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victory_road2018-01-31 01:54 am
meteorman) wrote in victory_road2018-01-31 01:54 am
Entry tags:
- armin arlert (attack on titan),
- ashley fox (oc),
- gaige (borderlands),
- harry mason (silent hill),
- jean kirschtein (attack on titan),
- mari ohara (love live! sunshine!!),
- matt holt (voltron),
- newt scamander (harry potter),
- queen elsa (frozen),
- stanford pines (gravity falls),
- takashi "shiro" shirogane (voltron)
[video / action for lavender town + a closed section for elsa]
[Lavender town may be mostly fashion and radio now in the place where it isn't still stubbornly ghosts, but Ford has managed to find a tiny gaming shop tucked in among the boutiques. That's the background of this post: stacks of dice and cards and boxed sets of all sorts of different games, some themed around Pokémon and some (a much smaller amount) not.]
Hello, all! I have a proposition for you. Back in my day I used to be quite the gamer, and I've discovered that several of the popular ones in this world are similar to the kind I'm familiar with. It may take work to arrange, but would anyone be interested in setting up a session of Mysteries and Dungeons? It's a game of adventure and chance, where each player creates a Pokémon character to--
[There is a distinct crash from behind him. He turns and so does the camera to reveal a Sableye standing among a knocked-over display of plastic dice cases.]
Polly -- Polly!
[The Sableye does not respond. Instead she picks up one of the cases of plastic dice and clicks her teeth thoughtfully.]
Polymethyl Methacrylate! [That gets her attention. She looks up. Twitches her head slightly to the side. And then quick as a flash she uncaps the case of dice and upends the whole thing into her mouth. The video goes very shaky for a few seconds, clicks off, and then clicks on again after some time has passed (if anyone is in the area, they are welcome to try and help him corral his idiot ghost daughter). Polly the Sableye is now tucked securely under one of his arms, wriggling ineffectually.]
Anyway. I would be happy to discuss the logistics of arranging a campaign, or methods for teaching one's Sableye what is and is not appropriate for a snack.
[He had to pay for those dice, and the three other cases she ate before he managed to get a hold of her.]
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[Much later, after the Unfortunate Dice Incident, Ford has made his way back to the bed and breakfast he and Elsa are staying in. Normally he would have just camped, or perhaps stayed at the local Pokémon Center, but Lavender is a town he's never been to which means a longer stay. And with a traveling companion who is a Queen he feels a little more obligated to do basic things like sleep in a bed.
At least the bed and breakfast has a large garden as part of the property, perfect for Pokémon who are guests to stretch their legs. There's also a tiny bench for trainers to sit on in among the plants, near a very obviously man-made miniature pond (someone's Goldeen is in there, having a nice nap beneath the lilypads).
Ford emerges from the back door, carrying two mugs of tea, and walks over to the bench. The Cubone Elsa recently picked up is tumbling around on the grass with Ford's newly-rescued Golett. It's play-fighting at the moment, though he's been warned that Josef has some anger issues after being abandoned and he's on the lookout for escalation.]
Here you are.
Hello, all! I have a proposition for you. Back in my day I used to be quite the gamer, and I've discovered that several of the popular ones in this world are similar to the kind I'm familiar with. It may take work to arrange, but would anyone be interested in setting up a session of Mysteries and Dungeons? It's a game of adventure and chance, where each player creates a Pokémon character to--
[There is a distinct crash from behind him. He turns and so does the camera to reveal a Sableye standing among a knocked-over display of plastic dice cases.]
Polly -- Polly!
[The Sableye does not respond. Instead she picks up one of the cases of plastic dice and clicks her teeth thoughtfully.]
Polymethyl Methacrylate! [That gets her attention. She looks up. Twitches her head slightly to the side. And then quick as a flash she uncaps the case of dice and upends the whole thing into her mouth. The video goes very shaky for a few seconds, clicks off, and then clicks on again after some time has passed (if anyone is in the area, they are welcome to try and help him corral his idiot ghost daughter). Polly the Sableye is now tucked securely under one of his arms, wriggling ineffectually.]
Anyway. I would be happy to discuss the logistics of arranging a campaign, or methods for teaching one's Sableye what is and is not appropriate for a snack.
[He had to pay for those dice, and the three other cases she ate before he managed to get a hold of her.]
[Much later, after the Unfortunate Dice Incident, Ford has made his way back to the bed and breakfast he and Elsa are staying in. Normally he would have just camped, or perhaps stayed at the local Pokémon Center, but Lavender is a town he's never been to which means a longer stay. And with a traveling companion who is a Queen he feels a little more obligated to do basic things like sleep in a bed.
At least the bed and breakfast has a large garden as part of the property, perfect for Pokémon who are guests to stretch their legs. There's also a tiny bench for trainers to sit on in among the plants, near a very obviously man-made miniature pond (someone's Goldeen is in there, having a nice nap beneath the lilypads).
Ford emerges from the back door, carrying two mugs of tea, and walks over to the bench. The Cubone Elsa recently picked up is tumbling around on the grass with Ford's newly-rescued Golett. It's play-fighting at the moment, though he's been warned that Josef has some anger issues after being abandoned and he's on the lookout for escalation.]
Here you are.
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[Armin gets that the sheer number of options is probably really exciting when you are already familiar with the game, leaving you with nearly endless ways to replay it. But for a new player? Trying to understand it all? Intimidating as hell.
He chews his lip a bit as he thinks over the various classes he has read about in the book, but really, there is only one he wants to play deep down in his magic-loving heart.]
Could... could I play a wizard?
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[Mainly because it involves a lot of making lists and keeping track of numbers and thinking outside the box strategy-wise, all things he knows Armin is particularly good at.]
I think for a wizard a Pokémon more geared toward Special attacks would be best, but I think you could class any Pokémon as one if you were clever about it.
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[The fact that Armin was going to pick some sort of water Pokemon was a foregone conclusion. Of course, he was going to pick a water Pokemon, water Pokemon are the best.
Also, psyduck is adorable. Round head and very yellow. Armin feels some level of kinship here.]
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I don't see why not. You could even probably make the argument that your spells would be stronger the more annoyed your character was with the rest of the party, and knowing how these games tend to go that could be an incredible boon.
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He looks a little surprised at the suggestion though.]
Can you do that sort of thing? I didn't read anything about a mechanic like that...
[All the games Armin knows are very Specific about the rules. You can't just make chess pieces do something else all of a sudden. That is not how it works.]
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[This is exactly why Ford likes this sort of game. Not only are there a ton of fiddly rules he can lawyer his way around, but there are a hundred and one ways to legally break them in the name of just plain having fun.]
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