Crazy Linoone vs. Kratos Aurion

[Phoenixsong]

I'm fairly certain the boost is permanent and that download simply doesn't trigger a second time if a new opponent appears.

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

Ah. Fixed. :P

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

DQ warning for CL, you've got a bit over a day to post.

 

[Crazy Linoone]

AHHhhhhh Sorry everyone! If it's not too late and I'm not DQ'd yet, I'll send out Ragnarök.

Spam Crunch. If the Porygon-2 Protects, Bulk Up.

Crunch/Bulk Up ~ Crunch/Bulk Up ~ Crunch/Bulk Up

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

...Hmm, forgot about the DQ. Kratos, do you want to continue or not?

 

[Phoenixsong]

I'm fine with continuing.

First of all, Ghost, I ask that you take offense at being called an inferior porygon2. Outdated junk >| After your pre-round righteous indignation, use conversion and become a steel-type by the power of all things iron tail, effectively remove your poisoning and render those crunches ineffective. Then you can eat a noodle, however that works (or just chill if we're going to be sticklers about that, meh). Finish by unloading on Ragnarok with blizzard. Getting him in the mouth would be nice, maybe freeze his jaws shut if you can.

Conversion (steel) ~ Noodletiem/Chill ~ Blizzard

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

2vs2 single
Style: Switch
DQ: 7 days
Damage Cap: 80%
Banned Moves: OHKO's
Arena: Large Bowl of Shio Ramen

You knew it was coming. When it's a Linoonian battlefield, it's gotta be food. And what's better than a bowl of hot, freshly made, delicious shio ramen made with the finest ingredients and love for ramen-lovers?

The ramen bowl, for those of you unfamiliar with ramen, is a large, porcelain bowl with the top opening diameter about twice as long as the bottom diameter. For battling purposes, it is a few hundred times bigger than your average bowl and can fit two wailords smugly side by side. The bowl is black, with beautiful designs on the side and a large Japanese kanji character meaning "noodle" on the bottom, although it's not like anyone will see it.

This particular battle field was made with the good stuff -- not those icky store-bought instant noodles, but actual ramen made with actual noodles and actual meat and actual soup. The noodles fill almost the whole bowl, and are quite long and delicious. Cooked to a perfect al dente, the yellow ramen noodles are firm to the bite and slightly chewy, just like ramen noodles are supposed to be. The noodles are soaked in a light, clear Shio broth that has been made from boiling plenty of vegetables, chicken, fish, seaweed, and, of course, salt. The broth is light to the taste and savory, and, despite being called "shio ramen" (meaning salt ramen), the soup is not very salty at all. Instead, its flavor is perfectly balanced between light and salty, giving it a pleasing taste. The ramen is topped with six slices of thinly cut pork, tender enough to seemingly melt in one’s mouth, and some fresh vegetables: cabbage, bean sprouts, and a sprinkle of green onions and leeks.

The Large Bowl of Shio Ramen, being freshly made, is still steaming hot, and any pokemon stepping on the ramen or in the soup will be dealt 5% damage per round and hovering pokemon that are still relatively close to the surface will be dealt 2% damage per round for the first five rounds. Afterwards, the ramen will have cooled down slightly and will deal 1% damage per round for all pokemon directly on the ramen and no damage for hovering pokemon for the rest of the battle. The ramen is, of course, edible, as well as everything else inside the bowl, and each item has a different effect upon being ingested. Eating the pork slice will give the pokemon +1 Attack, eating the vegetables will give the pokemon +1 Special Attack, eating the noodles will give the pokemon 10% energy, while drinking the soup will give the pokemon 5% health. The attack and special attack boosts act like regular boosts and cannot exceed the +- 6 limit and can be lowered by moves such as Growl. The food items don’t magically grow back after being eaten, so they will gradually disappear as the battle progresses. This can be used strategically to a battler’s advantage: one can order one’s pokemon to drink lots of soup and leave the opponent’s water-dependent pokemon flopping on dry ramen. There is a catch though: a pokemon can only eat 10 times before it becomes too full to eat anymore, so eat wisely.

Other: Extra soup can be requested for water-dependent pokemon.

Crazy Linoone wakes from her mournful reverie after a few minutes, and begrudgingly yanks a Pokéball from her spangled cloak, apparently having chosen a "Rasqueon". It's released into the bowl with a flash of light, drawing awe from the referee, a look of mild amusement from Kratos, and a scan from her Pokémon. The Aggressive Pokémon growls and snaps his jaws while the red mesh laser passes over him from every angle, making the Rasqueon's eyes flash even redder. As the two Trainers issue commands, Kratos tells her Porygon Mark 3 to take offense at being called an inferior model. The computer Pokémon's face imperceptibly changes, quickly growing nearly as angry-looking as the opponent it is still scanning; said adversary roars in annoyance.

