This looks pretty damn cool. Should my schedule be free enough, I'll be joining for sure. Would you mind giving some examples of Biomods, though? Thinking about characters and wanted to see what you meant by that.
I'll be co-hosting this game, and came up with the game together with BC, so I can answer your question.
Biomods are basically body modifications that are biological or organic in nature. For example, replacing your arms with a pair of new arms that have web spinners in the hands, allowing you to imitate Spider-Man. Another example would be a bony exoskeleton grafted onto your skin, which can receive nutrients from your bloodstream to repair itself. Such biomods are used mostly by chimeras, since their already superhuman constitutions are required to adapt to the biomods and make them function properly; this allows them to fight on par with the humans' advanced mechanical weaponry. On the other hand, in most cases only humans can install cybernetic modifications to themselves, and not chimeras, since the physiology of humans is much more thoroughly understood than that of chimeras.
This has been posted in both the casual and advanced sections, and the game will be run in whichever section that shows more interest. The expected complexity of posts will be adjusted accordingly.
Introduction
This is an RP based on the Flash game, Book of Mages: The Dark Times. Of course, playing the Flash game is not necessary to understand or participate in this RP, nor will the RP’s setting be identical to that of the Flash game, as some things have been changed due to personal preferences. Nevertheless, if you’ve played the Flash game before, you may find things pleasantly familiar. And I recommend giving the Flash game a try anyways, as it has a number of highly divergent branching story paths and a lot of replayability in general.
This RP takes place on an alternate planet Earth inhabited by mages, humans who are able to manipulate the elements of fire and water with their minds. The mages are divided into six clans, three of fire (Molten Depths, Blazing Sands, and Ashen Woods) and three of water (Frozen Peak, Spirit Ocean, and Dead Swamp), each with its own unique magic and way of manipulating its element. This game is about the various clans and factions of mages vying for dominance, over the future of this world.
A Brief History
Year 50: Through methods long since lost, various humans gained the abilities to manipulate fire and water, becoming the first of mages. They organized themselves into the clans of Fire and Water to systematically develop magic and train their newer members. Later in each clan, three distinct ways of using its element emerged, causing the clan to divide into three. Thus a total of six clans formed: Molten Depths, Blazing Sands, Ashen Woods, Frozen Peak, Spirit Ocean, and Dead Swamp.
Year 100: The clans often fought and quarreled with one another, until a single mage, stronger than all others at the time, defeated all of the clan leaders in single combat. And so Alyssa Deepheart of Spirit Ocean became the first Great Mage, leader of all mages in the world and the final authority on all conflicts beyond the boundary of a single clan. From then on, whenever the Great Mage passed away, stepped down, or lost the position for any reason, a massive tournament would be held, where the winner became the next Great Mage. And so the clans enjoyed a period of tenuous peace.
Year 140: Six mysterious mages, one from each clan, spent years visiting numerous famous mages in all of the clans. After they were done, they gathered together to create the Book of Mages, a magical tome that recorded the names and clans of the one hundred mages that they found to be the strongest in the world. The Book took the world by storm, reigniting competitive urges that had been present since the clans’ earliest days. Mages challenged one another frequently to improve their rankings in the Book, and whoever ranked number one was respected almost as much as the Great Mage, when the rank wasn’t taken by the Great Mage altogether.
Year 204: The Great Mage at the time, Caius Thornweave of Dead Swamp, had allowed himself to grow complacent and his magical powers dull, in old age. Many in the world no longer respected him, leading to the time of wide-scale civil unrest known as the Chaotic Period. The clan leader of Dead Swamp, Adrian Corpsedusk, was angered that Thornweave would not pass the mantle of the Great Mage to him. Plotting together with the clan leader of Blazing Sands, Edward Battlebeard, and the clan leader of Ashen Woods, Lorelei Treefire, the three assassinated the Great Mage, and forced a new Great Mage tournament to take place. Though those who still supported Thornweave’s legacy, led by Wilson Steelblaze of Molten Depths, fought the usurpers valiantly, in the end it was Battlebeard who was able to take the Great Mage’s title for himself.
