Use flamethrower.

>>7781172
Sadly, this is not a move on your moveset.

Quest 14 isn't archived on suptg. Do you have a copy of it anywhere?
We just cut from hanging out with Courtney to being in a Tower in a desert.

>>7781224
If not, just tell us what went down in Mauville.

Aaaand charming spell is AFK.

>>7781224
>>7781228
Quest 15 is archived. What happened before then is: you tried to sneak into Mauville, and Porygon-Z tried to stop you. It was noticeably angrier this time, ending its statements by saying that you had no chance of defeating it. "I am perfection. I am the very best."
Then you went into Mauville where one of the mysterious Pawns stopped you before you entered the city, preventing you from being blown up by the generator exploding; something around that time made Z extremely angry. Then, you went into the city and snuck through before being confronted by a pair of grunts; it continues in thread 15.

>>7781265
So, right now:
Fake magma is on our asses for being in Mauville when generator go blowy.
This includes Skarem, a dude with a pretty goddamn powerful Charizard who is most likely related to the player character charmeleon.
Aqua dislikes us due to Porygon-Z sabotage
Galactic dislikes us due to Porygon-Z sabotage
Team rocket are tools who hate everyone
Porygon-Z is being a super duper douchebag
Daybreak dislikes us due to us travelling with a Nightfall member.

...Gonna need a new identify imo.

>>7781301
Actually Galactic doesn't dislike you. Z failed to infiltrate their computers, and they know what really happened. But they can't tell Aqua otherwise because Aqua's computers are infiltrated.

Oh. ... well, being in a tower in a desert at night will offer us some shelter from the heat come day, but I get the feeling we'll be trapped in it.
Are there any other areas to take cover in, within visual distance of the tower?

>>7781334
As of now, you can't see. The windows are higher up, and the door is blocked by the rocks you shoved in front of it earlier.

>>7781348
:|

Looks like we're stuck
>Take inventory

You have 1 Charmeleon, 1 Snover, 1 Magnemite, 1 Sableye, 1 Seviper, 1 Sarina, 1 Courney and 2 Grunts.
What are Sarina, Courtney, and the Grunts currently equipped with?

I hope someone around here has dig or something because this tower can and WILL become our tomb if we can't find some way to sneak out of it.

>>7781382
What is this tower constructed with? Is it mostly steel and concrete rebar, mostly wood, or more a medieval stone-type thing?

>>7781382
Damnation. Give me a minute, I need to fix my computer; I'll hopefully only be gone for a few minutes, but it might take up to half an hour.

>>7781398
Whatever the case, I'm pretty sure Black Charizard can and probably will spam flamethrower in the windows until we die of asphyxiation, even if the tower won't collapse on us.
We're so boned.

Well don't forget there IS a Sandstorm raging outside... Skarem and his Zard are not gonna be able to just sit out there forever.

>>7781457
So we're maybe not boned then?
But still, he'll enter through the upper windows if we don't camp them, and if we DO camp them we'll get a face full of burny hot meltings.
The only proper way to do this is Spam smokescreen on those upper windows after finding SOMETHING that'll tell us if Skarem's entered the window and is walking through the smoke or not.

>>7781457
I'm back. And this appears to be true; as far as you know, Skarem's gone.

>>7781486
>as far as you know

Wuh-oh!

Continue taking inventory.

>>7781497
Sarina's got her Poke Balls with Gabite and Mothim. Courtney has three balls and each grunt has two, with unknown Pokemon.

>>7781513
>Courtney has three balls
...and two dicks. MWAHAHAHAHAAAAA

>>7781513
Ask who has what. Dig's bound to be useful here.
Also, Sableye - can it walk through walls at all?

... wait ...

Gabite! He'll be right at home in a sandstorm. Get him out here and have him take a look around.

>>7781536
So, you want to remove the boulders and send Gabite out to scout?

>>7781552
Naw, boulders should stand in place. Gabite can look from the window. He probably won't see very far but at least he'll be able to see if Skarem is in fact gone.

>>7781552
and HOPEFULLY gabite's typing will let it withstand at least 1 flamethrower if Skarem is indeed still here.

>>7781581
Remember, Magnemite can float and is also immune to sandstorms.

Now might be a good time to ask Courtney and the grunts what 'mons they have and ask what they think we should do to gtfo of this tower.

>>7781610
Snover can use Snow warning, but that wouldn't help us get out of the tower. It'd be nice if someone could make it rain. : )

>>7781625
You do so. Courtney has: Mightyena, Camerupt, and Golbat. One of the grunts has two Zubat, the other has a Poochyena and a Numel.

