All right, first time starting up my own RP on this site, but not my first time GMing so I feel confident in putting this up. I'll try to make this as formal as possible, but I'm not exactly the most formal of people so we'll see how this goes.
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Co-GM:@WriterRavenAccepting Applications Until: I get an off day next week or so to start.
RP Size: - 8-9 people (including GM and co-GM)
RP Genre: - It's Pokemon. OK, It's Modern Pokemon, a darker version of Pokemon with Slice of Life and Crime elements (and it will be using all the updated facts, so Fairy types and the new moves are all in.)
RP Post Frequency: I'm not picky, but I'd like things to be up within 1-2 weeks. Waiting is what killed this the last time.
RP Post Size: I'm actually really light for an Advanced GM, two to three solid paragraphs is fine, since I know the battle ones will make up for a lot. Collab posts are heavily encouraged, since it allows for much more dialogue to be contained in a single space, and I like seeing dialogue abound. Skype is a big help for that and I'll encourage the sharing of contact info between all successful applicants.
GM Notes: So Indigo is an RP that I ran on the old site for a solid three and a half years, although it was limping along during the last year with half the roster pretty much non-existent. We barely got into the Lavender Town story arc before it basically died, and I had everything all planned out so I really want to get to at least Celadon this time around. As such that's a lot of existing content that I will be using during the course of this RP with obvious tweaks to fit the new cast. Now I know at least half the people from the old site have moved onto here, so they will have priority signup slots but I would love to see some new blood in here. I think it would make the distance between falling to the ghosts of Lavender and potentially getting to the climatic end of what I had planned.
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Setting: The RP is set approximately 10 years after the events of the original Red and Blue series of games. Many of the original characters and NPCs are still in place but they have grown with time into their existing roles. The native Pokemon of Kanto has expanded with the migration of Johto Pokemon and Kanto is experiencing a new era of prosperity. However there are rumblings that not everyone is thrilled, and that seedy characters are looking to revive the long-defunct Team Rocket to cause mayhem and destruction in the real world.
Mechanics: I'll say right now this is a story based RP, not a D&D-esque rolling system to determine success. The writer controls their own fate within the guidelines below.
Pokemon Catching: I will allow a person's starting Pokemon to be any Pokemon from any region whatsoever as long as it is the first stage of an evolving Pokemon that is not a pseudo-legendary (no Dratinis or Larvitars. Almost want to say no Riolus either, since I know I'll get at least one.) The list of Pokemon available for capture will be limited to the first 251 Pokemon (Kanto/Johto), because I don't want to keep track of over 700 different buggers across multiple game routes.
Once the group enters a Route where there is the ability to capture Pokemon, I will post a list of the available Pokemon in the OOC section. Each trainer will be allowed to capture one Pokemon per route. Some Pokemon will be marked as Rare and if you want to capture one of these Pokemon you will have to give me a good reason as to why you desire to have this Pokemon (mostly to curb everyone getting Clefairys or Dratinis. I expect things to be as realistic as Pokemon can be). Catching will be done in a post that you write up and unless you really want to have your character to fail, you'll likely succeed in capturing it.
Pokemon Levelling: Levelling will occur at my discretion and usually it will be based on how active your Pokemon is in your own interactions. I usually give about one level per mention in a post, although I can tailor it at my own discretion if a Pokemon is at too low a level or getting to be too high a level for the surrounding area. The only use Charizard strategy was fine when you were 8, but let's be a little more diversified here. After certain checkpoints, usually after a Catching route or after a City's objectives are complete, I will post a level update, complete with the full roster and any move changes that may need to be made. Pokemon will have a maximum of 4 move slots available, but will be able to perform HM tasks without learning the specific HMs (because looking at a Pidgeot and saying 'That thing can't Fly' is silly).
Pokemon Battling: While the move set is limited to the game mechanics, battling is more like the anime. You can get creative with how the matches go similar to how Ash was able to keep hacking his way to victory in the gyms. Again, against NPCs, you control the action and pace of the battle. When in Gyms, there will be an OOC post listing the roster of available Pokemon for battle and you choose who you'd choose to face.
