[Meta Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[Dragonstrike]

Yeah, I know that. I was just using the term figuratively in this case! Though if I REALLY wanted to I could just make her go Primal by saying so (unless I read the rules wrong, which is a possibility), but that doesn't really serve me much mechanical benefit right now with just 2 Instinct and a few Tiny Revivers scattered around the group. Curious to see HOW it would affect Pyra, though, considering she has complete amnesia and doesn't really care about her past humanity. Losing all her Logic is not going to be taking away a lot of 'herself' unless her alien and demonic mindset and current personality somehow counts as being 'Logical' / 'human' , or you outright rule her character destruction as a consequence.

Based on the roleplay so far, I'd say this counts as an extremely distressing situation for Pyra, so I'd say you could manually trigger the Primal State while conscious if you wished.  Just keep in mind it requires both increasing your Primal to 1 (the only consequence at this point in time.  They get steeper as Primal gets higher, though) after the battle and doing appropriate more feral roleplay after it's been activated (until the battle is over/you're safe).

Of course, doing this at the very start of the battle might not be the best strategic advantage for obvious reasons.  You also can't trigger the Primal State again while it's still active, and you lose a Will Point if you faint during the Primal State, so keep that in mind too. There may also be some...other things that happen when the Primal State is triggered/wears off at my discretion, but those'll be a surprise.

Logic is definitely tied to being able to remember you're human, as well as any goals/missions/details that were learned during that time (such as information on the Plates and Shadow Pokemon).  If you ever hit 0 Logic, you can't remember you were once human at all, nor any memories/details associated with that time, and the book rules that as a complete loss of the character.  If you can't remember your original mission, then you can't exactly complete it, after all. That doesn't necessarily mean the character isn't still salvageable, but you'd probably need a replacement character until if/when your main character's Logic is restored to greater than 0 if that's possible (if you reach 0 Logic because of a really high Primal stat, though, they're probably too far gone for that).