[Game Thread] Pokerole: Mount Coronet Mystery

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

Karen actually looks a little cross with Lucas when they return from the Alpico encounter.

"Why'd ya have to go and spook that bunny, Lucas?  I could have probably persuaded them to stick around!"

Lucas tries to defuse the situation as calmly as he can.  "I don't doubt you could have.  I just wanted to make sure they weren't going to bolt on us, because we were never going to catch up to it if it decided to run.  I didn't bring a pokemon with a Blocking move, so I had to be a little more...direct and use Victoria."

Despite sort of understanding, Karen still doesn't seem to be convinced that was the best course of action in that situation.

"Hmph."

"Hey, you caught it at least, right?  I'm sure they'll warm up to you eventually even though we had to faint it."

"...yeah, I guess..."

"They're pretty strong, too.  I don't think I've ever seen a pokemon use a Frost Breath quite that strong before.  They'll make a great ally, I'm sure."

Karen crosses her arms and does her best to ignore Lucas for now.  Lucas sighs and addresses everyone else.  "Well, let's keep going.  This isn't gonna be an easy hike.  We're almost there, though.  Just a little longer, and we should be out of this snow and ice for a little while."


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Flash forwarding a little (feel free to flash back to the earlier conversation if necessary), the group eventually continues down Route 216.  No wild pokemon make themselves apparent for the rest of the Route, and the blizzard only grows in strength the closer the party gets to the entrance of Mt. Coronet.  The wooden bridges are beginning to ice over, necessitating careful crossing from everyone, lest they slip and fall onto the lower level of the Route.  Strong winds make the trek difficult despite the Route being short, and most of the remaining moonlight is spent reaching the end of the Route.

After crossing the third and final bridge, Randolph feels Amethyst's pokeball tremble, though the Absol doesn't force her way out this time.  Eerily, the Spell Tag continues to shudder slightly, too.  Randolph, more than anyone, has a feeling that whatever is causing this blizzard is close...the closer they get to the entrance of Mt. Coronet, the more restless the Spell Tag seems to become...

As soon as the party reaches the open area in front of the entrance to Mt Coronet, the blizzard suddenly picks up in intensity, overriding the effects of the combined Droughts entirely.  It's difficult to see in the blinding snowstorm, as well as difficult to hear anyone else over the sound of the raging blizzard, but everyone has a feeling that something is coming...

Stealth (+1 from Blizzard): *rolls* 7 successes

Kee's Alert: (4)(5)(5)(3)(3)(5)(4)(2) 5 successes
Kogeki's Alert: (6)(4)(4)(3)(4)(4)(5)(2)(1) 6 successes
Karen's Alert: (6)(4)(1)(1)(6)(1)(4) 3 successes
Randolph's Alert (+1 Spell Tag): (6)(4)(2)(1)(6)(2)(1)(1)(6*) 3 successes
Lucas's Alert: (5)(5)(1)(1)(6)(3)(3)(5)(2)(1) 3 successes

One moment, everyone sees nothing but white snow.  The next, the blizzard suddenly clears, it resumes hailing, and the ground begins to tremble!

Amethyst pops out of her pokeball and tackles Randolph, knocking him to the ground as a tall pillar of ice suddenly shoots out of the ground where he was standing!  

Lucas yells, "Everyone scatter!"



As everyone dives for safety, more pillars of ice erupt from the ground, forming walls!  What was once an empty snowfield that greeted those leaving Mt. Coronet is now a prison, unscaleable walls of sheer ice crisscrossing it and dividing it into many different 'rooms'.

Everyone finds that they're alone in their 'room', completely cut off from the rest of the group.  Karen shouts from somewhere the rest of the party can't see, "Is everyone okay?"

"I'm fine!" responds Lucas from beyond another one of the walls.  "Banged my knee on a rock, but I'm no worse for wear for now.  Looks like whatever did this forgot to make a ceiling, so maybe we can..."

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!  G-g-ghosts!!!!"

"What the...!"

Karen's scream and the sound of pokeballs summoning pokemon heralds the arrival of two pokemon that appear in every room.  Ice crystals adorn their heads like jewelry, what looks like a large bow is tied around their waists, and their long arms have the appearance of having oversized, elegant sleeves.  They float just above the ground, ice blue eyes glowing menacingly in the dark night...though those that look at their eyes more closely can see that they're not as bright as those of Candice's Froslass, and that their glow is darker, more sinister...

