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

[Spiritmon]

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Hmm... Yes, you may be right with that 'bad habit' of a ruler to be honest, sadly.

Confuse Ray additionally to sleep from Victor/Malphena or Flatter from Lilith sounds like a good idea to me though , yes - the latter will even reduce her Strength by 1 while auto-confusing. Just one point, I know, but it could matter!

Sleep won't work on Seika unless we literally have dozens of Pokémon casting those Moves to overcome her, as I asked Iron about this very thing in PM. Negotiation with Seika will pretty much be one sided or VERY 'generous' on our parts since she's basically a dictator that has always gotten what she wants, and that you have to speak in simple, direct, and blunt terms in order for her to best understand our intent.

Additionally, bringing down the cave is impossible (So Earthquake is actually safe to use here), but we CAN topple her castle within a few Rounds with Mamo's helping. Problem with burying Seika alive is that we also burry our Pokémon as well AND that she'll basically summon her entire hive to kill us all if we go that route and don't skedaddle ASAP, so that's a last resort to end all last resorts.

Fighting her would basically be like fighter any other Legend: We need to target her Weakness, and any one of her Attacks would most likely instantly or near instantly Faint our Pokémon, and cause the nearby Firoke to start targeting us as well to compound our woes. Attacking the minions first will alert Seika, though, since all bugs are in a hivemind, so we can't pick off her support without her getting hostile/summoning more to swamp us.

Right now I'm trying to find out if we could use Raphael to stealthly cut the webs so that we can recall EVERYONE ASAP and that we could just turn tail and run. If that's not possible, the second best course of action is diplomacy/distraction while somebody tries to free our Pokémon, before we get out, followed by then fighting if that fails, then bringing down the castle if a slug fest goes PARTICULARLY HORRIBLY.

Overall, we have several options before us, but all of them will screw us over to some extent if we are not careful and lucky. This is, to put it blunty, not exactly an Encounter we can expect a happy resolution to.....

If Ralts or Solomon were not caught up, I'd suggest we all just leave the Pokémon to die and avoid confronting Seika at all, but seeing as nobody but maybe Ventus would go for the coward's option, that's a non-starter unless he simply abandons ship entirely.

I do it. I have the biggerst Stealth roll of all of us. 3 in Stealth to be more precisely. Its not incredible but at least its the biggerst. Unless someone another idea.

[Dragonstrike]

Right now I'm trying to find out if we could use Raphael to stealthly cut the webs so that we can recall EVERYONE ASAP and that we could just turn tail and run. If that's not possible, the second best course of action is diplomacy/distraction while somebody tries to free our Pokémon, before we get out, followed by then fighting if that fails, then bringing down the castle if a slug fest goes PARTICULARLY HORRIBLY.

Overall, we have several options before us, but all of them will screw us over to some extent if we are not careful and lucky. This is, to put it blunty, not exactly an Encounter we can expect a happy resolution to.....

If Ralts or Solomon were not caught up, I'd suggest we all just leave the Pokémon to die and avoid confronting Seika at all, but seeing as nobody but maybe Ventus would go for the coward's option, that's a non-starter unless he simply abandons ship entirely.

Raphael doesn't exactly have a lot of cutting moves, though.  Calam and Dizzy would be far more well suited for that Stealth mission, I feel.

*ahem*  Don't forget Slurpuff is caught up in this too.  Kinda need them, too.

[Lord Windos]

Raphael doesn't exactly have a lot of cutting moves, though.  Calam and Dizzy would be far more well suited for that Stealth mission, I feel.

*ahem*  Don't forget Slurpuff is caught up in this too.  Kinda need them, too.

Two Word: Air Slash. Its Super Effective too to boot, so it would destroy the webs in an instant. Problem is that we only get two recalls per Round per person and we would have to pass a Stealth Roll in order to get this to work right, so its still risky as all heck.

I know, but Ven is perfectly content in letting the die for his own safety and abandon the mission entirely. His family and safety superceedes that of all others, even his own girlfriend if push comes to shove!

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

This is a place where it's definitely possible for a character to die, though. Suitably dramatic and meaningful!

