Pokémon Umbral Discussion 8: I'll Guard Her Voir! Wait, That Makes No Sense...

[Geminex]

Alright, in that case, I suggest we knock out the Ruin pokemon first!

...
You suggest? You? As opposed to the guy who was telling you to kill all ruin pokemon a turn ago, because you were too stingy to give up a friggin' fire blast, instead telling me to put an Omnisroth to sleep if I wanted to stop it from killing our entire party? You suggest? Very nice. Wonderful.

Also, stop making stuff sound like it was your idea!

Matthias use of Screech boosts its effective power by quite a bit since Outrage is phsyical.

This. I told him to do that. I did the research to see if he could decrease Omnisroth's stats. My effort! All mine! *hisses*
Ok, and maybe Matt's too, what with all the "actually using the move", but whatever!

Childishness aside, can we kill Phantomere within the next two turns? I'd prefer Impact not dying. Though if we do die, then Phantomere would eat another testament drive. If we weaken Phantomere enough by then, then that should hopefully be enough to finish him off.

Anyway. Posting soon.

[Astral Harmony]

Well, since Pokémon is supposed to be a kids show that adults who like Pokémon could probably enjoy as well, Deathclock won't kill you but will send you to the Shadow Realm. Oh, joy, I'm channeling Yu-Gi-Oh here. Deathclock cannot be removed by status curing moves or abilities. The unfortunate victims will have to press on despite the countdown and then hope they're revived so they can continue the fight.

Support characters like Rachel and Lola will prioritize reviving characters that can only fight for themselves (AKA characters don't have Pokémon like Impact, Matthias and Lola) and characters that have very few Pokémon remaining (three or less). Take that into consideration when battles get kind of taxing.

Chizuru was healed and is in good shape. Forgot to mention that before.

Phantomere is going to take a lot of punishment before going down. Once he goes, you can count on the zombies to drop it like it's hot as well. But finishing it off before the deathclock reaches zero will be very difficult. Still, Rachel will most likely revive you on the same turn you get taken out since you're all you've got.

Shannon's Pokémon

- Leafeon [Florescence] (Grass Type) [Female]
Moves: Leaf Blade / Synthesis / SolarBeam / X-Scissor
Ability: Leaf Guard
Item: Lax Incense

- Roserade (Grass/Poison Type) [Female]
Moves: Poison Jab / SolarBeam / Synthesis / Shadow Ball
Ability: Poison Point

- Cacturne (Grass/Dark Type) [Male]
Moves: Needle Arm / Sucker Punch / Focus Punch / Destiny Bond
Ability: Sand Veil

- Jumpluff (Grass/Flying Type) [Female]
Moves: Giga Drain / Bounce / SolarBeam / Energy Ball
Ability: Leaf Guard

- Abomasnow (Grass/Ice Type) (Female)
Moves: Sheer Cold / Blizzard / Wood Hammer / Mist
Ability: Snow Warning

- Starmie (Water/Psychic) [Female]
Moves: Ice Beam / Psychic / Hydro Pump / Power Gem
Ability: Illuminate

Oh, and here's the third (or rather fourth) adventure of Pokégeddon!

Pokégeddon Legends! ...I ain't that baby's momma!

