[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Dizzy is running around, watching all the reunions, having a really fun time through everyone else's happiness. He keeps coming back to play with Ralts and Kirlia especially; he can feel their happiness more than any other Pokemon's.

A weary Slurpuff, carried by a muttering Mr. Finder, guides you down several tunnels with forks in them. "He's deliberately finding tunnels with multiple choices, trying to confuse our pursuers. There's also one more underground lake we could bathe in; it'll only add a few hours to our journey if we use Rock Smash."

As you follow these paths, Slurpuff isn't sensing any nearby signs of pursuit yet!

Once the initial happiness of Ralts and Kirlia dies down a little, Nathan of course has to care for his other pokemon too.

For Solomon, this was probably equally fascinating and terrifying due to his interest in legends, myths, and history and his typing.  He gets a hug from Nathan too.

As for Zippy...well, if Nathan doesn't squish him, he definitely gets a hug as well.  This must have been a terrible, terrible experience for him especially...Nathan wants to make sure Zippy isn't too shaken up by the ordeal...

Nathan makes sure to give Lucifer back to Ventus in exchange for Ditto.  Nathan's extremely grateful to Lucifer for his help, and to Ditto as well for very likely having saved their lives singlehandedly.  Ditto gets another hug too!  Lucifer and Calam will have to wait on theirs since Nathan doesn't want to cause them any additional pain by rubbing sensitive patches of skin the wrong way.

Same with Dizzy and Yule and Swiftfire since they all played important roles too!

Yeah, Nathan's a hugger.

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Nathan is all for taking additional measures to throw those bugs off their tail.

Plus, he needs a proper break after everything that happened...hopefully they find a suitable campground soon...

He does have one question for Kirlia on the way: "...so...you've evolved again...which is...well, spectacular, frankly...but now that raises another question now...do you want to...evolve into Gallade now since we have access to a Dawn Stone?  Well, not right this moment...maybe tomorrow morning...or...would you rather stay as a Kirlia for a little bit before evolving?  I know it doesn't matter too much to you...but I'd still like to hear your honest opinion.  Evolution is a big deal, after all...particularly Stone evolutions, since those basically redefine what most pokemon can and can't do in almost every case..."