[OOC] Pokémon: Start

[PlatinumSkink]

@Eklispe@Joshua Tamashii There. Now, if Dawkin feels like doing something else than just heading on here, that's fine, too. I just need to adjust that as well. ... And I managed to be influenced by Rune again and wrote _ instead of for between the two names. Hah.

@Rune_Alchemist Here you go. Have fun with this. Hah.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Gardevoiran@Old Amsterdam Yupp. Nicely posted, the two of you. I will note you don't always need to be very complicated. You can also have give me if-statements for how your tactics might evolve if you predict your opponent's motions, but anyways. This is good. I'll seek to reply when I get home, later today.

@Rune_Alchemist Teh-heh. Overcome sleep by shouting drill-sergeant-like lines. I am amused. Nicely posted. And... yeah, I apologize, but I think I'll forbid items in official Pokémon League battles. That said, nobody has told you that yet, so I'm going to have Archie comment on it in a bit, heh.

@Eklispe Nicely posted. I'll note it's "Cacnea", and not "Cacane". But, um. I included a bit more in the post to you and Joshua in order to get you moving, including a part about a trainer that wanted to challenge you. No reaction to that part? Are you discussing the matter with Joshua or so?

Edit: Nicely posted, Dusksong.

I'll be posting tomorrow, then.

[Eklispe]

Oh my bad, I stopped reading after suggestions to actions cause I thought it was for someone else after that point, I'll edit real quick.

[PlatinumSkink]

I'm bad at "tomorrow". In general, week-ends are the worst.

@Rune_Alchemist I'm just going to have this little thing that Gym Leaders are not allowed to use items... unless their challenger uses them, heh.

@Dusksong Well. Aren't you getting deep with those thoughts there, heh. Meaningful and such. Alright, then. How're you handling this?

@Old Amsterdam@Gardevoiran And for you two, it was pretty evident to me how the battle would eventually end so I went ahead. Here's your little window to say whatever you like to whoever you like, and all of that, heh.

@Eklispe Nice, then we just need Joshua's input on that matter.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Dusksong Nicely posted. Yupp, that's cool. Now, excuse me for perhaps putting a lot in your section here, but I did want you to potentially talk to the other new trainers that just got out from their battles, heh.

@Old Amsterdam Heh. You want Vivia to hang on? Sure. Until I figure out something else I want her to do. Nicely posted.

@Gardevoiran I like the use of Water Gun there. Nicely posted. Yupp, now it's up to you guys where you want to go.

@Rune_Alchemist Nicely posted. Now, if you've read the IC post, I mostly intend that your next post is most likely the description of an attempted dodge and then your next plan of action. Teh-heh. Good luck with that.

@Eklispe Nicely posted. Alright, that's what Dawkin wants to do. Now, I'll post as soon as Joshua figures what he wants Amelia to do. Teh-heh.

@Demon Shinobi How's it going?

[PlatinumSkink]

Hm. That felt somewhat imperfect, but there you go. Tell me if there's any issues anywhere.

So, given that I am aware of that I am useless Monday through Wednesday because of my schedule, I am going to try to implement something here. I will attempt to post on Thursdays and Sundays, to make for steady amount of posting every week. Two GM posts per week, for those who have posted. This sound reasonable, right? I feel relatively good about that. How does that sound?

[PlatinumSkink]

@Rune_Alchemist So, because of the size of that beam, I somewhat count it as that you spent the first turn dodging out of the way, and the second one dashing forth to the opponent. If you had said that you'd do Ember BEFORE dashing in close, that had been launched first, but you wanted into close combat first. Which makes sense... except Archie and Sunfloorall had a counter to that. You know, Gym Leader and all that. So, what will you do?

I kind of need to say that I might be unable to post during all of next week, on account that I'm going on a mini-vacation Thursday through Sunday. So, if I was useless Monday to Wednesday in this schedule normally, now I'm going to be useless Monday to the Wednesday the week after... Hah. My apologies about that. I'll see if I can still try to post somewhere in there, but, er, I'm going to be with my family and likely only have free-time at midnight, don't necessarily count on it, hah. My apologies about that.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Gardevoiran

I am amused that you mentioned seeking that particular Pokémon. Did you know? It has been mentioned in the IC that Tropius appears in this forest at a previous time, but the have not been properly encountered before, heh. In any case. Here.

