@Pyromaniacwolf *snicker* Alright. One adventure at a time, very well. I'm gonna have one more little thing for you. But otherwise, you're free to move on and out on the other side. Nicely posted.
@Rune_Alchemist I will say that, regarding Teleport, it takes a little while to do. You need to determine a destination, focus power to actually get going, and then release it to actually move over there. That is, unless you're an Abra escaping a threat, then you get a freebie. But in your turn... I'll still allow you to make a teleport a turn if you feel it's helping you, somehow. Buuuuuuuuuuut, it's going to take a bit to charge, and then it's going to take a moment to recover to make another move upon arrival. It takes a turn, so to say. So if you use Teleport each turn, you're not doing anything else. I'll emphasize what I mean a little in my next post.
That aside, nicely posted. And that's a clever tactic. I praise it. Haha.
@Pikmin Eye Alright, nicely posted. ... Hm. Flabébé's, like, constantly floating through the air. That would make scratching it hard. But perhaps I should enable scratching it anyways, because otherwise floating Pokémon will be more or less extremely overpowered early game. I'm not exactly under the impression Nincada can jump up there. Those tiny wings don't exactly look fully developed. Logically, it'd be hard to scratch it. But... ... ... Hah. Hm. I'll consider it.
@Eklispe Tah-hah, not actually that far along, it's just Cathia who's... heh, a fan of such Pokémon. But, yeah, result is the same. A tactic has been made. Nicely posted. Now I should probably start typing my response.
@Project ... Oh, so you CAN spell that name with an i? That's what I naturally wanted, but in English it sounded unnatural in my mind. You know, maybe I'll change the spelling of her name to that, if it actually doesn't sound unnatural. Heh. Anyways. Nicely posted. You're searching, eh? Alright. Let's see how it goes.
@Pirouette *snicker* Yupp, that happened. Let's see what I can do to describe what happens next. Nicely posted. Haha.
@Joshua Tamashii Alright, falling back. I'll note that you seem to have assumed you're successfully escaping a young man in his prime a little easily, but I'll accept it because I'm amused. Alright, nicely posted. Now let me consider... Haha.
@Project There. Some more information to you. And since the player in the game didn't have to do too much with the egg, neither do you. Haha.
@Joshua Tamashii I will note, that I am going to go with what would happen in the games here. If you retract your Pokémon to dodge a move, then your next Pokémon will be hit instead. Simply to balance constantly switching Pokémon. Yupp.
@Pyromaniacwolf Gave you something to potentially react to. Just because. Haha.
@Rune_Alchemist I gave Timburr an evasion boost due to his unique training. ... It didn't pay off. XD
Besides that, tell me if Hector's wrong about Ralia's preferred position. He'd know, though. Just somehow.
@Eklispe@Pikmin Eye I'll note it is complete coincidence that they happened to both have moves like that. I reasoned my way to what kind of Pokémon she'd have, and then looked at their movesets, and then "well, oh, my". So good luck with that. Haha.
@Pirouette They misunderstood the rules a little. So what'll you do now? Haha.
The woman smiled a bit at Erza as he described his encounter and then showed his new Duskull and named her. She nodded mostly until he came to the part where he actually asked something.
‘Oh, yes. Every week or so we release a new batch of Pokémon into the grass by the school, to keep our students busy catching new ones. This week we released a lot of Purrloins, because of Penelope’s recent rise in popularity many have wanted one, and it’s worked like a charm. There may be some Shinxes left from last week, maybe. But, each week we also add one or two really rare little creatures, just for students to hope to be lucky. They might already be captured, but… Maybe you’d like to try your luck? It hasn’t failed you yet, I think.’ She giggled as she told. All up to Erza if he wants to take a look. ‘There are some elitists who think outsiders shouldn’t be allowed to look in the grass, but if you run into one tell them you got permission from Kathryn. That’ll keep them quiet.’ She nodded with a smile, adding in her name. Then it was about the egg…
‘I don’t actually know what’s in it.’ Kathryn said with a curious look. ‘But Johannes is a talented breeder with far-reaching connections because of his past. It could honestly be anything.’ She shrugged a little, and then smiled. ‘But you won’t have to worry about not treating it right. Pokémon Eggs are a hardy kind. It manages perfectly well on its own, no matter what environment you’d take it through, and is pretty resistant to blows as well. Just carry it around, and it will hatch eventually. Buuuut, keeping it warm helps. If you have a Fire Pokémon or so, storing their Pokéball next to the egg will help keep it warm. Even more so if their ability is Flame Body, but that’s advanced stuff.’ She waved her hand a little to wave that off.
‘The egg’s fully capable of handling itself. Just carry it with you. Okay?’ She smiled to him.
Then if he had more questions, then he could ask those. Or he could head on. Yupp.
