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

[Geminex]

I've already suggested stuff for all of that!
Here's the outline I'd propose:
1: During riots, Pierce sees mind-washed sister
2: Finds out where she's being held
3: Decides to go and rescue her like the big hero he is
4: Gets caught, fails miserably. All pokemon get knocked out, so has to fight to protect them as a slayer
5: Team manages to arrive in time to save him. Unfortunately, during combat they damage some part of the facility, maybe the power generator.
6: This causes a lot of shit to happen, including Emakki getting freed.
7: Emakki goes on killing spree, while the team decides to seek out Faynoc, finish him off.
8: They fight their way through the facility, encounter signs of Faynoc's hideous experiments, as well as Enmakki's mutilated victims.
9: Big battle, Faynoc dies.
10: Pierce's criminal past is revealed.
11: Military join the fray, secure the facility
12: The brain-slaves are hidden deeper within the facility
13: The team must act quickly to save them before Enmakki finds them
14: They succeed, fight Enmakki.
15: Pierce realizes that Enmakki is his responsibility, takes up the burden
16: Everyone lives happily ever af- AhahahahaNO.

Anyway, if that's too much emphasis on Pierce (which it might be), we can make it so that he only leads from step 10 onwards. It's a public mission up until then, becomes Pierce's mission afterwards.

Whadd'ya say?

[Dracorion]

If Pierce's sister was kidnapped then, reason be damned, he would go off on his own to find her because it's his responsibility. The rest of the team would end up going their own way through the facility.

I don't think it'd be necessary for Pierce to prove himself a Slayer in order to go Battle Master in the future, but he'll probably have to do it anyway. And fail horribly.

I don't like the idea of having Sam brainwashed. Either Faynoc targetted her specifically, all the way over in Wintervale, which means he's targetting Pierce, which is too much focus on Pierce. Or it's a contrived coincidence, which would suck.

Why would Enmakki be held anywhere not a pokeball? I suppose you could say that the generator exploding kill its trainer, though.

Anyway, Pierce's pokemon and junk:

Tyranitar (Male)
Ability: Sand Stream
Focus Blast/Crunch
Earthquake/Stone Edge
Giga Impact/Protect
Item: Leftovers

Nagarai (Female)
Ability: Drizzle
Thunder/Thunder Wave
Draco Meteor/Dragon Pulse
Aerial Ace/Extreme Speed
Item: White Herb

Metagross (Genderless)
Ability: Clear Body
Meteor Mash/Zen Headbutt
Giga Impact/Iron Defense
Item: Metronome

Blaziken (Male)
Ability: Blaze
Flare Blitz/Overheat
Sky Uppercut/Reversal
Item: Expert Belt

Kingdra (Female)
Ability: Sniper
Draco Meteor/Hydro Pump
Blizzard/Dragon Pulse
Item: White Herb

Held items: Max Revive, Full Restore, Full Restore.

[Geminex]

It could be a combination of both. Maybe they chanced upon her, she could have visited a gathering of theirs with a friend, and someone realized whose sister she was. Faynoc would have been dimly aware of Pierce, I assume, so he could have put some extra effort into turning her, to use as a bargaining chip against Pierce. It wouldn't be too illogical, and it'd explain why Pierce goes in himself. And I thought the team'd link up with Pierce because Pierce will try and fail to reach Sam by himself.

And can we discuss the PvP? What'll the rules be? I was thinking, trainers get 4 pokemon, limit of 2 semi-legendary, they can't use items. Slayers will be limited to three items.

Because if you think I'm going to KO your leader, just to watch you max-revive it again then fuck you with the siege boomerang.

[Menarker]

I'll have my pokemon moves edited into my bio. However, the 6th pokemon (whom will be leader pokemon #2) will be unknown aside from the name which AB volunteered. Umbreon will be sitting this mission out due to the 5 pokemon limitation.


