PTTA-the lost king and the Cult of Arceus

[Esprit15]

(Metagross is down, but not dead. Lightning Rod is Static, not Sustained above 0 HP.)

[Major]

Aeon keeps up the constant barrage of arrows from the strange energy bow.

Meanwhile, Gallade moves onto his next target and lunges at the Ferrow with a powerful slash.

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Aeon's bow vs the leader
(1d20)[12] vs 4 (ignores everything but defense)
(2d10+15)[30]

Slash vs Ferrow
(1d20)[18] vs 2+evasion (18-20 crit)
(3d8+49)[61] +29 critical damage (see ooc)

[Eshkigal]

The Steelbuffet gets hit back by the fire...but it shines. It slams forward, steely fire arcing right back into Vicuna for 24 damage (do not deduct anything). The trainers snarl, but the two paralyzed ones lock up, while the last one misses again. They're getting worn down. The electricity courses into Era and the metagross, but the combined assault takes the fearow down.

[Major]

Aeon keeps up the constant barrage. The leader was going to fall, she was going to make sure. With a soft bite of her lip, Aeon nodded at Gallade.

"Neko, it's time. You've waited long enough." Aeon said calmly.

Gallade took a deep breath and lunged at the leader. Neko assisted and launched a blast of psychic energy at the leader.

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BTW everyone is remembering the two combat stages I gave right?

Bow vs Leader
(1d20)[17] vs 4
(2d10+15)[19]

Neko's confusion vs Leader
(1d20)[15] vs 2+evasion (19-20 confuse)
(2d8+49)[57]

Gallade Brick break vs Leader
(1d20)[20]
(3d10+47)[62] +29 (see ooc critical damage)

[Esprit15]

Zachariah looks at the last man who was not crippled. "Relax... you need to be calm to hit someone... Just relax..." His voice becomes calm and smooth and his motions grow a bit more fluid as he moves towards the man.

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Hypnosis
AC: (1d20)[18] 6
Target falls asleep

Zachariah loses 20 HP if it hits, or 10 if it fails

Ambrule flickers as the hex fails. Her wick sputters and a dark shadow slams into the leader.

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Night Shade
AC: (1d20)[18] 2
Damage: 38, ignore defenses

John's electrical attack flies towards Era. Copying Bullet was nice. The electricity just sped up thought process. I believe you were the one that had your Metagross attack Zach? She focuses on the mind of the leader.

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Confusion
AC: (1d20)[14] 2, Confuse on 19-20
Damage: (2d8+60)[70]
If Crit: +(2d8+6)[15]

"Oh, they stopped moving. Good." He turns mechanically towards the men and flies at them, slashing at the two closest ones.

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Metal Claw
AC 1: (1d20)[6] 3, Raise Attack on 18-20
AC 2: (1d20)[3] 5

Damage 1: (2d8+38)[45]
Damage 2: (2d8+38)[47]

If Crit: +(2d8+6)[14]

[Cormag81]

"Gun'yōken, Atamanokai we're falling back let the psychics deal with those fools." the three of them move back towards Dougles taking up positions between the crippled man and the enemy.

[Kantolin]

"...rupt?!"

Vicuña was exceptionally surprised at the reaction - that was not at /all/ what he had expected to happen. With a growl, he stepped forward.

"Go ahead, Vicuña."

In which the camerupt gave a second blast of flames.

[Kantolin]

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Camerupt's Ember attack roll: (1d20)[12] (Burns on 18-20)
Damage roll: (1d12+32)[41]

[nosugref4323]

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John's health 52/160
Charizard's health 69/69

John drops back to the ground keeping an eye on the legs of the metagod that's still in the fire spin.
Feeling light headed he gathers all the shadows around him until it is as dark as night and hurls it at the wobbuffet.

As the Charizard decides to help his poor trainer by attacking the wobbuffet by biting it with its fangs on fire

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night daze
(1d20)[8](8)VS 2 if 13+ foe accuracy check increases by 1
damage: (3d12+14)[4][11][9](38) and i don't get to add my con score of 28 to my damage to this for who knows what reason.

fire fang
accuracy (1d20)[20](20) 18-19 burn or flinch 20 both
damage [rollv]3d8+28/rollv] see ooc 43 damage

[Eshkigal]

As the attacks hit, the eyes on it's tail stare right at John. The two of you feel...linked, suddenly. (Destiny Bond)
(1d20)[13]-6 or higher, John is unconscious at 0 HP.

