Pokemon in Space [IC Chapter #03]

[DemICE]

Cathode processed with interest the updated map. So many options! So many posibilities! And within those possibilities... so many dangers... she shuddered at the thought. In any case, she was not very fond of the possibility of hostile grass-types that those vines adorning the blockade might imply.  That left her with three options. She decided to take the left path that was obviously hinting to lead to a distant dead end, because she always proffered to clear the dead ends before proceeding to unknown depths.

 

"This way, Zeta, Clarence, lets see what can we find! And before you ask Zeta, I-I'm really not fond of the idea of battling grass types, and neither is Suzie, so l-lets just forget about that place okay?"

 

[Group starts heading towards destination 8]

Edited November 18, 2017 by DemICE

[InnocentSerenity]

“Aw, we can wait a bit longer for the others.” Kai circled around Betani to get back to the slide’s end. Having heard Uno’s request, she made her way to the opening, preparing to catch the woman in her open arms. “I gotcha, friend! Whenever you’re ready.”

[DragonRage]

After some consideration, Taylor asks Kenshiro the Morelull to use Flash.  It's not the most reliable strategy, but accuracy scumming has served him well before.  Jet's moveset isn't exactly optimal here, but Confusion is the only choice he has to put the Wailord out of its misery as soon as possible.

[LeonVermillion]

No matter how I see it, this situation is really bad.

 

Verna just fly around as high as she could so that it won't get hit from the Wailord, "Verna! when the Wailord appear, quickly use Supersonic on him! We have to at least slow him down and think of another way to defeat it fast enough!" Verna nodded now fly around waiting for the Wailord to come out for it blast a Supersonic sound.

 

After comanding Verna, Sena tried to find anything in the cave that can be used to damage the Wailord greatly.

[IntSys]

Poochy ran before Emmanuel, seemingly eager to fight. He nodded, readying an Aether Ball. "Radovan, we could use a bit of help from an Oddish." 

"Poochy, use Tackle on the Oddish on the left!" He shouted. Poochy barked in response, and flung herself at Oddish 1 with all of her meager might!

Action: Poochy uses Tackle on Oddish 1 with 70 Attack Power.

[LucidRain]

Quina didn't like to do this as much as Kalva - but now she had to battle, and analyse this situation critically. Wailord had just Dived out of their vision, surprisingly fast for whom she had thought to be incapacitated. Perhaps it wasn't Wailord who was attacking them; it was the crystals controlling Wailord. She was far too weak herself to mount an effective assault against Wailord, but perhaps even by simply stalling they could deplete the crystal's energy and put Wailord to rest. That meant she had to dodge Wailord's attacks as much as possible - even one hit from Wailord's attack would knock her and any of her teammates for sure.

She noted quickly that the whole place was a large 12 meter circle. As long as they kept strafing at the right time, perhaps they could avoid Wailord's Dive attacks. She wasn't particularly fast on foot, but Teleport will be fast enough. With the help of Flash and/or Sleep Powder, they may be able to land a few attacks or two. She attempted to fathom where Wailord was psychically, then readied to Teleport out of Wailord's attack.

 

Kalva understood what Quina was trying to do. Bait for Wailord-no-the crystal's dive, and dodge every time with Teleport. But this plan couldn't drag out. Not only would Teleport eventually drain Quina out, but all the while, Wailord would be tearing herself apart. No - he must end this quickly, for Wailord, for Quina and for his friends. There must be a way... Kalva held up the A-Comm above his head like a flashlight, illuminating the area in part and looked for a way to end Wailord's rampage early. Perhaps a loose stalagmite to drop? 

 

 

Edited November 18, 2017 by PigeonOfAstora

[Yours Truly]

Radovan reacted to the situation by throwing his swiftly released Woobat towards the first Oddish while he calmly said "Woobat, Attack the Oddish I am pointing at by using your Confusion attack to yank at the top of it's head!". He then pointed directly at the first Oddish that he saw while he continued to try and motivate his Woobat into doing much better than it would otherwise do by continuing to calmly encourage it to make the little Oddish faint.

