"Thanks," You pant," It'd really help a lot." You say as the uncomfortable heat washes over your body again.

Goldenrod looks at you, and then averts his eyes down,"I'll try hard." In the next moment, he vanishes appearing within sight near the top of one of the trees before a second teleport.

He might just be alright.

Janine looks up as he vanishes and turns her attention to the two of you, keep your eyes out for threats. While we're still at the entrance, we may still encounter some monsters. Here, you're going to want to watch out for small horned creatures, they sprout toxic barbs when threatened. Most of the others aren't a big deal if we avoid them."

Bruise seems considerate as he looks at his own index, carefully pressing inputs despite his cestus, nodding,"Nidoran, they're known as the Poison Pin monsters. I can see why we'd want o watch out. If I didn't have the cestus, I might not even be able to touch them.

You open up your own Index to look up the entry, frowning as you read one variant
>#032:Nidoran(male)
>Type: Poison pin
>Danger Level: D
>Entry: A small creature, more aggressive than its counterpart and just as toxic. Caution is to be taken should there be signs of encroaching upon one. It will charge and aim to stab with its toxic horn if threatened.
>It also bears toxic quills that it extends when angered.
>Excellent for making toxic rangers.

"It's on the floor, right? If we get near-"
"If we get near, the repel gear should help us escape detection. And we have two mid ranged fighters suited for dealing with them. We'll be fine."

Janine turns to look at a spot, just as Goldenrod ports back, he recoils with a small amount of terror, falling back onto the ground," Woah, woah, woah... That was weird."

"Report,"
Goldenrod stands up abruptly and salutes, getting an "At ease" from Janine.
He starts," I sensed a lot of monsters to the west of here, West South-west To be more specific. We should find water there."

Janine gives Goldenrod a pat on the head, making him smile a little," Good work, we move out by his direction!"

>Roll 1d100 Best of 7.
>Danger Zone! Crit Fail Range increased to 10

Rolled 38

>>28043192
Rolling.

And we have a pretty solid chance for a critfail at this point. Damn.

Rolled 40

>>28043192
Rollin'.

Rolled 49

>>28043192
go go 100!
if 1 will we be fighting shiny Mewtwo?

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>>28043192
Rollin

>>28043221
>>28043226
>>28043230
>>28043244
Yeesh. Below average.

Rolled 33

>>28043192
rollin

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>>28043192
rollin
>>28043230
OP, are the shiny cannon in this world?

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>>28043192

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>>28043192
oh gosh

Halloween + Veridion Forest
not gonna be good

>>28043277
>>28043286
Dice gods.

Rolled 94

>>28043277

Welp. Hordes of Nidoran incoming?

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>>28043277
>>28043286
Damn. We're dead.

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>>28043277
>7
>>28043286
>>28043296
>mfw

Rolled 67

>>28043296
>>28043286

Hah. Hahahahaha. Haha. Hah...

Ah, why...

Looking clear so far, Any idle chatter you'd kike to engage in with your Squad?

Any actions or suggestions you'd like to run by them?

>>28043277
Failure. You will now encounter.
>>28043286
Veridian Wood. You're not in the forest yet.
That's outside.

Rolled 67

>>28043296
Sure he doesn't mean that the rage for crits is 10 rolls?

i hope that is what he means.


i TOLD you to bring antipoisons

Rolled 68

>>28043311
it's gonna be a nidoking huh?

quick, as them how to best deal with the nido family

>>28043311
>>28043312
What did you mean? That the crit failure range was within 10 rolls (what would even be considered a crit failure, then), or that 10 below is a crit failure?

Rolled 47

>>28043311
you fucking cunt

i luv u

>>28043311
Keep our head on a swivel, don't get distracted with small talk. Discuss what we're likely to run into and make sure we have strategies set up for things going wrong. And work out preliminary plans for dealing with Farfetch'd. Mainly us freezing the fucker and then people capturing it.

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>>28043312
Hey, we aren't alone in this. We can't support the whole expedition with our equipment.

>>28043340
We should be careful with ice type moves, Farfetch'd is weak to them and could easily be killed.

>>28043329
>10 below is a crit failure
this
>>28043311
Keep eyes open and talking to minimum

>>28043348
Everyone but us brought a wide range of things/things to save themselves or protective gear.

we brought traps and bait.

not that i disagree with it but we're kinda fucked now

>>28043326
Nidoran and Nidorino are just plain Poison types, weak to Ground/Psychic. Neither of which we have. Nidoking is Poison/Ground and is weak to Water and Ice.

Either way we're probably best off by hitting it with Icy Wind in order to slow it down and prevent it from poisoning our buds.

We're probably better at dealing with poison than the others, we have a thick layer of blubber and if we find a pool we can Hydrate in it and hopefully recover.

>>28043311
We should talk about what roles we'll each take for the hunt.

With Goldenrod's abilities, he can see farther away than most of us, but Bruise has superior tracking and sensing abilities, so we'll rely on him for tracking in the immediate area.

In combat, Goldenrod lacks any offensive abilities of his own, but he brought along a few smoke bombs, so he'll be useful in the capacity of acting as a distraction/preparing for our escape.

Bruise can go on the attack or on the defense, so he should switch between these rolls at his discretion. We can support him with our own abilities by debilitating the opposition, and if needed, we can engage in combat ourselves.

>>28043348
We have to go Full Blizzard if we wanna survive this one now.

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>>28043311
Ask Janine what she did last time?

Or is that not allowed?

Also

THE HUNT BEGINS

>>28043398
i was talking more of the strategies that experienced rangers us for dealing with them.

cause getting close is stupid

things for slowing

etc etc

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>>28043392
We brought one of those electrified bidents.

