[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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He still looks...rather thoughtful and is really silent when he sees Ventus waiting for him outside.

"Oh.  Uh, Ventus...something going on?"

Huh.  Normally, if Nathan had requested something, he'd bring it up at the soonest opportunity...

Weird.

Ventus doesn't immediately respond to their inquiry, as they stood by the entrance and gazed off into the distance, unapproachable and unreadable. Several minutes passed in ponderous silence, until at last he finally spoke up, his voice tired and.....melancholy.

"Remenising, Nathan. My thoughts harkened to distant times as I waited for you, so I decided to head them and take a stroll down memory lane. .......Now, I wonder if I made the right choices so long ago. "

A great big sigh escaped his lips as he said this, and at that moment it seemed as if the goofy and deranged sociologist was a decade older than he was.

"The past can't be changed, though, and its impossible to know whether or not things would have been better the other route, so I suppose its pointless contemplating it. Still....what could have been.........what could have been."

The researcher then fully turned towards Nathan, and gesture in the general direction of the Pokémon Dessert Store.

"I've heard word of a bakery that specializes in the most delectable of pasteries and deserts modeled after Pokémon, and wish to check it out with my brothers Abaddon and Michael to treat them for overcoming Dagney's formidable Pokémon and earning us all triumphant victory. My child (Abaddon) especially deserves such a sweet reward, as he took out both her Bronzong and Magnezone by himself handily, albeit not without great difficulty on his part. Since you came all the way here because of a request I made, I thought I would invite you to accompany us. After all, you too have conquered Dagney's Gym, and deserve your 'just desserts' for such a deed."

Ven's words and offer are undeniable genuine and well meaning, but the lack of vigor and ethusiam in them is painfully noticeable. Yeap, he's definitely unhappy about things right now.....and seems like its more than just Genesect that's the source of his fell mood.