The green-scaled SYGNA SUIT matching Sandy the Flygon's scales made Shalin feel like she was in an air-conditioned building compared to what she felt before leading the duo of @gwylim and LORELEI DU'MOT through the arid wastes of Ultra Desert. While it didn't have false wings like other dragon-type suits of its kind, Shalin's was extremely aerodynamic, making her feel lighter. The cost? Shalin was vulberable to ice. Luckily for her, she wouldn't be running into any hostile ice Pokémon in such a warm and arid environment.

Standing next to her was her Flygon, Sandy. The dragon synced to her suit let out a greeting chirp. "We've practiced this at the Romping Grounds," she said to lift her dragon's spirits. "How about we get warmed in up in case we need to do this in the field?" With a nod, the green dragon crouched and spread its wings wide. The suited green-ette, her eyes covered with lightly-tinted red lenses serving as shields from debris, waddled above the dragon's right wing. Her Flygon slowly stood up, lifting her off the ground. The bizarre sight of her Flygon's wing alone supporting the suited trainer could have been as alien as the desert itself to the two. The green SYNC STONE inside her suit began to glow in tandem with Shalin's BOLDNESS about to be on display. "Now not too hard--"

Shalin's vision turned to a sea of tan, white, and blue as her mount's wings began humming, taking her with them on a thrill that only her SYGNA SUIT made possible. The rest of what she said was a distorted, unintelligible cacophony, aside from a single joyous, still-distorted whoop. Her adventuring companions may have seen her as a green blur on the Flygon's right side. After mere seconds, the buzzing ceased. Sandy gently lowered her trainer to the ground, Shalin a bit woozy but having the largest grin on her face either of them had seen. "Whew!" she let out a sigh from how disorienting the feat was. Without the INFINITY ENERGY powering her suit, that kind of motion would have shredded her. With her suit, though, it was fair game! She even had an unusual practical application that she hoped to impress the duo with.

PROMPTS DONE
25 encounter sentient mounds of sand that attempt to replicate the shapes of loved ones to lure you in (e.g. this can be a palossand or supernatural force).
27 encounter a sun dial that when operated or adjusted, can change the day and night cycle instantaneously.[break]

TLDR:
- LORELEI follows GWYLIM'S lead with a nod to SHALIN
- As they go forward, encounters a TIMEDIAL in the middle of the sand with various SAND PEOPLE fighting over control of it
- Asks if they'd like to approach

The moment Shalin's feet touched the ground after her Flygon lowered her to the ground, she felt her entire leg start to buckle from feeling like jelly. Even with the suit on, the fierce motion still completely deprived her of meaningful sense of touch in her legs and arms. "Whoa!" she stumbled as she held the edges of her dragon's wing again. "Hold your wing still for a bit if you can, Sandy! Just... wow. Even with the suit on, that's so fast!" That was beyond fast.

It was incomprehensible.

Shalin weakly waved to @gwylim and LORELEI DU'MOT , awkwardly sitting on her grounded Pokémon's wing gently flapping more like a gliding bird's than an insect's, as it was before. "Hi there! I guess I underestimated what she could do," she sheepishly greeted the two, the dragon equally awkwardly waddling in the direction of the sundial and paranormal anomalies. "Because just... wow. That was probably the fastest I've ever gone in my life."

Squinting, Shalin could have sworn she saw a Dragalge floating near the sundial as though it were swimming underwater. "I saw my Dragalge, Pharika," she answered Gwylim's question. "Desert mirages are a very real thing. I saw her die. I really don't want to talk about her any more than that." That Dragalge was one of Shalin's favorite rides in the water, and had played a pivotal role in paxton concordas 's offshore operation near Ever Grande City. It was the last good memory she had before the extraction of her stem cells had taken her life.

PROMPTS DONE
29 go back in time within the realm using the sun dial or a magical hourglass to avoid or resolve a situation.
33 encounter glyphic instructions that pertain to a ritual (method up to your discretion) that reverses a curse/summons the violent spirit of an incarnate forme landorus that has been displaced here.[break]

TLDR:
- LORELEI says 'fuck it' essentially and her vaporeon blasts through like 4 of the figures
- Now the two sides fighting over the sun dial are uneven, turning the sun dial
- Sun dial does its ting and now they're in the past in the middle of a scene. Said scene seems to be the summoning of LANDORUS by some unknown figures. LANDORUS looks pissed it was summoned and smashes the glyph used to summon it into pieces
- LORELEI says 'well.jpg' and suggests to get out of the way inb4 they all die

By the time enough feeling had returned to Shalin's limbs for her to slide off her Flygon's wing and stand on her own two feet again, LORELEI DU'MOT had already turned the sundial, bringing the trio back in time to the scene of an angry, orange Djinni that had possibly shaped the desert into what was before them today. Thankfully, the Landorus was preoccupied with the cloaked figured utilizing a ritual to try to control it. The legendary Pokémon, given a second chance in the strange timespace of the sundial, shattered the stone tablet containing the glyph, destroying it in both the past timeline and their current one.

