[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Spiritmon]

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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!

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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?

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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.

Heart try to recompose himself after such travel. One moment, Terra was putting the PTC in his arm. And the other, he was in some kind of strange place. It takes just a few minutes for Heart understand they are in the past. "*Sigh* I really hate when we are drag to some kind of strange adventure." When Nathan was going towards the guy, Heart quick grab his arm. "Calm down Warren! If its true we are in the past, we cant interfere! Did you never watch movies of time travel? If we interfere, we dont know what kind of disturbance we can cause to the future! We not even know who is that guy is! We must figure out how to return to our time. Its not time to act reckless and heroic Nats! We dont know what would happen if we interfere in the past! Change the past always cause some kind of side effects in the timeline!" 

Heart indeed want to help the guy too, but they are in the past. Any change they make could cause drastic effects in the future. All they can do is watch and to understand what could happen. "Terra, help me here. As much I want to help  that guy over there, we cant. No one can tell what could happen if we interfere with Time Travel."