[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Very well.

You go flying down on your Pokemon, paralleling the waterfall. Normally I'd require a Dex roll for Charizard, since he has consequences if he hits the water, but Nathan has trained him with his own supernaturally dexterous training method!

The Scimitars have equipment and spells for this, mostly involving Arachnautilus and some Pokemon borrowed from Gendry earlier.

Paralleling the waterfall, you come to a strange realization. The waterfall does not flow at random - it enters an enormous dark red rusty tube with blue gems on it. It glows with hot light. This tube curves in a simple arc down under the rocky ground toward which you are now descending. You see quite the archipelago here, a land of a thousand small islands. From high in the air, they seem to be of different colors and textures. You can also tell that some of them are made of rocks and sand, yes, but others are made of pulverized ships and guarded by more Jellicent. These shipwrecks are arranged in square patterns, like the minarets of a sunken castle wall surrounding the archipelago. Far far away at the very edge of the light, you can see more masonry walls forming a perimeter of the true Slowpoke Well.

Two Slowbro are opening a circular hatch in the tube, and removing something in a rush of water, but they both suddenly dive aside as you approach and weasel away into little holes in the island.

Two bulky Pokemon swivel to face you - Shiva realizes they move stiffly, like something mechanical. Each of the Pokemon stands on four solid legs the color of the big catchpipe, at the end of a long random path of destruction as if dragged by some great force and left to rest here, at diametrically opposed points on the major central island. They have a spikey beastlike head and a torso like an Avalugg. Rising from each torso is a strange toroid. As you approach, still 200' in the air,, each of these donut-shaped contrivances splits in half and becomes two tubes, like the ones in Tanuki's playhouse. The four tubes are aimed straight at you!