[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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Truth to be told, Shiva is NOT happy of being awoken a second time at who knows which time, according to her biological clock it'd be like....in the middle of the night. Hooray. 

She does need a few moments to put her glasses back on, adapt to the now clear view into the distance, then thow the Ranger's Cloak over herself because it's cold, then give a few calming strokes to her special Poochyena, which has began to snarl again. With a deadpan and somewhat grim face, she looked over to Nathan. " You better have a VERY good reason to awoke us all. What's so important that it can't be wait until we've enjoyed at least a LITTLE rest?"

Conveniantly (or not, depending on your point of view), Ventus was already up and was exiting the tent around the time Nathan decided to round up the others, as Heart's snoring interrupted his rest for the second shift and so he decided to get started on it early since he was too Alert to doze off again. Seeing the boy's tired yet grave look immediantly put him on edge, and he wasted no time in asking the obvious question. "Nathan, is their something wrong? ......Oh dear, there is. Since you are not hollering on top of your lungs its must not be an urgent one, so I'll wait until you've gathered everyone. *Sighs* Isn't this just a lovely night....."

Heart was grump to be wake so soon. "Ugh, just more five minutes mom...I dont want to soon to the sword training lessons just now.....Zzzzzzzzz...."Say Heart during his sleep. Koa and Patrat (who was out of their pokeballs sleeping with Heart) see Nathan and shake Heart to awake him. "*Yaawn!* Nham, its already morning? Or its my turn to be my watch?" Then Heart see the Solosis Nathan was holding. "What, in the name of the Creation Trio and Arceus creator of all happening here while I was sleeping?!"

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Yup, Shiva was just as grumpy as he imagined she would be...though to be fair, with Heart snoring the way he does, he can't really blame her.

"...yes, it's a good reason, Shiva.  However, it is urgent, Ventus, or I would have let everyone else sleep and just told you what happened when your turn came.  This Solosis was trying to sneak up on us.  Yes, I know, it's just a single Solosis, but it's not a normal Solosis, and it'd be rather odd to find a wild Solosis this deep underground.  This one belongs to someone.  And it's got a metal antenna embedded in it.  I had Grid fry the electronics with a few Thunder Waves.  When I did, I heard someone speaking through it.  The antenna probably takes advantage of Solosis's innate telepathic abilities in some ways.  Or rather, did.  Whoever was on the other side was probably giving Solosis orders to try and scout out our camp while we were sleeping.  In other words, we're being followed.  I think we all only need one guess to figure out who it is that's doing so."

Notably, Nathan's not holding Solosis super carefully.  Firmly, but not carefully.  He's making sure to keep a tight grip on it even though it's KOed.

I'll assume Mr. Finder and Valder are both present too, as I did say Nathan woke EVERYONE up.

If Ventus was not a happy camper before being woken up by Heart's rendention of Snore, he certainly wasn't one now, as his expression turned into pure aggrevation as he let out a most unflattering curse before grounding out a response. "......Bloody terrific. No doubt they are already closing in as we speak if they knew where to send the scout, or know that we've discovered them when they lost contact with it if that is not the case regardless. Question is if they are near us or not at this point, and whether or not we need to abandon camp for another location entirely. Bah, I knew those vile archmages would be on our trail sooner than later, but they don't even have the decency to wait until we are rest to face us, the treacherous fiends....."

Notably, the researcher doesn't make any direct comments or suggestions as to how to 'deal' with Solosis, though he frankly wanted to kill and bury it somewhere to permenantly remove the enemy scout at play. However, he also knew that it would be a warm day in Kyurem's frosty domain before the boy would ever do the pragmatic thing in this case, and he didn't want to lower group morale by raising the point or arguing about it, so he kept his opinion to himself and let them handle that problem. That way their was no fighting, and if things went wrong because it was spared then only they could be blamed for his mercy, not himself for trying doing what he (in his opinion) needed to be done.

When Heart raised his own suggestion/thoughts on the matter, the empath gave a sharp nod in agreement. "That would be the most prudent course of action, as getting Ambushed by a coordinated Strike time while resting is the very last thing we need to happen. We'll be more exhausted for it, but I rather suffer it than the other possibilities. If we can, when we go down the other fork I can summon Turiel to collapse that entrance behind us for several meters, forcing them to dig through it and give us some time to rest and recover."