[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

(...) 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?"

".....Don't say 'what" in such a tone to me." Shiva spits these words to Cosh directly in a very displeased tone, emphasizing it with a glare an oversized and two-headed Mega Arbok would be proud of.

"Fine. FINE THEN." She takes a deep breath and crosses her arms even tighter. "Assuming - ONLY assuming - we'd be to join forces with ya, with you making sure nothin' disturbs that Entity's slumber or whatever and us finding those Artifacts: How can we be sure that you won't end up breaking words? Like, set this being on us or stealing those Artifacts from our hands in the end? Retriving them from down there is OUR task, wielding them - that's a different matter."

"Now we're talking! We're finding common ground. This is good. This is the kind of thing we can negotiate."

"The being is nowhere near where the Artifacts are, so that's no problem. Even the thing we disturbed shouldn't be too close to them...maybe the fourth Artifact, if any."

"Like I said, we could bring an equal number of us down there. There are five of you - I could choose four men and women to accompany me, while the rest stay aboveground in a supporting role. It's not an easy thing to steal an Artifact once wielded. They bond with their wielders over time, quite rapidly. And they possess an intelligence of their own, a specific counter to the Psychic threat descending on us from above."