Gardevoir: "So, where's the best place for me to go and learn comedy?"
Seaking: "Fuck yeah, up your ass!"
Gardevoir: "...Yeah. I'll get right on that, Seaking."
Regina: "So, uhhh...kind of a personal question here."
Lopunny: "Shoot."
Rapidash: "Oh, jus' cause I'm a black Rapidash, you think I got a gat, now?"
Lopunny: "Nobody's talking to you, Rapidash!"
Rapidash: "Bitches talk to me. All the time. In fact I got so many bitches that I can't talk to them all. Got 'em all up in my Facebook 'n' shit."
Lopunny: "Forgive Rappy, Regina. He tends to go off on tangents on occasion. So what's this question?"
Regina: "Well, uhhh...would any of you happen to be a parent?"
Lopunny: "Ummm...what?"
Gardevoir: "My Gardevoir Sense is tingling. Lemme guess, you think we're the parents of your Pokémon?"
Regina: "Not necessarily. I was just kinda hoping against hope."
Gardevoir: "Well, I can understand. After all, look at us and look at Regina's Pokémon lineup. Here we have me, a Gardevoir. Then there's Lopunny."
Lopunny: "Hiya."
Gardevoir: "Seaking."
Seaking: "Fuck yeah, Seaking!"
Gardevoir: "Rapidash."
Rapidash: "Word to ya momma."
Gardevoir: "And doing stuff on their own at least for now, Froslass and Altaria."
Altaria: "Actually, I'm here now, too."
Lopunny: "Buh!? When'd you get here?"
Altaria: "I've been here for a good while. I was in the crowd when you put on the lulz at the Contest Hall."
Lopunny: "Well...that's humiliating."
Altaria: "You weren't all that bad, actually."
Lopunny: "Somehow that doesn't make me feel better, Alta."
Gardevoir: "And then you have Regina's lineup. Ralts, Buneary, Goldeen, Ponyta, Snorunt and Swablu. One could chalk it as coincidence with just one or two matches, but when all six are the unevolved versions of all six of us, coincidence is more or less kicked squarely in the juicy and danglies."
Lopunny: "The juicy and danglies?"
Gardevoir: "So let me guess. That's what your journey is really all about, isn't it, Regina?"
Regina: "You've certainly got it all figured out, Gardevoir. Truth be told, I'm really tired of losing all the random Pokémon battles against all the trainers I encounter, but I'd feel like a total bitch if I just put 'em in the computer and left them there forever."
Lopunny: "Can't imagine why that matters. I mean, just think about it. How many millions of relatively low-level Raticates and Linoones and other Pokémon are in the PC storage system as we speak? Sure, flesh out your Pokédex or whatever, but those assholes just leave the Pokémon in there for months, even years! Fuckin' release 'em already, y'know?"
Gardevoir: "That's an important point. And since we used to belong to trainers, any one of us could be in the same situation. Maybe I should be happy I had the kind of trainer that I did."
Regina: "Oh, really? What kind of trainer did you have?"
Gardevoir: "He was a horndog. I didn't become a Pokésapien by choice. He put me through it because he wanted a curvaceous, busty Gardevoir who could talk dirty to him and dress in revealing cosplay and perform degrading sexual acts. The worst part about it was that everyone who knew him and me kept calling me 'Gardewhore'."
Regina: "...I guess it takes all kinds, huh?"
Gardevoir: "Eventually, he got tired of me and when he somehow won the lottery, he spends all his days in this or that sexshop selling Pokésapien fantasies. I think he still does that shit even today. So, to put it bluntly, he abandoned me. It's been a year. I still hate the douchebag, but I kind of wonder what he's doing or if he even thinks of me anymore."
Lopunny: "Heh. I guess I'm the same. I think about my former master sometimes and wonder how her marriage is going."
Regina: "It's difficult for Pokémon of any kind of forget about or hate their masters, huh."
Gardevoir: "Hmmm...I guess that's given us quite a large list of things for us to do."
Altaria: "Large list?"
Lopunny: "Gardevoir wants to learn comedy."
Regina: "I want to return these young Pokémon to their parents."
Rapidash: "Aw, man, we gotta go see mastah? Well, I guess it couldn't hurt."
Seaking: "Fuck yeah, free Pokémon!"
Altaria: "Learn comedy, return Pokémon children to their families, go and see how our old masters are doing, and destroy the Pokémon Storage PC System."
Regina: "Isn't that last one kinda dangerous?"
Altaria: "Actually, the second one could be pretty dangerous, too."
Seaking: "Fuck yeah, smash it all!"
Gardevoir: "Usually I sort of ignore Seaking-"
Seaking: "Fuck yeah, love me!"
Gardevoir: "But now that I think on it, I really want to destroy that system and free all of the Pokémon that have been sitting in there forever."
Lopunny: "Hey, we actually have life goals in mind now!"
Gardevoir: "And all it took was a worthless green-haired Pokémon trainer to help us figure it all out."
Regina: "Hey, what's wrong with green hair?"
Altaria: "We should reunite with Froslass before we do the more dangerous stuff."
Lopunny: "Where is Frossy?"
Altaria: "Well, Froslass loves children so she might be at a school or a daycare center or something."
Gardevoir: "So long as she stays in a relatively small area as she usually does, we'll find her before we get in over our heads. Pokégeddon, roll out!"

