[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Spoiler

"Toya! If you can hear me in that ice, use Fire Punch to melt it from within." Now for interrogation time. (This is all directed to the burned Scimitar, if Spira gets satisfactory answers, he'll heal 'em, *spend 6/9 current exp to increase medicine to 1, he'll do basic burn treatment, and if the roll is unsuccessful he'll begrudgingly use a burn heal on the Scimitar) The others can see in Spira's eyes that he did not like them draining his Pokemon's powers. Firstly, he'll appropriate that Scimitar's gauntlet to check out later.
The questions:

• Who are you? (He doesn't mean the group, but rather the grunt's name)
  
• What do you have planned in Cress City?
  
• What is with those magic gauntlets?
  

that's all the questions for now, from Spira, that is.

The only conscious Scimitar is the icy one, so you can just defrost him and ask these questions.

"J...J...Geordie."
"We were summoned to make sure some hotshot trainer doesn't retrieve the artifact armories from the Skull Ruins before we're ready. That went well, and n...n...now we've defeated most of the investigators too..."
"The gauntlets help us focus our Spells. We don't teach outsiders our ways...it would take years of training anyway."

Spoiler

Dizzy leaps into the air to show he's healed. Then he begins trying to communicate something to Shiva - he's going somewhere to fulfill his duty as Infiltrator. If Shiva wants to try to guess his destination or quest, he can answer yes or no. Dizzy's mind is filled with determination, and Calam looks on approvingly.

Nathan, you can still see the tingle of time magic around Dizzy.

The trainers are nowhere in sight, and Juni led you to believe they'd been subdued and kidnapped. You're not sure about their Pokemon's mental state, but it seems likely that fainting would reset them to normal.

You can't use persuasion rolls on party members - or rather you can, but they don't have to obey them if they don't wanna.

When you remove a gauntlet, you find that a thick wire bundle runs up their sleeves and under their cloaks, securing them so they can't be removed so easily.

(Can't very well interrogate someone passed out, now for the part where I'm assuming the target of questioning was changed to the conscious, half-thawed one, if not Spira finds those answers satisfactory enough to warrant healing the Scimitar.)
"Hmm... Interesting." Spira then attempts to break the rest of the Ice by hand (Strength+Brawl 9D6)/(Medicine check/Burn Heal on Burned one.)Seeing as Spira too was wanting one of those gauntlets to study later, he has some slight frustration at seeing the cables running up the sleeve. time to see how far those cables go. Bye-bye robe! (The way the cables are attached will affect how Spira will attempt removing them. A "blowtorch" from Hida oughta be enough to scare the Scimitar into taking the gauntlets off willingly{spending 5/8 of Hida's exp to have him learn Ember}.)

Dissecting the Scimitar's equipment, you see the cable runs from the wrist of the gauntlet all along their skin. It's been stapled surgically to the skin. Then it runs down his torso and to a special belt made of webbed wires and studded with six weird gray spheres. You can't break those wires with main strength, but any sort of Pokemon move can break it at any point. The belt can be clipped on or off with a little plug, and it looks like the same is true for the spheres.

You also manage to remove the ice and stop the fire - that just takes an action. No Burn Heal is necessary, I just needed to know whether anyone is putting the fire out. (Remember, the Burned guy is not conscious.)