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

[Dragonstrike]

Relicanth dives down and comes up, disappointingly, with just some half-frozen mud caked on his nose. Then you spot golden flakes sparkling within it.

Hmmm...not sure that's what Ventus was expecting, tbh.

Would be very useful to gather more, though.

[Spiritmon]

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Hey guys. Since we make a quick stop in the battles for now, can I ask you people something?
I know this is a dumb question, but I will ask anyway: You guys think I somehow improve since the first time I join in this Roleplay thing? Honestly. In any form I mean: In strategies, way to narrate the way each move shall go, in story telling, lore.
I would like to know the insight of you people, since you all are playing this game more time than myself.

Your math has definitely improved. I think you were a good narrator when you started. Your backstory has been polished and finally revealed, which is always an exciting moment. (I've been in campaigns before where I never even got to reveal it lol).

Thanks Iron^^ Yeah, sometimes (when I mean sometimes, I mean a lot) in the beggining I got confuse myself about how it work the stats, the number of action I could do, the use of items. Basically, a lot of things. And about backstory, I always someone who love lore and backstory, and I like to make some myself. I try to make a good one when got the chance, and try to improve my style of narrator (in the past I used to make fanfics, but I lost the inspiration to make such things). 

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Hey guys. Since we make a quick stop in the battles for now, can I ask you people something?
I know this is a dumb question, but I will ask anyway: You guys think I somehow improve since the first time I join in this Roleplay thing? Honestly. In any form I mean: In strategies, way to narrate the way each move shall go, in story telling, lore.
I would like to know the insight of you people, since you all are playing this game more time than myself.

Just when I wanted to go offline, you asked stuff, lolz.

I do remember your style a bit from "Roleplaying as Pokemon 1", would have to reread things there to clearly determine how much improvement there have been, but I do feel things have became better in describing actions, voicing characters, these things, I simply can't tell you by heart how much, I'm sorry.

I'm still disliking grammatical and spelling errors, but these can happen to anyone and I should shut up as English isn't my mother tongue either, I just speak and write fluently.

Narrating the way each move shall go (do you mean telling your Pokemon what it shall do in a battle?) depends on the character I guess, some of us make it crips and clear like you and Nathan who are experienced in fighting, while Ventus elaborates orders a little more as he's not only battling with Pokemon, and Shiva enjoys telling her Pokemon what it shall do without even naming the move most of the time due to her being innocent about battling before Chreshire. Do as you feel, narrate your chara and their actions the way you imagine their personality, it'll feel naturally if it fits.

Thanks^^ Well, english its not exatcly my native language I must confess. Here in brazil you do not have the chance to train too much (except perhaps with courses of english, witch one of my goals to this year). Here in brazil its more common the brazilean portuguese language, or spanish. Still need to improve my language like, a lot. A few therms I cant understand or how to spell I sometimes search in the google translate. Its help a lot.

Well, perhaps thats because me and my character, Heart, have perhaps both a more strategic style battle style and more direct too, so I sometimes miscalculate one move or another. 

Yeah, I kind needed to improve the way I have narrated back from Roreplaying 1 and 2. I think its serve as a good training and experience in the forums. 

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Hey guys. Since we make a quick stop in the battles for now, can I ask you people something?
I know this is a dumb question, but I will ask anyway: You guys think I somehow improve since the first time I join in this Roleplay thing? Honestly. In any form I mean: In strategies, way to narrate the way each move shall go, in story telling, lore.
I would like to know the insight of you people, since you all are playing this game more time than myself.

Definitely, mate! You were naturally rough in the beginning, and details on your character were sparse, but now you've become a seasoned RP player between Iron's and my own thread! Narration has always been spot on with you, but it become more 'smoother' over time, if that makes any sense to you, and the added lore to your character's background shifted my opinion of them from being a goofball of an rare collector to someone far more experienced and troubled than his grin may tell you.

I still think your strategization needs some fine tuning, but as it stands you are well on your way of accomplishing that the longer you think out and do the logistics of your Pokémon's actions!

Hey, I was a novice at this for a long time until I finally picked up the ropes, so don't think you are the only one that had troubles with the Pokerole system, especially with all the mods we put in place! We've all gotten much better as we played, as is the case with all forms of entertainment, so while you were behind for a bit you've well caught up by this point.

Thank you too Windos! Yeah, I must confess my narrating style in the beggining was be rough indeed, ordering orders without be smart enough in how these moves would suffer my action penalization, along with other things. The sparse details about Heart was proposital, to make a bit more mystery and confusion, almost like putting pieces of a huge puzzle until the moment Heart reveal the truth about his origins: The ArcHearts, his past, the creation of his Clan, about Ark, the Eight Knights (with might be return as a topic of future problems since even if the ArcHearts was destroyed, its not certain if the others seven clans still exist).