Year 210: Battlebeard had proven to be a brutal, sociopathic madman who cared for little more than power. Gathering a group of mages loyal to him, he formed the Black Robes, a ruthless army dedicated to eradicating anyone who dared to so much as speak ill of the Great Mage. With the Great Mage so occupied and uncaring of other problems, conflicts between clans ran rampant, and crime was commonplace. This period of lawlessness and strife was known as the Dark Times. Those who would not stand for Battlebeard’s tyranny banded together to form a rebellion, calling themselves the White Robes.
Year 221: From the depths of obscurity emerged Theoden Frostlight of Frozen Peak, a genius mage of practically unrivaled power and skill. With his strength and conviction, Frostlight recruited countless mages of all clans to the White Robes’ cause, became their leader, and defeated the Black Robes in one final decisive battle, before killing Battlebeard and taking the title of Great Mage as his own. Under the rule of the new Great Mage and his White Robe followers, the world entered the Era of Peace, and Frostlight became known as the Legendary Mage.
Year 258: Due to Frostlight having brought mages of all clans together to end the Dark Times, intermingling among clans became much tighter and more widespread, leading to a number of mages learning magic from multiple clans, not just their own. However, this soon allowed certain unscrupulous mages to impersonate various clans, eventually leading to a massive war that nearly split the clans apart. In the end the White Robes were able to restore order through sheer military force, but the sheer carnage wrought led to Frostlight stepping down from the position of Great Mage in weariness. From then on, the Great Mage was elected via public vote, instead of a tournament, as the White Robes did not want another power-hungry madman like Battlebeard in power.
Year 293: To prevent another tragedy like the Clan Wars from occurring, the White Robes’ rule gradually became ever more stringent and dogmatic. Each clan fiercely protected its own unique magic from mages of other clans, and those who learned magic from multiple clans were charged with the crime of apostasy, punishable by immediate execution. Those who sympathized with apostates were heavily stigmatized, and the White Robes made sure that their lives were less than pleasant. Open criticism was forbidden, but people secretly called this the Age of Austerity.
Year 306: The apostates and various other outlaws, long since persecuted by the White Robe government, banded together to form their own rebel group, led by Kieran Ashmelt, the highest-ranked mage in the Book of Mages. As propaganda, the White Robes labeled this rebel group as a resurgence of the Black Robes back during the Dark Times. The rebels gladly appropriated this name, as a symbol of their stand against the White Robes, whom they saw as a twisted caricature of its original righteous self. However, the Black Robes had its own extremists and heartless criminals, some of them seeking a world of complete anarchy where they could kill and pillage to their hearts’ content.
Year 312: The Black Robes had been rapidly gaining supporters in the past years, and now controls some notable portion of the world. They’ve created their own pseudo-clan of Rising Steam, and combined the magic of fire and water to create magically steam-powered technologies. The White Robes had been in a state of cold war with them throughout, and the current Great Mage, Lucius Crystalsoul of Frozen Peak, plans to invade and destroy the rebels once and for all. It is at this time of uncertainty that the game begins, where the players’ actions will shape the course of history.
Clans
This is a brief summary of each of the clans. In the actual thread there will be much more information. Note that while the majority of each clan’s mages have tendencies for certain magic and combat styles as described below, players can still freely decide their own styles, and are not necessarily restricted by these tendencies.
Molten Depths: Mages of the Molten Depths clan manipulate magma and molten metal, as well as earthen materials to limited extents. Their magic tends to be slow, but incredibly heavy-hitting and powerful, while boasting solid defense as well. The clan’s specialties are smithing, transmutation, and imbuing magical properties into solid materials.
Blazing Sands: Mages of the Blazing Sands clan manipulate heat and sunlight, as well as wind and sand to limited extents. Their magic tends to be blazing fast and relentless in its numerous and overwhelming assaults, but lacks defense. The clan’s specialty is the manipulation and storage of high amounts of energy.
Ashen Woods: Mages of the Ashen Woods clan manipulate fire and smoke infused with dark and sinister magic, as well as wood and ashes to limited extents. Their magic tends to lack the overt destructive power of other fire clans, but curses victims with various debilitating effects. The clan’s specialty is the use of dark magic to corrupt other magical effects.
