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Topic Started: Jul 23 2014, 09:40 AM (11,806 Views)
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Ziggy saw as Amp hurtled toward spike, and then erupted in electricity. Shock was on the faces of the entire room, every single one of them turned from the smoking corpse to Ziggy in unison. Ziggy was shocked himself, he never knew the power that Amp had... and underestimating Victory was always a mistake. Still, he had seen faces like that before and he knew what people like that were capable of.

The room still stared at him and time stood still for a second. He knew when he had the audience's attention and he knew how to use it.

Kylar was gone to who knows where and he was alone now. Someone had to watch over these helpless travelers. With Kylar gone, that someone had to be him. Ziggy was never the tough one of the 'Lost Boys', he was always 'the charming one'. But now there was nobody left to fight for him, so he had to fight for himself, and he had to fight for his pokemon. The memories of the day he *didn't* fight force their way to the surface. The day when Ziggy and Kylar lost a member of their trio, Mortimer, to a thug like this guy.

He was a gangster from out east, Tristan had probably heard of his type. It must have been at least 3 years ago. Real piece of work that one. Went around challenging everyone to fights, not pokemon battles... street fights. He wanted to control the turf. He would try to take everyone's pokemon, and he loved it if you try to stop him or fight back. Then he would beat up your pokemon in front of you and beat you up to make an example out of you. Mortimer was an earnest and peaceful person and he stood up to the thug, told him he was wrong to beat up someone smaller than him. The thug turned around to face Mortimer, his back now facing Ziggy, and he began to attack Mortimer with his pokemon. Ziggy had Metalhead, ready to go. Ziggy sat there shaking with the pokeball in his hand, a voice in his head yelling at him to throw it at the thug. He didn't do it, he pleaded with the man using all his charms, and then watched as the thug attacked Moritmer and ran away. Ziggy learned the power of pokemon on that day, but deep down he has always been afraid of them. He made a vow to never leave a friend behind like that, no matter what. Maybe that is how he got so good at making crazy plans to save him and Kylar. This time it was Metalhead who needed him. Who knows what *these* people were capable of, their interest in electric pokemon... unsettled Ziggy. This time, all eyes were on him and he knew what to do. No more force was necessary... he hoped... it would be really nice if the rest of this could just all end peacefully. But Phoebe didn't know that.

Ziggy took command of the situation. He ignores Tristan and marches confidently toward Phoebe, waving a pokeball menacingly at her. "You know nothing of what is inside me, and unless you want to see more of it you had better start handing over some pokemon. You used those crazy powers of yours to take them" He gets a meter away from her, holding the pokeball out and then casually tosses it sideways at Mr. Mime. "Talk to them, Loudmouth"


Loudmouth uses uproar on Mr. Mime
AC(2), wakes up all trainers and pokemon within 5 meters
[result]14&13,1d20,1,14&1d20+1[/result] (+1 AP)

Special Normal
[result]27&3:6,2d6,18,27&2d6+18[/result]

The noise wakes up Victory and Saccharine.
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Jennifurret
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Phoebe looks skeptical of Tristan's proposition. As Loudmouth wails, she winces at the sound, though Mr. Mime continues to obliviously stare with it's goofy smile. Victory and Saccharine quickly blink back awake from their very short little nap. Scraggy just slumps onto his butt and hangs his head.

Mr. Mime's Soundproof
Immune to damage from sonic based attacks

"I'm certainly not interested in dying tonight. Though after this, powers greater than you will have my head soon enough," she said, her purple eyes momentarily showing a flash of...dread. Phoebe returned the fainted Drowzee and stared at Ziggy. "But I don't have your Pokemon. I merely levitated them to our third associate. And unfortunately for you, his specialty is disappearing." Before anyone could protest in a rage, Phoebe added, "I don't know where he is, but he can't have gone far."

#Context: Only about a minute max has passed since the fight started and the floating Pokeballs were last seen
Edited by Jennifurret, Oct 21 2014, 11:37 PM.
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Jonathan was stunned. Had Ziggy killed the man? Yeah. He looked more than just simply injured.

"But I don't have your Pokemon. I merely levitated them to our third associate. And unfortunately for you, his specialty is disappearing."

His stunned features hardened as he turned to look at Phoebe. "Fuckin' A right he's going to disappear with one of MY friends." and Jonathan takes off after where he saw the Pokeballs last.

Perception: [result]14&3:2:6,3d6,3,14&3d6+3[/result]
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As Jonathan runs down the now cleared out path, he sees the stalagmites are beginning to thin out, and it becomes more of an open cavern again. As he desperately searches the horizon, he notices some footprints in a sandy patch near the right wall of the cave. After getting closer to the wall, the trail seems to end...but there are clearly some large loose rocks where the wall meets the floor.

