[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

"You may touch them, share only love with them, but do not touch the Egg of Celebi. If you recognize it, you will know why - when you touch that Egg, the Time wrapped around you will straighten out, and our discussion will end."

"That is what we must discuss. In your Time, have any of these Pokemon had their very existence endangered? Vulpix, the Kitsune. Dratini, the Wyrm. Flabebe, the fairy caretaker of meadows. Shinx, the wise sphinx. Moltres, the phoenix who so few can tame. Absol, the dark angel. Minicorn, the pure-hearted unicorn. Magikarp, the brave fish who climbs the waterfall and becomes the dragon. And careful Celebi, who multiplies herself across Time and asked me to keep this Egg as a special favor. These are the Myths who have not yet found a suitable Time in which to hatch."


"Humans? I have seen many. They are the reason many of these Pokemon have gone extinct in the future or past. They are the reason the cycles of the Comet have not replenished the Earth as they should. They are the reason Pokemon's power dims just as Nature's does."

Oh.  Guarding endangered species.  Gotcha.  Well then, Nathan and Gallade relax a little!  Flygonno probably relaxes a little too and lands, but keeps its distance.

Oh, and Arcanine also knows they're time travelers?  Well, that makes things easier.

Which species are endangered?  This sounds like Nathan's territory!

- "Vulpix are definitely not endangered.  They live in various locations all over the world.  There's even Ice type variants in the Alola region.  I think Kalos is the only region that doesn't have Vulpix naturally occurring there."

- "Dratini are also rather rare, and are on the endangered species list.  They usually live underwater, so if there's large colonies of them, humans haven't seen them.  Usually, if somebody encounters a member of the Dratini line, it's because the dragon chose to appear before a human worthy of training them.  They're extremely rare because they're both low in number and rather shy."

- "I can't say I've ever seen a Flabebe before.  I know Bill has a Florges, but most of that evolution line lives in Kalos as far as I know, and that's probably where he caught it if I had to guess.  It's definitely on the endangered species list in Creshire."

- "Shinx are a little rare in Creshire, mostly because they're popular pokemon to train, but they're not on the endangered species list to my knowledge.  I have a Shinx of my own, my dad has a Luxray...most of the ones in Creshire live in Mt. Sentry in our time, I think.  Other than that, I think most of them are in Sinnoh."

- "I've never actually seen a Moltres in person.  They're considered Legendary, after all.  I know that what ones have been seen usually reside in volcanoes.  They're apparently most common in the Tohjo area and sometimes migrate to other places along with Zapdos and Articuno, but they're all incredibly rare even in the region where they're most common."

"Absol definitely aren't endangered.  Most of them live in the mountains no matter what region they live in.  They usually don't appear unless there's some kind of disaster about to occur, but there are sightings all over the world."

- "...I've never heard of Minicorn before, actually.  You said it's a horse-like pokemon?"

- "Magikarp aren't rare at all in our time.  They're literally the most common pokemon in existence by then.  If there's a body of water, there's probably Magikarp living in it.  Gyarados are rather rare, though, mostly because nobody really understands how or why Magikarp, one the weakest pokemon in our time, evolves into the sea serpent."

- "Celebi, much like Moltres, I can't really comment on properly since it's a Legendary.  There's definitely one still around in our time though, and we actually have met her.  Well, I suppose that was obvious, given that we're here...it's hard to know how many of her species there actually are, though, given the whole time travel thing."