>>48786173
So, what do you think of the latest reveals with Sun and Moon, Gobble?

Seems Game Freak are really treating the newest Team as a joke this time around,

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You really want to take this chance to make a break for it, but you just can’t let those people get hit. You hope you don’t regret this.

“Destiny! Ice Beam!”

Destiny twirls and fires off a beam of ice against the five headed Dodrio. It’s a really tricky shot, but since the goal is to specifically freeze the puss, Destiny is able to get most of it before it bursts.

“Ah!” One of the people yells as she holds her hand. You can see smoke coming off of it.

A few other people jump away and brush bits off their clothes, but nobody is seriously hurt. judging at how some of the frozen goo sizzles through the ice, that could have gone much, much worse.

Dodrio sighs and many of it’s eyes roll. It looks terribly sick.

“Your injured Pokemon won’t stand a chance against what I have coming up next. No more play time.”

You lock eyes with Harris. He seems pretty set on beating you in front of these people.

>Finish your battle. You can get away after
>Smokescreen and run (will be harder now)
>Keep battling, but try to engineer another distraction if you can
>Something else

>>48786244
>>Smokescreen and run (will be harder now)

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>>48786231
[I'm not super up to date, but hearing that IVs can be trained is very exciting.]

>>48786244
>Smokescreen and run (will be harder now)

We've done more than enough, time to bolt.

>>48786244
>Smokescreen and run (will be harder now)

If we take too long then the others will come back for us, which defeats the purpose of us stalling.

>>48786244
>Smokescreen and run (will be harder now)

If we run we're gonna lose the possibility of him breaking the cameras or whatever for us, which would be beneficial.

>>48786244
>>Smokescreen and run (will be harder now)

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>>48786277
Let's put it this way in terms of Team Skull:

They're edgy rappers dressed in black uniforms that the members of the team have to buy themselves.

>>48786327
.....and the fucking super sentai moves

sigh, at least some of it looks good

>>48786244

>Finish your battle. You can get away after

>>48786364
I think at this point Game Freak is just parodying edgy fanfiction with these guys.

It's going to be so hard putting together a team, I've lived so many of the new pokes so far. Wishiwashi, pyukumuku, wimpod, chargabug, alolan exeggcutor, fomantis, and the starter final stages haven't even been revealed yet!

>>48786431
Don't forget Drampa.

Got to love poke-Falkor!

>>48786431
>making a team before it's all been spoiled.

Fampai, you're sounding like those guys on the serebii forums

>>48786244
>Keep battling, but try to engineer another distraction if you can

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>>48786412
>edgy fanfiction
[Heh. Yeah. What kind of loser makes an edgy version of Pokemon?

Anyway, roll for Kat's getaway before she's captured or killed. Tomorrow I should have the rest of the hardcore sex lewdbin ready.]

Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>48786516
>lewdbin

Oh THANK YOU, I've been waiting for ages

Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>48786516
Damn, while I would feel shitty about those guys getting burned by the acid, I'm kind of regretting my write-in.

Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>48786516

>>48786516
Remind me who the subject of the lewdbin will be again. This will determine the extent of my hype.

Rolled 28 (1d100)

>>48786516

I wouldn't call this edgy.

Team Imperium is a credible, interesting villain.

Team Skull seem a bit too Shadow the Edge-hog to be taken seriously.

>>48786549
Clair + Robin

>>48786516
Did you remember the Milktank pjs?

>>48786543
Damn, probably not good enough.

>>48786572
It's certainly better than a 31.

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>>48786565
[No worries, anon. I know what you mean. I appreciate your consideration.]

For the love of God, I really hope whatever exit strategy we choose involves this guy getting maimed at the very least. For the rest of this mission we should be killing Imperium members on sight. This shit is beyond fucked.

>>48786627
If you want, I'll link the trailer and you can see what I mean.

>>48786571
Hmm, okay. I can get behind that.

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You’ve done enough. It’s time to get out of here. Just before Harris throws out his last Pokemon, you make your move. “Destiny! Smokescreen! Wide!”

She understands exactly what your intent is and sprays the smokescreen the best she can. As everyone’s eyes are on her you start running. Once she’s done you turn quick enough just to bring her back into her ball.

It takes a few seconds before people realize what’s going on. You can hear the shouting behind you.

Then the attacks start. There’s a small crack from a tree you run by and bark flies at you.

A vicious looking Team Imperium member and his Seviper are blocking your path to the cabin door. You duck as a blast of electricity flies overhead. A few flying Pokemon will be on you any second now.

You could force your way through. He and his Seviper look pretty fast though. You could also have a Pokemon help get you through, but that would take the longest and let a lot of them catch up.

You could also try to play something on the flute as you run and calm many of the attacking Pokemon. That’d make things a lot easier, but running and playing is very hard.

>Try to run past them (DC 70)
>Throw out a Pokemon to fight a way through (specify)
>Play the flute as you run (DC 85)
>Throw out all of your Pokemon and have a slow but steady fighting retreat
>Screw the cabin. Run to the woods instead (DC 40)
>Something else

>>48786864
>>Play the flute as you run (DC 85)

>>48786864
>Throw out a Pokemon to fight a way through (specify)
Aria.

Hornbeam isn't the only one capable of mindfuckery.

>>48786864
>>Try to run past them (DC 70)

>>48786864
>Play the flute as you run (DC 85)
Maybe we'll be lucky and this is the same seviper that helped us in that cave, back when Vernon paralyzed us to train.

>>48786864
>Play the flute as you run (DC 85)

>>48786864
>Try to run past them (DC 70)

>>48786990
>>48786892
>>48786993

You guys are... really big gambling fans huh?

If Gobble is telling us the DC, that's because he wants to make sure there's no bitching when we inevitably fail.

