[Game Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[Lord Windos]

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Shadow Punch 2
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(4)(2)(1) Rolycoly takes 1 damage! 1/5 HP -3 Pain

Kogeki's Shadow Punch doesn't quite KO Rolycoly C, and the wheeled rock cowers in fear as the Riolu and Devimp loom over them to deal a finishing blow.

"Pl-please...I-I didn't want to hurt any of you!  Honest!  C-carkol would have..w-would have p-punished me s-severely if I didn't follow his o-orders!"

Daxter rubs his jaw as he chooses his words carefully from behind Pyra and Kogeki.  "Ya know, maybe we could recruit them to our team?  I'm inclined to believe them, to be honest."

Rolycoly's single eye darts between both Kogeki and Pyra nervously as they continue to cower in the corner they've been backed into.

His initial adrenaline and excitement of the battle fading bit by bit, he proceeds to pick up whatever coal Carkoal has dropped on their escape, carefully piling it all up before it diappears into his guitar bag. (Can I have GM's input here how many units of coal Kee can pick up? So far he's got 3.) He seems way more interested in doing that (or is simply too dsitracted by that?) than interacting with the Rolycoly that's been left behind. That, or it's the bad lighting in this tunnel that he can't properly make out the Rolycoly and what or what not the others choose to do with them.

Carkol's dropped quite a bit of coal when he fled.  There's 5 loose usable units of it on the ground, but each one takes up a whole inventory space.  They're quite a bit bigger than a Geo Pebble or Gravelerock.

Pyra was.....unimpressed with Rolycoly's craven pleas for mercy (if that was what 'surrender' meant), to say the least, bearing a toothy grin at them that only contained the darkest mirth, while her gaze smoldered with displeasure. As a huge subscriber in 'My Team/Friends Will, Do or Die' mentality, the pummeled lump of coals last minute defection and trying to ingratiate themselves  with her friends was quite irksome in of itself. If she disagreed and disliked Marcus' reasons for deserting Team Artificer, she certainly wouldn't care for the insolent lump pulling the same stunt as he. And after and perhaps only because they and their comrades badly failed to unjustly assault the Team[/i]? Oh yes, the number one way of getting on her shitlist, and with that combined with their opportunistic/fearful betrayal compounded and solidified her dislike of the loathsome little minion prostrated before her. 

So yeah, the brimstone imp was unmoved by Rolycoly's entreaty, and would have moved to promptly strike them down with extreme prejudice for their sheer insolence. Thankfully for it Dax's interjection stayed her claw that instance, causing her to turn her head fractionally toward the draco newt with a furrowed look. Not because she saw reason/agreed with his words (obviously NOT), but because she knew from experience that meeting out vengeance as she saw fit without offering some sort of explanation or clarification of her intent and reasonings would only spell disaster. She didn't want to create even more discord within the group with careless acts, nor further bad misunderstandings of herself in the process too - a most recent revelation that still has her reeling and feeling supremely bitter.

Why, oh why, couldn't most her friends not just accept her without so much undue and unjust judgement, like she does with them? Without trying to constantly and so harshly change, confuse, and challenging her very self, something she was still very much in the process of building and discovering? Insisting so foolishly on doing certain things that only put themselves at great risk with no great reward, when everyone's greatest priorities beyond their Quest should be ensuring each other's and their own prosperity and success in this world? Why why why?

That brief snippet of her ongoing internal conflict didn't show as she mulled over what to say to the aquatic salamander, before she decided to just plainly explain herself best she could.

"We could, indeed, but believe we shouldn't, I do not. If they," she lazily gestured a claw at the Rolycoly , "were so willing to betray their Leader and allies, only after getting so deservedly thrashed by us and their defeat all but certain, why should we trust, have faith, or respect this sooty cur? They are once a Traitor, twice a coward - what is stopping them from repeating their Sins on us?"

Pyra huffed. "I say we should knock them out, force onto them the same fate as the rest of their comrades, as a most fitting reward, oh yes. Less problems that way for us all, believe-think I do. But, yet.... "

The fiery demoness smile grew darker, as she turned back fully towards Rolycoly, her expression and tone turning treacly as she regarded them with renewed interest as a thought occured to her. 

"Perhaps I could be persuaded and tempted otherwise, to let you go free or hide among us for a time, if you have something you could offer us as a bargain? Say, like, information on these mines, what has happen recent-hence, your Bosses and notable Others, and any trickets and treasures you have or know about? What say you, ho hm?"

Well. There's a new side to her.