[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

The door opens automatically as the keys turn on Spira's count. You peer down into a darkness too deep to be fully lit by your Pokemon. Within, you hear the grinding of stone on stone, and suddenly two compound eyes like headlights are gazing back at you. You notice Cofagrigus has backed off... and is hastily hiding all its favorite fossils before fading into the shadows with its courtiers.


A flurry of crescent-moon blades like ninja stars come scything out of the pit, whirring overhead and sticking into the stone roof. They seem to be of polished stone themselves, and razor sharp.

Heavy footsteps. The ground shakes. Massive stone claws, long as a Shadow Claw, reach up and sink into the frame of the doorway. Before anyone can react, a hulking monstrosity flips itself into the fossil garden like a contortionist, rotating at the waist. As a matter of fact, most of the Pokemon before you is rotating - the head appears able to spin 360 degrees, the gleaming compound eyes spin about their axis in a hypnotic way, the arms are freely mobile. Each of its six limbs is decked with more stone blades, a bit like a Scyther but rounder, keener, and freewheeling. It walks on two legs and uses the other four as arms. Each limb also ends in long hooked claws which sink into the weaker rock of the floor. The abdomen curls into a long stinger.

A little drone hovers above each shoulder, four in all. They look like mini versions of this thing's head, with wide-open mouths and stony exoskeletons.

The broad, flat insectoid head could almost be a blade itself as it swings back and forth, selecting a target. The stance is wide, all limbs akimbo, and a purplish tint to the stone gives away this Pokemon's identity - it can only be a modified Genesect!


You and the Genesect are now alone in the fossil garden.