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

[Lord Windos]

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In his defense, Kirlia was more focused on Nathan specifically/not trying very hard in most of those instances, or we simplified it for OOC reasons.  In this instance, either Nathan has asked Kirlia to monitor everyone to make sure they're not trying to hide anything, or Kirlia is just doing that automatically for Nathan without needing to be told because he has a good understanding of what Nathan wants.

Nathan is very, very paranoid about HM usage.  That's why I want to set general group guidelines for who we teach the move to and how we use it, and they're what Nathan outlined:

- Only teach it to pokemon we're keeping
- Don't teach it to Disobedient Pokemon to prevent accidental usage
- Only use it when it's allowed/safe to do so without tipping people off that we have the HM

As Nathan said, HMs are not tools for profit and fame if you don't want to catch everyone's attention.  If we start spreading pokemon with Rock Smash around, people are going to start asking questions, figuring out that someone's found a Rock Smash HM.  The more attention we draw to ourselves, the harder it'll be to move around the region without the Scimitars/Almanac knowing exactly where we are.

Fair enough.

Yes, but Ven's equally paranoid about remaining disguised/undetected when he wants to, and given his criminal origins and working alongside the Shadow Triad, so him going off to sell those Pokémon on the Black Market SECRETLY isn't an instant fail/bad end for the party. Given that Ven's succesfully raised an Arbok, Noibat into a Noivern, and has decently bonded with several Dragons and Disobedient bugs, the boy would trust that when he says he can handle those Pokemon, they SHOULD be able to trust him with at least that. I and Ven want to sell those HM Pokémon for a marked up price since the more Poke I have, the more flexible I can be for spending in the future, and I REALLY don't like be stonewalled in making muns unless the DM specifically is the one doing it or its a plain bad idea (which I don't think it is, in this case).