[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Looks like Shiva chose wisely, as Addams sends out Rhyhorn! Wow, Nathan has never seen Tanuki put up new ribbons so fast. Black and white.


Pancham: (6) + 5 = 11
Rhyhorn: (5) + 2 Dex + 3 Survival = 10

[Dragonstrike]

Looks like Shiva chose wisely, as Addams sends out Rhyhorn! Wow, Nathan has never seen Tanuki put up new ribbons so fast. Black and white.

Now Nathan's REALLY interested in this battle.  Looks like he might get to see some more of what Pancham can do with those fists after all...

Nathan gives Kirlia a friendly bump, indicates that he should probably watch Pancham carefully too.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Ohohohohohooooh, this time it's not only Kirlia who's waving the ribbons in the colors of her panda, but also cutesy Tanuke herself?~ Naturally that Shiva appreciates this as soon as she has noticed it from the side. She raises her right arm eyelevel high which was the sign for Pancham to do a wide leap landing safely on his Master's upper arm, where he's receiving whispered battle orders -  only to cast a pose from the tai chi movements he has trained with her, then charging forward in direction of that Rhyhorn, fist-first and with green leaf firmly between teeth.

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Accuracy Roll Drain Punch1!!: 3 Dext + 2 Fight + 1 Brawl - 2 Actions = 4d6
Accuracy Roll Drain Punch2!!: 3 Dext + 2 Fight + 1 Brawl - 3 Actions = 3d6
Damage Roll: 3 Strenght + 3 power of the move + +1 STAB + 1 thanks to Iron Fist = 8d6 +1 SE on Rhyhorn. Whoahw.
Additional notes: Restores HP half the damage dealt, minimum 1hp. Nope, still no holding back. Does anyone on Little Cup do that, at all?

[Spiritmon]

Spoiler

Heart and Shiva get their time slots for the Little Cup!

Shiva has to fight Stonemason Addams. Heart will face Steeldriver Gertrude.

(We'll start things off there tomorrow!)

Spoiler

Heart waves back.

Then the Egg starts shaking and cracking!

More purple fluid oozes out - Shiva is careful to take it out of the Incubator and avoid the fluid, but it's only a little bit. Then the Egg splits, and writhing in the puddle is a baby Skrelp! It's so tiny!!!
(...)
This is one of the most poisonous Pokemon known to man, and Shiva just hatched it.

Spotting Heart at the entrance, he gain them a nod of his head and a smile, before his attention was abruptly yanked away when his fae friend's Egg started to hatch, and nary a moment later a Skelp was born into the world! "By Reshirim, its a Skelp! I thought they were only native to the Kalos region, but its difficult to doubt its presence in Cheshire when the newborn is right here! How in the world did the Shelter receive such an relatively rare species into their care and not being able to verify its identity.....? Ah well, no matter at all, in the end! Please don't let my ramblings prevent you from tending to your child, my dear!" Ventus said in short order, a wide excited grin on his face as he looked over to the mystical lass in question...............before he noticed the previously rare collector had vanished.

When Heart appear behind Shiva he came a little close and say: "Boo!"  After that Heart chuckle a bit. "Sorry for that Shiva and Ventus. I was training my stealth abilities. I was training together with my pokemon and was testing my stealth skills. Sorry for that."

True, Shiva immediately stopped waving and brought all her attention away from the PUNisher to that precious Mystery Egg finally hatching. Huh, what a good timing the young one had, deciding to hatch not only very shortly after she has checked on it – visually, not with Almanac obviously since Ventus and Heart were nearby – but also in front of the place she obtained it from. She has looked forward to this, has waited for this with great patience and wondered more than once what mysterious species was growing there within the eggshell – now the moment of realzation has arrived, one of the most precious moments for a yet young Breeder like Shiva was.


