Pokemon Umbral Theatre 12: On a Very Special Episode of Pokemon Umbral...

[Dracorion]

To be honest if Tyranitar didn't come with Sand Stream, and I hadn't come up with that neat fun fact for Nagarai, I wouldn't have bothered with weather at all.

Weather-inducing abilities are just marginally better than most of the others, that's all.

I guess I didn't help by abusing Tyranitar's, though.

[Bard The 5th LW]

And we'll do that best by embracing the crazy and then forcing it into the shape of a jetpack-wearing Pierce leading a squadron of RDPA-wearing aerial snipers to support Charlotte's and Impacts ground assault against the defensive fortifications of a mutant pokebrid colony that's been trying to revive the first Megabrid, an ancient, almost godlike, super-pokebrid with the DNA of over 800 pokemon, some of them not even known. Needless to say, we'll be betrayed, and though our attack will crush the enemy's forces after an intense battle, we'll be delayed just long enough for the ceremony to finish and the Megabrid to rise again from its mountain grave, under the mental control of an ultra-powerful but insane alakazam mutant, cast out for society for his flaws and desperate to use his newfound servant for just one thing: Revenge.

We fight to sever the link between the two, but our physical force can't match the megabrid's, and our mental assaults wither under the medically-augmented Alakazamutant's Mind-Wrath. Irene warns us that Burkmont's launched a tactical nuclear strike against our position, and all seems lost until Charlotte reveals Phantomere's spirit-techniques. Despite our shock, she maintains control of the situation and gives us a do-or-die option, and we choose to do. More precisely, we choose to leave our bodies and attack/possess the Alakazamutant's (goes by the name of Wrath) mind directly, bypassing his augmentations, going straight for the soul. We enter the dark, broken depths of his mind, confront him as he truly is, and our sanity wavers. We fight, we think (though we can't be sure), a dark, seemingly endless fight, as much horriffic violence as is it deathly silence and fear, we confront his insanity, the darkness inside him directly, and we come so close to falling. But we persevere, we hold on, we find out strengths and throw them against him and scream our defiance and eventually he withers and falls, the cracks in his mind widen to swallow him whole, the darkness flees him as he shakes himself apart, and just before he dies, truly, and finally, and we're letting go of his mind, leaving it, we hear one barely-percievable mental 'thank-you', look over our shoulders to see a bright figure, eyes shining with wisdom and intelligence, as he should have been. And we realize that Wrath's been made whole again, has found peace, that whatever else happens, this was worth it.

We return to our bodies to find that just a moment's passed. Wrath is dead, the Megabrid's disturbed, though. He was never meant to be awoken again, and however great his power, his mind is that of a child. A wise, divine child, but a child nonetheless. He wants to go back to sleep, but can't, wants to be away from all this. He tells us of the times past, of creation, of early life, beautiful stories, beautiful songs. And so he remains as we strap on our jet-packs and get on our pokemon and fly the fuck out of there, his songs still echoing through the mountains, and in our hearts, provoking emotion, such powerful emotion. And a few minutes after we've left, we see a few specks fly over the horizon and we hover, transfixed in shock and rage as the screams of a dying god echo from the nuclear fires in our wake, and we weep.

lolwut

But seriously, when reading this, I couldn't tell if you were against this or for this.

But either way, why the god-damn would you write that?

[Dracorion]

See, Gem?

[Astral Harmony]

AB: Can you clarify in more details exactly what happens and the rules and restrictions for how rogue pokemons under dead/fainted trainers act? Is it free for all or are there any specific rules?

Rogue Pokemon use moves depending on their conditions and current HP values. If a Pokemon is health, expect it to spam attack moves, particularly its most powerful ones. Most Rogues would ignore status effects until they get serious, like when Bad Poisoning really builds up. They'll heal if they can when their health past the 50% mark, but otherwise they'll just spam attacks, particularly their toughest attacks, usually taking STAB and foe weaknesses into account.

AB, have you considered incorporating weather effects into future enemies' strategies? Doesn't have to be anything overly complicated, mind you.

Also, this isn't a request, just a question.

Yes. The Poison Ruin General, Gransrax, has two different weather skills of his own, one you can defog and one that you cannot. I'll warn you. A handful of characters stand to be BadPois'd each and every turn. Impact will wanna bring his Counter Injector armor which will help his survivability immensely.

Rachel will also help as a Medic because of her Immunity Extension Character Skill, so I'll allow you to switch her in.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Don't know why, but I just felt like mentioning that for the first time, Charlotte is not wearing her hammer-space coat. Due to being ruined by oil last mission, the beloved long-coat will be out of commission until her sidequest. Possibly never to return actually.

Still thinking of the costume change. And before Drac says anything, she will be wearing clothes.

[Astral Harmony]

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...A Megabrid, eh?

[Bard The 5th LW]

BRB, going to kill AB with a spoon.

[Astral Harmony]

Like this?

The Mudkip hate came from some Internet meme entitled "so i herd u liek mudkipz" which came about from a post on some forum.

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I dunno why that exploded into hundreds of Mudkip videos, either.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Just for that link, I'll spare you.

[Astral Harmony]

Glad you like it. Could you imagine Charlotte chasing me down with a spoon?

Anyways, those band positions will usually be held by the single classers, specialists or not (Enforcers), though some dual classers like Rachel will possess the musical aptitude to rock out with their respective midgets out.

It's mostly to cover for the fact that I'm certain I'll run out of Character Skills before too long. Got keep them worthy of keeping around, y'dig?

Actually, in hindsight, that movie premier would be epic for the ultimate battle between Pierce and Impact. I won't say who is who simply because one of them won't accept being the guy who gets his ass kicked by a spoon wielding supernatural murderer.

EPIC: Oh, and Backup Dancer! That would be cool for when the situation prevents the use of a band, though I generally consider the band to play in a metaphysical sense. Like if they're on a battlefield, their music reaches you despite the fact that artillery shells are tearing the ground asunder and explosions are popping off everywhere.

And just so you know, enemy bands will also exist. It wouldn't be ridiculously badass otherwise.