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

[Dragonstrike]

Well, I can take the Farfetch'd Encounter and free you up for A-Marowak, if you're interested. I like the idea of getting supplies or a good fight, but going with a heroic duck rescue would be a nice thing to do too, and it would help you out OOC too. Plus, not taking the Hitmonlee fight would leave it open for Spirit and/or Spira, and since they have Ghost Pokemon that can prevent the spring footed being from using its devastating Fighting STABs, they're more suited to battling it than anyone else in the group. It would also be more in character for Terra to risk life and limb helping the fowl friend out, than mid-battle looting or picking a battle in a harrowing situation, so that's good enough IC reason to do it!

Hitmonlee could also be packing Blaze Kick, which is definitely not a move you want to be on the receiving end of if you can help it.  3 power, chance of Burn 2, and high crit is quite dangerous, more than making up for the lack of STAB and/or Reckless.  Still probably a lot better than taking a potentially Reckless boosted JK/HJK to the face, though.  +2 Power for a 4/5 power move is...ow.  (assuming Iron lets the Ability apply to those moves because it does in the games instead of not because the move doesn't have the Recoil symbol in the book like the Ability's wording requires.  Otherwise, the Ability isn't very useful on Hitmonlee at all)

I could maybe go for taking A-Marowak while you go for the duck, but I'm also kinda curious to see what Heart, Spira, and Shiva do as well.  Lots of opportunities for rare and/or powerful pokemon here, and I'm not sure anyone wants to get directly involved in this battle IC.  We might be splitting ourselves among the 3 pokemon, maybe the items, and maybe getting out of dodge.

Part of the reason I'm interested in the duck is A) Stick stuff is fun B) Rare pokemon with some nice, strong moves (though it's a shame Leaf Blade, Air Cutter, Slash, and Night Slash don't benefit from the Stick in Pokerole) with a strong Ability that complements them well (Keen Eye) C) It can potentially have Feather Dance. I've already said why I'd be interested in A-Marowak. And Hitmonlee is just a good, strong pokemon all around.