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[Game] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure: Celadon City Vandel
"Arbok huh? You already bring your strongerst pokemon right away I guess. I was think you would bring Rhyxemplar or even Kingdra. You are indeed a unpreditable opponent Reiner."
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(05-09-2018, 04:39 PM)Spiritmon Wrote: "Arbok huh? You already bring your strongerst pokemon right away I guess. I was think you would bring Rhyxemplar or even Kingdra. You are indeed a unpreditable opponent Reiner."

Reiner raises an eyebrow.  He doesn't think this was THAT unpredictable.  "There's another saying, ya know: there's more than one way to skin a cat.  No offense Weavile."

(Though I do find it a VERY apt description for a pokemon with so many common Weaknesses.  Ohhohoho!  Again, no offense intended, my feline friend.)
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(05-09-2018, 04:44 PM)Dragonstrike Wrote:
(05-09-2018, 04:39 PM)Spiritmon Wrote: "Arbok huh? You already bring your strongerst pokemon right away I guess. I was think you would bring Rhyxemplar or even Kingdra. You are indeed a unpreditable opponent Reiner."

Reiner raises an eyebrow.  He doesn't think this was THAT unpredictable.  "There's another saying, ya know: there's more than one way to skin a cat.  No offense Weavile."

(Though I do find it a VERY apt description for a pokemon with so many common Weaknesses.  Ohhohoho!  Again, no offense intended, my feline friend.)

The black cat (who is currently resolutely ignoring Felica entirely, much to her annoyance/frustration) gives Reiner an easy thumbs up to indicate all was well between you two, but he then shot you a glare (straight up at the ceiling) and smoothly changed his hand gesture into one a rather rude one, just for you! Welp, looks like not only hears you loud and clear, but he doesn't like what he's hearing!
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The Gauntlet Round 2!

Anticipating that Reiner would employ his trump card and Mega Evolve Arbok straight away and lay into Asura with full force, Arial orders his Jungle King to start flexing those muscle and lay into them with his strongest Fighting STABs!

Unfortunately for the madman, though, Reiner entirely predicted that course action and decided to NOT supercharge his poisonous python, keeping it in its base form to better absorb those furious blows from the powerful primate! Said duo also opted not to go in guns blazing, but instead slowly but surely cripple it to the point of total infeeblement, starting with the venomous viper taking a deep breath before letting out an ear bleeding *HIIIIISSSS!*

Screech
(2)(6)(3)(1)(2)(1)(3)(5) 
Asura Defense was decreased by 2,  but he absolutely REFUSED to be cowed, remaining steadfast as it finished its short work out!

Bulk Up
Accuracy: DEX (3) + Fight (3) + Intimidate (*1) - 4 = 3D6 Dice
(4)(2)(3)
Asura's STR and Defense was increased by 1, resulting in a net - 1 Defense!

Irritated that the stupid monkey didn't so much a twitch from its terrifying Screech, the cruel cobra decided to take out that frustration by spewing a fine aerosol of enervating venom at them!

Acid Spray
(5)(2)(3)(5)(2)(3)(5) Hit!
(6)(2)(1)(4) Asura takes 1 Damage; 6/8 HP, - 1 Pain!
Asura STR decrease by 2, resulting in a net - 1 STR for this Round!

The royal brawler winces as he feels his muscles numb from Arbok's last attack, but they just grit their teeth and gave that snake a toothy scowl before they leaped forward and struck it with the sides of both its palms!

Cross Chop
(4) Hit!
Damage: *7D6 Base - 5 Vitality - IE = 2D6 - 1 Damage
(6)(6) Arbok takes 1 Damage; 15/16 HP!

Against all expectation the Jungle King actually manage to hurt the poisonous python with one of its Fighting moves, briefly surprising said snake before he let out a most displeased *Hiiiiissss!* at that absurdity and slithered forwards at remarkable speed to entangle the stupid monkey in his grasping coils! It was at this moment that Poe chose to chip in, cheering on Arbok as it made is Move!

