[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Tandal gives a cry! Up ahead is Route 10. "Beyond that mist is the Village. We can resupply if we make it that far. But while foot travel is fast along this path, there is little maintenance. These Pokemon don't fear humans. Sometimes the wilderness takes over the road for as much as half a league. I know the way, when this happens."

Along the road, Kirlia has another vision for all to see. Flames, rising high, consuming a building on the outskirts of Stair City... a building swamped in vines. The battle is having real consequences now, or at least whenever this vision shows.

Eastern Route 10 Encounters

As the road fades once more, Tandal takes you on a shortcut. "Simply keep that large peaked boulder in sight, and go north around any bogs we find. Like this. Yes, and we will avoid this one. And continue this way, yes, like this, good. Every season is different, but the pointy rock remains."
Soon, you come to something he can't explain: a glob of pinkish sap, stuck to a prickly bush. He sniffs it and makes a face.
"I am interested in following this sap trail. Anyone is free to come along with me. Otherwise, we are almost to the pointy rock, we can meet up again there."
He follows the sap until he comes to a relatively short tree, only ten yards tall. It is thick and plated with rings of bark, like the neck of Alolan Exeggutor. The trunk is thicker and squatter than that, and oddly bulbous, not tapering consistently. The leaves are dull red and very beefy, heavy and drooping. At the top, the tree's bare trunk suddenly gains many thick branches, oozing that same pinkish sap.
"Hmm. How very strange! One of the strangest things I have ever seen. I do not think I know this plant."

1. Name: Strange tree
Bid start: 1
Cap: None, with an opportunity for 1
Challenge: ???
Notes: To investigate the tree will take up an encounter!

2. Name: Valuable item
Bid start: 1
Cap: 1
Challenge: ???

3. Name: Best fishing hole Route 10
Bid start: 1
Cap: 2
Challenge: Varies by rarity of Pokemon.
Notes: as recommended by the Guidebook and confirmed by Tandal.
Tandal says the rarer Pokemon have lived longer and are stronger.