Yeah... no. It might be because I'm in the worst mood possible because I've had a couple terrible days, meaning it might just be down to terrible timing on your part for circumstances you had no knowledge of, but I... don't feel like it. You've been kind of unresponsive to many of the things I've said, not giving your reasoning for things you want and just doing the barest minimum edits to attempt getting approved, and that one sentence up there that I quoted to me reads simply as an attempt to garner sympathy by being intentionally self-defeating and I really don't like it. I don't feel like I'm exaggerating saying if you hadn't said that, I wouldn't necessarily have been writing this right now. It feels like if I let you play it's going to lead to more problems down the line, which I don't feel like dealing with. These past few days has also considerably decreased my desire to have another player, maybe partly because I'm already lagging behind.
With that in mind, please consider the "Full" join status on this roleplay for what it is. Thank you for showing interest. I'm sorry. Good luck with future endeavours.
@Joshua Tamashii Nicely posted. I'll have a response soon enough.
@Rune_Alchemist Nicely posted. Alright, I'll see how I have the rest react.
@Pikmin Eye Nicely posted. Okay. Now to get into Gothita's mind a little. Heh.
... Anyway. I'll try to have a post up in 15 to 24 hours, I want to because you're my precious players and I want to give you more, but right now I can't guarantee anything due to the state of things. Yikes, I'm tired.
Anyways. I wrote some comments for the new guy. Here you go.
@SupernovaBlitz I'm kind of perplexed as to why your quotes don't work. I mean, it even detects the quote and snippets it when I quote your quoting post. Oh, well.
Hm. You’re putting me in a bit of a spot here as I have to figure out who these evil people were, what the hell they were doing and why, how they were funded and later discovered, what happened to the other at least 67 Pokémon as well as where the evil men might be now, and why on earth they’d recolor the Pokémon and brand it. That kind of hints that they were never intending this Pokémon to see the light of day and that they had terrible tastes. Usually you just clip an animal’s ear with a tag, they went full on with branding? And why are the colors there? If you have ideas about that, feel free to send them to me in a PM. That’d be plot-things nobody else would know, after all. Also, what did you intend “SCI5” to mean? Because right now, I have no idea. Oh, and expect a lot of strange looks if you have that Pokémon with you when out travelling. … And what on earth’s going to happen when she evolves?
A replica Pokéball, huh? Well, that's basically a toy. Yeah, sure, she can have that.
I must admit I am a little worried that you’d call your Pokémon your “lover”. I’m not going to decline it, but, let’s -not- explore those limits, okay? XD
Aaaaaaaaand I got to bring up the bracelet/watch again. That he made it is certainly better than it falling from the sky in a capsule, I don’t even know where you got that from and would happily hear it, but it’s still not, like, realistic, even for the Pokémon World. Does it, like, absorb the technology? How does it work? Do you press a button and a full-sized Pokédex springs up from it with a beam of energy like a Pokéball for machines? Or do you get a full Pokédex, but with a much smaller and inconvenient screen so you barely see what’s on it? did you have any specific intentions of what else except a Pokédex you were going to integrate?
Because I’m having a tough time considering why I should allow you to have this item that so clearly borders what’s reasonable. If you present a cool enough case, sure. But right now, if you simply wanted to use the watch in the image for something can’t it just be a cool watch that can be connected to your actual Pokédex so it draws functions from the actual Pokédex instead of, like, absorbing it or whatever it’s doing? The Pokédex is already supposed to be your all-tools-in-one thing, you know. It’s already a phone as well. Anyways, that’s my comments right now.
I was trying to write a reply, but I just ran out of time.
But I'll mention I'm under the impression that this Vulpix was saved by evil men, left in Kalmia's care, and then she was supposed to give it to him, probably to ensure she gets a real trainer to care for her. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Also, one can use [noparse][/noparse] if one doesn't want code to actually do anything. Like I just did on the very code to use it. Heh.