 

Radovan orders his Woobat to attack Oddish 1 with a 50 BP Confusion, and he tries to encourage the Woobat to try and get it to attack one of the more sensitive parts of the Oddish's body to activate his Active Attacker Lv 1 Special Skill! Boosting the Woobat's Special attack by one stage.

[Strider]

Shelly had been a little upset by the fact that Kai's plan had resulted in such damage to Axew, but it had disappeared quickly enough once they had gotten their pokemon healed. When they arrived at the hole, Shelly hung back a bit to see whether Kai made it safely down, before following up after Uno. When she landed, she stood up, glancing around the cavern, and the crystals all around.

"I wonder. . ." Shelly murmured, glancing around the area, searching for tunnels that might lead to the Tree of llife. Or anything interesting, really. "So which way are we going?"

[Bfroger6]

GROUP 1 (FREDERICK, SHELLY & KAI)

*NPCs at the scene: Uno, Betani*

 

"All right, I'm coming doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-" Uno shouted as she apparently lowered herself into the hole. Moments later she was flying down onto Kai, her dress fluttering all over the air...and all over Kai. Kai successfully caught her, though, and Uno smiled, her cheeks surprisingly blushed. "O-oh. This was kind of fun, actually." She said while obviously trying to catch her breath. She got visibly flustered from the descent.

 

Shelly and Frederick followed suit and soon the entire group was safely down. They could see the only path out of the chamber was through the corridor marked on their A-Comms so that was probably the way to go.

 

 

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CORRIDOR 1 -> 2 (CATHODE)

*+ Zeta and Clarence*

 

Cathode, Zeta and Clarence soon found themselves at another crossroads. The map showed that Corridor 8 was blocked off so it was impassable on the other end, but the other two were still unknown to them.

 

[The map has been updated]

 

 

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CORRIDOR 3 (EMM, RADOVAN)

 

WILD COMBAT PHASE CONTINUES

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Woobat's attack plucks at the Oddish's leaves. It lets out a small yelp as it's pulled up into mid-air.

 

Woobat's Confusion (115 Power)

crit: 49,8 no crit

It's Super Effective!

/Oddish 1 takes 150 damage. Oddish 1 fainted./

 

The Oddish faints easily. Meanwhile, Poochy, without a target, switches attention to the other Oddish.

 

Poochy's Tackle (70 Power)

crit: 16,4 no crit

/Oddish 2 takes 40 damage./

 

Oddish 2 meanwhile seems to be gathering energy.

 

Oddish 2's Action: Growth

/Oddish 2's Atk and SpA rose/

 

Emmanuel's A-Comm shows an approximate 69% chance at catching Oddish 2.

 

Turn Order: Radovan (either Pokemon) -> Emm (if Poochy) -> Oddish 2

 

Oddish 1 (♀), Lv: 10

HP (0/94): ####################

Atk: 55

Def: 60

SpA: 82

SpD: 71

Spe: 33

Nature: /

Ability: Clorophyll

Moves: ---

 

 

Oddish 2 (♀), Lv: 10

HP (54/94): ####################

Atk: 55 -> (82)

Def: 60

SpA: 82 -> (123)

SpD: 71

Spe: 33

Nature: /

Ability: Clorophyll

Status: Atk and SpA (+1)

Moves: Growth, ---

 

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CORRIDOR 5 (KALVA, TAYLOR, SENA)

*+ Terry; Morelull*

 

SPECIAL BOSS COMBAT PHASE CONTINUES

/Wailord - Lv 40/

 

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You've failed to stop the Noble Roar.

/everyone's offenses fell/

 

Morelull's Action: Flash

/Wailord's Accuracy fell/

 

In a moment of deliberation, Morelull shakes his head, releasing a burst of bright light from the mushrooms on top of his head. The bright light illuminates the surrounding chamber, making the stalactites above visible. The chamber itself seems to be around 10 meters high and the stalactites look large enough to inflict massive damage. They could, most likely, be used to damage the Wailord.