Meanwhile, the leaders are just barely standing still. They will not yield. Take it home guys.

[Esprit15]

Zachariah steps forward to the man he put to sleep, twitching. He lashes his hand out at the neck of the man, draining the life from him.

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Dream Eater
AC: (1d20)[5] 2
Damage: (4d12+39)[59]
If Crit: +(4d12+16)[41]

Ambrule closes in on the leader, hovering above him and his friends. Your life has an interesting taste to it. Her flame sputters and a glob of wax falls, blasting all over everyone in a 4m radius of the leader.

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Flame Burst
AC: (1d20)[2] 2
Damage (Target): (3d8+44)[64]
If Crit: +(3d8+10)[21]

4m radius Damage: 1/16 Max HP

Bullet focuses on the remaining man, flying rapidly at him and slamming into him hard.

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Zen Headbutt
AC: (1d20)[15] 2, Flinch on 19-20
Damage: (3d10+44)[59]
If Crit: (3d10+12)[31]

Era launches a barrage of leaves at whoever else still looks stupid enough to fight whose name isn't Wobbuffet.

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Magical Leaf
AC: (1d20)[15] Always hits
Damage: (2d10+55)[70]
If Crit: +(2d10+8)[19]

[Kantolin]

"Uh!"

Why were they still standing? It was certainly making their chances more... well, chancy.

"Truse!"

The Machoke stepped forward, hoisting John and carrying the human back towards Douglas, who promptly focused on him.

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Izzit okay for Truse to spend his action picking up John? I'm sure a machoke can carry two humans. :P

Presuming so, Douglas then heals John for 20!

[Major]

"Cover the knocked out guy." Aeon orders Gallade as her and Neko keep up the ranged assault on anyone standing.

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Bow v
(1d20)[13] vs 4
(2d10+15)[26]

Neko's confusion
(1d20)[16] vs 2+evasion (19-20 confuse)
(2d8+49)[59]

[Cormag81]

Atamanokatai stay close to Dougles and keep him safe. Gun'yōken," Tearu looks at his newly evolved Lucario, "I have no idea what to do with you buddy."
"Cario?"
"Guess your right battle isn't over yet and you have changed much from how you were before we'll deal with this later first let's go see if we can prevent needless bloodshed today."
Tearu walks up to the enemy trainers but doesn't attack.

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Sorry have no IC reason to want these guys dead yet besides them attacking him which Tearu doesn't see as reason enough to use lethal force. Otherwise would go all out.

[nosugref4323]

As night Daze lands John feels different as if he was a part of something, and not totally his own self. Then nothing. he's out like a light.

Then all of sudden he awakes with a machoke and Douglas hovering over him. feeling extremely tired and weak he just lies there for a bit, but gives a thumbs up sign to let them know that he's okay.

Meanwhile the charizard sees his trainer go down, and proceeds to end the fight by scorching the leader to the best of his abilities.

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john lies around

charizard uses ember
accuracy (1d20)[20](20)Vs 2 18+ the target is burned
damgae (1d6+31)[4](35)+34=69 damage
see OOC for the correct damage rolls
total damage 45

Charizard's on fire right now with these rolls

[Eshkigal]

Under the fire of the group, the leader goes down, a lucky shot from the charizard leaving third degree burns on his chest that cause him to gurgle his last breaths (Enduring Soul feature kept him going, he's dead, no saves). John does not wake just yet (you can when everyone else is dead), and the last two are standing and...laughing? They charge, closing the gap. Finish this, guys.

[Esprit15]

"Hey Ugly, I said to keep asleep!" Zachariah backed off of the man, and flings a flame like an open hand at him.

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Lava Plume
AC: (1d20)[16] 2, Burn on 18-20 or so
Damage: (3d10+36)[45]
If Crit: +(3d10+12)[30]

Ambrule's flame hisses loudly as the last of the leader's life leaves him, and embers of her wick fall onto one of the men.

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Ember
AC: (1d20)[9] 2, Burn on 18-20
Damage: (1d12+40)[44]
If Crit: +(1d12+6)[15]

Zachariah makes a sign to the rest of his team to hold off for now, as the men were now of minimal threat. Make this at least a somewhat honorable fight... Somewhat.