Helping Hand
(4)(5)(1)(5)(2)(5)(-)(-)(-)(-)
Arbok gains + 3 Dice on Wrap's Accuracy and Damage Roll!

Wrap
(5)(4)(2)(1)(3)(4)(5) Hits, but no Crits!
Damage: STR (3) + 1 + HH (3) - Vitality (*2) = 5D6 Damage
(6)(5)(4)(2)(2) Asura takes 3 Damage and is now Blocked! 3/8 HP, - 2 Pain!

Being the keenly attentive medic that they are, Alomomola noticed that Asura was in both a metaphorical and literal bind from Arbok's last move, and so channeled their natural healing energies and sent it straight at the regal primate!

Heal Pulse
Accuracy: 9D6 Base + 2 = 11D6 Dice
(3)(6)(5)(1)(1)(3)(1)(2)(1)(3)(3) However, it was to no avail, as in her haste she didn't put enough energy in her move to reach him! Only 2 Heal Pulses Left!

Wrap's Residual Damage: (3)(3) None!

Due to the Pain from his injuries, he's unable to land his next two moves! Not that it would have mattered, given Arbok's Defenses and mono Poison Typing rending those blows completely ineffectual, but hey, details matter here people!

Things seemed most grim for Asura, as the venomous viper tightened its grip and smiled down on him in + hissing menacing/dark glee as it has their prey all Wrapped up and right where they want it.......

Until a light suddenly blazed into existence right above him, briefly blinding the snake and causing them to let out a surprised/startled *Hiss!* before it plunged straight into the Jungle King!

Wish's Recovery Roll
(5)(6)(1)(4) Asura recovers 3 HP (6/8 HP), and felt his muscle were fully revitalized! All Negative Stat Modifications are treated as if they are nullified, but still 'exist' and can not be re-procced! For further clarification, if Poe were to use Charm on Asura, most of its reduction would be 'pre-nullified' by what was covered by the Wish, but it could still lower his STR by 1!

Feeling the prayers from his newest teammate patch up the worst of his injuries, the royal brawler closed his eyes and bowed his head in thanks to the Cleric's blessing, took a deep breath and let it out, before he re-opened his eyes to shoot his opponent an Infuriated look of his own as his Fighting spirit and tempter blazed to life! Infuriate triggers, raising Asura's STR and Disobedience by 1, for a total increase of 2 and a Disobedience of 3! This mean's he'll maybe start disobeying your orders next Round, so prepare accordingly!

Things are now a little more fair between the Jungle King and Lord of Serpents, but the later still has all bulk and defensive advantage to hold over the monkey. That won't matter in the long run if he keep getting more and more Infuriated, though!

Current Status:

Arbok: 15/16 HP
Asura: 6/8 HP, + 2 STR, + 1 Defense, + 1 Disbodience, Blocked by Wrapped (So he can't be switch out), - 1 Pain

Time to see what master and bodyguard will have planned going forward!
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Arial was quite worry about his member of the team, Asura. He is in a huge disavantage against such foe as Arbok because of the typing. As much strong Asura is, even his strongerst moves did not even Flinch against the hard scales of Arbok. And he did not even evolve. Arial see Asura been wrap tight by Arbok. He was tempt to fortreit this battle, but then Arial and Asura eyes meet each other. Arial could read though his eyes: Do not even dare. That is my fight, not yours. Let me fight! 

Arial could see that and more. Each pokemon of Arial have a little part of his personality: Gaspar its his mischiev and goof side. Melchior is the resilient and toughness to go though the danger. Baltazar its his shatered mind to make strategy. Sekmet is his dormant power and his solitude. In a certain way, Asura represents two sides of Arial: The rage Arial feel sometimes. And his sheer will in continue to fight, no matter how strong its the foe. Always trying to survive, like he always do in his life.

With a smile Arial say. "No matter what I say, you not gonna give up. Right Asura?" Arial then smash his hands together one to another. "As much disavantage we are Asura, show that snake why you are the King of the Jungle! Ascending or Falling, a King always must always must stand proud and majestic! And you Asura, are a true king! Don't let anyone say the contrary, not even me!" Arial say cheer him up his might Empirilla. "Now! Show to us your resolution! Are you a ovegrown Primeape, or a Emperor? Give us your answear!"
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Arbok hisses menacingly.  He's finding this monkey more annoying than troublesome.  He doesn't like annoyances.  Particularly annoyances that refuse to be cowed before his terrifying visage!