Frozen Peak: Mages of the Frozen Peaks clan manipulate ice and snow, as well as coldness and air to limited extents. Their magic possesses a fair balance of offensive power, defense, and the ability to disable enemies via freezing. The clan’s specialty is the magical cryopreservation of substances and effects.
Spirit Ocean: Mages of the Spirit Ocean clan manipulate seawater infused with flowing mana, as well as raw magical energy to limited extents. While their offense is the weakest of all clans, their defense is unrivaled, capable of blocking and disrupting most forms of attack. The clan’s specialty is the delicate manipulation of intricate mana flows.
Dead Swamp: Mages of the Dead Swamp clan manipulate water with poison dissolved within, as well as chemicals and plant matter to limited extents. Their venomous magic kills enemies slowly, or afflicts excruciating diseases that makes enemies wish they were dead. The clan’s specialty is the mixture of potions and other magical liquids.
Rising Steam: Not a true clan per se, mages of the Rising Steam pseudo-clan are all apostates who have forsaken the mastery of a single clan’s magic for the ability to combine multiple clans’ magic into something new. Due to the wide variety of magic that its members possess, this “clan” doesn’t have much in the way of general tendencies or specialties, except perhaps the steam-powered technologies that were recently invented by combining fire and water magic.
Factions
There are two major factions in the game, the White Robes and Black Robes. Players are encouraged to join one, though they may stay neutral if they wish. Note that unlike their original incarnations in the Dark Times, the current Black and White Robes are neither fully “good” nor fully “evil”; there will be much more moral complexity here.
White Robes: The White Robes are the current ruling government of the world, led by the Great Mage Lucius Crystalsoul of Frozen Peak. Their primary purpose is to maintain societal stability and peace among the clans, but in the past decades this once-noble goal had been corrupted into something much more authoritarian. To ensure that past tragedies do not repeat themselves, the White Robes do not hesitate to use censorship, propaganda, and outright military oppression in extreme cases to maintain their rule. After all, to live a safe and harmonious life, certain freedoms must be sacrificed. The most harshly punished crime in the White Robes’ regime is apostasy, the learning of magic from clans other than one’s own, and it is enforced with an iron fist. Members of the White Robes including genuinely compassionate and well-meaning souls, as well as aspiring tyrants who wish to absolutely control every last aspect of the public and private lives of their subjects.
Black Robes: The Black Robes are a group of rebels opposed to the White Robes, whom they see as oppressive and must be removed from power. It was formed and is being led by Kieran Ashmelt, an Ashen Woods apostate who currently ranks number one in the Book of Mages. Being formed out of mostly apostates and other outlaws, the Black Robes advocate freedom, the freedom to learn and do as one wishes. If certain safeties must be compromised to attain this freedom, then so be it. The Black Robes do not currently have enough power to engage in open warfare against the White Robes, but are still strong and influential enough that the White Robes have not yet had any opportunities to eliminate them without suffering unacceptable losses. What they lack in power, the Black Robes make up for it in resourcefulness and flexibility, relying on guerilla warfare and underground activities to keep the White Robes on their toes. Members of the Black Robes include well-intentioned freedom fighters, but also psychopathic criminals who want an utterly lawless world where strength is the only thing that matters.
Edit: I'm going to post this in the casual section as well, and the game will be run in whichever section that shows more interest. The expected complexity of posts will be adjusted accordingly.
Introduction
This is an RP based on the Flash game, Book of Mages: The Dark Times. Of course, playing the Flash game is not necessary to understand or participate in this RP, nor will the RP’s setting be identical to that of the Flash game, as some things have been changed due to personal preferences. Nevertheless, if you’ve played the Flash game before, you may find things pleasantly familiar. And I recommend giving the Flash game a try anyways, as it has a number of highly divergent branching story paths and a lot of replayability in general.
