>>29268869
Bout time.

Awwww yeah, Devon's turn.

>>29268869
Reportin'!

it's time to burn things, scientifically analyze other things, and be totally brutals.

>>29268869
>Character Sheet
>>http://pastebin.com/7CJx3gq1
Damnit. I was expecting a Devon sheet.

>>29269060
>>Character Sheet

I'll try to get that set up between posts. Work kept me a bit late.

>>29269085
Excitement!

>>29269085
Fun fact Inferno is one of Houndoom's start moves

>>29269136
Also Thunder Fang, which is good for mixing things up.

Devon:
Just get done hearing all that shit on the radio
MAXIMUM INFERNIZE

>>29269136
Napalm loogie is the best move.

>>29269244
Also Smog, Faint Attack, and Nasty Plot

Devon
Age: 14
Grafts: Houndour (evolved)
Special Abilities: Giving no fucks. Slapping a bitch. Able to resist the urge to strangle Goldenrod for short periods of time.
Likes: Fire. Setting things on fire. Strangling Goldenrod. Being Alpha.
Dislikes: Disrespecting his authority. Goldenrod. That fat fucking catgirl.

>>29269244
>Devon holds Hypo down and does the drippy spit thing that dbag older brothers do.

>Devon

Flame broils in your maw, your foe a sillhouette against the flames that have begun to rage around the village. The homes of these worthless traitors are just so...
Dry.

The enemy wields a sapling, swinging around the thing like a crude club, every swing a viscious attempt to break every bone in your body.

You're dancing with death and you love it.

Screams of the thralls erupt from the hostels. suckling babes and grown men and women alike. There's a little bit of everything here it seems.

The mad creature rushes you, swinging the branch as you dig your feet back, generating distance as you let an erupting gout of fire pour from your mouth.
You expected this attack, but the monster merely opens its chitinous back and beats the fire down with sheer wind pressure, the rest of the flame caught by the tree and tossed aside for another rush.

A glance back tells you that a home is in the way.

The dance thus far as played the same way.

When there's a home behind you, and you dodge, the beetle abstains its attack at the last moment, sparing the home from its brute force. It's not smart enough to know what the fire does it seems, but it isn't crushing the people.

Tacking down a foot, you dart to the side and spin around, letting the world whip around you as you dive behind the house.

The thing's a pest. A downright pest. If only you had your sword or Cerulean to use as a meat shield of some kind. Her fat's good for something right?

Your radio comes on, intercepting another transmission from the girl of the hour.

"You... will.... pay..." A voice statics through.
Not Cerulean, and only hostiles here.

do we have a plan, other than "burn many things and escape, possibly with cerulean in tow"?

The stupid cunt must be in trouble, she went... Ah fuck where the hell did she go? The stink of your flame's everywhere, and the smoke is getting thicker..

It'll be hard to tr-

Your body moves on its own, barely dodging a surprise punch from the steroid bug. The force of friction cuts right through your side, leaving a bloody burn, though sparing you the brunt.

The bug follows up with another punch, aiming to expose your brains to the world, yet an opening of your maw with flame roiling once more makes the thing rub its two braincells together, get a spark and back right off again with a blast of wind from its wings.

The thing's no ordinary insect, it's got a damn self preservation instinct. It watches your movements and reacts. It's even got something of a stance, and worst of all- It sees through your foul play.

>You're at a stalemate...
>What's the plan?

>>29269356
You forgot dick jokes and pocket sand.

>>29269467
Force it to either chase us through flames, or lose us, by running and burning things.

>>29269467
disengage, get separation and ambush

>>29269467
Character Sheet

>>29269442
>When there's a home behind you, and you dodge, the beetle abstains its attack at the last moment, sparing the home from its brute force. It's not smart enough to know what the fire does it seems, but it isn't crushing the people.
This is something we can obviously take advantage of. Probably a geass the Hypno placed on the Heracross.

How strong is Devon? Any windows available?

>>29269467
>Start grabbing repel techs off the buildings and see if you can use them for some kind of cumulative repel effect.

>>29269467
Volt orb?

>>29269467
DEVON SHE WENT IN THE BIG HOUSE. YOU TWO WENT OVER THIS SHIT.

>>29269467
Send up some smog and disengage.

>>29269136
>>29269188
Moves like that, in the game, are more costly to learn than TMs, move tutors tend to be free (some cost shards); those you have to get from a reminder in exchange for a heart scale.

Kind of ambiguous in this setting, since I imagine all 'TMs' are more like move tutoring, and reminding is a very meta concept. I don't know if you would even want to make them distinct from higher level moves (thus they just require concerted effort to learn) or TMs (thus requiring expert lessons).

>>29269557
I think the implication is that the Hypno took her body somewhere.

>>29269467
We could go grab some of the people. Maybe big bug won't splatter its master's dream cattle.

>>29269467
burn the homes. see just how smart it is.

really, Hades?

also, it's weird how there are 3 pokemon quests running right now: AopH, Pokemon Quest, and Pokemon Infiltrator Quest.

>captcha Fulton cafous
does Fulton work in this setting? Can we go MGS peacewalker?

>>29269467
Let's set the buildings on fire.

>>29269610
>>29269614
Wait. What's the logic in setting the buildings on fire?

>>29269467
If it doesn't want to attack houses, then the obvious solution is to get in a house and breathe fire at it.

