PTTA Inidgo Conference: Training Room and Stands

[MesiDoomstalker]

Hundreds of thousands of trainers and pokemon fans alike have gather en masse onto the Indigo Plateau. The sun is bright and shining over the series of arenas. 64 of the world’s top trainers have gathered inside the Central Conference Center (CCC).

You are all inside a crowded room with your fellow competitors, a small empty stage in front. There is small chit chat going on but most are staying silent, not wanting to reveal something by accident. After a short wait, a short man with brown hair gets up on the stage and addresses the crowd.
“Hello, I am Bill. Some of you may know me as the creator of the Pokemon Storage System. For the next week, I am your Main MC. I will be the final judge on all rules calls. But that doesn’t mean we can’t be friends. I would give you words of inspiration but I don’t think any of you need that. You have all proven that you are worthy to be here by the very fact you are in this room at this very moment. So I guess I’ll tell you this. Good luck. Now let’s meet the other MCs.”

A tall and very buff man with messy black hair, and lacking a shirt walks onto the stage from one end. And an older gentleman in a white lab coat and graying hair walks on the other side and stand on either side of Bill. "These two will be the main announcers for matches. They will provide commentary and vital info of the arena and of your opponent. I suggest you listen to them.”

The older man steps forward and holds up a Kantonian Pokedex. Hello. I know a fair number of you, having giving you your first pokemon. For those who don’t know, I am Proffessor Oak, the resident Proffessor here at the Plateau. I would-”

"Shut yer yap Oak!” The buff man interrupts him. “All you listen! Don’t try no funny business unless you want to face me!” he flexes his muscles.

“Yes thank you Bruno. Like I was saying, I would like the conference to run smoothly.”

Oak proceeds to describe the rules of the tournament in great and boring detail. Bruno quickly falls asleep while standing and it seems Bill nodded off for a bit.

“ARE YOU DONE YET!?” Bruno roars, snapping any who had fallen asleep back awake. “Yes Bruno I’m finished. Shall we bring out their partners for round 1?” Bruno just nods and a line of Gym Leaders and other recognizable trainers fill in the stage. “You have all been randomly paired with a Gym Leader or other noteworthy trainer as a tag partner for round 1. They are not participating in the tournament but they will aid you in any way they can.” A list of the trainers and their partners shows up on the back wall and doors on all sides open up. “Now go meet your partner so you can figure out who you will be up against. And good luck to all.” Each trainer is ushered into individual rooms. There they meet their respective partners, a Nurse Joy and an Officer Jenny and a strange machine with 10 slots about the size of pokeballs. Both of the women great you kindly and instruct you to hand over the Pokemon you are using in the Tournament and your pokedex.

Official League Rules:
I'm reposting these so they are easibly retrievable. These rules are the standard rules that all matches will follow. Some conditions and special stages may change these, but those will be described before the match starts.
•All matches are 6 on 6 battles. The mons used need not be chosen beforehand, being able to call any of your 10 mon till you reach 6 mon used.
•Switching is allowed, but forfeits the entire turn. No other Trainer Actions (including Free Actions), Moves or shifts from the returned or sent out mon. Jugglers using Quick Switch/+ do not forfeit their turn. If a mon faints, both trainers can return their mon and send out a new mon. They must do so simultaneously, so neither can gain an advantage by delaying their release (PM the GM your choice and I will post saying their choices, and the new init, afterwards the players may post).
•No in-battle healing items allowed. No potions or their ilk. If such Items are provided by sponsors, they may be applied to either active or inactive mon, forfeiting their turn just like switching.
•Mon sent out at the start of the battle must be at the opposite edges of the field. Any mons sent out after the beginning may be sent out anywhere on the field, on solid ground (not flying, burrowing, climbing, or swimming).
•Mons may not shift more than 5m above the level of the field or burrowers and swimmers 5m below the level of the field.
•Each trainer will only go through one battle per day. So feel free to blow all your daily use features. There is also free healing after every match, so Center moves are effectively Battle moves. They are still Center moves for the purpose of features.
•Levitating and Flying types loose immunity to Ground moves while burrowing.
•Ranged moves can target burrowers and swimmers normally, with no decrease in range. If the attack must pass through water or ground, it is treated as if it was difficult terrain, increasing the AC by 2. Melee attacks can be used in a similar fashion but only against targets that are only 1m below the surface. The GM will mention if an obstacle is actually blocking terrain, at which point no moves can go through it.
General Meta Rules of Posting and Stuff:
•Each match will be unique. I'll be using a variety of different arenas, hazards, and special match conditions. Some conditions, hazards, and arenas favor certain type and movements over others. I advise your team is varied.
•When posting attacks, please describe special effects of the move, as well as its base AC and damage (not including features and stats). Any active Coats, combat stages, status afflictions and anything else that I or your opponent might need to know and would know. Also say where you move to on the map and how you moved there if you’re trying to avoid an obstacle or some such.
•If you are not a Researcher, do not metagame type advantage. I have measures in place to avoid it, mainly giving no clues of what the mon is. Unlike normal, Dex only needs 1 round to identify a mon. First round the mon is out, it is scanned. Start of next round, it is identified. If a mon is returned and sent back out again, it doesn’t need to be re-identified.
•The Tourny will be 64 trainers, single elimination. The first round wont have any PvP and will be tag battles and probably won’t kick out any PCs (the NPCs will be generally Lightweights). Eveyone will be paired up with a Gym Leader, who are not part of the tournament. Each tag battler gets to use 3 mon, for 6 total for a team. Round 2, Round 3, semi-finals, finals and 3rd place mini-bracket won't have any special conditions announced ahead of time, though they might have a condition announced at the start of the round. The mechanics of the arena and the special match condition will be described in spoiler when the match is announced. Some arena's will have hazards, whose mechanics will not be announced (though may be discovered with a successful Int check). Some hazards won’t be apparent, such as pitfalls, or thin ice, because it wouldn't be much of a hazard if it was known.
•At the start of each match, I will roll (secretly) for the arena and any special conditions, if any. More complex arenas and more odd and complex special conditions will show up the later in the tourny we are.
•The GM will post at the end of every turn, generally to sum up the round and to introduce any new conditions such as changes to init order. Please wait till this happens before posting for the start of the next turn.


You can now post. Roll a 1d64 to see who your up against. Reroll if you roll the same as another PC or the opposite (1 and 64 are opposites. Basically if you were in March Madness reroll if you would go up against a PC for this round). You can start talking to your partner now as well as the Nurse and Officer. This thread is for all non-matches, mainly RP. You can post here as much or as little as you like, even just matching rolls if you like. Its kind of like the OOC in the IC. The arena threads will open once I determine and stat up the first matches. So probably Monday. Any and all posts for active match participents should go in the appropriate Arena thread.

[BluesEclipse]

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Aidan hands over his Pokeballs and Pokedex, and turns towards his partner. "So, it looks like we're working together... Name's Aidan Lucerne. Nice to meet you." Extending his hand towards the man, he awaits Norman's response.

[Esprit15]

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Es places his stuff and looks around. Very nice place. Reminded him of other tournaments and such that he had been to. None this nice though. "They paired me with you, Elesa? Should be an interesting opening battle for us. Such a shame that I won't be able to work with you longer..." He gives a smile to the Unovan Gym Leader.

[Haika]

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Emi adjusted her bonnet as she stood in the waiting room. So many people crammed into a single place was troublesome. She just wasn't used to it. "Ah." The girl smiled at Drayden as she saw him standing there. "Hello Sir, it has been a while since Opelucid City."

The darkly tanned girl shook her pink umbrella and tossed it lightly against the wall where it made a crashing metallic sound. Opening a similarly pink ruffled purse at her waist she put her pokedex and 10 pokeballs into the slots as she chatted with the Gym Leader she found herself paired with.

[IrnBruAddict]

Alana Versa adjusted her key-rings, fiddling with the rape alarm. Just don't make eye contact, he might not notice you. That works for dinosaur pokemon and wrestlers, right? Why did they give me such a frightning guy.

She looks to her left, away from him. 'Uuummm....I'm Alana Versa. Nice to meet you. Please take good care of me. Eh, not that I need taken care of. Eh... uh.... just please dont hurt me.'

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Steven walks in, grumbling about his back, handing the Pokeballs and his 'dex over with some reluctance. Last time he had given a Pokemon to a pretty girl, bad things had happened. Bad things.

When that is done Steven finds a secluded corner of the room, slowly dragging a chair over and sitting down with a groan of pain, his cane helping him out considerably. He pulls out his laptop, plops it down on the counter, and gets to work. Videos of previous Confrences, Gym Leader strategies, and who the hell all these people are. He even watches a few videos of his own to try to find what strategies had worked the best for him.

For nearly five minutes he works, completely ignoring Blue, before he speaks.

"Your film speaks for itself, doesn't it," he says, watching a particularly impressive battle. "Yes, I think you and I can work together quite well. Who did you bring to this, whipersnapper?"

[MesiDoomstalker]

For everyone: The Nurse places all your pokeballs in the machine which puts a special seal on each ball. The Jenny inserts your pokedex a handheld device and returns it to you with an ID and your trainer info scroll through. They both thank you and say your chosen mon are the only ones allowed in the tournament and to present your pokedex at the start of each match.


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Aidan hands over his Pokeballs and Pokedex, and turns towards his partner. "So, it looks like we're working together... Name's Aidan Lucerne. Nice to meet you." Extending his hand towards the man, he awaits Norman's response.

Norman looks at your outstetched hand with a raised eyebrow. "I've reviewed your file. You seem competent enough. Tell me, do you want to win?"


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Es places his stuff and looks around. Very nice place. Reminded him of other tournaments and such that he had been to. None this nice though. "They paired me with you, Elesa? Should be an interesting opening battle for us. Such a shame that I won't be able to work with you longer..." He gives a smile to the Unovan Gym Leader.

