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

[Dracorion]

HNNNNNNNNNGGHHHHHHHH.

MY MIND. IT CANNOT STAND THIS LEVEL OF ABUSE!

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY, STOP IT!

[Astral Harmony]

Quantum Theory has a real Gears of War 2 kind of feeling to it. I daresay it's a carbon copy. A fucking awesome copy, but a copy nonetheless.

AB, are the Kimonos that are with Pierce going to stick around when the rest of the groups rejoin (and thus we have to kick out a shock trooper and a medic)? Or do they leave during that time for plot important matters? Or will they be allowed as additional characters in the formation so Pierce can have his characters but not kick off a bunch of other characters?

I'm going to do something about them, so don't you worry your silly little head about it. Needless to say, Pierce will be extremely angry about what I will do.

AB, can you explain to me how Heal Block works? According to Bulbapedia, it only stops pokemon moves from recovering HP. Are we assuming for the purposes of the RP that it would also keep, say, a HoA Healer from restoring the HP of one of their allies? For that matter, are we assuming that Heal Bell cures status effects like Apathy, Exhaustion, Berserk, Plasmaburn and Deep Freeze?

Heal Block only stops Pokemon moves. Items and skills used by humans, except for berries, don't interface with Heal Block.

Heal Bell should cure all those status effects, unless they're being prolonged because of something else, like Psytellite possession.

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

I'm going to do something about them, so don't you worry your silly little head about it. Needless to say, Pierce will be extremely angry about what I will do.

Oh now that's just...

You're a son of a bitch, you know that?

Heh, AB, I think you forgot to address why Twiloch and Marionata are with the Watchmen now. Or do you mean to do that later, and that's why they're not available for the DSS right now?

Oh, and I forgot to slap you in the wrist for missing the perfect opportunity for a three way battle last mission. For shame, AB, for shame.

[Menarker]

At any rate, we should just focus on the few we have left to decide who our teams are going to bring through the doors. We can more or less discuss who actually get chosen for the later bits of combat later.

From the looks of it, the parties seems to be

Team 1:
Charlotte
Mio (Charlotte's Enforcer)
Matthias
??? (Matthias' Enforcer)
Rachel (Medic)
??? (Shock Trooper. Probably Discord, Kyrie or perhaps Mika)

Team 2:
Impact
??? (Impact's Enforcer)
Renny
Whitney (Renny's enforcer)
Lola (Medic)
Mirror (Engineer)


So, we need to hear from Dante and from Gem about their choice of enforcers.

[Geminex]

Hey, why're yoiu insisting that we take mirror? We're getting Elizabeth later, aren't we? She's just as good. Why would we need 2 engies? They're not going to be that effective in the first few battles, I think. Pretty small-scale stuff. I think taking engie instead of Shock Trooper would not be very smart at all.

And why's team 1 taking Rachel? We've overused her last mission. Again, Angelo isn't any less effective, why not give him a chance?

[Dracorion]

Seeing as how our choice of NPCs for the final battle is dependent on the NPCs we bring initially, someone might wanna take Angelo.

Thoughts on Shock Trooper?

[Menarker]

Well, Bard expressed interest in Kyrie and Discord for roleplaying factor, although Discord has the bonus against humanoids and Kyrie hits for all types and is very evasive.

I suggested Mika at first because she has a wide variety of attacks, her RDPA is all offensive powerful AOE moves, her techs have some utility especially if we can get her at 100 rage to turn an entire round of enemy attacks into healing instead. And the main reason? Her pokemon Mewthree cannot be hurt except by offensive ghost, dark, bug moves and some status moves. Oh, and she counterattacks if she is hit by a status like poison.

I didn't know that Elizabeth would be coming later. If it can be confirmed by Drac that she will, I wouldn't mind switching Mirror for Mika.

[Geminex]

Eh, nevermind about Liz. We're not supposed to be relying on OOC knowlege to make these choices. It would not only be bad role-playing, it might go wrong in tons of other ways!

Right?
Drac?


So ok, I'll take Mirror. And probably Kurika as my enforcer again, just because she has pretty good physical attacks. Damn you, Bard, for taking Mio. Damn you.

Have the other team take Angelo as their medic, and whoever Bard prefers as their Shock trooper.

[Menarker]

Hmmm... not trying to be a spoilsport, but we might be taking the wrong approach with this if we ARE trying to use OOC info.

You guys say that the Poison Ruin General Grax is going to be one of the foes near the end, right?

Rayleen commented that Grax's poison is so toxic that just being near him causes significant health problems. I can only imagine that contact moves are going to be counterproductive in that you not only have to get close to him, but you'd actually be TOUCHING him.
And yet we're choosing Attack boosting engineer and a melee only enforcer as part of the team?

Mind you, there ARE some attack based moves that don't make contact like the Super Effective Earthquake as Rock Slide and even a few others.

Although it'll be good early on since we still need enough punching power to get through with a smaller party.

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Geminex

Right?
Drac?

ALL RIGHT FINE.

NOW I WON'T TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE UP AGAINST FOR THE FAYNOC BATTLE.

SEE IF I EVER GIVE YOU OOC KNOWLEDGE AGAIN.