Pokemon Umbral Theatre 10: Pictures I Don't Think You Want Explained

[Astral Harmony]

Dracorian, you totally iced the enemy team before the enemy phase could begin. I'd call that a new record.

The next post is going to be huge. I'm basically going to plop the other teams right at Millenium House, among many other things. So, if there's any possible interactions you may have wanted to have with other characters, please do get those done pronto. This party's fixin' to kick off.

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

Dracorian, you totally iced the enemy team before the enemy phase could begin. I'd call that a new record.

Yeah, that was two turns. Next time I'm going to focus on ending it in one turn. And the time after that, end the battle before it starts!

Menarker, I'd like to point out the impracticality of using Lola for the final battle.

Unlike Rachel or even Chizuru, Lola has no pokemon to soak up hits. She'd have to stay in battle at all times. She might as well have a giant fuckin' bullseye painted on her breasts. And if she goes down, we're fucked.

And take Gem's suggestion. Maybe we should plan for the final battle.

AB, I guess Pierce is going to be Enforcer-less, even after the teams get together?

[Menarker]

Chizuru only has one pokemon, thus she falls under the same vulnerability as Lola as well. Rachel is more an exception to how fragile medics can be as opposed to the standard rule.

And the group is only doomed if you guys don't bring revive items (You all should be bringing one!) I'm bringing a couple, and I'm assuming each of you are bringing some too. (Might expect you guys to use yours first because I can use Propserous Gifts to great effect for helping multiple allies.

Lola has a useful feature in partly negating battle damage by healing what gets damage after the battle phase.
Let's say you had Impact or Renny injured to 50% from combat. Lola can heal them up to full and they attack as normal. After the enemy has attacked, unless the foes deal more than 50% damage again, the ally goes right back to full again after they get hurt from the combat phase. Thus she can spread her healing or buffs around for other allies because she doesn't have to focus on healing the same bunch of allies after they take damage from the previous round. She practically doubles her uses when it comes to healing items.

Hmmm... I'm wondering if Lola's ability would trigger when she uses Renny's Love-tech to spread healing items on multiple targets.

[Dracorion]

True, but Chizuru would be less vulnerable than Lola. If only because she has one freakin' pokemon. Not to mention badass Kimono stats.

Of course we should all bring revival items! But y'know what? It'd be even better if we have a Medic who could stay alive to use revival items and everyone else had revival items! Because say a large number of us get knocked out, and the Medic doesn't have Rage to revive everyone.

Worse yet, if the Medic was one of the people who got knocked out.

PS: after the Medic nerf, don't their healing items only heal 50%? So Lola's ability would only heal 25% on the second turn.

Chizuru, on the other hand, can not only heal up to four people without expending Rage, she can generate an item per turn for any PC, giving us an infinite supply of potentially useful items. And chances are, at least Pierce's inventory is going to be depleted when we get to the final battle.

Sure, Chizuru's items are probably going to suck, but I'll take a Sitrus Berry over nothing.

That said, I'm not saying we should definitely take Chizuru. Rachel has her virtues in being the most survivable of all the Medics and fairly useful in herself. AB said the Poison Ruin General would be there, and that son of a bitch is probably going to have some Super-Poison to throw at us. Rachel's immunity ability could be damned useful.

[Menarker]

Technically, Chizuru is just as vulnerable as Lola. Her having a single pokemon just means she has more offensive and there is a chance that foes would rather target her pokemon than her. If the foes wanted to focus fire on Chizuru, her one pokemon being there won't mean anything at all in terms of protection, since it doesn't prevent them from successfully attempting to attack her.

Also, I was discussing this while under the impression that Chizuru and Shizuka would disappear to do whatever plot important stuff they needed to while the ones in our group get used. Otherwise, we'd probably replace the shock trooper in our group with Shizuka too just for the +2 Kimono boost for Chizuru and the characters we choose right now end up not meaning very much at all by the time we get to Pierce. They'd only be useful for helping us get there and not much more.

[Geminex]

True. So why not one of the other medics? We have Angelo, the psychic evee trainer. He has good pokemon, and a cool specialty.

And yeah, Menarker, that's sorta what I meant to begin with. Pierce's sidequest. The characters he picks, fight. What we take doesn't matter very much, just for our battles. That's what I said, isn't it?

Anyway, yeah. I think 1 medic, one shock trooper each. I should have called dibs on mio, but oh well. Next time, hopefully.

Mika's a good choice, I think, Menarker. Enforcer... lemme see.

Oh, and:

Hmmm... I'm wondering if Lola's ability would trigger when she uses Renny's Love-tech to spread healing items on multiple targets.

Translation: Hmm, I'm horny for lola so let's see if I can find some combination to make her more useful and guaranteeing that we'll use her this battle.

[Menarker]

^^; Well, aside from tactics, there is also roleplaying value riding on the entire Lola choice, given the entire mating season thing which AB decided to have at the same time of this quest.

And I certainly don't recall you saying anything quite like that. Mind you, I'm not objecting to Chizuru. It's Pierce's sidequest after all. Just saying I would heavily prefer choosing Lola as the medic on the off-chance the Kimonos Pierce is with become unusable for any period of time and we had to choose only one.

[Dracorion]

Well, again unless AB's changed his mind, I understood that Shizuka and Chizuru would definitely be there.

I mean, I get that you might get confused that they wouldn't be available in the DSS initially because they're already taken. But after the teams join up, there's no reason at all for them not to be there.

Remember that in order to use a second item every turn Medics have to pull back one of their combatants. Like Rachel had to when we were whoring her for heals last mission. While admittedly, we may not have Chizuru using two items every turn, the mere fact that she has this option would make her "on-the-field" time less than Lola.

Angelo has his merits. His Psychic pokemon would deal quadruple damage to the Poison Ruin General. But I'd honestly rather have Rachel providing immunity rather than Angelo's ability.

In any case, we're probably going to have to bring Angelo for sure when we face the Ground Ruin General.

Originally Posted by Geminex

And yeah, Menarker, that's sorta what I meant to begin with. Pierce's sidequest. The characters he picks, fight. What we take doesn't matter very much, just for our battles. That's what I said, isn't it?

True. Fortunately for all of you, I'm no dictator. Feel free to make your arguments (better arguments Menarker!) for your choice of Medic.

And Menarker, if you're worried about the "off chance" the simplest solution would be to, y'know, ask AB.

[Menarker]

I thought we were whoring Rachel for drugs. *Rage Rockets*

PATCA, where bitches, crack and bling are an everyday matter of life.


The only thing that strikes me as truly unique about Angelo is that his ability triggers regardless of what items you use, whether they be healing items or buff items.


Anyhow Gem, you might want to get to work on that PM you might want to send to me since AB is thinking of speeding the plot up soon.

Anyhow, gotta go for work now. See you all later.

[Dracorion]

Oh, and Menarker, you might wanna have Renny decide to Pokebridize himself before the team finds out about Millenium House.

Because, no, seriously, you're telling me Renny would say "Hey guys, wait up, I want to take this potentially time-consuming proceedure before we head out on this critical time-sensitive mission to the major enemy base" and expect anything other than a slap in the face and get dragged off to Millenium House, Pokebrid-less?