[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dragonstrike]

Wow...Acupressure got nerfed HARD in Pokerole. Went from being a move that raises a random stat by 2 (including accuracy and evasion) that can also be used on an ally (and won't attempt to raise a stat that's already been maxed) to raising a random Attribute by 1 (so no accuracy and evasion), can't target an ally instead of the user, and can only boost 1 stat at a time :/

Not sure how much I like those changes, tbh. Probably really good for balance reasons, but they take away from so much of the move's weird gimmicks in the games...

[Lord Windos]

Wow...Acupressure got nerfed HARD in Pokerole.  Went from being a move that raises a random stat by 2 (including accuracy and evasion) that can also be used on an ally (and won't attempt to raise a stat that's already been maxed) to raising a random Attribute by 1 (so no accuracy and evasion), can't target an ally instead of the user, and can only boost 1 stat at a time :/

Not sure how much I like those changes, tbh.  Probably really good for balance reasons, but they take away from so much of the move's weird gimmicks in the games...

On the flipside, Shedninja, Smeargle Stats, Wobbuffet, and other Pokémon get a buff in this game, and certain moves are more powerful here than in the base setting (Encore is the first example that comes to mind).

Well, you finally tried the patience of the researcher one too many times, and now he's actually nipping back at Nate instead or ignoring/palacating them. That doesn't happened too often, given his own self control and position as an wisened, eternally giving adult, but he's not all take and give in regards to this facet of himself. I doubt this will end well now....

[Dragonstrike]

Well, hopefully Ventus remembers just how much Nathan distrusted him at first. Nathan's got no good reason to blindly trust Heart. One instance of him helping Nathan out compared to three instances of him appearing uninvited during Nathan's personal business...yeah, not in Heart's favor, currently.

[Lord Windos]

Well, hopefully Ventus remembers just how much Nathan distrusted him at first.  Nathan's got no good reason to blindly trust Heart.  One instance of him helping Nathan out compared to three instances of him appearing uninvited during Nathan's personal business...yeah, not in Heart's favor, currently.

Considering the sheer amount of BS my character has both put your character through AND all the great many acts of kindness/generosity/aid that sorta balances that out, one would think that he would at the very least consider his words, instead of outright rebuking them and running away. Heck, I expected Nate to have thicker skin/more accustomed to such behavior at this point, but reality meets expectations...

When the group's resident empath, a person that is able to detect, read, analysis, understand, and comprehend any and all living beings emotions/desires/feelings implicitly trust and likes the new guy and judges that he has done little to no wrong in the most objective of ways, one might reasonably assume that said individual is an alright guy on the surface.

[Dragonstrike]

On a different, completely unrelated note, I found a shiny Poliwag in my gold nuzlocke!



As the first encounter while fishing in Violet City!

With an Old Rod!

The odds of that happening are literally about 2 thousandths of a percent, bruh.  That put me in a decent mood!

Shame Nathan's not in a similarly good mood now.  And that Kirlia, the other empath in the group, doesn't particularly like Heart for much the same reasons as Nathan (well, and because Nathan doesn't really like him, in part, but...)

[Lord Windos]

On a different, completely unrelated note, I found a shiny Poliwag in my gold nuzlocke!



As the first encounter while fishing in Violet City!

With an Old Rod!

The odds of that happening are literally about 2 thousandths of a percent, bruh.  That put me in a decent mood!

Shame Nathan's not in a similarly good mood now.  And that Kirlia, the other empath in the group, doesn't particularly like Heart for much the same reasons as Nathan (well, and because Nathan doesn't really like him, in part, but...)

Bloody hell, that's awesome mate! Take great care of it, and make sure to grind it to the point of it becoming undefeatable!

I understand that going down that route of 'Hey, knock it off' with Ventus would do this, but at the same time I still can't help but be unhappy about that. I want our characters to more or less get along swimmingly, but not at the cost of what makes our characters their own people, you know?

Hmm....would Nathan be willing to give Heart a chance if Ventus suddenly made the stipulation/suggestion that in exchange for Slowking/Solomon, and at least act polite/civil around them? If not, oh well.

What does Calam feel about all this, I wonder? All things considered, him living out in the wilderness by his lonesome should be plenty enough common ground for him and Ven to bound with, consider his own survivalist/'May you have very interesting times' life.

[Dragonstrike]

Bloody hell, that's awesome mate! Take great care of it, and make sure to grind it to the point of it becoming undefeatable!

I understand that going down that route of 'Hey, knock it off' with Ventus would do this, but at the same time I still can't help but be unhappy about that. I want our characters to more or less get along swimmingly, but not at the cost of what makes our characters their own people, you know?

Hmm....would Nathan be willing to give Heart a chance if Ventus suddenly made the stipulation/suggestion that in exchange for Slowking/Solomon, and at least act polite/civil around them? If not, oh well.

What does Calam feel about all this, I wonder? All things considered, him living out in the wilderness by his lonesome should be plenty enough common ground for him and Ven to bound with, consider his own survivalist/'May you have very interesting times' life.

Yeah, I'm quite excited to use a legitimate shiny that breaks none of the rules in a nuzlocke of all things (I was planning to try using a Krabby instead, but...)!  Shame trade evos and evolutionary stones not named Sun or Moon Stone are quite difficult to use in Gold and Silver...(Crystal at least makes the gen 1 stone evolutions possible to use before the pot game).  Particularly fun is this Poliwag would have its HA if transferred through Bank, on top of 3 perfect IVs, which would mean a semi usable Shiny Drizzle Politoed!  Gotta love VC stuff, man.

Maybe.  Can't say with any certainty right now, though.

Let's also not forget, Calam's not a super huge fan of Ventus either.  Partially due to the stunt he pulled during the Running, partially due to Ventus's general dislike of the magical (something Calam is pretty attuned to).  And he's also not necessarily aware of the details surrounding Ventus's pre-Plasma life, so...

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Well, nice, since you people (or at least, Nathan, Ven and partly Heart) are at odds again, this will be quite a thing for Shiva when she finally arrives at the camp cause it will bring things back - currently, Route 4 is more exciting than she ever throught it would be, which is a neat distraction for her.

I also look somewhat forward to 1. see how the group reacts to her Ghostly candle and 2. receive that Eternally Gold (you named the watch like this, did you Windos?) from Ven because I thought out a reaction for her that he might not expect. Nope, it's not a sudden outplay of romantic feelings since none have bloomed yet.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Oh, right, I also been pondering about what do with that...Poochyena in case it jumps on Shiva's luring. She'll certainly wants - needs - to have it as it could be anything... Not sure how logically-thinking Nathan and magic-hating Ventus might react to hear about her encoutering such an elusive Pokemon, though.

[Spiritmon]

Well, Heart will be probably amazed about the delta pochyena. Such species of delta is quite rare. But also Heart it's a little... irritated about Nathan constant hostile attitude towards him. You better do something Windos because even for someone patience like Heart, he really don't like to feel treated with hostility!