#Everyone else can choose to follow and see this too, or to stay and do whatever with Phoebe
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Ziggy watches Phoebe talk with a grim face. Poor Mortimer is still swirling through his mind. When she is done talking Ziggy silently approaches closer to her and calmly takes her pokeballs, recalling Mr. Mime. "You can have these back when our pokemon are returned to us. And so help me pokegods, if I see one pebble in this cave floating when it shouldn't be your ass is toast". Ziggy motions at Victory to come over, and then makes a motion wrapping his hands around each of his wrists. Victory begins to wrap her string #(webbing? I don't know) around Phoebe's wrists. Ziggy marches her toward where Jonathan is going, flanked by his two pokemon in case she tries any funny business.

Perception just in case:
[result]13&6:5:2,3d6,0,13&3d6[/result]

Intuition just in case:
[result]13&5:3,2d6,5,13&2d6+5[/result]

Ziggy could tell everyone there was still stunned by Spike's death, the cave was almost thick with the mood. Mortimer's ghost seemed to still be haunting Ziggy, there was no way he was letting anything happen to these naive travelers and he especially wasn't going to let anything happen to Metalhead. After Kylar, Metalhead was Ziggy's oldest and closest friend. He knew they wouldn't understand his reaction to Spike. People like that thug were rare, especially in a sheltered upbringing. After what he saw happen to Mortimer, Ziggy felt like he alone understood the temptation... the call toward something darker, that comes from the raw power pokemon can muster. And power leads evil people to greater evil. The others may never understand it, he almost hopes that they don't. Ziggy wasn't the hero they wanted, he may not be the hero they deserved... but he was the hero they needed right now.

#thepunkknightrises
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Phoebe doesn't feel like joining Spike in his fate, so she allows Ziggy to take her Pokeballs and bind her hands. Ziggy walks her over to the spot Jonathan found, and Phoebe look at the rubble knowingly. "These rocks are covering one of our tunnels to a lower chamber. There's a good chance Quinn is down there. ...What?" she says, looking at the skeptical faces. "I'm telepathic. I knew you were going to ask me."
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Kylar
Rumble.

Kylar slept well enough in the grassy alcove. Maybe it was because he had expected to sleep on a cold, rocky floor, because grass and a breeze seemed like a four star hotel in comparison. He was lucky to find someone like Opal to help him out. So when his eyes first blinked open, he was surprised to see the pink sky of early dawn above him. He felt like he had a full night's sleep.

Rumble.

Now he knew why he had woken up early, as the ground trembled beneath him. It was too quick to be an earthquake, but a rumbling mountain was always concerning. Before he could even sit up, the ground rumbled again - and a curtain slowly covered his tiny skylight.

He blinked the haze from his eyes, and recognized the red armor plates of the gigantic "curtain" immediately. It was the massive, horrifying Pokemon that ate Knuckles' brother. The armor, the spikes, the size - it was so ingrained in his mind that he knew he couldn't be wrong.

RUMBLE CRASH WHIIIRRRRRR

"What was that?!" Opal yelled, awakened by the deafening noise from back inside the cave. "It sounds like a cave in!"

The Pokemon above was gone, the dawn sky shining through again.

All:
Rumble.
"Never mind. It appears Quinn is coming to you," Phoebe said with a little eye roll, as if that was exactly the type of thing Quinn would do. Before you can ask for clarification, the ground begins to shake violently.

RUMBLE CRASH WHIIIRRRRRR
About 10 meters away, the floor of the cavern begins to rumble upward, boulders being thrown into the air. A giant drill breaks through the floor, and seconds later a giant drilling machine is pointed at them, whirring and rumbling. The bottom of the machine has five cages similar to the chargers you saw before, with a Pikachu, Dedenne, Emolga, Rambo, and Metalhead hooked up with wires, their electricity clearly being drained against their will to power the machine. Through the glass of the cabin you see a lanky, greasy, hawk nosed man piloting the machine.

"Phooeebbbeeee, I'll save you!! My Eyes saw what they did to Spike, and I've come to protect you!" he yells in a nasally voice with a shake of his fists. Phoebe looks unamused at Quinn's attempt to be her knight in shining armor.
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Tristan backs up a bit as the gigantic metallic contraption comes into view. "Sh...shit," he stammers, and grabs for Cordelia's Pokeball.

"You're too injured, Cordy! Get out of there!" he exclaims over the rumbling sounds as she returns in a flash of red light.

Fumbling for another Pokeball and not knowing who to use, he tosses one one at random -- just making sure to avoid Flora's.

#I actually rolled a d4 for this, lol...

The Pokeball he'd grabbed was Bella's. Hopefully, the Oddish would be helpful in combating this strange machine.

That was it! Maybe her acid could eat away at the section of the machine containing the Pokemon.