That'll learn it.

>>29269467
>>29269639
Yeah. Better.

I don't understand the people who think burning the houses is a good idea? I mean. Aside from causing more damage, that just removes the bug's restriction from attacking them. Better that we take advantage of the protection they're receiving, then, right?

>>29269632
Yeah I don't get why we would do that instead of breaking through the houses so it won't attack us.

I mean given how bad the village is, it seems like a safe assumption that it's not gonna prioritize stopping all the fires.

>>29269467
go inside of a house. Leave the door open.

Wait on the inside of the door.
When it charges you, dodge out of the way and close the door.

Burn the thing down with it inside.

Toro~

>>29269677
Hypno made it so it wants to not destroy the houses. If we burn the houses, it might try to put them out and give us an opening.

>>29269632
I'm guessing that the anons are assuming that Hypno has control over the bug, and setting houses on fire will endanger the villagers, forcing Hypno to take action/use the bug to rescue the villagers.

That's an idea... I suppose if Hypno does have direct control over the bug, enraging him might make him less focused and less able to control the bug.

>>29269703
let's instead lure it inside a house via the magic of doors, and use it as a fire-cage.

>>29269442
>If only you had your sword or Cerulean to use as a meat shield of some kind. Her fat's good for something right?
Man...

If we had Goldie here, he could just tear the things wings off.

>>29269442
>The homes of these worthless traitors
>worthless traitors
Remember that this is what Devon thinks of these people. Keep this in mind when deciding what is and isn't IC.

>>29269703
Except the village is clearly already on fire.

>>29269467
Is Smog flammable?

>>29268869
Awwwwwwwwww yish devon time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=_ckCo80imFo&NR=1

>>29269703
That doesn't necessarily follow. That may just cause it to not recognize them as houses anymore.

>>29269753
Are you illiterate?

>Flame broils in your maw, your foe a sillhouette against the flames that have begun to rage around the village. The homes of these worthless traitors are just so...
>Dry.

>Screams of the thralls erupt from the hostels. suckling babes and grown men and women alike. There's a little bit of everything here it seems.

People are already dying, and the Heracross is still attacking.

>>29269733
Can Goldenrod do that? You'd think we'd get a lot more use out of esper abilities like that. I figured it was like a Manton Effect or something, and telekinesis doesn't work well on other people.

>>29269828
In the anime, espers directly fling around other pokemon and people. None of this rock throwing crap.

>>29269828
Yeah I'm pretty sure Confusion and Psychic is just blunt telekinesis.

Maybe Psycho Cut?

>Equipment:

>Voltorb x2
1 in use at half charge.
>Repel Tech
Kind of useless now that it's seen you.

>Moveset:

Bite
Flamethrower(Tutored)
Odor Sleuth(Toxic flame's disrupting it.)
Roar(Unlikely to help here, the thing's pretty fearless.)
Smog(Often mixed in with flamethrower)
Crossroad Killing(Learned with sword/Absent)
Feint Attack(Learned early through Kitty)
Rocket Training (2)
Ten +4

>Ideas

>[] Use one of the homes as a cage and torch it inside...
>[] Jump in the home and spit fire at it...
>[] Burn everything.(Devon likes this.)
>[] Other?

>>29269852
That was training.

>>29269881
>Ten +4
what?

>>29269906
That's his tenacity modifier.

>>29269881
>[] Use one of the homes as a cage and torch it inside...
I'm a bit wary of entering one of the homes ourselves. Let's try and lure it inside one first.

>>29269906
Tenacity bonus. He's tenacity is at 18 or 19, which gives a +4 bonus.

>>29269814
I assumed that dry meant that they were tempting targets, not already burning. Since Devon's hellfire is scary without burning anything, maybe the people are just afraid of having the floor on fire?

>>29269881
toss fire at a home or 2. They'll spread on their own, but we need to make it seem like it's still practical to disengage and save the villagers.

>>29269881
[x]use a home as a cage

in b4 we burn everyone

>>29269881
>>[] Use one of the homes as a cage and torch it inside...

>>29269919
We really need to stop burning our stats every single time and just tank the fails more often. If we endured some fails, we would fail less in the future.

>>29269881
>>[] Burn everything.(Devon likes this.)

Burn the ground. Make rings of fire and shit. Turn the wind into fire.

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>>29269881
>[] Use one of the homes as a cage and torch it inside...
Let's look for one with two doors or a window or something, so we have an escape route when the bug comes at us. As a bonus, we might set some traitors on fire in the process.

>>29269955
I said that the last 3 stat burns

Nobody listens to me

>>29269881
>Use one of the homes as a cage and torch it inside...
It might be able to see through our moves, but it's still just a damn bug.

>>29269881
>[] Jump in the home and spit fire at it...
Do this to lure it into doing
>[] Use one of the homes as a cage and torch it inside...

>>29269955
But they haven't caused us to fail yet?

>>29270013
Not having Ten bonus has directly caused us to fail combat rolls.

>>29269955
Crit fails also lower our stats

>>29270038
But the bonus wouldn't have been large enough to help last thread.

>>29269881
OP can you try using 2d10s

>>29270013
I would have loved a +10 last thread

ON ANYTHING

Devon using his brain. Right, that exists.

>Lure it into a home and burn it.
Ing+5
1d20

DC 22

>>29270123
or 4d5 for enemies only, no enemy crits.

