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Pokémon Journeys - Memories of Kanto

Accepted Characters:

1) Cal Freesch | S: Bulbasaur
2) Niko Watanabe | S: Clefairy
3) Amy Cooper | S: Charmander
4) --- | S: ---
5) --- | S: ---
6) --- | S: ---

Example CS:

Sample CS; Youngster Joey

Trainer Card:

Name: Joey Chestnut
Age: 9 (keep in mind, your options are 11 or 12!)
Pronouns: He/Him
Hometown: Cherrygrove City
Appearance:

Champion of the snapback cap and cargo shorts, Joey has tawny skin, brown eyes, unkempt brown hair and a permanent shit-eating grin. He constantly sports cuts and scrapes, particularly at the level of his face and knees due to his proclivity to wander into "the tall grass." Joey is relatively short for his age, but not outside of the scope of his fellow classmates; truth be told he was taller than many of his now taller classmates just last year and will likely pass them once he hits a growth spurt, but for now, that is a sore subject for him.

Background:

Perennially sweaty, dirty or scraped up, Joey is a snot-nosed kid who loves to spend time "playing with" (ie. terrorizing) the wild Pokémon that live in the outskirts of Cherrygrove City. Joey doesn't do well in school, and in spite of his boisterous attitude, he doesn't mesh well with his classmates, who bully him and call him "Stinky"; a nickname that has stood the test of time following an incident where Joey was marked by a foreign trainer's Stunky, in spite of Joey's efforts to always smell nice ever since. Joey's father works long hours, and his mother worries for him, but she's busy taking care of his baby sister, so Joey tends to spend his afternoons out in the wild, extracting toll from unwitting and unprepared trainers who look down upon his trusty Rattata. Little do they know, he's in the top percentage of Rattata, after all!

Starter: Rattata Pikachu
Key Item: First Aid Kit.
Wishlist: Marill, Alolan Rattata

Pokémon Party

Species: Rattata
Nickname: Remy
Gender: Male
Level: 10
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Run Away
Move Set: Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Focus Energy, Bite, Swagger


Species: Pikachu
Nickname: Jolee
Gender: Female
Level: 5
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Static
Move Set: Sweet Kiss, Charm, Play Nice, Thunder Shock, Quick Attack, Thunder Wave

Pokémon Journeys - Memories of Kanto

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I think I fixed it. I doubt Niko’s dad is going to show up much tbh.

Also, do I go with Pokeblocks or Poffins?

@Crimson Flame

He might pup up once you guys reach Celadon or Fuschia City; we’ll talk about it. Consider yourself approved! Feel free to post your character in the Characters Tab.

As for Pokéblocks vs Poffins. There isn’t really a difference between what their use is (Contest Stat-boosting item made from Berries). Pokéblocks are dehydrated Berry treats, Poffins are baked goods, both exist, picks whichever one fits Niko’s aesthetic better in your opinion!

Pokémon Journeys - Memories of Kanto

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Sweet! I take it I'm clear to move him over to the characters tab then?

@GubGar

Yes! Please go right ahead.

Cute boi

Trainer Card:
Name: Niko Watanabe
Age: 12
Pronouns: He/Him
Appearance:



Niko stands at 5’1”. He has a round face, upturned brown eyes, and often has a huge smile on his face. His hair color is naturally dark brown, almost black, but he dyes it pink because pink is just a more fun color. He is very happy that he goes to a school doesn’t have natural hair colors as part of the dress code. He has a slim build. As far as his fashion sense is concerned, Niko doesn’t really have one. He just wears stuff he thinks looks cute. His favorite color is pink though, so your bound to see a lot of that in his wardrobe.

Background:
His mother and father are divorced, and he lives with his mother and little sister in Celadon City. He always had a fascination for cute things. He played with stuffed animals while other boys played sports. He even dyed his hair pink because he thought it was a more fun color than his natural brown. For this, he was often bullied. Niko always wore a smile on his face, and acted like the bullying never bothered him. He wanted to set an example for his little sister to look up to. He was the one who had to look after her when his mother was working. He also helped make dinners for the family, which gave him an interest in cooking. Additionally, Niko is estranged from his father. He wanted a son who would become the Pokémon League Champion one day. Obviously, Niko was not that. He was interested in Contests, and preferred to be a coordinator. While his mother was supportive, he was often yelled at and called a sissy by his father on the rare occasions they do see each other. Even still Niko doesn’t hate his dad, and hopes to reconcile with him.

