[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

The secretary at the gym immediately sends you through to Dagny's office you have seen before.

She is sitting in her wheelchair, looking extremely tired and hunched, with her hood drawn over her face. That strange humming is still coming from it.

"I'm glad to see you all. Am I to assume that your mission was somehow successful? That you found the Ends of the Earth and found something there that was able to help you?"

She turns to Ventus. "Haneal is quite the hero now. Very popular among the resistance. Here is the Pokeball you left in my care."
She releases Haneal into the room and hands over the ball. Haneal is chewing contentedly on a woody vine the length of Apsis. Haneal has gained 3XP.

"Nathan, Stable Z lost only one member, a Rapidash named Forthright, and saved countless lives. When you speak to your mother, be sure to express my thanks. We couldn't have done it without her, even if you had completed your mission."

Ever the gentleman when he's capable of being so, Ventus gives a polite and proper bow to the visabily exhausted in response to her greeting, a worried smile accompanying the formal gesture. "We are certainly delighted to see that you are relatively well too, and I for one am glad that  the forces of natural were unable to fully overcome your Steel might and defenses! Even so, though, its apparent that those wicked Vines have taken a severe toll on your health, so are you certain you wish to hold this meeting this day, rather than take a day or two's respite and converse with your vigor fully restored?"

The researcher was shifted to retrieve his sister's Pokeball, sending Lilith to the PC so that the both of them could spend some much needed quality time, and bent down to (carefully) give his fire camel a hug. "Oh Haneal, I'm grateful your in perfect health, and have managed to become venerated for your defensive efforts against the Vines! I'm sorry that I sent you on this task without gaining your consent first, but I couldn't in good conscious deny Dagney's request for Fire type aid if it would greatly benefit Stair's resistance against those insidious plants.....which you seem to have acquired a taste for. Forgive me for this, my sister......I promise to make this up to you any way you wish, alright?" he said, staring in his Numel's eyes before reluctantly letting her go, waiting on a response from thehm (if any).

As for the other bit of news.....Ven's expression became more downcast, and silently placed a hand on Nathan shoulder in. Words....wouldn't comfort him much, but the knowledge that someone else cares for their lose and wishes to support him might....