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

[Spiritmon]

To be honest, I not very enthusiastic to crack that puzzle. After the battle and the thing of return everything as before, it's kinda kill a bit my playing desire.

Include the fact it is a diceless campaign at the moment, so we kinda responsible for all battle scenes so....yeah. I prefer to stick with your campaign for now Dragonstrike.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Quote @Phantom: 'Why am I seemingly the only one keeping this campaign alive?

Because.....well, you sorta are? Everyone besides Shiva and Ven are stuck in that time puzzle until its solved (which was a demoralizing experience in of itself), and Dragonstrike's is rather busy running his own campaign + managing his IRL time, so the only game me , Spirit, and to an extent No One can play is his.

Oh lolz, I wasn't blaming anyone, sorry if it came off that way! (^_^; ) It's just that it's been feeling somewhat...strange to semi-play alone. Not bad at all, just odd and strange. And amusing. And I guess it's a time like this where I'm somewhat glad that Shiva's running around on her own, prevents me from being stuck and enables me to do stuff realtively freely.

As for Ven, I could play as him a little more around Shiva if you want some character interaction, but I'm not too sure how meaningful that'll be or  if he'll actually end up causing Shiva more stress and problems due to his unique perspective on things. If you can accept either of those things, then I can try and think of some things he can do with his beloved whimsical angel.

I'm always for meaningful chara-interactions and/or TLC involving Vishnu Ship, dear! But you don't have to go and create some now, as I'm having enough things and actions in store that I can follow while being on Garlicbirg, no real need to implemend any interactions with Ven now. Once I ran out of those maybe, just because they're so adorable together.

[Spiritmon]

So...Can someone tell me a resume about what everyone is doing at the moment? I a bit lost after the time puzzle, and Iron didn't answer if Heart was able to help break the puzzle.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

So...Can someone tell me a resume about what everyone is doing at the moment? I a bit lost after the time puzzle, and Iron didn't answer if Heart was able to help break the puzzle.

You, Nathan and Terra are still in that riddle with the Lumineon that needs to be solved to obtain HM Dive. Nathan let Juliet copy the 'Ability' to reset time via Roleplay.

I was meanwhile discovering some cool extraterrestrial Pokemon that are involved in a conspiracy and spent some time with them, Shiva's going to keep them secret to not shake up the whole island of Chreshire. Then I time-jumped forward to my next action, which is doing some whale-watching and battle against one of these Walord for training (am writing on that scene every now and then, all at my own pace and without pressure).

Ventus is, as far as I know, unless stated otherwise with Shiva for some quality time.

[Spiritmon]

So...Can someone tell me a resume about what everyone is doing at the moment? I a bit lost after the time puzzle, and Iron didn't answer if Heart was able to help break the puzzle.

You, Nathan and Terra are still in that riddle with the Lumineon that needs to be solved to obtain HM Dive. Nathan let Juliet copy the 'Ability' to reset time via Roleplay.

I was meanwhile discovering some cool extraterrestrial Pokemon that are involved in a conspiracy and spent some time with them, Shiva's going to keep them secret to not shake up the whole island of Chreshire. Then I time-jumped forward to my next action, which is doing some whale-watching and battle against one of these Walord for training (am writing on that scene every now and then, all at my own pace and without pressure).

Ventus is, as far as I know, unless stated otherwise with Shiva for some quality time.

I see...hmm, need to work in my next post I suppose. Gonna work in my next post soon as you advise me to do. Not exactly my taste of post, but then again, what choice I have?

Thanks the info Phantom. I now better located in the time plot.

[Lord Windos]

Alright, my patience with this time lock puzzle has run its course, so I got a couple of questions to ask you, Iron. One, is there any NPCs with the group; if so, can Terra just auto Intimidate them to not say ANYTHING he doesn't want them to say? Two, does Terra's Dexoys Clone has access to an AoE and/or Spread Attack in its arsenal of Moves/Plot Devices. If the answer to Question to is yes (Or practically yes, if its Speed and/or Defense Form can effectively do the same thing I want), can Nathan then use his Sword to turbo charge its Moves so they're effectively double Plot Deviced and just simply overwhelm their time loop hax through sheer Legendary brute force?

While I'm more invested in Dragonstrike's campaign now in days, I still want things to progress at some reasonable rate in yours, mate, so if I can just Unga Bunga Legend SMASH this puzzle so everyone can get on with the Garliburg Questlines....?

[Dragonstrike]

While I'm more invested in Dragonstrike's campaign now in days, I still want things to progress at some reasonable rate in yours, mate, so if I can just Unga Bunga Legend SMASH this puzzle so everyone can get on with the Garliburg Questlines....?

