[ti]megathread[/ti]BOSS BATTLE: C0D13_2

Bryan out from behind the picnic table and took off running. Jets of digital flame vaporized the table a moment later, and he hoped that Saint had gotten away safely and wasn't just a puddle of holy water on the ground.

"Dammit! Where are my crew?" he asked, casting around for the missing bros. He'd seen some of the before but lost them in the crowd. Using the UNOVRCON app he sent them all a quick message.

orioncayge Laguna M'Foxy Yggy Br00ks
Need to regroup! Meet up at the Jeep booth!

He sent it through and then sent another message with a location tag for the Jeep booth, but accidentally tagged the Hydance Cafe (Now Serving Coca-Cola). He unsent the message and sent a third message containing the correct tag, before ending with a fourth that just said "whoops lol". And then he was off for the booth!

Bryan sprinted past the Worldscreen Lite booth, almost bumping into the hiding Tuesday. "Sorry! Be careful of C0D13_2 he's coming this way!" Bryan said. The AR C0D13_2 loomed overhead like a giant Macy's parade float set to kill and Bryan tapped his phone as he ran, firing off beams of darkness over Ariel's head. "Take this!" he shouted, lancing the digital menace with spears of pure blackness. He liked to think of them as jets of malware, like trojans of worms made manifest, or an installer for League of Legends.

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{Damage Roll}Q0vnZUpS2d100+30
+10 (Interact with Previous Post)
+20 (Supereffective)

Damage Dealt: 7844
Attack type used:
C0D13_2 HP: 10,000/10,000

Kenny hadn't been putting much thought into the type of attacks he'd been doing. He'd just been tapping the button with his thumb, phone in one hand while he grabbed onto his little sister with the other so she didn't get lost in the crowd.

"How are you guys doing that!" he exclaimed, ooh-ing and ahh-ing at the colorful attack animations. Fighting was probably the best against a Porygon2, so why were there so many it's supereffective! bubbles getting tossed around in AR space?

Just then, an alert came up on Kenny's UNOVRCon app, briefly disrupting the boss battle on screen. "Ahhh!" he yelled, trying to dismiss it, but then he saw who it was from.

Big Bro? Kenny practically snorted steam out his nostrils. YES!! They hadn't been able to meet up at the con yet, which Kenny had chalked up to the fact he was apparently someone important with a Real Job in real life. This was the perfect opportunity! Man, games really did bring people together.

"Let's go!" he exclaimed, pulling Summer after him and heading towards the big JEEP display. "To the JEEP!"

"Oh thank god," said Summer, following him eagerly. Lacking AR Glasses of her own, the Boss Battle was simultaneously A. Incredibly boring/awkward to watch and B. Very stressful due to all the people running recklessly around. "Wait, why here?"

"Big Bro is here! OH AND ORION! HI ORION!" Kenny waved eagerly, then his face looked panicked. He reached up and quickly patted his head to make sure he was still wearing the yellow bandana the man had given him. He was. His face lit up again with relief. Phew!

Then he saw Hydance Cafe, now serving Coca Cola. Product placement, here? Whatever it was, it was working-- he'd give anything for an ice-cold glass of Coke!

"Hi Orion!" Summer echoed, slightly more shyly. "And person I don't know!"

"That's Big Bee! ...Oh crap, I just realized I could use the stamps," Kenny said, accidentally selecting 'Painter' from the main app screen. "Take this, Codie! Haha!" He switched his stamp to Dreamer and jumped back as a blast of zigzag-shaped psychic energy lanced through the air, surrounding the giant duck in a bright pink aura.

He crouched down next to Orion with his phone still in both hands, shooing Summer in next to him as they took cover behind the Jeep display. "This is so cool!!"

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{Damage Roll}bYXukv0w2d100
+10 (Interact with Previous Post)
+20 (Supereffective)

Damage Dealt: 137
Attack type used:
C0D13_2 HP: 7562/10,000

"WOAH! It's Quacxee!"

"Qua-huh? You sure, Ner? It says there that this duck friend is a Co—...Oh shoot!"

