Trinity Isles OOC

[M0rtimer]

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Hah, yeah, to be fair she didn't do anything towards Koa in the recent updates that might indicate this- Besides maybe not knowing when a joke crosses a certain line. I was mostly just thinking back to when they were first introduced, and figuring that someone was going to call it out... But guess not.

Just a couple things from back then since it was so long ago- There were basically loads of little hints...:

Fatale tricking Phoenix by using an illusion

Fatale's appearance, which was dark-skinned with long red hair- If her hair had highlights instead of being just red and contained a big blue ball, she'd basically be a gijinka (I made a picture of her too, but Photobucket apparently decided to eat it... I'll have to check if I still have it saved on my old HD later- For now I only managed to save the thumbnail:)

"Hrmm. I admit those snacks of yours are more useful than I thought. Perhaps I should buy some more than for the purpose as a snack for Fatale."

"Hey, I was hungry, your fault for not stopping to eat!"

"Feh, you're always hungry. Next time don't be picky and eat with the others."

"Rude."

Fatale actively messing with her own appearance in order to only mess further with Koa...

[SuperVaderMan]

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The ball game trick was the biggest hint, yeah, but not necessarily something that could be attributed to Fatale since Jack was also there.

The other hints don't come off so much as hints as much as they're just things that happen in anime. Dark-skinned girls with red hair is just something you see sometimes.

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And I'm not 100% sure what the second hint you're mentioning is? Is it that she can eat as much as she wants without it affecting her appearance? Because that's, like, every character in anime

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[Dlover]

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And some people outside of anime. While they're young, at least. And to a degree. Can't literally eat as much as they want without gaining any weight, but there are people who just don't put on a lot of weight. Unless that's not true and my family is just full of oddities.

[M0rtimer]

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Yeah to be fair, on looking at things again even I am not that surprised it went unnoticed back then. I mostly just recalled it because at the moment, I distinctly recalled being surprised with "getting away with that"... And the knowledge it'd have to come back way along the line. And it was not much as just her appearance, but more the whole combination of things: that she came along with the dark gym leader, had a "nickname", and was a notorious "trickster"... Some updates later Isabella was also "shocked" by Koa stating they'd apparently been flirting, until she realized that Koa wouldn't know and she was pulling him for a loop.

As for the eating thing- It's not referring to Fatale being able to eat "as much as she want", (Because yes that's a thing in anime or unless you're like below twenty and have lucky genetics in real life) but Jack's statement about "eating with the others"- Which would have been Jack's other pokemon. Also the first sentence could be misconstrued as in Jack saying he was literally gonna get more food for Fatale to use in battle but that was mostly bad writing on my part. And admittedly the whole eating with the others thing is not exactly "conclusive" if you think it through either, it was just another piece adding to the implication.

Oh also another "fun little trivia" bit when we're on the subject of Jack's visit- The leader murkrow in this and consecutive updates: http://goblinsforum.com/viewtopic.php?f ... 15#p144486 was Jack's. Would have just flown off if there ended up being actual trouble... but since diplomacy and "paying" for one of the items was used instead, it would just have really preferred if the trainers just handed over the cash money rather than pooling together all their pennies.

[Synch]

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Nothing to add here, just didn't want to feel left out

[Dlover]

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... had a "nickname", and was a notorious "trickster"...

Burns and I were making jokes about nicknames at one point (Not here, just while chatting), though we only settled on calling Bjorn Frosty. Or Mr Snowman. The only option for Alex that I remember was Mr Misfortune, and I don't recall what we came up with for Haley or Luna.
Also, Trickster is a trainer class. So that one just would have thrown us off even more.

[Synch]

I like Frosty, suits his demeanour too

[Dlover]

That's one way of thinking of it, though we were thinking more along the lines of Frosty The Snowman, and as far as I know that snowman was far too cheerful.

[Synch]

He's technically more Elsa from Frozen than a snowman

[Arch Lich Burns]

I vote that Pyre aims for Hoppip bot with ember.

