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The Tempest
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Player Name: Sheila Michaels
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Post by Jinx on Jul 12, 2023 9:15:36 GMT 9
Fast AttackPokemon: Falinks Move(s) Used: Iron Head Move Type(s): Move Target: Zapdos 7Po5Nvvysweeper2sweeper2
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Jinx
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The Tempest
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Player Name: Sheila Michaels
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Post by Jinx on Jul 12, 2023 9:12:23 GMT 9
Roll your Charge Atk twice and take the higher result!DisruptPokemon: Marshtomp Core Ability: Disrupt Ability Target: Zapdos Move(s) Used: Rock Slide Move Type(s): Move Target: Zapdos lcjdvSfwtank2tank2tank2·tank2
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Jinx
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The Tempest
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Player Name: Sheila Michaels
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Post by Jinx on Jul 7, 2023 4:03:06 GMT 9
Mechanical (Easy)ZONE D > ZONE A One attack from Zapdos was all it took to knock out Booger, the Slugma fainting the instant the electrical attack landed and sinking to the ground in a way that made Jinx's heart ache.
Jinx had assumed that getting out of Zone A had been the smart move, that leaving the platform where an attack had obviously been looming was for the best, but in hindsight... maybe not so much.
In fact, as Jinx let out her Falinks to replace the fallen Slugma in battle, she headed back towards the platform, ready and able to join the others making a stand there.
Plus, as she held her egg close, it occurred to her that it would probably be a good idea to have something underneath her feet, so that if and when the Pokemon inside hatched--and with all this commotion going on, the egg had to be getting jostled a fair bit already--it wouldn't have absolutely nothing besides Jinx's grasp on it to protect the Pokemon within from falling far, far below...
"Skipper, good job earlier. Let's him them even harder this time. How about a Rock Slide?"
The Marshtomp nodded and prepared to volley rocks at the immense foe before them all.
"And Horde... uh..." Jinx suddenly realized that bringing a Fighting-type to a midair battle may not have been her best tactical move. Strength in numbers could only go so far, after all.
"How about an Iron Head? Show Zapdos what a real Steel-type move looks like!" Jinx tried to sound more confident than she felt there... but honestly, it was hard to stay upbeat in the middle of this battle.
GOAL (ALTITUDE 3): 7609/7815
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Jinx
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The Tempest
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Posts: 152
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Player Name: Sheila Michaels
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Post by Jinx on Jul 7, 2023 4:00:47 GMT 9
Fast AttackPokemon: Falinks Move(s) Used: Iron Head Move Type(s): Move Target: Zapdos VNn8_nLvsweeper2sweeper2
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Jinx
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The Tempest
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Post by Jinx on Jul 7, 2023 3:58:07 GMT 9
Charge AttackPokemon: Marshtomp Move(s) Used: Rock Slide Move Type(s): Move Target: Zapdos y9OeejbEtank2tank2
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Post by Jinx on Jul 5, 2023 13:50:01 GMT 9
Jinx knew it was a bit odd of her to be cradling an egg here of all places, but somehow hearing the stranger mention it made her especially self-conscious of it.
"I mean... it's not really the middle of it, that's where the players are, I'm not quite that foolhardy, heh..." Jinx paused for a moment, hesitating before explaining herself. "This egg just doesn't seem to be hatching all that fast, so I figured might as well go somewhere I can watch something else happening while I wait, right? And maybe all the, uh, bouncing around will help jostle it into moving. Unless it's a dud. Is that even possible? Do they have dud eggs in here?"
Yeah, she was rambling a bit, but to Jinx at least, it was a legitimate question. Sure, she'd never heard of an egg not hatching in the game before, but maybe she just hadn't been paying attention, or hadn't been looking in the right places. And this egg really didn't seem like it was in any hurry to hatch... Jinx was half-tempted to poke the thing open just to settle the issue, but even she knew that was a bad idea...
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Jinx
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Post by Jinx on Jul 5, 2023 11:51:45 GMT 9
Jinx knew that making her Slugma into a Sweeper class was an... unusual choice on her part. That had, in fact, been part of the reason why she'd done it in the first place. Making unexpected choices and playing with inherent assumptions within the game was right up Jinx's alley, after all.
