[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Spiritmon]

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Ven grimaces in distaste the news of the group having to face even MORE bastardous Bug types (and flitches slightly at the mention of that demon dog before Nathan confirmed they weren't here), before closing his eyes, letting out a low *Sigh* and nodding his head, crossing his arms and regarding the group as he spoke. "Then we best proceed with our Fire and Flying types and move users in the front to ward of those insects and proceed down the yellow stone tunnel with utmost caution. If the Bug should try to stop use, sufficient demonstration of the 'firepower' we have on hand should persuade them to leave us alone and unmolested, but given the near mindless and relentless behavior these Pokémon have demonstrated thus far......we should prepare for the worse. As for healing, Tropius should have its wounds attended to first, as their injuries are the most severe, followed by my sister Apsis. Once Heal Pulse for each should suffice, unless each individual Pokémon needs another to be gotten out of critical condition."

After saying this, the researcher then beckons Lucifer over to his side.......and began to sternly lecture them for flying off ahead with the rare collector without getting his explicit permission first/informing him, with him looking worried, irritated, and deeply disappointed in his brother for such a reckless, thoughtless action on their part. "Lucifer, I am extremely disappointed in you for flying off like that. If you were with me and the rest of the group, we could have used your Tailwinds to speed us all through the tunnels in order to reach this point AND reunite with all our friends and family that much quicker. Instead, you joined up with Heart and left me and everyone behind, delaying us all sustainly in the process and giving whatever lured away our Pokémon all the more time to do anything to them. Had you come to me first and informed me of your desire to join Heart, I might have allowed you to do so in order to keep an eye on him and provide aid in him scouting the way ahead, but you didn't and acted on your own initiative seemingly without concern for my feelings or thought to the consequences of your decision."

" Because of all this, I'm not going to feed you any Fruit or Sweets for an entire week as punishment, instead feeding you the bland Dry Food in its place, and explicitly forbid you from soliciting any fruit or sweets from anyone else in the group. If you do something like this again on our journey without informing me first and/or not getting my permission, I'll be putting you in the PC effective immediately. Do you understand, Lucifer?"

The empath pins his little devil with an especially firm stare as he finishes giving them a verbal reaming, looking at them imposingly as he awaited their response....

"Ventus. Please dont blame Lucifer. It was my fault he have followed me. I was the one reckless who didnt wait for you guys. I was determined in find the your pokemons that I forget my own security. In the end we get ambushed by a group of Whirlipede. He help me, Rose and Gustav. Without him, the battle would be even more and maybe Gustav would faint without the chance to heal your pokemons. Dont be so hard of him Ventus. If you want someone to be blame, then blame me." Then Heart bow his head in Lucifer direction. "Thank you for helping there my friend."

[Lord Windos]

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"Ventus. Please dont blame Lucifer. It was my fault he have followed me. I was the one reckless who didnt wait for you guys. I was determined in find the your pokemons that I forget my own security. In the end we get ambushed by a group of Whirlipede. He help me, Rose and Gustav. Without him, the battle would be even more and maybe Gustav would faint without the chance to heal your pokemons. Dont be so hard of him Ventus. If you want someone to be blame, then blame me." Then Heart bow his head in Lucifer direction. "Thank you for helping there my friend."

".......I understand why you wish to cover for my brother, but even with the assitence he provided towards you it doesn't override the fact he still charged off ahead without first informing me of his decision, nor the fact he should know better by now not to act so heedlessly. Therefore, I have no choice but to punish him for his actions, as if I do not enforce discipline and make known my expectations for his behavior, he will continue to act in ways that are contrary to what I wish for him and possibly put himself in jeapordy in the process. I care deeply for my brother, Heart, and I don't want anything to him if I can't possibly prevent it, so when he went flying off after you.....I was scared of what might have happened. I'm happy he was able to help you out in a pinch with those Whirlipedes, but if something bad happened to him while he was gone......

"......You see my point, don't you Heart? It would be like Koa running off the fight a Pokémon without checking in with you; even if he came out okay and his actions still benefited you or others, it doesn't change the fact he put himself in danger without regard to your feelings on the matter or thoughts of his own safety. *Sighs* Discipling your Pokémon for their laspes in judgement, transgressions, or to instill Loyalty and/or obedience is far from a pleasant thing, but it has to be done for the good of everyone and them, and that goes especially for naturally Disobedient species of Pokémon and/or Dragon types like Lucifer. As a Pokémon Researcher that specializes in Pokémon Sociology and studying + handling Dragon, Steel, Ghost and countless other Disobedient Species of Pokémon, I am speaking from a wealth of experience, so please trust what I am doing is for the best for my dear brother....."

"I don't and won't blame you for going off ahead by yourself, Heart, as all you wanted to do was help us all recover our 'lost' friends and family, and the situation at the time and even now is......delicate for us all. If it matters to you, though, you have my forgiveness for you action regardless, my friend."