There is no time to waste, though. As Morelull uses Flash, the makeshift ground beneath the team's feet shakes violently and before the know it, the Wailord smashes through the exact middle of the formation, jumping several meters upwards, spraying water all around and sending debris clustering around it. The attack also made several points of the rocks' mass sink, leaving less space to move on for the team.

Verna took this chance to try and confuse the Wailord with Supersonic.

 

Verna's Supersonic

hit roll: 84,2 missed

 

Her attack failed.

However, the Wailord's eyes, sensitive from being in the dark for so long, react painfully to the light from the Morelull. Blinded, it lets out a screech and can only flail in mid air.

 

This is a chance. Using psychic energy, the team can use the debris the Wailord sent flying back towards it, or try to shoot the smaller rocks up at the stalactites above, although with how little power their Pokemon had in the state weakened by Noble Roar, it would be a difficult task with a high chance of failing.

 

Wailord's action: Dive -> Bounce (145 power)

/the move combination fails/

 

Music: World's Reflection

Turn Order: Wailord -> Taylor (Jet) -> Sena (Verna) -> Kalva (Quina) -> Morelull

 

Morelull (♂), Lv: 15

HP (86/86): ####################

ATK: 36 -> (23)

DEF: 63

SP.ATK: 82 -> (54)

SP.DEF: 86

SPE: 17

Nature: Modest

Status: Atk (-1), SpA (-1)

Ability: Effect Spore

Moves: Astonish, Flash, Moonlight, Mega Drain

 

---

 

Wailord (♀), Lv: 40

HP (0/0): ####################

ATK: 133

DEF: -

SP.ATK: -

SP.DEF: -

SPE: -

Nature: Bold (+Def/-Atk)

Status: HP drain, Acc (-1)

Ability: Pressure; Fountain of Life

Moves: Noble Roar, Dive (180), Bounce (145), ---

Edited November 19, 2017 by Bfroger6

[Daniel Blackworth]

 

Frederick looked at his surroundings. The place seemed different to what he had initially seen when they arrived in the Nexus. He was quite unfamiliar with the place, but it gave him a sense of excitement due to the prospect of exploring the place and discovering its hidden nooks and crannies. After all, one of the most valued lessons he had learned in the Academy was the concept of travelling the different Nexuses. He did enjoy looking and learning about the different characteristics of the world they lived in and his eyes always sparkled when he learned about new environments discovered by other people. He was glad that he could have the honor of exploring this place.

He thought about going off on his own and exploring the place, but he erased the thought easily because he did care about his group and it was more exciting to travel with a group sometimes rather than simply be alone because it was a way to share your fun times together. He looked to the group behind him. "I believe we should inspect this place as much as we can. I am not that good at leading the way, but I will try my best to use my skills as an explorer."

Check Point of Interest #10

[DemICE]

The updated map showed that, as expected, going left would bring them to a dead end.  She would check if there was anything at the end of the tunnel before proceeding to the other paths.

 

"Let's go see if there is anything at the end of this tunnel, o-okay?" She motioned the other two and startad walking.

 

[Cathode turns left]

[InnocentSerenity]

Kai gave a short giggle as she caught the woman. “Isn’t it? I wanna do it again before we leave.” Kai set Uno onto the solid cave floor before stepping in the direction of the path. out of their little clearing.

 

Kai jumped in line with Frederick. She trusted the small kid, he seemed smart enough to not get them in too much trouble. And even if he did, she had the others to help out. “I’ll follow your lead, then!” She skipped along behind him, making sure to keep an eye on any encounters along the way. “You’re all coming, right?”

[Strider]

". . .Yes. Where else would I go? It's fine though," Shelly murmured following along. She wasn't nearly as energetic as Kai, but she kept up. As they passed, she inspected the walls, looking for any loose bits of crystal that she could maybe take home with her. Or give to the science folks. Yeah, she'd do that first, then maybe take it with her if they didn't want it.

