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| Elemental Knight | Oct 28 2012, 08:23 AM Post #91 |
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Knight of the Spread Sheet
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Yeah, it did. This is from my Tohoku session last night. If you're curious, you can find the whole log here. I'm still gonna tell the story though, as a kind of TLDR version. I say "kind of" because this post is incredibly long. This is an entire session that is an awesome, memorable moment, and it requires a bit of knowledge about the rest of the campaign. I'm also putting in relevant snippets from the log of said session. If you don't like words, my apologies - just hit the "END" key and be done with it, then. *** First, some background: In the previous session, two members of the party - the Ace Trainer / Water Ace, Virgil, and the Researcher / Professor / Petrologist, Saya - finally got around to reviving a strange fossil that Saya had found many moons ago. It was an Odd Amber, having both Aerodactyl and Yanmega DNA in it. I told Saya that rolling a Natural 1 would result in, and I quote from my notes, "Oh no, Gojira is loose!". He decided to use his Chosen One feat to force the Natural 1, I let him, and Gojira - a humungous (6x6!) Genesect was made, and immediately began tearing up the town. The two players got to work stopping it, and it was a short, intense fight. Virgil's Seadra was KO'd in one hit. Saya's Machoke, named Jackie, fought the giant Genesect head-on, using Low Kick and the like to leverage its greatest advantage - size - against it. But just before the Genesect fell, it let loose a Signal Beam at Jackie at point-blank range, using Download to power it up against the Machoke's poor SpDef. It was enough to send Jackie from "conscious but not in good health" to "-109% HP". He failed is death saving throw. A nearby emergency teleportation system failed its throw. Saya failed his "emergency fossilization" throw. The dice had spoken: Jackie was dead. Virgil finished off the Genesect, but by then, Saya was a wreck. He went off to bury his comrade. *** And now for today's session: Shortly after that session, Saya's player came to me, and said, "Jackie shouldn't be dead. We both forgot that Signal Beam's Bug-type damage should only be half as effective against Jackie's Fighting-type". We talked it over, and agreed that, because the death had such great dramatic impact on the game, we'd let it stay for now - but that at some point in the future, Jackie would be able to make a return. When the time for the session arrived, I wasn't sure what I'd have the players do. There was talk of them trying to muck up some bad-guy plans, but nothing definite. Thus, the session got off to a slow, lazy start, with people rolling out of bed and the town starting to rebuild. But when the other characters found out about Jackie's death, they immediately went to find Saya and comfort him. And it was in the middle of comforting him that a plan was hatched. In short: While Saya's own emergency fossilization had failed, there's no reason someone else, someone better at it, couldn't try it. It just had to happen within 24 hours of the death, and that time limit hadn't yet expired. They quickly worked to get Saya back on his feet and sensible again - he had spent the night sleeping near the new grave he had dug - and one player, Celes, the Ace Trainer / Ice Ace, even had to back up another player (Tulip, the Breeder / Botanist) by using a Chosen One (with the player's permission), all just to get Saya out of his mourning and into action.
They quickly dig Jackie back up, while one team member, Celes, the Ace Trainer / Ice Ace, sets to getting them transportation back to Inspiration City - a mecca of science and technology, where Saya learned to be a Petrologist in the first place. (They've already been there, several sessions ago, and had many adventures there.) A few sessions ago, Virgil, the Water Ace mentioned above, had given some of his Pokemon to four Sailors who had recently docked in town on the cargo ship Sufferin' Surskit. They had been very grateful, and excited over the possibilities. But when Celes came to cash that in for them (Virgil's player, unfortunately, had to leave the session very early this night), they weren't able to make themselves force the issue onto their Captain.
Thankfully, the Captain, Alberta, comes out and is immediately on-board (so to speak) with the idea. He orders everyone around and gets people moving with the haste this situation deserves. With everyone finally on the ship, including Jackie, they go full-speed ahead to Inspiration. The city is landlocked, but Captain Alberta can get them close - close enough that, even without the Fly HM, the team's one and only Legendary Pokemon, a Moltres name Ma-Qian-Xi, can fly Saya and Jackie's remains the rest of the way. Celes' Froslass, Morana, freezes Jackie carefully with Saya's guidance, to further preserve the remains. Meanwhile, Tulip's Togekiss spots trouble on the horizon - great water-spouts, dead ahead! A bunch of Tentacruel are battling a pair of Gyarados for territory, it seems. It's too late to change course, so the team gets on deck to battle through it.
