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Fabula Nova Crystallis: War of Transgression

“Each one of those soldiers out there is a person. A mother or father, son or daughter. Try to kill as few as you can. Subdue them, silence them, anything. We need to get into that building, talk to that fal’Cie, and hopefully get it out of there without killing any more people than we have to. On either side. Any questions?”

Not killing them is certainly going to be a challenge, seeing as they'll be wanting our heads. Riya sighed, lightly tapping her foot on the ground out of a slight frustration. While she understood his sympathy, it didn't change the difficulty of the request.

“Cocoon, we’ll take the left. Pulse, you head in from the right. Noir, lead the Pulse team, and meet up with me inside the doors when everything is clear. Everyone ready?”

Letting out another short sigh, Riya nodded and turned to Noir. "Your lead, then. Should it come to it, I'll do my best to immobilize any soldiers we run into."

An Introduction Is In Order

@FiendsTooth Welcome! I'm still diving into the forum myself, but so far I do enjoy the community here and I think it suits roleplayers of all types. It's been quite good so far, in my experience!

I hope you have a great time here and that I'll see you around! o7

Pokemon World RP

Sorry for my absence, I'm currently going over a few things and working out a potential OOC thread. So far, I've established that it will be based in a custom region, and while it will still have battles and potential for quests, players may remain fairly stationary throughout it and it will be pretty event-based and have a bit of a slice-of-life aspect to it.

Battling will not be mandatory, but I will look into setting up a proper system for it and make sure that each event allows it! I'm organizing this mostly by myself at the moment, so it will take some time, but I'll try to keep the thread updated if people are still interested.

Fabula Nova Crystallis: War of Transgression

Questions raced through Riya’s mind as Julian continued to explain the curious situation. If the Pulse fal’Cie wanted to end the war, then why did they hear of Pulse inhabitants being given a focus to destroy Cocoon? As he began to call out to them by their names, Riya allowed her arm to relax and returned the arrow to her quiver. It wasn’t much surprise that he knew of the Cocoon soldiers, and while it did seem strange that he had enough knowledge of Pulse soldiers to build a team from them, surely the information he’d given Pulse in the past didn’t come without a price.

Regardless, the situation made little sense. But she’d also yet to get any useful information, and perhaps staying around would provide some deal of it. The Pulse soldiers outnumbered Cocoon here, and if all of them worked together, they should see it end in their favor; and regardless of how uneasy this mission made her, she had come too far to turn back without more information. “Very well.” She put her bow away and stepped towards Julian. “I will agree to meet with the fal’Cie, but I can promise no more than that.” She spoke coldly and strictly, her eyes turned to Julian only until she had finished speaking, and afterwards returned to the two Cocoon soldiers behind him. Regardless of how trusted this man was she had no knowledge of the other soldiers, and would need to watch them closely.

St. Fortuna's Academy for the Higher Arts

I might be interested in joining this at the start of next month! A little busy right now but the concept looks great so far. I'll keep looking over the OOC :)

Fabula Nova Crystallis: War of Transgression

Riya sat with her arms crossed over her stomach, her head turned to watch as Lake Bresha came into view. It was lovely, but she had little appreciation for the sight. Cocoon was known as nothing more than home to enemies more vile than the beasts that roamed in the wilds of Gran Pulse. Rather than take in the sights, it felt more appropriate to focus on the task at hand: securing information from a defective soldier of Cocoon.

She’d have much rather been assigned near the front lines, doing her best to watch over her allies. But she also knew that this information was far too important, and she’d simply have to trust them to watch out for themselves. Her presence was much more valuable to the small team she was ordered to accompany, yet doubt still tore at her. A contact from inside Cocoon willing to give such important information to the enemy sounded like nothing short of a trap; regardless of what assistance he may have offered in the past. In order to ensure they make it in and out safely, she had to be at her best.

Once Bresha was in sight, it wasn’t long before the airship prepared for landing. She let out a sigh and allowed herself to relax in the brief moment before the airship landed. They were entering a warzone, and any concerns were best left behind for the sake of survival. As the airship landed she made a brief check of her equipment. With everything in order, she gripped her bow tightly and steadied herself on one of the aircraft’s walls, and taking one deep breath, prepared to enter the fray.

There was little time between leaving the airship and being plunged into combat. Chaos swept the streets, and while it was surely a living nightmare to those more directly involved, Riya was thankful that it made their operation easier. There were far too many skirmishes happening at once for their enemy to put much pressure on the elusive unit that quickly made their way through the streets and wreckage. Even when Cocoon soldiers tried to engage, many of them were soon overwhelmed by groups of Pulse soldiers that came to their aid as the four slipped back into cover. The rest of the unit did well taking down any soldiers that got too close for comfort, and Riya focused on taking out distant threats with her bow before they could become a problem.

Her concerns from the flight resurfaced slowly the closer they came to their target, but at the sight of the relaxed man sitting in front of the waterfront a small fraction of that concern seemed to be lifted, if only momentarily. It wasn’t long before two more soldiers came into her vision; at the sight, she promptly halted and drew back her bow, prepared to shoot at any sign of aggression.

Pokemon World RP

@Pyromania99 They did a little better with Alpha Sapphire/Omega Ruby's MC standing out IIRC, have not finished Moon to find out about that set though. I do like the event centered slice-of-life ideas.

@Rune_Alchemist, @Zardoric Based on the games, certain regular pokemon can indeed be OP, but it's usually pretty gimmicky and clever stuff that does it. In an RP, I think taking a different approach is more suitable.

Overall, I am leaning towards a more slice-of-life setting and building various events to add some interesting points to it. Battles will probably be an option to some degree still, and there may be points where battling is necessary, but there'll be a lot of pokemon kept simply for pets and such. There will probably be a bit of a limit to how many people can have, too.

Since I think I'm mostly settled on that now I'll just need to try putting together some event ideas to keep it going for a little while. I'll need one to start, and I'd like another couple on reserve for once we make it through the first as well. Ideas are still very welcome.

Pokemon World RP

@Pyromania99 Honestly I'm still debating a few things. It could be a fairly normal Pokemon journey, in which case available pokemon would start out fairly weak, or it could be a pokemon slice-of-life type thing. The idea suggested earlier that our characters are incredibly strong trainers that live out normal lives with their at-least-legendary-tier pokemon kept secret is pretty appealing, though, and I'm now leaning towards that one.

It wouldn't really mean that the pokemon need to be legendaries exactly, but there'd need to be ways that they became very powerful if they were otherwise normal pokemon. I think it'd take a bit of tweaking to the world that's been established canonically but it could be really fun.

Pokemon World RP

@tex Alolan digletts? A sea of poké surfers?

Pokemon World RP

@Masterkeun, @Zardoric, sounds like potential for some superhero-esque stuff. I like the idea!