[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Lucifer goes scouting for a nice slab, but everything he is interested in turns out to be part of someone's property: a nice fence, a vital part of the ancient wall protecting the city, a billboard, or even a piece of modern art.

Calam holds himself a little above this task, choosing not to do any searching, but whenever something is found by another Pokemon he goes to sniff it and give his evaluation.

Slowking, though, is good at this. He waddles along the wall, poking at slabs, dusting them off with careful water attacks, and looking at Nathan to gauge a reaction. He finds two slabs that he likes, both of the proper size.

One has ancient crude artwork of a Steelix on it, encircling the slab. The part with the tail has crumbled away, making this not very valuable, but still cool. Nathan believes Steelix and Onix are part of the mythology of Mt. Sentry - they made the initial tunnels. Some myths even say the ixes set or created the Sentret colony which is so omnipresent now.

The other looks like a blank tile, not at all visually interesting. It hasn't crumbled away at all, and Slowking finds it buried under a bunch of rubble. He gives it to Ventus to hold.

Then he starts glowing with Hidden Power.

The slab barely reacts to the Rock-type attack. Only the faintest glow of Elder Unown is embedded into the stone. When it fades in a few seconds, not a blemish remains. Ventus is covered in a light coating of dust, though.


Slowking gives Nathan a thumbs up.

Ventus couldn't help but let out fond and slightly excasebated sighs as Lucifer tried and repeatidly failed to locate suitable slabs for the Shelter's unknown, before he eventually motioned for them to abort their search and go hang out with Calam instead, which the devil bat did with great cheer and gusto! It had been quite awhile since he's seen his tall, dark, and not so disasterous buddy, and as the old saying 'abscene makes the heart grows fonder' , and so was quick to perch on them/somewhere nearby and play catch up! The researcher was perfectly find with this himself, as it go both Pokémon something to do/keep them out of trouble while he, Nathan, and Solomon actually get some work done! (Any reactions between Lucifer and Calam in particular, Iron?)

When the wise young king eventually hit paydirt with those two find slabs of stone he found, the empath gave him a smile and a nod of his head for their hard work in finding/modifying these relics of the past. "You have my gratitude in finding these fine and interesting stone slabs, Solomon, especially since you modified one of them to carrying Old Unknown script! I'm not Nathan, so I can hardly make heads or tails of them, but I'm certain whatever message you spelled out will by deciphered sooner or later! Now *Looks at both the smart psychic and Nathan*, which slab should we return with to the Shelter? I'm inclined to take the slab Solomon has modified, since he modified it himself and I rather not risk shattering the Steelix mural on the way if we prove to hasty in our desire to extract it, but what are your thoughts on this?"

The empath then scratch his head a bit more, before a look of keen interested took place on his face. "Nathan, I'm rather curious about these Old Known , as they don't correspond with a match within my research community's, so would you mind sharing what your Slowking managed to write. Hmm.....perhaps teach me it some time, once your fully decode these messages? "