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

[Iron]

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Oinari is down in the pit. She can create that illusion anytime, I suppose!

It's possible to clone or partially clone Pokemon from any DNA, but for the usual route (like Professor Laurelin's tech), you need a Fossil. Which none of these body parts qualify for. So yeah you'd need some Plot Device, but it's known to be possible.

Marc would pretty much always be dropped back before a battle starts.

Scimitar Gauntlets slowly heal their wearers over time, and they have enough medicines for the ones whose Gauntlets kersploded.



Genesect's stats:

7 Dex, 8 in everything else, except a much lower Insight.

Could be affected by emotion or responsive moves, if justified

Had 12 dice for each of 5 actions. 3 dice were removed whenever a weapon was destroyed. Always gets at least 1 dice.

Can't be scared off until all four weapons and drones were gone. Drones had 15hp and were treated mostly as their own Pokemon with very high stats. Actually I think I forgot to do a drone's action in Action 1, Round 2, didn't I.

Ability was Super Luck, representing the critically sharp nature of those scythes. Critical hits deal Plot Device damage, normal hits do not - but it only takes 3 or 4 successes to achieve that, out of 12 dice, so it's rather common. You would normally have figured this out before Round 2 after your initial team was wreeeeecked.

Genesect did have a hit point pool, but is immune to pain penalizations and you don't even wanna know how many HP. I estimated you'd all have gotten 4 team members KO'd before you drained his HP the old fashioned way, and if he ever chewed through all your defenders at once, he'd be moving on to trainers. Skull Ruins fights are definitely lethal, especially legendary ones.


Hope that felt like a boss battle, Shiva! I'm glad you were able to deal damage and contribute in Round 2.

Sweet! That means Terra has access to a pretty good way of scaring the bejesus out of anything with Oinari's Illusion, as I imagine seeing a Legendary Pokemon stare you down aggressively would make you consider twice facing off against someone who owns them.

Hmm....could the Obsideon Crescent be Fossilized using Heart's Earthpower in conjunction with Nathan's Adamant Sphere, or could Terra make a journey to that eremit and get their assistance in reviving DMG? The old 'man' did have a Kabutops with him, and their is his connection with the earth/Earthpower, so he could enable non-standard Revival should he be bargained with.

EDIT: Could Ancient Power also be used to fossilize something, if a Pokemon can learn how to use it that way?

Woof, that's one mean Genesect you designed! About as nasty as some of my own Boss Encounters I've cooked up, but much more practical to beat! Nice job! Now I'm curious as to what the 'stats' were for Seika and MEWRAL too...

Those two were much more pure Plot Device. Mew had the weakness of the puzzle being his source. Seikamater's weaknesses you know already - HM moves, rocky terrain, that kind of thing, all of which you took advantage of.