[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Spoiler

But that not all that the sagely monk had to tell his scholarly friend, however. He lowered his voice to a whisper as he spoke the rest of what he want to tell them, eyes flicking off to Cosh first to make sure they were not listening.

".....Nathan, I got some news about Valder. It is not very good."

He then proceeds to fully recount from memory what Cosh told him about them/the Water Scimitars/the Crocawnomicon , as well as his own suspicious about it (IE: He thinks either Valder was a traitor, or something bad happened to him that force him to give over the spellbook to the Water Scims), then finishes off by telling them the rest of the info he managed to glean from their conversations. He also tells them he also agree to the master magician cast some Spells on them, and they turned out to be purely beneficial (Making him feel tougher), so they could trust the Earth Scimitars to support them that way to an extent (IE: Use your own judgement to decide if your partner is trustworthy enough to do that).

Once he finishes, he gives the boy an questioning, uneasy look, and simply asked this: ".....What should we do about this? Now, and in the future?"

"...Croconawmicon?  Retrieved from the depths of Mt. Sentry?  Valder, a traitor?  What?"

Nathan shakes his head in disbelief.

"...no no no...that can't be right...Valder HATES the Scims...but..."

Nathan has to think for a good minute about everything Terra just said to properly process it.

"...the books aren't supposed to leave Atheneum...the Scims probably don't care, though...but they would have needed to get in there...we stopped them, though...how would they have...?"

...and then it dawns on Nathan.

"...oh.  Back when we were headed to Atheneum...I...I had a chat with Valder.  He...he said the Scims took something precious from him...I wonder if...maybe it was a ransom of some kind or something...get us that book if you want it back..."

Nathan hangs his head and sighs, his arms crossed.

"...he never told me what they took from him, though.  I told him I'd help, but...maybe he needed more than just a little reassurance...maybe he needed the certainty..."

Another sigh, followed by Nathan looking at Gallade, then back at Terra.  "...well, nothing we can do about it now.  Whatever they took from Valder, if it was important enough to him to risk stealing a book from a royal library...well, I can understand his reasoning somewhat.  Our job is going to be to make sure that nothing bad comes of it.  Nothing more complex than that needs to be said.  I don't think Valder had any bad intentions, and neither does Gallade.  We should definitely warn Shiva, Heart, and Spira later about the Scims' plans at least, though.  I have a bad feeling about this..."



At Terra's mention of Cosh buffing him, Gallade frowns heavily (mostly because he doesn't trust Cosh in any capacity), and Nathan mirrors it.  Nathan only has one thing to say about it.

"...and he buffed you instead of your pokemon, yeah?  Look, that sounds nice and all, but unless they're able and willing to spread that support to those who are the most likely to need it, that sounds really situational at best for us.  We don't get directly involved in combat.  They do."