Welcome back.Rules are simple: Votes are tallied every hour, with whatever course of action being the most popular being the course of action taken. Write ins are encouraged and non-mutually exclusive votes will be combined if possible.When a roll is called for, roll however many D100 are specified. 5- is a 'crit fail' and generally means something bad is about to happen. 95+ is a 'crit success' and generally means something good just happened. a 'crit success' trumps a crit fail. User input on both will be taken into consideration.Once per thread, if three or more people invoke it, a single roll may be re-rolled.Inventory, pokemon stats and other links: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15i2N08IpWqitoTJujsUMishe4PLbao1lqT-bCAmvPcE/editDiscord: https://discord.gg/pR7q5EvfFor a short summary for the new and to recap:You are Alex. A newly minted trainer and camping enthusiast just starting out on your journey at the age of seventeen after your father lost his job in order to help pay the bills. On the road, you met Fie, the Fire Gym Leader, Gareth a novice Aura Guardian on pilgrimage and Holly, a runaway heiress using a pseudonym. You've also made enemies of Team Green a group of violent, radical activists looking to abolish pokemon training.For the time being, Fie returned to her gym for the time being.Last thread, You flew for Redmont, fought a Thundurus and on arriving at Redmont, moved to assault a Team Green occupation of the local mine.
I'm dumb and distracted.>>6360056>>6360057>>6360379You figure that Gareth will be fine and the others will be alright.You've fallen behind and it'll be to everyone's benefit if you get in there and start making a mess out of Team Green.You can't go very wrong if you just make a complete mess out of these assholes.That in mind, you sprint around the dump truck, Rusty at your heels and come face to face with a pack of Scyther that are pressuring Martha, Holly and Gareth.That explains the Rock Blast.They're moving fast and some of them are clearly double Team illusions, considering some that are getting hit are just blurring out of existence, but that's not too worrying."Stealth Rock, Rusty." You order. "Then use Rock Tomb."Rusty acquiesces, scattering a spread of small, sharp rocks through the crush, before hurling some more sizeable rocks at the Scyther, catching one out and banishing its Double Team as it's swatted out of the air, its aura grey as it faints and somewhat simplifying the confused mass of Scyther, meaning it ought to be easier for the others to take down the rest."String Shot, Caterpie!" A muffled male voice says from your left and you dodge on reflex. Another wad of silk goes past your face and you turn to see a Team Green thug with a Caterpie on his shoulder pointing at you authoritatively.>Sucker Punch him.>Get Rusty to knock them both down.>Send out another pokemon.>OtherParty:Rusty (Aron) Fluffy (Eevee) (Everstone)Volta (Luxray) Ayumi (Dratini)Sage (Braixen) (Everstone)Syurm (Leavvany)Companion slot: Latias
>>6360965>Get Rusty to knock them both down.Rock Tomb Goes BRRRRRRRR
>>6360965>>Get Rusty to knock them both down.
Rolled 78 (1d100)>>6361074>>6361175Roll.
Rolled 25 (1d100)>>6361317
Rolled 37 (1d100)>>6361317
Rolled 67 (1d100)>>6361317
>>6361334>>6361438>>6361441"Rusty, Rock Tomb!" You order, before you're forced to back pedal to evade another wad of silk in your face.Man. No wonder these guys hate you.In response, the guy and his Caterpie are buried in a volley of sizeable rocks, the guy stunned and dazed and the Caterpie out cold.Gareth is fending off a masked woman who's made a grab at him while his Graveller downs another Scyther, while Martha's Dragonair pressures more of Team Green back from simply rushing you with judicious application of its tail and summoned waves of water via Surf.Holly and Checkers meanwhile are defending for dear life, but they look to be the weakest link in the chain at present. It's not even that Checkers is weak, so much as he's much, much more suited towards a support role and there's only so much he can do on the offense.Jacky meanwhile has pushed deeper into Team Green's 'camp' and judging by the shouting coming from deeper in, she's making them regret this blockade.>Help Holly.>Help Gareth.>Help Martha.>Keep pushing forward and try put these guards on the back foot.
>>6362177>>Help Holly.
Rolled 100 (1d100)>>6362190>>6362229>>6362708Roll.
Rolled 48 (1d100)>>6362870
Rolled 35 (1d100)>>6362870it's fine, reallyRIP Holly, that's all.
