[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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Nathan's to busy focusing, trying to calm down, to turn to face the group as they arrive.  But he's noticed they're there.  Well, Orthros did, and is making sure Nathan knows too.

"...it's up there.  The cave, or whatever else represents the End at the tip of the tusk, the one closer to the sky.  It HAS to be.  Princess has been in a bit of a blissful daze after seeing whatever she saw.  And some kind of pokemon is guarding it, and it scared Zippy.  There's a safe path up for the metagross that Zippy and Princess scouted, but it's not a straight path.  They'll have to go around the loose rocks and dirt, so it's going to lengthen the climb long enough for whatever's up there to notice us."

"...I don't know exactly what we'll find up there.  But whatever it is, Kirlia and I need to get there.  And then get out after we've figured out if anything else needs to be done."

The determination and desperation are there still, but so is the slight lack of confidence.

Once it was clear that Nathan wasn't going to humor his question gaze concerning 'Swiftfire's' abnomarlities, he briefly turned it on that vile hell hound and glared at it to make damn well sure it got a good concentrated dose of his utter loathing and scorn, before re-focusing his attention onto the boy. "......If that is the case, then its best we make swift, careful haste towards whatever has provoked you Combee's interest, as if we are to alert whatever is guarding this local, we may as well give it as little time to react to our presence as possible. Also, if you happen to have acquired some Rope-ah, so you have, good-, now would be the time to use it to tie yourself to your Metagross and us, so that if something happens you won't tumble off and into who knows what in the Great Divide," Ventus responded, noting the boy's own gallows mixture of negative/positively feelings, but putting it mostly out of his mind as he mentally readied himself for whatever lay ahead. Besides, he wasn't in the mood to humor their emotional fragility, unless he absolutel HAD to....