Pokemon Umbral Theatre 16: 1st Anniversary!

[Menarker]

Hehe, I'm liking the Omake! For some reason, I had the mental image of Charlotte nodding approvingly at "Love Freak Renny" for putting two of his co-workers in critical condition. Or perhaps envy. ("I wish I had put someone in critical condition too!")

Drac, just to let you know Bard already posted his battle plans in the actual thread just a few minutes ago, sans actual roleplaying content which is forthcoming apparently. So now, we just have to wait for Gem. (Unless you'd just want to skip ahead using my battlepost, but that would be kinda unfair for him. :3)

YOU 4R3 SO FUCK1NG D34D.
NOT 3V3N K1DD1NG H3R3.

That's exactly what I'm talking about about useless and uneffective threats. Just write the darn battlepost already. I'm hardly quaking in my boots so it's just wasting all our time. :3
Personally would love for both of us to finish our respective battles before New Years.

[DanteFalcon]

Back for the most part. Except for my recently acquired Persona 4 which has consumed every bit of free time I can give to it. This game must be cheating to make me like it this much.

Truth or Dare anyone?

[Menarker]

I'm half tempted to believe the reason that property damage was as high as it is in the omake was because one of the dare games probably involved riding bucking bronco style on Lexhur. ^^

EDIT:

I have some pretty sadistic ideas going on. This chapter may have started off boring, but shit is going to be pretty explosive when you guys finally catch up to each other to face a cluster fuck of boss fights together.

I kinda have a bad feeling about this. I hope the battle isn't as disproportionally large to our group size/resources like our current battles. I mean, 19 foes against an effective force of 5 (6 whenever we had a Fire Evolith out). It was even worse considering 15 of those foes were killbots who could attack twice for a total of 30 attacks BEFORE taking the evolith's own attacks. >_< I mean, we were lucky enough to have someone who knew Gravity to be able to bypass their evasion and whittle down their numbers. And because their attacks were Almighty type, the option of being defensive with defensive buffs or skills were not viable either.

Thus I can only imagine what a clusterfuck of bosses would be like...

[Astral Harmony]

Fortunately, it'll be in digestible pieces. I wouldn't throw Faynoc (with his Pokemon), Gransrax, Ginnungagap, and the as-of-yet unrevealed bosses all in one sitting. That's simply too much to digest in one mouthful, even with a full formation.

Besides, living beings like Faynoc would suffer as much from Gransrax's abilities as any of you, which would make pairing them up impossible.

[Menarker]

That's nice to know.

In my spare time, I've been remaking my newer proposed character development draft, taking a bunch of things out that I felt didn't fit or were redundant. Added a few things, but as I said before, I'll show you guys later (At the speed of the plot!) at which point it can be discussed and amended.

AB: Just trying to remember... Almost of the slayer armors have a special immunity of sort. The Normal one doesn't seemingly because it is default and cannot be removed. But how about the ruin type? Does the Ruin armor have anything like that?
If not, any chance there could be one? Like against Apathy, Exhaustion or Fear or something like that?
Of course, one could ask if Normal could be "not default" and give the ability to take it off and give it an immunity too... Although most people would remove it because nothing is weak to normal and even though Armor Affinity would give Normal attacks STAB, nothing has a weakness to Normal type. Not that it needs changing. Was just thinking out loud.
^^; Probably not as crazy as my other thought of having an Almighty type armor to reduce the damage of those "undefendable" attacks that are getting more and more common!

[Astral Harmony]

Most likely Fear. Ruin Pokemon are exempt from morale issues, being the murderous, brainless freaks that they are. Come to think of it, this RP has quite a surplus of murderous, brainless freaks. Gotta start thinking of other enemies...at least after this mission.

And now...

Part 3 of 5: The Third Night...

Rayleen: "Okay, before we begin tonight's over the top and usually life threatening festivities, it's time for the gift exchange."

...and the gift giving proceded...

Angelo: "Hello, Aster. This is for you."
Aster: "Oh, so you drew my name? Thank you, Angelo."
*Aster opens the gift.*
Aster: "Manly clothes and a self-help guide to being masculine?"
Angelo: "Well, you know. It's not healthy."
Aster: "What the hell are you talking about? You look like a woman, too!"
Angelo: "There's a difference between a bishounen and a crossdresser."