Starter: Clefairy
Key Item: Pokeblock Case (Or Poffin Case.)
Wishlist: Cute Pokemon

@Crimson Flame

I really like the concept and writing style, but I’m going to have to approve conditionally based on a small discrepancy in tone here:

I don’t want the father calling the son insults.
I understand that it’s a real and prevalent social issue irl and can understand wanting to include that family friction, but it does break the No Profanity rule.

Feel free to change the wording (eg. dad wanted to “raise a son”), or to remove it and let the friction with dad be implied.

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Here we go! I think my guy is ready to rock.. Hopefully.

He's a PokeManiac!

Name: Cal (Callahan) Freesch
Age: 12
Pronouns: He/Him
Appearance:

A scrawny kid with fair skin, bright green eyes complete with circular red rimmed glasses, and short brown hair. Cal is adorned with a series of freckles on his face and typically wears a nervous grin with a missing front tooth that's yet to grow in. He perpetually has dirt underneath his poorly cared for nails, and his t-shirt, vest, shorts, and crocs combo all sport earthly colors. He's of average height for his age, but will likely end up on the shorter end, though not disproportionately so. Cal sports a backpack that seems quite large compared to his own height, and has a pin on his vest that resembles an Oran Berry.

Background:

Cal lands dead center in the role of awkward nerd. He's a timid kid growing up in Fuchsia City, whose eyes light up whenever you give him an opportunity to ramble about one of the many things he's interested in. He does well in school, though it's clear to his teachers that he'd be a much better student if he focused more, and while not especially popular, he has a few friends he hangs around. After school, Cal usually finds himself helping his parents in their garden, enjoying the process of working in the dirt and helping grow things. Cal's always had an interest in Pokemon, every new fact he learns about a Pokemon feels like a prize to him, especially the weird ones. On one occasion he burst into tears when he found out that Gloom was considered an unpopular Pokemon because of its aroma, an event that ended up convincing his parents that despite his shared love for gardening, he'd probably be happier as a trainer. The promise of learning from a Pokemon Professor was what lead to Cal applying for the Pallet Town Scholarship.

First choice: Bulbasaur!
Key Item: Berry Pots "Portable containers that allow you to easily cultivate Berries anywhere and anytime."
Wishlist: I'm down with whatever Cal happens to stumble across, favoring the stranger looking and more 'unloved' Pokemon. But I'd love to get a Shuckle.

@GubGar

Looks good to me. You’re in!

Pokemon Journeys: Memories of Kanto [Interest Check]

Thread is up.

Pokémon Journeys - Memories of Kanto

Rules:

1) I plan to post Chapter 1: Pallet Town this coming Sunday, and a new chapter every Sunday thereafter. Each chapter will lay out a number of tasks your PCs must complete or options available to do. Each chapter will be written with the idea that you will post 1-3 times per week, so multiple tasks are available for you to complete.
2) Please pay special attention to the rules regarding your Pokémon's level advancement!
3) Please refrain from using profanities or foul language, think of this RP as a PG-13 movie... you get one s-word.
4) Please abide by all previously-established rules of RPGuild.
5) I reserve the right to institute additional rules if needed.

Accepted Characters:

1) --- | S: ---
2) --- | S: ---
3) --- | S: ---
4) --- | S: ---
5) --- | S: ---
6) --- | S: ---

Example CS:

Sample CS; Youngster Joey

Trainer Card:

Name: Joey Chestnut
Age: 9 (keep in mind, your options are 11 or 12!)
Pronouns: He/Him
Appearance:

Champion of the snapback cap and cargo shorts, Joey has tawny skin, brown eyes, unkempt brown hair and a permanent shit-eating grin. He constantly sports cuts and scrapes, particularly at the level of his face and knees due to his proclivity to wander into "the tall grass." Joey is relatively short for his age, but not outside of the scope of his fellow classmates; truth be told he was taller than many of his now taller classmates just last year and will likely pass them once he hits a growth spurt, but for now, that is a sore subject for him.

