this island is in SHAMBLES. i mean RUINS.

[tidaldrum]

[no. literal ruins. it is an island of ruins. mythology nuts, ruin lovers, fossil collecters............ all are welcome!

anyone is welcome, actually. why? because there's a chance of finding a fossil!!!

as well as an equal amount of chances to find things that look like a fossil but aren't. like an old amber with nothing in it. incredible.

and wouldn't you know it, but there's a fossil revival lab on this island too! it's pretty unmanned, but there's books with instructions on how to revive your very own DESTRUCTIVE DINOSAUR MONSTER.

so hey! come on! make a friend! throw your enemy into one of the ruin's dozen puzzle rooms! ffall to your doom! whatever you want!

TREASURE AND RARE POKEMON AWAIT]

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[anterograded]

[(Deep. The only thing Hilbert has going for him his is Archeop's ability to have better eyesight in the dark and his own adaption to the dim lighting. The flashlight helps too, obviously.)

The footsteps don't catch his attention much - the idea that people would be wandering around in the ruins like him isn't too hard to handle! - but the growing light does. It's almost enough to make him panic - is it someone he's supposed to know? have they met? - so instead of immediately answering, he grabs his Island notebook from his bag and lays it beside him. He'll flip through it while he talks, skimming the pages.]

Uh -- yeah! Lots of it! Relic and I - that's him - it's been a while since we got to explore some old, musty place. Are-- are you?

[...no, it doesn't seem like he's met anyone here who's supposed to look like the girl in front of him, at least. Or have the same Pokémon as her. He's sure he would've drawn out such a strange looking one the first chance he got.

(And he will be doing that, on a fresh page of his Island notebook.)]

[globetrotting]

[She watches him with his book, intrigued by what could be inside- it could be anything, maybe some sort of research is what Blue's guessing. (Or does he have a book on pokémon?)]

Yep! It's been a while since we've done the same, too. [And, since she is curious about that book-] Are you collecting data on the rooms?

[And she'll take a step inside with her xatu too, since the boy doesn't seem to be exactly put off by her precious. But she won't step too close to either him or Relic, just in case.]

[anterograded]

[Technically?] Yeah. I'm uh... bad at remembering stuff.

[That's really an understatement, but Hilbert likes being treated like a normal person, so he'll keep mum about his condition. He waves his Island notebook, Xatu half-drawn.]

This one's for this island, actually. If you don't mind me asking, what kind of Pokémon is that? [Sketch sketch sketch.]

[globetrotting]

[Those are odd things to say, aren't they? But despite thinking that, it's rude to leave a question unanswered- so, motion a hand out towards xatu.]

A xatu- evolved form of natu. They're psychic/flying bird pokémon. They say they can view the past and future simultaneously- [She looks at the bird, smiling.] -a future through one eye and the past through the other.