[Game Thread] Lord Windos’ PokeRole Adventure 2: The Wild Lands

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Vernon deploys his sled and places three meals spaced out on the sled. Each meal is two Oran Berries and a Gourmet Food - exactly the same amount of each. There's a little extra space between the meal for the left head and the next one.


Whistling a tune ("Eye of the Flager"), Vernon ambles into the room (not trying to go for stealth, obviously) and presents the tray as if he were a butler. Assuming Dodrio is awake at this point, Vernon is just going to lock eyes with each of the edge-heads in turn (skipping middle). Vernon's body language says he would never back down from this challenge. Even if Dodrio were to lunge, he won't flinch. It's one piece of the camo-man's advice he's not taking - he's not ready to run. He has a separate plan if things go wrong.


Vernon has a hand on one of the Pokeballs on his belt. His other hand holds an empty Pokeball.

Your attendant raises an eyebrow at your Bold decision, but simply chuckles and shakes his head before unlocking the door to the Big Dodrio's Room.

"Going for force of personality? Maybe that'll work. Best Wishes, mate."

The ostritch of bigger-than-usual proportions immediately scrambles to her feet as you made your slightly bombastic entrance, the left head looking rather irate, the middle cautious, and the right one....still snoozing by the looks of it. Until the middle one Pecks them awake, which causes them to spazz out for a second before they look at you with mystification.


They notice the smorgous board you've prepared, and rush forward before the middle head freezes just in range for them to reach you, causing the rest of the body to halt. The reason? Your posture: it screamed 'I'm not in Danger, but I can become Dangerous if you make me.' The three heads size you up for a moment...

You barely can finish your first paragraph before the left head reared back, their beak glowing with energy: they're preparing to Attack you....


One way to do it is Tank the Attack and Roll with the metaphorical Punches to try and impress them that way, but another way is try to execute some sort of maneuver to avoid the damage without looking 'weak' . Or maybe focus only on dealing with the head that has a problem with you, if you want to risk a more 'dominate' way of proving yourself while sparring your squishy body harm. 

Many more Actions are possible; the above are just the ones that spring readily to mind, based on previous experience with big birds and Mons with attitude problems.

Vernon only moves about an inch - enough to tap the Pokeball on his belt, an easy tap 'cause he already had that hand at his hip.

Immediately the viewing window is filled with a close-up view of water-logged scales, scraping against the glass as some kind of colossal creature fills the room like a bomb going off. The attendant's view of Dodrio and Vernon is entirely eclipsed.

Without needing to move, it already surrounds the walls and the Dodrio just with its bulk, making escape or maneuvering impossible. And a loop of its tail dangles in front of Dodrio's angry head - so tough, bulky, and scale-armored that tanking the attack won't make the massive creature flinch either. The summoned Pokemon will NOT attack.

In the aftermath of whatever Dodrio does with its attack in response, Vernon says to the calm two heads: "Finish your meals; I'll handle this. Left head, do we have a problem here?"