[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

"I am interested in rare Apricorns, items to make my Pokemon stronger, travel supplies, and an Electric type Pokemon to deal with Water Types in my work. I would also be able to obtain support for my family back in the Preserve."

You can bid XP with Tandal or you can try other methods to convince him. He's also an NPC so conflict with him is not mechanically forbidden.

Oof.  This was looking like it wasn't going to go anywhere fast...Tandal has a solid reason that Nathan can't really argue with...

...Nathan was pretty unlikely to be able to do what he wanted to in the future if he didn't get a Ditto, though...

"That's a lot of stuff you could get with a lot of hard work, right?  Might not be easy, but you do have other options.  This pokemon I hope to breed in the future...he's the only one of his kind in Creshire so far.  The only one that's stayed, anyways.  And I can't be certain I'll be able to find a female of his exact species later.  For all intents and purposes, he might as well be a member of an endangered species right now.  With a Ditto...that wouldn't have to be the case.  I wouldn't have to worry about him being the sole example of his kind that we know of.  Can I ask that you let me try and capture this Ditto, for the sake of an entire species of pokemon?  I know it's a lot to weigh against your family, but...you seem like a strong, reliable guy.  I doubt you'd need a Ditto to get what you're aiming to obtain."

Maybe a moral appeal will be convincing enough?  If not, we might have to go to exp bidding...