Elesa eyes narrow and stares at you for a moment. "Interesting maybe. Though continued 'working' with you is left to be determined. Will you be able to keep me up with me is the real question."


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Emi adjusted her bonnet as she stood in the waiting room. So many people crammed into a single place was troublesome. She just wasn't used to it. "Ah." The girl smiled at Drayden as she saw him standing there. "Hello Sir, it has been a while since Opelucid City."


The darkly tanned girl shook her pink umbrella and tossed it lightly against the wall where it made a crashing metallic sound. Opening a similarly pink ruffled purse at her waist she put her pokedex and 10 pokeballs into the slots as she chatted with the Gym Leader she found herself paired with.

Drayden begins chuckling. "You defeated Iris, a Dragon Trainer in training. Not a master like my self. If we had fought you wouldn't be standing here know. But that is in the past. Are you ready for your first match?"


Alana Versa adjusted her key-rings, fiddling with the rape alarm. Just don't make eye contact, he might not notice you. That works for dinosaur pokemon and wrestlers, right? Why did they give me such a frightning guy.



She looks to her left, away from him. 'Uuummm....I'm Alana Versa. Nice to meet you. Please take good care of me. Eh, not that I need taken care of. Eh... uh.... just please dont hurt me.'

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Wake laughs loudly, his belly jiggling with each HA. "Oh girlie, what are you scared of! You made it this far whats left to fear! ME?!" He continues laughing heartily.


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Steven walks in, grumbling about his back, handing the Pokeballs and his 'dex over with some reluctance. Last time he had given a Pokemon to a pretty girl, bad things had happened. Bad things.

When that is done Steven finds a secluded corner of the room, slowly dragging a chair over and sitting down with a groan of pain, his cane helping him out considerably. He pulls out his laptop, plops it down on the counter, and gets to work. Videos of previous Confrences, Gym Leader strategies, and who the hell all these people are. He even watches a few videos of his own to try to find what strategies had worked the best for him.

For nearly five minutes he works, completely ignoring Blue, before he speaks.

"Your film speaks for itself, doesn't it," he says, watching a particularly impressive battle. "Yes, I think you and I can work together quite well. Who did you bring to this, whipersnapper?"

Blue scowls at you. "Well you've seen how powerful I am and I've seen how powerful you are. I've brought some of my strongest Pokemon with me. You should be familiar with my Arcranine?"

[Arcran]

"Your Arcanine?" he says, watching said beast wreath itself in flames and nearly kill a Golem on his laptop. "Yes, I am familiar with it," he says, completely ignoring the scowl.

"Look, here's the game plan. Lead with your Arcanine, and just follow my lead. Can you do that youngster?" he says, flashing the Gym Leader a toothy grin.

[BluesEclipse]

Norman looks at your outstetched hand with a raised eyebrow. "I've reviewed your file. You seem competent enough. Tell me, do you want to win?"

Scowling slightly, Aidan lowers his hand, and answers, "If I didn't want to win, I wouldn't be standing here in the first place. Trust me, I don't intend to lose here. That said, what exactly do you specialize in? You already seem to have some idea of my own skills, and I probably should learn a bit about yours before we get into the arena."

[IrnBruAddict]

'RAPE!!!!!!' screamed Alana, running away from the scary man. She pulled her alarm, filling the room with a massive screeching sound. After 5 or so steps, she catches her foot, and falls face first on the ground.


'Owwie!'

[Haika]

Emi waves a hand dismissively, "I would have eagerly fought you. Iris didn't exactly give off the prime example of a mature trainer throwing that fit and blathering on about me being a child when I beat her. She really was acting like a child herself."

She takes the pokeballs and dex back from the nurse and officer with a smile and a thank you. "And besides, the pokemon I had back then were weak compared to the ones I have now."

The young desert girl pauses holding one of her pokeballs, "I don't suppose you are still in the business of teaching Draco Meteor?" Emilia gives her best puppy dog eye look with her amber eyes growing as large as she can make them. "Maybe after our first match if I manage to impress you?" The tiny girl inches forward eagerly and peers upward at the much taller(and older) man rattling off quick sentences before he barely has a chance to respond.

[Darchias]

Jachi gave a low moan as he sank into one of the chairs, eyes closed as his hip complained at the motion. He opened one eye to peer at the kunoichi he was paired with. "Janine was it? Don't think I faced you on the Kanto circuit all those years back... How's Koga?"

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[Esprit15]

Es smiles again. "I expect so, but first we should actually win. Somewhat silly to try to impress someone with words alone, especially if those words turn outgo be hollow later." He begins to discuss a basic strategy with Elesa. What mons they planned on using, who to lead with, weaknesses to cover, so forth.

[Milo v3]

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Jacob slowly wandered in, his black jacket flapping dramatically. He slowly passed over his Pokeballs and Pokedex, hoping he gets them back soon.
The teen then turned to his Partner. Tiny canines were visible sticking out of his closed mouth.
"Hey didn't we battle a few months ago.... Your one of the psychic sisters.. Tate or Kate... Sorry I'm not good with names..."

[MesiDoomstalker]

"Your Arcanine?" he says, watching said beast wreath itself in flames and nearly kill a Golem on his laptop. "Yes, I am familiar with it," he says, completely ignoring the scowl.

"Look, here's the game plan. Lead with your Arcanine, and just follow my lead. Can you do that youngster?" he says, flashing the Gym Leader a toothy grin.

"Listen Gramps! I'm here to help you, not be your slave. You can either treat me with respect or not have a partner. See how long you last when its two on one."

He sits down and glares daggers at you for a few minutes of dead silence before speaking again.

"Since your such a brilliant strategist, you should probably want know what Pokemon I brought. I have my Arcanine, Machamp, Tyranitar, Gyarados, Alakazam, and Heracross. Make with that what you will."


Scowling slightly, Aidan lowers his hand, and answers, "If I didn't want to win, I wouldn't be standing here in the first place. Trust me, I don't intend to lose here. That said, what exactly do you specialize in? You already seem to have some idea of my own skills, and I probably should learn a bit about yours before we get into the arena."

Norman nods his head dissaprovingly. "Everyone wants to win and don't intend to loose. The difference between a winner is convicition. Why you want to win, not just the simple desire to do so. It looks like I got my work cut out for me. So you know, I brought my Slaking, Blissey, Tauros, Kangaskhan, Beeheyem, and Braviary. Which do you think will compliment your team the best?"


'RAPE!!!!!!' screamed Alana, running away from the scary man. She pulled her alarm, filling the room with a massive screeching sound. After 5 or so steps, she catches her foot, and falls face first on the ground.


'Owwie!'

Wake's laughter increasing in volume and frequency and theres is a sudden thud! as he falls over laughing. "Chickie, I ain't gonna rape ya. Why would I? I have a lovely wife. She'd be might mad if I tried. Get your tookus over here and we can plan strategy. I brought along my Floatzel, Gyarados, Ludicolo, Swampert, Gavuntula, and Magmortar."


Emi waves a hand dismissively, "I would have eagerly fought you. Iris didn't exactly give off the prime example of a mature trainer throwing that fit and blathering on about me being a child when I beat her. She really was acting like a child herself."

She takes the pokeballs and dex back from the nurse and officer with a smile and a thank you. "And besides, the pokemon I had back then were weak compared to the ones I have now."

The young desert girl pauses holding one of her pokeballs, "I don't suppose you are still in the business of teaching Draco Meteor?" Emilia gives her best puppy dog eye look with her amber eyes growing as large as she can make them. "Maybe after our first match if I manage to impress you?" The tiny girl inches forward eagerly and peers upward at the much taller(and older) man rattling off quick sentences before he barely has a chance to respond.

Drayden's face flashes red for a moment. "You really should learn some respect for you elders young lady. And disrespect is one thing I will not tolerate. If you continue to treat me as such, I won't help you anymore than I absolutly have to. You may be familiar with some of my Pokemon but I brought along my Haxoruos, Hydregion, Kingdra, Flygon, Infernape, and Vanilluxe."


Jachi gave a low moan as he sank into one of the chairs, eyes closed as his hip complained at the motion. He opened one eye to peer at the kunoichi he was paired with. "Janine was it? Don't think I faced you on the Kanto circuit all those years back... How's Koga?"

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"My father is fine. He's taken a short vacation from battling, but he came out for the Confrence. I hope we don't have to face him." Janine bites her lip worried. "I brought along my Crobat, Drapion, Weezing, Muk, Honchkrow, and Beartic."


Es smiles again. "I expect so, but first we should actually win. Somewhat silly to try to impress someone with words alone, especially if those words turn outgo be hollow later." He begins to discuss a basic strategy with Elesa. What mons they planned on using, who to lead with, weaknesses to cover, so forth.

Elesa responds somewhat shortly, giving basic info. She also tells you her current team is Elmoga, Zebstrika, Elektross, Electivire, Lapras, and Leavanny.


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Jacob slowly wandered in, his black jacket flapping dramatically. He slowly passed over his Pokeballs and Pokedex, hoping he gets them back soon.
The teen then turned to his Partner. Tiny canines were visible sticking out of his closed mouth.
"Hey didn't we battle a few months ago.... Your one of the psychic sisters.. Tate or Kate... Sorry I'm not good with names..."

Tate looks at you for a moment, blinking. "I'm Tate and I'm a boy you dunderhead!" He stamps his foot defiantly. "I can't believe I got paired with you! I don't even know how you beat us back in Mossdeep! Grrr. If you must know about my team I've brought my Solrock, Slowking, Claydol, Bronzong, Gallade, and Houndoom."

[IrnBruAddict]

Alana begins to rock back and forth on the floor.

'Gyrados is not a giant evil penis. Gyrados is not a giant evil penis. Gyrados is not a giant evil penis. Gyrados is not a giant evil penis. Gyrados is not a giant evil penis.'

When she seems to calm down a little, she crawls along the ground and clutches the leg of Nurse Joy. She had no desire to go near Officer Jenny, that girl had handcuffs. She was probably into bondage and things.

