Stupid Walker, I wanted to include that in
my business. Sort of mostly. D: Anyway.
This... is possibly a little confusing, but I just wanted to start working on this before someone
else muscles in on me muscling in on Sireafi's business now he's not here. And I'm willing to bet the prices are a train wreck; I don't remember the PASBU prices so I tried my best to approximate something relatively fair, but feel free to adjust them as you see fit. No, really, please do it. Maybe tell me what I've forgotten about rules/requirements, because I know there's something.
...and I still want to be able to teach different-type moves but since you aren't willing to trust my judgment (now I think about it, neither am I) and it'd be a lot of work for both of us atm we'll worry about that later and get this stuff out of the way.
The Aurion Home for the Belligerent Elderly
Welcome to the Aurion Home for the Belligerent Elderly, where our motto is "Old trainers don't die, they just sit around in rocking chairs yammering about how much better they were than the young whippersnappers these days". Here we provide a nice, clean and quiet place for elderly Pokémon trainers to live out the rest of their lives in argumentative comfort. Of course, despite their insistence that "kids now ain't got no idea what the Dickens they're doin' with their Pokémon", our oldsters do enjoy visits from the younger generation; talking to the orderlies or their bedpans is only novel for so long, after all.
We appreciate young people like you stopping by every once in a while to brighten our oldsters' days, really we do. You should be aware, however, that "brightening their day" really means "listening to their constant shouting about your incompetence". It sounds tedious and annoying, and more than one of our orderlies has had to step in before a trainer has torn out an intravenous drip in frustration, but letting our residents reminisce about the good old days for hours on end
does have its rewards. In addition to the warm, charitable feeling you will get inside from the knowledge that you've made an elderly person a little happier, you might just find an elderly trainer so convinced of your inability to train that he or she will beat you around the head with a cane or walker until you consent to let him/her teach one of your Pokémon a brand new attack!
Before we can give you your visitor's pass and let you in the home to cheer up a belligerent elderly person, there are a few ground rules we have to lay down in order to preserve the health of our residents.
- Because our residents are so old, striking up long conversations can put a lot of stress on them, and so in order to let you speak to them we have to charge you a little maintenance fee for an extra bottle of medication or so. The more complicated or powerful the move is, the more strain it puts on the resident to teach it and thus the more we'll have to charge for new pills.
- Obviously (due to the movepool mod restriction), only one AHBE move per Pokémon.
- Your Pokémon keeps its AHBE move even after it evolves.
- If you are dissatisfied with your AHBE move you must come back here to have it removed.
That should about cover it. So, are you ready to bring a little light to a poor elderly trainer's day? Wonderful! Choose a room or resident to visit and we can get started!
The Residents/Rooms
The Recreation Room: Same-Type Moves
The residents that can often be found puttering around here are a diverse group hailing from all over, and so trainers looking for a variety of moves to choose from should check in here first. Chances are that no matter what your Pokémon is there will be a resident who specialized in training its type and so will be able to teach it almost any move of that type. There is only one requirement: the Pokémon must logically be able to use the move. So, for example, it is fine to ask a resident to teach your Charmeleon Blaze Kick; you are going to get yourself caned if you ask someone to teach your Glaceon Ice Punch.
Well-traveled as they are, none of our residents (to our knowledge) have ever seen a legendary Pokémon and as such don't know anything about the special moves they might know. Moves that are exclusive to legendary Pokémon (Aeroblast, Crush Grip, Dark Void, Doom Desire, Heart Swap, Judgment, Lunar Dance, Luster Purge, Magma Storm, Mist Ball, Psycho Boost, Roar of Time, Sacred Fire, Seed Flare, Shadow Force, Spacial Rend) cannot be taught. None of them have mastered the ability to teach Sketch, Transform, Conversion or Conversion2, either.
For Counter, Mirror Coat and Metal Burst, see the next room.
Prices:
Directly damaging attacks (Scratch, Giga Impact, Fire Punch): To determine the price of your move, take its base power and divide it by ten (round down if it ends in 5 or lower and up if it ends in 6 or higher). So, for example, Earthquake would cost $10; Comet Punch would cost $2.
Offensive moves with no fixed base power:
-Magnitude, Present, Psywave: $7
-Fling, Frustration, Grass Knot, Gyro Ball, Low Kick, Night Shade, Natural Gift, Return, Seismic Toss: $8
-Endeavor, Flail, Pain Split, Reversal, Trump Card, Wring Out: $10
-Bide, Spit Up, Super Fang: $15
Mimicry Moves (Copycat, Assist, Mirror Move, Metronome, Me First, Mimic, Nature Power and Sleep Talk): $7
Weather Moves, Gravity, Tailwind and Trick Room: $7
Stat-Altering Moves (Swords Dance, Tail Whip): $4 for moves that change stats by one level, $6 for moves that change stats by two levels
Direct Status-Inflicting Moves (Poisonpowder, Thunder Wave): $6
Direct Healing Moves (Recover, Synthesis): $10
All Other Non-Damaging Attacks: $8
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Old Black Belt Nathaniel, Old Psychic Abigail and Old Ruin Maniac Calvin: Counter, Mirror Coat and Metal Burst
Powerful and dangerous moves like these can't be taught by just anyone. Cue Nathaniel, Abigail and Calvin: they will see one of your Pokémon and, if it has the high level of patience, perseverance, endurance and willpower required, will teach it one of these very dangerous attacks. Any Pokémon, barring those that are excluded below, can learn either Counter or Mirror Coat; only Steel-types (again, barring those excluded below) can learn Metal Burst.
If a Pokémon already knows at least one of these attacks it cannot learn another, as that would be too overpowered; so, for example, you can't teach any of these moves to your Hitmonchan, Milotic or Bastiodon.
Price: $15
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Old Move Deleter... uh... he doesn't remember his name: Move Deletion
In the event that you've changed your mind about a move your Pokémon has learned here and would like to forget it, all you need to do is have a quick chat with... with Mr.... with this guy, we still can't get him to tell us his name. Five minutes into a confusing conversation with this poor, forgetful old fellow and you'll have forgotten the move completely! (Just don't talk to him for too long; you might start forgetting other things, too.)
Price: Free
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Summary of Prices/Overheads:
BP10: 1/#
BP20: 2/#
BP30: 3/#
BP40: 4/#
BP50: 5/#
BP60: 6/#
BP70: 7/#
BP80: 8/#
BP90: 9/#
BP100: 10/#
BP110: 11/#
BP120: 12/#
BP130: 13/#
BP140: 14/#
BP150: 15/#
BP200: 20/#
BP250: 25/#
Counter, Mirror Coat, Metal Burst: 15/#
Offensive moves w/no fixed power: 7/#, 8/#, 10/#, 15/#
Mimicry moves: 7/#
Weather moves, Gravity, Tailwind, Trick Room: 7/#
Stat-altering moves: 4/#, 6/#
Status-inflicting moves: 6/#
Direct healing moves: 10/#
Everything else: 8/#