@Rune_Alchemist

Nope, he didn't bother with Grass Whistle this time. Sorry about that. Ritz didn't quite have the agility to dodge, so it became a matter of outlasting the firepower... which worked relatively well, but that's just way too much power, heh.

@Joshua Tamashii

I'll remind that I prefer Joshua to not interfere too heavily with what's going on down here. I was okay with it when it was Angelique, because the kids can't handle her, but here the place is scaled for Dawkin and Amelia, hah.

@Joshua Tamashii@Eklispe

In any case. Here, you've cleaned up the room, minus the red-health Honedge. What'll you do now?

@Dusksong

I apologize for the short post, but it mostly amounted to "that works", heh. Now I need your input for how you intend to use the stick of honey you acquired.

[PlatinumSkink]

@prettydrops

I’ll note that I will always be in control of what Pokémon you encounter. I also follow a certain map I’ve made of where I’ve placed the Pokémon that you might encounter across the world… and I’m afraid you won’t find what you’re looking for here. Pureplain is so pure and plain not even those can be found. In fact, these wouldn’t have been here either, if it wasn’t for…

Well, anyway. I got to present an established character again. Wooo.

@Gardevoiran

(read the post first) Soooooo…

I had to go check. There’s a 32% chance that a full-health Jigglypuff is caught using a standard Pokéball. I, of course, had to roll my 100 sided die where lower is better for simplicity. You rolled a 25. So, congratulations. I’m going to go bury my intentions of turning the Silent Forest into a Friday the 13th parody with a Jigglypuff Jason-standin somewhere at the wayside. *sniff*

@Dusksong

Some training done. There you go. Where to now?

@Joshua Tamashii@Eklispe

Puh. That was some work. Okay. Now you’re free to do whatever you want. Most will rely on Amelia’s ghost-sense, yeah.

I’m a bit conflicted on Joshua right now. I did design this particular scene to be a bit of a “we know we’re weaker, what do we do now?” situation so it really wasn’t entirely profitable for me to have you be accompanied by a guy that could walk in and one-shot the boss. Still, it makes sense that he’d come, doesn’t it? Bunch of danger and so, why wouldn’t he? But that’d be so anti-climatic. Eeeh… Oh, well…

I might contact you about Joshua’s current events later, but right now I just want to post this.

@Rune_Alchemist

Teh-heh. I actually had something commissioned for this, even if it was just something simple. I just wanted that pictured. Teh-heh. Your enemy is Level 21. Have fun.

[PlatinumSkink]

I promised a post. I was heavily distracted, but I would not fail.

@Eklispe@Joshua Tamashii Not entirely how I envisioned this would go, but I'll work with it, heh. Nicely posted. I hope you'll figure out some kind of plan or so, or tell me what you'd like me to provide for it.

@prettydrops Nicely posted. Now, then. I do prefer that my trainers go out and search for Pokémon, but it seems you already know what you're looking for. I provide a single place where you can find each Pokémon you seek, even though they can be found in more than one, mostly. Otherwise, yeah. You're free to continue.

@Gardevoiran Nicely posted. Yupp, you got some training done. Now, sleep in the games don't last very long, and you have no requirement for awakenings, I don't think. Heh. Oh, well.

@Dusksong Nicely posted. Now, occasionally, things won't go exactly like the trainer might have envisioned it, and may have to fight for something if they want it. If not, then some chances in life might just slip away. Depends entirely on the trainer's actions, heh.

@Rune_Alchemist Nicely posted. I was looking forward to Bellawesome's entrance, heh. Now, what wil

[PlatinumSkink]

@Rune_Alchemist Four days ago. Time goes so fast. Anyways, I don't want any player posts to become 5 days old without any response, so here. Quick post. Nicely posted. Last fight here is on.

@prettydrops So, we can probably jump right to depositing the Shuppets if you so wish. You did intend this to still be in Pureplain, right? Probably somewhere there. Anyways. Nicely posted. Let's see if we can also get you on some kind of road, hah.

