@Rune_Alchemist Nicely posted! Alright, tugging along the stronger trainer, eh? Fair strategy, not one which could be used in the games, haha. Not going to be available all the time, of course. The word "nooblets" amuses me.
Nice scene with Ritz, and I see you've updated yourself the character's tab to include him. Nice~ Well posted~
@Joshua Tamashii Alright. Nicely posted. Quite cute, heh. Yupp, that's how you gather information, ask. Let's see what kind of answer she might have.
@Eklispe Teh-heh. Nicely posted. That's an option. Ain't that quite the situation? Let's see where this leads. Haha.
@Rune_Alchemist I just feel really silly since I went "I know she wants the Ledyba, so there's no possible other action, I might as well assume she did it and write the result", but then, of course, there WAS something else. But, um. If you don't mind either way, then I'll let it be like this because it's faster. That was, well, the intention of the assumption. I'll just be careful with any and all future assumptions, then. Like, not make them. Hah.
@Rune_Alchemist ... Aww. Now I feel mildly guilty. You know, we can, like, write something out in a PM-conversation and then just edit it in there after, and you can still make the next choice as soon as possible. Yeah. Haha.
Or I could just, roll back to not make assumptions. Hah.
Since, well, it's supposed to be your journeys that you're to have any way you want it. If you hadn't written "but fine" I'd already have edited out that part.
Edit: Actually, can you let me revert that so we can do it as we should be? Please?
@Joshua Tamashii@Delta44@Pyromaniacwolf So, you three are now free to do as you like. You can talk to any of the people present before they vanish, ask questions, go onto any of the two routes, or… heh, I could give you the suggested-actions thing for Pureplain City, but I kind of didn’t for anyone else, so I’ll just do that if you ask me to.
@Rune_Alchemist I kind of assumed you’d throw a Pokéball, so I saved you a post. If that is unappreciated, then you can tell me to roll back so you may do a different action, otherwise, go ahead. Yupp.
And, I just included the option because it is possible, but if you’d like to tag along with any of those available you can intrude on their posts. Like, for instance, if you for some reason wanted to tag along with Dawkin heading somewhere, you could say “hi” and have a few posts of back-and-forth before actually arriving at the situation I created for Dawkin, at which point you’d both get to react. That’s of course, just an example, because I want to give my players all the options in the world. You’re free to do whatever you like. Haha.
@Eklispe You’re free to decide immediate action, even though how I did towards the end. So, yeah, you can decide that you didn’t want to listen to all that and do something else, immediately, or, yeah. Haha. You’re free to act as you like, at any point of time. You can, if you like to, tell me that you wanted to catch one of those Wurmples on the way to the Wet Caverns and I’ll roll back to then. Just as an example. Haha.
Do remember, the Pokédex can be used to contact one another. Just in case you’d like backup at any time. … Hm. … *goes on to write the [@All] on the end of this post*
@Pink Madness So, I will remind that I give the option of quick-battling if you want. Then you just give me your tactics, and I will decide the result of the entire battle. Goes a lot faster, but you won’t have as much control or any ability to make any advanced tactics. If you’re about to lose, then I’ll give you a head’s up and give you the option to change tactics. Or, you can just play the battle the normal way. That works too. Haha.
The same goes for Pokémon catching, honestly. You can all quick-catch, if you want to speed such things up, with reasonable higher risk. I won’t allow quick-battling against significant NPCs and Pokémon, but for normal wild Pokémon and normal Trainers? Any of you can just go ahead and request. Yupp. Haha. … Heh. I probably should just include that as an option from here on out. Alright, from now on, I’ll show in a post if you can quick-it.
*goes back to edit in the mention that the fight can be quick-battled* There.
@Pikmin Eye I need a little feedback so I can update your part. Given the Super Repel, do you alter your actions? Otherwise, should I take the contents of your post as that you wish to travel directly to Route 1? When you rest on the way, is that in the Infested Woods healing hut (100p)? I believe you meant that, but yes. Clarify your intentions to me, and I’ll update your part of the post.
[@All] … Hm. Heh. Would it be creepy if the Pokédex told where each of you are? I was just considering that it would help out if you’d like to call someone for backup. XD
Joshua heard the command, while Pichu was still charging up for his Thundershock, when his trainer shouted out. ‘DODGE!’
