[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Spoiler

The whole time they are following the tunnel Terra's noble Dunseraph's digging, Shiva's rather tense, almost paranoid that IT will come for them either way, that their slumber(?) has been disturbed by all the digging noise regardless. Luckily and regardless how often she throws her head back to gaze over her shoulder, IT is nowhere to see or feel. The more near to these weird Chambers and  the further away from IT they're getting, the more excited and calmer she's getting.

She was just about to call out a 'Be careful!!' when Angie breaches through that nice crystalline structure, but too late already. She watches with both horror and vivid fascination what happens with the angelic dragon, once she has dissappeared somewhere in the web, Shiva's giving Terra a very worried and anxious look. "Did she just.... DEVOLDED into a Dunsparce??" She more whispers than says that, these words just came, they're full of disbelief and wondering.

Withe EVEN MORE fascination Shiva soon dares to look through the whole Angie dug, after having collected all the crystal shards laying around and investigating them (this includes letting Yena sniff on them and show them to Lilith). What's that curious stuff?? It feels like MSC, yet more refined, and it's pretty beautiful. ^o^ She's also one of the first to wordlessly hand Cosh a towel.

...So many Kadabra!! Haha, Helious would like that sight. The natural fae enthusiast is observing their doing with interest, but is quick to back away as a few of 'em crane their heads. That exemplar overgrown with crystals catches her interest, same with that biiig rusty tube to one side. When no 'inhabitant' of the Chamber's looking, Shiva will carefully let one tiny shard of crystal drop onto it, watching what happens. Weird thing, she's highly wondering what its purpose may be.

She doesn't dare to say a single thing about that other captured 'Kadabra', but she unfortunately has a good idea why that one's looking so...humanlike. She throws a look towards Nathan that expresses at first fear and then compassion. And sorrow.

"I think that was probably a trap.  Probably developed by Sarimanok or those who worked for him, using technology similar to a modern Pokeball's capture web.  Probably didn't devolve Angie, but we should probably try to free her as quickly as possible...no telling if they'll have the same effect on pokemon, but based on what's in those other capture webs...well, we almost definitely shouldn't get caught in them ourselves if we can avoid it..."

Nathan's intently looking at those Kadabra all the while, doing his best to keep his emotions in check, to not overreact (made all the easier by how stoic Gallade typically is, thankfully).  Overreacting is the last thing that needs to happen right now.

If Marco's in there, would he recognize Nathan?  And if he is...how would they undo this?  And if not...then where is he?

Where are Luxray and Skarmory and the others, for that matter?  If they can just find his dad's pokemon, then they can probably find their trainer...