[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Arrowroot Village gives Calam far less worried looks than anywhere else has. Mostly only the fisherwoman seem to hold to that superstition. A little boy even pets him, which he accepts.

While Nathan goes shopping, Calam wanders himself off to the Kennels to sniff at the Pokemon there. He's returned when Nathan is finished.

Nathan buys a thin, supple vine for 0$ that will work on the necklace.

Nathan gets to work tying that vine into a good knot (plenty of experience with doing that already).  He wondered if Tandorian natives do stuff like this, including shaping the actual clay...

Once finished, he takes another picture of it, then puts it on...

How apt...the Yin pokemon, the protector...negativity, night, darkness, cold, wet, yielding, diffuse, the moon, water, the earth...a lot of what Mutios represents, Nathan has been going through lately...

...there's other aspects that aren't so fitting, of course...slow, feminine, passive (to a degree)...but Nathan's finding a strange resonance with this symbol Toxicroak gifted him...

...when Calam returns, it's yet another welcome distraction from what's been bothering him recently...

"Well, I bet this is a nice change from the usual reactions, isn't it? Enjoying getting to walk around freely?"

(Kinda waiting to see what Heart does next before I commit to deciding what Nathan's next encounter is, so I guess let's have a quick interaction with Calam in the meantime.)