[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

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"I've talked to Fennel in the past too, but it's been years. I know she's active on an IRC board called irc.dreams.nasci. Try that!"

"Ok, let me show you three how the watches go on. Terra, you can help someone strap in - that's how I got mine on. A friend helped me. One of you is going to have to help me put it back on though, before I can activate the Time Capsule."

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.

Nathan writes that website down.  "Thanks for the recommendation."

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Did someone say a purple and yellow gremlin pokemon with spikes on its body?

Spoiler

The hay, the old-school pokeballs, the open, rolling fields, the lack of large bodies of water and buildings...the fact that the lurch is lasting for more than a moment...

...yeah, they're in the past now.

Nathan sighs.  "...sometimes, I hate it when I'm right..."

Gallade's immediately assessed the situation as well.  He looks at Nathan for orders.  What are they going to do?  They're in the past and all, thus limiting what exactly they can do, but that trainer seems to have his hands full with these troublemakers...

"Gallade, let's go help out that trainer.  Looks like he needs a hand, or those Electabuzz are going to give him a rude surprise."

No hesitation, Nathan sizes up the situation and gets ready to run off and help that stranger!  Everyone looks physically fine as far as he can tell, so the bulk of his attention is going towards resolving the more immediate situation that'll likely cause even more problems if it isn't resolved immediately.