>>29270133

Rolled 18 + 5

>>29270133

get some!

Rolled 20 + 7

>>29270133
+5 for Ing, +2 for Rocket

>>29270123
>>29270147

I wouldn't be adverse, but why and where?
When I roll for enemies?

Rolled 11 + 5

>>29270133

Rolled 19 + 5

>>29270133

>>29270156
Gotten.

Rolled 11 + 7

>>29270133
Isn't it technically +7 because of the Rocket bonus?

>>29270164
Aw, yeah.

>>29270164
Doh hoh oh, you got me.

And wow.

>>29270164
2 damn elite

>>29270133
>Ing+5
Shit Devon smart.

Rolled 11 + 7

>>29270133
Elite?

>>29270156
>>29270164
>>29270176
Purdy good.

>>29270168
Yes

>>29270168
Yes, only for enemies, because enemy crits suck balls.
I feel the same way about most of the crits we've rolled, but let's start with the one I have a rational dislike for.

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>>29270164

>That realization that Devon is so damn superior to Ceru in every way that isn't charm rolls.
Face it, the only reason Devon isn't top dog is Ceru getting bullshit rolls for the timeskip.

>>29270247
Er, the reason he isn't top dog is because he's not player controlled and, thus, his stats are pre-set.

>>29270201
Haha... this is how it begins. Like last thread, I saved us from getting mind-raped, and then proceeded to crit fail us into a vegetable. So I'm probably not going to be rolling any more for this thread.

>>29270247
We are never going to let Cerulean forget this.

>>29270247
She's more flexible then he's.

>>29270247
well, he DOES have a few years experience on ceru.

>>29270247
You forgot the fact that he controlled by a pack of morons that rolled for him.

Split up, why not?

>devon's theme music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiyYozeOoKs

>fat cat
I can't wait until I one day see a picture of cerulean in a suit and tophat oppressing the working class

>>29270324
And he's evolved. That's pretty big

>>29270201
I made it on time! (sorta) Hope you're feelin well Professor.
...er..
Hades.
What have you.

>>29270325
And here we go. One of the angriest of our bunch of followers casually being a jerk to everyone else.

>>29270296
And weaker in all the areas for it. This is that 10000 kicks unpracticed vs 1 kick practiced 10000 times.

>>29270325
I wish we had a wisdom stat to stop shit like that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyS3weMlxLA
Too bad devon's not the religious type.

>>29270396
we really need to establish dialogue and consensus outside of shitposting and calling each other faggot

>>29270387
Well we weren't supposed to be this invested in Evil moves. Still, the flexibility helped when Ceru's moves were disabled.

>>29270373
No, sir. I am being a jerk to people who forget the first rule of horror stories, NEVER SPLIT UP.

>>29270373
To be fair, splitting the party in hostile territory against unknown forces is pretty silly.

>>29270463
>>29270466
Yes yes, we've acknowledged that it was quite silly. It's in the past. Can't we move on and focus on that awesome crit huh?
comon guys.

>>29270488
Not until I see a large nose mounted in a wall on top of a fireplace.

>>29270514
hate to break it to you bro, but we're not getting an intact hypno body if we win
Not even a nose

>>29270466
>>29270463
Okay. Let's remember that. Seriously, let's keep that in mind in the future. We ran into trouble because we ran into a situation that we weren't well equipped to handle. That's why rangers operate in teams, to balance each other out.

Mistakes were made, but that doesn't mean we can't learn from them.

>>29270514
Not a bad idea. I think we should take the nose and give it to Goldenrod as a gag gift.

Sort of a "Hey I brought you a new graft!" kind of thing. And it's this humongous severed nose and Goldenrod just kind of deathstares us.

>>29270583
>Devon walks up to Goldie.
>Hands him a slightly charred bigfuck nose
>"biiiiiiiiiiiitch" in a Jessie Pinkman voice.

>>29270583
>Graft on Hypno nose
>Get raptastic instincts
>ITS THE NOOOOOOOOOOOSE
>THE NOSE IS TELLING ME TO DO IT
>OH GOD WHYYYYYYYYPNOOOO

>>29270514
>>29270564
I think the best we can do is some psychic-charged pocketwatch that will probably be confiscated for research.

>our faces when it's a hold item that enables psychic as a third type

You cut inbetween two houses, sprinting at top speed, the wind beating against your face, trying to slow you down, but you won't let it.

The thing falls behind you, though it's unrelenting, picking up the pace to drive you away, or kill you. Whichever it prefers.

It won't kill the houses though. It won't kill them. Then if you're in one of the houses...

You look back and release a vapor of smog, letting the thing eat a little bit of poison mist, it can fucking choke on it.

You pivot on a heel, rerouting for a house, a door and surge forward to the tasty morsels staying safe behind their walls, awaiting the big bad hound to knock them down.
You'll cook them, char them, damn the rangers for damning your-
No, focus. Focus.

The bug whips past you, carrying air pressure with it letting you know it's missed entirely. It won't stay off for long.

Plowing forward, you push off the ground and dive kick right through the door at the end of a loamy dirt path, breaking and entering in one vicious motion.

Smells hit your nose right away. Stink of dirty rotten traitors.

You peer out two children and a woman backed into a corner, pissing themselves in fear. You glare at them with fire in your eyes and dribbling from your maw.
They cling to each other, fear welling in their eyes and dribbling down their cheeks and loins.

