>>5744604>>5744606>>5744639>>5744733>>5744604>>5744606>>5744639Danny is taking a slow day. You fully endorse that. Matthew went to town - you still owe him a trip for a catch either at <span class="mu-s">Resortlast ruins</span> or <span class="mu-s">Aemilius Overpass</span>, but that will have to wait.
You sit in the still busy Poké Center. While your team is getting checked, you fiddle with your toolbox and raw materials.
>62 + Adequate at Technology : 72>Ball craft DC : 75The ambient noise doesn't help much with your focus. Time for the make or break part : encasing the ball in the metal brace.
The wood protest, screaks, bend.
>Fire-hardening : DC decreased to 70But you start really getting how to do it. This time, you're pretty sure that fire hardening, indeed, turned the failure into success.
Working with your hands in a task taking your whole focus is unsurprisingly pleasant. You're quite happy with the result.
You go to the counter to get your team back.
>32A claw-like hand grasps your shoulder.
"It's a nice little thing you've been doing right now..."
The man is somewhere between twenty and fifty : hard to tell, his face doesn't show wrinkles, yet his hair are white. He show no signs of receding hairlines, yet his eyes seems to tell he've seen much.
He's wearing some really surprising garment. That came a bit late in your sight - his eyes swallowed you whole.
Your gut screams Stranger Danger.
"I'll give you a choice, girl. Duel one of my followers here and now. You bet the ball. I bet... a favor. Or money. Or something you'd like.
Or don't. But this will have consequences."
His mouth smile. His eyes don't.
>Accept the stranger's challenge>Decine the stranger's challenge