[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Spoiler

INFERNO
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Swiftfire blazes by, trampling one of the Sableye to the ground and setting its ghostly flesh on fire, a rapid-burning lethal flame. The Sableye is up and moving, though, despite everything!

"Show them your mettle, son! A flame that bright will burn even in the afterlife! Maybe even make it think twice about coming back, hmm?"

The cavern's ice is melting furiously, swamping the Sableye and slowing them down. All creatures under 2' tall will be slowed.
Clay and stone walls are revealed, winking through the ice for the first time in centuries, probably.

Swiftfire's Sableye claws at her flank. Drowned in water, the remainder can't get at their favored target, Lucifer, while he's Evading. They return to tormenting the soldiers.

Shadow Claw on Swiftfire
(3)(6)(5)(6)(6) Critical
(6)(1)(5)(3)(3)(6) Swiftfire takes 3 dmg
It's still on fire.

Dizzy is running everywhere, trying to Taunt the Sableye. Gustav's Bubbles fill the air too, and Koa is a whirlwind. But none of these moves change anything - the Sableye keep on coming, claws unsheathed.

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The sergeant grins as he lifts Sableye on his blade until they're face to face. He ignores the heat, though it's making his ghostly eyebrows curl. "Enjoy the gift this young trainer has given you! May its flame be everlasting, you bastard!" It fades away.

Private Bridge begins treating ghostly wounds with ghostly bandages, little more than huge hunks of gauze stuffed into gaping holes. Now the battle is won, the Bridgemen are grimacing and testing their wounded limbs.

Captain Bridge kicks aside the cut gems now littering the floor and comes to attention. "We thank you, adventurers, for easing our inevitable torment at the risk of your own lives. Perhaps the Burn on that sorry Sableye will carry into the afterlife, and deliver unto it a taste of its own medicine. We salute you for your bravery and kindness. I know these qualities will serve you well in your quest! I would offer you my guidance, but my knowledge is lacking and my geas of roaming drives me ever onward. I will have to leave soon, but you must not think me ungrateful! Far from it!"

Seeing how readily Swiftfire engulfs that Sableye in a column of flame and proceeds to try and trample it into the dirt exposed by the attack...it was definitely...something else.  And even then...the gem eater turned living fireball keeps coming, not caring about how damaged it is, nor about how the flames could literally turn it into ash in mere moments...claws unsheathed, ripping and tearing at all in its path...

Nathan's reply is grim, with no hint of remorse, but also no satisfaction.  "...I hope...it does..."

*pant pant*

Nathan's leaning hard on Swiftfire, quite exhausted and...well...sad...

"...I'm just...glad...everyone got out of it...okay..."

He can see spots swimming in front of his eyes.  Ralts pops out of his Dull Premier Ball and gives Nathan a worried look, though he looks a little put off himself.

There was a lot of pain and suffering in the course of that battle, and Nathan looks about ready to collapse from the sheer strain of what Ralts was feeling, from the raw determination of stopping those bullies in their tracks...despite how ridiculously afraid of them he was and still is...

"...Captain...you...definitely didn't deserve to be tormented by them for...hundreds of years...maybe you did wrong once...but the important thing is...you're trying to do right now...without stooping as low as those you're opposing...not letting the past...bog you down...keep fighting...and maybe you'll be free of those mockeries of Sableye one day...thank you...for everything you've done...both in the past...and now..."