"You're next." You growl to them, snarling with teeth bared, the beat of wings coming upon you, the woman screaming for mercy.

"Guardian, it is here! Kill the monster!"

You? A monster? A throaty chuckle escapes from your maw before it becomes a mad cackle, the beetle thrusting itself through the door, minding its horn and nearly getting stuck.

You relax a little bit, one last smirk through your canine teeth,"Huh, you're that stupid after all."

You release a gout of your poisonous blackened flame, ripe with all the nasty festering toxins your biology produces.

The carapace might brush it off, but those joints are going to be ruined from this.

>>29270583
Drowzee grafts would be pretty good for Goldie though

>>29270514
>tfw you realize psychic pokemon are fully sentient
>Hypnos face when he realizes we dont care

>>29270616
please flee women and children.

Devon is totally not going to stop but seriously get outta there

>>29270643
Shit. He might have gone berserk if he had seen Goldie.

>>29270621
>Gets a comically large nose to match his comically large 'stache

>>29270616
>You release a gout of your poisonous blackened flame, ripe with all the nasty festering toxins your biology produces.
Oh hey, can Devon differentiate the kind of flames he spits out?

Devon's really grown on me since the start of this arc.

>>29270564
We still have a Drowsee child to harvest.

>>29270643
Devon clearly does not give even the slightest of fucks.

And I'm comfortable with that.

Cerulean though is a different story. If she hadn't heard the whole "child abduction and brainwashing her to be my bride" thing, she might not have been quite as hostile towards the Hypno.

>>29270698
yeah, there's a range of opinions.
And hypno just happened to take out the most lenient member of the squad.

>>29270621
>>29270672
Giant nose. Giant mustache. He'd look like an asian Mr Potatohead. Let's not.

>>29270662
>having sympathy for traitors

>>29270687
I think there's a few modes,
>Napalm spit
>Fire
>Poisonous fire
>Varying proportions of smoke and fire mixed together

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>>29270672
>not using it to craft the most morbid pair of funny glasses

anons pls

It is really nice to not give a fuck about women and children...if Devon doesn't. Hard to get a handle on his personality 100%

But really am hoping the people run. Seriously. They should run

>>29270672
Man goldie is going to look weird if we get him all the grafts we want

>>29270717
I don't think he needs the nose.

Like he didn't get Abra's gigantic pointy ears.

Or cheek tufts.

>>29270725
yeah, I too hope they run.
No idea if devon will chase, or if it will save them, but they should.

We were going to earn SO MANY brownie points by rescuing these guys alive, devon! So many! Giovanni would have bought us a cake!

>>29270739
Why would he take them? The only really important part of abra is the brain.

You hear the woman and children scream again... Their voices annoy your ears.

The Bug thrashes in the doorway, trying to get out between wing-beats, it's surviving your flamethrower way too well...

A bit more thrashing and it breaks out of the doorway, flying and screeching as it rolls around along the dirt, trying to put the fire out.

The bitch stopped screaming, but the children are keeping it on. What the hell is with all these things screaming when you just want them to die?

>[] Kill the children, too much noise.
>[] Pursue the beetle to finish it off, that's your first real hit yet!
>[] Go find Cerulean, useless cat needs you to save her.
>[] (Other)

>>29270753
and the spoon gland

>>29270741

We cant give chase. Think of the mission.

>>29270741
Bring them back as present to Giovanni

>>29270762
>[] Go find Cerulean, useless cat needs you to save her.

We've got more important things to do right now.

>>29270753
I know, I'm just saying that I doubt Drowzee/Hypno keeps their brain in their schnoz, so it's not like Goldenrod would have to get rhinoplasy.

>>29270762
[x] Go find Cerulean, useless cat needs you to save her.

>[X] Go find Cerulean, useless cat needs you to save her.
Those flames aren't going to go out easy.

>>29270762
>>[] Kill the children, too much noise.
>>[] Pursue the beetle to finish it off, that's your first real hit yet!

>>29270762
>[x] Go find Cerulean, useless cat needs you to save her.
acquire Cat, disregard beetles

>>29270762
[x] finish off the beetle

it's a tough fucking call between this and cerulean

>>29270725
It all rather depends on whether or not Devon truly thinks they're traitors or if he has enough of a handle on his own thoughts to know that it's his implants talking.

'Course, that woman did just call the bug a guardian, so cat's out of the bag.

>>29270762
>[] Go find Cerulean, useless cat needs you to save her.

>>29270762
>Pursue the beetle to finish it off, that's your first real hit yet!
It's too dumb to run, it'll only come back to bug us again if we ignore it.

>>29270762
>[] Pursue the beetle to finish it off, that's your first real hit yet!

That thing is really bad news, and we've finally got a good opening. We're not gonna get another chance like this.

We can always kill the villagers later if we feel like it.

>>29270779
Their also stronger than abra implants
[X] Go find Cerulean, useless cat needs you to save her.

>>29270762
>>29270762
Should we take out the bug? We got fucked up last time because we didn't knock out the support.

>>29270762
>[x] Pursue the beetle to finish it off, that's your first real hit yet!
FINISH HIM. We can't save the useless fatass if the flaming rage bug bursts in, MADDER from being burned.

DON'T CREATE THE UNLIMITED GUTS HERACROSS. KILL IT.

