[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

Weedle Swarm Round 2

Electric Terrain 1
(5)(2)(1)(6)(3)(2) The setup works again, connecting all the shrubs and rocks and things in the area with electric fields.

Rock Slide 1
(3)(3)(1)(5)(3)(4)

Discharge 2
(6)(4)(4)(5)(5) That's a critical hit, and it finishes off the Sunkern as well as the Weedle!

Only a few swarm members remain, and the other assembled Trainers finish them off as you're working on your two battlefields.

Terra's fame is rather spreading in Teazel Valley! Everyone is gathered around to pet Melly, and Genie once she demands attention. When hearing what his favorite food is, someone makes a run for a big bag of marshmallows! Melly gains 1 Happiness and Genie gains 1 Loyalty after working together with that pack Pokemon.

The ground is littered with Weedle bodies - they only present a problem if you step on them. You figure the bird Pokemon will take care of most of them. The Sunkern are more interesting - their little roots have already used up a bunch of the nutrients in the soil in just a short time. So, though that swarm was a little less intimidating, it's clear they were equally dangerous in their own way.

Melly and Genie gain 4Xp. Terra earns 4, +4 for Heroism.

A Ranger comes up to Terra and asks to talk to him about the encounter - he plans to do some research on invasive Pokemon.

Should be noted again that Melly is a female like Genie, but its not too much of a problem if she turns into a he on occasion, since they would act the same regardless of gender. I imagine the lightning wolf would have joyfully pounced on the marshmallow bringer and slobber him with grateful, enthusiastic affection, which would of course prompt Terra to reign his doggie in an offer an apology and something in exchange for their kindness/troubles. He's nice like that!

Genie probably would be so pleased with her combined efforts and camaradance + receiving positive attention from the crowd, she wouldn't think to start any mischief, and fan her wings to create her species' characteristic 'Humming Music' to  show off more. Yes, yes, praise the Dragonfly Princess, common folk, and acknowledge her and her comrade's greatness!

So Terra gains 8 XP? Sweet!

The sagely monk would not be too aware of the finer intricacies of invasive species of Pokemon, but he'd give a point by point breakdown of how he handled his cleanup of them, as well as discuss plans for containing swarms and other problem Pokemon.

- First Plan: Organize a large task force, and cordon the area surrounding the swarm/Pokemon to prevent their advancement, and slowly/quickly handle the problem from there. Isolates and contains threats to just one area, making solving it easier, but it would also concentrate the damages too, and it requires a lot of body + coordination + command structure.

- Second Plan: Scorched Earth. Raze the areas around a swarm or ruin and entrap a problem Pokemon (Like using Rock Slides and Earthquakes to make uncrossable terrain, or use Fire Pledge to literally scorch the earth), and starve/weaken the threats that way. Highly destructive, but just as equally effective, and it requires less people to pull + environment can recover quickly if done smartly.

- Third Plan: Capture/Acquire swarm's natural predator Pokemon, then send them out to go to town on the pests. Less costly than the first two plans, but it has the potential to leave more stragglers.

- Forth Plan: Send out a small but strong task force with Pokemon with AoE Moves/Ultra Powerful Moves, then smash smash smash. Benefits include not needing a lot of people, and it being more efficient and safer, but the problem of that is finding said strong task force, and their's always concern of innocents getting caught up in the thick of things. This was Terra's plan, obviously.

Since my chara noticed the rapid drain of the local environ's nutrients by the Sunkern, he'd also recommend Pokemon with Rototiller, Grassy Terrain, Dig (Bring nutrient rich soil to the surface), and Muddy Water (Contains silt!) to help revitalize the area in an expedient manner. Since he has a Dunseraph that knows both Dig and Agility, he would offer to do part of that job for them if they want, and since he has  also Michael, he'd also tenatively whisper to them that his mushroom Pokemon could also rapidly breakdown the Sunkern so that the nutrients in them return back to the environment at night (Out of the sight of other trainers, so not to cause a fuss). Its already been established waaay back that Shroomish Michael could wither plant life easily, so if its not entirely infeasible for the kick boxing version to do his part of maintaining a health environment with the blessing of the Rangers......

Terra would wait around to answer any and all questions the Rangers/his budding fanbase might have, then he'd leave the area to do his final Encounter of the day. Undecided as of right now, but if all else fails Terra will be fishing with his Super Rod and some of his BQB!