@SupernovaBlitz The heck do you mean "love Pokémon for more than is socially allowed"? This is the Pokémon World! Basically everyone loves Pokémon! I don't think there's any social limits on loving Pokémon here! Or do you mean he does immoral experiments on Pokémon the general public would have issue with, or what? XD
That said, I think I would prefer if the hider included his name in front, with perhaps some fluff after if you so wish. The link to his image doesn't work as intended, I have to remove a ".com", which is more than I should.
I will say the first-person all-blue paragraph of background might not have had the effect you were going for. It felt like unnecessary padding when I just wanted the information. Quotes for flavoring can be used in-between sections, but like this it dragged.
So his name is Steven and had a tutor named Stevenson? Heh. Okay. Well, that is perfectly plausible.
Alright, so he trained for months before actually being given his own Pokémon. A little excessive, but alright. Anything to become as efficient a Pokémon trainer as possible, I assume. This background is accepted. *turns to look at fairly well-sculpted world* ... Now to figure out where those parents fit into this.
"a strange bracelet/watch that allows him to integrate technology into it, such as a pokedex, found in a capsule that fell from the sky" - I'm, uh, confused. That one came out of nowhere. Honestly, I might even have considered it if you said he MADE it, because he's that much of a scientific genius, but you're saying it literally fell out of the sky? No explanation? Why do you even need it, it's not like I'm burdening the others with needing to mind how they're carrying all the things in their inventories? I'm afraid that until I know the answers to that I cannot allow you to have this item.
It is the intention that the players is to determine who their first Pokémon that they receive from Kalmia is, even if the character themselves won't know. Now, you didn't claim anywhere that you were done, but you did say you posted it here for review, so I'll say that. Unless you for some reason want me to pick your first Pokémon, make the sheet for that one, too, following the rules in the first OOC page.
... Geesh, policeman. Eli wasn't actually attacking you. XD
Alright. I'll at the very least wait for an Amber post before posting, though BP can wait for whoever she wants before that. Edit: Alternatively, if someone tells me to post, I will.
On a different note, should I take everyone directly to the Overcity or just elsewhere? Elsewhere makes more sense, we're in a very confused state right now and not exactly focused for whatever Justine's immediate counter-attack might be, yet it might save us some time if we're just going to head there anyway. Hah.
@Joshua Tamashii Since you didn't complete that thought, I prioritized getting something out quickly so you can continue that. @Eklispe Give a shout if you want Dawkin to do something else during this and I can wait with my next post for you two until you've written too, heh.
@Pirouette So, I consulted my charts for this place, checked in with lady luck, and you found... this one. Not a rock, not sure if it's anything you're even remotely interested in, but hey, it's something? XD
Well, we have lost a few players. The waiting list is empty. I did feel five players to be a bit little, but I kind of didn't want more than six. I probably shouldn't actually, because it encourages ignoring the "full" status, but I'm going to go ahead and go with the easy way out and say sure. I'll still want you to start out getting a Pokémon from Professor Kalmia in Pureplain City. Ask if you want any other details. Don't post in the char section until I have approved. I'll note I'm currently exhausted as heck about to go to sleep and I'll be going on a trip tomorrow and over the week-end. I'll still have internet, but I'll be distracted, heh.
So, yeah. Sure. If it's just one more, sure. I can entertain that. Most areas around there are already written (and not just planned), so it'll take relatively little effort, hah. Could you get yourself a profile picture? It'd help give you a likable identity and encourage me that you're willing to invest, heh.
Edit: Oh, but old players returning are obviously still fine. Just wanted to add that in just in case any of them end up reading this.
Joy scoffed at Amelia, raising his chin and beak high while staring down at her with mild amusement, as if being condescending towards her words. He didn’t seem like he was taking her seriously.
Anger was simmering with irritation, probably still feeling that pain from those pecks, glaring sideways at the other two heads. Sorrow looked a bit more unsure of itself, eyes darting a bit between the other two looking a bit worried, after all, if this went south there really was no way for the three to go different ways. But, at the very least, it would appear all three heads were paying attention to her.
The miner smiled and nodded to her, and then continued with what he was doing.