[Synch]

Thats what I was about to do. Sorry guys for missing updates, I've been so wrecked after Halloween and now kids aren't sleeping properly because of fireworks. If Bjorn was awake, he'd so catch the Porygon.

[Arch Lich Burns]

The porygon is already captured by Tex. We could probably capture it if Tex died, but we have an aternative way to get a porygon but it will cost money.

[Arch Lich Burns]

Okay so I only have one revive so I have to make it worth it. What are the recovery rules on healing items? I may give the other trainers healing items/refreshments so they can wake up.

Also my fingers are fat. I hit x by accident. Supposed to say se move.

[M0rtimer]

Yeah, I assumed as much.

Anyways, a revive will perk up anyone instantly, while healing someone to positive HP will have them wake up after ten minutes. Otherwise, 1/16th of HP is restored every half an hour, so eventually people would start waking up naturally from being knocked out...

[Dlover]

So just give Tex and Hopper a few kicks every now and then to keep them down and we'll all get up later.

Also, awful Kind of Hopper to take an extra action to hit the hoppip, since Adrian didn't act.

[Arch Lich Burns]

Does that include robits as well?

[Dlover]

Considering repair nanobots are too scientific, robots aren't going to be healing themselves.

[Dlover]

I'm tempted to have Alex keep his injuries just so he can show up in a pokecentre with bizarre injuries again, spreading the confusion to a new city. One day, all of Trinity Isles will have stories of the mysterious trainer who somehow constantly gets beat to sh** in mysterious ways and just never cares, never learns. Is he in some sort of gang? Is he a secret agent? How does he keep getting these weird injuries and still be none the worse for it? But that would also be days away and a waste of money.

Also, I have to consider how to use the 640exp. Adrian did most of the work on my team, but that's really just because he was completely ignored until the very end, so I'm still considering replacing him. In which case, Dusk did participate, so I can give her the exp. So she'd be going to level 33.
Or I could split it. If I take Adrian up two levels to level 25, Dusk is just short of the six levels to 32...
But still, I do want to replace Adrian, so I don't want to waste too much exp on him. But I need to keep him until I get the replacement. Auuugh I hate making decisions.
Screw it. Maybe this is an awful idea, but I'm putting the 640 exp into Dusk.
Dusk gains 7 levels. As she hits level 30 it triggers Top Percentage Rank 1 on her.
Dusk Learns Confuse Ray, but already knows it from Mentoring and refunds the TP used on it.
For stats, she gets 2 in HP, 3 in ATK, 1 in DEF, and 1 in SDEF.

Also, for some reason Dusk has a large number in her bonus evasion cell. "=67-24", no clue why it's there. Removing it.

[Arch Lich Burns]

I am double checking to see if it's worthwhile now: the keen eye/perception from travel archive, is it a static thing I would have? Or is it the locations I shot only? If locations shot then what about the later Feature letting me give said ability to mons?

[Dlover]

Oh, question, would the break here be long enough to take an Extended rest for the sake of Mentoring the newly leveled Dusk?

[Arch Lich Burns]

The 3 exp leveled Haley up! She gets General edu (novice), and Tech edu (expert). She also gets +1 def. The feat that was floating for the longest time...hmm... I'm not sure how mort will use the travel archive, until I know for sure (like what pictures count for a 'location' or how big it is) I can't really decide. It kinda sucks that that portion of chronicler is based on the gm. If it doesn't then I might get genetic memory and have a bad ass fossil mon, along with making decent money off of bad ass fossil mons I make.


Jackie gains 10 EXP, 1 lv and 1 def! She is now viable for evolution!~
Cushion gains 450 exp, 6 levels! She gains 2 Hp, 2 att, 2satt. She forgets sand attack and learns payback!~ She is now viable for evolution!
Willow gains 180 exp, 2 lvs and 1 sdef and 1 def! She forgets tackle and learns leech seed!

[M0rtimer]

Also, for some reason Dusk has a large number in her bonus evasion cell. "=67-24", no clue why it's there. Removing it.

Might have been me. I've no problem doing math in my head, but I'd rather have the machines figure it out for me so I can't accidentally switch a number around and get scolded by you guys for deducting too much HP.

