[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

"Yes. I was researching Deoxys right before I came here, I remember. Searching for the artifacts you all have."

He doesn't seem particularly pleased to see Scimitars either, for obvious reasons.

"Deoxys is an alien intelligence. It can't be reasoned with, and has no respect for mortal life. It sees any planet it comes to as an experiment, a place ripe for destruction or looting or manipulation. Last time it was here, millennia ago, it corralled Pokemon one species at a time into various parts of Creshire, and trapped them there with psychic boundaries that only recently disintegrated enough to allow free movement of Pokemon. It did other things, too, like introduce the Tall Grass as their experimental habitat. The ecoystem was nearly destroyed last time, and diversity hasn't yet fully recovered in all those thousands of years. This time, it could be even worse, given how many humans are about. Who is most likely to move a Pokemon from one place to another, after all? Who will disrupt the...er, variables? Who invented agriculture and Pokemon breeding techniques to rival Deoxys' own?"

"And that's why we have to stop it.  Did you happen to come across any hints that might have indicated what it might be vulnerable to besides maybe the usual weaknesses of a Psychic type?  The Sword can hurt it, but if we're going to beat it quickly to minimize the damage it causes, we're probably going to need more than that."