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/XUfxReXDrZFor 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 to fulfill her obligations as a Gym Leader.Last thread, you helped put down Team Green's occupation of the Redmont mine, ran down their expedition into the depths of the mine, made a friend of one of the expeditionaries and started making preparations to tackle Route 5.
>>6398360>>6398576"That's easy." You tell Martha as you finish up your shower and shut off the water. "I'm going to evolve Blitz and get him used to being an Arcanine.""Solid choice." She agrees. "He seems strong enough for it. You gotten through those obedience issues he was having?""More or less." You confirm as you finish toweling off and start getting dressed. "That'll be part and parcel of this morning though - keeping up with the obedience training once he's evolved just to make sure its stuck."Internally, you think back to the fight against Emma and how well he did there, especially against her Incineroar.He'd been damn quick on the uptake there and the image of him bounding over Incineroar's first Bulldoze after Emma had hit him with that first Flamethrower and you've found yourself wondering just how far the two of you could get with obedience training since, because even if your team are all damn clever in your view, you're pretty sure that in the same situation, none of them would've been quite as quick on the uptake there as Blitz was. Not because of any deficiency on behalf of the rest of your team though, but rather because you've just not been training them that way.In that sense, Blitz's unruliness pushing you to specifically give him obedience training has opened up some interesting options for how you could take that training further, but for now, those thoughts are a little theoretical.First of all, you need to evolve him.(Part 1)
>>6400770That in mind, once you're dressed you head out and swap Rusty for Blitz then go outside to the arena and release him.He goes to jump on you in excitement on seeing you but sits, still positively vibrating, when you tell him to, beaming up at you adoringly, before you produce the Fire Stone you brought back in Silveridge after some rummaging and holding it out before Blitz.It glows in the rising sun and Blitz glows in sympathy before his outline wavers and expands before there's a flash before in his place is an Arcanine whose shoulder is level with your head peering down at you expectantly.You suddenly feel both very small and very glad that you've been doing that obedience training.Looking down at the stone, you see it disintegrating into a fine, red powder, which Martha is quick to collect in a small bag."Spent stones disintegrate, but the powder they leave behind is useful in stuff like supplements." She explains once she's tied the bag off."Huh, neat." You reply, before shifting your back to Blitz. "Okay Blitz, let's start with some agility work..." You begin.>Roll
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>>6400790>>6400793>>6401004You decided to start with Agility work for two reasons:First, Blitz is already familiar with the move, so it'll be relatively easy for him to perform, even all grown up now as he is.And second, because it's a good way to acclimate him to his new body, making him move and move deftly within the confines of the arena.Even knowing how fast Arcanine can move though, you're a little caught off guard at how quickly Blitz runs through the exercises you set - running a lap, stopping at each corner to do a tight circle, ducking down halfway through the short sections, jumping on the long boundaries and eventually, slaloming through a series of traffic cones sat by the wall down the diagonal.He doesn't do any one run perfectly straight out the gate, but by the time you're putting it all together, you're confident that he's he's adapting well to being an Arcanine.The sun is well and truly up by now and you're both warmed up from these exercises. Nothing you haven't done before with him, but doing something new wasn't the point of the exercise. Acclimation was. Now that you're sure he is acclimated though, you have some time to do some more training.>Work on some more advanced advanced obedience training.>Do some stat training. (Which one)>Saddle Blitz up and start training him as a mount.>Teach Blitz a new move. (Choose)>Blitz is doing fine for now. Train someone else.>Other
>>6401175>Teach Blitz a new move. (Choose)Flare Blitz
>>6401188Yolo as the kid says.
>>6401188>>6401407Roll. This is going to be a process and there's a risk of Blitz getting injured since he's not quite at the level of experience where he would learn Flare Blitz.
Rolled 32 (1d100)>>6401489Can Rascal help with Brave Bird? Same but different
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>>6401493>>6401700>>6401851"Say, Martha..." You say once Blitz has laid himself down for a rest after the past hour or so of agility and obedience drills."Yeah?"You don't need to be able to sense other people's emotions to tell that she's cautious. Not that you blame her, because this is going to be a bit of an ask."You mind helping out with this next bit? I'm going to start teaching Blitz Flare Blitz." You reply, before working your jaw meditatively. "...Might be regretting naming him that now."Martha chuckles."Good call." She admits. "I've been working on teaching my Rapidash that move as well. It's slow going, but I can give you some pointers to help keep him from hurting himself." She adds. "Have you taught him Flame Charge?" She asks.You shake your head and it occurs to you that Sage doesn't know that move either."Well, we'll start there since the principle is the same," she says. "That Braviary of yours ought to be able to pick up on some of the same principles down the line as well and make it easier for him to learn Brave Bird.""Handy." You admit."It is, but don't push it. He did just evolve and this is a risky move to be teaching him at his level of experience." Martha warns. "I'm only agreeing to help you because I know you're not about to go pushing him harder than he can manage, but if I call stop, you stop. Got it?""Got it."The next hour is filled with teaching Blitz Flame Charge as a foundation, which takes very little time at all, since he knows the basic principle thanks to knowing Fire Fang and Quick Attack and this is just applying those skills in a different combination. Then, comes the tricky part - amplifying the power behind the move and controlling the recoil.Martha explains how to do this in a controlled manner and has her Rapidash demonstrate their methodology for you, before Blitz copies her.Or tries to, at any rate. This is what consumes the majority of the morning until nine o'clock, with Blitz trying to produce an aura of the relevant intensity and achieving wreathing himself in flame, but not achieving the intense heat Flare Blitz calls for and then practicing tackling through - a skill that Blitz is already good at, but this requires more commitment than he's used to and by the time you and Martha call a halt, he's tuckered out and needs a rest.(Part 1)
>>6401963"Well, that was a good start." Martha concedes. "He got Flame Charge with no difficulty." She adds, rubbing her chin thoughtfully. "Might be an idea to teach him Flame Wheel and Take Down first as bridging moves - things he can practice to get the technique necessary for Flare Blitz down. It's what I've been doing with my Rapidash and we've been making steady progress on it. Honestly, Blitz did better than I thought he would there." She adds. "Very least, he's got the foundational skills for Flame Wheel and Take Down out of it.""Well, that's good." You reply, but you feel a little dissatisfied."Credit for your thoughts?" Martha asks, evidently catching some trace of it in your voice.>It just feels like I'm not getting anywhere.>For every step forward I take, it feels like I'm taking two steps back.>I get that learning a move as big as Flare Blitz is a process, but this feels like it's taking too long.>It's nothing, just a bit antsy. Let's go bail Daisy out and get going.>Just... missing Fie.>Other
>>6401990>>For every step forward I take, it feels like I'm taking two steps back.