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

'I was the one reckless who didnt wait for you guys', Heart said.
'A group of wild Whirliped capable of steamrolling or poisoning someone', he said.
'....Without Lucifer, things would have been way more dire', he said.

It all reminds Shiva on what happene d not too long ago, but what also has been discussed and cleared sufficiently already in the means of there's no reason to mention it in the slightest outside of her thoughts: Ven's leaving to chase after that Shedninja. Eeeeeekkkkk... She doesn't give any hint on the outside that she is reminded on that pain, dissappointment, anger and devourering empty-/loneliness she felt in the whole process, just continues stroking her Tropius' neck almost absent-mindedly as if hoping that doing so will calm them both. Which it did to some degree, and distracted her unpleasant memories.

Only when Heart and Ventus have discussed things between them, she rather carefully nudges Heart as they all started on their way further down the path, feeling like there's something she needs to get off her mind: She's not too dumb to count one and one together, and by no means is she above apologies if it seems like one would be justified. Carefully and almost meekly, but with a clear voice she tells him that... "....I'm sorry. That's all I wanted to say to you, Heart. That's for this morning, you have to forgive me please for screaming at you, sometimes I just tend to overreact. All's well... But, you know, Yena has a meaning for me, so naturally I freak out over him having gone missing... He evolved down here, and he listens to me. I'm also...glad that came back to us all unharmed." ...She averts her gaze, turns completely silent as if she doesn't seem to expect and answer at all and focuses back on keeping the Castle of her Mind protected (the force was having problems getting the dragon Pokemon obeying in order to swarm the castle) and the further path with a determined and painfully hopeful expression to find their Pokemon in the end - pesky Bug Types around.

[Nylon]

Valder smugly accepted the praise he got from Nathan and Ventus. +1 happiness to Valder.

[Dragonstrike]

Nathan very, very quietly says, "...c-can we just get a move on once Gustav heals Tropius and Aspis, pl-please?  Everyone here is all r-right...nobody here wandered off without someone to guide them..."

He definitely doesn't have to say how massively concerned he is for Ralts's well being right now.  And Zippy's.  And Solomon's, too...and the others, but Ralts, Zippy and Solomon are obviously his chief concern right now since none of the other pokemon are in immediate danger...

[Spiritmon]

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"Ventus. Please dont blame Lucifer. It was my fault he have followed me. I was the one reckless who didnt wait for you guys. I was determined in find the your pokemons that I forget my own security. In the end we get ambushed by a group of Whirlipede. He help me, Rose and Gustav. Without him, the battle would be even more and maybe Gustav would faint without the chance to heal your pokemons. Dont be so hard of him Ventus. If you want someone to be blame, then blame me." Then Heart bow his head in Lucifer direction. "Thank you for helping there my friend."

".......I understand why you wish to cover for my brother, but even with the assitence he provided towards you it doesn't override the fact he still charged off ahead without first informing me of his decision, nor the fact he should know better by now not to act so heedlessly. Therefore, I have no choice but to punish him for his actions, as if I do not enforce discipline and make known my expectations for his behavior, he will continue to act in ways that are contrary to what I wish for him and possibly put himself in jeapordy in the process. I care deeply for my brother, Heart, and I don't want anything to him if I can't possibly prevent it, so when he went flying off after you.....I was scared of what might have happened. I'm happy he was able to help you out in a pinch with those Whirlipedes, but if something bad happened to him while he was gone......

"......You see my point, don't you Heart? It would be like Koa running off the fight a Pokémon without checking in with you; even if he came out okay and his actions still benefited you or others, it doesn't change the fact he put himself in danger without regard to your feelings on the matter or thoughts of his own safety. *Sighs* Discipling your Pokémon for their laspes in judgement, transgressions, or to instill Loyalty and/or obedience is far from a pleasant thing, but it has to be done for the good of everyone and them, and that goes especially for naturally Disobedient species of Pokémon and/or Dragon types like Lucifer. As a Pokémon Researcher that specializes in Pokémon Sociology and studying + handling Dragon, Steel, Ghost and countless other Disobedient Species of Pokémon, I am speaking from a wealth of experience, so please trust what I am doing is for the best for my dear brother....."

"I don't and won't blame you for going off ahead by yourself, Heart, as all you wanted to do was help us all recover our 'lost' friends and family, and the situation at the time and even now is......delicate for us all. If it matters to you, though, you have my forgiveness for you action regardless, my friend."

'I was the one reckless who didnt wait for you guys', Heart said.
'A group of wild Whirliped capable of steamrolling or poisoning someone', he said.
'....Without Lucifer, things would have been way more dire', he said.

It all reminds Shiva on what happene d not too long ago, but what also has been discussed and cleared sufficiently already in the means of there's no reason to mention it in the slightest outside of her thoughts: Ven's leaving to chase after that Shedninja. Eeeeeekkkkk... She doesn't give any hint on the outside that she is reminded on that pain, dissappointment, anger and devourering empty-/loneliness she felt in the whole process, just continues stroking her Tropius' neck almost absent-mindedly as if hoping that doing so will calm them both. Which it did to some degree, and distracted her unpleasant memories.

