[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Correct - the Ice Rock is inside this cave! Oddly, it is toward the back, where the heat is greatest. The cave seems to end pretty close to the Rock there.

I've been pondering back and forth whether I want a Glaceon at this point or not before I was really able to do things with Primal Eevee - scenically, it'd fit rather well indeed and it's been stated that he's on a good way to become a Glaceon, but I'd also enjoy to spend more time with Primal EEVEE instead of evolving him right away and in this scenary. Is it alright if I let Eevee himself decide whether he wants to become a Glaceon now or not, and live with this then?

EDIT1: On the other hand, Glaceon are pretty neat and if I wish for him to lean more moves, evolving him now would be a good idea... Means, IF and ONLY if Eevee is alright with it and it'd fit his nature, I'm leaning into encouraging him to touch the Ice Rock.

EDIT2: Humm, it has been stated that being so adaptive is an advantage, even if 'only' a minor one, so I'm assuming it would fit his nature to evolve now. Shiva would wish the circumstances would be a little happier, but she will pay close attention to his evolution.


If it's safe for Comite to be in the cave mouth and watch how Deoxys and its clones communicate with psychic signalling with 'safe' = 'without a risk that they might spot him', he certainly can keep doing that.

[Spiritmon]

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Lord WindosEventually, Heart would see Terra wander towards t hem, Mawile dangling off his shoulder and head like with mild sedation like a sleepy cat like it was no big deal. A big, heavy Steel cat with far more bite than the regular feline, but her behavior was cat like none the less. He gave all of the collector's Pokemon an appraising and/deeply curious look (particularly D-Onix) , before with surprise deftness p lucked Mawile off of and held the out to his friend, looking plantative.

"Heart...can Gustav heal Mawile a little? Caught her... yesterday, but she still little hurt. Please?"

 I imagine the metallic fae is doing her best to convince Heart, but I'll leave how up to you Iron.

(In class, so no more post until 5:00pm Cst ! )

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Heart notice the curious look of Terra and talk with him. "Sure mate! Gustav my friend could you please heal Terra Mawile?" While Gustav was using his Heal Cannon, Heart makes a quick presentation. "Terra, meet some pokemon in my team: Gustav the Clawitizer who you already meet before. My young Unovian Dragon Koa the Fraxure. My fighting fire monkey from Sinnoh Rose the Infernape. My brave friend from the Patrat Clan from Mt. Sentry, Patrat the Patrat. My young water amphibian Netune the Mudkip. Kecleon the Kecleon who you already meet. My young eletric Typhon the Eelektrik. And finally, my Delta Pokemon, Delta Onix."

Heart make a quick apresentation. "Delta Pokemon my dear friend Terra its Pokemon with a different typing of their normal species who suffer some kind of mutation, natural or by human intervention. Lets see....Imagine a Milotic instead of be a pure Water-type be like a Flying/Dragon, or even a Haryama be a Dark-type. Some Delta can even have moves or abilities different of their normal variant! The Onix-species is normally Rock/Ground. But my Delta-Onix its Rock/Flying. Pretty cool huh?"

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Iron

Mawile is pointing down her fake throat, where you can see she's bitten her gums during the fight with Shiranui. It's very similar to her "feed me!" gesture.

Here are the rolls once Heart agrees.

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9 hp, halved is 4, +2 dice is 6.
(1)(6)(5)(6)(2)(1) Just 2 HP regained.

(Damn. I dont have much luck in those heal dices   )

  Heart seeing Mawile do not fully recover, offer one Oran Berry to Terra. "Here. This one might help restore Mawile strengh a little. We dont know what might happen if we not prepare."

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Tension rises among the sensitive Pokemon. The herds of Mightyena are simply going about their business. None of the wild Pokemon seem to have any sense of anything being wrong...until the sky is set alight with blazing fire.

No amount of ash can darken the brilliant light as the meteor enters the atmosphere. A blazing aurora forms, in orange and blue and silver like the world's most luminous sunrise.

