[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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He's rather quiet on the way out of town.  Ventus had done an excellent job of humiliating him if that's what he'd been aiming to do...he was finding it difficult to focus on much else...he hadn't even been as angry as everyone had expected when Mallorn had mentioned Almanac had stolen something from him!  Oh dear...Kirlia seems way more concerned than usual, as well...

Ventus had noticed that Nathan had been emotionally withdrawn ever since he showed Shiva those pictures from yesterday (Which almost caused him to laugh again...almost), but didn't think much of it beside the boy simply recovering from embarrassment. When that didn't dispel when Dr. Mallorn mentioned Almaniac's recent activity AND Kirlia's subtly trying to cheer him up on this leg of the return journey, the researcher was started becomming more and more worried. 'I didn't think these photographs would cause this level of distress in the boy. Dear Reshirim, he's remarkably fragile, when it comes to his emotional stability. Its a wonder how he continues to function semi normally around me and Shiva with our....perculurarities,' he thought, before calling out to the boy as he going after that Wobbuffet.

"Nathan, we are going now, so stay safeand be on guard for trouble. And....can we meet together later today and discuss our plans once more? We hashed out the basic course of action last night, but going over the fine details again would help of solidify what exactly will happen when we set foot in Winesberry," the empath said, trying to set up a line of dialogue to get him to talk with him later subtly, rather than air his issues out in the open. If doing that last time caused him to retreat into himself, doing so again would likely yield just as positive of a reaction....