[Game Thread] Pokerole: Mount Coronet Mystery

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

With the biggest dangers of the stampede dealt with (Lucas dealt with Machoke since nobody needed his help), all the weaker pokemon scatter.  The start of the route is once again quiet.

"...well then, that was exciting.  Everyone okay?"

Presumably, everyone says they are, as miraculously, nobody got hurt at all during that set of encounters!  Well, except the wild pokemon, but those that were will have plenty of time to recover in the PC or in hiding.

Lucas notices that something's still bothering Karen, though.

"...is something the matter, Karen?"

"...well...I can't help but shake the feeling that the stampede was...running from something...I talked to that Glalie, and..."

"...wait, you talked to the Glalie?"

"Yeah, I did.  They were actually really nice!  And they seemed scared...they didn't feel safe, staying here, but they didn't want to be around humans for some reason, either...at least, that's the impression I got...I think they might have been running from whatever was causing that weird wind earlier..."

Lucas thinks about that carefully.  "...weird wind...I wonder if it would have become a snowstorm if it had stuck around Snowpoint longer...well, let's proceed with caution.  Keep a careful eye on the wind speed, everyone.  I doubt that little gale we saw earlier was natural if it's spooked the wild pokemon.  Let's look around a little instead of cutting straight through the Route.  Maybe whatever caused that wind is still nearby.  And I definitely don't fancy getting caught off guard by it, whatever it is."
Results of Karen's encounter: she successfully managed to convince Glalie that she didn't want to fight it, asked it some questions about what happened, and then it left since it didn't want to join a pokemon trainer for some reason.  Karen gained 8 exp for her daring act.



Route 217 Part 2

- The Haunted(?) House
Cap: 1
The empty house that Lucas mentioned he got a Spell Tag from.  Looks abandoned, but Lucas is adamant he met an elderly lady there.  It's located near the Frozen Rock.  Get an item, maybe?  Find proof of paranormal activity?  There doesn't seem to be much here, but maybe there's more to it than meets the eye...there's definitely nothing there if more than one person enters it, though.

(...)

Randolph rubbed his beard at the ultra ace trainer's warning, scowling to himself and looking quite disgruntled with the news.

".....Of course it wasn't. Doubt the reason anything that'll come mossy on by to give us hell frozen over is going to be so simple and innocuous a them being cranky we're trespassing in their territory. *Shakes head and sighs* Honestly laf, I just want to get this terrible job over and done faster than a Jolteon on a sugar rush, but if ya saying we should comb through the area for some foul weather fiend, I'll follow your prerogative....."

He then turns to his battle maidens Amethyst and Catherine and gathers their opinions and/or Insights on this development.

"Amethyst, Catherine, ya see or feel anything responsible for the weird wind 'round here and setting the locals on edge, like a bunch of Voltorb popping up does to miners in the shafts?"

(AKA: Amethyst use Future Sight/Danger Sense, and Catherine will try to use her Forewarn Ability to suss out more details along with her partner!)

(...)

When Ran spots the Haunted House nestled in the huge snowfields of this Route, an odd look of disgruntled interested passed across his face before he let out a small *sigh* and shook his head.

".....I should KNOW better to buy into silly superstitions or investigate them to see if they actually have a Sunkern of truth, but after the lad brought it up and with all this supernatural Tauros shit flying, I can't leave this well enough alone, now can I? Not if it holds any clues to what's been happening 'round here or everywhere. *Sighs* Welp, off to root around in the old abandon house that's sure not to cause me any fright or trouble. If I'm lucky. Bah....."

And with that sourly said, the wee man went off to look around the Haunted(?) House!