[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Lord Windos]

Again, Orthros is a Psychic type, and a pack animal at that.  He'd likely know something funny is going on before it even occurs, and vanish the moment things started going sour, he determined Nathan didn't have his best interests in mind, or realized he wasn't with his original 'pack' any more.

The other thing is that PCs aren't purely digital storage in this campaign.  The pokemon is sent off somewhere else to receive basic levels of care, which Mallorn alluded to at the very, very start of the campaign when he gave Larry that password for Mallorn's PC.  If Nathan was neglecting Orthros, there'd be plenty of opportunity for him to leave.

Its not like Psychic types can't be blocked from reading a person's mind/emotions, as Iron demonstrated with Kirlia trying to get a read on Ventus during their first night/'trade' of Solomon, especially with another Psychic to provide interference/background noise to block out snopping dogs, but were are getting a bit sidetracked here by the finer details of things. Point is, Ven's going to poke at that missing thread HARD.

Ventus wouldn't know or assume this, since as far as I am/him were aware of, PCs universely operated in the same manner throughout all regions of the world, and since Unova digitizes their own Pokémon, that is his frame of reference. If brought up, he'd likely be a bit baffled as to why Cheshirian would waste resources like that when instead digitization is both cheaper and more effective at not causing resentment to form in Pokémon.