Yeah, my strategization still need to improve quite a lot. Like in Celadon City where the last I should have think better. And I must confess there is other battles in Skull Ruins I need to improve a lot too. In time when got some better stats (aka more dex) It will become better.

[Spiritmon]

@Lord Windos How much XP have Abbandon originally?

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Well, Ventus could have asked about Nidoking, but he has choosen not to out of respect for your chara's phobia and fears of the creature. A friendly Zoroark Encounter is something I've never heard about before (Or don't remember it being brought up OOC/IC), though, but I'm not sure when that will come up in game. That, and she hasn't be forthcoming with the details about her background either besides the fact she's from a Breeder family from Castelia City, her general interests, and current/future dreams/goals, so nobody really has desired to try a crack the details out of her. Maybe Ven will inquire about her life later on, now that I type this though....

Couldn't have heard about it before because it's new, duh!~ I have no idea if Shiva would feel well to share that Nidoking-Encounter on her own, the odds point to no, but Ven showed interest in these curious dual emotional responses he picked up from her, the reason for these she knows.



@Spiritmon, you're welcome~

[Dragonstrike]

@Spiritmon

I'd definitely say you've improved a lot since you first started as well.  I'd also definitely say you still need to work on your strategizing a little bit, but you have enough dice to work with that more complex strategies are definitely doable in a single Round.

If anything, I'm looking forward to what roleplaying you do in the future once this campaign 'ends'.  Maybe in the campaign I'm planning?  It'll certainly be...a different experience, I can say that much.

As for narration, I haven't really noticed any glaring errors since you joined the pokerole stuff.

Don't have much else to say, tbh.  Just keep playing, and you'll improve so long as you make the effort to.

[Dragonstrike]

Heart then aproach too the fainted Cryogonal. "I dont have much pokeballs with me. 3 Pokeballs, 4 Great Balls and 3 Steel balls. And Ice-type its not exatcly my favourite type."

Ya still have more than what Nathan has atm. Waaaayyyy more. 

2 Pokeballs and 2 Great Balls.

Trust me, you have plenty.

[Spiritmon]

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@Spiritmon

I'd definitely say you've improved a lot since you first started as well.  I'd also definitely say you still need to work on your strategizing a little bit, but you have enough dice to work with that more complex strategies are definitely doable in a single Round.

If anything, I'm looking forward to what roleplaying you do in the future once this campaign 'ends'.  Maybe in the campaign I'm planning?  It'll certainly be...a different experience, I can say that much.

As for narration, I haven't really noticed any glaring errors since you joined the pokerole stuff.

Don't have much else to say, tbh.  Just keep playing, and you'll improve so long as you make the effort to.

Thank you Dragonstrike. Like I say before, sometimes I got confused, but I finally get used about this pokerole stuff. Its quite help a lot with such thing. But I need to work my strategy. Even if thats not Celadon City one example in our battle it I would have order Alomola to use a Shield to protect my pokemon against your attack. It would have reduced the attack and keep my pokemon with some HP. Its just one example. I need to work in my strategy and combination of moves and abilities. And of course work in my prediction. Its impossible to predict anything the opponent will do, but in certain situations a good put prediction can swift the balance of the battlefield. It is something I need to work too.

Yeah, I will be kinda sad when the Skull Ruins finally meet his end...many pokemon captured, adventures made, battles face. And of course, the evolution of my boy Heart. The more you narrate the story of a character, the more attached you become. Its both a bless and a curse sometimes. But I will look foward to see what kind of adventure it will be when another roleplay begin! I may have some ideas about a character I was thinking, hehe.

Well, about error perhaps its my grammatical mistakes maybe?

[Spiritmon]

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Heart then aproach too the fainted Cryogonal. "I dont have much pokeballs with me. 3 Pokeballs, 4 Great Balls and 3 Steel balls. And Ice-type its not exatcly my favourite type."

Ya still have more than what Nathan has atm. Waaaayyyy more. 

2 Pokeballs and 2 Great Balls.

Trust me, you have plenty.

Well, I need to still have some pokeballs left when we finish here in Mt. Sentry. I may need to buy some medicine later.

[Lord Windos]

@Lord Windos How much XP have Abbandon originally?

0 XP, actually! He spent all of his before hand to gain his ability Shadow Tag, so that's why its at a big old goose egg (0)!

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Yeah, I will be kinda sad when the Skull Ruins finally meet his end...many pokemon captured, adventures made, battles face. And of course, the evolution of my boy Heart.The more you narrate the story of a character, the more attached you become. Its both a bless and a curse sometimes.

One more reason to make this a diceless Campaign after it ended!~

I'll head to bed now, it's late, when I wake up I hope that I caught a Bergmite. C: