[OOC] Pokémon: Nexus

[alexfangtalon]

@Tangletail Yeah, i feel the healing machine would have many components. Otherwise they'd have more than one in the Pokecenter. It'd also probably be extremely heavy.

There were more than two people in Sho's group.(Micky was one of them btw)

I have a feeling Team Nexus wouldn't go through all they did just now to leave the Oasis alone. That's just a hunch though.

[Sketcher]

@Tangletail Yeah, i feel the healing machine would have many components. Otherwise they'd have more than one in the Pokecenter. It'd also probably be extremely heavy.

There were more than two people in Sho's group.(Micky was one of them btw)

I have a feeling Team Nexus wouldn't go through all they did just now to leave the Oasis alone. That's just a hunch though.

@alexfangtalon

Or a nurse might have a pokemon with Heal Pulse for extreme situations :P

[AbysmalDemon]

@Tangletail Yeah, i feel the healing machine would have many components. Otherwise they'd have more than one in the Pokecenter. It'd also probably be extremely heavy.

There were more than two people in Sho's group.(Micky was one of them btw)

I have a feeling Team Nexus wouldn't go through all they did just now to leave the Oasis alone. That's just a hunch though.

@alexfangtalon

Well, they were just beaten by a group of teens significantly younger than them, so they had to make a quick getaway. I'll say they left the oasis alone.

Also, is anyone planning to take on they Dune town Gym in one of their next few posts? If so PM me when you are planning to write the battle out so that I/Sho/Alex can be on. Speaking of which, @Sho Minazuki@Alexfangtalon I'm going to PM you just to get things started.

[Sho Minazuki]

Not to mention Luxio was pretty much crushed seemingly easily by Larvitar. That's not something a grown man would live down in a battle against a kid.

And yeah, I'm planning on taking on the gym.

[alexfangtalon]

I am to. It would be after healing the Pokemon though. If we ever figure out how.

[Sho Minazuki]

I'd wager the Pokemon Gyms have one of their own too.

[OtomostheCrazy]

It's Labor Day. Let's have a party!...Wait, no. Not that Party. I don't even know who those guys are. Song's awesome but that party ain't the one I want! No! Don't do it! Don't-

[Tangletail]

@Sketcher Nothing fits a proper healing from a machine! DX. Besides, in my mind... potions and healing pulse can only go so far. If a mon gets jacked up enough, you're better off putting them in an incubator. Which is why even though a Mega Absorb can fully restore a treecko pretty well... Maple, only went from Critical to "Bad Shape".

In my mind, they only get more vitality (energy/vigor) to continue the fight with pure determination. But if you get gored, you're not fixing that with a potion. Think of it like how Pillars of Eternity does it. You got stamina, and then you have actual health. If your stamina goes out, your character is defeated, but not dead. he can quickly be picked back up with some debuffs added to him, and this is what you heal with potions and magic. But as your character starts taking damage, his actual health drops with his stamina. No item can heal that. And if hits zero, the character dies on hard mode. On normal mode, you get "Maimed" and if he goes down again before he fully restores his health... he dies. And the only way to heal that is to rest.

That's my thought on it, because they did say that a pokemon that is pushed too hard can eventually die from it XD.

[Tangletail]

@EWillden

Leon is talking to your group. He's also made mention of repairing the healing machine he aquired from the burning building in about an hour or less.

Sorry it wasn't colored though. My computer is not playing nice with this website right now.

[EWillden]

I highly doubt your character has the right know how on repairing a healing machine that by the way requires power to it to work anyways.

[Sho Minazuki]

And the Pokemon Gym should have one of it's own anyways.

You can turn in the parts to the authorities, someone in town might have spare parts to get it working, but that might have to be for tomorrow.

[Tangletail]

I highly doubt your character has the right know how on repairing a healing machine that by the way requires power to it to work anyways.

@EWillden

You'd be surprised :P. I studied electrical engineering before switching to Software Engineering XD. I also soddered things back onto motherboards. And had to fix projectors for a movie theater. That stuff is a lot easier to fix than you think. The design is whats a pain.

You can splice cables together as long as the resistance of the new wire doesn't pass the threshold of acceptable resistance. Which generally means you can't use a heavy cable on a light cable. And it can't be too low. Meaning you'll start a fire if you attach a light cable to what needs a heavy cable.

Really, the only thing you can't jurry rig back together on a machine, is the motherboard. If that's damaged or broken. Good luck. And it's stupidly hard to destroy those suckers in industrial machines.

But too be honest. I would not run that thing for longer than two weeks. Especially after going through a fire. Normally, I wouldn't care because the devices do have a pretty good heat resistance, and the casing does a good job at insulating ambient temperature. But... it's medical equipment.

