[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Tanuki parts Zigzagoon's stripes to reveal the Boulangerite Badge. It's a dull gray in color, but very interesting and complex in form. It has little shelves and needles of gray, a bit like Tanuki's trademark spiky Pokemon. Viewed one way the shelves form a flower; from another angle you can see corals and nests and other interesting structures. And of course it's studded with holographic material.

"The Boulangerite Badge increases a Pokemon's speed and accuracy! It will help you with being striking first, evading when it's wise to do so, and making more attacks in a row!" (+ 0.5 Dex)

Nathan takes it and sticks it in the special sleeved page in his journal!

And with both it and Chuckles's Gym Badge collected, Nathan's Dexterity has increased to 6!  Now he's as fast and fluid as Sid!  Woo hoo!  Think he's nimble enough yet?  (And just for the lolz, Calam has 7 Dex now, and +11 to his Initiative  ) 

"Now that feels good.  First set of two complete!  Alright!"

Nathan packs that away...

"So...Rock Smash.  Yeah, trying to keep it a secret for now.  Don't want to draw too much attention to it for obvious reasons.  Surf is one thing since the League still has a copy hanging around.  An HM where the last known copy was broken in an attempt to replicate it...yeah, that's another.  I only really considered using Rock Smash in our battle for two reasons: there were no spectators...and it's literally the only Fighting type move Gallade has learned so far since he only just evolved two days ago.  Well, and I kinda wanted to show off, too..."

"...oh yeah, that reminds me.  Surf.  Shiva said that someone used Surf in the Little Cup?  Is that true?"

"OH! Sure, I'll help you keep it a secret. Could I maybe have Zigzagoon learn it, for out-of-battle only? You know, for our explorations deep in Mount Sentry? You can get back to me later on that."

"Yes, there was a trainer with silver hair and a big golden belt on who used it. It was not cute, but it let him attain easy victory. He could probably be looked up in the League database, but I remember his name from when I announced him as the winner! Anaster. Seems to keep mostly to himself unless he's in a high-stakes battle."