As was foretold, we've added advertisements to the forums! If you have questions, or if you encounter any bugs, please visit this thread: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/240191/forum-advertisement-faq-and-reports-thread/

[Poké] Voltage: A No, No, No Sort Of Thing

191012141579

Posts

  • TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Tullius [Calm 1/1][Praetor 3/3]
    Timaeus [Loyal 3/3][Samurai 3/3]
    Orion [Melancholy 1/1][Scorpion 2/2]
    Volt: 2 Exp: 2

    "Furthermore, we're interested in how you got here, and if you know anything about those men that attacked the other day. Were they hunting you?"

    Terrendos on
  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    ~Malachite Noble's Quarters~

    "I'm fine," the woman says, hesitantly returning Tanaka's smile with a weak one of her own. "Everyone has been very kind."

    Much as she insists, she seems to be recovering well enough. A few of the bandages from the previous day have been removed to reveal quickly fading scabs, though the worst of her wounds are still covered with fresh gauze stringed securely into place. She should be good as new in a handful of days, a week at worst.

    "We walked here, from very far to the west, over the mountains. Sloe Town." She looks down and takes a few deep breaths as though preparing to admit to something heinous. "We trespassed, in our crossing."

  • Shock GShock G Registered User regular
    Tanaka & Gigen
    [Manful Martial Monk 3] - [Willful Wisdom Seeker 2] & [Spirited Spectral Scrapper 4] - [Puerile Pest 1]
    Volt: 0 Exp: 3


    "Trespassed? Into what?"

  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    ~Malachite Noble's Quarters~

    The woman seems a bit taken aback at Tanaka's ignorance of her meaning, but recovers. "The Plateau. To transgress on sacred ground is punishable by death. We- I... didn't think they would pursue us so far."

  • Rawkking GoodguyRawkking Goodguy Registered User regular
    Elise & Zeal
    [Ambitious Aristocrat 3] - [Disciplined Dame 1] & [Exacting Executioner 4]
    Volt: 0; Exp: 1


    "So you're smarter than the she thought you were." Elise says in a bemused tone, content to worry about replacing that armor later.

    She pauses for several seconds, hoping to dissipate the atmosphere from their earlier encounter further, but still watching the makeshift bush closely.

    "I heard you've been confined to this garden?"

  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    ~Elise & Zeal~

    With a shuffle, the Oddish laboriously uproots itself from the sod, shaking flecks of dirt and muck from its cankered hide. The wide, childlike face from before peers at Elise through its drooping leaves like a sullen teenager peeking through their bangs at a scolding parent.

    In fact, having just come up out of the turf, it looks an awful lot like it was... grounded 8->

    Marshmallow on
  • Rawkking GoodguyRawkking Goodguy Registered User regular
    Elise & Zeal
    [Ambitious Aristocrat 3] - [Disciplined Dame 1] & [Exacting Executioner 4]
    Volt: 0; Exp: 1


    "You can come on over here." Elise says firmly, stabbing a little hole in the ground a foot and a half from her carefully selected, barely acid-free seat on the stone bench.

    Zeal buzzes around the area chirping cheerfully before taking to the air, the friendly bee once again making up for Elise's faults.

  • Shock GShock G Registered User regular
    Tanaka & Gigen
    [Manful Martial Monk 3] - [Willful Wisdom Seeker 2] & [Spirited Spectral Scrapper 4] - [Puerile Pest 1]
    Volt: 0 Exp: 3


    Ahh, the pagans. "I can't believe I forgot about that. But, hey, you made it! You should be proud of yourself!"

  • TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    Tullius [Calm 1/1][Praetor 3/3]
    Timaeus [Loyal 3/3][Samurai 3/3]
    Orion [Melancholy 1/1][Scorpion 2/2]
    Volt: 2 Exp: 2

    "Well, that explains that then. Will they be sending more people to kill you?" Tullius immediately realized the callousness of his remark. "Not that you'll be killed, of course. Just uhh... will there be more? And also, if you could tell us which direction 'The Plateau' is so we can be sure to avoid it when we leave, that'd be great."

  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    ~Elise & Zeal~

    The Oddish waddles slowly over to the bench, pointedly ignoring Zeal, and flops down into a seated position.

