[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

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Oversized Furret has never ever been here, and is as wonderstruck as you are. Cottonee loves it, and is collecting scents on her fur from everything in the cavern - including a lot of Oddish seeds, whether she likes it or not. She flits between natural wonders and her dancing master.

Furret takes the jar and sweeps it over some of the shadowy tendrils around the big fern. Astonishingly, they persist, creating a tiny moonlight/darkness cycle within the jar.

Other things you might take are frosty pebbles, shed 'pine needles' from Snover, fallen Chingling ribbons or Weavile feathers, and rusty clay.

This close to the Fern, she can see that it has that same pattern of dots sported by the Weavile following her. The Fern is DEFINITELY the source of the sentinel feeling. Now that she thinks about it, and with max Insight, she has felt that feeling in various places within Mt. Sentry - whenever she sees a Furret, a Sentret, a Patrat, even such manmade things as the Shrine and the Candelabra. Those elements barely tickle her sixth sense, but in this place it's almost overwhelming.

The Pokemon all have specific tasks and relevant personalities. Obviously the Weavile guardians are distrustful. The Torterra are generally too busy to take much notice. The smaller Pokemon act peaceably. It's possible few of them have ever seen a human before.

Now that Shiva has arrived and followed that calling head-first and with gusto, the Central Fern somewhat turned completely silent, and so did the screams and pleads to follow the call within her.

She stared up to this wonder of nature.
It stared back at her.
It SMILED BACK at her, it READS her, it was silently saying 'welcome. I'm glad you came.' to her - either that, or Shiva has gone completely mad and the feels have drowned her.

She didn't make a move now that she arrived. She simply....soaks up all the emotions she can detect and handle just like dearest Cottonee did with the scents, her unconscious mind seemed to know how much she could 'take' to not be overwhelmed. She knows this protective feeling, indeed, but before she came here, she would have never believed that THIS was the source of all. How miraculous... Who needs the surface when it's so peaceful down here? No nightmares from up there linger down here. No issues, no problems. In this rare opportunity, Shiva experiences pure happiness for only a few moments, but these moments were more sweet that she could have imagined.

Only when Cottonee oftly landed on her head and let a small cloud of Oddish seed rain down on her and Furret chirped at her and offered her her glas jar back, Shiva perked up and returned from that slight stupor, and with a expression of FLARING AMAZEMENT she accepted her glass jar back. This shadowy circle thing in there.... A look back at the Central Fern, then at the jar, then at Furret, and Shiva understood. ".....Furret........ You're a genius. Thank you....from my whole heart.... I dunno HOW you did that, but you deserve everything you could ask for for this stunt." What this light-and-dark-circle means, she has no idea, but this was like the ULTIMATE SOUVENIR she could get. Hopefully she can ever find out the meaning behind that 'thing', and hopefully it doesn't escape/vaporate/whatever when Shiva opens the jar to mist it daily. Does it...have to do with that Pokemon that possibly bears that marking? Which one, she's not yet sure though.


Now then... snow was a rarity for her, so she's all up for a light walk through it, in totaly she probably didn't make more than 100meter (definitely not 'exploring'). But what she did, was a snowangel. ^^ She doesn't mind the snow on her Cloak and hair, at best it's only adding to her joy.

Along the way, she indeed collected all the mentioned things: A few of these frosty pebbles to add them to the jar, a few of the 'needles' from Snower, wonderful Weavile feathers (simply by comparing their size and texture, Shiva was able to determine whether they're from a male or a female exemplar), and a few of these Chingling ribbons. About that rusty claw she pondered, but by all means she has no idea what this stuff does here, so out of curiosity she takes it too. It all gets safely packed away. I also forgot to ask, are these Chingling on the Central Fern 'normal' Chingling or *Chingling like those from the Horde Encounter?


Next: Reacting to Raphael to scew things up, and having Shiva 'awake' from this trance to prepare us for moving on.