[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

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They are here to investigate the candles. They're intrigued by all the different scents that you're allowed to put into your own bucket of wax if you pay a nominal fee to dip your own candles. You pick your own kind of wax, your own string, your colors and your scents, and you dip the string repeatedly into melted wax to make the candle a little bigger each time. Then they have stamps where you can reshape or decorate your candle a little. Just how they did it in the old days!

As I mentioned, there's also a blacksmith and a few other old school artisans. The most eye-catching thing is a very rare Pokemon over at the fletcher: A Decidueye and a Dartrix! The grass-type owls are helping a reenactor tutor in archery. Off behind that, a few more reenactors are doing a historical piece on the Six and the Four - the four elite League Trainers who broke into the throne room of Sarimanok with only six Pokemon between them. (Actually, in this scene, they are wandering through the King's maze of a garden, fighting off his guard Pokemon.)


In the remaining tower of Cress Castle, there are some Flying types perched: a Vullaby, a Murkrow, and several Starly. A plaque at the ground says that this castle stood before King Sarimanok's famous one did; that Sarimanok moved the seat of power for reasons unknown. He never reigned from Cress Castle, and it crumbled about a hundred years later.

Hmmm...Murkrow and Vullaby...hopefully that wasn't an omen of things to come...

Those Alolan owls were a welcome sight, though.

"Well, would you look at that, Heart.  Guess you got your wish after all.  There's a ghost right oveeerrr....there.  Looks like it's right up your alley...so long as you don't mind a few archery lessons.  Myself, I think I'll start with those candles over there with the bees.  You want to check out the reenactment afterwards, Furret?  It's covering a little of the war with Sarimanok several hundred years ago."

Nathan's happy to go along with making a candle out of the wax scents the bees pick out.  Heck, he'll probably even make two, one for each bee, so they can each pick out their favorites!  Why not, right?

Zippy makes a flower-scented candle, which he proudly gives to Princess. But Princess makes a big candle that smells of beeswax and sunshine and a warm hive. The reenactor is amazed by what she's managed to craft from the paltry few scents he has available.

The undersized Combee can barely carry the big candle Princess hands to him.

"Yeah. Shame I cant capture them. Decidueye and Dartrix are kinda rare pokemon." When Heart see thatcandle the two Combee holding he remember something. "You know Nathan? With of all these canddles I kinda feel...enlighted to make waxesome pun (wax+awesome). I would like to know how to make a candle burn longer. But I can't, because they burn shorter. I a big fan of candle holders. Or birthday cakes, as I call them. Beldum tiss." Heart make a sound like a battery. He chuckle a bit. "Sorry. Couldnt resist. I call PUNisher for a reason, heh." Then Heart talk again. "You by chance know about the story of this castle? If he was in the time of Sarimanorok?"