[Meta Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[Lord Windos]

Sorry for the delay, exams are coming up for me so I spend most of my time studying now.

While I understand why you all don't like the idea of the group splitting up both IC and OOC, I'd like to go through with it. Dragon says that he'd be fine with multiple parties doing stuff at a time (and I assume that we'll all reunite for major stuff anyway) so I think we're fine on that front. I don't think a whole lot would change mechanically. As for the issues that Pyra might have with it, I don't think there's any way of getting around it. Daxter's sick of having to stop her from doing some pretty brutal things and he doesn't want to linked to it when something inevitably happens. That, and Daxter makes some pretty rash decisions when he's upset, so it honestly feels like the most natural thing to do IC. Dragon told me that there'll be a timeskip after which everyone will get experience and a few picks from a pool of Pokemon that they will have recruited so I think any roles that Daxter and Karen may fill could end up getting covered through that. He's got nothing against Kee and Karen (he actually likes them) but he's really not feeling all that tight with Pyra. I see she's being uncharacteristically gentle in Windos's latest post, but like I said: Daxter does rash things when he's upset and he's very definitely pretty upset at the moment so it's likely that he wouldn't really care because he's still fixated on events from earlier.

If you still are resolutely against Daxter leaving the guild, the best I can offer is delaying it slightly. If his view of Pyra and Kogeki improves by then, he'll stick around. But if it stays the same, he will probably end up leaving. It'd be more of a "when" thing rather than an "if" thing. I'll post in the game thread after you guys give me your final thoughts on it, so that'll probably be a little later.

Understandable! I got my own share of exams too, so I can sympathize with you there. Wish they'd go easy with them, but they take to the 'excessive grading' policy to the T where I'm from. Gah...

.....*Claps hands* Welp, looks like I'm most likely going to be rolling up a new character soonish! A shame we couldn't work things out OOC, but if your preference is go hard on the IC route then I can't really object if that is what you think is best for Dax and yourself. It'll be a pain to have to start all over, but I suppose it'll be a good learning lesson as any for all of us. That being not to mix differently moral/blue orange characterization with more hardline Good characters, unless everyone is willing to work with it OOC or find ways to work with it IC. Or you can make the character a lot more discrete about having amoralness around the do-gooders and have good BSing skills, something that Pyra is incapable of doing at her point of development. 

Until I see how Dax breaks the news to everyone about his decision, I'm going to refrain from making any specific plans about how badly Pyra is going to handle it (and what she'll do), but from what I'm reading......he's probably not going to be too gentle about it and heap a bunch of anger onto the lass as part of his reasons.

On a side but related note, I wish we could all find ways to cooperate OOC more often than the rare exception, but I suppose when you're invested in your PC doing what they want IC is a greater priority. This is perhaps the biggest problem that has come up that isn't going to be resolved OOC and cooperatively, and it's making me think that trying to do as such in the future ain't going to work out so well, outside of coordinating BIG Battles or purchasing decisions.