[OOC] Pokémon: Start

[CitrusArms]

Whhhoooooaaaaaa, 77 pages of Pokemon RP, holy craaaaap

[Remram]

Whhhoooooaaaaaa, 77 pages of Pokemon RP, holy craaaaap

@CitrusArms

Oh hey Citrus

[ShadowVentus]

Can I just say that this whole thing is awesome? If a slot ever becomes available, I'd LOVE to join in on this.

[Pirouette]

❄Erika Olson❄

Pokemon

Sno, Snorunt ♀
Level 17
Status: Fainted


Eep, Lileep ♂
Level 15
Status: Fainted


Tara, Swablu ♀
Level 15
Status: Fainted


Chic, Combusken ♀
Level 18
Status: Fresh


Gibs, Gible ♂
Level 18
Status: Fainted

Kay, Inkay ♀
Level 15
Status: Fainted

Inventory

Treetop Badge
5 Potion
8 Pokeballs
1 Antidote
1 Paralysis Heal
3 Tanga Berries
2 Spelon Berries
3 Chesto Berries
1 Bug Gem
1 Jaw Fossil
1 Guide to Mt. Strength
TM-22 Solar Beam
13,508P

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Alright going to put this here since I had to update all the sprites and stuff. Going to need it soon, I imagine.

[thecatinaction]

I just came here to say that the fact that this RP has been going for 5 years!! is impressive, and kind of blows my mind. Awesome dedication.

I’m watching, and maybe can join down the road some time if the door opens for us both!

[PlatinumSkink]

Alright, let's get this show on the road again.

@Joshua Tamashii

I do somewhat regret trapping you in this Ace Attorney reference for so long. I don't entirely feel like I planned it enough. There was supposed to be some form of lethal contradiction in Smergle's testimony here, but I completely forgot what it was. But, I think I can fix that.

If you don't understand what I'm hinting at here, do ask me, hah.

@hatakekuro

Now, headbutting the same tree over and over is not going to work, but under the assumption you went around headbutting different trees... There you go.

Tell me if you'd like me to change anything or so.

@Pirouette

I haven't heard your confirmation if you want to continue or not yet, but here it is in case. If you do want to continue, do you want this to be a drawn-out battle? Do you want to do it faster? I can do it in basically any speed. But in my notes, this dude has six Pokémon. Maybe I should lower that to four for the sake of speed, hahaha. That, or we could collab it. That could also go faster.

@Gardevoiran

Yeah, no, you sweep her. You're got the type-advantage and all. So there you go, heh.

And all of you, regardless of if you've replied or not yet or if you're planning to, thank you for playing my game. Now, if you wish, let's continue.

[PlatinumSkink]

I was excited, so I posted.

And, now that 1/3 of all generations have taken place AFTER the creation of this roleplay, I felt it appropriate to increase the amount of methods of getting post-ORAS Pokémon. If you don't want any of those, then you can simply not. Otherwise, go for it. I have no idea if any of you will actually use this new "trading" feature, but what the heck, why not. You can always ask Kalmia where to obtain the Pokémon you need for a specific trade.

Oh, and the Freecape Ferrymen, originally only intended to be available when you reach Freecape Town, is now available everywhere. Nobody has reached Freecape Town yet, hahahaha.

Do tell me if you have objections or suggestions or so. Otherwise, at it.

@Typical
Nicely posted. And yes, I remember what we talked about before my absence. I will admit to not being able to find my ideas for the trainer for Eri, though, hah.

I do remember that you asked for me to write down the genders of the Pokémon you encounter so you can see them. Well, here you go. If you'd rather they be male, it is not important enough for me and I can change it on a whim, honestly. Otherwise, heh, here's a situation. Because of course, I couldn't JUST have you encounter what you're looking for.

@hatakekuro
Nicely posted. Must admit that the mental image of just the two combatants just hanging onto one another doing more and more damage over time is absolutely hilarious in my mind. Nice. So, what now?

Also, do I count it as that you've already received your free Poké from Zachery or not? I will reveal Toxel IS one of the ones available for trade in the Poison-themed town of Goldshore, there just weren't any better picks for Galar Poison, hah.

Random thing. I reread everything recently, right? I discovered that Anise caught a Riolu in Mt. Strength when she was with Claire. I had totally forgotten, and never updated my papers. I can do better. Hahaha. Anyways. What now?

@Rune_Alchemist
Nicely posted.

Now, you're the first one in a town with me having announced these little changes. You might want to look into the "Suggestions to Actions" at the bottom for what Pokémon are available in Raremine Town, if you want.

Now, another thing. I do feel a little bad for how Dunstan treated Claire when she came to talk to him. Thing is, he basically doesn't trust anyone, and she wasn't giving him much reason to divulge information to her... but that goes the other way as well, she had no real reason to trust him. Having reread that section now, I feel I should have thrown you a bone. The same way I now feel I should have told Pikmin Eye he was, like, one room from discovering the greatest secret of Team Virtue, like, five years ago, but he went through the wrong door and never came back. I totally should have just completely changed the geography of the base so that he'd walked into it anyway... but anyway.