Slayers
Geminex (Ray Green:Impact)
Armored Bishoujo's NPC (Rayleen)

Trainers
Bard (Charlotte Beaufort: Madame Ursurang)
Menarker (Renny Tresserhorn)
Dracorion (Pierce Granger)

Pokebrids
DanteFalcon (Matthias Sona: Oberon)
Armored Bishoujo's NPC (Rachel McConnelly:Princess)

AB's Support NPC (Dormond Ferguson)Name: Dormond Ferguson
Alias: None
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Class: Pokébrid (Mawile)
Appearance: Imagine your standard butler. Grey hair, small mustache, gentlemanly stature and superb manners. Now imagine him with a giant set of jaws hanging from a fleshly black protrusion on the back of his head. He dyes his mustache black because the genes turned his hair black, and wears gloves to hide the fact that his hands are black as well.
Backstory / Personality: A butler serving in Rayleen's family for at least three generations, Dormond personally blames himself for Rayleen's suffering when her father and fiancé were killed. His relationship with Rayleen is deep and he considers himself her personal champion, protector of body and mind.

AB's Support NPC (Lola Phelps )Name: Lola Phelps
Alias: Queen of Hearts
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Class: Pokébrid (Lopunny)
Appearance: Lola is a bombshell in Nurse's whites. Strangely enough, her naturally pink hair has affected the Lopunny genes somewhat, turning the brown fur as pink as her hair. One would expect her to have other features, but do to adding hair removal in undesireable places as part of her personal care regimen, there are no tufts of furr on her wrists, eyebrows, or on the sides of her knees.
Backstory / Personality: Lola has been working as a trainee nurse for about five years, and as a registered nurse for less, but she's damn good at the job of healing others. One of the small disappointments in her life is that far too many people come to see her just to see her. Seriously, a stomacheache? Your leg fell asleep, that's all. I'm sorry, I don't see an open head wound. Yeeeeah. Lola wants to prove her potential by dealing with the worst injuries a man could ever suffer from without dying, yet for this professional, she may get bored quickly.

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Geminex

It could be a combination of both. Maybe they chanced upon her, she could have visited a gathering of theirs with a friend, and someone realized whose sister she was. Faynoc would have been dimly aware of Pierce, I assume, so he could have put some extra effort into turning her, to use as a bargaining chip against Pierce. It wouldn't be too illogical, and it'd explain why Pierce goes in himself. And I thought the team'd link up with Pierce because Pierce will try and fail to reach Sam by himself.

I suppose that could work. But since Sam is the culmination of Pierce's character development, I wanted to save her for later. I mean, Pierce's sidequest is just after Mission 3, and there's a whole lot of RP left to run after that. What's Pierce gonna do for the rest of the story?

What about Millenium House? Unless Faynoc's underground lab is Millenium House. But if it was AB would've said so, I think. My original plan for Pierce's sidequest was have one of Faynoc's underlings as the boss, and save Faynoc for Millenium House. Though I suppose it could be the other way around if AB wants.

It would certainly help, because Sam could escape from the underground lab and continue to work for the underling even after Faynoc dies, extending hers and Pierce's reunion like I wanted.

Originally Posted by Geminex

And can we discuss the PvP? What'll the rules be? I was thinking, trainers get 4 pokemon, limit of 2 semi-legendary, they can't use items. Slayers will be limited to three items.

I'm fine with the rules, but how exactly would PvP work? I mean, the way I see it it'd go like:

Tyranitar used Stone Edge!
*AB posts damage and junk*
Swampert uses Surf! Super-effective!

At one AB post a day, it'd take twice as long as a battle against NPCs. The only way I can think of would speed it up would be to have:

Tyranitar uses Stone Edge!
Swampert moves to dodge! Uses Surf!
*AB posts, disregards moves if Swampert was KOed or dodge or either pokemon was incapacitated by a status effect*

Unless we would be taking care of damage ourselves, which could work. Except I can see arguments extending through two threads about how that Fire Blast would totally have missed Togekiss or how Swampert obviously survived both of those Solarbeams.

By the way, Aria is going to be hanging onto Pierce's shoulder all throughout the party. I think it was decided earlier that AB would be the one to give her her nickname, so Aria will bring up the subject of naming her and that'll be AB's cue.

