[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

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THOOM THOOM THOOM THOOM.

Metagross' big flat feet stick to the surface of the Great Divide. Soon the mounted party is dashing along at record breaking speed. The landscape is almost a blur. Sometimes it rotates or spins as the Metagross pay no attention to the laws of gravity. Much of the journey is spent sideways or even, rarely, upside down. With such blatant disregard for the terrain, the Metagross eat the miles away. Rain clouds follow you for the first half of the journey, causing mudslides and a thin layer of dirt over everything. This bothers the Metagross but doesn't slow them. Even being knee deep in mud can't slow them. They just take more implacable steps until they are free.

Enough aggressive Pokemon to make any heart quail. Enough elevation changes to make the climb impossible. Enough miles to take your party two days on foot. But with Metagross, you are undisturbed and speedy. At an awesome 30mph along the rugged terrain, you reach the shorter end of the Great Divide in 2 hours.

This puts you several miles west of the Fireweed Forest - you can see it on the horizon. Right now you are in a lush land of small trees, many tiny streams of blue water flowing from Greenbriar to Chicory, and lots of wildflower plains.

Lake Chicory is due south of you. From this perspective, it looks endless, since it goes over the horizon. On Ponyta, you could be there in another four hours through this brush. You know that somewhere around here is an old overgrown track - if you can find that, the journey is not even three hours on horseback. (Ponyta can canter comfortably at almost 10 miles per hour in brush).

A beeline to the swamp will take you east of Lake Chicory - that way looks like it's more wildflowers than anything. It's a long journey, but there may be times you can gallop, and there's plenty for Ponyta to eat. The road to Arrowroot is on the south side of the big Lake. If you don't reach that, you will have to go through dozens of miles of swamp and nature preserve to reach Arrowroot. Ponyta will not help much in this case.