[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

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Mr. Finder is waiting in his shelter, near Geodude's makeshift nest. He accepts the Relic Shard gratefully and shuts himself away in a dark corner of the cavern, where occasional flashes of light can be seen.

He rejoins the group as they assemble, takes a look at your supplies and grunts in approval. "My nose is already hard at work detecting the location of a stone like this one near old dusty books, and I am pleased to say I think I can sense one! It's deep, deep underground and near the center of Mt. Sentry, unfortunately. My nose knows direction, but it doesn't necessarily know every obstacle...in fact, I can smell an avalanche or two." He holds up a little card with a rockslide illustrated on it.

"Here is your stone back, but please keep it available to me whenever I ask for it."

He pulls out a notebook. "Here's where I'll keep track of any expenses I incur. You've asked me to keep them low and it looks like you have enough food - assuming nothing delays us. So far, all I had to buy was a backpack for $50 and some better footwear for $50. I'd like to keep some of your rope in my pack should we get separated."

"Oh! On the way here I met a Raticate. It's been following me around; hopefully I can bring it. I've noticed it is able to dig and smell pretty well - both useful."

"Anything else we need to wait for? I am ready to lead the way! Please keep a good fighter at my side."

Ahhhhhhh!~ It was the sweetest melody for a particular fae-enthusiast to hear about Mr. Finder already detecting something, and he has a hard time to hide that from being visible in her expression and body language. Though when he mentioned a freakin' AVALANCHE, that joy somewhat bid farewell to Shiva as fast and gracefully as Nathan moves now. "Are these tarot cards, Mr. Finder? Eh... well, I guess IF there'll be a rockslide though, the Absol in our party will warn us beforehand...." The trust in Calam and Dizzy increases.

It pleases Shiva that he follows her request of keeping the expenses low. Concerning these and the remaining 1000$ to actually pay him for his help, she throws a telling and asking glance over to Nathan and Valder - you people know why, but you never came back to me concerning this. Everyone of us has contributed to the cost except you two, since it's a group thing I still feel it's fair to share the cost between us all.

"I...I mean, from my side we can get going!" To express that, she silently takes Ven's hand in a silent request to stick close to her. Only he will probably notice that deep inside her, she's scared but does a very fine job to hide it. As for the rope, Mr. Finder can have that one Shiva keeps, it's 5meter long - I hope that'll be enough.



Fine, if Nathan desires to scout ahead a little for the sake of being a little away from us others, he can stick to Mr. Finder, Ven's Lucifer the Noibat and Shiva's leader-Furret are asked to scout ahead before this post came from you, Iron, so they'll likely end up staying near Nathan and Mr. Finder.
Shiva doesn't desire to be far away from him, the Infiltrator-Absol sticks close to her as she has asked him to please do so to be among the first ones to realize when he picks up something dangerous ahead.
Calam desires to stick close to Dizzy, means he is close to Shiva as well.
Ventus said he desires to stick to Shiva 'for obvious reasons', so he too is near to the now two Absol.
Where Heart and Valder are, I don't know, probably somewhere though.