>>28043411
Lets worry about surviving for now.

We should have brought the gear to run from the close range/Poison types

>>28043432
and a few other things, but mostly trap/bait

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>>28043392
I guess we'll have to stay at a healthy distance from the melee then

>>28043165

Yggdrasil, do you have a Twitter account like other QMs?

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>Janine's Squadron is in purple.
>Movement from 11,5 > 10,5

>Encounter!
>Minimum Chatter, contingency strategies!

With Bruise in the lead, the team moves carefully through the wood, the sound of wild and dangerous life buzzing and chattering around you, artificial echoes call back from the inner dome that the beasts are kept in, multiplying their numbers as they prey into your imagination.
The sweltering heat lingers, digging deep into your body as you stare at the back of Bruise and Goldenrod, Janine taking the back to watch over everyone. The lot of you are silent for the most part.

"Um, Janine?" You glance back at your leader only to hear a snort of air from her.
"Eyes to either side and front Cerulean." She huffs, obtrusively, glancing around, obviously perturbed by something.

"Ah, r-right." You adjust your vision, and Bruise gives a hushed call from the front.
"Kakunes ahead. Don't touch the trees.

That's when you see them, like silent statues upon the trees of the wood, shaded by the emerald green leaves of the trees, there's one, then two, then three, and then a dozen pods hung upon trees.
"J-Janine?" You worry, keeping your eyes trained upon the things, as their pitch black eyes stare back at you, empty.

"Keep quiet now, Cerulean, there's nothing to fear. They cannot move."

With a swallow, you nod and check your index.

>#014: Kakuna
>Type: Cocoon
>Entry: Threat to be exterminated before it hatches. Beware touch as it can extend a stinger through its shell in self defense.

With a nod, you feel a bit of relief, right before you feel a hand grab your shoulder and pull at you," Down!"
Bruise commands with a hushed urgency as two drones fly just overhead, their feet dragging through the space that the three of you had just been standing.

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>>28043165
>Known Characters
>Brock
>Skalgite: Spiked Rock Hide/Mineral Digestive tract

OC pokemon already?

>>28043548
https://twitter.com/AoPHQuest

Here, man.

The creatures are strange, spear-like sabers for arms, red eyes, buzzing wings, and a striped abdomen with a venomous stinger at the end, swollen and dripping with venom.

You see that everyone's dropped, yet the things stop in midair for a moment, hovering in place as they touch antennae to each other...

>Your input is required.

Chance Roll 1d100.
>Danger Tripped. Crit range down to 5.

>>28043548
https://twitter.com/AoPHquest

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>>28043574
Dice gods, have mercy.

What do you mean by input? Action?

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>>28043574
Let's wait for now.

>>28043564

Not enough pure rock pokemon for my purposes.

>>28043583
Yes. Nice roll, it may just serve you well.

>>28043583
W-w-what's our crit success range, Prof?

Rolled 42

>>28043574
>Chance Roll 1d100.
Lay down for now.

Rolled 35

>>28043594
lets not roll anymore

>>28043574
Wait for now, stay low and still, don't initiate combat, they might just BUGger off.

Be ready to dodge, and if we're going to fight drop an Icy Wind on them in order to slow them down and make our team's life easier and hit both of them at the same time.

>>28043594

Chance rolls are tricky. Low rolls tend not to do anything while high rolls tend to yield something nice.


And crit-fails tend to unleash hordes of beedrill.

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>>28043560
>Threat to be exterminated before it hatches. Beware touch as it can extend a stinger through its shell in self defense.

So does that mean it's our responsibility to kill these things now that we've seen them?

Or is it okay to leave them be seeing as this is a nature preserve of some kind?

>>28043583
>>28043574
We Nope. We nope so hard we simply cease to exist. Not even the ninja will be able to see us.

>>28043604
and i am an idiot

>>28043608
this, be prepared for Icy Wind + RUN!

>>28043615
Well, luckily for us, with icy wind we could handle a few Beedrils or Kakuna.

>>28043615
but was that a crit success?

>>28043574
>>28043608
Yeah, prepare to use Icy Wind in case they start swarming us.

>>28043626
No running. A chaotic retreat would be harmful.

We act as a team and support one another. Goldenrod has his smoke grenades, right? Don't insects choke on smoke?

>>28043625
Our farfetched comes in and kills the beedril with its leek?

>>28043647
Smoke + OIcy

>>28043621
We're not the leader on this mission, Janine is, that's her call whether we spend our time murdering the Kakuna or not.

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>>28043592
>Not enough pure rock pokemon for my purposes.
...You, you do realize that Golem is Rock/Ground right?

So Golem, Onix, and Rhydon/Rhyperior seems a perfectly logical combination.

Maybe add in an Aerodactyl for a "oh shit" factor".

>>28043574
>>28043571

Thank you.

As for action input. Consult Janine if we may engage. If yes, use Icy Wind. If no, stay low and sneak away.

>>28043660
Smoke + ICY

seems tailor made to deal with nasty bees

>>28043666
You don't talk when trying to hide. repel only works on sight, not sound/smell.

>>28043621
>>28043662
They were either placed here by the gym leaders or by the insects that are kept here. I'm sure they monitor the number of monsters present in the ecology and send out extermination squads when needed.

Remember that all this is maintained by the gym leaders as a training exercise for recruits.

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>>28043666
Or just ask if engaging is appropriate.

Asking permission to engage seems like we actually want to do that.

>>28043666
>>28043697
No talking.

If engaging was appropriate, Janine would convey the idea to us through other, less detectable means.

>>28043666
>>28043697
>"Keep quiet now, Cerulean, there's nothing to fear. They cannot move."

