“Life brings death, and from death shall come life.” Pokemon Champion, Arthur Neol at the Unova convention.

Welcome to the world of pokemon. This world is inhabited by the astounding creatures with amazing power known as pokemon, but we nearly lost them all. Over two hundred years ago Humanity has realized that their ways were going to lead the world to ruin. Pollution and urbanization were growing, and the pokemon we relied on weren’t able to cope. Horrible diseases started to affect pokemon, and lead to millions of all species dying off. It was decided that in order to protect the being who we shared this world with that humans had to cut back had to work to limit our expansion, but we couldn’t just stop. We had to go somewhere.

Then the Deoxys event occurred. A mysterious pokemon arrived on earth from beyond the stars. This shook the foundations of the world proving there to be pokemon on other planets. This sparked a revolution where we shot for the stars and focused on making a new start in space. People were already disciplined and had seen what horrors could come if they were not careful, so they hoped not to repeat the process just on a new world.

The earth still grew worse in condition populations growing and resources needed for this new space age. We tried to save the world, but there was no way we could save ourselves and the world. Mass evacuations were mandated as humans fled into space. The world had succumb to the poisons we created. Some refused to leave and stayed on the dying planet hoping to one day restore it. They started small villages struggling together with their pokemon to survive. Over two hundred years they’ve carried on as the world has begun to grow back.

These small towns have two kinds of people citizens who maintain the village growing food and handling supplies, and trainers the protectors of the villages as well as the ones who travel around to help bring nature back to the ruins. They salvage the old tech bringing it back to be re-purposed to maintain the town as efficiently as possible. The trainers have to balance the protection of nature and the towns. They also are the only ones who are allowed to train pokemon for combat. It’s considered wrong for most normal people to do so as they don’t want to impact wild pokemon populations too much. Trainers can catch at their own discretion, but normal citizens can only have work pokemon (gurders, miltank, etc.) and one pet to a family (but again cannot be trained as a combat pokemon)

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Hi, so I’ve been throwing around this RP for about 6 years now. It’s sort of my magnum opus that never works out. Something has ALWAYS come up when I try to run it be it pneumonia or me losing my computer or just losing inspiration. So here I go again. It’ll be a fairly large group I hope which will be sent on separate jobs if we have enough. I either will run this with my character playing the Trainer Head (the commander of the trainers basically), or with a normal trainer like the rest based on the number of people.

The RP focuses on the trainers and the various things they have to do as really they are the only group who can safely traverse the wilderness and ruins. I have hundreds of ideas of scenarios that should fit anything you want to do here.

One thing I will keep or get rid of based on people’s thoughts is if pokemon are eaten. I for one like the idea and have it all explained by this idea. Wild pokemon are well wild. They don’t think they are just monsters, BUT if they are trained and tamed by a trainer something happens that causes them to gain logic and reason. Certain pokemon already have this and would never be eaten like Lucario or Alakazam.

Either way pokemon will die same with characters. This may not be the normal super dismal dark as satan’s soul apocalypse story, but this after some serious shit, and it is life or death for these people.

Really I’m trying to keep this all really open otherwise. To be honest co-GM would be great. Especially if groups get split up so I have someone else who can take charge now and then. Any thoughts are welcome. Also this was written at 1:30am so sorry if I messed something up. If it was more than an interest check I’d worry more about spelling and grammar.

Pokemon? Space? Say no more. I'm in.

@OneWayOutnot to burst bubbles but it's not space. The humans that left are long gone doing generic stuff on mars. the characters played are those that stayed on earth. There isn't even communcation between the two since earth is considered a lost cause.

@jasonwolf Count me in as a player and as Gm if you want.

I'm interested!

Question though; do you have a plot as to why the pokemon are trained for combat in the first place? Aside from protecting themselves against some larger wild pokemon, that is.

@Izuriel Steam Two reasons besides fighting off wild pokemon. One similair to martial arts combat is a great way to teach discipline and exercise. These pokemon need to be capable of some rather grand feats and battling skills aid that. It teaches moves and works as a great teamwork exercise between trainer and pokemon.

