[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

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A few things!

When Terra meditates on Deoxys, he gets an answering... "ping"... from Genesect. Genesect seems to have been imbued or MODIFIED with some of Deoxys' power. Going off the theory that Deoxys had been experimenting on Creshirean Pokemon thousands of years ago, and briefings from Ventus, Terra feels like Deoxys may have been the one to MODIFY a Genesect fossil to help with those experiments. This is just more proof that Team Plasma wasn't the first to modify Genesect, not by a long shot! So even this isn't the original Genesect, and won't be as powerful as most legendaries.


Lore: 13d6
(6)(5)(4)(4)(4)(2) (5)(2)(4)(4)(4)(1) (6) Fantastic roll.

Gallade is getting emotions of pure rage, so you don't think this can be reasoned with (but it's probably pretty stupid). At the same time, it's emanating pride and power, kind of like the Cofagrigus when it speaks of its kingdom. Gallade and Shiva think maybe Genesect has set itself up as lord of this little domain, possibly a significant part of the Skull Ruins. As you look in those eyes you feel compelled to battle!!

The drones, however, seem mindless.

Nathan knows that back in the day there were multiple Genesect in Creshire, fighting each other for dominance whenever they met, but not actively seeking each other out, and not fundamentally powerful enough to claim an entire continent as their own like a major Legendary.
However, you know they don't usually fight to the death. They are prone to running away once they're too weak to fight.
Of course, you know that Genesect has a long history of modification, usually weapons. Like arthropods, Genesect is evolutionarily very flexible, able to swap out the functions of limbs or whatever. Very adaptable and able to be adapted. This is exactly the kind of thing Deoxys was studying.

The "Most Powerful Pokemon Ever" doesn't have an incredibly high BST; most of that power comes from Techno Blast, the drives, and Download - none of which this guy is likely to have. The webslinging is probably a feature of the base form though. That UFO form was obviously designed/enhanced by Team Plasma, but these drones have a similar theme perhaps.

Any other questions, just ask! That was such a good Lore roll.

Nathan's obviously been doing his reading up on Genesect

So when you're talking about the behavior of those ancient Genesect, do you mean the original ones before the FTS and Sarimanok actively sought to modify them with mechanical parts of their own?

And besides the obvious answer of FIRE, was there anything Nathan might have read about that certain Genesect used against each other that was apparently particularly effective?

Yes.

Those Genesect's emotions were easily influenced by other Genesect, so you're thinking this Legendary might not be wholly immune to emotion-based debuffs. Mostly they didn't truly hurt each other, just scratched at each other and displayed dominance, but apparently the best finishing move was to remove your foe's natural weapons. They'd grow back in a few decades.