… Now a very small brown and purple seahorse stared up to her with its big red eyes, joyfull spreading its bluish pectoral fins while Shiva...just stared back in wonder. Seemed like she and her expression have frozen on the sight of having hatched a young Skrelp of all costs. She knew about this species, not much however, but certainly enough to know these seahorses 1. must indeed/luckily be very rare in Chreshire, matching Ventus' words there and 2. belong to THE most poisonous Pokemon known.

Ventus adressed that Skrelp as her child. ...Shiva averted her gaze from it and gave him a look that clearly spoke worry, 'What... Excuse me?!' and disbelief, before she went down onto her knees and carefully made cautionous eyecontact with that small Pokemon.

Skrelp seemed to smile at her. It was definitely not afraid, but even joyful to see Shiva (or so she detected). Neither felt she any danger coming from that Pokemon, at least none towards her. Faintly wondering about this, Shiva kept staring back, and eventually...she smiled back. Very faintly, but she did. To be honest, this lil' one was cute – so tiny! So...aww. One of the most toxic Pokemon known, and she of all people has cared for an egg of this line the whole time, anticipated to what will hatch, and now it was her young one. If...young Skrelp does not feel uneasy and even was friendly towards her, it won't harm her, right? It won't poison her or anyone close to her, right...? There was, actually, no reason to decline and fear what she has hatched there, was it? Even its toxicity will grow with the Pokemon, even if it might be a dragon one daywhose touch may be deadly, if things start with the right foot there is no point of shunning this little Skrelp... Right? With Psyshock and Co. On her side, she was able to somewhat defend herself from toxins lurking around, right...?


In the middle of this train of thought Shiva was stopped suddenly as something from behin startled her, almost causing her to either freeze again or yank away in pure shock – but not this time. This time, Shiva did what Ventus has prevented himself from doing – punching Heart. Well, not in the face, mind you, she ended up hitting him somewhere between chest and right shoulder.Probably not hard enough to give him any pain (unless GM feels like rolling out a Strike here nevertheless) and definitely not hard enough to send him flying, but enough to air some of her displeasure over being startled here, to defend her new Skrelp from a possible predator and enough for the desired 1 point in Brawl Speciality. (6xp spent)

[/b]Once she realized it was no predator nor something poisonous but ony Heart and his Phantump, Shiva went silent and withdrew her fist. She stared at it for a moment, before looking up to Ventus – wouldn't she know the oddball of sociologist relatively well by now, she'd be scared and possibly panicked over how wrathfully he seemed from that fun training of Stealth. Now though, she soon averted her gaze from him like nothing really happened, to bring her attention to her new Skrelp again.


In a move of very cautionous courage, Shiva extended one hand to her new companion(??) in an attempt of softly touching it on the forehead, then motioning it to come onto her open hand. The whole time she was keeping her calm as best as she could, as well as cast another faint smile to it. „N...Now then“, she spoke in a subtly shaky voice, „come with me, young Skrelp. I have hatched the egg you were in so far until now, so you have nothing to fear from me... In return, I am hoping to not having to fear your poison. Alright? How about a snack? I'm enjoying the pure taste of these cookies, so how about you...?“ *offering that Skrelp a tiny pice of it*



(@Iron's input now!~ I guess I'm making this Skrelp female, Comite is sent to PC for now to keep her in party. Once these scenes are resolved, I'll send out my Pokemon for Little Cup against that stonesmaiden.)

Heart could only have enough time to receive that punch in his face.

(Heart will accept the punch)

Spoiler

Heart thanks with a nod of his head. "Thank you Ventus. I promise you I wont do that again without a good reason." Then Heart bow his head in apologize to Shiva too. "Sorry for startle you too Shiva. I promise never do that again." Also he decided to share some information. "Oh I have some information too I forget to share. The Almanacs was hiring scientists to join with them to a little project. And Dagny talk with me she find a few machines beneath the skull ruins. She suspect it would maybe a TM library create by Saminarok itself, but I suspect it might be the drill I hear before our journey to the end of Earth. And this might be conect with the worker disaperance."

"Also when I was inside the Mt. Sentry, I find some old Unow Language. I couldnt translate but I was able to copy in my notes. Here." Then Heart show his notes with the Old Unow Language.

