Pokemon Umbral Theatre 4: Dedicated to Cosplaying Pokemon Trainers Part 2

[Dracorion]

By the way, Pierce isn't going to be available to give orders this turn.

He's kinda got bigger concerns right now. On the plus side, you don't have to worry about his trainer attack going exclusively to his Psyshade, for all the good it is.

AB, Rachel has access to the items that cure Exhaustion and Apathy, right?

Originally Posted by Geminex

Ok, here's the whole happiness thing:

Happiness is...
0: Bye-bye. Pokemon gives you the finger and returns to original trainer, with HP, status effects and buffs/debuffs intact.
1-64: Grudging obedience. Will fight like normal, but won't benefit from trainer's upgrades and will occasionally refuse to act.
65-128: Normal. Fight just like a normal 'mon, but don't benefit from trainer's upgrades (such as demon auras or inspiration)
129-255: Pretty motivated:
256: Loyal-icious!:

Start with 128
KO: -192
Turn in combat: +32
Attack former trainer (or trainer's pokemon): -32
Take damage, get debuffed: -16
Status effect (per effect per turn): -8
Enemy's morale is <50%: +16/turn
Enemy suffers from overwhelming tide: +32/turn
Watchmen morale is <50%: -16/turn
Watchmen suffer from overwhelming tide: -32/turn
Get healed from damage: +8 if HP was >50%, +16 if HP was <51%
See no combat for 3 whole turns: -16
See no combat for 10 turns: -128
Win battle: +96

Iiii think that'd work. It's not too complicated. I made the scale so that being below a certain amount of happiness causes demerits (occasional null turn, I was thinking, like, 20%), and being above brings benefits. Not sure what the benefits should be, but they shouldn't be too large, or snagged mons with high happiness would be superior to normal mons. And Menarker would have a fit.

Also, I'm thinking that if a pokemon spends a whole battle being loyal-icious, it could become part of your permanent inventory (provided it's not legendary).

Thoughts? Suggestions?

I'm kinda worried that happiness gains are going to be too rare.

I mean, a Tuner with two Snagged pokemon would have eight pokemon to choose from, decreasing the chances of the Snagged pokemon being used.

But other than that, maybe add happiness gains for removing status effects/debuffs?

About Snagged pokemon becoming a permanent part of the inventory, I dunno. The Snagger would have to take out one of the pokemon in their six static slots to make room for them, then, instead of keeping them in that convenient Snagged pokemon slot.

I'm gonna start thinkin' about Liz's Loyalty skill. I'm thinking a static decrease of all happiness losses and increase of gains.

AB, what does this mean:

- Psystorm: 102% damage dealt to Dominated Asura Beta B (468%). 28% damage dealt to Irene (72%). 104% damage is dealt to Psyshade Matthias (441%). Irene's Rage wakes up. Irene's Rage is 15.

That bolded bit?

Also, can Snaggers catch Ruin pokemon?

And I forget, has Mio returned yet after getting punted by Lexhur?

Man, this turn is going to suck. Assload of enemies, we've got really crippled. One of three leaders is exhausted, the other one is distracted.

The only leader left? Renny.

... Can we surrender now and pledge our loyalty to Faynoc?

[Menarker]

Well, the Psionic Golem has no defenses to speak of aside from tons of health, so Super Fang will chop off 475% right off the bat. Another will chop off another 238%.

We kinda got to hurry because if we don't remove a bunch of foes, we're going to be swamped when Mio comes back from the bakery... and that would be just terrible. :3

Originally Posted by Dracorion

And I forget, has Mio returned yet after getting punted by Lexhur?[/COLOR]


The only leader left? Renny.

... Can we surrender now and pledge our loyalty to Faynoc?

Mio is due to come back at the end of next turn...

And I'll choose to ignore that particular comment. >_>

Two of the Betas are very close to death. The Psytellites have 150% health. The next weakest one is PsyPierce.

[Dracorion]

Yeah, I had Rachel use a Rage Rocket on Pierce before so he could use Palkia's Testament Drive on Mio as soon as she returned.

But those fucking Psytellites sent that plan straight to hell.

[Astral Harmony]

Yeah. The item Energizer cures Exhaustion while the item Pick Me Up cures Apathy.

"Irene's Rage wakes up" is my way of saying that I'm retarded. Irene actually just wakes up from the sleep aspect of Psyshade Matthias's Powder Punishment.

Snagging Ruin Pokemon isn't possible right now, but might be further on down the road. Pokeballs don't interface with Ruin Pokemon at this time, and all the research the best minds in Honmyr have accomplished is creating weapons that deal Ruin damage and armor than protects against it so far.

However, it will be possible since Ruin Pokemon will continue to exist in the sequel.

Mio's still not back yet. Maybe she likes cake.

[Menarker]

AB: If we destroy the Psytellites that are controlling Impact and Matthias, (as opposed to hitting them with a psychic move) can I assume they'll be brought back to normal?

[Bard The 5th LW]

Charlotte will not be becoming a demon.

Unless we agreed to customize shit, I'm pretty much happy with what is set before me.

And that little dialogue earlier is actually not far off the mark from how Charlotte would react to Liz.

[Menarker]

Dude... that was the point of several discussion threads. You're late to the party. =P

[Bard The 5th LW]

I stopped reading.

Half of it seemed like passive agressive shit, and the other half were like 10 paragraphs a post.

I could only tolerate so much. Really, I enjoyed your arguing at first, but its just pointless now. I can't even decipher what you are debating or what side everyone is on.

Just tell me when you all reach your final verdicts and what these final verdicts are. I am not getting involved in the rest of that shit.

[Menarker]

Well, long story short. You can customize your build from Level 6 on. We already customized Renny and Pierce as well as Drac's NPCs.

[Dracorion]

Final verdict?

We're all customizing our upgrades past level 5.

Though, you could still choose to use the standard ones if you like.