But even as a Sweeper class, her Slugma was still super slow, and that... could be a problem in battle, when the time came.
So Jinx posed the Slugma a challenge.
"Hey Booger!" Jinx giggled a little. The name was also an odd choice, and she enjoyed it all the more because of it. "How about we have a race? Just you and me! First one to the end of the block wins! Ready, set, go!"
Jinx knew she'd have to hold back a little in order to give the Slugma a fighting chance in the race, but she hoped it wouldn't be too badly mismatched. Her avatar was a child, after all, with the short legs to match, so her every step was that much smaller because of it.
Even so, Jinx was less running and more going for a casual stroll when Booger finally caught up to her.
"Oh, hey, you caught me!" Jinx turned towards the Slugma with a mischievous grin. "But we're not to the finish line yet--can you make it there first?"
Jinx made a show of speeding into the distance, intending to turn her sprint into a slow-paced ramble as soon as Booger looked away... but she tripped and fell on a rock, and though Jinx didn't hesitate to get back up, the Slugma still overtook her, making it to the end of the block before she could finish wiping the dirt off her outfit. (It was an impossible task at any rate. Much of what still clung to her was now mud, not simple dirt, and it was sinking into her clothes by the second.)
"Way to go, Booger! You won!"
Jinx bent down and embraced the Slugma... just in time to remember that the Pokemon she was embracing was literally just lava come to life.
"Oops. Hope these burns don't stick around too long..."
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Jinx
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The Tempest
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Player Name: Sheila Michaels
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Post by Jinx on Jul 4, 2023 13:28:09 GMT 9
Mechanical (Easy)ZONE A > MOVING TO ZONE D Jinx knew there was some kind of deep video game lore to this whole battle, but even after having given Professor Ash a Duraludon for the cause and having flown around on wings to prepare for it all, Jinx still didn't entirely know what the backstory here was. Getting the Giant Shrine back, alright, but what was this about a prince? And why did Zapdos steal the shrine in the first place? Did they even know?
It didn't matter, though. Jinx got the gist of it all. Big fight, big boss, take him down by all means.
...admittedly, Jinx hadn't expected the big boss in question to be quite so big.
It was one thing for a video game boss to be big to show that it was strong and tough and all that. Jinx could get that bit. But it was quite another thing for the boss in question to cover a huge portion of the sky, to be large enough to be terrain as much as enemy.
Jinx's plan, such as it was, had been to hit hard and let the chips fall as they may... but as she approached the immense being that was their opponent in this battle, Jinx decided that maybe for once, discretion was the better part of valor.
"So." Jinx let the word linger in the air for a bit before continuing. "Skipper, use your Rock Throw to Disrupt what Zapdos is up to, will ya? Help folks out a bit here."
The newly-evolved Marshtomp nodded along with Jinx's instructions.
"And Booger?" Jinx had to giggle a little at the Slugma's name, even now of all times. "Hit 'em hard with a Rock Throw of your own, then let's get the heck out of dodge."
Jinx glanced back at the wings strapped to her back and did her best to grin at the thought of zooming into the sky on them again, with nothing but their flying capabilities stopping her from falling far, far below. At least this time, the explosions would all be hitting Zapdos instead of them... hopefully.
"Good thing we trained for this, huh?"
GOAL (ALTITUDE 3): 5525/7000 ZONE A DISRUPT: 457
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Jinx
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The Tempest
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Player Name: Sheila Michaels
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Post by Jinx on Jul 4, 2023 13:25:45 GMT 9
Fast AttackPokemon: Booger the Slugma Move(s) Used: Rock Throw Move Type(s): Move Target: Zapdos OPsB2G|6sweeper2sweeper2
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Jinx
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The Tempest
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Post by Jinx on Jul 4, 2023 13:22:24 GMT 9
Roll your Charge Atk twice and take the higher result!DisruptPokemon: Skipper the Marshtomp Core Ability: Disrupt Ability Target: Zapdos Move(s) Used: Rock Throw Move Type(s): Move Target:NiSB5U5Ctank2tank2
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Post by Jinx on Jul 2, 2023 1:24:55 GMT 9
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Jinx
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Post by Jinx on Jun 28, 2023 11:40:34 GMT 9
Was it weird that Jinx had brought her egg to a basketball stadium? Well, probably.
