[Council of Villains] Mewtwo's Retribution [Concluded]

[Renata]

Well, that was a mess. Reposting since there was a vote in it.

Never underestimate Scizor, it's capable of tearing a full team of six apart by itself. :P

Considering I was warned off Charizard, who the scumbags are known to have, let's just say I am not optimistic. :)

I dont like Saregona's vote either.
unvote, vote Saregona

This reduces Seon's vote count by one, for those who are keeping track of such things.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Renata, you've messed up more vote tags than anyone I've ever seen. I still wuvs you though.

[johnhughthom]

Renata, you've messed up more vote tags than anyone I've ever seen. I still wuvs you though.

You should see the pm she just sent me...

[Askthepizzaguy]

.......I just said "vote tags". The disease is spreading!

Renata gave me forumitis!

[B-Wing]

Jeez, I was almost late to my own lynching. So, there have been some interesting developments since yesterday. I see Renata has decided to make our agreement a matter of public knowledge, which is fine, though I am nearly baffled at the conclusions she draws from it and the other events. Still, I can see how one in her shoes might perceive these events as being somehow related, having so little to go on. And I do appreciate your decision to somewhat uphold our agreement by not voting for me... even though you managed to draw a number of votes my way in doing so. I'll still stick to my side of the agreement, though, for however little that is worth at this point...

As the immediate matter of who to vote for, I've got nothing constructive to offer the group. So much suspicion, and so very little evidence. Normally I would turn to a truly unbiased arbiter at this time: The Random Number Generator. But as it stands now, the votes are cast in such a way that I am in immediate peril of elimination through combat. So protecting my own hide will take priority. If I count correctly, Saregona has received 4 votes, myself 3, and Seon 2. So I stand a chance to avoid a certain duel by casting my own vote for Seon.

vote: Seon

There. Assuming all other votes remain unchanged, I will be subject to whatever impartial trial of tie-breaking our pragmatic host has determined for such occasions. May the die roll in my favor... or the judge accept begging.

[Askthepizzaguy]

unvote, vote: B_Ray

Your smiley faces are too grumpy. Clearly that makes you mafia.

[B-Wing]

Well that backfired quickly. Consider yourself my enemy, Pizza Guy! I would change my vote to you, but it would be a meaningless gesture at this point. *sigh*

Say, what exactly did Saregona do to garner so much suspicion? Re-reading the voting decisions of this day does not offer much explanation.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Well that backfired quickly. Consider yourself my enemy, Pizza Guy!

Rivals, baby, Rivals. Just because I'll become world champion before you, and I'll say my Pokemon are better, it doesn't mean I hate you. I'm secretly jealous of your Beefy physique and your abundant smileys.

[autolycus]

Just got done analyzing last night's battles (I know, it's been a busy day for me).
There is definitely something strange about that Charizard. Renata's Ampharos should have had a good, bordering on unbeatable chance of victory, since electric is super-effective against flying, and flying is not very effective against electric while fire is only moderately. In fact, chaotix points this out for us.
"As soon as it was instructed, Charizard gave a great flap of its wings, stood its ground, and instantly broke the electric current. It hardly looked fazed by the super-effective electric attack, and with a devious glint in its eyes it launched another Fire Blast."

I think if and when we find our Charizard owner, it will be time for a uni-boot, especially given the "The opposing trainer did not look as if to have any intent of ending the battle with just the Pokemon" clause. By contrast, I'm going to guess for the moment that the Magnezone owner may be a vig, based on the not-killing of Nurse Joy.

If the attackers use up their pokemon and don't have extras, then there's a good chance Maxie's attacker is completely vulnerable if discovered, because he lost two last night and may well have been one of the attackers the first night.

The other question is, we had three attacks both nights. If the charizard attacker attacked on the first night, why didn't they use charizard then? Granted, it's perfectly reasonable that one of the attackers from the first night wouldn't have attacked again, not wanting to risk the loss of more pokemon.

[robbiecon]

Nurse Joy is out, seeing as she was me.

[thefluffyone93]

@ auto:
The mafia probably swithed the order of their 3 pokemon, or the have access to all 6 pokemon, meaning the mafia could easily use 2 sets of pokemon, one for night and one for day.
Which means we wouldn't be able to tell who the mafia are by seeing which pokemon they have.

[Chaotix]

Round is over.

Tally:
Saregona- 4 (Zack, Fluffy, Secura, Renata)
B_Ray- 4 (autolycus, Chimpyang, Seon, ATPG)

Seon- 3 (Jolt, Yaseikhaan, B_Ray)
Askthepizzaguy- 1 (Saregona)
Death is yonder- 1 (Double A)

The duel is between Saregona and B_Ray. Expect the write-up soon.

