[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

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*Flashback(s)/Flashforward(s)!*

Terra carefully listened to Nathan's own assessment on Bastiodon and what to do with the dino, arms crossed and him leaning in with keen attentiveness. When they finished, he spent about a half minute mulling the whole matter over with eyes closed and plenty of beard stroking, until finally he looked back to the boy and gave a definitive nod.

"Hm......okay. I will keep Bastiodon. A Pokemon very strong in Fighting AND Defending too good to sell, and can think of other ways to use his Strengths. You are right too, I think. Do feel connection, and now.....now I want to be great friends and partners with him. *Smiles* Thank you for helping me, Nathan."

Immediately afterwards a dull look of realization popped up onto the sagely monk's face, before he gave the clever trainer a mildly curious tilt of his head.

"You said you saw.....the threads tieing me, Bastiodon, and.....Shieldon together, yes? What about....Jungore? Who was he tied too?"

By this point, he's still staring at the resplendent reptile with naked wonder, with his hands twitching by his side, as if they wanted to reach out and inspect it themselves to see if they were truly partially made out of gold. He was snapped out of it by Nathan's exasperated? sigh, however, and their subsequent explanation proved to be both enlightening and distressing.

"......Ah. ......That is.....not good. Not good at all. Pokemon.....they shouldn't be treated like that. Ever. They are.....like us, and other Pokemon. All have.....equal right to live happy and how they want to, and nobody should take that away so.....so easily. Greedily. Harmfully. *Shakes head* It is....shameful, and.....not right. ..........Sorry. Should not have made.....big deal of Jungore. That was......very rude of me."

The Steely brawler looked much less enthused now with himself, a frown tugging at his lips as he glanced downwards at his feet. Well, now he feels like a total bastard for his mercantile reaction....

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"Oh.....yes, I was. Hm....not now. Want to.....share it with everyone, some place......quit and safe. Don't want to.....leave them out, or....cause problems with story."

Cue Gallade going off to fetch everyone, the group goes somewhere private, and then Terra, after collecting himself and taking a deep, steadying breath, began his tale. For expediency's shake and the fact my mood for story telling isn't all that high right now, he pretty much gives his own recount of this post , including his own observations into the Deoxys' communication network, their odd, alien, yet VERY deliberate intelligence, curiosity, and sense of Purpose they/it shared/had, the basic points, and anything else he can think of now (Since he as 2 Insight, any other details he might understand/realize now?). Up until now he's been recounting everything with a calm, ponderous tone, but when it comes time to talk about the......exchange he had with the supervirus alien, his expression suddenly shifted into one of marked discomfort, the mountain of a man's previously stoic expression now scrunched up like he bit into an extremely sour berry.

".........Last, Deoxys.....it.......it did something to me. Took.......bit of Knowledge from head, and.......gave a......hrrn. Don't know what it is, but every time I think about it......hrrn.......makes me feel weird. Not bad.....but not good either. Try not to think about it, ignore it.....but I know it is there.."

If the very though of.....whatever Deoxys gave Terra unnerved and discomforted him to this extent, let alone its mere mention......yikes, that some serious juju right there. 

".....Do you understand, my friends? All that I said, and......about Deoxys? *Shakes head*....Don't think it was a bad Pokemon, but......only that it had own goals it put.....above all else. What do you think?"

He ends his story with a couple of simple questions, recrossing his arms and giving everyone plenty of time to think about the issue. Maybe together, they'd be able to find out more about the jello mold from outer space, or at least solidify what little they learnt of it.

 

Spoiler

"Hey Terra. Nathan. How the have going?" 

Heart then snap his fingers to show Nathan/@Dragonstrike and Terra/@Lord Windos his fire trick. "...but also increase the power of her fire skills." To show that Rose shoot some embers more stronger than normal. "I think the elemental affinity in humans the power of certain types of moves in Pokemons in their care. Its almost like she is using a Charcoal to summon her powers."

"Good. Feel better now. Caught Bastiodon, and have decided we will be partners for now on. You?"

The rare collector's and Rose's burst of flames provoked a rather odd reaction from Terra, as he momentarily flinched back and shied away from the conjured flame , as if by instinct, before he blinked and shook his head, regaining control of himself, curiosity and wonder now his predominant emotions. Hmm.....

"Wow....... Your Fire types will be super powerful now, and can make fire yourself. Very......cool."

