Trinity Isles OOC

[SamWiser]

No problem. Just update when you can. Sporadic updates for a while are better than updating daily until you burn yourself out.

Now I have a character question. I'm trying to figure out if charming pokemon onto my team is officially a character train, as in would Phoenix avoid capturing a pokemon by battling it if at all possible. Every pokemon he's caught so far has volunteered to be on his team (with the exception of Kang, but events that happen during a time-skip can't always be considered "in-character" since I was under M0rt's control. But, he was also with other people who didn't like fighting when he caught most of his team (except for Winger (who doesn't count because he was a "gift"). At the start of this game, I would have said that Phoenix has no problem fighting a pokemon, and catching it, even if it didn't want to be on his team, but at a certain point behavior shown needs to be in-character if I want to have a decent character.

[SuperVaderMan]

So is the vial thing like a syringe?

[M0rtimer]

Kinda, yeah. You can give me an medicine edu roll if you wanna try find out what it is.

[SuperVaderMan]

Edu Medicine on vial thing why not: 2D6 = [1, 4] = 5

Nope!

[Natrivv]

Hey I know this won't happen for a while in game, but I want to know before it does come up in game.

The Cheerleader feature Go, Fight Win! takes a Standard action + a swift action, and has the orders tag. How does that work with Commanders Voice that says I can use two Orders as a standard action, or one as a Swift action?

I'm thinking that since Focused Command is also a Standard + Swift action feature that is addressed I'd be able to use Go Fight Win! + a second orders feature as a standard, but I can not use Go, Fight, Win as a swift. Is this correct?

Commander's Voice

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CommanderÔÇÖs Voice
Prerequisites: Two Features with the [Orders] tag
Static
E´¼Çect: You may give two di´¼Çerent [Orders] as a single
Standard Action, or you may give one set of [Orders] as
a Swi´¼à Action.
Special: If this is used to use Focused Command and
another [Order] that has targets, the second Order
applies to both Pok├®mon you are commanding that
turn. CommanderÔÇÖs Voice doesnÔÇÖt allow you to use
Focused Command as a Swi´¼à Action.

Go, Fight, Win!

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Go, Fight, Win!
[Orders]
Prerequisites: Moment of Action, Expert Charm
At-Will ÔÇô Standard Action + Swi´¼à Action
E´¼Çect: Choose and perform one of the cheers below.
You may perform each Cheer only once per Scene.
┬╗ Show Your Best!: Choose Defense or Special
Defense. All allies on the ´¼üeld gain +1 Combat Stage
in the Chosen Stat and become Motivated.
┬╗ DonÔÇÖt Stop Now!: All allies on the ´¼üeld gain
Temporary Hit Points equal to your Charm Rank
and become Excited.
┬╗ I Believe In You!: All allies on the ´¼üeld gain a +2
bonus to Evasion for one full Round, and become
Cheered.

Focused Command

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Focused Command
[Orders]
Prerequisites: Master Command, one of Focus, Guile,
Intimidate, or Pok├®mon Education at Expert
At-Will ÔÇô Standard Action + Swi´¼à Action
E´¼Çect: You may have a second Pok├®mon take a turn this
round, but both Pok├®mon can only take At-Will actions
that round. Additionally, both Pok├®mon receive a -5
Penalty on all Damage Rolls. You may pay 1 AP at the
beginning of the round to li´¼à the Frequency Restriction
OR the Damage Penalty for the remainder of the round,
or pay 2 AP to li´¼à both.

[M0rtimer]

Yeah, that sounds about right.

[M0rtimer]

Still trying to get into the daily grind of college life, although things have been smoothing over a bit... Still quite a ways off to daily updates again, but hopefully we can pick up the pace a bit more in the coming days.

Anyways... Feel free to post for Dusk Natrivv, is he hasn't gotten around to it by tomorrow.

[SuperVaderMan]

Is Maguma out? I wrote him in in my last post.

Also, how far away is Koa form Darfel? I might be able to have Koa do an Intercept. Maybe

[M0rtimer]

Yeah sure, he's out.

And you could attempt an intercept this turn if you'd want to. Let's say... 5 meters?

[SuperVaderMan]

Alright, here's an initiative check for Maguma

Initiative roll - Maguma vs Durants: 1D20 = [19] = 19

Did Maguma win out against the Durants with 15 speed?

[M0rtimer]

Yes.

[Arch Lich Burns]

eeeeeeh i dont' want to give kale more exp. I mean I like him at this moment but beautifly do not get any abilities that I really....like flavour wise. I mean pride is pretty good but I don't see why i should waste my advanced slot for an ability he should have had. That and out of the pokemon I have he has the most weaknesses without many resistances. (and only one useful resistance at that). I wanted to keep rose and Kale the same level, but Rose pretty much surpasses him in almost everyway including contests, she has cool spot while kale now currently has beauty when I already have that filled by Charles/ralts when it finally hatches. As to why to box...well it's to keep him safe. He made a promise to keep him safe and James is not going to let them down. Being in the box means no pokemon would hurt him and he can check on kale every chance he gets.


