[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

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LEADERS

Elite 4 do not accept double battles and may have any number of Pokemon (up to 6) and you must use the same number.
However, it is not safe to do them all in a row without healing. You do one per day.

1. Bo: Multitype, sheep. Mareep Eviolite, Flaaffy, Baariette, Jolteon/Manectric, Skiddo/Gogoat Herdier. Champion. *Shows that a good trainer can win with any Pokemon. Has a legendary Cobalion but he doesn't use it in battle.*
   Very wise and meditative.
   The champion is protected supernaturally by Victini. Thus, one of the requirements to beating him is the will to take his place. And 12 will points. and a human surprise. To be more than human, thrice over.Bo's young daughter Lanolin.
2. Gin: Poison/grass. Skrelp, vileplume, Nidoking, Drapion, Venusaur, Roserade. Elite 4. *Her mother, Juni, is a leader of the original Water Scimitars.*
   
3. Hayes: Water, the Mistlord. Latias (mist ball), Lotad, Pelipper, Prinplup, Wooper (haze/mist), Greninja, Milotic, *oversized Whiscash bought from Terra.* Elite 4. Battle takes place on his boat, to test your sea legs – the correct behavior is to roll with the waves, not resist the waves.
   
4. Red: Fire. Looks up to Red from canon. Female. Charizard. Elite 4, also travels the region. Originally of Cress City.
   
5. Merle: Dragon. Druddigon, *Latios(stolen and imprisoned by Nimmu)*, Kingdra, Flygon, Tyrantrum, Noivern. Elite 4.
   
6. Chuckles: Ghost. Banette, Gengar, Mismagius. MEGA GENGAR. Corsage Port. Poikilite Badge (Dexterity)
   Associated with sailors who never returned, and widows.
   Doesn't employ any trainers. Recluse. $1000 18XP.
   
7. Dagny: Steel, train theme. Held up by magnemite, bone disease means she can't move on her own. Aggron, Steelix, Bronzong, Bastiodon, Magnezone, Durant, Delta Porygon, Excadrill. METAGROSS. 22xp. $800.
   Stair City. Ankerite Badge (Vitality)
   
8. Zamboni: Ice. Glalie, Delibird mascot, Beartic mascot. Sealeo. Rotom. Oversized Snorunt. Anderind. DELIBIRD?
   Ginger Town. Glass Badge (Strength).$400. 18xp.
   
9. Angela: Fairy. Wigglytuff, Togepi, Azumarill, Mawile. Florges. A-Ninetales. MEGA GARDEVOIR. Shiny Dunseraph. Her Pokemon train against the poisonous Gloom.
   Nature Reserve OR Safari Zone. Staurolite Badge (Insight).
   $2000 ring. Toxic TM. 27 xp.
   
10. Mason: Rock/Ground. Fishur, Graveler, Onix, Sudowoodo, Fossils, disobedient TYRANITAR, Gliscor, Solrock.
    Botanville. Feldspar Badge (Vitality). 1200.
    
11. Tanuki: Normal, fleet of Zigzagoon, Linoone, Spinda, Watchog, Pidgeot, and Furret with held items and Keen Eye. DUNSERAPH. Sitrus, Lum, Quick Claw, Leftovers, Sharp Beak, Silk Scarf, Razor Claw, Razor Fang, Eviolite, Wide Lens, Rocky Helmet
    Cress City. Boulangerite Badge (Dex). $4000. Leftovers. 32 XP.
    
12. Achilles: Fighting. Emperilla. Hawlucha. Machamp, Honedge, Medicham who helps you with plot while you fight it. KOMMO-O.
    Tumbleweed Town. Galena Badge (Strength). $1750.
    
13. Howl: Dark. Houndoom, Mightyena, Absol, Spiritomb. A-Persian, B-KEENGLAIVE.
    Elanor. Strengthened by Sunstone sprinkled into their food. Hornblende Badge (Insight).
    20XP. $1500. Brandy (Lemonade).
    

