Creshire Museum Part 5
Preshistoric Pokemon
This is where Professor Laurelin works. Her actual lab is right there inside the museum, behind a thick glass window, and patrons can watch her work. Right now she is chiseling a fossil out of some reddish-orange stone - probably a Helix fossil. She's surrounded by minions in labcoats and giant machines connected by tubes. Liquids bubble inside. A machine much like a Healing Machine is also involved.
The strangest machine looks like a big spinning tuning fork on the end of a robot arm. Below it is a big vat.
The room looks very dusty. You can't make out any of Laurelin's features for the dust, except that she has an awful lot of hair (currently grayish brown) with lots of baubles woven into it.
A plaque describes the expensive fossil revivification process in technobabble. The process was simultaneously discovered by Devon Corporation, Cinnabar Laboratory, Ambrette Town, and Telperion University all at the same time. Nathan might be relieved to see no mention of Almanac here - the discovery predates them. He's sure they'd be interested, though.
Fossils sometimes regenerate into the evolved forms, indicating a very close (but not identical) DNA link between the two forms. Older fossils are less likely to become the second form, and may refuse to evolve altogether!
Every known fossil has been found in Creshire at least once.
There's also information on some existing species, which were bigger and more powerful in prehistoric times. Their moves rivaled an HM. Charizard's flame could drastically alter the landscape by melting boulders. Larvitar ate entire mountains, creating the clefts in the Great Divide. Onix could be as much as 60' long, twice his current size (always pretty rare in Creshire though).
Occasionally someone finds a Delta Pokemon with the Rock Type who may be mutated from a fossil. There's a living Delta Sunkern in the museum, with stony leaves embedded with green quartz. It's very slow moving and more serene than a normal Sunkern.
Captain Bridge
Captain Bridge was a minor noble who insisted on starting as a lowly private and working his way up. He owned a Doublade, with which he trained constantly - there's a wax mannequin of them together here. The Doublade and half his men, including his own brother, were slain in a battle against loyalists in the mid 1400's. That was in and around Mt. Sentry. The loyalists had a strategy of stirring up the local Pokemon and sneaking away, including the ghosts of the Skull Ruins - who were freshly angered/created and had a certain amount of sympathy with the Crown loyalists.
Bridge was a genius-level tactician. He was great at deploying Pokemon for combat and for supplies. After him, few ever used non-Pokemon weaponry again. Pokemon were just superior - their lethal moves could be stronger, they were intelligent, and they could be trained in many versatile ways.
Skilled at cartography, alchemy, wilderness survival, medicine: a real jack-of-all-trades. He was among the first to carry exactly six Pokemon and to require each soldier to specialize in four moves, granting homage to the Six and the Four. Sort of a contrast to the loyalists.
Captain Bridge died of starvation, not in battle as he'd always hoped. He and his remaining men were lost in Mt. Sentry, fleeing from an army of ghost Pokemon. A simple Rock Smash HM would have saved him.
Creshire International
This just lists Creshire's relations with other regions, including trade and politics. Creshire mostly exports Pokemon and Meteoric Superconductor (MS).
There's a little bit here about which Pokemon came to Creshire, and which left for other regions after originating in Creshire.
Originating in Creshire: Staryu, Voltorb, most Legendaries, pseudo-legendaries, big herbivorous Pokemon, lots of the friendliest Pokemon, many of the Mega stones, a few Tandor species. Ralts is on this list!
Coming to Creshire very very long ago: predatory mammal species, Ekans and Arbok, some of the common birds, the fairly-rare-but-not-ultra-rare species. Cottonee is on this list!
Not nationalised in Creshire: Alolan species.
Pokedex
This exhibit was built by Mallorn. His picture and his business logo are all over it. It describes how a Pokedex is made from Meteoric Superconductor, both innards and outer coating, allowing amazing sensory technology and integrated real-time data lookup. The insides of a Pokedex consist of two main parts: an output array for the screen, speaker, and stuff like that; and a solid state mass of MS, so dense it looks like someone just poured a bunch of liquid metal into a casing. That's the entire computer. The exhibit claims it's a hundred times more advanced than a cell phone, and the science shown here indicates at least 10x as advanced as a cell phone. Mallorn may have exaggerated a bit, though.
Preshistoric Pokemon
This is where Professor Laurelin works. Her actual lab is right there inside the museum, behind a thick glass window, and patrons can watch her work. Right now she is chiseling a fossil out of some reddish-orange stone - probably a Helix fossil. She's surrounded by minions in labcoats and giant machines connected by tubes. Liquids bubble inside. A machine much like a Healing Machine is also involved.
The strangest machine looks like a big spinning tuning fork on the end of a robot arm. Below it is a big vat.
The room looks very dusty. You can't make out any of Laurelin's features for the dust, except that she has an awful lot of hair (currently grayish brown) with lots of baubles woven into it.
A plaque describes the expensive fossil revivification process in technobabble. The process was simultaneously discovered by Devon Corporation, Cinnabar Laboratory, Ambrette Town, and Telperion University all at the same time. Nathan might be relieved to see no mention of Almanac here - the discovery predates them. He's sure they'd be interested, though.
