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Cygnus trailed his fingers down the long, wooden table. A dining room, then. Something crunched under his feet - he stopped. Had he broken something? He hoped he hadn't just crushed a bug Pokemon. "What is that, Ariel?" he asked. "Should I pick it up?"

The Espeon inspected the floor, identifying the broken glass as Not Safe To Touch. "Espi," he snorted, his tone clearly negative.

"Is it all right to keep going?"

"Espeon." Positive.

Cygnus's footsteps crunched again as he moved farther along the table, until his fingers encountered a rectangular glass case, like a fishtank or one of the cases at the museum. What was on the floor must once have been one of these. He tapped a glass pane, and the sound told him that there was no water inside.

"Is there anything in this?" Cygnus called to his new human friend.

Ariel (1000/1000 HP)

One of the two remaining light bulbs starts flickering, and within a few seconds, the bulb explodes into numerous glass shards that rain down upon the two humans and their pokemon. Well, that must be where the glass on the floor came from.

Rolling 2 6-sided dice
First dice = damage to Fin's pokemon
Second dice = damage to Truth's pokemon

1 = miss
2-5 = a glass shard hits for 100 damage
6 = a particularly large glass shard hits for 200 damage

Both of you should write a reaction post to what happens (do not roll), then you may resume dice rolling

Duo wasn't too far behind Cygnus, his new Joltik out. The Pokemon was a bit...wary of him still, but seemed to be adjusting, since Duo made no move to harm him or anything. "Man...need to figure out a name for you." He was glad he wore boots as glass crunched under his feet, eyes darting about for any sign of life.

He looked over when Cygnus called to him, then threw his arms over his head when the light bulb shattered, face turned downwards. "s**t!" Damn...what was with this place?! His Joltik skittered to one side, making a buggy hissing noise as it dodged the glass. "Damn...we're cool. No injuries here. You good?" He shook himself a bit and looked over to the case Cygnus had been talking about.

"Looks like...fossils. I think." He'd only seen a few fossils before, a looooong while ago.

Joltik (800/800 HP)

Duo crossed his arms as he looked the fossils over, curious. "Maybe. It's pretty likely, if you ask me." He looked back over to Cygnus. "I'm hoping we are. But...well, some Pokemon are pretty powerful. So yeah...it is likely the wish muddled things up. I mean...this house looks pretty old, but there were electric lights in here. And now...we've got these fossils." He sighed and looked to the Joltik, who was skittering around, investigating under the table.

Joltik (800/800 HP)

Cygnus nodded. "That's right, the electricity's out of place, too. Perhaps now there's a museum somewhere that's lit by candles, and has old china for exhibits. Then again, that wouldn't be too strange."

Intrigued by the little bug, Ariel pounced playfully behind the other Pokemon, taking care not to land right on top of it. He gently tapped the creature on the head with one soft paw, then drew back to sit attentively, ears perked forward, to watch its reaction.

Ariel (1000/1000 HP)

Cygnus turned back to the glass case, searching with his hands for anything that might tell them more about their predicament. Finally, on one side, he felt something very familiar.

"There's something here in Braille!" he exclaimed. The blind man's fingers danced excitedly over the well-known patterns, and he read the message aloud: "Break the fossil that revives from the light of a red moon. The past will pave the way to the future.

"'The fossil that revives from the light of a red moon,'" Cygnus repeated. "I don't suppose you have a red moon on hand? I'm fresh out." He grinned, then frowned in concentration. "That sounds familiar, actually. I think there might have been something in the Pokedex..." He snapped his fingers. "Kabuto!

"Here," he called to his new friend. "See if there's a Kabuto fossil in this case. I'm not too enthused about destroying priceless artifacts, but it just might help us out here."

Ariel (1000/1000 HP)

Ariel chirped in delight as the Joltik responded in kind. He crouched down to the floor to put his face roughly on a level with the bug's, allowing his tail to waver lazily in the air. "Espi," he greeted the other Pokemon.

"They're sort of dome-shaped," Cygnus said, describing half a globe with outstretched hands. He'd encountered one or two Kabuto at the Pokemon Daycare back home, so he knew what they felt like. "A big smooth shell, with maybe a few pointy little legs."

Ariel (1000/1000 HP)