[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Spoiler

Jellicent Horde Round 3

Luna: (4)

Drain Punch 1
(5)(1)(1)(6)(1)(6) (3)
(1)(4)(1)(4)(2)(5) Relicanth takes 4 dmg 3/7hp -2 pain.
Toya heals 2 hp

The fish seems to shrug and swims away again. It knows when it's not wanted.

Astonish 1
(3)(3)(3)(2)(5)
(1)(4)(5)(1)(6) Jellicent F B faints.

Ominous Wind 1B-D
(6)(1)(5)(6)
(3)(6)(5)(6)
(3)(5)(1)(4)
(1)(2) 1 dmg to Toya
(6)(5) 3 dmg to Luna
(4)(3) 2 dmg to Luna

CD: (6) (5) (6) They're buff!

Thunder Punch 2
(3)(2)(1)(2)(5)(4)
(6)(5)(2)(3)(6) Frillish B takes 4 dmg 2/6hp -2 pain
CD: (6) and was paralyzed, effectively taking it out of the fight.
CD: (3)(2)(1) from Cursed Body.

Poke Ball 1
(4)(6) v (1)
Gotcha! Frillish B was caught!
0/0/2
Cursed Body
Bubble, Night Shade, Ominous Wind, Hex

Gust 2
(1)(6)(5)(2)(1)(1) (4)(3)(5)(6)(4) Critical
(3)(3)(6)(5)(3)(2)(5) Frillish C takes 3 dmg 3/6hp -2 pain

Ominous Wind 2 CD
(4)
(3)(5)(5)
(5)(3)(2)
(5)(3)(1)

Both your Pokemon are down to 1hp!

Thunder Punch 3
(4)(1)(4)
(4)(6)(1)(5)(3)(3) Frillish C faints.
CD: (2)(6)(5) Thunderpunch was disabled

Gust 3
(3)(6)(3)(4)(4)(1) (3)(3)
(4)(6)(1)(3)(5) Frillish D takes 4 dmg and flees, as it is alone.


You get 14XP for this battle to split.

Luna gets 11 of that xp, bringing her total to 52, which is used to learn Baton Pass!
Nubi is sent to the PC for the Frillish, a Potion and a Full Heal Flower is used on it, bringing it back to 6/9 HP, and curing Paralysis. Gender doesn't really matter, but let's make it female.
Toya gets the remaining 3 xp, and a Super Potion is used on him, bringing him back to 7/10 HP.
Spira's xp is now 10, 6 of which is used to bring his Athletics to 2.
--
"Phew. That was really tough." With that done, Spira takes a look down the waterfall, having Toya use a Flash if needed to get a better look.

All the females had cursed body and the males had water absorb, though that's not so important for the Frillish I suppose.

The waterfall arcs beyond the reach of Flash in both length and depth.

[Iron]

Great White Sharpedo Round 2

Rock Smash 1
(5)(3)(1)(4)(3)(5) (3)(3)(3)
(5)(5)(1)(4)(3)(2) (1) Sharpedo takes 4 dmg and faints.

That was easier than expected (and Spira's was harder).

Pokeball:
(5)(6) v (3)(4)(1)

Gotcha! Great White Sharpedo was caught!
0/0/5
Rough Skin
+2 Str Surprise, white in color but not a true shiny.
Blind, but has a great sense of smell.
Great White Sharpedo has every single move on its list, excluding ? moves.

12XP.

[Iron]

Obedience: 0 v (6)(4)(2)

Sari just goes back into her Pokeball and refuses to use Hidden Power. Shiva's sixth sense does detect a lot of hidden power in this 'mon, though, meaning it will have either a powerful effect or a high power in combat.

[Iron]

Super Rod:

(3)(6)(6)(2)(3) +1 BQB

You fish up a slightly oversized Huntail, which has swallowed a still-living Gorebyss of normal size.

Due to your 5 Nature specialty, you also find 3 doses of Slowpoketail bait, which increase the chances of Slowpoke-related catches (Shellder, King's Rock mons, weather mons, carnivorous fishes)

[Lord Windos]

Obedience: 0 v (6)(4)(2)

Sari just goes back into her Pokeball and refuses to use Hidden Power. Shiva's sixth sense does detect a lot of hidden power in this 'mon, though, meaning it will have either a powerful effect or a high power in combat.

At this, Terra can't help but softly facepalm and heave a small, soft *sigh....* , a frown tugging at the corners of his lips. From what he looked up (And what Ven wrote on them/Solomon), he knew Slowkings could be a fairly obstinate or independent bunch of Pokemon, but his own magnificent monarch seemed downright intractable or entirely dismissive of him. Which, to be fair, he did deserve some flack from her, seeing as he essentially brow beat her into his party, but he'd figured they be at least somewhat wiling to cooperate with him after Evolving her into the Ultimate Shiny Slowking. 

Seeing that was not going to be case (or at least, not anytime soon or on a consistent basis), he was now faced with a tough decision that vexed the normally calm and stoic man: Replacing one of his Loyal and trust companions with the fairly Disobedient Sari, and prioritize building a strong rapport with her in order to actually be able to work with the Shiny sloth, or sending her back to his PC and squander both her talents and Heart's boon to him, at least for the time being. Both options had their various up and downsides, and for the life of him he couldn't really figure out which one was 'for the best' or 'most right' . 

It's times like this that he wished that Trainers could carry more than 6 Pokemon without forcing a friend to carry extras, but alas such was reality.

