Trinity Isles OOC

[M0rtimer]

No need for any posts, I just wanted to get something out and this is all I could do for now.

And don't beat yourselves up too much, the temple was going to be a dick no matter the choice.

[SuperVaderMan]

That said, the Temple probably knows best, so Koa doesn't really have any objections. And it's not like the trainers will lose access to the cube if they need it for something later.

Well heck

[The Lost]

What?! We did a good.


Well if the temple keeps this up then Haley will send Rhemlarity to her party for now, sending Archie to the pc for now. She’ll also dig up the special seed she planted and put it into her planter. Any other upgrades she did she’ll dismantle.

[M0rtimer]

Special seed/ other upgrades?

[The Lost]

The carbos plant seed. I don't know what other upgrades, but anything that she's done is going.

[Dlover]

Kind of regret having Alex debate with the temple rather than join the discussion with Ruby. It seems like about time to point out that the only thing he's ever seen the Godslayers make are weapons - even the portal was used almost exclusively to transport automated weapons. You don't exactly avoid bad guy status with justification of "They refuse to help, so we murder them and turn them into weapons so we can murder more."

[SuperVaderMan]

Not too late to have Alex join in. We're in loosey-goosey narrative mode now, so I don't think anything's stopping him.

[M0rtimer]

Yeah there's no time constraints, go ahead.

[SuperVaderMan]

I can write up what Ruby sees, if she decides to link brains with Koa. I just have to know if she accepts the offer or not.

[M0rtimer]

She probably will. Nothing to lose.

[The Lost]

Ruby: Rejects smoothie
Also Ruby: Yeeeeey mind manipulation!

[M0rtimer]

Look it's obvious the smoothie is delicious, she's now afraid she's going to be missing out

On a more serious note, Ruby at least seems to realize that if you wanted to force information out of her somehow, you'd already have done so.

[M0rtimer]

Also, belated, but Ruby's boss theme

[The Lost]

....Why is Pandora suddenly here? I'm saying this out of character. There is no reason as to why she's here and it's kinda upsetting that the things we went through to make sure nobody follows us that suddenly someone follows us. And if you say that she was hiding in that box, I call BS because Haley has super perception.

[M0rtimer]

That's going to be answered, no worries. But short answer: it WAS a trap, after all.

[SuperVaderMan]

Well we accounted for everything we could have. If Pandora is here, then they must have some kind-of supernatural method of tracking that was impossible to account for, similar to Irene's mom figuring out where we were so the cult leader guy could intercept us, before Murkoff. Nothing we could do in that case.

[M0rtimer]

OOCly, I probably should admit that were we still doing this as a full game, I probably wouldn't have gone for this path, even though it would technically always have been possible. But because things are supposed to be somewhat plot-centric, I felt I could use this to tie up some loose ends faster than without any interference.

And since I suppose I can't just say it'd make sense both ways, I'll spoiler the reason why, although 90% of will likely be in the next update.

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One of Pandora's powers is that she can sense and see the artifacts. That's how the Godslayers found the locations of all the temples in the first place, with the exception of bug. (Which holds the field of "disruption", and making it impossible to locate that way. This is also why Tex was hired to scout for an underground base with those robots somewhere between Murkoff and Isosceles, if nobody connected those dots before)

So from the very start the plan was that if they failed to deal with the intruders, they'd use Pandora's gift to track down wherever the cube had gone. Were this the "full" game, Pandora would have tried to do this long after the heist was done, and would fail because of the proximity of the bug artifact, assuming both were in the temple. In this case, however, she was actively watching, and the spell being used betrayed where the group disappeared to.

[SuperVaderMan]

So a supernatural means of tracking that was impossible to account for, as I suspected

[The Lost]

:/ ....I really dispise her. She always has the abilities she needs.

[SuperVaderMan]

I should probably ask if Koa can do an Intuition. I think it's fine, but it'd be irresponsible to implicitly trust Pandora regardless.

[M0rtimer]

Yeah sure.

[SuperVaderMan]

Intuition on Pandora at the temple: 5D6+4 = [5, 6, 4, 1, 2]+4 = 22

Boost to 24 because why not

[M0rtimer]

She's being truthful far as Koa can tell, although he would probably take note of that "mostly". She might have another reason, or multiple perhaps, for being there, though they don't seem malicious... And it's uncertain whether she's just not seen an opportunity to mention them yet, or if there is a different reason.

[M0rtimer]

Assuming there's no questions, or actions the trainers want to undertake right now, I'll likely move forward with some npc dialogue that suggests actions.

[SuperVaderMan]

The girl shrugs. "Maybe he does. Maybe he doesn't. Either way, you'd have to get him to talk. If you can even find him," she speaks, before... Shrugging again at the question where Arceus went. She doesn't know.

I was more asking this question towards Grimm. I wasn't expecting Pandora to know.