It's impossible to mistake them for anything but a Froslass, the moonlight reflecting off of both their ice crystals and the 4 walls of each 'room'.  And the Ghosts don't look like they're here to Play Nice.

A Chilling Ambush: Coral Highlands Large Monster Theme - Monster Hunter World

Every encounter is mandatory, has a Cap of 1, and consists of 2 Froslass.  Lucas and Karen will pick the remaining 2 encounters that are not chosen by the players.  Every encounter counts as a separate battlefield from the rest due to the Froslass' icy prisons.  The current weather is Hail.  There's only enough room to summon 2 pokemon if they both have 5 base HP or less.

1. Next to a cave
Note: There's a cave in the side of one of the cliffs, and the Froslass are between it and whoever takes this encounter.

2. By the large tree
Note: There's a singular tree near the entrance of Mt. Coronet.  Maybe it could be useful for something?

3. Next to the entrance of Mt. Coronet
Note: Someone was lucky enough to end up next to the Coronet Caves!  ....except the entrance has been completely frozen over as well!  Rats!

4. An 'open' snowfield
Note: Nothing of note here except a whole 'lotta snow.  And two aggressive looking Froslass, of course.

5. Trapped in a corner
Note: The two Froslass are closing in on whoever is unlucky enough to be next to where two of the cliffsides meet.  There's nowhere to run.  (No mechanical penalties or disadvantages, but it might be fun to roleplay!)

*Flashback!*

Ran only hears the tail end of the wee lass and champ's argument as he regroups with everyone, but it's enough for him to get the gist of it, and to wit his own two cent on the matter was to 'walk' (IE: ride Brigid) over and fix her with an distinctly unimpressed and unamused look, arms cross and his trademark grouchy frown in full force.

"Oy. Don't know the full deal is between you and Lucas, but it sounds to me like he help ya bag that big blue bunny we saw earlier. Possibly even sparing you the grief of it turning 'round to run you over, if it's temperament turned out to be Montuian instead of meek. Like it or not lass, he helped ya by risking his and his own partner's necks. If you can't appreciate that you can at the very least respect it, instead of acting like he ruined some special occasion for you."

"In other words, quit acting like a immature, over-dramatic child about that, Karen. And forgive him for that or not, get over it. We all need to work together on this accursed job of ours smoothly and efficiently, and in order to do that we need to be able to communicate effectively and without fussing at each of. Or in your case, without brooding resentfully over Lucas' not helping how you wanted, when you gave him no prior warning of your plans or intentions. Understand?

There goes the bristly blacksmith, defending Lucas and scolding Karen's (to him) needlessly foolish behavior, with his usual sharpness and acridness of tongue. Hopefully the message he's trying to bluntly convey will reach her, or alternatively switch her anger over to him and have the boy wonder patch things up instead.

Speaking of which, Ran only gives a BIG *Sigh* and a swift nod, looking grouchy as ever at the news, yet more determined than ever to march on to Mt. Coronet! Soon he'll be out this blasted cold and in a place he's all too equipped to handle! 

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(Since you dictated Ran nearly got skewered, I'll presume he recalled Brigid at some point in order to give her a break from carrying him around and continued on without her for that to happen)

As his Spell Tag became increasingly active as they approached Mt. Coronet, so too did Ran become increasingly apprehensive and on edge, eyes darting around everywhere and his shoulders hunched as he searched for that 'old lady's' friend, before it could Ambush them all and freeze them to their cores.

Fat load of good his vigilance and his 'gift' did him and everyone else, though, when they made their move.

"WAS IN DER EISIGEN, KÜHLEN, GEFRIERENDEN VERDAMMTEN HÖLLE ?!"

Translation: WHAT IN THE FROSTY, FRIGID, FREEZING FUCKING HELL?!

That was the dwarven craftsman's intial reaction as he's tackled all the way over to the Trapped Corner by his ivory guardian, disoriented by the impact before he his gaze turned shocked as he spied the frozen jagged pillar that was intend to hit him, and the icy gaol  he and everyone was now entrapped in. He was quick to recover at Karen's worried inquiry, getting up and shaking his head before sounding off with "I'm fine, lass! More cold and pissed than ever, but fine. Now can someone tell me what in the hell is happening, and why - "

He cuts himself off as two twin specters manifested before him, sharply drawing in a painfully cold breath as he recognized them for they were and he dreaded them to be: Frosslasses. Not just one, but two that were menacingly staring him down, and presumably that was the same case for everyone else.

