[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

"I'm assuming that they're not going to let us out of here without a thorough inspection and a detailed report of what happened, given that we're partially doing this as a favor for them.  I highly doubt they'll have an extermination policy in place, but they'll definitely want to make sure any possible dangers are well contained before letting them loose.  If Dagny can't clear the metaphorical air, she can probably contact someone who can so that Shiva can actually leave the island with that Nucleon without raising any alarms.  If Dagny or someone experienced with Nuclear types can verify Shiva's claim that Nucleon aren't as dangerous as a typical Nuclear type, then I don't expect there'll be many problems in the long term."

"Let's try not to worry about it too much, though.  We'll cross that bridge when we get there.  Right now, we need to finish up here, then check out as much of the rest of this facility as we can."

" ....There are ways to smuggle Items and Pokemon that are unlikely to be detected by even the military, and we could always omit and reinterpret the details of our findings here to facilitate any cover up. It bears repeating since you didn't refute this, but the military could still take the Nucleon away permanently, as it could be classified as the lab's property and therefore the League has first and final claim to it. Or simply on the grounds of it being a Nuclear Pokemon, because they are foreign and illegal threats to the civilized and uncivilized parts of Cheshire, no matter what degree of 'danger' individual species possess. Dagny wouldn't be able to entirely refute the later concerns, nor is it likely she could make a bargain or persuasive argument for Shiva to keep it if either the League or military make a claim onto it ASAP, so in either event being frank about Nucleon's existence leads to an undesirable outcome for our friend. Even if the military does't pluck the creature right away from her for keeps, there are still plenty of ways for them and the League to make her and all our lives difficult for trying to keep it before Dagny can attempt to help - or for things to escalate poorly regardless, a worryingly common trend for the group, sans my inclusion in it or not.

" *Sighs* ....But I can already see I'm currently unable to convince you the veracity of my points or plans. Not enough to give you pause for my concerns or unseat your mind from the course of action it has decided upon, at least. Trying to talk about this any further will lead us nowhere but in circles, so I'll table this discussion for now. Perhaps we can talk about this again later before we report to the military, after we have more time to think about it and completed our investigation, perhaps not. For now, I'll try the best to do as you recommend and carry on."

With that said, Ventus shakes his head to himself before falling silent. His nerves still in a tizzy from this discovery, and his swirling emotional maelstorm had only been amplified, but despite that his talk with Nathan did do his spirits some good, if his somewhat more looser posture is a sign of that. Burning some of his fretful energy away with their talk was also nice for him too, since it solidified those ideas in his head and stopped him from endlessly overthinking things or for him to come up with worse. Hopefully Nathan got plenty of good out of this meeting too, so the eccentric researcher wishes that to be.