ENDING PLOT DETAILS

• ksklj
  
• The Gauntlets are an imitation of the Hidden Machine technology
  
• The Hidden Machine technology is from the age of Sarimanok, and much would have been found in his hall
  
• Sarimanok's hall was an enormous Charizard skull at the bottom layer of the ruins, with his throne in it.
  
• He had a multipurpose machine responsible for all his success. Basically helped him be a more famous, respected ruler. Its name translated to "HALL OF FAME." (He got it from the First Technical Society)
  
• The Hall of Fame in the Elite Four is based on it, and the Pokedex, and so are the miraculous Healing Machines in every Pokemon Center. Maybe the Badge tech too.
  
• I was gonna do more with nature's power, for example "Where dragon and fairy pokemon are concerned, our myths have become incarnate by the power of nature."
  

HM locations

HMs are far above what a normal move can do. Low Kick could smash a rock and get it out of your way, but with Rock Smash a lowly Rattata could pulverize a rock into sand.
So the power is twofold: can be taught to a Pokemon who has no business knowing it, and is more powerful in battle than just utilitarian.
All HM moves have a damage pool of 5 dice if taught from an HM, overriding other rules. Also perfect accuracy.
The legendary Rock Climb HM could scale Borealis Road in seconds.
Sires who know an HM move are highly sought after, because it can be bred. Often a weaker effect, though.

1. Surf – the only HM available to the League. Multiple copies exist and if you prove yourself, you can teach it to your pokemon. Only League admin are able to keep one of the copies: university, Forb City Nurse Joy, Cress mayor Raist, Champion Bo.
   
2. Rock Smash – Three or four copies are floating around outside League control. Youngster in Mt Sentry has it.
   
3. Cut – Lost to time. Able to cut practically anything or big swathes of things. Hidden in Mt Molten in a maze.
   
4. Fly – even a tiny Pidgey could fly its trainer somewhere in an instant. It's already possible for a big Pokemon like Charizard or Pidgeot to fly its trainer somewhere in a reasonable period of time. South Wind Swablu knows it, a hint that the Fly HM is hidden somewhere in the south (hog peanut swamp).
   
5. Strength – the League has lots and lots of records on Strength and the older leaders have Pokemon which know Strength. However, their copy of the disc was stolen long ago by Team Rocket and never recovered after they disbanded.
   
6. Flash – Mallorn has this.
   
7. Whirlpool – Unfortunately, lost behind a huge whirlpool in a sea cave of Murkrow Cove.
   
8. Waterfall – in the Slowpoke Well.
   
9. Dive – Garlicburg
   
10. Rock Climb – Scavenger Society, in a machine it cannot leave. So you have to teach it in situ.
    
11. Defog – Extremely powerful obstacle clearer. Can purify an entire city or route of poison and other hazards. At the bottom of Chicory Lake.
    

LAYERS OF SKULL RUINS

1. A deep, layered ruins. Gradual access. A hall of fame is at the bottom, and a charizard skull throne.

1. 1. Barrow Downs. Guarded by Spiritomb.

1. 2. Alph-like layer. Need a permit. New Palace foundations. Contains Shield (Defense Forme, v Atk Form). Protects any one Pokemon and the wielder from all damage or all effects.

1. 3. Slowpoke Well. Cofag shows the way. Contains Hauberk (Normal Forme v Normal Forme). Redirects attacks and buffs to where they are most needed.

1. 4. Mt. Silverish place. Need a Slowking to get in. Caverns. Contains Sword (Offense Forme, v Def Forme). Nidoking can draw that sword.

1. 5. Scavenger society ruins. Need Strength to access beyond the indestructible minarets of the palace. Contains Helm (Speed Forme). Lunapup and the Eye.Helm makes you go first in initiative at +6 priority. For perfectly accurate moves, you always get five successes on accuracy rolls. For inaccurate moves, you ignore the inaccuracy instead.

