[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dies Irae]

Very similar. Except instead of numerology, it uses the relationships between certain boulders and trees and puddles.

The front half of the book endeavors to show why this pattern matching works, relating it to a kind of divine geometry, though no Legendary Pokemon or beings are mentioned as the source of this divinity. It's just nature as a divinity Herself.

So... Feng Shui?

[Iron]

I don't know my eastern philosophy very well, but I understand that Feng Shui lets you have an impact on part of the world (namely, yourself) by manipulating these patterns. This book implies that that's impossible. If you moved the boulder, you would just get wrong predictions instead of teleporting Fennekin to you.

[Dies Irae]

I don't know my eastern philosophy very well, but I understand that Feng Shui lets you have an impact on part of the world (namely, yourself) by manipulating these patterns. This book implies that that's impossible. If you moved the boulder, you would just get wrong predictions instead of teleporting Fennekin to you.

Interesting. So the pattern recognition angle holds, but rather than aligning with mystical forces, it's more of a divine map ala a dowsing guide?

[Iron]

Yes, that would be fair to say.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

All this made me like that book a little more. Glad I was able to receive it.

[Dragonstrike]

All this made me like that book a little more. Glad I was able to receive it.

Just hope that medicine man doesn't notice it's missing and figures out who took it.

[Iron]

All this made me like that book a little more. Glad I was able to receive it.

Just hope that medicine man doesn't notice it's missing and figures out who took it.

This is probably true, but I'll add a detail: the book isn't handwritten, it's printed, so it can be surmised that multiple copies exist in the world.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

I just 'lent' it, alongside a few twigs of the herbs hanging in the parlor to dry~ I wanted to ask whether I can have some of those, but there was none to ask. :C

[Lord Windos]

I just 'lent' it, alongside a few twigs of the herbs hanging in the parlor to dry~ I wanted to ask whether I can have some of those, but there was none to ask. :C

Looks like Ventus criminal behavior is rubbing off your Chara, Phantom! Soon, both of them will be like Bonny and Clyde, going on a spree of robberies and vicious Pokémon battles throughout Cheshire!

[Iron]

Next campaign I'll just let you be the rockets and I'll run the good guys trying to stop you.