Rolled 14 (1d100)>>6362870Damn Holly is kill
>>6362870>>6362915>>6363051>>6363176It's an easy choice, really."Rusty, let's go." You say, pointing off towards Holly as you leave the grunt to try pick himself up, before you hurry towards the fray, only to see another thug come looming out of the crush as Gareth shoves his aggressor back and bodycheck Holly off her feet.She falls hard and the breath rushes out of her as the thug lays a kick into her abdomen, before another sends Checkers skidding back as he imposes himself between the thug and his trainer.Then, it's your turn to do the bodychecking as your blood turns to ice and rather than launching the guy, you tread on his foot as he's wound up and knock him down.He cracks his head on the gravel, before he's treated to a taste of his own medicine as you lay a full-blooded soccer kick into his gut, followed quickly by several more rapid-fire kicks fueled by icy rage at what he just did to your friend.How dare he. How. Dare he. How Dare He. HOW DARE HE. HOW DARE HE!Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.The thug vomits and is crying like a bitch now, before you lay one last kick into his gut, before Rusty and Checkers are getting between you and the mob as you loop your arms under Holly's arms and drag her out of harms way as Martha releases her Rapidash and Blue, her Lucario, giving you a nod as she takes over and takes off the kid gloves, the third Scyther going down as Rapidash unleashes a Fire Spin and Blue uses Bone Rush, wading into the crush of Team Green grunts and their pokemon and laying about himself with a manifested bone club as though it were a truncheon.>Release another pokemon.>Make sure Holly isn't too badly hurt.>Blue and Martha have the right idea: No more mercy.>Other Party:Rusty (Aron) (Already out)Fluffy (Eevee) (Everstone)Volta (Luxray) Ayumi (Dratini)Sage (Braixen) (Everstone)Syurm (Leavvany)Companion slot: Latias
>>6363188>>Blue and Martha have the right idea: No more mercy.LATIAS DRACO METEOR
>>6363188>>Blue and Martha have the right idea: No more mercy.
>>6363188>Make sure Holly isn't too badly hurt.
>>6363195>>6363203Okay, looks like you're going on a rampage.Roll.And sadly, Latias doesn't have Draco Meteor yet, but I do encourage write ins for what you want to do.
Rolled 75 (1d100)>>6363621
Rolled 69 (1d100)>>6363621rolling for dracometeor anyway
Rolled 1 (1d100)>>6363621
>>6363656thank god we also got 2 non-shit rolls
>>6363628>>6363655>>6363656Update a bit later, but uh...Prepare for trouble.
>>6363695"You going to be okay?" You ask Holly.She nods weakly, looking up at you dazedly.You nod in return, before straightening, leaving her safety to Checkers as you start running, Rusty hot on your heels, before with a yell, you rush Team Green's line, body checking another grunt and sending him sprawling, before you slug another in the jaw, before you're tagged by wads of string from another two Caterpie perched on another two grunts, one immobilising your leg and the other restraining one of your arms, leaving you severely restricted in movement and cut off from the others and worse, from Rusty, who's being blocked by a Sunflora, which isn't an ideal match for him by any stretch of the imagination.This... was not the smartest move you've ever made.The heat behind you as Martha's Rapidash unleashes another Fire Spin adds another layer to that idea as Blue is tied down beating up a Grimer and a Gloom that are keeping him from helping you.You're on your own.>This isn't going to slow you down. You have a knife!>Get Syurm to free you.>Get Sage to free you.>Have some faith in Rusty.>Go... (Fluffy, Volta, Ayumi, Latias)>Other
>>6363873>Get Syurm to free you.Go go, Leavvany!
>>6363873>>Have some faith in Rusty.DRAGON-TAIL!
Rolled 4 (1d4)Odd>>6363878Even>>6363886
>>6363886Roll.Rusty's coming in swinging.
Rolled 33 (1d100)I believe.
>>6365198It's so over...
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Rolled 15 (1d100)>>6365165
Rolled 69 (1d100)>>6365165
Rolled 1 (1d100)>>6365198>>6365296>>6366334
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>>6365198>>6365296>>6366334>>6366762"Rusty, to me!" You shout. "Dragon Tail!"You don't have time for anything else, you're just going to have to trust he's got this.Your vision is briefly blocked by another wad of string, before there's a shout of surprise, the sound of thrashing limbs from what you assume is a pile up along with a howl of pain, before your arm is freed and you're able to pull the silk from your eyes and tear off the string on your leg with Rusty's help.Looking around to see what happened, you see the Sunflora Rusty had been fighting is presently struggling with the Gloom Blue had been fighting and a Golbat, presently being battered by another Fire Spin while Blue makes some Team Green goons regret life decisions.What you can't figure out, is why one of the grunts is crumpled next to a fainted Caterpie and howling in pain and clutching what you surmise is a broken collarbone as Rusty squares up on his suddenly very nervous friend with the other Caterpie that had restrained you.He's currently backing away deeper into the camp as Rusty paws the ground in front of you and snorts like a pissed off Rhyhorn.You can hear more shouting behind the line and a quick look back shows the police have caught up and are starting to arrest the grunts.>Push deeper into the camp and see where Jacky got to.>Help the others and the police cuff these assholes.>Other
>>6366768>>Push deeper into the camp and see where Jacky got to.
