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Memorable Pokemon Tabletop Campaign Moments?
Topic Started: Jul 25 2012, 10:51 PM (62,306 Views)
kagato
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Enemy Rhyhorn stomping on an NPC Ally's Cleffa, causing it to make a squeaky-toy sound before fainting.
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That is both cruel and hilarious, like watching a clown get hit in the nuts.
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"Why does everybody laugh when they do that? That's my ribs crushing my lungs..."
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"Why does everybody laugh when they do that?"


Because your suffering is amusing. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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hmmm... i think my favorite moment was the two hour gym leader fight that ended with my combusken kicking the claws off of a Scizor after lighting combuskens own legs on fire with ember to make double kick a fire type attack.
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So, this is a highlight from a campaign I am currently running. The PCs are aspiring Team Rocket members and have been doing odd jobs to try to join for the past few weeks. They have received their final task; complete it and they’re in Team Rocket and all that entails. They had witnessed a man start killing people in the center of Saffron City for no apparent reason. After being called in, they find out the apparently random targets were higher ranking members of Team Rocket. Their task is to hunt down the man (who has fled in the direction of Lavender Town) and bring back his head.

The PCs stock up on a metric ton of supplies then find a caravan traveling towards Lavender that they could join. After brief introductions to the crew, they’re on their way.

As they travel, shapes begin to follow them. A massive pack of Growlithe eventually emerges from the trees, surrounding the entire caravan. The Alpha, a big, powerful Growlithe, through an Empath NPC traveling with the party basically tells them to give them their food or they’ll take it. One of the PCs, possessing a powerful Growlithe himself, releases the Pokemon and has it challenge the Alpha for leadership. The two agree, and, after a fair bit of trash talking, begin the battle. They seem to be evenly matched for a while, until a lucky hit from the Alpha lays the PCs Growlithe low. The Alpha now changes his terms. They’re taking the PCs Growlithe as well; he was strong and would make the pack even stronger. The PC, not wanting to risk battle against a high number of Fire Pokemon when they have wooden wagons, has no choice but to watch his Pokemon slowly fade away, carried by the pack.

After that, the party a little down about that, they travel for a few days. As they continue to travel, the green forest slowly fades away to craggy rocks and a stark desert. They keep pushing onward however, until strange blips on the Engineer’s radar give them pause. As the stop, a small army of Skorupi appears, coming of the very stone. They’re different though; they are made of metal, and seem to be as much machine as Pokemon. The Skorupi hit hard, taking down the Rhyhorn pulling a few wagons, but the PCs drive them back. As they begin to leave, a massive Drapion with similar treatment literally pulling one of the more powerful NPCs apart. They flee, but the Skorupi follow, never too far behind.

They continue to travel until they make camp. Within a few minutes they find themselves surrounded with more Skorupi pouring in by the second. A little bit desperate, they quickly reload the wagons, preparing to try to punch through Skorupi lines. A few crazy rounds later they are fleeing, a small army of Skorupi and the Drapion in pursuit. The Skorupi pose no problem; the PCs have a few Ground types and make short work of any that near the fleeing carts. The Drapion however poses a bigger problem. A Sandshrew, one of the party’s strongest Pokemon, riding high off a fair amount of temporary HP due to Affirmation, goes to take it. Nothing so far in this campaign has taken a Bulldoze from this thing and remained standing.. The Drapion (which was Poison/Steel) tanks it like it was nothing and almost OHKOs the Sandshrew. With a Castform whittling down the Pokemon’s health the party manages to drive it off, eventually making the Skorupi horde decide to cut their losses and leave them for another day.

They continue to travel, making it a day or two without incident. As they are traveling, night begins to fall and they begin to search for a place to camp. As they roll on, the man they are supposed to be hunting flies in on a Honchkrow, apparently injured by the horde of Skorupi, and equally injured Duskull with him. The team, thinking they could trap him, decides to try to lure him back to the Medic, not knowing he was a mind reader. Halfway there he attacks, OHKOing a PCs Elekid. The lights lighting the wagon disappear, and gunfire starts to tear through the wagons. The PCs put up a good fight, but the team attacking was well equipped and quickly subdues them.

The team awakes in some sort of prison and, naturally, tries to break out. As they do so, the man they were sent to hunt goes room to room, trying to get them to join his team, Team Galactic. All but the Researcher (Ethan) disagree, and most try to tear his head off. The Researcher, through playing along, manages to get some good intel. He finds out that not only do the RoboSkorupi belong to Galactic, they have them under control and plan to use them against Saffron, the center of Team Rocket's strength. The final one, Gerald, the mostly insane weird ex-hitman guy, calls him a Bidoof-Mukker and pushes him over the edge. The target takes him to his torture room, extremely pissed off.