>>48786864
>Try to run past them (DC 70)

> Inb4 we get an arrow in our eye

>>48786892
>>48786990
>>48786993
At least can we have Aria out so if we fail, she can do her mindfuckery?

>>48787038
Yeah we really should have either left those goons to die or finished the fight.

>>48786864
>Try to run past them (DC 70)

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[It's pretty close. Let's be safe with an exact quote only vote. Will you try to run through these two, or use the flute?

Running through is easier, but if you succeed with the flute the rest of your escape won't be as hard.]

>flute
>run

>>48787162
>run

>>48787162
>run

>>48787162
>run

>>48787162
>run

>>48787162
>run

>>48787162
we're doomed anyway, undone by caring for bystanders.

>>48787162
>flute

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[Roll!]

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>48787250

Rolled 47 (1d100)

>>48787250

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>48787250

Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>48787250

>>48787268
>>48787270
>>48787278
...Fuck.

Why did no one else think of getting someone out to use as back up?

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>48787250

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>>48787278
>>48787270
>>48787268

>>48787162
>run

>>48787306
My question exactly.

Our luck has been rather poor all day.

Now, we're courting Bad End territory.

>>48787299
Because it'd give the other bad guys time to catch up.

It doesn't matter though, we were fucked the second we decided to fight in the first place and continued to just make bad decisions after that.

>>48787370
People just had to ice beam and not run.

>>48787383
They probably would have gotten horribly injured though, in ways they probably didn't deserve.

>>48787368
Six of the last eight rolls beat 70.

>>48787370
>Because it'd give the other bad guys time to catch up.

The difference being, we wouldn't have been as easy to take down while running.

Unless this was the into the forest option, which I'm pretty sure it wasn't.

>>48787398
Which is kind of annoying really. LIke now our only hope is our friends rescue us without getting too injured, because we decided to care about the safety of others.

>>48787431
Also, and this is just a personal thing, but I really don't like it when the stakes are this high for this quest. It just feels kind of wrong.

DESU this is narrwitvely way better. The suspense and future escape attempt will be great

>>48787418
True, but look at how well the rolls have been going against us as well.

>>48787431
I think it may have been a bad idea going so late with the thread. Sleepy anons make bad decisions.

>>48787457
Probably also the case, I know I'm really tired myself.

Like starting a second thread wasn't a great idea.

>>48787449
A fair bit worse, but really only because of the 98 and the 85. Other than that, most of the attacks were dodged, low rolls or both.

>>48787475
I had went to bed after the smoke and ice vote because I figured that would be it, good thing for insomnia.

>>48787492
I also have 20 bucks on some anon having an IP that changes every time they post, there is no way in hell 22 people are still posting besides Gobble.

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You’ve got this. You’re Kat. You’re slippery. You’ve been in scraps and you’ve wrestled and outmaneuvered Delmer before. This no-name should be easy. Sure, the drug you took slowed your reflexes a little and you don’t have the full advantage of a major distraction, but you can do this.

You run right at him. He spreads his arms wide to intercept. Perfect. You duck and move around the side where he has his weight on his leg so he’ll have to do an extra shift to turn around. You run into Seviper and already work out how to get around it. It’s easy. You just-

Seviper uses Glare.

Your body freezes as if in shock, and you stumble forward onto the grass. You struggle to get up but the Team Imperium member grabs your legs. “I got her!”

You kick, but it’s so hard to move. Your muscles shake and respond slowly

>Start throwing Pokemon out and tell them to escape (we’ll vote and roll to see who goes first and who succeeds)
>Start throwing out Pokemon and try to fight your way out (things may get nasty, but it’s night and your Pokemon are powerful, cornered animals)
>Try to pick his pocket and stash whatever you get (DC 60)
>Fight! Fight for everything you have, get loose, and run! (DC 95)
>Something else

>>48787611
>Start throwing out Pokemon and try to fight your way out (things may get nasty, but it’s night and your Pokemon are powerful, cornered animals)

>>48787611
>>Start throwing out Pokemon and try to fight your way out (things may get nasty, but it’s night and your Pokemon are powerful, cornered animals)

>>48787611
>Try to pick his pocket and stash whatever you get (DC 60)

>>48787657
Anon, you want to get captured or bank on someone coming to rescue us?

>>48787611
Damnit, I feel like sending all our pokemon out risks them getting killed.

I'm really tired and this is really stressful, I don't like this at all!

>>48787611
>Start throwing out Pokemon and try to fight your way out (things may get nasty, but it’s night and your Pokemon are powerful, cornered animals)

>>48787665
That or he just doesn't want to risk our pokemon or random people dying.

>>48787611
>Start throwing out Pokemon and try to fight your way out (things may get nasty, but it’s night and your Pokemon are powerful, cornered animals)

ALL. BETS. ARE OFF!!

>>48787673
Look where caring about random people got us.

Man, Kat is reslly bad at following directions. This is why we should have just used smokescreen and run as soon as we got the signal.

>>48787691
Nah man, gotta use icebeam! Not any of the attacks we had seen that very thread we knew we could use quickly!

>>48787687
I blame people not paying attention more than basic morality for that.

>>48787611
>Try to pick his pocket and stash whatever you get (DC 60)
I don't want any of our pokemon to become killers, and I don't want any of them to die. Why did you guys insist on trying to fight the General guy instead of running away, was it because it's been a while since we've had a pokemon battle/thread?

>>48787691
No, we should have run from the very start like Robin and everyone else wanted us to and not acted like a shounen protagonist, we had no reason to accept that challenge.

>>48787704
We can always have our Pokemon just use status moves out the ass and slowly drag us away, but this is what happens what a quest runs too late and final destination votes are given to everything.

>>48787700
Look, a lot of people who we don't know for sure are bad guys would have gotten really injured if we hadn't done that, so we were able to protect them, our own pokemon, and even mostly the Dodrio. The problem is we should have waited for another opportunity or our friends to create one instead of just trying to force one.