"Do we have enough of the King's Leaf to make a third sample?" Shalin asked @gwylim , needing part of it to reverse the curse of the pyramid she had explored the last time she was at the desert. At the young man's command, she withdrew all her Pokémon and covered her ears in anticipation of the Altaria's hypnotizing song.

Once the Landorus had been put to sleep, Shalin let the bottled, now-herbal water dissolve the portion of the King's Leaf she was given. If she could secure a second bottle to do what she wanted, great! If not, she would need to find another way to reverse the curse. After all, that curse had already taken Ellie the Donphan's life. Regardless of whether she was able to get one for herself, she would carefully pour the herbal water into the Djinni's open mouth.

TLDR:
- LORELEI offers SHALIN her piece of the KING'S LEAF
- it seems the leaf trick worked, the 'curse' of landorus's return is being lifted, they're going back to present time

Shalin breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you, Lorelei," she gratefully replied, dropping her part of the large herb into her thick, insulated water bottle. While the herb would have taken a long time to dissolve into a form that could be consumed by humans, she had a unique way to accelerate the process.

Assuming Lorelei took the goggles @gwylim had offered, she would be able to see through a sandstorm blowing into a valley covered in buildings, overturned vehicles, and the like. The similar eye protection her Flygon-like windshields offered Shalin the same view. The only problem was there was no safe way down there, as the sandstorm was so intense that it would likely grind her partners' skin to dust. Without Sygna Suits for all of them, Shalin would have to find a new way. After some investigation, the girl was able to find a winding tunnel blocked by a cracked boulder stuck in the sand. It was clear from the beginning that there was no moving this thing. She did have one way, though:

Crack it open with a sonic explosion.

"Cover your ears, everyone!" Shalin cried, putting in her own earplugs. "Now, get as close to it as you can and try to shatter it!" With a nod, the Flygon's wings quickly disappeared, a loud, surprisingly pleasant hum coming from the invisible, translucent, red-and-green appendages the dragon used to "sing" with. Even as their hum turned into a screech, the rock wasn't going anywhere. What was this thing made of?

Raising her voice, she addressed @gwylim again. "...You wanted to see what my suit can do? Well, you're about to. You might want to step away, too. It's going to look odd, but... try not to think about it too much. Infinity Energy kind of... defies all preconceptions of how the world works." This was going to be intense, even by her standards. She needed the added power to bust through this rock, though. "Alright, Sandy, can you lift me onto your wing one more time?" With reluctance, the Flygon did as asked, feeling her trainer's hold on her right wing. She had already made herself dizzy once today from doing this. While Shalin had confidence her suit would keep her safe, the Flygon had every right to worry. "This will be a first, I know. Sandy, BUG BUZZ me. The suit will keep me safe." With a firm hold on the wing with all four of her limbs, Shalin couldn't be any more ready for the utter chaos that was to come.

Again harnessing her trainer's BOLDNESS and glowing, green SYNC STONE, the dragon-type's wings hummed with Shalin on one of them. The suit's INFINITY ENERGY made the foreign scene possible by not only making the rider feel far lighter than normal to the Flygon, but eliminating the whiplash that would have seriously hurt her from being flung up and down dozens of times per second. The reckless girl's eyes were forced shut, her mouth wide open in pure ecstasy as the flutter became even faster. The added weight of Shalin on the Flygon's wing greatly enhanced the power of her shrill BUG BUZZ, even the girl herself now completely invisible. The earplugs seemed to do little to protect against the deafening noise, though the Sygna Suit-enhanced sonic attack certainly would have ruptured the eardrums of those who were unprotected.

The shockwave pulverized the large boulder blocking the way, the howling wind in the wings' wake sending its pieces hurtling away from them and all the way to the bottom of the tunnel. The girl's skin underneath the transparent parts of her suit were quite red; it seemed even her suit, despite her current mastery of it, still had limits. Sandy gradually slowed her wings, a bewildered and swaying Shalin slowly becoming visible as they came closer to a stop. "...Holy shit, that's fast. What a ride," were the only words out of her mouth. Those who knew Shalin knew how rarely she cursed. If she cursed, it was to put special, warranted emphasis on something. Going that fast warranted it.

The intense shaking had one extra benefit: the KING'S LEAF had completely dissolved into her water during the alien-looking ride. Bracing the water bottle against her mount, she took as big of a drink out of it as she could, it did not take long before the dizziness, and the curse of the hidden temple, had left her.

CURSE REVERSED

Shalin no longer has to roll with disadvantage during her Type: Null quest.

TLDR:
- goes through the tunnel
- sees BUZZWOLE winning over PHEROMOSA