Pokemon Umbral Theatre 6: Player Conspiracies

[Menarker]

>_> Why do I get the awful feeling that once the battle is over and Moera is dead, a bunch of you guys are going to loot the contents of her underage corpse in the hope of getting trace bonuses of mystical psychic powers from her parts?

Hell, for that matter, I'm kinda glad none of you guys were on Renny's side during my sidequest, or you'd all probably loot the remains of the Dark and Light too. (That and Lexhur surrendered and remained alive) >_<

[Dracorion]

Moera doesn't have any cool weapons, so I don't think Pierce or Impact would go near her.

Anything goes for Charlotte, though.

[Bard The 5th LW]

I was actually hoping to make trophy claiming a recurring theme of Charlotte.

She plans to go back and cut a leg or two off crown-legs. Maybe an eye and a pincer or something.

[Dracorion]

A pincer would be cooler.

[Geminex]

The thing that happens to Charlotte's jar of ectoplasm leaves me with very little to think about in terms of any great things for the scythetip and the staff except as weapon components.

Oh come on. We can't just go "Why yes, it does retain some of Phantomere's influence, which is corrupting Impact!"?

And no, fuck you guys.
I'm fine with the whole "Geminex doesn't lead us OOC" thing, I probably should have corrected AB on that one myself.
But it does piss me off that we're cutting the mission short like this. We certainly haven't reached any sort of conclusion IC, and, like I said, Impact's had an opportunity to give orders once, since I started posting frequently again. That annoys me, and don't give me any of your "Oh, well, I guess you shouldn't be moving across continents and starting uni and visiting your parents in Shanghai then BLUH BLUH", cause that's just a douchebag thing to say.

Look, if you really, really want to end it early (though Menarker, if the defog thing is your only problem, shouldn't you be taking it out on Drac, rather than me? I wasn't responsible), fine. But if we do this, then I'm missing out on giving orders, so I'm gonna ask for compensation. Three opportunities to give orders in the final boss battle next mission. It's what I'm missing out this mission.

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Geminex

But it does piss me off that we're cutting the mission short like this. We certainly haven't reached any sort of conclusion IC, and, like I said, Impact's had an opportunity to give orders once, since I started posting frequently again.

Technically we outvote you.

Originally Posted by Geminex

That annoys me, and don't give me any of your "Oh, well, I guess you shouldn't be moving across continents and starting uni and visiting your parents in Shanghai then BLUH BLUH", cause that's just a douchebag thing to say.

But I am a douchebag.

Originally Posted by Geminex

Look, if you really, really want to end it early (though Menarker, if the defog thing is your only problem, shouldn't you be taking it out on Drac, rather than me? I wasn't responsible), fine.

Renny's only attack that's super-effective against the Psytellites and Psyshades is Umbreon's Assurance.

In fact, the only reason he's not on Defog duty now is because Shaymin has Psychic to depossess Impact and Matthias and, while it doesn't have STAB, it does get boosted by Moon's Amplifier.

Originally Posted by Geminex

But if we do this, then I'm missing out on giving orders, so I'm gonna ask for compensation. Three opportunities to give orders in the final boss battle next mission. It's what I'm missing out this mission.

Hmmmm...

If we do this, and I'm not agreeing yet, we do this by the letter. Impact only gets to give orders for three turns during the final boss battle.

The reason I'm not sure about this? AB said Impact would get to lead a team for Pierce's sidequest, while Charlotte leads the other. Except it doesn't have to be that way. Since Impact will presumably recieve the same rank as Renny (tactician) once he hands leadership to Charlotte, it would be perfectly justifiable in-RP for Renny to lead the second team instead of Impact.

[Astral Harmony]

Honey, I'm home.

Now to post so that maybe I have some time to play CoH/V. I never knew Electricity Dominators were so badass.

EDIT: Forgive the post. A lot of information had to be put out and I kinda jumbled it all trying to get it all done before I forgot any of it.

[Geminex]

Technically we outvote you.

Last time we put something to a vote I ended up with four out of five characters supporting me, bossed you guys around a bit, then traded that in for a balanced RP. And I'm not even done yet. You really want to put this to a vote?

Besides, should it be a vote? This affects me more than it does you.

Personally, I'm thinking it shouldn't have been. Cause this? This is exactly what I'm talking about! I worked on that plan! I wanted to see it play out! I did not fucking want it to be handwaved by AB going "the bad guys die". Not that I blame him, you guys asked him to do this. And, like I said, it's fucking bullshit that it played out like this.

But I am a douchebag.