>>48787723
That means it'll all be on Dan then, because no one else we have on us, to my knowledge, has status moves.

>>48787744
Aria has sing and thunder wave.

>>48787744
Devon has Roar.

So can we just have an extra vote to follow plans to the letter from now on, this is the how manyth time not doing so has caused more trouble than it is worth?

>Tried to vote for the smart option, to just run awat when we had the perfect chance
>Vote doesn't count because you capitalized a word
>Smart choice loses on technicality
>Now the plan is fucked up and we might die

Just quest things

>>48787803
>die
Oh anon, Hornbeam would turn us into his ultimate warrior and mutate all our Pokemon into monsters.

>>48787803
Why the fuck would you capitalize a word?

Also this thread was doomed from the very start when you fuckers ignored the advise and feelings of the friendly NPCs because you wanted to show off.

>>48787753
>>48787768
Well, that's a step up, at least.

>>48787826
The battle would have gone find if we didn't fuck up every single time afterwords.

>>48787821
That's after the torture and whatever else the sick fuck inflicts on us.

>>48787826
Because it was the first word in a sentence. I didn't realize the voting rules were ocd enough for that to disqualify a vote because of that.

>>48787852
Sounds like a smutbin.

>>48787872
If you'd followed before now at least one or two threads you'd have seen people getting bitched at for it already.

>>48787852
Maybe we can get a nice mind rape lewd bin out of this.
>>48787872
It has always been like that. But the vote going final destination when people weren't even changing to it was fucking stupid.

>>48787842
Look, you really think it wouldn't have been really bad for us if those chumps got horribly disfigured?

>>48787892
I think it would have be better than staying any longer.

I would hope with so much noise going on we at least get some rescue attempt from the others.

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Okay. Things aren't going exactly as you planned. But it's not over yet, right?

You're scared. Really scared. This can't really be happening. You've been through lots of risky things and always managed somehow.

You just need to rely on your Pokemon. You can still get out of this. You kick and struggle as the Team Imperium member starts getting a better and better grip and the sound of the others catching up becomes louder. Seviper is slithering up next to you.

You're struggling with everything you have against the man grabbing you and the paralysis. You can throw out someone specific and give them orders and maybe even keep fighting these two off if you're lucky, or throw two Pokeballs and hope they can figure out how to save you.

>Devon (Houndoom)
>Leviathan (Gyarados)
>Zappy Dan (Magnezone)
>Destiny (Kingdra) - Very little HP
>Aria (Meloetta)
>Two random Pokemon (Including potentially Raistlin or Destiny)

>>48787882
>>48787883

I've followed plenty of the threads in the past, but I guess I never noticed that shitty rule before. I guess I'm just annoyed that we're getting screwed over by Gobble's paranoia over samefagging.

>>48787923
>Zappy Dan (Magnezone)

>>48787923
>Aria (Meloetta)
Psychic is super-effective against poison and puny humans.

>>48787923
>>Leviathan (Gyarados)

>>48787942
>>48787939
On the other hand, Steel is immune to Poison and Thunder Wave on people could also work.

>>48787923
>Zappy Dan (Magnezone)
>Aria (Meloetta)
Sing and thunderwave everyone, baby.

>>48787923
>>Zappy Dan (Magnezone)

>>48787944
Anon, we just saw an electric attack fly overhead

>>48787882
>smutbin

No.

The Violet one was enough on that side of things.

>>48787923
>Zappy Dan (Magnezone)
Tanky and has status moves

>>48787923
>Zappy Dan (Magnezone)

Head's saying Levi, but I'll trust the group on this one.

>>48787976
why are you going with Leviathan? She's a huge target, can't really carry us effectively, and is mainly good at maiming

>>48788110
She's super protective and let's face it, who's going to stick around when there's an angry-as-fuck Gyarados?

>>48788110
Also >You duck as a blast of electricity flies overhead

I really hope Gobble ends the thread here. We need to continue with fresh minds and I'm gonna pass out soon.

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You know that whatever you try at this point, your odds aren’t good. There’s still a chance for a miracle, though. You won’t give up yet!

You reach for Dan’s ball. It’s rough, but you manage to grab it and throw it at the ground.

He comes out of the explosion of light. Seviper bites him with a poison move on instinct. Dan barely seems to notice.

“Seviper! Hold her down!” He seems confident the others will handle Dan in a second. he wants the glory of catching you. He punches you in the back.

Dan starts aiming an attack at the man holding you, but looks to you to make sure that’s what he should do.

Taking this guy out would get you free, but if he uses moves on the crowd he could buy you more precious seconds. Flying Pokemon are already flapping around

>Zap him and Seviper! (mob will close the distance)
>Use crowd control moves on the mob. Slow them down. You’ll try to get loose on your own
>Grab onto Dan and try to ride him away
>Something else

>>48788169
>>Use crowd control moves on the mob. Slow them down. You’ll try to get loose on your own

>>48788169
>>Zap him and Seviper! (mob will close the distance)

>>48788169
>Use crowd control moves on the mob. Slow them down. You’ll try to get loose on your own
Just send out Devon.

Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>48788169
>Use crowd control moves on the mob. Slow them down. You’ll try to get loose on your own
Rolling to get bad rolls out of the way

>>48788169
>Zap him and Seviper! (mob will close the distance)

Can't we send out a second pokemon?

>>48788169
>Use crowd control moves on the mob. Slow them down. You’ll try to get loose on your own
Then as this anon suggests>>48788178
Let Devon out as well.

>>48788169
I hate this. I'm so tired and things are really difficult and I didn't wanna fight these guys at all in the first place but when I got stuck with it I felt like we should try to help people and now we're gonna get a bad end and I don't even know if there's a way out right now much less what it is.