1. 6. Ancient palace and machines, Hall of Fame. Need a member of the Royal Legendary Trio to access. 

1. 7. First Technical Society (FTS)

LORE OF MECHANICS

Primale Cresselia is an incarnation of the Gaze that makes Pokemon and their trainers wanna be the best. She is the reason for the Eye symbol.

Whyyy do you gotta catch 'em all?
Part of this is the Gaze - that spirit of competition. It's why Pokes love to fight. It's why you always battle every trainer. It's why, when presented with a task, we go for full completion.
Catching the pokedeities? How is that possible?
Nature fighting back - the legendaries we catch are NOTHING compared to what nature has in store
Berries are a good example of nature's power
Watch a legendary like Arceus being formed by primals
Orbs are not real primals, just pale throwbacks
Primals come in cycles too
Legendaries have no PP and no limits (372)
However, if you destroy their nature, you can cut them off from their power. Inspiration: Cimorene's enchanted forest wizardstaff.
Find out that each stage in a family IS an evolution. A pokemon species hasn't always had that - they evolved them to respond to situations. That's why so many are artificial.
What are the Route Gates?
Discourage pokemon from moving between routs
The earth is our experiment --Deoxys, inventing evolution
Mythology of the Routes: humans carved them in interesting ways
The Long Grass - an alien species of grass
Kanto and Sinnoh as incubator and cradle
Trainer eye contact
The Pokemon League simply recognizes this existing force
Will Points
Something in the chips they make the trainer id cards of.
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Cresselia
The power of a gym badges and the purpose of the gym system
Can go in any order
Controlling access to meteor material
Why six pokemon and four moves?
A tradition when taking down the King. The famous Regiment of Four and their six Pokemon.
What's in a pokeball? A PC? - "Isn't technology incredible?" <- Who is this guy?
Go back in time and you find him working on alchemy to live forever
Pogo influence
Team Rocket makes rare candies out of pokemon
Hall of fame room - cannot be destroyed by any means
contains enough information to rebuild the PC system, TMs, Pokecenters, and Pokeballs.
We actually got the HM data from these.
Wealth and free stuff
Hall of Fame technology is free to trainers, because it costs no resources at all.
HMs - very mystical, open up all the holiest places.
Find a pokemon wielding them, before you get the CD.
Pokedex exaggerations and power level
Some pokedex entries refer to older Pokemon. Blood is weakened as nature is.
The Pokedex can stop evolution; made of same stuff as the trainer cards
Meteors
Trainer cards, gym badges, pokeball capture nets, PC components, and Pokedexes: all made from meteoric superconductors.
Dark reddish black
Millennium Comet is a fraction of the Migrator cycle
Jirachi uses this energy to keep balance in the cycle
grants wishes to people who will bring balance with their desire
Universal Migrator cycle. Brings new waves of pokemon. Humans kinda messed this up. Millennium Comet meteor shower.
Jirachi
Darkrai/Cresselia
Deoxys I
Lunatone/Solrock
Staryu
Comite - 7000 years ago
Clefairy
Minior
Voltorb
Kyurem
Elgyem
Deoxys II


Frozen Roar, can end any battle but only works once on each foe Pokemon. Can also rally your Pokemon, giving up a trainer action to do Helping Hand. Ignore pain penalties and exhaustion always.
Slave Genesect exoskeleton. Teaches Pay Day, allows massive carrying capacity, makes Genesect very polite, doubles all financial gains for Terra's Encounters. Gives Genesect a certain amount of psychic power to detect who might want what you have.

Fire/Water/Grass Pledge speaking guardians: Primal Arcanine, Primal Kingdra, Shiftry or Trevenant or Totem Lurantis
Kingdra has a Phione Egg which came from Arcanine.





Genesect is predisposed to being bioengineered.
The skull ancients did so.
Find the right drive for it (Fire). The others do things as well:
+Normal: funny tourism mode.
+Burn: Opens lair!
Douse: Self destruct
Shock: works as a gauntlet
+Chill: Excavation mode