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

[Lord Windos]

That's remind me @Lord Windos: I might need a little more XP to raise my Stealth to 4. This infiltration mission will have some super Stealth skills and Terra training might help me raise my increase our chances of success.

Terra would still be a bit frosty with Heart due to his suggestion in the past (its only been a few days since then, regardless of any apologies made that I may have forgotten about), but after hearing the reason why the collector requests the training he'd be all to willing to put aside any strife to help out. He has standards and a strong sense of moral justice, but he won't let those get in the way of doing the right thing .

On another note, I have to ask this: What Encounter No is everyone else is at? Terra is at *4, but I'm not certain about everyone else, save for Nathan having one free Encounter remaining due to booking it straight after his match against Angela. I think Heart and Shiva have finished their 3rd Encounter by now due to flashforwarding to their match (or not; again, not sure about the timeline here), and Spira has one more Encounter for himself left, but I could be wrong.

Regardless, OOC I don't mind if Nathan and the group conducts a raid on the Cliff-Side Almanac/Scimitar Base without Terra, for two reasons. One, IRL I am constantly busy, so not getting involved in that would save everyone time, and require less effort for me to come up with my chara's responses to those situation no doubt fraught with complications. Two......well, this may reflect poorly on me, but I frankly and simply don't want to deal with either Almanac or the Scimitars right now, and instead just focus on the group exploring the region, collecting Pokemon/Treasure/Gym Badges/engaging in Special Events, and simply doing our own thing until we finally decide to address that Sword of Damacus hanging over the region's head before heading off to do the Championship Gauntlet. After the Trips Through Time, I was hoping that the group could just explore and do battles without the world weighing on their shoulders for awhile , but now that the Scims have reared their ugly heads that wrecks that plan entirely...

Sure, Terra will miss out on getting any loot and XP from said imminent raid, but I consider that a fair trade for not having to deal with the Scims/Alamanc in the first place. As for IC reactions, my chara. would actually be alright with Nathan doing the raid ASAP, as he would understand that saving Keni/Oscar and fooling those scoundrels is a very time sensitive task, though he'd still be somewhat frustrated with the fact they went off without him/his protection and/or disappointed in himself for failing in his duty to safeguard them due to being too distracted with other stuff.

 If you guys want me to participate in the raid, though, I will do so without compliant, as while I don't want to deal with the above issues, I rather suffer them than let you guys suffer them more without my requested aid. Having Terra join up would require the whole group to wait until the next day in game, though, since Terra has/has done stuff in the future of the current day relative to everyone else that prevents him from joining up then. Choice is ultimately up to the rest of you, mates.