[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Mikaruge108]

Spoiler

Genesect Battle! Round 2


Oinari's Illusion triggers immediately, as if a second Genesect has appeared in a flash of light. The real Genesect roars and leaps for it, trying to hide the fact that it has already been wounded.

Cotton Guard 1
(2)(3)(4)(2)(6)(3) (6)(1)(3)(1)(6)
+3 vit = 7d6 vit

Cradling that final blade weapon works just about as well against Brawl attacks as Canalize - the big difference is just that Calam is so fast, as fast as this legendary blademaster. Genesect won't quite be granting 3 dice of cover; I'll make it 2.
Rock Smash 1
(3)(1)(5)(4)(3)(3) (3)(6)(4)(6)(6)(4) Critical.
12d6 after crit, -7 vit, -2 cover
(2)(4)(4) +1 Got it. Calam worms his way through Genesect's many limbs and uses his horn to activate the legendary Rock Smash! The final weapon is flung out offensively, in desperation, but too late. The circular blade shatters and Genesect is left defenseless but for a Drone.

Genesect also takes a small amount of damage to its torso from the cover.

Lucky Chant 1
(2)(5)(2)(3)(3)(1) (5)(1)(2)(3)
Good things may happen!

Flash
Flash mostly just enrages Genesect. It's still able to see and is just as accurate.

Crucially, Oinari has time to act before Genesect goes. She rushes forward, bravely swinging her intact (but illusory) weapons at Genesect, hoping to catch his missing weapons in her own and redirect them. If this goes wrong, the tiny one will suffer, and Michael will be extreeeemely hard pressed to keep her out of harm's way. Since she is so loyal, though, she'll risk it! Howl's breeding helps too.

Intimidating Foul Play 1
(6)(3)(1)(5)(6), (4)(3)(6)(5)(5), +3 perform, (6*) It's a great performance and a solid strike, on a Genesect who is only bluffing, really. However, Genesect still has that drone and thus still has a modicum of confidence.
You do get the advantage of Genesect's large Strength score, though.
10 Str + 3 power +1 stab -7 def = 7d6 dmg
(5)(5)(5)(1)(6)(4) (1) Genesect takes 4 dmg in a big blow to its ego. Genesect's ego takes 1 Plot Device Damage.

Since Genesect doesn't flee, Michael will have to use this action in protecting the baby.

Rock Slide 1
(4) The wounded insect manages to pull it off.
10 Str + 3 power + 1 STAB = 14d6
Michael grants 3 dice of cover
(1)(2)(1)(4) (4)(4)(5),  (5)(4), (6)
Oinari takes 0 dmg, mercifully preserving the illusion
Michael takes 4 dmg (2 from one attack, and 2 while defending the baby)
Whimsicott takes 3 dmg
Gustav takes 5 dmg
Golett takes 4 dmg
Calam and Gallade take 6/5 dmg, which faints them again. But they have performed crucial roles.
Azu takes 6 dmg
Dusknoir and Nubi take 5 dmg. Dusknoir barely hangs on.
Feraligatr and Skarmory takes 5 and are barely hanging on.

Shiva's Pokemon take Potions, although one needs to wait a sec.

CD: (6)(4)(6) The good guys flinch!

The legendary just carries on as if nothing has happened, thrashing about even more.

Earthquake 2
(2) But it doesn't have enough strength left to pulverize you.

Power Gem 2
(1)(5)(6)(3)(1)(3) (5)
(4) Drone D takes 2 dmg but it's still doing OK.

Water Pulse 2
(6)(1)(5)(5)(4)(2) (5) Critical.
(2)(5)(3)(2)(4) Genesect takes 3 dmg.
(5)(4)(6) Genesect was confused! That's going to be much more helpful than the chip damage. (Chip damage that would have flattened any other Pokemon!)

Feraligatr summons more water from the Slowpoke Well, smacking that drone.
Hydro Pump 2
(3)(6)
(2)(4)(3)(4)(5) Drone D takes 4 dmg

Steel Wing 2
(4)(5)
(4)(6)(4) Drone D faints!

HURRICANE 2
(2)(4)(5)(5)(2)(4) (4)(2) Critical, a great first impression for this move.
(4)(6)(5)(1)(5) Genesect takes 4 dmg and is spun all about.