Background:

Perennially sweaty, dirty or scraped up, Joey is a snot-nosed kid who loves to spend time "playing with" (ie. terrorizing) the wild Pokémon that live in the outskirts of Cherrygrove City. Joey doesn't do well in school, and in spite of his boisterous attitude, he doesn't mesh well with his classmates, who bully him and call him "Stinky"; a nickname that has stood the test of time following an incident where Joey was marked by a foreign trainer's Stunky, in spite of Joey's efforts to always smell nice ever since. Joey's father works long hours, and his mother worries for him, but she's busy taking care of his baby sister, so Joey tends to spend his afternoons out in the wild, extracting toll from unwitting and unprepared trainers who look down upon his trusty Rattata. Little do they know, he's in the top percentage of Rattata, after all!

Starter: Rattata Pikachu
Key Item: First Aid Kit.
Wishlist: Marill, Alolan Rattata

Pokémon Party

Species: Rattata
Nickname: Remy
Gender: Male
Level: 10
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Run Away
Move Set: Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Focus Energy, Bite, Swagger


Species: Pikachu
Nickname: Jolee
Gender: Female
Level: 5
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Static
Move Set: Sweet Kiss, Charm, Play Nice, Thunder Shock, Quick Attack, Thunder Wave

@Crimson Flame@Dragonfly 9@GubGar

Pokémon Journeys - Memories of Kanto

Welcome to Pokémon Journeys.

This will be a group RP for 3-6 players set in an AU of the Pokémon universe loosely based on the Pokémon Adventure manga and mainline games of Gen. I. This is set in Kanto, after the events of the first game/chapter of the story. An unassuming rookie trainer named Red defeated and exposed Giovanni as the leader of Team Rocket, a Pokémon-poaching terrorist organization before going missing. An unregistered trainer going by the pseudonym: Green, compiled a series of pictures exposing Giovanni's accomplices within the Pokémon League: Lt. Surge, Koga, Sabrina & Prof. Blaine, all now considered fugitives at large by Interpol, and Prof. Oak's young grandson has stepped up last minute as the new Viridian City Gym Leader. Widespread protests through the autumn saw the coming season for Pokémon Journeys in 1999 put in doubt, but well-financed appeasement missions by representatives of the Pokémon League throughout the winter has seen most discontentment mollified.

You are an up-and-coming Pokémon trainer, all of 11-12 years old, and you have received a scholarship to begin your Journey from Prof. Oak's prestigious lab in Pallet Town! Congratulations!

This RP will be episodic. I'm putting this RP under the casual category because I'm expecting 2-3 paragraph posts as a means to allow you to post multiple times per week. My outline for this game is set for thirty (30!) chapters, and I want to advance at a rate of one chapter per week so that this doesn't get dragged out over a year; this means you should be willing to post 1-3 times per week, please!

All players are expected to advance in your Pokémon Journey at comparable rates (regardless of whether or how often you team up or not) and each week will open a new area for your characters to explore. There will be twelve (12) Gym Badges available so don't fret if you haven't beaten a particular Gym Leader; you can always Fly back to their Gym once we're far along in the story! Furthermore, you will only need six (6) Gym Badges to access the Pokémon League Final Tournament (though it will be more difficult to advance to the finals if you have less Badges). There will also be Contest Halls, but this is Kanto and the public likes their good ol' fashioned Pokémon battling.

Prof. Oak owns six Pokémon that he's offering as Starter Pokémon. These are:
Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Pikachu, Clefairy & Jigglypuff. Take your pick in character creation!

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Character Creation:

Let's go ahead and create Pokémon Trainers based on the following Character Sheet:

Pokémon Trainer

Name:
Age:
Pronouns:
Appearance: (give me a description, not a face claim; one paragraph should suffice),
Background: (tell me about your character's life so far, focus particularly on school life, after school activities, and home life and give me a good idea of their personality; again, one paragraph only)
First choice: (first choice Starter)
Key Item: (pick a single Key Item; it may be something from the games or something original)
Wishlist: (expect the Gen I and some Gen II classics to show up in-game, but feel free to write in any Pokémon you specially want to come across)

After, you will set your Pokémon Party as part of your CS once you've confirmed your Starter as follows:

Pokémon Party

Pokémon Species:
Nickname:
Gender:
Level: (your Pokémon's level increases by 1 every time they are involved in a fight or help you escape a perilous situation; levels are capped by the amount of badges/ribbons you've earned)
Nature:
Ability: (select one available to your Pokémon)
Moves: (select six moves naturally available to your Pokémon per their level; your Starter may have a single Egg move and starts at level 5).

