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Hello there, young trainers! My name is Professor Oak, but you can call me the Pokemon Professor! Even though the nickname is longer than my actual name! This world is inhabited far and wide by Pokemon! But since you lot are coming to Kanto from all over the place, you probably already knew that! I study Pokemon for a living, and I am proud to share my expertise on the subject with you! Now I know you don't actually need a starter Pokemon, since you all seem to have one, but still I'm going to explain to you exactly what you are here to do.

You have all come to Kanto for a reason: to take the Pokemon League challenge and become world-class trainers! You all have your own reasons, and honestly, I don't care what they are, but I can tell you it will be a long, dangerous journey. Not only will you have to traverse rough mountains, and swim over oceans, but evil people calling themselves Team Rocket will be around as well, attempting to give you a lot of trouble. However, you don't need to call the authorities on them! You can just overcome them with your spirit and the friendship of your Pokemon! I'm sure that will be way more effective than guns! Now, go off on your journey everyone! The world of Pokemon is yours to explore!

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Make sure you read all this stuff!

[hider= A.J.'s Commandments of the RP (as borrowed from nine years ago, as well as my dear friend DPL)]
[b]1.[/b] If you are going to submit a sheet for this RP, make sure you are ready to make the time commitment for a LONG RP. This is going to be a trek. I don't need someone coming in and taking a spot from someone, then dropping out before the party hits Viridian Forest. It is a really annoying trend I've seen lately, and if someone does that in here, I am killing them off in the most embarrassing way possible. I'm talking a Fearow dropping a coconut on your head kind of death.
[b]2.[/b] When making a post, I expect certain standards to be hit. A displayed coherence of the English language, if you will. I'm an editor for money, it irks me to see capitals missed. So while I'm not going to be going after people for a comma splice, I will expect sentence structure above that of your average Twitch stream. Also, I expect at least five sentences per post. Call it two paragraphs. That's the High-Casual standard, right? If you're devolving into one-sentence posts, maybe that's a sign that you should be collabing with the person instead.
[b]3.[/b] Don't be a freaking Mary Sue. This is an RP. It's about the story. If you enter and just say "My Charmander evolved into a Charizard and flew Lance's Dragonite into the Sun so I win," I'm going to not only declare your post non-canon, you're going to be eaten by a Gulpin. And then spat out. And then nerfed so hard kids will be throwing your character's head around in the backyard for fun. So, don't do it.
[b]4.[/b] Romance is allowed. I've been in enough SoL RPs here to know it is inevitable. Even with NPCs. But if it starts getting to the point where you wouldn't read the post out loud to your grandmother, your religious leader, or a massive stranger on a plane, you should probably take that to PMs.
[b]5.[/b] Try to follow the formatting rules. [i]Italics[/i] means thoughts. [b]Bold[/b] means previous dialogue. [s]Strike[/s] means you're being funny and I get it. Also, while I am expecting all characters to have a designated color for their lines, Pokemon generally just get the color that the Pokemon is. Makes it nice and easy.
[b]6.[/b] While I am not imposing deadlines on posts in this RP, I am not going to be as willing to wait around for people who aren't posting. It took 1.5 years to go from Cerulean to Vermillion and back last time, and that shit isn't happening again!
[b]7.[/b] If you have an idea for a plot point in the RP, don't hesitate to talk to me! I have my tentpoles to hit, but the rest of the story is going to be up to the group, so feel free to shoot a message over and we can discuss it.
[b]8.[/b] Post your favorite Pokemon game in the Notes/Other section so I know you read the rules.[/hider]