Reiner smirks.

"Well, that's quite the pep talk ya just gave.  Let's see ya back it up."
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(05-09-2018, 08:04 PM)Spiritmon Wrote: (...)

With a smile Arial say. "No matter what I say, you not gonna give up. Right Asura?" Arial then smash his hands together one to another. "As much disavantage we are Asura, show that snake why you are the King of the Jungle! Ascending or Falling, a King always must always must stand proud and majestic! And you Asura, are a true king! Don't let anyone say the contrary, not even me!" Arial say cheer him up his might Empirilla. "Now! Show to us your resolution! Are you a ovegrown Primeape, or a Emperor? Give us your answear!"

*Rolls* Oh my...

If Asura's Fighting spirit was already ignited by his struggle against Arbok, then your inspiring and inciderary speech was like pouring jet fuel right on it! His eyes were immediately set ablaze and his temper flared to extraordinary heights as your speech worked him up, before he let out a deep guttural bellow and started to furiously thump his chest! HE IS ASURE, THE JUNGLE KING, HE WHO DEFEATED THE KING OF DINOSAURS AND WALKED AWAY FROM DELTA MUK'S EXPLOSION UNSCRATHED! EVERYWHERE HE TREADS IS HIS DOMAIN, THE BATTLEFIELD IS WHERE HE RULES, AS WAS HIS DIVINE RIGHT!  AND HE WILL NOT LET SOME SNAKE DENY HIM OF THAT!!! RAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOR!!!!

Arial's Speech GREATLY triggers Asura's Infuriate, spiking his STR by 2 more points and maxing out Disobedience! Total STR is now + 4!!! Looks like the Jungle King indeed can back up his master's/container's words! He's stronger than ever before, but now he's nigh uncontrollable too! The only thing he won't do is Lethal Damage or attack non-combatants, but that's about it for limitations!

I believe you both need to change your orders now, guys!!!
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(05-09-2018, 08:40 PM)Lord Windos Wrote:

Reiner chuckles.  Exactly what he'd been expecting to happen.

"Now THAT is quite the sight.  And quite the sense of deja vu, wouldn't you say, Weavile?"

Even Arbok is briefly taken aback by this considering he's right in Asura's face currently.  He doubles down on that Wrap, ASAP!  Less nuisance, more threat!  He needs to end this, and end it fast!!!  He won't let some random monkey overpower him!!!  More menacing hissing from him as he redoubles his efforts to put this primate in his place!!!

(I'll leave my orders unchanged, actually.)
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Weavile quirks an eyebrow at Reiner at his quip, as Asura very nearly raging out of control could be a reference to any number of events that has happened in this past week alone.....until he realized exactly what you were referencing, at which point his expression became as deadpan as your mother's cooking skillet back at home. Oh real rich, partner, bringing up the time he was nearly OHKO by that Punk's Primate just because his fingers were just a little too sticky....

Never the less, you see him subtly take a few steps away from the battlefield, as he doesn't want to take the chance of whether or not the raging ape will see him as a 'non-combatant'. His luck is almost as bad as his master's, after all....

With that small scene out of the way:

The Gauntlet Round 3!

Before the action could truly begin this round, Reiner palmed his favored Key Stone and held it aloft in the air, causing Arbok to glow with the errie black light as miasma briefly surrounded it (and by extension Asura), until it was blown away in a burst of power, revealing Mega Arbok!!! All Attributes Raised by 1, and Petrify triggers, lowering Asura's DEX by 1!

Livid and ever so slightly finding himself intimidated by the now fiercely struggling/raging monkey in its coils, the now hissssing hydra flares its hood and lets out a angry cancophony of noise at them. Then, a sizable bulge appear in an unwrapped part of his sinuous coils as his biological systems worked overtime to produce a horrific amount of poison/venom, with it gradually building in size and his body contract on it to force it to travel up and up an up until it reach his throat/mouth section. His face was distorted in absurd yet none the less unnerving fashion by all the built up toxins swelling that portion up, until he released them all in one great big vile, torrential burst right on the Jungle King!