Fossils sometimes regenerate into the evolved forms, indicating a very close (but not identical) DNA link between the two forms. Older fossils are less likely to become the second form, and may refuse to evolve altogether!
Every known fossil has been found in Creshire at least once.
- Helix - Omanyte and Omastar - found along the eastern coast
- Dome - Kabuto and Kabutops - buried in coastal sand, especially east coast. Also Lake Chicory.
- Old Amber - Found only in the Earthstar Forest and in Skull Ruins excavations. Probably none left in the Forest. Beloved by Sarimanok.
- Root Fossil - Lileep and Cradily - deep sea cliffs and corals. Sometimes even found in living Corsola.
- Claw Fossil - Anorith and Armaldo - Found in the famous Botanville Shale. Actually quite common in Creshire.
- Skull Fossil - Cranidos and Rampardos - Entire skeletons found trapped in the Hog Potato Swamp.
- Armor Fossil - Shieldon and Bastiodon - Mt. Molten and NE Creshire, Borealis Road. Beloved by Shieldmaidens.
- Cover Fossil - Tirtouga and Carracosta - Camas Desert chalks. May have been hunted to extinction by nomads there.
- Jaw Fossil - Tyrunt and Tyrantrum - Found only on Garlicburg. Very very rare. Beloved by Sarimanok.
- Sail Fossil - Amaura and Aurorus - Highest elevations in the Great Divide, indicating those areas were even colder in the past.
- Plume Fossil - Archen and Archeops - Edges of the Great Divide, where it is thought they swooped from mountains to hunt on the plains.
- Tusk Fossil - Snopach and Dermafrost - same as Sail Fossil, but also found in Mamo pastures!
- Hair Fossil - Slothohm and Theriamp - exceedingly rare on Borealis Road.
- Gold Fossil - Jungore and Majungold - imported by Sarimanok just to show off.
There's also information on some existing species, which were bigger and more powerful in prehistoric times. Their moves rivaled an HM. Charizard's flame could drastically alter the landscape by melting boulders. Larvitar ate entire mountains, creating the clefts in the Great Divide. Onix could be as much as 60' long, twice his current size (always pretty rare in Creshire though).
Occasionally someone finds a Delta Pokemon with the Rock Type who may be mutated from a fossil. There's a living Delta Sunkern in the museum, with stony leaves embedded with green quartz. It's very slow moving and more serene than a normal Sunkern.
Captain Bridge
Captain Bridge was a minor noble who insisted on starting as a lowly private and working his way up. He owned a Doublade, with which he trained constantly - there's a wax mannequin of them together here. The Doublade and half his men, including his own brother, were slain in a battle against loyalists in the mid 1400's. That was in and around Mt. Sentry. The loyalists had a strategy of stirring up the local Pokemon and sneaking away, including the ghosts of the Skull Ruins - who were freshly angered/created and had a certain amount of sympathy with the Crown loyalists.
Bridge was a genius-level tactician. He was great at deploying Pokemon for combat and for supplies. After him, few ever used non-Pokemon weaponry again. Pokemon were just superior - their lethal moves could be stronger, they were intelligent, and they could be trained in many versatile ways.
Skilled at cartography, alchemy, wilderness survival, medicine: a real jack-of-all-trades. He was among the first to carry exactly six Pokemon and to require each soldier to specialize in four moves, granting homage to the Six and the Four. Sort of a contrast to the loyalists.
Captain Bridge died of starvation, not in battle as he'd always hoped. He and his remaining men were lost in Mt. Sentry, fleeing from an army of ghost Pokemon. A simple Rock Smash HM would have saved him.
Creshire International
This just lists Creshire's relations with other regions, including trade and politics. Creshire mostly exports Pokemon and Meteoric Superconductor (MS).
There's a little bit here about which Pokemon came to Creshire, and which left for other regions after originating in Creshire.
Originating in Creshire: Staryu, Voltorb, most Legendaries, pseudo-legendaries, big herbivorous Pokemon, lots of the friendliest Pokemon, many of the Mega stones, a few Tandor species. Ralts is on this list!
Coming to Creshire very very long ago: predatory mammal species, Ekans and Arbok, some of the common birds, the fairly-rare-but-not-ultra-rare species. Cottonee is on this list!
Not nationalised in Creshire: Alolan species.
Pokedex
This exhibit was built by Mallorn. His picture and his business logo are all over it. It describes how a Pokedex is made from Meteoric Superconductor, both innards and outer coating, allowing amazing sensory technology and integrated real-time data lookup. The insides of a Pokedex consist of two main parts: an output array for the screen, speaker, and stuff like that; and a solid state mass of MS, so dense it looks like someone just poured a bunch of liquid metal into a casing. That's the entire computer. The exhibit claims it's a hundred times more advanced than a cell phone, and the science shown here indicates at least 10x as advanced as a cell phone. Mallorn may have exaggerated a bit, though.
Current project:
http://fringehikers.com/
Tabletop RPG PokeRole: http://pokemonuranium.co/forum/showthread.php?tid=789
"I encourage Sceptile to branch out."
http://fringehikers.com/
Tabletop RPG PokeRole: http://pokemonuranium.co/forum/showthread.php?tid=789
"I encourage Sceptile to branch out."