The team then basically wipes the floor with the oceanic Pokemon, OHKOing the two Gyarados with a well-aimed Thunder, and making a Tentacruel explode with that same hit (it did more than 200% HP damage). Though the fight drags for a bit with statuses, they get through relatively unscathed - though the ship isn't so lucky. A strong Water Pulse Confused the ship's systems, and it begins tearing itself apart, having already suffered plenty of damage from the fight itself. It takes the team going into the engine room and helping to get the Sufferin' Surskit moving again. (Around this time, Tulip's player had to duck out for family shenanigans - leaving only two players left, Saya's and Celes'.) Finally, they get to the appointed place. Saya loads Jackie onto Ma-Qian-Xi, and Morana tags along to keep the remains chilled. Saya himself hops onto the Togekiss (being quite the lightweight). The team doesn't have any other Flying-type Pokemon, so they stick with the ship while it putters into nearby Liliac City's harbor for repairs. Saya, Ma-Qian-Xi, the Togekiss (Tagger) and Morana the Froslass land in Inspiration, and immediately see the local Gym Leader, Alan. Saya hops off and quickly explains the situation.
The two scientists, and the attendant Pokemon - minus Ma-Qian-Xi, who's too large and has served her purpose - head to the Museum. There, Doctor Ostlund - who some of the players have met before, if only briefly - quickly takes stock of the situation.
(A note: Alan is correct; Saya's Natu was able to teleport Alan to safety after his leg was broken and pinned under rubble during an earthquake in Inspiration. It's a long story, but that's all you need to know for this.) With Ostlund's help, success at flash-fossilization is near-certain. Even so...
That's one step down, but reviving from a fossil tends to create new life from the DNA sample, rather than a clone of the original Pokemon...
With that, another plan is quickly hatched - mixing science with mysticism. Saya runs to the Pokemon Center, and retrieves his Shedinja, Osiris - a Pokemon whose life he and Virgil had saved a few sessions ago, though there is no accompanying Ninjask (long story). With the Shedinja, the plan can commence.
*** After that, our OOC chatroom in Skype explodes - with the players that are left, at least.
*** ...Which, in the end, brings me back to the very first quote in this post: why I think this deserves to be called a "most memorable moment", not just from the Player's point of view, but also from mine:
Everything that happened that night was a result of two things: The players, and my previous work on the campaign. I hadn't planned for any of this session. It was all off-the-cuff, reacting to the players, and putting just the right amount of difficulty between them and their goal. In short: This was "most memorable" for me, because it was the most exciting, riskiest, craziest bit of GMing I've done in years, capping off a week or two or incredible play, all centered around this one little farming town. Edited by Elemental Knight, Oct 28 2012, 09:15 AM.
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| Zdude | Oct 28 2012, 09:13 AM Post #92 |
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Wow. Definitely a highlight. I just love the cartoon-like, yet movie-esque lines that came from that session. And the awesome Table Top buzz. aka Mike: * The ship gets caught in the current surrounding the waterspouts, and finds itself in the middle of a Water-type fued - huge Gyarados, facing off against a flotilla of Tentacruel! Saya: "You dare stand in our way? We will show you our wrath and our power as we blow past you towards our goal! We will keep moving with all our strength!" Saya: (Can that serve as an opening Morale Rally?) Mike: (I'll allow it.) Saya: (+11 Sp. attack to all allied Pokemon) |
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| The Black Glove | Oct 28 2012, 11:47 PM Post #93 |
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A Man Of Heart
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...Okay. Time to be honest with you. Reading that story, I literally started CRYING with joy when you brought Jackie back, and I wasn't even there for the campaign. This is, hands-down, the BEST story anyone has posted on here so far. |
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| DNA | Oct 29 2012, 09:29 AM Post #94 |
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Indeed it is. Even I am moved enough to applaud you all. |
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| Marhatus | Nov 1 2012, 09:47 PM Post #95 |
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Avid Lurker
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Wow. I wish I could GM that well. |
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| passinglurker | Nov 4 2012, 12:26 PM Post #96 |
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here is a little gem from planswalker's Apokelypse chat pad
you can probably piece together what had transpired in our recent session so I won't bother with the wall-o-text |
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| The Black Glove | Nov 4 2012, 01:23 PM Post #97 |
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A Man Of Heart
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@passinglurker: You, sir, are a man after my own heart. Last session, my players decided to split the party. 2 of the players are about to enter a boss fight planned for six people. I will likely have a story to post here later after today's session. |
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| passinglurker | Nov 4 2012, 01:30 PM Post #98 |
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just to clarify that was planswalker that was DMing this and it was Blueeclipse and Mintyninja for gitp forums that went and punched babies this all happened just after I went to bed and I woke up to us about to be curbstomped by 3 lvl 20+ mantines. Ironically after all that I was the one who wound up capturing the baby. |
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| planswalker | Nov 4 2012, 03:21 PM Post #99 |
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sometimes it's the soft touch that wins out. |
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| Zdude | Nov 5 2012, 01:53 AM Post #100 |
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There is a lesson here: bullies never prosper when punching babies. |
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