[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

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I guess I'll let the Orchids work on a sleep-to-come status.

Also, using Phantom Force counts as one action to charge, one action to attack, so all your pools need to be accordingly lower (which I will adjust). Just FYI.

I also forgot possible but unlikely burn damage. (4)(3)(5)(5)(5)(1) No damage.

Giant Chimecho Round 2

Phantom Force 1
(3)(4)(2)(6)(4)(3) (4)(5) Crit!
(1)(2)(5)(3)(4) Chimecho takes 3 dmg 4/18hp -2 pain

Astonish 1
(4)(1)(2)(4)(1)(4)(2)(3)
(5) Noire takes 2 dmg 3/9hp -2 pain
CD: (3)(1)(6) Noire flinches!

Astonish 2
(4)(2)(3)(3)(1)(4) (5)
(3) Noire takes 1 dmg 2/9hp -2 pain
CD: (1)(5)(1)

Hex 3
(6)(6)(3)(5)(5)(2)
(2)(4)(6)(5) Chimecho faints!

16XP to Noire, 8 to Spira.

The Grip Claw is yours! Also, in the minaret it was guarding, you find a trapdoor quite a ways down. It looks like it might lead to the next layer down, but you can't move it, it seems impervious to attacks, and there's seemingly no mechanism such as a handle or keyhole to even open it. Even your Scimitar partner's Strength or Rock Smash can't budge it.

Clearing away the dust, however, it does have an insignia on it: the Eye, with a crown, a tree, and a sword beneath it. The Eye makes your birthmark tingle.

(I'm still a little stressed from what was taking my full attention today, so I'll keep this short.)

Noire uses 22 exp to learn Feint Attack

Spira places his hand on the insignia on the door to see if that does anything

No, there isn't so much as a flash of light.

okay, this might be a little cruel: Spira picks up (provided he can, if not, he drags) the Oversized Chimecho to the trapdoor and presses its suction cup on the door and tugs on the Chimecho by the tail. If that doesn't do anything he'll begrudgingly give up and rejoin the group, telling them about the trapdoor. But first, Pokeball (1925) will be used on the Chimecho. 2 maximum, if they both fail, he'll leave it there, putting out its burn first.

Haha nope, no result. You think the solution must have something to do with that insignia, but it's not necessarily something you recognize right now.

Pokeball: (4)(1) v (3)(3)(3)(4)(2)(4) Ball breaks
(3)(5) v (2)(6)(5)(5)(1)(2) The second ball breaks too, so you extinguish the burn and move on.