[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Spiritmon]

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Heart wanders in the dark until he spots a shrine up on a hillside. Thinking this might be a good place to find rare and mystical Pokemon, he gets closer and sees that dozens of stones have been piled into the shape of Groudon. On each stone is a mural story, like a single panel of a comic.

Heart follows the story as best he could, and learns the tale of a soldier trapped and tortured by an angry Groudon, perhaps in retaliation for some offense. It's a bit like the story of Sisyphus - whenever the soldier would drag his weary gear to Groudon, Groudon would raise its arms and reverse the slope of the mountain. When the soldier reached the bottom and raised his weapon, Groudon would suddenly lift the ground under its own feet until it was at the peak of a new mountain, and the soldier would roll to the bottom. Next time, the process was reversed. At last, the soldier threw all his gear into the lake which had formed at the bottom of the valley and gave up on trying to escape Groudon's punishment. He just sat and refused to move until he died. Groudon just laughed and raised the lake to the top of a hill - this hill! The lake has shrunk to a smaller lake/tarn at Groudon's feet. It's pretty muddy and rocky right now, and you can't tell how deep it is in the darkness. Still, it reflects beautiful starlight.

There are also some symbols on the shrine. They look like nonsense, until you recognize some that belong on a Cleanse Tag! These must be true names of Ghost Pokemon and this shrine wards them off or entraps them. Kecleon doesn't care, he just stands on the statue of Groudon, a black silhouette in the darkness.

(Let me know if that story makes sense to you, Spiritmon. I don't always write clearly this late at night).

Heart was impress with such tale. "That guy was tough and determined I guess. Its not everyone who can stand up with courage against a legendary. He have guts until he gave up." Heart touch the symbols in shrine. He didnt understand very much, but he reconize some of those letters. "Hmm, these symbols resemble a bit the Cleanse Tags in my time. These must be some sort of ancient laguage the future people must have use as a base to create the Cleanse Tags. Or maybe vice-versa. Shiva would like see such marks around here." Heart then notices Kecleon Glare the statue of Groundon. "What wrong Kecleon. Something bothering you?"

Kecleon is basically dancing on the statue to show he doesn't care about this legendary Pokemon. The statue, as you search it, appears to be quite solid despite having no mortar in between stones. It has its arms upraised, mimicking the legend where it raised and lowered the mountain, turning lake into tarn.

So I think you get the feeling there could definitely be a Honedge around here. But where, more specifically, do you search?

Heart look the statue, then the murals. "Hmm...." Something was conected in some way. Heart try to remember about something to do it with Honedge its somehow conected with that. "If I recall right, Honedge its a spirit of living being who inabits a sword after a long time. If this story is true, then that guy have die after be tortured by a Groundon. But if die then where....?" Then Heart look to the hill where it was a lake and the solider guy have throw his equipment and Groundon have transform the lake into a hill. "Problably there is some sort of sword there. A one a torment soul would go to possess. Its a shoot in the dark, but it still something." Heart then decide to aproach the dry lake where the guy throw his equipment in the story and begin his search.

Up close, you can tell the lake has not fully dried up. You get about three meters of muddy beach, then 10 meters of lake surface. In the mud you can see evidence of old stuff, like a doll made of threaded stones and a couple coins. Mostly it's garbage though, like pot shards. 

The water is undisturbed.

Heart try to think again in some solution. He reaches the pokeballs and release both Viktor and Golett. "Guys, I need the help of both of you. We are in the past, and there is a certain pokemon I think there is close somewere, a Honedge, a Sword ghost pokemon. Since both of you are ghosts, is any of you guys feel anything in this place? Any sort of spiritual energy or something who might remember a ghost pokemon here?"