[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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The Red Gemstones: Eternity's Moment - Bravely Default

Nathan leads everyone to his room.  On the way there, he thinks about what this development might mean...the gems look like...and if they got them, does that mean they also...?

Once again, the room looks super duper clean.  Like he's not even using the space aside from a slight mess of the bed's sheets and some of the writing utensils present on the desk.

Nathan carefully lays Ralts on the bed, then sits next to him and turns to face everyone.

"...well, everyone find a seat."

Once everyone has...

"...Shiva, Valder.  Did you both get a red gemstone too?"

Regardless of the answer, he has yet another question for everyone present.

"...can I see all of your gemstones, please?  I want to take a closer look at them, make some comparisons.  I'll only need them for a few minutes."

Ventus , deciding that closeness was not warrented in this instance when talking to Nathan, decided to sit on the floor when prompted, crossing his legs and frowned thoughtfully as he detected the shift in the boy's mood from confused to cautious/inspecting and heard his requests. With the boy acting somewhat furitively/secretly on top of not answering their earlier question about Ralts, the researcher has the growing gut feeling these two separate events might somehow be connected. Hmm.......

Lucifer himself was  them a owlish look at his behavior, until they mention of the possibility of their being even MORE beautiful, precious gems on everyone else's peroson in the room. This caused his eyes to widen as he let out a quiet yet highly intrigued croon, and he very nearly sorely tempted him to launch himself from his brother's shoulder and Frisk them all for the pretty red babbles, but in the end he settled down as he repressed the desire. He still remember tbjer warning about unwanted personal intrusions, and the last thing he want was to get on their bad side after such a wonderful day with his big brother! That, and he didn't want to risk Ralts using its fae powers on it later on in revenge or messing with Fairy Lady, no way no how!

After thinking it over for a second, the empath gave a quick nod of his head to the boy, and held out the gem for the young scholar to take. "Very well, Nathan. If you have any form of Insight as to what these gem halves are, and why they found their way into our possession, I think we all would be pleased to hear it, among the other Donphan in the room so to speak *Gives Ralts a not so discrete glance to indicate what said pachyderm was*"

When Shiva sat down right beside him, he wrapped one arm around them as a gesture of support and comfort, as he picked up on her subtle fear/distress over this improtu meeting over the gems, and feverantly wished to assunge those deleterious feelings the best he could! Her reveal that she too had a gem half and her retisense in handing it over to the boy was meet with a slightly surprised look from him to her, before he smothered the reaction. If Heart and himself had gem halves for some odd reason, then it wasn't that much of a stretch for his dearest to have one too, and he was beginning to suspect that Valder and/or Nathan might have one too. He could also greatly sympathized and understand why she would refuse to just hand over hers, given how tenderly he's treated both their sensibilities, sense of security/happiness, and opinions, so he choose not to comment on it. As the researcher pondered it, he was now hoping the boy would explain himself first, rather than ask for everyone to capitulate to him first again (Albiet this time politely). This was quickly growing to be more and more strange, the more they investigated these mysterious treasures....