[Game Thread] Pokerole: Mount Coronet Mystery

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

Lucas wasn't interested anyways.  He's currently making sure Scizor's comfortable by the campfire, and he has a chisel and hammer of his own that he can use when he has some free time to mine.

He's also currently ignoring Randolph for the most part, so...


Randolph's Mining:

Randolph finds another Moon Stone embedded in the section of wall made out of Light Clay.  With all that equipment, getting it out probably won't be too difficult!

2 Dex (gotta be careful more than strong in this case) + 1 Fight + 1 Weapons + 2 SA + Proper Tools = 6 + 1
(6)(1)(2)(4)(2)(1)(6*) 2 successes.  Not a great job, but it's enough.

Randolph has a hard time getting the moon stone out of the hardened light clay.  Once he gets to the softer clay, though, he's able to practically scoop the Moon Stone right out!  He also gets 1 usable Light Clay from the mining session.

Unfortunately, the rest of the Light Clay is practically ruined in the mining attempt, and virtually unusable as a result.



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End of the Day:

With camp set up and everyone starting to settle in for a good, long rest, it's time for a few preparations, just in case.

Stymph scattering spikes around the entrance is a good idea.  Lucas actually has a little to add himself, too.  He summons his Torterra, Turk.

"Watch the entrance for us, okay?"  That's all Lucas needs to say to his ace, as the giant turtle has done this many times previously.  After a brief nod to Lucas, it goes over to the entrance...

...and sits down right in front of it, practically blocking the opening entirely.  And for good measure, he shakes the tree on his back, too, scattering rocks all around the entrance as well.

"That should do the trick.  Hopefully Scizor will be awake in the morning.  Well, night everyone.  I'll stay up for a little longer and keep watch with Turk for awhile."

Lucas does a little more than keep watch, though, and anyone who's not fully asleep after a half hour or so can hear him talking to someone.

Spoiler

"Look, I agree that was an improvement earlier, but can you please try to sound a little less snippy and irritated?"

...

"Yes, I know he was being rude.  I don't like that he was attacking us verbally almost unprovoked and trying to dictate how I should train either.  Can you please not go on the war path and make this worse than it already is, though?  I'm having a hard enough time trying to keep my cool right now as it is."

...

"Thank you.  Yeah, a part of me is hoping we don't have to work with him again after this mission too.  He's skilled, I'll definitely give him that, but...*sigh*...if he keeps that attitude up, I don't think he's going to make friends with many of the people he meets.  Not much we can do about it though except try to improve ourselves and hope that leaves an impression, I suppose..."

...

"Hm?  Oh, you're awake!  How are you feeling?  Pretty terrible, I take it?"

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"Let me go get my medical supplies.  I left it in the tent over there.  I'll be right back."

*rustle rustle*

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"Try to get some sleep, alright?  My friends and I have a lot of questions for you, but we'll bother ya about that in the morning.  What you need right now is rest.  Alright?  Good.  Talk to you in the morning."

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It is now Day 5.  Pick your abilities, gain your daily will points, fully heal your characters, and harvest your planted berries (remind me what you planted, and I'll roll quantities)!

Lucas is the first one awake in the morning, and he's sitting by the fire with Sally and Scizor (though Scizor's keeping a respectable distance away from the fire for obvious reasons).  Turk's still standing guard by the entrance by literally being a road block, snoring away.  Lucas and Sally are eating some rations from Lucas's supplies, while Scizor's eating one of the apples from his bag, delicately pinching it with one claw, careful not to get the juice all over his scarf and said bag.  Lucas waves everyone over as they wake up.  "Morning!  Look who woke up last night!  Figured I'd let you guys sleep so he could get some rest.  He's agreed to answer some questions after I explained where we found him, so fire away.  Oh, and..."

Sally interrupts with her telepathy, arms crossed and an annoyed expression on her face.  I'll be translating.  Annoyingly.  *sigh*  Seeing as I'm the only one who can, though, you're stuck with me unless you want to play charades with the more intelligent than average bug, I'm afraid.  Better get used to it.

"Uh, yeah...what she said.  It's a lot easier than playing a guessing game, at least, right?"

And Ran's pretty happy about that! Well, as much as he's capable of being, anyway. He was trying to get under the champ's skin and irritate the bejesus out of them by the end of their argument as one last dig, and them actively not paying him any mind is a good sigh of that in his books! Plus, it meant he could easily ignore them back and not have to offer his services to the man. Yay....?

(...)

His difficulty getting the Moon Stone freed from the clay was both surprising and annoying to the midget miner, but he grit his teeth and didn't let it affect him, freeing the precious Evo Stone and a small lump of L.C. for his troubles! Once extracted, he'd do his best to clean it off before waiting for Kogeki to finish his Training Session with his Mons and handing it over, accepting his payment of a Dusk Ball and Super Potion with a satisfied, collected nod.

"Here ya go. One Moon Stone, for your Clefa when it grows up. Was more of a hassle to get than I thought it be, but it's been awhile since I've mined from clay deposits. Least I got see Light Clay out of it too. Unless of course you want it too? I don't have any Pokemon that can use it myself, so I'd be willing to give it to you if you have a partner that can utilize it properly. Going to be sitting at the bottom of my pack otherwise for Heatran knows how long otherwise, so...?"

(...)

