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[Mkok]

Half the world declared war on me calling me a warmonger (I dont mean to point fingers, but it was not me who enslaved half of Africa and India, and waged war upon China when they refused to buy my drugs, and yet they dare call me the warmonger ) So I wrecked their fleets, forced UK, France and Austria to disarm and pay war reparations to me, establishing myself as the undisputed ruler of the seas. And at same time accidentally creating worldwide shortage of clothes and furniture. Who would have though that such a huge fleet of sailing ships would use up so much of the worlds cloth and wood supply 

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Victoria 2

[methylatedspirit]

I entered a shrine (Dah Hesho, apparently), its subtitle was "A Minor Test of Strength". Cheesed the shrine. Stabbed robo-guardian-thing a bunch with a Thunderspear, then when its electrical energy ran out, I pulled out my Thunderstorm Rod and zapped it some more. Thing died in less than 15 seconds. That's probably my fastest non-Blessing shrine ever. I think my entry and exit load times were longer than that fight.

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

[Akura]

Chucked a brick of TNT out of a window, nearly causing a total squad wipe.

In the same match, an enemy armored car drove around to the back of the chateau I was trying to hold. As I threw the TNT, they dismounted. I don't know if they were getting out to repair, or what, but the explosion destroyed the entire crew and the armored car. That one got the achievement for wiping a squad in under 5 seconds, and the one for destroying a tank.

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Enlisted. Essentially, a free-to-play Battlefield, with the schtick that instead of playing as a single soldier, you control an entire squad - you personally possess one with a bunch of AI bots following you and can switch freely or when you die. You never know if the guy you're shooting at is another player or one of their bots... unless they shoot back because the AI is terrible.

It is a Gaijin game, though, so there's almost certainly some Russian bias, or at least anti-German bias; every match I've played as Germany was an incredibly one-sided loss.

[USEC_OFFICER]

I fulfilled the Oath of the Peach Garden. Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei all died on the same day, in the same month and in the same year.

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Total War Three Kingdoms. I was playing as He Yi and somehow managed to capture all three of them after a single battle. Needless to say, the yellow turbans did not look kindly upon them.

[Akura]

Took my first province by conquest instead of building a fortress in an unowned one.

Army may have been overkill, 800 adamantine golems with various weapon configurations, all powered by faerie dust(which is the best power source I've seen). Took the local rhinomen's fortress in a few turns of siege. Taking the city next to it took significantly longer. The initial time to assault was over 30 turns, so I decided to add some... "engineers" by binding(which I think means enslaving) some pixies. To build siege weapons and towers for automatons that I assume are significantly larger than an average human. Because that makes sense.

Spoiler: and it does (click to show/hide)

During a siege, units that are not tagged with Beast, Mindless(I assume Lesser Mind as well), or Monster can produce labor points that can be spent on building siege engines(which add random progress per turn) or siege towers(lowers total progress needed to assault). Golems are Mindless, so they cannot build siege engines. Pixies, curiously enough, lack all of those tags. The mental image is still pretty funny.

Pixies also make excellent skirmishers. I also added some mudmen to the siege, because they get a bonus to siege progress. A few times they sent a unit out, only to be immediately reduced to a red smear. Any losses were immediately replaced because my(formerly their) fortress was in the adjacent tile, which gives unit replenishment at effectively no cost. When it came time to actually assault the city, both armies had around 1300 total troops. But only the numbers were equal. The first few rounds of combat, the pixies slaughtered hundreds in ranged combat before being chased back. The golems smashed into their lines. The rhinomen gave dozens of lives at a time just to bring down one golem. Most of them broke and ran. Out their 13 units(of 100 men each), 5 were destroyed completely. I lost one unit: a bunch of zombies I created from one of the troops they tried to get out of the city during the siege.

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Wizards and Warlords, which I've been playing for the past few days.

[EuchreJack]

I fulfilled the Oath of the Peach Garden. Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei all died on the same day, in the same month and in the same year.

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Total War Three Kingdoms. I was playing as He Yi and somehow managed to capture all three of them after a single battle. Needless to say, the yellow turbans did not look kindly upon them.

Nice!

[Akura]

Fought a desperate, pitched battle against the Hand of Sajuuk, the enemy command carrier, in the final mission of the campaign. The mission itself is a constant barrage of attacks from all sides, making it very difficult to rebuild your forces, so I had to use what I had.

