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

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Oh, that's alright.

[Dragonstrike]

From Shiva's side only if she gets the gemstone back later if not used, she likes this lil' thing a lot. Gothy's help is fine.

Might be a bit before he gives it back.  Since we're going into the Skull Ruins and are likely about to do battle with a Deoxys, having a panic button that gives us access to a potential Plot Device is a good precaution.  The gemstones aren't very useful if they're separated, obviously.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

That's fine, what's more important for Shiva is the actual return of the gemstone and not Nathan just pocketing it, I remember her being rather sceptical and protective when he asked to see the gemstones when we found them at our persons and I'd like to stick with that aspect of hers. If something means something to Shiva, she's not very up to part with it! When exactly that handing back is, is almost secondary.

No more posts from my side for today, good night for now. (＿ ＿*) Z z z @Iron, alongside Shiva's action of breaking the cord with Heart the order is 4 Razor Leaves from Tropius and Telekinesis Help from Lilith in the upcoming Round, all other Pokemon of hers are recalled. Just wanted to throw that in for the sake of progress!

[Spiritmon]

In Heart side that's okay too

[Lord Windos]

Huh. I see things have sufficiently gone up the creek while I was spending my days studying and working, but not to the point where it mandates Terra/Angela getting involved (I imagine at this point he's making snacks for everyone, since he has time to kill). Hopefully you guys can get outa there ASAP, or the Scims might pull of a successful Zerg Rush and swamp everyone!

Worst case scenario and the group DOES get captured/the battle is going down hill, how long would it take for Terra to break into the base, assuming he was at some point debriefed into getting in the same way as Nathan? Bar that, how long would it take for Terra to mobilize a task force to brute force their way to the group? Having access to Diggers and seismic Attacks make for a pretty effective means of breaking and entering, especially if they have ways of buffing their DEX and/or STR...

[Iron]

Yep, this little sidequest is about to end one way or another!

[Dragonstrike]

Good news: we only need to survive 1 Round, and then we can Teleport out

Bad news: if Heart goes down, Keni's still going to be trapped.  And that would probably require Nathan to use the Red Chain

Good news: Nathan has the drop on Cosh with Gallade and Porygon-Z. And thanks to Future Sight, the Scim's already got at least -1 Pain to worry about. Possibly even -2 soon.

Bad news: Nathan's the only one who can outspeed Cosh in the initiative order, period, unless Paralysis/Tailwind/other strong Dex manipulation shenanigans and (6) results on later initiative rolls happen. (and even then, it's 50/50 on whether Charizard, Grid, and Ditto can naturally outspeed Cosh) EDIT: Actually, this might be good news! I have the perfect move for this if the conditions are favorable, no Dex manipulating shenanigans required!

Good news: the grunts are relatively weak from all appearances

Bad news: there's a lot of those grunts

[Dragonstrike]

Oh yeah, with the Agility, @Iron, Porygon-Z actually has an initiative of 15, same as Gallade, because it currently has 8* Dex.  Means Porygon-Z is first in the initiative order.

[Dragonstrike]

Oh wait, hang on.  I have an idea.  It won't be very beneficial for Nathan (Calam, Gallade, and Porygon-Z in particular), but...

Porygon-Z has Trick Room.  It can reverse the initiative order entirely!  We can use Cosh's super high initiative against him!

And the best part?  Trick Room doesn't have negative priority in Pokerole, and Porygon-Z is going first. There's almost no way that the Scims can stop Trick Room from going off.

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One more question for @Iron, though: at what point in the Round are the Scimitar grunts going to act?

[Iron]

Oh wait, hang on.  I have an idea.  It won't be very beneficial for Nathan (Calam, Gallade, and Porygon-Z in particular), but...

Porygon-Z has Trick Room.  It can reverse the initiative order entirely!  We can use Cosh's super high initiative against him!

And the best part?  Trick Room doesn't have negative priority in Pokerole, and Porygon-Z is going first.  There's almost no way that the Scims can stop Trick Room from going off.

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One more question for @Iron, though: at what point in the Round are the Scimitar grunts going to act?

I was going to have them go last because they are a massive mob, but I can roll for them on the chance that it will benefit you. No going back once I roll it though.