[Bfroger6]

GROUP 1 (FREDERICK, SHELLY & KAI)

*NPCs at the scene: Uno, Betani*

 

roll: 13,3

As Frederick leads the way, the group find themselves at an dead end. The corridor seems to have collapsed a long time ago, but what was interesting were the vines growing around the rocks and the soil. Some Pokemon might've made their home here, but, they seem to be gone for now.

 

Oh, and Shelly didn't find any crystals she could take.

 

 

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CORRIDOR 8 (CATHODE)

*+ Zeta and Clarence*

 

 

Cathode finds nothing but a dead end at the far side of Corridor 8.

"Aww, nothing's here." Zeta says, rather disappointedly. "Well, let's go check the other ways, Cathode!"

[InnocentSerenity]

While their peek into the short corridor brought them nothing of actual importance, Kai was willing to look at it with a bit of optimism. She knelt down before trying to take some of the vines growing around the rocks. “Maybe we can use it as a rope later on.”

[DemICE]

"E-ehehe..! N-nothing to worry about, everything is about possibilities after all! Lets go left again! We'll try to explore this place circularly! This path looks like it has a good chance of being connected to the space visible behind the southest dead end of corridor 3!"

 

[Cathode urges them towards path 15]

[IntSys]

Oddish's Growth was somewhat worrying, so Emmanuel decided to attempt to capture it before it can wreak havoc.

Action: Throw an Aether Ball at Oddish 2.

[Bfroger6]

GROUP 1 (FREDERICK, SHELLY & KAI)

*NPCs at the scene: Uno, Betani*

 

roll: 85,4 whoopsssssssssss

 

As Kai reaches for the vines, attempting to tear some off, she feels something jump onto her back all of a sudden.

It's a Wurmple.

 

"Kill it, kill it, kill it!" Betani exclaims.

"Ew, a bug..." Uno adds and the two girls look at each other momentarily before frowning and looking at Kai.

"What will you do with it?"

 

It doesn't seem to be hostile. It just kind of squirms on Kai's back disgustingly, minding its own business, leaving a sticky trail on the girl's clothes...

[What will you do~?]

 

 

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CORRIDOR 3 (EMM, RADOVAN)

 

 

catch roll: 0,04 success!

/Emmanuel successfully caught Oddish 2!/

Emm earned 10 EP for catching a Pokemon

Poochy and Woobat earned 45 Exp each

Poochy and Woobat earned 5 EP each

 

With the battle over, Emmanuel and Radovan could continue their journey.

 

[The water fully restores your Pokemon]

[LeonVermillion]

Sena quickly protecting himself from the debris and the water sprayed from Wailord's fall. He panicked a bit before realizing that he found something useful thank to Morelull's Flash. The stalactite. Sena feeling a little bit unsure if it would fall or not but, with the situation is almost at it's worst, making the stalactite fall is quite the plausible plan.

 

"Guys wanna be stupid and try dropping the stalactite? if we hit it hard enough, we might be able to drop it.... well "might", but this might be out best shot to drop it down to the Wailord." He says calmly, without waiting an answer, "Verna hit one of the stalactite as hard as you can with tackle!" The Noibat nodded, she's feeling unsure but she's trusting Sena's words on this, tackling at the stalactite.

 

Attacker Ability: buff Verna's attack stat by one stage

[LucidRain]

Quina's stature crumbled as Wailord's Noble Roar continued to rock the cavern unopposed. She had made a mistake - instead of focusing on dodging, she should have retaliated to the thunderous roar somehow. Now she felt it jarring her concentration, throwing her off-kilter. No, she must concentrate. She saw the Wailord recoiling from Morelull's Flash, and took cover behind a nearby rock from the debri. Now this was her chance - she didn't have much to hit Wailord, but hopefully it would help. She was preparing to hit Wailord with Confusion when she noticed Kalva looking intently at her, then up at the ceiling. She followed Kalva's gaze - stalactites, hanging above Wailord.