This RP takes place on an alternate planet Earth inhabited by mages, humans who are able to manipulate the elements of fire and water with their minds. The mages are divided into six clans, three of fire (Molten Depths, Blazing Sands, and Ashen Woods) and three of water (Frozen Peak, Spirit Ocean, and Dead Swamp), each with its own unique magic and way of manipulating its element. This game is about the various clans and factions of mages vying for dominance, over the future of this world.
A Brief History
Year 50: Through methods long since lost, various humans gained the abilities to manipulate fire and water, becoming the first of mages. They organized themselves into the clans of Fire and Water to systematically develop magic and train their newer members. Later in each clan, three distinct ways of using its element emerged, causing the clan to divide into three. Thus a total of six clans formed: Molten Depths, Blazing Sands, Ashen Woods, Frozen Peak, Spirit Ocean, and Dead Swamp.
Year 100: The clans often fought and quarreled with one another, until a single mage, stronger than all others at the time, defeated all of the clan leaders in single combat. And so Alyssa Deepheart of Spirit Ocean became the first Great Mage, leader of all mages in the world and the final authority on all conflicts beyond the boundary of a single clan. From then on, whenever the Great Mage passed away, stepped down, or lost the position for any reason, a massive tournament would be held, where the winner became the next Great Mage. And so the clans enjoyed a period of tenuous peace.
Year 140: Six mysterious mages, one from each clan, spent years visiting numerous famous mages in all of the clans. After they were done, they gathered together to create the Book of Mages, a magical tome that recorded the names and clans of the one hundred mages that they found to be the strongest in the world. The Book took the world by storm, reigniting competitive urges that had been present since the clans’ earliest days. Mages challenged one another frequently to improve their rankings in the Book, and whoever ranked number one was respected almost as much as the Great Mage, when the rank wasn’t taken by the Great Mage altogether.
Year 204: The Great Mage at the time, Caius Thornweave of Dead Swamp, had allowed himself to grow complacent and his magical powers dull, in old age. Many in the world no longer respected him, leading to the time of wide-scale civil unrest known as the Chaotic Period. The clan leader of Dead Swamp, Adrian Corpsedusk, was angered that Thornweave would not pass the mantle of the Great Mage to him. Plotting together with the clan leader of Blazing Sands, Edward Battlebeard, and the clan leader of Ashen Woods, Lorelei Treefire, the three assassinated the Great Mage, and forced a new Great Mage tournament to take place. Though those who still supported Thornweave’s legacy, led by Wilson Steelblaze of Molten Depths, fought the usurpers valiantly, in the end it was Battlebeard who was able to take the Great Mage’s title for himself.
Year 210: Battlebeard had proven to be a brutal, sociopathic madman who cared for little more than power. Gathering a group of mages loyal to him, he formed the Black Robes, a ruthless army dedicated to eradicating anyone who dared to so much as speak ill of the Great Mage. With the Great Mage so occupied and uncaring of other problems, conflicts between clans ran rampant, and crime was commonplace. This period of lawlessness and strife was known as the Dark Times. Those who would not stand for Battlebeard’s tyranny banded together to form a rebellion, calling themselves the White Robes.
Year 221: From the depths of obscurity emerged Theoden Frostlight of Frozen Peak, a genius mage of practically unrivaled power and skill. With his strength and conviction, Frostlight recruited countless mages of all clans to the White Robes’ cause, became their leader, and defeated the Black Robes in one final decisive battle, before killing Battlebeard and taking the title of Great Mage as his own. Under the rule of the new Great Mage and his White Robe followers, the world entered the Era of Peace, and Frostlight became known as the Legendary Mage.
Year 258: Due to Frostlight having brought mages of all clans together to end the Dark Times, intermingling among clans became much tighter and more widespread, leading to a number of mages learning magic from multiple clans, not just their own. However, this soon allowed certain unscrupulous mages to impersonate various clans, eventually leading to a massive war that nearly split the clans apart. In the end the White Robes were able to restore order through sheer military force, but the sheer carnage wrought led to Frostlight stepping down from the position of Great Mage in weariness. From then on, the Great Mage was elected via public vote, instead of a tournament, as the White Robes did not want another power-hungry madman like Battlebeard in power.
