[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Spoiler

[quote pid='28764' dateline='1508380115']
"Okay, maybe I'll have to waterproof my journal first before I let you physically handle it, Solomon...it'd be...rather difficult to replace if you damaged it...I'm sure you'll find the contents interesting, though."

- Well, the research confirmed a few of his suspicions.  The vines were an entirely new thing.  And from the sound of things...the Lake Trio have known they were coming for a loooonnnngggg time...they also used to respect Sarimanok...well, no surprise there.  Most Legendaries did before he fell from grace...weird that he never used the Lake Trio in battle or the things they supposedly helped him with creating, though...

- Nathan still highly doubted the design of Solomon's Shellder Crown was a coincidence, for obvious reasons, but it's interesting to see yellow crowns are sometimes associated with psychic energy, rather than pink or purple ones (and its especially weird to see that color associated with fairy and poison)...he did wonder how the others might react to seeing an Unown on the crown, though...they were bound to notice eventually, even if you could be looking right at it and still not see it...

- Uxie...left the region awhile ago, flying over the mountains and the ocean to the north, huh?  There must have been a reason for it other than Sarimanok's fall...and Azelf...flew over Chicory Lake in a rush, flying to the East...there's not a whole lot to the east of Chicory Lake, though...and if nobody's seen it since...either it left the region in its haste...or something went terribly wrong...

- And Mesprit...has probably been sleeping for a looonnnngggg time...but if its spirit was still bright and playful at times...maybe its current lack of spirit was just an effect of being sealed for so long...interesting that the League found it in the Safari Zone, though...

- Also interesting is that Mesprit grew weary of the selfish desires of humanity...that...sounds like a very good reason for it to add something related to that as a requirement for waking it up...

- In fact, thinking about it, the last known locations of each member of the trio lined up perfectly with Cynthia's published research on them, which Nathan has read over several times.  They were commonly known to form a triangle when together or apart.  Mesprit was the bottom left corner (The Safari Zone in Teazel Valley), Azelf the bottom right (Chicory Lake), and Uxie the top (Mt. Sentry/Molten).

- Regardless, it seems that pattern had been broken...only Arceus knew where Azelf and Uxie had gone, and Mesprit's on the complete opposite side of the region now...

Dang it...seems like he might have to turn to Mesprit for answers when it wakes up...a sharer of unselfish love...and Kirlia has to be the one who frees it...

...maybe...does he have to convince Kirlia to help Mesprit for its sake instead of his?

...that was going to be difficult, wasn't it?

Nathan notes all of this in his journal carefully (minus any specifics relating to Mesprit's current status, the prophecy, etc.).  And then he passes it over to Solomon (Nathan's still turning the pages himself though) for review and very carefully whispers so nobody else can hear (and that means Kirlia's excluded from this conversation too.  He might find that a little odd, though...), "Alright, Solomon, I need a second opinion on this to make sure I haven't missed anything.  So you're up to date on what's happening, you see this prophecy here?  And this one here?"  Nathan points to the first message in the Creshire section of his journal and lets Solomon read it, then turns to the very last page of his journal and repeats the process, then flips back to the notes he'd taken during his research so Solomon can also read those.  "Mesprit is hidden at the location you evolved, sleeping (it's why your crown is so unique, just so you know).  When I arrived at its location, I was shown those two messages.  Currently, there's vines growing out of the Skull Ruins, threatening to cover the entire region under the guidance of the Tangrowth there.  In order to stop it, we need to wake Mesprit, but...Kirlia, my best friend, is the only one who can if I'm understanding the prophecy correctly.  And from what I'm reading, Mesprit isn't going to wake up if the intent is selfish...I was also wondering if the other members of the trio might also be hidden elsewhere in the region and was looking for clues that might point to potential locations, but...well, it seems Mesprit is the only one of the three that purposely hid itself away here...I haven't missed anything important in my analysis, have I?"
[/quote]

My wording was bad in that library post. The sentence should read "This research would point toward Solomon's Shellder being related to psychic (or poison or fairy) energy." Not yellow.

Solomon gives you a "Well, duh!" look when you humansplain his crown to him. 
He nods encouragingly when you say that Kirlia is the only one to wake Mesprit. He thinks for a bit, requests a page in the Lake Trio Trilogy, and seems to come to the same conclusion you did about only Mesprit purposely hiding away. Solomon looks around at all the other library patrons suspiciously, and stands a bit closer to Nathan. 

However, he does not quite agree with your analysis of how to wake Mesprit. He points repeatedly to the phrase "Only a sharer of unselfish love," leaving a little damp spot on "sharer." He looks warily over where Kirlia is standing, a quizzical look on the dancer's face. 

He's also really really interested in "the only other way" mentioned by the prophecy. 

Kirlia simply trusts in Nathan here and doesn't seek to intrude. But he makes damn sure that if he can't be in the conversation, neither can any of the other patrons!