[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Great Ball: (3)(4)(4)(1)
Will: 12 -6 = (5)(1)(1)(2)(2)(2)

Gotcha! Tubareel was caught!
0/0/5
20 base HP. +1 Str Surprise.
Strong Jaw
Water Gun, Ice Fang, Swagger, Aqua Tail, Crunch, Thrash, Skull Bash

Ooh boy, that thing's a beast.  Taming it is probably going to be difficult, even more so than with Onix...

Two questions:
 - is Tubareel capable of fighting on land without any major penalties to Brawl based moves?
 - out of curiosity, how much would it sell for in the event I decided to not keep it?

Princess doesn't care what you call her, but if you wanted to change her name, now would be a good time to do it.

Zippy's care and patience has been rewarded, as Vespiquen happily takes him under her hive and spends a lot of time with him despite her new hangers-on. You think he will probably get the chance to breed with Vespiquen.

From the way she is leading these newcomer Combee, she obviously won't be a soft ruler. But she does seem more caring than usual - checking individual male Combee for wounds, and even just the way she led them in the fight, makes her seem like she's learned a lot from Nathan. She'll have more cunning and more tenderness than a wild Vespiquen ruler.

Let's stick with Princess for sentimental reasons, then.  She may only be a princess in name alone now, but she's still the same pokemon she was before. And ideally, that should mean that she'll be able to become a leader that her subjects will want to follow willingly:  A strong, confident leader who can get things done, but a caring one as well.

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And now it's time to finally get to teaching FLASH to Nathan's pokemon.  Here's the list of all the ones I'm teaching the move right away, plus a few basic reactions for most of them:

Spoiler

- Princess: the first of Nathan's pokemon to receive the honor of learning this move.  Having a larger movepool is probably a relief for her after spending so much time as a Combee with only three moves.
- Gallade: still has reservations about the machine, but still excited to learn the move
- Solomon: Just excited to learn the move!
- Starmie: Also excited to learn the move.  Combined with Illuminate, it's probably as bright as a blazing star in the sky!
- Porygon-Z
- Chinchou: Similar case to Starmie, though they're probably a bit nervous around Nathan at first
- Forthright: Child like joy!  (Also, I had no idea that Castform could learn Flash until I looked it up...)
- Sentry: She goes wide eyed once this move is brought out for her to learn.  Ooh, another one?  Yay!  But when does she get to use it?
- Calam: Very calm and stoic about the whole thing.
- Metang (also teach it ROCK SMASH at this time)
- Shinx: Probably excited, I guess?  Nathan hopes his trust isn't misplaced.  He thinks Shinx can probably handle it responsibly, though.
- Snivy: Also very calm about the whole thing.
- Solosis: Probably more excited about it when Nathan says it can help her defend herself if she feels like she's in danger.
- Emolga
- Grid
- Dedenne
- Jungore: After a bit of polishing, that gold shines very brightly now!  Jungore is in awe.  He hadn't imagined that his arms could look so shiny...oof, no, looking directly at it was a bad idea!  Nope, not doing that again! (Nathan also takes this time to teach Jungore ROCK SMASH)
- Juliet: immediately starts brainstorming how she might be able to use it in future performances, obviously.

Nathan has a few other pokemon that could learn FLASH, but he either doesn't trust them fully yet (D-Parasect, Pulse) or doesn't want to offend them by teaching them a move they're not allowed to use unless he says so (Sceptile), so they'll have to wait on learning any HMs for now.

Reminder for @Spiritmon and @Mikaruge108: if you want to teach FLASH to your pokemon now instead of waiting for Day 78, the option is available.  Heart and Spira just need to meet Nathan at the Pokemon Center.  Roleplaying it is optional.  In addition, Mika, Nathan will have something else for Spira specifically (meant to be a semi-surprise IC).