[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

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Terra Introductory Battle vs Shiva

Shiranui nods to Terra. Grimly. This will be just like they practiced...hopefully.

He moves another step to fully cover Basteele. And then everything goes nuts.

The grass is shredded to leave scorch marks and bare earth. A deafening roar. Shards of metal going everywhere, most of them into Shiranui. Forretress shrunken in on itself, its eyes no longer visible, and big craters in its shell.

Explosion 1
(6)(5)(5)(1)(4)(2)
(4)(2)(4)(6)(6)(1) (3)(2)(4)(2) (5)
Tropius takes 6 nonlethal dmg and faints.
Azumarill takes 6 nonlethal dmg 2/9hp -2 pain.
Forretress faints, and in its confusion (Insight -2 = 0) it deals 1 Lethal damage to itself. It's still smoking.

Shiranui's rubbery body absorbs most of the blast, causing the remnant to be nonlethal and relatively safe. He's designed for this kind of thing. But as Shiranui faints and rolls over, Terra sees a big chunk of metal sticking from Shiranui's belly. Shiranui takes 1 point of lethal damage.

The trainers are fine, I'm sure Terra wouldn't order the attack until all humans are at a safe distance away.

(For Terra's information, there's no risk of accidentally going Lethal unless the Pokemon is confused or other very unusual circumstances are in play).

Azumarill stands alone on the battlefield, looking deafened.

In mere moment, Terra had already recalled both Pokémon, his whole being serious, alarmed, and more than a little anxious as grimaced at both his partner's balls. He knew fully well how dangerous an Explosion from his armed arthropod was -he of all people would be the least like to underestimate its sheer destructive power - but even with that he was still caught off guard by the Lethal result it had on his Pokémon. Thank heavens he drilled all his Pokémon (Sans Mikey) and himself on how to dampen/handle the blast of the Move, should Basteele somehow fail to restrain its full, devastating might....

'....Note to self: Don't order Basteele to use Explosion when she is Confused. …What do I do now....?'

Several long moments passed as he gravely stared at his Pokeballs, eyebrows tightly scrunched together as he pondered just what he want to do about this unexpected development. ...He then quietly shook his head to himself and put them away, before pulling off Genie's Dusk Ball + Mikey's Pokeball's from his belt, and turned to regard Shiva with worry, seriousness, yet on the whole...calm. 

"....I have chosen my next Pokémon, and are ready to continue our battle. ...Are you too, Shiva?"

While one might assume that he was callious disregarding his Lethally wound Pokémon to continue his match, that wasn't the case. In reality, he only choose to resume after intensely debating with himself whether or not forfeiting the match to immediately treat his Pokémon was worth making all his partner's hard earned efforts in vain. That, and whether or not it was fair to the heartfelt woman to adjourn his match over an freak misplay on his part.


In the end, he decided to resume the battle, and the immediately rush off to the Pokémon Center to get Shiranui and Basteele treated. It would be several hours before their lives would be threatened by their critical injuries, while the match would only take a few minutes at most, so he felt that staying and finishing what was started was for the best. However, if Shiva didn't want to fight him anymore, he'd be more than willing to stop. Wouldn't hold it against her to, as the aftermath of that Explosion...it nearly made him lost his nerve. 


That, and he could leave for the Center all the quicker, so either option was a 'win' to him, for what its worth...

(I'd guess my theme would stop immediately in the moment the Explosion goes off, and only resume to play at a much lower volume when the battle resumes.)


Well, to be frank and blunt, it all happened way too fast for Shiva to have any chance to anticipate, predict or even prepare for it, she only made it to curse in silent as that panting Hariyama chipped in to save their battle partner from being defeated by her grassy sauropode and fae rabbit. There was no time either to shout to Azu to use her Fairy-STAB instead of Bubble Beam after it became clear that the Fighting Type was providing cover for Basteele, damnit.

The plus side of providing that cover for the steely bug - the LETHALITY of Explosion which Shiva was well aware of, was heavily eased, for the stars's and noble Reshiram's sake; thankfully it was. Seeing her dear Pokemon or, mind you, she suffering lethal damage by those in a fight with a group member would be something that she would not forget for a prolonged time, silently hold against that member, expect a making-up and probably outright refuse to ever join a battle against them again if the Pokemon who dealt the nasty wounds isn't securely packed away into a Box of Bill's PC.


Tropius, having a hard time to keep himself up in the air due to pain and scratches anyway, let out an unpleased roar at Shiranui as he intercepted and took his gust of wind, and Azu followed his example as she too failed to do sweet Master's will and force that steely bug out of this match. She casts an apologizing gaze over to Shiva which she returned in calm, but one moment later that blast of an explosion washed over the area, unbalancing her further as she had to a few steps back to recall Tropius into the safety of his Ball right from the air before he'd hit the ground. She herself doesn't take any damage luckily, but is knocked over to a sitting position from the sheer impact of the move.

Azumarill, being aside from Terra the other one who was still standing, made a U-Turn over to her Master as if she silently called the blue fae rabbit, and presumed to chirp at her in a comforting tone when the first toneless sob came. Master wasn't crying though from the looks of it but 'only' had to take off glasses and rub her wet eyes with an arm, causing Azu to console her harder via placing a summoned red rose behind her ear and pulling of a 50$-coin from there in the same movement to hand it to her with a sadness in her face.

It's not enough to cause Shiva trauma in the means of Nidoking-Incident or being caught in the world of DeltaHoundour, but it doesn't help her at all in learning to accept fainting of known and liked Pokemon. More like the opposite, the SHOCKING sight of the aftermath of that Explosion is something that she won't be able to forget for a while. My, Terra, you somewhat messed up here, I'm sorry for that. :C

"....I have chosen my next Pokémon, and are ready to continue our battle. ...Are you too, Shiva?"

These words reach her a little deafed and weak, but the DID make their way to her at last and she responds with another light sob at first while her eyes are still covered with an arm before shaking her head to herself.

Azu hands her her glasses back with a questioning gaze, which she puts back on again, but when facing Terra then, her eyes look away. "I'm okay..... I'm sorry..... I don't want to forfeit..... Just......."

Her expression darkens a lot, becomes pained. "......Just don't do that......again.....ever....."

".....Please."