[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Terra Time!

Spoiler

Naturally, the rugged wanderer doesn't pick up on the subtle/somewhat unsubtle signs of the fae lady's wonder and almost flustered astonishment as he candidly spoke about. He's even completely oblivious to the deeper implications of meekness, as by this point Shiva being reserved, coy, and/or whimsy filled was what he'd come to expect from the woman, and so he just shrugged it off.

After all, if he'd offended or hurt her with any of his statement, she would no doubt be rather......upfront about it. Sweet and caring as she was, Shiva could be quite.....frigidly unnerving when offended.


Terra looked mildly relieved by the mystical lass' acceptance of the honoring appellation he'd gave her - as it meant he hadn't committed the rare faux pass of estranging someone else with compliments-, but as she continued he grew confused again....and somewhat worried too, judging by the way his eyebrows bunched/unbunched up together as he listened.

"Thank you, Shiva. *Rubs back of head* Meant no bad calling you Wise Woman. Only wanted to show you.....respect and honor you deserve. *Looks confused* ….What's an archetype, though? *Pauses* ...Ven said you had *Face scrunches up* 'an abnormally high affinity and talent with most things arcane, supernatural, and Fairy type in general.' Said you were....different from most people now too? More.....'special?' But you say you do not? *Shakes head* Very confusing....."

Again, the simple and now merchant monk (an oxymoron combination, no doubt!) didn't pick up on accidently (albeit briefly) Intimidating the Fairy woman, nor get through her subsequent poker face, and instead simply listened to her counter offer with zero change in his own expression. His silence endured for a couple minutes afterwards as he mulled over the details, before finally he abruptly nodded and stuck out a hand forward for a handshake, very nearly jabbing her in the stomach!

"Deal. *Smiles* Glad we could come to an agreement. Will do both of us much good, if we do things right. *Beat, before he rubs the back of his head in a....bashful way?* …Thank you for the.....praise too. Makes me happy to know that Mama and Papa did good job in teaching me their trade."

For Shiva, it was some sort of new and to a degree even refreshing that Terra didn't react in any visible way to her growing meek and coy - in fact, when daring to concentrate her empathic senses on him, she couldn't really 'detect' any changes in there, causing her to mentally blink in suprise. Guess she hasn't so far met anyone who's being that dense and oblivious!~ Doesn't seem to be a bad thing at all though, especially since from the look of it, that mountainous monk does get along just fine, even with her right now. All was well... Though Shiva would certainly need a bit of time to get used to that - the obvious plus side of that was a minimalized chance of receiving weird looks for acting so 'mystical', which was a decent thing on its own! Shiva also got the feeling that Terra was relatively 'easy' to read, wonder if that's still true if he's deliberately trying to hide something...?

Any thoughts in that direction were quickly swept away when he got slightly embarassed? and confused for some reason again, causing Shiva to give him a curious look from the side as soon as he thanked her for her allowance to be called a wise woman. "*hand gesture of 'It's no big deal'* It's fine, really!"

Mental Note: Maybe try to not use too many foreign words when speaking with Terra.
Noted.

She let him finish speaking before raising her own voice, let him accidently dwell in that confusion for a little as she thought about what he shared in peaceful silence, now mustering the surroundings again instead of facing Terra. Cottonee chirping and playfully messing up a few strands of her Master's hair brought her eventually back to the current planet when the silence grew too awkward, emphasizing her antics with a satisfied expression of 'Sucessfully prevented Master from drifting away in her thoughts!' "Oh... Eh, that Ven would call me 'special' is no wonder I guess, don't think about it too much! ^^; But I, well... I guess it's not too false to say that I tend to get along well with the things he fears, hold some mentionable interest in these....things." *mildly shrugs* "We still grew pretty close with time." That's all she says concerning that topic. Enough said!

"Ah... An archetype is nothing more than some sort of 'role model', a 'pattern' that tends to be reused to arise certain feelings and exceptations towards something."


When Terra was very graphically mulling over the counter-arguments/offers she brought up for the tiny blue gemstones from his Milotic, Shiva did a fine job to keep that mercantile posture and no-nonsense expression up, beginning to enjoy this playing along with him. Due to that, she ALMOST ended up flinching when he suddenly nodded and offered his huge hand to shake for the deal! That was the moment she couldn't prevent herself from breaking the facade she held up, with a shared handshake the deal was made! "M-my pleasure to do business with ya!" Chuckles emphasized these words. :>

Now that this has been literally and figuratively dealt with, Shiva does feel fine to relax a little, eventually to follow up with what she wanted to say before he stopped mid-way to display his skill in commerce, refering to the following:

At this juncture in the conversation, the rugged wanderer starts to frown, looking and feeling almost....chagrined at what he's about to say.

"…I....never been good at.....convincing Pokémon to join me. Unless they want to, though. Not.....charismatic and smart enough for that. *Shrugs* So I Faint and catch most Pokemon. Easier for me, and sell most Pokémon I get, so it is not problem most of the time. Duskull and Anubi are......exceptions *Expression become DETERMINED*... but will work hard to earn their full respect, and become true partners and friends with them. That, I promise. To myself....and to them."

She mostly listened only, naturally understood why he prefers to get his Pokemon Partners the way he does. Selling and trading caught ones is nothing wrong at all either, she has done a few times as well, so no hard feelings in that direction! His obvious determination on earning the trust and loyalty of the aura dog and that... Huh, what? She had no idea that he owned a Duskull, must be newly caught somewhere. Cool, but at the same time it brought her a bit of a cold shiver due to reminding on the ominous chill in Chuckle's Gym. Ugh... Now though, the displayed eager to make them proper friends and partners earned him a praising smile from the fae enthusiast alongside a playful punch in the side. "No doubt in you making it eventually, even with Ghost Types being naturally a bit harder to train if one believes what people tell. Speaking about that... You actually having a favorite or prefered Pokemon Type? ...Fighting, maybe?"


(Thanks for the Rolls, Iron! I'll try to make something out of them in a seperate post.)