[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Spoiler

We fast-forward a little. You get a video call at the Pokemon Center from Officer Jenny and Corporal Furrow.

"Nathan? Heart? Hello. We raided a warehouse in the west of town, executed a no-knock warrant. Broke down the door, and right away your gem stopped blinking. A woman matching Juni's description was seen leaping from the second-story window and Teleporting away. But we've taken three men and two women into custody, who all claim they were employed by an anonymous employer. They may be able to give evidence toward a Pokemon trafficking conviction once we follow the money and figure out who owns this warehouse. This, of course, may be able to bring us more clues as to who attacked you and the eight missing trainers. Well, I should say the three missing trainers. In the upper stories of the warehouse, in what may be Juni's offices, we found an Elminster, a Flora, a Freddi, a Bobbi, and a Taylor. If possible, it'd be great if you could come to the station and confirm these are the people you saw."

"One more thing - do you know anything about this? - a tall man in denim and flannel was seen skulking around the construction site on Cress Cliff, in the company of an Absol. With a Dark type like that and such a furtive attitude, we are worried he may be up to no good. They said he wore thick gloves and a hat lowered over his eyes. Had no other Pokemon with him, apparently."

"Anyway, we've got the gem stored away here in the Western Station lockers. Present that receipt and we can get it back to you anytime that's convenient."

Nathan unintelligibly mumbles, "...damn it..."  Now he's probably gonna have to worry about Juni in 2017, too...unless they run into her again somehow, but Nathan's not sure how likely that is...

When asked about the Absol and the strange man accompanying them: "...as an Abol trainer myself, I can confidently say that they were probably scoping out the area in case any kind of disaster was about to occur there.  Don't recognize the man from that description, though.  If they think something is going to happen there, though, caution would almost certainly be warranted."

"I'll probably visit the station soon to get the gem and double check those trainers.  If you didn't find Thrawn and the campers, though...I guess they might have been taken elsewhere because they might have known more about the situation at the Ruins than those robed people liked or something...that worries me a little, to be honest..."

Nathan looks at Heart.  "Heart, any word from the others yet?"  (As long as you let Heart's cell phone 'update', @Spiritmon, he can send and receive texts from Terra)