GUNK SHOT 1
(1)(3)(3)(6)(3)(1)(6) The sheer force and volume of the toxins nearly throws off his aim, but the move still managed to Hit!
(3)(5)(4)(3)(4)(1) Asura takes 3 Damage; 3/8 HP, - 2 Pain!
POISON 1: (6)(4)(4) The putrid cocktail of toxins manages to seep into him, nearly causing to start heaving himself! Poisoned!
FLITCH*: (5)(3) Nope!

Asura's Loyalty: (3)(6)
Asura's Disobedience: (6)(5)(6)(4)(2) Ha ha ha ha, he ain't having none of your commands!

The self proclaimed emperor of the city was far too filled with ROYAL INDIGNATION at this point to give a damn about following your orders, and somehow was becoming even more angry as they threw up all of him and made him, the ruler of all Celadon City, ILL. Before he did anything, though, he first rummaged through his fur to pull out a Sitrus Berry and devour it whole in one big *CHOMP*, recovering 3 HP and negating the damage of the Gunk Shot!

Afterwards, he pulled back both of his fists back before sending them flying at the slither serpent at speeds almost to fast for the eye to follow, letting out a guttural *RAAAAOOOOR* as he did so!

Cross Chop
Accuracy: *8D6 Base - 2 Accuracy - 1 Pain - 3 Actions = 2D6 Dice
(4)(1) Hits!
Damage: STR (*6) + 5 + STAB - Vitality (*6) = 6D6 Damage
(5)(6)(4)(6)(3)(2) Mega Arbok takes 4 Damage; 11/16 HP, - 1 Pain!

Seeing that despite her well Wishing that Asura STILL managed to get inflicted with a Status debuff irked her greatly, and so she readily enacted her master will by puffing up their cheeks with water and aerolizing it, before spewing the final product all over her master's side of the battefield!

Mist
Accuracy: 11D6 Dice
(5)(6)(4)(3)(3)(4)(2)(1)(1)(3)(1)
All of Arial's Pokémon are protects from Negative Stat Reduction from Reiner's side for 4 Rounds! Could have come in handy earlier, but hey, better late than never!

Both chops landed with a meaty *THWACK!* right on the snakes, sending the poisonous python realing as that let out several Pain and furious *HISSSES!!!* from all the heads on its body! Poe, avidly watching the battle on the sidelines (with Ridia no more than a stones throw away), cringed and wilted at the brutally powerful Fighting inflict heavy amounts of damage onto Mega Arbok, before he adorably shook his head back and forth to make themselves brave for their shake, and resumed cheering their frail little heart out to motivate them past the pain!

Helping Hand
(6)(2)(4)(6)(1)(5)(6)(2)(4)(3)
Mega Arbok manages to push through their suffering for Little Bro's shake, increasing the Accuracy and Damage of their next move by 3 Dice, which it puts the buff to great use by preparing and spewing another:

GUNK SHOT 2
(2)(4)(6)(1)(6)(5)(5)(5) A tidal wave of poison threat gushes forth from the serpent's body, threatening to drown out Asura! Critical Hit!
Damage: 6D6 Base + Crit + Helping Hand = 11D6 Dice!!!
(2)(1)(2)(2)(6)(3)(4)(2)(1)(4)(4) ....Asura takes 3 Damage; 3/8 HP, - 2 Pain.
Poison: (-)(-)(-)
Flitch: (5)(5) Nope!

(Okay, that was anticlimactic...)
(Indeed. I though this one would have putrified the monkey, but alas Lady Luck favors his puppeteer once more. Still, he's proving himself competent in the process, so its not that bad of an outcome at all by that perspective.....)
(.....No comment. Now please get, your holding up the Round.)
(Tsk tsk, is that the sort of tone you should be taking with me, dear Windos? Hehehe.....but since you asked nicely and I too want to see happens next, I suppose I could humor you this once. Cheerio....for now~)
(..........They're growing ever bolder with their commentary. This can't be a good sign.......)