She quickly caught onto Kalva's wordless message. With what little power she had, Quina caught some of the debris from Wailord's flailing with Confusion and threw it up against the stalactites.

 

 

Edited November 23, 2017 by PigeonOfAstora

[IntSys]

"Good work, Poochy!" Emmanuel patted Poochy and retrieved the Aether Ball. He sent it out and greeted the new companion. "Welcome abroad! Let's give you a name... They call you Oddish. Well, I'll call you Nicaea," he squat down and said to the Oddish. She, not really knowing any names in the human language, didn't object.

Emmanuel turned to the newly-detected wall of crystals blocking their way. He took a look at Nicaea's learned moves, and an idea struck him.

"Alright, Nicaea, blast the wall with Acid repeatedly! Solosis, use Rollout on the wall, too!"

Action: Nicaea uses Acid on the wall / Solosis uses Rollout on the wall.

[Yours Truly]

Radovan would do his best to try and help Emmanuel in his efforts by ordering his Woobat to try and batter down the walls while his Larvitar did its best to try and help out by gnawing on the crystal wall.

 

Action: Woobat uses Gust on the wall/Larvitar uses Bite on the wall

[InnocentSerenity]

Kai quickly raised her head, alerted by the soft thump on her back. The girl quietly mumbled before reacting more. “Subject is small. Can detain without problem.” She peered over her shoulder to see the rather tall worm that decided to catch her attention. “Harmless.”

 

Kai reached over behind her, trying to take the Pokémon off her back. "That shouldn't be too hard to clean when we get home." Kai got up from her kneeling, deciding to leave the vines for now. “The Wurmple's not harming anybody.” The girl brought the Wurmple closer to Betani, wanting to show how harmless it was. “See, it won’t bite!”

 

Kai didn’t take long to react to her travelling companions’ question. “We can probably take it along. Maybe it wants to join us.” Kai held up the creature for the others to get a look at him. “Either of ya want to try putting it in an Aether Ball?” The optimistic girl gave a smile to her fellow Cadets, awaiting their answer.

[Strider]

"I'm alright. Wurmple's a bit weak, and while I normally wouldn't judge just on that, I'm not the biggest fan of bug pokemon. I mean, I like some, but on the whole, definitely not my favorite type." Shelly shrugged as she responded, passing the question off to Frederick. She'd get something else later, she was certain, and if she didn't, it just meant more battle experience for Axew. Though. . . she would need to get the little mon a friend sometime soon.

[Bfroger6]

GROUP 1 (FREDERICK, SHELLY & KAI)

*NPCs at the scene: Uno, Betani*

 

"Yuck, get it away." Betani retorts, raising her hands defensively as Kai pushed the Pokemon into her face. The Wurmple just stared at her blankly for a while...

You can see drops of sweat forming on Betani's forehead as she stares into the Wurmple's empty eyes.

 

Meanwhile, Uno seems to have started wandering over deeper into the mines down corridor 11...

 

 

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CORRIDOR 5 (KALVA, TAYLOR, SENA)

*+ Terry; Morelull*

 

SPECIAL BOSS PHASE CONTINUES

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Seeing the rest of the group, Taylor proceeds to instruct Jet to do the same-try and get the stalactites to crash upon Wailord while the whale is still distracted.

Jet focuses on the falling debris, psychic energy forming as an aura around them, levitating them momentarily before launching them upwards in tandem with Verna's Tackle and Quina's own confusion combination.

The rocks from the debris smash into the ceiling, strengthened by the Confusion's power, with considerable force. Several stalactites start to shake outward from the dust left by the attack. The only thing needed is Verna's Tackle to seal the deal. As she bumps her small body into the structures, three stalactites crumble and start to fall, just as Wailord is falling down as well. As the enormous whale Pokemon's body strikes the water, raising a wave that washes over the party, so do the stalactites fall right onto it like three stakes, tearing through its body.

