(06-02-2020, 04:54 PM)Dragonstrike Wrote: [ -> ]In the meantime, Nathan has noticed Ventus edging closer.  He's been watching the man carefully for varying reasons, so Ventus's actions haven't gone entirely unnoticed.
While Shiva's occupied with Nucleon and investigating the room, he curiously asks the researcher, "Find anything interesting?" ()
For the record and to put it in the Game Thread: After Ven searched the blasted and charred corspes and discovered all that loot + Nucleon, he quietly retreated VERY slowly and carefully back to Nathan and Heart, letting Shiva rush over and handle the glowing green ball of fluff. He kept what loot he found to himself, as well as his internal highly fearful/fretting/concerned reaction of 'Oh gods, a living breathing Nuclear Pokemon is
right there with my girlfriend and near my friends, oh dears' , so as not to cause a potentially disastrous panic from himself, his friends, or the questionably 'peaceful'Â Nuclear Pokemon. He was NOT going to cause a catastrophic incident one way or another this time, not when the stakes are so direly high and the group is in not fully explored but very much known to be dangerous territory, oh no!
....
The eccentric researcher flinched a bit at the sudden question, his head snapping to the adolescent hero and away from the sight of
Nucleon and his beloved
oh so very dangerously close together. Playing nice and friendly, getting along and bonding over common ground, and creating a fledgling bond together. But he
knows. He just
knows, from his long years of experience as both a researcher, explorer, and
other things, that all it takes is
one mistake,
one mishap between a hazardous,
Lethally dangerous Pokemon, for everything to go completely to hell in a hand basket. Or in this case, a
Nuclear enriched casket. Shiva's Shield can't protect against
everything at once, after all, or
everyone for that matter too.
It takes a few seconds for Ventus to regain his clarity of mind and realize what his friend was asking, blinking before shaking his head to clear it and some of his
anxiety for the current situation away. He then mulls it over briefly, his face going expressionlessly calm as he did so......before inclining his head slightly.
"....Yes. Found some
quite interesting Items and relics indeed. The kind that needs to be.....discretely handled, I believe, least they.....attract unwanted attention. At least, that is of my professional opinion - one I think Dagny will share too, once I report these findings to her."
If that carefully whispered statement doesn't scream 'I HAVE FOUND DANGEROUS AND SHADY THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DISAPPEARED, PLEASE DO NOT ASK MORE ABOUT IT OR YOU'LL BECOME LIABLE TO GET IN TROUBLE LIKE ME'Â to the young historian.....