>>29270762
>Pursue beetle
Why would we attack the kids? Nah, not worth the effort.
Better go find that stupid fucking cat. If she died someone would probably blame it on us. Fucking Rockets. That's all they ever care about, blaming people for shit.

>>29270835
Guts activates as a result of the Fight-or-Flight response.

>>29270762
>[X] Pursue the beetle to finish it off, that's your first real hit yet!

>>29270762
[x] Pursue the beetle to finish it off, that's your first real hit yet!

>>29270762
The useless cat does indeed need us to save her, but chances are that as long as its alive, that beetle is going to impede our ability to do so.

So really, burning the bug IS saving Cerulean, since it's preemptively removing an obstacle that would impede our path.

>>29270762
[x]cerulean?
I guess?
God I am afraid to pick

>>29270762

>[] Pursue the beetle to finish it off, that's your first real hit yet!

>>29270762
>Go find Cerulean, useless cat needs you to save her.
While it might be smarter to finish the Heracross, I feel like every second we wait is another second for Hypno to do more brainwashing.

>>29270762
[X] Go find Cerulean, useless cat needs you to save her.

>>29270762
>[] Pursue the beetle to finish it off, that's your first real hit yet!

>>29270762
>>[] Pursue the beetle to finish it off, that's your first real hit yet!
Always neutralize your target before moving on.

Then
>>[] Go find Cerulean, useless cat needs you to save her.

>>29270903
THIS
It's like these people want her to be brainwashed

The consensus is that you pursue the bug to finish it.

Alright then...

1d100
Danger Threshold 20
Critical Threshold 10

>>29270936
>>29270903
It's like you people think Devon knows what's happening and thinks of Ceru as more than a meatshield.

Rolled 26

>>29270940
Aw poop here we go

Rolled 40

>>29270940
Satan, guide my dice.

>>29270762
>[X] Go find Cerulean, useless cat needs you to save her.

Stupid bitch might be a vegetable by the time we kill that Heracross. Or be mind-controlled into fighting us. And we'd get a scolding if we killed the bosses latest pet.

>>29270940
Burninating all the people.

Rolled 22

>>29270940
c'mon kill

Rolled 47

>>29270940
ROLL!

Rolled 12

>>29270940
the end is near

in reality, both answers were wrong, and will come back to bite us

Rolled 52

>>29270940

Rolled 13 + 2

>>29270970
Goddamit. Redo.

>>29270949
>>29270949
We do know she's up against a psychic who just said it would make her pay.

Generally not a good sign.

>>29270989
God damn. Almost got it.

Or, wait......did we want to get an encounter? Since encounters aren't necessarily bad.

>>29270989
Thanks.

>>29270989
Oh. Looks like the little kids are about to charge us with machettes.

>>29270989
So close to critical fail...

>>29270997
Only 1 person chose the correct answer.

Do you fear the enemy in front? Or the enemy behind?

>Writing

>>29270989
So close.

So fucking close.

>>29271006
And its reasons like that we need wisdom

>>29271041
...You mean we were supposed to kill the children?

Who we were thinking of burning just for being loud?

What kind of mission is this?

>>29271041
>Only 1 person chose the correct answer.

>Do you fear the enemy in front? Or the enemy behind?
I feel like I should be really mad right now that I keep picking the "right" choices and everyone else isn't, but I just don't have the energy anymore.

>>29271017
Who could we encounter here?

Bug
Esper (s)
Cunt
Hypno
Cerulean

Guess who?

>>29271041
Should have killed the mother (went silent), then children. Wrong support target!

>>29271041
>One person
Oh hush your pretty face. We're not burning everyone to death.
..Unless we have to.
Hell, maybe its an 'accident'.
We got an excuse. Our boss was a little busy being probed to stop us

>>29271041
FUCK DROWZEE AHHHH
Dammit. We should have played to our strengths and just killed everyone.

>>29271041
The children...

stay calm and just kill everyone.

.....except maybe the cat

Heh. I called it. I knew people would try to play moralfag Devon and it would bite them. Oh well, let's make the best of it.

>>29271079
This isnt a nice setting you know.

>>29271084
We didn't have a reason to kill them, though, so loosen your panties.

>>29271106
you called that people would try to, and I quote "diplomance"

You liar.

>>29271106
No you didn't.

>>29271115
Agreed
They charge us with machete? We burn them all alive
We be satan dog man.

>>29271106
...Are you retarded? It was because the Heracross was established to be extremely dangerous and people wanted to press the advantage while they had it.

Moralfaggotry has nothing to do with it you smug cunt.

>>29271106
I am all for burniating fuckers I just didn't think the children would be a threat.

>>29271041
Oh god. Some people are already arguing like cunts.

>>29271106
Please.

Most of the people wanted to push the attack on the fuckhuge killer bug. A bunch of them voted to murder the kids too.

>>29271115
They are espers.

Wish lone anon explained his reasoning for kill the children.

>>29271140
he's a murderboner.
Literally anything other than killing children is "moralfaggotry" to them, even if it's killing a MORE dangerous monster.

>>29271115
You're kidding, right? You think that normal people can't run up and hurt us while we're preoccupied? Children are vicious little fucks, and not being paranoid about them is OOC for Devon.

>>29271125
I know you're talking about that guy from the QTG up now. Not him.

>>29271140
Indeed.