Glad we agree on something at least.

Lemme take that last bit apart.

If we do this, and I'm not agreeing yet, we do this by the letter. Impact only gets to give orders for three turns during the final boss battle.

The reason I'm not sure about this? AB said Impact would get to lead a team for Pierce's sidequest, while Charlotte leads the other.

Sooo...
Basically you're saying that I get to give orders three times during the final battle, and in return I give up my chance to lead one of our two parties during that mission? And you call this "adequate compensation"?
...
Yeah, I'm gonna go with "Fuck you in that rubber tube thing that the salt water usually comes out of".

Since Impact will presumably recieve the same rank as Renny (tactician) once he hands leadership to Charlotte, it would be perfectly justifiable in-RP for Renny to lead the second team instead of Impact.

As for this bit... Huh. Hadn't we agreed on that? I thought we were just doing it as normal, with special provisions for the guy whose sidequest it is. Meaning that while Pierce is capable of giving orders to us, I'm fine with him leader. If he isn't, we default to Charlotte.

And when it comes to the second group, isn't it up to Charlotte to appoint a deputy? You're right, all the tacticians are of the same rank. It's up to the officer to decide which subordinate is best suited to a particular task. Isn't it?

Edit:
And, y'know what? Screw that suggestion I've made before. You've pretty much fucked this mission over, the next one's your sidequest, the one after that's... an arena mission? The beach? Either way sucks.
Yeah, how about something else.
First, I'd like us to all agree that we won't ask AB to cut missions short. If he gets bored of them and wants to end them early, fine. But if we start a mission, then for the love of god, let's just finish it! It'll help prevent stuff like this from happening, and it'll actually feel like we achieved something, instead of entering a cheat code to "end mission early".
Second, I mentioned in that agreement we made that I retained the right to negotiate Impact's leadership during the final mission. I'm willing to forget about the way you guys screwed me over this mission, no compensation of any sort necessary. That'll count towards the final mission thing. Won't reach it, I agree that I need more than that. But it counts towards it. How much exactly... we'll see. But I'm thinking 10% at least, 15 if you consider that for quite a few turns I did nothing.

[Menarker]

Originally Posted by Geminex

Lemme take that last bit apart.


Sooo...
Basically you're saying that I get to give orders three times during the final battle, and in return I give up my chance to lead one of our two parties during that mission? And you call this "adequate compensation"?
...
Yeah, I'm gonna go with "Fuck you in that rubber tube thing that the salt water usually comes out of".


As for this bit... Huh. Hadn't we agreed on that? I thought we were just doing it as normal, with special provisions for the guy whose sidequest it is. Meaning that while Pierce is capable of giving orders to us, I'm fine with him leader. If he isn't, we default to Charlotte.

And when it comes to the second group, isn't it up to Charlotte to appoint a deputy? You're right, all the tacticians are of the same rank. It's up to the officer to decide which subordinate is best suited to a particular task. Isn't it?

If it's any reassurance, Renny likely won't be leading during the mission, so you won't have to give up leadership for the mission, assuming it gets split up into two groups. The only thing I would want is for Whitney and Lola to be in one of the groups.


So... Renny got richer from bringing his Mollesk for a check-up. Guess Pierce and later on, Charlotte should bring their pokemons in too for some quick cash. :3

AB: If I recall correctly, isn't this intermission phase the one you said where the pokebrids are probably going into heat? Or you saving that until later?

Also, do we have a time frame for how long the intermission is before the next mission?

[Geminex]

So... Renny got richer from bringing his Mollesk for a check-up. Guess Pierce and later on, Charlotte should bring their pokemons in too for some quick cash. :3

Which is even more bullshit. I mean, if he sold it, yes. But getting a huge some of money for just having this pokemon through pure dumb luck and coincidence, that just shows how decadent this society is. I mean, consider what could have been done with this money. The hungry could have been fed. Children could have been educated. It could have gone into actual useful research. Nope, instead it goes to trainers who haven't done much to deserve it, and whose contribution, however minimal really does nothing to advance humanity. At all. How does Mollesk being discovered help anyone? How is it progress? How is it science? Why do people care enough about a trainer finding a new pokemon that it justifies this story being of the front page?

Not to mention, whose money is it anyway? Is that state funding? Are those fucking tax dollars that the trainers of as-of-yet unknown pokemon are getting? Seriously, what is this?

I mean goddammit. There's "We live in a pokemon world", and then there's this. Decadence.
Seriously, the world should be thankful that Impact's gonna take it over. He could hardly do a worse job at ruling it than is currently being done.