[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Spiritmon]

Spoiler

(5)(5)(5)(6)

Larvesta decides to test you. It wriggles around and shows you some scales on its abdomen. Three are missing, but two have been replaced with little droplets of stone, looking like shards of evolution stones! These are fireglass and thunderglass. If you can find a fiery-colored evolutionary shard to replace the missing scale, Larvesta will go with you. Until then, she's going to sleep and dream of being a bright sun!

Another Encounter slot goes by as Durant and Durant tunnel through the soft coal. You unearth a lot of the colorful rocks and a few tiny tiny quartz crystals. Azumarill is happy to cart these off and offer the crystals to Shiva.

At one point, Durant flat out refuses to dig straight ahead and digs a random detour. Mr. Finder says he smells gas here, after some consultation with Slurpuff. It's a lot darker her, and Swiftfire keeps her flame trimmed once she hears about the gas. She doesn't want to create an impromptu Candelabra.

Nathan paces off the distance he think Carbink could see, hear, or otherwise sense, and the Durant break through into the tunnel as directed by Mr. Finder. (It's clear by now that Slurpuff does all the truly impressive feats of sensory acumen).

You're still in the coal seams, though they have widened out. It actually looks like much of this was excavated long, long ago - there are sharp corners and missing cubes of coal. To one side is a tremendous slag heap, half-filling a pit so massive you cannot see the other side. Mr. Finder insists there is a ledge on the other side, guarded by two sleeping stone Pokemon. He thinks it's a Gigalith and a Golem, but he's not 100% sure - apparently there's something a little funny about them. Or it.

A mass of coal dust slopes down into the pit. At the bottom is a polluted sludge. Sandile are crawling in and out of it, a little disturbed by your light and your passage. You also see the eyes of a Hippopotas staring out at you; the rest of the Pokemon is submerged. There's a funny light in those eyes, though...

Mt. Sentry Coal Biome Part 3 - part 2 is just the tunnel you've dug.

1. Name: Gigalith and Golem
Challenge: moderate, with potential for more
Bid start: 1
Cap: 1 (2) at a time.
Required: a way to cross the dark chasm!
Notes: Mandatory encounter, as they guard the ledge on the far side.
You can delay this to Encounter Slot 4 if you want.

2. Name: Held Item
Bid start: 1
Cap: 1

3. Name: Sandile x2
Bid start: 1
Cap: 2
Challenge: Easy

4. Name: Hippopotas*
Bid start: 3
Cap: 1 (2)
Challenge: Moderate

Heart nod his head and say. "Well, I accept that challenge. Gonna find that gems and come back to you!" When Heart was in the path to meet his companions he see something lurking in the stones. He decided to take a look before anything.

Action: Take Encounter of Hippopotas. Since Shiva already decided to take the Held Item.