Alana just cried into Nurse Joys skirt. 'He said he wants my tookus!!! I don't even know what that is!!!! Please don't make me go with the scary man!!!'

[Arcran]

Steven looks at the boy, astounded.

"Gramps!" he says indignantly, his voice rising in volume. "GRAMPS! Listen here, boy, when I was a kid there was such a thing as respecting your elders. Now you brought along a fairly good team that could complement my own. Now unless you want to lose, we'll need a plan, alright?" he says, pulling out a notebook.

"Now, if you're ready to shut up and listen, here's what we'll do," he says, pulling out his pen and labeling battlies, drawing diagrams.

"Now, if you lead with your Arcanine, I could send out......" he goes one, going over various strategem for the two of them for as long as Blue permits.

[Milo v3]

"Really? You look a lot like your sister. Wait or is she a boy as well? If so she should take out that bow. Then again it would make sense for her to have the bow so people can realise she is the girl....."

The foolish teen then paused, a smirk quickly appeared.
"As for how I beat you. I made it up as I went along. :smallbiggrin:"
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[Haika]

Emi deflates a bit in the face of the rebuttle, but mostly pays it no mind. She asks sadly, "So no draco meteor?" Then shrugs and brings a gloved finger to her lips as she goes over the named pokemon in her head. "Pretty well rounded, even an ice type. I'm sure your dragons LOVE that."

[Darchias]

Jashi waved his hand, smiling genially. "Well, if we do face Koga, I'm glad we have someone on the team that knows his strategies. Now, I see four solid Poison types, one that is immune to Psychic and two immune to Ground, then one anti-Psychic and one anti-Ground. A solid team-comp. Lead with whoever you want, just tell me before hand and I'll work around it."

[BluesEclipse]

Norman nods his head dissaprovingly. "Everyone wants to win and don't intend to loose. The difference between a winner is convicition. Why you want to win, not just the simple desire to do so. It looks like I got my work cut out for me. So you know, I brought my Slaking, Blissey, Tauros, Kangaskhan, Beeheyem, and Braviary. Which do you think will compliment your team the best?"

"Hmph... next time, consider asking the question you actually want the answer to. You asked if I wanted to win... and believe me, I do. As for why... well, I've got my reasons," Aidan answers, a cold look filling his eyes at the end. "You don't need to know, but trust me when I say that losing is not an option for me. As it is, I'm not entirely thrilled to be stuck putting my faith in you for this, rather than relying on my own Pokemon, but that's how this one's going. I'm going to trust that you are as competent as you seem - if that list of Pokemon is any indication, you specialize in Normal-types, which I know isn't easy. That said..."

Aiden trails off, thinking for a moment, as he considers the roster presented to him. Finally, he says, "To be honest, it depends on whether you want to play this more aggressively, or let me lead the attack and provide support. If you're planning on attacking, then Braviary, Tauros, and either Kangaskhan or Slaking would be best - Slaking's definitely stronger, but I've never been a fan of them myself. If you're looking to work from defense and support, then Blissey, Beheeyem and Braviary would probably the best ones to compliment my own team."

"As it is, I can't really give a definite guarantee without knowing far more about your own Pokemon, and your battling style. Still, you've seen my file, and how I operate, so you know that I can adapt well enough to anything. It also doesn't help that I don't know who our opponents are going to be for this first round... once I get that decided, we can put together more of a strategy."

[Esprit15]

"Hm, maybe I came off wrong in my hello. Sorry about that. You probably get hundreds of idiots hitting on you. Probably many that are better at it too. Anyways, back to business. We have some good variety here. If you lead with your Leavanny and me with... Would have good coverage together... Of course Zebstrika would work well with... Want to avoid using..." He takes out a notebook and starts writing out possible courses of action for any contingency either of them could think of. Type advantages, disadvantages, misses, etc.

[GFawkes]

Daniel rushes in, running fast. He stops at the desk, then catches his breath for a few seconds. He reaches to his side and pulls up a small bag with Pokeballs in it. With his other, he grabs his Pokedex and presents it. "*pant*...I think..*pant*...I made it in time.." he says, still breathing heavily. He catches his breath shortly, then looks to see where his partner for the first round is.

Finding Morty slightly off from the main group, he approaches him. Huh. Thought you'd be older. Name's Daniel, and I guess we're together for the first round. Do you have any strategy notes to compare with me? Basic attack patterns and sequences, and so forth?"


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[MesiDoomstalker]

Alana begins to rock back and forth on the floor.

'Gyrados is not a giant evil penis. Gyrados is not a giant evil penis. Gyrados is not a giant evil penis. Gyrados is not a giant evil penis. Gyrados is not a giant evil penis.'

When she seems to calm down a little, she crawls along the ground and clutches the leg of Nurse Joy. She had no desire to go near Officer Jenny, that girl had handcuffs. She was probably into bondage and things.

Alana just cried into Nurse Joys skirt. 'He said he wants my tookus!!! I don't even know what that is!!!! Please don't make me go with the scary man!!!'

Joy looks at you strangley. "Don't worry Alana. Wake is friendly. He would never hurt you. He can be a bit....boisterous at times but it just means he likes you. Ur, I mean, he likes you like a friend." She is obviously clueless on how to help the situation. Wake has adopted a very serious face. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. But we have to work together. May I?" He offers her his hand.


Steven looks at the boy, astounded.

"Gramps!" he says indignantly, his voice rising in volume. "GRAMPS! Listen here, boy, when I was a kid there was such a thing as respecting your elders. Now you brought along a fairly good team that could complement my own. Now unless you want to lose, we'll need a plan, alright?" he says, pulling out a notebook.

"Now, if you're ready to shut up and listen, here's what we'll do," he says, pulling out his pen and labeling battlies, drawing diagrams.

"Now, if you lead with your Arcanine, I could send out......" he goes one, going over various strategem for the two of them for as long as Blue permits.

Blue humphs and plops down on a chair. "I was taught to respect those who respect me. I respect you, you are extremly competent. My grandfather told me about you. You beat him back in the day apperently. I didn't think that was possible. But then I saw your file. You know what your doing. A lot more than some of the hasbens that are here." Blue listens and nods, adding in opinions, but generally just listening.


"Really? You look a lot like your sister. Wait or is she a boy as well? If so she should take out that bow. Then again it would make sense for her to have the bow so people can realise she is the girl....."

The foolish teen then paused, a smirk quickly appeared.
"As for how I beat you. I made it up as I went along. :smallbiggrin:"
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"My sister, Liza, is indeed a girl. Now can we stop talking about your failings at basic gender identification and plan?"


Emi deflates a bit in the face of the rebuttle, but mostly pays it no mind. She asks sadly, "So no draco meteor?" Then shrugs and brings a gloved finger to her lips as she goes over the named pokemon in her head. "Pretty well rounded, even an ice type. I'm sure your dragons LOVE that."

Drayden peers down at you dissaprovingly at the request for Draco Meteor. "They know his purpose. Dragons are weak against themselves and Ice types. So if we run into a Dragon type, I have a counter that isn't countered in turn."


Jashi waved his hand, smiling genially. "Well, if we do face Koga, I'm glad we have someone on the team that knows his strategies. Now, I see four solid Poison types, one that is immune to Psychic and two immune to Ground, then one anti-Psychic and one anti-Ground. A solid team-comp. Lead with whoever you want, just tell me before hand and I'll work around it."

"I'm here to assist you, not the other way around. I'll take your lead but I'm no slave either. Tell me who you think will be a good lead, and we will start there."


"Hmph... next time, consider asking the question you actually want the answer to. You asked if I wanted to win... and believe me, I do. As for why... well, I've got my reasons," Aidan answers, a cold look filling his eyes at the end. "You don't need to know, but trust me when I say that losing is not an option for me. As it is, I'm not entirely thrilled to be stuck putting my faith in you for this, rather than relying on my own Pokemon, but that's how this one's going. I'm going to trust that you are as competent as you seem - if that list of Pokemon is any indication, you specialize in Normal-types, which I know isn't easy. That said..."

Aiden trails off, thinking for a moment, as he considers the roster presented to him. Finally, he says, "To be honest, it depends on whether you want to play this more aggressively, or let me lead the attack and provide support. If you're planning on attacking, then Braviary, Tauros, and either Kangaskhan or Slaking would be best - Slaking's definitely stronger, but I've never been a fan of them myself. If you're looking to work from defense and support, then Blissey, Beheeyem and Braviary would probably the best ones to compliment my own team."

"As it is, I can't really give a definite guarantee without knowing far more about your own Pokemon, and your battling style. Still, you've seen my file, and how I operate, so you know that I can adapt well enough to anything. It also doesn't help that I don't know who our opponents are going to be for this first round... once I get that decided, we can put together more of a strategy."

"You know I have a son about your age. Frilly little priss. But he has the conviction to do what he loves despite my displeasure and I respect him for it. You have convictions, I can tell. I apologize you must "rely" on me but trust me, I will not hold you back. I'm here to assist you, I'll work off your strategies."


"Hm, maybe I came off wrong in my hello. Sorry about that. You probably get hundreds of idiots hitting on you. Probably many that are better at it too. Anyways, back to business. We have some good variety here. If you lead with your Leavanny and me with... Would have good coverage together... Of course Zebstrika would work well with... Want to avoid using..." He takes out a notebook and starts writing out possible courses of action for any contingency either of them could think of. Type advantages, disadvantages, misses, etc.

Elesa warms up a bit, realizing it was only light hearted flirting.


Daniel rushes in, running fast. He stops at the desk, then catches his breath for a few seconds. He reaches to his side and pulls up a small bag with Pokeballs in it. With his other, he grabs his Pokedex and presents it. "*pant*...I think..*pant*...I made it in time.." he says, still breathing heavily. He catches his breath shortly, then looks to see where his partner for the first round is.