Bretton: "Hey, Evangaleen, I drew your name. Would you like to open your gift?"
Evangaleen: "I don't need to. I know it's your dick."
Bretton: "How could you possibly know that?"
Evangaleen: "You're holding it up against your own crotch."
Bretton: "That doesn't mean anything."
*Evangaleen slaps the gift out of Bretton's hands and onto the floor. Apparently, it wasn't what Evangaleen thought it was.*
Evangaleen: "How?"
Bretton: "Oh, that's just nice. I had that perfume imported from the Johto region, you know. The grass gym leader there rarely sells outside of there. I hope you didn't break it."
Evangaleen: "Geez, I'm sorry, alright? It's just that pretty much every other Year End's Gratitude, the only gift we exchanged was body heat."
Bretton: "You...you think so little of me? Of what we are to each other?"
*overwhelmed by sorrow, Bretton flees, weeping into his massive hands.*
Harliette: "That was pretty mean, Evangaleen."
Rachel: "Yeah, you're horrible!"
Evangaleen: "Look, I'm sorry! Well...lemme check to see if the perfume survived."
*Evangaleen picks up and opens the gift.*
Rachel: "Oh, wow!"
Harliette: "That's...what I think it is, isn't it?"
Evangaleen: "Yep. It's a mold of his penis."
Bretton: *snickering*

Melanie: "Hey, Chizuru. Your name was what I drew. Here's a gift from me to you."
Chizuru: "Oh, thank you so very much, Melanie! Let's see..."
*Chizuru opens the gift, then stumbles backward in shock from seeing what is inside*
Chizuru: "Melanie? Ah, not for nothing but, what exactly is that? Am I supposed to wear that?"
Melanie: "Tonight.........you."
*Melanie meaningfully turns around and gets lost in the crowd.*
Chizuru: "I wonder what she meant by that? Tonight.......me?"

Shannon: "Hey, Pierce."
Pierce: "Ah, there you are, Shannon. Did you get the gift I asked for?"
Shannon: "Yeah. Here it is, a jar full of sleep spores from my Pokemon."
Pierce: *evil grin* "Excellent."
Shannon: "I dunno why you need to go to such extremes, though. You're a really handsome guy. I'm sure you can have any woman you wanted without these sneaky tricks."
Pierce: "If you don't want to be sleep spore'd, go somewhere."
Shannon: "Ah...right."
Pierce: *to himself* "Good, I can finally get a good night's sleep for once. Calisto's slumber parties next door are so goddamn noisy."

Renny: "Here, Impact. From yours truly!"
Impact: "Ugh, I can't imagine what kinda shitty gift you got me, pipsqueak."
Renny: "Don't worry, Impact! I'm sure it'll be well worth your time!"
*Impact opens the gift*
Impact: "A self-help guide on speaking and acting?"
Renny: "I jus' figured that the way you speak and shift your eyes was the only reason you didn't get picked leader the first time."
Impact: "That couldn't possibly be true. Now get out of my face, runt."
*Renny flees.*
Impact: "What a truely marvelous gift! With the things I could glean from this book, I can avoid giving off all those obvious villainous vibes! Huah ha ha ha ha haaagh!"
*lightning flashes and thunder booms. Impact opens the book.*
Impact: "Hmm...Chapter 26, How To Avoid Ominous Lightning Flashes and Booming Thunder When Cackling Evilly That Could Betray Your True Nature. I know what I'm reading tonight!"

Charlotte: "..."
Calisto: "Hello, Miss Charlotte. Did you buy a gift for someone?"
Charlotte: "Nah. I drew my own name."
Calisto: "I see. Why did you not say something?"
Charlotte: "I prefer it this way. I hate gift giving and mingling."
Calisto: "..."
*Calisto hands Charlotte a gift that has already been opened.*
Charlotte: "What the fuck is this?"
Calisto: "Open it. You will see."
*Charlotte opens it and slowly draws out the cold, heavy, lethal stainless steel of a fully loaded Brisholm & Higgins .50 cal Special revolver.*
Calisto: "I am not good with small arms. I prefer my rifle. This was a nice thought from Miss Irene, but I feel it would be better to give it to someone who seems to appreciate firearms as much as you do, Miss Charlotte."
Charlotte: "Indeed, it is better to do so, Calisto. Indeed, it is."
*Charlotte slowly turns around and walks away, barely able to contain her wicked smile.*
Calisto: "I do believe I have made a most unfortunate mistake. I must correct this."
*Calisto aims her sniper rifle at Charlotte.*
Rachel: "Hey, Calisto, I'm the one who drew your name. It's kinda last minute, so I only had enough time to put a ribbon and bow on it."
*Calisto barely glimpses at the giant stuffed cat.*
Calisto: "Kitty!"
Rachel: "So what were you aiming at?"
Calisto: "Oh, who cares?! Kittykittykittykittykittykittykittykitty heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee!"
Rachel: "I'm suddenly glad I chose Pikachu as my Pokebrid form instead of Delcatty. Calisto would've huggled me to death."

