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victory_road2021-09-03 12:20 am
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Lost temple - part three
Today is the day. After a month of search, exploring, and okay, maybe one or two people nearly getting eaten by giant crabs, all the pieces of the puzzle have finally been collected and it is time to see what lays inside the sanctuary.
The Legendary Seekers, wanting everybody to be able to attend this momentous occasion, don't immediately put the stone slab together. Instead, a notification goes out to everybody -- those who helped solve the riddles, those who explored the temple, and even those that haven't been a part of this at all -- announcing that on September 2nd, the door will be opened and humanity's greatest treasure will be revealed.
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On September 2nd, the temple is buzzing with excitement, and the Legendary Seekers seem ready to burst into excited tears with each piece of the puzzle they fit into place.
(There is also an older man there filming everything on an old-fashioned video camera. Pay no attention to him.)
Finally, Legendary Seeker Jackson holds aloft the final piece of the puzzle, allowing a hush to fall over the gathered crowd before he very formally places it and completes the puzzle.
Finally, the text that had been hidden for so long becomes fully visible.
The home of the seafaring to rest and recover
From the shifting tides and stormy seas
Joined by its children, a family of drifters
Round and round, spiraling down into the depths
Its nest hidden from view, kept safe by our key
And behind them, with a shudder that reverberates through the whole temple, the large door that has thus far barred entrance to the inner sanctuary slowly starts to slide open, allowing all gathered their first glimpse at what is inside.
The inside of the sanctuary has been entirely made of pale, white stone, and it actually contains very little. No grand treasures or heaps of coins. Instead, the furnishings are minimal (some benches, a small stone pool for water, and jars and pots that must have once contained various plants. The biggest, most eye-catching feature of the sanctuary stands in the middle of it.
Hewn from the same white-pale stone the temple is made from, stands a cradle. Pale branches, as those from a coral, have been woven together to partially cover the cradle with a canopy and inside of it, on a pale pillow sits a pokemon egg.
It's not like any egg you've ever seen before though. All eggs here in Victory Road are the same -- a soft off-white colour with green spots. This egg though is bright blue -- the blue of a bright and calm ocean. The colour is not entirely solid either, but instead constantly shifts ever so faintly, as if it was in fact made of water. A red gem is visible within the blue. The egg occasionally seems to shiver and jump slightly, all signs that whatever might be inside this very strange egg is very close to hatching.
But before anyone can step forward and examine the egg more closely --
"Halt! We'll be taking that."
Suddenly there is a flurry of movement and sound as several black-robed, hooded figures teleport into the sanctuary. Their hoods are drawn deeply over their faces, making it impossible to see who these people are, but the back of their robes are emblazed with a symbol that some might recognise. Each has a pokemon at their side, but in all cases, the eyes of the pokemon are strangely glazed, staring ahead without any emotion.
One of the strange, robed individuals steps forward slightly, raising one hand.
"We claim this egg as a tribute to our Master. Though you are nonbelievers, we have no quarrel with you. However, if you try to stop us, we will unleash our might upon you!"
So, what will you do? Will you step back and allow these strange individuals to claim this egg for their own or will you stand and fight?
The Legendary Seekers, wanting everybody to be able to attend this momentous occasion, don't immediately put the stone slab together. Instead, a notification goes out to everybody -- those who helped solve the riddles, those who explored the temple, and even those that haven't been a part of this at all -- announcing that on September 2nd, the door will be opened and humanity's greatest treasure will be revealed.
On September 2nd, the temple is buzzing with excitement, and the Legendary Seekers seem ready to burst into excited tears with each piece of the puzzle they fit into place.
(There is also an older man there filming everything on an old-fashioned video camera. Pay no attention to him.)
Finally, Legendary Seeker Jackson holds aloft the final piece of the puzzle, allowing a hush to fall over the gathered crowd before he very formally places it and completes the puzzle.
Finally, the text that had been hidden for so long becomes fully visible.
From the shifting tides and stormy seas
Joined by its children, a family of drifters
Round and round, spiraling down into the depths
Its nest hidden from view, kept safe by our key
And behind them, with a shudder that reverberates through the whole temple, the large door that has thus far barred entrance to the inner sanctuary slowly starts to slide open, allowing all gathered their first glimpse at what is inside.
The inside of the sanctuary has been entirely made of pale, white stone, and it actually contains very little. No grand treasures or heaps of coins. Instead, the furnishings are minimal (some benches, a small stone pool for water, and jars and pots that must have once contained various plants. The biggest, most eye-catching feature of the sanctuary stands in the middle of it.
