[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Calam's a bit cautious about letting Shiva touch him.  Even Nathan only rarely gets to do so.  He's proud of the condition he keeps his white coat of fur in.  Even just looking, though, Dizzy's is clearly softer, even if only by a little bit.

"Well, out of curiosity, does he have a nickname?"  Shiva doesn't have to say any more about why he's there.  If the League sent him, then there's obviously some special permissions in place.  And Nathan doesn't need more than one guess concerning why.

"...League named him 'Dizzy', short for 'Disaster'." She slowly withdraws her hand again now after having petted these two elusive felines enough for now, then makes attempts to move on along the path speaking further as she walks, motioning for the young Absol to please follow her and stick by her side.

"They've also warned me that we're having a high chance to meet these.......Scimitars along the way, somewhere and sometime." Nothing visibly changes about Shiva's expression and body language when saying that, but from how she almost spitted out that one word in coldness, it's relatively easy to get that she has not forgotten her grudge one these people, caused by her run-in with these guards when infiltrating their base in Wineberry Town.


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Mr. Finder hobbles over to the proper entrance to Mt. Sentry. "Let us begin!" He tosses a Pokeball, and a Slurpuff appears. Tongue hanging out, it goes waddling along the path at high speed. Mr. Finder stays hot on its heels, sometimes sniffing the air himself.

"Ah, where would we be without Pokemon?" he says. "If there's anything with a nose to rival my own, it's Slurpuff! Slurpuff says we'll have to continue down the main route for a bit, then drop into some sort of tunnel."

Indeed, you walk for about two hours without meeting any Pokemon at all, other than shy Zubat, having cleared this path just a few days ago. You're still feeling fresh when you come to a little side tunnel, half-blocked by a scree of slate. It looks like it slopes downward into darkness, though even Slurpuff doesn't quite fit inside at the moment.

Geodude floats forward, ready to dig. Any other preparations? Last chance for any important flashbacks!

No particular preparations from my side, but Shiva's visibly fascinated and charmed by that Slurpuff Mr. Finder sends out! Awww <3 Such a cute Pokemon, and barely one could fit him better that this fairy-dog with a sense of smell 100 million times better than a standard humans!~

When they encounter that little side tunnel leading into darkness, she does take a shy look into it, already shivering from the thought of heading down there, before she catches her again quickly due to the fact that she's not alone here as well as that they all prepared sufficiently for this trip. Seeing how Geodude ('How delightful to see him again, and even willing to help us~', she thought to herself) floated forward to start digging, Shiva summons her familiar waterly fae rabbit, wo blinked at the current surrounding before concentrating on her beloved Master. "Azu, dear one," she adressed her Azumarill calmly, "please lend Geodude your Helping Hand to dig, and continue helping to widen the entrance of this side tunnel with your Huge Power when he gets tired."

If an Accuracy Roll is needed, it consists of 7d6. My Furret is missing 2xp to learn Helping Hand, so he has to watch the scene instead of helping as well. This gives Shiva the chance to watch him however: Does he give any signs of recognizing this tunnel?