[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Spoiler

Judging by the confusion on his face when you tossed out that phrase at him, the herculian man did not catch your drift.

"None taken. What do cards have to do with hitching a ride, though? I don't have any myself, besides ones from my parents. If you do not want to give me a mount, that is fine. Walking in and out of the city is no trouble for me, and I can follow you to good battle grounds."

When asked about the terms of combat, Terra laped into thoughtful silence again (which often involved stroaking his bread and/or closing his eyes in contemplation), until a moment later he broke it by calmly and seriously declaring them in such a way that implied he's had years of experience in doing such.

"6V6 or 3V3 Single Battle. Our Pokémon battle until either one is Fainted, and the winner it the last one with unFainted Pokemon. No Sleep, No Items except the ones held by our Pokemon, No Switching, OHKO, or Evasion Altering Moves, and we get time before the battle to prep our Pokémon however we want. Those are my terms of battle. I want to test you, and I want to be tested. Are those acceptable?"

He crosses his arms and stares at you, and patiently waits your response.

Stares....

Nathan takes a breath, lets it out to let some of the stress go, and responds just as patiently.

"It's a figure of speech.  Likening cards to the pokemon we're choosing for the battle.  I've got lots to choose from, but if we're hitching a ride out of the city on my pokemon and away from the PC, then I'll have spoiled what one one or two of the pokemon I'll be using are.  Walking's fine, though, I suppose.  Don't have to go too far, after all, and I've done a fair amount of walking over the years."

"...well, someone certainly knows their way around professional rules, though the no switching one isn't commonly used.  Color me impressed.  Let's do a 6v6 then.  'Course, if we're battling until fainting, we'll also definitely be walking back regardless of whether I bring any mounts...and I assume 'prepping our pokemon' does not include buffing them with moves preemptively?"