Finding Morty slightly off from the main group, he approaches him. Huh. Thought you'd be older. Name's Daniel, and I guess we're together for the first round. Do you have any strategy notes to compare with me? Basic attack patterns and sequences, and so forth?"


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Morty's gaze hovers somewhere on the ceiling for a moment before turning lazily to your general direction. "And you are but a babe yourself. What is one hatchling calling another?" Joy and Jenny look at Morty and you very strangely and take your 'dex and 'mon and return them. There is an awkward silence for a moment before Jenny interjects. "Uh, Morty. Shouldn't you be talking to your partner about strategies?"

"I suppose so. A good strategy will win against brute force every time. You wish to know of my team as well? I am carrying a Gengar, Misdreavus, Golurk, Chandelure, Lucario, and Bisharp."

[Esprit15]

"So what do you tend to specialize in anyways, as far as battle style? Should have probably gone over that before even mentioning 'mons, but I'll manage. I tend to favor...and... Picked up a few tricks from...as well." He pulls out a marker to highlight preferable courses of action if the unexpected happens. Knowing preferences and battle styles ahead would make the battle go as smoothly as possible, and could factor into deciding the next course of action. Shouldn't ask her to have her Pokémon tank a bit if she prefered a quick and evaisive strategy.

[Milo v3]

"... Sorry about that... Here is what I have (Proceedes to tell Tate my pokemon)....
Okay so how about this, don't use Houndoom, as its talents are redundant while supplemented with my own. Use move typing to our advantage using guys like Solrock who can use types that aren't his own, like fire and stuff. This will cause them to be uncertain about what we are using at first, giving us a slight advantage. I think I should be offensive as my strategy specializes in it."

[IrnBruAddict]

Alana reaches into her purse, pulls on a rubber glove, then puts her hand in Wakes fist. She closes her eyes, expecting him to crush it. When he doesn't, she tries to look at his feet, so she can avoid eye contact.

'Umm, I'm good with the weather. So we can either start off with a Sunny day and your Magmortar, or a Rain Dance and ..... well pretty much your whole team. And... umm.. please don't laugh at my pokemon. I know some people think I'm stupid for bringing them, but I still love them.' Tears seem to be in her eyes at this point. Acting normal was very hard for her.

[Darchias]

Jashi rubs his chin, idly cursing himself for shaving off his goatee. "Ok then, lead with Wheezing. We'll start off slow and defensive, hopefully he's packing some Haze to stop them from setting up on us. I'll start with Itsu here and we'll stack statuses." He shows his Pokedex, which had a picture of Itsu so Janine knew what he was using.

[BluesEclipse]

"You know I have a son about your age. Frilly little priss. But he has the conviction to do what he loves despite my displeasure and I respect him for it. You have convictions, I can tell. I apologize you must "rely" on me but trust me, I will not hold you back. I'm here to assist you, I'll work off your strategies."

Aidan looks at Norman for a moment, and says, "And I didn't mean anything against you... I just prefer to rely solely on my own skill, and the Pokemon that I've trained." Closing his eyes for a moment, Aidan continues, "'A man that seeks greatness must find his own path, and walk on his own two feet.' I was told that long ago, and got this far because of it. I'm sure you're capable... I'm just not really accustomed to working with anyone."

Shaking his head, he opens his eyes and looks back at Norman, saying, "Well, it doesn't matter. We do what we must, after all. As it is... I haven't had much of a chance yet to look into my competition, though I'll be doing so before too long - I want to see who I'm facing before I spend too much time researching. So for now, we should just see about putting together general tactics." With that, he begins discussing the tactics available with the various Pokemon combinations.

[Haika]

"Hmm, guess that makes sense. My team is pretty varied." Emi fiddles with the hem of her ruffled pink one-piece dress as she skips around the room. "Did you have a plan for the battle?" Swinging her brightly dyed-green hair braids around her, Emilita pokes her head out of the door, curiously listening to the muffled sound of an alarm of some sort nearby.

[GFawkes]

"Huh, so if we couple your Golurk with him, maybe put Bisharp with...that could work if we have Gengar go...and if his Ability...." Daniel says, going off on several mental tangents at the same time.

"OK, so lead with either Gengar, Misdrevous, or Chandelure. And then we'll be able to..." Daniel begins, going into a complex plan with several forks in it for "what if" scenarios, using his hands to animate his speech.

[Zdude]

Steven decided to just chill in his room. He had been paired up with some nobody that looked kind of goofy.

He smiled at his partner. "Who are you?"

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"Oak? Yeah, I beat him once upon a time. It was a good battle too," he says with a smile.

"Your team is obviously geared towards offence. What kind of coverages do your guys have? Moves, Abilities, items. The more I know, the more I can help," he says, actually sounding interested now. "Can any of your Pokemon heal themselves?"

[MesiDoomstalker]

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[MesiDoomstalker]

"So what do you tend to specialize in anyways, as far as battle style? Should have probably gone over that before even mentioning 'mons, but I'll manage. I tend to favor...and... Picked up a few tricks from...as well." He pulls out a marker to highlight preferable courses of action if the unexpected happens. Knowing preferences and battle styles ahead would make the battle go as smoothly as possible, and could factor into deciding the next course of action. Shouldn't ask her to have her Pokémon tank a bit if she prefered a quick and evaisive strategy.

"I generally do hit-and-run tatics, strike and move away."


"... Sorry about that... Here is what I have (Proceedes to tell Tate my pokemon)....
Okay so how about this, don't use Houndoom, as its talents are redundant while supplemented with my own. Use move typing to our advantage using guys like Solrock who can use types that aren't his own, like fire and stuff. This will cause them to be uncertain about what we are using at first, giving us a slight advantage. I think I should be offensive as my strategy specializes in it."

"Ok fine. I'll start with my Solrock. But if he gets creamed by a Ghost, its your fault!"


Alana reaches into her purse, pulls on a rubber glove, then puts her hand in Wakes fist. She closes her eyes, expecting him to crush it. When he doesn't, she tries to look at his feet, so she can avoid eye contact.

'Umm, I'm good with the weather. So we can either start off with a Sunny day and your Magmortar, or a Rain Dance and ..... well pretty much your whole team. And... umm.. please don't laugh at my pokemon. I know some people think I'm stupid for bringing them, but I still love them.' Tears seem to be in her eyes at this point. Acting normal was very hard for her.

"Don't cry missie! You'll do fine. Rain Dance will supplement my team the most, though Magmortar can bring out Sunny Day if you like."


Jashi rubs his chin, idly cursing himself for shaving off his goatee. "Ok then, lead with Wheezing. We'll start off slow and defensive, hopefully he's packing some Haze to stop them from setting up on us. I'll start with Itsu here and we'll stack statuses." He shows his Pokedex, which had a picture of Itsu so Janine knew what he was using.

"Interesting tatic. You must have beaten my father to know our tatics so well"


Aidan looks at Norman for a moment, and says, "And I didn't mean anything against you... I just prefer to rely solely on my own skill, and the Pokemon that I've trained." Closing his eyes for a moment, Aidan continues, "'A man that seeks greatness must find his own path, and walk on his own two feet.' I was told that long ago, and got this far because of it. I'm sure you're capable... I'm just not really accustomed to working with anyone."

Shaking his head, he opens his eyes and looks back at Norman, saying, "Well, it doesn't matter. We do what we must, after all. As it is... I haven't had much of a chance yet to look into my competition, though I'll be doing so before too long - I want to see who I'm facing before I spend too much time researching. So for now, we should just see about putting together general tactics." With that, he begins discussing the tactics available with the various Pokemon combinations.

"We will work on the teamwork together. Trust me." He flashes a soothing smile.


"Hmm, guess that makes sense. My team is pretty varied." Emi fiddles with the hem of her ruffled pink one-piece dress as she skips around the room. "Did you have a plan for the battle?" Swinging her brightly dyed-green hair braids around her, Emilita pokes her head out of the door, curiously listening to the muffled sound of an alarm of some sort nearby.

"I'm here to help you. I'll take your lead. I'm here to assist you, not carry you."


"Huh, so if we couple your Golurk with him, maybe put Bisharp with...that could work if we have Gengar go...and if his Ability...." Daniel says, going off on several mental tangents at the same time.

"OK, so lead with either Gengar, Misdrevous, or Chandelure. And then we'll be able to..." Daniel begins, going into a complex plan with several forks in it for "what if" scenarios, using his hands to animate his speech.

Morty stares at you blankly while you go off on numerous tangents. "Slow down. One strategy at a time. Which would you like me to lead with first?"


Steven decided to just chill in his room. He had been paired up with some nobody that looked kind of goofy.

He smiled at his partner. "Who are you?"

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"I'm the great Chuck! I'm the strongest fighting trainer ever! How have you not heard of me?"

His mon are Poliwrath, Breloom, Lucario, Heracross, Jolteon, Scrafty. You came in a bit too late to do proper RP to find out.


"Oak? Yeah, I beat him once upon a time. It was a good battle too," he says with a smile.

"Your team is obviously geared towards offence. What kind of coverages do your guys have? Moves, Abilities, items. The more I know, the more I can help," he says, actually sounding interested now. "Can any of your Pokemon heal themselves?"

Blue smirks and starts to list of thier movesets and abilities. Expect a PM with details in a bit.

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Your Joy grabs all of your attentions. We have the matchings for round 1! A large bracket shows up on a screen that hadn't been on the wall before. The bracket is just for show, you'll be randomized after every round. There you can see all the competitors, their partners and who they are matched against.

Matches:
Timmy/Roxanne vs Arcran/Blue
Joey/Whitney vs Haika/Drayden
May/Roark vs Es/Elesa
Brady/Misty vs. Irn/Wake
Tim/Jasmine vs.Blues/Norman
Sam/Pyrce vs Zdude/Chuck
Igor /Fantina vs Darchias/Janine
Ross/Clay vs Gfwakes/Morty
Rachel/Bugsy vs Milo/tate
Dullahan/Claire vs Moranica/Wattson
This is not the order of the matches by the way. Sorry for not using IC names, never bothered to look at them. I find this easier.