~Team Linoone~
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Ragnarök (F)
Anger Point
Health: 100%
Energy: 100%
Status: Stalking angrily and wondering what kind of water this is.
+3 Attack, +3 Defense, -2 Special Defense

~Team Aurion~

Ghost in the Machine (X)
Health: 92%
Energy: 73%
Status: Scanning. Offense taken.
+1 Special Attack
Poisoned​

​

Ghost's anger fueling its actions, the Porygon-Z flies into action; the ghostly coat of 1s and 0s shimmering away, momentarily returning Ghost to its base Normal form. It selects the Iron Tail data buried in its memory, copies the Steel-type data from the attack's coding, and pastes it in the correct spot in his 'Type' file. The changes begin almost at once, the Porygon model's paint-job turning chrome and Ferrari red. Ragnarök's eyes narrow in temporary confusion, but of course the confusion turns into more anger-fuel.

Through the perpetual shade of red that covers his vision, Ragnarök takes in the new shine that coats his opponent's digital body... a Protect? No, no, it probably isn't, and the Rasqueon won't let a hunch stop him from protecting his territory, no matter how soupy the water. A black light issues from Ragnarök's teeth, causing his white teeth to glow in the UV-like rays. The angry creature springs forward, latching on to Ghost's chrome-covered tail; a slight shriek of ripped metal issues from the wound, Dark energy seeping into the wound like poison and leaving metal hissing where it meets the black ichor.

Assessing the damage to its tailend, Ghost zooms closer to the 'ground', grabbing a stray noodle. Base elements, necessary for the proper function It of any Porygon, are drawn from the noodle, which is quickly reduced to a dry powder. Although unorthodox, this 'meal' leaves Ghost highly energized and a bit less annoyed about the 'Porygon2' comment.

Ragnarök roars in disbelief; this gleaming intruder had eaten his territory. That was unforgivable to the extreme, and the Aurion-discovered creature shows his killer instincts by repeating his last action, leaping off of a chunk of megapork and Crunching his greedy heart out, this time landing a hit on Ghost's horn and leaving rough, dark-swirled dents in the cherry-red metal.

After checking its faculties once more, Kratos' Porygon-Z allows coolant to flood its system, bringing some of its internal water stores to freezing. A fan buzzes to life as Ghost aims its head and fires; a large, angry flurry of snow and bits of ice issues out. Looking like a swarm of angry white bees, the Blizzard hits its Rasqueon target head-on, directly on the forehead. Ragnarök snorts wildly, ice crystals having coated the inside of his snout. Ghost's hopes of freezing its foe's mouth shut, however, where obviously in vain; the thin coat of ice and snow is quickly shaken off, leaving Ragnarök with nothing but a numb nose.

The Rasqueon is, of course, enraged by this, as he would be by an 'invading' butterfly or white after labor day. His still-chilled mouth gains a now-familiar black sheen, and Ragnarök lunges once more, leonine jaws closing around Ghost's right fin and ripping the shiny steel coating there as well. Ragnarök lands on all sixes on top of a plank of celery, while small flakes of metal fall like snow from Ghost's damaged fin.

​

~Team Linoone~

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Ragnarök (M)
Anger Point
Health: 82%
Energy: 82%
Status: Holding his muzzle over the warm soup and scowling.

~Team Aurion~

Ghost in the Machine (X)
Health: 76%
Energy: 72%
Status: Flaking and buzzing annoyedly.
+1 Special Attack
Poisoned​

NOTES

1. Ghost is still poisoned, but it has been suspended due to its Steelness.
2. Raggy ruined Ghost's paint job.
3. Ghost took poison damage on the first action.
4. Gogogo Kratos.
​

 

[Phoenixsong]

Hey, hey, invading butterflies happen. They're a serious threat. I had to beat one to death after it tried to abscond with my glasses. True story. Sort of.

Uh. I mean. At what point are you accounting for poison damage, then? Usually it's an end-of-turn/between turns thing if you're not doing it all at the end of the round, and if so then Ghost would already have been steel-type when the check would've happened.

Eh, whatever. Nasty plot, then maybe role play because download has served its purpose. Chill to finish up. If Ragnarök tries to avoid role play and you can't borrow his ability, chill then, too.

