[Game Thread] Lord Windos’ PokeRole Adventure 2: The Wild Lands

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The dried up Apricorn is jury-rigged to the saddle, giving it a nice streamlined, natural saddlebag effect. Vernon leaves the $200 alone if it looks like it was purposely given to the shrine in any way.

Vernon often uses Turtwig as a pair of pruning shears, but looking around, there's not a single thing in need of pruning. Everything is so peaceful and beneficient that Turtwig smiles, closes his eyes in happiness, and wriggles down into the sweet-smelling earth with just his leaflet poking up above the loam. He could sleep like that for hours, and Vernon doesn't disturb Turtwig when he gets like this unless absolutely necessary. Today, Vernon can see the Earthpower gathering in his little buddy - the power that can be used like magic, but is sourced within the growing of green things, the healthy potential of soil, the warm sunshine on benevolent microbes, the reservoirs of rain between every particle of clay. No magic effect is necessary - the Earthpower is always waiting there, an endless gift, especially for a Grass type (and eventual Ground type).

"Would it be looking a gift Mudbray in the mouth to ask... what the heck is the power living in this shrine, that can grant such a powerful wish?"

That, too, might have something to do with Earthpower? But in a much flashier and more active way!