Lola: "Hey, Matthias? It's me, Lola. I drew your name from that hat."
Matthias: "..."
Lola: "Ah, heh heh. Anyways, I'm not sure what to get you, but I figured I had to get something so, I uhh, got you this!"
*Matthias slowly opens the gift.*
Lola: "You like this kind of stuff, right? I seem to be one of those scholarly types, y'know? Always eager to learn about this and that about Honmyr. So I figured a PDA would be cool for helping you keep your thoughts together...y'know? It's even got a lot of space and can use a whole bunch of files."
Matthias: "..."
Lola: "Do...do you not like it? I could always get it exchanged for something else."
*Matthias reached out and suddenly held Lola's hand.*
Lola: *blushes* "Muh...Matthias?"
Matthias: "Th-..."
Lola: "The?"
Matthias: "Th-...th-..."
Lola: *nods*
Matthias: "I thank you. I am very grateful."
Lola: *reassuring smile* "Well, I'm glad you like it, Matthias. And you know, I think you can gain even more than a gift tonight if you just mingle with the rest of us."
Matthias: "I see. I shall try."
Lola: "Cool. Then I hope we'll get to see more of you."
Matthias: "Of course."
*Lola leaves.*
Matthias: *talking to himself* "I wonder how much pornography I can store on this? Time to enter the digital world and collect security camera data on the female showers...because I am certain that the spy is female. That is the only reason I am gathering this data, I assure you"
*Matthias dramatically leaves the room*

I think seven exchanges is good to end on.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

Charlotte:"..."
Calisto: "Hello, Miss Charlotte. Did you buy a gift for someone?"
Charlotte: "Nah. I drew my own name."
Calisto: "I see. Why did you not say something?"
Charlotte: "I prefer it this way. I hate gift giving and mingling."

Pretty much perfect. I was curious as to what was going to come of it, and this worked nicely.

If Charlotte did have to get a gift for someone, it would probably be cash or a gift card. And if it was a gift card, she'd be sure to get one from a place the recipient would never have any reason to go to.

[Menarker]

Hehe, I could see that.


Anyhow, AB...

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

I've been thinking a lot about the sequel these days while working on the sprite comics. Mostly, it's in regards to the problems of upgrades for the sequel. I can't really just say "okay, ten more ranks on the first ten missions", mainly because that would just make you unstoppable.

What I wanna do is create additional functionality to various aspects of the current system, such as creating new attacks for the Slayer weapons which will allow them to deal the more punishing status effects like On Fire, Exhaustion, Plasmaburn, Bad Poison and Deep Freeze. In addition, I know I'll be creating one new class, but possibly two. The Pokemon Ranger is much like a Slayer who befriends local Pokemon to augment his own attacks and other factors, like using Pokemon instead of holding accessories. The other one that may or may not become a real class is the Deckmaster, who will use the Battle Deck system to fight. All I can say is, if that class will exist, any character of that class will usually be an alien, possibly of Eldys's race or even a Knomere and just as likely, they'll all be sided with Eldys, who we all know will be on Impact's side.

Current characters will have the option of transitioning classes should they so choose, so I'll have the mechanics behind it all weeded out for your review in case you happen to be interested.

I would be curious about what ideas you have for Pokemon Ranger, if mainly to get ideas for my edit. As much as I would like to considering a class feature that buffs my pokemons a bit, Drac already got the idea of having his pokemons boosted just by his inspiring presence, and I really don't want to be a total copycat.

I would also be curious about any ideas you have regarding changed functionalities to slayers such as accessories. *Has a weird idea of passive accessories that would have a percentage chance of inflicting a specific status condition upon contact such as being hit or hitting them, kinda like an electric armor that causes paralysis or something like that.*

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

Fortunately, it'll be in digestible pieces. I wouldn't throw Faynoc (with his Pokemon), Gransrax, Ginnungagap, and the as-of-yet unrevealed bosses all in one sitting. That's simply too much to digest in one mouthful, even with a full formation.

Well, you wouldn't.

But I'm definitely gonna.

[Dracorion]

Sorry Gem, I thought of something even better to do than giving you a game over.

Next time, though.

Yeah, sorry AB. I'm a horrible GM.

Menarker, Mirror didn't actually have the Rage for that technique. She probably wouldn't have been able to do it, anyway, since Wilhelmina is separated from her by about ten feet of solid steel.

The next part for you all is already written, I'm just giving you a chance to post and interact and all around get your shit together before you move on to the next battle.