[Meta Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[Spiritmon]

I do have a few questions: If I decide to link Quick Attack and Shadow Punch, will I be stuck in only use that Link Move? Or if I want I could choose in the next round only use Shadow Punch or Quick Attack?

How this hungry by using Link Move will work? The hungry will stack each time I decide to use a Link Move?

And finally I read that defeating a Pokemon with a Link Move grant a increase of 50% in experience. Will this rule be used in the Pokerole? And yes, this boon will only be possible defeating only 1 Pokemon per encounter/battle, or it will stack multiple times per encounter in case we decide to beat all enemies with Link Moves?

[Dragonstrike]

I do have a few questions: If I decide to link Quick Attack and Shadow Punch, will I be stuck in only use that Link Move? Or if I want I could choose in the next round only use Shadow Punch or Quick Attack?

How this hungry by using Link Move will work? The hungry will stack each time I decide to use a Link Move?

And finally I read that defeating a Pokemon with a Link Move grant a increase of 50% in experience. Will this rule be used in the Pokerole? And yes, this boon will only be possible defeating only 1 Pokemon per encounter/battle, or it will stack multiple times per encounter in case we decide to beat all enemies with Link Moves?

If you link two moves together, they have to be used together in the specific order they are linked unless they are unlinked.

I'm not going to apply a hunger penalty to pokemon with Linked moves so long as they only have one set of two Linked.  For the time being, Hawlucha will only Link one pair of moves per pokemon since you guys are low ranked Adventurers that don't have access to the resources to attempt to offset the negative effects of Linking many moves.

I do not currently plan to give bonus experience for using Linked moves because it doesn't have as many significant downsides to be mindful of here as they do in the games.

[Spiritmon]

Excellent! This clarify my questions for now!

So, we could begin to decide who gonna be the first one to test out this new system? I want to be one to test first since to combine Quick Attack and Shadow Punch together it's a combination pretty interesting. But if you people prefer or have a combo you people have in mind be free in do it.

[Lord Windos]

Excellent! This clarify my questions for now!

So, we could begin to decide who gonna be the first one to test out this new system? I want to be one to test first since to combine Quick Attack and Shadow Punch together it's a combination pretty interesting. But if you people prefer or have a combo you people have in mind be free in do it.

As I said before, I don't have any interest in comboing Moves via Link, as I don't really have a good pair of Moves that would benefit from it as opposed to Kogeki. In the future, however......well, the group should have enough Poke to accommodate Linkage freely at that point, so I'm not going to fret over holding the freebie for THAT long.

Quick Attack -> Shadow Punch will be hecking strong, and as a note so do any Moves with Priority if they are put first. If you have a Healing Move you can also chain it to be the last one if you have a Recoil Move to use first, while specific combinations like Smack Down and a Ground Move or a Flinching Move and a easily Evadable Attack would also work out pretty well! Really, you have to look at your Moveset and figure out what can synergize with what Move best, but if all else fails just ask us for advice! 

Quick question, but for Single Use Buffs like Lock On, Laser Focus, and the like, would THOSE work with Link Moves so you can always apply their effects first before firing off a Move? And how would Negative Priority work in a Link? Would having one in a Link cause the chain to be pulled last, or would it only count the first Move's Priority when initializing the Action Sequence?

Whenever anyone can post, please do so, as I rather not have CH 2 last another year, so let's keep a brisk pace mates!

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

- Yessssss, that recruited Salandit IS Skittles, that smol male Salandit Kee bought....somewhere and from someone in his previous human life! Oh the joy, it'll be funfunfun to go on an adventure together!~

- No interest from my side in linking any moves by Hawlucha even if he does so for free, so you can go ahead and link moves if you want to, @Spiritmon.

- Furthermore concerning your suggestion on splitting the 7k $P between us (with 'us' being Kogeki and Kee for now), the group fund currently is 1,917$P, so if we're adding 3,500$P to it, it raises to 5,417$P. Both you and me receive 1,750$P then to spend how each of us which to. So basically, what you suggested is fine and acceptable to me! d(^v^ )

That's quite a lot on our group fund - How does it sound that we, once Windos new chara joins Team OS, we let them have 1,750$P of that group fund? That way we three are all on the same term money-wise, while our group fund remains high enough. See it as some sort of welcome-gift, so to speak... IF the new character accepts and agrees, that is.

- About the three items we can pick from the Keckleon Shop, @Lord Windos and @Spiritmon, picking the random common or uncommon TM as well as the random Scarf or Glasses gets an absolute yes from my side. Since you don't know what to pick for the third slot and leave that decision to me then (thank youu for that!), I'd pick that random Wonder Orb please - they're useful, usually expensive, I alone have 4 Tiny Reviver Seeds and 3 Oran Berries (these were my second pick), and bar that one Quick Orb Kee found in the Hall of Magic we have no Orbs at all.