She just ordered us to stay quiet, so cancel that order, cadets!

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>>28043727
So right now we do nothing?

I'm cool with that.

>>28043753
yeah, i son't really know why he said to roll for our sneak/chance and for input

>>28043753
Yeah, we should just prepare.

Everyone seems to be in agreement that, if the bugs suddenly swarm us, we'll use Icy Wind and have Goldenrod use a smoke bomb, although for that latter action, we really will need to coordinate with everyone first. No need to rush, though. Panicked actions will reflect poorly of us; better to coordinate and act as a team.

>Action: Lay Low for now
>Chance: 96- Remarkable.

The four of you stay low to the forest floor as the two things fiddle with the other's antennae. They do so for a short time, seeming to communicate whatever need be and then swiftly fly off, splitting up and tending to the rest of the kakunes.

Janine motions for everyone to move on, though quietly and slowly.

As the four of you move, Bruise notices a bug that's in the path of Goldenrod, and gives him a quick gesture to move around it. As you move past you take a quick look at the thing as it nibbles away at a fallen leaf, a large pink wishbone antennae bouncing from its head as it does so.
Despite you three passing so close, the repel tech seems to work, it doesn't see you at all.

In short time, the four of you see the last Kakuna of the immediate perimeter and finally take a breath of relief.

"That was a close call, they would've been all over us and forced us to run." Janine whispers while looking back, opening up her own index," Once more, our quarry is near water, I've lost our bearing, Goldenrod, can you-"

"We need to head Northwest," Bruise points in a direction, despite the cover of the canopy," It's this way.

Janine's insectoid eyes gleam at Bruise with restrained irritation," How can you be so sure?"

"Brock trained us to always orient ourselves. Simple." The Gray boy smiles," I didn't just learn how to fight after all."

Janine closes her index," Neither did I. We will go your way, though I'd still like Goldenrod to check." Janine gives the Saffron a nod, and he instantly grows meek.
"You sure? I think he's right, I'm pretty sure that he's right."

"Do not question me Goldenrod, this is part of your duty. You're best here at recon."

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A small smile traces across the boy's face, something in her words touching him, and yet it quickly fades into a frown as some other dark thought passes into him," Right, it's all I'm good for. Be back in five."
Goldenrod looks up at the trees, and in a subdued flash of energy, he vanishes.

As you watch everything unfold, your mind wanders back to the kakuna from before. A threat to be exterminated right? Does Janine know?

>Bring up extermination.
>Hold your peace.(Move on)
>Write in.

>1d100

Rolled 88

>>28043940
Ask what other things we might run into

Rolled 27

>>28043940
This is a nature preserve for training and harvesting, it's probably meant to be this way. If the people who ran this didn't want them there they wouldn't be there.

>Hold your peace.(Move on)

Rolled 23

>>28043940
>>Hold your peace.(Move on)

Rolled 95

>>28043940
>Bring up extermination.
Its our duty.

Rolled 44

>>28043940
We can always ask our own gym leader when we get out. No need to step on toes now.

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>>28043940
Ask her if it's okay we just ignored those Kakuna, since this is a controlled environment.

But in a ten year old way.

Rolled 29

>>28043950
ask about the nido family and the likely hood of running into them

>>28043940
>Bring up extermination, but keep moving. It will be left for another team, after the test is done, right?

>>28043940
Guys, if we really had a duty to exterminate these things, Janine would say it, right?

>>28043981
But yeah. Just ask her about how the gyms control the number of kakuna here. A much better way to phrase our question.

>>28043969
Excellent fucking roll.

>>28043999

Do not assume that your leader will always be unfailing. If a follower doesn't point out a leader's mistakes or bring to attention a certain detail, it could compromise the mission.

Rolled 86

>>28043999
>>28043981
changing my vote to these.

>>28044008
Yeah, she isn't even a ranger yet. Let's ask, along with this>>28043950

>>28043981
Bring it up this way. Don't just go and slaughter them, but let her know.

>>28044008
True, but one would think that the people in charge of leading the cadets-in-training would be both responsible and informed of proper protocol in terms of unexpected events while inside the training area.

>>28043940
It's like this kid doesn't even know he's going to be the second most powerful Gen 1 pokemon, Alakazam, short only to Mewtwo Himself, long may his psychic majesty be so broken, it necessitated the introduction of Dark types.

>>28044032
It is just a kid who is like one year older than us.

>>28044057
The self hate is only there so that he doesn't turn into a pompous ass upon evolution

>>28044057
Mew is actually stronger than Alakazam.

>>28044057
Right now, many of the characters are still in the process of forming their personalities.

It's our job as the MC to lead them towards a proper direction.

>>28044078
Well strength in this world is very skewed. As a charizard can put out flames almost 4 times as hot as the surface of the sun and would atmoize everything in a few mile radius

>>28044057
He'll also get a bitching mustache when he evolves, which is going to be pretty awesome.

Rolled 15

>>28044078
Not really. Alakazam has higher speed and special, making it a much better psychic user.

Mew on the other hand was more versatile but had worse stats.

It kinda balances out.

>>28044106
I know, right?

>>28044078
No, Mew really, really isn't, except in a lore standpoint MAYBE, and the fact that although its relevant stats are weak, it can pick whatever move is most effective versus psychics, depending on generation.

>Speed and gen1 Special 4 lyfe, nigga

>>28044115
In game stats aren't the most relevant things, pokedex descriptions are more important.

>>28044078
Lorewise, Mew is like the original pokemon Arceus created.

Lorewise, Alakazam is over 9000 supercomputers, and will predict everything Mew ever would or could do, before MEw knows what it can or cannot achieve.

I'd say that gives Alakafuckyoshit a lil' advantage, personally.