Now the wild Pokemon are looking at the sky, blinking and even whimpering. A noise begins, a terrible hissing and popping like water on embers. It comes from the sky, but no one can tell where this disaster will actually strike.

All you see of the meteor's progress and path is a fireball, so fast that you are mostly seeing its orange and blue afterimage. A line connects the heavens to the earth, striking a point midway between modern Teazel Valley and Botanville. A hundred Mightyena die instantly at impact.

You're miles from the impact site, but you feel the earth rumble and little bits of dirt rain down on you for close to ten minutes. You can take shelter in a nearby ice cave driving into a volcano's foothills, if you wish.

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Nathan at least will be interested to observe that there's not as much dust as expected. Not enough to reduce the amount of solar energy coming down, not enough to choke breath away, not enough to change the composition of the atmosphere. Just the physical bombardment of small clods of earth. And a worrisome cracking noise.

Howling, the Mightyena and a thundering herd of Mamoswine flee eastward and northward, some passing very close to you. As 90% of them have passed the southmost prong of the Great Divide, a strange whirring noise emanates from the impact crater, along with a spray of laserbeams. Your Psychics flinch. A sudden wall of extremely thick Tall Grass slams upward, cutting off the final 10% of the Pokemon and trapping them here on the taiga.

Oh, and the Tall Grass Shiva has? I think Heart has some too? That grass begins growing, sending roots questing toward the soil.

A dim bipedal figure stands up within the crater, now visible as the dust has settled. It can be seen that it is vaguely humanoid, orange and blue in color, and possessing twin tentacles where each arm should be. This can only be one being: the legendary Deoxys, a sentient, mutating supervirus.

Its chest flashes, its tendrils plunge into the ground. Mindless clones appear and begin shepherding Pokemon about. What their agenda is, you cannot say, but even Terra knows he's witnessing a part of Creshire history that no one has ever, ever theorized before.

Gothitelle has her face buried in her hands. Dizzy and Calam seem to have gone insane, leaping back and forth in a frenzy, completely unsure about what to do, and knowing this has already happened. Delphox, though, is fascinated by the clones and keeps watching them. Sometimes they flash their otherwise-empty gems, communicating in a mysterious fashion as they go about their work. Shiva suddenly KNOWS that staring into those gems is another way to become More Than Human, but what impacts it might have, she has no idea.

Gallade is in a more appraising mood. He didn't know this would happen, but he seems to treat it as very valuable intelligence. Nathan's PTC starts pulsing, steadily increasing in frequency - a sign that another Lurch will come fairly soon. You'll need to survive until it does.

Heart when see the big meteor come, he return all of his pokemons back to their pokeballs. "Everyone! Return now!" Then Heart quick return for their to not witness such tragedy. When the carnage end, and see the virus pokemon, he flinch in fear like Shiva and the rest. "No...i-it cant be...its...Its Deoxys...." Heart say with clear shock and fear. "A Legendary Pokemon. Another one. And this one doesnt look to much friendly." When those clones begin to appear, he say. "Everyone. We must run. We can hide in ice cavern and destroy the entrance with our Rock-Smash Pokemon. They will not be able to enter and we can wait the next Lurch comes to takes us out of this place." Suggest Heart trying to calm himself and not fall in panic.

[Dragonstrike]

This is definitely not something anyone would have expected.  Deoxys...it's a strange creature.  A Mythical Legend that very, very little is known about, even in modern times.  It's behaviors are generally unlike that of any other pokemon in existence, with only a scarce few similarities.  Reports of it clashing with Rayquaza in the ozone layer are scarcely reported, and even more scarcely confirmed.

Nathan knows of this strange, alien pokemon...but he doesn't know exactly what it's capable of beyond being a very, very powerful Psychic type reportedly able to shift its form to adapt to any situation.

When his PTC starts pulsing, Nathan has a good guess as to what that entails...he's all action right now, trying to set aside just how scared he is to try and get everything in order.  Someone needs to take charge here, or the chaos might draw unnecessary attention.  Gallade remaining calm himself is a big reason why Nathan is able to do so himself, and it certainly shows.