Only when Heart and Ventus have discussed things between them, she rather carefully nudges Heart as they all started on their way further down the path, feeling like there's something she needs to get off her mind: She's not too dumb to count one and one together, and by no means is she above apologies if it seems like one would be justified. Carefully and almost meekly, but with a clear voice she tells him that... "....I'm sorry. That's all I wanted to say to you, Heart. That's for this morning, you have to forgive me please for screaming at you, sometimes I just tend to overreact. All's well... But, you know, Yena has a meaning for me, so naturally I freak out over him having gone missing... He evolved down here, and he listens to me. I'm also...glad that came back to us all unharmed." ...She averts her gaze, turns completely silent as if she doesn't seem to expect and answer at all and focuses back on keeping the Castle of her Mind protected (the force was having problems getting the dragon Pokemon obeying in order to swarm the castle) and the further path with a determined and painfully hopeful expression to find their Pokemon in the end - pesky Bug Types around.

Nathan very, very quietly says, "...c-can we just get a move on once Gustav heals Tropius and Aspis, pl-please?  Everyone here is all r-right...nobody here wandered off without someone to guide them..."

He definitely doesn't have to say how massively concerned he is for Ralts's well being right now.  And Zippy's.  And Solomon's, too...and the others, but Ralts, Zippy and Solomon are obviously his chief concern right now since none of the other pokemon are in immediate danger...

Heart stop to listen for a few seconds listening to what Ventus have say. Heart understand what Ventus meant. Sometimes you must be act bold when you take care of natural disobedient pokemon like dragon-types. No act in cruelty, but to act in wisdom. "I understand Ventus. If Koa or any other pokemon of mine would do such thing I would be deadly worry myself. And thanks about forgive me man."

When Shiva talk with Heart he was a bit silent listening to everything what she say with a stoic face. Then Heart smile and touch her shoulder, to reasure her there is not such thing as grudge or hate between them. "Its okay Shiva. I must confess I was bit hurted when you say that things this morning, but I understand its because you was scared and worry about your pokemon who its like you family. If Koa, Rose, Gustav or any other pokemon of mine would disapear like that...I believe I would end like reacting in the same way. To be put in short: I dont blame you or hold any grudge against you. You are a great friend of mine, and in your place I would act in the same way. But if this make you feel better, I forgive you for overreact and about the yell. And I promise: We gonna find and rescue the others, no matter what." The Heart let out the hand from Shiva shoulder and give her a weak punch on her shoulder. "Thats its what friends do right?"

Heart then listen to what Nathan say and nods his head. "You right. Gustav, use Heal Pulse in Apsis and Tropius now. We have a family to rescue."

[Lord Windos]

Nathan very, very quietly says, "...c-can we just get a move on once Gustav heals Tropius and Aspis, pl-please?  Everyone here is all r-right...nobody here wandered off without someone to guide them..."

Ventus naturally hears the boy's comment due to his keen senses and paying careful attention to them in case they were in danger of crumpling any further under the mounting pressure of the group's current crisis, and nods his head in response. He doesn't necessarily agree with their later point, but he'd rather get all the group's Pokémon healed and everyone back on the trail of their 'lost' Pokémon and deal with whatever enraptured them all in the first place than continue arguing on the merits of Discipling his brother (which should have been soley his concern, but Heart did raise some valid complaints for his choice, so he got sidetracked a bit). He does offer Heart a small, thankful smile when they ended up agreeing with them and dropping the subject, however, so all's well that ends well I guess!

Ven's ready to get a move on once Tropius is healed to acceptable levels, and Apsis if their are any Heal Pulses left for her!

[Dragonstrike]

Well, considering we're in a bug infested cave and things are slightly less hectic now...guess this music is appropriate, isn't it?

Mt. Sentry Legendary Biome: Route 10 (Mt. Pyre Remix) - Pokemon Uranium

[Iron]

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No critters have eaten the Forretress, possibly because it's too steely.

It avoids Poison but can be Glared and Frozen, for -7 will.
Steel Ball: (6)(3)
Will: (6)(4)

(4)(6) vs (6)(3) Delta Forretress was caught!

0/0/3
Bug/Steel
Move list and ability are identical to Pineco. Its Chalkboard ability, as mentioned before, can include the moves Fire/Thunder/Ice Fang.

(Iron, Dagny did say that Steel Balls act as Great Balls for capturing Steel types, but since they ended up captured anyway, I guess it don't matter! 

Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder!

[Iron]

Heal pulse on Tropius:

(4)(4)(3)(4)(4)(5)(1) Tropius heals 5 hp

and on Apsis:

(4)(6)(5)(2)(2)(4)(4)(6)(6)(5) Apsis heals 8hp

Clawitzer did an amazing job.