[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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Quote Iron:
There are about 30 suits, maybe half of which are functional. The rest look like they were hit with some shrapnel and are just piled in a heap.

No passwords on either of the two potential Nucleon doors, though the green glow door has a retinal scanner that looks like it caught on fire in the recent past.
There is one quadrant of the lab that's covered in a thick layer of dust, and it is protected by a keypad you could ask Dagny about. It's within the disaster area so you aren't likely to get much support or hindrance from the military there.

Calam's danger sense would be overwhelmed on this island. Shiva's sixth sense picks up lifeforms in almost all these rooms I've mentioned, and Gallade senses considerable distress from many of the elemental rooms. And a weirdly calm, lordly emotion from the glowing green room.
(…)
The door pings and pops and sizzles - it was holding a LOT of heat. It even buckles a little as the metal warps. When you turn the cooled wheel, the door opens.

Bright orange light assaults your eyes. At the center of the room is a massive behemoth of a machine, miles of working (but empty) conveyor belts leading into its fiery maw. It has been built in the shape of an oversized Guzzlord, but you know it's nonliving, it's truly a machine. Seems they have set up an incinerator here, along with some simple robots to help disassemble the things that need to be incinerated. There are slots for smaller items, like files, but the heat is so high that close to the machine that it would be impossible to approach them right now. Out the back, the machine has a big wound, the metal bent sideways and drippy with melted alloy. Ashes and bone remnants have spilled from this side. The hole in the machine is mirrored by a similar hole in the wall behind it. A mechanical/electrical humming sound comes from the revealed room in that direction, but it sounds arrhythmic. Looks like the hole was torn through some kind of big conduit, which for some reason has chunks of concrete inside.

Apparently, opening the door has disturbed something. It drags itself forth from the flames inside the incinerator and hauls itself upright. At first glance, it looks like a Magmortar, wreathed in flames. A further look reveals that it is massively oversized, and its belly has mutated to resemble the Guzzlordian mouth of the incinerator. It launches a warning shot from one armcannon which melts the steel pillar between you and it.
Quote PhantomUnderYourDesk: Shiva pays close attention Ven's insight about how to hide away something from the League within a lab... Lots of silent hmmms and thoughtful looks + poses from her. Though she doesn't seem really convinced yet. "All of those are valid and great ways to hide away something, Ven... But what I'm looking down here is alive, is a valid Pokemon, so hiding it within a script or microchip is out of the way. Or rather, it should be alive still and down here still if the League hasn't been here first - doesn't look to be the case though thankfully!~"

"Furthermore, one password I have and know already... *cue sly smile*So let's not bother Dagny unless we HAVE to, alright? BUT we can surely collect some research papers or USB drives to show her later and check for any hidden information." That means, if there are any laying around by chance, Shiva will pick them up and hand them to Ventus for containment.

Ven quirks an eyebrow at his divine darling’s posturing as she mulls over what he said, and can’t help but chuckle at her polite rejection.

“Pokeballs containing ‘off the book’ experiments are among the many things researchers or other individual can Furret away from the League as I have described, and you never know if they isn’t some holding pin or room full of Pokemon secreted away or concealed by lab equipment or hidden doors. It’s also very much possible for Pokemon to be stored on private servers, but hardly anyone does that due to the considerable resources involved in doing so. *Shrugs* That, and Bill’s PC network exists, which is typically more convenient and boasts some of the best security systems and privacy policies and protection in the world, so building a private server for Pokemon storage is often considered overly extravagant and pointless.”

Other than saying that, he’d easily concede to her request to not pester his boss for more intel, and of course take care of anything she or the group finds/picks up that is deemed ‘interesting or sensitive Item and materials.’
It should be noted that the eccentric researcher is also sticking close as he can to Shiva without being completely smothering, as he does not and will not allow anything down in these hazardous labs to get at her without going through him and his family first. That, and more so than ever he’s taking great comfort from her soothing presence, as being here was doing his nerves nor his paranoia any good. Calam’s presence and their no doubt notable unease with everything doesn’t help much either, with the comfortably dressed scientist grimacing ever so slightly when they were released and scooting that much closer to his girlfriend.

(…)

Seeing the ominous and ruined disposal line quickly put Ventus on edge and high alert (well, more so, anyway), his eyes quickly picking up every detail, turning them over in his head and analyzing them for every last scrap of useful data like a overclocked Metagross look for its next meal. As such, he almost instantly noticed the Mutant Magmortor’s presence, his visage briefly contorting in horror and then palpable indignant disgust with its seemingly abominable and hellish nature before he managed to school it. Their warning shot caused him to leap back with no small amount of fear, alarm, and distaste, but when Shiva regains her stance and bravely stood against the hellmouthed Fire elemental, the empathetic ‘gentleman’ rallied to her side with angry, almost savage scowl! In one motion, he flicked his wrist and released Ao Guang, defiantly stretching the very same hand at the massive molten monstrosity.

“If that is your will, it shall be done. Ao Guang, snuff this hellfire beast flames out.”

The Dragon Lord of the Water trumpets out in response to his master’s impassioned and LIVID request, matching it with their own fiercesome, prideful temper as they deftly leap-weaved-surged-Dragon Danced onto the conveyor belt to build momentum, close the distance between himself and the Mutant Magmortor, and pump its fiery belly maw with viscous deluge after viscous deluge of close ranged Hydro Pumps! Formidable and frightening as the fiery abomination appeared to be, it had NOTHING on the PURE DRAGONIC FURY that HE, a MIGHTY Kingdra, wielded against them! Let’s see it handle its perfect counter, the monstrous curr!!!

(Sorry it this took so long, mates, but I had to make sure I got all the details right before I could go ahead and post!)