Relax folks. I don't really give a shit who Devon kills here. Fuck these people. They're all assholes who are plotting our downfall.

They get in our way, they die. That simple.

>>29271174
They're already being a problem by being loud. Repel tech doesn't work as good when shit gets loud. They're going to draw in the beedrills.

>>29271159
Well, danger is relative, everyone seems to have forgotten that this is esperland.

>>29271209
...that'd be a bigger problem for the Esper than us.
We got enough fire to annihilate those fucking bugs man.

Also, Esper weak to bug.

>>29271159
>he's a murderboner.
Here we go...

>>29271209
chaos will be our shield

>>29271209
beedrills are fine. bugs are resistant to psychics, right?

>>29271238
But they're strong against Poison.

For some reason.

>>29271231
I actually just really thought the waifu was the only esper. Would make sense since she is the facorite, and collecting espers should be harder since they are more resistant to mindfuckery.

>>29271159
>he's a murderboner
Actually, quite the opposite. He restrains himself quite a bit. Right now, we're acting as the restraint portion of his mind.

>>29271263
No, Beedrills are actually 2x weak to psychic.

>>29271266
Because pokelogic, mostly.

>>29271266
because espers don't use their blood.

>>29271278
but they will serve as a distraction/meat shield.

distract and divide the esper(s)'s focus

>>29271274
yeah, this.

ONE esper human along with two esper pokemon? dealable.

ALL OF THEM espers?
Shiiiiieeeet fuck cerulean let's get out of here

>>29271274
So did I, unfortunately.
>The bitch stopped screaming,
Big clue here.

>>29271322
They can't Esper us if they're on fire.

>>29271334
I thought she, you know, died.

I mean we ARE shooting fire into a closed space.

Have we run into anyone with Weedle family grafts? It seems like they're super common monsters, so you'd think there'd be more of their rangers running around. Beedrill isn't a bad set of grafts, and it's probably not too hard to evolve too.

Unless... I wonder how Kakuna/Metapod would work.

>>29271342
Bit distracted Kamen Rider Kabuto, here.

>>29271346
...nobody is confirmed dead unless we piss on their ashes.

>>29271375
Koga has some Beedrill grafts.

I imagine other Fuchsia rangers do as well, since it's the most common Poison pokemon.

>>29271041
DAMNIT PROF, stop baiting everyone with things like "right" or "wrong" choices. It is entirely within your power to defuse the situation, just use your head, the way that we apparently aren't.

>>29271452
If he honestly didn't want this bullshit to happen, he wouldn't have included the "peek under the door" option after we decided to find Devon.

This whole thing is a set-up.

>>29271452
That's why I want a wisdom stat.

how about we all just chill and roll with whatever consequences happen?

>>29271452
You understand that Prof is really just a robot QM that's powered by the pain and suffering of its players, right? It's why his every post is troll-throttle, and every thread is full of Healing-type writing.

>>29271477
I'll have to agree with you on that, this is starting to reek of set-up.

>>29271452
You are talking to a man who enjoys shadowruns far too much. It is futile.

>>29271519
Because this is dramatically inappropriate for a first mission.

>>29271477
we need to stop biting.

remember: the mystery box only contains disappointment

>>29271519
also this X1000

>>29271519
There wouldn't be consequences to roll with if people would stop making weak, poorly thought-out, ooc choices.

>>29271554
okay, this right here?
Exactly the shit I'm telling you to chill out about.

>>29271567
It's troll bait, yo.

Just ignore it.

>>29271554
The fuck are you even talking about?

Burning the Bug was none of those things.

>>29271554
We can never reach an informed consensus if all the dialogue is

>YOU FUCKING IDIOT!
>NO I'M NOT! FUCK YOU!

>>29271534
may as well blame God for sticking the Fruit of All Good and Evil in Eden.

Ignoring the screams of the worthless barbarians that know nothing but how to scream and cry, you step forward through the burning portal prepared to finish the bug.
The flames of your victory lick over your body, invigorating you through your every pore like a sauna, setting your soul aflame.

It feels good to be the one coming out on top. Now it's time to finish what's been started and smear the ashes of that bug from here to the dome.

You hear the screaming grow louder all of a sudden, and a swish of wind ring through the crackling embers of their once-home.

An arrow buries itself deep in your back, piercing right through one of your damn kidneys.

You whip around in response to the threat, snarling as a beast enraged, the measley whelps that had been screaming and crying have bows drawn, arrows fitted, as the woman draws another.
"Get out, monster!"

"Me? Again?!" You let your rage incite fire, as it flashes from your jaw as you speak.
"I'm an Arceus-damned hero! Who are YOU calling a monster?!" You grin madly at the incredulity of it all, and the woman releases her arrow, along with the children.
A blast of incinerating flame does away with the prehistoric weaponry.
You take a step towards them
"Draw another- I dare you- I double fucking dare you." A threat, yet it's made behind lying teeth.

As the woman bends down, you release your flame upon her, a real scream erupting from the wholesome family with...
Where's the dad?

A break of wood alerts you to a presence that had been hiding,a big man, though young, stabs at you with a barbed spear.
With a twist, you narrowly avoid it and lock it beneath your arm.

Releasing your flame upon the children, you simoultaneously wrench the spear in the man's grasp, pulling him closer to launch a reverse kick right into his solar, your monster biology doing its work to make the delightful noise of fracturing bone to go with the quickly asphyxiating screams of the one's you've torched.

