[Game Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

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"Thanks for letting us use this lovely fighting room Master Poliwrath. Mind if I ask what other options of training there are? I'd like to come here every now and then to use your facilities to get stronger. And uh, there's another thing if you don't mind me asking. Guildmaster Delphox mentioned something about humans turning into Pokemon turning up around here, so we told her that we'd look into it. Got the strange feeling that she wasn't telling us everything though. I decided to ask around a little, and I'm asking the more experienced Pokemon who've been here the longest. Would you happen to know anything about that? I can't report back to her without knowing all the facts, right?"

Poliwrath has a lot to say about his dojo.

"My dojo's primary means of training is in various type themed mazes.  They're similar to mystery dungeons, except I have a few rules in place while you're in there."

"#1: You don't get to bring any items with you.  You can leave any you have on hand with me, and I'll give them back to you when you're done training.  There's items in the mazes that you can pick up, and anything you find, you can keep if you don't use it."

"#2: Each maze focuses on one or two different types.  You tell me which type you want to train against, and every pokemon you encounter in there will be that type.  Dual type mazes are more difficult than single type.  There's also one maze that has completely random types, the Final Maze, but that's for more experienced adventurers if the name didn't clue you in on that already.  If you want to access the Final Maze, your team will need to work its way up to the Gold Rank."

"#3: No recruiting any of the pokemon in the mazes.  They're members of this dojo's staff.  Wouldn't be able to run this operation completely by myself.  I just call all the shots around here.  And punch slackers and rule breakers."

"#4: If you faint, there's no penalties.  Well, you'll be thrown out of the mazes like you were in a Mystery Dungeon, meaning you'll have failed the training's main goal of reaching the end of the maze, but aside from that, don't worry about failure.  You can always try a maze again."

"If you want to head into one of my dojo's mazes, make sure you set aside plenty of time.  The training's intense, and exploring the mazes usually takes most of a day.  If there's any idle recruits in your team that you don't want slacking, I can help whip them into shape while you're away as well.  I'd recommend sending them here in groups of 3-5, same as with any mystery dungeon."

Poliwrath looks curiously at Daxter and crosses his arms when asked about humans turning into pokemon.  He's got much less to say about that topic.  "Can't say I've ever met any myself.  Was plenty of talk at one point about how everyone ending up in that barren, rocky, wasteland was the fault of a human, though.  But that was awhile ago."

After returning to the Guild, and hopefully meeting Kee, Karen and Pyra. Is Kogeki able to find anyone in the Guild? Who was inside the entrance of the Guild? Braixen, Floette or anyone?

Floette is always in the lobby at the reception desk, and is always greeting everyone with a smile.  The team consisting of Arcanine, Lurantis, and Barbaracle is also by the job board, its members seemingly in some kind of discussion.  Kee, Karen, and Pyra aren't in the lobby as of this point.

Dax nods as he listens to Master Poliwrath's rules. They all seem fair and make sense, so he's fine with it. He's intrigued about what the master said about the humans though.

"Wait a second there. What do you mean by everyone ending up on a rocky wasteland?" He asks interestedly.