[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

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Furthermore she gently nudges Ventus, if he's conscious and well again, and whispers to him with concern in her voice: "Veheeeeeen, I asked you to take some pictures of these caged Nucleon, did I? Can you, uhm, prepare then to be sent to Dagny and/or the League themselves then, please? You see, these creatures, they....need help, and it's obviously shady stuff the Scims were doing there."

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[Insert Nathan's Messaging Scene Here]

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Dagny (or I) doesn't care who sends her evidence, and as a very prideful woman herself she understands how it might get competitive. She pretty much sends the same response to Shiva/Ventus as she sent to Nathan - she's willing to meet with anyone.

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You return to the hallway, where your two guards immediately begin pestering you about what you found.

In takes about half a minute after the fae lass rests the eccentric researcher's head and her + her beloved Pokemon efforts, but indeed they managed to rouse Ventus as he stirred, letting out a soft but distinctly pained groan as he brings a hand to his forehead, leaning up slightly as he did so.

"Oh....oh my. Why do I feel like I've woken up after a post goal binge and getting blitzed by a Bisharp? Urrrrgh......"

His eyes flutter open as he said this, and for a split second his irises appeared bright red, before he blinked and they were his usually pretty emerald green colour. After waking up, it only took him a few seconds to realize what happened, at which point his face distorted into a scowl of immense distaste until he looked up at his dearest and immediately calmed, gracing her with a small but sweet smile and reaching up to touch her cheek with his other hand.

"Well now....it appears you've graced me with your divine aid, my most precious and darling angel. Though I am most unworthy as I am of it, I thank you for it none the less with all my heart."

The tweed wearing man let out an affectionate chuckle as he lovingly stroked her face and indulge in her comforting embrace for just a single, wondrous moment, before with a *Sigh* he sat himself up and shook his head, clearing the last of.....ITS influence from his head before getting back up to his feet.

"I'll have to spare you the full extent of my gratitude for this and a multitude of other reasons, regretfully. A badly compromised League Lab is hardly a place for romance, especially after everything we've witnessed. And that Eye.....what an intensely unwelcome and most diabolical power it is has. If this is what you and our friends are up against......I dread to imagine how much more unsavory it can be. Tsk.....as always, disaster and calamity find a way to creep into our lives. Had those vile wizards left well enough alone in their abhorrent practices, or refrained from conducting them period, I imagine own lives and many others would have been blissfully simpler......"

Once he's recovered and everyone has explored the Elemental Rooms/pillaged them for all their worth, he'd noticed/figure out Nathan got a message out to Dagney about events and how , and he was.....less than pleased with their decision. Even more so when they didn't allow him access (in one manner or another) to their Dedenne to make his own prompt report alongside his ASAP, to the point of being visibily upset through his default and almost errie smiling expression. Sending a report on events ahead without first cooberating with him on what its contents would be, or at least telling him and waiting for him/Shiva to make their own after reading theirs so they could sent them alongside his with all the necessary adjustments, was rather rude and domineering of the boy, to say the least. He'd probably would'be had words with them on this were it not for the current situation and the fact he more or less knew they'd blow him off or force him to concede to his whims through sheer bloody stubborn self centerness and (if things got passionate) brute force. Much as he was fond and admiring of Nathan (perhaps overly so), it was stuff like this that reminded him of how frustrated and at odds  he really was with Cheshire's newest hero.

So as much as he would've liked to berate the boy, he swallowed his heated words/feelings and moved past it, continuing on with the rest of the group through/out the lab. He'll have time enough to give his own report of events to Dagny in person, and afterwards run any necessary damage control and enact emergency plans from the fallout of their investigations of Garliburg. Without[i] them mucking things up for him or others, hopefully - Nate may have recently dabbled in the more [i]illicit and complicated business matters as of late, but he was hardly an expert on it compared to him.

Of course he still send those picture of the Caged Nucleons to his boss/partner ASAP - his beloved requested he do so, and who was he to deny such a simple and well meaning request from her?

Before meeting the guards and at some point when he had privacy during exploring the Elemental Rooms, though, Ventus would do two things, away from the eyes of the rest of the group: teach Lucifer Nuclear Wind, and storing away the rest of the Nuclear TMs (along with the used copy of Nuclear Wind) by putting them in several acid-proof containers he has on him and feeding them to Aspis. After thinking it over, the potential applications of having his fallen angel having Nuclear capabilities was too great of a temptation for him despite the risks. As for his method of 'concealing' the Nuclear TMs, he had taught his slithering sister how to store and regurgitate Item awhile back, and between the storage medium he used and the slow digestive processes of snakes like her he could get the TMs back to Dagny/wherever in a much safer and less scrutinized location. 

Finally, when the group is confronted by the guards, Ventus elects to let Shiva and Nathan handle them, preferring to take a lesser stance in all matters involving the Cheshire government's 'finest' . If they asked to search him, he'd let them do so, as he's confidant he's well hidden anything incriminating or of dubious legality on his person well before this point.[/i][/i]