@Arcran: And it seems your the first match of the Tournament Steven! A door opens up leading you and Blue down a long corridor. It takes at least 10 minutes to walk its length giving the 2 of you plenty of time to strategize. Eventually a bright light is seen at the end of corridor, revealing a humongous stadium filled with roaring fans. There is an open field with a metal covering, where the arena will appear from. The announcer's voice booms through the stands.

Welcome to the Mew Arena folks! Go here for your match. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13268054#post13268054)

[Zdude]

"I'm the great Chuck! I'm the strongest fighting trainer ever! How have you not heard of me?"

"Nope," Steven answered, "I've never heard of you. I hope you're not full of hot air, though. I don't want to have to carry this team to victory."

Steven continued to smile in a friendly way. "I'm Steven. I'm quite good at this PokeMon thing."

[Esprit15]

"Okay, that works well with my general strategy. Sounds like the first match is starting up. Want to head out? Should be a good match. I've heard this guy's pretty good even by the standards here."

[IrnBruAddict]

Alana rubs her red eyes. 'Um, okay. Misty will probably know Rain Dance benefits us as much as it does her, so will send out electric types or Grass types. I can hit the Electric ones, and Galvantula can bug attack any grass types. And if she does try a water, Galvantual can hit it with an electric attack. And I'll cover him if the other guy tries to use fire.' She grabs her skirt and blows her nose on it, leaving a large snot stain on the front.

'Umm, do you think we could get Misty to put clothes on during the match. I heard that she only wears swimsuits. That's disturbing, and would put me off.'

[Milo v3]

"Okay.... I have no idea who Rachel is, so she might use any time of creature. She sounds nice though..."
Jacob drifted off for a second or two, trying to imagine what she will look like.
"And Bugsy, will likely use insects which are strong against psychic... Solrock's fire capabilities will likely be useful, especially with my own fire type. But I won't send out mine first as Rachel might be cunning... Like a Clam-thingy.... Cloyster... And if she is then she will likely use something good that can protect the bugs, likely a water or ground type. Solrock is likely going to be immune to most of the ground moves. To protect it from water types I'll use Moros... Moros is doom incarnate so their shouldn't be a problem."

[Darchias]

Jachi looked at the pair on the board with unease. "Well... I don't recognize Fantina. Is she a Sinnoh Leader? I never ran the Sinnoh circuit, too cold up there. Igor though... I think I've seen him somewhere before..." Jachi pulls out his laptop and starts to research him, looking for his past battle records.

Using Did the Homework on Igor, Fantina, Myself, Fantina's Drifblim, and Janine.

[Milo v3]

A Roar of cheering erupted from Jacob's side, as he turned he noticed their were many screens to his right. The teen watched the display.
"That old man is rather dramatic. Its a good sign. Without style what is the point of us even being in this competiton. I hope me being dramatic doesn't hamper your style."
Jacob's tone was slightly cold, giving the impression that even if it did hamper Tate he would be dramatic anyway.

[GFawkes]

As Daniel is about to explain all his plans again, Nurse Joy makes her announcement. Looking at the board, he finds his name and settles on a strategy.

"OK, I have no idea who this Ross is, but I know Clay favors the ground. Grounds don't usually like distance, so we should give them a wide berth. Lead out with Misdreavous, and I'll send Amelia. You focus on keeping them busy." Daniel says.

"For now, let's watch this match. It's always good to scout the competition before diving in."

[Esprit15]

"Oh, and he's against Roxanne. A Rock trainer like one of our opponents. Will be nice to see her real team. Might get an idea for fighting Roark and," he looks at the screen again. "May. Hm, wonder if it's Birch's girl or a different one..." He finds seats near the battle.

[BluesEclipse]

Nodding at Norman, Aidan turns to look at the pairings for the first round. "Hmm... Jasmine and Tim. To be honest, I've never heard of either of them - a shame it's not one of the Sinnoh Gym Leaders. Still, given that they made it this far, I'm sure there will be plenty of information I can find on both of them with a bit of work. I'll see what I can find out about them... assuming they won't be at any serious disadvantage, though, I expect to be using Ibuki, Mordayn and Tarvik, so go ahead and plan accordingly. I'll give you a heads up if there's going to be any real changes. For now, though, I'll see what I can pick up about them before my match."

Using Feature: Did the Homework. Targets are Jasmine, Tim, Jasmine's Gym, Jasmine's Most-Used Pokemon, Tim's Most-Used Pokemon.

[Darchias]

Jachi had migrated over to the general area Aidan was due to his monopoly on free electrical outlets and couldn't help but overhear. "You say you're from Sinnoh? I'm going up against a Gym Leader from there, goes by Fantina. You wouldn't happen to know anything about her would you? I'm sure I could recall some facts about Olivine City's Jasmine for you..." He slyly mentioned, glancing at him while his fingers danced over his keyboard.

[Haika]

Emi ponders a bit then suggests, "You handle defense then if you can. Then I'll deal with offense. If you can keep them from hitting me long enough, we should be fine." The 11 yr old retrieves her umbrella while heading outside to look for a seat still blathering on carelessly about her strategy. "I don't know who the guy is, but Whitney is known to use normal types right? Garnet will work nicely for that." She darts off, with the umbrella and it's massively reinforced metal spinning on her shoulder.

[BluesEclipse]

Blinking, Aiden looks over at the man that approached him, and listens to his offer before nodding. "From Orre, actually, but Sinnoh's the only organized League I've been in. Aidan Lucerne, a pleasure to meet you." Aidan extends his hand to the other trainer, politely, as he continues. "As for Fantina, yes, I remember her. She specializes in Ghost types... when I fought her, she used a Duskull, Haunter, and Mismagius, but I know she's also got a Drifblim and a Gengar that she rotates in and out. She tends to use afflicting attacks quite a bit, such as Confuse Ray and Will-O-Wisp."

[Haika]

Emilia reaches the front row of the stands where the seats for competitors are sectioned off right as the Arcanine collides with the Drifblim in a blaze of fire. She cheers right along with everyone else before peering at the others seated or standing around the competitor area.

The 11yr old introduces herself to whomever cares to listen, "Hi, I'm Emi, are you guys all battling here?" She looks on with wide amber eyes as she plops herself down in a seat and begins to swing her legs without a care in the world.

[Milo v3]

Noticing the 11 year old introducing herself, he slowly wandered to her position. His black jacket flapped in the wind, making him look dramatic. This sense of drama was kind of ruined by the fact he didn't seem to know what he was doing.
"Hi Emi. I think this is were we sit... Maybe... But anyway, I'm Jacob."

[Darchias]

Jachi nodded, thinking about Jasmine. "When I fought her, not that long ago maybe four years, she used Steel Type Pokemon. If she doesn't have her Steelix with her I'll eat my camera. Her strategy is fairly straightforward, she has powerfully defensive Pokemon with beasly attack. She most likely has a speedster in there, but I would bet a majority of her team is on the slow side."

[Haika]

"Hi Jacob." Perceptive types might notice she suddenly sits on her hands, with the umbrella in her lap for some reason. "Yeah, the sign over there says for compete- competi- that word for being in the tournament should sit here. We don't even need a ticket!" The dark skinned girl rocks back and forth in her seat looking over Jacob while also trying to keep her attention on the battle going on in the arena. "That's a neat looking cape. So you are battling here too? Do you have a prediction for this battle? Do you know anyone else battling?" She fires out a quick stream of questions that seem to float around her as much as her braided green hair is doing because of her constant head turning.

[Milo v3]

The teen chuckled.
"Its not a cape, simply an awesome jacket. I would like a cape though... Would have to watch out for fans though... And yep, I'm a competitor. Can't wait to battle."

The vampiric boy then turned his head to the arena, but continued to talk to the little girl.

"I hope that old man wins. He has style, and since he's old that makes him badass. I want to battle him.... And sadly I don't know many of my opponents. I'm not good with remembering famous people or faces or names...
I'm from Hoenn and I'm pretty sure most people here are from Johto and Kanto..... So where are you from?"

[Haika]

"I'm from a village called Jeovia." Emi pauses a bit as a look of concentration crosses her face, "It's probably closest to Unova as a region goes. But I like to travel." She jumps from her seat and cheers at a particularly effective move from the arena before plopping down again. "I've fought lots of gym leaders before I was invited here, from lots of regions. Some were easier to beat than others, but I took most of em down." She puffs her cheeks a bit in a pout, "Even if Drayden says I beat Iris because she was an apprentice leader, I'd beat him too, I know it."

[Milo v3]

Yet again the teen smirked.
"If your here then you can probably beat all the gym leaders. The challenge will be the hostile environments, quick thinking, and uncertainty. Those are a warrirors allies. Even without a strategy a warrior can succeed if he's imaginative and is smart. Sturdy allowed spheroid to survive giving him a chance to attack with all his power without care of danger. A good strategy, ruined by quick thinking.

I don't bother with strategy. And making it up is so much more fun."

Jacob's voice was cold and logical for most of his monologue, returning to normal with the last line.

[Darchias]

Jachi paused from his research to smile at the match. "Ah, Protect. Me and Protect are old friends, it's good to see it again, particularly such a timely one." He commented.

[Haika]

Emilita stands up and leans out over the railing as Jacob talked about strategy. "Sturdy eh... " She giggles a bit then turns to the teenager talking to her, "So you're a warrior? Want to arm wrestle?" The young trainer tilts her head a bit and scratches her chin, "All the warriors back home arm wrestled. It took me ages to start winning."

[Milo v3]

"Arm wrestling?" Jacob knelled down, rolling up his jacket sleeves. You could see that his arms were amazingly thin and pale.
"Sure. why not?"

[IrnBruAddict]

Alana finally manages to break away from the creepy man Crasher Wake. Seriously, who goes around half naked and in a gimp mask? She was surrounded by nothing but perverts who wanted to take advantage of her.