Year 293: To prevent another tragedy like the Clan Wars from occurring, the White Robes’ rule gradually became ever more stringent and dogmatic. Each clan fiercely protected its own unique magic from mages of other clans, and those who learned magic from multiple clans were charged with the crime of apostasy, punishable by immediate execution. Those who sympathized with apostates were heavily stigmatized, and the White Robes made sure that their lives were less than pleasant. Open criticism was forbidden, but people secretly called this the Age of Austerity.
Year 306: The apostates and various other outlaws, long since persecuted by the White Robe government, banded together to form their own rebel group, led by Kieran Ashmelt, the highest-ranked mage in the Book of Mages. As propaganda, the White Robes labeled this rebel group as a resurgence of the Black Robes back during the Dark Times. The rebels gladly appropriated this name, as a symbol of their stand against the White Robes, whom they saw as a twisted caricature of its original righteous self. However, the Black Robes had its own extremists and heartless criminals, some of them seeking a world of complete anarchy where they could kill and pillage to their hearts’ content.
Year 312: The Black Robes had been rapidly gaining supporters in the past years, and now controls some notable portion of the world. They’ve created their own pseudo-clan of Rising Steam, and combined the magic of fire and water to create magically steam-powered technologies. The White Robes had been in a state of cold war with them throughout, and the current Great Mage, Lucius Crystalsoul of Frozen Peak, plans to invade and destroy the rebels once and for all. It is at this time of uncertainty that the game begins, where the players’ actions will shape the course of history.
Clans
This is a brief summary of each of the clans. In the actual thread there will be much more information. Note that while the majority of each clan’s mages have tendencies for certain magic and combat styles as described below, players can still freely decide their own styles, and are not necessarily restricted by these tendencies.
Molten Depths: Mages of the Molten Depths clan manipulate magma and molten metal, as well as earthen materials to limited extents. Their magic tends to be slow, but incredibly heavy-hitting and powerful, while boasting solid defense as well. The clan’s specialties are smithing, transmutation, and imbuing magical properties into solid materials.
Blazing Sands: Mages of the Blazing Sands clan manipulate heat and sunlight, as well as wind and sand to limited extents. Their magic tends to be blazing fast and relentless in its numerous and overwhelming assaults, but lacks defense. The clan’s specialty is the manipulation and storage of high amounts of energy.
Ashen Woods: Mages of the Ashen Woods clan manipulate fire and smoke infused with dark and sinister magic, as well as wood and ashes to limited extents. Their magic tends to lack the overt destructive power of other fire clans, but curses victims with various debilitating effects. The clan’s specialty is the use of dark magic to corrupt other magical effects.
Frozen Peak: Mages of the Frozen Peaks clan manipulate ice and snow, as well as coldness and air to limited extents. Their magic possesses a fair balance of offensive power, defense, and the ability to disable enemies via freezing. The clan’s specialty is the magical cryopreservation of substances and effects.
Spirit Ocean: Mages of the Spirit Ocean clan manipulate seawater infused with flowing mana, as well as raw magical energy to limited extents. While their offense is the weakest of all clans, their defense is unrivaled, capable of blocking and disrupting most forms of attack. The clan’s specialty is the delicate manipulation of intricate mana flows.
Dead Swamp: Mages of the Dead Swamp clan manipulate water with poison dissolved within, as well as chemicals and plant matter to limited extents. Their venomous magic kills enemies slowly, or afflicts excruciating diseases that makes enemies wish they were dead. The clan’s specialty is the mixture of potions and other magical liquids.
Rising Steam: Not a true clan per se, mages of the Rising Steam pseudo-clan are all apostates who have forsaken the mastery of a single clan’s magic for the ability to combine multiple clans’ magic into something new. Due to the wide variety of magic that its members possess, this “clan” doesn’t have much in the way of general tendencies or specialties, except perhaps the steam-powered technologies that were recently invented by combining fire and water magic.
Factions
There are two major factions in the game, the White Robes and Black Robes. Players are encouraged to join one, though they may stay neutral if they wish. Note that unlike their original incarnations in the Dark Times, the current Black and White Robes are neither fully “good” nor fully “evil”; there will be much more moral complexity here.
