Lucius Cypher

You are the Mon

Also do remember to keep your Adventuring Log in your IC posts. Makes things easier for me and possibly everyone too.

You are the Mon

@SleepingSilence

Little bit of everything. I will be controlling NPC’s, though I may relinquish control depending on if it’ll make more sense for the PC to handle a character or not. There is something of a “plot” but whether you all pursue it or not is entirely up to you. Each of your goals and aspirations, whether it be making something in this world or returning to your own, is entirely possible but requires a lot of active work on your part.

For all intents and purposes it’s an open sandbox with events and story sprinkled around so you’ll never feel like you e found a dead end. Ideally. As for post cycles you’re free to interact between yourselves as much as you feel needed though of course I also reserve the right to interject if I also feel such the need.

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AWAKEN

You have found yourself on the floor, in a largely dirt cave. It's an small one, small enough that the exit to this cave is just a few meters away. But as you collect yourself you've quickly become aware of something unusual; your very form is not your own. Your hands, feet, your entire body, gone. Instead you have become... Something else. A creature or animal perhaps. But for a few of you you recognize these forms, albeit perhaps smaller and less powerful than you'd remember. But you are now a pokemon.

Around you are other pokemon who appear to be in the same situation as you; confused and uncertain. You remember much of what you could about your previous life, but nothing in particular would stand out as the cause for you coming to this world. Despite that you do seem to have some faint recollection of a voice, or perhaps a vision, but before you could really remember it fades away like the blurriness in your eyes. Aside from the other pokemon and the fairly nondescript cave, you can see some light coming form outside, though it's a dull light possibly covered by clouds or mist. You can also hear rain from where you stand; it doesn't sound like a heavy rain but it's certainly a steady one. The wind on the other hand sounds strong, roaring even. You can hear leaves and dirt being flung about striking the walls, and for the few capable of flight, you get the shaking feeling that simply taking to the skies will not be as easy as you may think, especially considering your lack of experience flying under your own power.

As far as health goes, no one is injured, no one feels particularly hungry, sick, or thirsty. Regardless if you know what a pokemon is or looks like, you all can easily tell that whatever creature you are you're in the infantile stage. Very young, very small, very vulnerable. This cave may provide shelter for now but it has nothing in the ways of food, and the only water came from what little rain runoff was leaking into the cave entrance. Perhaps you may choose to stay here in the cave for now, but one thing is for certain, you must leave this place eventually.

In the distance, a thunder crack. Followed by three more in rapid succession, then no more.

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@Evanist

You're effectively a newborn pokemon i.e. level 1. So your moves will only be growl and peck.

@Zanavy

Dunsparce eh? That'll have some interesting Implications that you'll see later on. In any case accepted.

I'll be working on a post now that I'm home. Hope you'll all come to enjoy the game.

You are the Mon

I’ll allow it. Applications will be closed, I’ll review and work on an opening IC when I’m at home.

You are the Mon

First come first serve. It’s 8:16 for me right now so make a CS whenever you’re good and ready.

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@Duthguy

Looks good matey. Post em up.

@Lucius Cypher Is that how we're going to balance it? I figured slowness, general weakness and incompetence could balance the scales. But again, I'm fine with whatever's decided.

(I can add "is a tiny danger noodle" to my appearance, if you'd like. Would make the idea of me still having an intimidating presence amusing. XD)

@SleepingSilence

I mean those things are also being taken into account, your physically immature size just being another issue on top of many others for why perhaps it would be in your best interest to focus on growing before you decide to take on prey on your own. You are all pretty much coming into the world as highly intelligent toddlers, though once you guys find/establish your own nest of sorts, I'll likely advance things along to the point where you guys could probably explore more (i.e. you get a few levels).

Also snakes are scary, whether they're lil noodles or the size of logs. Even if there isn't any humans in this world, there's still that primal revulsion towards insects and other creepy crawlies just out of habit.

@Ridlins

Not bad, welcome to the team.

I think I'll await for one more before I'll close applications and get started.

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@SleepingSilence

Looks fine now. Just do keep in mind that you’re not a fully grown seviper, though I’ll need to double check what the average size of an adult seviper is. But I’d say you’re about 1/4 of the size of an adult during your more infantile state. You will grow larger as you age.

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@SleepingSilence

Well using your D&D example, under the perfect circumstances what you’ll be at is a spot to preform a coup de grace. It’ll be much different in a more active combat situation; you may attempt to stab them in the neck in the midst of heavy combat, but at best you’ll do a critical hit, or more likely just wound them. Worse, you might just miss because you were so focused on trying to slice their neck you weren’t prepared for their own ability to escape the situation.

Admittedly in the instance of Pokémon, what sort of attack you do can make things seem a bit weird when you’re wrapped up. But that’s also assuming you’re preforming a full body wrap; or that you have your opponent perfectly constricted. Like the assassin example, this is much harder to pull off against a prepared or at least reactive opponent. Take this image of an arbok using wrap on an Aggron for example. Likely aware of eachothers presence the Arbok May have been fast enough to get a wrap onto Aggron, but it wasn’t as if he was completely paralyzed during the whole duration of the attack; obviously he would be resisting in some fashion as seen in the image. As such, Aggron still has many means to fight back. He could use metal claw to cut into the arbok, his tail is mostly free so he could use tail based attacks like Iron Tail, and it’s possible or that during the struggle the Aggron could strike the arbok with its head. With momentum and/or leverage an Aggron could even just slam the arbok around with attacks like double-edge or Heavy Slam, simply by using its own weight in the enduring struggle.

The idea that you could get a perfect wrap onto your enemy to the point they can’t move their limbs to even struggle against you is like saying you, as an assassin, will stab someone so fast they can’t even try and parry you, At best it at least means that you’re trying to find an opprotunity or opening to effectively attack your enemy. At worse, you’re just hyping yourself up to godmode yourself into an automatic win with the excuse of “I’m fast so you can’t react”.

That’s not also including that while you may be a seviper and thus don’t have an evolutionary growth, you are for all intents and purposes still physically immature for your species, close to a child like size rather than a more conventional adult body. In other words you’re probably not even big enough to wrap around things that aren’t already pretty small right now, like most bug type Pokémon and baby level evolutions. You couldn’t, for example, wrap your whole body around a canine sized creature like an absol in any way that could be considered impending their ability to fight back at your current stage. At best you might be wrapped around their leg or possibly their neck.

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@Eviledd1984

Sure submit a CS and we'll see how you stack up.