AN IMPORTANT NOTE: I am going to be away at the Princeton admitted students' weekend from Thursday (tomorrow) until late Saturday. Night 3 is going to be a very long phase - effectively an hiatus - until I have time to do a write-up on Sunday. I apologize for this; it wasn't on my schedule when I started this game.

[thefluffyone93]

AN IMPORTANT NOTE: I am going to be away at the Princeton admitted students' weekend from Thursday (tomorrow) until late Saturday. Night 3 is going to be a very long phase - effectively an hiatus - until I have time to do a write-up on Sunday. I apologize for this; it wasn't on my schedule when I started this game.

[Who am i?]

Round is over.

Tally:
Saregona- 4 (Zack, Fluffy, Secura, Renata)
B_Ray- 4 (autolycus, Chimpyang, Seon, ATPG)

Seon- 3 (Jolt, Yaseikhaan, B_Ray)
Askthepizzaguy- 1 (Saregona)
Death is yonder- 1 (Double A)

The duel is between Saregona and B_Ray. Expect the write-up soon.

hello B_Ray

This is my first game, I go easy on me please?

[Chaotix]

Day 3

That day, many of the trainers were nervous about the attacks that occurred the night before, and many accusations flew around. In a while, though, most of them had calmed down, and they were able to make a decision on the duel of the day. It occurred to some of the trainers that, provided they could defeat the suspect of course, the duels could be used to test whether or not trainers were guilty of attacking at night. When they were finished voting, the announcer spoke once again.

“Greetings, trainers! Today, you have decided that the match is to be between: Red, the undefeated Kanto Champion, and Giovanni, the leader of Team Rocket. It looks like this is going to be a grudge match, folks- those two have quite a history. Giovanni should proceed to the blue corner, and as is only natural, Red will take the red corner.”

VS

Giovanni and Red stared each other down from opposite sides of the battlefield. A fire burned in their eyes, and each had an intense desire to defeat the other.

“My old friend! I have been training so very hard to defeat you since you left. There is no chance that you can win now! I will give you one more chance: surrender now, or feel a world of pain!”

“…”

Though Giovanni taunted and threatened Red, the legendary trainer was silent as usual. It was rumored that those who he defeated, even the Gym Leaders and the Elite Four, had never seen him speak. In response to Giovanni’s threat, Red selected a Pokeball from his belt and held it out, goading the mob boss. Giovanni chuckled and selected his own Pokemon as well.

“Let the battle begin!”

“…”

“Go, Honchkrow!”

VS

Red had chosen to lead off with his Pikachu. It was agile, intelligent, and trained to be frighteningly powerful. None but those who had battled Red before could come to expect the incredible electric potential that the small rodent had. Giovanni’s Honchkrow looked formidable as well, but it would be at a distinct disadvantage.

Without having to be ordered by its trainer, Pikachu launched a powerful Thunderbolt straight at Honchkrow. The blast knocked the bird straight out of the sky. Honchkrow struggled to get back up, but it was strong enough to take to the air again.

“Honchkrow! Use Torment!”

Honchkrow screeched, and emanated a dark aura from its body which passed over Pikachu. As Pikachu tried to fight back with another Thunderbolt, it looked suddenly as if it felt an intense pain and nausea, and had to stop its attack.

“Now use Dark Pulse!”

Honchkrow now began firing blasts of dark energy from its mouth. Though Pikachu couldn’t attack with Thunderbolt, it was still far faster than Honchkrow, and it used its Agility to avoid the attacks.

“Taunt it, Honchkrow!”

Now Honchkrow did as told and screeched in Pikachu’s face as it swooped by, daring it to attack. Pikachu tried to use Thunderbolt again, but felt the wave of nausea pass over it.

“Now, Dark Pulse!”

Honchkrow began readying up for another attack. Pikachu stole a quick glance at Red, who merely nodded at it. When Honchkrow launched the Dark Pulse, Pikachu sidestepped out of the way, and began surrounding itself in a massive aura of electricity.

“Honchkrow, get away! Into the air!”

Pikachu wasn’t about to let Honchkrow escape now. Using Volt Tackle, its most powerful attack, Pikachu leapt high into the air, still surrounded by the dense electrical field, and struck Honchkrow in the chest. The bird screeched in terrible pain, and dropped like a rock again- this time with Pikachu on top of it, surging an electrical current through its body. After what it deemed a sufficient amount of time, Pikachu hopped off of Honchkrow and the aura disappeared. Honchkrow was fried and unconscious.

“Honchkrow is unable to battle. Pikachu is the winner!”

“You’ll pay for that… Go, Nidoking!”

VS

As powerful as it was, Pikachu’s electric attacks would have no effect on the ferocious Nidoking. Giovanni had made the right choice.

