[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Spiritmon]

Spoiler

Mr. Morgusi bids you a fond goodbye, though you aren't sure why he should be so fond of you already.

Route 12 and 13 travel together for a time, just after the Route Gate.. It's still drizzling, though the rain has backed off enough that an umbrella or hat can protect you. At this eastern end, the route's bricks are often replaced with little murals or pieces of mural, or sometimes even just pretty glass bricks. Much like Cress City.

Quite a few of the bricks are missing, and Grass types sometimes grow up through them.

The Pokemon on this route are fairly tame. Tanuki's influence still shows in a preoponderance of Normal types, but the ones out here are usually derived from escapees several generations ago.

Oh yeah, Geodude is here again. He seems happy that his "friends" are traveling a Route once more!

You know Bill's house is just a few miles NW of here. Nathan knows that Route 12 goes up to Liverwort in that direction, passing over a low spur of the Great Divide. It is steep, but there are maintained campsites along the way, and a few famous tarns and streams with excellent fishing.

Route 13 to Teazel Valley is SW of this junction. That road passes under/through the Great Divide's spur, dropping elevation constantly to reach the lows of the valley.

West of the junction is a big cliff face with many huge iron cubes set into it. It wasn't there several years ago when Nathan last passed this way. It is apparently a private Almanac research station, very tightly secured. Barbed wire, alarms, fences, and the famous Almanac Braviary and Decidueye flying distantly overhead. (Both are etched on the back of Shiva's copy.) It's way outside of city limits.

It looks foreboding. But worst of all is Gallade's reaction. He stiffens and his emotions turn drastically inward. Pain flows through the empathic link between him to Nathan. Gallade leaps up on a boulder, narrows his eyes, and points a dramatic challenge at the research facility.



Route 12+13 East Encounters

1. Name: Sandshrew*
Notes: It's a skittish little guy. Looks ready to flee. Looks visibly different from a distance but you aren't sure what exactly is up with him.
Challenge: Very easy.
Cap: 1
Bid start: 3

2. Name: Miltank
Challenge: Moderate
Cap: 1 (2)
Bid start: 1
Notes: A wild Miltank atop a grassy hill. It's practicing its mooves up there.

3. Name: Tall Grass
Challenge: ???
Cap: 1 per patch, but there's plenty of patches.
Notes: You never know what you'll find!

4. Name: Invisible Pokemon*
Challenge: ??
Cap: 1 (2)
Bid start: 1
Notes: Whoever takes this encounter hears subtle crunching sounds coming from a nearby clump of boulders and trees.

5. Name: Pansage
Challenge: Very easy (no XP)
Cap: 1 (2)
Bid start: 1
Notes: Just his/her hair growing up through the gap where a brick should go. Smells very nice near that brick, recognizably sagey.

Unlimited Zigzagoon, Pidgey, Rattata, Raticate, Bellsprout, Oddish, Sunkern.

Terra's Egg is very very close to hatching!

(Don't forget Heart is also carrying a egg!)

Heart was walking with his beldum egg in his arms. Larvesta was too helping in hatch the egg with her heat. Then he listen some sounds in some nearby rocks and trees. Heart decided then in find what kind of sound is that.

Action: Take the invisible pokemon encounter.