[Game Thread] Pokerole: Mount Coronet Mystery

[Lord Windos]

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Before Lucas can recall his pokemon, though, Karen manages to melt through her ice wall, as does Randolph.  Karen's Rapidash has been battering their wall with fire after fire move, eventually melting it with sheer fire power.  Randolph's plan to fan the flames also worked excellently, as the fires left behind by the Inferno only spread more quickly and burn hotter when blown around haphazardly.

Back to Karen, though, she takes one look at Lucas's Lucario and..."Eep!"  She nervously hides behind her Rapidash.  Sally rolls her eyes and sighs, somewhat sarcastically 'saying', I'm not going to hurt you.  Don't know why on earth you'd ever think I would...

Then it's Lucas's turn to give Sally a stern look.  "That's enough of that, Sally.  Return, please."  Sally rolls her eyes again, but she does as Lucas asks.  "Sorry about that, Karen.  Sally's...not very empathetic for a Lucario, to be blunt.  You gonna be okay?"

"I...it's f-fine.  I...I'll be okay..."

"Alright, if you say so...oh hey, Kogeki, I think you dropped this!"

Lucas walks over to the ninja and hands back the mask.  "Don't go losing it again, ya hear?  Might fall in a lake next time."

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Karen eventually makes her way over to the cave, as does Lucas.  Both look at the ice block curiously.

"...is something in there frozen solid?  Was it the Froslass that did that?"

"Well, if someone was captured by that Froslass, I'd imagine that they'll be grateful for us getting them out."

I assume that Kogeki and Randolph make their way over as well, and that several carefully used Fire moves are fired at the ice block.  (Lucas abstains from helping since his pokemon are so powerful that overdoing it would probably be a little too easy, even if they held back a little)

The ice begins to steam as the heat starts melting it, and over the course of several minutes, the contents of the ice are revealed.  A sleek red armor-like exoskeleton covers them from head to toe, two thin retractable wings peek out from their back, and two large pincers that are decorated with what appears to be yellow eye spots proudly announce what exactly the group has stumbled on:

A Scizor.

But there's more.  The Scizor's wearing a scarf, some kind of bag is slung over its shoulder, and a badge seems to be pinned to the bag.

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As the last of the ice thaws, the Scizor collapses to its knees, and the contents of the bag spill open as the bug hits the ground, unconscious.  Oran and Sitrus berries, apples, seeds of some variety, and a strange blue orb all spill out of the bag and onto the ground.

Lucas rushes over and starts examining the large bug pokemon.  After a quick examination, he doesn't seem to be too worried.  "I don't think they've caught frostbite.  Just looks like they're exhausted.  A little rest and a warm fire should be all they need to recover.  I'll stay here and keep an eye on them.  You guys mind trying to find a place where we can set up camp?  Maybe there's a spot deeper in this cave that'll be suitable.  It definitely looks like this is only a small part of a larger opening."

The moment Ran gazed upon Sally as he broke through the ice, his already irritated expression turned sour, and seeing her treat the wee lass so disrespectfully only served to intensify that look. Ultimately, this leads to him use her as a verbal and (in opinion) well-deserved target of some good old fashion venting and back sass!

"That piss-poor attitude of yours and acting like a Mudsbray may have something to do with her aversion towards ya. Among other things, but I doubt you'd care to find out for yourself without someone yanking your head out of you arse, ya Frosslass cold, self centered brat."

ICE BURN!

Once the 'honorable' anubis is put up (or not), the midget man turns his attention towards Lucas, looking supremely unimpressed.

"Blue bitch is Charming as ever, I se. Ya think she'd grow up or pick up some damn manners after all this time, but I guess saying 'Old dogs can't learn new tricks' ring true for her, huh lad?"

Ran's not sparing the champ from his displeasure, oh no!

He's happy to see Kogeki get his mask back, though, which DOES improve his mood a tad bit!

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"....... Wie heißt ein Scizor in der Ersten Flamme, der hier oben gefroren ist? Und warum ist es so eingerichtet wie ein Geselle oder so?"

Translation: ...What in the First Flame's name is a Scizor doing Frozen up here? And why is it kitted out like some.....journeyman, or something?

That's what the dwarven craftsman has to say upon seeing the ironclad insect fully thawed out and released from its icy prision, a puzzled look adorning his face, before he shook his head with a small frown. Whatever the case with this red mantis was, it probably has something to do with the Tauros shit supernatural mystery force, so puzzling over it won't do him any good. Not until the group has a chance to do a proper inspection of and  'question'  it, at least.

He would've offered to take care of the mystery Scizors (Something he probably has a little experience in, via his friend Alman), but after the champ and cyborg ninja swoop in to do so he just and leaves it to them. As for Lucas' request, the bristly blacksmith politely frown and respectfully as he could shook his head.

"Can't. Got to check out that Frosslass that tried to turn us into ice encrusted statues and see if they'd that 'old lady's' friend, and then deliver them to her ASAP. Promised to her that I would 'take care of them' in exchange for more information about this goddamn mojo jojo mucking about with everything, and I'm a man of my word. If you have a Pokemon that can FLY or Teleport me and them over to them, though, I'd appreciate ya lending them to me, so I can get that done quick as a Zebrastrike and back just fast."

His tone is firm yet chagrined and regretful, as if he didn't want to ditch everyone and duck out of this, but a promise is a promise, and he wants that info the old crone is holding out from him until he's fulfilled it.