As soon as Nidoking was out of the ball, Pikachu charged straight towards it with blinding Agility. It leapt into the air, and began spinning as its tail began to glow. At the peak of its jump, Pikachu struck Nidoking in the face with its Iron Tail attack. Nidoking roared in pain and swatted Pikachu away from it.

“Yes! Use Earthquake!”

Nidoking slammed the ground with its feet, causing it to shake violently. A small fissure shot towards Pikachu, and the earth spiked up underneath it, dealing a powerful blow.

“Hit it with Mega Punch!”

Pikachu tried using Thunderbolt on Nidoking as it advanced, but even against that level of voltage, Nidoking was completely grounded. While it was still in the air, Nidoking smashed Pikachu with its fist, sending it plummeting back into the ground. Red was calm, but the smirk no longer crossed his face.

“Now finish it with Horn Drill!”

Pikachu tried to use its Agility to escape, but Nidoking took its time and caused tremors again, throwing the electric mouse off its balance. Seizing the opportunity it was given, Nidoking struck Pikachu with its sharp front horn. Pikachu collapsed to the ground, unable to get back up.

“Pikachu is unable to battle. Nidoking is the winner!”

Red, still silent, recalled his Pikachu and sent out a new Pokemon, all in the same masterful motion.

VS

Like Pikachu, Red’s Espeon looked to be trained to be incredibly powerful, and it was fully capable of battling without explicit orders.

“Nidoking, Earthquake!”

Before Nidoking could act, Espeon’s eyes began to glow, and it stopped Nidoking in its tracks with Psychic force. Then it lifted Nidoking into the air, and sent it hurtling into the cave ceiling. After the crash at the top, Espeon sent it plummeting right back down to the floor, followed by launching it backwards into the wall behind Giovanni.

“Gah! How can it be so powerful??”

Nidoking slid down the side of the wall and landed with a thump, too dazed and winded to rise and fight.

“Nidoking is unable to battle. Espeon is the winner!”

Cursing under his breath, Giovanni sent out his last Pokemon, as the smug look returned to Red’s face.

“Go! Kangaskhan! Gwahahaha! I saved the best for last!”

VS

“Kangaskhan, use Comet Punch!”

Kangaskhan balled up its claws into fists, mobilized itself, and started swinging wildly at Espeon. Espeon, who was quick on its feet, managed to avoid all attacks except the last. Kangaskhan caught it in a mistake and smashed it across a few yards.

Espeon looked at Red for guidance, and probably communicated telepathically with him. Regardless of the truth, Espeon formed a Reflect screen in from of it, and the next time Kangaskhan swung by with Comet Punch, its attack bounced straight off of the barrier.

“Fine then! Night Slash!”

Kangaskhan raked Espeon with its sharp claws, shattering the reflective screen and damaging Espeon significantly. Espeon now held Kangaskhan in place with Psychic energy, not wanting it to take another attack. Then, after glancing over at Red, the gem on its forehead began to glow.

“Kangaskhan, you must escape!”

Espeon launched a devastating Focus Blast attack, striking Kangaskhan with tremendous force. It was flung into the wall almost as powerfully as Nidoking was before. Nonetheless, Kangaskhan fell unconscious after the blow.

“Kangaskhan is unable to battle. Espeon is the winner! Since Giovanni is out of usable Pokemon, that means Red is the winner of this battle! Giovanni, unfortunately you have been eliminated from the competition.”

Giovanni was sullen, Red triumphant, and the rest of the group stood in awe of the huge power contained inside Red’s Pokemon. They began to get ready for the night.

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Competing: 14
Askthepizzaguy
autolycus
Captain Blackadder
Chimpyang
Death is yonder
Double A
Jolt
Renata
Saregona
Secura
Seon
Thefluffyone93
Yaseikhaan
Zack

Eliminated: 3
Yaropolk
robbiecon
B_Ray


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Begin Night 3

It's long- equivalent to a short hiatus. Mewtwo's Retribution will be back on Sunday.

[Who am i?]

Hello

I should have warn you.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Hello

I should have warn you.

If I read your posts with a Schwarzeneggerian accent, you become a truly badass action hero.

Pizza approves.

Seriously, go back and read them!

[Renata]

Renata, you've messed up more vote tags than anyone I've ever seen. I still wuvs you though.

I just did another one over on TWC! Heh.

[Renata]

You should see the pm she just sent me...

It wasn't that bad ... :)

B_ray, if you were a townie -- sorry. I got a bad case of the paranoids. And even at that, you were supposed to be fighting Seon or Saregona fighting Seon.

[Double A]

Pizza, you've been awfully off-topic and spammy this game. I'd expect that from me.

What role do you have, I must wonder.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Pizza, you've been awfully off-topic and spammy this game. I'd expect that from me.

What role do you have, I must wonder.