Already lost about a third of my ground forces against the first enemy carrier, the Ashinta, and I didn't have quite enough resources to rebuild. A combination of cruise missile, orbital laser, and sacrificing half my entire complement of aircraft took about a third of the Hand of Sajuuk's health off. And it kept rolling directly towards me. My carrier and three artillery cruisers engaged the enemy carrier directly. I don't know why, probably its large size, but those artillery cruisers did a lot more damage than anything else.

As a finishing move, I launched all remaining aircraft, ordered all units to engage, and struck a the actual killing blow with a direct hit from the orbital laser into the center of the ship. The ending cutscene(which is done in-engine) had my aircraft doing a flyby of the exploding ship.

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Deserts of Kharak. Was on sale, quite cheap. Still is for another 16 hours at the time of this post.

[Yoink]

The other day I somehow managed to get five or so kills in a match (mostly in the same life) whilst playing Rising Storm 2: Vietnam on about six frames per second. I reckon it's about time I acquired some sort of "gaming rig"...   

[Eric Blank]

So, one of the toughest monsters in the game spawned in front of me, the grim reaper/death, hovering over a chasm. Because I already had a spell readied to fire, as I was in the middle of a fight already, I just loosed the spell at it, kinda in a half panic "I need to get the fuck out of here" type deal. The grim reaper was stunned and "knocked over" by the spell, fell into the chasm, and died. It must have existed for like two seconds total. I and my pawn both immediately gained four levels, and a steam achievement. I was very taken aback by it to be honest.

I had also dealt with another very tough and very annoying enemy, a giant ogre, by luring it into a fight over a cliff, where it charged right off. And a giant eyeball thing by standing underneath it, making its upward spike thrust attack hit itself right in the eye. So it hasnt been an uneventful night. But I didn't think I'd literally cheat death out of a fair fight.


Dragon's Dogma; Dark Arisen

[heydude6]

The other day I somehow managed to get five or so kills in a match (mostly in the same life) whilst playing Rising Storm 2: Vietnam on about six frames per second. I reckon it's about time I acquired some sort of "gaming rig"...   

Congrats on finding a server with people on it. That's the real own.

[Akura]

Got hired to move some paintings around. Simple enough, just had to pick up the replacement painting, deliver it, and bring back the old one.

Oh, but this is a heavily-fortified mansion with cameras and a 24-hour security detail with taser-happy guards with shoot-on-sight orders. And what I'm doing isn't... entirely legal. Or any amount of legal. Whatever.


I have little details on the security. I wake up in the next door parking lot at noon, at the start of the only 6-hour time block I don't have for the guards. I also hadn't marked all the security cameras on the place, so every step is a potential alarm. Luckily, there's a guard watching the car gate, so I mark him and get vision on the guards at all times.

First attempt, I climb a fence near the front and sneak up close to the garage on the opposite end of the property. Amazingly, there wasn't any cameras on that route. I get close enough to use my laptop to hack the camera control panel, shutting them off. I work my way around to the back of the house, the only place I can find a door to get in as all the windows are alarmed against both breakage and glass cutting. Also, what kind of a house lacks a front door? The replacement painting is also in the back, but I actually didn't realize that until I stumbled right on it. I putter a bit trying to figure how to get inside; there's a guard on the side of the house, and one inside who is capable of seeing me as I try to break in. I decide to go for it, pick the lock, and sneak in. Unfortunately, the side guard's schedule moved him to the back of the house, where he noticed the door was unlocked(or perhaps the window I opened to sneak the painting into), and called the cops. I tried to hide in the garage, but the policeman who showed up wandered for a minute before zeroing on my hiding spot and tasered me.

Second attempt, I climbed a rock behind the house to go right over the fence. Picked the back door, snuck in with the replacement painting. Snuck into the garage to so I could hack the cameras, also stole a trombone. Just barely snuck past the guard patrolling inside the house; his schedule keeps him pretty much on the stairs I needed to climb all the time, and it was too risky to wait until he changed positions(it happens after the side guard moves to the back of the house). Got upstairs, switched the paintings. The painting I need to take out fits in my bag, instead of being carried, so that's good. Out I went from a convenient window that opened onto the roof of the garage, which led to a wooden arch that let me walk right over the fence off the property. Mission complete, and one of the most tense jobs I've done.

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Thief Simulator.

