[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

The Metagross stomp up the spire and crawl into the cave.

There is a very dim light coming from it. As you enter, you see this light comes from torches set in the walls, burning dimly. But the torches aren't made of wood - they are little rods of stone, with the flame burning at one end.

The cave walls and floor are all of clay - the Metagross immediately start sinking in, bit by bit - with interesting shapes worked into them. It looks a bit like a raging ocean, in clay form. Big scoops have been torn out here and there, marring the abstract workmanship.

A man sits in the center of the cave, his back to you. His skin is an odd dark reddish-orange color, and his hair is shockingly white. You can practically see his spine through his skin, and his limbs are skinny, with the exception of his forearms, which are bent akimbo and hard at work on something. He wears only a muddy white loincloth. The sounds of worked clay come from his workstation.

He's making a lot of funny noises - pops and whistles and rattles. Once, he sticks his thumb in his cheek and withdraws it with a sharp 'pop!' He doesn't even turn to see you.

Around the walls of the cave are madly scattered piles of things - stones, clay shards,....and fossils, just heaps of them, as carelessly strewn about as the broken items.

Kirlia immediately starts dripping water. Rose and/or Apsis easily thaw him the rest of the way. The man still hasn't turned around.

The architecture, the odd stone torches that made his skin crawl slightly, and impeccable artistry with the clay on display alone would have been shock to Ventus' system, but the positively ancient man and the fossil strewn all over the place nearly had him boggling in open astonishment. Thanks to him superb self control he managed to mask his reaction and get himself undercontrol, before he decided to cast out his empathetic senses to gauge whether or not the man was aware of their presence, and whether or not they held hostile intentions towards them, with Raphael aiding him in the task once they realized what their master was doing. Apsis just stood guard beside her master, casting sullen looks of discontent at being surround by so much Ground influence and her scales getting dirtied by the substance, blegh....

Order: Going to use Ven's and Raphael natural heightened empathy/awareness to do an Intent Check on the old man. Not sure what roll that would require, if any, so its up to you how to handle this. Once he has gauged where the group stands with the man, he'll proceed from there.

EDIT: Also going to level up Knowledge for 8 XP, since being exposed to such weird/abnormal stuff has really got him thinking as of late....