[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Nathan (perhaps unexpectedly) is sleeping in for once.  He's rather comfortably snoozing the morning away so far...

*Very minor Flashback!*

Just as he was finished smothering the last of the embers in the firepit and packing away the general camp provisions, Ventus almost began to take down the tent, when he realized that Nathan hadn't rose with the morning sun like the rest of the group! Since he couldn't very well finished packing up the campsite while the boy was still slumbering in the tent, and the boy couldn't get his day started properly if he slept the morning away, the empath 'kindly' decided to go get them up. He entered the tent, trod over to Nathan's section and carefully opened the zip up entrance, before walking in and find the young trainer, snoozing away without a care in the world.

The boy looked so peaceful and at ease that for a second Ven dreaded the thought of disturbing such a state for someone so serious and reserved, but with a small sigh he crouch over them and gently shook their shoulder, saying : "Nate, nate. Its time to rise, and greet the new day with a smile..."

*Now back into the present!*

The researcher barely  managed repress the scowl that almost broke out across their face at that shady coporation's site of operations, the dreaded and arcance Skull Ruin, though he was pleased to hear that Almanac was conducting their research by themselves. 'Whatever they are furitively searching for in those Reshirim forshaken ruins, at least the League is not overtly involved in such activities for the time being. If that were the case, I would sooner flee the region and take Shiva and Nathan with me than stay within it for much longer, as a government conspiracy of that nature is what prompted me to leave Unova in the first place....' Ventus thought to himself, before he raised a couple more questions to the pair of travelers.

"Ah, thank you for enlightening on the subject! Tell me, when they turned you away from the entrance area around Stair City, did they have they request you do so, or did they have the surrounding area completely barricaded with guards forcibly turning away travelers like ourselves? As for the alternate route towards Stair City, mind if you share the details as to how to access the detour, just in case myself and my companion have to utlizie it?"