[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

"The Pokemon won't be available until after the trial. The more evidence we have, the faster the trial. Ideally, we'd want a judge to deny the inevitable appeal. You can give me the lesser gauntlets, and bring me the master gauntlet later."

You fly and Teleport to your destinations. I'm guessing you dismount before getting to town for discretion's sake.

Thrawn sends you a text to let you know things are going well from his side: Juni is in custody, and the process has begun. They don't expect to have any problems holding her for trial.

Terra easily sells the Trumbeak Feather for $3000. Someone from Telperion offers to buy the Aipom Orange for $4500, and said he'll give you a cut of the grant money when this thing is re-introduced. That's a post-game source of income for you.

Pansage can sell for $2500, or three rare elemental monkey PokeDolls (one of each).
Farfetch'd can sell for $5000, or an acclaimed/very exclusive week-long online cooking class called Kookodile. Completing this course will grant you an automatic 1 point of specialty in Craft OR Chemistry.
The two Victreebel together can be traded for $3500, or a Rock/Ground/Fighting TM of your choice, or this would be another chance to get a Huge Power Diggersby that has 40XP.

Finally, your four pristine items can be sold for $40,000!!

Since everyone else has already well moved on with their respective activities and I'm still rather busy, I'll keep things brief(ish)!

- Terra does indeed touch down and dismounts from Angie, though probably only after being clued in on how.....noticeable it would be for him to fly in on a giant Dragon. He's still rather clueless about things socialwise and not the best at long term thinking, after all! He's also pretty happy that Juni's safely and securely behind bars (for now), which goes a long way into making him more approachable/friendly to/with strangers.

- As for his many choice for what he wants to trade away his Pokemon, they are the following: He trades Pansage for the three rare Monkey Pokedolls (They're a collector's Item, plus they're cute!), Farfetch'd for access Kookodile's Cooking Class (His curious to learn more about how to properly prepare foods, and he's been motivated to learn more thanks to Nathan), and TM Fissure from that Hiker (Which he's rather surprised by the fact they have a rare OHKO TM, let alone willing to part with it for two Overgrown Victreebell, but doesn't hesitate to take it!). Overall, I choose more Items/Resources over Poke!
* In regards to the Cooking Class, one of two things will happen: If he immediately gets the Free Chemistry Point upon accepting the class mechanically, I want to spend 6 XP to gain 1 Point of Science: Chemistry before hand to try and optimize the 'free' Specialty Point. If he will only get the Free Point after a full in game week has passed, then no XP will be currently spent. The reason why he's learning Chemistry over Crafting is both simple and funny IC: He's dumb and/or foolish enough to accidentally learn about/more the Chemistry of cooking/other stuff than actually improving the Crafting of said food/other stuff. Talk about getting the wrong idea from a lesson! OOC, I just don't want to overlap too much with Phantom's niches, and they can do a better job of Crafting stuff than Terra ever could, so why not leave all that to her?

- For the Items , he trades them all away for the Poke, resulting in the sagely monk acquiring a net $47500!!! He's rich, oh yeeeeaaah!In particular, he's rather interested learning more about in the Aipom Orange re-introduction into the wild , and he almost immediately requests a written contract that would guaranteed him that cut of grant money/Post Game Income, as his Mama and Papa taught him to ALWAYS get long term deals in print and/or on record so nothing untold happens. If a contract is not an option, he'll ask them to make a voice recording stating that he'd get that cut and send it to him/his superiors.

- After selling his King's Armaments, he'll go shopping around town for a large machete, or a blacksmith to commission one/a sword made for him. He still wants to learn sword fighting from Gallade, so he has to get a replacement blade for the one he sold!

- With his newfound wealth in Poke and a mind for future readiness, he's going to stock up more on some important Items at the Pokemart, which involves purchasing: 2 Potions ($400), 2 Super Potions ($1400 [Super Potions cost $700, right?]), 1 Hyper Potion ($1200), 1 Max Potion ($1700 or $2500 [How much do they cost in your campaign again, Iron?), 1 Paralyze Heal ($200), 2 Revives ($3000), 5 Poke Balls ($1000), 3 Great Balls ($1800), and 1 Ultra Ball ($1200), which in total costs = $10200 + $1700/2500 Poke, leaving him with a net total gain of $37300 - $1700/$2500 Poke without accounting for the cost of purchasing a machete/sword. A hefty sum to be sure, but hey, its all going towards the good cause of keeping his/other Pokemon healthy and happy, plus catching new ones to sell later!

- Lastly, since he's a bit worn out from his adventures/exploration/conflicts he's engaged in 2014 + the Volcanic Jungle Period but not quite ready to rest/be idle, he'll go out foraging for Berries with Melly and Bastiodon,, wanting to spend more quality to with his doggie and dino. Nothing like ending the day with harvesting more of the bounty of Nature!
* ....Before going off to Forage, though, he will make a stop by the Pokemon Center to switch out Angie for Genie, and sometime during the Berry Foraging in the far outskirts of Cress he'll teach her Fissure. Not without seriously and gravely impressing the warning of not to use the Move unless she has his explicit and implicit permission for her to do so, however, explaining that Fissure is like Explosion or a poorly thought out Discharge: an extremely dangerous Move with the potential to cause HUGE damage to anything caught up in it, which include property damage, innocent bystanders, and who knows what else. After its clear he's impressed the severity and responsibility of Fissure onto the Dragon Djinn of the Desert, he tells her to use the Move on a large patch of plains/grassland far away from him and Melly, as he wants to see a demonstration of just how powerful Fissure is for him/her, as well as just testing it out.

Once all the above is accounted for and dealt with, Terra be ready and raring for the next day!

(Note for Everyone with valuables/Pokemon they want to sell: Might want to sell them in Cress while you still have the chance, like the Sapphire/Shiny Shuckle from Shiva, the Artifacts that Heart collected, or anything Nathan might have grabbed. Just FYI!)