White Robes: The White Robes are the current ruling government of the world, led by the Great Mage Lucius Crystalsoul of Frozen Peak. Their primary purpose is to maintain societal stability and peace among the clans, but in the past decades this once-noble goal had been corrupted into something much more authoritarian. To ensure that past tragedies do not repeat themselves, the White Robes do not hesitate to use censorship, propaganda, and outright military oppression in extreme cases to maintain their rule. After all, to live a safe and harmonious life, certain freedoms must be sacrificed. The most harshly punished crime in the White Robes’ regime is apostasy, the learning of magic from clans other than one’s own, and it is enforced with an iron fist. Members of the White Robes including genuinely compassionate and well-meaning souls, as well as aspiring tyrants who wish to absolutely control every last aspect of the public and private lives of their subjects.
Black Robes: The Black Robes are a group of rebels opposed to the White Robes, whom they see as oppressive and must be removed from power. It was formed and is being led by Kieran Ashmelt, an Ashen Woods apostate who currently ranks number one in the Book of Mages. Being formed out of mostly apostates and other outlaws, the Black Robes advocate freedom, the freedom to learn and do as one wishes. If certain safeties must be compromised to attain this freedom, then so be it. The Black Robes do not currently have enough power to engage in open warfare against the White Robes, but are still strong and influential enough that the White Robes have not yet had any opportunities to eliminate them without suffering unacceptable losses. What they lack in power, the Black Robes make up for it in resourcefulness and flexibility, relying on guerilla warfare and underground activities to keep the White Robes on their toes. Members of the Black Robes include well-intentioned freedom fighters, but also psychopathic criminals who want an utterly lawless world where strength is the only thing that matters.
Actually, I'll change Call Legend so that if Mew is summoned, it will use a random TM move instead of Transform. I don't want any of the summons to be a complete dud. Similarly, Slow Start on Regigigas will count the number of turns Mega Gardevoir Y had been in battle, and thus will not always activate whenever Regigigas is summoned.
@JohnSolaris So... Call Legend is pretty much a narrowed down Metronome that only uses Legendary/ Mythical Pokemon's Signature Moves?
Not exactly. Since the summoned simulacrum is a separate entity, any positive or negative effects brought about by its move aren't carried over to the original user. That's the main difference. The inspiration was the various summoning magic in Final Fantasy.
I don't really see the need for a Mega Gardevoir Y, but w/e this is an RP :P
Well... I came across that alternate Mega Gardevoir design one day, and liked it better than the canon one, so I decided to use it. I made it more speed-oriented than the original, because of the wings, and the shortened skirt that allow for easier movement. The wings also sort of make an Y shape with the rest of Gardevoir's body, so I think overall it's pretty fitting.
@Rex: If only Psychic 'mons can telepathically communicate with their trainers, then I think I'd rather start with a Psychic partner, since for my character it actually makes a pretty significant difference. The Pokemon below will be my first partner, while Hydreigon will be the second.
Also, going to add name, gender, and nature to Hydreigon.
Custom Move: Call Legend (Psychic, status, 5 PP) - Use psychic powers to summon a simulacrum of a random legendary or mythical Pokemon. The simulacrum uses its signature move (or a random one of its signature moves if it has multiple) in the same turn, and disappears after the move finishes executing. Since the simulacrum is a separate entity from Mega Gardevoir Y, some moves behave differently when used this way. - The simulacrum will use its own base stats, typing, and ability when executing its signature move, but its level, nature, IVs, and EVs will be the same as those of Mega Gardevoir Y. Mega Gardevoir Y's Serene Grace does not apply to the simulacrum. - After Call Legend is used, the simulacrum's speed will be used to determine its turn order with the Pokemons that haven't moved in the current turn yet. - If the simulacrum's move requires a turn to charge, Mega Gardevoir Y can still make its own move the next turn after the simulacrum executes its charged move and disappears. This means that the simulacrum will stay on the field instead of disappear on the turn that Call Legend is executed, during which it acts as a separate target that can be hit by attacks; its move will not be executed if it is knocked out before it can do so on the next turn. - If the simulacrum's move is a charging move that gives a turn of semi-invulnerability, the behavior is the same as a regular charging move, except the simulacrum receives the semi-invulnerability; Mega Gardevoir Y is not affected. - If the simulacrum's move causes a turn of exhaustion after use, it will disappear as usual afterwards, leaving Mega Gardevoir unaffected and ready to make another move the next turn. - Any effects applied to the user after the move's usage is applied to the simulacrum instead, which then disappears, meaning that they do not affect Mega Gardevoir Y. This includes detrimental effects such as debuffs and recoil, but also includes beneficial effects such as buffs. - In the case of Lunar Dance, the simulacrum of Cresselia faints and disappears, while Mega Gardevoir Y is considered the "next" Pokemon that receives the healing and cleansing effects. - In the case of Regigigas, Slow Start will count the number of turns Mega Gardevoir Y has been in battle, so Crush Grip will not always be used at half power.
