[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

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Creshire Museum Part 3

The Tomb of the King exhibit shows the mastaba that is thought to be the King's Tomb, where he is buried in some secret location. It looks a bit like a pyramid missing the upper half and then paved over with more bricks.

There are thirty sarcophagi in a line, replicas of course, lined with gold and painted with designs. Each casket has a face mask on it, showing some attribute to represent the king's life. For example, Sarimanok's has two differently designed hands, one beringed hand of healing and one withered hand of death.

By Sarimanok's time, they didn't really believe in a literal afterworld anymore, but they still followed some of the traditions of those who did, and Sarimanok's body was swept away from the League and given proper burial. They didn't wrap bodies up and mummify them or embalm them, so a real sarcophagus would eventually contain naught but a skeleton and some jewelry and ceremonial weapons.

"...healing hands, deadly hands...it's almost funny how well suited that is for representing Sarimanok and what he accomplished..."

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Even though this is just a replica, just being in this room is...as much somewhat unsettling as it is interesting.  The quietness of it is eerily disturbing...

...Nathan checks the time.  Oh wow, he's been in the museum THAT long already?!  Whew...if he wanted to get something else done today, he needed to get going...he'd have to come back again at a later point to check out the rest of these exhibits.  There's so much here that he still wants to explore!

Well then, time to get to work on the last thing he wanted to do today: some training!  Specifically for Ralts, Forthright, and Charmeleon.  Ralts is actually starting to practice some maneuvers a Gallade is more likely to use.  The thought that he'll be able to finally evolve into the Blade pokemon once he becomes a Kirlia again is exciting, and he wants to be ready for it!  Forthright gets some coaching on attempting to summon a Weather Ball.  She's close to learning it, but not quite there yet...she's just starting to make mini-clouds in attempts to use the move, but is having trouble forming them into a ball.  Charmeleon gets some much needed practice with hitting a training dummy with physical blows.  It's been awhile since he's had a solid foe to hit.  Of course, it's still not the same as facing an actual opponent...

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