[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

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The further they all went, the scarier the scenery became – bugs everywhere, seeming to come from everywhere indeed! The fear and ominous anticipitation of WHAT was going on here was overwritten by the strive forward, forward always, the more steps they were taking, the closer they came to whatever is calling there. It's calling them... It's calling her... But it was vastly different from the calling of the Central Fern Shiva experienced earlier, so drastically different – whatever is alluring her here, she got the feeling she won't rejoice or feel just as welcome as she did when she met the Fern.

Eventually, they arrived at the source of the siren's song - ...what a monster. No other words she could find to describe this...THING. That abomination of a bug. But.....why was it still so incredibly beautiful? So wonderful, so precious that the she couldn't feel to be awed by every aspect of her body, from the tip of the fluffy antennae to the baglike abdomen as a whole... So gracefully and majestic as she would expect from a true queen. And a true queen all but deserves tribute, praise and gifts – Given how STRONG that aura of grace and power was that Shiva felt washing over her whole body and mind, she felt like only the greatest of gifts was just enough for this queen: The gift of her own life.   She made attempts step forward, already took a step forward, bid farewell to all her loved ones and send a last mental note home to not mourn for her too long as she has died for the greater good... No sadness was within her, only the raw willingness to surrender: The force has made it to conquer her Castle of the Mind, they were not prepared for an attack with dragon Pokemon.


A sharp and desperate cry broke through, causing the inhabitants and attackers alike of this Castle to halt at the spot and look up to the sky – the former caught themselves one moment later, barely a second before the attackers could. This moment was enough to force them only a little back; it wasn't much at all and the dragons kept raging and the fight went on, but it suprisingly WAS enough for Shiva to regain control, to return to this place and to her senses.


The fear remained however, nothing has been eased about it. Nothing... In fact, now that the fae woman dared to take another look into the directon of that alluring and insectoid queen, it doubled swiftly. It was overwhelming, scary, incredible to describe for her – if this 'thing' wouldn't have bereaved her of her butterwolfly, she'd now run for her life instead of sacrificing it. But...it has her doghyena, it has the other Pokemon of the group, leaving them behind was.... No. That wasn't an option. Even if it was clearly a Legendary Pokemon, Shiva wouldn't desire to break under its presence, even if it was a queen nothing gave it the right to just steal their Pokemon... NOTHING. A new feeling awoke with her, it was cold, oh-so-icy WRATH.

In an intense spark of worry that mixed with that wrath, she averted her gaze from that bugqueen. Having her senses back, she realized that this THING wasn't as beautiful as she saw it with the eyes of a bewitched one – This legend of a bug still had something amazing about it, scary as well, as it raged there in the dim light of her servants.

In a very desperate and intuitive call to do something, Shiva reached over to Ventus'/@Lord Windos side to enwrap her arms tightly around his upper body, at least HE was there. She wasn't in this alone... Thank Reshiram and its generosity for this. She could feel that malestorm and thought process of his, seemingly raging through him like the bugqueen was raging before them all – it caused her to tighten her grip around him a little more. Fear was present, immobilizing fear, but they can't afford to let that fear overwrite their sane thinking and cool heads.

Shiva's head snapped towards Heart/@Spiritmon, only now her mind must have realized that he named this monstrosity of a bugqueen. What did he call it...'Seika'...? For the first time in this scenery, Shiva spoke up, in a voice that was dripping with that fear, but cleverly hidden in between this fear was that spark of determination, the desire to not surrender and do whatever is possible to return their Pokemon. „'Seikamater'? Is that the name of this.....legend? If it's a legend, my books never spoke of it – is it a legend from Tandor? How....Why... And what is it doing here if it belongs to that region's lore? And what do you mean by it uses 'an upgrade power' of fire, water, electric, bug and normal energy, how is it possible that it bears five STABs?“

Fight with all strength, he said.... Shiva eagerly shook her head to this thougth. No..... Just no, she does not want to fight this 'Seikamater'. It's a legend, only the stars above may know what powers it holds once it starts attacking, once it has driven itself into a fury. Rather quietly but clearly audible she spokes up again. „No fighting it... Please... We'll enrage her. We'll enrage all the bugs around, at worst they'll come for us to seek revenge, she a legend with powers beyond our imagination.... There must be.......other ways.“

Attentively, Shiva looks around. There must be SOMETHING around, somehing that'd even has the smallest chance to be useful, anything they have overseen in the first place – does she spot something jellylike definitely around as well? (Not that Shiva knows what it could be – but out of curiosity, is that nearby?)

This is a phenomenal description of how it feels to be drawn toward the pit by Seikamater!

The party is too far to see any specifics. Durant and Sponaree do sometimes enter the pit to provide Seikamater with food, whether solid or smeared over their bodies. Or still wriggling and walking! So some of the stuff they regurgitate could be Honey or pheromonal goo.