[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Arachnautilus: "Me? Afraid of DARKNESS and blackness and gothicness? Not on your silly life." She plunges in at your side.

Using Flash just bounces right off the darkness, but it does create a brighter area out here.


Once through the archway, you and Yena and Arachnautilus immediately feel pain at your ankles! Each of you take 1 damage and begin to bleed. A Flash from Whimsicott only illuminates the area for a single Action, revealing a bunch of rodent Pokemon darting forward to attack your feet! You see Raticate, Alolan Raticate, and some evil-eyed Watchog and Linoone. There are also Pokemon you don't recognize, including a jet-black rodent with a jagged tail, and a somewhat lazier, bulky rodent with a paintbrush for a tail. Arachnautilus picks up a Flash where Whimsicott left off, with a spark from her gauntlet. It, too, is subsumed in darkness.

Playfully taunting Arachna to join was a success, hehe. The theme changes to this ominous one.


"Freaking rats...!!" Shiva made a movement as if wanting to give them all a good kick, but eventually abstains from it and brings her attention to the wounds they've caused. (I'll take 'begin to bleed' as 'you suffered lethal damage'. If that's not the case, Iron, please correct me) "Arachna, do you by chance know any spells that will treat these injuries of us? If you do, could you, would you, please...? Whimsi, please keep up your Flash, provide us at least some light." ... "Yena, if all these rodents DARE to bite us again, chase 'em away with a hearty howl, show 'em that YOU'RE the boss."

If Arachna doesn't, then Shiva will take some moments to treat the wounds of them all, starting with Yena, then her Scim Partner, then herself. The traditional way this time because that's not the time to try anything fancy: 4 Dext + 4 Knowledge + for now 0 Medicine - 3 Inaccuracy = 5d6. If the wounds aren't lethal, they're left alone for now.

Pokemon that the fae enthusiast does not recognize are almost guaranteed to origin from... Eh, what was it called again? .... Oh yes, from Tandor! That naturally makes her very interested in these particular rodents, now she can guess what possibly drew her into this darkness. BUT, she's still innocent what's causing this extraordinarily immense blackness. ( >_<)

With Yena making sure that the pesky rats don't bite them again, Shiva will draw her Almanac  in an attempt to find out more about both that bulky paintbrush-tail'd rat and the jet-black one with a jagged tail - she's not at all afraid to do so in Arachnautilus' company. She's also willing to fight that bunch of rats, especially if it'll lead to a chance to catch these two special rodents or maybe one of the darkness-adapted Raticate ; with Arachna and Whimsicott + Raphael as her choice of Pokemon. (Yena will be recalled once a battle begins)