[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

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Good plan for blowing away the steam. It is successful, though you're seeing that the tube is producing more steam constantly. Looks like it is supposed to go into those turbines, but something went wrong and much of the steel is melted away. There's only the smallest melted hole in the steel tube, not even big enough to see inside, but this is the source of all the light and most of the steam.

The geiger counter in your haz suit is going crazy.

As for your question about the safety of the tube, there's an easy answer to that. Five or six blackened human skeletons are scattered around the base of the tube. One particularly broad skeleton is still wearing a mechanical exoskeleton, used in the lifting of heavy items. The facemask is shattered. The owner looks like they curled up in the fetal position, their broad back to the ceiling.

There are also some vulpine Pokemon skeletons around the room, all blackened and irradiated. A few tufts of fur and scales announce that two of them were Flareon and Vaporeon respectively. Another was probably still an Eevee. The rest cannot be known.

The emotion you felt comes from near the tube but not inside it.

Ewww, what a scene. It immediately reminds on science-fiction-movies that get an apocalyptic vibe over time, and that disasters tend to start either by accidents within secret labs or by scientists of said lab messing up.

Shiva's insta-reaction to this is to yelp and cling to one of Ventus' arms in startle as if she desperately wants to make sure that she has someone with her that cares and tells her that things will be fine... And to calm down her accelerated heartbeat now that he kinda feels like having come to the right place. A simple and loving squeeze from Ven and the affirmation that she has her dearest Pokemon with her gives the sensitive fae-enthusiast the strength and courage she needs to hang on and face things with determination. <3

These blackened and irradiated 'remains' of a Flareon, a Vaporeon and an Eevee - Thanks to the worn hazmat suit and the Ancient Shield's protection (please tell me it also protects from radioactive gamma rays) Shiva feels brave enough to check and investigate these further: This means in particular touching them extremely carefully in hopes of triggering her sixth sense. Especially this Eeveeis of interest - is it possible to pick up of what exactly it likely died of? Shiva assumes that Almanac aimed to force-evolve it into a Nucleon, which was just too much for this poor thing.

Oh and yes, naturally she does provide Ven the Ancient Shield's protection if he wishes to loot the dead bodies. She's likewise curious about what they may hold or carry, but she much prefers for Ven to do the actual looting given that HE has less reservation than her to do so.



Alright, after checking the room/scenario Shiva is able to list up potential aims and objectives:

Objective A: Fix this tiny tiny hole in the steel tube that leads from the tube emiting the green-bluish glow to stop it from  leaking steam.
Objective B: Find out what is emiting this calm and lordly emotion.
Objective C: Prevent the others from outright attacking a potential Nukemon shall one show itself.


C should be realtively easy if Shiva voices or otherwise lets her desire known: "It may be injured, hurt, scared, traumatized or all of that, so please, there's NO need to further harm it! Shall it....jump at us or attack, p-please leave it to me, o-kay?" Aww how brave of her.


Now for A, let's try the initial idea of me and Shiva to do so: The first one is stuffing it with as much of Whimsicott's and Cottonee's shed fluff as possible, together with Whimsi's Infiltrator Skills it will hopefully work to get it into place. Cotton consists of tiny tiny fibres and can be made into extremely thin yarn, Shiva and her fluffball pack it together as dense as they can to cover that hole in the tube as best as they can.

Next it's Vaporeon's turn, she's asked to make this cotton clump together into a thick mess via Muddy Water and Sand Attack. Summoned rocks via Primal Espeon's Ancient Power can help, or any move of Pokemon belonging to the others that channel melted steel or solid mass.

Finally Klefki is asked to cover the hole of the tube and it's surrounding with many many Spikes, which are then melted down via a Fire Typeor Heart's Earthpower to create a solid cover.