She finally emerges on the viewing platform. She looks deathly pale, her knees are shaking and her eyes were red from crying. She took a seat. It was close enough that she didn't seem too anti-social that everyone else hated her, but far enough away that no-one should talk to her.

Just keep your head down Alana. The sooner you finish this the sooner you can go home to Lavander. Nice, safe, old, boring Lavander town.

[BluesEclipse]

Joining Jachi out in the stands with the other competitors, Aidan comments, "So she's a Steel-type specialist, eh? And favors a Steelix? Should be fun." And I'll definitely want to stick with my original plan... Ibuki, Tarvik and Mordayn should be ideal. Aidan thinks to himself before turning his attentions to the match and his research into his opponents.

[Haika]

"Uhh.." The dark skinned trainer's face flashes a bit of worry when she sees the tiny arm the teen is sporting. "Are you sure? I know all about pink muscle and all that, but you /really/ don't look like the type. I don't want to hurt you." Emi seems to be totally serious for once as she says this.

[MesiDoomstalker]

Milo and Haika, opposing Str checks for arm wrestling.

[Milo v3]

A small smile appeared on his face, but he seemed a little uneasy as spoke.
"Don't worry, because of my bone I'm stronger than I look."

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[Haika]

"..." Emi shrugged and clasped hands with the guy. "I did warn you." She adds before slamming her fist downward with unbelievable strength and hoping those Nurse Jennies are still nearby.


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[Milo v3]

Jacob slowly moved he arm back, rubbing has red hand slightly.
"I'll be damned....I'm strong but that that was awesome... Now my hand stings..."

The teen then twisted his hand into what appeared to be an awkward pose. His fingers then stiffened as he twisted his wrist. You could hear slight clicks as he did it, but he didn't seem to be feeling any pain from it. Slowly his hand's position returned to normal, but had a tint of red upon it.

"Much better..."

[Haika]

Emi seemed relieved that the arm hadn't snapped like a dry twig, it has happened to her before. "Oooh, You're right, you are stronger than you look."

She tilts her head and watches with morbid curiosity as the bone is snapped back into place, or whatever it is Jacob did after the match. "I've never seen any of our warriors do that though. Is it because of your bone being stronger like you said before?"

[Milo v3]

"Yeah. Strong bones help. Still stings a lot though, but I should be fine for tomorrow."
Slowly he turned back to the battle in the arena.

"It is disappointing though, he doesn't seem to have many new ideas. Protect, Protect, Protect."

[BluesEclipse]

Aidan smirks slightly to himself as he watches the match. "I'll have to remember that he uses Protect quite a bit. And Fire Spin... always fun to see that in use."

[Esprit15]

"Hm, his strategy seems good. Kind of wish Protect wasn't as effective as it is, but it's something to watch out for I guess. I just wish it had more flare," Es comments to Elesa, flinging his hands out at the word 'flare.' "Still, he took the Aerodactyle out of the fight without knocking it out and now they can focus their power on one opponent. Suppose I should watch for that. Actually, I don't think Roark will, but May might pull the same strategy. Maybe we could try something similar with Cinder or Wilt."

[Haika]

"Hmm, Protect may be boring, but it's a good tactic for defense." Emi twists one of her brightly colored green braids idly as she watches the match. "Ya gotta have some offense as well though. The fire move is good to stall, but usually won't knock out a pokemon."

The girl spots Alana out of the corner of her eye and decides to skip over to her. "Hi, I'm Emi. What's your name?" She leans forward and peers at the other girl in the competition with a friendly smile.

[IrnBruAddict]

Alana had seen what had happened between those two. Then the immensely strong demon girl was walking over towards her.

'NOOO! Don't break my hand, I haven't done anything. Jenny! Officer Jenny! Wake! Anyone, save me! Don't let the monster lolicon and the freaky bones man get me!'

She tried to jump over the row of chairs to get away, and ended up face planting again.

'Owwie.'

[MesiDoomstalker]

10 faceplant damage.

[Haika]

Emi blinks a little as the woman freaks out, then winces as she falls, "Umm, are you alright? I'm not going to hurt you. I promise." She stays standing where she is, figuring that trying to help would just make matters worse, the strength of the girl has caused issues before, though this reaction was a bit extreme even for her. "I just thought maybe we could talk? There aren't as many girl trainers like us."

Also, Emi is the loli. XD How could she be a lolicon... Unless you meant Jacob. Who I think Emi left over to the side a bit?

[IrnBruAddict]

Alana has a very skewed view of sex, wouldn't make sense if she knew what a Lolicon and Lolita actually were. It was a purposefully miss-usage of the word.

Alana turns round, blood pouring out of her nose. 'Please don't hurt me. I'm not a super strong little girl, nor do I have bendy bones. I'm just here with my cute pokemon to try and enter, to see how far we get.' Alana fetches some tissue paper from her purse and shoves it up her nostrils. She looked quite strange, her skirt covered in snot from crying earlier and the bloody tissues up her nose.

'Please don't molest me. I'm not into girl-on-girl.'

[Esprit15]

"Two on one. Now we see what he's really capable of, hopefully." Es laughs, actually. The guy down there was very well known. Two on one should show what his real plan was. Shame, he was wanting to go down and visit with the other contestants. Oh well, they can wait. If things went well he would end up battling this man, and knowing his plan was more important than a bit of idle chat.

[Darchias]

Jachi had an odd look on his face as he saw Hovah's combo with Steve's ability. "That bastard..."

[Haika]

"Bendy... Moles?" The confused 11yr old tilts her head and tries to focus on what she could understand out of all that. "Ooo, you have cute pokemon? Mine are cute too.." She thinks for a moment, "Well at least one of them is." Emi turns back to the strange girl, "Want to meet her?"

[IrnBruAddict]

A look of fear shot across Alana's face. Oh Mew, what if her pokemon ate my face? Please don't be a poison type, please don't be a poison type, please don't be a poison type, please don't be a poison type. It'll eat meeee!

All Alana wanted to do was run away, but she knew that this little demon girl could hunt her down and rip her in half. Her best bet was to just not anger her.

Alana nodded. 'Eh... sure, that sounds... lovely! Aha, ahaha!' She forced a smile to appear, despite still having eyes full of fear.

[Esprit15]

Es just stares at the arena. Wow. "Quit? He Muking quit!? He could have had them! Another electric move and Wailord would probably have been done for! The Probopass was a sitting duck!" Dang, seems he wouldn't get a chance to fight the guy after all. "I'm gonna head down and chat with the other competitors. Maybe one of them will spill some secret. Pass the time if nothing else."

Es gets up and heads down to see what the others are up to. He spots Alana and Emi, noticing the former bleeding from the nose and looking like a wreck in general. I thought fights among the competitors weren't allowed. "Hey, what's going on here? Looks like a fight. You know that could get you kicked from the tournament." The tall man in a suit offers a hand to the person who appears to be on the losing end of the fight, though how one loses to an 11 year old girl he wasn't sure.

[Milo v3]

Jacob walks over to Es.
"Actually there was no fight... She just said hi... I think that girl, Alana, is afraid of Emi for some reason. But either way... I'm Jacob."
As he spoke, the teens canines were visible, giving him a vampiric appearance.

[Esprit15]

"Well with a little human vampire just staring at her bleeding nose I can't imagine why she'd be terrified. What, your teeth not grow in right or did you actually get them filed to look like a freak?" Why in Void did every official event draw such weirdos!? Even watching contests you'd swear half of the competitors were... Whatever. He pulls the bleeding girl up and helps her to a chair.

[Milo v3]

Despite the hostility Jacob, seemed rather amused by the agression.
"A human vampire. Compared to an alien vampire.... Oooookay...

Also I believe she was afraid of Emi, since she is amazingly strong. I only just walked over here and I hadn't even noticed her bleeding noise. Are you blind or do you suffer from a mental disability?

I wouldn't be surprised if you did. You jump to conclusions without thinking. I'm amazed they even let you in here with your damaged mental capacity.

And to answer you question, my teeth grew this way and I was teased for it since I was four. You'll need to think of a better insult than vampire."

[Esprit15]

Es looks over the girl to make sure she's fine, then turns to the obnoxious little snot. "Yes, as opposed to being purely vampire. You know, a half breed, like what you must be in order to have such screwed up dental features.

Mentally deficient? Really? A guy comes in from the stands after watching the match going on outside and actually discusses strategy with his teammate, something that if you are here implies you clearly have not done enough of, and you decide to call him mentally deficient? For one, that is one of the most pathetic insults that has been ever invented. It's the sign of a lazy mind when all one can think of is insulting how intelligent one is.

Furthermore, I have not shown myself to be mentally disabled in any way, simply having been absent from the events that transpired. I spoke to neither of these girls with hostility as you suggest. I reached a logical conclusion based on the events that I saw. I come here and see a girl, terrified, bleeding, dress covered in her own mucus, and come to the conclusion that she was in a fight. Fairly reasonable.

Anyways, back to your poor analysis of myself. Blind?" He taps the glasses that are sitting on his nose. "Not blind, but visually impaired certainly. Seems you jump to conclusions just as rapidly as I do, and don't even have the wellness of mind to reach semi-logical ones. Though I could say the same of assuming that one who was not even present for an event would know the full sequence of happenings that would lead up to our current scene.

Better insults? Okay. Do you sparkle as well?
Careful everyone, I hear Sharpedo have Rough Skin.
Wait, I know how you missed my glasses! Zubat can't see!
They weren't making fun of your teeth, they were making fun of you because you're just a prick.
And did the adult teeth grow in screwy as well? Or have the baby ones not all fallen out yet?
I'd make a joke about Bibarel, but just looking like one must be sad enough.
I thought Omastar were extinct.
Wow, they hated you so much they didn't even punch you in the face so you could get fake ones put in their place.
I hear most deformities are the result of inbreeding. The same of short tempers and poor mental skills. Doesn't look too good for you. Though if you have webbed feet too I suppose you could fit in with the Feraligatr if this doesn't go over for you."

