Pokemon Umbral Theatre 37: Setting the Standard In Having Low Standards

[Astral Harmony]

Shall we get a little creepy today?



Buried Alive

Let's see if I can remember these without going back to do some research. Buried Alive here replaces Cubone's mother as the boss fight in Pokemon Tower located in Lavender Town in the Kanto region. He fights like a Pokemon Trainer, using four very high level Pokemon. If you can manage to somehow defeat him, the game crashes, but if you lost to him, you get to view a game over screen with him cradling your dead body as he slowly drags you down into the soil to consume you.



Creepy Black

In Pokemon Black (which is a special version of the original Pokemon games), the trainer acquires a unique Pokemon simply called "Ghost", which resembles the unidentifiable sprites of ghost Pokemon in Pokemon Tower until you gain the ability to see what they really are. Ghost has only one attack called Curse (the official Curse move didn't exist at this time) and Curse was not only able to instantly kill any and all Pokemon that attacked it, but was even able to kill the rival trainers that challenged you. Once you defeated the Elite Four, the game shoots forward to you as an old man in a strange tower, meeting and speaking with the lost souls of those whom Ghost has cursed. Then you get to fight Ghost yourself, with you having no Pokemon and no moves other than Struggle. Ghost will wait until you are nearly dead from the recoil damage and finally use Curse to put you out of your misery.



Lost Silver

Lost Silver involves Gold trapped inside Belsprout Tower with a Cyndaquil and the rest of his party filled with Unown. What is special about these Unown is that their arrangement in your team spells words. As the game continues, the player steadily undergoes some disturbing changes, such as losing him limbs and head while his team is arranged. There's a Pokemon battle where he fights Red's level 255 Pikachu with what appears to be half of a shiny Celebi. And the Unown are constantly getting rearranged to spell more creepy messages, like H-E-D-I-E-D and N-O-M-O-R-E.



Strangled Red

A young trainer named Steven lived in Pallet town with his brother. He was a Charmander trainer and had named his Charmander Miki. Anyways, he goes about his journey and then one day must trade his Miki (then a Charizard) over to his brother so that they can complete their respective Pokedexes. Unfortunately, something happens during the trade, and Miki is no longer with us. Steven, lost in despair, does the unthinkable and swims (without the aid of any Pokemon) to a beach where he encounters MissingNo and wills MissingNo to join him, believing that MissingNo possesses a unique power to bring Miki back. He returns to Pokemon Tower and acquires a mysterious item that has one very unique ability...that he then uses on his own brother when he returns to Pallet Town. The ability? Well, there's a red this particular hacked game is called Strangled Red.



While not a creepypasta in it's own right, do note that Rosa is on her way to Honmyr...and she's looking to make some new friends. Thou hast been warned.

Oh, and one more...



Are you quite sure that you made up that whole Jigglypuff theory on your own, Aldurin?

[Menarker]

Creepy-Pastas sure isn't my thing. ^^;

Anyhow, quick reminder of current tasks: Post for Relm, Gem, Drac and myself.

[Astral Harmony]

I know what to do, Menarker. Now go away and eat some garlic croutons.

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...Mmm, garlic croutons. Perfect with Yoohoo chocolate drink.

[Aldurin]

Wait . . . is the Strangled Red Steven . . . THAT Steven? Is that a Steven we're going to meet?

[Astral Harmony]

Astral Harmony: "Post Quick Reply no longer allows me to meld an addition to a post into the current post even if both are mine."

No, you muggle. This particular Steven is an original character created by the Strangled Red creepypasta. He basically looks exactly like Red does except with longer hair, although he developed the glowing red eyes and vicious smile as his mind slipped into dementia after the loss of Miki the Charizard.

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Working on various things, post included. From the boss fight onward, I'm going to be calculating a move's chance to hit based on the official Pokemon equation for determining it.

Here's a quick review just so you know...

Hit Chance = MoveAcc x (User's Acc / Target's Eva)

You divide the move user's Acc (a percentage) by the target's Eva (also a percentage), multiply it by MoveAcc which is the accuracy of the move itself, and there you have it. If P is equal to or greater than 1, the attack always lands.

The Acc and Eva of all allies and enemies will always start at 100% (1), so the division part of the equation doesn't even factor in unless you guys start buffing and debuffing Acc and Eva, so the hit chance is determined by the move's accuracy alone. You can check how much of a change there is to Acc and Eva buffs and debuffs by checking here.

I'm doing this as part of my work in allowing Slayer weapons to be modified.

And yes, this actually helps me a little because I no longer have to do die rolls to determine the Acc and Eva statistics for the enemies, nor do I have to figure out what it is for you guys. Just make sure I'm well aware of what your buffs and debuffs are in those statistics, friends.

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Hyacinth and Pierce's posts will be updated tomorrow morning. I can conclude Hyacinth's battle this turn since there's not a whole lot the enemy constructs can do if Hyacinth just decides to say "fuck it" and leave them in their little holes.

Here's some notes, though...

- I'm not certain why Probopass's SpDef rises by 50%. If you're talking about the Sand Force ability, my research into it states that it increases the Power of Probopass's Rock, Ground and Steel moves by 30%.

- Gravity does reduce the Evasion of all units on the battlefield by 2 levels, but I would've allowed that to only happen to the enemies if you Focus'd it. Just so you know.

- Based on Ice being ineffective against both Steel and Fire, the Ice Pokebrid Action doesn't affect Hotdogger. I would most likely recommend a Strategem Shift using a Water attack for at least some kind of effect in this case.

I just need to figure out how Hyacinth's Signature Technique works and then figure out what to have Melanie do. As for Pierce, all I need to do is eat a bowl of stupid and then the ideas for the battlefield should just flow with ease.