I am double checking to see if it's worthwhile now: the keen eye/perception from travel archive, is it a static thing I would have? Or is it the locations I shot only? If locations shot then what about the later Feature letting me give said ability to mons?

I mean, the pdf is pretty explicit about it- You get the selected ability at any location where you've previously snapped a picture at, and so will your pokemon. That generally shouldn't be a problem, though- Only instance it wouldn't just be "static" is when you'd get in a battle shortly after entering a new area if you hadn't had the chance to snap a picture yet. And I don't intend to be pedantic about that and go like: "Oh yes, you've snapped a picture of Murkoff forest before... But this is a DIFFERENT PART of Murkoff forest- You'd have to snap a new picture.". You'll be able to cover pretty large grounds using only a single travel entry. If you're ever in doubt about it, you can just ask. (Also I'm pretty sure none of the archives are supposed to have a limited size, if that's something you're asking too.)

Oh, question, would the break here be long enough to take an Extended rest for the sake of Mentoring the newly leveled Dusk?

That's up to you. Extended rests are at least four hours long- But after that battle, it's not exactly farfetch'd (hehe) to say you want to get some rest and recover before doing anything else.

[Dusk9]

Edited my action to check out the last tunnel. Forgot it was there before, and Izzy would want to at least see what's down there.

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Also, had I cool idea for a Gym format. Or at least, I think it's cool

The main idea was that you'd have to get a certain number of "keys" to beat the Gym. But each key would be guarded by one of the Gym Leader's Pokemon, that you'd have to get around. Not sure on the details, but they'd basically be lurking in an area built to benefit them, with traps and terrain advantage stuff. You could either fight them for the key, or figure out a way to trick/bypass them. And you'd have to pick a limited number of Pokemon to take into each area with you (probably 1-2, depending on how big the home advantage is). Then once you get the key/give up, you get to try a new area (picking 1-2 new Pokemon from your 6 to accompany you). Repeat until you run out of Pokemon, or have enough keys to win.

My first thought was a Steel or Electric type Gym, because they could have a lot of tricky traps in each combat zone (plus vending machines and stuff). But it would work really well with Bug too, since they have a lot of variations and each area could have a different theme (e.g. wings, webs, venom, etc).

I know you've probably already got most of the Gym stuff planned out, Mort (or at least general ideas for them ). But I liked this idea too much to keep it to myself

[Dlover]

Alright, cool, I was just bringing up the calculation to make sure I wasn't committing some horrible sin by deleting it.

As for mentoring... I forgot Extended Rests are four hours. For some reason I was thinking half an hour. Anyway, no mentoring time, then, since we've probably not got four hours before Tex or hopper wake up, and I kind of doubt they'd politely sit and wait for Alex to finish the training.

On the Travel Archive front, it seems fairly clear on "Would one biome count for all biomes of that type?" (Since 'Murkoff forest' was said specifically). But you can only put pictures into your archive during an Extended Rest. So if you're only visiting a place once and you don't intend to stop and take a four hour rest to put one picture into the archive, the Travel Archive seems kind of difficult to use. Not entirely useless, considering you can get an entire zone with one photo, and when you're based in one city for a while, you can benefit from that city and its surrounding zones, but still difficult to use for something like the bunker, where I don't think we've even been for four hours total?

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:O I love your idea, Dusk. Mostly because my spare character could go into that gym and just wrestle all the guardian pokemon into submission. ^.^
Well, okay, I've never checked whether he could actually successfully wrestle a pokemon. But he could work with the pokemon he takes in to delay the guardian and grab the key.

[Dusk9]

Travel Archive seems like it would work best when you backtrack to previous places often, or spend a lot of time in one area. I think the idea is that you spend the 4 hours "studying" your Records, so you know the area really well? But yeah, definitely one of the weakest Archives if you're always on the move to new places.

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I didn't actually think about Trainer participation much....in that case, they'd definitely only be able to take one 'mon in, or the guardian could just get tag-teamed too easily. Might be a bit difficult for non-combat characters to have an impact though. Unless there were ways to disable the traps/use them to their advantage?