The second reason is that the trainers are also the police force of the cities. Not everything has been perfect everywhere. Food get's scarce people get desperate things can still be scary despite how well off things are right now. There are also groups of less valiant intentions. Not everyone still on Earth is a great person.

I do want you to realize though that wild pokemon are a major danger though. If you wander into an agron's nest you are screwed unless your pokemon can subdue it or at least make it back off (same in reverse sometimes pokemon come into town smelling food or something). As I've said above pokemon are wild monsters yes they can be tamed, but a wild pokemon will go on instinct and that usually involves viciously attacking anything nearby.

@jasonwolf Okay good deal! I wasn't sure how small or large the population on earth would be. :3

Is an OOC still being developed?

@Izuriel Steam yes. Im looking at a four minimum so just trying to stretch things out.

Interested!

Considering a ton of species died, are there only certain kinds of pokemon left on the Earth? I should also mention I'm not all that caught up with the fandom (lack of money means no 3DS ) so I haven't played any of the recent games -- but that doesn't mean I can't look up pokemon, or info about the different regions. That said, I'm really looking forward to this. c:

@Redrum its not millions of species its millions from each. In the last 200 years there has been bounce back but, not every species has done as well. The ratest ones struggled the least actually. They were the farthest from society but were always rare.

The large species that were common are now less so, but it used to be that all pokemon were basically everywhere. Now they are far more biome based.

You will not find a ponyta in a small field like you used to be able to, but if you go head for the great plains then youll find them still.

Transportation is fairly available since most pokemon make great mounts. Otherwise we have some options. Town is gonna be in an area based on Letchworth state park. Parks were kept clear, but still suffered from the pollution. They were a great place to start since they were less horrible than cities.

As for world map om thinking a kind of pangead one base on our world.

interested

this puts us at 4 to 6 based on how you look at it. @OneWayOut just double checking if since the setting is not space, but still on earth if you are still interested.

@jasonwolf

Holy crap I'm excited!!!!1!!

:O

@Izuriel Steam@c3p-0h@Redrum@fer1323

Running a quick poll here. I'd like everyone's favorite type and what you are looking for out of this RP. Just want to pick some brains.

favorite types are probably water, psychic, and dark, in that order. i guess i'm looking for… lol idk, fun character interaction? it's kinda hard to pin down what i want from any rp.

It's a hard tie between Fire & Ghost for me.

I guess I'm looking for a good plot -- a storyline that can get me really intrigued to write and make me want to contribute to the plot, along with some good character interaction.

EDIT: I should also mention from October 29th to November 5th I'm going to be super busy, and most likely inactive, but after the 5th i'll be back and ready to go. If an OOC is up before then I'll work on a character sheet during my break.

This seems interesting, if you still have room.

My favorite type is Psychic, and I dream of having a gardevoir. In fact, she (I use she because I always make sure to catch a female one) is my favorite poker-mon (Intentional) that exists, and I have her as my phone and computer background

Anyways, please let me know

@Redrum That's fine I'm going to be busy is the same time span actually. I have my last big paper due on the 5th, so this week has been nuts already. I probably won't start us until after the 5th since I'm still feeling out what would be best with you guys.

As for plot I tend to find that it works better when I get to remain as the Trainer Head. It's so much harder to keep suspense when my character clearly knows everything. Luckily with the numbers we are seeing so far it's rather likely I'll be able to step back and control the world more than I have to control a single character. A lot of the plot will revolve around trying to keep the peace in the town. Stable is a very rare word in this world in either a physical or mental sense. There will be some more plot heavy areas and lean areas for you all to drive yourselves in, but I do think that "The Plot" is strong in that I've tried to really bring this town together. Everyone is someone's kid. You've all lived in the same place for years, and that's not changing anytime soon (you hope). This is a community, a family, but even a family can collapse in on itself.

@needlingAsklepios Plenty of room. I'd probably even let in at most three after you.

Sounds good then. Any chance for that Gardevoir? XD How is that going to work?

@needlingAsklepios Well unless you are catching it late game you are likely getting a ralts. I'm still mulling over starting pokemon, but that's TBA. For now just know you could probably get a ralts close to the start.