[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

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Mallorn doesn't shy away from this scientific oddity. He gets right up to it and starts poking it and petting it and prying its jaws open.

With his hand halfway in its mouth, he says "Is it obedient?"

"Hm. If you breed a puppy, I'd love to buy one off you. But I should warn you that Deltas don't always seem to breed true. I'm sure having a Ditto will help a lot. I've heard you can weave special Destiny Knots, too."

"I've never talked to Dr. Fennel, but I've read a few of her papers. Email is probably the best way for me to reach her. I'll give you her address next time I'm back at the lab. I know very little of Professor Burnet. I think she did a fluff piece on Celebi once? You know, I had never been certain the Dream World was a literal, real place. Oh, there's so many technological possibilities, if we could learn more about it!"

"Mega Pokemon. Oh, it's actually possible for them to evolve without a trainer. Results vary. Some struggle. Some stay in that form constantly. Some expend all their energy and wither away. Mega Stones have always existed, but we know that only in the League-era have they been paired up with the Bracelets successfully. That sort of chemical reaction must be possible in the wild, and it is possible to replicate in the laboratory, but there's no doubt that there's something special about the trainers who wield the power of Mega Evolution. I mean, it's just so much more reliable than lab experiments or the rare wild occurrences. You can measure that psychic energy and observe that it's a real thing. It's not just some 'power of love' nonsense."

"In relation to what I was telling Shiva, the Megas I've studied so far are not throwbacks. They're more random in appearance, just a wild surge of evolutionary energy. I've studied Mega Venusaur, Mega Ampharos, Mega Blaziken, Mega Beedrill, Mega Pidgeot, Mega Slowbro, Mega Swampert, Mega Lopunny, and Mega Metagross. Of all those species, I was able to prove that they did not fit into the fossil record. However, it did make their strength a lot closer to that of their ancestors, who usually had more robust physiology."