[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

The carnivorous quadrupeds all descend on the bag of meat and tear it to shreds, fighting with each other over it. It's mostly Piloswine and Pinsir and Snubbull - the Absol are too dignified.

Nathan's tried and true rancher instincts corral Skiddo with ease. Skiddo are pretty rare in Creshire, but a few are farmed here and there.

Calam: (6)
Skiddo: (3) + 2 Dex + 3 Survival = 8
Kirlia: (1) +6 = 7

[Iron]

Doduo is easily dispatched, not even worth rolling out and not worth any XP to Ventus. Ventus gains 1Xp from the Running experience as a whole.
Bouffalant is rare outside the Running every year - now there's one less to roam the plains of Southwest Creshire!

Which reminds me: I meant to give everyone +1 Will point after the tarn.

[Iron]

Snubbull are called to participate in the Running because they are BULLS.

Insight + Empathy: (6)(4)(6)(6) A very lucky roll!
Will: (5)(5)(1)(3)(4)

Snubbull takes Shiva's hand and is pulled onto the swaying, heavily-breathing Swiftfire. The poor girl looks very tired and stressed by the running, so Shiva and Swiftfire now escape the stampede entirely.

Snubbull agrees to travel with Shiva, and even to stay in a Pokeball, but it's a bit disobedient! It has 1 Loyalty, 2 Happiness, and 2 Disobedience.
Naturally the ability is Run Away. It knows Scary Face, but Tackle and Headbutt are its only attacking moves.

[Dragonstrike]

Nathan's tried and true rancher instincts corral Skiddo with ease. Skiddo are pretty rare in Creshire, but a few are farmed here and there.

Calam: (6)
Skiddo: (3) + 2 Dex + 3 Survival = 8
Kirlia: (1) +6 = 7

As soon as they get away from the Running, Nathan brings Calam and Kirlia to a halt.  Try diplomacy first...

"You doing okay there, Skiddo?  That crowd back there looked rough."

Partially his fault, but eh.

[Iron]

Insight of 2 doesn't have much chance of stopping a Running Pokemon, but I'll let you reroll 1's as a rancher.

(6)(2)
Skiddo's Will: (4)(1)(6)(1)(1) I retract my earlier statement!

Skiddo ignores Nathan and runs over to Swiftfire! Bounding off each boulder along the way. Clearly Skiddo has tons of fun in the annual running, but he's just seen a creature he admires even more...the panting, sweating, powerful Swiftfire!

Love is in the air. <3

[Dragonstrike]

Insight of 2 doesn't have much chance of stopping a Running Pokemon, but I'll let you reroll 1's as a rancher.

(6)(2)
Skiddo's Will: (4)(1)(6)(1)(1) I retract my earlier statement!

Skiddo ignores Nathan and runs over to Swiftfire! Bounding off each boulder along the way. Clearly Skiddo has tons of fun in the annual running, but he's just seen a creature he admires even more...the panting, sweating, powerful Swiftfire!

Love is in the air. <3

Nathan and Kirlia stare at Skiddo running off for a moment...then at each other...and then back at Skiddo...

"Uh...Skiddo?  That's my Ponyta that that girl is riding, just so you know...if you want to get to know her better, you can come with us...she's a little too busy right now, but there'll be plenty of time to socialize later..."

Got a pokeball with Skiddo's name on it ready! Didn't expect that to go so well, though...

[Spiritmon]

Spoiler

Other Rhyhorn Round 1

Gender: (3) It's a girl!

Koa: (5)
Rose: (1) +3 = 4
Rhyhorn (2) + 1 Dex +1 Survival = 4

Disobedience: (6)(2)(1)
Loyalty: (3)(4)

Axew leaps atop Rhyhorn's back and brings his hands down on either side of the Pokemon's neck.
Dual Chop
5 dice, -2/3 actions = 3/2
(5)(2)(1)
(3)(5) Two hits
1 Str + 2 power -4 vit = 1 dice min
(3)
(4) Rhyhorn takes 1 dmg 6/7hp.

Close Combat
(6)(1)(1) The Snake eyes means it's a miss! By pure luck, as Rhyhorn is turning to face Koa/shake him off, Rose goes sailing by!

Stomp on Koa
1 Dex +3 Fight + 2 Brawl = 6 dice
(4)(6)(1)(2)(1) Rhyhorn pins Koa down with a big foot.
2 Str + 2 power -3 vit = 1 dice
(5) Koa takes 1 dmg 5/6hp.
Chance: (6)(1)(2) Koa flinches!

Close Combat 2
(4)(4) While Rhyhorn is distracted, Rose gets in real close!
3 Str + 5 power -4 vit = 4d6+1
(3)(6)(5)(6) Rhyhorn takes 4 dmg 2/7hp -2 pain.
A mighty karate chop shivers some of Rhyhorn's armor, but -1 Def for Rose - she's vulnerable to counterattack.

Time to catch that Rhyhorn. He likes this species so he won't avoid catching it. He returned Monferno to her pokeball and bring Phantump to the battle. "Phantump, use Confuse Ray in that Rhyhorn. If the first one fail use again until he is confuse. Koa, avoid attack Rhyhorn and focus on Dodge his attacks.

Orders: Confuse Ray, then use Pokeball to capture it. And Koa simple dodge.

[Iron]

Skiddo's not ready for a Pokeball yet. Not while his new love looks so tired! There might be danger about! Skiddo follows Swiftfire like a baby Growlithe for the rest of the day.

Here's his stats though: Happiness 2, Loyalty 2, Disobedience 1. Vine Whip, Take Down, Bulldoze.

Nathan can have 1XP.

[Iron]

Phantump's new initiative: (4)

Obedience: (6)(4)
Disobedience: (6)(1)(6)

Koa waits impatiently. He's also flinched, though Rhyhorn is pulled off him when the Pokeball goes off.

Confuse Ray
(6)(3)(2)(6)(2)

Pokeball: (4)(3)
Rhyhorn: 8 Will, -2 pain, -1 confuse = 5 dice
(6)(6)(6)(6)(5) Rhyhorn says NO. The Pokeball is shattered to pieces.

Horn Attack on Koa, who can only use a 2nd attack to dodge.
(1)(6)(5)(2)(3) 2 successes
(1)(1) Nope!
(1) No damage, however, as Rhyhorn doesn't have enough room in this canyon for a proper charge.

How many Pokeballs are you willing to spend?

[Dragonstrike]

Skiddo's not ready for a Pokeball yet. Not while his new love looks so tired! There might be danger about! Skiddo follows Swiftfire like a baby Growlithe for the rest of the day.

Here's his stats though: Happiness 2, Loyalty 2, Disobedience 1. Vine Whip, Take Down, Bulldoze.

Nathan can have 1XP.

"...*sigh*...alright then, we can wait on the pokeball.  Please stick with me for now, though.  Swiftfire should be out of there soon enough, and she'll be coming straight back to me when she does.  You wouldn't be able to catch up to her right now anyways, I think.  Looks like she's used Flame Charge."

Well, that's enough Running for Nathan, I guess.  While he could do another encounter, he's starting to get a little out of breath now.  It's still pretty cold, after all.