Be it the gleeful awe of a Pokémon-obsessed eight year old upon seeing an oversized Porygon 2 or the subsequent bewilderment of her not-at-all-Pokémon-versed father, the funny duck's dangerous-looking death rays are still just deadly, shooting without any scrutiny. Thankfully, one does not develop a curriculum as colourful as that of Remington Andersen without being at least a bit of fast thinker, and it is in an act of particularly good judgement that his daughter is scooped up to make a prompt retreat.

With no regard for convention decorum or the confusion of those who aren't in possession of AR glasses, our tall captain jumps over a counter, intending to use it as cover.

"What are you doing, pabbi!"

"Shhh, blenny. We gotta hide for a bit, that thing's dangerous."

"Noooo! Look!" Protests had been expected, of course, and Neri wiggles free from his grasp just enough to peek at the battle, pointing at a nearby woman (M'Foxy) who Remy can only assume has to be someone's avatar "See the cool mutant fox lady? She's attacking it with her phone, you should do that!"

"Right, right..." Divided as his attention may be between the tasks of holding onto Neri, looking out for death rays, and trying to make sense out of all this, Remy does manage to bring out his phone, operating it one-handed until Neri gets frustrated and takes it from him.

"HA! TAKE THAT!" She loudly declares (not very sneaky) while rapidly clicking the one stamp Remy has.

"Nice work, blenny! So... Why's the fox lady a mutant?"

"Oh! 'Cause animals like foxes don't usually have so many ears and tails, so when they do it's called a genetic mutation, duh!"

"Right... of course... duh."

It's at that moment that they both laugh, for a second not at all concerned with the fight.

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{Damage Roll}UucI3hLr2d100+30
+10 (Interact with Previous Post)
+20 (Supereffective)

Damage Dealt: 159
Attack type used: Player
C0D13_2 HP: 7335/10,000

BOSS BATTLE: C0D13_2

It looks like you're trying to get more loot boxes! Would you like some help with that?

<Damage threshold reached. Commencing second phase.> beeps C0D13_2, and to the shock of everyone within the hall the massive AR boss disappears in a flash of pink and blue.

Heads whip around, looking behind curtains and under chairs (you know, places a raid boss might hide), before a fresh announcement from Beta Bethany booms over the loudspeakers.

"ATTENTION ALL TRAINERS! C0D13_2 has begun his attack on the Pokemon Center! Act swiftly or else the merch will be destroyed!"

The idle screens in the venue switch to a live feed of the Pokemon Center (located on North Hall Level 1). The feed shows the imposing form of C0D13_2 rocking back and forth, his beak dipping into the tables of pristine, limited edition goods. Each time his beak hits the table something else disappears. First mugs and pins, then t-shirts, crockery sets, Pokemon card booster packs. Nothing is safe! Not even the Prof. Ash Pikachu plushies! It's all sucked into C0D13_2's beak, lost forever in the Recycle Bin.

Defeat C0D13_2!

Battle C0D13_2 across the UNOVRCON venue! Defeat the evolved Customer Service Assistant by October 31 for a bonus loot box of your choice. Players can fight C0D13_2 in AR, using the UNOVRCON app and their Trainer Stamps to launch devastating attacks! Be careful though, because each attack that hits C0D13_2 will change his type into a type that resists the attack. (Note: C0D13_2 starts as a Psychic type.)

Players have access to type attacks by default, as well as any Stamps they have collected around the venue.

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{Resistance List}When a player uses the attack type listed on the left, C0D13_2 will transform into one of the types on the right (replier's choice).
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"What? There's no stamp here?"

Chryssa wasn't sure what she'd been expecting from the merch store. Perhaps people who put more stock in material possessions would have enjoyed it— Pokemon plushies spilling off of shelves, dishware and Nintendo Labo kits stacked neatly on raised daises like champagne glasses. There were some large painted replicas of major UNOVR bosses— namely, the three legendary birds (not that she'd ever seen Articuno, but apparently in some servers they had). It gave sort of a 'McDonalds Playplace' vibe to the store, not that she was complaining.

"I suppose the Freezer stamp is fine," she said to herself, glancing down at her phone. She'd picked the ice-type stamp up at the food court earlier that day when she and her uncle had gone to get falafel. He was in here too, somewhere. Probably showing some innocent bystander a magic trick with one of the Professor Ash Pikachu plushies.

I wonder if I could actually be a magician's assistant.

