[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Iron]

Take your time and consider carefully!

[Iron]

Hah, if the queen is there, Royal Jelly is hopefully not far!~

That's a fine-looking drip castle in the picture you included, @Iron. But...ah, but while you adressed something for every chara present, you haven't said in a word how Shiva reacts or feels like in that presence, means I can't really adress anything. Can you add something please that I can use for my posts? (It won't come today anymore though as it's late, I'm sorry.) I'm actually curious whether that definite presence of a Legend is enough to break her closed mind, it's a complete new aura to her as she has never ever even be even near the hint of a legendary Pokemon in her life.

Hm, that's partially because I wasn't sure how Shiva would react exactly. Herolune's cry is enough to snap her back to herself, but she's definitely feeling all the power of Seikamater's will. I would say Shiva's greatest subconscious thought is getting to Mightyena, a bit like Mr. Finder. All six of you (and your Pokemon) feel the desire to just walk up and surrender to Seikamater's hunger.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

honestly don't have an idea of what to do besides everyone quickly recalling their Pokémon from the Web (If it isn't a Spider Web web, that is), and then fucking book it the other direction without looking back, then sealing that tunnel up tighter that a spot weld. Ven's certainly an odd combination of pissed off, terrified, and intensely fascinated at facing what he instinctively knows is a Legend (As should Nathan, since both men have been in the presence of such Pokémon), and I don't really now how to get him to react to all this without killing everyone on accident.

I'm scared of fighting her, very scared... But Royal Jelly.... But I rather not do it simply for a the sentiment of a rare Item...?

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

That sounds useful and cool, thanks Iron! And rather scary.

I'm too tired to really type up posts now, but it's certain that she'll actually ask what kind of Pokemon that actually is - can anyone enligten her in-chara at some point please?

[Dragonstrike]

I'm too tired to really type up posts now, but it's certain that she'll actually ask what kind of Pokemon that actually is - can anyone enligten her in-chara at some point please?

Well, Heart's the one who knows the best what a Seikamater is...and he just kinda said exactly what she is IC, so I think that's covered for the most part.  Nathan might be willing to offer more detail after the fact, though, now that Heart's basically allowed Nathan to put the puzzle pieces together at long, long last.

[Dragonstrike]

Slightly off topic, but while I was looking for pictures of Seikamater, I happened upon this one:

Spoiler

That...would be...terrifying if that ever became a reality.

[Lord Windos]

Take your time and consider carefully!

Hard to find out how to react/deal with it when all we have to go on is: A) She's Hungry, B) She has an army of Bugs at her beck and call, and C) Her Will/Pheromones are strong enough to bewitch everyone here.

If it weren't for B) and our Pokémon not being put through the wringer recently, I'd say trying to take her down would be something to try. We could also just summon Mamo and threaten to cave in EVERYTHING if she doesn't give us back our friends if things go sour/if we want to go straight to Last Resorts, but that's liable to go poorly unless the swine gets a Helping Hand Boost from Azu to make sure things go straight to hell worst comes to worst.

Another option is appeasing her hungry by giving her most if not ALL our supplies to distract her (assuming she doesn't cotton on to our presence and order us for lunch too), then get our Pokémon out while she is busy and high tail it out. Another option is just trying to Recall them and booking it ASAP, but I say its even odds that the webs the Pokémon are on will prevent them from being recalled.

Last Option to take is simply going 'Fuck it!!!' and leave all our Pokémon to be made a meal of, but Nathan won't go for that at ALL, nor would anyone else for that matter.

Mates, anyone else have good plans or ways to get our Pokémon without having to arouse the ire of Siekamater?

[Dragonstrike]

Mates, anyone else have good plans or ways to get our Pokémon without having to arouse the ire of Siekamater?

If we can't talk our way out of this, we're probably going to have to fight.  Nathan's willing to talk if Seikamater is as well, but this isn't going to be nearly as easy as it was with Vespiquen at the start of the campaign (that was just a polite 'please move and we won't have to bother you again').  A queen whose sole purpose was to build her kingdom and maintain it.

Now we have a queen whose purpose is to build a kingdom that serves her and her alone.  That's gonna be hard.  VERY hard. She lured our pokemon in because that's what she willed. And we're going to be going against that. A 'fair trade' might be enough to convince her...but that's assuming we can even come up with something she views as such...

Battling is likely the 'easy' solution to the problem (but not any less difficult, if not harder)

[Dragonstrike]

Quick question, @Iron: do any of the captured pokemon react to the group's arrival? (Ralts in particular)

[Dragonstrike]

Also...I find it interesting that even though Turiel and Zippy got drawn in by Seikamater, Grid did not despite being the only other Bug in the current party lineup. That's certainly rather weird...definitely glad about that, but definitely rather strange...