'Chu?' Pichu made a surprised noise while his cheeks were sparkling with electricity when Litwick unleashed the burst of flame. It hit point-blank, but Pichu also unleashed the lightning. For a brief moment, a burst of fire connected the two Pokémon while lightning arced around the burst onto Litwick, the two Pokémon’s moves hitting one another. The effect then quickly passed, the fire and lightning losing the energy the attacks were done with, and Pichu and Litwick were both left behind…
'Pi…' The damaged Pichu made a noise… '… chu.' … before collapsing with a wide smile on his tiny open mouth, tiny burns all over. Litwick had also received quite the scratches from the Thundershock that had hit with point-blank range, but he still stood. Still minimized.
Amelia was victorious! Amelia gained 1000 P for winning!
Litwick grew to Level 6!
‘Ouuf!’ Joshua recoiled with a bit of a grin back where he stood. ‘Right in the face! Ouch! Haha. Fast little Ember. Alright.’ He was recovering from the feeling he had gotten from suddenly having been defeated. ‘Haha. Nicely done. Everyone’s going to underestimate cute little you, and then you have that kind of bite on your side. Awesome.’ Joshua was laughing by himself a bit, before walking up to his fainted Pichu and knelt by him.
‘Well done, little buddy. Rest for now. We have a whole journey ahead of us.’ The Pichu smiled while fainted as Joshua cradled the Pokémon, lifting him up on his left arm. ‘Thank you for the battle. It was fun!’ He told Amelia with a smile, holding forward a free hand to shake.
Ledyba tried to turn to strike again, but was faced with three Ralias aiming another Confusion at him. From the hit to his mind, Ledyba lost control of the flight and crashed down onto the forest floor beneath him. The impact looked fairly painful as the bug had vaulted over and then landed with his face into the ground. It looked like that may have been too much for the bug.
‘L-led...!’ … But nope, it was still conscious! Hanging on to a string, Ledyba let himself roll over back onto his six feet, opening his wings with a determined expression, intent to try again. But, the signs of damage was all over him, and it was taking quite a number of seconds of heavy breathing for Ledyba to get back into his next Tackle. But… it did give Claire enough time to throw the ball.
[I’m just going to save you a post, because I assume you’re intending on throwing a Pokéball. If I’m wrong, correct me, haha.]
‘Led?’ The Pokéball hit Ledyba, who made a little noise of surprise and eyes opening wholly in a small bit of confusion, before it entered the ball with a stroke of light and ended up on the inside. From there, the ball landed on the forest floor, bouncing a little on a particular branch and rolled to a stop. It wiggled a couple of times, weakly, trying to escape, but Ledyba was way too weak at this point to break the confines of the ball.
Claire caught Ledyba!
Gender: ♂ Type: Bug/Flying Personality: (Up to player.) Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other: (Up to player.) Level: 5 Moves: Tackle Ability: Swarm. Powers up Bug-type moves when heavily damaged. Held Item: None.
New Pokémon caught! Claire earned 1000 P!
Would you like to give a nickname to Ledyba?
And, as the surge of battle calms down after so, a new choice of action will have to be taken.
Infested Woods
Suggestions to actions.
1. Find Pokémon. Can be specified what kind of Pokémon is being searched for, and how you search. 2. Train Pokémon. With this command, we can jump ahead in time and skip posting about grinding. 3. Seek trainers. There should be some here and there. Note, some may challenge you, regardless. 4. Talk. There’s some other trainers around. Maybe seek answers to any burning questions you have. 5. Move along. Move along normally, letting any events that may come happen naturally. 6. Hurry along. Intentionally avoid confrontations and try to get safely to the next destination. 7. Specify. If you specify what you want to do, the GM will take it into account and tell the result. 8. Trigger random event. Force the GM to use his imagination to make a scenario for you. 9. Area Specific: Heal at the hut (100p). Might beat having to go all the way back to Pureplain City… 10. Area Specific: Delve Deeper. What might await in the deeper regions of the woods…? 11. Woman with fox. The distinctive woman you saw in the distance earlier, whom you yet still don’t know, is now walking to delve deeper into the woods on her own, alongside a fox-Pokémon walking on two legs gazing into a fire on the end of a branch. 12. Familiar Faces: Dawkin, Martin. Dawkin’s headed along the Infested Woods outwards on his own. Martin (unless he changes his actions) will be heading back where you all came from. If you like, you could join one of them. If so, feel free to follow along their post.
