[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

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The researcher stopped caressing Raphael as Nathan stated his latest piece (earning him a disappointed coo from his child....), looking calm and sedate as he thought how to respond, puffing his incense all the while. After spending a couple minutes of ponderous though, he voiced what Insight he has to offer.

"Shadow Pokemon don't even possess negative emotions, from what I know of them. Cipher designed and produced them to powerful, soulless machines fit to do any heinous, diabolical task without moral objection or others possing a tangible threat to them, and I have to say they did a positively abominable job on the whole. Ultimately, they (Shadow Pokémon) akin to like string puppets, doing any task with a mindless passion for anyone that controls them, 'friend' or 'foe.....' "

A look of pure distaste flashes across their face as they finished this comment, as if he (indeed did, in his opinion) utter one the most vile things imaginable, before he let out a sigh, puffed his incenses, and continued.

".......You are generalizing, Nathan. Cipher and......other nefarious groups represent only the very worst of humanity, the part that would do anything to further its own goals, disregarding ethics, morality, and good reason in order to do so. Some are paragons of virtue or heroism like the heros of yore, or others like the heroes of modern times like Hilbert, etc.. that strive to do truly beneficiant and self sacrificing things in order to help the majority, doing great things and serving as a example for all to follow. Most, however,  are simply average and unassuming individuals who will be born, live, and die without doing anything particularly or spectacularly demonic or saintly, and more often than not simply caught up in the wakes of 'good' and 'bad' people."

"The point is thus: parts of humanity may have done wrong by Pokémon, one we should persicute and villianize with a vengeance, but not everyone is that polarizing or 'bad' , and never will be. Blame and lambast those who are responsible for the sins laid at our collective feet, not the hapless majority that ill deserve such repute......"

"...yes, I'm generalizing, but...not everyone who's done wrong by pokemon should be villianized either...I'm just...concerned we might have another instance of what occurred with the Swords...or that one Sinnohese myth about the human who found a sword and abused it..."

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"...eventually, something might happen, and nobody will stop it, and we could lose our friends forever because of that...whether they leave us willingly or are forcefully separated..."

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"...Cipher had two goals.  10 years ago, they constructed Realgam Tower and created Shadow Pokemon to...make money.  With pokemon that had no qualms about killing, they could hold the highest level and most brutal battles possible as 'entertainment'...disgusting...'

"...the second goal was world domination, which they attempted 5 years ago...no more needs to be said there..."

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"...and yet, even despite all of that and more, they're still here...*sigh*...maybe it's thanks to those like Wes and Lucille that they haven't..."