[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

You get the tent set up, and Shiva stays up for the first watch.

She sees a couple things:

1. The few hairy roots left in this location are slowly, but noticeably, growing. Only someone who had little else to concentrate on would notice that.

2. There are strange moaning sounds coming from the walls and pipes.

3. Something is skittering in the tunnel in the direction you came from. Sounds like it is small and has many legs.

Flashing forward to the nightwatch.


Indeed, once she eventually left Ventus retreat into the tent for his well-deserved rest (if you want to stay out or have other plans, Windos, just state so), it became rather quiet at the campside.

Actually, it became quiet, dark, cold, somewhat scary, lonely and a few more unpleasant adjectives, and Shiva caught herself asking what the heck she was actually doing here. A wishful glance over to the tent reminded her on it - she has boldly agreed to take on the nightwatch, as she KNEW she wouldn't be able to drift off into sleep for now for various reasons. And instead of laying awake, she could instead use that to do something productive and helpful, which was simply taking on this nightwatch.

She has special Mightyena cuddled up to her side, it looked like the mighty butterwolfly was sleeping as he had laid his head half into her lap and had his eyes closed, but Shiva could tell that he was 'only' resting while enjoying his leader's closure. If needed, he'd jump awake and attack right away. Dizzy was another Pokemon Shiva held close to herself as she was sitting there a little aside from the tent, knee drawn up and the outdoor's robe from the Water Scimitars Base over her Ranger's Cloak to tackle the coldness. She hadn't much to do and even less something to concentrate on, occassionally she found herself either observing the circle of darkness and moonlight inside her fern-in-a-jar in wonder after having misted it with Azu's help or watching the roots visibly growing. She has never heard of a plant that grows so fast that she can watch it, but by now it was clear that these hairy roots were special.

These moans from the walls and pipes sounded HORRIBLY wrong, creepy, somehow gross and unpleasant to her, she tried her best to block them out and not fall into a paranoid-anxious state by them. However, as she still found herself wondering and listening closer once or twice: Do these moans sound like Pokemon, or was it something 'not from this world'? Or was it a totally natural phenomena down here?

That skittering however - THAT caught her attention as soon as she noticed it. Looking into the direction where it came from, she naturally couldn't make out what it was, too dark! Yena however raised his head and started to growl lowly, somehow he didn't seem to like this skittering either. 'It doesn't sound like humans or Solosis....', that much Shiva could be sure. On of the various spider Pokemon? Humm... Whatever it was, she felt resonsible to prevent it from causing trouble. Strengthening herself, she drew her cell, turned on its flashlight and DIRECTLY POINTED THE LIGHT into the direction of the skittering sound, followed by adressing 'it' into a tone that she took care wouldn't sound afraid.

"Whatever there is, please show yourself. I'm not up for trouble if you aren't either, I won't harm you if you don't start things. But I'm not afraid of you either."