[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Spiritmon]

Spoiler

It is now Day 66.

It's Raining. Looks like a lot of people are holed up in their houses with their friends. You see people hurrying past, holding board games or playing cards under their coats.

Heart awake with the sound of the Raining outside. He someway likes the Raining because it sometimes brings some cold weather. And thats remind him of the day he once lived in Sinnoh. As much Heart dont like remember the day with his Clan, Sinnoh will always be his home. You can choose your friends, but you cant never choose where you born. "Well...time to do some stuff now...first of all to enter in contact with Shiva. And the requested money."

Heart takes his phone and taps the message.


@PhantomUnderYourDesk


Hey Shiva! Good morning! Ready to make the trade?

Since Heart wakes so soon, maybe some training session sooner in that morning might help warm the body for today. As for choosing partners for training, Heart takes Typhon, Mudkip (since the young still needs some training) and finally the young Natu.

"Okay guys! Since we problably not going to have some battle today because of the raining, we must sharp our style of battling with morning training session! Typhon! You still need to sharp your eletric field powers! Its not because you evolve you gonna slacking off in your training! More than ever you need to give all of your efforts! Mudkip! You have a lot of potential young one, so you need give you all! You still lack of battle experience, but this gonna change soon! One day I will make evolve to a strong and powerfull Swampert! So our focus in the training is in your Ground-side moves so you that way gonna be acostumed. Natu! Today training we gonna fortify a little the strengh of your tiny wings. You have the power in see the future, but you still need training to when we find the HM-Fly so you need strong Wings to conqueror the skies. I have some energy drinks to help recover energy after the training! Lets give our best!"

Mechanic: Training session with Typhon, Mudkip and Natu @Iron

[Dragonstrike]

It is now Day 66.

It's Raining. Looks like a lot of people are holed up in their houses with their friends. You see people hurrying past, holding board games or playing cards under their coats.

Another day in Cress, another day of busy checklist marking.

Hmmm...what does he need to do today?

Well, first of all, he should probably call his mom.  He did miss a lot of messages from her while they were in Mt. Sentry...

Second, he's waiting to hear back from the museum about the fossil thing.  He's fairly eager to get started on that.

Beyond that...well, one step at a time.  He'll be checking for messages and calls throughout the day (before/at the end of each encounter, basically), since he doesn't want to miss a notification from the museum concerning the fossils.  Once he gets one, he'll probably head straight to the museum or wherever else he's supposed to go if he received a positive response.  Until then, though, he'll have to busy himself...though it doesn't stop him for checking for that message in the morning before his first encounter anyways.

[Iron]

It is now Day 66.

It's Raining. Looks like a lot of people are holed up in their houses with their friends. You see people hurrying past, holding board games or playing cards under their coats.

Unlike yesterday morn, Terra was up bright and early at the crack of dawn, far less reluctant to get out of bed as he was due to the pre-ordained Training Session he had with Lovely and the Kimono Girls. He quickly went through his morning workout routine with practiced ease, showered, grabbed a breakfast consisting a couple apples and bananas, before he exited the Center and carefully made his way to the secret training grounds of the dancers, following their directions with discretion while also keeping a his senses sharp for any unwanted tag alongs. 

While he wasn't a paranoid man like his boss was, he wasn't stupid enough to discount the possibility that somebody at the Tea Ceremony would trail after him to spy on his aquatic serpent and the ladies' foxes, so he was going to be careful. Didn't want to end up accidently breaking his promise to the elegant ladies, nor force them to re-locate to a less ideal to train in private, so better safe than sorry.

Order: Morning Training Session with Lovely and the Kimono Girls! Don't really know what this entails, but Lovely will certainly do his best to match the prowess/skill of whatever the Eeveelution end up during the coordinated practice! Let his Competitive but tranquil nature shine through!

Also, kinda curious, but would Competitive actually give a bonus towards Training Rolls/XP ? This Pokémon IS trying to strive to outdo/match others and come out on top, or close to it anyway.

The training begins with calisthenics and warm ups. Milotic just writhes amid the dew for a bit. 
Then they move on to a pattern of dances. The human dancers have dreamy expressions on their faces as they and their Pokemon enter a mandala pattern of steps, drifting from one point in the pattern to another with their elementals trailing fire or sparks or glittering scales. Milotic instantly senses her place in the pattern and becomes a ribbon of beauty snaking from outside in and back again. Terra is the only one who doesn't automatically feel the connection, but he gets to experience the mesmerizing sight from the outside.

Then they move on to what might loosely be called sparring, using their favorite attacks only, and simply/lightly touching their opponents with an attack counts as a hit. Milotic is getting tired after this, since while the dew is refreshing it's not as easy as swimming.

1 Insight + 5 Survival + 2 perform, +1 competitive
(2)(2)(6)(6)(1)(6) (5)(3) +1 = 5 bonus XP

"Thank you, Terra, for lending us Lapis Lazuli! It helps to challenge ourselves a little on occasion, breaking from our strict routine. Now we are off - the morning ceremony will be soon!"

Little Eevee is panting, but the rest of the Pokemon are already beginning cooling-down exercises and not even breaking a sweat.

[Iron]

Typhon gets a training roll.

4 Vitality + 3 Survival + 0 Athletics
(3)(2)(4)(4)(3)(6)(6) = 4 bonus XP. +2 base XP for peaceful Cress City training.

Natu and Mudkip also get 2Xp.

[Spiritmon]

Typhon gets a training roll.