I'm mafia. I've been attacking you guys at night. You guys do put up a fight, I must admit, but in the end, I am the most powerful Poketrainer of them all.

And there's nothing you can do to stop me, foolish mortals! NOTHING!!! FOR I HAVE THE LEGENDARY... ARCEUS? Arcaeus?

Tbh I didn't pay attention to Pokemon after the second generation.

[Death is yonder]

Whoops, I completely forgot to vote

Skimmed the thread super quick, didn't see much to comment on, then within the span of a few seconds re-focused my mind onto work, and it never came up again.

On a general (somewhat irrelevant but queer) observation that just reoccurred to me now pertaining to last night phase's write up:

Nurse Joy was clearly engaged by a trainer but the announcer fellow states:

The wild Pokemon of Cerulean Cave can be fierce. Perhaps it is wiser merely to stay in the rooms provided for you during the night.

Food for thought

[autolycus]

@robbiecon I just meant the narrative not killing you after wiping out your pokemon, which it looked like Charizard was set to do to Renata. It's still, in the game sense, a kill.

[Renata]

unvote, vote: B_Ray

Your smiley faces are too grumpy. Clearly that makes you mafia.

Why B_ray over Seon?

[Askthepizzaguy]

Why B_ray over Seon?

I'm going to get myself in trouble if you guys keep questioning me. I'm not inclined to give very serious answers.

I was about to post "because Seon is my mafia partner" but I'll be more productive: I didn't have a reason so much as an instinct.

At the moment, B Ray showed up to spare himself, and was a bit wordy about it. It's obvious why he was voting, pure self interest. It doesn't take quite so many words to express that concept, and the smiley faces literally seemed thrown in there to indicate emotion, which is a great way of faking emotions you're not feeling. I used to consider it a better-than-nothing scum tell until people began wising up about that, but B_Ray hasn't been around long enough to be familiar with the SkyNet system.

[Renata]

All right.

[Jolt]

If B_Ray was Mafia (considering Geovanni is Team Rocket's boss), then I'm inclined to think that Seon in Mewtwo (Being the missing pokemon that Seon has)

[Secura]

If B_Ray was Mafia (considering Geovanni is Team Rocket's boss), then I'm inclined to think that Seon in Mewtwo (Being the missing pokemon that Seon has)

I don't think B_Ray was mafia just because of his role; we've seen Maxie in the game, he's the Team Magma boss... does that automatically make him scum? You're typecasting based on someone's role, I doubt that this game is going to be as obvious as that.

Since we've seen Red use Pikachu and Espeon (my absolute favourite <3), it's a decent enough guess that he has the team used at the end of GSC/HGSS, which is fairly diverse itself and wouldn't require much tinkering by the host; therefore, I'd expect Saregona to also have Snorlax, Venusaur, Blastoise and Charizard.

It's not exactly indicative of guilt, since I've noticed that some of the people who've been attacked and been attacked have the same Pokémon I had, but it's something to bear in mind nonetheless.

Pizza approves.

I don't, he's acting scummy while maintaining the veneer of a newbie; really confusing. :P

[B-Wing]

*shakes head in shame and fury*

Such immensely powerful creatures, defeated by two slippery rodents. There is no justice in this cave, or indeed in this world.

Well I hope you are all very satisfied with your decisions. My true identity has been exposed, but you can clearly see I'm not amongst those who have been running about at night, attacking unsuspecting trainers like cowardly cheats. I wish you all miserable experiences in this cavern, and I hope that Red humiliates you all. If he can defeat me with only two Pokemon, then he can defeat everyone else here with one! Goodbye.

[Secura]

Something just piqued my interest when I looked back over the writeup.

Basically, we see Red's Espeon defeat Giovanni's Kangaskhan by using Focus Blast, an immensely powerful Fighting-type move; the problem is that Espeon is completely incapable of learning this move.

Espeon already has a fairly decent attacking movepool that includes Psychic, Signal Beam, Shadow Ball, Grass Knot and Hidden Power; while these allow it to defeat Ghost and Bug types easily enough, it doesn't really have an effective means of covering it's crippling weakness to Dark types and their darn Crunch/Pursuit attacks, a problem that would be alleviated if it had access to Focus Blast.

The reason that this piques my interest is because I noticed that the entranced Charizard managed to shrug off an electric attack during the night phase, something that is entirely outside the realm of it's abilities since such an attack should have knocked the 'zard out; what if the Espeon was similarly entranced and thus was capable of using attacks that it could not usually learn?

I think it's possible we found a mafioso, to be honest; Saregona's weird behaviour, his overly powerful Espeon and the liklihood of him owning the Charizard that attacked last night are all pretty incriminating. It's either that or it's a massive indiscrepancy from Chaotix, but I feel that it's something to consider for the next phase anyway.