>>28044140
yeah, cause this>>28044095
his ATT and your DEF/SPEED/WHATEVER do not matter in the slightest

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>>28044130
Considering that pokemon don't have an arbitrary four move limit in this quest, does that mean that Mew knows All The Moves?

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>>28044140
The post about mewtwo and alakazam was refering to the R/B/Y generation of game.

In this quest, you are most likely right but in the game, Alakazam was better than mew.

>>28044162
That's one of the few things i could think of that actually WOULD give Mew a definite advantage.

Alakazam is just so goddamn fast though, both in body and in mind/decisionmaking speed/reflexes.

OHKO, almost certainly. IF mew lives, it might pull a win with a super effective move though.

>>28044115
If its stats we're talking about then mew is still superior

>>28044208
not really, Mew is a better all-rounder, but Alakazam is better at its role.

>>28044159

Mew, Quoted from Silver pokedex, the first entry that speaks to its actual abilities and not just appearance/rarity.

"Its DNA is said to contain the genetic codes of all Pokémon, so it can use all kinds of techniques. "

Alakazam, quoted from Red: "Its brain can outperform a super-computer. Its intelligence quotient is said to be 5,000."

One of these things is an actual ability. One of these things is pretty irrelevant if you dont achieve the first strike.


>>28044208
Mew total stats: 600. Alakazam total stats: 490. There is some merit there.

Mew is a jack of all trades master of none, though. Alakazam is specialized in killing you immediately and mercilessly. If you have good well rounded stats but die on turn 1, you still suck though.

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>>28044208
No.

Mew had an higher stat total, but none of his stats were high enough to be remarkable.

Alakazam had 135 in special and and 120 in speed, which is what you want in a special sweeper.

Mew only had 100 in special and speed.

Mew was a bit tougher and more versatile, but Alakazam was much faster and stronger.

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>>28044095
Okay where is this coming from?

I've looked through all Charizard's pokedex lines and they are

>Spits fire that is hot enough to melt boulders. Known to cause forest fires unintentionally.

>When expelling a blast of super hot fire, the red flame at the tip of its tail burns more intensely.

>If CHARIZARD becomes furious, the flame at the tip of its tail flares up in a whitishblue color.

>Breathing intense, hot flames, it can melt almost anything. Its breath inflicts terrible pain on enemies.

>It uses its wings to fly high. The temperature of its fire increases as it gains experience in battle.

>CHARIZARD flies around the sky in search of powerful opponents. It breathes fire of such great heat that it melts anything. However, it never turns its fiery breath on any opponent weaker than itself.

> A CHARIZARD flies about in search of strong opponents. It breathes intense flames that can melt any material. However, it will never torch a weaker foe.

>Its wings can carry this POKéMON close to an altitude of 4,600 feet. It blows out fire at very high temperatures.

>It spits fire that is hot enough to melt boulders. It may cause forest fires by blowing flames.

>It is said that CHARIZARD’s fire burns hotter if it has experienced harsh battles.

>If CHARIZARD becomes furious, the flame at the tip of its tail flares up in a light blue shade.

"Um, Janine?"
Your voice squeaks out, as you fall under her intense glare,"What is it?"

"I, um.." You look back to the wood from which you came, "Kakunes. The Index says that we should, um." You squirm under the older girl's gaze as she says nothing.
"We should ex-exterminate them..."

Janine's human eyes go wide before she slaps herself in the head, sucking in air with a hiss. "Crap, you're right, we should go back. We need to get rid of them or we'll run into them again on the way out. Unless we take another way out. Then we might just-"

Janine's face begins to flush red as she snaps her vision back into the Beedrill wood.
Bruise seems slightly amused by her display, and you can't help but suppress a small smile as you point out her error.

"Without any dangers in this part, we move back to exterminate the Kakunes and Beedrills."
Janine nods, and slides a dagger from her pouch, an attached wire glistening slightly in sparse rays of sun.

Goldenrod returns and you all prepare.

>Engagement imminent
>Battle: Beedrill Swarm(x2 known)/Kakuna backup.

>[]Preparation?

>Bruise equips Iron Cestus for close combat.
>Goldenrod will run safety teleportation to save from lethal stings.
>Repel tech will be turned off squad-wide once engagement begins.
>Janine will throw wires to entangle the flyers.

Any suggestion Cerulean may be able to give will increase her respect. Respect will give leader-ship options.

>>28044267
OP said it in another thread

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>>28044277
Get our Bident ready.

Plan a group escape strategy with Janine consisting of icy wind followed by smokebomb.

>>28044277
We all have flint and tinders, right? We should try to start a controlled fire, since Beedrills are weak towards fire and the smoke will choke them.

>>28044277
Get in Mid-range area and use our ice wind on them, it should be able to affect most of the Beedrill

>>28044317
that could ...backfire and is counter to our natural super-effective attack of freezing their shit.

>>28044277
ask about any AOE attacks. tell them we will create a wide range Ice Wind and sustain.

tell janine that we don't have anti poison so if we get sting then someone needs to help us

>>28044306
No I didn't.

>>28044355
i could swear you did.

>>28044338
Just going by the monster index entry.

But that is right; we'd probably get dehydrated much faster.

>>28044277
If we can spare one of the four smoke bombs we have, we should use it to choke the insects.

>>28044277
We'll obviously hit groups with Icy Wind.

If I remember correctly Beedrill's are protective of Kakuna, so we may be able to lure all of the Beedrill to one location by setting something up that hurts one of them and hiding nearby. Once they gather together we can drop them with Janine's wires wrapped around them and the area they've gathered to keep them from splitting up or heading straight towards us, and throwing Icy Wind at them over and over until they die.

