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

[Spiritmon]

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Hmm... Yes, you may be right with that 'bad habit' of a ruler to be honest, sadly.

Confuse Ray additionally to sleep from Victor/Malphena or Flatter from Lilith sounds like a good idea to me though , yes - the latter will even reduce her Strength by 1 while auto-confusing. Just one point, I know, but it could matter!

Sleep won't work on Seika unless we literally have dozens of Pokémon casting those Moves to overcome her, as I asked Iron about this very thing in PM. Negotiation with Seika will pretty much be one sided or VERY 'generous' on our parts since she's basically a dictator that has always gotten what she wants, and that you have to speak in simple, direct, and blunt terms in order for her to best understand our intent.

Additionally, bringing down the cave is impossible (So Earthquake is actually safe to use here), but we CAN topple her castle within a few Rounds with Mamo's helping. Problem with burying Seika alive is that we also burry our Pokémon as well AND that she'll basically summon her entire hive to kill us all if we go that route and don't skedaddle ASAP, so that's a last resort to end all last resorts.

Fighting her would basically be like fighter any other Legend: We need to target her Weakness, and any one of her Attacks would most likely instantly or near instantly Faint our Pokémon, and cause the nearby Firoke to start targeting us as well to compound our woes. Attacking the minions first will alert Seika, though, since all bugs are in a hivemind, so we can't pick off her support without her getting hostile/summoning more to swamp us.

Right now I'm trying to find out if we could use Raphael to stealthly cut the webs so that we can recall EVERYONE ASAP and that we could just turn tail and run. If that's not possible, the second best course of action is diplomacy/distraction while somebody tries to free our Pokémon, before we get out, followed by then fighting if that fails, then bringing down the castle if a slug fest goes PARTICULARLY HORRIBLY.

Overall, we have several options before us, but all of them will screw us over to some extent if we are not careful and lucky. This is, to put it blunty, not exactly an Encounter we can expect a happy resolution to.....

If Ralts or Solomon were not caught up, I'd suggest we all just leave the Pokémon to die and avoid confronting Seika at all, but seeing as nobody but maybe Ventus would go for the coward's option, that's a non-starter unless he simply abandons ship entirely.

I do it. I have the biggerst Stealth roll of all of us. 3 in Stealth to be more precisely. Its not incredible but at least its the biggerst. Unless someone another idea.