- Gonna update my charasheet later today with all the notes of the timeskip, for now it's time to post in the game thread to not stall things and then get food and handle errands.

[Lord Windos]

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That's quite a lot on our group fund - How does it sound that we, once Windos new chara joins Team OS, we let them have 1,750$P of that group fund? That way we three are all on the same term money-wise, while our group fund remains high enough. See it as some sort of welcome-gift, so to speak... IF the new character accepts and agrees, that is.

- About the three items we can pick from the Keckleon Shop, @Lord Windos and @Spiritmon, picking the random common or uncommon TM as well as the random Scarf or Glasses gets an absolute yes from my side. Since you don't know what to pick for the third slot and leave that decision to me then (thank youu for that!), I'd pick that random Wonder Orb please - they're useful, usually expensive, I alone have 4 Tiny Reviver Seeds and 3 Oran Berries (these were my second pick), and bar that one Quick Orb Kee found in the Hall of Magic we have no Orbs at all.

- Gonna update my charasheet later today with all the notes of the timeskip, for now it's time to post in the game thread to not stall things and then get food and handle errands.

OOC I don't really think the newbie deserves a share of the profits the group has made, as IC they would be treated as just another new member of Team OS (Well, not really, you'll see what I mean soon enough). IC, however, they would TOTALLY accept the Poke, since their attitude is rather.....imperious at times. Again, you'll see~!

Alrighty, we have everything we want for Team OS from the Keks (TM, Scarf/Glasses, and Wonder Orb), so all's that left is for everyone to post before we can get a move on with the plot!

Also, everyone note the Items the group has in total, minus the Items Pyra left - I don't think she'd be mindful enough to leave all her stuff with her group in her depressed and emotionally broken state, and she sorta needs that stuff to barter/live off of with Marcus (especially if she ends up doing MD runs for him as a part of her apprenticeship). That, and Items like the X-Ray Glasses should always be with the Party Leader. Escape Orbs and Recall Orbs too, just incase the group needs to GTFO or regroup ASAP!

[Lord Windos]

FYI for Everyone: Excavation Item costs 10 Gold Bars, while the Lucha Tokens Cost 6. This means that getting Gold Bars ain't going to be very easy until we get enough to get the Item(s) that boost their drop rate, and therefore it's going to be equally tough justifying purchases with them until they become somewhat easier to find. So I suggest putting the Bars with Kang and sitting on them until we get enough for the Excavation Item, alright?

[Dragonstrike]

Quick question, but for Single Use Buffs like Lock On, Laser Focus, and the like, would THOSE work with Link Moves so you can always apply their effects first before firing off a Move? And how would Negative Priority work in a Link? Would having one in a Link cause the chain to be pulled last, or would it only count the first Move's Priority when initializing the Action Sequence?

Almost any move can be linked to another, so the possibilities are incredibly varied.  Some of my NPCs will be taking advantage of it in the future now that Hawlucha's Slam School is open again, and I have a few ideas for some combos to use already.  Linking regular (de)buffs isn't entirely useless either, just more niche.

The second move linked will always have the same priority as the first move.  The main downside is the second move will always have less accuracy than if you'd used it first while unlinked (due to always having a multiaction penalty greater than 2), so plan your accuracy pools carefully when linking moves.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

FYI for Everyone: Excavation Item costs 10 Gold Bars, while the Lucha Tokens Cost 6. This means that getting Gold Bars ain't going to be very easy until we get enough to get the Item(s) that boost their drop rate, and therefore it's going to be equally tough justifying purchases with them until they become somewhat easier to find. So I suggest putting the Bars with Kang and sitting on them until we get enough for the Excavation Item, alright?

Ohh, you mean that Item, right?
(...)- 10 Gold: 1 Excavation Looplet (makes it easier to find buried treasure such as gold bars when held)(...)
Source here
It'll likely be quite a while until we've got the missing eight Gold Bars to purchase that particular Looplet, but me feels the wait is absolutely worth it if we can obtain more precious golden Bars in the long run, so into the Storage these Gold Bars go!~ Good thinking there, my dear!~

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@Dragonstrike, I've got a question that isn't/wasn't adressed in the timeskip - What happens with Hoopa? Do they remain a team member despite Daxter and Pyra left the team, do they stick with Daxter's team since he's holding on the bottle, does Hoopa switch between Team NW and Team OS as they want to, something completely different?

[Lord Windos]

@Spiritmon , sorry to bother you, but the sooner you post, the sooner Dragonstrike can get things a'rolling for the rest of us. If you don't have anything big to add, though, or are too busy at the moment, just say so mate and we can wait for a day or so.