Pok?mon Umbral Discussion 11: Silence! I Keel You!

[Astral Harmony]

Seriously, it's difficult to get anything out of all that talk, which yes, I know is more or less entirely my fault but I'm a one-post-a-day lazy GM, but it still doesn't help me all that much.

Dracorian, I can grant this Enmekki, but you're not getting it until your sidequest. I will introduce it, you will capture it. I don't know when Dialga will rear his head for you, but you're definitely getting Enmekki next.

No more additional upgrades until after Mission Three. Menarker, if you want to switch Mollesk in for another Pok?mon, feel free to do so. I'll get you that sixth slot after Mission Three, but you'll have to make due until then. I'm sorry, but I'm putting my foot down.

...Ow, I think I broke my heel.

Anyways, I don't know what other questions were asked, because I'm not going to read all those paragraphs to find them. Sorry, but I guess I'm just impatient that way, even if I don't particularly have anything better to do other than find those questions.

Now here's your sexy picture...



...Oooh, got all of ya! But man, that is effing disturbing me. I know I can never make it up for that one, but here's just one of my efforts...

so i herd u liek mudkipz


Holy shit, it's Officer Jenny!


And the return of the Pikachu hawtness...


So please, if you would kindly, an actual list of questions that I can read without going through oodles of paragraphs. Please, please, please help this lazy, retarded GM out. Help me help you. Or you won't get any more Mudkips.

Well, you probably won't get anymore anyways since that's the only picture of a Mudkip cosplay I saw on that site, but maybe I'll get lucky and find another one. It'd be a real effort to find one better than that one, I guaran-damn-tee.

[Menarker]

Wow.

*Swampert nods as well*

^^

*Reading*

Aw, you totally spoilered my 6th pokemon. :3

[Dracorion]

*Skip to the bottom for (lousy) post summary*

Originally Posted by Geminex

Edit:
In regards to Pierce getting Enmakki, why not link it into his sidequest? Faynoc could have reawoken it at the laboratory in order to siphon its DNA. Or something along those lines, you'll think of something. Anyway, Pierce'll have unwittingly helped, maybe he helped deliver some of the poke-eggs that were sacriced to bring it to life. It'll hound us throughout the mission (I'm assuming our attack gives it a chance to escape and go out of control, which'll give plenty of opportunities for find grisly scenes with tons of eye-less corpses), and once we've fought Faynoc's minions, we'll have to hunt it down. At first we try to kill it, realize we can't do that, so Impact, or maybe Rayleen, tell Pierce that "you helped create it, you look out for it. Your responsibility."
That'll give plausible reasons for its introduction, and explain why Pierce would even want it.

Oh, come on man. I had this totally bitchin' idea for Pierce's sidequest. Everything was filled out, it was all neat and tidy. Then you posted this. Pierce's sidequest is going to be eventful enough, with a final battle that will put Phantomere's battle to shame.

I'd rather not mix Enmakki in there and just let it have its own sidequest.

Originally Posted by Geminex

Pierce spots Sam near the end of the mission. Only she's wearing robes. And looking glassy-eyed. He doesn't tell anyone about it, but it's what motivates him to visit the facility. That's where he discovers all the other consequences of his actions. It all ends with him shouldering the burden of Enmakki, who haunts him with dreams of his sister dying.

Seriously? The whole brainwash thing. But everybody does that. Hell, the level of drama you're suggesting, plus his sidequest, would cement Pierce as the main character, because I doubt anybody else has that. And do you really want Pierce as a main character? Because it's only a stone's throw away from team leader then.

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

Dracorian, I can grant this Enmekki, but you're not getting it until your sidequest. I will introduce it, you will capture it. I don't know when Dialga will rear his head for you, but you're definitely getting Enmekki next.

That your final decision? 'Cause the only way to keep Enmakki from taking the spotlight is to put it in some jackass' pokeball and being just a random mook. I mean, I just had this idea for a second sidequest revolving around Enmakki.

Of course, if you're putting your foot down you're putting your foot down. I can make it work either way.

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

So please, if you would kindly, an actual list of questions that I can read without going through oodles of paragraphs. Please, please, please help this lazy, retarded GM out. Help me help you. Or you won't get any more Mudkips.

Screw it. Someone else can do it this time. It's late and I'm tired. It wasn't that many paragraphs anyway! You don't hear any of us complain when we have to read your gigantic posts.

Post summary: but mooooooooom.

[Menarker]

Slight sum-up, not including the data on Enmaki or the questions on legendaries since both seem to be approved.


1: If we're going to be split up as often as you say, is Renny still always going to be the definite leader? And if Renny's gonna be leader, I'd recommend that we retcon everything so he's older than 16. Because no matter how you approach it, that just doesn't work. I'd say 18 at the very least, and perhaps this can be his 19th birthday party.
(Personally, I wouldn't mind the ret-con to 18, but I veto the entire birthday party thing.)

2: (My daydream idea for a future plot, which I doubt will happen.)
http://www.nuklearforums.com/showpos...4&postcount=63

3: "You know what we need? Specific opportunies for specific characters to be badass. Like, say, a back-to-back corridor battle with Pierce and Impact facing down endless hordes of pokemon on both sides. Just imagine:

Impact: Tch. We really stepped in it now.
Pierce: What, you can't handle this many? Pussy.
Impact: And you can?
Pierce: Hell yeah.
Impact: Well, I'm not losing to you. Not to a filthy coward that hides behind beasts.
Pierce: (Maniacal laugh, runs off to kill shit) AHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

4: What does AB's military "duty days" entail?