Erika continued mining. She did find the gem, and then went on deeper. She might notice that the miners nearby was, in fact, finding a couple of rocks they were putting in their varying containers, but she couldn’t see what exactly they were finding from here. Anyways, she kept hacking into the ice, onwards, with what powers she had left.
It took a while, with many useless rocks found, when suddenly… huh, that’s a shape. It’s… not a shape like the shape she was perhaps looking for. That’s another Pokémon’s shape.
A meter tall and fairly ugly flower Pokémon’s shape, frozen into the ice.
Pokédex Entry #345 – Lileep, the Sea Lily Pokémon. It attached itself to rocks at the bottom of the seafloor using powerful suckers and disguised itself as seaweed until it caught prey swimming close with its tentacles shaped like flower-petals, devouring said prey whole. It went extinct over 100 million years ago, exists today only due to reanimation through fossils.
Contradicting what the Pokédex just said was the fact the Lileep in front of her was still whole and had never been a fossil, it was just frozen solid. So, how old is this ice, again? Details like that aside, looks like Erika found another Pokémon. What would she do?
@Pirouette Alright, another ball thrown, nicely posted. Now, let's see.
...
And there, I have posted.
@Pikmin Eye You did write that you were checking for Poison-types in the flavor, so I put a bit of a preference towards that. Then I checked the available Pokémon and decided this would be fun. I'm curious to your reaction.
@Eklispe@Joshua Tamashii I figure the Dodrio has some kind of system in place to avoid this exact thing happening, but that's not to say the system is unbeatable. So, how about now? Teh-heh.
@Rune_Alchemist You're free to act at any point in there, commanding another attack or so. But, yeah, if you do, add the hider below for the events that happen. I intentionally kept Anise from acting further in case you want to make a strategy with her.
Now, in the biggest and most prosperous city in the world, what kind of person would intentionally seek towards the slumiest, loneliest and diriest parts of that city? … A Pokémon Trainer looking for a Poison-type, that’s who!
The broken factories that would be the target of such an expedition looked like they had been broken due to some of their machines breaking apart due to physics working a bit differently around Mt. Edge, causing their perfectly calculated functions to go out of whack and breaking apart.
He saw more Trubbish, wild ones, which ensured that the recently released Pokémon wouldn’t have trouble making itself at home, or perhaps it had been returned where it came from? The wilder streets had Drowzees walking around like they owned the place, not even bothering to hide in any way, shape or form. They seemed to be flourishing here, with so many dreamers and Mt. Edge giving them power and all of that.
And, yeah. Poison-types, of the more common variety could be found here. Zubats lived in several factories, and here and there… A Grimer was sliding by, or a Koffing was drifting through the air smiling so happily.
Pokédex Entry #96 – Drowzee, the Hypnosis Pokémon. It gains nourishment by consuming dreams. Fun or happy dreams are more delicious, and it can get a bad stomach from nightmares. In battle, it puts enemies to sleep and then eats their dreams. It remembers every dream it has eaten, and if you make friends with one it can show you its best dreams with psychic powers.
Pokédex Entry #568 – Trubbish, the Trash Bag Pokémon. This Pokémon is born out of a chemical reaction between garbage bags and industrial waste. They like unsanitary places, eating garbage to fuel the poison within, and will stalk people who litter. The poison it belches out can put someone to sleep for a week.
Pokédex Entry #41 – Zubat, the Bat Pokémon. It lives in colonies in dark places. It has no eyes, but when flying it is constantly emitting ultrasonic sounds which it uses to navigate through echolocation. As sunlight burns it, it’s usually only found in caves or at night.
Pokédex Entry #88 – Grimer, the Sludge Pokémon. Said to be born when the light of the moon hits sludge pumped out of factories. It drinks wastewater along with the waste of factories and loves anything filthy. Each Grimer is composed of different germs, and Grimers share bits of each other to one another to create new poisons.
