[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

"Well, Drowzee doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon, so let's check out that other path and see what's up with Vespiqueen.  Are we all in agreement on that?"

Ventus remained silent as Nathan conducted his own investigations and drew his own conclusions. While he could have just as easily figured this out for the whole party, the researcher decided not to interrupt the young trainer. 'I could have pieced this together quicker than him, but this is a good exercise for him to hone his intellect and deductive reasoning skills. Besides, this helps him take his mind of the anger he no doubt still holds towards me,' Ventus thought, frowning as he heard the young trainer say that this Psychic type Pokémon took over the hive. 'Even with my empathy and knowledge of Psychic types, I'm a little baffled by these circumstances. Drowzee are not known for egotism, nor have any strong inclination towards domination besides their love of dreams. What could have caused it to act this way?'


Tilting his head at the abnormal Drowzee in question, the researcher brought out his notebook and quickly recorded this phenomina. He was a Pokémon Researcher and Sociologist, so a finding like this was like a goldmine to him! Drawing a rough sketch of the Queen Drowzee, he scribbled in both Nathan's and his own observations on it. He also took the time begin cataloging the data he already gathered from his observation of the Combee, drawing rough pictures of both the Princess, the single honeycomb Combee, and the Workers his snake devoured earlier. The researcher also earmarked a few blank pages for a more detailed analytical writing about the bees later, and reserving a couple of Pages for the Vespiqueen herself.


Making one last note in his journal. he closed it and put it away in his satchel. The note is as follows: 'It appears that Psychic types have the ability to use their mental powess to not only influence the Hive Minds of Bug types, but also completely subjugate them under their control. This is an unexpected finding, as Bug types not only have a natural resistence towards psychco-somatic energies due to their more networked intelligence or being simpler beings, but can use their very nature to critically injure the average Psychic types, and typically driving them away. Perhaps due to this Drowzee using indirect means to channel its mental abilitis through hypnosis allowed it to bypass their innate resistence, and allowed it to override the hierarchy to put itself in charge? Or is it simply so strong that it overpowered the hive mind and forcedly made itself queen, putting some of the Combee asleep so she can better manage everything? Further observation is required before a definitive conclusion is drawn.


As Nathan asked the group their next plan of action, Ventus chimed in to say "I would like to know what has prevented the Vespiqueen from retaking control of the hive myself, so I agree we should move out. Still, someone should monitor this Drowzee, and uses whatever means of long distance communication they have to report if it begins to act even more strangley. The last thing we need is it to become aware of us, and drown us in her minions."