As absurd was it would be— her medical concerns considered— the idea held some appeal for Chryssa. It was so profoundly out of character— or rather, it subverted the type of character people assumed she was. Young. Doe-eyed. The tragedy. The victim. The girl in the bed of roses, gone before her time.

Speaking of magic tricks, sirens suddenly went off around the pop-up-store like a K-Mart Blue Light Sale she was definitely too young to remember, and Chryssa wheeled herself backwards reflexively, pivoting into a corner so she wouldn't get in anyone's way as people started running past her. She noticed people were putting on their AR glasses, but hers were with her uncle, so she could only try to infer what was going on. She craned her head to one side, looking around to see a beautiful black-haired woman (Wolf) doing something on the UNOVRCon app.

"Oh, it's an app thing!" she recognized brightly, waving one arm from her unfortunate position low to the ground in her chair in case her uncle Buzzster Hooperham might somehow notice her in the sudden chaos. "Need any help?" Based on the screen, it looked like they were battling a Porygon2, which was currently a rock type.

Selecting player from the dropdown, Chryssa hit attack! and saw the HP bar go down on screen. Though she couldn't see it, a blast of fighting-type punches suddenly emanated from the girl in the corner as if guarded by her own personal Stand. The flurry of virtual fists launched into the rounded duck just as it polished off the last of the exclusive TGC mats.

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{Damage Roll}4iTK_wFx2d100
+10 (Interact with Previous Post)
+10 (Merch)
+20 (Supereffective)

Damage Dealt: 209
Attack type used: vs
C0D13_2 HP: 1,908/5,000

Alyce was humming at the pop-up Pokemon Center. Out of all convention goers, she was only focused on some merch and games (but mostly on the merch). So when she heard a strange announcement and wore the AR glasses that the staff provided, her jaw dropped to see what looked like a Porygon2 floating above the store as it started sucking the merch available. "Is that even possible?!" She then turned to see some plushies nearby were also sucked into the strange Porygon2. "The Sitting Cuties! Fuecoco plushies!!! No!!!" She started growling. "Nobody messes with my favorite plushies!"

She quickly dropped everything and ran to chase the strange Porygon2, almost bumping into a young woman (Bergamot Gristleborg) as she raised her smartphone with the app that the announcement suggested. "Take this, you plushie destroyer!" Without reading the instructions, she tapped on the screen very furiously, but not enough to break it.

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{Damage Roll}rut3lslV2d100
+10 (Interact with Previous Post)
+10 (Merch)

Damage Dealt: 137
Attack type used: Normal VS Dark
C0D13_2 HP: 1,585/5,000

"Just in time," said Chryssa smugly, taking the glasses from her uncle with a one-handed flourish and sliding them onto her head. "Ooooooooh!"

It was fun. One second, she'd been sitting in a perfectly normal merchandise store, albeit one filled with badly-behaved customers (Buzzster Hooperham included). The next, she was sitting in a destroyed merch store— no, one still in the process of being destroyed! Chryssa had never consciously wished she was inside a building when it was getting demolished, but now she wished she had. Imagine seeing a wrecking ball cave in a scene of normalcy like a brown paper bag— or explosions sending dolls flying and raining in all directions. It was amazing. It was inspiring.

She watched in morbid fascination as C0D13_2 dipped forward, sucking up a shelf of Guild Leader keychains and half the cash register. The woman behind it continued using it as if it hadn't been half-vaporized with money spilling out. Classic NPC, Chryssa thought, never mind the fact that this person was definitely realer than C0D13_2.

Uncle Zac's complaining shook her out of her daze. She showed no impatience with the giant redhead. Instead, she seized an opportunity. "What? Codie's infecting our digital devices now?" Her voice rose, adding to the performance. "What if he gets your credit card number? Or our account information? Did Hydance know this would happen?"

Her eyes gleamed, lost behind the curtain of her hair as she turned her face back down to her phone. She fired off another Player stamp, this time enjoying the attack animation in full as it chipped down the boss's health. Broken fluorescent lights rained sparks down from the ceiling as C0D13_2 wreaked his destruction, delighting Chryssa to the core.

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{Damage Roll}hYnUHcTF2d100
+10 (Interact with Previous Post)
+10 (Merch)
+20 (Supereffective)

Damage Dealt: 197
Attack type used: vs
C0D13_2 HP: 1,252/5,000