[Yoink]

The other day I somehow managed to get five or so kills in a match (mostly in the same life) whilst playing Rising Storm 2: Vietnam on about six frames per second. I reckon it's about time I acquired some sort of "gaming rig"...   

Congrats on finding a server with people on it. That's the real own.

Haha, there are usually at least a couple in my region (Oceania). A lot of them exclusively run a level called Bernie's Resort, though, which I find kind of lame. Half the time it seems to end at the first objective if the attacking team fail to get their janky helicopters in safely.   
I guess it's the "meme map", kinda like Operation Locker in Battlefield 4 or Nuketown in just about every CoD game ever.   

Not that it makes much difference for me, though, since my computer can barely run any of the maps at the best of times.   
Looks like I'll be moving in the near future, though, so perhaps at my new place (actually not new, I lived there years ago with some of the same friends) I'll shell out to get a better set-up.   

[Robsoie]

Very happy to manage to beat the first boss of Hellpoint after she kicked my sorry bottom so many times.
The secret to work around my miscalculation in when to dodge and when to attack was to grind more axiom and levelup more times, and then increase then my health bar so i could take more hits

Beating that "dark witch" thingy or whatever it was opened up a lot, the Observatory sector allows to upgrade items and weapons and craft more stuff.
Found some better armor piece to go along.

With my better equipment, i also went to go hunt the big staff demon guy that appears in the early sector when the clock gets orange, wasn't as difficult as i thought (well that monster way bigger and stronger than any of the early enemy in that sector, but not as strong as the dark witch boss thingy).

Even managed to find a bunch of secret doors (in the early sector there are several of them, make sure to test suspicious walls) that gave me some shortcuts and additional materials and items.
Enjoying that gog freebie so far a lot more than i thought, nice mix of grinding and rewarding results to help you overcome the hard fights.
Oh and don't hesitate to grind some levels in strength to be able to use the "column" weapon, its "hard" but slow attack is fantastic against the big knights that patrol the circular corridor that lead to the 1st boss.

[Robsoie]

Finally, those bastards are down !

After being destroyed many time by those guys, i decided to travel back to the Observatory and from there try to grind in Port Issoudun , that had some stronger new enemies, as my goal was to try to use the accumulated experience of the game and my improved character to survive for a bit there to see if i could find some better equipment.

And so i did in this sector that had been remodelled by some cosmic horror into an organic hell, managed to get a Thespian Hook drop from one of the bizarro swordsmen , grinded it long enough to unlock its ability (it has only one unlike most weapons so it takes longer to unlock it)  that increase its damage output a lot.
Found also a way to improve one of my previous armor into something better somewhere in that scary place. Improved also my character and some conductors that i was using on  some weapons thanks to all the accumulated axioms.

Then once i felt stronger, i decided it was time to pay another visit to those Arisen Congegrators that are those hated bastardly bosses of the Sohn District.

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Good i had a lot of healing salves there, as i still needed 2 of them during the fight to help with my various miscalculations.

Opened a lot more paths for my character to travel into, oh joy more insanity

game: Hellpoint

[da_nang]

Not sure if I should start a Let's Play thread, but it's a win. Didn't want to clog up the main thread. Spoilers ahead.

Shenanigans Update 3:

Spoiler: Part 1: Jasper (click to show/hide)

Continuing on from Florinia, next up was Corey the Beryl Ward Gym Leader, widower, and the secret love child of Koga and Cyrus. Coincidence? I thought not!

With the in-game TV stating him to be leading a Poison-type Gym with a Crobat (yay, more Poison), clearly I would need some more anti-Poison. Scatman the Grimer and Hiacynth the Trubbish would be useful, I imagined. As would Stolas the Noctowl Prince, Hela the Shiny Beautifly, and Mothra the Dustox.

There was also Vaernima the Munna to consider, but she was a bit on the slow side and I worried about that Crobat. Maybe I could even throw in Chip the Bibarel (inferior Doofie had been traded for Vaernima).

Either way, there was a Jasper Ward and two more bastardized Tangrowths in the way. Thankfully, I have just the 'mon for that: Hiacynth, but also the latest newcomer Dorf Trick the Slugma.

Octavia the Dartrix would sit this one out so I could give Dorf Trick some love. Also Poison against Grass? Hell no. Scatman would keep her company so I could fit in El Capitan the Meowth, Wielder of the Holy Cut, and Winner of Bread.

Hela, Mothra, Hiacynth, and Stolas came with us as backup and for training.

