[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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Yeah 2500 is fine.

How's this for a diceless mechanic? Auto-catch a mon based on its rarity/difficulty, mapped to a ball. Armaldo is somewhat rare, so a Great Ball. Cradily quite rare, so an Ultra Ball. And the little shrimps would autocatch in a Pokeball.

Gunk Shot or even better an Acid move would start eating away at the goop. The only difficulty is that the water makes the acid spray diffuse, so it's hard to focus it properly. Maybe Ao Guang can use a whirlpool to direct it properly or something.

Anyway, this will start Poisoning and etching away at the goop, so I'll wait to see if Nathan has any prep now.

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And so he does, along with that weird, pulsing mass of...seaweed?  No, it doesn't quite look like it...the glint of that red, ruby-like eye behind it stands out, though.  Is that...?

Only one way to find out.

Since Ventus is melting away that pulsing mass, once Nathan is caught up on the situation, he has a suggestion of his own to make.  "Gallade could try using CUT to remove it, or I could try using the Sword to similar effect.  Might speed up removing it from the wall a little.  Or I can just stand here at the ready with my pokemon, just in case.  Your call, Ventus."

Those Diceless mechanics sound a-OK with me, so let them be enacted henceforth (at least in regards to me) !

Aspis actually has a Acid Move in Acid Spray, but given the aersol-like/diffuse nature of the attack I elected to go with the more concentrated Poison Move Gunk Shot instead. Also thought that such concentrated toxins in G.S. would work well as a corrosive agent, but I guess I was only partially right.

Nathan's approach doesn't catch either of the researchers off guard, for their respective aquatic partners were watching the way they came in case the locals suddenly decided to Ambush them all. That, and keep an eye out for their brother's/partner's friends too!

To play that discovery out, the lovely Lapis Lazuli's eyes narrowed somewhat as the young adolescent swam into his vision with their DIVE mount, still understandably upset with them over what happened with their most trusted friend in the world, before he let out a small huff and used his tail fin to poke and get Terra's attention. On the other hand, Ao Guang and surprisingly enough Sari  welcome the semi-experienced excavator with their own version of a bow (which tipped off Ven of his arrival too, due to his bond with the former), though the sparkly sloth only did so slowly after staring at them for a few seconds after seeing the Lord of the Sea do so readily. Despite not interacting with them much, the deep sea dracofish did not miss nor forget their own compassionate efforts to help the other lost and forsaken  Pokemon at the Stair City Shelter, which even a arrogant Dragon like himself can't aloofly overlook and knows deserves some of his respect and gratitude. After all, he was in the same boat they once were, and he might have never left at all if they didn't come along with their esteemed brother advisor. The magnificent monarch reasons, though.......well, you'd have to ask her, since she was not easily giving away her feelings this time.


Ventus.....well, he was not exactly happy to see the boy, but at the same time he couldn't say to himself  he was not relieved to. He's still  pretty upset with their (in his mind) pointlessly unwarranted and foolish selflessness, as he finds it to be .....well. stupid, to be blunt, yet the fact they were their with him and their mutual 'friend'  show they managed to resolve that situation with the TITANIC COCANCER completely and satisfactory (otherwise they wouldn't even be there, the researchers would assume) despite said foolishness. 

By contrast Terra was completely happy to see them, giving them a small wave and a smile before resuming his own watch with Lovely. Blessidly simple!

Given the nature of what may be laying beyond that sticky icky mass, though, the rationalistic paranoid man didn't linger too much on those feelings, only giving them a look of mixed frustration and delight before getting straight to business. 

"Glad to see you made it out well enough for yourself, Nate. *Thinks over their idea* Hmm....I rather not risk Gallade accidentally CUTTING too deeply into that.....blob and hitting......whatever is past it, or if CUTTING the blob up would cause unexpected complications, like it releasing some diabolical biological defense agents upon laceration or piece of it getting to close to use and doing......something unpleasant. I have no qualms with using the Sword to empowering Aspis and standing guard with Terra, however, are sound ideas to me, as the former would hopefully speed up the corrosion of the blob by strengthening her Gunk Shot and the later....well, its rare that you can have too much help in matters like these. Hmm....or you could use The Sword to boost her Acid Spray's potency to the point of it being feasible choice over Gunk Shot in conjunction with Ao Guang's directing and concentrating it onto the mass with his innate mastery over his Element. Yes.....yes that would work out very well I believe, so if you have no objections to that alternative course of action.....?"