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

Since it's roughly 3% damage per round, I deduct a point for each action of poisoned-ness; it makes more sense logically. Ghost only took 1% damage from it in the last round.

 

[Phoenixsong]

So it's as the action occurs, then, not end of action. That's all I wanted to know.

 

[Crazy Linoone]

*late*

Ahhhhhh hello I'm not dead yet maybe perhaps

Rag, we're kinda getting our butts kicked by that stupid porygon-thing. Since we can't seem to escape from Role Play, we might as well as deal with it. Since stupid porygon-thing is stupid and hovers, Mimic the Nasty Plot then spam Flamethrower.

Mimic (Nasty Plot) ~ Flamethrower ~ Flamethrower

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

~Team Linoone~

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Ragnarök (M)
Anger Point
Health: 82%
Energy: 82%
Status: Holding his muzzle over the warm soup and scowling.

~Team Aurion~

Ghost in the Machine (X)
Health: 76%
Energy: 72%
Status: Flaking and buzzing annoyedly.
+1 Special Attack
Poisoned​

Ghost's Resentment Processors go into overdrive as it executes its first order, the digital 'mon's supercomputer-brain developing and analyzing all of the ways that it can cause as much pain and humiliation to the opponent as it can. Planning, scheming, thinking, Ghost arrives at a conclusion, feeling much more nefarious than before. A tinny evil cackle issues from its speakers as well.

Well, two could play at that game, or so Crazy Linoone seems to think. Although Ragnarok would much prefer death and destruction, he supposes that he can just settle for thinking about such things, for now at least. Flames and explosions dance like demonic sugarplums in his head. He pawed the ground with his six clawed paws. He had some ideas, now.

Ghost's 'eyes' glow cherry-red and a laser mesh beams from them to Ragnarok, coating him with a familiar scarlet, caged pattern. The Porygon-Z downloads the scarce information on Rasqueon from the internet, scans the minute movements of the specimen in front of it, and extrapolates from there. It's personality files are edited accordingly, and the Silph Co. product is suddenly acting much more angrily than its packaging had implied. He was this close to the breaking point, it just needed the right trigger...

After spending a few moments snapping angrily at the red light coating his body, Ragnarok begins his move. His breath catches, his muscles coil tightly, and then, he exhales explosively; a gushing geyser of red and yellow flames blast from his muzzle, engulfing Ghost's torso, arms, and head. Although not nearly hot enough to melt the steel coating the Porygon-Z's skin, the conflagration is definitely more than enough to cause significant damage.

Ghost's swirly eyes would narrow if they could; it wanted so badly to kill that horrible little grrrrr, it was here first, this was its territory. But, unfortunately, its orders were clear; it had to Chill. The whirring issuing from Ghost's chassis slowed, and it went into EcoGreen Mode.

Grrrrr that stupid robodork was resting? The nerve of that cybernetic wimp! Ragnarok lept closer to the Poygon-Z, landing on a lump of meat, and let loose once more; the flaming torrent washed once more over its target, scorching the shiny red and chrome surface of Ghost's body.

​

~Team Linoone~

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Ragnarök (M)
Anger Point
Health: 82%
Energy: 69%
Status: Holding his muzzle over the warm soup and scowling.
+2 Special Attack

~Team Aurion~

Ghost in the Machine (X)
Health: 46%
Energy: 75%
Status: Deep in his chosen role, and very angry/melty.
+3 Special Attack
Poisoned​

NOTES

1. I'd make an excuse about it being over a month since the last reffing, but I don't have one. They'll be more common now, at least.
2. Gogogo Linoone.

 

[Crazy Linoone]

As the saying goes... Kill it with fire.

Fire Fang it and hold on to that melty porygon-thing; since your teeth will be made of burning fire, it should become extra melty and therefore bite-able. Try to get it behind its head or someplace where its lazr-firing eyes/beak/whatever can't get you. After that, blast Flamethrowers at close range. You don't need your teeth to torch things!

If that porygon-z turns into Dragon, Fire, or Water type for some stupid reason, screw it all and spam Dragon Pulse instead.

If it's Protecting/Detecting/unhittable for any reason besides Substitute, try to Chill.

Fire Fang (and hold on)/Dragon Pulse/Chill ~ Flamethrower/Dragon Pulse/Chill ~ Fire Flamethrower/Dragon Pulse/Chill

 

[Phoenixsong]

Recover. If he was able to grab you and you can't escape easily, teleport away just as he releases flamethrower; if for whatever reason he wasn't able to grab you, blizzard. Then blizzard (again) to finish up.

