[Meta Thread] Dragonstrike's Pokerole Test Game: Mount Coronet Mystery

[Lord Windos]

And there you go!  The big reveal is finally upon us!

My my my, and what a reveal it is! I had a strong premonition that this would be one of the choices between our last chat and the choices Arceas would present us, but that doesn't take away the impact it of it!

.....Unfortunately, my inkling being exactly the case has pretty much automatically decided Ran's fate, as I had one planned for this outcome: He's not joining the main campaign, and is just going to return to his home world. Because he has been frankly sick and tired of this all reality encompassing cosmic disaster ever since he learnt the smallest portion of its true scale and nature, and now that his job and duty to both Ran and the Pixies/Arceas is over with Dialga purification he wants zero to do with anymore of this business. Especially if it meant he'd have to give up on his humanity and put himself through more God-Tier level supernatural Tauros shit.  He's said it himself countless times: he and others like him shouldn't have been called to do this epic task in the first place, but through Rowan pressuring him, the expectations of the Pixies, and good old fashion sense of responsibility he grit his teeth and completed it. Now that it is completed, though, and his has a choice to be free of that utterly deadly and (to him) beyond his level nonsense? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

Simply put, he is so done with this quest, and now just want to return to his boring, quiet, but wholesome and fulfilling life as a blacksmith and occasional assistant/companion to Byron and Roark. Sure, he misses out on getting a hella lot of rewards from not doing the main game quest, and that does pain me he'll not get any, but going off his perspective all that is FAR too much plain effort and trouble for a simple blacksmith like him, no matter the already grand accomplishment of helping beating Shadow Primal Dialga rests upon him. If he previous thought that the past quest was too much, he definitely believes what Arceas requests is infinitely more so.

In sum....Ran isn't going to be a part of your next campaign Dragonstrike, as he thinks its too much for anyone , let alone him , and just wants his normal life back. Sorry mates, but that's the way the coal crumbles.