Connected areas: Route 2. Close, can easily get there without complication. Martin is heading there (unless he changes his actions). Wet Caverns. Requires a bit of a walk alongside the outer regions of the woods. Dawkin’s taking this path.
‘You asked, and so you will receive. I hope it will serve you.’ Laurinda acknowledged Dawkin’s bow and so before heading on. Dawkin then headed on as well, equipped with the knowledge he had gained from Laurinda in order to further his goals. He took the path alongside Infested Woods towards the Wet Caverns. By now, one could figure what to expect. Young Bug Catchers catching their first Caterpies or Wurmples, battling their new low-level Pokémon against one another. The air was alight with Volbeats flying around pursuing the sweet scents of Illumise, and so it was. Assuming Dawkin didn’t stop for anything, he would find that he could avoid further complications.
What’s this? There’s something lying just by the side of the path.
Dawkin found a Great Ball!
He headed on, and soon enough, the woods parted and he could emerge out on Route 2 again. However, by travelling via Infested Woods, he could avoid the trainers that were waiting in ambush on the different bridges and as such could already start his climb up towards the mountain. Whatever this tower of rock was called, there was no way to get past it by climbing. Swimming, perhaps, it was connected to the lake by the side of it, but if one actually wanted to pass by on foot, there was only one path available. A literal hole in the mountain.
Entrance of Wet Caverns
It’s just a hole, anyone can go in and attempt getting to the other side. It remains wild, just like the Pokémon that await within. By Laurinda’s advice, Dawkin knows what awaited within. However, before he could actually gain entrance, there were two people standing in unconventionally fancy clothes right next to the entrance, talking to one another. One was a young girl with long cyan hair bound with a red ribbon into a pony-tail wearing a green high-class something, her back was straight with the posture of a high-class secretary. The man who looked in his young twenties had red mildly spiky hair, a full suit with black tie, and he was smoking a cigarette with a bothered expression. All in all, not the attires one would usually go travelling with, certainly not into the Wet Caverns.
‘… know how the water in Wet Caverns come from the Dragon Lake, right?’ The girl spoke fairly loudly, giving Dawkin a chance to overhear. She maintained her posture, but her face held an excited smile.
‘It was never relevant, so no.’ The man replied, gazing down at her with disinterest. Didn’t look like it was the first time he listened to her ramble about something.
‘That means, some small Dragons might have slipped in with the water to the bottom of the Wet Caverns.’ The girl smiled wider, victory in her expression. ‘And neither the Virts nor the Lakewatchers patrol the bottom of Wet Caverns.’
The man raised an eyebrow as he breathed in a bit on his cigarette. ‘I’m listening.’ Looked like that awoke his interest.
‘So, since the Virts or the Lakewatchers would stop us from hunting dragons at the actual Dragon Lake, we’ll do it in the Wet Caverns instead! And, with the price of young dragons being so high, we’ll get tons of recognition! Only we know this secret! And then, all on our own, we can support the revival of Team Am-’ The girl’s eyes shined as she went on with her plan, positively shining with ambition, when all of a sudden the guy thrust his cigarette into her mouth.
The girl’s mouth instinctively closed on the cigarette to keep it out, after which her eyes went wide in shock as her whole body recoiled and she leant away, caught in a coughing fit, trying to recover. Meanwhile, the guy… lifted his gaze and looked in roughly Dawkin’s direction.
‘Who goes there?’ He asked, eyes peering as he crumpled the used cigarette in his hand, while his companion was coughing badly at the side.
1. Escape. Whooops. Out of your league, retreat. 2. Hide. During the conversation, you hid to listen. He might not have noticed you. 3. Confront. For whatever reason, you wish to confront them. 4. Pass by. You’re just an unconcerned traveller. Walk by them into the Wet Caverns. 5. Whatever you please. Heck, this a roleplay, who am I presenting you options!? Make your own options! XD
Audrey smiled happily as Donna confirmed her intentions to battle, letting Rosa out and healing up before the battle. She looked like she wanted to point forward at Rosa, except all the Pidgeys all around her made it completely impossible for the Lass to move without disturbing all the birds. She stood like a silly statue as she sounded out the command.
