[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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"...Ventus, I'm sorry...I...don't actually know if Silverfish is in the region or not...reading that...it threw all certainty out the window...I'm sorry for unnecessarily raising your hopes and/or resurrecting old fears...but...I still stand by what I said...if there's any way I can help...I will..."

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"...we need to find that library before they do...we...can't allow them to perpetuate this cycle any more than it already has been..."

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Nathan stops there, looking serious, sad...

In the beginning, Ventus eagerly drinks in all that Nathan has to say about Genesect with a small but notable smile, almost giddy at the opportunity to FINALLY learn more about his dear old friend, and perhaps uncover a new lead for the group to hunt down!

.....As the boy went on with their tale, that feeling was slowly leeched out of him. Each new unpalatable revelation was like burning acid on his once pleasant (if serious) mood, until finally he couldn't resist staring down upon his private journal with an still, unreadable expression.

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...It wasn't until the young snoop apologized to them that he decided to finally speak up, his voice weary.....sad.....and accepting.

"........Its not your fault, Nathan. It was a longshot at best, but in the end I still choose to hold faith in it, rather than accept the fact that what once was is now......gone. Gone, like so many, many things....."

Ventus then clenches the hand that wasn't holding his journal into a tight first, and his tone turn thunderous and promising nothing but ill for the ones that raised his ire.

".......But I will be damned to Kyurem's frosty domain if I let ANOTHER organization expliot my friend's lineage to wicked ends, least of a foul and arcane cult of fools who refused to leave well enough alone. The Scimitars.....they WILL be stopped from realizing their nebulous goals, even if it means leaving naught but scorched earth in their wake."

He then goes silent once more, leaving Dagney and Nathan to wax philosophically on the nature of Pokémon and human co-existence. Truthfully it was rather interesting and Insight to listen in, even if his own views differed from theirs, but the sociologist was in no mood to engage in discussion of such things. Perhaps later......

"We have records of humans abusing power going far further back than that, as I'm sure you know. Perhaps not on that scale. Humans need to learn to use their tools more effectively. What progress is there in evil? What productivity? Astonishingly little, for people who are so uninhibited."

"But the Pokemon of Creshire, who very much have the power to separate humans from nature, have never done so."

"Yes.  We've been abusing power as long as we've been able to remember according to Sinnoh's mythology...it's when we create our own power to abuse and fulfill our own selfish desires that we're at our most dangerous...and most likely to provoke divine intervention of some kind...AZ proved that 3000 years ago, as have some others in recent years..."

"...tools are one thing.  Living things are another..."

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"...this is all getting rather philosophical.  I think I'll just leave it there, and I think we can agree we can't allow the Scimitars to create more Genesect.  Particularly if they're allied with Almanac like I suspect they might be.  I'd rather not risk needing multiple Legendaries to intervene after everything's been rather quiet for several hundred years...there's no telling what they might do in response..."

" ' Too err is human, to forgive is divine' , Nathan. Humanity has commited a great deal of atrocities in its relatively short existence on Earth, but to forever condemn ourselves for our forfather's mistakes is a folly unto itself. One must learn to absolves of such guilt, and gain a clear perspective. Learn from our history, and forge a present without the glaring flaws of former days, but not be consumed by its darkness, thinking that naught good will come from the slow march of our species through the annals of time."

".....Pokémon are Pokémon, and Humans are Humans. Neither are things that exist that solely exploit one another, but neither are they obligated towards joyous co-existence. What does matter is finding a harmonious balance between our world and theirs, without needless sacrifice or strife on our parts. That is all I have to say on this."

Eventually, however, the empath found it within himself to spare a couple of dour remarks Nathan uttered, before grimly nodding his head at their declaration to put an end to the Scimitar's goals.

"Yes. They must be put to a screech, cataclysmic stop. Sooner, rather than later. To that end, how should we proceed from here? Do we set up a base of operations in Stair City, and began our own investigations into Mt. Sentry to look for the library? Or do we move on towards newer venues, and see if more intel can't be gathered?"