>>6366768>>Push deeper into the camp and see where Jacky got to.Common Rusty Dragon Tail Win.
>>6366768>Push deeper into the camp and see where Jacky got to.
>>6366772>>6366837>>6367316>>6367383No sense standing around.Seeing that this screening group are well on the way to being apprehended, you beckon Rusty to follow as you head deeper into the camp.You don't encounter any resistance as you pass by tents, trash heaps, barrels that have been used for fires, vandalised equipment and a burnt out office building, before you round a line of smashed up and graffiti'd dump trucks to find Jacky standing in the midst of a crush of fainted pokemon with her Espeon and a Ninetales.The Espeon was glowing steadily and suspending a whole mess of Team Green grunts in the air as it sits patiently as you approach.Jacky turns as she hears your boots crunch on the gravel and relaxes slightly."Sorry for running off like that, but I figured I'd blunt these guys before they could get properly organised." She explains."Just so long as you're alright." You reply. "The police are arresting the mob at the gate." You add.Jacky nods, looking relieved. "Good, then we're half way there, then." She said."Mm... You sure you're going to need our help with catching whatever Team Green are down in the mine?" You ask."I'd appreciate the help." Jacky replies, which to your ear means 'no', but that she's enjoying having you and the others along.>Well, can't leave a job half done.>Holly got hurt back there. Someone will have to stay back to make sure she's okay.>This has been fun, but I think this is where we leave things to you and the professionals.>Other
>>6368350>>Well, can't leave a job half done.
>>6368350>Holly got hurt back there. Someone will have to stay back to make sure she's okay.
>>6368464>>6368611Admittedly, this could've been worse and it's not as though you're getting nothing out of this. You've already managed to get about five grand in credits off the mob that was at the gate.And besides, you don't like leaving jobs half done."Well if you're sure, I'm still game." You reply.Jacky nods brightly in response with a happy smile.You get the feeling this is a bit of a dream come true for her. Not in a romantic sense, but a platonic one.A bit odd, considering you're busting up a criminal occupation, but then again this sort of thing isn't exactly unheard of for trainers.Shortly, the others catch up along with a group of riot police who begin cuffing the cursing Team Green members as Jacky's Espeon lowers them one by one for the waiting officers."Little bit more than I bargained for, considering our last run in with these idiots." Martha admits, before holding up her arm. "This is about where I bow out of this operation though. I'm not going down into a mine with a broken arm.""And I wouldn't ask you to." Jacky assures, before looking at Holly with concern.She's looking pale as she leans on Gareth for support."I'm alright." She assures with a weak smile. "Just... need a minute.""Like hell, you got laid out and kicked in the guts." Martha says bluntly. "Take it easy, rest up and let the others deal with it." She advises.Holly nods dimly as Gareth hands her off to Martha."...By the way, what did Rusty do, precisely? I had silk in my eyes at the time, so I didn't see." You ask, addressing Gareth.Martha chuckles though."Well, he nailed that Sunflora alright." She says."But he flung himself backwards in the process." Gareth explains. "He flung the Sunflora into the Golbat and Gloom, but he launched himself into one of those two grunts with the Caterpie. Knocked the Caterpie out cold and knocked the grunt down as well."You wince in sympathy. That's probably a broken collar, unless you miss your guess. No wonder that guy was howling in pain."...Task failed successfully, I guess." You say weakly, trading a look with Rusty who looks up at you solemnly.>Change up your team a bit before you go with Jacky.>Stay back to make sure Holly is okay and let Gareth and Jacky deal with the group in the mine.>Ask Gareth to stay back with Holly while you go on ahead with Jacky.>Other
>>6369572>OtherCongrat Rusty for the succesful Dragon tail"Once you'll get a bit heavier you shouldn't launch yourself around that much.In the meantime... Maybe we can turn this in a custom attack? Dragon-Tail the ground for a extreme-speed-steel type? Wanna try?"
>>6369576For context of what happened mechanically:He just failed the DC to pull off a successful Dragon Tail, but TG's Nat 1 meant that he got *just enough* of a bonus to succeed on the check, so it was very much 'task failed successfully.'If he didn't have Rock Head, he'd have taken equal damage to the Sunflora as recoil.
>>6369579I fail to see how we can't weaponize that
>>6369630Oh, you can, it'll just be a lot of work.
>>6369572>Stay back to make sure Holly is okay and let Gareth and Jacky deal with the group in the mine.
