Pokemon Umbral Theatre 6: Player Conspiracies

[Astral Harmony]

Understood. I'll go ahead and end the battle tonight.

I'll also think very hard about what I can do about that scythetip. 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.

I have a good idea as to how Impact does acquire his Infinity Crush. I just need to think it through a little. Find a way to flesh it out.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Also, what the fuck? I spent at least a dozen posts hyping up the Scythetip that Impact dramatically took from Phantomere (seriously, just look at Renny's sidequest), only to be told by Mika that it won't really do very much unless I fuse it with a weapon, whereas Charlotte scoops up some slime, never mentions it again, and now it justifies an uber technique for her? There's some elementary unfairness awesomeness here.

Fix'd it for you.

Don't blame me for having the proper foresight to grab the seemingly insignificant item.

[Dracorion]

And Pierce at least had the sense to grab the one that was of practical use.

Face it, Gem, you fail at genre savvy.

[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]

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"?
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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?

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Geminex

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".

Actually, it was gonna be more of an either-or kinda thing.

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Yeah, see that picture you drew.

Anyway, it was just an argument. I wasn't threatening or saying that it would be that way.

Originally Posted by Geminex

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.

Actually, the one after Pierce's is the beach mission.

We don't technically know when the arena mission will be, but I'm pretty sure it won't happen at least until after we've gone to the Netherworld.

Originally Posted by Geminex

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".

Sure.

Originally Posted by Geminex

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.

Huh, did you?


And yeah, Renny getting some nice cash for providing detailed and potentially important information about a newly discovered pokemon doesn't really scream decadence all that much to me.