"Everyone, it seems like another lurch is going to happen soon...Calam, Dizzy, we need you both to calm.  Down.  We need to hide until the lurch gets us out of here.  Or run.  Or something.  If those Deoxys spot us, we're going to be in big, big trouble, so we need to not bring any undue attention to ourselves.  We'll figure something out."

Step one: calm the two Absol down so they don't attract Deoxys's attention.  Hopefully.

Step two: head count.  Shiva...Terra...Heart...where's Spira?  Nathan looks around and presumably spots him still on the mountain, up where the Magcargo were/still are(?)...hmmm...

Step three: potential avenues of escape and places to hide.  Deoxys to the south.  Tall grass blocking the east, and it's growing too rapidly to clear a path through it with any amount of speed unless they burn it all and draw attention to it.  Mountains to the north.  That leaves two options: either they flee to the west...or they try and hide in the mountains, probably in the caves.

Running to the west is across entirely open ground, though...there'd be nowhere to hide if they were caught running...and Deoxys might be able to cut them off with the tall grass, too...and Terra would need a mount in order to keep up with everyone else...and Spira's still on the mountain...and it's a little suspicious that it's the only direction that Deoxys isn't blocking...though maybe that's just because there weren't any wild pokemon running in that direction initially...

All in all, running to the west doesn't seem like a spectacular idea to Nathan.  Heart's suggestion that they try to hide in the cave and collapse the entrance...hmmm...

"...if we collapse the entrance, Deoxys might notice, Heart.  I don't think it would have any trouble tossing the rubble aside with its Psychic powers.  Hiding in the cave as is might be a better bet than trying to run across open ground, though.  I don't think Deoxys has noticed us yet, and we should probably keep it that way.  I can't imagine it intends to do anything pleasant with the creatures it's corralling..."

Of course, the cave has its own disadvantages.  If a Deoxys clone checks it, there's nowhere to run, and everyone in it would be sitting ducks.  But hiding in the cave is probably a lot easier than trying to avoid the wandering gazes of the Deoxys clones on the open ground...



(OOC, I think the general consensus is to try hiding in the cave?  If Shiva wants to evolve P-Eevee into a P-Glaceon, we kinda have to go into the cave, Heart suggested the cave IC...)

[Lord Windos]

(No, I have not made a decision yet. Need to hear back from Iron before I decide whether or not I will go hide with everyone else, or do something else.)

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Nathan, instead of trying to calm your and my Absol down we could simply recall them into their respective Balls - Shiva would certainly do that, so with a fearful expression she draws Dizzy's special League Authority Ball and points it to the blackwhite feline: "Dizzy, please...! There there, it'll all be okay, stay calm, please don't... Excuse me for that, but... Come back!" Dizzy's recalled in the intention to stop him running around in a frenzy.

Concerning [quote]...Terra would need a mount in order to keep up with everyone else...[quote end], there's probably enough room on my Rapidash for him and Shiva IF he comes along, and with a Flame Charge the -1 Dext Suprise of the horse can be nullified to be at the natural 4 Dext of me.

Unfortunately, I have no other ideas or suggestions than indeed go hiding in that Ice Cave until the Lurch will bring us into a safe zone, I'm having a somewhat bad feeling about doing that but it's the most suitable option for me too. Not only because seeing Primal Eevee evolve! I hope doing so will not catch Deoxy's/its clones attention in some way. If there's reason to believe it MIGHT, I have to abstain from evolution.

[Dragonstrike]

Nathan, instead of trying to calm your and my Absol down we could simply recall them into their respective Balls - Shiva would certainly do that, so with a fearful expression she draws Dizzy's special League Authority Ball and points it to the blackwhite feline: "Dizzy, please...! There there, it'll all be okay, stay calm, please don't... Excuse me for that, but... Come back!" Dizzy's recalled in the intention to stop him running around in a frenzy.