Cast of Pokégeddon (for those who like reading stuff)

Gardevoir: Captured by Pokémon Trainer Larken when she was still an up-and-coming Kirlia. Larken helped her evolve into a Gardevoir and maximized her friendship with him so that he could convince her to do things she wouldn't ordinarily do. Like become a Pokésapien to give her the endowments of beautiful human females and a sexy voice for dirty talking. Larken then more or less made Gardevoir a sex slave with experience in numerous sexual acts, house chores like cooking and laundry, and striptease and posing in various costumes. Gardevoir was eventually abandoned when Larken won the lottery and went off to have his perverse desires answered by Pokésapien prostitutes. This was roughly one year ago. Unable to take the verbal abuse of people who knew about the things she did out of her love for Larken, Gardevoir left the metropolis for the wilds.

Lopunny: Lopunny was the starter Pokémon (she was a Buneary at this point in time) of Pokémon Trainer Varnillia. Because Varnillia was a kind and loving trainer, it didn't take long for Lopunny to evolve. Varnillia loved contests more than battling, and Lopunny, out of love for her trainer, saved up money fighting trainers and used this money to purchase DNA splicing, making her one of the drop-dead sexiest Lopunny Pokésapiens you'd find anywhere. Despite how much this helped Lopunny win contests for Varnillia, rumors started to circulate that their relationship was something deeper than trainer and Pokémon. Varnillia ended up marrying her childhood friend, but Lopunny believes that part of the reason was that Varnillia didn't like rumors of her being a closet lesbian circulating around. Lopunny blames herself for this, and with Varnillia's permission, left to eke out her own destiny. She knew she wasn't welcome anymore. She feels a kinship in Gardevoir, since their DNA splicing lead to relatively similar incidents.

Rapidash: Rapidash is a pretty rare Pokémon, having a shiny black coat with orange flames which makes him look like a beast out of hell, though he has such sincere beautiful blue eyes. Rapidash was owned by a female pimp named Rosetta, who used Rapidash to escort prostitutes of both human and Pokésapien nature all over town to earn the best money. His Pokésapien operation gave Rapidash the ability to speak and think like a human. Rapidash was occasionally also used as a getaway vehicle when things went to shit. Rosetta's lifestyle and personality rubbed off on Rapidash. When the police were starting to crack down on Rosetta's organization, Rosetta feared for Rapidash's safety and released him to the wilds, advising him it was for his own good. Rapidash really wants to return to his mistress, but thinks that he may just invite trouble unto her if he ever returned.

Seaking: Seaking was the starter Pokémon as a Goldeen to a very young Pokémon trainer named Erika. Neither really cared for Pokémon training, instead basing their relationship around friendship. Thinking that human DNA splicing might help them become better friends, Erika's parents got Goldeen the operation that gave him the ability to speak and reason like a human, just like Rapidash. Then the expletives came. Fearing that her disturbed parents would try to sell or trade Goldeen away, Erika took Goldeen and ran away from home. They started actually doing Pokémon training just to get from day to day. Goldeen became Seaking in rapid time. But their journey couldn't last forever. Eventually the police found Erika. Not wanting to have to lose Seaking forever, Erika released Seaking and promised to return for him the very moment that she could leave home forever. Seaking waits for that day. Incidentally, the DNA splicing actually did bring the two closer together. Erika really loved the way Seaking said the F-word, which is probably why Seaking says it all the time.

Altaria: As a Swablu, Altaria was the starter Pokémon of a trainer named Celissa. Celissa was a quiet, introverted girl with glasses who spent more time in libraries than at home. Wishing to draw her out of her shell, Celissa's parents got Swablu the operation. Swablu gained the ability to speak and reason like a human, again just like Rapidash and Seaking. Celissa and Swablu became great friends after that and like Celissa, Swablu became an intellectual and reserved Pokémon. One thing Swablu observed about Celissa is that Celissa loved romance novels. So, one fateful night, Swablu managed to write a letter to Celissa and left it with Celissa's teacher at school. What did the letter say? Swablu was off to find the perfect boyfriend for Celissa so she could actually experience the kind of romance she read in those softcore adult novels. Swablu fought by herself, gained levels by herself, and even evolved by herself. To this day, she's still seeking the perfect guy for her beloved master.

Froslass: As a Snorunt, Froslass was the starter of a Pokémon trainer named Deborah. Deborah is currently deceased from natural causes. Deborah and Froslass had the lifelong relationship of mutual guardianship, and Froslass has carried this protector-like nature with her ever since. Froslass used a small chunk of the inheritance to afford her own operation, which gave her a beautiful body along with human reasoning. She learned to speak the human tongue on her own. Froslass still resides at her master's old residence, which is now inhabited by a loving family who know about her and don't mind her presense since Froslass is so kind towards children and other helpless beings. Froslass hates injustice more than any other member of Pokégeddon, and strives to make the world a better place, one battle at a time.