Also we don't want to be blindsided by Beedrills coming from directions we aren't expecting, getting them bunched up makes it easier to avoid reinforcements coming in from somewhere we aren't expecting and means we can take them all out with AoE attacks and the like.

>>28044343
We have an antidote and can Hydrate in water if we need to.

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>>28044267
Also does this mean that most of the time when Charizard kills everything, it doesn't even breathe fire to do so?

>>28044385
smoke doesn't hurt them, just drives them into a frenzy. our Icy Wind on the other hand will to lots of damage to all of them. all we have to do is keep it about ground level and we are fine

Hand a smoke bomb off to Goldenrod, have him teleport it and deposit it underneath the Kakunas. The beedrills will be drawn to protect them and get drowsy.

Thats when we strike.

>>28044412
oh jeeze that's terrifying

>>28044277
For these two suggestions
>>28044313
>>28044329
We should probably focus on Bruise as the 'spear tip' of our attack. As the fastest and most agile one among us (sans Janine; we don't really know how quickly she can move), he'd be able to draw their attention and escape from them easier than any one of us.

Once he draws them in, we can hit them with an Icy Wind, and he can charge through them to escape and simultaneously scatter them.

>>28044413
>drives them into a frenzy
Is this a real life insect thing? Since I thought smoke was supposed to be bad for insects.

>>28044431
i thought smoke (when not contained inside something) irritates insects in their drive to avoid it.

it puts bees to sleep though so i am not quite sure

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>>28044431
If they are already grouped, we could open with icy wind and have Bruise run in afterward, in order to not hit Bruise with our icy wind.

we should have informed janine that our biology naturally recovers from things like poison and paralysis with hydration, so she should consider that before using whatever supplies she uses for her own techniques.

>>28044447
opening with icy wind is a good idea, we might want to have bruise go full defense if the type chart is in full effect, since fighting is 1/4 effective against bug/poison, though how one differentiates from a fighting strike and a 'normal' strike is up in the air.

>>28044447
Ah, for some reason, I didn't think about Bruise.

Okay, redo:
>>28044277
Have Goldenrod draw them in and teleport out of harms way. We use Icy Wind on them, then Bruise can charge through them to scatter and confuse them.

Rolled 40

So combingin ideas so far, we could have Grumpy teleport a smoke bomb inside of a cluster of kakuna to attract the beedrills attention prior to turning off our repel tek. Once they are all grouped together, we can use icy wind on them, either freezing them or at least slowing them down in their tracks long enough for Janine or Rock Lee to finish them off.

Holdenrod can still teleport in if anybody needs help and we can provide support with water gun if necesarey.

Good plan?
Y/Y

Rolled 76

>>28044490
>>28044485
I hope bruise learned some ground or rock type move from his internship at Pewter city gym.

Actually, lets ask him that.

>>28044512
Y

>>28044512

>Method of attack:
Goldenrod:Teleport smoke-bomb to center.
Bruise: Charge
Cerulean: Icy Wind.
Janine: Wire Trap

>Approved?
Roll 1d100 if so.

Rolled 31

>>28044528
Approved

Rolled 52

>>28044528
Y

Rolled 58

>>28044528
Icy Wind before Bruise's charge, I think.

Rolled 86

>>28044528
Y

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>>28044512
I don't think the smoke bombs are necessary.

Just threatening the Kakuna should be enough.

Rolled 30

>>28044528
sounds good

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Rolled 4

>>28044528
SATAN GUIDE MY CO- DICE, MY DICE.

Rolled 53

>>28044528
approved

Rolled 94

>>28044539
icy wind is a constant thing

>>28044528
Shouldn't we be rolling a 1d20?

Rolled 57

>>28044528
Gonna make up from this guy's roll:
>>28044550

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Rolled 66

>>28044550
SATAN HAS BETRAYED ME

>>28044571
>66
OH LORD SATAN.

>>28044558
I think we need to get approval from others before we fight

>>28044544
84 aint to bad

>mfw when an 86 is the lowest of my 4 rolls this thread
>mfw when i have no face

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>>28044550
Wait does this count as a critical failure?

Because that'd be stupid.

>>28044558
Yes.

>>28044550
Seems Darkrai has gleaned upon you.

Roll 1d20 for personal engagement.
Strategy yields +5
Ingenuity+1
Team effort +10

DC 28 Suffer no damage
DC 30 Kill 1 of 2 beedrill
DC 32 Kill both beedrill guards.(Personally)

Rolled 4 + 16

>>28044621
1d20+16, right?

So the roll just set the difficulty.

Rolled 8

>>28044621
FOR ARCEUS!

Rolled 18

>>28044621
20 gogo

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Rolled 9 + 16

>>28044621
So... like this?

Rolled 8 + 16

>>28044621
LET'S GO

Rolled 10 + 16

>>28044621
no crit fail right?

and only 2 beedrills?

Rolled 8 + 16

>>28044621

>>28044621

Rolled 10 + 16

>>28044621
>+5
>Ingenuity+1
>Team effort +10
Forgot the modifiers

Rolled 20 + 20

Janine's roll

>>28044638
YOU IDIOT, YOU DIDN'T PUT IN THE MODIFIER

>>28044638
Close. But good enough.

Rolled 12 + 16

>>28044636
>>28044638
only counts with modifiers attached

jesus our rolls are shitty today

>>28044649
top lel

>>28044649
Welp

Rolled 7 + 16

>>28044621
For the dice god!

>>28044649
God damn Janine is boss.

Rolled 20 + 16

>>28044621
>>28044638
Does this count? Or will we have to use up our tenacity

>>28044654
Yeah.

>>28044649
Oh Janine, you wonderful.