>>48788252
Just keep fighting anon. We just need to keep throwing out Pokemon. We can take them and stall till Robin comes to our rescue.

>>48788252
Don't worry, we're not quite in Bad End territory yet. Just uncomfortably close.

We can still fight our way out with Dan and Devon.

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>>48788201
[Assuming you can get loose, or at least reasonable arm to waist movement, yes. He's winning the struggle more and more given the paralysis and all that, so Kat's options and ability to fight are growing limited.

Give me some rolls and let's see how it goes!]

Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>48788279
I can only pray we get some adrenaline boost for being so close to bad end.

Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>48788279
I don't wanna, because we're just gonna get a 1 and then the quest will be over.

>>48788283
>>48788279
That'll do!

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>48788279
Dice plz

Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>48788279

>>48788283
>>48788293
>>48788306
Now this is some traction in the right direction.

>>48788283
>>48788293
>>48788306
Zappy

Muther fuck'n

Dan

>>48788283
>>48788306
Well.

The first was good enough, but we're back in business now!

We need a Happening gif.

>>48788330
Some of these rolls are also for us to beat some guy and his snake anon.

>>48788283
>>48788306
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A52--FKUQgU

>>48788432
I feel like that only works if we're already doing pretty well. Like this is more letting us get away with something we probably shouldn't.

>>48788454
Yeah, we really fucked the pooch here. I doubt even with the rolls we are in a good spot.

>>48788454
I'd have linked the Rodimus Prime one, but this was the first I found, plus it looks really god damn nice and bright as well.

>>48788432
>>48788454
Actually, fuck it.

Here it is anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyIzzBf18pg

That Harris guy seems like a total conspiracy theorist with all that railing against the establishment. We should have thrown him off by asking how he expected beating us to noticably affect the lizard peoples' agenda.

>>48788495
He seems like an extreme lefty SJW and a dangerously deranged one, going by the fucked up hybrids.

Seriously, no way is that shit ethical.

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“Dan! The crowd!”

Dan takes your order and instead of directly saving you, he starts firing off Supersonic, Thunderwave, and Flash into the approaching crowd, slowing them down and buying you some precious time.

“I got you, you litt-” You headbutt his nose with the back of your head and slip from his grasp. Seviper moves to wrap around you and sidestep it while in the same motion getting Devon out. For a few seconds, you feel hope again.

Several attacks come zooming by. Electric, water, and others. An ember bounces off Dan. You know that more will be coming soon.

You can see General Harris and his third mutated Pokemon. “Archeops! Stop them!”

You struggle a few steps towards the cabin. The paralysis slows you to a crawl. Devon snaps at the Seviper as it tries to make a bite for you. The man holds his nose but is taking a second to get himself together.

You need to move. You managed to get in a slightly better position, but you’re still on the razor's edge between escape and capture. Any mistake and that could be it.

You could ride one of your Pokemon while the other covers. Whoever covers will be in major danger, though. Dan can take more hits, but Devon can run faster to catch up.

>Ride Dan to safety. Devon can cover
>Ride Devon to safety, Dan can cover
>Run as fast as you can manage and try to throw another Pokeball (DC 70)
>Stand and try the flute. It’s a longshot, but success would make it easy for the rest of the escape (DC 90)
>Something else

>>48788583
>Ride Devon to safety, Dan can cover

>>48788583
>Ride Dan to safety. Devon can cover
Open with Roar.

>>48788583
Seconding >>48788601

>>48788583
>Ride Dan to safety. Devon can cover

>>48788583
>Stand and try the flute. It’s a longshot, but success would make it easy for the rest of the escape (DC 90)

>>48788583
Changing >>48788594
to >>48788601

>>48788583
why did you guys decide on Devon instead of Aria?

Also I thought that would be a separate vote.

>>48788644
Because Devon is faster.

>>48788583
Yeah I'll third >>48788601
Also if they're still chasing us after this I say we switch to Dan covering us so we can bait them in and use explosion.

>>48788644
>>48788655
And he can carry us.
And send all the pokemon after us running with Roar.

>>48788670
I wouldn't risk that. I say Dan should just keep doing quick thundershocks and flash.

>>48788583
>Run as fast as you can manage and try to throw another Pokeball (DC 70)

Honestly this is seems a lot harder than if we just fought Harris normally and then beat up the crowd.

>>48788700
Well this is a lesson. We follow the plan to the letter or fight. Don't do fucking half measures.

>>48788730
Just have to remember it.

Also, it might be time to get Fel on board in case of emergencies where we need mass Status conditions.

damnit the waiting makes it even worse with how tired I am.

Try just waking up to the waiting.

Try waking up in the middle of the bad decision being made and having to do shit in 4 hours with only 2 hours of sleep.

>>48788583
Maybe time to archive and break this off until tomorrow?

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You push yourself onto Dan. The sturdy metal Pokemon is able to carry you with ease and start floating back towards the cabin.

Devon uses Roar and Flamethrower, keeping the quicker Pokemon and people at bay. Despite everything happening very quickly, every foot feels like it’s own victory. The paralysis leaves you barely able to move at all for most of it.

That Archeops flies over and uses Earthquake, damaging Dan and Devon. The shaking ground causes most of them to slow or fall too, at least. A few smaller attacks from the crowd hit Devon as well when he and they recover.

You gesture to the cabin door weakly while still laying on your side on top of Zappy Dan. Dan gets your meaning and fires a quick thundershock at the handle, blowing it open.

You’re closing in on the cabin door, but it’s looking like the group will be on top of you before you get there. Devon won’t last much longer, either. This is going to be really tight. Another Pokemon would make the difference, but with the paralysis and everything happening, you might fall off Dan in the attempt.

