[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Ventus truthfully didn't see the need to wait/obtain some of Nathan's mothers Ponytas , when the Steel Wonder herself has offered them Metagross mounts ready for deployment, and the boy also had his own Swiftfire, Callam, and Yule as to use as transportation himself and others too. Still, the researcher knew that arguing with the young trainer was pointless, especially since it concerned matters of family AND he had a point, so in the end they just shrugged their shoulders, said: "I would rather we leave for Arrowroot ASAP with the Metagross, but that is just my opinion,' before waiting for everyone else to chip in their two cents on the matter.

The matter about opening Kirlia's heart towards others, however, earned the young trainer a slight grimace and a frown from Ven as they gave some food for thought about this. After a few minutes of thinking, the empath gave his own assessment of that option, which was not overly negative, surprisingly, but not exactly the brightest either. "I don't believe I will be able to help with making Kirlia care about others, I'm afraid, due to our relationship being....strained, as it is, but your idea does hold merit with the others given enough time and care on everyone's part. However, I would rather we work on their empathetic problems while we are in transit between Arrowroot and Stair, as the Prophecy and the Vines are quickly becoming time sensitive matters that must be handled with promptness and all the expediency we can muster. If it turns out the village is a dead end to our investigations, we still have the moments up until then and there after to help young Kirlia become a bearer of 'unselfish love' if we put forth serious effort into accomplishing this. Nothing is stopping us from pursuing both avenues of eradicating the Vines and whatever diabolical force that control them, after all."

"Let me say this real quick: I honestly don't care if we wait a few hours or not.  We leave now on the metagross: great, we're attempting to save some time.  We leave in a few hours, great: you guys won't be complaining about how uncomfortable sitting on a steel pokemon for hours at a time is, and we can move more quickly on the flatland since the metagross won't be carrying us as well as supplies.  Or some of us could ride the metagross while others are on ponyta, I guess.  Maybe rotate who's on which mounts, even.  Up to you guys.  I'm riding Swiftfire either way once we're away from the Great Divide."

Nathan sighs.  He wasn't going to talk about it any further with Ventus right now, though.  If Ventus didn't want to help, fine.  The option was still there if he wanted to take it.  Nathan and Kirlia weren't going anywhere, after all...