Initially, he was rightly terrified of being more right than he cared for about his deductions of that crone's 'friend' (or friends, as was the case), looking at them like he swallow a handful of nails with a shot of drain cleaner.

Then, he realized they and/or their ilk was responsible for nearly skewering and freezing him alive, and entrapping him and the rest of his partners in their makeshift prison.

It was at that point he got mad.

Boiling, furiously hot and pissed off mad.

"....Yuki Onni," Ran growled out to the cold hearted spirits, drawing himself up to his full, short, yet still imposing height as potent RAGE and rightious INDIGNATION filled him to the brim, starring molten daggers at them. Amethyst, no doubt easily detecting the shift in her master's mood and recognizing things were about to get nasty, quickly rushed over to interpose herself between him and their enemies, looking worriedly and nervously at EVERYONE.

"An old friend of yours sent me to check on ya, and take care of you if need be. However I like. Since ya lot decided to try and turn me into a popsicle in the nicest and most pleasant way possible....."

Ran ripped off Brigid's Pokeball and summoned her before him, who only needed one moment to know what was happening and calmly place herself beside the Dark Prophet and looked at the Frosslass with deceptive passivity. He grinned as he did so. A most unpleasant grin seething with barely checked HATRED for the two prim specters before him.

"Me and my girls will give y'all an OVERABUNDANCE of my white hot and pitch black mercies. Brigid, Shell Smash, then bath those Yuki Onni in fire and brimstone. Amethyst, guard Brigid while she sets up with Detect, then give them spirits your darkest savaging you can. Defeat and end them, girls."

Like corner Ratattas, Ran and his partners will chomp their foes up.

Orders: Regardless of Initiative, Brigid will use Shell Smash first (Conditional Will Pointed), followed by an Lethal INFERNO on Frosslas 1 (also Conditional Will Pointed), then a molten hot Rock Slide on both spirits, and Amethyst will use Detect in an attempt to redirect and/or block any attack incoming to the coal muncher, before following up with Bite and Assurance on Frosslass 1. Brigid will get a Potion if she losses 3 or more HP at any point in the fight ASAP (if Ran can do it before she attacks with INFERNO, even if it puts himself at risk, then do so), or Super Potion is she loses more than 4 HP, but if she manages to go undamaged healing goes to Amethyst instead. I believe Brigid is holding her Charcoal while Amethyst is holding a Silk Scarf (fat load of good it'll do her right now, though), so factor the former accordingly. Also, spend 12 XP for Brigid to increase her Channel to 3, as her Moves need the  increase in order to hit. Ran's steaming mad at them Frosslass, so he's going to counter the frozen hell they inflicted on the group with his own fiery one.

Moves: 

Shell Smash
Accuracy: STR (2) + Fight (3) + Brawl (2) - 2 Actions = 5D6 Base Dice (+ Conditional Will Point)
Effect: + 2 STR, SPE, and DEX, - 2 DEF and S.DEF

INFERNO
Accuracy: DEX (*4) + Fight (3) + Channel (3) - 4 Actions - 5 Accuracy = 1D6 Base Dice (+ Conditional Will Point)
Damage: SPE (*4) + 4 + STAB + Charcoal + SE = 10D6 + 1 Base Damage
Effect: Guaranteed Burn 3 on Target

Rock Slide
Accuracy: DEX (*4) + Fight (3) + Channel (3) - 6 Actions - 1 Accuracy = 3D6 Base Dice
Damage: STR (4) + 3 + SE = 7D6 + 1 Base Damage
Effect: Spread, *Flinch 3*

Detect
Accuracy: DEX (3) + Fight (3) + Channel (0) - 2 Actions = 4D6 Base Dice
Effect: Known

Bite
Accuracy: 9D6 - 4 Actions = 5D6 Base Dice
Damage: STR (3) + 2 + STAB + SE = 6D6 + 1 Base Damage
Effect: *Flinch 3*

Assurance
Accuracy: Same as Bite
Damage: Same as Bite
Effect: Bonus Damage on already hurt Target

Note: Ran doesn't necessarily mind if Amethyst changes up her 2nd and 3rd Moves, so long as Brigid is Shielded by Detect and is generally kept Damage free until her INFERNO, so the ones listed are basically suggestions for her and Dice Outline for you.