A dark thought crosses your mind. If you get off of Dan and have him go to the crowd and use Explosion, he could stop them in their tracks. You could use his pokeball to recall him after.

>No! We can make it! Just keep it up, guys! (opposing roles for you, Dan, and Devon vs the crowd)
>Send Dan to use Explosion (may get really dark and messed up)
>Try to throw out another Pokemon to help out (DC 70, specify)
>Let yourself fall off Dan and throw out all your Pokemon so they can flee
>Something else

[last vote of the night]

>>48788886
I hope so. I think the writing taking so long means Gobble either passed out or is gonna end it since we haven't had to roll.

>>48788919
>No! We can make it! Just keep it up, guys! (opposing roles for you, Dan, and Devon vs the crowd)

GOBBLE PLEASE

>>48788919
>No! We can make it! Just keep it up, guys! (opposing roles for you, Dan, and Devon vs the crowd)

>>48788919
>Try to throw out another Pokemon to help out (DC 70, specify)
Aria?

Really don't wanna murder a lot of people

>>48788919
>(opposing roles for you, Dan, and Devon vs the crowd)
Of course there are opposing roles! They're trying to catch us and we'd quite like not being caught!

My question is what difference does being like 5 feet away and inside the cabin make?

>>48788919
>No! We can make it! Just keep it up, guys! (opposing roles for you, Dan, and Devon vs the crowd)

Bloody hell, we've really shat the bed this time.

From hereon, I motion that anons take a moment to read the suggestions other people make and use their sense of caution.

This is way too close.

>>48788968
I also am begging Gobble to never run a quest past 2 am again.

>>48788919
>Try to throw out another Pokemon to help out (DC 70, specify)
Aria, she can sleep people for one thing.

>>48788968
Agreed. Maybe next thread we'll make some actual progress instead of wasting six hours shooting ourselves in the foot.

>>48788968
Look, we shat the bed from the start because you guys wanted a pokemon battle.

1 1 H O U R S

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>>48788968
>I motion that anons take a moment to read the suggestions other people make and use their sense of caution.
>use their sense of caution.

What sense of caution?

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>>48788978
[haha. Sorry. My sleep schedule got a bit messed up.]

>>48788963
[If you make it inside, you can get into the underground tunnel without much worry while they bottleneck at the door. You'll be safe.]

>>48788987
Pretty sure there was no easy way out of this, Gobble's not going to put in straight up trap options.

>>48789005
Eh, we could have done something like set the cabin on fire to cover our escape through the tunnel, we didn't have to accept his challenge at all.

>>48789005
The easy way out of this was sticking to the plan in the first place and not trying to go full shonen protagonist, which basically just meant staying in-character.

>>48788987
>>48789016
The problem is that we kept doing half measures. We should have committed to any one thing. Battle, Run, or Sneak. Instead we went for the middle option every time.

>>48788987
Actually, I came on to the start of the battle because aus-fag and I didn't wake up until the time this usually starts.

I will agree though, we've had few good decisions this thread.

Next time, we let Geno deal with this shit.

>>48788997
I also suggest in the time between tonight and tomorrow, those anons WITHOUT a sense of caution GET one.

>>48789029
Or just listen to our genius girlfriend for once.

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Rolled 21, 6, 86 = 113 (3d100)

[Give me three rolls of 3d100 and beat mine!
First roll is for the crowd to capture Kat.
Second is for the crowd to capture Dan.
Third is for the crowd to capture Devon.

I will archive after this and go to sleep.]

Rolled 70, 26, 62 = 158 (3d100)

>>48789093

>>48789001
Well, if this is last vote, then I'd best point out this thread is going to need archiving as well.

Rolled 1, 72, 97 = 170 (3d100)

>>48789093
Zappy Dan no

Rolled 1, 55, 55 = 111 (3d100)

>>48789093

>>48789093

Well.

This is the bed we made ourselves.

Rolled 28, 73, 40 = 141 (3d100)

>>48789093

>>48789108
>>48789110
GOBBLE, DON'T DO THIS GOBBLE.

>>48789108
>>48789110
Fuck this quest. I hate Team Imperium, I hate Hornbeam, I hate this drama. It's not fun and it never was.

>>48789108
>>48789110
WHAT THE FUCK!?

>>48789114
The shitty part is we would've made it scot-free if those rolls had been literally anything other than 1s.

>>48789108
>>48789110
The odds of us failing these rolls is insane

>>48789100
>>48789108
>>48789110
D-Devon and Dan will save us r-right? G-Gobble wouldn't do this r-right?

>>48789122
It doesn't really even make sense I feel like, since there's no way Zappy Dan or Devon would leave us behind. Like maybe Zappy Dan's crit success means he was able to save us and we just get injured?

Also how can we make rolls at all if we're not even moving. It's dumb and unfair and I hate it.

>>48789093
How are you taking our three rolls? By post or column?

>>48789138
He does them by row.
>>48789137
I know anon, I hope we just pass out or something.

>>48789132
I don't even know why we're rolling. It doesn't really make sense for us to be a separate group from Zappy Dan considering we're riding him and are paralyzed. It's just another vector of failure.

>>48789132
The dice odds gobble gave us were incredibly generous. We were given a lot of outs and chances. At this point any more help would be gratuitous.

>>48789137
It's like how Exalted's new edition lets you take crippling wounds to avoid death. Take crippling wound to avoid miserable hostage arc.

>>48789138
>>48789143
I mean column, so that is 2 1s for Kat saving herself even when she is para. I guess we fall off Dan and get snatched up so they can't save us or something even though Devon got a 97. I would really hope he just has us dragged off into the woods or something. Running a quest this late with only like 6 fucking people and the MC getting captured .
>>48789157
YES PLEASE

>>48789153
Except we're not even running anymore, for this to make sense someone would have to drag us off Dan without either him or Devon defending us.

