[Game] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure: Celadon City Vandel

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

"He might have an easier time of it if he were to partner up with me.  I'll have to ask him about that.  I'm rather impressed he managed to sneak into the Dragon Shrine and escape without getting caught on the way out.  Only one other person I can name who could potentially do that...heh..."

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"She's a little bit of both from what I can tell, actually.  Were it not for her brother, she'd probably actively be looking for fights just for the heck of it.  I have a feeling she'll want whichever one she thinks she can help her brother with, though."

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"...I ask because I could actually fulfill that request of yours sooner rather than later.  It's a...delicate matter, though, and you might not like what it appears to be on the surface.  If there's one thing I can tell you, it's that it would certainly change Blackthorn, at least for a little while. It could be quick, relatively quiet...I wouldn't be alone, but I would be able to minimize the damage, ideally.  I don't know if Clair will be able to return to her Gym Leader position when she recovers...Megido's Revelation...it changed her in ways I can't describe.  Don't want to describe, even.  I'm hoping she can return to it, though, but there's no guarantees.  Blackthorn's falling apart at the seams, and I haven't even directly done anything yet...heck, it'll probably still happen even if I don't follow through with my original plan, and that might even make things worse than they already are..."

"I'm considering other courses of action, but no matter what I do, it's going to be risky.  Dangerous for me.  Dangerous for you, Clair, and everyone else, even.  If I do settle on my original plan...I want you to know my side of the story, not just what the Elders told everyone.  I could tell you how much of what they said is actually true, and what they don't know that changes the context of it all.  But to do that accurately, I need to know what they've said."

"...*sigh*...seems my life has become nothing but damage control recently..."

"....*Sighs, and then wistfully and almost painfully smiles at you* You do never make things easy on me, my son, especially with that logical wit you inherited from me. Always getting in trouble, but you never let it put you down...…"


"*Heavily sighs* …The Elders claim you have joined Team Rocket, and have amassed enough power and favor in the organization to persuade them to march on Blackthorn and destroy everything dear to us. Upend the social order, destroy all our monuments, traditions, history, strip everyone that does not accept Team Rocket as their new rulers of their rights and Pokémon, and conscript and indocternate the youth into the organization. Dissolve the entire Dragon Clan, or turn it into their puppet, and completely undermine and bleed out the wealth, power, and authority of our Clan and its Gym. Ranshake the Dragon Shrine and all our secrets, destroy it completely, and erect their own base of operations there. In sum? Turn Blackthorn and The Dragon Clan into less than a shadow of its former self, or remake us all in their identity and image. "

"*Darkly chuckles at this point, as she pauses to let all that she said sink in, before continuing* Some of the even wilder, darker and more morbid rumors claim that they would rape both men, women, and Pokemon alike, slaughter all resistance to their rule, and bring great evils and plagues upon our people, but I doubt that even Team Rocket is capable of such cruelty. No...they are a more insidious evil, corrupting, twisting, bending all that IS towards their own dire aims, in pursuit of whatever the higher ups wish to accomplish. Such is their nature.....always wanting, but never being sastified with whatever they gain. Like a monstrous Dragon with a greed that is endless and impossible to sate, possessing apathy at best for those lesser than itself and not a part of its horde, and cruel contempt in its most foul of moods....."

"*Pauses again to catch her breath, before sighing and then changing the topic altogether* I wouldn't claim that Blackthorn is ready to collapse in on itself either, my son. Things may have been.....uneasy since your Exile, but its only recently that things have....flared up. For the most part, Blackthorn had endured and recovered in the wake of your Exile besides our family's ostristration and how...tightly information was control concerning you, but the.....shocking events and the Elders decrees these past few weeks have revived that old blighted drama and memory of those ignoble days of our history. It has put the city into a heightened state of alert and apprehension as to what is to come, and I now fear that Clair doesn't make her return soon as you said, or more shocking events crop up like Weedle in our gardens.....the mood will turn outright paranoid and hostile to the outside world as the Dragon Clan prepares for preconceived disaster, invasion….or not. *Heavily sighs* Dark times are coming to Blackthorn, I feel, regardless of.....anything you do to attempt to fix things. "

Kaa-san hangs her head as she finishes describing things to you, and in that instant she looked several decades older as the stress and fear from EVERYTHING in the past years of your Exile has come back to haunt and torment her.

She then looks back at you, with a tired yet piercing stare, like an exhausted lioness that was still ready to pounce on her prey.

"Now, its your turn to explain yourself, Reiner Arendse."

...Well, this could end badly.