairs leading who knows where?

Stairs are cut all throughout the Great Divide and Mt Sentry, which border Stair City. Stair City is essentially nestled and burrowed into these mountains. A path leads through semi-wild Mt. Sentry to the other capital city.