>>48789125
>>48789093
>>48789122

This is the shittest of luck.

From a writer's point of view, this is some really good story-fodder.

From a quest perspective...

Gobble's made good calls with things like this before.

I think this is going to be REALLY FUCKING CLOSE and tense and probably have consequences, but-

Oh who am I kidding.

We deserve consequences with some of the decisions today.

It's just all down to Gobble on how this is going to play out.

>>48789153
He didn't give us those dice odds, it was complete random chance.

You guys realize none of this is gobbles fault right?

He doesn't control the damn dice.

Stop acting like children

>>48789168
I would take a leg getting ripped off or something, just please not a god damn hostage arc.

>>48789125
The quest is mostly fine. This arc has just been shitty and dull, which is doubly annoying because it interrupted the best arc thus far, just so Hornbeam could come back and drama bomb things again.

This was made worse by players making bad decisions, but this entire arc has been pointless and dull even setting that aside.

>>48789178
I'm not blaming him, I'm just begging for the last bit of mercy and not getting captured because that will mean 1 bad roll and BAD END or we take over as Robin and have to fight a MC'd Kat which will just leave a shitty taste in my mouth.

>>48789169
We got three to one odds on each.

>>48789178
No one is blaming Gobble.

We're just panicking until we get some resolution.

General consensus seems to be for a critical injury.

Who wants matching eyes with Robin?

>>48789197
and Devon got a 97, there is no way he will leave us behind unless he gets KO'd himself.

>>48789168
How's this for a consequence, it's five AM and I'm so stressed out I'm sick to my stomach and want to cry. Like it's not just us being captured, it's our remaining pokemon probably being tortured and experimented upon.

And I don't know, it makes sense for Kat to try to defend people because even jerks like that don't deserve to get coated in acide.

>>48789182
Team Imperium stuff overall has been very unamusing. I came here for Pokemon screwing around, not pointless dickery and drama every so many threads.

>>48789192
Or we get captured, meet Violet in prison, fool them into uploading porygon by saying our pokedex has our secret plan, and make an amazing escape in time to save everyone.

>>48789178
And nobody is blaming Gobble.

The closest thing to that is requesting mercy.

Pull your head out of your ass and stop trying to defend someone that isn't even being attacked.

Like seriously, we got a higher roll than them and two 1s. I just hope we get the critical injury and escape.
>>48789222
Then we try to rescue other prisoners and roll a 1 on the final escape roll.

>>48789222
Sounds miserable and with even more opportunities to fuck everything up with a bad call or get screwed over by a bad dice roll than today.

>>48789210
So, time to cash in the favour with Dialga and NOPE Hornbeam out of existence before this shit starts?

Because honestly, that option seems more appealing as time goes on.

The start of this arc would be the perfect time to do it as well.

>>48789238
Yeah, a captured arc means one bad roll and game over.

>>48789208
Relax. Gobble won't go that hard. We'll plucky hero our way out.

Dialga owes us a recon too.

>>48789244
Time!Kat just pops in retroactively and unloads both barrels of a 12-gauge into his stupid nerd face.

>>48789222
We gave Porygon to Fir.

>>48789210
Exactly. Gobble interrupted the league for this shit. The league was fun and interesting. This is boring and utterly pointless. Last thread we robbed a drug store. This thread, we were a distraction who forgot how to distract and instead had to spend hours upon hours failing to run away.

This whole arc has been a mess, and I'm very much looking forward to when we can get back to the part of this quest that was actually fun.

>>48789260
As much as I love Gobble's writing yeah. Even if we were rolling well it would just be the /qst/ Pokemon threads where we lead a military effort. I'm really thinking the flute to remove Hornbeam is a good idea, even if it means going back to the start and some of our Pokemon not having been born from his experiments.

>>48789244
Given how shitty the last few threads have been, I'm genuinely in favor of this solution. It's not like we're ever going to use Dialga for anything more important. And this way, Kat might still learn a lesson out of this shitshow.

So everyone, what should our flute retcon be? Removing Hornbeam from life all together or something later on and probably less murder-y?

>>48789291
I feel like just stopping him before he completed his superweapon is good enough.

>>48789283
So what is the rate with this arc? A shitstorm every other thread or every thread since most are 2 parters now?

>>48789291
I'd say the big reveal of his master plan is the best time, but I want it to be extra murder-y. Put a landmine in his stupid psi-hat.

>>48789283
Yeah, keeping memories of this debacle after the Dialga retcon would at least salvage something.

If it's meant as a get-out-of-jail free card, then this is the point to cash it in.

>>48789291
Have his lab explode at the same time Robin wins

I'll just say this now because I won't later.

I don't like this current direction, we were in the pokemon league and everything in fine and now we are in this horseshit and it isn't fun.

I'm done; goodnight

>>48789305
>>48789308
Well are we going back as our current self or putting our mind in the previous Kat's body?
>>48789315
Like we knew this would happen, I just didn't think he would manage to do it to this scale and have it be so fucking one sided.

>>48789291
>>48789308
Something like that would be great.

>>48789291
>>48789299
Yeah, retconning him before he used the weapon at the League would be the best bet.

The fell down a flight of stairs and cracked his skull half an hour previously idea one anon suggested is probably the best time and method as well.

>>48789329
We need to ask Dialga how it works though. If just our mind goes back I think the earliest we could go was when we first met him and just choke him out.

>>48789291
I think sending us back to just before Hornbeam pulls his mind control shit, then letting us battle him to put a stop to his plans before they can begin, would be best. We could salvage the last bit if the arc with an interesting battle, then move back on to more interesting things.

Because the alternative is having to do more military revolution, and honestly, fuck that. Even after we win that way, we will still have to deal with the fallout and the fact that Harris will probably become a villain, too. The league is over as of Hornbeam attacking, and this - and the aftermath of this - is the plot now. Unless we change it before it gets to this point.

