Pokemon Umbral Theatre 37: Setting the Standard In Having Low Standards

[Menarker]

Note in advance. I might be unable to view/respond due to finally moving out my stuff into my condo soon. And internet connection crew won't come until Dec 5th. (Booo!)

[Astral Harmony]

Now that I think of it, Madness would probably be more associated with the Ruin type.

Anyways, all I really did was change the names around a bit. Spell Card became Assault Card (because the cards don't always involve magic, just direct attack), Beast Card became Fiend Card (no change in the cards themselves, just the name), and Trap Card became...well, Trap Card sounds fine.

In case you're interested, Fiends will borrow a lot from mythical creatures and some original ones. So expect stuff like armed goblins, hydras, gryphons, minotaurs, skeletons, centaurs, mermaids, fairies, giant spiders, blood mantises and so on with creatures I originally came up with to flesh it all out. But that's just the Flesh deck.

EDIT [Nov 24]: Dracorion, the Lustral stuff has been updated quite a bit so you can decide which route to take based on which enemies you wanna capture. I don't think the update is complete as I still need to add some context, but it's more than enough to talk things over with Menarker.

[Menarker]

Still waiting for results on my previous turn for Umbral.
Lustral side of things are ready to proceed for Drac and I, once you're done with updated stats.

[Astral Harmony]

Relax, Menarker. I know about all the things I have to do at all times unless I am distracted by boobies.

...I will also take this moment to admit that I am very often distracted by boobies.

EDIT: Menarker, I should have your RP post up tomorrow morning and I think I will have some Lustral stuff done. I just haven't been feeling well. The douchebags I live with are sick 24/7. I think it's the fact that they go out way too often for loose women.

[Aldurin]

Oof, Donovan's character bio is rough. I'm going to have to take a weekend to reformat it and actually include information. Is Flame Aura's attack type physical or special? Who knows because I was too dumb to ever say so (listed it as special in the recent post since that makes more sense and it's the lower stat).

Also those planned upgrades are going into the garbage bin (maybe the Orb stays, maybe). The new changes to Rayquaza bumps that into the primary candidate spot for Donovan's legendary form (goodbye to Deoxys' bullshit evolution that I worry might actually be kept on the Homnyrdex), and the changes to slayer weapons means I need to rethink the whole thing with the pistols. Oh and statting out the what-the-fucks that give us the demon levels since I'm pretty sure that with four half-demon levels Donovan eventually gets two.

I also need to redo the ruin form since that was basically pseudo-Rayquaza. Maybe Ruin/Dubstep, just so Donovan has something that emphasizes special attack. Ruin/Fairy for the sake of irony . . . the Rezonscape's the limit!

AH: Still not sure whether we're staying on eduperd or pirateperd for all of the umbral data, so that would help me be sure of where to keep all of the in-progress stuff and proposals for Donovan's cleaned-up bio.

[Astral Harmony]

Taking a while guess, I'd say the Flame Aura would be Special-type. Most fire attacks are unless you use them in a more physical form like Fire Fang or Fire Punch.

I'll still be using Piratepads for all my stuff. Having this new laptop allows me to see the content on Edupads but I can't interact with it in any way. I can't modify or select the data to copy it somewhere else or anything. If I wanted to extract data from them to a notepad, I'd have to type it in word-for-word.

Not sure if Renny's battle ending will also mean that Donovan's battle will also end. It just made sense for Renny's battle to end. No matter how powerful Cynthia is, she's still just a human. A human that took an air-fuel explosion full on in the face. And has lost a lot of blood. And an arm. And has been struck by flames a lot. Even though statistics would declare that she survived all of it, I can't see her as having done so and remaining conscious.

[Menarker]

Heh, if it was DnD rules, there'd probably be a roll for taking massive damage all at once (like taking 50% of your max hitpoints in one attack) to see if you remain conscious/alive. *Shrug* Not that it applies here, but I could see the logic in it.

Anyhow, I'll let the other players who aren't doing their battles possibly roleplay their arrival in the same general area as Renny to help move things along.

EDIT: Also, for reals, I'll be away for a bit due to internet being offline when I move tomorrow.

[Aldurin]

Originally Posted by Astral Harmony

Not sure if Renny's battle ending will also mean that Donovan's battle will also end. It just made sense for Renny's battle to end. No matter how powerful Cynthia is, she's still just a human. A human that took an air-fuel explosion full on in the face. And has lost a lot of blood. And an arm. And has been struck by flames a lot. Even though statistics would declare that she survived all of it, I can't see her as having done so and remaining conscious.

I'd prefer if Donovan's battle didn't end just to stay in sync with the other players. I can pick up the slack if the progression gets asynchronous.

[Astral Harmony]

Works for me. I can resume my usual routine of work tomorrow. Had some adjustments to go through as part of my wacky promotion despite it not being much work at all. Being a middle man sucks.

[Aldurin]

Oh, something to point out for the pokemon users that aren't playing Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire. There's extensive tweaking of quite a few movesets between the X/Y and OR/AS, which mostly seems to be changing the levels that some moves are gained but there are quite a few added moves. For example, Gallade now has Wide Guard and Quick Guard on its moveset which is relevant and useful for Renny, and it'll be worth checking if the other pokemon in your party/forms have new moves available. Bulbapedia made this easy with separate columns for X/Y and OR/AS for level listings.