[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Thunder Fang
(6)(5)(1)

Ok, it's dead. Ventus and Apsis are racking up quite the kill count.

That's about all Apsis can eat, since she just ate yesterday.

Chomping down on the tasty Remoraid, Apsis sent a strong surge of electricity into the fish, instantly killing and cooking it to perfection! Chawing down her meal, the giant snake let out a hiss of contentment. All of that fish sastified the worst of her hunger pains, so she slinked back to her master and recoiled around him again, before lightly dozing off in the sun. Happy that all was resolved, he was about to cast his line in the water again to catch a meal for her to consume later, when Nathan walked up with the formerly distressed Azurill, still in that top hat of its. (That wraps things up nicely, doesn't it?

It's kind of hard to communicate with Azurill, 'cause it seems to have a one track mind, and that track is taken by sadness. It clutches the hat - you sense that this hat is more important to it than the trainer who let it go, possibly. You are also able to understand that it still has respect for its former trainer, so you're guessing it wasn't cruelly abandoned, but rather lost or maybe the Azurill even escaped or something.

You do get a whiff of determination lying deep, deep underneath the sadness.

Tapping his chin and withdrawing the offered Poffin (Since it was too depressed to even nibble on it), Ventus tried to brainstorm just what was the source of this mouse's despair. 'Hrrmmm...it appear that their distress doesn't stem from being an Azuirll, per say, but rather for some sort of failing on their part. They also don't seem to hold any ill feelings towards there old trainer, so it most likely got separated from them at some point in time. In addition, they seem to be awfully attached to that top hat, as if its some cherished possesson, rather than its improtu life boat. Hmm....maybe its this reason....'

Gently patting the critter on the head, the researcher tentively tried to reach out to them again. "You not ashamed because of being an Azurill, are you. Is the source of your sadness lie with this hat, perhaps. Where you a Contest Pokémon that got separated from you master on accident? If that is the case, we'll try to get you back ASAP, if you'll lead the way."

[It should be noted, for anyone paying attention, that Ventus is so focused on the Azurill that he totally missed Nathan going after that flock of birds. Otherwise, he'd would have at least offered to help.]