@Gardevoiran Nicely posted. Now, here you go. Do you want to use these? Ask him any other questions? Earl here isn't necessarily the most talkative of guys if he isn't asked questions, but before that, here's some herbs, heh.

@Eklispe Yupp. Nicely posted. You are free to still suggest strategies or whatever, but I do understand if there doesn't seem to be any to suggest or if it's more natural to leave it to Amelia. Oh, well. Some way or another.

[PlatinumSkink]

@prettydrops My scale on the rareness is

Common: You're likely going to run into the Pokémon on this route regardless if you want to or not.

Uncommon: You might still run into them, but it's not absolute. If you look for them, though, you will find them.

Rare: Now we're talking multiple posts to find one even when searching, heh.

So, yeah. You say you want to find a Growlithe? Here you go. Not sure about spinning the scenarios for it for the moment, though. Hah.

@Gardevoiran I decided he'd have a Cleffa with Metronome before I actually checked if Cleffa could learn Metronome. Egg-move? Good enough.

@Rune_Alchemist The whims of a child and a battle-happy Pokémon. Teh-heh. What'll you do?

@Eklispe@Joshua Tamashii ... I apologize if I offended anyone.

[PlatinumSkink]

@prettydrops Nicely posted. Though, this is a regular encounter right now. I'm not intending on spicing it up particularly. So, what'll they do?

@Gardevoiran Your Celebrity rolled pretty good on her sing-roll. Hahahaha. In any case. Nicely posted. Do you want to do this battle the faster way or the really slow way? Hahaha.

@Eklispe@Joshua Tamashii I started typing and then I realized I needed your input. So, er. What do you do?

@Rune_Alchemist Nope, Archie does not understand. In any case. Nicely posted. I will say we'll probably speed up any rematch so you don't have to fight through it all like that again! ... Unless you want to, I suppose!

@Lo Welcome back, heh. Nicely posted. In any case. There's north Silent Forest and south Silent Forest. You didn't specify, because I didn't really show you that it was an option, so I picked one.

@Dusksong Happy to see you post again! You worried me there for a bit, hah. Nicely posted. Have a little talk.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Joshua Tamashii Special note on your area, AFTER you read the main post. The thing that is going on right now is using Amelia's memories. That is to say, if there's something I write that you find extremely incorrect, you may correct me. Still. This is what it'd do, so.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Typical Nicely posted. This little adventure you're having here has entertained me quite well, especially since you had no idea what's going on. I hope you've had fun, too. Though, I do believe it's time to finish this particular event in this room. What will you decide?

@Gardevoiran Nicely posted. Donating a lot makes the GM happy, money well spent, I hope, heh. Posted some reactions to what you said, minus what you said to Valen. Oh, and @prettydrops, you may still reply to what Skylar said and what's going on around there, you've not been completely left behind, hah.

@Ephemeral Ah, you went for her... Heh. Alright, then. I hope you're ready to face the consequences. I mean, you can't just speak to random people in the Pokémon world and NOT expect this to happen, can you!? XD ... Anyways, nicely posted!

@Eklispe Yupp. Nicely posted. You can ask that, but, unfortunately Cresselia has her own beef with Darkrai. She certainly would have stopped if it was ONLY for Roderick... but this is for herself, too. Heh.

@Rune_Alchemist Yupp. Nicely posted. Celebrating someone else, heh. Let's see if I can't reward you a bit for that. That said, this situation is not entirely cleared up, yet. Also, apparently Earth gods are in some kind of legends over here, because I'm having Frans name his Pokémon after them. Though, if you just point out the problem to Frans, I can have you out of this event in the next post, if you just want to move on.

@Joshua Tamashii And nicely posted. It becomes a lot more complicated when there's a whole bunch of Pokémon to control, huh? Well. As requested, I didn't actually write the Moonblast hitting, as I would have otherwise, but now it's descending fast instead. Yeah.

[Remram]

Hi, I'm not sure if you remember me, but I was from that pokemon rp we were in before it died awhile back. I was wondering if there is still room to join?