>>48789322
I'd go current mind in previous body.

It's up to Gobble though.

Who knows, maybe Robin will wind up rescuing us, then we can reveal this little trump card then use it.

I feel like Gobble was giving us a lot of ways out and we just kept plowing ahead.

We had a vote to stop Hornbeam before going to the league and we voted against it.

>>48789322
not talking about this current fuckfest, I mean this whole team imperium shit; it is not fun to deal with. The games make it work somehow, but this is just boring. I want to go back to being a pokemon trainer doing pokemon things not robbing drug stores for mcguffins and on to our known doom on mount fuckyou.

>>48789341
This would also be pretty cool.

>>48789349
People conveniently forget that in favor of moaning like three year olds.

fucking man children

>>48789348
Eh, I feel like you can only use a time travel thing when all hope is lost, like right now things are really shitty but still manageable, needs to be saved until someone we care about dies.

And all of this planning is implying Gobble has mercy and doesn't capture us. If he does I'll probably drop the quest. Not to say it is bad if we get captured. Gobble has shown us so much mercy despite bad decision, but I just don't feel up to playing as Robin or being on the 1 roll away from BAD END. Power to you Gobble no matter what though.
>>48789359
I mean, we have nothing else to do and things would have been fine if we didn't roll 2 1s.

>>48789366
Is there even another post or is this it until he runs next?

>>48789381
There is one more, Gobble isn't cruel enough to just leave without saying anything.

>>48789361
Or a hostage arc.

>>48789381
With how much complaining there is I'm expecting a quick post of some sort.

>>48789361
What's the gaurantee of getting out of this alive or at the very least not raped, tortured and abused?

>>48789359
Players making bad decisions is honestly a secondary problem. We could be passing every single roll without exception and this arc would still be boring crap.

>>48789359
It is also super fucking late in USA and other people are waking up to see the MC get either captured or crippled because only 6 people were around for most of the thread.

>>48789400
We could be playing smartly AND rolling well and it'd still be boring.

>inb4 Gobble just has us pass out and goes for the ultimate cliff hanger

>>48789423
Exactly. Bad rolls are part of the thread. It happens. Bad decisions are frustrating, but they come with the territory, and they can at least be mitigated.

A boring, meandering story just makes a quest stop being fun.

>Kat is put in a coma, and we wake up to find out Robin an the gym leaders have already beat team imperium.

[I didn't know you guys felt so strongly. I'm going to sleep on it and figure out how to proceed from there.

I appreciate the honest feedback and I'll do my best to make things more enjoyable again. I'm open to suggestions.

I'm heading off to bed now. Don't worry, I'm a little surprised, but not butthurt or anything. The point of these things is to enjoy ourselves as much as possible. So if that's not happening I want to fix it.

I don't think I could manage a good solution or path right now because I'm very tired. Sleep tight everyone. We'll work on it tomorrow. You've been very patient and understanding with the update schedule and as I'm learning, this arc, so I want to figure out a good way to make it up to you.

Sorry to keep everyone hanging. Please let me know of any suggestions or feedback you feel might help. This isn't my quest, it's our quest, so I want us all to enjoy it.]

>>48789450
I wouldn't say the story is boring, but the fact that we spend an entire thread trying to deal with one choice because decisions / rolls is what is killing it for more.

>>48789462
Sounds reasonable.

Thanks for running, Gobble.

>>48789462
Thanks Gobble. Sleep tight.

>>48789462
>and I'll do my best to make things more enjoyable again

It's always been enjoyable, I'm sorrow you have to deal with this. You really didn't deserve it.

>>48789462
Night, Gobble. I appreciate your understanding.

>>48789476
*sorry

meh

>>48789462
Thanks for running, Gobble. Sweet dreams.

>>48789462
I don't know I feel like the story would be worse off if things just got magically wrapped up with Team Imperium, and there's kind of an intereting story here with the whole human domination against pokemon making them hatable villains. It's just that even though you've already established it beforehand, these stakes aren't what people really signed up for with this quest, and a lot of people are tired and frustrated.

I just really don't want to have to deal with most of our pokemon being tortured when we're kidnapped, or the pain of one of our pokemon dying.

>>48789462
Well, writing tired is either good or bad, but if you're not feeling it, I think we can wait.

Thanks for running and good night.

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>>48789462
I am seriously just hoping you go give us a crippling injury. A hostage arc would end in BAD END by the end of the first thread and switching characters kind of takes a reader out of it. I also want to say most of the time complaints are in jest. You are doing what you can in a tricky situation. Sleep tight and have a butt.

>>48789498
Well said, anon.

>>48789498
>a crippling injury
It's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye.
Wait a second...

>>48789511
Ever notice how every single shitstorm is because someone else hurts?

>>48789517
I've been in couple other Quests before, the biggest shitstorms (in order of magnitude) were over:
change on MC haircut (with no dice involved)
MC turning down advances of lesbian friend/rival (with no dice involved)
players going full retarded and getting the corresponding consequences (with no dice involved)
Bad luck is second rate as far as drama goes.

>>48789496
If an arc is boring, getting it wrapped up quickly so we can move on to more interesting things is preferable to dragging it out. Returning things to the level of fun they were at before is more important than salvaging the literary integrity of a dull part of an otherwise good story.

>>48789498
>most complaints are in jest

None of mine were, and I don't think most of the others were, either. This arc has been really boring, and I couldn't care less about having to fight Team Imperium again, especially when we interrupted thr best arc thus far just so Hornbeam could come back again.

It's kind of drastic, but since anons really don't seam to like the team imperium arc, Gobble could handle this by taking Kat out of the fight and doing a write-up from Robin's perspective, kinda like what he did for her championship match.