If you go back now, I'll have him say something different. You don't need to do so right away, but you can keep it in mind. Not sure it'll be that interesting, but it'll give you a reason to come back later, potentially. Maybe.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Gardevoiran

I very much expected to have longer to plan this event from the vague concept in my head, but you just had to go back immediately, hah.

And, well.

after reading the post

You're not getting one of those without a sidequest. :P

@hatakekuro

Decently simple post. Did you and Anise have any agreements or something? Did you want to stick with her? I can make some excuses if you'd like a companion. She's going momentarily home, but you can wait for her to get back. Or, you can head off solo again, hah.

@Rune_Alchemist

So, the coincidence was... I knew what kind of battle Cathia would request. At a time where you'd intentionally hidden your Pokémon, I assume to keep her from recognizing them? It amuses me, hah.

You're free to interrupt her speech with whatever you want to say, if you want.

And, of course. The whole event with Skylar over there is happening in the same town as you. You can notice, if you wish.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Gardevoiran

Alright, here's a little situation for you.

Do note, in order to get you what you wanted (and also make a cute story), I do need you to make some form of emotional connection with your target. If you have an idea for how to do this, and if you have something you'd like me to change or so to make this more possible, I'm all ears. That aside, here's the situation I need you to react to right now.

I will note, I do not consider Type: Null legendary, hence why I am allowing this. :P

What will you do?

@hatakekuro

Probably not the most interesting of the situations going on right now, haha.

Do you want to head with the ferry to Lakewatch Town immediately? If so, I could just update the post with the information about that town, as well.

@Typical

Yepp, that has now happened. What will Eryn do?

If her action is just throwing a Pokéball to take advantage of the situation, I could update the post to contain the result of that. If you want to do anything else, possibly more creative or who knows, then feel free to post about it, heh. With that, go ahead.

@Rune_Alchemist

Going to simply assume that you're going to head to Dunstan's lab after this, hah. Now,

@Eklispe@Rune_Alchemist

I did put the two of you on the same quest quite a while ago. For one of you, I suggested hunting down the delivery-people, which successfully procured a vial of the substance. For the other, you infiltrated the base proper, and got some vital information from that. Now, there's considerable overlap in the information the two of you learned, that's because I was mentally prepared for, like, only one of the two of you actually still playing, but now you're both here, hahaha. Does that work?

I'm thinking Dawkin replies first, and he can keep being secretive if he likes, then Claire can come in. She could possibly have overheard what Dunstan was saying to Dawkin. Will save an explanation. What do you two think?

That's all. Now, everyone, go ahead.

[PlatinumSkink]

For Eklispe there was the part that Claire is probably arriving to that scene, so I'm waiting for Rune's post.

@Gardevoiran

I did think this would be more interesting. Do you? Well, how do you believe you'll handle this?

Oh, and you're free to dodge. Or not. Depends on what you feel, heh.

@hatakekuro

That's a bunch of dialogue and you can go on. What would you like to do here?

@Typical

There we go. Now, what would you like to do? Yeah, I don't have more to write here, hah.

@Joshua Tamashii

Do tell if the reward changes your course of action. Otherwise, go ahead.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Gardevoiran The battle continues. Did not expect you to take that blow straight on. You're gonna be down a bit.

@Typical Felt like giving you a little situation, just because. Hehe.

@hatakekuro Alright, so, remainder how Pokémon battles work against random trainers. I list all the Pokémon they have and their general strategy with each below. Then you write in your post how you intend to handle them. Feel free to ask me questions when you feel like. That's that.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Gardevoiran Well. Would you like to repeat your stunt? Or perhaps this is a little bit more extreme? Hahahahahaha

@hatakekuro I did roll dice to find out of Sleep Powder was effective or not. You didn't roll that well. Anyway, you have one battle that needs your input. But, you can as well type what you'll do after that, if you wish.

@Typical I was going to write even more, but I didn't want to control your character so here's a mid-stop. Do say if you stop anywhere on the way. Or, if you just do as the woman wants, then I can continue writing with an edit. Though, also.

@Typical@Joshua Tamashii The two of you were briefly at the same location. If you want to, we can pause there in Eryn's post and let the two of you interact. Would you like that? Otherwise, Eryn can keep going.

@Eklispe@Rune_Alchemist And with that, you two should be free to potentially head off again. You can ask more questions of anyone present if you like, or you can head on. That works too. What would you like to do?

[PlatinumSkink]

@Gardevoiran I did have a little scene I wanted to write. I have now written it. Now you can do what you like. And I can now also add Sylvia to the character list, hahahaha.

@Pirouette I do think that battle was already cleared. Anyway, yeah. Remember that we're using ORAS learnsets in the future. No worries about that, otherwise. I feel this scene has been cleared. So. There you go.

