[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

"I understand. It doesn't erase what happened between us, but I understand. However, the question remains: what is your limit, Nathan? What is the point where you decide enough is enough, to use all measures, to let go of your restraint, what holds you back, to take the actions the need be done, and ensure that a problem or situation is resolved? Kirlia's near death encounter with that vile Rattatta, their run in with Skorupi that left their leg in severe disrepair....where do you draw the line, Nathan? When is it right to pay evil unto evil?"

Ventus' voice is cool, stoic, and yet the questions her posed where not tinged with bitterness or spite. They were honest and sincere as the boys own words, even if the subject matter was less than wholesome, and valid all the same. For a man who's lived his life in constant strife, constant adversity, he knows very well his own bounderies, and his own moral code that dictate when to be kind to threats, and when to be cruel. Does Nathan, though?

A Grim Prospect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHlrRkqoyYU

Nathan gets a DEAD serious look on his face when Ventus asks that, though he's looking down, the fedora concealing his face in shadow.  His hands are tightly gripping the edge of the table.  "I draw the line when there's a very obvious, blatant disregard for life, Ventus.  You...didn't see me when that Rattata used Crunch on Kirlia.  It...scared Shiva...scares me, even...I was going to kill it.  Myself.  Would have, if Shiva hadn't....*sigh*...I...wasn't going to put her through having to watch that...to worry..."

"That scimitar that used a Mega-Pinsir?  I'm going to get back at him for what he did.  He threatened me, my pokemon...Pinsir followed orders, but he dropped Princess before he did any lethal damage to her with Bind, let me recall her.  His trainer is the one to blame."

"Those Tangrowth?  I'm not faulting them either.  That Claydol though?  I'm going to soak it the next time I see it.  Thoroughly.  No individual should be able to control 4 pokemon at the same time without any drawbacks, and manipulate them to...to...to cover an entire region, my HOME, in a writhing mass of unnatural, damned vines..."

Nathan has to take a minute to calm down.  He was starting to lose his cool.

"...*sigh*...Skorupi, Kirlia and I beat up sufficiently, removed it from the problem area, and have now traded it to someone who's better suited to try and...correct its behavior.  As bad as the wound was, it wasn't life threatening once the poison was healed.  Yes, I doubt Skorupi cared, but I think it learned its lesson when it got beaten by something it should have by all rights obliterated."

A moment of silence...followed by...

"Ventus...I'm going to teach Swiftfire how to use Inferno.  Probably going to teach it to Orthros eventually as well if I still have need of it by the time that's doable, but Ponyta and Rapidash find the move easier to learn than any other known species."