[Game Thread] Pokerole: Mount Coronet Mystery

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

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That earns Ran a poisonous glare from the colorful musician, and an answer spit out so neutrally that it's painful and ringing back in one's ears for a while longer. "NO. Ran, just battlin' and faintin' every 'Mon ya come across is NOT THE WAY TO GO, these Snover in particular might KNOW stuff, stuff I WANT TO KNOW TOO. If they're beaten 'n burnt to a freakin' crisp, they CAN'T answer us and by no way they'll want to either, at worst we'll start a damn commotion in that icy hellhole, Zephy knows what the freakin' heck is waiting behind those doors."

He has to take a deep breath after these tempered words. "Let's just...... only attack if we need to d'fend ourselves from 'em, OKAY ?" Kee's looking like he won't accept a 'no' as an answer.

Something Kee is also up to do is send Octavia to meet them and inquire them about stuff additionally to Karen's empathic guess, as Sylveon are known to read feelings simply by making contact with their ribbons. She's a brave faeeveelution that'd do that simply because Kee's asking for that.

*Flashback - I say this happens after he gave his opinion on which way to go forward and his stance on their idea of peace with the Snover in response to Kee's own suggested course of action, and that the above response occurred afterwards (If that makes sense)*

Ran returns their animosity FULL FORCE with a positively molten and mean look of his own, marching right up to them and jabbing a finger into their calf, his own tone quiet, even, but shimmering with frustration.

"Get off ya fucking high horse and stop acting like such a nitwit, Kee. Down here, in this blatantly and dangerously twisted up place and in any other wild and untamed lands, NOBODY can afford to take such fanciful and hopeful risks like ya one you're proposing, unless they know beyond ALL REASONABLE DOUBT that'll it work out or won't be utterly screw them over if it doesn't. All the potential, POTENTIAL intel we could squeeze out of those Snovers by trying to ain't worth the possibility of them just getting the jump on us and freezing us all solid with Powder Snows or Blizzards if they don't want to play nice and friendly with us OR if things go awry, so better we just Faint the lot and not invite that disaster upon us. If that Attracts any more trouble to us, then we'll take care of it like what we should do with those Christmas trees: with full force."

The dwarven craftsman shakes his head, and then jerked it back towards the direction the stairs were at, his face hard as a rock and just as unyielding.

"No. N. O. If ya want to do be an idiot and have us try to be peacekeepers here, I will have no part in such a foolishness. I'll leave ya to deal with the Snover by yourself, and conduct my own investigations independently from ya, as I rather risk it going it alone than abide by what you're trying to sell me on. That is that, end of discussion."

His word were less hostile/contemptuous this time, but they were far more firm and unyielding. If Kee was going to try Diplomacy, then Ran was out of there and would go off to investigate the Room past the first set of Doors the group came across in the previous room, with or without anyone else joining him. The bristly blacksmith plain refused and STRONGLY disagreed with the sour dandy's proposal/plan/stance/counterargument, so if they want to try their hand at peace with the Snover, then count him out.

(It's fun to image Ran hissing at Kee like that when the latter is probably about twice as big height-wise. ^^)


As potential and venomous Ran's reply was, musical rave-guy was not as impressed or intimidated by it as the blacksmith would have wanted him to be, for the simple reasons that he won't let a smol man mess with him like that and he's not really up to accerate and light this already heated clash of opinons even more, even if it'd warm him up in this icy hellhole. Oh, and because he actually likes Randolph so far and doesn't want to burn bridges with him before they've gotten to that job the good professor has thrown onto them all just because.

That means, the only thing Kee's doing is give Ran a glare that a Mega Arbok would be proud of, then turn his gaze away and neutrally declare something along the lines of "Nope, I'm not coming down from that high horse of mine, never!, because it's much more fun to ride it through the clouds 'n rainbows while blasting some hard trance and be free from all the problems and fights down on earth than being semi-forced to deal with nasty stuff and family issues the system's throwing at ya with utmost joy. *smug smile*" Give or take it, but that's suprisingly deep when coming from him.

Humm, heavily wary could make them prone to attack if hit a sensitive nerve, but Kee's got a potential plan how to bypass that: He'll let Octavia approach these Snover while mimicing a hurt and hungry Sylveon that got lost in this Temple and is desperately looking for help, and see how they react to that. If they give themselves helpful, he'll reveal himself first towards them to speak with them and hopefully get some answers about that sunset-glow, then the others could do so. If the Snover attack Octavia either way (she's asked to clash any attacks with a Disarming Voice and leap back to Kee the moment they take an offensive assault), that not only proves that they are cruel but also that nothing speaks about fighting them then.

I'd like to wait and see what Mika's suggestion to do in that scenario before engaging in anything though please.