[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dragonstrike]

Welp guys, I'm finally free of my studies and exams for the time being, and hopefully for awhile yet to come! And after spending a few days resting and recovering from my grueling studying for exams, I'm ready to delve right back into the campaign, mates!

....As soon as I find out how much I've lost track of in the mean time, and find out where my character last involved himself in the narrative. Been awhile since I've payed too much attention to the thread, and I'm a bit lost as to what the heck is going on. Dragonstrike , you mind giving me the cliff notes version of events, if you can?

Glad to have you back, Windos.  I'm still trying to rev my engine myself, if I'm being honest.  It's been a busy month.  I'll be back up to full speed myself eventually.

I've not been keeping up with reading every detail like I usually do, but to my understanding:

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- Shiva's been tying up some loose ends relating to her personal interests
- Heart just finished his training with Chorizo, which ended in Moltres hatching and Heart learning some valuable lessons and new skills.
- Nathan just finished talking with Mesprit, and has made some decisions regarding some plans for the near future (pending approval of others' assistance)
- Heart and Shiva both just paid Elanor a visit for varying reasons, and the visit ended in both of them getting a (diceless) gym badge from Howl.
- Heart called for a quick meeting with everyone (seemingly to show off), but Nathan's going to also take the opportunity to talk with the group about important matters if everyone is going to be meeting at Celebi Park
- Terra and Ventus are still where you last left them, though I imagine Terra got the messages from Heart and Nathan as well.  As for Ventus, Nathan will appraise the researcher of the information later since Ventus is likely busy prepping for assisting with Garlicburg in some fashion (at least, I assume so)
- Once we're done with the (possibly brief?) group meeting, I/Nathan would like to suggest that we all pay Tumbleweed's Gym Leader a visit to hear what he has to say together.  Plus, Nathan has a Gym Badge to earn from Achilles, and I have an idea for how at least part of it is going to go down.

As for my game, it's not progressed too much farther in the time you've been gone.  It's been slow since I wasn't expecting to have two characters dumped into gm autoing territory with such rapid succession (and during the holidays to boot).

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- Karen made a new friend in an exceptionally/strangely warm Delibird
- Lucas fought off a bunch of riled up wild pokemon on his own so that the rest of the group wouldn't have to
- We're now at the very start of Route 216 (which I will make a little shorter than Route 217, as stated previously) and doing the daily prep work before setting out. 
- Randolph and Kee also just caught Kogeki trying to sneak off to do some reconnaissance without warning the group beforehand (and Kee told him off quite strongly, which is why I haven't had Randolph say much on it so far.)  If you have changes to make to Ran's party or things to say about stuff, by all means, feel free to do so.