[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

It's super effective! Valder's potion count was harsly lowered!

 "I-I have four on me. I'll give you one". Valder takes a breath and relaxes himself. He looks at Swifire and wonders what happened.
One potion transferred to Shiva.

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The Baby-Doll Eyes develop into a small smile carefully radiating with thankfulness, as if using a held back Dazzling Gleam. "Many thanks, Valder! We're owing you something." ONLY IF he allows, she even pats him on the back. ^^

That 1 Potion gets handed to Nathan immediately with the words "There you go, for your firely horse! Poor thing."

With that dealt with, she perks and boldly speaks up again. "N-Now then, please listen! What I'll be telling may sound like a huge tall tale just like these Eevee with way too many fur from Torren, but by my beloved Cottonee's invisible mouth until it evolves I'm swearing that it's true! I...I've been flying on Tropius further down the tunnel after having stopped to let Ventus go when I've been stopped myself by two yellow buglike Pokemon that I've never seen before - one bigger and one smaller one. They fired spiderwebs in my direction. Of course I landed then, only to be greeted by two more bugs that looked like fierly ants, again a big one and a small one. I was intrigued when MORE came from a nearby puddle, two blue and spongy ones! The smaller one bounced when it fell to the ground and from my Tropius neck."

She paused a little, took a breath before she continued. "They've attacked me right away. Attempted mutiny! Thanks to Dizzy we've defeated them AAAALLLLL. Hehe! Some of 'em I caught, like that cute small yellow one." Suddenly, she pauses again, shorter however, seemingly growing a little meek. "But.... I assume they're from this regions called 'Tandor', do you know something about them? Like, the names of the species?"

She then proceeded to show him and everyone who wants to see them as well the photos of the fainted bugs in a slideshow, renaming each picture with the name of the species that Nathan can hopefully tell.

"...th-thanks, Valder...*sniffle*..."

Now that he's closer to everyone, it's obvious Nathan's been sobbing a little.  He's quick to apply that Potion to Swiftfire.  However, she still has 1 point of Lethal damage.

"...h-how's everyone else d-doing on healing items?  I have 2 Potions, a Sitrus Berry, and 2 bottles of my mom's Lemonade left...Lemonade isn't any good in battle nor serious wounds, though..."  (is Ventus able to spare a Potion?  Don't have to, but I'd like to know where we're sitting at in terms of healing supplies)

To answer Valder's silent question: "...it was a p-particularly...v-violent Levanny and a Swadloon.  Ditto says they were acting aggressive b-because of whatever's drawing everything down this t-tunnel, th-though...I don't think we'll have to deal with them again..."

If Ventus (or anyone else, for that matter) makes any moves to go after that Leavanny, Ditto stands in his way and points down the tunnel in the direction Heart went once more!  Justice has been served already, so it's time to move on.

Notably, Nathan has no idea what Shiva's talking about when Shiva mentions Torren and references Mega Eevee.  He's never heard of either before (as Heart hasn't mentioned the region either).

When Shiva talks about the bugs, it sounds familiar to him, but he can't quite put his finger on it.  The pictures definitely look familiar...

...however..."...yeah, I think they're from Tandor...I think I saw them in Sheldon's pokedex...I d-don't remember what they're called off the top of my head...sorry...I think I have it written down in my journal...I c-can look it up later...besides, we h-have bigger things to worry about r-right now..." (them's the break right now.  Deal with finding Ralts first, worry about this later!)