[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Despite detecting no malicous feelings from Nathan when he spoke of the village's namesake, Ventus couldn't help but become a little more irritated at them, as he was well aware of the plants medicinal/nutritional properties thanks to his mother educating them on the subject during his pseudo apprenticeship under her (Before things went to straight to hell...) and for besmirching it by labeling it 'magical'; the thought send a shiver of disgust through his frame. Still, he remembered his priorities and refrained from reacting in anyway towards them for the timebeing, besides responding to his question by saying: "I have been in no discomfort while ridding on Metagross all this time, and I imagine that will likely not change anytime soon, so I will abstain from riding on a Ponyta. Let's just proceed to Arrowroot rapidly as possible, for the sooner we are thier, the sooner we can investigate and verify if the Prophecy was alluding to the village!

(Well, I doubt Ventus cares, but Nathan did specify that it was the Arrowroot locals who refer to it as magical.  He never said anything about his own opinion on the matter.  Just keep that in mind for later.)

Nathan shakes his head.  "No, it's not alluding to the village.  Something I forgot to mention earlier is that Dagny's research turned up an old story about the 'ends of the earth.'  It's apparently the location of a cave where an old, wise man lives.  One with a great deal of power.  Enough to help Sarimanok seal away a pokemon as large as a city that was causing trouble near the old man's home.  Unfortunately, that doesn't get us anywhere with finding the 'beginning of the land'...maybe the villagers will know more..."

Quite frankly, Nathan was eager to get away from these mountains.  He was done with seeing Tyranitar, Aggron, Golem, Machamp, Ursaring, etc. and trying to avoid them.  He didn't have any of his strongest pokemon with him right now besides Kirlia.  All of the ones he had were here for a reason, of course, but man, did he feel a bit more vulnerable, even with the metagross around...it wasn't hard to tell Ventus was...not in the best mood.  And Nathan's not sure why...he wasn't going to ask, though.  He'd smoothed his side of things a best as he could, and this...incredibly strong, pent up aggression Kirlia was notifying him about from his pokeball...

...yeah, now he saw why Kirlia was reluctant to try getting along with Ventus...this was making Nathan rather nervous as well...

He wasn't going to crumble now, though.  No.  Too much was at stake right here.  He couldn't afford to collapse under the pressure.  It doesn't make any of the pressure go away though, obviously...

"Two options if we want to get to Arrowroot from here.  We can travel in a straight line there, through the swamp, or we can head directly south of the lake after circling around it to get on the main route that leads there from Botanville.  Obviously, fire horses aren't going to get along with swampland very well no matter what orders I give them, and the metagross might just sink into the mud there, so it'd be rather rough, on foot travel through the swamp if went straight there, even if it might be faster.  Finding trails that lead to the lake from here and from the lake to Route 10 would be far more comfortable, and we might actually be able to stay mounted while traveling through the swamp if we're on the route.  I don't know about you, but I'm not keen on trying to trek through another swamp on foot.  Once was more than enough."