Woops, World of Warcraft realms are comin' back up. I'm off. Hope someone else continues the quest. :D

Once we have a good idea what our party is, we should probably take a look around the Tower to see if there are any pokemon that we can recruit or items that could be useful.

>>7781652
Camerupt, Numel, Magnemite and Gabite can withstand sandstorms. Camerupt, especially, will be good for scouting a short distance outside the tower as Charizard only hits for 1/2 damage on him.

>>7781704
Now I'm definitely taking a half-hour or so break, since I need to relocate to the library.

I'm here when you need me, CS.

>>7781704
That depends. If Skarem is smart with their movelists, obviously a poke like Charizard with such a sweeper tendency will have good type coverage.

I say we have Magnemite keep watch over the windows higher up to warn us if Skarem tries to sneak in through them, and to keep a watch on our surroundings outside the tower. In the meantime, we investigate the tower.

Anyone else have opinions/ideas?

I'm back. Are we approaching a consensus?

>>7782138
From what I can tell, someone wanted to scout outside the tower to see if Skarem was still there and up to something. Some wanted to assess our resources before we attempted anything, which was smart imo. I suggested we ask Magnemite to keep watch over the windows while we investigate the inside of the tower. We don't know how long we'll be here while we wait for the storm to die down, so we might as well see if we can find anything useful or interesting - maybe even a secret passage.

>>7782161
I'll go with this, then, since no one's contested it.

Magnemite floats up to the window, then lowers itself, telling you that it can't see Skarem or Charizard anywhere. As for the tower itself, it's pretty small; it's about as large around as the lab you were born in, and there are no other exits that you can see. The main features were definitely the rocks.

>>7782222
In that case, nothing to do but to set up camp here until the storm passes. Assign Courtney's Golbat and the two Zubat to guard the windows and alert us when the storm dies down. In the meantime, we set up a campfire to eat, rest and plan.

>>7782284
That sounds good, but what are you going to use for wood? Or will you just put a lot of force into your tail flame and use that as a fire?

>>7782323
Camerupt should do it. He looks like a walking fireplace anyway.

>>7782384
This indeed happens. Courtney releases her Camerupt, who increases her (I think) body heat enough to warm the tower. Sarina brings out more food, releasing Gabite and Mothim to join you and your comrades on one side. The Magmas gather together on the other.

>>7782416
We start talking to Courtney.
"Courtney, what do you know about Skarem?"

>>7782416

Spliting a traveling party when sitting like this can only lead to trouble. We should try to initiate converstation.

>>7782458
She snorts. "You've seen basically all there is to see. He's a complete lunatic who prefers to spend as much time as possible burning things, and it's even better if those things are alive. I didn't know him well when we worked on the same team, but I heard rumors to the effect that he came from Orre and was employed by the criminal syndicate Cypher, but he was kicked out for being too crazy." She sighs. "He never talked to anyone much other than his Charizard... I don't think I ever saw her in a Poke Ball. I don't even know if she had one. Nothing could get those two away from each other."

>>7782508
"I see, so Charizard is very close to Skarem. What do you know about it?"

>>7782535
"She, not it. No one who called her an 'it' near Skarem did it twice." She closes her eyes. "I don't remember much about her; she was never exactly talkative with the other Pokemon either. I do remember that he nicknamed her. Her name was... Ari? Ar--Ariliee. That's it, Ariliee. But usually he called her Ari."

>>7782573
*I see, so her name is Arilee...*

"Who was in charge of Team Magma BEFORE Skarem? How did all of this come to be?"

>>7782596
She smiles at this, albeit painfully. "Maxie. He came from Lilycove City, and he grew up as a rival to his cousin Archie, who grew up to be the leader of Team Aqua. Those two never forgot that relationship for an instant; they even insisted that they be called by their childhood nicknames for each other, instead of a more usual one. Maxie wanted to expand the land, to give more space for Pokemon and humans alike to expand and grow. Even water Pokemon wouldn't be adversely affected; most of them lived in coastal habitats, and with the land expanded, it'd mean more coast. So we started trying to find ways to do it, and when he found the Pokemon Groudon living in Mt. Chimney, we thought we'd done it; Groudon's ability to focus the sun's rays would dry out the oceans nearest to the land, and give us new land. But it went wrong; Groudon refused to listen to Maxie, and somehow it entered battle with Kyogre, another Pokemon awakened by Team Aqua in the hope of expanding the sea. The two fought until a third Pokemon, Rayquaza, came down from the sky and drove them both away."

>>7782652
*Sounds like typical Human arrogance...*

"What happened after that?"

