An Electric Tail (Pikachu Quest)

[x] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] A Plague of Pests. No longer willing to risk the formidable swarms of the deeper forest, wild Pidgeys and Rattata have turned to Viridian City for their food. Crop fields and urban gardens alike are being stripped bare, pantries and larders are being raided, and hungry, feral Pokemon are taking up residence under sidewalks and along rooftops.

[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.
[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] Beedrills and Butterfrees. With so few trainers able to capture the many Weedles and Caterpies of your home, their adult forms are swarming in greater and greater numbers. Soon they will grow beyond the Forest's ability to support them - and respond with a great Migration that will take them through Human lands at potentially devastating cost.

[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A wild mouse chase. Make them work for it. Lead them around the Forest by the nose, bedevil and beleaguer them at every step, until they turn around in frustration and give up.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.

SoHowAreYou said:

War of sabotage is really good because it will exacerbate the issue we cause since even if people come in to try and stop the problems they're going to have a ton of problems, which will worsen whatever issue is selected.

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Not exactly. The votes are laid out in a pretty clear order of emotions, what those emotions cause Trixie to do, what the results of her actions are once she starts really bullying the trainers. Because of that we're less choosing the severity and more choosing which flavor of annoyance Trixie is causing. She's not going to stop destroying equipment in either of the other options, she just won't perform it to as great a degree, and there are other means of frustration in the other two like worn out pokemon and worn out trainers. Part of dealing with the problem is going to be dealing with Trixie, which she is not going to make an easy task.

There's discussion to be made on how each flavor of what she does interacts with the results, because they play together to create unique situations (like Plague of Pests and Wild Mouse Chase having potential for some really hilarious scenes in Viridian of "ugh I can't find that damn mouse!" evolving into "Wait, isn't that her in the trash bin!?" and such) and War of Sabotage probably does play well with Silk Choked Streets, because then there will be no where safe.

I think wild mouse has a chance for great trainer caught in web scenarios and that sounds incredibly hilarious.

Ando Owen said:

Pikachu's pride born of mischief stopped her from avoiding an injury, and suffering an injury is a loss in itself from a long-term survival perspective in a hostile environment because it will make it easier to suffer even more damage even as you try to recover.

If stronger trainers come to deal with the local threat even as the environment become more hostile, headbutting the opponent will work the first time, probably not the second, and certainly not the third time.

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Good point there. I was voting for Pride up till now, but maybe Trixie can use a bit less pride, all considered. Sometimes (just now, for instance), the correct choice is to retreat. I don't want Trixie to be too proud to take that option.



[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A wild mouse chase. Make them work for it. Lead them around the Forest by the nose, bedevil and beleaguer them at every step, until they turn around in frustration and give up.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.

Shino is the new Rock-type gym leader in Pewter City unless I misread, Brooke is the Cerulean Water-type Gym leader. @Aleph Who's in charge of the Viridian Gym, and the other Gyms if you care to share?

[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.

[x] A wild mouse chase. Make them work for it. Lead them around the Forest by the nose, bedevil and beleaguer them at every step, until they turn around in frustration and give up.
[x] Beedrills and Butterfrees. With so few trainers able to capture the many Weedles and Caterpies of your home, their adult forms are swarming in greater and greater numbers. Soon they will grow beyond the Forest's ability to support them - and respond with a great Migration that will take them through Human lands at potentially devastating cost.

[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.

[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.
[X] A head-on offensive. Let them come. You'll meet them - not with "fair" fights, but with an arsenal of tricks, traps and taunts to send them scurrying away with their heads hung low.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.

BungieONI said:

Shino is the new Rock-type gym leader in Pewter City unless I misread, Brooke is the Cerulean Water-type Gym leader. @Aleph Who's in charge of the Viridian Gym, and the other Gyms if you care to share?

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From what Trixie has heard, the Gym Leader (whatever a 'Gym' is) of Viridian City is some Human called "Gary Oak", who may be indicative of a broader pattern of Humans naming themselves after trees. He is apparently "a merciless newbie-crusher" and "a cranky old man".

