[Game Thread] Pokerole: Mount Coronet Mystery

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

"Ha!  Guess it isn't just the past you that I need to worry about!  Hahahaha!"

Byron's laughter echoes through the quiet mine after the Coal Onix leaves.  Eventually, he coughs and changes topic.

"Seems likely that Coal Onix wasn't the one behind all that trouble after all, though.  I'll do what I can for your past self.  I just hope you'll be able to forgive me eventually for what that may entail.  By Dialga's glory, time travel is seriously weird business...anyways, who says this a Mystery Dungeon?  Looks and feels like the mine I know and love, and I'm gonna keep treating it that way until it isn't, so I'll take my chances!  See y'all round!  Or...soon in some cases, I guess."

Lucas waves Byron goodbye as the gym leader turns around and begins walking off with a hand raised in farewell.  Randolph can definitely see that Byron's using his shovel as a makeshift crutch, and that he probably picked up the habit of using it as such from encounters just like this one...

On the topic of Diam, she's also picked up a relatively large shard of diamond from somewhere and is casually snacking on it, a gigantic, unapologetic grin on her face as she does so.   *munch munch munch*

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"Oh, you have a Cleffa with Wish?  Nice!  If they know Lucky Chant, I can teach you how to make the most of that move for healing large groups, Kogeki!  My Togekiss, Samuel, can demonstrate for ya!"

Out comes Samuel, whose eyes go wide when he sees just how injured everyone is.  Oh dear, oh dear...he better fix this, pronto!

Let's see where everyone's HP was at after that battle...Lucas was actually keeping a close eye on how damaged everyone was, so he has a rough idea of who needs healing, particularly if Kogeki and Randolph are willing to share that information.
Paula: 3/9
Hazel: 0/7
Heracross: 3/8
Turk: 9/12
Sally: 2/9
Lucas: 6/8
Kogeki: 6/8
Randolph: 3/6
Melissa: 2/8
Nami: 0/8
Susano'o: 6/8

There's 11 damaged characters from the D-Steelix fight, and Melissa can possibly fully heal 6 of them, so Samuel will demonstrate this technique on 4 of the characters that aren't as badly damaged: Lucas, Kogeki, Randolph, and Susano'o.  Overkill?  Probably.  Cool?  Heck yeah!

"Melissa's Wish is incredibly powerful (OOC: it's partially Plot Deviced), able to fully heal up to 6 pokemon at once if she focuses intensely...not that you'd know she's doing that.  Trust me, though, such a powerful heal takes an incredible amount of willpower.  What I'm about to show you isn't quite as difficult, but takes a lot more skill and some specific moves.  If a pokemon happens to know both Lucky Chant and Wish, they can use them both in succession to do...this!"
(Yes, Ran would tell him how badly hurt his is, but he'd be casual as he can about it to avoid them fretting)


Samuel demonstrates by first 'chanting' with various coos and caws, then sends his thoughts and prayers to the heavens by raising his wings to the...er, ceiling of the cave because you can't see the sky right now.

Lucky Chant 1
4 Special + 4 Contest+ 3 Perform - 2 = 9
(6)(5)(3)(2)(1)(3)(1)(1)(4)

Wish 2
10 Will - 4 = 6
(6)(6)(6)(2)(2)(3) Samuel spends 2 Will Points.
(5)(1)(1)(2)(2)(5)(2)(2)(6*) Lucas recovers 3 HP. 8/8
(6)(3)(6)(2)(2)(4)(3)(4)(6*) Kogeki recovers 5 HP. 8/8
(5)(5)(5)(5)(1)(4)(6*) Randolph recovers 6 HP. 6/6
(2)(2)(3)(2)(6)(3)(4)(1)(6*) Susano'o recovers 3 HP. 8/8

The chant echoes around the cave, and Lucas, Kogeki, Randolph, and Susano'o suddenly feel invigorated by the song!

"No special surprises needed for this combination of moves!  Just need those two moves, enough skill at Performing, and a whole lotta Willpower.  The result is a Wish that can heal as many pokemon as the user can attack with spread moves (in Samuel's case, that's 4 because he has 4 Special), and it becomes much stronger, too (it's a Complete Heal with a +1 bonus)!  There's a few catches though.  The first is that it's more taxing on the user to heal with this method than it would be normally (2 Willpoints to use Wish instead of 1).  The second is that I've never gotten this technique to work more than twice per day.  And the third is that Lucky Chant cannot currently be active before using this combination technique.  I haven't successfully managed to get it to work with one pokemon using Lucky Chant and another one using Wish, either.  So far as I can tell, it has to be performed by one pokemon knowing both moves, no exceptions.  Of course, I could be wrong, but that's what I've seen from my own experiences."

