[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Spoiler

You lurch forward in time, closer to the present, dragging living fossils with you.

You appear just southwest of a modern road. In the dim morning, the streetlights are still lit. They're housed in chrome, much flashier than the modern ones. Low bodied automobiles are visible along the road, and one drives past you at high speed. Cars were more popular in the decades before the modern PC system, because journeying as a trainer was less about encountering large quantities of wild Pokemon and more about hitting up the right battles and trainings with your reliable team of six.

You feel well rested. Encounters refresh and you gain a Will point. The moon is Day 69 for Ditto purposes.

Chrome Age encounters

3. Name: Bastiodon
Challenge: Moderate
Cap: 1 (2)
Bid start: 1

"Mmmm.....Deoxys........Jirachi......? Power.......? Hrggm.....feel very strange now......but not......bad? More.......sturdy? En.....enlightened? Hrggmmm.......hard to....understand....head feels.......fuzzy. Need to......clear it, get better quick..."

Terra mumbles this under his breath as he slowly snapped out of his post hypnotic daze, clutching his head with one hand, shaking it, while his other dangled by his side like a wet noodle, his knuckles newly metallic status escaping his notice. After his Contact with the Mythical Space Alien Deoxys, the sagely monk had been in a torpor like state as his 'feeble' mind coped to understand it and its plans. This state was only compounded by his subsequent LURCH! through space/time to a point even FURTHER into Cheshire's ancient past and witnessing the coming of Jirachi itself and the almighty power it spread among everyone and thing. 

The end result of both event had left the man in a mostly unresponsive and inactive state, only for it to be broken the semi-conscious action of snapping one of the wishmaker's tailsmen out of the air and becoming more empowered by it and the group's latest trip to the Chrome Age. Now that the he and the group were both out of dangerous and/or fantastical situations and in a safe, more modern age, the steely brawler could began to recover and digest all that's happened. 

Once he began to feel a little better and like himself, Terra took the time to quietly assess the era that the latest LURCH! dropped them in, taking in all the sights, sounds, and......Pokemon? At that point, he noticed what looked to be a BIG Steel plated dinosaur just.....ambling about the place, looking somewhat confused and disoriented itself at its new location in time. He's read about Dinosaur Pokemon in his youth in brief, so he was vaguely familar what it was. More over, he couldn't help but feel......drawn to it, like there was some sort of connection between him and the beast.

Before he went off to confront it , though, he first checked on everyone, still looking distinctly frazzled and unstoic from everything that has happened.

"Everyone.....are you okay? *Looks at them closely* ....You are. Good, good..... Urgh......all that was.....crazy. Weird. Don't......remember much of what happened, after the.......Lights. They were so......pretty And.......Deoxys.......Deoxys. Need to.....talk about them with you. What I......learned from it, and........urgh. Not now. Give me......more time to clear head, and feel more normal again. Hmm.....maybe battling that dinosaur will do that......?"

With that said, the rugged wanderer just......well, wanders off towards the Steely Sapient Shield in an absent minded manner, plucking off Angie's Pokeball of his belt and hefting it into the air a few times. Looks like he's still a little out of it, eh? Maybe Nathan/Gallade/Shiva could tell exactly what's up with them, though?

Order: Terra's going to check on everyone, bring up the fact he wants to talk about what happened with Deoxys later, before ambling off to fight Bastidon with Angie! Additionally, I'll be using the 25 XP gained to raise both Terra's Vitality and Insight to *6 and 2 respectfully, leaving him with 2 XP. Now not only does he possess Lairon Abs and pecks of Steelix, but he's become a bit more thoughtful about everything too from his trips through time! Hot diggity dog!!! Any special mention/noticable qualities about reaching *6 Vitality, Iron?

Anyway, time to tussle with a triceratops!

At this point, Terra is more SOLID within the world, just as Nathan is more fluid within it. Whenever Terra takes a step, the ground in his footprint moves downward more than you'd expect, as if he's pushing on the earth more than it's pushing on him. When it rains, the raindrops ricochet off as if they've struck stone instead of flesh. When the wind blows, as it's doing now, Terra has no need to lean into the wind.