[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

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Considering all he's learned so far about Creshire, Spira's lore increases to 2 for 6xp and Alert is increased to 3 for 12 xp.
First things first, Spira uses his only Revive on Toya, then he checks on Elya. "Are you alright?" He offers her a hand to help her up. He then slides his sleeves back down, puts his coat back on and tries to pick up the Steel Ball *tsss* "Ow! Hot!" He reaches into the pocket of his coat and pulls out a leather glove to handle the ball with. "Sheesh." A power equally great to Darkrai's? that is disconcerting to Spira; he can't think of many Pokemon that would fit the bill.. Now that the Mismagius coven is dealt with, he continues investigating the Stonehenge-type circle, without touching the stones this time.

She smiles shyly. "What a gentleman! I'm OK for now, thank you."

Each stone in the circle is marked with a phase of the moon and a witchy rune to go along with it. The ghostly energy between the stones has slackened - it was the inhabitants who kept it going. The stones are otherwise unremarkable aside from being very old, dating back to Sarimanok's time.

When Spira sees the moon phases on the pillars, against his better judgement, he touches the lunar marks on three of the pillars in this order: Full Moon, Waning Crescent, and New Moon.
He does have one question for Elya, something he's curious as to how she'll respond; "Say, what comes of snow when it melts?"
Unless something else needs to be done here, he leaves and finds the rest of the group

Elya doesn't realize this is a test or metaphor.
"Snow melt? It becomes water, seeps back into the ground... probably eventually becomes snow again! Uh, why do you ask?"

When you touch the three phases of the moon, at first you think nothing happened. Then Elya gasps a little and points behind you. The largest stone is glowing at head-height, a purple glow in the shape of an unblinking Eye. It radiates anger and aggression, and fills you with the desire to fight! That effect will linger for some time.

"No particular reason. "
When Spira is filled with the fighting energy from the eye, he gasps; "Well, I kind of like how this feels."

He also has one last request of Elya before joining up with the group; "Can you keep that a secret?" Of course, by 'that' he means the bit about Darkrai.

"Sure, whatever! Let's just move on."

The group reunites at the Barrow Down, where Cosh reminds you that we need to get through these doors and down into the tunnels.

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The Barrow takes the form of a large earthen dome with many names marked on stones in ancient scripts. 

Is anyone opposed to Terra's plan of just Rock Smashing the gates? Cosh is fine with that. There doesn't seem to be any handles or puzzles capable of opening the doors. They are intended to be sealed forever.