The mad monkey monarch is left sputtering literally and figuratively by that last blast of noxious toxins, his body left stinging all over and back in the state it was from the first time the Move was used on him! If he wasn't already frothing at the mouth from the Poison AND his immense quantities of WRATH, this turn of event definitely would have gotten him started! Still, despite the immense Pain he was in they manage to grit their teeth and barrel on through it by at that moment drawing on the Will Power of their 'master', aiming yet another pair of crushing blows into the snake!

Cross Chop 2
Will Point spent by Asura from Arial's pool to ignore Pain Penalizations!
Accuracy: *8D6 Base - 2 Accuracy - 4 Actions - 2 Pain = 2D6 Dice
(4)(4) Hits!
(6)(3)(4)(6)(5)(3) Mega Arbok takes 4 Damage; 7/16 HP, - 2 Pain!

Against all odds Asura was managing to hold his own against the colossal cobra, but for each pound of flesh he took in his fury the snake took a hefty chunk of his own in exchange. Pushing himself to the utter limit to continue his near mindlessly assault, the only thing keeping the royal rabble-rouser going at this point was all that ANGER burning with him like a raging Inferno. At this point about the only thing that would get him to just stop if either he brutalizes Mega Arbok to the point of unconsciousness, or he was!

(Un)Luckily for him, the hissing hydra was MORE than happy to oblige and return their tempermental attack with near equal ferocity after that last Cross Chop, as it caused their entire body to writhe and convulsed in agony as the paired strike managed to badly bruise its hood! However he did it, the managed to force down his Pain and raised his body to loom over the punitive primate, every single one of his heads glaring at them with such contempt and spite that both Reiner and Arial could feel themselves stiffen in response. Accompany such a gesture was low menacing *hissing* being issued from each head of the hydra in perfect harmony that underlined just how fed up he was of being wailed on by a stupid angry monkey with pretension to authority.

Altogether, it sent a pretty clear message to everyone present: Enough was ENOUGH!

To back up that strong sentiment, the venomous viper once more built up a large volume of incredibly effective poisonous slurry in his body, before upchucking it straight onto them!

GUNK SHOT 3
(6)(6)(6) The Devil Luck is with him on this! Hit!
(3)(3)(2)(1)(1)(6) Unfortunately, they immediately turn to sabotage the snake, as miraculously? Asura managed to tank that hit and managed to come out of it completely unscathed! Maybe Mega Arbok misjudged the type of poison he was making and botched the move for the get go.....?

EVERYONE in the room is surprised by this turnabout, most of all the afformentioned Jungle King and the Lord of Serpents! The later is could only blankly stare off into space after that epic failure, as one of THE most powerful Poison type moves in existence somehow didn't do any damage to the monkey despite having done so before. He was really beginning wonder if this week was just plain cursed/hates his guts, or if his master/Weavile's atrocious luck was finally rubbing off on him....

The former, however, was so stunned/shocked by not taking damage from Gunk Shot they regained their lucidity, their anger no longer overwhelming the regal primate's mind and dulling his keen intelligence. All the Pain, tiredness, and sensation of nausea from being Poisoned, now undampened by his previously explosive temper, crashed down upon him with compounded interest, causing his eyes to bug out as he wince and realize how horrible he felt. This caused him to spend the last of his Action thinking over his current situation/status.....and the results of that pondering produced several facts that left him feeling VERY much worse for wear.....

His Thoughts:
- He was currently Wrapped, Poisoned, near exhausted, and was in incredible Pain. He was in bad shape, to sum it up nicely.
- By the end of this Round, at best he would be left hanging on by threads, and at worse he'd plain Faint from residual damage from his previous conditions.
- Assuming he did survive the round, he would have endure yet another barrage of attacks made by Mega Arbok before he could wear them down, who would no doubt recover from their dazed state in mere moments and double down on him with a vengeance.
- Even in the unlikely event that he somehow managed to WIN against his opponent, he would be left in such poor condition that he'd be easy pickings for the next Pokémon Reiner sent out.
- If Alomomola managed to patch up most of his injuries with a Heal Pulse/Wish in time, however, he'd probably slip into RAGE mode again and start act supremely reckless, leading him back to where he is now: screwed.