I wonder, is Renny going to be one of those leaders that doesn't delegate, just takes the biggest risks himself? I know it doesn't apply to this situation, since he's the one that has to lead the vans to his house, but I'm just wondering.

[Astral Harmony]

PvP can be done by the players themselves.

And fine, Impact can have a fourth weapon, ya whiny little turd.

Won't help you win against Shizuka.

[Menarker]

I figured that for PvP we would both PM our respective tactics to AB, so that we don't have our players go on a delay war, hoping to be the one who posts second once they know what move the opponent is using or what pokemon they switch with. AB combines the result and posts. Repeat until battle is interrupted or a victor emerges.

In regards to the delegation issue, the situation is unique in that not only does Renny have to lead to the house, as you said, but that we are at a possible risk of being attacked while in transport, which never happened before. Previously, the conflict was either
1: Already in action and we just joined in, with no risk of being intercepted since we were not a known factor.
2: We were investigating and they were stationed at a location.

However, NOW, we are the ones being targeted instead of us targeting them. That changes a few things in regards to risk and all that.

Renny is best suited for this task since he has two flying pokemons to help keep watch as well as intercept if he sees a problem. (The fact that both pokemon have a chance of AOE flinching 70% of the time now for delaying makes it SWELL) Technically, he's also best at water transportation too since he can use those as well as Swampert. ^^ Renny is just plain useful when it comes to LIVING with pokemon. Whether it be battle, transit between location and daily life. Personality wise, he has no trouble delegating if he can think of someone who is CLEARLY suitable for the task. But if someone doesn't inform him of their pokemon's specific moveset that might be suited to a task or they don't volunteer a better idea, he's willing to do it himself if he thinks it's for the best. (As long as it's within his capabilities to do with a considerable chance of success.)

But yes, for your info, Togekiss and Shaymin both have Air Slash which have 30% flinch chance, can use Divide upgrade to make it hit two foes (thus flinching two foes at once at best), both have Serene Grace to double the chance of flinch (thus making it 60% flinch chance), and equipping King's Rock and Razor Fang respectively which both have the same effect of adding 10% chance of flinching to all their offensive moves. (Air Slash gets extra 10% flinch chance). Total result? Two pokemons that can spam a half powered but STAB damaged Air Slash hitting one or two foes for 70% flinch rate TWICE, practically sure to flinch-lock them, or hit 3-4 foes for 70% flinch chance each. ^^

EDIT: Although since AB said that it can be done between players, we should probably have a referee that we can PM to, for the above mentioned reason. Preferably Bard or Dante because Geminex/Impact is just too damn evil in plain sight, I can't help thinking that he would support Pierce for the purpose of global domination. :3

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

Won't help you win against Shizuka.

Already called for. So very very called for.

EDIT: If you're thinking of doing what I think you're doing, Menarker, I'd rather you didn't. Aria is going to screw with Pierce constantly, so he needs to get one up on her. The reason I want one of AB's girls to suggest the name is so that she'll hate it, he'll like it. She'll tip the scales back in her favor later. So yeah.

By the way, she's not that pissed. Not enough to screw with the weather anyway. She's extremely jealous, sure, but she trust Pierce well enough even if he's about a knowledgeable about love or dating as an un-potty trained labradoodle.

[Menarker]

I meant the species name. Renny has no idea that she is a Nagarai. It's pretty unique/new so I was assuming the scanners didn't have her data. I can edit it if needed be.

[Bard The 5th LW]

EDIT: Although since AB said that it can be done between players, we should probably have a referee that we can PM to, for the above mentioned reason. Preferably Bard or Dante because Geminex/Impact is just too damn evil in plain sight, I can't help thinking that he would support Pierce for the purpose of global domination. :3

I've got a bit of free time, so I can handle refereeing. Just need a proper uniform.

I edited a few changes into Charlotte's movesets also. Buck (arcanine) and Hammond (aerodactyl) are the only ones who have changed.