 

The Pokemon's screech is heartbreaking and a dark red liquid paints the water around it a new hue, illuminated softly by Morelull's glow.

 

Action: Tackle (50), Confusion (85 + Rock Throw 55), Confusion (85 + Rock Throw 55)

Result: 330 power on the ceiling

((3 stalactites fall))

 

Stalactites: Stone Edge (100 PWR x 3); each hit crits

/Wailord takes 315 damage/

 

Morelull flashes again, blinding the already wounded Wailord.

 

Morelull Action: Flash

/Wailord's Acc fell/

 

The Wailord, hurting, in return, lets out another roar that echoes through the entire chamber before diving, once again disappearing from everyone's sight.

 

Wailord Action: Noble Roar & Dive

/stop the Noble Roar?/

 

Music: Something Primeval

Turn Order: Wailord -> Taylor (Jet) -> Sena (Verna) -> Kalva (Quina) -> Morelull

 

Morelull (♂), Lv: 15

HP (86/86): ####################

ATK: 36 -> (23)

DEF: 63

SP.ATK: 82 -> (54)

SP.DEF: 86

SPE: 17

Nature: Modest

Status: Atk (-1), SpA (-1)

Ability: Effect Spore

Moves: Astonish, Flash, Moonlight, Mega Drain

 

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Wailord (♀), Lv: 40

HP (0/0): ####################

ATK: 133

DEF: 69

SP.ATK: -

SP.DEF: 63

SPE: -

Nature: Bold (+Def/-Atk)

Status: HP drain, Acc (-1)

Ability: Pressure; Fountain of Life

Moves: Noble Roar, Dive (180), Bounce (145), ---

 

 

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CORRIDOR 9 (EMM, RADOVAN)

 

The crystals seem to repel the acid, but not inherently with their own strength. It's the energy within them that protects their integrity and makes them impervious to attacks.

Well, probably.

 

Either way, the best way to go about this would be to, you know...do what you did up there with the Morelull population draining the crystals. But that would take a long while...

 

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CORRIDOR 15 (CATHODE)

*+ Zeta and Clarence*

 

 

Zeta nods and walks next to Cathode. Clarence follows them down Corridor 15. The small trio doesn't have to walk to long before they realize this corridor is a dead end too. A solid crystal wall bars their path forward. On the other hand, there's nothing around...or so the group thinks, before shadows start dancing across the walls...

 

Ambush: 33,9 no ambush

 

From the shallow water, a claw grips towards Clarence, grabbing him by the foot and making him lose balance. Zeta, however, reacts fast, throwing herself over towards Clarence and freeing him from the grip of the claw. A distorted cackle is heard and a shadowy being emerges from the darkness, two beaming gem eyes glowing ominously. The Sableye is blocking the group's path back up the corridor. If they want to go back the way they came, they'd have to fight their way through...

 

"Cathode-! It's one of Lumi's Sableye! One we met earlier!" Zeta yells, getting up to her feet. Clarence was also back up, ready to fight.

 

Music: Something Wrong

Turn Order: Cathode (Suzie) -> Sableye -> Clarence

 

Clarence (♂), Lv: 15

HP (150/150): ####################

ATK: 51

DEF: 60

SP.ATK: 69

SP.DEF: 74

SPE: 36

Nature: Relaxed (+Def/-Spe)

Status: /

Ability: Friend Guard

Moves: Disarming Voice, Pound, Sing, Aromatherapy, Heal Pulse

 

---

 

Sableye (♂), Lv: 20

HP (110/110): ####################

ATK: 90

DEF: 90

SP.ATK: 78

SP.DEF: 78

SPE: 60

Nature: /

Status: /

Ability: Keen Eye

Moves: Shadow Sneak, ---

 

[Zeta's Awakening is in effect: Suzie can make use of Weak Armor]