[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

The foreign Ditto Pokemon puts its nose to the floor and starts running onward excitedly! In fact, it completely outpaces its trainer at first! Your first thought is the Ditto is boldly running to battle, but eventually you catch up to it. It has its hand over its nose and it's whimpering. Its eyes are flickering very oddly.

When Shiva and Ventus try to open their empathetic senses, they immediately get an OVERWHELMING mental urge to run headlong and recklessly down the tunnel!

As he had already braced himself to feel everyone's Pokémon negativity/unease and had......experience with dealing with external mental influences, that urgent desire to charge off into the abyss whether willing or be dragged there screeming only caused him to recoil and his eyes to bug/his heartrate to accelerate for a brief moment. Then, with a snarl and a violent twist of his head, Ventus clamped down viscously on that urge and utterly eviscerated it, before shutting/deadening his empathy in such a way that it was like slamming a door closed and battering down the hatches. His mental defenses now fully fortified and ready for such a threat dared tried to brench the sanctity of his mind, and he would not be taken off guard like that again!

He then, knowing that Shiva was no doubt experiencing that very same as he was but had zero experience in handling such powerful emotional influence, reaches forward and wraps his arms around her to pin her to him, before shouting: "Shiva, do not succumb to that trechorous desire! Resist, and close your mind to its influence! Resist!"

The researcher then twists his head to shout at the others of the group: "Something ahead.....it tried to ensnare Shiva and I and lead us astray! No doubt it is responsible for bewitching our Pokémon and stealing them from us, so everyone strength your resolve and proceed with extreme, utmost caution and deliberation!"

Ventus then recall Raphael to their Pokeball, as he doesn't want to chance his child suddenly falling to that siren's song like compulsion to charge on ahead and become ensnared by whatever was generating it. Given his deep bond with Lucifer that bordered on being tangibly connected to them, he could trust they would not fly off ahead with him supplying/sharing with them some of his own iron clad Will.....