Heart's apology is thankfully accepted, she coyly apologied for punching him as well before praising his stealth, so now looking at these Old Unown Heart was showing them was it. Shiva frowned at them – they looked so different that those she saw in books and these three Unown of the Shelter. She let Ventus taking a gander at them for a bit, before eventually and carefully bringing up that „Ehm... Maybe we can show this to Nathan later or tomorrow morning, he's so interested in historican things I guess.“ Then she faced first Ventus, then Heart, then Heart's writing, waiting for their thoughts on this idea.

Heart nod in agreement to Shiva sugestion. "I agree. Perhaps Nathan can help with this translation about Unow language since he been studyind that for quite a lot of time. Also, any of you guys know why Nathan was acting so gloomy mood until now?"

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Spoiler

Iron

Flashback!

Heart thanks with a nod of his head. "Thank you Ventus. I promise you I wont do that again without a good reason." Then Heart bow his head in apologize to Shiva too. "Sorry for startle you too Shiva. I promise never do that again." Also he decided to share some information. "Oh I have some information too I forget to share. The Almanacs was hiring scientists to join with them to a little project. And Dagny talk with me she find a few machines beneath the skull ruins. She suspect it would maybe a TM library create by Saminarok itself, but I suspect it might be the drill I hear before our journey to the end of Earth. And this might be conect with the worker disaperance."

"Also when I was inside the Mt. Sentry, I find some old Unow Language. I couldnt translate but I was able to copy in my notes. Here." Then Heart show his notes with the Old Unow Language.



Flashback end

The researcher gives Heart a somewhat curt nod in response, before he loosens up somewhat when they apologize to his dear friend Shiva as well. The rare collecter's news, however, quickly caused him to put aside his current discontent for the man, and soon a sense of guarded curiosity filled him. "That is rather....intriguing news, Heart. Hmm.....perhaps I'll conduct my own investigations into the 'job' that Almanac is hiring for, and see what Insight I can gather of their operations. Researchers such as I are hardly a commonality, so I expect this shady organization would be quite eager to snap up my services, if given the chance..... As for Dagney's own gathered intelligence, in conjuction with your own, I find it likely that Almanac were attempting to find the hidden treasures of the Skull Ruins with that drill they made, before they awoke that golem and unearth those blasted Vines. I wouldn't doubt that more than a few Almanac workers lost their lives or 'disappeared' as a result of that fiasco......"

As for the Old Unown script that Heart copied down, Ventus decided to take a gander at it for a bit himself, both to memorize it and to see if he could glean anything from it (Ven may not have any Lore Specialty Points, but he is rather Insightful + Knowledgable, and I believe he's had a gander at the Old Unown + The partial translation a couple of times to decipher a few letters....)

Ventus easily memorizes the script.

*roll*

He also realizes it's not simply a 1 for 1 alphabetical substitution. There's no solution to this cryptoquip that makes any sense with the context.

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"Maybe. I fear what more then can unleash in the deeps of the Skull Ruins."

Spoiler

Oh yeah, Skrelp loves cookies. He happily oozes onto Shiva's gloved hand and gazes at her adoringly. That might feel weird, considering how a deadly Pokemon can be so adoring.

I'll leave it up to Heart whether he wants to dodge (requiring a roll for Shiva and/or Heart) or just take his medicine.

If you are simply bringing the Unown directly to the Ruins, it would not have to be registered in your name. If you traveled with it first, it would be, and you'd have to pay the fee.

Heart and Shiva take their places in the Little Cup Tournament, facing Addams and Gertrude. Addams is a middle-aged man with huge, callused hands. Gertrude is a HUGE bulky woman that Heart recognizes from the Scrapyard, though they never spoke. It's all muscle, too.

Send out your first Pokemon!

Nathan sees that the silver haired man has indeed moved on to the next round. His name on the scoreboards is Anaster.

