[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

"That's a great idea, Miss Shiva. Yanma can definitely provide balance. I might also suggest cutting down two trees for an easier bridge - we can place one foot on each bridge. I'll show you. Totodile, Slash! Yanma, Air Slash!"

A flash of light. The trees come down. Tandal waddles across, making tiny hops from tree to tree, each one sending him forward.

Shiva can easily follow suit with Cottonee's help. No roll needed.

"I do believe I could have gotten out of the quicksand if I could have reached my Apricorns. But I was already too deep to reach my belt! So thank you once again, Miss Shiva."

He hoists up his backpack. He offers Shiva the forked stick if she needs it to hike with. "Good for balance, good for testing the ground, and GREAT for digging up tubers! Arrowroot Village is this way." He sets off.


Before too long, Shiva smells a horrible stench coming from a marshy field of bulbous red plants! "That is a malaise, Miss Shiva. A group of Gloom...whoa, that one is HUGE!"

It's true! A Gloom the size of a very overweight person comes lumbering out of the muck, head tilted forward to balance out the massive flower buds.

The rest of the Gloom seem disinclined to come up out of the ground...for now.