We battled through Jasper Ward, tricky as it was when it was overwhelmed with Beedrills. Eventually we got to Malchous Forest, and Dorf Trick had a blast battling the ancient foe: trees. Always fun setting the forest on fire.

Eventually we got to the Tangrowth and its latest Frenemy and Douche Taka. Got a little bit dicey thanks to Taka's Chatot, but everything burned down easily enough. Dorf Trick the true MVD.

Oh? Oh hi, scary Salamence trainer. Heather, was it? I stole your glory? Nice to meet ya, bye!

We cleared the forest, caught some new and shiny 'mons, picked up an Egg, and did some sidequests to get some elusive Silph Co stickers. Fucking gatekeepers.

Anyways, off to Beryl Ward!

Spoiler: Part 1: Beryl (click to show/hide)

Did a couple of swaps. Pacha and an Egg out, Hela and Stolas in. They were trained enough, I thought.

Same ol' dance really. Battled our way towards the Rhodochrine Jungle and promptly set it on fire.

Well... not before getting caught by a bunch of Nuzleafs. I didn't really see a way to get past the clearly visible trap, so I deliberately sprung it!

We ended up in a wooden cage. Well built, given the many times I body slammed into it. Oh well, at least I had time to hatch the egg--

Who's... Oh, hello Fern, what brought you here? Practicing your bedroom Dom? Well, fuck you, too. I'd find my own way out.

Back to hatching inside the cage.

Huh. It was a Gogoat. Nice.

Oh look, a Chatot... freeing me. Who was this benefactor, I wondered.

Continuing on, I worked my way through the jungle and ashes towards a Library. I healed up, went back and swapped Locomotive the Gogoat out for Stolas. There was too much bullshit, I needed the Prince to deal with the riff raff.

Eventually, I got to Tangrowth, together with ZEL, Taka, and some other Team Meteor guy. Unknown guy got tangled with a non-surprise Heather.

ZEL and Taka? Double Battle!

And holy shit was it tight. I did not expect Glaceon. I had a tendency to run Ice-vulnerable teams. I still won in the end, with a lot of Super Potions and Ice Creams, but Pacha was the last 'mon standing. In the red. Quick Attack came in handy.

In any case, ZEL and Taka ran off, and so did Mr. Mysterio, but not before getting caught by cops in a surprise ambush. And like an episode of Scooby Doo, the mask came off--

Corey.

Unmasked in front of his daughter, Heather.

Keeping up with the dark theme there, eh game?

Daughter ran off crying, Corey smokebombed, and we were off to the Gym.

But not before doing some training, because well inside the Gym I was informed of the Corrosive Mist terrain that Corey uses.

Everything that a Poison team needs.

Oh boy.

Once trained, I took care of some hypnotized police and "accidentally" pushed some buttons. Gamer sense and all that. I found where Corey had been hiding and he went to prepare for battle.

For Corey, I decided to YOLO it. Stolas, Scatman, Pacha, Dorf Trick, Hela, and Mothra.

I opened up with Scatman, hoping to Mud Bomb the opposition. That didn't work out so well and left Scatman with a few HP left.

I then swapped in Stolas the Noctowl Prince, and he Extrasensoried the shit out of everything he could see.

All was going well, until Corey pulled out a fucking Stuntank. You know, Poison/Dark, AKA immune to Extrasensory. That fucker. Even though I had worried about a Stunky/Stuntank play, I completely forgot about it when YOLOing it. Fortunately, I had a backup plan. I switched in Scatman.

As a sacrifice.

Then used to free switch to switch in Dorf Trick the Slugma.

Now see, Dorf Trick knew Flame Burst. The Corrosive Mist terrain didn't like that.

When given his final order, Dorf Trick held out against Stuntank's attack, and lit the mist on fire.

Explosively.

Dorf Trick sacrificed himself to take out Stuntank and the Corrosive Mist.

Now with only Corrosive Terrain, I could safely have Stolas sweep the rest of the Gym.

And see Corey lose the will to live.

Did I mention it got dark?

He took off to Beryl Bridge, released his Pokémon (that poor Crobat... he was your friend, Corey!), and threw himself off the bridge.

Wait...

My badge! You didn't give me my badge!

Fuck.

Spoiler: Part 2: North Obsidia (click to show/hide)

Fine, I guess I'll go loot his corpse--

*KABOOM*

Oh, what now...

