[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

(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.

(Yes he did, but it doesn't change the fact that all that prep work was permitted for little or no recourse/accomplished, Iron. There challenge and finding the right solution to a task, and then their is just being outright stonewalled with little else to go on or done.)

Ventus violently shudders and almost gags as he was suddenly bombarded by the cursed and wretched energies of Barrow Downs , and it took an immense amount of his Will not to bunkle under it or stagger back and make a beeline in the opposite direction fast. Sweat started to trickles down his neck despite the bone chill the area is trying to stab into him, and his hidden expression scrunches up into a scowl as he focus on his own reserves of anger/negativity to ward of the fell outside influences.

Apsis for her part was NOT happy being here either, letting out a low and menacing *Hiiiiisssss* as she twisted and craned to fully scope out her surroundings with a scalely scowl of her own. This place.....this place is pure evil. Nothing good is here, and their never will be......

After standing stock still and contemplating his next move- his mind briefly dwelling on how Raphael would have faired in this place, before scrubbing THAT dreadful train of thought out of his mind- the now fully Alert researcher pulls out an incense and lights it on fire, holding in one hand and mummering the same ritual prayer he spoke in Chuckle's battle so long ago, before he pressed on ahead into Barrow Downs. He's come this far in his search for that blasted Chandelure, and he wasn't going to abandon midway until he has scoped out that area. At the very least he may run across another foul Ghost he could do something about....

Order: Head deeper into Barrow Downs with incense in hand and prayer under his breath, and scope out the area more to try and find Chandelure/SOME bad Ghost that Ventus can take out his anger on. I don't want this day to be a TOTAL wash, so onwards we go, no doubt into perilous danger....