Pokemon Umbral Theatre 9: Ode to Gardevoir...Yes, Again.

[Geminex]

Oh come on. How is his manner of speech either intelligent or charismatic? And how on earth is Renny lovable?

In regards to the PM, it didn't really require a response. You should be PMing me.

[Dracorion]

Your pathetic attempts at flattery will not get me to give up my rebellion against you, Geminex!

I think Menarker is confused. The fact that Renny is the most likeable guy on the team doesn't actually make him likeable. It just means he's the least dislikeable guy on the team.

[Geminex]

Dammit. My evil plan is foiled.

Also, my laptop just died, so time for another hiatus, I guess. Bluh Bluh and all that. Still, at least my shit's balanced now and I've started arranging all the other stuff. So that should be fine, I guess. Not sure how long, I'll try to log on when I can.

Bard and Dante, post your upgrade sheets. Drac and Menarker can do the preliminary stuff and when I come back we can finalize it. And then we can get this show on the motherfucking road.

[Menarker]

We won't quite be able to until AB posts the data on PATCA's new employees. But working on their upgrades sheets sounds like a pretty worthwhile thing to do.

Gem, can you at least post what your new upgrades are like? I don't think any of us saw what the new results are after the changes.

[Dracorion]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHEHEHEHEHAHAHAhehehehehehaha.

Oh, you guys.

[Bard The 5th LW]

I GUESS I'll get the upgrade list up...

How do I go about this? Can I get a list of basic upgrades? Do I just write all the basic stuff and then write the conditional upgrades?

[Dracorion]

Here you are. The standard upgrades. And yes, just copy-paste the standards (or just name them if that's easier for you) and write up the customized ones.

Copy-pasting them makes it easier for us, though.

[Menarker]

I guess the best way to you to go about this is to:

1) Have an idea what your character is going to be thematically. How will they contribute to the party and to your character's fighting style?
2) Work out what existing mechanic is there that you can use or modify to fit that theme.
3) Use the template that AB made previously as a sort of guideline for power level.
4) Start assigning such abilities that support your theme by levels and what class it counts as. (Abilities that deal with pokemon will probably be trainer levels while abilities that self improve is probably a level in slayer.)

Our conditional upgrades are just a way to ensure that you get a certain ability at a degree of flexibility. Like I don't know what level exactly I'm going to take my levels in breeder, so I just put the conditional that when I have the right number of levels in both corresponding classes, I get the ability regardless of when I actually reach that point. It makes the most amount of sense if you try to customize an ability that seems to combine the features of 2 or more classes.

Anyhow, you don't have to keep all the basic upgrades. You can scrap a few to better suit your needs.

There are some examples in Renny's bio and Pierce's bio (and the bios of his NPC characters)

[Bard The 5th LW]

Here are a few things, just based off what the upgrade sheet says. I glossed over some of these earlier so I'm going to go into them now. For now, Trainer action.

Assume Charlotte is going to take her next levels in trainer until I hit Breeder. After that, I may put one into Slayer and then throw the rest into Breeder with a small amount of custom upgrades.

Trainer Action: Kick the Dog

Exactly what the name implies. Charlotte physically attacks her own pokemon to encourage them to do better or else. Attack, Special Attack, and speed stats go up by 2 stages until the Pokemon faints, but 1/4 of that pokemon's HP is lost.

I'll get the evolution for Manetric later.

[Dracorion]

So is Charlotte's level for this mission going to be Trainer or Slayer?

Trainer Actions sounds... ermmm...

Maybe limit the boost to Attack and Special Attack, maybe Speed?