[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

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As soon as the group has entered Mount Sentry, Shiva does rather carefully draw that League Authority Pokeball from her stuff, take a curious look at it while having a thoughtful expression, before she takes a deep breath and eventually summons that Infiltrator-Absol to her side, alongside her Furret that will stay outside his Safari Ball as well unless I state otherwise. Hey, he knows the mountain, so he is asked to scout ahead alongside Ventus's Noibat if the bat is fine with his company.

If Dizzy allows, Shiva does knee down to be around eyelevel with him to carefully stroke over her white fur covering his head as a greeting, carefully avoiding the darkblue horn of his. The tone in which she spoke to the Infiltrator was a calm and somewhat serious one. "Well, hello young one! You remember me and are aware of your task to accompany me during this trip into the mountain, do you? That means, for now I'm responsible for your wellbeing, to some degree at least. You know best what to do in battles and...dangerous situations according to those that have hatched and trained you, so I'll trust in you concerning these matters. I'd like you to stick close to me unless you have reason to do otherwise and warn us all in gestures (bristling his fur/looking upset etc.) or audible signs (crying/growling etc.) when you feel like something's amiss, is that alright?"

The moment Shiva releases Dizzy, Calam bursts out of his Ultra Ball!  He gives the young Absol a rather drawn out, interested stare.  It's difficult to tell what he's thinking and feeling, other than he's definitely got a vested interest in Dizzy.

And he's going to be sticking close to the young one.  Ralts is really happy to see the young Absol again, too.

Nathan raises an eyebrow.  Hey, isn't that...?

"...well, when did he get to join the party?  I thought the Day Care was only looking at raising a rare pokemon, not giving him to you.  And who is he replacing?"

For reference, when we actually meet up with Mr. Finder, Nathan will make sure to show him the Black Stone Shard from Tanuki and tell him they should start by looking for the original stone this pebble got chipped off of.

Princess has become self-confident enough to be separated from Zippy. He's a little sad to be without her, but he realizes it could be dangerous and difficult down there.

Frogadier has no problem spending some time in the PC.

Alright, so unless anyone wants to make last minute changes to their lineup, Nathan's party is consisting of:

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Ralts
Swiftfire
Calam
Ditto
Solomon
Grid

And Valder will have (since he said he was fine with it earlier):

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Theo
Haunter
Mamo
Zippy
Starmie

Yule and Princess can still come along if somebody wishes to accomodate one of Nathan's other pokemon (Heart is still free to take Grid on loan if he so chooses.  If he's THAT concerned about Delta Onix being around, he can leave the rock snake behind, take Grid instead, and we can attempt to rely on Ditto Transforming from memory.  Then Nathan could take Yule or Princess himself.  Personally, I'd be fine with that, and it can be brought up when Heart is showing Ditto the Delta Onix, but keep in mind that it IS a rather big risk, however unlikely it is for Transform to fail)

If anyone (besides Shiva since she stated she wouldn't be there) has any pokemon to show Ditto for Transform purposes (and/or any comments on Sableye Ditto and Nathan's confusion about that) or want to make last minute changes to accommodate for some of Nathan's pokemon, now's the time to mention those, as I'm going to assume nothing is changing otherwise.