Re: Clover vs daikonpan
Round One
Clover (2/2)
Palatino ♀
[Water Absorb]
Health: 100%
Energy: 100%
Status: Pumped up for today's battle. She's gonna be Clover's first pick and she knows it.
Viki (2/2)
Snowe ♂
[Oblivious]
Health: 100%
Energy: 100%
Status: ... Is something going on today...?
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A cute little house like this in a cute little town like Nuvema doesn't look like the sort of place that should have its doors open for a good brawl. When the owner of the house answers the door in an apron and over mits, the trio of trainers wonder if they've got the wrong address.
But her enthusiastic grin and greeting blow away any such worries. "Hi! Come on in! I was just beginning to wonder if you'd ever show up. It's been much too quiet today—well, it's been quiet every day since White left. Oh, speaking of her, I'll show you up to her room so you can get your battle started."
She leads our heroes through a kitchen that smells of chocolate chip cookies and upstairs to a spacious bedroom which seems to take up the entire upper floor. "Have fun, you three! I've got to get back to my cookies—and you don't get any if this room isn't a proper disaster when you're done, you hear?"
Both battlers nod and grin, but the ref isn't so sure. The room is kind of empty; there isn't a lot to make a mess
with. The bookshelf and wastepaper basket in the corner facing the stairs show some promise, but both teams are full of greenhorns, so they probably aren't going to be flipping any tables or TVs.
When Snowe the Slowpoke appears on Viki's side of the room, the ref's face falls even further. That doesn't
look like a machine of destruction, and per
really wants those cookies, dammit. But who knows! Snowe may not look like much, lying on his back and staring under the bed, but Slowpokes are creatures of mystery. Who knows what secrets of the universe he sees hidden in those dustbunnies?
Palatino the Poliwag doesn't look so impressive either, standing just shy of an entire foot tall and having no arms with which to toss anything around or punch anything over. What she lacks in limbs, however, she makes up for in spirit! As soon as she gets her bearings, she's off like a rocket, clambering under the rug, under the bed, all over Snowe, getting to know her turf. No way is she letting this jackass get the best of her. He thinks he can fool her with his dopey façade of LIES, well, he's got another think comin'. No-one slips past Pal's sharp eye, not even this cool cucumber. She's fierce, real fierce.
(Rambunctious as she is, though, the ref isn't convinced. Per quietly calls out per faithful Buneary sidekick to get started on a pillow fort while round one gets going. As long as per doesn't get in the way of the battle, it can't hurt, right?)
Eventually, depite a ref absorbed in a pillow fort and two somewhat clueless battlers, a battle does indeed manage to organize itself. Pal's first command is to read her opponent's mind, figure him out. And it's a good idea. Clover's a sharp one. Only trainer Pal could have. She marches up to Snowe, who hasn't moved a muscle, and stares him straight in the eyes. Straight past his eyes, to the depths of his mind—only way to crack such a mysterious guy, and she needs all the dirt she can get her hands on. Er, get her... well, you get the point. So she gives him her strongest, most stony mind-stare, and uncovers... absolutely nothing. Ooh, he's good, real good. He's as strong and stoned—er, stony—as her stare. She can't get
anything. She leans closer and closer into the upside-down Slowpoke's face until her forehead is smushed against his nose, but no dice. Intent as she is on boring through Snowe's retinas, she has no clue at all about the mist she missed, the pale mint-green glow just visible around his edges if you don't stand too close. And she's definitely too close.
Eventually, Pal gives up on getting anything out of this tough cookie. He's apparently in no hurry to pull any fancy footwork, anyway. Seems pretty cocky to her. He's gonna regret playing it just
that cool. A little switch of her stare, swapping stony stoicism for soporific swirls... Any minute now, he'll be packing his bags for Dreamland. Yep, no matter how good he is, no-one can stay awake after one of those right on the face... So then what's his deal? Has he nodded off with his eyes open? Ooh, that's some trick, put anyone on their guard... But she's onto his game. Not gonna work on her. She can tell he's out like a light.
Little does he know that that's exactly what he
wants her to think. Or something along those lines. Maybe. It's a mystery. While she's distracted by his unnerving blank stare, she fails to notice the ball of electricity charging... somewhere. That's also a mystery. Nobody will know where Slowpokes emit Zap Cannons from, because he's made himself so expertly unassuming that
nobody notices it charging until Palatino's warbling screech and the loud crackling noise make it impossible
not to notice. Mrs White (mother of White White) even shouts "THAT'S the idea!" from downstairs. Unfortunately, though, nothing has been damaged except for Palatino and her ego, both lightly smoking.
Well, Pal thinks, so much for being onto his game. She's just going to... forget that ever happened... And conveniently, Amnesia is just what the doctor ordered. She screws up all her willpower and clears her brain as well as she can, and while she doesn't exactly reach Snowe's level of zen, she does feel pretty dense in more ways than one. But whatever trick she forgot, it doesn't matter. She remembers her flub as clearly as ever. Well, no biggie, she likes plan B anyway, now that she actually thinks about it: one-up him.
So she goes back to glaring at her opponent, not trying to read his mind, just thinking, trying to figure him out. Then, with no warning, his drops his blank stare and catches her eyes. Intrigued, she meets his gaze, and he gives her a slow, mysterious wink. Pal's heart skips a beat, and she nearly falls over. Ooh, this one's a real devil, the kind of sly bastard you loathe for being such a slick jackass but can't help but find alluring. She's caught him this time, she's got his number... He's smooth, real smooth, but she can't let it get to her. She can't let it... It's getting to her. Crap.
Well, a fight's a fight. Gotta keep on truckin', handsome enemy or no.
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Clover (2/2)
Palatino ♀
[Water Absorb]
Health: 82%
Energy: 89%
Status: Trying to reconcile "this guy's kinda cute" with "this guy's a smarmy prick".
Double-Edge forgotten; paralyzed (24% failure chance); -2 special attack, +2 special defense.
Viki (2/2)
Snowe ♂
[Oblivious]
Health: 100%
Energy: 84%
Status: ... Something's going on today...
Safeguard (three more actions).
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Arena Notes:
- The pillow fort is off to a rough start because one pillow isn't really enough. Other than that, nothing. GET WITH THE PROGRAM, YOU TWO.
Notes:
- You two get to be the first to be reffed under my actual reffing scale since I actually settled down all my rules into a scale!
- Viki posts first this round.
2015 EDIT: 1 exp/happiness for each Pokémon; $4 for each trainer; $2 for me.
Calibri the male Charmander <Blaze>
Palatino the female Poliwag <Water Absorb>
Tahoma the male Tropius <Solar Power>
Sylfaen the female Sandshrew <Sand Veil>
Ikki the female Cyndaquil <Blaze>
Snowe the male Slowpoke <Oblivious>
Sierra the female Zubat <Inner Focus>
Schtolteheim Reinbach III the male Cleffa <Magic Guard>
Arshtat the female Hoppip <Chlorophyll>
Jeane the female Pichu <Static>