Pokédex Entry #109 – Koffing, the Poison Gas Pokémon. It fills itself with lighter-than-air gases to float, and concocts them into poisonous gases within. When agitated, it expels the gases within into a poisonous smoke-screen. However, it can fail the process and randomly blow up. At higher temperatures, it is especially prone to blowing up at little to no provocation.
Martin was walking around the emptier streets of the Industrial District watching for Pokémon. Perhaps he had just seen something that he perhaps wanted, or perhaps he had decided that he had enough and was just going to return and do something else, when suddenly he involuntarily froze in place. He found that his legs wouldn’t move as he wanted. He could still move his arms, or walk backwards, but going in the direction he intended became impossible.
Behind him, his shadow stretched, almost unnaturally so. There was a street-light that had initially caused the shadow, but the shadow was directed in the wrong angle, now. It looked distinctly unnatural, stretched out and bent. Like, something had bolted down his shadow and now he couldn’t walk anywhere because his shadow was stuck, somehow. And… just exactly where that theoretical bolt would be, stood a small shape. A small black-and-white humanoid with a purple face and two large eyes, staring intently at him, fixated on him. It stood on his shadow.
Pokédex Entry #574 – Gothita, the Fixation Pokémon. They’re always staring at something, especially trainers and their Pokémon, and can become so obsessed with watching that it doesn’t notice incoming attacks. It is said they’re watching something only they can see. Their ribbon-like feelers amplify their Psychic power.
Notable Ability; Shadow Tag - Target cannot escape should this Pokémon step on its shadow.
‘Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~’ The Pokémon was making a quiet, elongated sound as it stared at him.
Well. He had a tiny Psychic-type that had made him her latest obsession and now he couldn’t leave. Martin’s shadow currently worked as a rope tying him to that location, so he could move anywhere within fifteen meters of where Gothita was tagging it, but not anywhere away from there. What now?
Upon being approached by Amelia, two of Dodrio’s heads looked at her. The one who had sneered at them was already looking, the right head, and the left head fell to curiosity as she approached. The middle head, raised above the others, refused to look at her. From here, one could tell which was which. The one who had sneered at them was anger, the right head which was taking pleasure in their pain. The left one was sorrow, eyes dropping in a different pitiful way, who was just looking on. Then, more by process of elimination than it actually looking at all happy, the raised middle head was joy, but it looked more like the “a little less angry than anger” head.
Anger sneered more as he was praised, looking rather smug and lifted himself a bit higher, daring to come to joy’s level while cackling with pride. The other two heads gave him momentary looks before-
PECK, PECK
Joy first, unimpressed with anger’s prideful rise, pecked him and shortly after sorrow pecked him too, following joy’s example. Anger squawked out loudly, expression turning from earlier sneering to unbridled rage fitting its name as it turned towards the other two heads… and found them both facing him, staring at him purposely. Realizing he was outnumbered, anger turned and looked away, though looked a great deal more unhappy now.
Sorrow was minding his own business now, head low and just looking forward at Amelia. Joy, head pridefully raised like he hadn’t allowed anger to, looked down at Amelia and gave his own sneer. Like, he was confident he had shut down Amelia’s attempt. Though, yeah. Neither sorrow or anger looked very happy, perhaps befitting their names.
Anise simply smirked at the mention of her showing Claire nice things and probably would have responded hadn’t they then been distracted by sudden situation.
Standing behind Maple and Ellyn’s battlelines, Anise and Claire seemed to get basically the same idea. When Ralia was setting up Double Team, duplicating herself numerous times across the street, the disciple took out a Pokéball and Froakie was sent out before her.
‘Bubble at Growlithe!’ Anise commanded, and roughly at the same time Ralia’s Confusion was focused. Ellyn frowned in pain as she realized what was happening.
‘Bird, Sheep, Tree, Thing, over here!’ she commanded her Pokémon, but they were too slow to actually turn around before the attacks went off. Ralia’s Confusion hit Growly, who yelped and jumped forward a bit, surprising Maple and causing her to go wide-eyed. Froakie unleashed a stream of bubbles at the same Growlithe…
However, Ellyn herself had dashed forward and then lifted her shoulder in defense as she placed herself in the way of the Bubbles. She grunted from the water’s impact, took a number of their splashes but then fell over from the collected force of it, though she had prepared her other shoulder to take the hit to the ground. Though, yeah, she wasn’t wearing anything on her shoulders. Her four Pokémon were quick to dash and place themselves in front of her where she fell, other bubbles floating away.
