[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

Taking a slight detour from Elanor, some of you (definitely Shiva and Terra, and probably Nathan it sounds like?) come to a thick jungle of thorns in the middle of the wilderness. Flowers bloom on each thorny twig, and a mass of trumpetvines hangs down from one massive tree looming through the fog. Minicorn stirs excitedly in her egg at this sight.

The tree turns out to be a fig tree, several trunks descending from just one central canopy. A large grove is formed, with orchid flowers blooming in every crevice. There are sickle-shaped symbols on many of the trunks, grown from living wood (quite different from Scimitar symbols). You can all feel the Earthpower coursing up through your feet from the soil. While your feet sink two or three inches into the rich dirt, your footprints actually fade away as you advance. If your foot should happen to fall on a twig, the twig bursts into orchid flowers.

Some of the flowers twitch as you pass. You're hearing a lot of rustling noises. Vaporeon cloaks herself in Aqua Ring and Acid Armor. Gallade probably readies a Swords Dance or at least shifts into a defensive stance, just in case his instincts are a little misplaced.

Pulling aside one last set of trumpetvines, you now face a gigantic wedge-shaped mass of wriggling flowers. They unfold a little, peering at you with triangular pink eyes, then scurrying to the back waving tiny legs as the mound rears up. It spreads and crosses two gloriously pink scythes, so brightly colored that it hurts your eyes. New color is constantly rushing into this large being even as the outermost petals of its body fade to brown and fall to the ground, where they become rich soil in a matter of minutes.

The being's form is insect-like, similar to a Scyther/mantis, but in truth its nature is entirely a bloom. Every limb is decorated with golden jewelry and radiating health and power.

Cottonee, Cherrim, Breloom - their Pokeballs all split at the hinges, falling into two pieces. The released Pokemon bow to the primal being before them.
Gallade also plunges one blade into the ground and sinks to one knee. Solomon bows from the waist, and his gems and runes glow.

The massive Pokemon speaks! "Into my grove you have come. Now, be you friend or foe?"

(Erm......Mikey isn't with Terra right now, Iron. His default party for the trip was Shiranui, Lapis Lazuli, Angie, Dunny, Tommy, and Anubi. If you want them in his party, though, I can't easily just say he swapped Dunny out for them, since he was feeling very weak from his earlier efforts. )

For Terra, the very nature of the......well, nature of the secret grove is rather astonishing and breath taking for him, as he never encountered anything quite like it through his decade or so of exploration (or he's just forgotten about, for whatever reason). The palatable Earthpower coursing into his being made him feel strangely lively and twitchy, as if he had great deal of energy and the need to burn it all in an intense workout session or just fight fight fight. Altogether, it left him straddled between on edge and in awe, prompting him to summon Shiranui by his side as added protect and to share the experience with them, to which they react to much the same way as him .

Meeting the........vibrant flower mantis, and hearing them speak......well, the sagely monk only had one reaction to that:

"......Talking Pokemon.......?"

Unlike everyone else, he's never encountered one that could actually directly communicate with humans, so it was quite the novel and stupefying moment for the man!

The sight of everyone's Pokemon bowing to the strange Pokemon eventually causes him to look over at all of them in befuddled confusion. Why are they all doing that....? Is that......plant bug important, or something?

Then (If Mikey was with him), he looks at his shroombro's broken Ball and frowns, before he looks back to the Pink 'n Power Plant and frowns at them, and points to the remain.

"Broke partner's Pokeball. That is rude. Want to be reimbursed for that first. Then we can be friends."

.......Yes, he is upset about that, and no, he's not too cowed by the Primal Pokemon before him. He's gotten pummeled by MEW , communed with Deoxys, received a blessing from Jirachi, and fought other tough Pokemon in the past beyond those Legends , so a talking Pokemon radiating power doesn't Intimidate him much, no matter how weird it is. 

If Mikey is not with Terra: He just looks back over to it and stares at them in bewilderment, before saying in a questioning tone: ".......Yes?"