Pokemon Umbral Discussion 33 again: Hijacked!

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

1. There won't be a second story after all. Rayleen will indeed go off on her own after Mission 3 and pick up some allies so they can do their own thing, but the story parts where they don't merge with the Watchmen will be left out. I'll use the free time from that idea to come up with a new RP with a similar combat system.

But, but...

But what about Sophie?!

WWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

EDIT: And what the hell is up with you girls and your yaoi? What, you'd rather have attractive young men fall for each other instead of you? Weirds me the hell out.

It started with me screwing with Geminex by PMing him a little RennyxImpact slash and then I dunno what Bard did.

Believe you me, I'd rather have the attractive young women falling for me.

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

EDIT 2: Since Pierce talked about being in the Miasma Mountains, I figured I'd shed some light on that place.

The Miasma Mountain Range (yeah, it's a series of mountains now) near the central-western coast of Honmyr, a few days trek north of the Recycled City, is home to a massive variety of Dark, Poison, Psychic, and Ghost type Pokemon. You can't really see much of the mountains because they're cloaked in a perpetual violet mist. Without the right protective gear, serious health risks are only a few hours of immersion away. There are even tales of mutants that used to be humans or other Pokemon that were transformed by the miasma and the mountain's inhabitants.

Supposedly, but never confirmed, the mountain range is the main base of operations for the P3, or Pokemon Purge Priority. They're a bunch of militant anti-Pokemon ne'er-do-wells (lotsa Slayers with various specialties) who would usually be trying to kill the Pokemon that reside in the mountains, but currently will not do so because the miasma they create keeps the long arm of the law out of that place. There are numerous rumors of awesome treasures (Fountain of Youth, Philosopher's Stone, billions in gold, gems, and crude oil) and rare and powerful Pokemon up in those mountains, which draws a new batch of fresh victims every month or so. A high percentage of people lose their way and are "devoured" by the mountain range, and those who manage to survive just haven't turned up anything worthwhile except for the experience itself.

Screw it, I still think Pierce would've gone.

[Menarker]

Originally Posted by Geminex

The plan's pretty good... I would've used CCC as well to begin with... But I'm sure it's possible to improve it. I am, e.g. not happy with fatal 5, or the lack of flinch-techs.

But I'll have time this afternoon, I can optimize it then.

Lack of Flinch Techs? Fatal Five and Moonlight Disco are both Flinch-Techs! I just didn't choose Pierce's 6 Flinch because it was all melee and almost all the foes are immune to that. I wasn't going to have Fatal Five at first, but I was trying to find a way to get flinch as many targets as possible while getting rid of the worst threats. (Fatal Five is a single tech and it's hitting someone not immune to its effect.)

It started with me screwing with Geminex by PMing him a little RennyxImpact slash and then I dunno what Bard did.

Believe you me, I'd rather have the attractive young women falling for me.

Squick... I rather have attractive young women falling for me too. No Yaoi Slashfic for Renny.

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

Harliette's Charge Shot is indeed Special. I always figured that Physical were the melee attacks and Special were the long range attacks.

During Renny's Sidequest, you had it that some of her bullets were special and some of them weren't. I was wondering if you changed any of that. Stone Edge is a projectile but it's physical. (It's just throwing rocks!) Bullets are physical in nature as well. Bolts of energy like Star Wars blasters or shooting pure electric power seem like it would count as special type though.

That's how I thought it was.

Discord would sooner shove a Pineco up her ass than lend her services to any of you.

I hope you realize that Pineco aren't just living pinecones, but also exploding pokemons. She'd effectively be putting an oversized and sharp edged fragmentation grenade in her ass.


EDIT: Oh Drac, I had a question to ask regarding your sidequest. Are any of the NPCs or side characters really important to the story's role? I was hoping if it wasn't too much problem, that I put my vote for Whitney to be our group's sniper that mission. Roleplaying wise, she is perfect as she got a legitimate grievance against him personally. Also, as you probably noticed from this battle (Honchkrow, Noctowl, Toxicroak, Golduck), the battle at the haunted mansion (lots of dark, poison, ghost, psychic types) and the fact that his child bodyguard uses Mewtwo (and his former bodyguard Moera the Mew pokebrid) and that he himself is a Lugia pokebrid, he has a personal bias in favor of the "smart pokemons" like psychic, dark and ghost pokemons, which kinda fits since he's an egotistical mad scientist. Whitney has a whole team of bug pokesmons, which are pretty much super effective on almost all of those or at least resistant, so she is also perfect tactically.
I also imagined you'd want Chizuru as the medic since it's your sidequest and she's your "designated target girl" (and because she is already in charge of tracking down Faynoc, so it makes perfect roleplaying sense.) So I'd be happy with Chizuru in the group especially if you let Whitney be in the party.

