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

[Iron]

(...) Another option is appeasing her hungry by giving her most if not ALL our supplies to distract her (assuming she doesn't cotton on to our presence and order us for lunch too), then get our Pokémon out while she is busy and high tail it out. Another option is just trying to Recall them and booking it ASAP, but I say its even odds that the webs the Pokémon are on will prevent them from being recalled. (...)

That does sound like a thought. The negative aspect would be that it beraves US of our supplies and we have to continue our way without food + rely on Tropius' fruit and slain wild Pokemon by Apsis and Yena. A normal human can go a few days without food, that's true, and we're having enough Water Types to not dehydrate...

On the matter of a 'fair trade', I've had a thought: Do a Tropius, an oversized Durant and at best a Galvantula count as a fair trade @Iron, meaning we give these two for the other captured Pokemon in return? I'm feeling it might, as a huge Durant would make a good soldier/leader of the other Durant and Tropius can provide fresh fruit everyday for the queen, while a Galvantula can provide something I can't think of at the moment (light, electricity? But why could Seika need electricity...?). I mean this in the way of leaving these with Seika. Of course Shiva would mourn endlessly for her rare grassy sauropode, cry bitterly for it, outta-chara it'd take a useful Pokemon from my hands and kill off any Natural Gift shenanigans.... I don't know how Ven would be fine to part with Turiel and Nathan parting with Grid, Windos, Dragon? If this would save us a fight full of lethal attacks however, I'd be totally for this action.

Random idea!  If we were to use multiple Razor Leafs/Winds simultaneously, we might be able to free all our trapped pokemon simultaneously, which would allow us to recall all of them.

There's two problems with that, though.
1.  We'd have to get close enough to be able to use ranged attacks on the webbing.
2. We'd likely get attacked immediately, and we probably won't be able to flee due to the sheer number of bugs in the caverns alone.

If a distraction is presence, that COULD work and nothing says we can't try to run anyway once having gotten our Pokemon back. The chance that it'll fail is there, and these roughly six Rounds until we're back at the main tunnel sound long. :C

Wait! I have a better idea! We can use Dragonstrike plan and free the pokemon with Razor leaf! But! We could use Fire attacks to put fire in this spider nest, that way it could be a distraction for us to escape.

That sounds like a decent distraction! A rather agressive one for sure that'll enrage Seika and the bugs for sure, but it's an idea at last. One party, for the most part Heart and Nathan, could start a fire on one side of her lair with their respective Pokemon, while we others cut the webs with our Pokemon on hand.
EDIT: Okay, maybe that's actually a bad idea.


One way or the other, I'm scared of any aggressive actions as a fight will cost us everything we have on hand, and Seika has the capabilities to deal Super-Effective-STAB damage on EACH of my Pokemon currently on hand. ._.

One more question please, Iron: Any talking with Seika, will success and failure of it determined by Insight Rolls or will it be done without? If with Rolls, any penalities, and would Helping Hand help in talking?

Seikamater already has Turiel and Zippy (and maybe Grid, I never decided. She can easily get him for sure). So She won't consider those a trade. Tropius She'd probably value, but She's unlikely to give you any kind of good bargain while She holds all the power. She'll be looking to serve Herself.


Most talking will depend on what you say, with a Legend. Not on rolls. Helping Hand won't add anything to mental rolls anyway. I have some thoughts on Seikamater's motivations and personality already in mind, and if you think of something I didn't consider, why, I'll make a decision on it.