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Memorable Pokemon Tabletop Campaign Moments?
Topic Started: Jul 25 2012, 10:51 PM (62,293 Views)
BeyondTheFail
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Yes, Gray Fish is Feebas. I'm looking forward to fall semester, when I can get back into the swing of things for PTA.
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Geckilian
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... I do hope you'll be encountering white with red accent Magnemites and evolutions.
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Lockdown
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Oh god, you're going to give the GM IDEAS. We're already dealing with gym leaders who are based off the assassin's from No More Heroes!
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LichLord
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That'd be cool (Save for a couple of em. like Bad Girl)
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Lockdown
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So, our GM is an evil bastard of a genius. We'd recently gotten to an island city that has a lot of ruins, and descended into them to find a being known as the "Sage Lucario" to help Vael's character gain some control over the empathic abilities that had, rather violently, manifested recently. Our GM has us roll Perception checks to see if we encounter pokemon, and on a Nat 20 we can run into one of a number of "Swarm" pokemon outside of a swarm. Now, while the ruins themselves had no Swarm pokemon, the waters around the island did. We came across a Lapras, seemingly asleep on the shore of an underground pool. Closer inspection showed that she was gravely wounded, and as we watched, she woke up and shifted slightly. She had a clutch of eggs. We tried everything to help her, but she was fading fast, and had been poisoned with something... new. And incredibly virulent. It reacted badly to a standard Antidote. That's when we noticed a dead body floating in the water. Wearing a Cipher uniform. My character searched the body, trying to see if there was an antidote of some kind. Instead, all I found were some notes in a waterproof pouch. The poison they'd used on the Lapras was synthetic, and had no known antidote. And the plan had been to kill the mother, and then take the eggs and attempt to transform the babies within into Shadow Pokemon In Utero. We all pretty much lost it.

What's worse is that whatever Shadow pokemon the Cipher mook had appear to have escaped either into the Ruins or out to sea.
Edited by Lockdown, May 1 2013, 11:45 AM.
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gamebrain89
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And that was on top of the Unown Army, and the Metagross Collective. At one point this happened, after my character ran head first into a pair of Metagross, and a couple of beldum and metang. Then asked for an audience to negotiate a partnership with one of them.

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"The Metagross on the left floats up a little, and grabs Tommy, floating away quickly. The other Metagross, the Metang, and Beldum follow. Eventually, you find a very large room, full of Metagross, Metang, and a LOT of Beldum. There's a HUGE, silver Metagross (about 4 times the size of a normal Metagross) sitting on what seems to be a giant throne built JUST for Metagross. His coat is rusted with age, and one of his eyes seems to have been melted shut. The Metagross holding Tommy practically SHOVES Tommy into the big Metagross's face, so that it can look him over with his one eye. Unlike during the encounter in the tunnels all of the conversation going on among the surrounding pokemon in high speed beeps is focused on Tommy, sizing him up, judging him by everything from his look, to his voice, to the words he's using, to the company he keeps, to his underwear size..."
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Vael
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I'd also say that the Unown Army bit was also really, really insane:

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You continue onward, and eventually... You come across... Oh Arceus... what the heck...?

A bunch of strange letter-like creatures, all connected in a chain. A long... LONG... chain... that winds about in several circles, until it's almost a ball. More of these things pop out of strange... HOLES... in reality... and seem to connect to what looks like the end of the chain.

NOTORIOUS POKEMON: UNOWN ARMY

Tyson: "...Okay there's that."

Alex stops, and steps back, then brings up his pokedex to scan and take a picture of.

Kyle: "...wow. What. is. that."

The entire room... seems to be getting larger, as though to accommodate the growing ball.

"Arceus above..." John whispers. He brings his pokedex up to try and scan the ball.

Tyson: "Holy shit."

The Dex attempts to scan... Then seems to turn right off.

"What the hell?" John gives the Dex a thump on the cover.

"Who are you?" Alex looks down at his pokedex, still on guard.

Tyson: "It's...not one thing I think..."

Tommy: "...its a lot of them. This is not what I expected to run into down here."

John looks at the room around the group. Alex looked at it, then back down at the clay tablet, then back up.

"Unnnnnn... owwwwwwnnnnn..."

"Unnn....oooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnn..."

Tyson holds a hand to his head.

Tommy: "We...come in peace?"

"Unnnnnnnnnnnn.... Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnn......"

John: "Tyson, you okay?"

Tommy: "Yeah...I think we should give them their space guys..."

Tyson: "They're a bit...loud."

Alex holds up the clay tablet, "Excuse me?!"

They stop. John's head whips around to stare at Alex so fast that Simon is almost thrown off his backpack. Alex, you feel the weight of several SEXTILLION eyes on you.

Alex blinked and slowly straightened up, "Umm, excuse me, hi there..." He's shaking a little, "...the Sage Lucario directed me to you. I...I need help with my abilities."

(skipping a little...)

Suddenly, Alex falls into a... HOLE... in reality.

Alex: "Woooooah!!"

(skipping a little more)

Alex falls out another hole in reality. You all hear a giggle as the hole closes.


...I swear, I can't really take Alex anywhere anymore.
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Lockdown
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So, in a game unrelated to the one above, I'm in a trainer battle. The opposing Trainer had just had his Vulpix use Roar on my Horsea. I sent out my Onix instead. He swaps in a Mankey, which my character hadn't encountered before. I order a Bind. Yeah, not my brightest move ever. The Trainer orders his Mankey to Low Kick Onix. He. Misses. I immediately recall the Onix and send out my Tangela.

Sure it's not the most unique situation, but I very nearly killed my own pokemon. I have had the weirdest luck in that game too.
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So I'm currently involved in an incredibly human-centric campaign - MAs in particular, using their entire stat for damage in addition to everything else. It's had its ups and downs, particularly when these giant min-maxed hulks swarmed us with Close Combats and Giga Impacts from their Slaking. It's a shock we haven't died yet, really. Plenty of memorable moments have come out of this campaign, from a corruption mechanic. (Which benefits humans a good deal more than Pokemon, sliding the human bias a bit further...) Basically there're these red trees/roots/what have you that have been researched and reproduced over the past four hundred years, enhancing the abilities of humans and Pokemon alike, but also making them ENTIRELY dependent on eating more and more in order to survive.

It's really late by now and the remaining PCs and most of our Pokemon have been corrupted. A particularly intense chase scene happened when this guy, a gym leader named Thor, was pursuing myself in a high-speed air chase with his Corrupted Aerodactyl, me on my freshly-evolved Dragonite until I realized he was actually faster than it. (20 Sky to Dragonite's 16!) The battle which followed was a combination of an INSANE amount of luck on my part and the sheer fortune of barely outspeeding him in my own corrupt form. (23 Sky, I had wings during that chase) Even though Thor's carefully-broken ability made him resist all, yes, ALL physical damage, he had upwards of 380 HP, 88 attack, obscene defenses, and 30 speed (again just barely below my own) a lucky burn on the part of my Dragonite whittled him down enough such that he HAD to fall back - this was after said Dragonite had tanked a crit stone edge on behalf of the Aerodactyl, thanks to Multiscale. He did his hat proud on that day. Did I mention he had a hat?

Reaching tl;dr status here so I'll stop, suffice it to say that this isn't a campaign I'll forget.
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Kind of a meta moment, but I just finished my first campaign. One of my players, previously, asked if he could do my plot for his own game. It's...so flattering that he'd do that. ^_^
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