Trinity Isles OOC

[M0rtimer]

Yeah, sorry- The whole thing I've been trying in this campaign is to make a pokemon a bit more durable, while still restricting one's outside activities by virtue that the trainers aren't... Found overall it worked well so far in making "official" battles more approachable, while still lending some credence of threat towards ones that directly involve the trainer.

I do wonder occasionally (occasionally = just now) if the RAW didn't have it right, though... It would have forced days to go a bit quicker since you wouldn't be able to engage into battles after your pokemon already got injured- Then again, days would have gone faster from a necessity, not exactly because it's fluid.

Anyways- Yeah, to counteract the buff to pokemon and give a bit more weight to the trainer thing, I felt like I did need to add something to healing for trainers, so I attached a price tag to it... With that said, I've dragged you guys through enough shit recently, so while there may or may not be a couple threads I still like to see resolved, I'll give you a bit of peace for now and probably won't throw you into anything where the trainers will need to act directly. So Koa will at the very least have a bit of time to recover naturally.

And if that's not enough, perhaps he just needs to look for something different than a pokecenter...

[Arch Lich Burns]

Our group can try to fix the threads that thier group didn't.

[Dlover]

And if that's not enough, perhaps he just needs to look for something different than a pokecenter...

Like a hospital?

Really, though, there've been a couple of times where I've been uncertain as to whether I should actually say Alex is heading to a hospital, rather than the pokecentre, when Alex is more beat up than his pokemon. But since he got shot and the league sent him to a pokecentre I assume they are the hospitals.

[M0rtimer]

Hospitals do actually exist, but they're actually more expensive than the pokecenters, who have been subsidized into being essentially almost free for trainers... Hospitals aren't. Unless we start talking about health insurance, but that is a whole other beast... Hospitals would also deal into more like actual disease/operations, while the pokecenter is just fine for regular injuries most trainers have happen to them.

[Dlover]

regular injuries most trainers have happen to them.

Regular injuries like bullet wounds?

[M0rtimer]

Well that one would probably raise eyebrows... Everywhere besides Murkoff.

[Dlover]

Great, Alex is already the Misfortune Magnet, and he's going to Crimeland. Surely there's no way this can go wrong.

[Dusk9]

Yeah, sorry- The whole thing I've been trying in this campaign is to make a pokemon a bit more durable, while still restricting one's outside activities by virtue that the trainers aren't... Found overall it worked well so far in making "official" battles more approachable, while still lending some credence of threat towards ones that directly involve the trainer.

I do wonder occasionally (occasionally = just now) if the RAW didn't have it right, though... It would have forced days to go a bit quicker since you wouldn't be able to engage into battles after your pokemon already got injured- Then again, days would have gone faster from a necessity, not exactly because it's fluid.

Nah, making 'mons squishier wouldn't make a difference.

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The problem is that PTU (like most tabletops) was designed mainly with live-play in mind, not play-by-post. Everyone is expected to do stuff largely in parallel/together, only splitting up for short-term stuff like shopping etc - even Gym challenges are considered group things. So if lots of trainers/Pokemon are injured, they can just time-skip forward a day or so between sessions without really impacting things too much.

Splitting up for long periods is way easier/more natural in PBP because of the continuous action and short time-skips we've got going on. You can easily have two people shopping, one healing, and the other three in separate 1v1 fights. And they can all be in different cities too. Which means it's really easy to get situations like now where we've got 3 different timelines going on at the same time (and I hope you're keeping track, because I'll be honest, I've completely lost track of which day the others are on). And we're less inclined to do long time-skips because usually it either messes up the timeline even more, or forces us to wait for the people we're near to catch up (which can take months IRL).

Basically, my point is that if people's 'mons got injured easier, they'd just find something else to do while waiting. So the days wouldn't actually go any faster, you'd just have more bored players.

[M0rtimer]

Yeah, fair enough, although it would probably force players more into positions where they'd WANT to get in a position where a timeskip can happen more easily. That's debating though, and overall I do think it was a good decision to change.

And no worries, I've been keeping track of who is where in the timezone. Currently everyone is on day 9, which is a friday. Your group is currently the most forward in time, being early afternoon, although the group at the base is actually not that far behind, being around midday. Phoenix is still in the morning, though.

[Dusk9]

Ah, that's good then. I thought we might still be all on different days

And as for trainer healing, I like the way things are now. Sure, healing is kinda expensive if you get a ton of injuries as a trainer. But the time-cost isn't that much if you recover overnight, since that's a natural time-skip for most players anyway. You can easily heal 3-4 injuries that way, even if it does cost $500-1000.

Besides which, it does make sense for Koa to have to suffer a bit. I mean, he did fight a godly-being in his own domain.