With that, he turns and returns to the bleeding girl, pulling out some tissue to dry her nose.

[Milo v3]

Strangely his expression doesn't change from his amusement.
"That some better insults. Good work. Give yourself a pat on the back.

Now I wonder how did I jump to conclusions? You gave me evidence that there was something wrong with you, either visually or mentally, by thinking she was crying because of me, even though I wasn't anywhere near her. To add to that you said I was staring at her blood with adds to the idea that you are visually impaired. Also you stated all this agressively for basically no reason after I explained their was no fight.

And just so you understand, when I say visually impaired I mean that you can't see even with your glasses, maybe they're the wrong size or type of glass. I'm not an expert on glasses.

Now from your perspective you will likely see me as a rude person for the rest of your life. But you should realise, though doubt you will, that you were the attacker not me.

You see I don't insult people who explain that I got something wrong and then introduce themselves. You on the other hand do. This shows you are rather impulsive, are at least slightly deluded or have anger problems. And personally I'm guessing the last one. Which would help pointing to mental problems.

And yes I may be lazy minded if I'm bored. But it seems you have some signs of sentience so in future I'll skip the basic insults.

And I'm not inbred, and my teeth aren't really a deformity. More of a trait. If you think that having two slightly larger canines is a deformity then your definition is pretty screwed.

And lastly, I'm not being short tempered. I just like insulting people who act like jerks."

[Haika]

"HEY!" Emi shouts and pushes the new guy's hand away from the strange/shy girl with the force of a dump truck impacting a small cat. "No touching!" She glares at the man, then pulls out a pokeball with a tiny leaf on the seal before popping it out in a contest worthy-shower of green. "Come on out Jade. I wanted to show you to this... whoever her name is, but maybe you can teach this guy a lesson too if needed." The pokemon released is a small little purple wrapped plant bud thing. "Use Sunny day. Get rid of this annoying rain and show yourself off a bit more to the nice nervous lady." Emi continues watching Es, making sure he doesn't try anything. She also has no idea the battle in the arena is over, but isn't really thinking about that at the moment.

Alright, Mesi let me know if I need to roll an attack on the arm slap, also I'm assuming that Bloom dosen't effect anything other than appearance. Hopefully there are no other issues with the post.

[Esprit15]

Es ignores the boy. Not worth his time. Could smack him around later when it wouldn't get him kicked out of the match.

"Apologies, miss. I did not mean any hostility towards you or this young lady. I was simply attempting to help clean her up, seeing as she clearly needed it and nobody else was making an attempt to aid her. Additionally, her condition suggested that a fight was taking place, though I see that that is no longer true. Now please call off your Pokémon before I inform the officials." Every year it gets worse. This is why they didn't allow children in the past. Childish crap like this.

*Note: A dump truck will have the same force whether it hits a cat or a building. The change in momentum of the dump truck is what would differ between the two scenarios.

[Milo v3]

Emi is very impulsive it seems. Jacob quickly shifted his tone from amused to friendly.
"Emi. I would put your pokemon away, if other competitors see it then they will likely try and figure out what it is and try and get the upper hand on you. This guy, even though he is a jerk, isn't going to harm her and isn't worth damaging your chances in the competition."

[Haika]

"You people are strange." She shakes her head making the green braids tumble about, "I said I was going to show off Jade, and I mean it. There are recordings of my contests and battles people could find and watch if they wanted. But that's just being a stalker, and only really gives limited ad-van-tage in a battle." Emi nods wisely before smiling at Jade, "And besides, she's cute. So there." She puffs her cheeks poutily, then checks to see if Alana likes the little flower pokemon.

[Milo v3]

"I may as well make this fair."
The teen then plucked an orb out from his jacket pocket. It was completely black except for a gold ring and button.
He aimed it next to him and clicked.
A raven furred beast emerged, it was a quadruped, and a horn jabbed out of its head. Sparks of electricity jumped from its fur into the air around it.
"Moros. Ancient Personification of Doom. He is the thing which brings despair to the souls of mortal men. He is calamity. He is destruction. He is Doom."

[Esprit15]

Es just stares at the teen. "And I'm the one scaring her. Between you and punches-like-a-truck-on-the-highway girl, I think I'm the least terrifying person here."

[IrnBruAddict]

Alana had stayed quite all throughout the conversation, like a rabbit caught in the headlights. Only now did her brain start working again. And she noticed Es was fussing over her.

'He's touching me! He's touching me! He's Touching me! MOLESTER!!!! EEEEKKK'

Alana slaps Es's hand away from her, and reaches into her oversized bag. She pulls out a small container. 'Stay back from me, all of you wierdos. Demons and perverts and midget wrestlers.' She tries to spray Es in the face, but hadn't noticed she was holding it backwards.

'Aaargh! My eyes!'

[MesiDoomstalker]

A loud series of whistles sound stings everyone's ears. A platoon of Jenny's appear out of nowhere and immidialty restrain Es, Emi, Alana and Jacob. Not even Emi can fight agianst their combined strength. Everyone is forced onto their knees and face turned towards the ground, only being able to see the shoes of the Jennys.

What were you all thinking!? You could have started a riot. The stands are full of adrenaline pumped fans who just got robbed of a close match by a forfeit and you four are bickering like school children! And you! A pair of black boots appear in Emi's field of vision, close enough to smell the shoe polish. Sending out a pokemon is fine. But you used a Move, one that could affect a match even, hit another competitor and threatened him too! How can you be so stupid? The Conference rules clearly dictate no non-match fighting or interference with matches and you've done both. I could kick you out of the Conference and have your trainer liscense revoked here and now. What would your parents think? Dissapointment is thick in her voice.

More pressure is put on both Jacob and Es and a single boot appears on one side of each of their vision. You two. Bickering like little children. Just because this is a competition doesn't mean you should act like your children on a ball field. Why can't you just enjoy matches and congratulate eachother when they win and console those who lose? She makes a 'tsk' noise and walks away from them.

Alana feels her self being lifted and she suddenly finds her self on her knees, and the chief Jenny kneeling infront of her. She gently wipes away a tear. Listen little lady. You can't be going around pulling pepper spray on people. Even if you only shot yourself, its still dangerous to yourself. Promise me that you won't do anything rash again? At least till the end of the conference, ok?

The head Jenny stands up and says in a rather rough vocie Release them. Except Emi. I need to speak with her in private. Everyone but Emi is released. Emi is escorted by no less than a dozen Jennys through the labirynth of the stadium inner corridors to a small windowless office. It is simplly furnished, a plain desk with two plain chiars, one on each side of the desk. Noone is inside the room.

[Haika]

Emi huffs and plops down into one of the chairs with a resigned expression. Not like this sort of thing hadn't happened before. She was only trying to show off her pokemon not start a riot or whatever Jenny was talking about. Hope someone at least was able to get Jade back into a pokeball during the arrest or whatever that was.

[Esprit15]

Es grunts from the force. "Sorry ma'am. *ug* Didn't mean anything about matches. Saw what looked like a fight. Tried to break it up and help the person who lost. Turned of to be nothing. Won't happen again." He doesn't struggle against the person holding him down. He looks to the girl who pepper sprayed herself. "Sorry if my actions were a bit rough. I only meant to aid someone who appeared to be injured. Apologies if it came off as anything else."

As he is released, he tries to better introduce himself to the terrified person. "Hello Miss, my name is Esben Remed, Es for short. And you are?" He places his hand out.

[MesiDoomstalker]

Emi waits for at least an hour before a Jenny walks in. Its difficult to tell if it was the same one, but her demeanor gives her away. She sits down and places Jade's ball on the desk, outside Emi's reach. She stares Emi down for a while before finally speaking. What were you thinking?

[IrnBruAddict]

Alana was rubbing her eyes. They were very red, both from the pepper spray, and from crying after being yelled at by Jenny.

'Alana. And sorry, but I don't like being touched. I'm just very jumpy, sorry. Oh, and sorry for trying to pepper spray you all.' She doesn't look Jacob or Es in the eyes, looking at the floor.

[Esprit15]

He pulls his hand back. "Eh, we all have our oddities. I hate oddities in teeth. Gaps, chips, crooked teeth, fangs," he looks to the boy, "just sets me off for some reason. And don't worry about the pepper spray. I should have waited for your permission to lift you to the chair." He finds a chair and leans back. "Well you missed the most anti-climactic battle ever. Guy was about to win and then quits. I think he had other reasons. Was going too well."

[Haika]

After waiting in an hour in a small windowless room with no one else, and nothing to do. Emi was probably half asleep, if not fully so when Jenny finally arrived. Slapping her cheeks lightly to wake herself up, Emi responds to the question, "Umm, I wasn't?" The girl shrugs, "Stuff like this always happens... Thinking is a pain, and I was going to show off Jade, but then the sun wasn't out so she was all covered up, and the girl didn't seem to like being touched and those guys were bickering and all acting like I shouldn't show her my pokemon and I'm like I don't care that much and it's hot in here is that jades pokeball when do I get to fight already you people invited me here to battle right not stand in the stands and watch and Im ready to show drayden how to battle and man Im tired..." It takes a little bit, but eventually the girl builds up steam and launches into a string of fast paced emi-talk that might drag on for ages if Jenny lets her.

[MesiDoomstalker]

Jenny quickly raises a hand signalling the girl to stop. I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt. But your explanation is clear. You don't have the self-control to keep yourself out of trouble and from disturbing the matches. The higher ups have decided you are disqualified. And I agree. I'm sorry but I'm afraid you must leave. A Jenny will escort you to your room so you may pack your things. Please don't try anything. I really don't want to hurt a little girl. You are not allowed on the Conference grounds until the champion has been declared. This little incident might have harmed your chances of entering next year. I advise learning some self control. Good bye. Her voice is very serious. She is not joking. Another Jenny enters the room and motions you to move. Jade's pokeball rolls over to you.

