[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Nathan is a bit ahead of the group, leading the way. Suddenly a Furret leaps overhead and drops a shard of pale grey stone, the same size as the Clamperl Pearl but not uniform in shape. Instead, it looks like it was originally a piece of a larger marble slab, which was then casually smoothed. It's also longer than it is wide. When Nathan picks it up, all his arm hairs stand on end.

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On the upper knob of the shard is a symbol of four eyes, two large and two small. Nathan knows this is a pagan symbol for knowledge, especially knowledge beyond death. The pagan Reaper is known to fill his domain with spider Pokemon.

This religion is no longer popular or practiced and was always very niche.

It looks like this is a piece of a grave marker. Some were indeed installed within Mt Sentry to ward against their spirits ever coming back, since Mt. Sentry is a place of sentinels.

*shudder*

...though Nathan can't help but wonder where this piece of rubble came from...

...

...judging by how smooth it is, and the lack of any jagged edges...he wasn't going to be finding that out any time soon.

Well, he'd hold on to it for now.  Maybe do a little more research into it later (though if he can make out any text on it, he'll try and read what it says now).  Maybe even see how Grid reacts to it, since he's a spider pokemon.

Hmmm...

"Hey Valder, come here for a sec.  I want to see how Haunter reacts to this piece of a gravestone."

Nathan doesn't really pay too much attention to the two fainted bat pokemon for the time being.  Bats are quite the nuisance in caves, after all.  Nathan's glad Valder kept them from being a nuisance to him, in fact.  Wouldn't have been fun trying to deal with both them and the stone that almost fell on top of him, after all.

Nathan's also keeping an eye on Ralts and Solomon to see how they reacted to the stone too.  Starmie's also out and providing illumination, though the only real reaction he'd be able to gauge from Starmie is if it were to back away from the stone itself.