1. Find Pokémon. There’s a small park of grass in here. What kind of Pokémon might be in it? 2. Talk. Plenty of students and teachers. This is a wellspring of knowledge, someone must know something. 3. Challenge. Work your way up the leaderboard! Specify the level of opponent. 4. Specify. If you specify what you want to do, the GM will take it into account and tell the result. 5. Trigger random event. Force the GM to use his imagination to make a scenario for you. 6. Study. You want to know something? Feel free to learn about it here! 6.1. Pokémon Habitats. Learn where you might find a specific kind of Pokémon! 6.2. Isson Geography. Learn more about the different places in Isson! 6.3. Names to Remember. Learn about Gym Leaders, Elite Four, or the like! 6.4. Local Legends. Learn about different tales from around Isson! 6.5. Pokémon Breeding. That’s also a subject. 6.6. Battling Basics. You likely know them already. 6.7. Specify. Tell what you want to learn and we’ll see if we have a course! 7. Faculty. Can still keep talking to Kathryn. Or look for Johannes if he wishes. Or other people.
Connected areas: Pureplain City. All around, of course.
‘Bully!? But I’m trying to… I am…’ The boy shook his head in confusion.
Meanwhile, Bonsly went through with picking up a sizeable rock and throwing it despite the change of opponent. Pumpkaboo was focused on Trick-or-Treating, and as such was unable to avoid the well-aimed rock, and… it hurt, badly. It was a considerable hit, another one of those was already dangerous. By now, Amelia might realize the opposing trainer’s Pokémon is numerous levels above her own.
‘Bons-!?’ Bonsly was hit with the energy of Trick-or-Treat in turn, however, and felt the ghostly energy working it’s magic on him. He looked considerably disturbed by this, as his existence felt less linked to the world at large all of a sudden. This didn’t stop his trainer, though.
‘Bonsly! Another Rock Throw!’ He commanded, pointing at Pumpkaboo again. Despite the new status, Bonsly acted on instinct and went to pick up another rock, ready to throw.
‘Duck?’ The duck had a curious look all of a sudden when Lucian said it was for him, and then he listened in… ‘Duckleeeeeeett!’ He made a happy little cry and made a motion as if to hug the Pokédex with his wings, as if it was his trainer. While Mia spoke with him he made a few happy nods and then finally, as the call was made, he turned and made a small salute to Lucian, to indicate readiness. ‘Ducklett!’ Much more willing than previously.
‘Thank you. I’ll see you then.’ Mia said, and then he could be on his way. Ducklett blinked in surprise and shook his head+beak at that he wasn’t told to rob Lucian, before getting a move on to move on with him.
So, into the Wet Caverns again. He saw the usual, Zubats trying to bother him, Goldeens swimming through the water, and there were a few Geodudes on the side punching each other for whatever reason. Had Lucian seen Geodudes? Eh, just in case.
Pokédex Entry #74 – Geodude, the Rock Pokémon. Found in fields as well as mountains. They commonly rest, half-buried in the ground and indistinguishable from normal rocks. There are always way more Geodude around than a traveler will notice. Stepping on one by accident may trigger their rage.
They headed back down, following the same path they had been on because that path’s actually travelled occasionally and Houndour could probably smell the most commonly travelled path, and that meant more wading through the waters. He reached the split where left was the river where he had met the Team Virtue guys and so, but Houndour’s nose told that was likely also the exit. To the right was dry land, leading in to another split, not necessarily interesting. Thooough…
‘Excuse us!’ ‘Coming through!’ ‘Running away!’
There were three people, dashing down from the right, straight into the water. One was a bigger guy with a big backpack and green jacket, looking like a man used to traversing the mountains. The other two were much more fancily dressed, a girl with two long cyan curly twintails for hair and orange suit with skirt on her, while the last man was dressed in all purple with orange lines and a red cape, for whatever reason. They were looking panicked, running at full speed towards the exit of the cavern, avoiding contact or stopping for any reason through the waters. Other than the words of warning, they completely ignored Lucian unless they were stopped or something, looking very frightened for some reason.
Soooo, Houndour could smell where they came from. If that was at all interesting.
Up to Lucian if he found that curious enough to to check, or if he wanted to stop them and ask something or so, or just ignore them like they had ignored him.
Hector grinned with vigor as Claire made her kinda proclamation of victory. ‘Feisty. I’m gonna have to return that energy.’ He commented, and then the battle was on. He looked at Ralia and… ‘Psychic and Fairy, eh. Homework has been done.’ He chuckled a little, before losing the smile and glaring ahead.
‘Timburr! Close the distance!’ Hector commanded, pointing forward.
‘TIM!’ The energetic little fighting-type announced as he dashed ahead, holding his staff/log on the side as he went towards the center of Ralia’s copies. Then, Ralia was preparing to use Confusion, and the Timburr was heading straight towards one of the copies…
‘NOW!’ Hector suddenly announced, just as Ralia was about to release her Confusion. The Timburr then took the staff and thrust down into the ground, and… jumped. He practically flew into the air, using a fighting-type’s strength combined with a staff for jumping, and Ralia would find that her target became considerably harder to focus on. Because any move that don’t automatically hit can now miss.
… But she still hit. She’s that good.