With the spear in hand as the man crumples, you find yourself a weapon. Primitive, and not quite as good as your sword, but it'll have to do.

Pointy end goes through the stomach, right?

The frantic wing beats from outside grow louder, smashed and torn homes following suit soon after. It appears that your fire's made the beetle go mad with pain...

Your body slacks a little bit before you rouse yourself. Need to wrap this up, it's way too late for all this.

>[] Let it rampage, find Cerulean.
>[] Attack the bug, it's careless. Let's see if it can be killed now.
>[] Burn more houses, lets light this place up!
>[] (Other)

>>29271548
Ha! I was waiting for someone to say this.
This was only a hypno a herrecross and a few espers what happens if we fight a charazard?
Or a nidoking, nidoqueen combo?
Or a metagross?
Or any fully evolved dragon type?
This is baby stuff in this world.

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>>29271602
>An arrow buries itself deep in your back, piercing right through one of your damn kidneys.
I'm so fucking surprised.

>>29271630
>[] Let it rampage, find Cerulean.

Letting a distraction smash around is just fine.

>>29271602
Are you serious?

We have a lot of flesh, and she didn't even have to roll to hit us in a fairly vital organ?

You are crossing so many lines that if Devon or Cerulean are killed this thred, so is my interest in your quest.

>>29271630
>[x] Let it rampage, find Cerulean.

the bug has gone apeshit
you're tired and deep behind enemy lines
just find the cat and GTFO
kill any resistance met

>>29271554
Just another guy trying to get everyone angry.

>>29271630
>Let it rampage, find Cerulean

A distraction is always nice.

>>29271630
>[X] Let it rampage, find Cerulean.
That takes care of that. Pity.

>>29271630
Damnit, peasants, I thought you died!
How dare you instead of being dead be actively attacking me!
[x]let it rampage. It's no longer under psychic control.

>>29271630
>[] Let it rampage, find Cerulean.

>>29271630
>Let it rampage, find Cerulean.

As long as it's not chasing us, it's not our problem.

>>29271630
Oh shit. Wait. What happens if the bug destroys the repel nodes? Things are going to go FUBAR soon.

>>29271649
Tis but a flesh wound.
>>29271657
Yeah it's bullshit

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>>29271630
Welp we full murder now
Fuck this village
Fuck Hypno
Fuck these people
Fuck all of them.

>1 Let it rampage, get Ceru and LEAVE
NOW

Set the place on fire as we leave.

Seriously, fuck this place.

>>29271649
I am, a little. I had legitimately thought we caught the lady in the blast is why she shut up.

>>29271630
>[X] Let it rampage, find Cerulean.

Insane Heracross is fine. It'll destroy the village while we bug (heh) out.

>>29271657
Threshold: 20

Isn't that a roll?

>>29271630
>Let it rampage, find Cerulean
>Check our fucking kidney to make sure we're not bleeding out. I mean goddamn dude

Two pidgeys, one stone. The bug crushes the fucking villagers, we find Ceru. We kill anyone we see who isn't a fat cat from this second on.

>>29271657
Eh, we got monster biology yo. Stuff heals easier. We'll be fine.

>>29271630
>Attack the bug, it's careless. Let's see if it can be killed now.
Just because it seems like whatever the optimal course of action is turns out to be a fucking trap.

>>29271630
>>[] Let it rampage, find Cerulean.
Mindless rampageing monster is a good distraction

>>29271630
>[] Let it rampage, find Cerulean.
Time's a wasting, and humans are dying.

I swear though, if the bug comes back with a surprise attack later cus apparently Devon can't expect something and prepare a counterplan?

>>29271630
>[] Attack the bug, it's careless. Let's see if it can be killed now.
Be done with it. Even if we find Ceru, it's just going to burst in and ruin everything.
>>29271660
The most frustrating thing about these threads is that anyone who tries to get people to stop making choices that result in mindrape and kidney arrows is just called a baiter...

>>29271642
The problem, however, is that our character started out at less than 30% stamina and half of our team was gone. You can blame people for their poor decisions, but that would be wrong to do so because there were a number of ways things could have gone differently.

>>29271630
all of these actions have risks. I am completely unable to evaluate which is greatest.

>>29271698
No, that was an encounter roll. This never happened before in an encounter roll.

>>29271736
Though tits, The monsters arent going to magically get weaker because of less than ideal circumstances.

>>29271642
What you're saying is meaningless.

Just because those would be more inappropriate for a first mission doesn't mean this shit is okay.

Just fuck this whole goddamn arc, and it's stupid fucking 'moral' choices. This has been some serious 'paladin falls' type bullshit, with no right choices regardless of the situation.

>>29271764
It was a contrived condition.

>>29271730
Explanation why would be nice.

>>29271758
We, probably would have met him if it was under 50. 20 probably guaranteed the lancing.

>>29271736
>>29271730
The entire quest is falling apart at seams...

>>29271780
>No right choices
Pretty much. But that's Shadowrun for you.

...you knew all this was coming right?
Was sorta the whole grimdark thing.

>>29271776
This is what we get for being ELITE. They send you to the hard missions
I'm loving it, whats the point of things if you win all the time?

>>29271801
More like some anons are collapsing under the pressure of a mission gone wrong.

>>29271801
Once we're done with this mission, hopefully Prof will stray clear of anything like this at all for a while.