[Haika]

The girl actually goes silent at this comment. Self control? Emi's hands tighten on the metallic umbrella, causing a grinding sound to fill the room. Self control means not breaking people's faces for insulting her, or smashing this desk in front of her into little pieces, or slapping someone on the back in greeting and tossing them on accident into the wall head first and being covered in blood and panicking while calling for help and waiting for the ambulance to arrive. Oh yes, Emi has no self control. None at all.

And hurting her chances? This Jenny obviously has no idea what Emi has gone through to get here. The trainer has fought quite a few highly publicized battles, even has a fan club, though she tends to ignore them and thinks them 'creepy'.

Gritting her teeth Emilita stands up and collects her pokeball. "Fine." The word is barely snapped out, almost animalistic, and the grinding sound doesn't stop as she only holds the umbrella in one hand. She didn't attack anyone intentionally, managed to keep from damaging the grounds and only used one move for making it sunny in the stands and not in the arena. But if the people running this tournament don't want her to compete, she had other places she could battle or at least try and relax more.

Ok then... Guess that's it for this game, barring GM npc intervention or whatever. ;/ I tend to roleplay my characters to ideals I have set, and I don't see Emi as being someone who would be quiet and apologetic and demure. I thought I was having fun and roleplaying her without being directly confrontational or causing issues, but if this is the way you want things to go, I can deal, and go play in other games. Though I'd rather not. *shrug*

[Eshkigal]

"Well, for one he was trying to relieve pressure on his chest more and more often through the fight. Heart palpitations, possibly. But don't worry, there's a medical team waiting for him."
"Blissey!"
One of the iconic medical mon comes by with a bottle of water, with a man wearing a patch with a red cross limping along behind her. Both are wearing jackets saying EMT as the man speaks into a radio.
"Matthew Zelus and Egglady at site. Now, who got pepper sprayed? You, right miss? The head Joy sent me over to take care of getting it out of your eyes before your match, make sure you're not allergic, simple things like that."

[IrnBruAddict]

'Eeek! A cosplayer!' Alana points to the man coming towards her. 'Nononono, um.... I'm fine. See... no tears.' She points to her puffy red eyes. She was still crying.

[Eshkigal]

(Also, as I said OoC, cleared for this)
"Cosplayer? Medical staff, there are a few dozen non Joy medical staff located at strategic points in the coliseum. First responders, mostly. We handle the smaller incidents."
He stops where he is, to avoid confrontation. The blissey brings the water bottle up, to hand to Alana. Meanwhile, Matt points to rows of people dressed up-some even dressed as battlers here.
"Those are the cosplayers, ma'am."
Oh dear Mew there's a guy dressed like you over there.

[Milo v3]

Turning to Es, the smirk gone from his face. He brushed off dust from his jacket.
"Don't worry about it. I kind of get carried way when fighting. I like being dramatic, which is why I made that little speech with Moros."
Jacob slowly patted his companion, the electricity had stopped though, being replaced by tiny embers.

[Darchias]

Jachi put his laptop into sleep mode as he got all the information he was likely going to need. "So the next fight is... Emi? Isn't that the girl that got carted out? Oh well, that seems like a minor offense seeing as how the match was over." Jachi was certain that a simple apology would clear up the confusion and he would next see the young trainer in the Arena with Drayden, Joey, and Whitney.

[BluesEclipse]

"Hmm... he certainly doesn't seem to be having much luck..." Aidan muses aloud as he watches the match. "Though, he would be quite dangerous under other circumstances, I'm sure."

[BluesEclipse]

Aidan nods to himself as the match finishes, saying, "I'll have to keep in mind that he seems to like fighting while airborne, if I do wind up facing him..."

[Esprit15]

Es had begun to make his way to their waiting room. "I was honest back there. You did most of the work in that fight, though I guess Whiteny did for them. It just feels a bit like a hollow victory. I mean, what did I do that you couldn't?"

[MesiDoomstalker]

Grib put Whitney's pokemon to sleep which severly hindered her ability to retaliate. And you kept them occupied with Sky and Nox while I setup Electivire for a sweep. It was a team effort, as it should have been.

[Esprit15]

"Eh, I guess that's true. Wish we could have pulled it together sooner. Oh well. Like you said: distracted while you buffed for a sweep." Es leans back in a chair and watches the arena change."Hm, that will be interesting."

[BluesEclipse]

Nodding at Norman, Aidan says, "Looks like we're up next. Shall we make our way down?"

[Darchias]

Jachi walked over to Es and shook his hand. "Not often you meet someone willing to support a teammate like that. These young glory hounds have no sense of strategy, it's sickening. I hope you get far in this tournament, I look forward to matching my skills against yours." Jachi grinned genially.

[Esprit15]

Es smiles lightly to his partner, then sits up and shakes the guy's hand. "Thanks. Looking forward to seeing your style of battle as well."

[MesiDoomstalker]

Norman nods and heads toward the arena without a word. You get the feeling he is confident in your ability, despite his displeasure earlier.

[Esprit15]

Esben settles back into his chair as the battle begins. Kind of. "Heh, Bruno would be having a regular fit with how this battle is going. Smart trainers: Buff up and then go for the kill. Wish we had time for that in our battle. That would have made for a nice sweep. Hm, wonder what they're planning though. Miles isn't exactly a sweeping sort of mon. Not fast or strong, so why is he buffing offenses?" He looks hard at the arena on the screen. Something seemed off, but he couldn't tell what. Must be the lopsidedness and asymmetry of having the stream on one side of it.

[Darchias]

Jachi nods, extremely impressed. "They ruled that match with a heavy hand, that Slaking has some serious power."

[Esprit15]

Esben scowls at the screen. "Indeed. Elesa did a lot of work on our team but that was a tad ridiculous. Norman could have probably soloed that without breaking a sweat." He gets up and stretches before leaving the room. "Still, it's polite to congratulate the winner." He leaves and waves to Aidan and Norman as they return from the arena and shakes Norman's hand. "Excellent match, sir."

[Milo v3]

"Well that was a much faster match."
The teen slowly patted his demonic beast.

[Esprit15]

"Trees. Now that would be fun for Sky. Well, while they were there.

Why's everyone so somber!? It's the championship! We should be having fun!"

[Milo v3]

"Probably because of those Jennies breaking up our verbal sparring.

Either way, where are you from? I came from the deserts of Hoenn."

[BluesEclipse]

As Aidan sits down in the section of stands reserved for the other competitors, he hears Jacob's comment and shrugs. "Hoenn, eh? I'm from Orre, myself."

[Esprit15]

"Ekruteak, though my family is not Johtan."

[Milo v3]

"I thought Orre ran out of wild Pokemon or something. I guess you found some. In Hoenn they're everywhere, even in the wastes of the desert. Their every single cactus will try to kill you."

[Esprit15]

"Beats old houses not be trustworthy. Many a good scare, finding two shadows following you home at night. Though most are just playing, they forget that we're a tad squishier than they. Accidents happen."

[BluesEclipse]

"Heh... sounds fun." Aidan says, chuckling. "As for wild Pokemon, Orre has a few, but not many. Most of mine are ones I had a friend of mine breed for me, though I caught a few on my travels through Sinnoh."

[Esprit15]

"How is Sinnoh? I've never been there. Always wanted to, but it was so out of the way. Ran through Unova while visiting a cousin for a year, but that's the only way I made it there. Hated the musicals. Oh, do they have contests in either of your home regions? I always had trouble finding one in Johto."

[Milo v3]

"Offical Contests first started in Hoenn so there's a good number. I'm actually pretty good at them myself, in fact I won several beauty themed competitions with a Feebas. I could never get him to evolve but he was an amazing fighter and a strange beauty."

I actually did do that in Sapphire, I even got that Feebas's picture in the museum after the second time he won the grand beauty ribbon. :smallbiggrin:

He was Level 67 before I stopped using him, stupid fish never evolved.

[Esprit15]

"I heard those were popular there. Many a good contest in Lilycove. I personally had a Clampearl that always was able to dazzle people. Was a pretty powerful fighter, too. Actually took on the league with him. And some others, of course, but the little guy pulled his weight. Evolved a few days afterwards for seemingly no reason."

(Also true. Level 74 Clampearl. Friend told me how to evolve one finally.)

[Milo v3]

"I heard it has to do with how they make pearls. Something getting stuck in them causing irriation, or it Clampearl's case evo."

[BluesEclipse]

Chuckling at the tales of the others, Aidan says, "Never been in any contests, myself, though I've seen a couple in Sinnoh. Don't have them in Orre, though - we really don't even have Gyms the way you guys do here. I did pretty well for myself in the Coliseums, though."

Aidan thinks for a moment, before saying, "I suppose if I ever run into that odd disco guy that used to be with CIPHER again, I could mention the Contests to him, though - they seem like they'd be his kinda thing."

[Esprit15]

Esben lets out a loud holler. "Now that is a finisher! Judgement, I felt the shockwave in here even!"

[BluesEclipse]

Wincing, Aidan says, "Ouch. That looked painful... a shame, though. He might've been interesting to fight."

[Milo v3]

"That was harsh. And isn't it way too risky to use that in an arena full of innocent viewers."

[Esprit15]

"Nah, they have walls and they took the blast just fine. If they lack the forethought to prepare for the two big E's of battle (Earthquake and Explosion), well for one we likely wouldn't be standing here."

[BluesEclipse]

Nodding, Aidan says, more to himself than anyone, "I do wonder, though, just how well these barriers would hold up to an Armageddon..."

[Milo v3]

"Well it looks like I'll be up next. Hopefully Moros will rain destruction upon my foe."

[BluesEclipse]

Nodding, Aidan says, "Good luck to you... I look forward to taking you on later in the tournament."

[Esprit15]

"Good luck, man!"

[Esprit15]

Esben noticeably relaxed as the boy left. "Well, I get to see if the kid can actually fight. As far as I can tell, he's all show right now. Rip him up, Roark!!!"