Calam's too agitated to stay in his ball (as evidenced by when he forced his way out immediately upon arriving in this time period), and Nathan can't exactly do anything about Dizzy besides try to calm him down.  (And Nathan's also assuming Dizzy might also not want to stay in his ball when there's a disaster occurring)

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

I can't say anything about Calam, but Dizzy's under my care - I feel better to simply recall him to soft-force him to calm down quicker instead of doing so by interaction. If he evades or shows obvious signs of wishing to stay out despite the circumstances according to GM's discretion, then an attempt to calm his frenzy by Nathan is alright to me.

[Lord Windos]

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Tension rises among the sensitive Pokemon. The herds of Mightyena are simply going about their business. None of the wild Pokemon seem to have any sense of anything being wrong...until the sky is set alight with blazing fire.

No amount of ash can darken the brilliant light as the meteor enters the atmosphere. A blazing aurora forms, in orange and blue and silver like the world's most luminous sunrise.



Now the wild Pokemon are looking at the sky, blinking and even whimpering. A noise begins, a terrible hissing and popping like water on embers. It comes from the sky, but no one can tell where this disaster will actually strike.

All you see of the meteor's progress and path is a fireball, so fast that you are mostly seeing its orange and blue afterimage. A line connects the heavens to the earth, striking a point midway between modern Teazel Valley and Botanville. A hundred Mightyena die instantly at impact.

You're miles from the impact site, but you feel the earth rumble and little bits of dirt rain down on you for close to ten minutes. You can take shelter in a nearby ice cave driving into a volcano's foothills, if you wish.

(...)

Howling, the Mightyena and a thundering herd of Mamoswine flee eastward and northward, some passing very close to you. As 90% of them have passed the southmost prong of the Great Divide, a strange whirring noise emanates from the impact crater, along with a spray of laserbeams. Your Psychics flinch. A sudden wall of extremely thick Tall Grass slams upward, cutting off the final 10% of the Pokemon and trapping them here on the taiga.

Oh, and the Tall Grass Shiva has? I think Heart has some too? That grass begins growing, sending roots questing toward the soil.

A dim bipedal figure stands up within the crater, now visible as the dust has settled. It can be seen that it is vaguely humanoid, orange and blue in color, and possessing twin tentacles where each arm should be. This can only be one being: the legendary Deoxys, a sentient, mutating supervirus.

Its chest flashes, its tendrils plunge into the ground. Mindless clones appear and begin shepherding Pokemon about. What their agenda is, you cannot say, but even Terra knows he's witnessing a part of Creshire history that no one has ever, ever theorized before.

Gothitelle has her face buried in her hands. Dizzy and Calam seem to have gone insane, leaping back and forth in a frenzy, completely unsure about what to do, and knowing this has already happened. Delphox, though, is fascinated by the clones and keeps watching them. Sometimes they flash their otherwise-empty gems, communicating in a mysterious fashion as they go about their work. Shiva suddenly KNOWS that staring into those gems is another way to become More Than Human, but what impacts it might have, she has no idea.
(...)

When the sky started to burn and the meteor began its final, fatal descent into the world, Terra knew this to be the disaster the Absol foretold of. He felt the bottom of his stomach drop like a Aron in a kiddy pool as he gazed upon it.....yet he couldn't help but feeling captivated too.

It was a terrifying sight for sure, but it was also strangely beautiful, in a brilliantly morbid sort of way. If only it wasn't a threat to the ALL life within the tiaga, and he was a bit more philosophical, the simple monk might have appreciated it and its significance even more.

The spell the meteor had on him was broken with its impact and the devestation it wrought, causing him to wince and shake his head as he turned to regard the group for a moment. The raining debree didn't phase him much, but he could tell that the rest thought/felt differently + knew that the Wild Pokemon would be/are in an uproar after this disaster, and was about to suggest that the group start moving to a more secure location to 'ride out the event'. Better safe than sorry, even thought its already a pretty sorry -

His train of thoughts was aburptly derailed when lasers stared being fired from the crater. The situation became more disasterious, as nature itself seemingly conspire against the group to trap them in the valley.