>>29271825
First. Mission.

And there's a good chance it's gonna be our last.

>>29271825
What's the point if you consistently pick the worst possible course of action?

>>29271825
This is the equivalent of failing the first year of college, bud.

>>29271825
Actually we got sent on a non-mission that ended up turning into a really important mission.

>>29271833
Stray clear of what exactly?

>>29271838
>>29271846
We haven't lost yet. We can still pull it off
>>29271844
That is no ones fault but our own.

>>29271807
Of course we knew it was coming.
This is /tg/.
If you couldn't smell the trap from a mile away, I don't really know how to help you.
Prof was laughing and kicking up the embers to get people mad, and legitimately brought in the enemy children wat do bullshit - you knew this was going to explode in our face in a spectacular fashion, especially given how we've played the character so far.

I'm banking on the psychic NEEDING TO SPEND TIME to re-capture the beetle to bring it against us, giving us a chance to hit him.

Call me stupid if you want, but I have reasons for choosing my rampage choice.

>>29271825
I think the problem was the condition we started the mission in. The worst thing that happened to us, half our team getting taken, was because we were too tired.

I know Prof said before that we could have just decided not to visit Lilac. But he could have also chosen not to give us the mission on the same day we trained with our Macho Brace and had a friend from our mother visit.

From the premise, this was simply supposed to be an investigative job. I feel like Prof inserted all this combat into the mission because he was worried that he was boring people, but....he just inserted it at a bad point.

>>29271630
Goddamnit, if we let it rampage, we'll have to deal with it later.

If we deal with it now, then Cerulean will be in even worse condition and the odds of us having to fight her increase.

And if we don't burn this place down more, we might get more arrows to vital areas.

>>29271889
Eh, the children thing did surprise me, because I didn't think they'd be stupid enough to attack a monster themselves.
But hey, now we know. Even humans outside the dome are little shits. Good to know right?

>>29271889
I'd like to think that Prof isn't that kind of jerk and just thought that we'd enjoy this situation without arguing with each other again. It's just bad luck that everyone has been constantly pissed off for the last few threads.

>>29271896
yep. that's the sum of it.

All the choices COULD kill us. Even [x]other.

It depends on the dice.

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>>29271825
to be fair, The mission briefing did not include this shit. It went from covert corporate espionage to dealing with radical separatist movement deep in wild territory.

our inability to got on the same page only exacerbates our problems. Not to mention the occasional failed roll...

>>29271891
If we didn't visit Lilac, would we even have a case?

>>29271918
Exactly. It's been contrived to put us in the worst condition for the mission. It doesn't help that Prof made sure that we didn't recover at all from that time or when we slept in the Rocket dorms.

>>29271910
>Without arguing
Oh no, he knows we'll argue over anything. I'm just surprised at the number of people surprised by the Shadowrun shit.

Hell, that was sorta on the box of the quest, wasn't it?
I feel like it was.

>>29271910
That seems tremendously unlikely, considering the choices he's been offering and their results.

>>29271891
He could have but why should he? We all knew at the start this game was going to be hard.

>>29271938
>Slept in the rocket dorms
Pretty obvious that was some hypnosis shit man.

Look at this. We've barely done anything and we've already almost hit the bump limit.

>>29271939
Nobody seems to remember that this is supposed to be GRIMDARK AS FUCK.

They want to play huggy huggy save everyone, and this is not that quest. Children will shank you.

>>29271962
We're tense man, and Professor is a slooooow updater.
Just normal junk.

>>29271977
This has nothing to do with that.

It was a simple threat assessment.

>>29271977
Indeed.

Sigh. Anyway, we now know the entire village is, indeed, suited to fight us. And Devon even killed em (I think) for us.

No more moral ground to cross. Just slash and burn our way home.

>>29271977
honestly?

Humans can do a lot more damage with those arrows and shit than I thought.

I'm gonna bring more weapons next mission because now I know they work on pokemon.

though, hugs and kindness had very little to do with it.

>>29271961
Yeah. But why were we visited by it?

>>29271947
Hard does not excuse contrivance.

>>29271999
Nigga you ever watched The Wire?

Biggest badass in the show walks into a ghettofuck convenience store to buy smokes. Little kid being suspicious, but it's a kid so he ignore him. KID SHOOTS THE NIGGA IN THE HEAD.

>>29272026
>Why
...because we were following the fuckers case, and they wanted us to sleep for a while so they could escape with the booty?

Comon man, that's a spy move. We got drugged(essentially) of course it wasn't a restful sleep.

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I can't see the boss giving us a good performance review on this job....

take his critiques to heart and never forget.

RIP Devon's Kidney

>>29271938
We scored a new ability and recovered stamina on the run out of the dome.

I'd say that if we hadn't visited Lilac, we probably would have had to pick up the investigation with the crazy guy, just without the added knowledge we got from the dream.

I'm enjoying the quest, but I will say that we're on like Brutal Roguelike level of difficulty here. Fucking every choice we make turns out badly for us. Some of the time I feel like we have trouble predicting the internal logic the quest uses, but a lot of it is us just getting screwed over. It keeps things interesting, but goddamn, everything went wrong for us this mission. I'm still not sure how much of that was our choices and dice, and how much was the professor.

>>29272071
>Devon on dialysis
Damn. That's not pimp at all.