Shit was going down in North Obsidia. A Grand Stairway had exploded. I healed up, balanced out the team, and rushed off. A new hole graced the Grand Stairway.

My plot sense tingled.

But first, m'badge. Lapis Ward was right next door, and boy was it full of stuffy rich folk. I saw I was in High Town now. Naturally, there was a scene at the body. Heather ran off, Shelly the Lapis Ward Gym Leader and obvious child was shaken, and Victoria my buddy/rival didn't know what the fuck was going on.

Perhaps some Meteor mooks could elucidate? Oh they would? How nice of them.

Don't mind the creepy ghost taking the body--hey, just wait a minute! I need that! I want the badge! Come back!

Noooo...

Fuck.

Fine. Off I went, chasing mooks, and found a ladder at the new hole. I went down and found Victoria being held hostage by two Team Meteor admins.

Because of course she got caught. Down the tunnels I went, fighting off, and catching finally, some ground and rock types. Took yer bloody time, eh?!

Well below the surface, I came across Mr. Big Scary Obvious Meteor Boss Man. He didn't want to fight, just fill me in on some lore and what I can only describe as his ecofascist monologue. I think it was ecofascist, anyway. Just look at the state of the city: polluted, broken, decrepit, and full of inequality. A Republican wet dream; an ecofascist's raison d'ętre.

Instead of fighting him, I got to fight off his mooks. Victoria joined in the double battle. It got dicey. Lunatone and Solrock, followed by two Midnight Lycanrocs? We survived by the skin of my teeth. A bit Rock weak with so many flyers. Victoria... I was sure she could pick up the pieces. Octavia the Dartrix helped a lot with Razor Leaf.

Spoiler: Part 2: Lapis (click to show/hide)

Going back to Lapis, still no badge to be seen. I encountered some gangs that I wasn't so sure about "joining". Hence, I stayed out of their territory. For now. Instead, I had to focus on Shelly. In-game TV claimed she was a Illumise/Volbeat Rain Bug Team with a double battle.

Oh boy.

Single battle, I could probably take her on. But double battle? With rain? Shenanigans were afoot. Fire would be fucked. Sunny Day would a bitch to breed. Grass? Dicey thanks to Bug and probably Poison as well. Flying? Bets on Shelly having a Joltik?

Rock would be my first guess, but Rain could fuck that up. Stealth Rock, on the other hand... Tempting, but I would need a Geodude/Graveler for that. Luckily, I caught two.

And their stats utterly sucked. Rock bottom IVs. RNG giveth and RNG taketh away. Curse you!

So, it had come to this. It was time to breed.

Unfortunately, breeding would be expensive, and El Capitan the Meowth was already working two jobs. Pay Day had to be on the horizon though. So I leveled her up, denying evolution until she finally learned Pay Day. Nice. Now you could evolve.

And a big mistake that was. El Capitan, now the Persian, had traded her Pickup ability for Limber. Fuuuuuck.

Thus it began, the hunt for new Meowth slaves trash collectors. I would have a Pickup/Pay Day team, godsdammit. I figured I could run breeding at the same time; Opal Ward had plenty of low-level 'mons, and Day Care was nextdoor in Obsidia Ward.

A few days later, I finally had a team of Meowths. No shiny Meowths, strangely enough, though I caught a few other shinies while I was at it. After buying some Power Items, a Destiny Knot, and an Everstone, I continued on with the breeding.

And eventually, waiting for the goddamn Defense IV to roll, I got greedy. After building a hill of Geodude corpses, I got what I wanted. A perfect IV, Relaxed Geodude with Sturdy. Oh, and two not-so-shabby shinies.



I cleared the boxes, grabbed G280, EV trained him, and christened him as The Mountain.



With The Mountain, I would create the ultimate hazard play. Stealth Rock + Toxic Spikes. To the Gym!

I brought with me The Mountain the Graveler, Hiacynth the Trubbish, Hela the Shiny Beautifly, Mothra the Dustox, An-Rek the Noibat, and Stolas the Noctowl Prince.

...

Shelly wouldn't come out and play? She was traumatized? Fine, I'd fetch a psychologist from the totally-not-evil orphanage/asylum.

Wiped the floor with a totally-not-torturing-kids orderly, thanks to The Mountain. Eelektross? Not on my watch. Smack Down!

In any case, I was given some advice to take to Shelly. To the Gym! Again!

With Shelly on the mend, maybe, and after solving a puzzle, I faced down the Bug Gym Leader.

