[Game Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

Bug Maze, Room 1

Pyra, Karen, and Litwick enter the Bug Maze, and they find a small cavern with cobwebs galore hanging from the ceiling and walls.  The decor is simple, and the trio can hear the chittering and buzzing of Bug types coming from 3 different pathways that lead out of the room and deeper into the maze.

In the middle of the otherwise empty cavern are 3 items:
- An Oran Berry
- Another Oran Berry
- An Apple

As the trio enters the room, a stone door shuts behind them, locking them in the room.  The chittering and buzzing from the three passages in front of the party gets louder as the sound of stone grinding against stone echoes through the caverns long after the door shut.

Karen walks over to the items (with Litwick following close behind the Ralts, trying to distance herself from Pyra somewhat), then picks the items up and shows them to Pyra.  "Well, I guess we should decide who gets to hold on to what, then figure out which path we're going to take.  Any suggestions, Pyra?"

Please decide who gets which items, then pick either path A, B, or C.  NPC characters have the same size bags as the players, by the way, so they can hold up to 5 items each.

Pyra's first thought upon entering the T.M. was one of wistful nostalgia as she eyed the cobwebbed room. It was not too long ago when her group started out their existence in this Pokemon World navigating out of a dead end cave and battling a most annoying Spinerack and its Poisonous buddies after all, so in a way this trip could be consider a short walk down memory line for herself. 

Speaking of the cobwebs, any chance she'd be able to collect some as Crafting Material? She already has some stored away, but getting more of the sticky, stringy, and strong silken thread was not something she'd turn her nose up at!

Before the brimstone imp could get too lost in her thoughts the door grinding shut started her, causing her to jump before she whirled around and eyed the now closed entrance with a slight smile, before turning to Karen an the Litwick.

".....Only forward we can go now, to escape this maze-labyrinth. Unless we fall and Faint, but that is not something we should wish to dwell on, no."

The lil' imp would then join Karen in investigating the Room's Items, looking over them when presented before prompting choosing to keep the Apple for herself and telling them to share the Orans with the candlewick spirit with a kind smile.

"Your health-wealth is a must to protect and preserve, yes, and I am durable myself to not have great need for it. If need be, if you desire I need repair, your Life Dew should do the trick for we-me-us."

Besides that Litwick's timidness does not go unnoticed by her, unfortunately for it, and it earns them her undivided attention as she regarded them carefully.

"........Life Spark Litwick you need not fear me or be so reserved. Though I do not find you yet fond-trust-worthy, you are still one of my charges and team mate, all of whom I protect and care for to my very utmost. Rest assured you will be safe and well with me as we travel and train through this Bug filled maze, yes yes."

She gave them a slight ghost of a smile as she finished, trying to appear to be at the very least a little bit friendly and reassuring to it. In truth she would greatly prefer herself and her friends having as little to deal with the troublesome Ghost (and most other 'persuaded'  recruited Pokemon) as possible and did not care for them in the slightest personally. She considered that lot unnecessary distractions or irrelevant peons in the grand scheme of things at best, outright threats and nuisances to everyone she care about at worst, and things the didn't deserve much consideration for compassion, care, or sympathy regardless.

However, a friend/ally of her friends was one of hers as well whether she liked/accepted them or not (as she stated in the Hall of Magic), and if they were determined to bond and make use of them then it was her duty to help and safeguard them (the 'recruits') to the best of her abilities. If that meant putting aside her apathy and misgivings for the 'recruits'  and being nicer with them, then so be it. Plus she had already taken responsibility for Training Litwick, so her being standoffish to it and them be reluctant to be around them wouldn't help that self appointed job of her, oh no no.

With all that being said, Pyra turns her attention to the pathways forward for a moment, listening to the indiscriminate buzzes and clanking of chiten coming from each of them, before turn back to her group members and pointing to Entrance A.

"We shall go that way, start our journey this way, yes. Come along, let us begin."