>>6369576+1
>>6369576>>6372017You look down to Rusty, who's looking rather sheepish right now at the mishap."Hey, you did good." You assure. "You might not have succeeded, but it was close enough to get the job done. When you get a bit bigger and heavier, that shouldn't happen." You add. "And hey, maybe we can turn this into something new. That'd be cool, huh?"Rusty brightens at this and nudges your shin.You bend down and give him scritches in the gaps in his carapace, earning a pleased rumble-purring sound in response, before you straighten.Holly and Martha look at you questioningly, Martha holding up her bandaged arm and looking at yours significantly as she makes sure Holly is actually alright, but you wave her off.The burn on your arm's nearly better at this point and you doubt that Team Green is going to give you enough trouble to injure you again. Particularly not in caving gear.Gareth and Jacky are already kitted up and it's not long before you join them."All set?" Jacky asks.You nod."Yeah, all set. Flashlight's charged, this helmet's brand new and so are these overalls." You confirm. "And Rusty's still fresh, so let's go."Even saying that though, you wish Kay O-o were here right now.(Part 1)
>>6372019You descend the lift shaft, going past the first three levels, before the elevator stops half way and a hazard light blinks on as a scanner opens up.Without missing a beat, Jacky flashes her trainer card and the lift begins to descend again."It's dangerous down here, so stick close." Jacky advises. "The police will establish a camp by the elevator behind us, so we can take perps back and heal up our teams if needed." She adds. "I doubt it'll come to that, but you never know."Just how strong are the pokemon down here?" You ask cautiously."They're nothing you wouldn't have faced out in the Barrier Islands." Jacky assures. "The restricted access is because to our certain knowledge, there's a Groudon down here. Possibly, there might be a Heatran somewhere. We don't know. The original miners ran into pokemon they couldn't handle, the Elite Four of the time investigated and found the Groudon and that's about all they needed to see to declare this section off limits." She explains. "But Redmont is the right sort of extinct volcano for a Heatran to be in residence, so even more reason to keep this place off limits.""And the caves themselves?" Gareth asks grimly."I've been down here before. They're pretty spectacular, but we're not going to have any trouble traversing them." Jacky assures."What sort of pokemon can we expect?" Gareth asks as you digest this statement."A lot of Ground and Rock types, as well as a bunch of Steel and Fire types. Some Dragon types and of course, the usual suspects - Geodude, Zubat and co. ranging from the manageable pokemon you'll find in the upper levels, to the sort of pokemon you'd need a few badges before they'd respect you." Jacky says. "If you want an actual 'dex list, let me know." She adds.You nod in understanding, then a question occurs to you."Does the path branch at all?" You ask."In a few places." Jacky confirms. "I have a map of all the surveyed tunnels, at least and the explored chambers are clearly marked, so unless these guys have a death wish, this shouldn't be too hard.""Let's hope they don't." You say with feeling.(Part 2)
>>6372024You head down the path through the worked and sured up section of tunnel, before it gives way to a natural cave, flanked by limestone pillars.This is already pretty cool and you kind of regret this isn't a sight seeing tour.Up ahead, you can see a Team Green grunt tensely standing guard with a Nuzleaf which looks far more relaxed than he does.Behind him, the path splits, the left hand path is marked with a flag on a piton, but the right isn't and worse, you can see footprints in the sand headed down that way, though more going off to the left.>Let Jacky handle him.>Give Gareth the initiative.>Rush him yourself.>Go...>OtherParty:Rusty (Aron) Fluffy (Eevee) (Everstone)Volta (Luxray) Ayumi (Dratini)Sage (Braixen) (Everstone)Syurm (Leavvany)Companion slot: Latias
>>6372026>Give Gareth the initiative.Xp for bro.Also, really down to put either Groudon or Heatran in the team.
>>6372026>Give Gareth the initiative.
>>6372026>>Give Gareth the initiative.
>>6372027>>6372038>>6372114You tilt your head to Gareth questioningly and Jacky, seeing the gesture nods encouragingly.Gareth hesitates, then releases his Cutiefly and points to Nuzleaf, whispering a command.It flies off without missing a beat and shortly, Nuzleaf has been sucker-punched by an ear-splitting Bug Buzz, knocking it out in one shot, startling the grunt as Gareth rushes in and slams him against the wall with his staff, pinning him and knocking the breath out of him."Alex-!" He calls and belatedly, you release Syurm so she can web the guy to the wall.That done with, he steps back and nods in satisfaction as Cutiefly settles on his shoulder."Well, now what?" Gareth asks, nodding to the right hand path.>Jacky? You want to check out the right hand path?>Gareth and I will check the right hand path.>I'll check the right hand path.>This is either a trap, a diversion, or some dumbass we can come back and grab on the way home.>Other
>>6372955>>Gareth and I will check the right hand path.
