Ah! This would have had a chance at winning had it been submitted earlier, I think. Or if I structured the votes better.
I'm not sure I'm familiar with that jargon/slang. But good last minute effort.
Aya: What's a Ditto?
He is a mew specialist if he's a psy trainer
Hahahaha! I also like this one.
I love that immediately after he asks them to call him Teacher or Leader, they call him "Sir" instead.
The old ways. The true ways.
I see a problem here in that you're not accounting at all for Joshua taking a shot at Nini himself, given that he's also allowed to use his weapons.
Good catch lol. I wrote those parts on completely different days.
I didn't think about that. Nice.
No worries. I will adjust, regardless.
Aya: Mime Jr. is twice as heavy as Nini... So even though it's a similar size, I'm pretty sure it's twice as durable, too.
Aya: I don't actually want to kill my new squadmate... Humans are a lot more killable than Pokemon, but... Maybe something will happen if I try to attack Joshua directly? Or if I command Nini to attack Joshua? Leader said we could attack him, but he didn't actually say anything about each other.
Aya: I'm not completely sure what Nini can do, yet. As far as I know, it has a venomous and parasitic bite, and if given enough time, can spin sticky webs into nigh-invisible traps. I think it can also shoot its web a small distance and use it like a grappling hook? That's about all that I know for now.
Do it! (Speaking as not your QM)
Nice. Not to be meta, but does that sound like the kind of character I would write?
and do you think your answer would change how I write him?Very novel interpretation!
Yes. Fate Points can be used to buy almost anything, even retcons or forbidden information. Even rollbacks and swapping characters mid-arc. It's just a matter of price and consensus. What do you want to buy? I'll tell you the price.
I dunno, maybe! It's true that historically you're not writing brown-nosing rivals out to lightly sabotage their teammates, but if there ever was a time to start it would be a PokeQuest.Nice. Not to be meta, but does that sound like the kind of character I would write?
Could we see the price for getting Nini a ranged attack, and camouflage? I think that would be broadly in all of the player's interest to know what the prices for those would be.
You know, setting up the "take good care of Nini" only to then use it as a distraction does play pretty well into the thoughts section of using trickery if needed that I already have... Screw it, I might as well, more plans rarely hurt.
I mean, would that even be that bad? Like, if we take him up on the idea, it's because we also think we have a chance of taking him. It's not like he had any chance to rig the fight (that we know off), so it'd be a perfectly fair competition for top dog between him and Aya. Now Pablo would have some grounds to complain about being left out (which may or may not be related to him having the pretty clear type advantage over us), but we're not Pablo. Still you might want to decline on his behalf.
Interesting. I'm willing to upgrade Naturewalk to Naturestealth for 20 Fate Points.
??? Can you explain what you mean by this bit again? It's late and reading comprehension deteriorates fast.
Honestly, I kinda trailed of at that point. It's basically just a reiterration of the point that it's arguably unfair to Pablo to get forced into fighting the teacher rather than get an opportunity to win, but that doesn't make the offer unfair towards us given that it'd still be a clean fight regardless of Joshua's motivation. Meaning that we have no reason to decline on our own behalf. (Well, unless we think we're going to lose anyway, I suppose.)
I did consider something like "Thank you for letting Nini's first battle be a victory." but in the end that struck me as needlesly combative. I'd much rather go for the contrast of polite in speech, yet agressive in action. Plus, the more we make the fight personal, the more likely he is to keep his attention on us.
Interesting.