At this point the others tried to escape. The team Psychic managed to escape through a mix of bulimia (to throw up whatever drug was suppressing her powers), Phasing, sprinklers, and electrokinesis and starts booking it. The team Mystic gets out by Channelling a Rattata to end up with a small swarm of rats cutting down guards. The breeder had the best escape though.

The breeder was a devout Mewist, extremely so. He had had his legs broken earlier in the campaign and found himself confined to a wheelchair. As he is going through a religious crisis due to the bad guys winning, he manages to knock himself out with a series of bad rolls. When he is unconscious, he is visited by Cressalia. Now, in my setting, Cressalia and Darkrai are foes, constantly trying to get an edge over the other. She explains their target is the Chosen of Darkrai, which is a pretty big deal. Cressalia explains how she has to stop him, and he was her best choice. The breeder complies, becoming her Chosen. He wakes up in a hospital bed, a token guard by the door to stop the frail, non-combatant with broken legs. Finding Cressalia had healed his legs in addition to giving him a feather if he ever needed aid and a necklace for his Umbreon, which he didn't quite know what to do with.

The Breeder (who normally seduces everything that moves) tries on the guard and gets a Natural 1. Figuring his luck would turn, he continues to try, rolling almost as bad as the first each time. Eventually the guard puts in a pair of headphones to try to drown out the stupid Breeder and ignores him. The Breeder, seeing his chance, snuck out of the bed and grabbed a sedative, knocking out the guard. A few seconds later he was walking down the hall in a doctor's coat. He manages to sneak/seduce his way into the storeroom where all the stolen 'mons were, including their team. H grabs everybody's ace 'mons and decides to test the necklace. As soon as it goes onto his Umbreon it becomes an Espeon, glowing with brilliant light. With the newfound power of his Espeon, he manages to get out, mostly by lobbing random Pokemon in the hallway and using the chaos as a distraction.

By this point the Researcher was still just sitting in his cell. A guard had brought him a pad for good behavior, not knowing the Researcher had a Rotom in his pad. The Rotom escapes through the camera system, searching for the rest of the team and finds the hitman about to be… kissed? by their captor.

The captor had taken the hitman earlier. Now, being the Chosen of Darkrai, this guy had a few cool tricks. One such was a sort of dementor's kiss type deal, although it functions as a memory sucker, not a soul one. The end result, however, is the same; you're basically a vegetable, a fact clearly shown by the various captured TR members in cages. He had begun doing the process. Now, this hitman had had a terrible past. 17 dead starters (backstory, not me). Torture. Death of EVERYBODY. It's so bad that the captor actually has to take a break to finish it. At this point, the Rotom had found them. It possessed a taser, paralyzing the captor. It then released two Mankey's trapped in a cage, proving a powerful distraction. The hitman runs for it, trying to get out. He makes it to the hall.

At this point there was a lot of fighting. The hitman and the Psychic met up, fighting through guards and a cyborg Sneasel. The Breeder and Mystic met up as well, fighting their way BACK to the storeroom, finding the Psychic and hitman on the way. There was no way they were leaving without their stash. After killing a few more guards, they head out, swag in hand.

Now, at this point the Researcher was still in his cell. The captor, EXTREMELY pissed, goes to him, assuming he's the ringleader as he's the smartest. He takes him captive and heads out to cut off the PCs.

The other PCs find a few NPCs that had been on the wagon, giving them their gear and 'mons. They continue on their way until they find a hangar full of tanks and such. Seems like Galactic actually had a plan. The guards in the hangar see them, drawing a literal army down on the team. Just before they engage, the captor and a few shadowy (I'm so punny) friends appear to finish them out along with hostages to try to get them to back down. The party ignores the hostages completely. A great battle ensues; the team Psychic is almost instantly floored due to wearing Steel armor against a Firebreather. Two Haunters quickly fall. Two shadowy golem things fight them as well, doing a number on a few of the best team members. Worst was a Spritomb; it just kept taking hits like they were nothing.

The captor had disappeared after a round, turning invisible. After the Breeder made a Cressalia related taunt, he appears, a shadowy knife grasped in his hand. This probably would have KOed the Breeder, but his Togepi took the chance to evolve, taking the knife for its trainer and staying standing (somehow). The team then focused fire on him and managed to finish him off and take his head.

The NPCs had been holding off the guards at the door, but were getting overwhelmed. Since they knew there was no way they'd win, the Breeder pulled out Cressalia's feather, triggering it. Since it's too much work to explain what happened, here's the post.

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As Romeo gives his dramatic speech, the tank turret slowly turns towards the doorway, aimed straight at the party. A massive rumble also almost obscures pieces, but Romeo's shout tears it apart. While it is not wind pushing back his coat, the massive burst of air put out as the jets engine's power up more than makes up for it.

