Tohjo Military University [Pokémon]

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Not really feeling any of the current votes. I'd try to contribute more, but a mild illness (among other things) has made it a bit hard to focus on this kind of thing. :(

Well, I'm not too keen on another professor telling us we should already know this thing that we don't know, but let's go with this one, I guess.

[X] Talk to Professor Ivy
-[X] Describe our Oddish capture plans, and ask her if she has any comments or concerns.
-[X] Ask if she has any advice for tracking oddish, nidoran or Kangashkan, beyond the basics we already know.
-[X] Ask if she has any advice for traversing the Safari Zone in relative safety.
-[X] tell her what medical, tracking and survival gear we are currently planning to bring, and ask if she can see any omissions.

According to the poll, Scyther is catching up with Oddish in popularity. Maybe people are really confident in avoiding a rock slide?
In this case, "rocks fall; everyone dies" makes a lot of sense ;)

I'm pretty sure that most of the people who voted for Scyther after the initial tally are, at best, lurkers who just want to see cool pokemon. Certainly there have been more voters on the poll than there are people who posted more than once during the entire quest. At least twice as many as the turnout of any one vote, even.
 
We'd get him arrested or something, we're not allowed to use the extra pokeballs except as extra chances on capture....

That said, kinda yes. Tauros Tauros.
wdango certainly implied that we might be able to play silly buggers with catching an extra pokemon and 'losing' it.

According to the poll, Scyther is catching up with Oddish in popularity. Maybe people are really confident in avoiding a rock slide?
In this case, "rocks fall; everyone dies" makes a lot of sense ;)
I mean, Rock Slide is a problem, jsut not a 4x problem.
 
According to the poll, Scyther is catching up with Oddish in popularity. Maybe people are really confident in avoiding a rock slide?
In this case, "rocks fall; everyone dies" makes a lot of sense ;)
I mean, we probably couldn't easily escape a rock slide, but Scyther can fly, so it could escape a lot easier. Plus, we could always return it?
 
Okay, scheduling. Agility training/teamwork practice, talking to Professor Ivy. We still have two days after that. If no one else thinks talking to Elm about equipment is a good idea, how about getting a headstart on after-interview research? That'd be Safari North and Kangaskhan and... maybe Nidoran preliminary? I'm not sure about that being worth a day.
 
I am against traveling though the heavy forest/jungle in the safari zone due to reacently starting to read the pokemon adventures manga.


Can we not go for the goddam shiny mons when we don't have any to begin with?
 
Okay, scheduling. Agility training/teamwork practice, talking to Professor Ivy. We still have two days after that. If no one else thinks talking to Elm about equipment is a good idea, how about getting a headstart on after-interview research? That'd be Safari North and Kangaskhan and... maybe Nidoran preliminary? I'm not sure about that being worth a day.

If the AGI training is supposed to be teamwork practice, maybe it should be framed as teamwork practice rather than training AGI with our partners if they just so happen to be available? That might be more compelling to me than the Ivy interview.

I am against traveling though the heavy forest/jungle in the safari zone due to reacently starting to read the pokemon adventures manga.

Can we not go for the goddam shiny mons when we don't have any to begin with?

If it helps, I'm not gonna support the vote for trying to grab anything else with the extra pokeballs, personally, but I already made my argument for why we shouldn't fly too close the sun. If people want the shiny more than they fear our wings melting and plummeting into the ocean, then that's how democracies work. /me shrugs.
 
[X] Do some training. (1 Day)
→ [X] AGI : Focus on training your reflexes.
→ [X] See if Silver and/or Leaf want to practice team drills with you.

There, clarified intent on this vote. One of the obvious failure points of this plan is if we're distracted by our personal issues, so we need to practice setting them aside to work.
Adhoc vote count started by Wysteria on Jun 29, 2019 at 7:28 PM, finished with 48 posts and 9 votes.

  • [X] Do some training. (1 Day)
    → [X] AGI : Focus on training your reflexes.
    → [X] See if Silver and/or Leaf want to train with you.
    [X] Do some training. (1 Day)
    → [X] AGI : Focus on training your reflexes.
    → [X] See if Silver and/or Leaf want to practice team drills with you.
    [X] Do some training. (1 Day)
    → [X] AGI : Focus on training your reflexes.
    [X] Talk to Professor Ivy
    -[X] Describe our Oddish capture plans, and ask her if she has any comments or concerns.
    -[X] Ask if she has any advice for tracking oddish, nidoran or Kangashkan, beyond the basics we already know.
    -[X] Ask if she has any advice for traversing the Safari Zone in relative safety.
    -[X] tell her what medical, tracking and survival gear we are currently planning to bring, and ask if she can see any omissions.
    [X] Talk to Professor Ivy
    -[X] Describe our Oddish capture plans, and ask her if she has any comments or concerns.
    -[X] Ask if she has any advice for traversing the Safari Zone in relative safety.
    -[X] tell her what medical, tracking and survival gear we are currently planning to bring, and ask if she can see any omissions.
 
