[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

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Sounds right, I can't remember exactly what I said for the claw's roll. Spira is also an expert chef and can advise.

(4)(3)(3)(4)(5)(2) (5)(4)(3)(4)(2)(5) (2) Yum, that's why Clawitzer claw is a delicacy!!

You get in a good's night rest and recharge your Encounter Slots and any daily abilities. It wouldn't really be accurate to say today is Day 70, but Day 69B begins. Any events like Clawitzer's shedding, which are supposed to occur on Day 70, will not occur until you return to the present. (mostly this is just for ease of bookkeeping).

Lilith gazes at the changed stars, and turns her gaze toward the Skull Ruins questioningly. She nods, confirming to herself that something is still there. Gallade seems to agree.

Thanks to the dinner, clean consciences, and a good night's rest, gain 1 Will Point.

You're eating breakfast in the morning rain, mostly huddled under the porch-tarp-roof thing of the tent, when you feel it! Another lurch! Even Spira feels it, for the first time, and is WRENCHED from his own time along with the group!

When your stomachs settle, you find yourself in a warm midsummer's night. There are tons of stars overhead, and a full moon (Ditto will be in Herolune form). You're on a road that's much wider than the Route 13 of your time. It's in perfect condition, and it has a low wall along both edges, studded with brightly colored statues of rare Pokemon. Each has a gem somehow worked into it - maybe an eye, or claw, or whatever.

Spira notices something interesting when he recovers from his shock - within each statue lurks a little Ghost Pokemon, either a Misdreavus or a Yamask.
Shiva can sense a curse laid on the gems, a very very uneasy feeling. But she can't see the ghosts.

All around the road, just past the low wall, are campers. It looks like a vast caravan has split up, because most of the camps include a wagon marked with a giant eye.



Nathan recognizes this immediately as one of Sarimanok's symbols.

The camps are often canvas tarps stretched from wagon to posts, providing a cozy shelter for cots or for campfires. People sit around these fires. The mounts who pull the wagons also sit around the fires, when they can fit. They're all huge Pokemon - an Oversized Tauros, an extinct Bastidiodon, a Donphan, a half-submerged Onix, a small fleet of Serperior, two Golurk, a quadrupedal Beartic, Camerupt, Mamoswine, Mudsdale, Venusaur, Aggron, Avalugg. Such variety! All are equipped with saddle and a big warhorn as well as a standard bearing the purple eye.


The humans pet their mounts and seem to be swapping stories in an accent so thick you can barely make out what they say. Yet, it's still recognizable as Common. Some of these accents are pitched oddly, either very high or very low, or almost a guttural growling. Quite a large variety there, too. They're dressed much more oddly than you - some have breastplates and/or helms, the rest wear tunics and armbands.

Sitting among the humans, as if equals, are a whole lot of Conkeldurr. For every two humans, there's a Conkeldurr. They rest their colossal frames on concrete pillars, or put their feet up on them to reach the fire. These Conkeldurr may listen attentively to stories, or a lot of them are stargazing with serene expressions on their eyes. Some watch the fires or perform minor tasks like bringing firewood. You can tell most of these Conkeldurr are deep in thought; Shiva especially sees a wisdom there she may not have expected.

About one in ten camps have left a space for battling! Humans spar with humans, humans spar with Conkeldurr, or humans partake in a Pokemon battle! The winner gets little discs of pure gold from the loser. Those of you who are alert can see the trainers use exclusively Apricorns, fitted with oversized holographic crystals where the button ought to be. Oh, and the Conkeldurr don't have Pokeballs assigned to them.

It's a lot to take in! Everything is as grandiose as can be imagined, even though this is clearly a transient society.


Encounters will be up to you. You can engage the campers however you see fit, or you can slide off into the mountains (west) or fields (east) in hopes of a random Pokemon encounter that may be different from the present. Searching for items or berries is possible, please tell me what location you search.

The unlimited Encounters are Natu, Zubat, Murkrow, Hoothoot, Spinarak, Rattata, Oddish, Venonat, Kricketot (very loud and beautiful), Farfetch'd (sleeping), Spearow (sleeping), Combee, Pidove, Woobat, Sandshrew, Tyrogue, Pineco, Timburr (which are very intelligent and gather curiously outside the circles of firelight), Trapinch, Slowpoke, Bonsly, Geodude, Shuckle, Aron, Dwebble! Quite a list of scavengers and hangers on, plus some reclusive wild Pokemon.

Oh yeah, and one for Terra's wishlist: There are several Diggersby being used in the Pokemon battles or just wandering around camp.