Lost Temple: Exploration

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Top Section	The three floors closest to the surface. Due to the light streaming in through the porthole like windows that line the walls, this is the brightest, most airy feeling section of the Temple. The hallways here are fairly broad and the curved ceilings tower high above the average person's head. Many large, circular chambers can be found in this section, the sort that might once have been used to receive guests in the Temple. Though time has had its effects on most of the objects decorating the halls and chambers, you can still see this section of the Temple must once have been richly decorated. Pokemon (lvl 10-30): Squirtle, Poliwag, Seel, Shelder, Krabby, Staryu, Corphish, Feebas, Magikarp, Shellos, Chinchou, Corsola, Lotad, Barboach, Kabuto, Binacle, Clamperl, Castform (Rainy form), Popplio, Pyukumuku, Wooper, Dewpider, Dratini, Pincurchin Pieces of Slab found: 8/8
Middle Section	The middle section consists of seven floors. Though some light still filters in from outside, most of the illumination here comes from strange, glowing crystals that are set at regular intervals along the walls. The hallways here are more narrow and less grand. The same goes for the chambers. You get the idea that this part of the Temple was perhaps more the personal domain of whoever once tended to this Temple. Compared to the first section, there are more hidden areas here, as well as traps preventing unauthorised individuals from accessing what had once been kept in this area of the Temple. Pokemon (lvl 20-60): Corsola, Corsola (Galarian), Gorebyss, Luvdisc, Finneon, Alomomola, Clauncher, Brionne, Wishiwashi, Arrokuda, Tentacool, Lanturn, Marill, Quagsire, Horsea, Marshtomp, Tirtouga, Frillish, Omanyte, Kabutops, Skrelp, Dragonair, Mareanie, Sealeo, Lileep, Anorith, Relicanth Pieces of Slab found: 8/8
Lowest Section	The lowest section of the temple. You can barely go down a single floor before you hit the water. It seems that this part of the temple is partially (or perhaps entirely) submerged in water. Anyone interested in exploring this part of the temple will need to be ready to swim and have a pokemon that knows Dive*. The sunlight from above does not penetrate this deeply in the water, and the light that illuminates the large labyrinthine hallways in this section of the temple comes from strange, bioluminescent corals and water plants that cover the walls. From the way they are grown, it's clear they were purposely coaxed to grow in those area. Additionally, because of the submerged nature of this area of the temple, it seems that whoever designed this area fully took advantage of the fact that the water allows people to move in all directions, and nothing like staircases can be found. As you get lower, the floors get smaller, growing more narrow as you travel down the tail end of the temple. * If your pokemon are incapable of Dive, the Legendary Seekers will recommend a trip to the Marine Research Institute on Sevii Island Four, where a Move Tutor for this move is available. Pokemon (lvl 50-80): Blastoise, Seaking, Starmie, Dhelmise, Octilllery, Wailmer, Milotic, Huntail, Lumineon, Clawitzer, Barraskewda, Poliwrath, Tentacruel, Gyarados, Cloyster, Cursola, Kingdra, Mantine, Swampert, Sharpedo, Gastrodon, Carracosta, Jellicent, Toxapex, Walrein, Cradlily, Armaldo Pieces of Slab found: 9/9

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Team Members: Millennial Tree Cookie (purifyingroots), Stanford Pines (meteorman)
Exploring section: Middle

Treasure Gacha sign-up: Millennial Tree Cookie and Ford!

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Their exploration carries Stanford Pine and the Millennial Tree Cookie down far into the middle level, quite near to the lowest level. The hallway they are in slowly grows more and more sober, with fewer decorations and carvings on the walls, until it finally comes to a pair of a giant, double doors. When opened, they step into a room filled with bones. The bones, which a quick check will show to be those belonging to various species of pokemon, are neatly stacked along the walls, the empty eye sockets of various skulls staring at them from atop of the piles.

It’s hard to tell why these bones are here. Are these pokemon that fell in defence of the temple? Are these simply the bones of the pokemon who had once lived here and had been granted the honour of burial inside the temple? Sacrifices? You just don’t know.

Among all the bones, they find



Treasure:

Stanford Pines finds a tablet full of ancient writings. It is long and seems like it might be important. When finally translated however (a process that will take a while due to the age of this tablet), it turns out to be a complaint from a local fisher, complaining about how the light shining off the temple wakes him up early in the morning, and how the sounds of the spires keep him up at night, and how all the water pokemon living in the temple have chased away the fish and (it goes on and on)

Just… why was this here?

In addition, Millennial Tree Cookie finds a bone carving of a Milotic, the eye on top suggesting it may once have been part of a necklace. Though the craftsmanship isn’t necessarily of the highest level, there is something very loving in the way the carving was made which makes one wonder if it was perhaps a tribute to a passed pokemon partner.