[X] Do some training. (1 Day)
→ [X] AGI : Focus on training your reflexes.
→ [X] See if Silver and/or Leaf want to practice team drills with you.
 
[X] Do some training. (1 Day)
→ [X] AGI : Focus on training your reflexes.
→ [X] See if Silver and/or Leaf want to practice team drills with you.
 
If people want the shiny more than they fear our wings melting and plummeting into the ocean, then that's how democracies work. /me shrugs.
Well Icarus is still talked about today. Can you say the same for us in the future?
*falls into existential crisis*

[X] Do some training. (1 Day)
→ [X] AGI : Focus on training your reflexes.
→ [X] See if Silver and/or Leaf want to practice team drills with you.

What if we invite Gary? Like, he's really smart, and he could probably tell us about how to improve our regimen. Ohh, maybe he would see what I'm doing wrong and come over to correct my moves himself... that would involve physical contact... with him... aaaaaaaahhhh
 
[X] Do some training. (1 Day)
→ [X] AGI : Focus on training your reflexes.
→ [X] See if Silver and/or Leaf want to train with you.
 
[X] Talk to Professor Ivy
-[X] Describe our Oddish capture plans, and ask her if she has any comments or concerns.
-[X] Ask if she has any advice for tracking oddish, nidoran or Kangashkan, beyond the basics we already know.
-[X] Ask if she has any advice for traversing the Safari Zone in relative safety.
-[X] tell her what medical, tracking and survival gear we are currently planning to bring, and ask if she can see any omissions.
In Oddish, just Poison strength.

In other species, you don't know.

Oddish doesn't actually eat, btw.
Worth noting that a lot of poisonous bugs and animals cheat by eating poisonous material they are resistant to and concentrating it.
Producing poison is biologically expensive, if you see it used offensively then the poison has a return on investment in the form of food. If used defensively its usually extracted from poisonous food as part of the digestive process of making it safe.

Plants don't do this mostly because they don't usually eat, and they have different channels from animals so its not like the stuff they use to get rid of competitor plants have much to do with the stuff they use to repel animals munching them.

Nidoran probably love to munch on Oddish.
 
I don't think Peck is going to be a Flying-type move in this case? I might be wrong, but QM has put a lot of emphasis on constency and logic on pokémon. Nidoran learning a flying-type move because it has a horn doesn't make that much sense to me? Might be just me though.
 
I don't think Peck is going to be a Flying-type move in this case? I might be wrong, but QM has put a lot of emphasis on constency and logic on pokémon. Nidoran learning a flying-type move because it has a horn doesn't make that much sense to me? Might be just me though.
In canon, Pokémon spin in the air like a flying drill and use Peck as a flying type move simply based on the fact that it is an attack from the air.

Well my head canon, but still. Who knows how the basic physical moves of Pokémon are categorized in this? Slam, tackle, body slam could all be rolled into one move, with larger Pokémon able to stun? I'm itching to get into the tracking and fighting here!
 
In canon, Pokémon spin in the air like a flying drill and use Peck as a flying type move simply based on the fact that it is an attack from the air.

Well my head canon, but still. Who knows how the basic physical moves of Pokémon are categorized in this? Slam, tackle, body slam could all be rolled into one move, with larger Pokémon able to stun? I'm itching to get into the tracking and fighting here!
No pressure right?

Lol update later today.
 
Votes locked.
Adhoc vote count started by wdango on Jul 1, 2019 at 5:11 AM, finished with 60 posts and 11 votes.

  • [X] Do some training. (1 Day)
    → [X] AGI : Focus on training your reflexes.
    → [X] See if Silver and/or Leaf want to practice team drills with you.
    [X] Talk to Professor Ivy
    -[X] Describe our Oddish capture plans, and ask her if she has any comments or concerns.
    -[X] Ask if she has any advice for tracking oddish, nidoran or Kangashkan, beyond the basics we already know.
    -[X] Ask if she has any advice for traversing the Safari Zone in relative safety.
    -[X] tell her what medical, tracking and survival gear we are currently planning to bring, and ask if she can see any omissions.
wdango threw 2 6-faced dice. Reason: AGI Training Total: 6
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Got sidetracked designing custom weapons and ammo for mechanics lol.

About half-done with that gonna finish it before I start writing the update. Hope y'all don't mind the wait.
 
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