If there are other 'Gyms', she hasn't heard of them (or at least she hasn't bothered paying enough attention to remember the names).

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Also, uh, I should probably remind everyone that while "Scared" is a completely valid choice and choosing it will mean Trixie is worried about these new Humans who are coming into her home specifically to target her, she is still the Devil of Viridian Forest. We have seen how Trickster reacts to fear. This is the Pikachu who decided that the best way to take out a ballistic Geodude immune to her lightning was to tackle it head on and who responded to a Machop fracturing her ribs by taunting it so it would lunge at her and crash into a Pidgey nest. This is the demonic zappy gremlin whose response to Ash Ketchum releasing her from a wire trap was to electrocute him and then spend the next year and a half setting up a series of intricate traps for the poachers who had put the trap there - poachers she was scared of, because they had hurt her - and methodically torturing them by pushing them over tripwires into beds of stinging nettles and thorny branches and keeping them there until they were more welt and rash than skin. This is the maniac who learned Quick Attack as a Pichu, before she was a year old, and immediately started using it to parkour between branches thirty feet up and ding-dong-ditch Beedrill hives.

What I'm saying here is that Trixie is not necessarily going to react to being scared by backing off and being more cautious, and is in fact rather more likely to double down in order to prove she's not scared at all, how dare you make such an accusation, she'll show you, just watch. Just like she'll double down with Pride because holy shit, she's such a problem that people are coming in from miles away to try to stop her, that's awesome, clearly she needs to do more of what she's doing. Just like she'll double down with Angry because what the fuck, you think you can come into her Forest on the day of her sister's evolution and ask her to stop messing with people, she'll show you some goddamn respect for her territory and send you off with your tail between your legs, assuming you actually have a tail under those pelts, she's not actually sure.

It's not a question of whether she doubles down, it's a question of why and how.

[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.

Aleph said:

Also, uh, I should probably remind everyone that while "Scared" is a completely valid choice and choosing it will mean Trixie is worried about these new Humans who are coming into her home specifically to target her, she is still the Devil of Viridian Forest. We have seen how Trickster reacts to fear. This is the Pikachu who decided that the best way to take out a ballistic Geodude immune to her lightning was to tackle it head on and who responded to a Machop fracturing her ribs by taunting it so it would lunge at her and crash into a Pidgey nest. This is the demonic zappy gremlin whose response to Ash Ketchum releasing her from a wire trap was to electrocute him and then spend the next year and a half setting up a series of intricate traps for the poachers who had put the trap there - poachers she was scared of, because they had hurt her - and methodically torture them by pushing over tripwires into beds of stinging nettles and thorny branches and keeping them there until they were more welt and rash than skin. This is the maniac who learned Quick Attack as a Pichu, before she was a year old, and immediately started using it to parkour between branches thirty feet up and ding-dong-ditch Beedrill hives.

What I'm saying here is that Trixie is not necessarily going to react to being scared by backing off and being more cautious, and is in fact rather more likely to double down in order to prove she's not scared at all, how dare you make such an accusation, she'll show you, just watch. Just like she'll double down with Pride because holy shit, she's such a problem that people are coming in from miles away to try to stop her, that's awesome, clearly she needs to do more of what she's doing. Just like she'll double down with Angry because what the fuck, you think you can come into her Forest on the day of her sister's evolution and ask her to stop messing with people, she'll show you some goddamn respect for her territory and send you off with your tail between your legs, assuming you actually have a tail under those pelts, she's not actually sure.

It's not a question of whether she doubles down, it's a question of why and how.

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Yes, this is exactly what I'm expecting - denial is kind of your signature protagonist response to fear!

[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.

[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.
[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.

[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.

[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.

[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.

Aleph said:

From what Trixie has heard, the Gym Leader (whatever a 'Gym' is) of Viridian City is some Human called "Gary Oak", who may be indicative of a broader pattern of Humans naming themselves after trees. He is apparently "a merciless newbie-crusher" and "a cranky old man".

If there are other 'Gyms', she hasn't heard of them (or at least she hasn't bothered paying enough attention to remember the names).