[hider=The Mechanics of Indigo]
Basically, you will start with a level five Pokemon that is the pre-evolutionary stage of a non-pseudo legendary line of Pokemon (No Dratinis, Beldums, Gibles, that sort of thing). No middle evolutions either.
As we begin our journey, I will post the capture list of a given route or cave or ocean or whatever. You will have the choice to capture either one or two Pokemon from the given list. If a Pokemon is marked as uncommon, it will be your only catch. If a Pokemon is marked as rare, not only will it be the only catch, but I will need a damn good reason for why you need that Pikachu so badly. This can be discussed in the Discord when I get that up. The Pokemon available in the wild will be from the Kanto, Johto and Hoenn generations of the games. I will be distributing them by location in the game and by the geography of Kanto.
Battles will be handled by you, the writer. Whether you want to battle all the trainers on a route, or avoid them all and just beat up on wild Pokemon, either way is fine. When we get to gym battles or event battles, I will post the outlines, as well as the possible Pokemon that a trainer will be using. Then it's up to you to co-ordinate the battle, Jet Li style, and make it look real good. Whether you want to win or lose, I'm good with whatever. Just make it a good fight so I don't have to give the Joaquin Phoenix thumbs down to you.
Leveling up will be determined by the GM (that would be me) based on the experience you give your Pokemon. If the Pokemon is interacting outside of the ball, they will likely level up in the next update. If not, enjoy that Magikarp forever. Pokemon can know a maximum of four moves at once, and I will ask you to choose moves as your Pokemon levels up. They will be based on the Gen VIII movesets, because I am too lazy to go back in time. TMs are reusable and will be based on the 60 TMs from the Let's Go series.[/hider]

[hider=Character Sheet (Insert your text color of choice in the coding)]
[color=red][b]Name:[/b][/color] (Duh)
[color=red][b]Age:[/b][/color] (This is an older crew, so I'm going to say 16-22 on ages. 10 year olds shouldn't be running around with fire-breathing lizards.)
[color=red][b]Gender:[/b][/color] (However you identify)
[color=red][b]Hometown:[/b][/color] (Also duh)

[color=red][b]Appearance:[/b][/color] (I'm not going to be very picky about this, since I know Pokemon covers a lot of different visual aspect. You want to use a real-world FC? Go for it. You want to use an anime FC? Sure why not? You want to just give a detailed description of what they look like? More power to you. Just make sure the basics are covered. Give me height, build, eye color, hair color, tattoos/piercings, what they usually are wearing and that should be enough. If not, I will tell you.)

[color=red][b]Personality:[/b][/color] (What are they like? Why are they doing this? Why should anyone care to know you? Fill this out here.)

[color=red][b]Profession:[/b][/color] (Trainer? Coordinator? Chef? What do you want to be with Pokemon?)
[color=red][b]Talents:[/b][/color] (Can you make fire? Can you swim really fast? Can you make your fingers do the wiggle thing? What will make the Pokemon equivalent of Gabrielle Union not X you out?)
[color=red][b]Inventory:[/b][/color] (Some starter stuff. Don't go crazy there, rich folks, unless you want the endless Winston comparisons.)

[color=red][b]Starter Pokemon:[/b][/color] (As stated in the rules, your starter should be a Pokemon from a non-pseudo legendary line that has at least one evolution ahead of it. It should be from the region your character is from, unless you can work it into the backstory in a way that pleases me. Also, I am willing to accept appearance changes, but if you're like 'Oh it's a shiny!' and can't give me a reason other than 'because I want it,' I will not be pleased.)

[color=red][b]Biography:[/b][/color] (I don't need the complete volume of a life's story. I just need to know how your character became your character. How did they grow up? How did they get their starter? Are their parents assholes? That sort of stuff. Show a lot, but don't give away all the goods.)

[color=red][b]Notes/Other:[/b][/color] (Any other facts you think are pertinent go here. This is a good spot for those color codes. Also, this is a good opportunity to remind you to read the rules.)[/hider]

The Character and Pokemon Rosters will be in the Characters tab. I will be posting periodic team/level updates in the IC, as well as updating the roster in the Characters tab, at regular intervals. Please post your sheets in this section for now. Please do not post sheets in the characters tab until I clear you to do so. I aim aiming for eight people max to join this RP, so there may be some cuts if I get too many sheets.

I will keep a status update in the OOC tab, just so people know where we are. I will post the capture list there as well just in case people forget.

I will add stuff here as I see fit, mostly because I can't think of stuff immediately after volleyball.