these_balls: (SERIOUS MOD BUSINESS)
Route 29: mods ([personal profile] these_balls) wrote in [community profile] route_10652014-10-29 02:33 pm

HOENNWEEN: BOSS BATTLE LOG

Who: Hoennween Plot Participants!
Where: Tohjo Falls!
When: Thursday, October 30th
Summary: You've taken the Elite Four's estate and reaped the (stolen? borrowed? requisitioned) benefits waiting for you inside it. But come morning, an earthquake signals the arrival of two incredibly belligerent Legendaries and the Team Bosses who've summoned them.
Rating: PG-13 in general; please mark threads that go higher accordingly!
Log:



YOU ARE HERE. YOU'RE FIGHTING THESE GUYS.

THIS IS STILL YOUR BACKGROUND MUSIC, AND THIS IS STARTING TO LOOK LIKE AN EPISODE OF JACKASS.


KEY:
GRAY areas in the north are a range of mountains that form a natural barrier around part of the Tohjo plain where the Elite Four's resort is located. This is where you will find and battle Maxie, his Team Magma Grunts, and also obviously that sure is Primal Groudon, all right.

GREEN areas in the southeast and southwest are densely-packed forested areas interspersed by lakes and rivers that seem to be feeding into the main waterway into the area. It is both difficult and dangerous to venture into the woodlands proper, but this seems to be where a lot of the Team Aqua Grunts are stationed now.

• The BLUE area in the south is the massive lake that feeds the eponymous falls that give Tohjo its name. This is where you will find and battle Archie, his Team Aqua Grunts, and also obviously that sure is Primal Kyogre, all right.

PINK diamonds in the east and west are the sites of massive formations of Mysterious Plot Crystals™ jutting up from beneath the surface; the Grunts will not be found around these today, so if your character is looking for a safe zone well away from the crossfire, they will want to hole up near these.

• The BROWN rectangle dead-center in the map is...the Elite Four's resort. It's even more unfortunately-located today than it was yesterday. However, people willing to risk the crossfire between the Legendaries and get into the house will have access to all of the battle and healing items discussed up here!



A FEW OTHER SETTING NOTES:

• As per Arceus's summon, there will be Gen VI Pokemon joining the battle on their own! You may NPC these Pokemon, within reasonable limits; you may not capture them in Pokeballs, and they are still wild so they will not take commands from characters the way a captured Pokemon would from its trainer. However, they do recognize that the portaled-in humans are fighting on roughly the same side as they are, so they won't attack player characters and might occasionally come to their aid if need be — you're free to NPC them as you like for purposes such as this.

• The aforementioned Gen VI Pokemon can be any Pokemon that swarmed during September, plus any of their evolved forms. They've had several weeks in the wild to get buff and settle in; now you can see what they've got to show for it!

• You may NPC the Team Aqua and Team Magma Grunts as you see fit; either one can reasonably be found anywhere on the map, though they're avoiding the crystals and keeping close to their bosses — that means Team Magma will be more highly-concentrated in the northern areas of the map, and Team Aqua will be staying to the south.

• Due to the nature of the battlefield and the fact that the team leaders are going to be defending their Legendary of choice, if you choose to fight the bosses, please select whether you are going after Archie or Maxie on this particular log - you may go after one but not both.

• However, there is no restriction on how many Aqua and Magma Grunts you may fight!

• You may forego Pokemon battling entirely and simply beat up the Grunts with physical violence yourself. If you KO a Grunt, they will white out and be warped to the nearest Pokemon Center back down in the regions proper, where they will be arrested by an officer of the Kangaskhan Police.

FOR CHARACTERS INTENDING TO USE HONEDGES LIKE WEAPONS: due to the high volume of questions we have received on this topic (it's a popular inquiry!), we want to clarify for this Pokemon in particular —

If you choose to use a Honedge as though it were a traditional sword, the most that the Honedges will allow might be slapping the grunts with the flat side of the blade. They are still opposed to attacking/killing humans, opponents or not, and if you try to stab an opponent with them, you're going to get a really obstinate ghost sword going incorporeal and ineffectively going through them. There's also the fact that you're grabbing them by the head and swinging them around — they won't like that very much.

