Pokemon Umbral Discussion 31: Zero Mode and Asuras

[Menarker]

Oh. ^^;

I need another nap.

[Geminex]

And we can eliminate enemy pokemon by either sending them out-of-battle, or by hitting them with status moves, we can kill enemy soldiers, we're still stunning the enemy tanks. So we should only take damage from reinforcements and wildfire's attacks anyway, without having to use a lot of Lexhur-rage.

[Astral Harmony]

You probably did have overkill damage, but you could've designated a target if there was the rare chance that you did "defeat" Ceru before running out of attacks.

Ceru functions as a superpowered asshole. Zero Mode's fueling her with unlimited Rage until she dies completely. Same with a Ruin General's Umbral Awakening.

You can inflict status effects on enemy Trainers. One of the things you'll want to concern yourselves with is dealing actual damage. Trainers fall very quickly. Like, a Trainer attack can kill a Trainer in one shot. And then you'll have to deal with Rogue Pokemon. I'll come up with some methods for dealing with enemy trainers directly. Flashbang items come to mind as a non-lethal flinch. I'll let you take some with you after this battle when you can restock.

Anyways, here's a rundown of the future of Pokemon Umbral

- Mission 3: Watchmen defeat Cerulean Wildfire. Watchmen fight Grant, Lucian, and Discord. Rig is used to steal Arceus, Dialga, and Palkia. Watchmen fight Mio. Mio is captured. Faynoc flees. Mission is complete.

- Intermission: Irene joins Watchmen as District Chief. Rayleen and Dormond leave PATCA. Crosswald Crusade plotline begins. Mio and Marionata join Watchmen. Twiloch joins Crusaders.

- Pierce's Sidequest: To Millenium House! Mavyn joins Watchmen. PATCA breaks into Millenium House in pursuit of Pierce who went there, earlier and alone. Jeanette and Chizuru join Pierce. Basic enemies vary between Pokebrids, Asuras, and security robots. Quite a large number of bosses in this quest as well. Mew, Lugia, Darkrai, Cresselia, and Enmekki are captured.

- Rayleen's Sidequest: Destruct, Alice, Pauline, Killian, Lucian, Discord, Nyoka, Jenny, Jeanette, and more join Crusaders. Rayleen hires new PCs and many NPCs, then returns to her house to discuss everything. Prideguard attacks the house. Crusaders defeat the Prideguard and escape.

- Mission 4: Life's a Beach! Vast majority of estrogen-equipped characters have signed a deal to pose for a bikini photoshoot. Charlotte is welcome to do so as well. Watchmen and Crusaders merge for a large party. New Ruin Pokemon and two Ruin Generals attack. Alphonsine and Cardia join Watchmen. Andora joins Crusaders.

- Mission 5: To the Netherworld! In order to combat the Prideguard's increasingly powerful forces, Mika leads Watchmen PCs (including Crusaders if you guys want) to Netherworld for demonic upgrades. Enemies are feral demons as well as Kimono forces for the sake of training.

- Mission 6: Defend the Metropolis! Pokegeddon succeeds in destroying the PC Box storage system at the Fainas Metropolis Pokemon Center, releasing pissed off Pokemon by the hundreds of thousands. Rig is used to recapture Pokemon while Watchmen and Crusaders get back to back to stem off the Pokemon legions. New Ruin Pokemon and two more Ruin Generals attack. Terrance and Joy joins Crusaders.

- Mission 7 (Watchmen): Discovers a Prideguard facility in Basne Islands. Charlie joins Watchmen. Primary enemies vary between HPG soldiers, robotic security, and Asuras.

- Mission 7 (Crusaders): Assaults the Prideguard facility near the undersea Mersapien Haven. Nelhina and Delphina join Crusaders. Primary enemies vary between HPG soldiers, robotic security, and Asuras.

- Mission 8: A killing spree against various Ruin Generals for both sides. Nothing more.

- Mission 9 (Watchmen): Attack and board the Warship Supremacy. Enemy is unsurprisingly the Prideguard. Burkmont escapes, the little turb.

