Pokemon Umbral Discussion 32: Ultimate Showdown of Ascended Classes

[Geminex]

Wheee! Survived the flight, slightly jetlagged, but nothing too severe. Time to get back to exercising my reign of terror.

Seriously now, it's situational, you're saying? I didn't realize that every other single pokemon we have is so versatile! We always use any of our pokemon in any given situation, right?

More situational than most other pokemon, I'd say. Most pokemon have more than just one use, whereas your anti-cheater would be just that: An anti-cheater. Good against assholes, but not much else. Question is just how many assholes we'll be facing.

You should probably PM Gem and mock him for not taking the time to read the walls of text and thus all details relevant to him. Being a "evil genius" is no excuse for not doing his homework. =P

Well excuuuuse me, Princess; I was too busy flying through the air for a total of 22 hours to fullfill my evil-genius duties. I'll make it up to you, though, I'll fullfill them extra-vigorously for the next few days. In fact, let me get right on that. (And Matt, fine. Sorry for not noticing, got confused.)

Dude, I spent most of the "wall of text" summing up the rules stipulations that AB made, asking questions, and clarifying them for everyone's sake. At least take the time to read the stuff. It's good for you.

Y'know what I think? I'll tell you what I think. I think that you and Dracorion spent the last few pages having a "Who can be the whiniest little bitch" competition. And you won. Congratulations.

And I also said and quoted that you're contractually not allowed to point your rage at me for anything Mollesk based.

See, Drac sometimes does something like this. He takes something I say, some quote, some minor detail and tries to misconstrue it as an obstacle to my... operations. Thing about that is, you're creating something out of nothing, or trying to. You're telling me there's a barrier, and then you're weakly justifying that barrier. But see, it's not a very well-supported barrier. It's crumbling and unimpressive and when you look closely you realise, it's not actually there. The only way it could... hinder me is if I agreed with you that, yes indeed, the quotes and details you've so meticulously cited are valid reasons to demand my... cessation, if I agreed that there's a barrier there. Of course, if that were the case were, if your protests were based on a formal agreement or promise, then, I assure you, I would not be attempting my protests in the first place. The fact that I'm acting in a certain manner should be enough of an indicator that I think my actions are... justified. And I do. Your protests are immaterial, your wall is nonexistent. In the spirit of generosity I offered to give you a chance to prove my mollesk-related protests wrong. You had that chance, failed. I said that I had forgotten my criticism, that was true for the time being. But then... I remembered, if you will. There's nothing contractual there, friend. It's not nearly as absolute as you'd like me to believe. Quite the opposite; like I said, it's immaterial. And my protests... stand.

I would hardly call it biting. More like talking back to the hand that feeds me.

If this were a real-life relationship this would be the part where you get a tattoo and piercings, just to spite me.

Hammering out the clusterfuck of upgrades into something balanced will be all of our jobs. After all, they're all our upgrades, right?

Yes. Yeeeesssss....
You have chosen well, milord. I will go out. I will read, model, analyse...
I will create...
BALANCE!

This is going to be interesting. Pierce is going to want to use it on everyone after the events of his sidequest.

The way AB described it, it only works on NPCs. No Impact mind-reading for you. You're gonna have to find a better way to justify Pierce's distrust, friggin' oath-breaker.

Pierce might wanna go for sheer power or some shit that warps space. Man, it's going to take a while to figure something out.

Usually, I'd protest that Pierce isn't nearly awesome enough for that, but fair enough. I really don't mind too much. More power for Pierce means more power for me, yah?
In fact, if you really need more sigtech slots, maybe AB'd agree to letting you purchase another sigtech at the cost of a level-up. Meaning that instead of getting a level in a class upon levelup, you'd design and get another sigtech.

How did the custom-move discussion end, by the way? Do trainers still get the choice between a Co-Op technique, or a rage-free custom move, instead of a signature technique?

In regards to my magatama...
I'm thinking control (surprise surprise). Not a lot of "in your face" force, but the ability to
a) find out stuff about the enemy, maybe enhanced aura scanning, analysis, and even mild precognition
b) influence the enemy's morale, tactics and targetting
c) strike very precisely at certain elements of the enemy force. Not to deal much damage overall, but to hinder specialists and supporters, to modify the flow of their reinforcements, to apply overwhelming force in a single place, should it become necessary
d) support the rest of the party (not certain how)
Yeah. Pretty much manipulate the flow of battle. It's a lot, but I've got a lot of levels to fit it in. Also, since the 5th Slayer level is just the RDPA, could I take that level, and then drop it as soon as we reach demon? (Possibly justified by some event or another that makes it impossible for Impact to use the power armor anymore, or maybe he just refuses to.)

And finally, what the hell is "ability shift" gonna be? Because if it involves giving pokemon abilities that they don't have natually, fuck that. Abilities aren't balanced at all, they're usually either thematic, or they compensate for a pokemon's weaknesses, or they accacerbate a pokemon's intended role. Shifting them around would be a major, major thing.