[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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Said text message says the following, and it is adressed to Terra/@Lord Windos, Spira/@Mikaruge108 and Heart/@Spiritmon.

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Hi!~ (^_^)/ Elanor is so incredibly beauuutiful, I'm loving it here.

Ehm, got news! Professor Mallorn ordered me and Nathan to meet up with him, said the persmission to enter the creepy ruins will be ready.....

...TOMORROW.

He also burrowed something that'll help us down there, it's legendary and rare HM Flash! It'd be good if everyone of us will have at least one Pokemon at hand with this move when we'll venture down there. Unfortunately, I don't have time to meet you all today, so I just gave this machine to Nathan. He will come to you whenever for teaching it, and I wish to carry this machine in my stuff once that's done. Is that...okay for you? You see, all of you are more brave, more forward and somewhat stronger than I am, maybe.... Maybe I'll be less of a harm to all these ghosts down there.

That's all. Sleep well and we'll likely see one another tomorrow morning.


Pixilated greetings!~☆*:・ﾟ

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I'm not sure when Terra received the fair maiden's missive about the group now having access to HM FLASH and will be leaving for the Skull Ruins tomorrow, but when he does he stiffens like the mountains he oft resembles and his 'Dex slips out of his grasp and clatters to the ground! 

'We.......can learn another HM now? Its almost time to go.....there too? Oh......"

He stood wherever he was, stunned for several minutes as he processed the implications and consequences of him having such dazzling power, before with a quick couple jerks of his head he righted himself and scooped his Pokedex right back up, and with uncharacteristic swiftness typed out a message back to his friend:

'Understood, Shiva. Hope meeting with Professor went well. Very, very glad he gave us FLASH to explore......the Skull Ruins. Bright light will ward away bad Ghosts. Got attacked by some there, and didn't want that happening again without us being prepared. Now, we better are. Give Professor my thank for this great boon. Will get Nathan to teach partners later. Trust and believe you are capable of carrying FLASH, and that you will do it well. Shiva.....don't forgot. You are strong and brave too, and very very wise. You are a great trainer, and great caretaker of all Pokemon. Never forget that.

Be well, and see you tomorrow. I will be ready.'

After that, the steely brawler proceeds to do whatever else he was currently doing, but with a bit more urgency in his steps. After all, he and his friends we're going to that dread, dead lace, The Skull Ruins, and he was going to be teaching his Pokemon more HMs. Who wouldn't be a bit incentivised to get a move on after getting such news?

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Hey, Nathan's not going to turn down a chance to use a Super Rod!  "...haven't really done much fishing, to be honest, but when you have little more than an Old Rod, you probably know exactly what you're going to catch already, right?"

Nathan's curiosity has definitely been piqued by how vague (and possibly clever?) Terra is being.

Nathan probably wouldn't have asked outright if Terra could get him a Zorua, just absentmindedly said something about owning a Zorua being cool because it's a rather rare species.  They are an incredibly rare species after all.  And that'd possibly lead into Terra making the rather generous offer, I expect.

"*Shrugs* Fishing not too hard. Just bait line, and cast it. Simple. *Shakes head* Never had rod back home, so I don't. Used to catch fish with bare hands, or with nets. Got Lapis that was, when he was a Feebas. *Pause* .....Also caught a Wailord that way. Or it caught me. Was friendly, though, so not much trouble happened. Stop fishing in open seas after that."

.....Well, that sounded like an interesting story.

Dense as he was, Terra could always tell when someone wanted something, even if he didn't know what that was - another perk of being a merchant's son. This time, though, it was pretty easy to tell that his young intellectual friend wanted a Zorua himself, so he just casually offered to help purchase one for him, so long as he was willing to chip in too. Anything he could do for a friend, he'd tried to do it if it wasn't too extreme or out there!

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So the current offer on Zorua is 12k + Rock Smash access. After being buttered up with gifts he'll take that deal. He actually seems pretty excited and includes 3 flareglass shards into the mix for each of you. "I've been putting a small amount of evolutionary powder into their food. You can give them opposing elements for them to resist, or aligned elements for them to absorb energy."
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The sagely monk would be quite intrigued and curios about the use of elemental glass as a dietary supplement for empowering Pokemon, and raises a couple of questions about it.

"Have any recipes that could improve glass' effects? Done any experiments with it? Can it be used in other ways?"

After Nathan's done talking with Howl, he asks for them to meet them in a private room back at the Pokemon Center, both to have his Pokemon taught FLASH and to discuss his plan with his Zorua. Speaking of which, he would transfer Poesi out of his party to make room for his new dark darling. He wouldn't introduce himself to her now, but he wanted her at hand so he could do so later in private, right away.