[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Nice. You have lots of Pokemon who are able to help. You get the gas diffused, the fires out, and the breach mended!

And as soon as they are, Ralts heads right on over to Ventus and gives him a hug.  Regardless of the giant, scary, Steel ant that's still partially on fire.

Ventus didn't know how much time had passed or what happened since the explosion, cowering as he was over Lucifer and temporarily deafened by the blast. Soon he began to gasp and wheeze as whatever gas that combusted started to seep in the surrounding air, and himself growing woozy and more delirous/panicked.

All he knew during then was that their was danger, he had to do whatever he took to defend his brother, and had to trust that Turiel could take care of all of them as they rode things out. Once he could regain his bearings, calm himself down and get himself togther.......!

However, before he could do any of that, he felt the wind pick up and clear away the gas + a sudden surge of humidity/steam in the air, which given that his little devil was right bellow him and he was currently deep underground that should have been impossible. A little while later, he felt something gripping on lower torso and something else softly *thud* down beside him, nearly causing him go into a defensive frenzy as he initially though Wild Pokémon had rushed over to the site of the explosion, overcame his ironclad insect, and where not about to savage him and Lucifer!!!

.....When he felt the outpour of sympathy and concern from those two being, though, his panic was arrested before it had a chance to spiral out of control, and the ill disposed researcher was left deeply confused. 'By Reshirim's Flames of Truth, what......?' he dazedly thought, as he slowly lifted his head off the ground to see what down here cared about him, and found himself staring at Ralts and his child Raphael, the former hugging him and the later standing by, both look extremely worried yet trying their best to comfort him. He then craned his neck up further and around, and found that the rest of the group was a short distance away from the blast site with their various Pokémon out by their sides, ALL of them display/exuding the same feelings as the empathetic Pokémon before him.

He stared at everyone briefly, agasp and in disbelief, and for a moment he thought the shock he was in and the gas in the air was making him experience vivid illusions. But when he took a deep breath of pure air and blinked furiously to find that they were still there.....

.....he swept both Ralts and Raphael into a great big hug, his body violently shaking as he resisted the urge to further breakdown and start sobbing in relief.

Though his ears were still ringing and couldn't hear himself, Ventus still said aloud: ", I-I don't-t how-w or-r why, a-and I-I f-frank-kly do-don't give an I-iota of a d-damn, b-but b-by th-the Tao Trio I'm so glad to see you all."

(...)

Replacing this pain was FEAR. Very real and very bitter fear. As she was close to Ven, she kneed down to him and wordlessly took off her scarf to offer it to him, in the means of wrapping his Noibat into it for additional warmth for the draconic bat. She doesn't make it to face Ven for now - how was Lucifer doing?

The shaken up sociologist didn't release Ralts or his child from his hug until Shiva came over and offer her silent aid, starring at her favored scarf dumbly for a moment before he realized what it was intended for, where upon he swiftly swaddled his brother in it. He too was HIGHLY concerned for their wellbeing, and started to meticulously check them over for any injuries, completely unconcerned about his own condition compared to his smol drake's......