When it comes to battling against a fellow RPer, the outcome should be determined ahead of time and be somewhat realistic. No just claiming victory right off the back without their consent. Don't be a dick.
Example Character Sheet: I will be using a different character sheet since I found that trying to guide the action with a character that is designed to not want to control the action is very tough to do, but here is a sample of what myself and Raven will be looking for on the sheets if we get this to the submission stage.
Name: (Duh.)
Age: (Keep it between 10-21, please)
Gender: (I would like to have an even ratio for this if possible).
Hometown: (Can be anywhere, but everyone's starting in Pallet. Also it should be from the same region as your starter Pokemon.)
Appearance: (I would prefer to see actual descriptions here. Pictures are fine but it can be tough to find what one wants online, and I like seeing what people can come up with.)
Personality: (Tell us what kind of person you are, and I will say right off the bat that weird loners who talk about pointy things and killing things, probably won't be invited into the group.)
Profession: (Trainer? Breeder? Coordinator? You can do whatever you want, as long as it's already a defined role, or you tell me what you want to do.)
Talents: (Any kind of special talent you might have, but be reasonable. For example: Excellent cook = good. 15 year old assault rifle specialist = bad.)
Inventory: (Again, be reasonable here. Again for example: Pokeballs, Potions and a sleeping bag = good. $100000, a car and an nuke = bad.)
Starter Pokemon: (Everyone's getting one Pokemon at Lvl 5 to start. I don't care where it's from, but it's gotta be the first stage of an evolving Pokemon.)
Biography: (Give us a little backstory. What made you the person you are today? Anything interesting happen in your life? Read any good books? You know how it goes.)
Notes/Other: (Anything else you want to mention that's relevant that I forgot to mention before hand.)
Name: Jordan Kelly
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Hometown: Fuchsia City
Appearance: Jordan is a tall, tanned Caucasian, standing at 6'3, a fairly average looking young man. He's got shaggy, dirty blond hair and blue eyes, nothing remarkable about his clothes either. He wears a black and ocean blue Fuchsia Sharks baseball hat, a black t-shirt worn underneath a gray hooded zip-up sweatshirt, a pair of blue jeans and a beaten up pair of gray sneakers. He has a pair of ray-ban sunglasses he will wear when conditions are appropriate, and he wears a Sharpedo tooth hanging from some string around his neck because it "looked cool."
Personality: Jordan is what you would call a "beach bum". Laid back, not really caring a lot about anything, just out for a good time. More interested in surfing than training, he doesn't really try to push his Pokemon at all. He's got a good heart and will try to help, if it doesn't take much effort, but in the end, he'd still prefer just relaxing on the sand.
Profession: Trainer
Talents: He is an excellent surfer, he wants to get a Water Pokemon so he can learn how to surf on top of it, but he has yet to find one that is good enough.
Inventory: 5 Pokeballs, 3 Potions, Sleeping Bag, Frying Pan (perfect for Beach BBQs). He's traveling light, partially because it makes easier to travel, partially because he couldn't be bothered to bring anything else.
Starter Pokemon: Scyther, named Vince
Biography: Jordan was born and raised in Fuchsia City, the son of a Safari Zone ranger and a housemaker. His father's job kept him away from the house at all hours of the day and night, he had to be ever vigilant and on the watch for poachers. His mother resented him for staying away from the house so much, and raised Jordan to avoid Pokemon, saying they sucked the life out of people. This point was only further hammered home during his first swim in the ocean. He had gotten away from the beach a little bit and a Tentacool stung him hard. He was quickly pulled to safety, but he had sworn off Pokemon for good.
