[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

Medical Items on sale: They're selling a pill that coats a Pokemon's tongue in a weird chemical that makes any bitter tastes palatable for three hours. On sale for $200 each. This works on a lot of natural remedies.
Rubber gloves are also on sale for 10% off. Since disposable rubber gloves are 0$, this may not affect Ventus much.
He finds a stethoscope for $350, which is about 30% cheaper than normal.

No sales on Escape Ropes. Small Camping Tents are on sale for 400$, which is 50% off.

Almanac has a bio-engineered product which grows a second skin over a person for $5000, copying a Pokemon. It lasts until you peel it off and grants a massive 5 extra dice to fool someone. Still one time use though.
It even augments your abilities a little to match: for example a Machoke would be stronger (maybe able to lift an extra 100lbs), a Gothitelle more perceptive (a 2 dice bonus on Insight), etc.
It can't do things like extra arms or a functioning tail - if you choose a Pokemon with an impossible limb, it just grows a little stub that looks like it has been chopped off. It also can't change your size.
A good guideline is the Human Egg Group.


You find a book on crafting using Pokemon parts. It is $400 and has a segment on snakeskin. "The Joy of Pokemon Crafting." This will let you make rolls on artistic crafts even if you don't have a rank in Crafts.
You can pick up an herbology field guide for free, but it takes a long time to identify a plant, so it's not really for finding herbs - it's for verifying an herb you might already know.

In his somewhat aimless yet still highly motivated search for sales and versitle Items for himself/the group, Ventus didn't expect to find much of interest, but that proved to be a wrong assumption as he found a myriad amount of useful and interesting things for purchase, chhief among them being what he aptly termed 'Poke Skin Suits' being boldly advertised and sold by Almanac. While the researcher held them in high contempt and supiscion for their rather 'liberal' stance on basic Pokémon rights/ethics and their nebulous connection to the events that lead up to the Vines Crisis (And subsequently sending him and the group scrambling to clean up after their monumental mess), even he couldn't deny the impressiveness of the unique technology/techniques/Items they offered! Didn't stop him in the slightest from questioning the unfortunate side effects associated with their products or how and what ways they developed this stuff, but credit due to where its earned!

'......The more I learn of this dubiously moral and scientific corporation, the more I'm left astounded and deeply disturbed by what they have achieved. Just what ends, policies, and perspectives they have undertaken to create all these fantastical merchandice and service that cemented themselves as the a dominating and influencial force in Cheshire? What others ends will they resort to in order do to further their unknown goals and expand their powerbase. ....What will the consequences associated with the action they have, currently are, and will end up undertaking, and who will end up being the ones to suffer them? ....Aimless questioning will get me nowhere, but I will have to keep an closer eye on Almanac going forward......'

Eventually, after pondering the SCIENCE! Corp for a few moments, he decided to purchase the Stethoscope and 'Joys to Pokémon Crafting' + Herbology Field Guide for $750 Poke . The stethoscope could come in handy in diagnosing certain medical conditions and could act as a listening device for various situations (Such a safe cracking and spying!) , and both books certainly will help him create a variety of splendid Items out the materials his/the group's Pokémon produces AND refresh his memory of the herb lore his mo- he learned in the past! At the very least he could end up sharing both with Shiva, as he is well aware of her ethusiam and inclination towards Crafting and eye for Natural products!

After making his purchase, Ventus made his way towards the entrance, where he spotted Nathan and politely signals his arrival. If he/Kirlia were also paying close attention, they could see a bit of......uneasiness in the actions, and how his eyes swept the area around them for.....something, before he relaxed. "Sorry for making you wait, Nathan, but now that I've arrived, let us enter and begin your debut challenge against Dagney!"