#Initiative:
Tristan -- 12
Bella -- 5 (@12 this round)
Reginald -- 5 (@11 due to Decisive Director)

"Bella, you can do this! Aim for the bottom with your acid!" he shouts as the the little onion Pokemon appears and sprays a jet of acid toward the machine. "Reggie! Keep up with her! Scratch at the enclosures to help the Acid get through!"

Tristan:
Decisive Director on Reginald (Paras)
Effect: Add +6 to target Pokemon's initiative.

Bella (Oddish):
Acid (Cone 2, aimed at the bottom of the machine -- assuming that's glass and not empty space in front of the Pokes in your drawing.)
AC(2): [result]15&15,1d20,0,15&1d20[/result], Lowers target's defense on 18+
Special Poison Damage: [result]26&2:1,2d6,23,26&2d6+23[/result]

Reginald (Paras):
Scratch (Melee, Pass)
AC(2): [result]13&13,1d20,0,13&1d20[/result]
Normal Physical Damage: [result]27&5,1d8,22,27&1d8+22[/result]
Pass: Reginald scratches a long mark across the bottom of the machine, passing it and ending up on the far side.
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"Aim the Acid a little... to... the... left..." Tristan says as he sees Bella spray just a little off-target.

Coordinator:
Re-roll a single damage check (1 AP -- 1/5 AP remaining).

Acid:
Special Poison Damage: [result]33&5:5,2d6,23,33&2d6+23[/result]
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As Kylar rolled over onto his back feeling refreshed, his calm quickly dissipated as the ground beneath him was moving in a manner that did not sit well. He felt the nudge of Knuckles on his chest urging him to move. Before Kylar could respond, the nice ray of sunlight from the small hole above that had let in the beautiful moonlight, quickly disappeared. At first, Kylar didn’t recognize it because it appeared and dissipated so quickly. It was though. It had to be. The sudden shudder from Knuckles told him he wasn’t wrong. The Pokémon who killed the Knuckles brother and best friend was here near this cave, and Kylar couldn’t help but feel like he was being stalked.

Before Kylar could compose himself, the crashing and booming outside of his and Opal’s makeshift camp was growing increasingly. It was then; Kylar realized that Opal was awake and staring at him mouthing the words “What was that” to him. Kylar had an idea, but he needed to poke his head out of the hole to confirm his suspicions. Kylar looks toward Opal and whispers, hoping she can at least read his lips in lieu of all the noise, “Hold on a minute, I will check.” As Kylar finishes his statement, he moves toward the entrance to the groups’ camp and pokes his head out. Following the loud rumbling Kylar saw it. The drill from the hidden cavern he had visited earlier. Kylar recognized the Pokémon on the bottom of the machine. It was the ones he had been looking for, but there was a familiar one in the group. Kylar thought to himself “What the hell has Ziggy gotten into? Why is Metalhead powering that machine? I need to find Ziggy?”

Kylar knew it was a mistake leaving Ziggy on his own. Last time he did that, their friend Mortimer, Morty as Kylar liked to call him, almost cost Ziggy his life. Ziggy was a good guy at heart and once he chose you as a friend, he would literally kill for you. That is what Morty convinced him to do. It was a few months before Morty’s untimely demise. Morty convinced Ziggy to accompany him on a job. At least that is what he called it. It was just a glorified smash and grab. Morty hated planning things out thoroughly, and forgot to check for guard rotations while casing the place. He led Ziggy right into a trap. The two were arrested, and it took every connection and a shit ton of strings to be pulled to get Ziggy out of the mess. Fortunately, Kylar had been in Ranger’s Academy for nearly two years and had made some favorable connections within the school. He was able to get both Ziggy and Morty out of the predicament they were in, and swore to protect those two no matter what the circumstance. Kylar failed with Morty. Morty’s ambitions got the better of him, and Kylar was not going to let the same fate befall Ziggy. If Metalhead was captured, there was a good chance Ziggy had found himself in some hot shit.

As Kylar watched the machine climb the wall and break through the ground to the area above, he pulled his head back inside the cave and turned toward Opal. “Opal, I can’t ask you to help me. You have already done so much these past 12 hours. I think my friend might be in trouble, and I need to look into it. Also, I spotted the Pokémon, I was tasked to investigate and recover, if possible. I leave the choice up to you, but I am going to follow the machine that is outside of the alcove and destroying any rock in its path. You have the knowledge and acumen to follow should you choose, but I can’t waste time.”

With that, Kylar recalls Knuckles into his pokeball and heads to the wall where the machine had just climbed and smashed through the ceiling. Kylar ties some extra rope around his waist, anchors it to the rock wall and begins his climb following the machine.

#let me know what rolls u need for this. Thank you.
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