[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Nathan wakes up the next morning, feeling a little sore from the previous night's training, but invigorated. Like he's able take on tougher challenges than before. Ralts and Swiftfire are much the same. (Nathan's Fight skill increases by 1 for 8 exp!)

He hadn't spoken with Ventus yet. By the time he'd gotten to the tent, the researcher had been fast asleep. Vincent had been adamant about his decision to sleep outside, so Nathan pulls out his pokedex once again to tell him he was fine. He finds it funny that he's been using the phone function so much, actually. Considering he grew up on a ranch and had no plans to travel initially, he didn't think he'd be using tech like that besides the PCs and pokemon center healing machines all that often. Yet here he was, using a phone function on a pokedex every few hours. He thinks about what he's going to say, and then types a message to Vincent. "Morning, Vincent. All's well so far. No surprise snake attacks last night. Going to head down to the crater pond in the meadow. I want to check that out since the Deyo flowers seem to be related to that. I can't shake the feeling there might be something important there...I'll tell ya about what I find there later." Seeing as he was the first one up again, he also types a quick message to Larry and Shiva, but not Ventus. "Morning. Headed down to pond in meadow. Feel like there might be something there, but not sure what. Will tell everyone when I'm done."

With the messages sent, Nathan informs his pokemon where they'll be going. "All right, you two, we're going to go down to the pond in that meadow. I want to see if there's something related to the Deyo flowers there." Ralts is excited to be going back to the meadow, even if there aren't very many Deyo Flowers left after the survivalist and Nathan picked most of them. Swiftfire...not as much. She didn't outright refuse, but she wasn't excited about going back to that location, particularly if they were going to be near a water source. "No complaints then? Alright, let's go. If you don't want to stay there, Swiftfire, I can put you in your pokeball until we leave the area, okay? I know the thought of being near water isn't exactly appealing to you." The fire horse snuffs gruffly in response. "Hahaha. I take it that means you'd rather stay out of your pokeball, then? Your call for now." With that established, Nathan walks off, with Ralts riding Swiftfire. The trio is nibbling on some snacks as they go, since Nathan wants to check the area out ASAP (and avoid talking with Ventus as long as he can).

Nathan is going to go to the crater, not knowing there's a Staryu in the waters left behind in the aftermath of that meteor strike. There might be some...interesting events as a result. He's also left before everyone else has woken up. You live on a ranch, you tend to get up really early rather consistently.