4 Vitality + 3 Survival + 0 Athletics
(3)(2)(4)(4)(3)(6)(6) = 4 bonus XP. +2 base XP for peaceful Cress City training.

(Cool! And Natu and Mudkip how much experience they get?)

[Iron]

The call from the Museum comes later in the day, but we can flash forward to it.

"Nathan Warren? Professor Laurelin, at the Creshire Museum. Hi. Got a minute? We've reviewed your application for our internship, and the secretary told me you were interested in getting some fossils revived. The bad news is, I already have a full crop of academic interns for the Spring season. I can hire you in the summer, but not right now. The good news is, there are some field research tasks I need performed, but none of my current interns have Pokemon strong enough to make them worthwhile. If you come to my office, I'll tell you about the tasks you can do in return for fossil revivification. How about it?"

[Iron]

Typhon gets a training roll.

4 Vitality + 3 Survival + 0 Athletics
(3)(2)(4)(4)(3)(6)(6) = 4 bonus XP. +2 base XP for peaceful Cress City training.

(Cool! And Natu and Mudkip how much experience they get?)

2XP.

[Spiritmon]

Spoiler

Typhon gets a training roll.

4 Vitality + 3 Survival + 0 Athletics
(3)(2)(4)(4)(3)(6)(6) = 4 bonus XP. +2 base XP for peaceful Cress City training.

(Cool! And Natu and Mudkip how much experience they get?)

2XP.

(Great!)

After such training, Heart give some energy drinks for everyone after such training session. "You guy did very well. Lets go find something to eat!" Heart then prepare some food for his pokemons, including Netune, who he have promise to make food for him. After the dinner, Heart decides to take a look in the Beldum Egg. The egg was been holding with a improvise bed with Larvesta sleeping together. "Hmm its a shame I dont have the same care skills Shiva have. It would be pretty useful if I could know if the egg is close to hatch." 

Mechanic: Check the egg to see if is close to hatch!

[Dragonstrike]

The call from the Museum comes later in the day, but we can flash forward to it.

"Nathan Warren? Professor Laurelin, at the Creshire Museum. Hi. Got a minute? We've reviewed your application for our internship, and the secretary told me you were interested in getting some fossils revived. The bad news is, I already have a full crop of academic interns for the Spring season. I can hire you in the summer, but not right now. The good news is, there are some field research tasks I need performed, but none of my current interns have Pokemon strong enough to make them worthwhile. If you come to my office, I'll tell you about the tasks you can do in return for fossil revivification. How about it?"

Well, it's most likely after encounter 1, then...so the stuff that happens before that is:

- Nathan's call to his mom.  Nothing special, probably.  Just making sure to keep in touch, still.  And apologizing for missing her last few messages because he was busy.

- A training session for Rhea, Forthright, and Carvanha in the rain!  For Rhea, Nathan's helping her out with basic care of the little ones again (mostly Carvanha).  Forthright's playing in the rain, but she eventually gets bored of it and wants to try changing it to a different weather (not a Sandstorm, though).  No success this time, but she feels like she should be able to, for some reason...maybe she's missing something important...and Carvanha is doing what she does best!  Om nom nom!  Biting stuff!  Hence why Nathan needs to help Rhea out...(2 exp for all?)

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Well, it's not quite what Nathan expected from the call, but I guess that works.  "I'll be right on over.  See ya in a few."

Off we go to meet the history and biology professor!

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

(…)

Terra is the only one who doesn't automatically feel the connection, but he gets to experience the mesmerizing sight from the outside.

Then they move on to what might loosely be called sparring, using their favorite attacks only, and simply/lightly touching their opponents with an attack counts as a hit. Milotic is getting tired after this, since while the dew is refreshing it's not as easy as swimming.

1 Insight + 5 Survival + 2 perform, +1 competitive
(2)(2)(6)(6)(1)(6) (5)(3) +1 = 5 bonus XP

"Thank you, Terra, for lending us Lapis Lazuli! It helps to challenge ourselves a little on occasion, breaking from our strict routine. Now we are off - the morning ceremony will be soon!"

Little Eevee is panting, but the rest of the Pokemon are already beginning cooling-down exercises and not even breaking a sweat.

No matter how unInsightful or thickheaded he is, Terra could always appreciate a fine performance or a training session done well, and his Lovely's and the Kimono Girl's improvised routine was both, and spectacularly so! He had a small smile the whole time watching, and when everything was wrapping up he gave a respectful nod to all, before walking up to share with his aquatic serpent a gentle caress.

"You did amazing with the foxes, Lapis. Rest now, and be well."

After returning them, he meet up with the elegant dancer and returned their kind words with a bow and some of his own.

"It was no problem for us, my ladies. You all wanted to see and......interact with Lapis Lazuli, and we wanted to perform more with you, so we both go what we wanted. Hm....yes, agreed. I always....vary my training sessions with my partners, to keep things.....fresh and challenging for them. (…) Thank you again for letting us train with you. May your Tea Ceremony turn out great, my ladies...."

The mountain of the man offered some marshmallows to the foxes for their hard work, then departed, heading to the Pokémon Center while fiddling with his Pokedex to send a message to Nathan ('What do I do to make message again....ah!'):

"Nathan, can you meet at the Pokémon Center? Need Gallade's help to Teleport to Stair City to adopt a Rilou at the Disobedience Center Heart told me about. Please?"

Order: Finish things up with the Kimono Girls, and then get Nathan's assistance to Teleport to Stair to obtain Rilou for $1200 Poke! If he agrees, then just automate the Teleport and picking up of the young aura fighter!