.....Which unfortunally when i do box kale, Rose's 'special' ability will bugger all. sure it was fine with a couple big battles but at best it's meh and requires one of them to be unconcious, and i doubt them being unconcious before the other is sent out would work either. with this stupid ability it seems like I HAVE to keep them together. Even original plus/minus allowed you to have diferent pluse and minun and not solely on one single pokemon relying on another.

[M0rtimer]

@Vader: Pretty sure you can't do what you're hoping to do there. Intercepting an attack, you're using a full action interrupt to take the hit instead. You couldn't use another intercept until at the very least your next actual turn would have rolled around, which isn't really possible in this instance as Koa is on the bottom of the initiative list. (Unless I'm missing something here..?)

Also, I just realized- Darfel being ingrained, he is actually currently immune to being pushed/pulled. I think that would actually make it impossible to have an attack intercepted for him..?

I suppose I'll be merciful and we can say that Koa sprinted next to Darfel last round so you can at least use wide guard if you want to?

[SuperVaderMan]

You can do that with Shield moves, though. If you've already used your action for that round, like if you attacked, you can expend the next round's action to use Protect. The problem only comes up when you've already used the next round's action, is when you can't use any more shield moves.

But yeah, Darfel being immune to push effects would cancel that out anyway

I wouldn't mind the Wide Guard concession, though

[M0rtimer]

I think we may have different interpretations of how that is supposed to work. Yes, you can use a shield action to interrupt something, using your next turn, if you've already acted that turn.

The way I see it, the idea with the shield mechanic is you can always sacrifice your next action as long as it's available. However, as we're in a forum format, 90% of what happens is that initially you attacked someone, but then when the update rolls in you see it would have bee far better to do X and the simplest solution to that is simply to utilize your next action rather than potentially retcon two actions instead of one.

The difference here being that you're already anticipating doing just that... Which changes things up, since you'd be using your action for this turn and couldn't use another one until after we passed your initiative again at the least.

Does... That make sense? I think I see where we disagree/are uncertain about this, but I'm not too sure how to best put it in words. It's essentially a combination of different factors considering how we usually do it considering circumstances and how it "should" be done.

[SuperVaderMan]

Yeah, I thought about it, and what I was trying to do initially wouldn't work anyway.

It's like, if your turn comes around and you use an action, then use a Shield move, you're in 'action debt'. You have to wait until your next initiative step to pay that debt before you can do anything else.

By Intercepting, I'm immediately putting Koa in 'action debt', so he wouldn't be able to do anything else until his initiative step at (5), which he would then use to pay the debt back.

[Arch Lich Burns]

Hey you did not answer my question about doublestike moves and crits, i understand if one move missed but one move critted it would be the lowest damage that goes again, but both of the parts of the move hit. I am espessially concerned when it becomes time when rose gets sniper and how that would be handeled

[M0rtimer]

Already responded to Burns over skype, but you essentially roll the lower DB as a crit.

Reffering tot he main thread, Dusk is right- That does seem to be correct by raw standards... Although one thing I might be putting doubt on is the fact that by switching like that you are using the first pokemons standard action, and then commanding the second one to use theirs. And as we usually make it so that only one of your pokemon can actually act each turn (GM fiat notwithstanding) this is essentially gaining an action. Judging by the fact recalling a pokemon can only be done by using a trainer action, I'm not sure if it's intended to be used in that way...

I'm not gonna make a big fuzz about it now though, but what do you guys think?


ALSO! I finally got around to something some of you guys have been asking for... It's still my special brand of EXTREMELY SHITTY^TM, and I'll probably need to do some revisions due to errors/missing stuff in the long run when I have time again still... But I hope it can at least give you guys a bit of a better idea. Let me know if you have any questions bout it... A MAP!

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[Arch Lich Burns]

1: what is the red isaland?
2: where are we in relation of this map?
3: what is the black grey....um thing that cuts into the big island?

[M0rtimer]

1: That is Ironblight island. The red zone denotes the "zone of death". Affectionately, but appropriately named.
2: You're straight in the middle, in the big city with the "I" labeled over it... If you can read it I guess, as I swear this was at least 50% as big before I put it online...

Anyways, going right along the road you have Murkoff and Hantu. Going left you have Rutherford, then Nekon. Railway south leads to Ferapex.

3: Do you mean the mountain range dividing the island into three parts?

[Arch Lich Burns]

Is iron blight really that deadly? Does anything live there? What is ironblight's significance?

[M0rtimer]

I can't really answer that OOC. Suffice it to say, they don't call it "Ironblight" and mark a big zone around it on the naval charts because it's a happy paradise .

[SamWiser]

Isn't Ironblight Island where Jeremy got his Beldum, right?

[M0rtimer]

That is correct, yes. Jeremy mentioned his dad bought it off someone who had went there at a high price. So I guess that answers your question for a part.

[Dlover]

I'm guessing there's some sort of environmental hazard - Most likely radiation - which would make going there possible, with the right equipment, but still dangerous and costly, which would be why the beldum was so expensive. Am I on the right track?