[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Cosh: "We've been keeping an eye on the Kadabra Chamber since the very beginning. Follow me!"

"OK, here's the situation. The best entrance is right over there, beneath the biggest Barrow around. Won't be too many ghosts around in daylight, and the five of us can banish any that do crop up. You'll need Rock Smash or Cut or something to get inside - there are many doors in the Barrow, all locked and warded. If we pick our way through the Barrow Downs, knock down at least one door, jet inside through the maze of tunnels... we'll be ready for the Kadabra Chambers. Sonar reveals a big chamber right beneath that Barrow, full of some crystalline substance and itself networked with tunnels. The Kadabra Chambers are sort of transitional between the Barrow Down layer and the Upper Palace ruins layer."


You're all going to pick your way through the old graves, mass burial sites, uprooted artifacts, and earthen tombs. You aren't sure which paths lead onward safely.

Everyone is required to pick exactly one Encounter to solve with your Scimitar partner. No overlap or sharing - they all have a Cap of 1. Scimitars may want to make a capture, in which case we'll have to work that out somehow (not traditional XP bidding as the Scims don't have full char sheets).

This will count as Encounter 2 for the day.

You can tell me how you begin to address the problem as soon as you choose the Encounter, then you can react as I reveal more info.

Skull Ruins Barrow Downs Encounter List

1. Name: Treasure Tomb
You see the glitter of metal inside one of the tombs. Looks like you could crawl through a hole in the side and investigate.

2. Name: Stone Circle
There's a circle of upthrust stonework from long ago, and you spot flickering movement there. The circle is guarding one of the possible paths to the Great Barrow guarding the Chambers.

3. Name: Shallow Ground
This area is littered with old armor and weapons. There are a few old marble coffins sticking up, and some suspicious looking dirt with bloodstains everywhere.

4. Name: Daaarkness
A fairly nice straightforward path suddenly reaches a pair of stone pillars with a missing top, like an old archway. In line with the pillars, and everywhere beyond, it is just pitch black. Lots of skittering noises in there.

5. Name: Stone Puzzle
This path is blocked by a sliding stone puzzle like the ones you found in Mt. Sentry.

6. Name: Golurk Statue
The path runs right between Golurk's legs, and its eyes occasionally flash menacingly. However, it's a greyish orange color, the color of dirt, and it doesn't move. So it must be a statue and not a Pokemon, right?