>>28044655
At 30, we get the second best result.

Rolled 20 + 15

>>28044649

Goldenrod

Rolled 7 + 16

>>28044666
It doesn't

and turn off your dice

>>28044667

>>28044649
>>28044667
Holy Jesus balls. Our team is on fire.

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>>28044649
>Rolled 20 + 20
y-you too

Rolled 13 + 16

>>28044666
god dammit

Rolled 6 + 22

>>28044667
Bruise Lee

>>28044667
2 for 2, Professor. Are you siphoning all the luck away from us?

>>28044675
>>28044670
Holy fuck. I didn't realize I rolled a 20.

Rolled 7 + 16

>>28044667
Oh jeeze

now its bruises turn
>>28044681
+22? jesus he is ON FIRE

>>28044681
Ech.

With that modifier....yeah, he's good.

Anyway, even if we get scruffed up from this skirmish, we can heal up+ Rest once we reach the water.

Rolled 10

Chance Critfail: Failure check

>>28044689
No, he's just a fucking beast in combat. He's 10 gallons of whoopass in a 5 gallon can.

>>28044700
Maximum Critfailure.

Interesting.
>Writing

>>28044716
>Maximum Critfailure.
Wat?

>>28044726
>>28044700
rolled 10 out of 10, this ain't good.

Rolled 3 + 16

>>28044716
OH GOSH I DONT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS

1 encounter crit
2 teammate crits
1 battle crit

i am sad

Rolled 19 + 16

>>28044700
Who critfailed?

>>28044726

Checking how bad it is, someone recommended from a QTG. Chance does not directly affect combat performance. It effects the environment.

>>28044749
We did, on the 1d100 chance roll earlier.

It's like a 30% chance when you take 7 of them, not really that surprising.

Rolled 4 + 16

>>28044749
no one. it was a likelyhood/battle roll

>>28044758
So it's like our first chance roll in this thread. Something we can work through, yeah?

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>>28044716
>Maximum Critfailure.
well shit

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>>28044716
What the fuck are you playing at?

Also does this mean that the plan worked perfectly, but a Nidoking just happened to show up?

>>28044759
31% on a 5% chance to be precise.

>>28044758
That was me.

Its about the d100 critfail right?

Too bad about the damage we take with that 26=-2 under the 28 we needed at least.

>Suddenly hordes of pikachu

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>>28044759
Wait, what?

I thought only 1s counted as a critfail.

>>28044758
How many rolls are you taking for battle? Since you started taking 7 rolls for chance, does that mean the same for battle?

>>28044787
It's around 30.16627%. It's closer to 30% than 31%.

>>28044807
Only on d20s.

>>28044802
>Suddenly hordes of horny pikachu during mating season
Maximum failure

>>28044802
We should get Aqua a Pikachu implant since he seems to have an affinity for it and is scared of water monsters

>>28044807
The below 5 rule hadn't been lifted.

One of the people rolled a 4.

>>28044820
Oh sorry, did a decimal error.

So, uh...which roll is Yggdrasil using for Cerulean?

>>28044885
The one that kills us.

>>28044885
10

So what's the worst that could happen, anyway? Obviously the protagonist can't die (yet) but could one of our friends get one-shotted? Could they die heroically taking a blow meant for us, because we fudged our roll?

>>28045038

Not with their rolls, they'd save us perfectly fine. Janine got fucking 40.

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>>28045038

>>28045038
This is attack on titan

he will kill us and everyone we know, plot armor is non existant

>>28045051
I am not sure we personally critfailed.

I think the critfail was on the luck roll for the encounteré

>>28045038
>>28045066
Yeah, don't listen to this guy.

We'll get some wounds, but we didn't fail by all that much.

The crit failure that Professor rolled was more for the situation than for how we performed, although I'm not really sure why he had us roll for chance before the rolls for the battle then rolled another die for the situation after all the other rolls. Can someone explain to me what the logic behind that is? Why was it suggested to him in the QTG?

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>>28045069
Yeah I'm pretty sure the d100 was more for chance, and not any personal failure on our part.

Though our roll itself was relatively low, especially compared to our allies.

>>28045105
i wasn't saying that he would kill us NOW, just that he has no qualms about killing us

and it wasn't suggested in the QTG, i dont think

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>>28045105
I don't know, I don't really recall how it was brought up.

I really don't understand what all the dice was meant to accomplish.

>>28045141
Prof said it was a suggestion from the QTG
>>28044758

>>28045126
>>28045105
i think he was talking about the d10

which i think was for "encounter luck"
other things barging in
tree falling on us
friendly fire
shit like that

>>28045167
Yeah, but how does that differ from the initial roll we had at the beginning here?
>>28044528
Before we enacted our plan?

>>28045165
Oh, must have missed it

>>28045167
Large beedrill swarms, possibly supported by weedles.

>>28045191
Remember when Prof joked about us getting fucked up by string shot in one of the earlier threads?

.....yeah.

You share you idea with the others, and Janine approves of it, with a rather impressed smirk,"That's some good thinking Cerulean, I like it."

You grip your spear as everyone takes positions, Goldenrod does so dutifully with a bit of warmth from his roll in the plan.

You set up from a decent vantage point within the wood, a slightly open part that allows you sight of Goldenrod's mark.
Janine laces trees with her wired knives, setting up a snare for the would-be stingers. Her actions seem to trigger curious responses from the Bees as they move about to investigate the knife swishings through the air.
Bruise approaches low, ready to pounce upon the two lone guard drones that tend to the cocooned threats.