And blow up a bomb in his face. Hell, if anything it's a miracle he's not more injured

[SuperVaderMan]

"Fight" is a very strong word for Koa's encounter

But yeah, I guess I can hold off on healing until everyone heads to bed. On the bright side, Koa won't have to pay for a hotel room! (Assuming he's allowed to rest in the 'Center)

Advising him to stay over night as they'd put him under some treatments, which would cost him about 500- And clear most of his injuries come morning.

Koa has 5 injuries, not 6. According to the start of the thread, each injury healed would cost 250, or 300 if Koa wants to speed it up.

Unless you mean they'd heal 2 injuries over the course of 8 hours, which would then cost 500? Koa could self-heal an injury before they start, to hit his 3 injury limit for the day.

[M0rtimer]

Yeah, they were basically suggesting to take him in for 8 hours, healing 2 injuries + an additional one simply by natural healing, leaving him with two left the next day.

[M0rtimer]

Have to love it when the rolls decide to play along with the narrative...

[Dlover]

Welp, Roy's out, and so I lose 1d6-1 in exchange for Tank Mode Stage 1. But on the other hand, I remembered Focused Training gives +2 to skill checks, so I get +4 to the grapple attempts. NOTHING WILL ESCAPE MY GRAPPLEY GRAPPLES.

Also, if it breaks through Mercury, I just lose another 1d6+2 for Tank Mode Stage 2. Basically, Genesect is allowed to attack nothing but my tanks.

[Dusk9]

Just had a thought, our group should probably split up those Z-Crystals Drake picked up. I've already grabbed the Flying one (for obvious reasons), which leaves six more: Psychic, Rock, Steel, Fighting, Fire, and Electric. Only other ones I might be interested in are Electric or Fighting, since I've got a couple of 'mons that could use them. What about you guys?

[SamWiser]

The only ones I could really use are Fire and Fighting. That said, I would be willing to let others use them instead.

[SuperVaderMan]

It's source soon tracked back to several burning incense sticks near the desk, decorated with a "strange" symbol. One that would have easily been dismissed, had it not been visible on the wall behind as well: it seemed to resemble some kind of logo, like a company would have... A severed angel wing in a blue circle background.

Is that symbol literally the Mass Effect paragon symbol, Mort?

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[M0rtimer]

... Yes.

[Dusk9]

Okay, so if we get two rooms for $120 ($70+$50), and Irene/Izzy share the double, that'll cost us max $40 each (and the price might be even better if bigger 3-person rooms are available). On the other hand, assuming the hostel is the same as the ones in the other cities, it should be only $10 each - but we won't be able to take our 'mons out inside, and we have to share a room with other people. Which means we'll probably get jumped in the night and robbed by some gang or something

So yeah, I'm happy getting paying extra for the motel rooms if you guys are.

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On another note, Mort, I've been wondering about Gym stuff. Namely, is it possible to beat a Gym on a lower difficulty, and then challenge it again later at the next difficulty up? And would we get full prize money/etc for doing that?

((See, most of my Pokemon are on the Lv24-27 boundary. And I want to go for the Lv30 badge, but I'm worried about messing it up. So I thought I might do the easier Lv20 one first, then maybe try the harder one after I've got the exp/milestone from that?))

[M0rtimer]

You can do a gym on a lower difficulty, then redo them on the higher one, yes. It does only upgrade your badge to the higher level, and you are only paid in what you would have earned in the first place doing the challenge. (So another 4000 if the silver challenge would reward 8000. I haven't decided yet if it should be 6000 or 8000... )

[Dusk9]

Ah okay, figured there'd be something like that. What about prizes specific to the challenge (i.e. TMs and stuff)? If I did the Lv30 Eliza gym, I suppose I wouldn't get to choose more things from her prize store?

[M0rtimer]

Depends on the gym. Eliza's gym was special in that the "gimmick" occurred wholly during the fight, while most gyms will have a challenge up front that won't/(can't) be repeated, and additional items are usually found there, while there's only a single "additional" reward after beating the leader... So basically, probably nothing or in the case that there would be an upgrade, they'd try to compensate/switch or something. To give the fairy gym as an example, at higher levels your point total actually gets multiplied at the end- Should you have a higher score at the end than you did in your previous challenge(s), you'd be able to spend the difference.

[M0rtimer]

As usual, will take an action for Synch if he hasn't posted by this evening, although it turns out saying that is the way to summon him half the time.

[Dusk9]

To clarify, is the penthouse the room with the couch?

[M0rtimer]

Seems like a misunderstanding you might as well clarify IC, but in this instance she was referring to the four person rooms.