[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Once Nathan and Shiva entered the lobby, Ventus ceased mid playful tickling of his dear Azrael (earning him a semi disappointed grumbling from her) and turned his attention towards them, waving both of them over with a wide smile on his face and take a seat, turning towards the young scholar to address them.

"Its a simple matter, but an important one none the less: surprise!" the researcher calmly explain at first, before a bright smile lit up their face as they carefully pulled out the TM for Sandstorm from one of his sleeves from...somewhere, and offering it to the boy!

"I managed to acquire this far earlier than I expected thanks to a trade I made with Heart, so you can think of this as a sorta earlier birthday present! Now, as we agreed upon, may we please exchange TMs now, Nathan?"

Hahahahaha.  Oh, that is genius...

Nathan stops at the mention of 'early birthday present' after that 'surprise!'  What a(n) (un?)fortunate choice of words...Nathan has to try and process that for a moment...

'Wait, no, he said...early...'

He shakes his head to clear it.

"...uh, yeah, right.  TM exchange.  Let me grab that Icy Wind TM real quick..."

He digs around in his bag for a moment.

...takes him just a little longer than he expected, because he needs to carefully move things around the Carvanha egg, and he pauses for a moment to look at the chocolate gateau in his bag (which is thankfully not squished).  Still packaged, but ooh boy, does it smell good, even without opening it...and there's a LOT of it, too...

Anyways, bag gets closed again once he's found the TM.  He sets it on the table.  Emolga's curiously looking at the TM Ventus just set down, chittering away as he does so.  Ooh, another one?  What's this one do?

"Well, here ya go.  I'll take that...while we're waiting for everyone else to show up, I'll just go ahead and use this TM on Forthright now, if you don't mind.  Guess that means you can teach your ghost over there Icy Wind too."

Of course, since Ventus has to use the PC, Nathan will just use his pokedex.  Saves a little time. Unfortunately, Forthright can't exactly use her new move right now, but she'll have a chance to test it out soon enough!

Nathan looks at Shiva once that's done. "Well, that's Sandstorm taken care of. Just gotta teach her Weather Ball...guess we might be testing her form changes out sooner than expected?"