Jinx wasn't here to play basketball herself, at least, and neither were her Pokemon, at least for the time being. It wasn't even a real game they were playing right now, just a training session that the public could sit in on if they wanted. She just wanted something to watch in the background as she hung out waiting for her egg to hatch.
How long did eggs take to hatch, anyway? Hadn't she had this one since the middle of winter? What was it even waiting for?
Whatever. Jinx had a busload of rhetorical questions she could be asking about her egg's hatching or lack thereof, but that and 25 Bytes would buy you an evolution, or however they'd phrase the old saying in here. Point was, her speculation wasn't actually getting her anywhere... but neither was whatever she had been doing, clearly.
Maybe part of Jinx had hoped that all the action and things bouncing around would help jostle her egg into action.
Perhaps she had just been desperate for something to distract her from the questions still bouncing around in her brain about how this all worked.
Regardless, though it was an odd place for an egg, Jinx figured it was worth a shot.
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Post by Jinx on Jun 28, 2023 11:28:50 GMT 9
Jinx had meant to keep around her Scorbunny, really. She'd even named the guy. Buster, was his name, at least for the time being.
But... types mattered in this game, that much she knew. And right after she'd caught Buster, she'd caught another Fire-type as well. And while Buster was cute and all, when she had to choose between a weird bunny and a living, oozing pile of lava, Jinx was going to choose the latter every time, if only for the possibilities such a Pokemon allowed.
(How did that even work? How hot was that Pokemon? Wait, did that Pokedex entry say it was hotter than the sun? Who wrote this stuff?)
So... she had an extra Pokemon, and not very many spots to spare, and a vague longing for something better.
Jinx wasn't a fool, though, at least not entirely. She knew Scorbunny was Rare, and that that was important in the game, too. So while she didn't know exactly what she was looking for in return, she added one note to her open trade request: no Common rarity Pokemon. One step down would be acceptable for the right Pokemon, perhaps, but not two.
Hopefully this would mean she wouldn't get ripped off too badly.
Hopefully.
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Jinx
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The Tempest
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Post by Jinx on Jun 28, 2023 11:23:23 GMT 9
Jinx felt weirdly guilty, getting rid of that cat she'd gotten from the Tower of Cats. Like it was a prize, and she needed to hang onto it. But it just didn't strike her fancy. The cat had a smarmy look on its face that Jinx didn't like, and it wasn't growing on her with time, either.
So when Jinx saw an open trade request for another cat--the same species, in fact, but different, er, forms?--she didn't hesitate. That little guy looked like a lot more fun. Less haughty and judgmental, more ready to get involved in the chaos just the way she liked it.
Was it a great tactical move on her part? Frankly, Jinx had no idea. But it seemed like fun, and that was all that mattered to her.
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Jinx
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Post by Jinx on Jun 22, 2023 10:50:22 GMT 9
So the red beam had also been a good thing, gibberish warnings notwithstanding? Jinx was skeptical. She was no scientist, but the effects she'd seen on others hit with the red beam seemed awfully strong to be just a placebo effect thing. Plus, the guy was a proven liar at this point, so who was to say he wasn't lying now? Hell, who was to say that both beams weren't causing... infertility? Or whatever?
Cygnus had lied about their goals twice now, so Jinx went into their final task with some amount of trepidation. It wouldn't surprise her if it turned out that this, too, was some sort of trick, that the signature move would be... used against them, or used to limit them in some way, or... okay, Jinx wasn't great at thinking of potential twists here, but the point was, Cygnus (and the game designers behind him) clearly was.
But all that proved to be more or less moot, because with what information Cygnus did give about their new goal, the path forward seemed clear enough.
"Hey, team!" A bit awkward when there were only two other team members, perhaps, but Jinx still didn't know the name of the guy who wasn't Kazuki, and she didn't really feel like showing off that ignorance on her part. "If we need a signature move... well, I think it's pretty obvious what's set apart our team so far, right?"
She paused for a beat, willing to let the other team members speak up, before continuing.
"So. Kazuki, time for another one of your, uh, 'experiments'. What d'you wanna blow up this time?"
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