I was playing D:E in the park near his school after the sun went down. My friend told me that he'd found lots of rare Digimon there, and they only came out at night. I waited for so long, but I didn't see a single Digimon on my phone. I was about to head home when I saw a glowing blue flame among the trees. I was mesmerized. Something about it seemed to want to come close to it. I drew closer to the flame, but it began moving away. I started following the fire until it came to a stop at an old shrine. Sitting there were two women in fox masks wearing outfits like shrine maidens'. They were singing in a language I didn't understand.

When their song finished, they turned to look at me. I had no idea who they were, but being near them, I felt a sense of peace. One of them, whose outfit was red, asked me a question: "Art thou a Tamer?" I was confused by what she meant, at first. The second, dressed in black, blew a smoke ring from her pipe, and said, "What my sister means is, do you play Digimon: Emergence?"

I was confused. Why would they want to know if I played a game on my phone? I simply answered, yes, and the two shrine maidens smiled. "We have a gift for you," the woman in black said. "But you must answer this question for us: do you want your Digimon to be stronger, or do you want them to have new abilities?"

"Why not both?" I asked. The two mikos chuckled, and the woman in red wagged her finger at me.

"Thou art too greedy, little boy," she chided. "Come and find us again when thine heart is purer."

There was a bright flash of light, and I covered my eyes. When I opened them again, the two mikos were nowhere in sight, and the air felt charged with electricity. I have no photos or videos to back this story up, but it actually happened. If you see the two maidens, don't make the same mistake I did.

• The way I figure, Emergence's gameplay involvws finding Digimon on the map and battling them. When a wild Digimon is defeated, a player obtains a certain amount of data from them. Eventually the accrued data can be used to create and hatch a DigiEgg. The "raising" aspect I have in mind is fairly limited, more in line with Pokemon-Amie.
• Players in the RP may have up to two main Digimon partners to start with. However, if you want to start with two Digimon, they will be restricted to Rookie levels.
• Given the nature of the game, a player of Digimon: Emergence may collect a certain number of Digimon; this number can be increased either through lots of patience, or using the in-game premium currency; however this is just a little flavor. For the sake of the RP, there's really no limit. These extra Digimon are kept on farm islands where they live, work, and play. That being said, there are some rumors of Digimon going missing too...
• In Emergence, Digimon can achieve new forms from a pool of species. While in-game this is based on their stats, for the sake of the RP, I'd like to keep it to a simple rule: if there's a solid logic to the evolutionary tree, then it's likely acceptable.

• It's basically scan data. Collect enough scan data to create a DigiEgg.
• None that I can think of off the top of my head, but assuming that the two Digimon are the same species, but undergo different evolutionary lines, then it's fine. For example, if your Tamer has two Salamon/Plotmon, one evolves along the Angewomon line, while the other LadyDevimon line, you're okay.
• Jogress/DNA Digivolution is a thing, but doing so essentially takes the two consciousnesses of the Digimon and combines them into one to create a new being. While this new Digimon has the memories of its components, it's entirely possible that it will behave differently from before.
• Firstly, we're calling them "Digimentals" to avoid any confusion. They're rare evolutionary items that can be obtained through rare drops or in-game events. These items are more or less akin to Mega Stones in the Let's Go! Pokemon games. As long as a Tamer has one in their inventory, their Digimon can access these forms.

@Crimson Flame@tobiax@TheNoCoKid@The World I've been doing some figuring, and I may have to simplify the DiM system from what I initially had in mind, as well as make certain rules for what kinds of DiM cards can be used by Digimon; for example, attack cards can only be from--at most--Digimon from one evolutionary stage higher than the Digimon that uses it. An example would be Aegiomon (Champion/Adult level) being able to utilize RizeGreymon's (Ultimate/Perfect level) Trident Revolver attack, but not being able to use Amphimon's (Mega/Ultimate level) Raiburn Break/Thunder Break attack. If any of you would be interested in helping me set this up, I would be very appreciative.

@Crimson Flame@tobiax@TheNoCoKid@The World I've been doing some figuring, and I may have to simplify the DiM system from what I initially had in mind, as well as make certain rules for what kinds of DiM cards can be used by Digimon; for example, attack cards can only be from--at most--Digimon from one evolutionary stage higher than the Digimon that uses it. An example would be Aegiomon (Champion/Adult level) being able to utilize RizeGreymon's (Ultimate/Perfect level) Trident Revolver attack, but not being able to use Amphimon's (Mega/Ultimate level) Raiburn Break/Thunder Break attack. If any of you would be interested in helping me set this up, I would be very appreciative.

@TheNoCoKid
To expand on this, maybe a summon system? You can summon out a digimon from a farm for a single attack, then need it to recharge both the ability to summon and, for a longer period of time, that digimon in particular's ability to be summoned. DiM cards would then let you do this with digimon you don't actually have on an island and with more regularity, less time to recharge the ability itself and somewhat faster recharge for the DiM than for the digimon on the farm. Maybe a special combo attack if you have two compatible digimon on the farm or on the farm and a DiM card? Doubles or triples the summon recharge, but is exceptionally powerful. Maybe another benefit of the VB digivice is the ability to use a combo attack with two digimon on the farm AND a DiM card, for an extreme attack once a day or less, giving tons of variety to manage against the combo attack of a SP that boosts the combo attack's damage anyway.

Though saving the previous stages on the digivice seems counter-intuitive in terms of an actual game based on digimon that's similar to Pokemon GO, since it disincentivizes players to get multiple of the same digimon, thus spending more time and/or money on the game.

@Big McLargehuge
I have another question that I forgot to ask: How much digimon media exists IC, and how does it differ from IRL digimon media? Obviously D:E is different, but do the anime and/or manga exist, or the video games, or the card games?