[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

(He's an empath, my darling. Unless you have your character school her emotions from at least 30 meters away from him, he's going to pick up any strong emotion from them!)

As a Pokémon researcher and sociologist, Ven was extremely intrigued about the modified Roggenrola. "How bizarre! I don't believe I heard of such an evolutionary shift concerning the Roggenrolan in Unova, so its either a new mutation that is specific to this region, or its some other species of Pokémon that closely resemble it. If its the former, its an unpresdent evolutionary shift that needs to be documents straight away, but if its the later its still important to gather detail about the mimic. Either way, this is certainly something worth investigating in greater detail!" the researcher said, clearly giddy at the chance of examing this look alike Rock Pokémon.

Discovering new species in Pokémon, or documenting/studying changes in old ones was basically a dream to every aspiring researcher or biologist, so Shiva's news greatly excited Ventus. Her interset in the statue further fueled his cheer, but her discovery of the Spearow he fought, and the spike of anger at the condition he left it in, however, put a damper on his good mood quickly. "...If you are feeling wrathful about that bird's condition, than I'm afraid you have me to blame for that. It attacked me with Sticks while I was exploring the area, causing me to hastly summon Ariel to defend myself. She promptly knocked it out in a matter of minutes, leaving it soaked and knocked out," he said, looking stoic as he described the situation he had with the Spearow.

"I decided that instead of capturing and feeding it to Apsis later, I would leave it to nature to decide its fate, as I didn't want to waste my Pokeballs on a creature I had no interest in adding to my party. Call me cruel for my actions, but considering it attacked me first and I was only defending myself, I say that I was being rather merciful by just leaving alone afterwards. I even gave it a knife to defend itself with after I took its leeks as plunder, so it was not totally without hope against wild Pokémon, if it happened to not be molested while knocked out."

Silence took firm hold of the conversation between them, filling the atmosphere between them with brooding tension. Just as it was threatening to swallow them both, Nathan appeared at camp, practically prancing over to where he and Shiva were sitting at. Sending a silent prayer to Reshirim for this convineit distraction, he turned away from the young lass to address him, curious about the good mood he was in. "Well now, it's apparent that someone has a little more positivity energizing them than normal! Tell me, what have you been embroiled in that has caused you to develop such good cheer? I also have some intriguing news to share of my own concerning old relics, but I want to hear what you say first!"

(Well, things could get...interesting between Shiva and Ventus now. They never really had a fight before, but could this be the start of a one?)