[Game Thread] Pokerole: Mount Coronet Mystery

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

Once everyone's finished doing business with Professor Rowan, he opens a second compartment in the briefcase and pulls out a bunch of items.

"Seeing as at least a few of you are probably going to be exploring the Snowpoint Temple tomorrow, and we have reasonable evidence to assume that it might be related to what's going on, I can give you the supplementary supplies now."

Everyone gets:
- 6 Potions
- 3 Super Potions
- 5 Full Heals
- 10 Pokeballs
- 5 Great Balls
- 3 Dusk Balls
- 1 Max Potion
- 4 Revives
- 5 Leppa Berries (50-50 chance of restoring 1 Will Point when consumed)
- Portable PC (Key Item.  Access your PC from anywhere!  But only outside of battle)

Rowan offers a hush hush explanation on that last item, which is a wrist watch of sorts.  "That's some rather experimental tech that Bill, the original creator of the PC system, has been working on for around a year or so.  This seemed like a good opportunity for it to be field tested.  He doesn't recommend trying to use it in battle, as it's a rather large distraction from the action.  And as you probably all know, being distracted from a fast paced pokemon battle isn't usually a good thing.  Oh, and don't tell anyone outside of our little group what those watches do.  Bill wants to make sure they work before he starts to spread the news."

Rowan also pulls out two Berry Pots and hands them to the group to divvy up as they wish.

"You can plant berries in these and grow small berry trees and bushes.  They don't produce as many berries as planting them in a proper berry field, but they can be carried around with you."

Rowan then closes the briefcase, stands, and picks it up.  "Well then, I believe we all need to get a little rest now.  I will see you all tomorrow.  Do be careful if you head to the Snowpoint Temple."

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It is now Day 2.  June 7th, 2018.  Every character (both human and pokemon) gains 1 Will Point.

(If you want to Flashback to Kee doing a quick 3rd encounter of some kind before turning in for the night, we can do that, Phantom)

Weather: (5)(2) Average.  Which means the forecast for today is...

Hail.  Lots and lots of Hail.  Be careful if you're battling outdoors, folks!

The encounter list has reset, making it (almost) identical to the one at the start of Day 1, which can be found here.

Ran, after he collects his share of supplies with an appreciative whistle - "Well, ain't this a bountiful Skyfall? Probably going to need it all where I'm going and what I'll be doing, so appreciate dolling out the supplies early, Professor." - lets out a small, tired *sigh...* and nodded back to Old Fashion.

"Couldn't agree with ya more. See ya in the morn, everyone. I'll be up and about bright and early for the trip to the Temple, so anyone tagging along with me better get rise and shine with me, 'cause I don't like being kept waiting, in case ya didn't figure that out already. Rowan, I'll get back to ya later with my questions, so for now I'll say good night, and that I'll try my best not to get eviscerated during my investigations."

He then hops down from his seat and heads for his room, fiddling with the Portable PC he strapped to his wrist as he did so. To say he wasn't interested in this cutting edge piece of tech from the great Bill himself was untrue, but given its experimental nature he wanted to test it out in and out of the field before he got too worked about it. If it turned out to be a dud sooner or later, he'd try to tinker with to see what its all about, and determine if he couldn't get it to work again. PC Tech is not his field, but he was a smart and good with his hands, so he had good odds figuring out it worked regardless.

As for the Berry Pots, Ran obviously would want one to himself, plainly stating "Over half me partner uses Recovery Moves or the like, so I think I'll be needing that Pot more than most of ya." If he did end up getting one, he'd immediately plant one of his Leppa Berries in it and do what's necessary to start the horticultural process. He has a feeling he'll be needing a lot of Leppas in the coming days ahead, so best start on building the Berry Larder now rather than later!

Day 2

The first thing that Ran does in the morning is getting tangled up and hog tied in his sheets, courtesy of a prank by Diam and Puck last night, causing the short little man to curse loudly and profusely as he struggled to get out!

"DIAM, PUCK, YOU LITTLE *HEAVILY CENSORED*! WHEN I GET MYSELF FREE, TAN YOUR SCRAWNY HIDES LIKE A *HEAVILY CENSORED*!!"

Oh jeesh! Good thing all the rooms in a Center are soundproofed, right? Right?

After that and a round of breakfast for himself/his Pokemon (+ a stern scolding for his troublemakers, bah!), the bristly blacksmith goes to the Nurse Joy and asks if she knows where he can find Neuro Sensors for sale in Snowpoint, or at least give him a location he can start looking for them. He got sidetracked in his hunt/search for parts to build Kogeki's Robo Prosthetic, but he won't let that happen again so easily!

Before leaving the Center, his current line up of Pokemon are Diam, Beethoven, Brigid, Stymph, and Mystery Mons 1 and 2 on his team. Brigid will have her Charcoal replaced with a Fire Gem, Stymph will get Zorn's Life Orb, Mystery Mon 1 (B) will get Puck's Leftovers, and Mystery Mon 2 (S) will get the Rocky Helmet. Everyone but Zorn will and maybe Brigid will keep the Abilities they had yesterday for today, with Zorn getting to try out Rough Skin today and Brigid switching to White Smoke if and only if Drought would not work inside Snowpoint Temple (If that be the case, I'd be severely disappointed that realism had reared its ugly head here, but I'll live with it).

Next, he heads back to the jewelry store, and picks up the Alman Bangle and Dragon Gem Bling her ordered if possible (Or checking up on it if not). He'll send Byron his gift ASAP, while he keeps Zorn's gift to himself for now. He'll wait until later to give it to the scaled terror, right when they're in the most receptive mood for gift giving (and not liable to snap at him irritably).

Finally, he'll head to Snowpoint Temple, and either wait for anyone that wanted to join him to get there already, or heading straight in if they tagged along with him for the whole time. Old Wolfe would walk straight up the guard and look him sternly/seriously in the eyes, and plainly, concisely, but not impolitely say thus:

"Name's Randolph Schimdt. Here to investigate Snowpoint Temple with my partners *Jerks a thumb back at them*. Got permission from Candice to do so. We cleared for entry?"