PLEASE NOTE: if you intend to use a Honedge in this manner anyway, we may ask that you experience light IC consequences for it later in the plot! We're not barring you from getting your sword skills on with your Honedges; we're simply pointing out that there may be natural outcomes that follow from those choices.

UPDATE: if you would like to interrogate the grunts, check here for information you can learn from them!


~

☆ THE NUMBER TO MEET OR BEAT IS 37 PARTICIPANTS.

REMEMBER: IF YOUR CHARACTER DOES NOT POST TO THE BOSS BATTLE LOG AT LEAST ONCE
(AS A TOP-LEVEL COMMENT OR IN RESPONSE TO SOMEONE ELSE'S TOP-LEVEL COMMENT)
BEFORE 9:00 PM EST on OCTOBER 30, THEY WILL NOT COUNT TOWARD THE 37-PARTICIPANT GOAL!

~


QUICK LINKS

EVENT LINKS MASTERPOST | THE BOSS BATTLE INFOPOST | QUESTIONS FOR MODS | BOSS BATTLE PARTICIPATION CHECK-IN THREAD

BATTLE THREAD WITH ARCHIEBATTLE THREAD WITH MAXIE

THE TEAM LEADERS MEET
peach_boy: (Mad at you)

[personal profile] peach_boy 2014-10-30 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what you say1 But you don't look like a good guy at all!
pokestars: (archie)

[personal profile] pokestars 2014-10-30 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Are you kidding him right now, Momo?]

Like the calm waters of the sea, appearances can be deceiving! Team Aqua is actually a force for good in the Pokemon world! Not evil!

[Disclaimer: This is what Team Aqua actually believes.]

All we want is to create a world that's better for Pokemon.
peach_boy: (Mad at you)

[personal profile] peach_boy 2014-11-01 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, right. Well I don't believe you! Oni-chan wouldn't have called me here if something serious and bad wasn't happening!
pokestars: (archie)

[personal profile] pokestars 2014-11-01 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, who called you here?

[He has absolutely no clue what you're talking about.]
peach_boy: (Hey Gou look at me!)

[personal profile] peach_boy 2014-11-02 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Oni-chan! My brother!

[He's really fired up because of that, because it turned out that his brother wasn't even there and even if he's sometimes really annoying he still misses him.]
pokestars: (archie)

[personal profile] pokestars 2014-11-02 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Your brother called you here and told you to stop me?

[Wait, wait, wait, he knows where this is going now. And judging from the angry look on his face, it's not going anywhere good.]

I've got it now. You must be related to those Team Magma goons!

[And now he's bringing out Crobat to menacingly flap its wings look intimidating. Or try to look intimidating.]

You should just go home and tell your brother that him and his stupid team aren't stopping Team Aqua today or ever again!
peach_boy: (Mad at you)

and I apparently missed this tag. sorry!

[personal profile] peach_boy 2014-11-05 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, now Momo is really confused.]

The only team I am a member of is my school swim team! And I will stop you! Pyunsuke, get ready to fight!
pokestars: (archie)

[personal profile] pokestars 2014-11-05 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're on a swim team, then you should be on our side. After all, Team Aqua represents the power of water and the ocean! But if you're going to stand in our way, then...Crobat! Air Slash!

[With some more flapping, there's a blade of air being blasted at that Heracross. Oh no.]
peach_boy: (My smile is so bright)

[personal profile] peach_boy 2014-11-05 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
But you use water for evil! Then that's not good at all!

[And just when the attack is about to hit, a light envolves Heracross and now have a mega stag beetle and a Momotarou freaking out over it.]

Pyunsuke! Did you evolve?! Use Arm Thrust!
pokestars: (archie)

[personal profile] pokestars 2014-11-05 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Arm Thrust hits for...the maximum five hits according to a random number generator. Wow, that's some bad luck on Archie's part. Could've been worse, but it's still a pretty solid hit.]

A Mega Evolution?!

[He should've expected this somehow, but still.]

Never mind. Squash that bug with Acrobatics!

[Hopefully that does some sort of damage to make up for Air Slash.]

And we're not evil!