[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

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The Tome of Genealogy stops at an ancestor who didn't live in Arrowroot, but who lived in Creshire when the first of the King's race moved in. Back then, the Mamo spread from coast to coast, and this guy lived in a swamp not far from Cress City. His name is Puawi.

Shiva finds a shelf of books all made from bamboo slats, mostly on topics about meditation. They're quite similar to some of the lectures Ventus has given. Behind this shelf is a big pile of extra bamboo slats, plus a huge tangled coil of the bamboo-fiber string necessary to bind them together.

She flings aside the slats, a feeling of excitement slowly intensifying within her, until she finally uncovers an unassuming green-and-white Egg. It's smaller than most Pokemon Eggs, which tend to be about the same size regardless of their contents.

As she reaches out, her hand tingles, a feeling similar to touching the Gauntlet. When Shiva kisses the Egg and strokes it, she and all her Pokemon are suddenly filled with chipper happiness, and she senses the Egg will stay happy for a long time too. The scanner doesn't even recognize this as an Egg.

And when Shiva rotates the Egg...it feels like Time itself flips with it! Everyone in the Library feels the sudden shift across some fourth dimension, like being on a rollercoaster while blindfolded. The Time Capsule sparks and throws up an error reading, prompting Slowking to sigh and fiddle with it. Your surroundings flash briefly, and you get a momentary crosseyed headache until a millisecond later when Time has returned to normal.

Slaking doesn't even act like he notices, but the Vigoroth and Slowking are a little discomfited. The Egg emanates a feeling even more cheerful than before, and then a sleepy little aura like the developing Pokemon inside is winding down for a nap. Then the Egg Teleports away to a new hiding place for a few more centuries.

Shiva wasn't even aware that there once were swamps near Cress City, and rechecking the map of the region reveals that Chresire's climate and ecosystem must has changed MUCH over the centuries. Today, there is only grassland, urban area and the beginning of the savannah around Cress City, apart from the ominous Skull Ruins of course. Taking a look at their spot on the map, she both shivers from the mere sight and wonders how the rins may have looked back then.

She also notes the name of that swamp hoodoo somewhere.


The finding of the Egg though - now that was cool. If these fine bamboo-slat books are able to tell her something about blocking her mind from negative emotions she'll make sure to given them a read, as that will be important the more her own empathic senses develop - Ventus has promised to aid her in that task. But likely not from the wording.

How weird that the Egg Checker wasn't able to even identify what CLEARLY looked like a Pokemon Egg - from the happenings though she can just crystal-clear assuem that it's indeed containing a tiny and valuable Celebi. Awww! Bless Sunday the 21th May as the day where innocent Shiva found what is handled as the mythical Holy Grail of those who want to make themselves a name in the field of Pokemon Breeding.

The chipper happiness she and her Pokemon(!?) were able to feel so directly from caressing the Egg went straight to her heart, warming herself neatly. Same did that brief headache though.

When all has ended she waves to all, Pokemon and group members alike, telling that "Everything's fine! No need to worry, I just found....something I've been looking for.... All's well! I'm sorry for your Time Capsule, Slowking!" She seems fine and delighted though from this event, not bearing any downsides or unpleasant reactions like Ventus there. Looks even that she will head into that soft-forced meeting with a little less foul mood.