[nosugref4323]

Seeing the leader fall the Charizard roars as if he was proud of what he has done. he then turns to look at his trainer who is still KO'd. Charizard flies over the battle field and fires more well aimed fire towards the goons, as he flies back to his trainer. And blocks the few goons from coming anywhere near John.

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ember again
accuracy (1d20)[14](14) vs2 18+ burns
damage (1d12+25)[8](33)


I now know charizard's nickname. It's Scorch.

[Major]

Aeon and Neko kept up the constant barrage as Gallade stood beside the unconscious trainer ready to kill anyone that got near.

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Bow vs grunt
(1d20)[5] vs 4
(2d10+15)[17]

Neko's confusion
(1d20)[17] vs 2+evasion (19-20 confuse)
(2d8+49)[60]

[Kantolin]

Ever hesitant to assault, Douglas kept his attention focused on the unconscious John. His Camerupt, having not been ordered to do anything, kept himself hesitant as well - but was still ready, as he was far more okay with blasting people than Douglas.

Truse kept his eye on them - he didn't want them anywhere near Douglas, but it now seemed like there were quite a few others helping and he was quite out of shoulders to support people on, so he remained still.

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[Cormag81]

"Idiots! This has been over for awile, why do they keep trying. Gun'yōken let's finish this." Tearu and Gun'yōken rush forward intercepting the two goons before they can reach anyone else and attempt to beet them down. Atamanokatai meanwhile just sits back following orders and keeping both John and Dougles safe.

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Gun'yōken: intercept
(1d20)[6] mod as neccesary
Force palm:
AC (1d20)[3]
Damage (1d10+33)[43]
Tearu: intercept
(1d20+3)[23]
Arms attack
AC (1d20)[9]
Damage (1d12+10)[14]

[Eshkigal]

"It's more fun when it's to the death!"
One drops, while the other closes in, rents in his body showing he is quite clearly dead now. Then, a shadow looms up behind you. It's the probopass, now stained with blood, jumping over you to land directly on the crazy man. With a sickening crack, the fight ends. Probo-Tony has runes flare up, before Tony gets back up and vomits a bit. Meanwhile, Flare limps forward and torches the barely standing probopass into unconsciousness.
"Ugh...I'm sorry, but...well, I couldn't always be gentle back there, and after seeing what those...those monsters did...I couldn't let them hurt others..."

[Esprit15]

Zachariah leaps back as is cousin crushes the man.

Over. Finally over. Zachariah seems to snap back to reality, frantically checking his body for injuries. Arms and legs functional, organs in their proper place, nothing feels broken... Alright, we're good! "Don't worry, I understand, mec. It was necessary."

Zachariah climbs back up to his feet. Such carnage... Wasteful. Absolutely disgusting. He spits a flaming wad of saliva on the crunched face of one of the men. "Guys, grab a ball and recall anything that could be living. I don't think these things running around on their own would be very good. Might be able to find someone who works well with abused Pokémon. Doug, Tony, you guys know anyone? I... I think I've had enough death for today." Zachariah staggers over to a body and goes through it, grabbing balls, money, and so forth.

Ambrule on the other hand seems to be reveling in the death. Her flame was burning brilliantly, lighting the entire underground area. The Litwick passes through the bodies of the deceased, burning brighter each time. "Oh I feel just amazing! I feel like I'm just hatched again! I- oh." She finally notices the rest of the world not enjoying the end of the battle nearly as much as her.

Bullet watches his trainer, having calmed down, and begins patrolling the perimeter of the battlefield.

Era simply watches now, somewhat in shock at the whole thing. She walks over to the brutalized Eelektross, telekinetically poking it, to no response. She stares at the bodies for a few minutes. A jumbled burst of thoughts comes off of her, the Gardevoir looking like she's going to be sick. She then walks slowly over to Zachariah, taps her ball, and disappears.

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EXP for Metagross, Wobbuffet and men?