Hewn from the same white-pale stone the temple is made from, stands a cradle. Pale branches, as those from a coral, have been woven together to partially cover the cradle with a canopy and inside of it, on a pale pillow sits a pokemon egg.
It's not like any egg you've ever seen before though. All eggs here in Victory Road are the same -- a soft off-white colour with green spots. This egg though is bright blue -- the blue of a bright and calm ocean. The colour is not entirely solid either, but instead constantly shifts ever so faintly, as if it was in fact made of water. A red gem is visible within the blue. The egg occasionally seems to shiver and jump slightly, all signs that whatever might be inside this very strange egg is very close to hatching.
But before anyone can step forward and examine the egg more closely --
Suddenly there is a flurry of movement and sound as several black-robed, hooded figures teleport into the sanctuary. Their hoods are drawn deeply over their faces, making it impossible to see who these people are, but the back of their robes are emblazed with a symbol that some might recognise. Each has a pokemon at their side, but in all cases, the eyes of the pokemon are strangely glazed, staring ahead without any emotion.
One of the strange, robed individuals steps forward slightly, raising one hand.
"We claim this egg as a tribute to our Master. Though you are nonbelievers, we have no quarrel with you. However, if you try to stop us, we will unleash our might upon you!"
So, what will you do? Will you step back and allow these strange individuals to claim this egg for their own or will you stand and fight?
CULT PRIEST
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Team: Queen the nidoqueen, Stone Free the leavanny, and Ermes the mudsdale. All over here
Strategy:
Jolyne didn't come to play and brought some level 100s with her. She'd brought a normal six but she only needs three since that's "fair".
She'll start with Queen against the wigglytuff, because that's just absolutely rude. Queen has an advantage of poison point being her ability which if it poisons the wigglytuff on contact then even better. Otherwise she'll start out with poison spikes to make this battle a hell on Earth scenario for this match. For actual attacks she'll be relying on poison fang and iron tail to take advantage of the pink fluffy thing's weaknesses.
For absol it'll be Stone Free, who is quite happy to come out of retirement after the Elite Four shenanigans months ago. She'll start with sunny day to take advantage of chlorophyll to double her speed to have a better chance of outspeeding this thing. Even worse might be her going for swords dance to raise her physical before finally going for x-scissor to take advantage of the bug weakness.
And lastly magneton unfortunately gets to deal with Ermes, who is already Done With All Of This, Thank You. Unfortunate for magneton than attacks against Ermes activate stamina and make her even more of a brick shithouse wall than she already is naturally. Ermes just goes straight for throats at this point so hopefully the poor magnet cluster can handle the onslaught of earthquakes.
If this idiot goes down then hopefully this priest is ready for the aftermath where Jolyne is itching to get into a fight herself and get decked in the fact. Sorry, priest, that you had to battle the violent shounen protag.
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Team: Including Gaibhennen the Miltank, Gwin the Altaria, Grindy the Kingler, Dean the Emboar, Hafren the Alolan Marowak, and, by technicality, Gremlin the Rattata
Strategy:
The Cult Priest barely has time to get "unleash our might upon you" out of his mouth before Dimitri just
chucks a rat at his face.
Gremlin is a level 100 Rattata, and fears neither man nor Legendary. He and Dimitri also have a lot of practice doing this sort of shit, worryingly. So, like, enjoy that, buddy! Is this legal by Pokemon battle legalities? Probably not!
But Dimitri uses Fastball Special. In turn, Gremlin uses Thief as he just smacks straight into a human being's face. There is no apology for any bruises. Really, the cultist should be apologizing to Gremlin. You don't even have a wallet on you, buddy? Despicable.
That's all Gremlin is going to be doing, however. At Dimitri's urging, he hops off of the cultist and utilizes Quick Attack to make his way through all the shitshow this is quickly going to be come, so that he can make it to the egg's cradle. Not to abscond with it, but to get ahead of all the mess so that he can be an Egg Defender. THIS RAT KNOWS ICE BEAM AND THUNDER WAVE AND IS NOT AFRAID TO USE EITHER OF THEM.
In the meanwhile, Dimitri hopes to distract the priest by just... unleashing all of his Pokemon. Not at once, exactly... First, he lets out Gwin the Altaria, and just immediately goes into using his Megastone. So now it's an extra fluffy bird, who immediately bursts out with a Sing against his opponent, to put them to sleep.