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Menarker

Squick... I rather have attractive young women falling for me too. No Yaoi Slashfic for Renny.

Fine. I'll just write CharlottexArceus bestiality then.

Originally Posted by Menarker

EDIT: Oh Drac, I had a question to ask regarding your sidequest. Are any of the NPCs or side characters really important to the story's role? I was hoping if it wasn't too much problem, that I put my vote for Whitney to be our group's sniper that mission. Roleplaying wise, she is perfect as she got a legitimate grievance against him personally. Also, as you probably noticed from this battle (Honchkrow, Noctowl, Toxicroak, Golduck), the battle at the haunted mansion (lots of dark, poison, ghost, psychic types) and the fact that his child bodyguard uses Mewtwo (and his former bodyguard Moera the Mew pokebrid) and that he himself is a Lugia pokebrid, he has a personal bias in favor of the "smart pokemons" like psychic, dark and ghost pokemons, which kinda fits since he's an egotistical mad scientist. Whitney has a whole team of bug pokesmons, which are pretty much super effective on almost all of those or at least resistant, so she is also perfect tactically.
I also imagined you'd want Chizuru as the medic since it's your sidequest and she's your "designated target girl" (and because she is already in charge of tracking down Faynoc, so it makes perfect roleplaying sense.) So I'd be happy with Chizuru in the group especially if you let Whitney be in the party.

Actually, fun stuff:

Unless AB's changed his mind, then the NPCs that will be joining Pierce will be sort of taking up separate spaces on the formation once both teams reunite.

That is, Shizuka, Chizuru and Elizabeth won't be replacing the specialties on the main formation.

That is, for the big final battle we'll have two Shock Troopers, two Medics and two Engineers.

Believe me, we're going to need 'em.

You know, unless AB's changed his mind.

[Bard The 5th LW]

EDIT: And what the hell is up with you girls and your yaoi? What, you'd rather have attractive young men fall for each other instead of you? Weirds me the hell out.

I see nothing wrong with a change in pace. 1 S33 NOTH1NG WRONG 4T 4LL.

[Menarker]

Originally Posted by Dracorion

Actually, fun stuff.

Unless AB's changed his mind, then the NPCs that will be joining Pierce will be sort of taking up separate spaces on the formation once both teams reunite.

That is, Shizuka, Chizuru and Elizabeth won't be replacing the specialties on the main formation.

That is, for the big final battle we'll have two Shock Troopers, two Medics and two Engineers.

Believe me, we're going to need 'em.

You know, unless AB's changed his mind.

That sounds neat for sure. Can I still throw in the request that Whitney be our group's sniper for the mission?

EDIT: Also, I vote that Dormond and Rayleen be our Shock Trooper and Medic. Because...
A: They are leaving soon. (Dormond goes everywhere Rayleen goes)
B: Faynoc also uses lots of ruin types. (Plus for Rayleen who uses dragon types)

As for the engineer... I got no one in particular, but using someone different from Moon would be neat. Probably best to save Mirror for a later mission when we could pair her up with Wilhelmina though.

[Dracorion]

Yeah, sure, go with Whitney.

[Astral Harmony]

Put Sophie in the main story if you want, Drac. Otherwise, the Crusader group will (permanently) merge with the Watchmen group for the final battle against Burkmont, near the end of the RP.

I think you're right about how Physical and Special attributes work, Renny. Charge Shot will be Special, then, since the main damage of that payload is delivered by the powerful electrical shock, not by the bullet itself.

[Dracorion]

Oh, cool, thanks.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Screw it, I still think Pierce would've gone.

Is it too late to send him there?

[Dracorion]

He'd go unprotected and come back perfectly alive, and probably carrying some priceless treasure, just to spite you.

Yeah, Pierce definitely went to Miasma Mountains before. With protection, of course. Wouldn't wanna catch any nasty STDs.