[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Nathan shakes his head.  "Ven...there's plenty need for it.  She's not comatose because of...."  He waves his arms around in the air, indicating everything around the.  "...this.  She collapsed from overexertion after my battle with her.  I was worried it was what caused her to come here...though I quickly discovered that wasn't the case.

"Ven.  We're ALL asleep.  Kirlia and I fell asleep to try and find her.  Get her out of whatever mess she was in, maybe even stop these restless nights."

Nathan is DEAD serious right now. There is no chance he's joking.

"W-ww-hat now, Nate? Your...your not jesting with me, are you? ....Oh by Reshirim tits you are not. If you two are just avatars of your real world personas, though, then why am I here?! I was woken up by some beast prowling my campsite and teleported away from them, only to end up here! If this is some kind of...nightmare world, then how the frozen hell did I get transported here?!" Venous exclaimed, extremely relieved and displeased by the news that graced his ears.

On the one hand, Nate and Shiva could quickly escape this place by jousting willing themselves awake, but on the other that does not do anything for getting him out of here! Oh why did the Tao trio like to play with him so? He may have done reprehensible things in his past, but he has long repented for his sins!   He never put too much stock in one of his contemporaries 'Dream Worlds' theories, but with irrefutable evidence in front of him...

[Dragonstrike]

That's not at all what Nathan expected to hear...

"Whoa whoa whoa. Wait. What? Kirlia, can you tell if he's asleep?"

[Iron]

Kirlia nods and pantomimes sleeping!

[Dragonstrike]

Nathan lets out a sigh of relief.

"Okay, that's one less thing to worry about, then..."

Then Nathan notices the blood covering Ventus's hands...

"Ven...what did you do to those Houndour...?"

He sounds incredibly nervous, now...

[Lord Windos]

Ventura just give the young psychic an esaperated look in disbelief at the news. "How in the waking world can that be true?! I DISTINCTLY remember waking up and teleporting here, not falling asleep and finding myself in one of those cursed cages. Unless I somehow had Slowpoke teleported here while I was sleeping, and I find that idea far tooFarfetched indeed!" the researcher said, not quite buying the fact that he to was dreaming, but he soon shook his head in frustration, fed up with this whole situation.

"Graaa...we don't have time to debate my current form of existence here. We need to head toward that blazing red light at double speed, my friend. Whatever drew us here individually, I have a feeling that it awaits us there!" Ventus said before turning around and stormed off towards the red glow. He didn't like to ditch his friend so suddenly, but he knew that they would follow shortly there after! That, and he didn't want to answer his question about those demon dogs. Not now.

Order: Onwards to the big glowing red light!

[Dragonstrike]

"Ventus! Wait up!"

Nathan hadn't come all this way to be left behind! Particularly now that he's found Shiva! He recalls a dead tired Swiftfire and runs after Ventus, along with Kirlia!

[Lord Windos]

Ventus slows his harried pace, allowing the young trainer to catch up and hike along side of him. He was staring dead on at the glowing red light, pointedly avoiding speaking with Nathan for the time being. The researcher REALLY does not want to get in an arguement about the demons he slayed; at least not here or now.

[Dragonstrike]

Kirlia immediately alerts Nathan that Ventus does NOT want to talk about it. AT ALL. Nathan remains silent as they head towards the strange light.

He occassionally casts a worried glance at Shiva, though...

[Lord Windos]

Ventus let out a sigh, before he fully looked over to fretful young trainer. "Shiva is fine, my friend. Both Kirlia and I have verified that fact, so unless you have a method to arose her from her slumber, please focus on the journey ahead. Though, if it would comfort you, I can had her over for you to carry. Truth be told, my arms are beginning to ache from the effort, so. I would not mind overly to put Shiva in your care," he said, before glancing down at the sleeping woman in his arms.

[Dragonstrike]

Ventus let out a sigh, before he fully looked over to fretful young trainer. "Shiva is fine, my friend. Both Kirlia and I have verified that fact, so unless you have a method to arose her from her slumber, please focus on the journey ahead. Though, if it would comfort you, I can had her over for you to carry. Truth be told, my arms are beginning to ache from the effort, so. I would not mind overly to put Shiva in your care," he said, before glancing down at the sleeping woman in his arms.

"Yeah...I'll hold on to her...I doubt we would be able to wake her anyways...like I said, she's collapsed from overexertion.  She got a little...TOO fired up during our battle, I think...she's going to need all the rest she can get to recover...and if carrying her gets to be too much, we can always put her on Swiftfire...though she's pretty tired too after we got chased across half the landscape by those Houndour..."