On a whistle, Janine signals the start of the attack and a smoke-bomb detonates at the center of the forest, sending out a wide and obscuring layer of smoke. The Bees are driven into a frenzy, driving forth into the center, to find nothing but the cover as Goldenrod ports to the outside, Janine signals to you, and you unleash a torrent of your icy wind, hissing through the woods with a mighty gale, frosting over the leaves and chilling the insects' slow blood to a crawl as the bite of your chill takes them.

As they begin to lazily seek an escape, they are entangled by the wires, suffering further abuse as Bruise meets their strugglings amidst the wake of the cold air with a brutal fist, dashing one of them apart.
At that; Janine drives in as well, leaping from tree to tree within a blink of your eye, slicing through the guardian drones.

You feel a pressure upon your mind, seeing Goldenrod as you turn, seeing that he's come to watch you," It went well." He gives you a small smile.

You give a deep sigh of relief as it all passes over smoothly, the sound of crumbling shells heard through the wood as the creatures die from your squad's strategy.

>>28045187
I have no clue, but we did roll an 86 on that roll

>>28045191
> different evol path type pokemon working together
top kek

Creeping out from the clearing with your squad-mate in tow, you search the forest for survivors, seems that their all dead, all the cocoons are broken, or nearly breaking.

One still squirms, partially alive. You thrust your bident forward, skewering the thing as it tries to escape from its shell. The electricity kicks in, the thing shrieks, and then dies, roasted alive.

You relax, letting your Bident hang down at your side, feeling the pleasant chill of the air wash over your body, a good thing. The heat was terrible.
You suddenly hear another little shriek, as your bident flares up and an oppressive stench hits your nostrils, sprayed over your body, as a green worm with pink antennae squirms into death.
"Augh! By Arceus, it stinks!" You cover your nose, wincing your eyes closed as it hits you so hard that the world goes fuzzy, spinning right along with the roiling of your stomach.

"Ceru was hit by a Caterpie!" Bruise calls as he rushes over to you, stopping just short of the smell and turning right around, on guard,"We need to go to the water now!" His voice is louder than usual, oh Arceus why is it so loud, it will...

You see the flicker of Janine land besides you, mutually on guard, back to you," Not so loud Bruise, you'll attract others. This area is compromised. We need to move now, Goldenrod, can you teleport us?"
"Only one."
"Damn," Janine curses under her breath. "She's hit with the stink, she'll attract others if it isn't washed off and covered with something to-"

Something moves from the bushes, curious and predatory eyes peeking out, Janine slides the flat of a knife across her skin and launches it into the face of one, making it recoil and hiss horribly. "Get her out of here now Goldenrod!"
"But-"
The wounded creature growls, and others begin to breach. Snakes, and other bug-like eyes lurch forward.
"Get her out of here!" Bruise yells this time as one of the snakes lunges for one of his legs, receiving a smashed head in return.

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>>28045204
Except we didn't roll for dodging or whatever.

I don't think it means we accidentally asphyxiated ourselves again.

>What's your say in this?

>>28045251
....hurry

>>28045226
Weedle evolves to kakuna which evolves to Beedril.

>>28045235

We hurry the fuck out of here.

>>28045245
We are trying that again when we get back, preferably with Misty there to watch. that is too good of an idea to let go

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>>28045251
I suppose we can't wash ourselves off with Water Gun?

>>28045251
Ask for a rendezvous point. The lake Goldenrod spotted?

Failing that, a general area from which Goldenrod can find them.

>>28045295
i had caterpie and weedle mixed up

>>28045304
we can't move to well right now

>>28045235
>"She's hit with the stink, she'll attract others if it isn't washed off and covered with something to-"
Could we use Water Gun to wash ourselves and Icy Wind to cover up our body with a layer of ice? Later on, when we can act properly again.

>>28045251
>>28045274
just this. need to get goldenrod moving

>>28045334
Good thinking

>>28045334
>>28045346
We are barely coherent, we can't function well enough to do either of those

>>28045251
Groan

>Action: Expedited exit.

>>28045334
Things are attacking from all sides right now.
No time for any of that.

>Caterpie
>Weedle
>Ekans
>Rattata

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>>28045251
Will coating ourselves in Icy Wind mollify the stink at all?
If not, I suppose there's nothing that can be done but just follow orders.

>>28045365
>>28045377
How bad is our headache, Professor? Given the text, I don't think it's bad enough for us not to be coherent. We're just hurt by loud noises.

>>28045404

>Vision spinning

Leaving for the lake.

>>28045447
sounds like a migraine to me. poor girl

>>28045447
If that's just it, then we can ask for a rendezvous point (or at least tell them that we'll have Goldenrod look for them from above) from Janine before we leave.

>>28045462
just let it go, they will follow us to the lake cause that is the only reasonable rendezvous point. the only reason they haven't booked it out of there is because we haven't teleported yet

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>>28045490
Pretty much this.

They should have it under control.

>>28045490
It won't take much effort to say, "We'll meet up at the lake", anon. Geez, no need to be so opposed to acting calmly.

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>>28045490
this

>>28045541
we aren't calm. our world is spinning and we can't think and words hurt our brain and we're about to spew

So beyond OOC that it isn't even possible

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>>28045541
I think the rational thing is to leave as soon as possible though.

Every second counts.

Things are pretty grim right now, in case you haven't noticed.

And being calm isn't exactly appropriate.

>>28045566
Okay, instead of calm, let's go ahead and say "smart" instead.

Anon, it's not OOC to act careful in our state. We're about to get separated. We want to make sure that we can meet up again. Easy enough. We're not confused, we're in pain, but that doesn't mean we can't think up any immediate concerns. It's why the opportunity to do so was given to us by the Professor, after all.

>>28045541
from the sounds of it, we have a migraine. And it's really hard to think rationally when you have a migraine

>>28045613
Have you ever had a migraine? I don't think you have. I have had one and I can tell you it's not impossible to think.

