[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

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Slowking bellows for Angie to slow down as you near the Chamber entrance. She digs slower. Cosh comes up behind, causing little clusters of crystal to explode out of her path with waving gestures from his smoking Gauntlet. He also gives directional guidance. "These crystals are a good sign. We're following Almanac-Scimitar sonar now. A little to the right... good. I'll get Dunseraph prepared for entry." +2 temporary Def.

(...)

There is a very familiar bright burst of light and a familiar "Vwooop" sound. Angie's form shrinks, becomes PURE LIGHT, and reverberates around the massive capture web on the ceiling of the Kadabra Chamber! The whole Chamber, and the party currently perched on the roof of the Chamber, shakes as Angie resists the capture.

Dunseraph has a catch rate of 120, pretty run of the mill despite her size, let's say 7 Will, -1 pain, you healed all her debuffs earlier.

Will:
(3)(6)(5)(1)(4)(3)

Capture Web:
(6)(1)(3)(5)(6)(6) (4)(5)

Angie disappears within the Capture Web!

There's also a familiar "Zwing!" sound, apparently something getting released as well.

Peering through the hole, you see a large dome with a flat stone floor. It's pitted with square, manmade holes leading to lower tunnels. Also doorways. A vast rusty tube lies to one side, dented and pierced in many places.

There are Pokemon in the room! Two dozen Kadabra are visible, going about their business with painstaking slowness. They bring up food from lower layers (mostly fungus), they use Telekinesis to work on new housing for themselves (many simple stone lean-tos or rubble-caves already exist), they meditate or psychically discuss things with each other. A few clean up the shattered crystal fallen on the floor, while others crane their heads back to look at Terra, Slowking, and Cosh curiously? menacingly?

Cosh says "What the..." and begins vomiting. Looking where he was looking, you see there are other Capture Webs lining other parts of the room. One contains a sleeping Kadabra, visibly overgrown with crystals. The other, partly broken by your entrance, contains a disturbing sight: a half-formed Kadabra with startlingly human features, still wearing a Ruin Maniac hat.

Terra gives his arcane master of a partner a thankful nod as they buff his 'little' girl, pleased that she'll have that bit of added protection and that the Scimitars can and willbuff Pokemon. One less reason to distrust the man was a good thing in his book (Not that he's going to ever let his guard down, of course), and it just further cements their willingness to cooperate with the group. However, their smoking gauntlet does not escape the sagely monk's notice, and he gives them a concerned look while pointing to it.

"Something wrong with Gauntlet? Anything can be done to....fix it?"

Angie's 'Capture'.....well, that causes the mountain of a man to visibly panic and become extremely upset at what in Nature's bounty fucking happened. The very first thing he would do is try is damndest to recall her, and if he can't do that he'll be scrutinizing what she was 'captured' in with intense single mindedness, so that he could possibly determine a way to free her from it.

He doesn't even notice the Kadabra's Chamber's inhabitants/the construction/anything about the place until Cosh voids the contents of his stomach, after which......well, Terra face pales as he realized just how cursed of a place the Skull Ruins were.

"....Oh. This.....that......horrible. *Shivers* Horrible....."

They then dig out a napkin from his pockets to offer to his partner to clean off his face, his own looking equally sickened and uneasy at what he seen.

".....I don't know what to do. About....this. Do you?"