With all those negative point weighing down on his mind and the outlook of this battle looking about as grim as his opponent, Asura came up with the only course of action that made sense AND garenteed that things don't further deteriorate for him. It caused him to grimace in distaste, and threated to flare his tempers back to full at the mere thought of doing that, but it was either doing that or most likely being utterly destroyed, and he would rather swallow his pride and do that than needlessly suffer in hopes for a long, long shot at victory.

So with a sense of resignation about him, the Jungle King crossed both arms above his head and bowed his head in Surrender to Mega Arbok and Reiner. He'd probably get an ear full of it from his retainer later, and the shame of forfeiting and submitting himself lesser than a mere snake would burn him up from the inside out for a long time yet to come, but he could not in his right mind continue to fight for what he thought was a lost cause. Better to retreat, learn from your failings, gain wisdom, and grow stronger from all it than to heedlessly doom yourself to a decision that would cost you far more than any worth could be glean from it....

Given his Empathy and knack for understanding a Pokémon's intentions rather well, Reiner could instantly tell that Asura was sincere with his desire to forfeit the match and ordered for his Mega Arbok to let them go, which the snake did so with mixed reluctance/smug delight (They so wanted to Faint them for all the Pain and indignity they forced upon him, but seeing him slink away to lick their wounds WAS sastifying to see) after they regained their bearings. Once that happened, the monkey monarch staggered over to Alomomola's side and settled down by their side to let their Healer aura cure them of their Poisoning and slowly regain the HP, and let her tend to him during what little downtime she had for such attention. During this time (the rest of the match), Asura Disobedience will be 5 and he would refuse to go back into his Pokeball, as he wanted to watch how the rest of the match between his retainer and Reiner so he could learn more from it and become a wiser king in the process. Such was the will of the Jungle King, and he would not be swayed in this whole matter....

All things settled, it was time for Reiner to choose their next course of action for The Gauntlet, and for Arial to send out a new Pokémon to take over where Asura left off. What will both choose to do?

Guess we'll find out real soon, won't we!
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After such course of events, Arial could only watch in awe when he see Asura survive that last Gunk Shot perfect safe. This was the second time today Asura have survive such almight and powerful move against enemies. First be the Explosion from Delta Muk. And now one of the most powerful Poison moves ever know. Arial begin to doubt if Asura its indeed a true asura, might powerful demigods, equal do titans in the old myths.

Func fact: In budhism, a Asura its a demigod, in a certain way equal to titans, from Kāmadhātu (the world or universe of desire).They have three heads with three faces each one with four or six arms. The word means "Antigods". 
Hindu tradition later calls them demons, possibly due to the droughts in the region. With the emergence of the archetypes of the forces of good and evil in the subtle or invisible realms of human existence, the world was divided between divine (daiva) and demonic (asura). As a guide for human actions that would lead to action (pravrittri) and renunciation (nirvrittri).


Arial was quite surprise when he see Asura fortreit the battle himself. He is in a certain way relief to see the rage of Asura be contain. He get a little to Asura than talk once more. "You know. Is need guts to continue to fight against strong foes." Then Arial smile and close his eyes for a second. "But its need bigger guts to stop fighting. You did a incredible battle back there Asura. You do a wise decision in a fortreit the battle and I not blame you for that. A king sometimes must stop to keep fighting in the next day. You are becoming a wise king Asura, and I proud of you." Then Arial give Asura a weak punch in his shoulder. "I do the rest from here buddy. Leave the rest to me." Arial give Asura a positive finger. "I feel honror in fighting alongside with a incredible king like you."

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Then Arial look again to Reiner. "Well, thats 1x1 for both of us Reiner. Guess that draw at least for now. Like you say yourself, this battle is far from over." Then Arial prepare himself to bring his next pokemon.
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