[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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Apsis hoses down the gunk around the shadowy form. The gunk melts away instantly when empowered by the sword, but little hard chunks embedded within the gunk float quickly to the sea floor. Closer inspection reveals these to be small Pokemon Eggs.

The shadowy form, of course, could be no other than a Genesect! This one, though withered away, is still mostly intact, though caked or replaced with stony sediment. It walks on four legs, and two more seem to function as arms, like a centaur. It has stubs where wings used to be. All the limbs seem capable of rotating 360 degrees, or would if they weren't petrified.

Its eyes take up more of the arrow-shaped face than in Team Plasma's Genesect, and what light there is down here reflects from their ruby facets strangely.

Oh, and its proportions? It's huge, the size of a Mudsdale or more. You might count yourself lucky you aren't witnessing it with its wingspan intact - they must have spread 20 feet before they rotted away, and been able to rotate like a helicopter.

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A discovery such as this...the only way that it could be described is mystifying.  The fossil of a long extinct Legendary pokemon, untouched and almost perfectly preserved in its hidden, isolated undersea cavern...the sight of it raises just as many questions as they do answers.

And so, I feel this piece of music is appropriate:

Ancient Mysteries: Mysteries Within Arrangement 1 - Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon

Nathan can only look at the fossil with wonder at first, wanting to note down everything he's seeing.  A purely unaltered Creshirean Genesect...something that no living human has set eyes on in hundreds of years...Sarimanok and his researchers were the most likely to have seen such a sight last...

(...)

He gets out his pokedex immediately to analyze them.  "Terra, Ventus, be on guard.  Where there's eggs, there might be parents."

Is the pokedex able to identify what the contents of these pokemon eggs might be?

(...)

"...okay, never mind, then..."

Nathan's gonna have his 'dex scrubbed for bugs later for sure.  He doesn't even have Porygon-Z and Pulse on his person right now (as he wasn't expecting to need them for a fossil excavation).  Something weird is definitely going on here with his device...

...and he's not entirely confident that these are Shellder eggs, either.

He looks to Terra.  "Can you check these eggs for me with your pokedex, Terra?"

".....It was true. By the Trio and The Undivided One, it was right and true. All those tenuous, nebulous leads and clues we dug up.....they lead us to this. A complete Genesect Fossil, hardly ravaged by the eons......"

Ventus uttered this aloud, a drawn, almost disbelieving look on his face as he unblinking gazed upon the Mythical relic of ages long past,totally  transfixed by it . Soon enough, though, that looked transformed in one of wonder and joy bordering on rapturous, with big hints of......bittersweet nostalgia and gratefulness. Though it was not and could not ever be his old friend, perhaps he could do right by them and their memory through these old, verneable remains....

He'd be crying and collapsed on his knees if it were not for the nature of the local, so instead he settled on listlessly floating in place alongside Ao Guang, who support them and was also humbled by the Fossil's presence. Even a Dragon Lord of the Sea like him can't help but respect such a find, and how much it resonated with his brother-advisor.

Terra too was awed by the Genesect Fossil, though unlike their boss he was no so overtaken by it that it shunted out the intense amount of curiosity and interest he felt as he took in every single detail of it. So this was what those ferocious and adaptable bugs in Cheshire truly looked like in their prime, unaltered and unmodified. It was.....

'....Impressive. So much can be learnt from it. Now as it is, here.....and otherwise. Discoveries that could.......revolutionize understanding of Genesects. Bug Pokemon. .....And my Arete. Discoveries that can.....improve them.....restore them too. Has great potential. Pure, great potential......'

Lapis Lazuli shared a similar stance on the G.F. as the Deep Sea Dracofish, but Sari......Sari was just as interested in it as her loyal caretarker, looking at it with an impressed and hungry gaze. What a magnificent and powerful treasure they found, ripe for the taking and use....


Nathan's warning doesn't penetrate through to the eccentric researcher, but it does to his Dragon and the rugged wanderer and his collective, all of them shaking their heads and giving their own affirmatives as they more carefully payed attention to their nebulous surrounding and whatever was lurking within them. At their request Terra promptly attempts to scan them ALL with his Pokedex, now quite curious and concerned too of what exactly those Eggs were if Nathan couldn't get an accurate read on them. He'd also get Lovely to round up all the Egg carefully as he can, as even if they can't properly identify them now Shiva or some other Breeder might be able to later, and failing that just incubate and hatch one to find out what Pokemon they hold instead. Simple as that!