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

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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.

Nathan has 1 encounter left.  Spira technically has 1 left, I think, but only did a single training session before Gallade did the Teleport thing, so he might have 2.

Shiva and Heart have technically both used all 3 encounters for the day already due to flashforward shenanigans.  Their battle takes place after all the investigations, though.  (And also presumably before nightfall)

And as much as Nathan wouldn't like to say it, Terra isn't exactly a very stealthy character iirc.  Very strong battler, but probably not the best choice for a stealth mission...

Given that Shiva and Heart both want to join in, we might be waiting until the next day to do the infiltration.  It'd give Charizard and Grid time to recover from the battle with Angela without needing to use Revives and Potions, too.  However, I'm not necessarily planning to bring both of them, and there's one or two pokemon I'd definitely want to bring along since we're finally headed to an Almanac occupied location.  Nathan could easily be ready to go by nightfall, and the faster we infiltrate the Almanac Labs, the less likely it is that the Scims can move Keni and Oscar elsewhere before we start investigating.