>>7782699
"Both we and Aqua realized that our plans were for naught, and agreed to live in peace. But then the blackout came, and destroyed all of the computer networks. During the blackout, while we were trying to repair ourselves, Maxie died suddenly." She shakes her head. "We never knew why; he was perfectly healthy and unwounded, except that he was dead. My cohort Tabitha and I took control of the Team, but then Skarem attacked. Somehow, he'd gathered plenty of his own loyalists in our Mt. Chimney base, and they overwhelmed us. Many of us were killed, and the survivors were forced to run. Tabitha... I don't know what happened to him, I had to flee without him. But if I had to guess, I'd say that Skarem's coerced him into actually running the day-to-day operations of the false Magmas."

>>7782751
"...Would this 'Tabitha' help us in taking down Skarem - if we were given the opportunity?"

>>7782751
Tabitha is NOT a guy name. I don't know what they were thinking when they wrote him into the manga. I mean really, who names a boy Tabitha?

Anyway, ask if Tabitha would be able to help if we got a message to him.

>>7782769
"If we were able to make it inside Mt. Chimney, I imagine he would do as much as he could. But that's not something to lightly propose in the least."

>>7782805
"Are Mt. Chimney and Meteor Falls close to each other?"

>>7782821
"Actually, we're nearer to Mt. Chimney now than we would be in Meteor Falls. If we were able to access the cable car to the west, we could arrive directly at the mountain's summit. If we wanted to contend with all of the guards."

>>7782862
"Is there another way to the summit? A secret way, so that we could contact your friend."

>>7782862
Let's save that for when we're done raising hell in Meteor Falls. That should draw away some of the guards, and it's not good to get distracted once we have a goal.

>>7782888
"Yes, but it's gated off. It might be possible to climb to Lavaridge Town were we to bypass the gate in front of it; the town actually survived Skarem's attempt to destroy it and currently exists in a besieged state."

>>7782920
"Meteor Falls wouldn't happen to lead to Lavaridge, would it?"

>>7782941
"No. It lies between Fallarbor Town and Rustboro City."

>>7782949
"So once we've completed our business in Meteor Falls, we'd need to find a way to Lavaridge, and from there make our way to Mt. Chimney?

>>7782949
"Very well, we'll continue to Fallarbor Town and proceed to do what we can in Meteor Falls. Once our damage is done, we'll move to Lavaridge and find your friend - using Meteor Falls as an example of our capabilities to convince him to aid us. Once all this is accomplished, we come back to Mauville and free its people. Are we in agreement?"

>>7782979
"That would be about right, yes."

>>7782992
"Just what is it you hope to accomplish in Meteor Falls?"

>>7783004
I dunno, hero stuff. Don't look at it too closely.

>>7783004
"We've heard that Meteor Falls is a training area for Skarem and his goons. My comrades and I were planning on going there to cause some mischief and general sabotage in order to draw Skarem's defenses away from Mauville - making it easier to infiltrate and liberate from his grip."

>>7783035
"Skarem will not allow Mauville to be removed from his grasp while he still holds Team Magma. If he senses that he may lose it, he'll simply burn it."

>>7783055
"Then we'll have to find a way to stop him from doing that."

>>7783073

>>7783073
>>7783081
"How, then? How do you propose to bring Skarem down?"

>>7783131
"We are no match for him in a fair battle, and I doubt he would ever fight us fairly in any case. We need to find a way to take him out of the running, preferably without hurting him or his pokemon, though I doubt that's possible.

As for how we would do that, I'm not entirely sure; I need a bit more time to think on it."

>>7783131
Charmeleon's tail-flame starts to burn brighter.

"We'll find a way, like we always do. If Skarem wants a fight, then I'll gladly take him on - but not now, when there's so much to be done. If I fight him, I'm going to make sure nobody else gets hurt in the crossfire, and that he goes down for GOOD!"

>>7783180
Courtney nods, giving you a half-smile. "I can't fault your determination, I admit. I just hope that you remember discretion."

>>7783228
"I got out of Team Rocket's lab with Snover and Magnemite, we helped Sarina escape and hide from Team Aqua AND the Monster, and we got everyone safely through Mauville. Trust me - we know discretion."

>>7783286
She nods. "Of course. Now, then... what should our next move be?"

>>7783319
"Tomorrow we need to scout out Meteor Falls and Falarbor Town, or whatever is left of it."

>>7783319
"For now, we'll wait for the storm to pass. When it does, we can proceed on our journey. In the mean time, I was wondering about the symbols that you Humans use - especially when it comes to your organizations."