>>48789547
I meant for this quest. Big shitstorms whenever a friend (most Robin) or our Pokemon get hurt. Take the fact people are perfectly fine getting a crippling injury on our MC but flip shit at a pokemon having a scar as evidence for that.
>>48789555
time complaints.

>>48789562
Ah, fair enough. My bad, then.

>>48789558
Well I think the plan is that unless we die or something drastic we use the flute to remove Hornbeam from the equation.
>>48789555
I think my biggest problem isn't that the arc came out of nowhere, but it is just so high stakes. A single fuck up cascaded into what these threads became and I just don't think having so much stress is that fun.

>>48789555
Nah, I want the satisfaction of beating Team Imperium once and for all without time shenanigans, and I feel like living the outlaw life could bring things full circle with Kat's past.

Also we're pretty much out off quest anon. After this, it's just us vs Robin which I'm still not sure we deserve to win.

>>48789577
Using time trickery to take out Hornbeam makes the most sense to be honest. Think of all the suffering that has happened and how much stress we have been causing everyone by not following plans. Also we totally need to battle Robin at the end even if it is off the records.

>>48789577
Then I would much rather just battle Robin and bring the quest to a close.

>>48789601
We need some arc with the bad guys, the problem is that the player base keeps trying to play the big damn hero without the plans or rolls to back it up. Though I admit the idea of guerrilla fighting our way to hornbeam seemed way better at first than it played out.

>>48789571
Yeah, the stakes are kind of ridiculous.

Not quite Team Galactic ridiculous, but the odds are never this sky high against the protagonist in the games.

Another part is I'm pretty sure from what we've been shown, anons have a pretty good idea exactly how fucked up it'd be if Hornbeam and Imperium won.

>>48789640
Like I would be fine with a Pokemon death, so long as it was a heroic sacrifice. I'm a sucker for those. But Hornbeam doing the fucking experiments on our Pokemon and I don't think I have the heart to continue and neither would Kat.

>>48789652
Yeah, if this isn't in the back of everyone's mind then I'm pretty sure there wouldn't be this level of OHGODPLEASENO!

>>48789652
I really really doubt Gobble would do that. I bet we can even reverse what happened to that general guys pokemon.

>>48789670
Personally I also just have a huge fear of mind control and dealing with it in TTRPGs is also my #1 prio when character making. The big bad of the campaign relying on MC is real spooky man.
>>48789678
With the azure flute we can :^]

You guys are pussies. Our mons won't get tortured to death. Gobble is Kiddy Gloves: The QM.

>>48789705
Only because we beg and plead our way out of deaths every time and Gobble doesn't wanna make his players suffer.

>>48789685
It's an interesting mechanic and I've seen it played to hilarious effect before, but I can dig it being spooky.

>>48789754
Coming from D&D it is also a slippery slope to use in narrative. One bad roll when you are attacked by MC can result in a YOU LOSE unless something like a serious smack breaks someone out of it.

>>48789685
>The big bad of the campaign relying on MC is real spooky man.
Elaborate please.

>>48789770
Hornbeam can Mind Control anyone he sees. As he is the biggest threat and has been around since close to the start he is the big bad. I honestly would be so much more relaxed if he just had super mutated Pokemon, but the fact any ally that is in just the wrong place turns against us or we turn against the others really isn't my cup of tea.

>>48789768
Funnily enough, that was my first encounter and the character effected being dragged away from the source was enough.

>>48789630
Violet was filling that role just fine. We didn't need a Hornbeam hijack again.

>>48789789
Yeah, I doubt the it is permanent. But fuck taking the risk.

>>48789805
He's a whiny, self-entitled, incompetent hack.

Of course he had to, it's his character.

But now we get to retcon him from existence.

If that isn't catharsis, I don't know what is.

>>48789830
Probably a safe attitude to have.

>>48789838
Any no moral qualms, he has caused too much pain and suffering.

>>48789850
Preach it.

>>48789462
Imperium stuff isn't my favorite part of the quest or anything but I really don't mind it unlike apparently most anons who were still around when this thread finished up. Seems like many anons just aren't interested in super serious stuff like this, especially with big and damaging consequences - Robin's eye got a ton of complaining too let's not forget, and I loved that part of the story myself. I don't really think this is as interesting or has as much potential for character development as that had though.

Honestly I kinda see both sides, I preferred the tournament and would rather not see Kat's pokemon go through anything gruesome, but on the other hand I'm not super opposed to some hostage shenanigans, seeing what's going on inside Imperium, and actually following the story as it flows rather than chopping it up by retcon-ing or using our Deus Ex Machina in reserve.

>>48790855
Also I don't want this quest to end because it looks like whatever you'll do next won't interest me, so anything that pads the thread-counter is like sweet addiction to me.

>>48790855
Most of the salt from me was due to lack of sleep desu, but the super serious nature is very stressful.

I, personally, am just tired of being desperate and on the run, barely getting anything done in a single thread.

This arc is interesting enough that I don't think we should use Dialga hax to cut it off entirely (maybe just have Dialga say that, say, choking Hornbeam to death early on would fuck up the timeline too much). However I wouldn't be opposed to being able to retcon, say, the 'Line-of-Sight, works through tv mind-control machine'.

Maybe we can retcon things so he doesn't get to build the damn thing (or at least make it so he has to be there in-person to get his mind-contol on), and he has to rely on his horrific super-mutant Pokemon more. Now THOSE things are interesting (and right up Hornbeam's distinctly monstrous alley).

>>48791520
Yeah, that is what I am thinking.

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>>48790873
Get this.... what if, guys, we took pokemon, right? We took pokemon, guys, and put them, guys, we put pokemon... in tanks.

>>48791520
It is worth mentioning we should go back to destroy the device sooner rather than later. Or else more and more threads will be retconned.

What if we just finish this arc in a thread or two?