- Mission 9 (Crusaders): Convince the Junk Chief Iris to ally herself and her people with the Crusaders. Iris joins Crusaders.

- Mission 10: Kill That Fat Bastard! Watchmen and Crusaders merge for the final time to take down the Prideguard for good. The enemy? They might be the Prideguard. Plenty of powerful foes and bosses here. After Burkmont goes down, there's nothing else other than...

- Mission 11: Into the Fahngrest Empire. Defeat Idolus, Twiloch and Marionata. Challenge the Kimonos to prove yourselves. Lexhur breaks the final piece of the seal. Defeat Primal Exist's guardians and then defeat Primal Exist herself. A winner is you!

Obviously, this is subject to change, but I don't think it will by very much. All we need to do is decide where Charlotte, Impact, and Matthias slide in their sidequests, throw in an arena mission if we really give a shit and call it a day.

[Menarker]

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

- Intermission: Irene joins Watchmen as District Chief. Rayleen and Dormond leave PATCA. Crosswald Crusade plotline begins. Mio and Marionata join Watchmen. Twiloch joins Crusaders.


- Mission 11: Into the Fahngrest Empire. Defeat Idolus, Twiloch and Marionata. Challenge the Kimonos to prove yourselves. Lexhur breaks the final piece of the seal. Defeat Primal Exist's guardians and then defeat Primal Exist herself. A winner is you!

Twiloch joins Rayleen's team only to betray us? Gee, I would probably have preferred you kept this plot-line of yours mostly secret. I don't think we needed to know all this early on.

[Astral Harmony]

It's more of an honorable truce. Basically, Burkmont does something that pisses off Idolus which you'll hear about at the end of Mission 3, anyways. Idolus has Marionata and Twilock join the Watchmen and Crusaders, respectively, under a temporary and honorable truce in which they'll help each other for the cause of destroying the Prideguard.

Then, they'll honorably end the truce for a final battle. No backstabbing, no "surprise, I'm now your enemy!". It's basically Marionata and Twilock going "Okay, this is where our truce ends. We'll go over there to be with Idolus. You prepare and then come to us when you're ready. It's time we ended this."

All in all, there isn't a whole lot of surprises unveiled here. I'm pretty much out of them, to be honest. After Mission 5, it's going to a lot of lather, rinse, repeat with no unexpected surprises thrown in. I am actually quite done unveiling things.

EDIT: A lot of what was revealed here is actually going to be revealed at the end of Mission 3. There's still plenty of room for surprises throughout the plot that I do not intend to reveal. The end of Mission 3 is going to have one of those "we're putting everything together and this is what we've gotta do to win" intermissions where you learn who your enemy is and what you'll generally have to do to defeat them.

[Geminex]

You probably did have overkill damage, but you could've designated a target if there was the rare chance that you did "defeat" Ceru before running out of attacks.

Can we do that retroactively? If so, fire tank. Please?

- Mission 5: To the Netherworld! In order to combat the Prideguard's increasingly powerful forces, Mika leads Watchmen PCs (including Crusaders if you guys want) to Netherworld for demonic upgrades. Enemies are feral demons as well as Kimono forces for the sake of training.

You mean "Impact's sidequest", right? Cause that was totally what I wanted to do with Impact's sidequest. And you knew it. Because I suggested that plot point.

Lexhur breaks the final piece of the seal.

Mothfucker. How come?

And would it be possible to get a quick recap of the Homnyr mythology? All the stuff we already learned was sorta mushed-up.

[Astral Harmony]

Well, since Impact will probably become the only full demon character, I figured that would be his sidequest. 'Cause he isn't getting full demon in Mission 5.

Ah, it turns out that I'm too fuckin' lazy to do that. Oh effin' well.

Lexhur breaks the final seal because when you defeat Idolus, Marionata, and Twiloch, Lexhur will be the only Ruin General with an active seal. Hell, he'll be the only remaining Ruin General, period.

Anyways, I think I can somehow conjure up a full mythology behind Honmyr, though it isn't really important to the plot at this point.

