[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

(...) Shiva's sudden hug caused him to tense right back up and stiffen in shock and......other feelings, and BARELY restrain a sigh/shudder of relief when she just as rapidly disengaged and apologized for it. '".....You are forgiven. Yes......I still wish for privacy and seclusion...…but I will be sure to check on you...… Until then...…" he said with clear torn and uneasy expression, until he sharply pivoted around and marched away from his girlfriend. No matter how much he still loves her, he isn't....ready for such intimacy or socializing with her just yet, and definitely not while still in the location responsible for....for...…

…...Moving on. (...)

With a slightly eased smile, she watched Ventus leave - she's granting him that privacy, giving him time as she 1. understands where this desire comes from and 2. doesn't have reason to speak with or involve him into her own researches. Whenever he comes over to check on her, she doesn't do much more than giving him a welcoming glance before getting back to her stuff, answering any questions of what she's doing or looking for in case.

Chi is out of her Ball the whole time, either eating fruit, sleeping as a statue or being kept busy by Cottonee, as Shiva silently asked her dearest fluffball to be nice and friendly to that dragonfairy - she hasn't lost hope yet that these two could become friends. And that despite Luxi has traits of Shiva's archnemesis!

"That may be wise. The important thing is, I now have time to try to figure out what sorts of riddles will stop them. And there are still 3 riddles they didn't figure out. The Relic Stone will seek to hide itself, so it will be in an entirely different part of Mt. Sentry soon if it isn't already. Not just the maze of paths changing, but the chamber itself. It's all part of the same defensive mechanism set up long ago. They could dig for a hundred years and never find it...only to encounter a new set of riddles when they do arrive."

That was roughly the answer she wanted to hear, and in delight and relievement she looks up to the simian Librarian; even pats his huge hand if he allows to express her happiness of Atheneum bearing such safety measures. "That's good to know, thank you. I'll get back then to reading and searching things, as you said - in safety and without a worried undertone blackening my wided mind. If you happen to come up with any more hints for riddles then, let us know so that we can help, alright?"

Off she was then in the same 'flying' walk that she ran the stairs to Atheneum up and down before they've entered the place, the fact that the Scimitars were sucessfully repelled and have like zero chances now to enter Atheneum elavated her mood greatly. Same goes for the fact that the group made it to succeed on that unique chance.

As for the Spring Festival, other passages within your same book lead you to theorize that it may have eventually evolved into Ginger Town's festival. The only important feature that never changes is that it always involves large amounts of flowers.

Yes, that was something Shiva suspected aready. Weird however was that she can't remember even the slightest hint to mythi....legendary Shaymin when having experienced the Festival herself, but that may be because
1. there were none except these large amounts of flowers
and
2. back then she hasn't even dreamt about pursuiting the grassy hedgehog here in Chreshire.

Rather satisfied with the outcome of this small researching projectand feeling the determination spraking up within her again, she packs the resources away again to their respective places, somewhat knowing that there may be updates on the scavengers hunt for Shaymin in the future. Maybe Telperion University's library can also give new or other hints or more diary entries from Annie Wicke...

She's not done yet with things she wanted to search information about here in the library, so she's not really giving the table free just yet. She does take a small break though to finish a few loose ends that remained before the riddles were discussed, storytime from Nathan and the asking of that one question to Slaking. These were:

- She wasn't yet finished at the Tome of Genealogy. Was she really rather distantly related to someone in Arrowroot Village or the nature preserve north of the village through her father?

- Has she found the Egg of Celebi in her previous search using the hints Slaking gave her upon asking? If still not, she searches again, now with the blessing of Lucky Chant hanging in the air. Upon finding, she does as sweet Celebi asked her to, and scanns the Egg with her Egg Checker on the Almanac solely out of curiosity/because that's what a Breeder naturally does.