[PlatinumSkink]

@hatakekuro I do remember you. I had to go remind myself, but I do remember.

Unfortunately, I think I'd rather not put more on my plate right now. I'm running late on posts pretty frequently as it is, and have things to do outside of the Roleplayer Guild. I would have liked to let you in, but I think it wouldn't be the responsible thing to do, at the moment.

Thank you for the interest, though. If there's a time when things have calmed down or other players leave for whatever reason, I could come back to you.

[Remram]

Alright man, I understand. Thanks anyway.

[PlatinumSkink]

The theme of today's post is "how many people can we free from their current situations and set loose to do as they like again!?"

@Typical You being the exception, you're going into something instead. That took a while to make. Still, that was decently fun. Now, the level of <that> is only like 20, it doesn't get much higher in the Trainers' School, but still. I put you up against a trainer that would be more or less your level. Let's see how you handle her. Hahahaha.

@Ephemeral I'm afraid I don't entirely see Princess prevailing here. Stafan's one tough customer. XD ... In any case, you're free to do as you like, now. If you wish to continue talking to Yvonne, you can do that, or you can do whatever else you like, otherwise. Yepp. That's about that.

@Rune_Alchemist And with that, I think that's about as far as this little event needs to go, if you'd like to go do something else. Or, hah, suppose you can hang onto Frans if you want to experience some drama. Not sure what you'd do there, yet, but still. Now you can do whatever.

@Gardevoiran Since I've already decided you can have this Ralts, here you go. Hah. Alright, you're free to do as you like again.

@prettydrops Say, are you intending on posting? Otherwise, Skylar might just go off on his own without your reply. That may be for the best, if your next post is going to take a while, but, it'd feel better if you could talk a bit. Oh, well.

@Joshua Tamashii@Eklispe And... the big one. I got a bit weary of this event, so I took the chance and just cleared it up, here. This is primarily to ensure that Amelia and Dawkin can once again move as they want to without needing to follow this event. That said, there's a bit more event stuff to deal with. The rest of Team Virtue is still attacking the front gate of the Old Tombs, there's still a bunch of sleeping people, but Darkrai will deal with that. First things first, though...

I really can't let anyone get a legendary without a fight, though. No matter whom they are. Hahahaha.

[PlatinumSkink]

Okay, done that. Now let's comment a bit.

@Gardevoiran Yupp. Nicely posted. Tipped a bunch, haha. Guess you're not going to need that money, huh? Well. Let's hope so, anyway. XD
I'm just going with that Valen's left behind for now. Sounded like Pretty was fine with that. Yeah. Moving on.

@Joshua Tamashii And nicely posted. Hah, that's some speech. I need to have Roderick answer, though I intentionally avoided asking questions in order to just, well, make it so that we can continue to the next scene. You can walk, or you can teleport/escape rope, anything goes. Otherwise, talk to me, and we can see what we make out of it.

@Ephemeral Yupp. Nicely posted. As I mentioned, you unintentionally hit Yvonne at a pretty sore spot, I'll give you something for that, hahaha. Otherwise, onto Route 12. I've looked forward to writing that one for a while. Not really sure why. It's just a really nice image.

@Rune_Alchemist Yupp. That's good enough. Nicely posted. Onto the biggest city in Isson, thank lord Pikmin Eye already reached it with Martin so I didn't have to add the effort to write that on top of the rest here. XD

@Typical Pffth, hah. Escaping Leanne like that. You know you can't ensure you will 100% win all the time, right? XD ... Anyways. That's a mighty fine post. Nicely posted. Phoebe's existence is acknowledged and approved, as is her mention about Mt. Allmass's Steel-types, which is pretty accurate, heh. Guess that part was sort-of predictable. Anyways, onto Wet Caverns, huh? Well. ... I may have gone overboard here, but I felt like it. XD

@Eklispe Nicely posted. Yeah, that's some good reacting. Imagining the expression on his face as Cresselia turns towards him is great fun. Anyways. Hopefully we can get you back to actually Pokémoning in a bit now. In a post or two. XD ... That said, Oscar wants that staff back. It's very dear to him. XD