[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Spoiler

Gallade of course gets a smile and a grateful nod for his assistance from the sagely monk, before he wanders over to Nathan's side, glancing over their shoulder to glance at what he's working on, and letting out a *Hmm* of appreciation. From the looks of it, its mostly note about details the boy told him about, but the illustrations of the many Legendary and Mythical Pokemon were something new to him, and found them to be quite captivating. Particularly the sketches of Deoxys, which instantly drew his eyes like a magnet to iron and held it just as firm, before he wrest his gaze away with a shake of his head, appearing somewhat......distracted briefly before he refocused his attention on the scholarly train with a smile.

"Good artwork of Legends, Nathan. Did not know you.....had skill with drawing pictures."

Oh, and when the hybrid Plusle-Zubat ('Plubat?') became interested in him, he shared not only his smile with them, but a couple of marshmallows too, along with a head pat if that is agreeable to them/Nathan. If their anything like the pair of electric rodents found in his homeland, then they'd probably enjoy the sweet treats!

"Here. Marshmallows, a sweet treat. Enjoy."

After a brief pause, he also pull out a small bag holding many marshmallows, and lays it on the boy's desk.

"You too. For Forthright, Orthros, and any other partner of yours that likes sweets."

Looks like he didn't forget the promise he made to the cloud puff!

He takes a seat right besides his intelligent young friend, and goes silent for about a minute after they asked him just what's on his mind, the rugged wanderer staring into his lap with arms cross and appearing pensive. Then, he let out a quiet sigh and let his arms drape across his legs, and calmly looked back to them.

"Three things. First.....I think it is time. Time for my partners.....all of them that can......to learn ROCK SMASH. Feel that.....we all have proved ourselves worthy and........good enough to........handle HM's power wisely. Would like to believe I have......earned everyone's trust too, for this.......responsibility. If you do not agree......*Bows head* I understand, and will wait until me and my partners are ready."

Terra stops speaking at this point, and awaits your decree with stoic acceptance.....and hidden nervousness.

"...it's not easy to draw these, to be honest.  Takes a lot of time.  And they're not nearly as good as Keni's work by a long shot...and these pictures are mostly for my own reference as well..."  *points to the picture of Juni, which definitely looks a little rougher than the others*  "Only just started that one, to be honest."

Emolga tilts his head curiously when offered a treat.  I'm not quite sure how he'd react to an attempt to pat his head, to be honest...but yeah, he'll take a marshmallow and nibble on it.  Being a park animal, he's not gonna turn down free food, after all!

Terra asking about ROCK SMASH catches Nathan off guard a little, to be honest.  He blinks slowly as he processes that...then startles out of it when he realizes what he's doing.  "...oh, uh...yeah, of course.  Who do you want to teach it to?  It'd be preferable if they won't use it just because they want to, obviously.  We are trying to keep it a secret, after all.  And remember that when it comes to trainer battles, you're really only allowed to use it against skilled, official League trainers that can handle being attacked by such a strong move...or in official League tournaments, such as the Safari Cup...or if the situation is desperate, obviously.  Hopefully the 3rd doesn't come up when it's unexpected."  Nathan's digging through his bag as he says all this.  "...now where did I put...ah, there it is!"

...and when he pulls out the HM, Emolga's jaw drops.  He can't learn the move (the only HMs he can learn are Cut and Flash.  And Defog if we include the Gen 7 Move Tutor giving Emolga access to it), but he doesn't need to be able to learn it to understand what it is.  He chitters a little more, having paused in the middle of nibbling on his marshmallow.  'Why didn't you tell me you had that?!' he almost seems to say.  And Nathan's response is, "...well, I was getting there, Emolga.  But then Terra knocked on the door, so..."  (and there ya go, now Terra knows what the species is called as well!)

(Let's see...according to my notes, the compatible pokemon that Terra has are Shiranui, Genie, Basteele, Angie, Anubi, Medicham, Bastiodon, and Mawile.  Mawile, Bastiodon, and Anubi have potential Disobedience concerns since they were caught more recently, of course, but if they have Loyalty greater than or equal to half their Disobedience, I personally have no problems with teaching the move to them.  Whether Nathan would be comfortable with teaching Medicham ROCK SMASH is another matter entirely, though...and Angie would also definitely need more space than this tiny room...unless...hmmm...if you want to teach her ROCK SMASH, Windos, I have an idea I can send you in a PM.)