Recover ~ Teleport/Blizzard ~ Blizzard

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

~Team Linoone~
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Ragnarök (M)
Anger Point
Health: 82%
Energy: 69%
Status: Holding his muzzle over the warm soup and scowling.
+2 Special Attack

~Team Aurion~

Ghost in the Machine (X)
Anger Point
Health: 46%
Energy: 75%
Status: Deep in his chosen role, and very angry/melty.
+3 Special Attack
Poisoned

Ghost does an approximation of a grunt with its speakers; it's rather angry with the order for this round; more boring moves yay. The chrome and hot-rod-red metal of its body glows a pink color, the Pokémon Center music is emitted from its speakers, and the dings and scratches on its chassis flatten and heal. Although its power reserves are heavily taxed, the Porygon-Z looks and feels a lot better.
​

Ragnarok glares at the stupid ugly shiny metal thing, how dare it just float there and heal? His ivory fangs alight with dancing flames and the dragon leaps skyward, clamping down on his opponent's tail and holding on; the metal of its body shrieks as holes are punched and melted in. Although Ghost's considerable antigravity units crank up to full power, the added three hundred-odd pounds nearly drag them both to the arena's floor.

The Rasqueon waits for a moment, seeing if there's an attack coming, and then remembers with whom he is dealing with. Heat flares from the back of his throat before a column of fire bursts from his mouth... only to hit air. And the Ragnarok falls, landing face-up on a vegetable of some sort. Where...?

Ghost emits a tinny laugh and something that sounds like a ticket machine doing a raspberry; it's a few yards away, untouched by the fire but with warped punctures remaining in its tail. Sure, it hadn't gotten to attack, but the look on that dragon's snout! With a little flourish, Ghost releases northern gale, ice and snow and chips of frozen coolant whirling in a cloud that somehow completely misses Ragnarok and instead freezes a small disc of ramen broth.

In a fit of unfiltered rage (not uncommon), Ragnarok thrashes his tail and bounds agiley from food item to food item, halting on a rocking piece of pork and unleashing another Flamethrower. This one doesn't miss, and leaves a liquid look to Ghost's torso and an annoyed look on its face.


​

~Team Linoone~
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Ragnarök (M)
Anger Point
Health: 82%
Energy: 55%
Status: Hot-blooded, check it n'see~!
+2 Special Attack

~Team Aurion~

Ghost in the Machine (X)
Health: 74%
Energy: 34%
Status: Checking his aiming codes and wishing he had kept some of that coolant.
+3 Special Attack
Poisoned​

Notes:

1. Well, it's been less than a month this time?

2. Blizzard missed.

3. Recover gave 50% health at a cost of 25% energy.

Go Kratos.
​

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

(Late) DQ warning for Kratos. I could have sworn you guys had already ordered, though.

 

[Phoenixsong]

This thread never showed up as updated for me. Maybe there was a board hiccup?

...whatever. Tired, so I'll just get this over with. Chill twice, then thunder wave. If he protects/detects/blocks/etc. against the t-wave, chill again.

Chill ~ Chill ~ Thunder Wave/Chill

 

[Crazy Linoone]

Get yourself a Substitute (15%) so the Thunderwave fails, then Chill for a bit. After that, Mimic the Thunderwave so the stupid porygon-thing gets paralyzed while you're still awesome and agile because you have an awesome substitute. If you can't Mimic that Thunderwave for some reason, or if the porygon-thing doesn't use Thunderwave, KILL IT WITH FIRE.

Substitute (15%) ~ Chill ~ Mimic (Thunderwave)/Flamethrower

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

2vs2 single
Style: Switch
DQ: 7 days
Damage Cap: 80%
Banned Moves: OHKO's
Arena: Large Bowl of Shio Ramen

You knew it was coming. When it's a Linoonian battlefield, it's gotta be food. And what's better than a bowl of hot, freshly made, delicious shio ramen made with the finest ingredients and love for ramen-lovers?

The ramen bowl, for those of you unfamiliar with ramen, is a large, porcelain bowl with the top opening diameter about twice as long as the bottom diameter. For battling purposes, it is a few hundred times bigger than your average bowl and can fit two wailords smugly side by side. The bowl is black, with beautiful designs on the side and a large Japanese kanji character meaning "noodle" on the bottom, although it's not like anyone will see it.