[Menarker]

Originally Posted by Astral Harmony

Here's some notes, though...

- I'm not certain why Probopass's SpDef rises by 50%. If you're talking about the Sand Force ability, my research into it states that it increases the Power of Probopass's Rock, Ground and Steel moves by 30%.

- Gravity does reduce the Evasion of all units on the battlefield by 2 levels, but I would've allowed that to only happen to the enemies if you Focus'd it. Just so you know.

- Based on Ice being ineffective against both Steel and Fire, the Ice Pokebrid Action doesn't affect Hotdogger. I would most likely recommend a Strategem Shift using a Water attack for at least some kind of effect in this case.

I just need to figure out how Hyacinth's Signature Technique works and then figure out what to have Melanie do. As for Pierce, all I need to do is eat a bowl of stupid and then the ideas for the battlefield should just flow with ease.

- The Sp.Def increase is an inherent bonus of Sandstorm toward Rock types in the same fashion that Rain Dance boosts the offensive of Water types.
Sand Force is an added bonus on top of that.

- Gravity being focused seems odd since it seems like a weather effect. Although having one sided weather would be amusing.

Comments on experimental data pad are up. Mostly well received with some some clarifications requested and some comments.

Also, I don't mind the occasional double-post if the system acts up or so.

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Just posting again to note that while there are many comments/suggestions on your changes, I approve of it overall. Made some changes to my build to conform with the new "Slayer Standard." If Umbral had standards.

[Astral Harmony]

Ah, this book here must be outdated. It told me that Sandstorm increased the Spd of Rock types, not the SpDef, which is why Melanie and Probopass's Spd increased in my current info of the post. Wish these jerkoffs would settle on what these moves do.

Gonna use Lucian to end the conflict early so that Hyacinth can catch up to everyone else and then find a way later this week to tow Ray into the boss fights. Time for Lucian to finally be a badass instead of just looking sort of like one.

Assload of Addendums...

Menarker gave me a lot of bad ideas and since I lub me sum bowls o' stoopeed, I decided to go ahead and consider them good enough ideas to bring them into the official Pokemon Umbral world.

There's going to be two new characters, Runner Droops and Valkyrie. Runner is going to be revealed during Pierce's Reality Shard boss fight while Valkyrie is a Honmyr street vigilante leader that will probably figure more into Ray's personal saga as he tries to unify Honmyr in this RP and the sequel.

Runner will join the party in a more permanent fashion as yet another reward for completing Haunting Hell [Optional Dungeon]. Her class, Meme Maestro, will be unique to her, allowing her to use incredible internet meme-based powers at the omnipresent risk of causing memebuses to fall from the sky onto the intended target and causing both instant death and Shutdown. So, hopefully, her abilities will be very worth the comedic risk.

Next, Dubstep Pokemon, which will be available when you complete Doktor Absol's Laboratory [Optional Dungeon]. Needless to say, there's a connection there. I will figure out the specifics of Dubstep Pokemon tomorrow but I expect their attacks to be super effective against Ice, Psychic, Rock, Steel, Heritage, Knomere, Mechanical, and Deus Exes. I'm thinking that their attacks won't be as effective against things like Bug, Grass, Water, Ghost, Ruin, Shadow and Undead enemies. Many of their attacks will have the new Burst attribute, which allows the attack to shatter Light Screen, Reflect, and other protective moves but not necessarily all of them. I'll have it all figured out later. This also might involve a new status effect called Groove where the enemy is forced to dance.

Oh, and Deus Ex is the replacement name for Neo-Mechanical enemies. I'm trying to correct my stupidity from long ago and this is one of those steps.

I'm also altering the rewards for Weapons Graveyard. First off, note that the dialogue before the fight will be quite different if you've captured Lost Silver and Strangled Red before attempting it. You'll also recruit a very famous ally. Slayer weapon modification is no longer a reward and can just be left to the Slayers, Daphne and the Engineer specialists. The Lexhur body mod thing does not change.

Finally, the Honmyrdex will change around some. One, I'll do a little more altering to include the new Dubstep Pokemon (maybe bring it up to 550 Pokemon?) and two, I'll move PC-created Pokemon into a special listing all its own since I think I forgot about Charlotte's Pokemon Revenard and that one creepy Pokemon Pierce has. I would also like to include an actual Ruin version of Aegislash like what Hyacinth plans to have...or already does? I'unno.

Anyways, I think that's finally it from me. Pierce's post will be done tomorrow and I'll have a lot more of this nonsense sorted out, like what Menarker has wisely suggested for the new Pokemon type strengths and weaknesses. Honestly, sometimes it pays to stall for posting for so long because it gives him time to think and help me come up with really dumb ideas. Thanks, buddy!

[Aldurin]

"Kill it with dubstep." Is a worthy cause.

*holds up Dodrio head* you have my sword.

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Please tell me this new type alters the Whismur evolutionary line.

[Astral Harmony]

*points at the Dodrio head.*

Believe it or not, I created an unevolved one-headed version of that thing. I think I named it Struthuno? I can imagine what people will say when they see it...

Pokemon Trainer: "What the fuck is that? A one-headed version of the Doduo species? What a total freak!"
Struthuno: "Struthuno." <Fuckhead.>

A Dubstep variant of Whismur sounds good, but it makes more sense to just turn Whismur into a Dubstep/Normal type. Maybe make it look more emo.

[Aldurin]

Interesting, I was gonna originally make up a Quado . . . do . . . on the spot. A Dodrio evolution with four heads, which happens to pass the threshold of being able to cooperate without being a hive mind, rendering it useless in battle.

Also you need to save the emo for your Dubstep/Dark pokemon.