A long time ago, human civilization was poised to overtake the natural world. In order to curb the unchecked growth of humans, an ancient being living in the subterraneon world beneath Honmyr unleashed an obscure power that flash-evolved normal animals like mice, deer, bears, etc. This flash-evolution lead to the creation of all non-Legendary Pokemon as you know them, from Bulbasaur to Rotom and beyond.

Needless to say, this resulted in a war. As the war progressed, humans and Pokemon slowly and steadily found a way to co-exist. Apricorns, walking with Pokemon, the works.

Now we come to the part about Honmyr specifically. We're closing in on the important year mentioned several times so far: 1600 years ago. The Fahngrest Empire is beset by numerous foes. Powerful bandit groups in the forests, pirates from the sea, high crime, poor resources, weak leaders...all kinds of tragic problems. This was also the year of Malcolm Elliot. Interested in flash-evolution, Malcolm wasted no time in discovering Primal Exist.

Overcome with a desire for knowledge, Malcolm subjugated Primal Exist (it was surprisingly easy) and began his dark mission to instill flash-evolution in humans. The results were the Ruin Pokemon and, in some special and rare cases, the Ruin Generals. This was pretty much the final nail in the coffin of the Fahngrest Empire. The only hint of its existence is the Fahngrest Ruins located far too the north in Honmyr, at the southern end of the central of three canyons appropriately named Tri-Scar Canyon. According to the Ruin Generals, some years after the Ruin Pokemon began their invasion of the world, a mysterious being called Gaea struck down Primal Exist by using a move called Tri-Scar. This move cut Primal Exist to pieces and created those three large canyons, so there's no question about how powerful the move was.

Nobody really knows what Gaea's ultimate intentions are. In the past, humans and Pokemon alike thought of Gaea as a heroine who struck down Ruin Pokemon and battled them all the way back to Honmyr. The destruction of Primal Exist led Idolus, the Dragon Ruin General and most powerful of them all, to call a retreat. They would return many centuries later to begin their revenge. Well, a handful of them. The rest're jackoffs.

That's pretty much it in a nutshell. Honmyr develops while all this falls into the forgotten history. Idolus loses control of a large number of his subordinate generals. Assholes like Faynoc and Burkmont are all too willing to accept power from Idolus in the form of pieces that fell from Primal Exist upon her death, all for the sake of destroying anyone Idolus doesn't feel able to defeat on his own. And you, the Watchmen of the Fainas Metropolis branch of the Pokemon Advanced Tactics and Counterterrorism Agency, are called upon to clean up this epic clusterfuck before Honmyr and the rest of the world is consumed.

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

- Pierce's Sidequest: To Millenium House! Mavyn joins Watchmen. PATCA breaks into Millenium House in pursuit of Pierce who went there, earlier and alone. Jeanette and Chizuru join Pierce. Basic enemies vary between Pokebrids, Asuras, and security robots. Quite a large number of bosses in this quest as well. Mew, Lugia, Darkrai, Cresselia, and Enmekki are captured.

You mean Jeanette, Chizuru and Shizuka join Pierce, right? I understand if you've changed your mind, but it'd be nice to know.

And you forgot to add Elizabeth joining PATCA right there at the end.

Also, where does rescuing Sam fit into your little mission rundown?

[Bard The 5th LW]

I think I'm going to attempt to forget that summary, just so things end up being a surprise later. Shouldn't be too hard, its early, I didn't sleep terribly well.

Anyways, I got an idea for Charlotte's sidequest, I'll attempt to complete the plan while I still remember the rest of the plot.

[Geminex]

Ah, right. Thanks for the recap, I remember a lot of that, now.
And remind me, legendaries originate independently of primal exist, and they fought Elliot, and Exist, alongside Gaia. When Gaia Tri-Scarred exist, the Ruin generals sealed exist away to prevent it from being destroyed utterly.
Did I get that right?

Lexhur breaks the final seal because when you defeat Idolus, Marionata, and Twiloch, Lexhur will be the only Ruin General with an active seal. Hell, he'll be the only remaining Ruin General, period.

Kaay... but why would we want to free Exist?

And I'll post a plan tomorrow morning. I have a lot of it thought up, but the writing will take more time than I have right now.