Regina: A young, inexperienced, and most importantly unauthorized trainer in Honmyr. Regina never really cared for Pokémon training, and still doesn't. Her mindset of Pokémon training changed when she encountered her first Pokémon, a badly wounded Ralts. She saved its life by finding a random Pokéball lost in the nearby grass and capturing it. Because she wasn't an authorized trainer, Regina had to buy and use items from the Pokémart instead of utilizing the free services at the Pokémon Center. Time and time again, Regina had other encounters like that and now has a full lineup of six Pokémon. Her greatest desire is to return these six Pokémon to their homes and families. She tries to find ways to make lots of money quick and easily since she cannot use Pokémon Centers to heal her Pokémon.

[Menarker]

Originally Posted by Geminex

...
You suggest? You? As opposed to the guy who was telling you to kill all ruin pokemon a turn ago, because you were too stingy to give up a friggin' fire blast, instead telling me to put an Omnisroth to sleep if I wanted to stop it from killing our entire party? You suggest? Very nice. Wonderful.

Also, stop making stuff sound like it was your idea!
This. I told him to do that. I did the research to see if he could decrease Omnisroth's stats. My effort! All mine! *hisses*
Ok, and maybe Matt's too, what with all the "actually using the move", but whatever!

Childishness aside, can we kill Phantomere within the next two turns? I'd prefer Impact not dying. Though if we do die, then Phantomere would eat another testament drive. If we weaken Phantomere enough by then, then that should hopefully be enough to finish him off.

Anyway. Posting soon.

I know you were the one who suggested the idea first out of character, but in character, I was the one smart enough to do so first. :3

^^ Fun playing around with in-character/out-character incongruity.

[Dracorion]

I wanted to point that out, but I would never be able to get clear of the blast from Gem's head exploding if I did.

Glad you're taking the hit for me, though.

[Geminex]

Eh. You'll have to try harder than that to make my head explode. A character's actions reflect directly on the player, since any decisions regarding rank or some such (which is the only place where "It was MY idea!" actually comes in) are made with full knowlege of both IC and OOC behavior.

And besides, even if he didn't yell about killing the Ruin types first, his actions and thoughts indicate that it was, in fact, my fucking idea.

In short, screw character/non-character incongruity, my idea. The fact that you had your character verbally express my idea means nothing.

TL;DR:
MY IDEAAAAAAA

Anyway, never mind that.
I've come up with one more possibly fun idea. Ruin types have syncstrikes, Kimonos have signature sequences. Just trainers don't have anything. I'm thinking of giving them something.
Namely, the ability to combine various pokemon's attacks to produce even more powerful attacks.
Not everything, of course. Just stuff that's thematically appropriate. Say, if one pokemon used leech seed and the other used ember, then that could result in a single "badly burned" status, which'd be like burned, only with "toxic" damage progression (because, y'know, leech seed sends roots through the target's body, and ember sets those on fire, and then you've got VEINS OF FIRE running through your body). Or, say, if one pokemon uses focus energy and the other uses slash, then that could result in focus slash, an 80 damage attack that always gets critical hits. The other two effects wouldn't come into effect, but you'd have one powerful combined attack.

I'm not sure what I'd call the technique, but it might be cool, yes? Particularly because, with what I'm envisioning, we'd be left to experiment for ourselves, find the best combined attacks. We can just mention in our posts that we want to combine attacks (if we don't both agree, they'll just occur normally), and AB can evaluate the results, see if what we've proposed is awesome or creative enough. He'd then have to come up with the actual effect of the attack, but we can make suggestions regarding that as well.

I wouldn't mind too much if it isn't implemented (after all, Slayers don't , but it might encourage some more creativity and teamwork (as if we don't have enough of that already), and it'd be totally fucking sweet. Besides, it'd give the entire thing a little more realism.

And yes, I'm talking about adding realism to the adventure where a crowd of absurdly powerful misfits enslave supernatural beasts to their will in an effort to battle other, evil supernatural beasts and are currently fighting an evil supernatural beast ghost who's making mindless, undead slaves out of other supernatural beasts in an effort to kill us and succeed in his plan to find a totally normal human with the ability to command huge hordes of evil supernatural fucking beasts.

Anyway, consider it?

[Astral Harmony]

So Impact is adding realism by creating attack sequences for Pokémon while Pierce is taking away realism by wanting me to resurrect a zombie Pokébrid as a living Pokébrid, just because she's hot?

