[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Shiva enters the log gate to the Safari Zone! This place is just full to bursting with Pokemon - the big grazers are easy to see from any distance, like Tauros. The sky is full of birds, and so are the clear bodies of water which dot the beautiful reserve. Bugs, bugs, and more bugs rustle all the plants - so many Bug Pokemon that you have to plan your gathering to avoid them.

Since this area is not managed by humans, there is a larger variety of nature than usual. For example, you see scrubby trees, tall trees, healthy trees, sickly trees, and dead trees that never got chopped up or burned. They make great habitat for Pokemon, or even shelter for humans in a pinch. Some people make crude canoes out of the hollow trees, or fine silver canoes using the flexible bark of certain dying trees. You can also fold it into baskets.

There are also many good sources of cordage. The common ones are the inner bark of trees, and the twisted fibers of Red or White Vulbane. A rare source of cordage is sinew or hides from slain Pokemon.

You might see the ingredients for a few good Held Items, such as Miracle Seed, Silver Powder, Poison Barb, Soft Sand, etc. And herbs for medicines.

A good gatherer can find lots of amazing art supplies, like the ones in the mail-order nature store.


So here's how it works: for each of your encounters, you can give me up to 2 broad categories of craftables you want to find. For example, medicine and art. You can even give me some specific things you'd like to craft. There may be a Survival, Crafting, Medicine, Lore, or Science check to see if you know how to craft that item.
If you were looking for Pokemon instead of supplies, you might tell me what habitats you go to - streams, hollow logs, open plains. Or maybe even a specific Pokemon.

I'll roll 1d6 for aggressive Pokemon first. If it is equal to or less than the Area number, you'll have to deal with some aggressive Pokemon.

Then I'll roll for what you find. I do this by rolling d6's until you roll a number higher than the Area number - a fail. The number of these special successes (Safari Successes?) determines the rarity of what you find. This applies to both Pokemon and items.

So you can see, a higher Area means more dangerous but rarer things. I'll give you an example below for Shiva's first Encounter here.


(3) You bypass Level 1. You had to roll a 1 to fail. You are now in Area 4.
(3) Uh oh! You had to roll a 1-4 to fail, so you failed to avoid aggressive Pokemon. A Scolipede attacked!
(3)(4)(4)(6) - three Safari Successes <= 4. Shiva finds something a little bit rare, in the category of art I assume.


Shiva didn't really spend enough time in Area 1 to find a Mincinno. It's a long, skinny Area on the banks of a river. Hollow trees have been cast across the river, and you can walk through them to get to other Areas. There are shallow pools here but no deep bodies of water. No thick forests, either, since the frequent battles keep any dense vegetation from growing.

Area 4 is more regular in shape. Shiva finds herself on a grassy hill - it's a very gradual slope, but it goes on for a long long time! A couple Whirlipede roll right past, but a Scolipede runs right up to her, spitting venom! You are allowed to run away or battle it or do something more creative, but remember you cannot faint it.

Assuming Shiva isn't killed by Scolipede, she does find something called a Pecha Gall.. It's a mutation by a Pecha Berry bush, causing it to grow a large round woody growth. These often appear to have knobbly faces hidden within them, and they can also be carved like you'd carve wood - if you have a delicate chisel and a steady hand. Bonus points, the juice of the gall is usable as an ingredient in medicines to heal Confusion.

She finds one more thing in Area 4, almost into Area 5. It's a feather, but it's very special. It almost looks like one of Dunseraph's new feathers, but scintillating pink. Or a little like Togekiss down. Anyway, it's perfectly formed, perfectly intact, and unbelievably light. To Shiva, it can be nothing but the feather of an angel! She found it in a scattering of Gloom petals.

Scolipede Round 1