That somewhat sums it up I think.

[Geminex]

Also, can Impact have a 4th weapon?

Also, I propose that after Rayleen shuts down Impact, we just assume that everyone gets in the van and drives off to Renny's house. That'll waste less time.

Edit:
I'll reply to everything else later. Got to do some work now.

[Astral Harmony]

All I revealed about your special Pokemon is its name. Hell, they'll probably think it's an evolved form of Cloyster or something.

1. Rayleen retracted what she decided so...decidedly. But Renny is definitely the leader of his sidequest, that much you've all agreed upon. As for the rest of it, you're all adults. Well, almost all adults, but as tried and true members of PATCA, Rayleen will respect your decisions about deciding who your leader is. Hell, bounce the role of leadership around if you like. Like if Renny's the leader right at the start of a mission and Impact's all like "Outta the way, boy. Let a man handle this." and Renny can decide that Impact can have the leadership...up until the time Impact rounds a corner and gets bitten on the arm by a Seviper for his insolence.

And honestly, I don't see what the problem with Renny being sixteen is. Think about the main characters in the anime and video games. Hell, they're younger than he is. Remember, we're in a fantasy world. There's reality, but we'll never get beyond the point where we recognize that the first Pokeballs were made from Apricorns. That came naturally from trees. I'm still WTFing over that nonsense yet I've come to accept it because Pokemon is a fantasy universe, where oversized monsters than can destroy the world somehow find themselves the willing slaves of kids who should still be in middle school disecting frogs and grossing out girls with the eyeballs, not dicking around with dragons that can manipulate time and space and giant birds that can flash-cook you with lightning, freeze you solid with ice, and flamebroil you with fire.

2. Moving along, I suppose it could work, but there will be major changes just like how Renny ended up inviting everyone to his party. Here's some hints:

- The Water, Flying, Bug, Poison, Grass, Fighting, and Steel Ruin Generals are already in place, or rather, in their respective points in the plot. I think a good mix of what you suggested would be Fire and Lightning in one area, and the Rock and Ground in another area. Or something else. I dunno, I'll figure it all out or we can work it all out.
- Faynoc kinda isn't gonna last very long. Expect to take him down in Pierce's sidequest. One thing I want to do in this RP is make certain that the bad guys don't run away. When you fuckin' see 'em, you're gonna fuckin' kill 'em...eh, most of the time. But like Moera, I want to make sure that big bads don't get defeat immunity (in other words, the plot doesn't save 'em when they lose the first or second time). No Rockets are blasting off again here, folks. Plus, it makes room for shit to just get worse as newer, fresher, fiercer foes stand between you and ultimate victory.

3. I can give that. Just be prepared for beautiful NPC females to be impressed by your awesomeness.

4. Eh, I do this 'n' that. It's mostly a bunch of bull that's both tedious and annoying, but if you think about it, it's important to the survival of ship and crew, so I do take it seriously.

Others: You can have a fourth weapon in your next upgrade.

[Dracorion]

Y'know, I wasn't sure if I wanted to post that in the RP. On the one hand, there's been enough arguing going on. On the other, it's nothing mayor and I couldn't resist anyway.

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

- Faynoc kinda isn't gonna last very long. Expect to take him down in Pierce's sidequest.

Well, that's it for my second sidequest idea. So I guess we should introduce Enmakki in Pierce's sidequest, in some bastard's pokeball. Faynoc's maybe?

[Astral Harmony]

Faynoc isn't going to be at Renny's party. He hates karaoke.

There's plenty of room in Pierce's sidequest for Enmekki and Faynoc. I mean, that is the one where you all discover his underground lab, right? That's a perfect scene for all kinds of messed up shit. And a messed up shit like Enmekki sounds like he'd fit right in.

[Geminex]

Gah. Have you checked the Slayer's weapons list, recently? If not, then let me sum it up for you:

There are 3 very strongly offensive (4 if you count Ruin) elements in the game: Fighting, Ground and Ice. Of those, two (three if you count Ruin) are medium weapons, one's a heavy.

Really, the Ruin weapon's real nice and all, but if I have to choose between it, the HV rifle or the Ground weapon, it really doesn't do me a whole lot of good, because I'm replacing one powerful weapon with another. Particularly if you consider that when I got the Ruin weapons and armor, the trainers got a second leader, and the ability to attack.

So, 4 weapons? Please? Just for PvP? Or just make the Ruin gun a light weapon. Or a heavy.

[Dracorion]

Yeah, it was Pierce's sidequest. Saying Renny was just me being confuzzled. I blame sleep deprivation.

Yeah, underground lab works... sort of. See, I'm still figuring out how to get the team to go there in the first place.

Hm... maybe a PATCA spy found info about several pieces of equipment that were stolen from Fainas and Wintervale in the last three or four years (of course, Pierce is the one that stole the stuff from Wintervale)? Would that work? What the parts do is something I'm keeping to myself until I actually talk to AB about it, of course.

I can't see what Enmakki would be doing in Faynoc's supersecret lab if it's not already caught.