[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Spoiler

You make the swap just in time to feel a LURCH.

There's a thick bundle of threads connecting you to Shiva, Terra, and Spira. You can haul on that to bring yourself closer to them physically.

There's a silvery thread heading toward Lake Chicory! It definitely feels like Thrawn's calm presence.

You don't see any thread that could be the campers, or any of the enchanted Pokemon except Arcanine, who is connected lightly to Shiva.

Nothing for Marco, but Shiva is also connected to the leader of the Baby Pokemon, who seems relatively happy in the foothills of Mt. Sentry.

A few police, including Corporal Furrow and Officer Jenny.

A thread connecting you and Shiva to Dizzy, who is radiating determination.

A thread connecting Shiva to an Egg near the campsite - best not to pull that one!

And finally, yes, there is a connection to Geordie (in jail) and Juni (a few miles from Thrawn's thread).

Good.  Everything's in place now.  Time to pull some strings and do what needs to be done.

But first, some observations.

  - Nathan's not sure why there's an egg connected to Shiva.  Whatever she's doing with it, she never told anyone to Nathan's knowledge.  Yeah, he has a good feeling that he better not pull that thread...but it's mostly because he doesn't want to potentially piss Shiva off...he doesn't like having to tiptoe around her all the time, though, to be honest...for all he knows, he could piss her off by either leaving the egg or not...

...best leave it.  If she knows about it and wanted it to come, she would have told him, right? At least, he thinks she would have...

  - The baby pokemon are an interesting observation.  Or the leader is, anyways.  They're not in the Ruins.  They're closer to Mt. Sentry's slopes than the Ghost infested castle.  And that means...

Marco Warren probably got out, and got all the baby pokemon that had been looking for him to safety as well.  It's a huge relief for Nathan, to be honest...

But then that begs the question: where did he go after that?

And did he know he'd made an enemy of Almanac and the Scimitars?  Had he already done so before he'd even started poking around in the Skull Ruins?

In any case, Nathan sees no reason to tug on that one.  It'd probably just make Buneary worried about the rest of its friends.


  - No campers, but Thrawn's there!  Excellent!  (well, for Thrawn, anyways.  Not so much for the campers...)  And given that the Water Scimitars probably have an underground tunnel system connecting their bases in Wineberry and Lake Chicory in 2017, Nathan thinks it's reasonable to assume that the police didn't manage to find that base and raid it...

...which means Thrawn's in for a bad time if Nathan doesn't tug on that thread.  Arcanine's there, too, so there's no need to worry about separating the two of them for three years, either...

  - Police are there.  Makes sense.  Is there any reason to tug on that thread?

Maybe.  Hmmm...

Nah.  Thrawn's probably enough law enforcement for what Nathan intends to do, right?  Besides, he shouldn't yank on a thread if he doesn't need to.

  - The sheer determination that Nathan's feeling from Dizzy's direction...yeah, that Absol is doing something important now.  And not just that.  This is his chance to infiltrate Almanac and the Scimitars' operations before the labs where they experimented on Ralts and who knows how many other pokemon are fully constructed...

He won't get another chance like this.  And whoever that Hans Smith is...Dizzy seems to trust him.  Hopefully it's not misplaced and he's in good hands...Dizzy would probably get mad at Nathan if he pulled on that thread...

And there's something else, too...Nathan has a feeling that if he DID pull on that thread...hmmm...

Yeah, better leave it.

  - Nathan's expression darkens a little when he sees the threads connected to that random Scimitar and his leader, Juni.  The grunt's in jail.  Good.  He can stay there for all Nathan cares.

Juni, however...

This is why he grabbed Grid.  Just in case he got an opportunity to do this.

He is NOT going to let Juni get away.  She may have escaped from the police force in 2014, but nothing's saying they caught up to her when they investigated Lake Chicory.  Particularly if they didn't find the Water Scimitar base there.

He's tugging on that thread.  

No, he's yanking on it if it won't break the thread.  Nathan has no desire to be gentle with her, even if she can't feel any of this.




Nathan tugs on the threads connecting him and Heart to the rest of the party so that they can all end up back in the middle of Route 13 instead of somewhere around Cress City.  Hopefully.  Then he gets to work on manipulating the other threads.  He'll have to explain this to Detective Thrawn later...but that's fine.  He deserves more than a fair explanation after getting jumped...and who knows?  Maybe The P.I. can help find Marco in 2017 now that there's a lead, however loose...




So, in summary:

Threads Nathan's tugging on: Thrawn, Arcanine, and Juni.

Threads Nathan's NOT tugging on: Egg, Buneary, Dizzy, Grunt Scimitar, and the Police



I do have one question though, @Iron.  Is it possible for Nathan to attempt to Ambush Juni with Grid upon touchdown since she's currently an unassuming target?