[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

"Thank you, Ralts, and I'm sorry we left you out of that conversation. Well, I guess that only deepens the mystery of what these flowers are, then..."

Ventus's response to his first question though, is quite frankly, shocking. Nathan's eyes go wide when he hears Ventus's true intentions from that day. And he knows Ventus isn't lying either...it takes a lot of self control to not break out in an emotional tirade. Were it not for Ventus's kind words and open ears earlier, that might have been exactly what had happened. "That's, uh, quite...extreme. Anything of that nature shouldn't be necessary in the future, though, right? And since Ralts has chimed in with his opinion on the Deyo Powder, let's at least keep that usage in mind if we find a large number of the flowers. I don't intend to use this powder anyways, unless I absolutely have to. It was more so a sample collection if we needed it, though Vincent ran off without taking any of the powder with him...and while the danger seems to be related to the flowers, I'm not sure destroying them would do any good. As far as I can tell, rare pokemon are still, well, rare. Even if they do have increased odds of showing up. Staryu was the only pokemon I saw in that pond, and that Voltorb was completely alone too from what I heard from Vincent. Seems to me they show up almost as often as the Deyo Flowers themselves. Which is, to say, it would take awhile for another one to appear, if at all.

"Anyways, I doubt that's the last we'll see of them, and I still need answers as to why Ralts recognizes them. We won't accomplish anything discussing this in circles in this back room, though. When more show up, we can figure out what to do then." His questions answered, Nathan stands up, drying the last remnants of his tears.

As he goes to leave the room, though, he turns slightly to say one last thing. "Oh, and I, uh, never did say thank you for your help earlier. Your advice on psychic types and teaching Confusion helped greatly. And I also need to thank you for not telling anyone about what happened in the woods. I'd appreciate it if you kept that and the details of my past between, you, me, and Vincent for now. I, uh, don't want anyone else to worry about me right now..."

When he opens the door, he hears a crowd gathering in excitement. The doors of the center are opening and closing, as people are rushing past the automatic doors in a hurry. "What the...Ventus, something's going on...think we should check it out? It sounds like it's something to do with the festival..."

During the Sawsbuck Event
Sawsbuck in Bloom!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NolViMBY6-g

Nathan and Ventus had rushed over with the crowd, and ran into Shiva on the way there, even. If Larry and Valder were there, they were somewhere else in the crowd. Nathan, Ralts and Combee could only watch in awe as Sawsbuck shed his coat. "Wow...I've read about this event and the species, but I was never able to come here and see it for myself...guess experience counts for a lot, eh, Ralts? Shame there wasn't enough space nor time for Swiftfire and Staryu to enjoy this...sigh...I should spend some more time with Staryu, too, though. It's spent most of its time cooped up in the pokeball...that's no way for me to treat a friend, now, is it?" His mask is back on, disguising the shattered self underneath, hiding him from all except those who know the truth. Nathan's genuinely enjoying this now, and feels a bit better after that conversation, if a little shaken. But the ghosts of his past still remain...real and imagined...Nathan briefly thinks he sees movement in one of the alleyways visible only in his peripheral vision, and it distracts him from the very end of the Sawsbuck's transformation...if there was an absol there, it wasn't showing itself, and would be long gone by the time he would get over there...

Ralts and Combee enjoy the event as well! But Ralts picks up on Nathan's nervous stare at the alleyway soon afterwards...as far as he can tell, though, there's nothing there...