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Also, uh, I should probably remind everyone that while "Scared" is a completely valid choice and choosing it will mean Trixie is worried about these new Humans who are coming into her home specifically to target her, she is still the Devil of Viridian Forest. We have seen how Trickster reacts to fear. This is the Pikachu who decided that the best way to take out a ballistic Geodude immune to her lightning was to tackle it head on and who responded to a Machop fracturing her ribs by taunting it so it would lunge at her and crash into a Pidgey nest. This is the demonic zappy gremlin whose response to Ash Ketchum releasing her from a wire trap was to electrocute him and then spend the next year and a half setting up a series of intricate traps for the poachers who had put the trap there - poachers she was scared of, because they had hurt her - and methodically torture them by pushing over tripwires into beds of stinging nettles and thorny branches and keeping them there until they were more welt and rash than skin. This is the maniac who learned Quick Attack as a Pichu, before she was a year old, and immediately started using it to parkour between branches thirty feet up and ding-dong-ditch Beedrill hives.

What I'm saying here is that Trixie is not necessarily going to react to being scared by backing off and being more cautious, and is in fact rather more likely to double down in order to prove she's not scared at all, how dare you make such an accusation, she'll show you, just watch. Just like she'll double down with Pride because holy shit, she's such a problem that people are coming in from miles away to try to stop her, that's awesome, clearly she needs to do more of what she's doing. Just like she'll double down with Angry because what the fuck, you think you can come into her Forest on the day of her sister's evolution and ask her to stop messing with people, she'll show you some goddamn respect for her territory and send you off with your tail between your legs, assuming you actually have a tail under those pelts, she's not actually sure.

It's not a question of whether she doubles down, it's a question of why and how.

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Pffffffft to the gym thing.

The doubling down is pretty much what I expected lol.

[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.
[X] A head-on offensive. Let them come. You'll meet them - not with "fair" fights, but with an arsenal of tricks, traps and taunts to send them scurrying away with their heads hung low.
[X] A Plague of Pests. No longer willing to risk the formidable swarms of the deeper forest, wild Pidgeys and Rattata have turned to Viridian City for their food. Crop fields and urban gardens alike are being stripped bare, pantries and larders are being raided, and hungry, feral Pokemon are taking up residence under sidewalks and along rooftops.

Pride cometh from watching others fall, etc.

Also, the idea of people having to take Rattatas and Pidgeys seriously as a threat to human occupation is deeply hilarious to me. At least Beedrils and Butterfrees are fully evolved! These are just unevolved joke Pokémons!

[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.
[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.

[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.
[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.

[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.
[X] A wild mouse chase. Make them work for it. Lead them around the Forest by the nose, bedevil and beleaguer them at every step, until they turn around in frustration and give up.

Aleph said:

what the fuck, you think you can come into her Forest on the day of her sister's evolution and ask her to stop messing with people, she'll show you some goddamn respect for her territory and send you off with your tail between your legs, assuming you actually have a tail under those pelts, she's not actually sure.

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"Now you come and say, 'Pikachu, stop attacking Trainers'. But you don't ask with deference. You don't offer Berries. You don't even think to call me 'Trickster'. You come into my forest on the day of my sister's evolution and you ask me to stop harassing Trainers - for peacekeeping."

Whatever vote wins, it'll be glorious.

[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A head-on offensive. Let them come. You'll meet them - not with "fair" fights, but with an arsenal of tricks, traps and taunts to send them scurrying away with their heads hung low.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.

[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.

[x] Angry. They think they're the masters of your Forest to the point of pursuing anyone who gives them a taste of their own medicine? How dare.
[x] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.

[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] A head-on offensive. Let them come. You'll meet them - not with "fair" fights, but with an arsenal of tricks, traps and taunts to send them scurrying away with their heads hung low.

[X] Beedrills and Butterfrees. With so few trainers able to capture the many Weedles and Caterpies of your home, their adult forms are swarming in greater and greater numbers. Soon they will grow beyond the Forest's ability to support them - and respond with a great Migration that will take them through Human lands at potentially devastating cost.

I'm bad at choosing and I think we're still allowed to choose multiple options and let democracy decide?

[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.
[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.