Pokemon Umbral Theatre 35: No More (City of) Heroes

[Astral Harmony]

No, Chizuru can't give up Musharna's action during Eject because when Ejected, Musharna does not have an action to begin.

Gosh.

[Dracorion]

Buzzkill!

[Astral Harmony]

My internet situation isn't too great, but it's not bad enough for me to stop doing Pokemon Umbral. Basically, I'll just use the internet connection to allow me to see the posts and load the calculator and diceroller, but will otherwise be out of contact for the most part.

[Menarker]

So, AB, everything going ok on your end? Or are there any issues or confusion?

I know it's a bit of a busy time for everyone, with exams and school and whatnot, but I'm just curious how things are progressing since things have slowed down a lot lately. Just trying to gently bump things a little.

[Astral Harmony]

Fuck your bumping. I hate your bumping. You're making me carsick.

Still gotta lot to do on my end, really. Job searching and whatnot. Should have a post done for both sides over this fine weekend of ours.

Just relax, Menarker. The RP isn't over just because there's nobody on the edupad.

EDIT: Post is coming along nicely. Will have it done during this weekend. To be honest, there was also a Christmas event in City of Heroes where you could gather candy canes and use them to acquire costume pieces like burning halos and whatnot, only to discover that a new item for purchase in the Paragon Market will give me all that stuff account wide anyways. I hate myself more than you do, now.

[Menarker]

Err... AB, I don't suppose you have either side done now?

I'd still be interested in reading one half of it while you're proceeding to finish the other half. At least that way, we can also make plans or what not. Pretty sure the rest of us would be interested too.

[Astral Harmony]

I'll post the Krunder side when I'm finished with it, sure. To be honest, the reason it's taken this long is because it's really a lotta work to do, I'm a lazy piece of shit, and I'm honestly really starting to hate Pokemon Umbral battles regardless of the ideas I have for spicing them up.

But I'm forcing myself along and Krunder side will hopefully be done in the next few days since I don't have all my stuff and I'm bored to shit regardless and I beat all three Uncharted games. Just don't ask me about a Honmyr map or Haremon or anything not directly related to the posts or I will castrate you with a rocket launcher (I'll leave it up to you whether I do it with a rocket or the launcher). It's all I can do to not say fuck it and abandon PU to alter the battle system for this other idea I've got called Slaughter Prime.

But you're my buds and I wouldn't dream of stopping PU until you wacky, wonderful fuckers are satisfied with it (I'm sure you're not satisfied at all but oh well) so I'm gonna keep trudging along.

And I know I've made promises before and broken them but...well, I'll hopefully have it done this week. Once Krunder is done and it's coming along nicely, I'll find the drive within me to do the smaller and easier Lathiron side.

*sniff*

Is that a steaming hot bowl of stupid with which I may partake? Delighted.

[Geminex]

That seems... bad. Like, I knew that you weren't enjoying umbral that much, but if it's really that bad, I don't think you should just ignore it and soldier on. It's really great of you to stick with it for the players' sake, but man. Forcing yourself to do something you really don't enjoy isn't just shitty for you, it's shitty for the rest of the players too. Just look at the waiting times.

And hell, it's not like this is something you can just get over with. At our current rate, umbral alone will probably take another 5-8 years, not to mention the prospective sequel. Which is great if everyone enjoys it, but're you gonna put off your other projects for 5 years?

I'm not saying you should quit! I mean, there's things about umbral you do enjoy. The current, super-complex battle system just does not happen to be one of them. But there's gotta be a way of changing things. If we determine that there isn't, that's when I'd suggest that you just end the RP. At that point, I doubt anyone would expect you to continue doing something you really don't enjoy, even if they really enjoyed it. I mean, I might, but only cause your suffering is delicious to me. But I'm not a player anymore. Which you should probably keep in mind while reading this post, tbh!

But anyway, battles. The current battle system's really nice and complex, but it sounds like that's just your problem. So why not freestyle them up a bit more? It'd replace battle plans and calculation with the effort of writing. The battle system's been hit with so many drastic changes that I'm pretty sure it could survive one more. It's like frankenstein's monster at this point, only less handsome.

And there'd still be room for tactics and stuff. Only instead of precise who-attacks-whom it'd be stuff like maneuver and using the environment to your advantage. It'd still be fun, I'm sure. For players and DMs. And with the time you save by cutting down on battles, you could do a little more non-battle-related stuff, which is honestly what I enjoyed most, way back when.

Anyway, just my two cents! I'll hang around and offer suggestions, but this is is yours to work through, people. Good luck!

[Bard The 5th LW]

If you arent enjoying it then maybe change it to make it more enjoyable! Like Gem said! I imagine our enjoyment is affected by yours to a pretty decent extent!

[DanteFalcon]

Simply put. Don't do this for us. Do what -you- want. I run tabletop games and a DM that isn't enjoying himself is rarely one that sticks around to the end. If a change is in order then make that change. We can handle it.