[Cormag81]

Looking around Tearu shacks his head. "Well that could have gone better."
Atamanokatai floats over to him looking worried for its masters health. Tearu looks at the metang and begins to talk just loud enough for his mon to hear "I'm okay buddy just a little shaken by the stupidity of these people pressing the assault untill they died there was no reason for it, no meaning to their deaths. To much violence, to much pain, to much death I thought I was coming home to stop all of this not become a part of it. We left sinnoh to create peace not destroy it where did I go wrong

His little pity party over, Tearu recalls Atamanokatai leaving just the newly evolved Gun'yōken out. Going over to the fallen John he checks with Dougless "how bad is he and how can I help." Gun'yōken walks over to the formerly possessed Probopass afraid that even with its trainers down it would follow there example and attempt to continue the fight.

[Major]

With the fighting over, Aeon lets go of the energy bow and it vanishes just as it had appeared, leaving it is place a glowing red crest and a glowing blue crest. The crest vanished quickly and Aeon recalled Neko and nodded at Tempus, "Great work everyone." She says.

[Esprit15]

Zachariah responds silently to Tearu without looking up. Oh get over it, you didn't cause any of this. The last one said why they kept it up: They enjoyed the thrill of the battle. The adrenaline of fighting for one's life. Also, there was no way in the Void authorities would have been more merciful if we turned them in after a surrender. You heard the man from earlier: These men would destroy a school on a whim. The amount of murders they are likely wanted for...ouais, they'd probably be put to death anyways. Might as well enjoy the final minutes. Still not paying attention to mental space, apparently.

He finishes looting the body, pulls out his knife, heats it to red hot, and starts cutting through the man's right wrist bones, mumbling to himself. "Police want evidence of them, I'll give it to them." He tosses the cauterized appendage in a pouch on the side of his bag and moves to another of the dead men, the leader. As he walks, Zachariah snaps his fingers, and the looted body bursts into flame. "Muking vile, brutal, deranged, *mumble mumble*"

Ambrule's flame continues to burn hot, brightening the room more. The wax on her body begins to melt, crystallize and reshape itself, trapping the flame behind translucent glass before it got to be too big. Some of it darkens as though burnt, shaping into basic arms and the brim of a street lamp's shade. "I'm sorry, but I just feel so alive! So powerful, like I just dove in a pile of rare candies! The death here just feels so rejuvenating!" the Lampent cries out.

[Kantolin]

Douglas felt sick to his stomach.

This was somewhere between terrible and disheartening. Still, at this point, it was over. 'It's more fun when it's to the death' indeed.

Maybe if he was stronger, he'd have been able to force them into surrender. But now? Now there wasn't a sliver of a chance that they'd change.

Still, he looked up as Zachariah pulled out his knife. What was he - ah.

"Wait." He stepped forward, aided by Truse. "The police are going to want them as is as best as possible. It'll just make their life slightly harder if you damage the dead bodies, as it's a lot harder to identify fragments with ash than comparable wholes. There may, after all, have been more steelix tails about."

Dead bodies. Such an idiotic waste. Douglas looked around - were any of the people or pokemon in survivable shape?

"Thank you, Tearu - John should be waking up any moment now."

Truse set Tony down once he started moving, patting him on the back a bit to help clear airflow. Douglas then went about, in case any of the people or pokemon was not stable but alive.

(Goal is to interrupt Zach setting the bodies on fire, mind you, but if he still goes and does that then... uh, okay then :P )

[Esprit15]

The flame on the burning body doesn't die down, and Zachariah remains focused on looting. "Would you like to be the one to carry three dead bodies through town? Psychos or not, vigilantism tends to receive mixed responses at best. And how do you plan to move that?" he adds, pointing to the smear of a man with a semi-molten Probopass lying on top of it. "They have the prints of the fingers, and the men aren't exactly in interrogatable conditions right now for finding other members anyways." He starts cutting off another hand, stopping half way through at a particularly hard thing in the guy's hand. "Doug, get me two plastic bags from your medical kit, please."

[Kantolin]

"But then why don't..."

Douglas sighed. Either way, they were on fire /now/, so it's not like it was important to argue the point anymore. He handed over the plastic bags.

"So what have you found?"

[Cormag81]

"You need to stay out of my head" Tearu says as he glares at zachariah and realeses Fennikusu. He and the giant steel bird follow Doug around for awile looking for anyone still alive and in need of assistance. Seeing that Dougles has it covered Tearu turns away after saying "Doug if anything or anyone needs help from the center just tell me and I'll have Fennikusu here carry them out. Otherwise I'm going to do my best at preventing our friendly neighborhood looted from taking the cloths off of dead people to sell."