[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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Nathan's looking at Valder and Ventus with a raised eyebrow.

Ventus, who had quietly yet intensely listened to every minutia of detail in Nathan tale of battling and conquering those vile, hellspawn of mages, stepped forward when he had finished his part of the briefly and signaled for him to begin his own, with one still grasping Shiva's to comfort her while he recounted their part in this Little Cup Crisis.

"Roughly around the time that Nathan was about to engage with those Scimitars, I was busy feeding my Pokémon in the Center when I received a call from Valder, instrusting me to make haste to the Department Center and make my way to its basement, or one of them at any rate. Judging by my mercenary tone and the ominous contents of his message, I knew that the matter was dire and warrented my attention, so I made haste to the location. On the way I disguised myself on the chance we would encounter individuals that might recognize myself, or in case survaliance was used to try and put my appearance on record for duplicitous and/or malicious use."

"Eventually we both made our way to the basement, and confronted what we soon found out were two Scimitars in a small, secretive lab, monitoring the Little Cup via unknown means.  Fortunately, we were able to bluff them in by claiming to be reinforcements, and we were able to pump them of information while making sure. To summerize, this is what we learned: they were coordinating and readying the deployment of the 'Blackout' that would have crippled the Little Cup in its entirely and caused a chaotic uproar with the two Scimitars that Nathan apprehended, whose name were Gren and Greave. I suspect those are codenames rather than their true ones, but that is besides the point. The main purpose of doing so is as Nathan said: abduct Shiva, and find the location of a place known as 'The Secret Library' , which they said was located somewhere underneath Mt. Sentry. What the place is exactly is currently unknown, but thanks to Valder we know that their is at least a tool or item called 'The Guantlet in there. I then made an excuse to go to the bathroom in order to discretely contact with you Dagney and asked for my parameters in this unexpected stealth op. I was told to delay them and maintain my cover until reinforcements arrived, and when they did I excused myself and let the Scimitars be captured. That is the main story."

"To elaborate on the details, I learned that Scimitars are expected to have their Gauntlets on at all times when they enter a Base, and they have a complicated salute that goes like so *Preforms it to everyone* as a form of greeting. The way they were going to cause the Little Cup to blackout involved with magic spells they have named after Pokémon Moves, with the specific combination being the spells Charge, Electrify, Magnetic Influx, and Errie Impulse. In conjuction with the rain, they were hoping the blackout would have gone unnoticed by police and the authorities, though sadly that wasn't the case. The Scimitar I was talking to also mentioned that both Gren and Greave were packing 'Ground' , referring to either their spell loadout, or a part of their Gauntlet loadout. This might explain why they were immune to Nathan's Galvantula's Electric moves, if their loadout conferred upon them Ground type's immunity towards the type. Additionally, they implied or think that a schism faction of the Scimitars have been leaking information and trying to stop their faction from gaining access to the library. That, and they heavily model themselves after the vile mages of yore, and I got basic hints of a hierchary and apprenticeship program within their ranks. As for how they acquired the knowledge that Shiva knew the whereabouts of the Secret Library, they claimed that a Dr. Hyperiac told her vital information about it, and that he too is looking for the arcane location. I do not know much about the man, besides the fact that he's currently working with the Shelter on assignment. The Scimitars claim he isn't a member and consider him a rival, but that doesn't mean he doesn't posses his own unique threat level. "

" Given the knowledge we have learned today and in the past, plus what we know of the magic, tools and technology they wield AND the seemingly vast influence they hold, I would say the Scimitars are a sizable threat. The fact they had a base of operations right under all our noses cements they are crafty, well connected, and generously funded on top of that. All in all, they have proven themselves an organized and dangerous threat to the saftely and peace of the Cheshire region, and should be handled with extreme prejudice ."

The researcher then took a deep breath after disgorging that much exposition on his role in all these events this past night, before stepping backwards and returning to Shiva's side, nodding his head at Dagney, signaling to her that was done with his de-briefing. The question now is how will the Steel Wonder react to all the data that has been presented to her?