    ~Malachite Noble's Quarters~

    The woman shrugs at Tanaka's praise. "I don't know if there will be more of them, I've never heard of anyone escaping, but I didn't think they would chase us this far, either. I'm sorry." She fiddles with her hands in her lap.

    "The Plateau is about a week's travel north and west. You wouldn't be able stumble onto it by accident."

  • Shock GShock G Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Tanaka & Gigen
    [Manful Martial Monk 3] - [Willful Wisdom Seeker 2] & [Spirited Spectral Scrapper 4] - [Puerile Pest 1]
    Volt: 0 Exp: 3


    "Hey, it's not your fault they decided to kill you. And don't apologize, we're happy to help!" Tanaka runs his hand under his chin. "Say, what'd you come down here for, anyway?"

    Shock G on
  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    ~Malachite Noble's Quarters~

    The woman smiles, wanly. "Drought, bad harvest, skirmishes. My home isn't a good place to be anymore, fleeing seemed like a good idea."

    "Wooooo!"

    The woman turns around in her seat in time to see the kid coming down the stairs behind her, carefully taking them one at a time. This is probably due to the foot-tall blue Pokemon squirming happily on his shoulders, whooping excitedly. As the youngster makes it down to the landing, the creature's squirming redoubles until the boy leans over enough for the Pokemon to hop off, and began making waddling circuits around his legs. "Pah! Pah! Pah! Pah!"

    "Be careful, dear," the woman scolds him, reproachfully, but the kid is quite clearly engrossed with the Pokemon running circles around him. Realizing she isn't getting through to him, the woman sighs and turns back around to face her visitors.

  • Shock GShock G Registered User regular
    Tanaka & Gigen
    [Manful Martial Monk 3] - [Willful Wisdom Seeker 2] & [Spirited Spectral Scrapper 4] - [Puerile Pest 1]
    Volt: 0 Exp: 3


    "Well, I'm glad you made it out here ok, ma'am."

    Tanaka and Gigen both turn to look at the short, blue amphibian, enthralled. How do they have as rad of a time as that guy?

  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    It's literally impossible to be as happy as a wooper is every single second of their fabulous lives.

    Science has looked into the subject, and come up empty.

    Marshmallow on
  • TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    Tullius [Calm 1/1][Praetor 3/3]
    Timaeus [Loyal 3/3][Samurai 3/3]
    Orion [Melancholy 1/1][Scorpion 2/2]
    Volt: 2 Exp: 2

    "Well, if this Plateau is so well known and so infamous, why'd you go through it rather than around it?"

    Timaeus was easily distracted from the boring conversation by the entrance of the wooper and dismounted his trusty steed to greet the Pokemon and engage in some water-type gossip. Explain the local watering holes, that sort of thing. It was, after all, both customary and polite, even if this one didn't seem all that interested in the subject. Realizing that the Wooper just plain didn't care, Tullius decided to join in on the fun instead.
    Oshawott_Dancing.gif

    I know Woopers are near the top of the cute-ometer, but I think Timaeus might give him a run for his money.

  • Shock GShock G Registered User regular
    Tanaka & Gigen
    [Manful Martial Monk 3] - [Willful Wisdom Seeker 2] & [Spirited Spectral Scrapper 4] - [Puerile Pest 1]
    Volt: 0 Exp: 3


    "Just about the only way through that country, at least how I remember it."

  • NeoTomaNeoToma Registered User regular
    Every troubled kid just needs a Wooper in his life.


    Oh man I have not posted in this thread in a while. Sorry about that.

  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    NeoToma wrote: »
    Oh man I have not posted in this thread in a while. Sorry about that.

    Ain't no problem, I'm not going anywhere.

    I just update as the posts come.

  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    ~Malachite Noble's Quarters~

    "There wasn't much time to plan things, everything just sort of happenedin a hu-" the woman begins explaining before being forced to grasp the armrest of the chair for support as it angles upward. Taking the loss of his rider as a chance to make a spirited bid for freedom, Orion has begun forcibly wedging himself beneath the chair, his tail whipping back and forth furiously as he shoves himself into the makeshift hiding spot.