Eh, I can deal in both situations. Gawd, by the time the beach mission is over, you'll feel the estrogen in the agency the moment you walk through the door. And every morning you'll hear Pierce singing Mambo Number 5.

Pierce: "A little bit of Whitney in my life,
A little bit of Rayleen by my side.
A little bit of Shannon is all I need,
A little bit of Lola is all I see.
A little bit of Evangaleen in the sun,
A little bit of Harliette all night long.
A little bit of Chizuru, here I am,
A little bit of Tyranitar makes me yo' man! ...What!? Wait a damn minute!"
Armored Bishoujo: "Goodnight, everybody!"
Pierce: "Come back here, you bitch!"

[Geminex]

Indeed.

Though really, I'd advise against un-zombifying Whitney. Rotting slowly and being entirely without human emotion would give her so much in common with Pierce. Besides, if she has free will, why the hell'd she date him?

And before Drac gets pissed at me for writing this, let me give you a sample of the alternative.Tyranitar used Giga Impact!
Tryanitar used Hyper beam!
Pierce used Swallow!

[Menarker]

Well, incongruity means everything. :3 I'm roleplaying a lawful good love freak in a way while my real self is closer to chaotic evil magnificent bastard with ranks in craft disturbing mental image and manipulation. Yes your ideas, but if you get suprised or upset because you didn't think of typing that claim, then it's too bad. MY WIN! ^^ But of course, they are your ideas, no question about that. In character though, even if Impact was thinking of it first, anyone who was listening to orders would admit that Renny was the one who "came up with the idea first" since he was the first to vocalize it and make it known to everyone else.

Well, I already thought of combing attacks with pokemon. My personal fave being with Butterfree using its wings like solar panels, and then releasing the energy via solarbeam while flapping its wings powerfully via whirlwind for a destructive AOE effect.

Anyhow, I think something like that is bound to get out of hand as we'll keep trying to one-up each other and come up with more moves than Pokebrids have available. I mean basic stuff like combining water like surf with ice beam to encase someone in ice or make ice terrain? Seems pretty basic. But the above example makes it seem like leech seed should have just burnt right off.

And Pierce totally isn't getting a harem. : o Leave some for the rest of us! (Has a soft spot for Lola for sure atm)

[Dracorion]

Okay, before I insult all of you, I'd like to defend Pierce by saying that the whole harem thing was my idea. Really, can you blame me? I mean, damn. But Pierce does have a little bit of a crush on Chizuru, which is why I warned AB.

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

Pierce: "A little bit of Whitney in my life,
A little bit of Rayleen by my side.
A little bit of Shannon is all I need,
A little bit of Lola is all I see.
A little bit of Evangaleen in the sun,
A little bit of Harliette all night long.
A little bit of Chizuru, here I am,
A little bit of Tyranitar makes me yo' man! ...What!? Wait a damn minute!"
Armored Bishoujo: "Goodnight, everybody!"
Pierce: "Come back here, you bitch!"

You son of a bitch.

Originally Posted by Geminex

Though really, I'd advise against un-zombifying Whitney. Rotting slowly and being entirely without human emotion would give her so much in common with Pierce. Besides, if she has free will, why the hell'd she date him?

No, Pierce does not have the hots for Whitney, he's just secretly a nice guy. (psst, don't tell anyone) And he's far from emotionless and rotting. He just seems that way because he's hidding just how much of a softie he really is.

Originally Posted by Geminex

And before Drac gets pissed at me for writing this, let me give you a sample of the alternative.Tyranitar used Giga Impact!
Tryanitar used Hyper beam!
Pierce used Swallow!

You son of a bitch!

And anyway, Pierce totally isn't into the pokeymanz. It's why he doesn't get with Aria. Not to mention, the only guy for Tyranitar is Blaziken. I'm very, very tempted to make their gay thing canon.

Yeah... It'll happen during the beach mission. Tyranitar and Blaziken go behind a cliff, Pierce assumes to spar. I mean, what else could they be doing?

Originally Posted by Menarker

And Pierce totally isn't getting a harem. : o Leave some for the rest of us! (Has a soft spot for Lola for sure atm)

No! MINE. ALL MINE! MY IDEA! GECHUROWN! MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!

[Menarker]

To top it off, I present THIS!


*Renny is Fighter, Pierce Is Black Mage, Geminex is Thief. Matthias is busy being a monster (both as a pokebrid and Red Mage and isn't in this script)*