Lethal damage I wouldn't mind too much, but a chara dying is something I don't know whether I'd take well, I tend to grow attatched to charas way too easily! D: (But it'd fit the dramatic of the scenery, I'd agree)

I'm having another question if putting Seika to sleep is no option as we're only having two possibilities to do so: Would my Gothitelle's psychic power be enough to restrain her with a single action of Seikamater? And if so, how long could she hold it, and how long could she be able to hold it [i]with her tinfoil hat off[i] ? How would a Psychic Type like her react to Seika's aura of power; or phrasing differently: Would she be drawn to Seika?

If not, I could attempt to restrain her movements with HelpingHand-boosted Telekinesis while indeed someone frees our Pokemon and we turn tail immediately after...

[Lord Windos]

Lethal damage I wouldn't mind too much, but a chara dying is something I don't know whether I'd take well, I tend to grow attatched to charas way too easily! D: (But it'd fit the dramatic of the scenery, I'd agree)

I'm having another question if putting Seika to sleep is no option as we're only having two possibilities to do so: Would my Gothitelle's psychic power be enough to restrain her with a single action of Seikamater? And if so, how long could she hold it, and how long could she be able to hold it [i]with her tinfoil hat off[i] ? How would a Psychic Type like her react to Seika's aura of power; or phrasing differently: Would she be drawn to Seika?

If not, I could attempt to restrain her movements with HelpingHand-boosted Telekinesis while indeed someone frees our Pokemon and we turn tail immediately after...

Me thinks that since Bug is SE against Psychic, Sieka will be borderline immune to such moves unless they are casted by another Legendary being of power?

As for Psychic types being allured to Seika......*Glances over at Solomon and Ralts meaningfully, before glancing back at Phantom again*

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

I know, but Ven is perfectly content in letting the die for his own safety and abandon the mission entirely. His family and safety superceedes that of all others, even his own girlfriend if push comes to shove!

*figuratively sobs heavily* My butterwolfly........ Slurpuff..... Can't two or even more of our Pokemon work together to free ALL captured Pokemon?

[Lord Windos]

I know, but Ven is perfectly content in letting the die for his own safety and abandon the mission entirely. His family and safety superceedes that of all others, even his own girlfriend if push comes to shove!

*figuratively sobs heavily* My butterwolfly........ Slurpuff..... Can't two or even more of our Pokemon work together to free ALL captured Pokemon?

Yes! The problem is that unless we can do so Stealthly or really, really quickly and then leave ASAP, Seika will get ANGRY/annoyed and start sicking her minions/ALL OF THEM on us. Getting our Pokémon out is going to be far from easy, no matter WHAT we do...

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

As for Psychic types being allured to Seika......*Glances over at Solomon and Ralts meaningfully, before glancing back at Phantom again*

Gothitelle is something different, or so I feel. GM's discretion. She hasn't been drawn to Seika in the first place, instead Yena was...

[Iron]

This is a place where it's definitely possible for a character to die, though. Suitably dramatic and meaningful!

Lethal damage I wouldn't mind too much, but a chara dying is something I don't know whether I'd take well, I tend to grow attatched to charas way too easily! D: (But it'd fit the dramatic of the scenery, I'd agree)

I'm having another question if putting Seika to sleep is no option as we're only having two possibilities to do so: Would my Gothitelle's psychic power be enough to restrain her with a single action of Seikamater? And if so, how long could she hold it, and how long could she be able to hold it [i]with her tinfoil hat off[i] ? How would a Psychic Type like her react to Seika's aura of power; or phrasing differently: Would she be drawn to Seika?

If not, I could attempt to restrain her movements with HelpingHand-boosted Telekinesis while indeed someone frees our Pokemon and we turn tail immediately after...

She doesn't want to take her hat off. She fears she'll be subsumed by Seikamater's will.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

That means I can't rely on Lilith's help at all at this current point, not even on a Flatter from her to confuse Seika?

Lilith not wanting to take her tinfoil hat off  doesn't mean that....Shiva couldn't forcefully take it off Lilith to unlash her full psychic powerfor an overpowered Telekinesis though. Neither she not Shiva will enjoy that, not at all, but if it'd be...needed? And if Shiva would get a hold on her, pin her to herself like Ventus did earlier when that overwhelming urge to run down the tunnel bewitched her herself, would that work?

Given the fair-trade-idea of mine is no option anymore, I'd be either for someone of us trying to distract Seika by talking while we others/our Pokemon on hand free the captured ones and then we tail off, or blatant starting a battle ourselves to not be suprised by one at the bad moment...