If it was impossible for us to act or say anything in this situation, than why were we even given an option in the first place? Why waste our time like that?

>>28045613
think migraine + about to throw up

>>28045607
it would undoubtedly take a roll and time we should not waste

>>28045634
>>28045607
Why would we stay and say something when it provides almost no benefit (cause they are going there anway, they aren't stupid) and it would take a roll.

>>28045654
To act in character. You have your interpretations of how Cerulean would act. That doesn't necessarily mean I have the same.

>>28045638
If it needed a roll, we could just drop it. Cancel it. Easy as that.

>>28045675
>If it needed a roll, we could just drop it. Cancel it. Easy as that.
That's not how quests work, yo.

>>28045687
Professor has told us before whether or not an action would require a roll and whether or not we'd want to take it.....homie.

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>Map Updated

"Where.. do we meet?" You groan out, as you feel yourself beginning to heave, the potent odor taking its toll on you, generating a queasy, nauseous feeling.
Janine's blades hands flicker through the air like magic as she takes down a pair of lunging rats, her foul poisonous sweat glimmering off of her blades and neck.
"Lake. Go!" She shouts. You feel a hand upon your shoulder, and suddenly your perspective changes as you and Goldenrod float upon the air for a brief moment before you two begin to fall.

"Hold on-" A quick and silent mutter from the boy as the same thing happens again, your location is vastly displaced, and you've got a hang-time again.
"Three... more." He groans out through gritted teeth. You feel a surge from your stomach as you loose the contents of your stomach as the next port takes place, in the distance, you can see the trees move with the results, and in the sky you see a magnesium emergency flare take off through the air, you can't tell exactly what direction it is.
"Oh Arceus," You groan as you feel another sick lurch, you hope it isn't theirs. You hope it isn't your team.

Several seconds later, the world shifts again, and you're next to a lake, coughing on your own bile as the stench still pervades your nostrils.

Not far, you see Goldenrod heaving as he touches his index, his form shifting as he turns his repel tech back on.

You look to your own wrist groggily, and touch the option, engaging your system. It's then you notice with a sick frustration that in that mess you dropped your bident. Damn...

>>28045742
dice in the lake

Dice into the water

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Goldenrod finally pukes up a bit and wipes it off on the sleeve of his coat with a painful grimace.
"We need.. To wash you. You need to wash. Smells.. really bad." He pants with exhaustion, his eyes flickering as they try to roll back. "I.. I need. I need. I need slee... Slee-" After an attempt at a yawn, he falls to the damp soil of the lakeside.

You hear distant fighting, though you can't tell which direction it's from, it feels like its all around you.

>[] Slip into the water to get clean.
>[] Watch over Goldenrod as he sleeps, wait for the others.
>[] Use one of your techniques...
>[] Go to sleep.
>[] (Write in)


>Pic related, standard ranger uniform(Swap colors for gym.)

>>28045752
dive
>>28045756
im not the only one

we need to get that washed off

>>28045760
these
>>28045752
>>28045756

>>28045756
>>28045752
What? Do you mean dive?

>>28045760
>[] Slip into the water to get clean.

But lets keep an eye out for goldenrod

>>28045742
>It's then you notice with a sick frustration that in that mess you dropped your bident.
It's okay, Cerulean. The bident's price has probably already been reflected in your school tuition.

>>28045760
We need to wash off, or we'll attract people. But first, let's try to find somewhere we can hide Goldenrod first.

We can go with the earlier suggestion of using Water Gun on ourselves and Icy Wind to try and cover up the smell. Then we can stash Goldenrod somewhere safe. Once we do that, let's clean and Rest ourselves in the water.

>>28045752
>>28045756
Dicemind

>>28045760
flared collar and all?

>>28045760
>>[x] Slip into the water to get clean.
Do this first. We're only endangering Goldenrod the longer we stink

>>28045803
Only professional rangers get to pop their collars.

>>28045798
don't have time for that, especially with how the animals were reacting to the smell before.

the longer we smell the chance of something finding us goes us exponentially

>>28045798
>or we'll attract people
Why did I say people.

>>28045824
Which was why I was saying that we try to wash it off/cover it up quickly with our Water Gun + Icy Wind. Not as thorough, but any animal with a sensitive enough nose to notice the remaining scent will probably be onto us already.

We need to show care for Goldenrod; he just helped us escape and he's vulnerable now (although, I think he's supposed to be still conscious even while sleeping?).

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>>28045760
Hey Professor.

How exactly do Awakenings work?

>>28045873
it takes like 10 seconds or less and we get a bonus to combat on from water to ground.

and he can teleport in his sleep (unconfirmed)

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>>28045821
>Readtheimagename.jpg

Seems that you'll be diving into the water.

1d100 Chance.
New Danger Zone Critfail increased to 10
Caterpie stink. Critfail range doubled to 20.

Range of 5
95+ will now count as crit-success.

>>28045883
The auto administered awakening's jolt the body's systems into a state of caffeinated readiness, dispelling any effects that would cause depressive fatigue.

Rolled 70

>>28045901
Roll!

Rolled 12

>>28045901
20

Rolled 92

>>28045901

Rolled 42

>>28045901

Rolled 39

>>28045901
Dive Dive

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>>28045901
>The auto administered awakening's jolt the body's systems into a state of caffeinated readiness, dispelling any effects that would cause depressive fatigue.

...See, someone should have asked that question before they all rushed towards jumping into the water.

Because that right there is valuable information.

>>28045918
Yeesh.

Rolled 24

>>28045918
>>28045901
oh fuck me

hope someone gets a 95, cause we just critfailed... again