He remained steadfast in his beliefs, his mother was very happy, his father couldn't tell what had happened. It stayed that way until his parents when on a long overdue workation to the Sevii islands for a couple months and 13 year old Jordan was left to stay with his uncle, who lived on the Fuchsia Beach. His uncle was an avid surfer and Jordan came out with him every day, mostly because it was summer, and everything on TV sucked. His Uncle would go out there almost every day on his Blastoise, surfing the good waves that crashed on the Kanto shores. Jordan was still a bit frightened from his earlier experiences with the ocean, but when his uncle hoisted him aboard that Turtle Pokemon and he felt the spray of the water hitting his face, he knew he found something he could truly enjoy. He started going out with his uncle, but since he didn't have a Pokemon, he just used a surfboard. He was a fast learner and he would keep going out with his uncle every chance he could get after that. He had slight ambitions to get a Pokemon like his uncle, but it didn't really matter now. He was enjoying the thrills he got when surfing. When he wasn't out riding the waves, he was hanging out on the beach with other like-minded teens, but it wasn't going to last.
His parents grew weary of his laissez-faire attitude around the house. It had been two years since he graduated high school and he showed no ambition to do a thing with his life. He would stay out on the beach like he always did. There was a huge fight between his parents one night when Jordan was down at a beach bonfire. His father figured he had the perfect solution and his mother was so opposed to it she started throwing china around. When Jordan finally returned from his little party, his father was sitting there, waiting for him, surrounded by a sea of shattered porcelain. On the kitchen table was an egg. His father told him that since Jordan didn't seem to want to pick his path, his father would pick it for him. He was going to be flown out the next day by his father's Fearow, to Pallet, where he would be registered for the Pokemon League challenge. The egg contained his Pokemon. Jordan would have no say in the matter, and if he ever wanted to return home, he had better get cracking on the League path. It would be a rough ride. Jordan mustered what little protests he could, but it was no use. Jordan was taken to the tiny town in the West part of Kanto and stranded there. No money, no way home, just the clothes on his back, a few meager supplies and the egg his father had given him. Soon after he arrived, the egg hatched, revealing that his dad had at least given him a good start, a Scyther appearing before him. He was disappointed it wasn't a Water Pokemon, but the little guy was showing a fair amount of spirit. Jordan named him Vince and decided if he was going to have to fight his way back home, he better start now, so he could get back out on the waves he loved as quickly as possible.
Notes/Other: His uncle is the famed Surfing Guru of Fuchsia Beach.
All right, I think that's everything for now. Any questions or comments, leave them down below and I'll do my best to get back to you as long as I'm not pass-out tired or drunk.
Oh, I could have a field day here. I think I may be interested. I"ll try getting a sheet up later.
Hmmm. We can start out with most pokemon correct? Just not psuedo legendaries or legendaries, correct? The only question I have is what would be the most interesting pokemon to start out with? I'm thinking Voltorb will be the most fun.
@Ganryu
You can be all kinds of stabby in real life if that's your perrogative, but I'd prefer if the character didn't try to shiv other PCs or NPCs at the drop of a hat. Doesn't make for good morale. Trust me.
Most Pokemon is correct. I know a couple of potential starters already from the previous cast, and they include Zorua (not really pseudo since she's pretty weak) and Joltik, so yeah, feel free to roam.
@Ganryu
You can be all kinds of stabby in real life if that's your perrogative, but I'd prefer if the character didn't try to shiv other PCs or NPCs at the drop of a hat. Doesn't make for good morale. Trust me.
Most Pokemon is correct. I know a couple of potential starters already from the previous cast, and they include Zorua (not really pseudo since she's pretty weak) and Joltik, so yeah, feel free to roam.
Oh good, I was afraid I would get judged for a moment.
Anyways, my info will be up by tonight. This looks like it'll pick up nicely, and if you've already had plots in the past, that makes me excited.
Well judging from this past hour, I may move this into the forum now, since it looks like we'll have enough people already. All sheets and the like can be posted in there. I look forward to seeing who wants to come to this twisted version of Kanto.
Name: Fary Nitashi
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Hometown:Nimbasa CityAppearance: Fary has dark brown hair, so dark in fact it's almost black, that she keeps in a messy pony tail while she's wearing her lucky plaid military stale hat. Her face is a bit longer then normal while her bangs lay just above her steel blue eyes. She doesn't really wear much make up. Maybe a dark shade of eye shadow but not blush and only gray colors of eyeliner.