And THAT'S when Dimitri lets out all of his Pokemon, in a coordinated attack against the Priest's own. Inbetween sing-off sessions against Wigglytuff, Gwin has plenty of other damaging moves he can unleash, too!
Dean is meant to act as part of the tank duo, taking hits so that some of the weaker Pokemon don't have to (mainly Gabby, Gwin, and Hafren - none who are level 100, and the last who is especially low level comparatively). With his fire and fighting specialties, no doubt he'll be be able to down the opposing Absol and Magneton easily.
Grindy is the other half of the tank duo, being level 99 and full of murderous intent. He helps shore up any of Dean's weaknesses. This is especially true towards the Wigglytuff, who will hopefully be stuck in a song-off against Gwin, and thus may be susceptible towards Grindy trying to down them with a Guillotine. If not, that's fine - Wide Guard is also there for him to help defend his companions, plus various other damaging moves for the offensive.
Gabby is getting up there in terms of level as well, and the Miltank's fearsome Rollout is never to be underestimated against her enemies!
Meanwhile, Hafren is the lowest level Pokemon here by far, only in the 30s in terms of level, but that isn't stopping her from providing backup. As she's protected by Grindy and Dean, she uses various special and status moves like Growl, Tail Whip, Will-o-Wisp, and Hex.
A team bull rush like this isn't exactly fair, but neither is whatever the HELL these people have done to their Pokemon. So, you know. Dimitri doesn't feel that scum deserve fair.
Give him your Pokemon, buddy, he'll take care of them rightno subject
Team: Circinus (lvl 100), Nemesis (lvl 100), Farida (lvl 100), Holly (lvl 100), Julius (lvl 100), Gus (lvl 100)
Strategy:
Wigglytuff - Armin will be taking on Wigglytuff with his Vileplume Holly due to her weakness to poison attacks. So, not surprisingly, his whole strategy will be poison based. He'll use Toxic to try and inflict poison, then Acid to inflict damage and lower defense. And finally Giga drain and Mega drain to replenish any lost HP.
Absol - Know what Absol is sensitive too? Fairy types. So, for this battle, Armin will be using Gus the Shiinotic. Gus will first use ingrain to anchor itself and recover HP each turn, and afterwards he'll be using Dazzling Gleam, and Moonblast for damage. Mega drain and Giga drain will be used to recover HP if needed.
Magneton - It might shock you to know, but Armin didn't bring any fire or ground pokemon into a temple full of water types, so instead for this match-up, he won't be focusing on trying to hit Magneton's weaknesses, but rather resist its damage and try and outlast it.
This means it is time for Circinus to, uh, roll onto the field. Magneton has mostly Electric and Steel moves, which Circinus resists. However, on the same token, Magneton also resists most of Circinus' moves. So this will be an awful battle of attrition. Circinus will be using mostly electric type moves and moves like roll-out, mirror coat and swift to chip away at Magneton's HP, while depending on his superior level to outlast it.
Also, has 5 other lvl100 pokemon, so even if Circinus can't bring down Magneton, he'll switch to one of them. Won't be pretty necessarily, but again, who is bringing fire or ground pokemon into a water temple!!
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Team: Scylla and Phoebe. Just two? Listen. They're both level 100 and Phoebe is stacked to hell. He's got more Pokémon but he's not going to need them.
Strategy:
As usual when he's got Scylla with him, she's going out first. First order of business is to Toxic the Wigglytuff in order to eat through some of that bulk. She'll then focus on damage-dealing Water moves, boosted by her typing and her held Mystic Water. The goal is to take out the Wigglytuff quickly, set up an Aqua Ring on the first turn the Absol is on the field, and then Baton Pass into Phoebe.
Phoebe, now equipped with free heals every turn, is going to basically obliterate the Absol. Her Magic Guard and Toxic Orb mean she can take on a status effect and then not actually face any consequences for it, so one of the best ways to hobble her is unavailable. All she has to do is Moonblast a few times and that should make short work of the Absol, but just in case she also has a host of moves like Sing, Minimize and Toxic to further make its life hard.
For the Magneton she has Fire Punch and really that should end the battle right there. Just in case something really goes very wrong, however, plan B is to use Healing Wish and swap back to Scylla for cleanup. While she's vulnerable to Electric attacks, the level difference will probably give her enough of an edge to take one or two hits and that's all the time she really needs.
CULT PRIESTS DEFEATED