[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

You'd need a pretty good plan to outspeed those flying Scimitars at least. The Scimitars also block your path toward the part of the Ruins you want to get to - but if you wanted, you could enter at a different point and try to make your way underground back to here. 

(Humm... No, no thanks, sounds way too risky. Guess escaping by normal means is no option.)

(...) "Our focus needs to be on obtaining the weapons. We can work out who is to wield them later... we do have many members of our little band who are quite capable, and have had some training in it, so that is something of value we can offer toward our common cause. Perhaps we split them up between our two parties - there are Four, after all."

"Years ago, another team in our organization stowed a dangerous entity away in the Ruins. Quite nearby. It won't do to have anyone disturbing that entity, if it yet lives." (...)

These are noble words from Cosh, if they are honest in the first place. But from that digusted expression in her face it's easy to realize that at least Shiva isn't up in the slightest to share the Artifacts with THEM. She's also wondering why he's calling them 'weapons', this only serves to increase her distrust towards 'em.

Same with what he shared about that ominous 'entity'. "Fine... But what if in order to obtain these Artifacts this entity happens to HAVE to be approached or at worst disturbed, yet unintentionally? What's more important for you in such a scenario?"

"The Entity is a threat to the Artifacts, so that question is not worth considering... What?"

"...hehehe...hahaha!  Dangerous entity?  Oh, that is rich.  You don't even know what exactly it is that you're guarding!  Do you even know who sealed that 'dangerous entity' away, or what happened to that individual? Do you even know what you awakened by digging too deep?  Do you even know exactly what you're going to be facing?  Are you even 100% confident that you can stop all this chaos in the first place, that your artificial 'enhancements' are somehow equal to a Legendary's blessing and truly make you 'more than human'?  Because I'd love to hear what other information might have been omitted in your orders."

"We sealed it away, as a vital necessity to our plans, three years ago. I'm quite interested in what happened to it in the intervening time - do you know?"


"The incident with the vines was regrettable, but a necessary part in obtaining the information we now have, which I think I shall not reveal as it is a potential bargaining chip. Suffice it to say, we Scimitars are far more informed on how to plumb the depths of the Ruins than you are. We've been there - have you?"

No feeling of lying.

"We're very confident. We've been researching this a long time."
Definitely true, but he is nervous about confronting a Legendary.

A spark from Cosh's gauntlet makes him wince mildly. He casually sets his boulder down and leans on it, looking pretty cool.