Inside the room, you can see men rushing towards the door, taking cover behind boxes. Time seems to temporarily slow. A burst of flames erupts from the muzzle of the turret as Romeo tears the feather. You can see the shell spiraling towards the party. You all wince as you wait for the inevitable...

With a resounding boom the tank round explodes. Surprisingly, you all still find yourself in one piece. In front of you floats a mostly translucent creature pink in hue. Long wings attached to its back are wrapped in front of it as some sort of shield. It's head has streaks of gold in it; you can just make out a head shaped like a crescent moon. The creature seems immaterial, as if it isn't even there, although the fact that it stopped a tank shot would suggest otherwise.

Call my name and I shall come.

The sounds of dozens of guns firing and even the launching of a rocket seem disjointed without the visible aid to accompany it. You can't see past the haze of smoke and dust from the blast. Eventually the shooting stops and you can just make out questioning murmurs.

Slowly the dust clears, revealing your guardian angel to the men outside. In front of the creature sits a veritable wall of bullets, suspended in midair, inches from the astral creature. There is even a rocket and a handful of grenades. Assorted curses resound as the men see the horrifying sight as they dive for cover.

The creature's wings spread wide, stretching across the doorway. With a powerful WOOSH they rocket forward. A supersonic crack accompanies it as the wall of bullets flies forward. Men, terrified looks on their faces, literally explode into a pink haze, dozens of bullets hitting them with the singular force of a rushing train. The grenades and rocket fly forward with similar force, devastating the vehicles of the hangar, except for a singular jet shielded by a pink shield, remaining perfectly intact.

Across the hangar, previously occupied by an armada of vehicles and a small army of men there are now pink smears across the ground and the devastated wreckage of what once were premium vehicles.

The projection slowly turns, materializing into a more humanoid shape before becoming almost solid. A beautiful woman, a good foot taller than any of you with long blonde hair billowing down her back looks towards you. Her otherworldly beauty robs even Gerald of a sarcastic remark at the wreckage. She slowly strides towards Romeo, putting a hand on his shoulder. A slight tingle accompanies the touch, but whether it is from her otherworldly origin or her beauty is unknown.

Romeo, Romeo, oh my Romeo, she says approvingly, looking straight at him. You have served me well. The Servant of Shadows is dead, she says, turning towards the decapitated corpse of Anni, a disturbing grin crossing her face before returning to that beautiful smile. [/i]But alas, your duty is not yet done. Two jets, remnants of his dark plot, are rushing towards Saffron as we speak. We have not time to waste, [/i]she says, striding towards Romeo and Gerald. She touches each on the forehead, a pink spark emanating between her finger and the forehead.


Along with some personalized messages from her to each PC and such. They hop in the jet, in hot pursuit of the others. The Researcher, who had pocketed a Robo-Skorupi heart, manages to deduce through some tests that the "bombs" on the other jets were actually beacons that would make the Skorupi swarm to that point, destroying everything.

With the help of a tailwind from the Psychic, the party rapidly gains on the other jets. A brief fight ensues; loops, missiles, flares, the whole shebang. Finally, the player's jet is being chased by both of the enemy jets. The next post requires a bit of explanation. In my setting, as a Beldum evolves, it becomes highly magnetic as it tries to absorb enough metal to forge its new body. The Researcher just so happened to have an evolving Beldum, and had the genius idea of using it as a sort of a makeshift weapon. Once again, I'll just use the post. Oh, and the Rotom was being used a sort of onboard AI at this point.

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Mjolnir's eye just stares as he is given his orders, unresponsive as he does so.

Just before you press the button, his eye flashes a few times, communicating in Morse.

--. --- --- -.. -... -.-- . / . - .... .- -.
Goodbye Ethan.

The button is pressed, and the Beldum is sucked out of the tube like a sandwich on a platter when Paul is around. It hurtles out the back, the Rotom bringing up a rear view to watch the Pokemon fly backwards. It seems to hurtle backward at insane speeds, the incoming jets rapidly closing. He's off course though. He's not going to...

The Beldum shoots towards the jet from almost a hundred yards away like some oddly shaped bullet, almost tearing off the wing. The ship begins to fold in on itself, warping and twisting. The jet slowly begins to spiral downwards as the all-consuming maw of the Beldum devours the ship. It falls out of the camera view. A few seconds later, a massive explosion resounds from the ground, the smoke cloud seen from the camera. Nothing could have survived the fall.

"Maybe that wasn't my best idea," Mark says, looking down shamefacedly.

The plane is silent until one of the dumb kids spoke up.

"That was a waste of a very expensive Pokemon."

Before Ethan can strangle the kid, the Rotom speaks up. Looks like they've got missile lock again. Preparing to deploy flares- WHAT THE MUK! THAT SHOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE! the Rotom shouts.

