[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Unlike last time Nathan had a panic attack over unforseable event, Ventus did pick up on both the physical and emotional response that the boy was exhibiting with a gusto, and almost immediantly a worried looked appeared on their face as he tried to ask them: "Nate? Nate? What ever is the matter, my friend? I know none of us like Almanac snooping around such a forboding and historical place, but I would not think it would warrant this much alarm from you and Kirlia...."

Nathan has to sit down, take a moment to compose himself.

Maybe...maybe it was fine...the message hadn't said who would disturb that 'ancient power' after all...just that it had been disturbed...oh, wait...has been...present tense...

He needed to get that Slowpoke evolved into Slowking ASAP...which means they needed to get to Stair City ASAP...

No way was he walking into an Almanac checkpoint, though (they might recognize Kirlia, for all he knows...).  And no way was he going to backtrack and take the long way around when it would take them about a week or so to reach Stair City that way (and they'd have to go through Trillium, too...)...he could hike.  He'd been on the trails around Trillium plenty of times before.  How hard could it be to go through the mountains?

"...it's...it's fine.  Probably nothing.  We need to get to Stair City, though. We can go around the checkpoint.  The route's blocked, but I'm sure the mountains around it aren't."