    The impromptu dance party on the landing continues. Though the kid seems his usual distant self, he's at least interested in the joyful proceedings.

    emot-wooper.gifSwag swag swag

    Marshmallow on
  • Rawkking GoodguyRawkking Goodguy Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Elise & Zeal
    [Ambitious Aristocrat 3] - [Disciplined Dame 1] & [Exacting Executioner 4]
    Volt: 0; Exp: 1


    After a brief pause, Elise gets up and gingerly attempts to retrieve the ruined vambrace. "What on earth did you do to this?" she asks no one in particular, returning to her seat with the object.

    Zeal, meanwhile, spins sideways back into the oddish's field of vision, three beaming curious faces glancing down on her.

    Rawkking Goodguy on
  • TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    Tullius [Calm 1/1][Praetor 3/3]
    Timaeus [Loyal 3/3][Samurai 3/3]
    Orion [Melancholy 1/1][Scorpion 2/2]
    Volt: 2 Exp: 2

    Tullius watched Orion hiding under the chair and wondered if there was some way to help the poor little guy feel a bit more comfortable. He briefly considered adjusting his robes so that the scorpion could hide underneath them, but decided that it might be a bit uncomfortable. Instead, he lowered his backpack to the ground and coached Orion out from under the chair and into that, instead. Tullius reasoned that it would be the best of both worlds; a mobile hiding place.

    "Sorry about that interruption. Now then, if you wouldn't mind explaining the details of your... hmm... journey?"

  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    mentioned it in the gloss thread already but i have utterly failed to make the time to play in this game and i feel pretty bad about it, but i need to drop

    sorry duders

  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    Someone else has been failing to make the time to post, but he should be posting shortly, I understand.

  • Rawkking GoodguyRawkking Goodguy Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    Aww, take care squall, see you around!

    I too shall post (again). Keep this not-plot train movin.

    Elise & Zeal
    [Ambitious Aristocrat 3] - [Disciplined Dame 1] & [Exacting Executioner 4]
    Volt: 0; Exp: 1


    After satisfactorily looking over the ruined armor she discards it, when Elise's ears are suddenly assailed by a pleading buzzing sound disturbingly similar to a whining insectoid puppy.

    Elise looks up at the sun. "Time for afternoon training, right?" All three combee heads attempt to nod at once, veering slightly from their steady hover.

    The noble begins her stretching routine, paying the acid just a few feet to the right of her no mind. Zeal lands on the bench and mechanically flexes the same wing muscles over and over, eerily overjoyed by the dull routine. Elise looks over at the oddish repeatedly, waving her over to participate.

    A few simple exercises later (pushups et al), Elise pulls out a moderately small ball. Zeal quickly takes position across the garden. A nod, and Elise throws the ball, Zeal outlining the ball in a silver light before slamming it back with a rigid wing and a proud flourish. Elise takes a single step to her right and turns her polearm, the incoming object slamming against the flat of the axe blade and landing harmlessly on the ground.

    "Zeal, don't use your signal beam." Elise orders, her eyes glancing at the oddish. Don't want to let that pokemon get too carried away.

    A few more back-and-forths of the ball between Zeal and Elise and the Lady turns to the oddish.

    "Are you ready?" She says encouragingly, winding her arm back slightly and starting off with a relatively soft pitch.

    Rawkking Goodguy on
  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    Man, these week-long no GM post sprees are just killer. Happy early Easter, you bastards.

    ~Malachite Nobles' Quarters~

    Orion seems to like where he currently is quite fine, thank you.

    The woman waves her hand dismissively in response to Tullius' question. "Like most, I assume. Exhausting, dirty, an exercise in deprivation, lots of rocks and trees. We didn't realize how close on our trail the cultists were until we nearly had reached your city."

    ~Elise & Zeal~

    The Oddish watches carefully, and, with a hiss, swats at the ball with an extruded vine. The tiny object rebounds off the ground, sending a flurry of dead leaves flying, and spins past Elise, bouncing off the stone wall behind her before rolling to a stop.

    The momentary contact with the corrosive Pokemon has given the ball a blackened smudge on one side, but other than that it's practically good as new.

    The Oddish shuffles its leaves, happily, perhaps not exactly understanding the point of the game but enjoying the sense of participation, nonetheless.


    Wonder how much the alcohol is showing in this post. Cider is soooo good.

  • TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    Tullius [Calm 1/1][Praetor 3/3]
    Timaeus [Loyal 3/3][Samurai 3/3]
    Orion [Melancholy 1/1][Scorpion 2/2]
    Volt: 2 Exp: 2

    Tullius opened his Codex and performed a cursory scan of his pages. How could he have missed this? He'd read this stupid book cover to cover more times than he could count! There was definitely nothing about a sacred ground in the area. And yet, this book was packed with ancient laws that governed the society of before. Surely, if such a place existed, it would be located in the index designating crimes punishable by death. Still, the Plateau... it did set in his brain a bit of a gnawing familiarity in the back of his head... perhaps there was mention of the place somewhere in the enigmatic depths of the oft-ignored section known as Regional League Information. Nobody paid much attention to that part anymore; it seemed to be concerned with the governance of a more centralized authority, something that controlled far more than just Malachite. The rules were complex, obscure, and written in a bizarre and outmoded style, much of it pasted into the actual book from other documents. Tullius remembered enjoying that part because it was so colorful, filled with brightly-colored (if inaccurate and poorly labeled) maps and drawings, whereas the rest of the Codex was as plain and direct as you would expect a giant list of laws to be.

    He made a mental note to check more thoroughly later, and closed the book with a loud whump. "Very well, I think that's all the information I need. Tanaka, did you have any more questions?"

  • Shock GShock G Registered User regular
    Tanaka & Gigen
    [Manful Martial Monk 3] - [Willful Wisdom Seeker 2] & [Spirited Spectral Scrapper 4] - [Puerile Pest 1]
    Volt: 0 Exp: 3


    "Nope, that's all I got. You wanna say anything, Gi?" Gigen shakes his head. "Well, thanks for letting us jabber at you, ma'am. If you need my help with anything, I'm always free."

  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    ~Malachite Nobles' Quarters~

    "It's no imposition, but... thank you. I appreciate it," the woman replies, hesitantly.

    Well, that seems to be that.

  • Shock GShock G Registered User regular
    Tanaka & Gigen
    [Manful Martial Monk 3] - [Willful Wisdom Seeker 2] & [Spirited Spectral Scrapper 4] - [Puerile Pest 1]
    Volt: 0 Exp: 3


    Tanaka gives the woman a shining parting smile, then leaves the room.

    "So, what do we do now?" He says, when the Praetor shuffles his way to the hall. "Go round up everyone else and skip on northward?"

  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    Messing around with stuff.

    Full Statline

    Name: Tester
    Level: 5
    Species: Rattata
    Type: Normal
    =============
    Loyalty: Neutral (***)
    Demeanor: Hasty
    Need: Daily Exercise
    Quirk: Likes to Run
    =============
    Weak: Dark, Fighting, Fire, Poison
    Resist: Bug, Flying, Ghost, Psychic, Steel, Water
    =============
    Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip
    Assists: Tackle 1
    Skills: Sprinter
    =============
    HP - 4 At - 4 Df - 2
    Sp - 3 SA - 2 SD - 2
    =============


    Header

    Tester - Rattata - Normal [ Weak / Resist ]
    HP - 4/4 | At - 4/4 | Df - 2/2 | SA - 2/2 | SD - 2/2 | Sp - 3/3
    [ Tackle ] [ Tail Whip ] [ - ] [ - ]




    Full Statline

    Name: Tester
    Level: 50
    Species: Raticate
    Type: Normal
    =============
    Loyalty: Devoted (*****)
    Demeanor: Jolly
    Need: Affection
    Quirk: Likes to Run
    =============
    Weak: Dark, Fighting, Fire, Poison
    Resist: Bug, Flying, Ghost, Psychic, Steel, Water
    =============
    Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Swords Dance, Bite, Hyper Fang, Sucker Punch, Thunderbolt
    Assists: Crush 2, Tackle 1, Electrify 1
    Skills: Sprinter, Leaper, Powerful
    =============
    HP - 4 At - 5 Df - 3
    Sp - 4 SA - 2 SD - 3
    =============


    Header

    Tester - Raticate - Normal [ Weak / Resist ]
    HP - 4/4 At - 5/5 Df - 4/4 SA - 2/2 SD - 2/2 Sp - 4/4
    [ Tail Whip ] [ Hyper Fang ] [ Sucker Punch ] [ Thunderbolt ]

    Marshmallow on
  • TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    Tullius [Calm 1/1][Praetor 3/3]
    Timaeus [Loyal 3/3][Samurai 3/3]
    Orion [Melancholy 1/1][Scorpion 2/2]
    Volt: 2 Exp: 2

    Tullius shifted his backpack around a bit; he never realized how odd it was to have something alive back there. He wished Orion would settle down, regardless of how anxious he was.

