Pokemon Umbral Theatre 6: Player Conspiracies

[Astral Harmony]

Infinity Crushes are the Signature Techniques to end all Signature Techniques.

Sometimes you get one when you just become some superpowerful badass who's had far too many battles under her belt, like Irene.

Sometimes you need a little outside assistance, like Charlotte.

Sometimes a traumatic event will unleash it from within you, like I'm thinking how it'll happen to Renny.

Sometimes the guy did something that was possibly quite dumb, like Pierce did.

They don't cost Rage. They don't take up turns. They can't be accessed by any regular means. It takes special stimuli in open battle to cause them to occur for the first time and pretty much everytime thereafter. You really have no control over them. Even I'll have to look at the plot as it goes along and see if the moment's right.

Who knows? Maybe it won't happen as early for Charlotte as I'm thinking it will. It all depends on how Charlotte will respond to the events that begin her awakening.

So, uhhh...you all in agreement? You want me to wrap this up? I'm eager to start Pierce's sidequest, as well.

[Menarker]

Sure. I wouldn't mind that. ^^

[Dracorion]

Sure, what the hell. Let's get this done.

Also, holy shit, AB has a new avatar?

Madness.

[Astral Harmony]

For avatars, I either go here for animated stuff or I save the thumbnails of the pictures on Gelbooru. I can't really get anything else out of anime-kun.net since the site seems to be french.

Still, a large number of anime gifs from a broad variety of anime.

[Geminex]

No, I'm just getting into this again! Let's finish it quickly, sure. But let's, y'know, at least do that killing ourselves. At least another two turns or so.

Gem, I thought you were going to put your character's speech in red in your RP posts? Your edited placeholder seemed to be missing that.

...
What?
First, Impact's speech is orange. Second, I never use that anyway. Red is the color that you guys use if you want to say something to me. I don't use colors, cause I trust that you read everything I write in minute detail.

Also, re: infinity crushes.
Fair enough. Really, a plot-device-cum-signature-technique? Sure. Might be fun.

But if it's ever, EVER used in a PVP environment (or, for that matter, in the sequel, when the two PC sides aren't allied), I keel you. Seriously.

Actually, Charlotte's also going to get one in relatively short order, compliments of her having the blood of Phantomere.

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 here.

Edit:
Oh, and Menarker?
Regarding this:

"Shaymin, use Psychic on Impact! Focus on purging the mental assaults! Bloodsoul, Bloody Rose, do the same with Wormadam and Unownaut!"

I'm pretty sure we agreed that Renny wasn't giving orders this turn. No, I don't care that he's barely saying anything. He gives no orders, period. Shaymin is fine. The rest, not so much. Edit it now and we won't mention it again.

[Dracorion]

Charlotte doesn't really get Love-Techs, though.

[Menarker]

Fine fine. I edited it. Seriously, you made it seem like it would be ok, since you roleplayed Impact being too concerned with his head to directly order anyone specifically to help him.

And by color, I meant your character's color when speaking. Like how Renny speaks in lime green in the RP. Your last post was all one color, so it was hard to see where Impact was actually giving orders or yelling or so.

[Geminex]

Fine fine. I edited it. Seriously, you made it seem like it would be ok, since you roleplayed Impact being too concerned with his head to directly order anyone specifically to help him.

The edit is fine. And yeah, Impact would have had no problem with it. I would. But anyway, thanks.

And by color, I meant your character's color when speaking. Like how Renny speaks in lime green in the RP. Your last post was all one color, so it was hard to see where Impact was actually giving orders or yelling or so.

Yah. Like I said, Impact's color is orange, but I rarely use it. Usually it's enough to paragraph. In fact, let me get right on that.

Charlotte doesn't really get Love-Techs, though.

I think she will once we reach her sidequest. Though I see your point. I'm not asking for Charlotte to not get her technique, or for Impact to get his before. But the whole "Hyping up the scythetip" thing I did was mostly because I wanted to use the Scythetip's influence to justify some of Impact's character development. When Mika told him "Well, it might improve your weapon", that hope got dashed, sadly, but I didn't argue. Until now. Cause if Charlotte can get an uber technique out of something that was merely mentioned in the passing, I'd hope that I can get some character development out of a minor plot device that I actually put effort into.

And regarding mission length: Would you guys be ok with going another few turns, or do you really insist on ending this now?

[Dracorion]

Nope.

You get Dinner, and you get to rule the world.

And I don't think we should ban Infinity Crushes from the sequel, either. They're rare enough that they won't be a tide-turner in the overall war. And you realize with your mind-control, you could probably influence your troops to make Infinity Crushes more likely to happen on your side?

Why do you want to keep this mission going, Gem, other than "you just got back into it"?

Maybe you just don't want to pass leadership over to Charlotte.

[Geminex]

And I don't think we should ban Infinity Crushes from the sequel, either. They're rare enough that they won't be a tide-turner in the overall war. And you realize with your mind-control, you could probably influence your troops to make Infinity Crushes more likely to happen on your side?

Well, I don't wanna ban them. Just make sure that, since there's nothing regulating this other that DM will, nobody benefits unfairly. This isn't a problem as long as we're on the same side. But if we're actually playing against each other, the existence of these crushes can give one side a really unfair advantage, since, like I said, they're more-or-less arbitrary. Even if the tactical situation is similar, strategically, one crush can make a huge difference where a similar crush would make little. And crushes can make a huge difference. If this were an actual war, no. Wouldn't matter. Ten guys more or less, a skirmish won or lost. Who cares? But as it is, it's an RP. Meaning it comes down to characters and drama. So we need to either find some, probably quite complex, way of controlling when one happens. Or we can just make them out of the question during PvP. I prefer the latter, particularly since we hopefully won't be PvPing too much, even in the sequel.

Why do you want to keep this mission going, Gem, other than "you just got back into it"?

Maybe you just don't want to pass leadership over to Charlotte.

Well, first, I'd like to actually kill my opponents, instead of watch them be killed.

Secondly, yes, this is probably gonna be Impact's last mission in charge. If it was initially supposed to go longer, I don't wanna cut it short beforehand.

As for that last bit...
Why...
It almost sounds as if you're questioning my honesty! Somehow implying that I wouldn't abide by our deal!
Almost, mind you. Because I cannot believe that you'd insult me so. That would not be kind...
Not to mention that calling my motivations into question casts your own in a very unfavorable light.