[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dragonstrike]

So,  Nathan's not only furious about being kept out of the loop, but being denied his last recourse for some actual answer? I can understand now just why he reacted in the manner he did. Having your last recourse yanked away would hurt , no matter how gentle the removal might be.

Ven would love nothing more than to bring Nathan in a the secret, if to just make him feel better about all the pain he's been out through, but he'd end up breaking his promise to Shiva, causing a whole new pile of trust issues to deal with. The lesser of two evils is simply let Nathan remain ignorant and maintain the Viterolic Friendship they just are just in love with. 

If you want to be scevy, though , there is this plan: you could just have Nathan send Porygon 2 to ask for answers, Ventus could happily tell it (Its not a person, so he's not breaking his agreement!), and it could just compose and email/text file with the relevant information and give it to Nathan itself, along with a postscript that tells him not to let on about knowing the secret. Ven gets to keep technically 'keep' the secret, and Nathan is let into the loop!

...The fact that I'm coming up with covuluted ways to break Ven's oath with Shiva really says how much I dislike this whole secret thing to begin with. I thought it was a bolucks idea to begin with, and it's done no good beside trigger Kirlia's evo.

Unfortunately, Nathan doesn't know Ventus is willing to look for loopholes, so that's gonna be hard to pull off.

Nathan wants to be a good friend to both of them, he really does.  But all these complications and such...he needs some time to think now.  It's time for some character development!

...once @Iron gets back and figures out what's going to happen from Nathan going into the woods alone with just his pokemon for backup (and no repel scented tent for the night if he happens to stay out there for an extended time).  I've got no idea what might be out there, so I'm withholding making any concrete plans for what he'll be doing there until I've seen what the potential options are.

Definitely on the to-do list though are getting to know the Delta Houndour, gathering some more honey, maybe teaching Grid Screech and/or Fury Cutter, and potentially leveling Fight to 3.