Then, Deoxys appeared, and things took an ever sharper turn to the perilous.

Terra didn't have either Nathan's/Shiva's book smarts nor Heart's encyclopedic Knowledge on all things concernign Rare Pokemon, even a simplton like himself had heard the existence of the extraterrestrial supervirus. He became deeply interested in it for how unique and strange the creature was compared to almost all other Pokemon known to mankind, as well as the fact it was a Mythical Space Alien. How could you not find that at least a little cool?

Still, that didn't change the fact it was currently acting in a very frightening and dubious manner, so it was only natural for everyone and almost every Pokemon to freak out and started to make a made dash for the cave.

Everyone, except Terra.

Instead, he started to move CLOSER to the now newly formed swarm of Deoxys.

What in the world?! The man knew the jelly alien was an enigmatic entity that was also extremely likely to be dangerous to him/the group judging by the way it was acting, so why in the hecky was he going TO the jello alien rather than AWAY?

Simple: It was because of the Light. 

That wierd, baffling, unnerving, and yet so very, very alluring Light  eminating from the Deoxys gems, as they communicated with one another in an distinctly alien form of language.

It caught his attention like a Dustox to an open flame, and he quickly became utterly dazzled and entranced by it.

"So......pretty......Must.......get.....better.......look."

He mumbled this under breath, as he slowly trudged onward to do as he said, not hearing Shiva's and Heart's outcry, nor her farewell.

Guess the rugged wanderer's simple mind has been easily hypnotized by the Lights, if his general reaction is to go by. 

Ruh Roh.

Spiritmon

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Heart notice the curious look of Terra and talk with him. "Sure mate! Gustav my friend could you please heal Terra Mawile?" While Gustav was using his Heal Cannon, Heart makes a quick presentation. "Terra, meet some pokemon in my team: Gustav the Clawitizer who you already meet before. My young Unovian Dragon Koa the Fraxure. My fighting fire monkey from Sinnoh Rose the Infernape. My brave friend from the Patrat Clan from Mt. Sentry, Patrat the Patrat. My young water amphibian Netune the Mudkip. Kecleon the Kecleon who you already meet. My young eletric Typhon the Eelektrik. And finally, my Delta Pokemon, Delta Onix."

Heart make a quick apresentation. "Delta Pokemon my dear friend Terra its Pokemon with a different typing of their normal species who suffer some kind of mutation, natural or by human intervention. Lets see....Imagine a Milotic instead of be a pure Water-type be like a Flying/Dragon, or even a Haryama be a Dark-type. Some Delta can even have moves or abilities different of their normal variant! The Onix-species is normally Rock/Ground. But my Delta-Onix its Rock/Flying. Pretty cool huh?"


Wowza, was that a joke (Yes, it was)? If not, thems fighting words right there!


(Damn. I dont have much luck in those heal dices   )

  Heart seeing Mawile do not fully recover, offer one Oran Berry to Terra. "Here. This one might help restore Mawile strengh a little. We dont know what might happen if we not prepare."
(...)

Heart when see the big meteor come, he return all of his pokemons back to their pokeballs. "Everyone! Return now!" Then Heart quick return for their to not witness such tragedy. When the carnage end, and see the virus pokemon, he flinch in fear like Shiva and the rest. "No...i-it cant be...its...Its Deoxys...." Heart say with clear shock and fear. "A Legendary Pokemon. Another one. And this one doesnt look to much friendly." When those clones begin to appear, he say. "Everyone. We must run. We can hide in ice cavern and destroy the entrance with our Rock-Smash Pokemon. They will not be able to enter and we can wait the next Lurch comes to takes us out of this place." Suggest Heart trying to calm himself and not fall in panic.

