[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

Marc will be eligible after another encounter. 

You touch down on a tiny archipelago of rocky islands. Little blue Pokemon with fish tails for hair slip away into the water,  their singing fading a you enter their domain. 

In the half darkness, little sapphires sparkle in the ceiling and scattered within the islands. There are also cut blocks of cobalt making up pillars, docks, and one vast stubby column with multiple buckets on chrome winches. Chrome statues of Slowpoke and family line the rim, carved to look like they're operating the machinery. 

The main source of the singing is the largest island. The cobalt and sapphire have been worn away to smooth stone covered in blue sand. A massive body covered in scales is slung across the island with its tail dipping  into the well column. She wears a golden trident in her scaly hair, and carries another that glows faintly. A spherical jewel gleams in the weapon, which looks like a crude mega stone. She is singing tunelessly, but as you gather she changes her tune. 

Unown float up out of the water, creating short phrases as the Syrentide smiles at you. 

W E L C O M E T O M Y I S L A N D!

Slowpoke Well proved to be another nostalgic sight for Terra as he floated down into upon Angie, the island formations and currents of deep blue water be heavily reminiscent of the reefs, sandbars, and tiny outcropping along the oceanic Routes of Hoen. Its mysterious merfolk inhabitants, metal decorations and constructs, and all the sapphires set above and about the subterranean archipelago gave the place a distinct old and cultured feel of its own, however, as if the place he was entering into an ancient hidden kingdom of old that had been forgotten by time.

In a way he was right, for before he could fully complete his observations (and also determining the value of the gemstones/if he could excavate them), his attention was diverted onto what by all rights appeared to be a mermaid queen as she greeted her. The sight of such a regal and mythical being derailed his train of thoughts and caused him to gormlessly stare at her, as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing. He's heard of old tales back home describing creatures similar to the one before him, women fish folk singing captivating songs that lured sailors to some untold doom, so discovering with his own eyes that those tales were true to some extent was quite a shock to the sagely monk, to say the least

Her message snapped him out of his torpor, and regardless if he understood it or not the mountain of a man gave the mythical siren a slightly unnerved look, before he tentatively replied.

"Uh.....hello siren queen. Sorry for.....trespassing in domain. Looking for an Artifact, and think one may be.....around here. Do you know anything about it....?"

Meanwhile, the supreme seraphic serpent was giving the regal aquatic life-form her own leery glare, but for different reasons that her papa. Something about them just......unnerved her on some level. As if they had some sort of......magical whimsy that could trip her up badly if they were to unleash it, *SSsssZzZ.....*