This couldn't go wrong.

...

We got wiped out.

It turned out that I hated Struggle Bug. Oh I got the hazard play out, alright, but got absolutely decimated by Struggle Bug. Except for the Mountain, who would only last long enough to setup Stealth Rock thanks to Sturdy, the rest of my team relied heavily on Special Attack.

Struggle Bug lowered Special Attack.

Forest terrain boosted Struggle Bug power.

Her leading with Intimidate Masquerain meant physical attacks were fucked.

What glimpses I got out of her team relied heavily on Special Defense.

Fuck.

Plan B was to switch out The Mountain and Hiacynth earlier and start sweeping with Hela and An-Rek. Didn't work, of course, thanks to Icy Wind and Energy ball from Masquerain, Rock Slide and Aqua Jet from Anorith, and Air Cutter from Yanmega.

So then I figured, I needed to switch to a more physical team. One that didn't rely on Special Attack. Harder said than done and would involve a lot of breeding.

Plan C:



I would start with Unfeazant and The Mountain. The Mountain would setup Stealth Rock, and Unfeazant with superior Attack and priority Aerial Ace would murder Masquerain. White Herb from Silph Co would neutralize Intimidate. I would keep Illumise in to maintain the Rain Dance, and I figured her Struggle Bug wouldn't be too damaging.

I figured next up would be either Anorith or Yanmega. If the latter, I would switch in Trash Cloak Wormadam for The Mountain. The Bug/Steel typing would survive any Air Cutter or Rock Slide if Unfeazant can't OHKO Yanmega.

If instead Shelly sent in Anorith, I would switch in Seaking. Swift Swim and superior Attack would mean at most Anorith would be able to deliver an Aqua Jet. Waterfall, however, would kill Anorith.

And then all that would be left would be Illumise, Volbeat, and some other 'mon. Eventually I would switch over to Wormadam/Seaking or, failing that, Growlithe/Furret. Furret would bring in the Sunny Day and provide Growlithe with cover using Follow Me. If possible, Helping Hand would boost Growlithe. Fire Fang would make short work of Shelly's Pokémons.

This, however, would require a lot of breeding, and I would certainly only aim for two 31 IVs followed by 16+ for the rest, along with correct nature and ability.

So since I had the time, I opted to try Plan D: Retrain Octavia the Dartrix to have more Special Defense and Speed EVs, and level her up to obedience level cap. She evolved in the process to a Decidueye and gained Spirit Shackle. The kicker? Her moves were all physical.

I swapped out Hiacynth the Trubbish and Stolas the Noctowl Prince for Octavia the Decidueye and Pacha the Pachirisu. Then I loaded up on White Herbs, and went up against Shelly one more time.

I opened up with Octavia and The Mountain. The Mountain got Stealth Rock off and Octavia Plucked at Masquerain. Despite using a White Herb to stave off Intimidate, Masquerain barely survived, but would perish the next turn. I took the same time to heal up The Mountain.

Shelly then sent out Yanmega to replace Masquerain. Yanmega's HP got cut in half by Stealth Rock but she regained part of it with Giga Drain, which took out the Mountain. Pluck reduced Yanmega's HP even further.

To replace The Mountain, I sent out Mothra who, armed with Light Clay, put up a Light Screen. This turned out to be crucial. Octavia and Mothra weathered the Air Cutter/Struggle Bug combo. Mothra was more or less stuck on healing duty while Octavia handed out non-STAB Plucks.

Yanmega went down, and so did Anorith, though not before killing Mothra with a Rock Slide. Mothra was replaced with Pacha the Pachirisu. Shelly would then reveal her hitherto unknown Pokémon, her Araquanid.

I figured Araquanid was part Water, so Octavia sent out a STAB Razor Leaf. Araquanid survived, but only one turn thanks to Quick Attack from Pacha.

Shelly's last two Pokémon were Illumise and Volbeat.

Plucks and Spirit Shackles were sent out. Pacha sacrificed herself to heal Octavia. Hela the Shiny Beautifly came out and delivered the Air Cutters. Volbeat got treated with some Hyper Potions and Moonlight, but it eventually fell to STAB Spirit Shackle. Illumise got to watch her teammates fall one by one until she eventually was slain by Air Cutter.



Turned out, Plan C overcomplicated things. Plan D was all I needed!

And now, I finally had my badge.

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Pokémon Reborn