[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

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Tension rises among the sensitive Pokemon. The herds of Mightyena are simply going about their business. None of the wild Pokemon seem to have any sense of anything being wrong...until the sky is set alight with blazing fire.

No amount of ash can darken the brilliant light as the meteor enters the atmosphere. A blazing aurora forms, in orange and blue and silver like the world's most luminous sunrise.

Now the wild Pokemon are looking at the sky, blinking and even whimpering. A noise begins, a terrible hissing and popping like water on embers. It comes from the sky, but no one can tell where this disaster will actually strike.

All you see of the meteor's progress and path is a fireball, so fast that you are mostly seeing its orange and blue afterimage. A line connects the heavens to the earth, striking a point midway between modern Teazel Valley and Botanville. A hundred Mightyena die instantly at impact.

You're miles from the impact site, but you feel the earth rumble and little bits of dirt rain down on you for close to ten minutes. You can take shelter in a nearby ice cave driving into a volcano's foothills, if you wish.

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Nathan at least will be interested to observe that there's not as much dust as expected. Not enough to reduce the amount of solar energy coming down, not enough to choke breath away, not enough to change the composition of the atmosphere. Just the physical bombardment of small clods of earth. And a worrisome cracking noise.

Howling, the Mightyena and a thundering herd of Mamoswine flee eastward and northward, some passing very close to you. As 90% of them have passed the southmost prong of the Great Divide, a strange whirring noise emanates from the impact crater, along with a spray of laserbeams. Your Psychics flinch. A sudden wall of extremely thick Tall Grass slams upward, cutting off the final 10% of the Pokemon and trapping them here on the taiga.

Oh, and the Tall Grass Shiva has? I think Heart has some too? That grass begins growing, sending roots questing toward the soil.

A dim bipedal figure stands up within the crater, now visible as the dust has settled. It can be seen that it is vaguely humanoid, orange and blue in color, and possessing twin tentacles where each arm should be. This can only be one being: the legendary Deoxys, a sentient, mutating supervirus.

Its chest flashes, its tendrils plunge into the ground. Mindless clones appear and begin shepherding Pokemon about. What their agenda is, you cannot say, but even Terra knows he's witnessing a part of Creshire history that no one has ever, ever theorized before.

Gothitelle has her face buried in her hands. Dizzy and Calam seem to have gone insane, leaping back and forth in a frenzy, completely unsure about what to do, and knowing this has already happened. Delphox, though, is fascinated by the clones and keeps watching them. Sometimes they flash their otherwise-empty gems, communicating in a mysterious fashion as they go about their work. Shiva suddenly KNOWS that staring into those gems is another way to become More Than Human, but what impacts it might have, she has no idea.

Gallade is in a more appraising mood. He didn't know this would happen, but he seems to treat it as very valuable intelligence. Nathan's PTC starts pulsing, steadily increasing in frequency - a sign that another Lurch will come fairly soon. You'll need to survive until it does.

Well Spira was going to leave the volcano until that meteor hit. He then notices the legendary Deoxys in the crater. "Not sure what that Pokemon is, but I don't want to risk leaving until it is gone."
mechanics: Spira will try and find a spot to hunker down at the volcano until the lurch.

You can rejoin the group before it hits if you like. I'll leave it up to you.