[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

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"I said never and I meant it! Summon ghosts? I don't know if I'd call it that...they are spirits of the gas! The brilliant blue flame!"

He's starting to calm down a bit. "The First Technical Society used vast gas deposits underground to light their cities. Piped it directly into their homes. But with that gas came the first sightings of the original Litwick, Lampent, and Chandelure. They weren't like the ones in the Skull Ruins. Instead, they were incarnations of the gas, with its distinctive blue-purple color. Pretty eerie! But have you ever been to the Skull Ruins? It's a whole different story! The Lampent there are horrifyingly destructive. The flame clings to you and doesn't let go. I've lost colleagues that way. That's why only fools go to the Skull Ruins."

He starts stuffing his notebook in his pack again.

Another nonplussed shrug from the masked marauder, saying in response: "Fair enough. I'll keep my secrets......you keep yours. Spirits of the Element Fire......though? Interesting. Wonder if.....bad old mother nature has....other ways of making Ghosts and ghouls."

Ventus was silent as they gave him a brief run down of how the Litwick line first came into contact/being with man, but when the maniac started to speak about the Skull Ruins Lampent and stacked to pack away his stuff once more, he tilted his head down and started to laugh.

Soft and slowly first, but gradually it deepened into a harsh, crackling bellow that would leave a normal man breathless, but the researcher in disguise was still able to speak after he was done.

"Oh yes....I've been to the Ruins before.....and meet some candlestick spirits and their flames.....myself. That's why I wear a mask and shroud my body, for it left a deep and lasting impression on me. He He He He He Haaaaaa......!"

The Ruin Maniac books it! You can hear his footsteps clattering down the path of the Arches.