[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Apsis isn't very interested in Orthros since she's still far more loyal to her master. She eats Orthros' food to show she's the boss and not a friend. That's all.

Nathan sighs.  Well, at least she wasn't being...particularly mean about it.

Orthros doesn't do anything else.  Just sits by Nathan quietly.  If Aspis didn't want to be friends, fine.  He'd be friendly enough if approached, though.

...and then Nathan remembers something, now that he's actually starting to relax a little.

"...oh yeah, almost forgot to tell ya about that thing I mentioned almost a week ago...about getting stronger and such...it's called Mega Evolution.  Wonderful thing, that...it's the ultimate symbol of a trainer's bond with their pokemon...well, it usually is...Almanac has damn artificial mega stones that lack that particular requirement...anyways, it allows pokemon to change their form, their ability, their type, gives them a significant power boost...temporarily, but it's quite significant whenever it's active...I've heard they'd discovered Mega Evolutions for Arbok and Whimsicott in the Tandor region, and that they're used by two of the strongest gym leaders in their League...I've got no idea what they can do or what they look like, but...well, maybe you and Ventus will show me eventually...of course, you'd have to get both a Key Stone and a Mega Stone for the Arbok species first...Key Stone distribution is usually heavily regulated by the League, and the key stone...well, usually you'll only see the ones for the most common pokemon around Trillium pop up in this region.  Pidgeot, Beedrill, maybe a Slowbro once in awhile..."

"...I hope to find a Galladite one day.  Get a Key Stone somehow.  It's always something extra special that Kirlia and I have wanted to do...maybe I'll get to do it with Calam and Orthros one day as well...though I'm probably going to have to go through hell and back if I want to get a Delta Houndoominite like the one we saw...Galladite and Absolite already have never been seen in Creshire to my knowledge...but how wonderful it would be to have access to the proof of a bond that even Gym Leaders and Elite Four members only rarely have around here..."

Nathan's kinda drifted off into quietly musing to himself.