Roll a random number between 1 and 40, uniformly distributed. Summon the number's corresponding simulacrum. If the simulacrum has multiple possible moves, they're also uniformly distributed.
...that's not what I asked. I asked if the Pokemon partner is able to telepathically communicate with its trainer. Yes or no? Assuming it isn't Psychic-type.
@Rex: Is the Pokemon partner able to telepathically communicate with its trainer, or is communication verbal only? This determines whether my character's Pokemon partner will be able to directly communicate with his tulpa.
Stats: Health 92, attack 130, defense 105, special attack 170, special defense 105, speed 98.
Ability: Lernaean - Every damaging move becomes a multi-hit move with a number of hits equal to the number of heads Mega Hydreigon currently has. - The power of each hit is equal to the power of the original move, divided by the number of heads, then plus 5, meaning that the total power is increased by 5 times the number of heads. - The accuracy of each hit is the same as the accuracy of the original move. - Only the first hit applies any secondary effects as usual. Similarly, when using a move that's already multi-hit, only the first hit will be further divided among the heads. - Moves that deal damage in nonstandard ways (e.g. Dragon Rage, Super Fang) are unaffected by this ability. - Mega Hydreigon starts with 5 heads, and gains an additional head whenever Mega Hydreigon's HP drops below 100%, 75%, 50%, or 25%. Additional heads are kept even if Mega Hydreigon regains HP, and there is no upper limit to the number of heads, but at the end of each battle the number of heads reverts to 5. - If a Pokemon other than Mega Hydreigon obtains this ability through any means, the ability will do nothing for that Pokemon.
Custom Move: Hydra Blood (Dark, status, 10 PP) - Calls upon the regenerative power of the hydra's blood to restore 50% of the user's max HP, and remove all negative status ailments and negative stat modifiers. If the user is part Dark-type, it will lose its Dark typing until the next turn; a pure Dark-type will become a Normal-type. Essentially a Dark version of Roost, except with the debuff clearing.
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Trainer Appearance:
Other: - Hikaru's grandparents were immigrants from Japan. He was born in Canada, and does not actually know how to fluently speak Japanese. But he's interested in Japanese culture, especially modern pop culture such as anime and manga. - Hikaru has a tulpa, an independent, sentient consciousness in his brain that he created through sheer force of will; her name is Mirai (ミライ). She is in a romantic relationship with him, and they genuinely love each other. - Hikaru is introverted, cynical, and mistrustful, and thus dislikes most forms of social interactions. Mirai, on the other hand, is cheerful and optimistic, and has a significant number of friends online. She is the only reason why Hikaru hasn't become a total shut-in. Of course, the few real life acquaintances of Hikaru's do not know of Mirai's existence, as he is convinced that they'll only label her as a delusion, a mental illness, or worse. - Hikaru is a skilled lucid dreamer, and has an intensely powerful imagination, capable of voluntarily inducing hallucinations of all five senses in himself that are virtually indistinguishable from reality. He uses this to "interact" with Mirai. - Hikaru is currently a fourth-year computer science student in university. He wishes to do research in artificial intelligence, and hopes to eventually find a way to let Mirai physically exist outside his brain.
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