[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dragonstrike]

On the other hand, since freeing the TM takes roughly five minutes and collecting the Dust roughly half an hour, we'll end up doing so together eventually anyway, so it'll be fine! ^^

That's why I included the word 'start'. No way Nathan's going to be finished with collecting the Stardust by the TM stuff is done.

(Wait a moment...)

(On the note of the Digging Tools...yeah, Ventus had those, and he didn't leave them behind, so...yeah.  No pickaxe right now.)

(...you bought some Climbing Gear formerly for you and Terra to use on that mission to catch PrimalBulbasaur, I'd guess a pickaxe or something similar sharp and/or pointy should be among these tools to use if TM can't be fred with my Pokemon! \(^^)/ In-Game Proof)

Nathan's had climbing gear since the start of the Atheneum quest. That's where the pitons he used to more safely mine the fossils came from.

I'm not sure pitons make very good digging tools, though. And not much was specified about what was in the kit. If something in there can act as a substitute for a pickaxe, it's at GM discretion.