We already tried just smashing our way through by KOing all of them.  That didn't work.

*shrug*

[Lord Windos]

While I'm more invested in Dragonstrike's campaign now in days, I still want things to progress at some reasonable rate in yours, mate, so if I can just Unga Bunga Legend SMASH this puzzle so everyone can get on with the Garliburg Questlines....?

We already tried just smashing our way through by KOing all of them.  That didn't work.

*shrug*

But we haven't tried doing it with PURE OVERWHELMING LEGENDARY POOOOOOWWWWWAAAAAAAAAA!!!

In all honestly, I don't think my plan will work either, but I just want an excuse to vent and unga bunga rage at the time puzzle, and what better way than setting a Legendary loose on a bunch of pretentious Dialga/Celebi Time haxors? Heck, they might not want to even rewind time and just opt to get away from Terra at that point, as what non-Legendary Pokemon in their right mind wants to fight a Legendary (even not a fully PDed one)?

[Dragonstrike]

But we haven't tried doing it with PURE OVERWHELMING LEGENDARY POOOOOOWWWWWAAAAAAAAAA!!!

In all honestly, I don't think my plan will work either, but I just want an excuse to vent and unga bunga rage at the time puzzle, and what better way than setting a Legendary loose on a bunch of pretentious Dialga/Celebi Time haxors? Heck, they might not want to even rewind time and just opt to get away from Terra at that point, as what non-Legendary Pokemon in their right mind wants to fight a Legendary (even not a fully PDed one)?

Well, the Sword doesn't really make much of a difference for anything that can already dish out PD damage, and it's also already fairly close to being legendary power itself.  I apply it to Mizu's Twister, and I'm downing half of them in two moves, all of them in four.  A fairly vicious response itself given that Nathan was limiting himself previously for varying reasons.

As for catching them, between 3 trainers, we could catch all of them in 2 Rounds since each trainer can use two items each Round (provided we don't have to expend any healing items).

[Lord Windos]

But we haven't tried doing it with PURE OVERWHELMING LEGENDARY POOOOOOWWWWWAAAAAAAAAA!!!

In all honestly, I don't think my plan will work either, but I just want an excuse to vent and unga bunga rage at the time puzzle, and what better way than setting a Legendary loose on a bunch of pretentious Dialga/Celebi Time haxors? Heck, they might not want to even rewind time and just opt to get away from Terra at that point, as what non-Legendary Pokemon in their right mind wants to fight a Legendary (even not a fully PDed one)?

Well, the Sword doesn't really make much of a difference for anything that can already dish out PD damage, and it's also already fairly close to being legendary power itself.  I apply it to Mizu's Twister, and I'm downing half of them in two moves, all of them in four.  A fairly vicious response itself given that Nathan was limiting himself previously for varying reasons.

As for catching them, between 3 trainers, we could catch all of them in 2 Rounds since each trainer can use two items each Round (provided we don't have to expend any healing items).

But PD POWER BOOST ONTO PD POOOOOWWWWAAAAA......!!! <Joke>

Welp, Terra can help catching the Pokemon if you really want him to, as I certainly don't have any better ideas on how to solve the puzzle other than either 'Unga Bunga LEGEND SMASH!' or 'Sod it, keep the HM you damn haxor fishies!' . Not like he can't afford more Pokeballs later, especially if he takes the funds out of his lab as a 'cost' for 'acquiring unique and useful research specimens for his project.' 

Now that I say that, given one of Terra's goals with the lab is 'Make Bug Pokemon GREAT again!' via genetic modification/reawakening and 'repowering' their old Primal genes , having a bunch of Pokemon that can manipulate time on some scale would help greatly in his research (or hopefully so), so he'd liked to capture a number of them himself anyway. Huh....somehow I rationalized myself an IC reason for Terra wanting to Catch the fishies instead of walloping them into the seabed, after stabilzing from the Time Poison and seeing the rewind in action. Strange...

Oh, and in case you have any lingering worries about Sari starting drama again, I'd say that regardless of what happened she'd be more pissed at the Leomineon for their time shenanigans making a mockery of her decision/her idealogical conflict with Nathan and elect to drop their previous spat over her getting JUSTICE. Before she wanted to avenge her Trainer as was her right and duty as a sovereign, but now she wants to thoroughly see these pests detained for an indeterminable amount of time - an fitting and ironic punishment, she'd think.

Also, I was thinking....could Juliet use her Roleplay power to 'undo' Terra's Time Poisoning entirely? Just a thought, as I rather not have to gather even more Pokemon just to restore my character to his proper age via Mega Syrentide on top of the Energy he needs for his other plans...