Because he really couldn't come to a decision that he could wholeheartidly support, the sagely monk opted instead to delegate the matter to the rest of the group, texting everyone with the following message: 

'Sari's being more difficult than I thought.  Not very willing to listen to me much. Or very 'talkative'. At all. Trouble deciding if she stays for rest of trip, or gets sent away.  Could become very useful member of team later, if I do best to bond with her. Would be....trouble or burden until then, though. Have send back partner to make place for her, too. 

'Difficult choice. Not sure which is better. What do you think?'

(Since I'm pretty much getting no real definite answers on Sari's overall usefulness, I'm still having trouble deciding if she should stay or not. So I'll be leaving the matter entirely up to your characters! Terra will make an overal decision based on his friend's responses, but you don't have to be wordy with them. A simple yay/nay answer or similar answer will be sufficient, but more detailed opinions would be appreciated!)

Spoiler

Super Rod:

(3)(6)(6)(2)(3) +1 BQB

You fish up a slightly oversized Huntail, which has swallowed a still-living Gorebyss of normal size.

Due to your 5 Nature specialty, you also find 3 doses of Slowpoketail bait, which increase the chances of Slowpoke-related catches (Shellder, King's Rock mons, weather mons, carnivorous fishes)

(Err....they're a couple problems with this Roll, Iron. For one, Fishing Roll is Survival + Nature + BQB. For another, Terra has 3 Nature, not 5 [Maybe you got it mixed up with Survival, or Shiva's Nature?]. Ergo, the Total Fishing Roll should have been 8D6 + 1 Dice, not 5D6 + 1. Bit of a mistake, really. )

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Huh... Seeing ALL these moves pop up as she scans that great white Sharpedo with her Almanac after successful capture, Shiva shudders slightly and feels kinda affirmed in her guess that this shark would be better to be dealt with before progressing. She send that shark to a Box in the PC for now, what she'll do with them she can still muse about later then.

What she also does is offer one of the tree ancient TMs of Aqua Jet to Arachnautilus: "Would ya like to have this disk? I don't have the means or Pokemon to put it into good use, but maybe you have." (An Omastar could appreciate one or tow better Water Type moves. Ah, but Aqua Jet's not stated on their list of ?-moves, damn.)

Towards Terra being undisclosed and asking for help concerning new and ultra-shiny Slowking, Shiva carefully replies that "....Bonding with a Pokemon is at best done when spending good times and surviving harsh times together - barely anywhere but here within the Ruins the latter applies. I would, well, hold on Sari and work with her - there's some power behind that smugness and beneath that sparkling skin. Some REAL power, you know? I.... I can sense it just from being near her."

[Iron]

Remember that text messages don't work this far underground, not that it really matters in this case.

Three more dice for the fishing roll:

(1)(4)(6)

A Croconaw lunges out of the water at the last second and grabs the Huntail eating a Gorebyss in its mouth.

[Iron]

Huh... Seeing ALL these moves pop up as she scans that great white Sharpedo with her Almanac after successful capture, Shiva shudders slightly and feels kinda affirmed in her guess that this shark would be better to be dealt with before progressing. She send that shark to a Box in the PC for now, what she'll do with them she can still muse about later then.

What she also does is offer one of the tree ancient TMs of Aqua Jet to Arachnautilus: "Would ya like to have this disk? I don't have the means or Pokemon to put it into good use, but maybe you have." (An Omastar could appreciate one or tow better Water Type moves. Ah, but Aqua Jet's not stated on their list of ?-moves, damn.)

Towards Terra being undisclosed and asking for help concerning new and ultra-shiny Slowking, Shiva carefully replies that "....Bonding with a Pokemon is at best done when spending good times and surviving harsh times together - barely anywhere but here within the Ruins the latter applies. I would, well, hold on Sari and work with her - there's some power behind that smugness and beneath that sparkling skin. Some REAL power, you know? I.... I can sense it just from being near her."

"Oh...oh? Thank you, then!"

She doesn't get many gifts. You catch her looking at you after you've both turned away to do new things.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

*Snort* Shiva feels this could be because the other Scims are afraid or intimidated just by her edgy look. Or because she enjoying to shred foes and duel-partners mid-air with obvious delight, similar like these Kadabra in the third Chamber.

[Lord Windos]

Remember that text messages don't work this far underground, not that it really matters in this case.

Three more dice for the fishing roll:

(1)(4)(6)

A Croconaw lunges out of the water at the last second and grabs the Huntail eating a Gorebyss in its mouth.

(Then he'll say that message directly to everyone when they regroup, then! I thought that 'Dexes had short range frequencies that they could communicate with other nearby Dexes, but hey, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong!)

When he reeled in a Huntail devouring a Gorebyss whole, the sight made him recall that time he caught a Crawduant eating a Staryu and all the rumors  back home about the Clampearl line being viscous predators, which caused him to frown severely as he pulled Arete's Nautical Apricorn off his belt as he prepared to take blue and toothed eel down. Though Huntail was only following its own predatory Nature in its Actions, that didn't Terra would just let them happen on his watch!

.....Then, before he could react, some....hungry looking lizard decided to join the party by trying to devour his freshly caught eel fish. Which was already eating its own hunted pink chimarea. The sheer ridiculousness of this chain of events caused the sagely monk to blink Noctowlishly at the veritable Pokemon Centipede that just spontaneously came into existence before him, before shaking his head and sending out Arete AND Sari to fight against the aquatic collective. While what happened was something he didn't expect ever, he could still use it to his advantage as a chance for both newest partners to flex their Strength. And, perhaps, also a chance to see what his own one of a kind Slowking's can do and start bonding with them - battles were always prime opportunities to start and/or facilitate bonds with Pokemon in his experience, after all.

(Arete and Sari will be my choice of battlers for this Encounter, Iron! Let's dive right on into, now!)