The dwarven craftsmith gives a grudging nod to Lucas' plan to conceal the entrance with his continental tortoise, as credit is due where its due. He's not that petty to deny him that much. More over, once they make their appearance Brigid takes a sudden, keen interest in them, stomping over to greet it with friendly, easy going, yet somehow somewhat eager smile and bob of her head. It's not often she gets to meet one of her relatives in relatively 'nice' situations, so she'd obviously had the desire to get to know him better. That, and perhaps maybe his rugged, tough looks appealed to her too in another way....

Ran for his part raised an eyebrow at that, but did little else besides shrugging it off. If his partner wanted to make friends with Lucas' or anyone elses Pokemon, he was not going to stop her. Like him and anyone, she had the right of choice, and he'd respect that....to a degree.

Due to a combination of sleeping close to a snoring/maybe restless Torterra and being restless from the lingering, simmering irritation/indignation towards the boy hero, Ran was still well awake in his sleeping bag around the time (much to his annoyance, naturally) they started talking someone he could all too well guess who. Their first comment did ziltch for his mood, only reinforcing his opinion that either the lad himself was incompetent in teaching or disciplining his Pokemon right or the blue bitch was just too much of herself and thick skulled for them to reach her. Subsequent lines almost to snort in bitter amusement, as he didn't care a Hoothoot what hardly anyone though of him, even the Pokemon Champion himself, and hearing more evidence he got under their skin brought a dark smile to face.

It was some of the last things they had to say about him that were....thought provoking for him. Intially, what they said served only to piss him off again, if only slightly, with him mentally snarking back to them 'Ya knew exactly the sort of person you were recommending Rowan to hire, boy. Should have thought twice and probably more 'fore deciding I'd get along great with others like a litter of playful Skitties on a godawful mission like this. Bah!' Their next comment took the angry wind right out of his sails, however. His expression shift wildly for a few seconds between pure resentment at their claim and something rawer, before it settled on a deep furrowed brow and a frown that, if anyone could see it, would only find the word resigned to describe it. 

'....He's not wrong. Don't doubt I've lived twice as long as he has, but....it be a Sucker Punch bet to say I have even a fraction of the pals he has. Human or not. *Mental Frown, and Sigh* ......And I believe I never will get to that. *Mental Chuckle* Just....no. Its too late for that to change. Not after....everything.'

With that....somber thought, the bristly blacksmith finally manages to pass out, the anger within him bled right out, leaving only quiet introspection to plague his subconscious.

(...)

Randolph's probably got up second or just after Kogeki, rising up and early, grumbling a bit about how uneven the ground was to himself as he packed up his sleeping bag, before pulling out what looked like some sort of MRE from his bag and did all the necessary steps to prepare it, + making himself a cup of cocoa. It when he finished with prepping his 'breakfast' that he mossied over to the camp fire prior to the champ's summons with a quiet nod to him and Sally, sitting down across from them with nary a word to say as he dug into his meal. Unlike yesterday night, though, the midget miner was not being dismissive and/or contemptuous about his silence. No, his quiet was more.....contemplative. Brooding, even, but in a tired, long suffering way. Ever so often would look up from his food to stare thoughtfully at the boy and his jackal, eyes shifting back and forth between try to determine something, before his brow furrowed and he refocused on slowly demolishing his MRE. 

He didn't pay the Scizors too much mind until Lucas gathered everyone together and announced open season to bug the ironclad insect with questions, and when the canine fighter surely announced her role as translator his gaze drifted onto her....and he just nodded.

"Fine by me. If ya don't want to, though, we can probably find some other way to communicate with them. Maybe Octavia or one of our Psychic Pokemon can help bridge the understanding gap, if it ends up too troublesome for ya to keep doing yourself. Maybe I can figure out a way to translate that....footprint script on their documents later too (presuming he was shown them at some point). *Snorts* Shouldn't be hard as it was to learn German or Latin, or at least the gist of it, I hope. That sound good to ya, Sally?"

His tone was calm as he spoke to her, almost to the point of being subdued. And it was also....polite and respectful too?

Once he got his answer from her, he'd turn his attention to the Scizors, and asked four short, straightforward questions. 

"What are ya exactly, Scizors? How much do ya know what's been strange happening? What's your goal now that you've here? And will you be going off on ya own soon, or sticking with us?"

Concerning Ran's Pokemon Abilities for the Day and their Items (if any), they are the following:
Diam: Default (Prankster), Sablenite
Beethoven: Default (Keen Eye), Silk Scarf
Puck: Intimidate, Leftovers
Stymph: Sturdy, N/A
Brigid: White Smoke, Assault Vest
Zorn: Sheer Force, Life Orb
Sekhmet: Default (Sandstream), N/A
Belladonna: Stench, Charcoal
Catherine: Forewarn, Spell Tag
Boreal: Snow Warning, N/A
Amethyst: Pressure, Rocky Helmet
Delta Wingul: Default, N/A
Excadrill (Male): Sand Rush, Metal Coat

His Default Party Line-up for the day will be Diam (Out of her punishment, will have scene with her later!), Beethoven, Zorn/Excadrill (Default to Zorn first), Amethyst, Belladona, and Boreal. He'll also have Catherine out intermediately to scope out the area with her Forewarn Ability along with Amethyst's Doom Sense + Future Sight. That should do it!