[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

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Atheneum
Dagny sends a text back. There are a few facts about a mythical Atheneum, which is never found in the same century twice, and contained all the knowledge needed to set up the first Kingdom. No one has been talking about this legend in recent times at all, though. These are all old archived stories from when most stories were told orally rather than being written down.
She'll keep looking with these new minor leads.

Scrabble Tiles
You make some, making them oversized for the clumsy paws of Slowking. He's not nearly as good at writing as he is at reading, but he manages to spell out some relevant things. Nathan has to help by trying to guess what Solomon is about to say, and arranging some tiles for him to read. This helps him keep track of where he is in a sentence. He's also got your journal for reference.

(6)(5)(3)
Slowking spells out:
N-O-T  R-U-L-E-D B-Y L

E-X-I-L-E-D

N-O-T A N-E-W T-E-A-M, emphasis on "new"

L I-S K-I-N-G-D-O-M

This whole thing with Solomon and the letters will count as an Encounter.




Training

Charmeleon gets a Training roll. We'll use Brawl, minus Disobedience.
(2)(2)(3)(4)(2)(6)(6), +1 default XP. Charmeleon keeps trying to use his fire in the rain just to be difficult!
Forthright gains 2XP instead of just 1, because that is very fitting practice for her.

Yule also gets a training roll. This is going to be an exercise in Allure, since it's all about getting Yule to pay attention to something other than Swiftfire.
(1)(3)(6)(1)(5)(6)(5)(4) Still average even with the 1's. Also +2 default XP instead of +1.
You can count Route 05, sure.

Hmmm...well, any leads are better than none.  It wasn't going to be easy to find this Atheneum, it seems...containing all the knowledge needed to set up the first Kingdom sounds in line with an expansive library though.  Hopefull Dagny finds some more info before they head back into Mt. Sentry...

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Alright, good, the big, wooden letter tiles seem to be doing their job...he'd have to work with Solomon on improving his 'writing', but he can definitely do it.  Given enough time, Solomon could probably spell as well as any human...

...but that's thought after Nathan's processed what Solomon is trying to say.

"So...Landorus, the Kingdom pokemon...was exiled?  Was it by his superior(s) in the trio?  Was Sarimanok involved?  And when he left...he went to go join an existing group of Legends?"

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Ironically, using fire in the rain is good practice too, so Nathan doesn't complain at all when Charmeleon purposely tries to be difficult.  Forthright seems to be doing okay with weather ball now.  She's shaping the clouds into a sphere, now, and they seem to be taking on a damp, stormy appearance with the weather...now she has to work on launching it into the air to properly turn it into an attack.

Well, getting Yule to pay attention to what's going on around him was proving to be...interesting.  But hey, Swiftfire seems to have actually made some usable 'money' with Pay Day this time!  Maybe she'd decided that plinking it off of random wild pokemon every so often was a good idea...not that Nathan's going to complain about making $1000 just by having her around.  Cha-ching!