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Just noticed that besides Elise, most of the options for our first friend are similar to the Team Star's squad bosses.
Trails of Tera Steel (Kiseki-inspired Pokemon Academy Quest)
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I mean, Eri and Atticus are literally the Team Star bosses as far as I can tell.
Who do you think Ostia is like though?
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Ostia is clearly Penny?
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Ostia isn't Penny
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I mean when you say it I can see some similarities but I think "Clearly" is pushing it.
I mean yknow, Penny doesn't have a Beldum, even if she could probably acquire a vast amount of sums aha.
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I meant within the context where we're stretching the team star parallels. There could easily not be a 1 to 1.
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I mean, Eri and Atticus aren't parallels, they're literally Eri and Atticus from Team Star. The only reason they aren't 1:1 is because of the setting changes. So in this instance if Ostia was Penny, she would probably just be called Penny, and might've had some mention about her being Galarian in her blurb instead of the cloak and dagger intrigue.
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Eri and Atticus are Trails-ified versions of Team Star bosses.
Elise is a Pokémon-ified version of Trails of Cold Steel's protagonist (fusion-danced with his sister because Arvis and I have similar biases).
Ostia is probably also a Pokémon-ified Trails characters, although which one of the half-dozen weirdo sympathetic double agents in Class VII they are is unclear to me - thread consensus seems to be Millium.
Elise is a Pokémon-ified version of Trails of Cold Steel's protagonist (fusion-danced with his sister because Arvis and I have similar biases).
Ostia is probably also a Pokémon-ified Trails characters, although which one of the half-dozen weirdo sympathetic double agents in Class VII they are is unclear to me - thread consensus seems to be Millium.
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Your first friend in the Academy is Ostia and Dreepy's nickname is Roland.
Edit: oh it fuckin auto includes a tally
Edit: oh it fuckin auto includes a tally
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You'll get used to it eventually I have faith in you aha.
The Mesagoza Academy School Year 2022-2023 Schedule
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Here's something for people to chew while I write the update.
The Mesagoza Academy School Year 2022-2023 Schedule (subject to impromptu adjustment if needed)
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The Mesagoza Academy School Year 2022-2023 Schedule (subject to impromptu adjustment if needed)
Trails Tera Steel SY 2022-2023 Calendar
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So we've got 4 weeks till the first Field Exercise. From what I gather, those are our best opportunities to challenge gyms and also to do more complex jobs/find new pokemon for our team. So we probably want to have Dreepy at a 1st badge level with practised moves before then - even if we want two pokemon before trying for our first badge, the stronger Dreepy is the more options we have for places to go to hunt for them.
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TBF, I think we can still challenge Gyms in normal turns? It's just if we do it in Field Exercises it doesn't cost us AP.
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I think we want to see what the situation is by the time we actually get there. There's gonna be several colliding plots already, and our personal goals other than "study" and "swing by the stakes to make sure no one's fucking with them" are way off in the future
True I'd forgotten the exact rules other than the expectation that it's "expected" to be a field exercise thing.
True I'd forgotten the exact rules other than the expectation that it's "expected" to be a field exercise thing.
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The stakes goal is pretty far in the future too, isn't it? Our wise mentor said to get a few badges first I think, and the ritual to fix anything we find need even more.
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Thats fair, wise even. Since we're not doing "Dad of the Year" background we should probably take Old Man Jenkins advice about taking it slow in regards to gyms. But at the same time, we do need to be able to handle a 6th Badge Level Dark and/or Psychic type for our background quest at least. So we should probably be taking a middle of the road approach, fast enough to get to at least 6th Badge before the end of the year, but also not super focusing on Gyms specifically maybe?
Point is, 1st Badge Level before 1st FE is fair enough regardless of what speed we're taking this. It'll at least let us get a decent Pokémon where ever we end up.
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If I was Mariana, I'd be hoping I could get 5 badges in a year and start checking some of them over the summer break. Not fixing them yet, but at least checking on them and taking some of the burden off Jenkins.
How possible this is with Plot incoming is another thing. And we want to have a Dark/Psychic type we train towards sealing, even if we don't get there.
How possible this is with Plot incoming is another thing. And we want to have a Dark/Psychic type we train towards sealing, even if we don't get there.
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The stakes quest is kind of a lifelong commitment more than anything, I feel. At least until we pass it down to the next young hero. The old man is passing it onto us because he can't tour the world anymore, not because it needs to be done tomorrow.
On the other hand the first badge is usually just checking you're a trainer with a heartbeat and a trained starter so we can probably do that soonish anyway. And keeping up with badges might make it easier to network with trainers with useful information about recent events.
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Hopefully they don't because we're kinda bad at schoolwork
Hopefully badges give extra credit if you do them early so we can still pass! I'm thinking of battling like sport in American schools if that makes sense. They'll keep us around if we're promising as a trainer even if our schoolwork is only passable.
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We need to get that schoolwork up to snuff sooner rather than later - simply teaching the sealing spell is going to require us to hit 12 KNOW, and we're starting at 5. In some dire need of remediation here.
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Obviously we'll need to wait to see the actual turn options before we decide on specifics, but I think 3 good actions to start off with are one for dedicated studying, one to train Dreepy, and one on socialising. Getting a second pokemon can wait until Dreepy's 1st badge level w/ more Move XP, which will hopefully be by week 3/4.
Edit: Looking at the calendar, the first Field Excercise takes up Week 5. We could try and catch our second pokemon in Week 3, then spend an action training them in Week 4 and have two 1st-badge pokemon for FE1.
Edit: Looking at the calendar, the first Field Excercise takes up Week 5. We could try and catch our second pokemon in Week 3, then spend an action training them in Week 4 and have two 1st-badge pokemon for FE1.
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I'm thinking in terms of first priority, in terms of training, we try and get Roland to learn Extreme Speed as soon as possible. Because even if Dreepy has an expanded move pool here I can't imagine Dreepy will ever be particularly strong. Having a Drakloak on hand as fast possible would be great, this'll still take a while but if the opportunity to train arises we should prioritize speed training.
As a second priority, even if we'll likely get this first, should be getting a second pokemon to compliment and support Roland. Something straightforwardly strong to use when Roland isn't up to snuff. I'm thinking some sort of fighting type or rock type. Something like Machop, Timburr, Geodude, or Onix. A fighting type would likely fit us best, and may be the easiest to get, just challenge one to a fight. A rock type would be harder but they're straightforward and tough, an Onix is probably intimidating to any number of lower-badge trainers, although I suspect they're more of a paper tiger to the higher tiers so long as they don't evolve into a Steelix.
As a second priority, even if we'll likely get this first, should be getting a second pokemon to compliment and support Roland. Something straightforwardly strong to use when Roland isn't up to snuff. I'm thinking some sort of fighting type or rock type. Something like Machop, Timburr, Geodude, or Onix. A fighting type would likely fit us best, and may be the easiest to get, just challenge one to a fight. A rock type would be harder but they're straightforward and tough, an Onix is probably intimidating to any number of lower-badge trainers, although I suspect they're more of a paper tiger to the higher tiers so long as they don't evolve into a Steelix.
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