Unlike Heart, Terra's more or less completely oblivious to the exact details of his new More Than Human 2X condition, other than he feels tougher, smarter, and more durable, due to those changes being subtle + him being in a trance/fugue state at the time all that happened, so he's more or less locked out of the loop unless either Nathan or they clue him in. Everyone would certainly notice the effects of *6 Vitality, at the very least!

*Flashback(s)/Flashforward(s) End!*

"Jungore?  To be honest, I didn't think about that much at the time...but now that I am, they were connected to...ummm...I think it was...Spira's Dusknoir...hmmm..."

Nathan thinks about what that means for a sec, and then realizes something.

"...oh!  So that's why there was a connection...interesting...veeeerrry interesting...I wonder if that means....hmmm...yes, it probably does..."  Heart's display is a momentary distraction, but he is interested to hear that Rose's Fire moves were more powerful than usual...

He nods after a little more thinking, then dumps his findings on Terra and Heart (@Spiritmon).  "I think Jirachi's Wish Tags might have made it more likely for pokemon with similar traits to show up.  Dusknoir was looking a little...burlier, so I guess he ended up grabbing a Fighting Wish Tag, and was thus loosely connected to any other pokemon that had grabbed the same kind of Wish Tag.  From what I can tell based on what you've described and your now literal steel knuckles, you grabbed a Steel Wish Tag, Terra.  That'd explain the connections to the Steel fossil pokemon.  No Fairy or Fire type Fossil pokemon as far as we know, though.  In any case, it's good to see what some of theeffects the Wish Tags had are sooner rather than later.  Just...try not to draw attention to the more...unusual traits the two of you now have if you can avoid it, alright? Humans haven't been granted this much power in a long, long time, so showing off those talents in the wrong time periods have a chance to create a paradox, I think. At least, I haven't heard of any recorded instances of any humans with traits comparable to Fire and Steel types..."

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At Terra's evaluation of Jungore's situation, Nathan nods solemnly.  His PTC dings at this point as well, indicating the trade from Bill has arrived.  He retrieves the nail and reads it...then puts it away.

"According to Bill, Jungore was officially recorded as having gone extinct around...1500 AD or so, around 400 years before the time we're currently in."  Nathan looks at Jungore.  "I'll have to keep ya balled once we head to some more public places, friend.  I'll make sure ya get some fresh air at the soonest opportunity, though, so don't worry about that, alright?"

Jungore still looks a little puzzled, I imagine.  But he probably doesn't have any major complaints either since he has 0 Disobedience.

Anyways, once that's taken care of...Nathan takes a deep breah...then lets it out.  "...it's okay, Terra.  Really.  Let's just try and make sure his species doesn't suffer the same fate again now that we have an opportunity, right?"

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(@PhantomUnderYourDesk, @Mikaruge108, and @Windos and Spirit too, of course)

Nathan listens to the whole story about Deoxys veeerrrry carefully once Gallade returns with Shiva and Spira and everyone's gathered in a sufficiently private spot away from the more populated locations.

"...so you're saying that Deoxys was trying to learn about its surroundings?  That was a rather...aggressive way to do so if that's the case...though I suppose nothing was stopping it from doing as it pleases if nothing on this planet could harm it at the time..."

Before Nathan ponders that further, Terra opens up about the...gift he received from Deoxys.

Gallade then taps on Nathan's shoulder, his thorough analysis complete.  Nathan turns to face Gallade.  "What'd ya find, buddy?"

Gallade proceeds to share the feelings he found with Nathan.  Nathan's expression is primarily...confused during the process.

Once the message has been delivered, Nathan turns back to everyone else.  "...so, Gallade definitely sensed...something in Terra.  I'm not really sure how to describe it other than it apparently felt...weird to Gallade.  Like nothing he and I have ever felt before.  Given we're dealing with an extraterrestrial pokemon...not surprising.  He also conveyed feelings of...protectivness and...tiredness?  Ummmm...I think that means he couldn't get much more than that...like it's...sleeping and protected...is that right, Gallade?"

Gallade nods.

"...hmmmm...I don't like this, to be honest...Deoxys might not necessarily be malicous, but...who kows if what it did is going to have any positive results?  I'm not sure if there's anything I can do about this right now...if anything changes, Terra, I'd like to know at the soonest opportunity, alright?"