@hatakekuro@Joshua Tamashii I did detect some awkwardness in trying to make these awkward individuals interact. So I thought I'd throw some insentive into the mix. Of course, if either of you don't want to, then there's absolutely no need for Basil to help Amelia out. But I thought it could make the scene more amusing, hehehe. Oh, and @Typical is there, too, of course.

@Eklispe@Rune_Alchemist There you go. I've moved you to Stalford's Ferry. There's a couple scenes here, just because. You'll need to point out to Zachery that you're one of Kalmia's trainers to get your free Pokémon. And that's about that.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Typical

I do remember the thing you said about wanting to know the gender of the Pokémon you encounter. But, for the Pokémon you're training against, there's a whole bunch of them. You're bound to find both genders.

As for the Delibird, eh. If I have to, let's say it's male. Anyway. Nicely posted.

Oh, and for the Smokescreen thing. Absolutely, you can have Dei practice doing that. It's going to be a bit like how I write to Gardevoiran's Mac right now. Something that absolutely can be learned, but it's going to take some doing to learn something that isn't learned naturally.

Oh, and how do you enjoy frozen mines, may I ask?

@Pirouette

I'm leaving it to you if you want to head for Bigfjord or Worldedge. So, you want a bit of a pressing goal? Would you elaborate on that? I could absolutely produce something like that. I'll just relax a bit for now, though. You just got off a major fight, hah. Also, I'd rather you not travel with a group this big, but you can keep at least a couple. Hey, Claire's heading for Bigfjord City after this, ain't she? Hahaha.

I do like the touch of the -1 you put on the Potion you used, hehe.

@hatakekuro@Joshua Tamashii

Lesley's the only NPC here, she'll hear what Basil have to say and listen for what Amelia is saying. I'm going to assume that Amelia's problems are in-character and not something the player is also feeling, haha. Character development. I do like when you players interact, so I did want to give an additional reason for it. If you'd like something else, I am all for that, too. Anyway! Do keep going.

@Gardevoiran

I like that little plan. I'm going to give it some backing, if you're okay with learning it over time. And also making breakthroughs where it's as dramatic as possible, hehehehehe.

Anyway. How's it going?

[Pirouette]

@Pirouette

I'm leaving it to you if you want to head for Bigfjord or Worldedge. So, you want a bit of a pressing goal? Would you elaborate on that? I could absolutely produce something like that. I'll just relax a bit for now, though. You just got off a major fight, hah. Also, I'd rather you not travel with a group this big, but you can keep at least a couple. Hey, Claire's heading for Bigfjord City after this, ain't she? Hahaha.

I do like the touch of the -1 you put on the Potion you used, hehe.

@PlatinumSkink

So what I'm trying to go for is I want Erika's adventure to feel like the anime. Each episode they got into these situations and stories. Obviously a forum RP doesn't work like that but having mini adventures. So far that's been the case and they've all been cute. But what I'm more after is and adventure I don't choose like I don't expect it... actually I think I did "Force GM to come up with something" and that's how the story with the dragon types and Gibs came about.... so maybe never mind, lol.

Yes that is okay if the group is smaller or maybe just a partner or two. Erika is pretty separated so it is nice not to be so lonely. Also again, a bit like the anime where Erika has had Ewan and Joshua. She could travel with Ellyn and Maple for a change after Worldedge City. Or maybe Elana or whatever. I like how fluid it has been with partners coming and going. Team ups for big events... Actually you are doing exactly that again. So disregard!

If Claire meets up with Erika, I don't mind journeying with her. Or getting involved in some story in Bigfjord!

[PlatinumSkink]

Phew. That's a post. Tell me if there's any issues or thoughts you might have.

@Rune_Alchemist

Well, here we go! Imagine a typical soccer field, but there's Pokémon on it. Simon doesn't have much of a strategy yet, so his Pokémon are mostly standing/floating side-by-side. We can do this in a collab/battle channel if you wish. Either way, this should turn out amusing.

Also, someone is trying to call. Hah.

@Remram

I forgot to change the username at first, so you probably didn't get a notification, hah. Anyway!

I made sure you found at least one mother, albeit, you know, maybe not the mother you wanted to find. If it is, nice, I suppose. Otherwise, you'll just have to tell me what exactly you're looking for!

@Pirouette

I wrote a bunch of conversation. I need to continue considering your adventure, but let's see what Erika thinks about what they're saying etc.

@Gardevoiran

Pirates will always be possible to find by the seaside, hehehe. I'll note, this simply means that where Skylar is right now takes place a while after where Dawkin is seeing Zachery right now. No continuity errors as far as I am concerned. On that point,

@Eklispe How are you doing?

@Typical

There wasn't actually that much for me to write.

I'll note the odds were against you to manage to catch this full-health Voltorb with a normal Pokéball, heh.

@Joshua Tamashii

And you're off to explore the Wet Caverns. This post is mostly to set you up for that. Do write something nice about how you get there and then how you head down seeking what you're after in a nice way or so, I figure. That works, right?

I apologize to everyone for it taking a bit, I blame Christmas, but now we're back on track. Let's go~