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Counting Sheep - A Pokemon Trainer quest

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[X] In the end, what she's most known for is general fighting prowess. It was always going to end that way : with her making sure that Marigold gets as much experience possible reacting to various situations in live combat, and that she knows how to scrap first and foremost. Style can come after you've both laid solid foundations.
[X] Your decisiveness, as she'd mentioned. Forcing you to repeatedly make snap judgments until you stop taking the time to doubt yourself, it's still a work in progress but you can definitely feel a little more steel in your spine when the time comes to give out an order.
 
[X] Scrapping. Sure, she'd have done some of that anyway, but she's judged that what you most urgently needed was a better handle on the flow of a fight, and that the best way was to put you front and centre repeatedly until you got it. You never knew improvement could hurt so much.

Both Decisiveness and Scrapping are great options, that will be helpful with the quest's no micro managing aspect.
For me it feels more narrative satisfying to grow in the time skip according the strengthens Joan already brought with him (in this case, attentiveness and methodological thinking), rather than covering weaknesses. Learning to be more decisive should take more than one vote.
Also I think it will be fun to continue the trend from the Nidokings' wrestling, of having our soft boy bruised in the name of pokemon training.

[X] In the end, what she's most known for is general fighting prowess. It was always going to end that way : with her making sure that Marigold gets as much experience possible reacting to various situations in live combat, and that she knows how to scrap first and foremost. Style can come after you've both laid solid foundations.

I really want to go with momentum control and energy conservation, but in the end Marigold having a solid foundations is the more reasonable option. Yes, this in an invitation for you guys to make me change my mind and vote.

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Why was this posted before I finished writing SV?!
 
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[X] In the end, what she's most known for is general fighting prowess. It was always going to end that way : with her making sure that Marigold gets as much experience possible reacting to various situations in live combat, and that she knows how to scrap first and foremost. Style can come after you've both laid solid foundations.

[X] Scrapping. Sure, she'd have done some of that anyway, but she's judged that what you most urgently needed was a better handle on the flow of a fight, and that the best way was to put you front and centre repeatedly until you got it. You never knew improvement could hurt so much.
 
[X] In the end, what she's most known for is general fighting prowess. It was always going to end that way : with her making sure that Marigold gets as much experience possible reacting to various situations in live combat, and that she knows how to scrap first and foremost. Style can come after you've both laid solid foundations.

[X] Your decisiveness, as she'd mentioned. Forcing you to repeatedly make snap judgments until you stop taking the time to doubt yourself, it's still a work in progress but you can definitely feel a little more steel in your spine when the time comes to give out an order.
 
[X] Your decisiveness, as she'd mentioned. Forcing you to repeatedly make snap judgments until you stop taking the time to doubt yourself, it's still a work in progress but you can definitely feel a little more steel in your spine when the time comes to give out an order.

[X] In the end, what she's most known for is general fighting prowess. It was always going to end that way : with her making sure that Marigold gets as much experience possible reacting to various situations in live combat, and that she knows how to scrap first and foremost. Style can come after you've both laid solid foundations.
 
[X] In the end, what she's most known for is general fighting prowess. It was always going to end that way : with her making sure that Marigold gets as much experience possible reacting to various situations in live combat, and that she knows how to scrap first and foremost. Style can come after you've both laid solid foundations.

[X] Scrapping. Sure, she'd have done some of that anyway, but she's judged that what you most urgently needed was a better handle on the flow of a fight, and that the best way was to put you front and centre repeatedly until you got it. You never knew improvement could hurt so much.
 
[X] Scrapping. Sure, she'd have done some of that anyway, but she's judged that what you most urgently needed was a better handle on the flow of a fight, and that the best way was to put you front and centre repeatedly until you got it. You never knew improvement could hurt so much.
[X] It might not have been the first thing that jumps to mind when thinking of Rosalie's style, but thinking back on it momentum control and energy conservation seem perfectly natural focuses for her. Just because you don't mind surrendering the flow of the fight to your opponent, doesn't mean Marigold can't learn to regulate it and try to make sure it doesn't become untenable – something which would also be helped by Rosalie helping her learn to smooth out her movements and how to avoid expending energy uselessly, making her built to outlast her opponents.
 
Hopping on this bandwagon.

[X] Scrapping. Sure, she'd have done some of that anyway, but she's judged that what you most urgently needed was a better handle on the flow of a fight, and that the best way was to put you front and centre repeatedly until you got it. You never knew improvement could hurt so much.
[X] It might not have been the first thing that jumps to mind when thinking of Rosalie's style, but thinking back on it momentum control and energy conservation seem perfectly natural focuses for her. Just because you don't mind surrendering the flow of the fight to your opponent, doesn't mean Marigold can't learn to regulate it and try to make sure it doesn't become untenable – something which would also be helped by Rosalie helping her learn to smooth out her movements and how to avoid expending energy uselessly, making her built to outlast her opponents.
 
