[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

"Max is a proud horse, and a long-lived patriarch. He will be fine." She explains in her blunt rancher's way that Max has already begun work at replacing the loss - there should be a new Ponyta Egg sometime soon.

"There must be a lot more you need to tell me. Come inside and have some lemonade."

What better theme for a horse ranch?: Lon Lon Ranch - Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Ah, it feels so good to hear this one again...)

"...always working so hard...let me swap a few pokemon around at the PC real quick.  Have a few that I want to show ya...and maybe Max might like to see some of them too..."

The good ol' PC...Nathan's never actually used the ranch's before.  Never had a need to before now.  His dad used it frequently though, and his mom still does to this day.  His mom probably wouldn't comment on it, but as Nathan swaps around his party, it probably looks a lot like how his dad used to fiddle with the machine...right down to the kick to get the PC working again when the darn thing wouldn't boot up properly.

It's a fairly old PC, but it gets the job done.  Nathan swaps Porygon-Z, Pulse, and Grid for Swiftfire, Yule, and Orthros.

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Inside the house, Nathan and Kirlia are definitely enjoying some of Marta's Lemonade.  Swiftfire's sticking her head through the open kitchen window.  Yule's inside (but sticking fairly close to the window).  Orthros is next to Nathan at the table, and Nathan's holding Forthright again.

Nathan talks about Swiftfire evolving, about how he thinks Yule might be a good match for Swiftfire (quietly so the horse won't hear, of course), how Orthros might be scary at first, but is just the sweetest lil' thing if you get to know him (he instantly likes Marta since Nathan's so comfortable around her), and also about how he found the Castform egg rapidly floating down a creek on route 10, how it hatched only a day or two ago...and how he hoped Forthright would be as strong a Sunny Day user as her namesake...

There's still more Nathan will probably say, but let's start with seeing how she reacts to the various members of Nathan's party.