*Flashback!*

Terra took the time to greet each an every Pokemon that Heart introduced to him, handing them any treats that Mawile hadn't cleaned out just yet (and earning a hungry look from her everytime he did so in response), even the semi-rowdy D-Onix, who he regarded without fear but still with plenty of caution/respect as he bowed his head towards. He heard about it from Ven as he described a 'joint experiment' ran between him and Heart centering around it, so he wasn't too surprised to see the flying rock snake. 

Mawile probably didn't care too much about the collector's Pokemon, save for Rose (likely a negative reaction, considering her Fire typing and similar scrappy nature bringing out competitiveness/fear from them), Fraxure (Who she most definitely saw as an easy target/fun victim to toy/bully with), and D-Onix (Hard not to be impressed by it, no?). All she cared about was getting feed, and being treated well enough in her newly 'earned' captivity! The Pokemon's reactions towards Terra and Mawile will be left to Iron, if he wants to continue this scene.

When the pun lover started to explain what a Delta Pokemon was to him, the rugged wanderer raised one hand to stop them with a small smile.

"Nathan and......Shiva already told me about them. No need to tell me again, okay? Thank you, though. *Beat, then nods* Yes, they are. *Smiles playfully* Not good or beautiful as Lovely, but still good snake Pokemon to have."

(...)

The simple monk was a bit caught off guard by the additional generosity on Heart's part, but before he could come to a decision his piercing pixie had already leaned forward to swipe the Oran Berry from the collector's hand and gobbled it down, fully restoring her HP! She let out a *Sigh* of satisfaction and relief and rubbed her belly, as the restorative properties of the fruit healed the last of her injuries and made a tasty treat. That hit the spot!

Terra was quick to give her an admonishing glare for her gluttonous/rude behavior (Which she was happily indifferent towards), before he let out his own *sigh* and apologized to his friend.

"Sorry about that. Mawile still wild and very......tricky. Will make sure it does not happen again. Promise."

For now, this will be...

*Flashback End!*

[Iron]

Correct - the Ice Rock is inside this cave! Oddly, it is toward the back, where the heat is greatest. The cave seems to end pretty close to the Rock there.

I've been pondering back and forth whether I want a Glaceon at this point or not before I was really able to do things with Primal Eevee - scenically, it'd fit rather well indeed and it's been stated that he's on a good way to become a Glaceon, but I'd also enjoy to spend more time with Primal EEVEE instead of evolving him right away and in this scenary. Is it alright if I let Eevee himself decide whether he wants to become a Glaceon now or not, and live with this then?

EDIT1: On the other hand, Glaceon are pretty neat and if I wish for him to lean more moves, evolving him now would be a good idea... Means, IF and ONLY if Eevee is alright with it and it'd fit his nature, I'm leaning into encouraging him to touch the Ice Rock.

EDIT2: Humm, it has been stated that being so adaptive is an advantage, even if 'only' a minor one, so I'm assuming it would fit his nature to evolve now. Shiva would wish the circumstances would be a little happier, but she will pay close attention to his evolution.


If it's safe for Comite to be in the cave mouth and watch how Deoxys and its clones communicate with psychic signalling with 'safe' = 'without a risk that they might spot him', he certainly can keep doing that.

Primal Eevee is just rolling around near the icy rock. There are three or four distinct jerks of light - flash, FLASH, flash.....FLASH! Each time, Eevee's form stutters into a different shape and position. When the final light clears, a slightly larger and shaggier Glaceon stands before you! A fine coat of brown Eevee fur still exists underneath the white fur in a second layer, as huskies and wolves do.  It pokes through here and there.

Congratulations! Your Primal Eevee evolved into Primal Glaceon!

It has the aforementioned 5 base HP, but its moveset and type is mostly as usual. It still can't learn any of the moves Eevee was prohibited from learning. The ability is Snow Cloak.

[Iron]

Insight + Empathy to calm the Absol:

(1)(6)(6)(5)(3) They both calm down as long as Nathan stays nearby. Dizzy is recalled into his ball just in case. You can see his face pressed up against the transparent ball roof.