[X] It might not have been the first thing that jumps to mind when thinking of Rosalie's style, but thinking back on it momentum control and energy conservation seem perfectly natural focuses for her. Just because you don't mind surrendering the flow of the fight to your opponent, doesn't mean Marigold can't learn to regulate it and try to make sure it doesn't become untenable – something which would also be helped by Rosalie helping her learn to smooth out her movements and how to avoid expending energy uselessly, making her built to outlast her opponents.

[X] Scrapping. Sure, she'd have done some of that anyway, but she's judged that what you most urgently needed was a better handle on the flow of a fight, and that the best way was to put you front and centre repeatedly until you got it. You never knew improvement could hurt so much.
 
[X] In the end, what she's most known for is general fighting prowess. It was always going to end that way : with her making sure that Marigold gets as much experience possible reacting to various situations in live combat, and that she knows how to scrap first and foremost. Style can come after you've both laid solid foundations.

[X] Scrapping. Sure, she'd have done some of that anyway, but she's judged that what you most urgently needed was a better handle on the flow of a fight, and that the best way was to put you front and centre repeatedly until you got it. You never knew improvement could hurt so much.
 
[X] In the end, what she's most known for is general fighting prowess. It was always going to end that way : with her making sure that Marigold gets as much experience possible reacting to various situations in live combat, and that she knows how to scrap first and foremost. Style can come after you've both laid solid foundations.

[X] Scrapping. Sure, she'd have done some of that anyway, but she's judged that what you most urgently needed was a better handle on the flow of a fight, and that the best way was to put you front and centre repeatedly until you got it. You never knew improvement could hurt so much.
 
[X] In the end, what she's most known for is general fighting prowess. It was always going to end that way : with her making sure that Marigold gets as much experience possible reacting to various situations in live combat, and that she knows how to scrap first and foremost. Style can come after you've both laid solid foundations.

[X] Your decisiveness, as she'd mentioned. Forcing you to repeatedly make snap judgments until you stop taking the time to doubt yourself, it's still a work in progress but you can definitely feel a little more steel in your spine when the time comes to give out an order.
 
[X] In the end, what she's most known for is general fighting prowess. It was always going to end that way : with her making sure that Marigold gets as much experience possible reacting to various situations in live combat, and that she knows how to scrap first and foremost. Style can come after you've both laid solid foundations.

[X] Scrapping. Sure, she'd have done some of that anyway, but she's judged that what you most urgently needed was a better handle on the flow of a fight, and that the best way was to put you front and centre repeatedly until you got it. You never knew improvement could hurt so much.
 
[X] Scrapping. Sure, she'd have done some of that anyway, but she's judged that what you most urgently needed was a better handle on the flow of a fight, and that the best way was to put you front and centre repeatedly until you got it. You never knew improvement could hurt so much.

[X] In the end, what she's most known for is general fighting prowess. It was always going to end that way : with her making sure that Marigold gets as much experience possible reacting to various situations in live combat, and that she knows how to scrap first and foremost. Style can come after you've both laid solid foundations.
 
[X] In the end, what she's most known for is general fighting prowess. It was always going to end that way : with her making sure that Marigold gets as much experience possible reacting to various situations in live combat, and that she knows how to scrap first and foremost. Style can come after you've both laid solid foundations.

[X] Scrapping. Sure, she'd have done some of that anyway, but she's judged that what you most urgently needed was a better handle on the flow of a fight, and that the best way was to put you front and centre repeatedly until you got it. You never knew improvement could hurt so much.
 
[X] In the end, what she's most known for is general fighting prowess. It was always going to end that way : with her making sure that Marigold gets as much experience possible reacting to various situations in live combat, and that she knows how to scrap first and foremost. Style can come after you've both laid solid foundations.

[X] Scrapping. Sure, she'd have done some of that anyway, but she's judged that what you most urgently needed was a better handle on the flow of a fight, and that the best way was to put you front and centre repeatedly until you got it. You never knew improvement could hurt so much.
 
Right that looks like it'll be all. As per usual, I'll leave it overnight for any eventual stragglers before closing - let's call it twelve hours from now, so 1pm BST.
 
[X] In the end, what she's most known for is general fighting prowess. It was always going to end that way : with her making sure that Marigold gets as much experience possible reacting to various situations in live combat, and that she knows how to scrap first and foremost. Style can come after you've both laid solid foundations.

[X] Your decisiveness, as she'd mentioned. Forcing you to repeatedly make snap judgments until you stop taking the time to doubt yourself, it's still a work in progress but you can definitely feel a little more steel in your spine when the time comes to give out an order.
 
Adhoc vote count started by ReverendSwing on Sep 20, 2022 at 5:03 PM, finished with 44 posts and 33 votes.
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Man, I... completely forgot to call this, huh ? Well, luckily no one voted past the closing time. It looks like Marigold's going to be working on her foundations, and you're... going to be pretty sore, ngl. Both of these pretty much win by landslides, which I'll admit I wasn't expecting - but then again I suppose that's the whole point of doing this as a quest.

No ETA on the chapter, as I'm going to be pretty swamped in the coming days.
 
Since we're near the end of our tutorial where do we go after the end of it? I don't really know much about Johto so I got no reference point.
 
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