Azu FINALLY gets to use Rain Dance!

Rain Dance 2
(6)(1)(1) + (6*)
It begins to rain, the moisture from the Well below you condensing and forming a surreal underground rainstorm. Feraligatr gives a roar of approval, but it's drowned out by the roar of HATRED from Genesect.

Anything could push the legendary bug over the edge now! It's weaponless, it's confused (and very low on accuracy dice), its drones are slain, and it's getting WET! And it just spent the last five seconds being blasted around in a hurricane! Its ego takes another point of Plot Device damage.

Golett mechanically steps up to deliver a punch to Genesect. He's probably hoping more that it will help him evolve than that it will do anything to Genesect, really.

Rock Smash 2
(1)(5)(1)(4)(6)(4) (5)(6) Crit
(1)(1) No damage, and Golett doesn't feel energized to evolve into his Titan form. He looks like he's trying hard to remember a past that has faded from his memory.


Drain Punch 3
(3)(4)(3)(2)
(6)
Toya gains 1hp

Intimidating Foul Play 3
(6)(2)(2)(4)(5), (5)(6)(2), +3 perform. It hits, and the performance is convincing!
Oinari races forward, swinging rocky blades and kind of howling like a Zorua. Terra is yelling too, having spent a Will point earlier to encourage his little one!

Slipping and sliding in the water accumulated from the rain, Genesect tries to bring up a countering blade. It notices it has only a shattered spur where the blade used to be! It's out of weapons, and one arm is hanging half-off! Its drones are gone, and it's facing an unharmed exemplar of its own species which is not showing any fear!

Genesect begins to retreat. It takes one more action against Oinari, just to see how badly it is routed and to do a last minute bit of damage.

X-Scissor 3
(3) Miss.
Insight: (1)(2)
Genesect manages to rip its own arm off, leaving it hanging in Oinari's jaws! With a wailing chatter, it dashes back down the orichalcum door, leaving sliding footprints in the stone in its haste to get the heck out of there... away from YOU! Since it missed X-Scissor, Oinari manages to maintain the form a little longer and CHASE Genesect in its rout! They tumble through to the floor below, and Genesect Digs away to nurse its wounds for another century or two.

You recover one obsidian crescent that would make very nice jewelry, selling for $18,000 after Shiva has a chance to craft it. If you can manage to convince someone it's from a Genesect, the price doubles. However, you may have to worry about that DNA getting into the wrong hands.

As Oinari transforms back, dropping the illusion, you hear her give a sort of whine of approval at what she's found in the level below.



Every Pokemon in the battle, whether it fainted or what, gains 25XP. +5 bonus XP for Bastiodon for fighting without a partner. Every trainer gets 25XP as well, +8XP for heroism.
You may increase the Loyalty score of any Pokemon in your party by 2 (or spread those points around a bit.) This can even bring a mon to 5, because that was an inspiring sight! You can also trade a point for 5XP.

The Scimitars come back, cradling their wounds and their Gauntlets, and give each of you a Super Potion and a Revive.

The Fossil Garden is completely trashed...cracked with fissures and wrinkled with damage, and it's still raining... Cofagrigus, however, ignores that and comes out of the shadows grinning from one side of the casket to the other, and offering handshakes to anyone who'll take them. It lets you keep three of those Golden Keys - they'll sell for $10k apiece.

As soon as it gets a chance, it slips down through the orichalcum door and you can hear it cackling madly.

The Super Potion is used on Toya (If I remember correctly that should put him back up to 9/12 HP)
Noire gets both loyalty points, putting her at 5 Loyalty! Exp is spent as follows:
-Spira: 24 xp for his 5th point in Brawl, 6xp for his 2nd point in Stealth
-Toya: 25 xp is used to learn Pursuit!
-Nubi: If possible, I'd like to have him learn Perish Song (Could've learned it as a Misdreavus)
And if that counted as an encounter, that's another Survival+Lore (5D6) roll for Luna, 3 Spirits left until she evolves (Maybe Lucky Chant will help?..)
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Spira gladly accepts one of those keys, ($20,000 in collateral now!) he's read in that textbook of his about Cofagrigus' curse, so he says, "I'll accept that handshake, as long as you promise to keep that curse to yourself."