Looking back, you see a hulking metal shape, blackened by an explosion with two rockets fused onto its back, flying through the air at the other jet. It comes out of nowhere. The other jet swerves to avoid it, but it's too late. The metal monster has grabbed onto the nose of the plane. A giant arm blasts through the cockpit, tossing the pilot out. It brings its other leg onto the jet before pushing off powerfully, legs on the wings, using the jets for a little extra power. The wings snap off like wood. As the jet begins to fall, the beast begins to fly after you, albeit being easily outstripped.


The party was basically shocked at this point, completely amazed by that. They continue on their way to Saffron, bringing their trophy back to TR.

And so concludes the final mission to join Team Rocket.
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That Skorupi fight was a pain! With IRL issues on posting speed and the forum going down for a week, that and the Anni fight took a month I think!

But yeah, totally worth it.

(I would like to point out that the fight with our target was the same day as the second Skorupi fight though.)
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Oh wow. Jet-propelled Metang.
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xelada
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That is both cruel and hilarious, like watching a clown get hit in the nuts.
Haha, at least it wasn't one of my group's Pokemon that knocked out Cleffa. It almost died, but it's fine now. But hey, that Cleffa's trainer scammed me and one of my friends. She stole a lot of Potions from the infirmary and basically got the two of us in trouble. Next gaming session, I have to serve detention XD
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Here's one of my favs of our group, though I didn't personally get to participate:
So our group was split pretty hard, and I wasn't in the active group (which means I was playing some card games with the other guys of Group B while Group A did their thing). We had all been receiving reports that Viridian Forest had become a locust... erm, I mean a Locus of bug pokemon lately. They had even begun raiding local towns with groups of Scyther, Butterfree, Beedrills, and all manner of nasty things. So (naturally) our guys want to run in there with naught but a few starters (roughly level 7).

The DM kinda laughs a bit before realizing that they're serious. He quickly spawns a few NPCs trying to warn them not to go, and even plans a small police blockade at the Forest Entrance (which dumb luck got them around). So our intrepid, albeit ignorant, heroes are wading right into a war zone.

They quickly realize they're in trouble when a full squad of Rockets wielding Guns (it was a very 'dark' / 'realistic' game, where large terrorist organizations actually use weapons) come around the corner. One member sends out his Joltik, but quickly realize they're outclassed and recalls it in surrender. The leader of the Rocket Scouting Party decides to kill the intruder. But Mike (who is the best at clutch rolls- as you will soon learn) manages to roll his way out by convincing the guy to first bring them to the BBEG. The Rocket agrees, citing that he might get some kind of reward and starts marching them towards a large tree at the center of the forest.

On the way up the tree (it's HUGE), a Rocket remembers that they were trainers, and orders them to toss all of their pokeballs over the side. Mike nails the roll again, and sleight-of-hands out his team with a few empty balls. I joking ask the DM what the chances were of one of those balls hitting a pokemon on the way down.

The room goes dead silent.

DM shrugs and says "Well, how lucky do you feel, Mike?"

He caught a Beedrill at full health. THAT's how lucky he felt.


But surely Karma would come back to bite him, since his new beedrill and his Starter Poliwag weren't much against the BBEG, whose domain they just entered. They walk into the center of the tree, and BBEG is staring at them curiously. He gets into an argument with the Rocket who brought them, and Mike takes the opportunity to call out Poliwag, then challenges BBEG to a fight. "If we win, you let us go. If you win, kill us."

BBEG laughs. "What's to stop me from just killing you anyway?" A host of Bug pokemon from all seasons appear at a wave of his hand. "You have no chance to live." Mike asks for a chance to roll again, this time to convince the BBEG to go into a monologue. DM grants the check and Mike gets the check success. BBEG starts going on and on about how much he hated trainers like them, always lording their pokeballs over pokemon. Mike reminded BBEG that he wasn't much better. BBEG disagreed, telling us all about his evil plan to take over the world using bug pokemon, since they all responded to a "Leadership Pheromone that HE had himself genetically engineered." Mike called out to Poliwag "Ha! So that's your secret! Poliwag, use water sport!"

Everyone laughed as the attack went through, since we all know Water Sport deals no damage. BBEG even laughs, and orders Beedrill to kill them. Mike leans back and says to the DM: "Hmm, too bad that Beedrill only listens to the leader's pheromones, and that water sport probably washed them all off."


The room was dead silent for a good twenty seconds as the realization kicked in. Then we burst into raucous laughter and called out our admiration for Mike and his level 7 poliwag that just killed a boss without dealing damage or really even entering combat. He even managed to use his own Beedrill to let them escape, since all of Team Rocket was getting mauled by insects. It was the single greatest moment I've ever witnessed in all my years of TTRPGs.
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