[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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Valder goes inside the big marble building, Ventus panting at his heels. Theo is willing to let Ventus lean on him, especially for help going up the steps and pushing the door open.

The door shuts itself behind you - you can see a doorknob though, and you don't feel a trapped or claustrophobic sensation. Indeed, the Secret Library is vast and very well-lit.

The insides are marble, just like the steps and pillars. Your footsteps don't echo on the marble vestibule, and you hear no sounds except those of the person/Pokemon next to you. The ceiling is about a hundred feet high, vaulted, and swarming with all species of Unown. Wherever a group of them pauses, they fade out of existence and a marble deep relief carving appears, representing whatever they spelled out. After a short time, the carving fades and the Unown mix again.

Beyond the marble slab, a luxurious burgundy carpet spreads from one distant wall to another. As you walk it, it gradually changes color, though everywhere else appears the same attractive burgundy. Light of the appropriate color washes upward from the carpet, mixing with the white light emanating from the walls. The effect is a subtle tint to the air that is different everywhere you go. Ventus finds it easier to read the many titles when standing in a certain color (your choice).
He's heard of this, as it's an obscure psychological concept.

Spotting the carpet are white marble busts. Most are dressed luxuriously, but the only one Ventus might recognize is a bust of Sarimanok, near the end. They form two rows in line with the doorway. About sixty of them are beautifully carved, but all the busts beyond that are so crudely formed it cannot even be seen if they are male or female. There's only one carved bust beyond Sarimanok's.

The main feature of the room is a vast collection of shelves and multi-story chests of drawers. These are littered with texts in all formats: papyrus scrolls, parchment sheets stretched on frames and covered in cuneiform, stone tablets with simple runic or hieroglyphic language, iron tomes, carved ivory tusks, wax cylinders covered in grooves, modern microfilm or discs, and row upon row of leatherbound volumes. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to these collections. One half-opened drawer nearby contains both a stone obelisk and a CD labeled "Fossil Pokemon Clip Art."

Strangely, each shelf rises from a soundless pool of clear water, and has a waterfall or vertical brook trickling silently down one side.

Vigoroth are running all about, re-shelving and rearranging items. In some of the pools are Slowking, holding quills or chisels and creating new texts for the collection.

There are plenty of chairs, beanbags, thrones, recliners, standing desks, beds, cubbys, and hammocks. In fact, there are a large number of hammocks and thick hawsers running from wall to wall or floor to ceiling. The largest furniture in the room is a MASSIVE hammock attached to iron rings set into the largest chests. It's stuffed with books, and even more stuffed with the body of a MASSIVE Slaking. The Slaking is reading a book, but as you enter he tosses it aside and rolls lazily out of his hammock. Just before he hits the floor, he catches a thick rope with one arm and swings silently to the carpeted floor.

He tramps up to you, stretching and yawning and hastily swallowing a bit of apple. When he's right up in your face, he puts one finger to his rubbery lips and says "SHHH!"

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The researcher gave a thankful smile to the black knight of a Pokémon for their assistance, as despite his immense amount of resolve, such a quality does not directly translate into physical endurance. 'Despite their species' normally intimidating reputation, it appears that Theo is an sweetheart. I must reward them for their aid later, among the other things they've done on the behalf of everyone else.....'

As for Ven's reaction to the Secret Library.......what Ventus expected was a dark, forboading, sinister place, hardly a spec of illumination inside of it and containing towering book selves filled with all kinds of forbidden/arcane knowledge, all in narrow rows that would seem like they were trying to squeeze the life out of all those dared to search for the long, lost, and buried truths.....

Instead, the sight presented to him caused him have to do a double take and left him blinking in pure and honest surprise. The Unown creating and disassembling messages on high....the technocolor carpet and lighting (he reads best in regular/plain white light)....the simply bizarre layout, design, inhabitants, and distritibution of the Library itself......and all the clashing and conflicting types of records + comfortable seating........it was all so baffling to Ven that it completely disarmed him of his former prejudices of this presigous place.

Didn't stop him from quickly getting a headache as his mind went into overdrive trying to comprehend/explain WHY the Secret Library was....was like THIS.

' Who-wha-why-how? Just.......HOW in Reshirim's name.....? '

Getting shushed by an massively Overgrown Slaking, however, took the cake, causing Ventus to just blankly stare at the great ape for a minute.....before he slowly nodded his head and quietly said: "Okay.......If I may ask......is smoking or incense allowed here? I feel like I need some right now.....I can do without if its not allowed...."

Afterwards, the researcher decides to simply explore the Library in silence with Valder, looking for any records he can understand/don't feel 'magical' that holds information about Dragon types and how to better raise/understand them, King Saminok and/or Ancient Cheshire's time period, Cheshire HMs (How they are made, locations of them, more in depth knowledge about them in general, etc..), warding off/dispelling the supernatural/magical, how to better/further understanding between Pokémon and mankind, and finally more about Antheneum/Secret Library itself and how to seal it off from outsiders. He'll do his best to assist Valder in searching for whatever book he wants too if they ask too, and after he's done with his own searching he'll find a nice hammock and simply sit there and read + rest while waiting on everyone to come in.

Right now.....he simply was too burnt and weirded out to get properly paranoid/huffy about Antheneum anymore, and simply was taking everything (for now) with an attitude of weary acceptance and a long eyed stare. Sorta good for him, and definitely good for everyone !