So I'm noticing that there's quite the plethora of rules that apply to PVP battles.  I'm curious, Balth, to what degree these rules apply against NPC trainers, which I imagine will be a good deal of encounters in a story such as this.  At least, that's what makes sense to me.  In the back of my mind I'm worrying that there basically won't be any NPC trainers until someone gets enough CPs to make one, and only then can the players stop battling one another.  Looking at the fact that you've assigned a CP total for yourself (and thusly might not be making anything unless you yourself earn CPs) is what somewhat legitimized this concern for me.

Also, you mentioned that CPs are earned for IC posts.  Does this include IC posts made during battles?  And I have to ask, going to the trouble of creating more threads for every battle seems like a big-time complication--one I've never before encountered in all my time RPing.  I don't want to question your authority, on the chance that it might preemptively sour our relationship, but for the sake streamlining the process, visibility for other players, and not potentially cluttering up other sections unduly, wouldn't it make more sense to have battles play out in this thread's IC, and Pokemon be revealed not in a characters tab but in PMs?