[Game Thread] Pokerole: Mount Coronet Mystery

[Dragonstrike]

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Oi, Kee happily and thankfully helps himself with the coffee. A warm and sugary beverage is just the best when you're fresh outta the freezing cold outside, aww!~ In a free cup he pours a bit of milk, adds a lot of sugar and places it down for Octavia to nip on, soon Stella comes over too. The sparkling faeeveelution readily shares with her fox-sister.

"Uh.... Yeah, some kind of research, in the name of Professor Rowan. Right, Karen?" He nudges her gently and gives her a semi-nervous smile, as if to nonverbally tell her 'Please say something too in this tricky situation!' Then he changes the topic from said job to the mountain itself. "Ah, thought so!~ And how it like at the peak, so up high? The view must be MAGNIFICIENT -" *excessively wide handgestures* " - and the air wonderfully clean! And probably icy cold, even colder than down here.... Speaking 'bout cold, those blizzards you're mentionin' that are preventing ya from scaling Coronet again, don't ya find it strange that they SEEMINGLY accelerate when you get close to that mountain? Sounds a bit as if it wants to prevent people from getting too close, as if somethin' must be protected or such. Heard in Snowpoint that the blizzards have become stronger in the are as well." He pauses here to take a big sip of hot coffee.

"Oh right, I've got plently of Safety Googles... Ya want one to protect yourself from that hail and icy winds? If ya constantly drop or loose stuff, maybe check your bag for holes or such, me feels if you drop something small in snow as high as out there -" *pointing towards the window* "- you'll need a whole bagpack of luck and blessing to find it 'gain."

Karen starts a little, surprised by Kee nudging her.  She was gawking at how messy the place is.  "...oh, uh...yup, definitely a research mission for Professor Rowan, 100%!"

Hiker: "Yes indeedee.  The view from up there is fantastic.  You can see almost every location in Sinnoh from up that high, provided you're on the right side of the mountain to see said landmarks.  The only one ya can't spot is Spear Pillar.  Too many clouds obscuring the peak of the mountain.  Air gets a little too thin to make your way up there by scaling the sides.  The caves are much easier to traverse if you don't take the wild pokemon into account."

"Strange?  Well yeah, of course I find it strange.  Not something I'm likely to be able to deal with, though.  Ice isn't kind to my trusty Graveler.  Best I can do is warn passerby of the danger.  Might be better to turn around and head back to Snowpoint until this all eventually blows over, I reckon.  Haven't heard about Snowpoint gettin' a strange amount of blizzards lately, though.  Must be a recent development if it is."

The hiker politely declines the Safety Goggles.  "I've lived out here longer than I'd care to admit.  You get used to losing stuff in the snow, and the hail doesn't really bother me any no more.  If you want to look around and happen to find some of my stuff, though, you're free to keep it for yourself.  Might be easier if you have a dowsing machine or somesuch, but you never know what you'll find out there with or without one if ya don't look!"

"Really?  Are you sure about that?"

"'Course I'm sure.  Ain't my right to keep it if I didn't go to the effort of findin' it, after all."