[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

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Creshire Museum Part 4

Creshire Art
This is a substantial part of the museum, and most of the residents consider it the best or most important part. They have some permanent exhibits, some rotating exhibits, some works that the museum owns, and some that are on loan.

They're not shy about picking up art from any era and location.

There are prints of Mamo cave paintings, depicting people's early interactions with Pokemon. The same is true of their pottery. Apparently the Mamo used to have peat lodges where they hosted art, just like a modern day art gallery.
They also make these cool weapons.


You find an exhibit on the eerie metal artwork of the First Technical Society, which creatively ignores every rule of present-day art. Just looking at it makes you feel funny. Some of it uses optical illusions to portray impossible, Escherean arrangements of wire and tubing.




Lots of gilt and hieroglyphic art from Sarimanok's time. Detailed masks, urns painted head to toe, papyrus scrolls with colorful inks, woven tapestries.


They've got their hands on one of the natural sculptures from the Fireweed Forest, showing a pair of Illumise and Volbeat and some Foongus.

Stone carvings and clay tiles from the Great Divide.

A whole row of art done by Pokemon: abstract fingerpaintings from Phanpy, hyperrealistic-but-meaningless paintings by the elusive Smeargle, a Raffiti's urban painting from Corsage Port, a rather silly 'sculpture' of crumpled iron by a Machamp, and an awesome geometric steel sculpture by a Meowth with Cut, back in the old days.

Tanuki has a painting! It's a whimsical children's painting of a giant Zigzagoon holding a tiny Furret.

A blurred picture of a strangely squat and humanoid Pokemon near a desert oasis. It was painted in the Camas Desert. On careful examination you see some Deyo flowers in the painting.

A diorama of the Safari Zone, including Ampharos, Poochyena, Tranquill, Rhyhorn, Minccino, and Tauros.

A painting of the old Garlicburg castle as a ruins, overrun with crab Pokemon.

A little etching of a Dratini. You check the name...it's Corporal Wake, whom you met in Trillium Town. Apparently he was born in Cress City, but isn't nearly famous enough to make the list.

Lots of the paintings by modern Creshire artists are on canvases with odd shapes. Lots of triangles or circles. Some are the shape of what they portray, like a human shape or barn shape or mountain shape.




Become an Artist

They've got clay, a kiln, and poor-quality paints and canvas to use here. There are PCs so you can look up instructions or models. They also have a 3D printer that can create almost anything in plastic form, if you have the proper file.



Telperion Recruitment and Info
This is also a pretty small booth, akin to the one on Almanac. It lists all the majors at Teleperion, and its history as an outdoor college. There's an interview with the architect who designed the Hedge Maze, the cool open-air classrooms, and the semi-open rooms set into the hill. This university has existed in one form or another for 1500 years. Formerly, it was called Maku Pedagorium, until the name was changed in the time of the Kings.
Shiva qualifies to enroll there, though the price is higher for nonresidents. Scholarships are available if you do some kind of great work, a journeyman's piece in what you want to study. Someone going to art school there, for example, would need to make some kind of portfolio. A biologist needs to discover and describe a new species or organ or something.



Creshire Plants and Natural Science

The most diverse plantlife in Creshire can be found in the Safari Zone, where a combination of certain flora and Pokemon sheddings can create all sorts of great medicines and battle items.

The hardiest plants are in the mountains. There are extremophiles that can survive the heat of Mt. Molten or the chill of the Great Divide in wintertime. We don't even know if those plants are useful or not because it's so hard to get up there and survive.

The most unique plants are on Garlicburg, where they have a separate evolutionary history.

Much of Creshire's natural history is driven by the meteor strikes, somewhat outlined in another post. The Mamo say the Great Divide and the coasts were formed when a massive Whiscash slammed into a Surfing boatlike Pokemon, whose identity they don't know. Natural science says they're not too far off the mark - some kind of Legendary Pokemon did indeed clash with a massively oversized prehistoric Pokemon affiliated with earth, water, and even plant life. Their clash occurred right at a tectonic plate, setting off volcanic activity which formed the initial land. Pokemon like Regigigas are rumored to have positioned all the continents over time. This kind of "continental drift" caused wrinkles in the land - the Great Divide.

Creshire has changed a lot over time. The Camas Desert used to be a cove. The southern plains used to be a desert. Lake Chicory used to be a big pit full of strange plant life and unusual Pokemon.