[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Spoiler

No one else is here. You dump the KO'd Patrat onto the floor and find a good shadow to hide in. Though the flames go off every now and then, no Chandelure appear. Adding Honey doesn't help, so you move to slay 'em. Still nothing. Now the chamber floor and Ventus are covered in rodent blood and smelly corpses. Ventus' empathy feels some kind of horrid presence to the north, though, along the path that eventually is said to lead to the Skull Ruins. 

Phase Two does not turn up any Chandelure.

(Huh...I would have thought you rolled for the chance for each, but apparently your just not making this nice or easy on me or Ven, huh? *Sighs* Oh well.....)

(The Ruin Maniac told you exactly why your plan didn't work).
Cleaning the cavern is no problem. Even Ao Guang goes along with it, seeing what kind of mood Ventus is in and seeing it as a relatively small task.
To the north, you keep getting closer and closer to that presence. Then you begin to feel it as multiple presences. When you walk across a certain spot, a chill goes down your spine. Above you, in the dark and wet tunnel ceiling, small threadlike tree roots break through into empty space. Among them, you glimpse the white of bone. Human bone. You've come to the border of the great Barrow Downs of the Skull Ruins. Horrifying presences are all around you, at least on the surface. You begin to be glad you didn't bring Raphael, because you're not sure even his angelic presence could cleanse this place.