[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Spiritmon]

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Once Nathan and Shiva entered the lobby, Ventus ceased mid playful tickling of his dear Azrael (earning him a semi disappointed grumbling from her) and turned his attention towards them, waving both of them over with a wide smile on his face and take a seat, turning towards the young scholar to address them.

If Ventus allows and Azrael is up for it, Shiva does continue carefully stroking that smol Deino as a substitute for Ventus, showing it again that despite being into Fairy Type, there is not much to fear from her unless being provoked. She enjoys this, much, as long as this dragon isn't agressive or, mind you, a Hydregon yet.

The researcher didn't even hesitate to present his dark angel for his fae fancy to pet and stroke to her heart's content, completely trust her with his child and that she could deal his child should they prove too.....rambucious. Goes to show how much Ven trusts in Shiva to let them handle Azrael anytime, eh? Speaking of the blind drake, her reaction towards the mystical lass is still up to Iron to decide for now, but I can imagine her getting a whiff of the scent of Fairies and their dust on them and wrinkling their noise in distaste/worry. No good scent on woman, makes nose itchy and give me shivers! Papa did let them play with them, though, so she guess that she could be nice to her.....or not.

(On a side not, Shiva's allowed to freely interact with any of Ven's Pokémon with his implicit permission, save for Apsis, Ao Guang, and Scyther/Scizors in the future, since they are all either a health hazard to other trainer and/or don't like the Fairy woman. Lucifer when he evolves would be on his list, but since he's terrified/unwilling to associate with her as a Noibat, that's not liable to change even as a Noivern.)

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Hahahahaha.  Oh, that is genius...

Nathan stops at the mention of 'early birthday present' after that 'surprise!'  What a(n) (un?)fortunate choice of words...Nathan has to try and process that for a moment...

'Wait, no, he said...early...'

He shakes his head to clear it.

"...uh, yeah, right.  TM exchange.  Let me grab that Icy Wind TM real quick..."

He digs around in his bag for a moment.

...takes him just a little longer than he expected, because he needs to carefully move things around the Carvanha egg, and he pauses for a moment to look at the chocolate gateau in his bag (which is thankfully not squished).  Still packaged, but ooh boy, does it smell good, even without opening it...and there's a LOT of it, too...

Anyways, bag gets closed again once he's found the TM.  He sets it on the table.  Emolga's curiously looking at the TM Ventus just set down, chittering away as he does so.  Ooh, another one?  What's this one do?

"Well, here ya go.  I'll take that...while we're waiting for everyone else to show up, I'll just go ahead and use this TM on Forthright now, if you don't mind.  Guess that means you can teach your ghost over there Icy Wind too."

Of course, since Ventus has to use the PC, Nathan will just use his pokedex.  Saves a little time.  Unfortunately, Forthright can't exactly use her new move right now, but she'll have a chance to test it out soon enough!

Nathan looks at Shiva once that's done.  "Well, that's Sandstorm taken care of.  Just gotta teach her Weather Ball...guess we might be testing her form changes out sooner than expected?"

Ven didn't find the perplextion or surprise unusual from Nathan, as that was exactly the type of reaction he was expecting by handing over the TM for Sandstorm 'ahead of schedule' (Dramatic Irony right there, mates!), and so simply let out a good humored chuckle as he gratefully took the TM for Icy Wind soon after they place it on the table.

"My deepest thanks for agreeing to this trade, Nathan! You are indeed correct, so if you excuse me for one moment......."

The scientist then gets up from the table and makes his way to the PC with the TM in hand to teach his banshee Malphena the move Icy Wind! Her magical powers grow! Now Normal and most Dark types (Only Water/Dark resists all her attacking moves!) will suffer a intense case of bone chill if they dare think they can take advantage of their Resistances/Immunities, mwahahahaha!

He then returns to the group, but not until Nathan and Shiva finish up their conversation, and waits with them for Valder (I'll assume he'll either automatically show up or not) and Heart to join in on this meeting of the boy's. 'Wonder what he has to say so suddenly?....Hmm, I suppose we'll find out in due time, now won't I?'

Huh, that caused Shiva to go silent for a little to think over which Pokemon she, and then the group has that may benefit from a sandstorm. ...Her Comite came to her mind first! Followed by Heart's Ar- Lairon. Ven's Numel likely won't mind either, same with his and her Magneton!~

Eventually, after a little, she carefully spoke up again, looking thoughtful. "Guess it's better to only cast a sandstorm then when the advantages outweight the disadvantages. Sand Rush is a cool Ability, at home we mostly breed Lilipup that'll have this Ability when they evolve for customers. But if there's only one or two Pokemon on the field that don't mind or even benefit from both the storm and the hail, this probably brings out the best of these particular weather changes. Like... well, I think I'll only let Vulpix battle when it's safe. Or indoors, as then her skill of summoning a hailstorm is surpressed!"

"A...anyway, I realized that weather changes in battle shouldn't be done because you feel like it, but it can bring quite a benefit if done so with an intention. Like, Braixen's firepower grows amazingly if his inner flame is set ablaze and even powered up by the sunshine my sweet Cherubi summoned. Overdoing it will likely develop into chaos I think, or backfire, the sun and rain were my main...sentiments...to have, I mean."

"Yeah, Hail's probably the hardest weather to use...aside from Ice types, only pokemon with Overcoat, Magic Guard, most abilities that benefit from Hail directly, ones that know Blizzard, and ones wearing Safety Goggles can actually safely fight in it or benefit from it.  And on top of that, the trainer has to be equipped for those damaging weathers too if there's no suitable cover, lest they also take damage from it...though summoning an aurora is probably more than enough justification for starting a hailstorm.  It'd be...nice to see that one day...shame that TM is only produced in Alola currently...but I guess that makes sense if it's also the only place that can really sell it since few pokemon can use it as well as the Alolan Vulpix line..."

Nathan shrugs at Shiva's next comment.  "Changing the weather is what Castform do.  Maybe Forthright will eventually call on the Rain as well, but...it's not exactly very fitting of her namesake if she doesn't at least get the hang of clearing the skies to let the light shine on the battlefield.  Maybe she'll be soaking up the sun's rays one day as well to complement the literal firepower..."

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"...that's not here or now, though.  For now, I'd like to just focus on going through each of her different Forecasts once she's learned Weather Ball.  It won't be long before she learns it...she was just starting to form the clouds into a ball earlier."

Shiva has a rather durable pocket umbrella with her in back depicting a Lunatone, so I guess she herself will be safe from her Pokemon's (or, any) weather changes. As well as that Ranger's cloak with a big hood.

She also agrees silently that a Castform is, well, a Castform, changing the weather and changing its form accordingly is within it's nature.

Gargryph follows Heart all the way to the meeting!

Heart before returning to the pokemon center, he have released Hypno out of his pokeball. "Alphonse, I dont know how and why did you know about Gagryph be in this Cathedral today, but...thanks about that man."

Timeforward!

Heart finally manages to finally come to the pokemon Center still a little dizzy, but enough to be in good shape. Gagryph healing factor is pretty useful. He meet with the others still with Gargryph beside Heart to surprise everyone. He wave his hand and cheerfull talk. "Howdy everyone? My night today, how can I say...was pretty Rock like a Rhyhorn. Anyway, look who I found in the Cathedral." Then Heart show the Tandorian Pokemon to everyone. "Pretty neat huh? Guess you not the only ones with a Tandorian pokemons Shiva and Ventus."