‘Alright! We’re on! Pidgey, use Tackle!’ She commanded, and upon command the bird-Pokémon paying attention to Rosa jumped up into the air and flapped his wings, speeding forward into a flying tackle, aimed for Rosa. The bird-Pokémon had a somewhat intense and grim expression. Jealous of all the wild Pokémon on his trainer, and now quite intent on taking that anger out on Rosa.
This match can be quick-battled. If you’d like so, tell the GM your tactics, and he’ll finish it for you.
Oaken’s eyebrows twitched into a frown as he heard Ren’s orders, trying to figure out a way out of that situation. The big problem now was how much Horsea was blinded, due to the actions of both Pokémon currently fighting. We worked on it, his expression a bit pained, and he was realizing his only choice was to draw it out, and then…
Ren offered to end the battle. Oaken blinked, eyesight mostly regained, his gaze analytical. Then, he made his choice fairly quickly.
‘Horsea. Return.’ Oaken lifted his arm and returned Horsea to his Pokéball, the seahorse having been desperately shooting bubbles in the rough direction of Shyn who could dodge them fairly efficiently. The smoke eventually dissipated, the bubbles popping and leaving nothing. The battle had been broken off, and due to the use of force against trainers no payment would have been received even upon victory, but…
Shyn grew to Level 6!
Houndour also got experience, but not quite enough for the level on account of fainting earlier.
Oaken gave Ren a blank stare through his glasses with a mild frown that didn’t necessarily look hostile, which was a first. Leaving her to make of that what she willed, he turned to walk down the road. Unless spoken to, he would leave her without an additional word.
‘… Well.’ Rodger had cooled off, looking from Ren to Lucian, who was heading off. ‘That was something. We’ll meet again, no doubt. And next time…’ Rodger grinned a challenging smile. ‘Next time I won’t fall for so cheap a tactic. Then you’ll see a REAL battle…!’ He boosted, slight playfulness in his voice, quite proud yet still. ‘And now, I get the feeling that simply tagging along with Oaken for a bit is going to teach me a lot, so for now…’ And then he moved, following after Oaken.
Oaken briefly glanced at Lucian as well, frowning a little deeper. ‘… I’ll prove Kalmia’s mistake… in the bigger world, instead.’ He just said, his voice sounding a bit tired, before wandering on.
‘Oh! Well, of course!’ Kalmia answered the request to heal energetically, smiling at Lucian and bringing up numerous tools with which to heal a Pokémon. One revive and a few potions later, Houndour was up and healthy again, and Kalmia was all the happier for it. ‘Quite eventful, yes! Though… heh, looks like it just ended.’ She said, looking over to see where Ren had finished up by suggesting a draw, and Oaken had accepted.
‘So, you three are done! Congratulations on your victory, Amelia!’ Kalmia happily told the younger girl whenever she had finished up there. Kalmia would go ahead and also heal up Litwick and Shyn, while she was at it. Then she’d turn to look at Ren and Lucian for a bit.
‘And nicely fought, you two! Thoooough…’ She gave a little unsure smile, Jacques grinning somewhat at them in the background, before Kalmia continued. ‘… I understand the lesson, but please don’t do that in any official matches, Ren. You’d get disqualified. You also can’t get money from any matches you do where you attack the other trainers. And, uh, it’s generally seen as a crime to direct Pokémon attacks at people. Keep that in mind.’ Kalmia smiled at Ren, slightly unsure, but nevertheless hopeful. ‘Anyways! Have these!’
Amelia obtained 5 Pokéballs!!
Lucian obtained 5 Pokéballs!!
Ren obtained 5 Pokéballs!!
‘And that will be that! You’re now free to go! If you have any questions, you can ask them now! Or otherwise, I’m always just a button-press away!’ So Kalmia announced, referring to the Pokédex which they could call her or each other on if they wanted, and that was about that. They were free to do whatever now.
