[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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That done, he leads you over to the master Time Capsule. He pokes some buttons and a slot opens up. He has all of you (well, not Terra) pass your hand through there, and it scans your palm and biometrics. Then it dispenses three devices.

"Help each other strap these on, then check for a blinking gree-"

LURCH.

Just as Terra helps Heart with his PTC, the four of you experience another sickening lurch, and you find yourself standing on a greensward where Bill's house was just a moment ago. You feel firm clay beneath your feet, whereas before the farm was muddy. On your wrists, the PTCs; at your belts, Pokeballs. In front of you, the bay, unobstructed by water wheel or fences. Just lots and lots of grass, which Nathan recognizes as a tasty hay grass called timothy hay/timothy-grass.

The clear tarn is much smaller, and has not sprung out of its concavity to form a spring. The distant fortress-cubes are replaced with a naked cliff.

Perched on an old-school tractor is a little gremlin of a Pokemon, purple and yellow with spikes. It's baring its claws and teeth at a Trainer with Apricorns and interesting beige/red Pokeballs at his belt. The Trainer has a cocky stance, a frying pan sticking out of his backpack, and seems to be partnered with a Drifloon. He seems about the age of a grad student and looks hale and hearty.

Behind him, a pack of Electabuzz is racing forward at full speed, swinging between low hanging arms and baring sharp teeth. Some of them clutch instruments such as a section of metal pipe, a cornstalk, and a battered, folded umbrella.

You have all your party Pokemon, including Dizzy and Geodude and extraneous Eggs. To the south you can see a farmhouse and barn, and you can hear a tractor/engine running in that direction.

It happened so suddenly that Terra didn't have a sliver of a chance to react.

One moment, he's helping Heart put on his PTC with slow, painstaking care, looking rather uncertain if he was doing it right or setting up the device for mechanical mal-adjustment. The next, he's standing on top of rustic and picturesque land not unlike that he'd used to explore back home on an daily basis. Just like that.

At first, the martial monk could only slowly blink, as he quietly took in his new all farmland surroundings and the hubbub that was going on in them with dull surprise. 

'....What happened? …Where are we? Did we.....get sent back in time? Because of that Lurch?'

Seconds after processing those thoughts, he promptly shook his head and dispelled them, and immediately started to individually check/inspect everyone in the group + Geodude while simultaneously ordering Shiranui and Anubi to take watch/guard in the meantime(since they were either still out and got pulled in with everyone else, or Terra promptly summoned them if he did recall them). It should also be noted he was keeping half an Alert eye on things too (Maybe enough for a Perception Roll?), but the bulk of his attention was on the group itself.

"Nathan, Shiva, Heart, Geodude....are you all okay? Need help with anything?"

Instead of continuing to worry or idling ponder the sticky situation he and the group was now in, he just almost instantly accepted what happened, bunked it down the list of his priorities, and focus on the topmost ones, which was ensuring that else was in good health and well protected. 

In the untamed wilds, 'Adapt and Persevere' was one of THE most important principles the rugged wanderer adhered to, so that was EXACTLY what he did! No time for panic, second guessing, tentativeness, disorientation, or anything else inhibitory for him, no sir!