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

[Dragonstrike]

Gah......I'm NOT looking forward to meeting whatever 'Power' those Mismaguis serve, or facing other Pokemon that hold similar intelligence/resourcefulness that could waylay  the group. Now I'm just glad that Terra took what ended up to be a relatively easy path, and spared himself a lot of pain (relatively speaking), unlike everyone else's hellish first impressions with the Skull Ruins.

Don't get me wrong, I'm having fun with it all, but if we're having THIS much trouble early on, I'm dreading what sort of fiendish disaster are in store for us deeper....

Quite frankly, Nathan's path has been relatively easy so far by comparison as well.  Sure, Charizard took enough Lethal damage to inflict -2 Pain on him, but that was all that happened.  Facing a single enemy isn't particularly challenging if you approach it with a sound strategy in mind.

Shiva and Spira have had it the roughest so far.  Large swarms of pokemon are never to be underestimated, particularly when they're large swarms of fast pokemon.

If there's anything this first set of encounters in the Ruins should teach all of us, it's to not underestimate what it throws at us. To treat everything as if it is a serious threat until proven otherwise, even if it doesn't seem to be that dangerous at first glance. Because no matter how confident you think you are that everything will be fine, bad luck and risky decisions can and will cause you more harm than good in the long run in a place like this.