[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Looks like about 12 years for poor Boots Malone. Most of what's registered as Caught are Fighting types.

Oh...well, that probably explains where most (if not all) of Boots Malone's pokemon went, given how close this is to the Kadabra Chambers and what happened to Machamp...

If there is anything this encounter has done for Nathan, it's shown him the grim reality of what the Skull Ruins are like first hand.

...definitely a brand of 'unpleasant' he hadn't been prepared to fully face...

...in any case, he and Gallade take a moment to pay some silent respects for the trainer before taking some pictures of the scene and gathering up all the items that Mr. Malone certainly isn't going to need any time soon.  One more name for Nathan's list of missing people who have been found...though this one's going to go in a different column labeled 'confirmed deceased'...

...and once they're done there, they head back over to Marco and his pokemon.  Emolga glides over there and lands on Luxray, looking at Nathan's dad curiously and quietly.

Nathan can't be thankful enough that Machamp was the only one who apparently suffered such a fate...in this case, knowing is better than not...