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

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

(...) That might take a while. Windos said he would take a time with his family for a time. And Dragonstrike is busy with work. (...)

I too should eventually start on these chtistmasy drawing projects of mine, and instead I find myself sleeping and dwelling online. ┐(￣ヮ￣)┌

There's still a magic called 'flashforwarding' if things stagnate for too long.

[Iron]

You're welcome to do your own Howl battle, Heart. Time has no meaning in this land beyond dice.

[Lord Windos]

Welp guys, I'm finally free of my studies and exams for the time being, and hopefully for awhile yet to come! And after spending a few days resting and recovering from my grueling studying for exams, I'm ready to delve right back into the campaign, mates!

....As soon as I find out how much I've lost track of in the mean time, and find out where my character last involved himself in the narrative. Been awhile since I've payed too much attention to the thread, and I'm a bit lost as to what the heck is going on. @Dragonstrike , you mind giving me the cliff notes version of events, if you can?

[Dragonstrike]

Welp guys, I'm finally free of my studies and exams for the time being, and hopefully for awhile yet to come! And after spending a few days resting and recovering from my grueling studying for exams, I'm ready to delve right back into the campaign, mates!

....As soon as I find out how much I've lost track of in the mean time, and find out where my character last involved himself in the narrative. Been awhile since I've payed too much attention to the thread, and I'm a bit lost as to what the heck is going on. Dragonstrike , you mind giving me the cliff notes version of events, if you can?

Glad to have you back, Windos.  I'm still trying to rev my engine myself, if I'm being honest.  It's been a busy month.  I'll be back up to full speed myself eventually.

I've not been keeping up with reading every detail like I usually do, but to my understanding:

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- Shiva's been tying up some loose ends relating to her personal interests
- Heart just finished his training with Chorizo, which ended in Moltres hatching and Heart learning some valuable lessons and new skills.
- Nathan just finished talking with Mesprit, and has made some decisions regarding some plans for the near future (pending approval of others' assistance)
- Heart and Shiva both just paid Elanor a visit for varying reasons, and the visit ended in both of them getting a (diceless) gym badge from Howl.
- Heart called for a quick meeting with everyone (seemingly to show off), but Nathan's going to also take the opportunity to talk with the group about important matters if everyone is going to be meeting at Celebi Park
- Terra and Ventus are still where you last left them, though I imagine Terra got the messages from Heart and Nathan as well.  As for Ventus, Nathan will appraise the researcher of the information later since Ventus is likely busy prepping for assisting with Garlicburg in some fashion (at least, I assume so)
- Once we're done with the (possibly brief?) group meeting, I/Nathan would like to suggest that we all pay Tumbleweed's Gym Leader a visit to hear what he has to say together.  Plus, Nathan has a Gym Badge to earn from Achilles, and I have an idea for how at least part of it is going to go down.

As for my game, it's not progressed too much farther in the time you've been gone.  It's been slow since I wasn't expecting to have two characters dumped into gm autoing territory with such rapid succession (and during the holidays to boot).

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- Karen made a new friend in an exceptionally/strangely warm Delibird
- Lucas fought off a bunch of riled up wild pokemon on his own so that the rest of the group wouldn't have to
- We're now at the very start of Route 216 (which I will make a little shorter than Route 217, as stated previously) and doing the daily prep work before setting out. 
- Randolph and Kee also just caught Kogeki trying to sneak off to do some reconnaissance without warning the group beforehand (and Kee told him off quite strongly, which is why I haven't had Randolph say much on it so far.)  If you have changes to make to Ran's party or things to say about stuff, by all means, feel free to do so.

[Lord Windos]

Thank you for the update, Dragonstrike! Always can count on you to provide the scoop for everyone, especially for a bonehead like me!

Hmm....well, it should be easy for me to get Terra onboard with this developed plot then, provided I change a few things around to make things fit better, so no worries about that, thankfully! As for your campaign, I'm already in the process of responding to it, as compared to Iron's campaign I got more of a stake in yours right now, since the main plot of yours is still developing and requiring a good deal of player/dm input.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

I've been bonding with Chi, Shiva's Luxi.

Welp guys, I'm finally free of my studies and exams for the time being, and hopefully for awhile yet to come! And after spending a few days resting and recovering from my grueling studying for exams, I'm ready to delve right back into the campaign, mates! (...)

Aaaaaaaahhhh honeeeey~ (ﾉ´ з `)ノ♡

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

*Sigh* I was expecting to have real fight scenes and all...but I guess you weren't kidding about the whole "diceless" campaigh thing... (...)

Ahh well, but you can still make up a real fight scene yourself by elaborating on how you battle and how you defeat the enemy's Pokemon! ^_^ Like I did here for example.

Besides, I was meaning to ask, has Heart now actually arrived at Celebi Park with his new Moltres or haven't he? I'm a bit lost on that and am not sure, so it'd be cool if you could clarify that - then I can get to some reaction and response for some progress.

[Spiritmon]

*Sigh* I was expecting to have real fight scenes and all...but I guess you weren't kidding about the whole "diceless" campaigh thing... (...)

Ahh well, but you can still make up a real fight scene yourself by elaborating on how you battle and how you defeat the enemy's Pokemon! ^_^ Like I did here for example.

Besides, I was meaning to ask, has Heart now actually arrived at Celebi Park with his new Moltres or haven't he? I'm a bit lost on that and am not sure, so it'd be cool if you could clarify that - then I can get to some reaction and response for some progress.

It is because I miss the old style of battle. Dice rolls, sending orders for battle, numbers. The usual stuff we been doing for quite a while and return to a more active role. Instead we only get a quick description. This is...lame being really honest. I came here for action fights not simple narrative, as much I love it.

Indeed he was already for quite a while. We can imagine he battle Howl after his meeting with Shiva and everyone. Or maybe he battle him on a moment where Heart was searching for everyone and find Howl in path and take the oppotunity in get another Badge to sharp his skills to the Pokemon League.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

We had battles with dice for 2+ years/ since Day 1 of the Campaign, I understand that it may be a bit hard to get used to diceless at first but our GM has said more than once that things will go diceless. I'm actually curious to explore this and do more roleplaying than battling, but if you're not, maybe talk to Iron himself - via private messages at best.

[Iron]

I don't want to get back into dice because I want Dragonstrike's full campaign to fill that role. I'm done with that chaos until you decide to challenge the E4.