[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

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Spira gets on the back of the Gargoyle pokemon "Well here goes nothing." On the way to Elanor!
Gargryph's Flight

Gargryph is more of an aesthetic choice lol. You can't deny he's a cool mount even as he dramatically moves at a normal human walking pace.

You all head south along the old rutted road. Most vehicles are heading east, toward Cress. They consist of carts drawn by a variety of Pokemon, from Tauros to Ponyta to a Donphan! A few go west, since this is the gateway to all of western Creshire.

You don't get very far before everything happens all at once!

A stately carriage, pulled by two docile Gogoat, is heading east with an elderly Smeargle at the reins. It's using Telekinesis to handle the reins or to prod the mounts when necessary. It also seems to have a Vine Whip attack it lashes above the goat Pokemon as a warning, but the kindly Pokemon never really makes contact or hurts the steeds.
On the back of the carriage is a Machop wearing a footman's hat.
Inside the carriage is a Chansey, holding a very little toddler in its lap. The toddler clutches a doll. The toddler's middle-aged parents are also in the carriage, his elegant mother tickling him and his father holding his thumb while gazing out the window.

"Smeargle, you see that wagon coming? Give it plenty of room, please, and stay well to the right. Road's plenty big enough." Smeargle nods.

This wagon coming the other way is much less stately. It's moving at a speed a little too fast for this lumpy road, pulled by Rapidash. The wagon is tall and boxy and made mostly of plywood, and it says "Dr. M's Traveling Medicine Show" in lurid letters. It looks like it can open up, but it's all fastened with precarious straps. Four very small, crouched Croagunk are riding on the roof, stuck to it with sticky hands. They hold themselves like Froakie rather than normal bipedal Croagunk.

The driver of the wagon, a man in a purple cape, large tophat, and monocle, waves to the carriage and goes a bit to his right as well. It looks like they will pass in peace.

Then the ground shakes, and an entire ridged, rutted section of the road lifts out of place and rotates slightly. This occurs just as the wagon passes overhead, so the wagon is borne upward and carried forward as an oversized Rhyhorn steps out of a hole! The behemoth has bits of railroad track and a road sign buried in its stony hide.  It's charging at Gogoat.

You guys are slightly off to the side of the road, but near enough you'll be deafened by the collision of these three entities!

But that's not all. A scruffy Stoutland is running determinedly toward the carriage - and so is Dizzy! They both look eager to get their first, but they sure don't look like they have a plan beyond that.

The commotion awakens an Emboar and a Dewott on the adjacent farm, and BOTH come rushing over intending to challenge the Rhyhorn!

Finally, the wagon left a trail of spilled supplies, and a Deerling is sniffing at those.

1925 Encounters Part 1

1. Name: Rhyhorn*
Challenge: Moderate+
Cap: 1 (None)
Notes: May involve helping out the residents of the carriage and wagon. How to handle it is up to you.
Only one person could potentially catch it, but there's room enough for everyone to fight or whatever.
Bid start: 2

2. Name: Stoutland
Challenge: Somewhat easy
Cap: 1 (2)
Bid start: 1

3. Name: Emboar and Dewott
Challenge: Moderate
Cap: 2 (2)
Bid start: 1
Notes: Looking pretty militant right now. Shiva thinks maybe that Dewott is supposed to keep an eye on the flaming pig, but char marks on the fence makes it clear that doesn't always work. Dewott maybe even goes along with it sometimes, like right now!

4. Name: Deerling and scattered items
Cap: 2
Bid start: 1
Notes: Dr. M will let you keep half of what you find and return to him. It's very scattered so this will take an Encounter.

5. Name: Dr. M
Cap: 1
Bid start: 1
Challenge: Tough
Notes: He'll be interested in a battle if he survives this mess, in case you want to hoard your Encounter slots. Chatting doesn't take an Encounter.
He also looks wealthy enough for a big bet.

Heart chuckle a bit with the entusiam of the bearded man. "Heh. Its cool your enthusiasm my friend." Heart than was amazed in see such many types of odds and strange people using pokemon in ways he didnt see very much in the 2017. "Wow. Thats quite a lot of people and pokemon." Then Heart see the big Rhyhorn erupt from the the hole in one of those transporters, going towards the Gogoat of that people! Heart quick take his pokeball (Since Spira is in Gargryph back, he problably have see the strange desigh of Heart pokeball) and then Heart have have summoned Viktor! "Viktor! Stop that Rhyhorn right away! Spira!" Heart tell to his new friend. "Try to help the others to deal with this mess! I have to help Gargryph and Viktor!" Then Heart kindly ask Spira to get out of the Gargoyle pokemon.