She is about 5 ft 6 in tall and wears a grayish blue shirt under her black short sleeved over shirt that is paired with her dark blue worn looking jeans and gray knee high boots over her jeans. She carries everything in her black, blue and purple backpack with her wak handout out on the outside of her pack. Her Pokeballs hang out in a small light blue satchel that's next to her hips.
Personality: Fary is warm and understanding to anyone and everyone. She loves Pokemon due to her life being raised around them and loves her best friend Aeris just as much. She's an intelligent, creative, wise cracking and witty person that loves to joke around and have fun, but is serious when she needs to be. She's laid back and at times can seem uncaring when really she doesn't let things bother her. She's bold and stubborn to the point of being combative when she feels something is wrong, or is being done wrong. She will also fight for her friends if they need her help. She does have moments of being lazy, and some times can come off as harsh when she doesn't mean to.
Profession: Coordinator and Breeder.
Talents: Cooking, making Pokemon food, grooming and First aid(Pokemon and human).
Inventory:
$2000
1 World Map
1 Backpack
6 Pokeballs
1 Bike
1 Sleeping bag
1 Tent
1 Drawing book
1 Pencil Box full of drawing pencils
1 box of artist grade colored pencils
3 Antidotes
3 Potions
Her father's book for Pokemon Breeders
Her father's book for Pokemon Nutrition
Her mother's book for Pokemon Grooming and Coordinating
Xtransceiver
First Aid Kit
1 Kit for making Pokemon food
1 Grooming kit
1 Machete
Cooking tools (knife set, bamboo spoon, and a wak)
Change of clothes
Starter Pokemon:ZoruaBiography: Fary was born and raised in Nimbasa City with her mother Hanna, a coordinator, and her father Mark, a breeder. Fary spent her life learning how to be a breeder and a coordinator with her parents. She loved watching her mother in Coordinator events, and helping her father with the Pokemon he was raising. Because of her father's work she was raised around Pokemon ever since she was born keeping them as pets; her first being an Eevee.
Growing up her best human friend was Aeris from Driftveil City. The Mason family and the Nitashi family are very close. Fary and Aeris grew up playing together with Eevee.
At the age of 5 Eevee evolved into Umbreon because of how much time they spent time outside at night watching the stars. For years Fary and Umbreon spend time around Nimbasa City until Fary 11. Umbreon was walking around the city with Fary when it started to cough up blood and couldn't move. Fary ran home trying to get her family and Nurse Joy to help, but there was nothing they could do, Umbreon was dead within hours.
She was going to leave to be a trainer at age 12 but with the lose of Umbreon had crippled her will to go, therefor, she stayed at home to help her family. She grew close to other Pokemon but still wasn't over losing Umbreon even to this day. She was afraid losing another friend to a random illness but still wanted to help her parents as best she could.
She was in a long term relationship with Grimsley that lasted 3 years. When he gambled away all of his families wealth she was their to support him, and to help him with his addiction. When she was 20, when he was offered a place in the Elite Four he broke up with her. It was the day she came over to give him a Purrloin she breed just for him as a congratulatory gift. He lied to her saying that members of the Elite Four can't be in relationships due to the fact that he has to live his area of the Pokemon League, but they she will always be his Fary Queen. She didn't buy his lie for a moment instead throwing the pokeball with Purrloin at his head, and stormed out.
On her 21st birthday her parents gave her a Pokeball; inside was a Pokemon her father had raised for her to start her quest as a trainer; however, by then she wanted to be just like her parents, a breeder and a coordinator. Inside the Pokeball was Zorua; before she left Nimbasa City to meet Professor Oak she got to know her new Pokefriend finding she reminded Fary of Umbreon. She's sill hesitant to fully befriend Zorua but was willing to try, for Umbreon's and her sake. Now her goal is to train and raise a dark based Pokemon team, including training an Umbreon. She left with Aeris heading for Kanto to meet professor Oak.
Notes/Other:Fary doesn't like to keep Zorua in the Pokeball at all times; in fact when set up at camp Zorua is out of her Pokeball and running around playing with Fary. Also, it's her goal to raise a Dragonite to the same high quality as her father did.
