Pokemon Tabletop United

Despite keeping their eyes peeled for furry outlaws, the party encounters very little as they set off along the long path. It's hot, but less than you'd expect, and more humid than you'd expect a desert to be also. The edges of the road are occasionally lined with thin bands of green (though they quickly give way again to sand), either there's a big water pipe fitted directly under their feet or something weirder is afoot.

Regardless of all the warnings and tension, the walk is distinctly uninteresting. Perhaps the Pilgrimage should have started with a bus trip to somewhere more exciting, unless this bland trek out of the city was meant to be symbolic of something. The relevant paragraph of Caroline's book was illegible due to punch stains, and unable to provide any insight.



It was about halfway to the forest before anyone saw anything else that moved.
A small scuffle was unfolding across the middle of the path, between a group of scaly yellow moles and what seemed to be the younger siblings of the guard's mounts back at the city. A third, pinkish purple pokemon with big ears and a little horn seemed to be the object of their disagreement, and somewhat the worse for wear.

The creatures look nervous as the humans approach, but seem reluctant to abandon their fight. You could possibly go around them while they are busy with each other, or you could intercede if you want to stop nature from taking its course.

The sides of the path are dotted with little burrows, and further out into the sands are a strange pattern of circular indentations.

Turn Order:

*some wild pokemon which have already moved*
Nando
Theo
Caroline
Ylva
Ivy
Lucian
*some wild pokemon which have not already moved*

You possibly also want to send out your pokemon. Just tell me what square they should be on, don't worry about turn order for that one.

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SpoilerI'm mentally re-weighing the benefits of doing things on roll20 vs just posting in the thread, but for now the link is here.

https://app.roll20.net/join/273855/5UKhFw

R20 makes it more convenient to set things up in advance and has a useful grid system, and macros that can roll dice for you, but rolling dice faster doesn't save all that much time in a pbp game anyway. It's a tool designed for real time, but it does have a chatlog so it's not like you can't just drop in and do something and then drop out.
Posting in the forum keeps everything in one place and means you can be a bit more verbose but you might not actually be planning on writing a lot anyway.

We could also just do both, I mean combat takes place in turns anyway. Post what you want to do and I'll run it through roll20 and summarise it here, makes planning and queueing up actions whilst waiting for someone else to actually take their turn (or for me to do my bit) easier.

Tell me what you think.