[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

"Oh, wow, I think I probably should know all about that. Tell!"

"Well, the first Legend we encountered was actually at the point underground where it became absolutely frigid.  To the point where there was snow on the cave floor.  Partially due to the Snover that were hanging out there, but there was actual, freezing cold snow that far underground."

Nathan shivers just thinking about it.

"Most of the inhabitants there call the visible part of it The Sentry Fern.  It's this huge, tall fern that a lot of Grass pokemon have been tending for who knows how long.  And the Legend within is a member of the Legendary Titans.  You know, like Regirock, Registeel, Regice, and Regigigas.  I think that one's a Grass type or something, given that the whole thing was based around the gigantic fern.  The Sentry Fern monitors the entire mountain, it seems, makes sure everything is running smoothly...and choosing which guardians need to be woken up to impede the progress of anybody searching for Atheneum or anything else hidden away in the mountain.  I managed to recruit a Snivy that tended some of the roots there, and I also managed to get a good drawing of the Regi's dot pattern even though we never truly met the Legend face to face.  Kinda looks a little like a tree if you look at it long enough."

Nathan will show Tanuki said drawing for emphasis.

"The third Legend we met was in Atheneum itself.  That one was Celebi, and she was very, very helpful.  She's one of the Legends who founded Atheneum in the first place, and her power is what courses through the gauntlet shaped Relic Stone that's in the location's central plaza.  It was quite a blessing to meet her.  She didn't stick around for too long, but she answered a few of our questions."

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"...the second one..."

Gallade frowns again.

"...that one...nearly killed some of us.  Her name is Seikamater, apparently.  According to Heart, she's a species of Legendary native to far away Tandor and...she's the queen of all bugs in that region, and can command at least five basic elements.  Shortly after we left the Sentry Fern's chamber, we entered a section of the caves that had all sorts of odd drawings of the Legendary Birds and other weird runes etched on the walls.  We found a place to camp...and when we woke up, all of our Bug pokemon, Psychic pokemon, and pokemon with very sensitive senses of smell were gone.  Their footprints lead deeper into the caves, and we were very, very quickly absorbed into a hive of Bug types of all kinds.  Durant, Leavanny, some bugs native to Tandor, Delta Pineco, Scizor...you name a Bug, and it's probably down there somewhere.  Seikamater was...controlling them, ordering them to do all sorts of mundane tasks and bring her food and such using her incredibly strong pheromones...once we got deep enough into the hive looking for our missing pokemon...those pheromones even started affecting us..."

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"...we barely got out of there alive, all things considered.  She'd lured in and trapped our pokemon, outsiders visiting her hive...and if we hadn't saved them, they would have been...food..."

Gallade shudders uncomfortably.

"...she may be a Queen, but...she's not the kind of Queen I'd want to follow..."

Nathan goes quiet after recounting that tale.  Takes some deep breaths along with Gallade.

They're out, they're safe.  And they probably won't have to ever go that far down underground ever again.  There's little reason to worry about it now.

"...so, yeah...if you're ever in an area of Mt. Sentry that's swarmed by bug pokemon, you might want to keep a careful eye on any of your pokemon that are Bug type, Psychic type, or have a strong sense of smell, and get out of there at the soonest opportunity if they're not acting like themselves."