[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

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As you approach the cave, some Staryu start sliding down the waterfalls! They slip and slide like Oshawott and come spinning up to you! They don't attack, they're just staring curiously. With them, to your great surprise, come some Meowth! These Meowth don't mind getting wet at all, and they seem to be pets of the Staryu.

Terra pokes his head inside the cave and reports on the contents.
There are indeed murals on the walls, but they are missing a lot of pieces and they seem to be of stone puzzles much like the ones you found below Mt. Sentry. There are some etchings that will require more attention, and the daylight does not penetrate even a quarter of the way into the cave. Terra can hear Pokemon snuffling around in there. As he's about to withdraw his head, a little Unown the size of his thumb flies by! He didn't have time to catch the letter it represented, but he thinks it was Modern style.

A mysterious humming begins as soon as any part of him entered the cave. Behind him, Shiva can sense psychic power awakening and growing. Heart can sense ancient Earthpower within the cave using his Earthpower specialty.

The entrance to the cave is dusted with some Stardust! And Terra also spots a Technical Machine embedded within the entrance wall.

Well, that's certainly an odd sight.  Pokemon keeping other pokemon as pets?  Hmmm...beyond that, though, Nathan doesn't pay them much mind.  He's more interested in the cave and catching those Undersized Unown. Maybe catching rare or unusual wild pokemon besides the Unown, but that's likely secondary to the original goal.

That humming is a little ominous...but Nathan's determined to see this through.  And he's far from alone in this venture, so he's definitely not afraid of whatever's going on.

Hearing that those Undersized Unown are the size of a person's thumb...well, that's certainly something else.  "Huh.  Normally, the species is about as big as my journal...ones the size of some handwriting is certainly...different."

Shiva's already asked how much Stardust there is and what kind of TM is in the wall, but here's another question: how difficult does removing the TM look to be?

As for the dark depths of the cave...well, Nathan's got a great light source for this, but he won't reveal it until he's ready to enter the cave proper.



Meanwhile, Gallade's monitoring the surroundings carefully, acutely aware of the changes that everything is undergoing as the cave is approached.