So... the machine, that much Leon can do. Civil Engineering on the other hand... yeeaaah. No... that Aquaduct is screwed. Because I honestly don't know how they work. He could tell you how to build a water purifier... but that's honestly only good for one family at a time X3.

He was also that guy you'd see in front of his bedroom window reading some hard core books and theories in hopes of getting accepted with a full ride scholarship to a prestigious college.

[Sho Minazuki]

Wow you are really dead set on that. Does Leon have any background in working with hardware in any case?

Not to mention we're in a town with a gym, I'm pretty sure there are a few handymen around, it's not a small village.

And again.

The gym would have one too. Pretty sure there are repairmen for these machines in pretty much every larger town like this one.

EDIT: Oh nevermind I see it in his backstory now. Still though, I'm pretty sure the various authorities would spot him carrying a large machine that looks suspiciously like the Pokemon Center equipment. You might get a little visit shortly.

[Tangletail]

Given that the authorities basically got out ranked by kids when it came to handling problems. And... countless times depended on kids... I'm sure a...

"Officer I can explain!" Will do wonders when combined with, "The machine would have been doomed in the fire, and there were plenty of heavily injured pokemon that were fighting off the terrorist. Their condition is horrible enough that they'd probably recieve increasingly worse conditions the longer they wait! So I risked my life to extract it, and repair it. Now I'm delivering it to the nurse."

but that could honestly go either way. I'm sure they'd be in a bad mood.

Side note... Engineers.

[EWillden]

Not only that they could just say. "Why not just use the gyms healing machine."

Also, bit convenient that he the manual and all he needed to fix it in his pockets....

[Tangletail]

Not only that they could just say. "Why not just use the gyms healing machine."

Also, bit convenient that he the manual and all he needed to fix it in his pockets....

@EWillden

You generally keep the manuals near the machines, or stored somewhere. Some locations even keep the technical manual inside the device's chassy, if it's frequently maintained. It doesn't tell him if something small is missing. It basically tells him general information that is documented, and how to service it, or determine if it's in operational shape, correct operational voltages across certain components, and circuit diagrams where it can be serviced without needing to go back to the manufacturer... or be replaced. Which... without proper tools, you're not guaranteed to know until it's tested. So this machine could actually still be busted due to the prolonged exposure to heat. Just jarring it around won't do enough damage to it. Hince why he's a bit unncertain when he concludes that it may be fixed.

Best case scenario, The power cable was melted, and needed to be replaced. A few objects falling on it would have probably damaged the screen and glass. Worse case scenario, the heat actually destroyed something very small in the circuit board that it's hard to notice. It can still be salvaged, it just won't be availible immediately. Or a pillar had basically crushed it all together.

And to be honest, this is actually just a convenient excuse for my character to introduce himself to the others and not be a lone wanderer. If it wasn't for him knowing that your pokemon were hurt, and that the only center in town had been burned down, he'd probably would have moved on to the next town by personality - he's not very social and is more concerned about Maple's well being.

But... do gyms actually have a healing machine? You're generally forced to run back to the pokemon center, aren't you? I know the Elite 4 has them at the end of the journey.

[Sho Minazuki]

But... do gyms actually have a healing machine? You're generally forced to run back to the pokemon center, aren't you? I know the Elite 4 has them at the end of the journey.

@Tangletail

How else do they have fully healed Pokemon when you return after a loss?

That said, we're also melding some of the anime's logic because the game doesn't do certain things for gameplay reasons. They definitely would have a healing machine in the gyms.

Not to mention it's something useful to have when you have multiple challengers lining up a day.

[Tangletail]

I don't ever recall seeing it in the anime. They just take the ass kicking shake your hand and wait for the character to leave.

But my thought usually is FULL RESTORE SPAM. Or that they do one challenge a day, or one fight during appointed times (As trainers are actually pitted up against each other before they get to the leader).

It seems unreasonable, but there aren't a lot of trainers that appear to even take the challenge to begin with, they get weeded out. And a lot don't even seem to make it to the elite 4.

[Sho Minazuki]

It's assumed that some trainers you meet along the road even in the games have earned as many badges as you have at that point in the game. The dialogue of some trainers in some games suggests this as some actually admit to having a few badges.

For convenience, they really don't have a lot of challengers, that's because each time they focus on the main character. In the Pokémon Origins anime, it focuses on Red. In the regular anime, it focuses on Ash. In the games, it focuses on you. Of course you wouldn't see other challengers.

But based on what I saw in the Origins anime it looks like they would have some kind of healing machine set up somewhere in the back. It's very structured from what I saw.

[Heckno12]

@Sho Minazuki Well if you remember, you actually see a few other challengers before Ash fought Lt.Surge. There are certainly a lot of challengers in the Pokemon leagues as well even if you only count the people that make it all the way.