[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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Heart was for a while sitting in the ground, gazing in the sky, until Shiva say something about them see threads or something like that. "To be honest Shiva...I dont know how me and Nathan was able to see those threads. Perhaps it is something about thing about us become more than humans. But if thats the case, you should be able to in see that. Maybe it is because of the blood of my family, the ArcHearts who was once blessed by Arceus itself...since we are going to stay here for a while I guess it could be a good moment to talk some story."



Heart than takes some time to tell Shiva and Terra some of the story (Who can be find here and here to let things be more quick).

"It might be one of the reasons why I was able in see the threads. And to me have the Soldier Bloodline within me who make me have conections with ghosts...even after three thousand years, the blood of Ark still flow inse of me." Heart did not tell Shiva or anyone about the final fate of his family...maybe because its not the right time in bring such sad story to such already depressing situation.

Heart put out his amulet with the emblem of his family who once meet before. "This amulet symbolizes the creation trio: Palkia, Dialga and Giratina, who you people once meet in triangle form before. But this one in particular is diferent. Ever wonder why the name of my family is ArcHeart?"

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"Because of that position of the three: The three forms the balance of the world as Time, Space and Reality. And Arceus itself it the literally god of all creation. Literally the "heart" of creation. Thats the mean and origin of my name. Ark name also comes from Arkeus, or Arceus. And Ark was the woman who create my clan. The position of that legendary resemble a bit a true heart."

Heart than put a end to his explanation to let the others digest that piece of revelation. They are problably in shock or perhaps annoyed. Its all depends with them now.

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When Heart theorizes a little and tells his story, it should be noted that Nathan doesn't seem surprised or really react too much to the story.  He's heard it before, so he just quietly listens.

When Heart finishes, Nathan sighs.  "...I...think I know why we could see those threads.  I found a...rather valuable item while we were in Sarimanok's time.  It was a...sphere of pure Adamant.  It's one of the three Legendary Metals that only Sarimanok could craft because of a gift he received from Heatran.  Adamant is often associated with Dialga and its powers over time.  When I sent it to the future via my PTC..."

He holds up his wrist with the glowing PTC for emphasis.

"...well, this happened.  I don't really understand why...heck, I don't even entirely understand what exactly it did...but my PTC is glowing now.  The sphere transferred some of its power to my PTC or something.  And for some weird reason...it's given me a small amount of control over the lurches whenever they occur.  And...I think I understand what's going on a little better, if not why."

He puts his wrist down.

"The lurches seem to be dragging us three (Nathan points at himself, Shiva, and Heart) through time, and only us three.  Probably because we're the ones who touched the Relic Stone and received Celebi's Gift.  However...those 'threads' are connections between us and anyone we interact with.  If the connections are strong enough, it drags the people and pokemon they connect to along with us.  I...didn't see Ventus, Valder, Vincent, or Larry, though, so it seems to only be affecting those who are traveling with us currently...though I know for a fact that Ventus was still experiencing those lurches, so I guess they might not be totally unaffected if the connections are still just strong enough.  Weaker connections that aren't strong enough to drag the associated people and pokemon along snap when we're forcibly and suddenly lurched through time...unless I tug on them in such a way that they won't...which is what I just did with that Farfetch'd and Rapidash...*ahem*..."

There's a...slightly awkward silence as Nathan finished admitting that he's basically the entire reason that Rapidash and Farfetch'd are here in the first place.  Though he doesn't immediately explain why he brought 'em with the group in the first place.

*Flashback!*

Initially, when Terra first overheard Shiva's and Nathan's talk of these 'threads' , and how they related to the boy's PTC, he became simultaneously intrigued and confused. Intrigued because the mysterious of the topic, and how they were in some way involved in the last LURCH!, and confused since he didn't see or experience the threads unlike his friends, so he didn't really know what to think of them. At first, the rugged wanderer decided to simply accept what he heard at face value and not investigate it too deeply, as it appeared whatever the mystical lass and clever trainer was discussing was important but ultimately outside his perveiw/understanding. If he needed to know the intricacies and full details at some point, they'd take the time to fully clue him in later. Simple and easy for everyone!

Which is exactly what happened when Heart joined in the conversation and subsequently pulled him into it, not only offering his own theories on the threads, but also about his family's history and his own Bloodline! Before he could have the chance to fully parse their explanation, Nathan speaks up once more and reveals everything about the threads, including how they (the threads) were responsible for dragging him through time and space. All of that deluge of information set the gears of his mind churning and grinding into full motion, earnestly working hard to comprehend everything and generating a myriad amount of questions on everything. His own feelings on the discussion ranged broadly, from his typical curiosity and interest in things/concepts unknown to him, to concern and skepticism over Nathan's newfound (albeit limited) powers over the LURCHES!

Overall, though, Terra just felt plain overwhelmed with all that Knowledge thrust upon him at once. Coupled with the Exhaustion of the long night in the King's Era and his eventful and involuntary inclusion in a war, it caused to wince, start developing a mild headache, and feel more tired than ever before. Since he was planning on taking first watch during tonight's? camp, those were the very last things he needed to cope with.

So with a loud cough, he got everyone's attention, before jerking a thumb back towards a nice clear patch of land, looking stoic yet somewhat harried.

"Will set up camp and get fire started now, while you all talk. Need......time alone too. To think about.....lots of stuff said, and.....have short rest. *Shakes head, and sighs* Today......today has been very tiring, so need to relax and clear mind. Can't do job well, anything well if.....too worn out. *Sighs* Suggest you do the same. Talk and questions about......Heart's story and thread thingies can come later. Getting sleep and ready for next day here *Motions to the arctic desert landscape + its Pokemon* important now. Good night, my friends."

With that said, the simple monk quietly takes his leave from that conversation and begins to get camp constructed while taking it easy as much as he could. Right now, he didn't want to overthink the many things he's learned about or overload himself with even more information, especially with him already juggling with preforming duties in this past frozen era. So retreat and menail work to take his mind of it + more slowly digest the Knowledge was exactly what was in order to do him good. Hopefully everyone else would understand this, but if not......it'll be just another issue to deal with later. 

*Flashback End!*

(Whew......DONE with responding to both Heart's and Dragonstrike's posts! Sorry about Terra just running off instead of offering any input/RP, but I believe between the stress of the past day, handling Shiva's near emotional breakdown, managing his own fitness to preform his duties and all the information that's been introduced to him in short order, his brain is at its limit in what in can handle without some downtime to de-stress and process everything. That, and I frankly don't want to get too bogged down in those conversations when the plot has progressed by this point, and I have IRL stuff to deal with. At the very least, Terra knows all that stuff now, and can bring it up at some point down the line. Thems the breaks, mates....)