>>7783328
First we need to get our of the desert.

>>7783354
Oh. Right.

>>7783336
She gestures towards the Magma symbol on her shirt. "About these, you mean?"

>>7783379
"Yes. Do all of your organizations have symbols such as these?"

>>7783416
"We all do, in some form or another, yes."

>>7783430
"That must make it convenient to tell who belongs to which organization."

>>7783443
"It does. Generally the different teams have entirely different uniform styles as well, as you may have seen."

>>7783491
"Yes, we have."

>>7783491
"I was wondering... would you teach us these different symbols? It would help me recognize a friend or foe in the future should we come across them in the future."

>>7783539
She nods and proceeds to begin writing down the various symbols; the simple R of Team Rocket, the stylized M of Magma and A of Aqua, the tall and thin G of Galactic, the spiked moon symbol of Nightfall, and the rising sun symbol of Daybreak.

>>7783561
Charmeleon memorizes the symbols.

>>7783561
As do the others.

>>7783602
>>7783611
It is done. Now what?

>>7783625
"What about your 'other' symbols? I have seen many of them written on things throughout our travels. They seem to be more than symbols - like a ways for you Humans to communicate with each other."

>>7783642
"Ahh... well, that would be written language, and that takes a longer time to learn. Yes, we do use it for communicating with each other."

>>7783668
"Perhaps now is not the best time for it, but maybe when things have settled down we should learn."

>>7783680
She nods, then sits back.

Do you want to just go to sleep now and return to activities in the morning?

>>7783773
No, we ask her to teach us these "other" symbols. We're trapped inside the tower until the storm passes, so we might as well take the opportunity.

>>7783786
Hm. I wasn't planning on RPing a language lesson... do you mind if I gloss over the details here?

>>7783796
Sure.

>>7783796
Go right ahead

>>7783810
>>7783818
Sarina, probably the one with more patience as a teacher, takes over here. The arrangement is rather makeshift, but she's able to teach you at least the letters of the alphabet, and some of the ways in which to put them together before the bunch of you finally have to go to sleep.

>>7783843
Charmeleon has difficulty with learning how to connect the symbols into words and phrases, but seems to have memorized the individual letters for now.

Magnemite takes in all the information with ease and commits it to memory.

Snover has trouble remembering the individual letters, but seems to have a good understanding of key words and phrases.

>>7783881
And things go spiffily. The Magma members fall asleep while you work, possibly more comfortable in the heat of the now-sleeping Camerupt.

>>7783897
And then beddy-bye time for us. Maybe the sandstorm will have abated by morning. Because the idea of a permanent sandstorm is ludicrous,, it has to end sometime.

>>7783929
And thus, the bunch of you fall asleep and wake up to sunlight streaming through the windows.

>>7783897
We go to sleep as well. Charmeleon curls herself in a corner, Snover snuggles up next to her, and Magnemite rests itself atop them.

>>7783946
"So, shall we continue our trek to Falarbor town after breakfast?"

>>7783946
We call up to the Golbat and two Zubats and ask them if the storm has passed.

>>7783969
Is there a reason you needed to use Zubat instead of Magnemite?

>>7783989
Well, we set them up to guard the windows while we set up camp. I figured they'd still be up there.

>>7784009
Ah, right.
They swoop down, and the Golbat (being the only one with eyes) informs you that the sandstorm has abated for now, but that it could start up again at any moment.

>>7784031
Then we must be on our way as soon as we can.

>>7784048
Indeed, we wake up the others and prepare to head out.

>>7784048
>>7784057
After a fashion, you do that. The Camerupt is withdrawn, with a visible sigh of relief from Snover, who now that you look at her more closely, has seemed highly uncomfortable throughout this whole desert thing and subsequent Camerupt baking.
Sarina and the Magmas move the rocks back to expose the entrance.

>>7784104
Oh yeah, quad weakness to fire. That must have been awkward.

>>7784104
We ask Sarina for some water to give Snover, and we ask Magnemite to scout the area to see if the coast is clear.

>>7784143
>>7784121
Sarina provides some extra water for her, while Magnemite leaves into the desert, spins around for a while, then returns. "No foes."

>>7784158
Excellent. Timeskip to after breakfast and in the desert?

>>7784178
Agreed

>>7784178
>>7784196
It is done. Breakfast is eaten, and you return to the desert. It's calm for now, although the wind is certainly still noticeable.

And I'm going now, for dinner and related things.

>>7784210
We head North towards Fallarbor Town

>>7784263

Bamp!

(just got back from teaching)

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>>7784263
I return. New thread: >>7785094