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

[Dragonstrike]

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True on both fronts, but if we run into them again into a place where their isn't a lot of cover for them to play wack a mole with us, then taking them out then become a whole lot easier. Its always an option if it turns out the Reunicli are designed to be total bastards to fight right here or in general, so don't totally discount it!

Fair enough, but that means we can't really knock out pillars until after Round 2, and have to do our damnest not to get whittle into oblivion by those blobs. Yeah, I wish EQ was specific in that it only targeted Pokémon unless otherwise indicated, but thems the breaks we have to work aroud.

IC, Ven don't give a damn about Solosis' wellbeing at ALL and would prefer it unconscious 24/7 (if only for the convenyance) since they can't ball it and killing it would enrage Nathan beyond cooperation, and he also has experience taking care of Pokémon in that state due to his occupation as a Disobedient Pokémon Researcher, so that ain't a problem. Additionaly, Shiva is outright apathetic to its existence, Valder has no opinion, and from what I can tell Heart doesn't really care about it either and looks upon them with suspicion, so only Nathan would be willing to advocate it be kept awake. With that being the case, I could have Ven rally the other group members to argue and contrive a reason IC for Nathan to keep Solosis Fainted forever, or re-assign their care to someone willing to KO them 24/7, if that would be fine with you Dragonstrike.

One thing I really dislike is when IC stuff prevents other, more easy options being taken, or causes problems that can't really be solved, so this method of using IC to eliminate IC sounds like a sound idea to me.

One more negative I would like to point out about postponing this battle: if we run, we'll be Exhausted the next time we run into them.  That would just make it even harder than it already is.  Particularly since Nathan is the only member of the party that can comfortably stomach (a small amount of) exhaustion.

AOEs are pretty non-discriminate, yeah.  The only ones truly safe from those attacks are those with immunities, the ones not on the battlefield, the ones with enough skill to dodge the move, and the user itself.  Everyone else in the immediate area around the attacker just gets slammed.

Actions matter in and around Atheneum.  Just want to drop that reminder.  Plus, after we reach the location, I don't think Solosis will be an issue.

Assuming Iron is fine with Solosis being in Nathan's bag at the start of all this, I think most of the major issues concerning it are remedied in that case.  It won't be immediately on the battlefield, and Nathan's close enough to deal with it himself if it becomes a problem.