‘BURR!’ Timburr took a Super-Effective mental blow with some purple effect in mid-air and he spun in the air and crashed into the floor somewhat behind the Ralia copies, but despite bruises he was quick on his feet and spun around to face the middle one. Hector let out a little laugh.
‘Good try! It’s the first one on the left. POUND!’ Hector had, somehow, seen which the real one was. Timburr was in his reactions, and looked to the one indicated. He then stabbed the floor behind him with the log, launching himself at Ralia, and then took the log-staff to swing. Swinging the log at her was apparently what constituted as Pound, here.
‘…’ Cathia was silent for a bit as she watched the two opposing Pokémon, but she seemed to come to a conclusion. Her expression softened a little on her realization. ‘Bagon. Ember the Nincada. Flabébé, circle around, Vine Whip the Wooper.’
‘Bagoooo---!’ The little dragon cried out as fire started gathering in its mouth, before turning to Nincada and blasting out.
‘Flaaaaaa...!’ Meanwhile, Flabébé was floating in the air with a huge smile, flying by Bagon on its right side and up into the air, needing to be at least a bit closer in order to do her attack, but soon enough it’s little flower sprouted vines which swung down at Wooper.
Neither Pokémon was actually of the type of the move they were using, so they were weaker than if an actual fire- or grass-type had used them. Yet, effectively, both moves would turn super-effective if they hit, and were attacks conducted from a slight distance.
This would happen at the same time as Nincada and Wooper committed to their things. In the case of Wooper, it took long enough for Flabébé to actually reach for her to get Tail Whip off, reducing the defense of the two opponents by slightly distracting them. However, for Nincada the Ember was immediate. If he committed to actually raising Defense, the fireball would definitely hit.
‘Your armor won’t help if I use Special Attacks, will it, Martin?’ She asked, her voice determined. ‘I will.’ She then confirmed that she’d give it her all, and then refocused on the match.
‘Gib?’ The Gibles stares intensified and looked at her as she said the word “challenge”. In fact, the use of the word attracted the attention of the other two, playfighting Gibles, looking over with certain intentness. They looked kind of confused by her explanation of the rules, but then she reached forward with a hand. The Gibles inspected it curiously, and one of the Gibles curiously poked on it with a tiny little hand. He was poked right back by Erika. In retaliation, the Gible tried poking away. Erika pulled away.
‘Gible!?’ If he had understood or not was unclear, but the Gible most certainly jumped after her after she pulled away, with clear intention to poke her again. Perhaps it was by flock-mentality or what, but so did the other one, and so did the two others who had now stopped playfighting and were paying attention. But they may have misunderstood the rules, because Erika suddenly found that she had all the Gibles chasing her. Sure, they were short and didn’t have quite the agility of a human, but they were several pretty strong tiny dragons, and they were chasing her.
It should be noted she had quite a limited space to actually run, there was just this plateau which really actually wasn’t very large, just about 40 meters or so in diameter and then there were rock-walls, a long way down, or areas that were climbable but certainly not runnable. The majority of their time were spent in those tiny caverns, and Erika didn’t fit in those.
‘Mistress. The Sweethearts are arriving.’ Mariette suddenly heard whispered into her ear by Eli. Eli was currently hiding in a nearby tree, an artificial vegetation placed there to improve the scenery, spying there under the cover of Darkness magic for unwelcome visitors. With her she had a small portal that led directly to Mariette’s ear, and she could but feel the disappointment. They were here, huh.
‘Tell our friends they can join us, should they wish. Warn them it may not be a friendly meeting, however.’ Mariette whispered back, not intending on being heard by those in front of her.
‘Understood.’ Eli said, before turning to another portal, which had been prepared for them.
‘There is no ambush. You may join if you wish. Mistress warns that it may not be a friendly meeting.’ Eli told them through a portal Mariette had prepared to wherever they may be waiting, if they wanted to come. In that case then currently it was Sue and Deni in there, with Mariette through a mirror on the table (hidden from plebian eyes by darkness magic) and Lily currently heading in.
I need to write a quick post, to tell the friends they can come in if they want to. Hah.
Edit: Tell me if there's any problems. I just wanted to make a post enabling those who might want to join the scene to do so. Otherwise, is there anyone who wishes to post in that scene before Mariette actually answers? If so, I'll wait. Otherwise, I might go ahead. Hah.
@Project Well. Depending on what happens, after a while I might get more lenient on if you want to temporarily shelve your current character to play someone in wildly different circumstances after we've explored a bit more of the world if anyone wishes, but I won't allow the playing of both characters at once if we're this many players.
@Pirouette Playing tag with dragons, eh? ... *goes and checks Gible's speed stat and then compares to various human-shaped Pokes to get an idea of what the human speed stat would be* ... Aaand that's highly inconsistent. Logic and reasoning, I choose you, instead! Hahaha. Nicely posted.
I'm wondering if anyone's waiting for something that's not coming. I'm just... waiting for the Minutemen to do stuff. Or just watch as Shatterpoint escapes and then slink back into nothingness.
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