This particular battle field was made with the good stuff -- not those icky store-bought instant noodles, but actual ramen made with actual noodles and actual meat and actual soup. The noodles fill almost the whole bowl, and are quite long and delicious. Cooked to a perfect al dente, the yellow ramen noodles are firm to the bite and slightly chewy, just like ramen noodles are supposed to be. The noodles are soaked in a light, clear Shio broth that has been made from boiling plenty of vegetables, chicken, fish, seaweed, and, of course, salt. The broth is light to the taste and savory, and, despite being called "shio ramen" (meaning salt ramen), the soup is not very salty at all. Instead, its flavor is perfectly balanced between light and salty, giving it a pleasing taste. The ramen is topped with six slices of thinly cut pork, tender enough to seemingly melt in one’s mouth, and some fresh vegetables: cabbage, bean sprouts, and a sprinkle of green onions and leeks.

The Large Bowl of Shio Ramen, being freshly made, is still steaming hot, and any pokemon stepping on the ramen or in the soup will be dealt 5% damage per round and hovering pokemon that are still relatively close to the surface will be dealt 2% damage per round for the first five rounds. Afterwards, the ramen will have cooled down slightly and will deal 1% damage per round for all pokemon directly on the ramen and no damage for hovering pokemon for the rest of the battle. The ramen is, of course, edible, as well as everything else inside the bowl, and each item has a different effect upon being ingested. Eating the pork slice will give the pokemon +1 Attack, eating the vegetables will give the pokemon +1 Special Attack, eating the noodles will give the pokemon 10% energy, while drinking the soup will give the pokemon 5% health. The attack and special attack boosts act like regular boosts and cannot exceed the +- 6 limit and can be lowered by moves such as Growl. The food items don’t magically grow back after being eaten, so they will gradually disappear as the battle progresses. This can be used strategically to a battler’s advantage: one can order one’s pokemon to drink lots of soup and leave the opponent’s water-dependent pokemon flopping on dry ramen. There is a catch though: a pokemon can only eat 10 times before it becomes too full to eat anymore, so eat wisely.

Other: Extra soup can be requested for water-dependent pokemon.

~Team Linoone~
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Ragnarök (M)
Anger Point
Health: 82%
Energy: 55%
Status: Hot-blooded, check it n'see~!
+2 Special Attack

~Team Aurion~

Ghost in the Machine (X)
Anger Point
Health: 74%
Energy: 34%
Status: Checking his aiming codes and wishing he had kept some of that coolant.
+3 Special Attack
​

Ghost would roll its eyes if it had them. It had to wait (again) to attack, it was just supposed to float here and eat. An irritated buzz emits from somewhere on Ghost's person as it lowers itself to the ground and scoops up a noodle or two, feeding it quickly into its now-open feeding hatch and then vaporizing it. Somehow or another, Ghost derives energy from this strange process and has to admit, this stupid action did re-energize him considerably.

Ragnarök, having been prowling angrily up to this point, begins to leap to and fro, gathering up bits of pork and the occasional noodle an
d tossing them into the air. They hang there, gathering a red-blue energy that leaks out of Ragnarök's back, and coalesce into the vague shape of a Rasqueon. The amalgam of meat and other soupy things makes a growling motion and paces in front of its master.

Scooping up another noodle and frying it into oblivion, Ghost watches as Ragnarök eats a noodle more traditionally, although his mouth is obviously ill-suited to the task.

Buzzing words like 'ampersand' and 'percent symbol' burst from Ghost's speakers. It couldn't attack again?!? @#w$ Substitutes, always ruining its fun. It again grabs up a noodle and dehydrates it, this time with significant anger.

Ragnarök shoulders aside his faithful Substitute and aims for a moment before letting a familiar geyser of combustion rip forth from his muzzle, which melts part of Ghost's chasis once more and warps the metals' colors.

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~Team Linoone~
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Ragnarök (M)
Anger Point
Health: 67%
Energy: 55%
Status: Hissing for no apparent reason.
+2 Special Attack

~Team Aurion~

Ghost in the Machine (X)
Health: 59%
Energy: 64%
Status: Cursing uncontrollably.
+3 Special Attack
Poisoned​

Notes:

1. Getting chilly in here, eh?

2. Thunder Wave was blocked by Substitute.

3. Kratos, was Substitute included in that 'Protect, Detect, etc.' clause? If it was I can change it.

Go CL.
​

 

[Phoenixsong]

That was what I'd meant by "blocked", yes; I apologize if it wasn't clear. For future reference, though, if you are going to question something like that then I would do so before the reffing, as you are welcome to go ahead and interpret commands that way and say "be clearer next time" unless there's something very obviously wrong.