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As alluded to in the Pokémon Party hider, we will be keeping track of Pokémon levels for our partners' advancement. Your Starter will begin play at level 5 and the GM will roll to determine the level of any wild Pokémon caught. Players will be in charge of keeping track of their own Pokémon's levels. A Pokémon's level increases by 1 every time they are involved in a fight or help you escape a perilous situation; levels are capped by the amount of badges/ribbons you've earned according to the following table:

level cap per Gym Badge/Contest Ribbon

Sum of Gym Badges & Contest Ribbons vs Level Cap
0 => 10
1 => 14
2 => 18
3 => 22
4 => 26
5 => 30
6 => 34
7 => 38
8 => 42
9 => 46
10 => 50
11 => 54
12 => 58
13 => 62
14 => 66
15 => 70
16 => 76

Pokemon Journeys: Memories of Kanto [Interest Check]

Awesome! That makes for three players which is my minimum for this game.

I will go ahead and post a thread under Casual RP tomorrow for OOC purposes. Please begin to think of what Starter you would be interested in selecting, and of who your character will be!

In the meantime, I leave you with this sample CS:

Sample CS; Youngster Joey

Trainer Card:

Name: Joey Chestnut
Age: 9 (keep in mind, your options are 11 or 12!)
Pronouns: He/Him
Appearance:

Champion of the snapback cap and cargo shorts, Joey has tawny skin, brown eyes, unkempt brown hair and a permanent shit-eating grin. He constantly sports cuts and scrapes, particularly at the level of his face and knees due to his proclivity to wander into "the tall grass." Joey is relatively short for his age, but not outside of the scope of his fellow classmates; truth be told he was taller than many of his now taller classmates just last year and will likely pass them once he hits a growth spurt, but for now, that is a sore subject for him.

Background:

Perennially sweaty, dirty or scraped up, Joey is a snot-nosed kid who loves to spend time "playing with" (ie. terrorizing) the wild Pokémon that live in the outskirts of Cherrygrove City. Joey doesn't do well in school, and in spite of his boisterous attitude, he doesn't mesh well with his classmates, who bully him and call him "Stinky"; a nickname that has stood the test of time following an incident where Joey was marked by a foreign trainer's Stunky, in spite of Joey's efforts to always smell nice ever since. Joey's father works long hours, and his mother worries for him, but she's busy taking care of his baby sister, so Joey tends to spend his afternoons out in the wild, extracting toll from unwitting and unprepared trainers who look down upon his trusty Rattata. Little do they know, he's in the top percentage of Rattata, after all!

Starter: Rattata Pikachu
Key Item: First Aid Kit.
Wishlist: Marill, Alolan Rattata

Pokémon Party

Species: Rattata
Nickname: Remy
Gender: Male
Level: 10
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Run Away
Move Set: Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Focus Energy, Bite, Swagger


Species: Pikachu
Nickname: Jolee
Gender: Female
Level: 5
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Static
Move Set: Sweet Kiss, Charm, Play Nice, Thunder Shock, Quick Attack, Thunder Wave

Pokemon Journeys: Memories of Kanto [Interest Check]

Welcome to Pokémon Journeys.

This will be a group RP for 3-6 players set in an AU of the Pokémon universe loosely based on the Pokémon Adventure manga and mainline games of Gen. I. This is set in Kanto, after the events of the first game/chapter of the story. An unassuming rookie trainer named Red defeated and exposed Giovanni as the leader of Team Rocket, a Pokémon-poaching terrorist organization before going missing. An unregistered trainer going by the pseudonym: Green, compiled a series of pictures exposing Giovanni's accomplices within the Pokémon League: Lt. Surge, Koga, Sabrina & Prof. Blaine, all now considered fugitives at large by Interpol, and Prof. Oak's young grandson has stepped up last minute as the new Viridian City Gym Leader. Widespread protests through the autumn saw the coming season for Pokémon Journeys in 1999 put in doubt, but well-financed appeasement missions by representatives of the Pokémon League throughout the winter has seen most discontentment mollified.