    "What happened to you being 'always free,' huh? I kinda assumed you were gonna be staying here to protect her, the way you were talking." Timaeus wandered out of the room, no longer Wooper-distracted, looking once again for his trusty steed. Tullius ignored him. "But if you are intending to go with us, I see no reason why it shouldn't be sooner rather than later."

    Terrendos on
  • Shock GShock G Registered User regular
    Tanaka & Gigen
    [Manful Martial Monk 3] - [Willful Wisdom Seeker 2] & [Spirited Spectral Scrapper 4] - [Puerile Pest 1]
    Volt: 0 Exp: 3


    "I'm 'always free' with the implied caveat 'as long as I'm in town'. She'll understand." Tanaka rubs the back of his head. "Well then, let's go round up our companions!"

  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    What companions?

  • Halos Nach TariffHalos Nach Tariff Can you blame me? I'm too famous.Registered User regular
    I haven't posted anything in a while, apologies for that.

    Mostly because I wasn't sure there was anything my character particularly needed to be doing, she's happy enough chatting to people in the Academy (also I have been pretty busy, but that's not likely to change anytime soon) and I couldn't really think of a suitable way to bring her in on this conversation without de-railing things.

    But I'm still around for companion-y things.

  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    Oh, okay then.

    I'll probably get an update of some sort out tomorrow getting things back up to speed. For a given value of "speed".

    Rejected title change: MS Poké Adventures: Zekromstuck

  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    twenty new npcs with various speech quirks and pop culture tastes forthcoming

  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    The gm.... HASS the post

    ~Malachite Forest~

    Tullius and Tanaka gather up whatever companions show willing, pack up whatever the heck it is they are planning on taking with them, and begin their jaunt northward, ostensibly starting with a trek through Malachite Forest, unless they are planning to take a longer, circumspect route.

    Regardless, supplies are easily procured, allies are located, and a path through the unoccupied portion of Malachite City is forged. The lonely, long abandoned homes and hollow towers provide a sobering backdrop to the journey's start, the silence only broken by the party's own movement, chatting (if they are so inclined), and the occasional clatter of a Rattata (or possibly lost Weedle or Caterpie) fleeing through the broken bricks of collapsed houses and thorny bushes encroaching on the empty streets.

    The treeline of the Malachite Forest is less than a stone's throw away from the wall this far north, the growth quickly thickening into a canopy sufficient to block out majority the day's grayish, cloud-filtered sunlight. Dew still clings to the undergrowth in miniscule droplets, and the sounds of wildlife are muted in the damp, cool air.

    [Time to get this road on the show, again]

    [New rules incoming maybe? I dunno, maybe once something actually happens (for maximum confusion)]

    Marshmallow on
  • Rawkking GoodguyRawkking Goodguy Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    Elise & Zeal
    [Ambitious Aristocrat 3] - [Disciplined Dame 1] & [Exacting Executioner 4]
    Volt: 0; Exp: 1


    Ah geeze. The poor thing.

    A good twenty minutes later the ball is corroded and nonfunctional. Finishing up the routine, Elise and Zeal prepare to leave with a farewell. The noble just doesn't know how she's going to take care of something like this oddish without her understanding why she needs to be careful around others. Maybe with enough visits she'll catch on...well...enough to leave?

    All that remains is to alert the captain of the guard of the intruder and the day might as well be finished.

    Rawkking Goodguy on
  • TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    Tullius [Calm 1/1][Praetor 3/3]
    Timaeus [Loyal 3/3][Samurai 3/3]
    Orion [Melancholy 1/1][Scorpion 2/2]
    Volt: 2 Exp: 2

    Tullius addressed the group setting out from Malachite. "Well guys, what say we stop by one of those odd scar marks in Malachite Forest on our way? I hear they're pretty dangerous, but we've got a big group... I can't think of a better time to check them out."

    Terrendos on
  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    ~Malachite Forest~

    Seems like you might be all alone, buddy.

Sign In or Register to comment.