Following that, Lucas suggests that if they're going to use Melissa's Wish to heal, that they heal the 6 most damaged pokemon they have, then use Heal Pulse for the remainder of any healing they have to do.  "Sally can help with the Heal Pulsing a little if I ask her to.  If you guys have any Heal Pulse users as well, then their help would be appreciated too."

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Gama's still not quite recovered from the Kabutops battle.  He's definitely still unconscious.  Probably because Nurse Joy hasn't had enough time to get around to healing him yet.  Operating one of the busiest buildings in every city isn't easy, ya know!

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Once the group healing is addressed, Lucas does indeed ask about the Azure Flute.  "Alright, so I think it's about time I was updated on this.  Why the heck do you have the Azure Flute, Randolph?  I've only read about that thing in the most obscure books in the Canalave Library, and I wasn't even entirely certain it existed until I saw you pull it almost out of thin air essentially.  Coupled with the appearance of one of Arceus's Plates...well, I feel like I'm missing a crucial piece of information here.  Why am I suddenly seeing items related to the Alpha Pokemon?  I thought we were headed to Spear Pillar to deal with Dialga, not the creator of the universe."

Despite the situation and his feelings, Ran can't help but chuckle along with his best friend. No matter how grumpy or down in the scarpheaps he was, they always managed to bring a grin to his face. They're just that good of a fellow to be around.

"*Relieved Sigh* Thank ya. Considering the past will become the present for me eventually, I will say there's nothing to forgive. Never one truly blamed you once for anything serious, even though I fussed a lot at ya for some of your decisions. *Winks* I'll leave the rest about me to figure out yourself. Can't lead ya all the down the mine shaft, you know? *Nods* Well, take care. You're future's going to be bright, but that don't mean you get to slack off, so keep up the good hard fight!"

When Byron finally leaves, Ran brings a fist to his chest, his own sign of farewell for his friend. Hopefully when all this nonsense about his job is sorted out he'll be able to see them again.

Incidentally, he doesn't mind at all his wee anklebitter is eating up Diamond Steelix's body fragments. Heck, he'd lead her to it and have her literally bite its face off if he could, for all the fucking hell it caused to him and everyone in the mine!

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Ran's scholarly curiosity flairs when Lucas brings up a secret technique to maximize the effectiveness of a Wish, listening carefully to the heroic lad as he taught and demonstrated it to Kogeki with his seraphic fae. After experiencing the results of it, his curiosity turns to deep interested as he shudders in relief at all the Pain he was in evaporating from him as he looked at Lucas and Samuel in keen and appreciative eyes.

"Now that the sort of healing we needed. Maybe I can teach Paula Wish someday to pull that off myself, if she can learn it. And if not, maybe some of the other Moves she can learn will have similar effectiveness as a Lucky Wish combination has...."

He shakes his head in a negative about having any Heal Pulses or any other form of imparting Recovery, and say that Paula doesn't need to be healed by Melissa's Wish, as he can just send her off to the Nurse for awhile and deserves a break from exploring/battling anyway. By doing so, their will be exactly 6 Pokemon that need healing, so no Fighting over who gets the Wish heal! Of course, if Paula's/anyone's Water Moves can just heal Melissa to full HP due to their Water Absorb, then Paula can get a Full Heal instead of them (in which case, that'll be brought up by Ran).

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The scruffy smith was a bit surprised by Lucas' question at first, before he facepalm as he realized something.

"Oh Heatran's laval discharge, I forgot to tell ya about that. Guess it slipped my mind while I was chatting with the Pixies about this crisis and other stuff. *Sighs* Well, time to fix that mistake of mine. First off, I got this Azure Flute from Sinjoh Temple. It was floating in the middle of the Pixies, and....I felt compelled to go inspect and take it. When I did, I.....heard something chant a.....prophecy of sorts to me. Still remember it - couldn't forget about that even if I tried - so here's how it goes, *Ahem* :

Take hold of the flute
And play its song
At the Sinnoh Region's roof
It shall fix what is wrong

*Coughs* Ominous, and didn't know what that was all about, but now....it's kinda obvious now what I'm supposed to do with it, isn't it? Uxie found at shortly I had it, and the jist of what they said was that it being there with them previously sealed up implied that whatever trapped them, starting fucking with Mt. Coronent and the fabric of time and space of multiple universe and screwing around with Dialga didn't want either didn't want Arceas to get involved or it sealed them away too somehow."

"*Shakes head* That's all I got about the Azure Flute, beyond what you've just told me about. Given everything we've uncovered and been through, I'm not going to discount us having to deal with Arceas on top of Dialga or whatever is responsible for fucking with them and everything else. *Shudders* Terrifying prospect as facing our universe's creator IS, I ain't giving up at this point like I said, so don't worry about me Torchicing out on everyone."