(Heart is using the same costume of yesterday)

"Lady, I hope we can make a good battle. Percival, make a awesome battle!" Then Heart bring his little armorized pokemon. Percival put his tiny legs in the air and making his best cute face face possible!

[Iron]

Perceval comes out! (2) + 6 = 8

and finds himself face to face with another Aron! (1) + 2 dex + 4 survival = 7

[Iron]

The only real reason to hold back in the Little Cup is Crunch, Flamethrower, etc.


Stonemason Addams

Drain Punch 1
(1)(1)(6)(6) Phew! That punch barely connects!
4 Vit for Rhyhorn. (3)(2)(2)(4) Rhyhorn takes 2 dmg 5/7hp -1 pain

Pancham quickly finds himself facing down a descending giant foot! The crowd is booing.
Stomp 1
2 Dex + 4 Fight + 1 brawl -1 pain -2 actions = 4d6
(4)(1)(3)(3)
4 Str + 2 power -3 vit = 3d6
(6)(3)(1) Pancham takes 1 dmg 5/6hp
Flinch: (4)(3)(6) Pancham flinches! He's knocked to the floor by the tremor.

Chip Away 2
(5)(1)(1) Miss. Rhyhorn's vision is extremely weak up close, as everyone knows.

[Dragonstrike]

Nathan's paying reeeaaaalll close attention to that Drain Punch.

Drain Punch...if Kirlia was going to be a Gallade one day, he'd need a Fighting type move of some kind, and it's...difficult to teach the psychic types how to attack physically without the aid of TMs and Tutors...

...he's read about tutoring moves, he thinks he can maybe do it, but...

...

...he's not sure he can, either, having no experience other than what he's read about the practice...

...

...still, it'd do to pay attention whenever he sees Drain Punch executed...can't teach the move if you're not familiar with it...he's nowhere near being able to teach the move to Kirlia, anyways.  Particularly since he's never even heard of a Ralts, Kirlia, or Gardevoir being able to use the move in the first place...

...

Kirlia's waving those ribbons around proudly!  Little Pancham can do it!  This mean Rhyhorn is just going to run face first into Pancham's fists!  Kapow!

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

(Whoahw, these Drain Punch Rolls were close.)


"Back up there, Pancham dear one, do it again! That Rhyhorn may be bigger and heavier, but you're cuter and faster!"

Same orders and rolls as above since we're not suffering a Pain Penalization.

[Spiritmon]

Spoiler

Perceval comes out! (2) + 6 = 8

and finds himself face to face with another Aron! (1) + 2 dex + 4 survival = 7

Now THATS is a surprise. "Wow. A Aron. This is will be interesting. Anyway, Aron lets make some good moves! First of all use Protect if that Aron use Mud Slap or another stronger move! Then go ahead and show your strengh with you best Iron Head two times! Show them you are the best Steel Pokemon around here! If not go ahead with Iron Head three times instead!"

Protec Acuracy: Dex (3) + Fight (3) + Canalize (3) - Actions (3) = 6d6
Notes: Shield. Priority 5. Reduce 3 Dice damage from the foe.


Iron Head Acuracy 1: Dex (3) + Fight (3) + Brawl (3) - Actions (3/4 If Mud Slap not be used) = 6d6/5d/6
Iron Head Acuracy 2: Dex (3) + Fight (3) + Brawl (3) - Actions (4/5 If Mud Slap not be used) = 5d6/4d/6
Damage: Power (3) + STR (3) + STAB (1) =7d6
Notes: D3 To cause Flinch!

[Iron]

Stonemason Addams Round 2

Drain Punch 1
(5)(1)(2)(5)
(5)(5)(1)(1) Rhyhorn takes 2 dmg 3/7hp -2 pain.
Pancham fully heals.

Stomp 1
(6)(6)(6)
(4)(3)(1) Pancham takes 1 dmg 5/6hp
Flinch: (6)(5)(5) Pancham flinches!

Chip Away 2
(5)(3)
(6)(1)(1)(1) Barf. Pancham recovers from his flinch and just STOPS the Rhyhorn.