[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

Sounds like people are in favor of traveling onward then.

You struggle through the wild a bit, occasionally finding faded tracks to help you. This takes up quite some time and results in very little progress. Eventually, just as you're probably beginning to get frustrated, you feel one final LURCH.

Arcanine is too powerful to be threaded by the Adamant Orb, so no threads available this time besides your own party.

You're now standing within sight of the Route to Teazel Valley. Immediately, your Pokeballs start blinking! Phones synced to 2017 now work, showing that only three hours have passed in 2017.

The pale light from Nathan's PTC stops existing, and your PTCs will no longer function except as watches.

*Flashback!*

Eventually after a meandering stroll through the jungle with Bastiodon collecting/pointing out any useful plants for his ironcald dino (who'd most likely promptly try to graze on them), Terra made his return to the *LURCH*/campsite with a smile on his face.......which dimmed once he realized everyone else save Thrawn was still gone on their respective forays. Huh, that's strange, and mildly concerning.....

At first the sagely monk shrugged it off, figuring that his friends were still busy exploring the jungle or catching/Fighting Pokemon, and so settled himself by simply hanging with the detective and Bastiodon, enjoying their company and some small talk with the former, and calling down Angie on high to check on how Juni was doing. When an unspecified amount of time passed and most of the group still hadn't returned, that was when he started getting really worried and ever so slightly confused, as he frown severely at his surroundings with arms crossed and gaze Alert.

'.....Where is everyone? Should not have taken them long to do their stuff and comeback.....but it has and they have not. What has happened to them? Are they in trouble? Hurt? Lost, or stuck? Worse? ...Don't know. Can't find out if they are okay, since Pokedex doesn't work in this.....past time. Hrn.......this is not good.'

Needless to say, Terra wasn't exactly brimming with confidence at the continued absence of his friends. Still.....

'......Will wait on them longer. Before I go out, and search for them. Shiva, Nathan, Heart, Spira......they are all very strong and clever, in and out of battle. Not much could be......threatening to them here, so maybe they are.....just really busy? Hm....yes, maybe just that. .....Hopefully. Hopefully......'

So in the end, the mountain of a man decided to continue waiting on his companions to return, instead of combing the entire area for any trace of them. Several times he was tempted to just call down his seraphic dragon and do a fly by to try and find everyone, but he resisted the urge and continued to play sentinal. With (bad) luck, the rest of the group could come back while he was gone searching for them, so for now it was best to stick around and not potentially over complicate matters.

Thankfully, his patience was rewarded when he spotted  everyone hike down from the volcano, bring out a great big *Siiiiiigh* of relief and a smile on his face as he greeted them.

"You have returned......unharmed and happy. *Nods* Good, very good. Hm......why where you all at the.......volcano so long........"

It was at this point he'd notice Nathan/Shiva/Heart where all carrying Eggs in some fashion.

"......And Eggs? How did you get them? So many of them too.....is that why you all were gone for so long...?"

I'll leave it to anyone that wants to explain the whole event to him, either by a Flashback or PM. Regardless, Terra will be accepting of the whole situation broadly speaking, and so has no qualm about their Pledges. That's that for this scene until the *LURCH* back to the Present, so....

*Flashback End!*

Upon arrival back into what seemed like the present (Judging by the fact all his Pokeballs were flashing and checking his Pokedex to see it needed an update), Terra let out another *Sigh* of relief, glad that he and the group were finally back in modernity. Sure, he'd enjoyed the various trips through time and exploring all the eras in them, but he was glad that all those erratic and often harrowing *LURCHES* where behind him and no longer a problem........or so he hopes.

The Pokemon he sends back to the PC will be Anubi (Taking the Lucky Egg from them before he did so), Yogi, Farfetch'd, Mawile, both Victreebells, and Passage, leaving him with the party comp of Shiranui, Lapis Lazuli, Angie (Who was still outside her ball with Juni strapped onto her back), Tommy, Melly, and Bastiodon. Essentially, he keeps the party he started with before the *LURCHES* happened, but with the prehistoric powerhouse sticking around for added protection + getting more time to bond with the beast. Also, if we counted all the days Tommy the Meowth was with Terra throughout the *LURCHES*, it should have been plenty of time for his Pay Day to give Terra $2000 Poke (With Heart's Amulet Coin being borrowed for that)! If not.....well, guess Tommy's sticking around in the party for quite some time more!

After that, the steely brawler looks at the group, before calmly and simply asking:

"Everyone okay? Where do we go now? Continue to Tezeal Valley? Go back to Bill's ? Go back to Cress to turn Juni in?"