[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Dagny presses a button, and a few screens go blank. "Any part of this conversation that you desire will be off the record. It probably wouldn't do if it got out I had advised a child to go into battle. But Nathan, if it is not clear to you by now, I don't consider you a child."

"To introduce our topic today, I learned that the Scimitars were planning an attack on the Little Cup. One of their targets, though not the only one, was you, Shiva. Nathan? Care to fill her in?"

Nathan nods.

"Dagny called me during your Little Cup match earlier, Shiva.  Said I should find somewhere quiet, then told me that her Porygon had intercepted an email that talked about a plan to attack the Little Cup.  Didn't say why, just that there was one, it was occurring today, and that the attack was going to be coming from underneath Tanuki's tower on the Battle Plateau.  The gall of them, doing something like this literally underneath Tanuki's nose..."

"...Dagny asked me to check it out.  Went to the base of the tower with Calam, and he was incredibly aggressive and on guard.  Asked him to use Future Sight to confirm that something was amiss, and that only cemented that there was immediate danger, so I had to act immediately.  Upon entering the tower, Calam's Future Sight slammed a manhole cover shut as the attackers were trying to open it to enter.  A little prep work later, and I was ready for whatever was coming out from that underground tunnel."

"...mostly.  Two Scimitars emerged only seconds later.  Their immediate reactions to seeing me were 'he knows the girl, so let's take him' and 'he has two psychic types, so let's take those too.'  A wave of their gauntleted hands later, and they'd fileld the room with enough illusions to match Kirlia's Double Team.  Not that it helped hide them from Razor Wind and Kirlia's psychic powers."

A pause.  Right, Dagny and Heart don't necessarily know what a Scimitar is...

"...sorry, should probably explain what a Scimitar is in the first place.  They're a small, secretive organization that specialize in using metal gauntlets of some kind and are very selective in who gets to join their ranks.  I don't understand fully how it works, but those gauntlets allow them to do things like manipulate the earth and water, and they seem to rely more on their own powers than those of pokemon.  Encountered a scimitar over a month ago that created a swamp near Ginger Town on Route 01, right before the Spring Festival.  He seemed to be a particularly powerful one.  The ones I encountered in the tower were chumps by comparison.  They burst a rafter to create a 'sandstorm', were slow and clumsy...and weirdly enough, the Scimitars seem to have some kind of type affinity as well, probably thanks to those gauntlets.  Every Scimitar I've encountered so far seems to be at least resistant to Psychic attacks.  The one we encountered over a month ago took a lot of damage from Swiftfire's Embers.  The ones I encountered in the tower...one of them wasn't super fazed by Calam's Razor Wind, but the other took nothing from it, and both of them seemed to be completely immune to Electric attacks.  However, the one who took nothing from Razor Wind was VERY afraid of Calam's Night Slash.  And when he attacked...it was like he was using some kind of supernatural, ghostly energy...the hairs on the back of my neck were raised, Kirlia got hurt rather badly by the attack, and it harmed Grid, my Jol...er, Galvantula, a decent amount as well..."

"...wasn't much opportunity to get information from them.  Opted to beat them up first, ask questions later.  They threatened to steal my pokemon, were after Shiva for I don't know what reason...so I had Grid trap 'em in there with Spider Web while Calam beat them into submission.  Fun fact: I discovered that if you KO a Scimitar while they're using their gauntlets, the metal gloves explode in their faces."

There's a rather...wicked smile on Nathan's face for a moment as he says that last part.  And then it's gone as he continues.

"...and then the police showed up and handled the cleanup as quietly as possible, insisted I try and keep it quiet too.  I take it that's where you two came in?  That email had to come from somewhere, but how in the heck did you two get involved in the first place, and what exactly did you do?  I thought Dagny had only called me about squishing these bugs."

Nathan's looking at Valder and Ventus with a raised eyebrow.