[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Azurill still seemed rather sad even after Ralts's company.  The little pokemon had nowhere else to go, though, and Nathan finds himself carrying it, still in the hat.  For some reason, the baby pokemon refused to get out of it.  Maybe Shiva or Ventus would be able to a better job of comforting it...while Azurill didn't object to Nathan carrying the hat, it wouldn't let him get any closer than that.  

He happens to find Ventus first.  He appears to be fishing for common pokemon and feeding Aspis whatever he catches...'Well, that's one way to sate her hunger, I guess...'  He walks up to the researcher in between his catches. He's wary of the giant snake, but hopes Ventus has her under control now.

"Doing some fishing of your own now, eh?  I managed to get Azurill out of the river, thankfully.  I think the little guy might have been abandoned.  I, uh, can't seem to cheer him up, though..."

At this point, Azurill peeks over the rim of the hat to see who Nathan's talking to.  

And sees an arbok.  A very hungry looking arbok.

Azurill ducks back into the hat.  It begins shaking.  Aspis is looking in that direction hungrily...Nathan looks like he's on guard, as is Ralts.  (They'll relax if Aspis doesn't attack, though)

Seeing Apsis eyeing up the baby Azurill, Ventus just lightly bops her on the snout. Ouch! Dazed from the boop, she looked at a little hurt for the moment. What did she do to deserve such reprimand? Looking her in the eyes, he calmly said : "Behave yourself, my sister. I'm already fishing up morsel for you, so you better leave well alone that Azurill and Nathan's Pokémon. Unless you have already forgotten what we have talked about in recent hours?" Raising a questioning eyebrow at Aspsis, she just huffed a little and turns away from them, refocusing her attention on Michael battle. There is at least the chance of getting food from that skirmish!

Setting down his rod for a moment, he looks back to Nathan and tilts his head curiously. "Hmm.... from a cursorily glance I can tell that whatever bothering this fellow has something to do with feelings of abandonment of some sort, or Separation Anxiety at the very least. If you would, can you please bring the dear closer? I can try to get a better read of its emotional stake by having some hands on interaction, but only if it agree to it. Otherwise, I'll be unable to derive anything information pertaining to its depression," Ventus said, hand on his chin as he was staring intensly at Azurill. While it was just a Baby Pokémon, it was still a Fairy type, so he see little need to be reckless and provoke a reaction from it! Or from Nathan, on that matter!

Order: Use Ventus empathy to try and find what exactly is bothering the little guy, but only if it and Nathan agree to his terms. If so, I want to roll my Insight + Knowledge to see how much I can uncover. Otherwise, its out of his hands!