‘Sounds good. Good luck.’ Laurinda answered Martin’s words and then Martin was off again. He stayed at the hutt, paying the very energetic couple running the place 100p to do so, and was allowed to stay to rest. After a while of resting, Martin and Nincada was fully healed, and they went out to train. However, at Level 8, Nincada would find that the enemies around, Caterpies and Volbeats or so, weren’t challenging him as much anymore, and the brief training wasn’t quite enough to bring him to the next level before they headed on.
And… what’s this? There’s something on the ground.
Martin found an Antidote!
Martin would find that nothing stopped him from leaving the woods when he felt done, and Nincada had barely suffered any damage from the training. Although the bugs had the capability to swarm, the common Outer Infested Woods bugs were quite weak. Now, then. He headed back to Route 2, found that nothing stopped him from heading past the wet area on the way back to Pureplain City. There, he could head through an amount of civilized sub-urbs until he finally arrived at…
Route 1
Route 1 is a long, flat and grassy route where most trainers get their first taste of the world. Already from here you can see the hills of Highhill in the distance, the start of the Silent Forest surrounding the Silent Shrine on the left. There is a larger road, a main road used for travelling in and out of Pureplain City, there are plenty of more mature travellers taking that road to get from point A to point B. But, young Pokémon Trainers usually much rather use the smaller path going out into the grassland. This is some remnants of the plain which Pureplain City was named after, although most of that plain is now swallowed up by buildings of people living around here. Small roads branch out, leading to different places where some individuals have made their houses.
There are many safe roads, yet take one step out of it and you’re immediately in tall grass, where you can already see many first-time Pokémon Trainers are challenging their first Pokémon. One could expect Pokémon Trainers to be searching for Pokémon either in the tall grass or the forest on the side, and also battling one another as they can. From the looks of it, there are plenty of young trainers sporting freshly caught Pidgeys and Rattatas. As one approaches Highhill Town, the forest becomes more plentiful, as beyond the town lies a forest.
Through the route also runs an indent, a drain surrounded by walls, seemingly made for the water to gather up inside it. It’s currently dry, whatever cause of that might be. Some trainers appear to be having fun battling inside it, and they’re running around challenging one another inside it. But, the drain also raised interesting questions about what kind of Pokémon or things one might find should one explore it further.
1. Find Pokémon. There’s searching in the tall grass, and there’s the forest in the left, then there’s the drain… 2. Train Pokémon. With this command, we can jump ahead in time and skip posting about grinding. 3. Seek trainers. There should be some here and there. Note, some may challenge you, regardless. 4. Talk. There’s plenty of young trainers around. There are also houses and travellers. Maybe seek answers to any burning questions you have. 5. Move along. Move along normally, letting any events that may come happen naturally. 6. Hurry along. Intentionally avoid confrontations and try to get safely to the next destination. 7. Specify. If you specify what you want to do, the GM will take it into account and tell the result. 8. Trigger random event. Force the GM to use his imagination to make a scenario for you. 9. Area Specific: Descend. There’s a drain. The kids are having a little tournament in it, challenging themselves to fight in a tight area. Perhaps you’d like to try becoming king of the drain? Or maybe you’d just like to explore it. 10. Familiar Faces: Ellyn & Maple. Seems like this was the direction these two went, Maple appears to be instructing Ellyn and helping her catch Pokémon.
Connected areas: Pureplain City. Right behind you. Highhill Town. Requires crossing the route.
@Pikmin Eye Alright, nicely posted. Yupp, this seems to be a good plan. Except a, hah, tiny detail. You still smell of Super Repel. Those Pokémon you want to train against before moving on is going to be actively fleeing as soon as you're within, like, 20 meters.
Suppose it is possible for you to stay at a (quite considerable) distance and have Nincada train outside the Repel range, buuuuuuuuuuut that's pretty impractical. Another option is to wait out the effect by resting to train after, but are you that patient a young man? Haha.
I considered including a mention of that Lataniva might be known to some by reputation, but I then intentionally dropped it due to the opening stating that everyone is to start out a stranger. So, well. Guess that's for the GM to answer.
@Delta44 Alright. Nicely posted. Hmmmm. Yeah, I know what's going to happen.
@Pyromaniacwolf Okay, yupp. Nicely posted. I'll get the answer in. I got busy in the week-end, but I shall see if I can't get my post up later today/within 6-12 hours Edit: within tomorrow. Almost done, got tired. Hah.
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