You are an up-and-coming Pokémon trainer, all of 11-12 years old, and you have received a scholarship to begin your Journey from Prof. Oak's prestigious lab in Pallet Town! Congratulations!

This RP will be episodic. I'm putting this RP under the casual category because I'm expecting 2-3 paragraph posts as a means to allow you to post multiple times per week. My outline for this game is set for thirty (30!) chapters, and I want to advance at a rate of one chapter per week so that this doesn't get dragged out over a year; this means you should be willing to post 1-3 times per week, please!

All players are expected to advance in your Pokémon Journey at comparable rates (regardless of whether or how often you team up or not) and each week will open a new area for your characters to explore. There will be twelve (12) Gym Badges available so don't fret if you haven't beaten a particular Gym Leader; you can always Fly back to their Gym once we're far along in the story! Furthermore, you will only need six (6) Gym Badges to access the Pokémon League Final Tournament (though it will be more difficult to advance to the finals if you have less Badges). There will also be Contest Halls, but this is Kanto and the public likes their good ol' fashioned Pokémon battling.

Lastly, Prof. Oak owns six Pokémon that he's offering as Starter Pokémon. These are: Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Pikachu, Clefairy & Jigglypuff. Take your pick in character creation!

---

Character Creation:

Let's go ahead and create Pokémon Trainers based on the following Character Sheet:

Pokémon Trainer

Name:
Age:
Pronouns:
Appearance: (give me a description, not a face claim; one paragraph should suffice),
Background: (tell me about your character's life so far, focus particularly on school life, after school activities, and home life and give me a good idea of their personality; again, one paragraph only)
First choice: (first choice Starter)
Key Item: (pick a single Key Item; it may be something from the games or something original)
Wishlist: (expect the Gen I and some Gen II classics to show up in-game, but feel free to write in any Pokémon you specially want to come across)

After, you will set your Pokémon Party as part of your CS once you've confirmed your Starter as follows:

Pokémon Party

Pokémon Species:
Nickname:
Gender:
Level: (your Pokémon's level increases by 1 every time they are involved in a fight or help you escape a perilous situation; levels are capped by the amount of badges/ribbons you've earned)
Nature:
Ability: (select one available to your Pokémon)
Moves: (select six moves naturally available to your Pokémon per their level; your Starter may have a single Egg move and starts at level 5).

---

As alluded to in the Pokémon Party hider, we will be keeping track of Pokémon levels for our partners' advancement. Your Starter will begin play at level 5 and the GM will roll to determine the level of any wild Pokémon caught. Players will be in charge of keeping track of their own Pokémon's levels. A Pokémon's level increases by 1 every time they are involved in a fight or help you escape a perilous situation; levels are capped by the amount of badges/ribbons you've earned according to the following table:

level cap per Gym Badge/Contest Ribbon

Sum of Gym Badges & Contest Ribbons vs Level Cap

0 => 10
1 => 14
2 => 18
3 => 22
4 => 26
5 => 30
6 => 34
7 => 38
8 => 42
9 => 46
10 => 50
11 => 54
12 => 58
13 => 62
14 => 66
15 => 70
16 => 76

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Interested! My current character idea is a nine year old child prodigy(either a prodigy in their martial arts or just general book smarts), who tries to be more mature but is still a young child(and is probably and very likely the youngest of their team).

@Dragonfly 9

Alright! Glad to have you. First off, thank you for the interest. As for your character, I'd prefer if everyone was closer to the 15 year old suggestion tbh, your character could be 12 or 13 and still fit that same "young child" mold.

Also, with you that makes five players interested in joining and we can start to look at setting up two groups instead of one! (This is my fun, little solution to groups getting too large, please bear with me) For full disclosure, the game will likely not start in earnest for another couple of weeks while we finalize characters and the like, so feel free to hit me with those two options for temples, as I am likely to shuffle teams around, particularly if we find a sixth.