‘… Sneak attacks aren’t very nice,’ Ellyn commented, sitting up, now dirty with mountain dust and clothes soaked from the Bubbles, staring at Claire and Anise.
‘Eh? E-Ellyn!?’ Maple had grabbed and calmed down Growly, but was now turning her head and blinked in confusion, rather alarmed.
‘Growly, keep Roaring! What’s-’ Commanding so and letting her Pokémon continue the battle, who almost let the next few Fighting-types get too close, Maple let go of her dog and spun around. There, she saw.
‘- Oh! Wait, you’re- you’re Claire, right?’ Maple asked, gaining a happy smile with a sudden excitement. ‘Oh, I’m so happy to see you! We didn’t get to talk earlier, but you looked like such a cool and interesting person and I really wanted to talk to you! I’m so glad we-’ -and there she stopped short, looking around and reading the atmosphere.
‘- um, what’s going on?’ She looked confused.
‘So what now? Do we fight?’ Ellyn asked, a bit of challenge in her otherwise pained eyes where she sat, scrubbing the shoulder that had fallen into the ground with one hand.
Anise next actions can be influenced in case Claire has a strategy or so. She hadn’t been the one spoken to and was a little curious to that they apparently knew her, so she hadn’t said anything yet.
Ellyn reacted instantly to the sound of Claire starting to give a battle-command, giving hers on top of Claire's.
‘Sheep! Tree! Shock and Rock! After the frog!’ Ellyn commanded, interrupting, still sitting.
At her command, the Mareep charged electricity and shot a bolt of Thundershock towards Froakie, after which the Bonsly grabbed a rock and threw at the same target, slightly after, slightly more adjusted to how Froakie was dodging.
Ellyn can only give so many commands at once, but the Natu and Cyndaquil were both ready for Ellyn’s next sentence, which might vary depending on what Claire actually said. Maple was looking so confused, hands tied as her Pokémon were still holding off the army behind her, now with half the numbers.
‘Inkay…?’ The squid-like Pokémon was calming down a bit, confident in the Reflect shields that was raised, but then another of Erika’s Pokéballs flew straight through the shields and hit Inkay straight on. The ball fell to the floor…
It shook o-
-nce, then twice, then thrice…
click
Erika caught Inkay!
Gender: ♀ Type: Dark/Psychic Personality: (Up to player. Keep in mind she has been frozen in ice for an eternity, and she has never seen a human before. Pokéballs are also new, and oddly comfortable.) Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other: (Up to player.) Level: 9 Moves: Tackle, Peck, Constrict, Reflect, Foul Play Ability: Contrary. Stat-changing moves have the opposite effect on this Pokémon. Indirect stat-changes (as from burn, paralyzation, Reflect/Barrier) are unaffected. Held Item: None.
Currently at about 34% health.
New Pokémon caught! Erika earned 1250 P!
Would you like to give a nickname to Inkay?
‘Bravo!’ the miner said, grinning a bit. ‘Sorry, I would have warned earlier, but we miners are so used to that the Pokémon we mine out attack that we don’t always think of that maybe that it isn’t obvious.’ So he says, looking like he felt a bit guilty.
So, what now?
1. Find Pokémon. Note, there are more Pokémon in the tunnels than here. Unless you’re specifically searching the ice? 2. Talk. This is basically a small settlement. They probably know a bit about mining in ice! 3. Move along. Either out of the cave, or deeper into it. 4. Specify. If you specify what you want to do, the GM will take it into account and tell the result. 5. Trigger random event. Force the GM to use his imagination to make a scenario for you. 6. Notable Buildings. Not many, but there’s a small base here! 6.1. Miner’s Lodge. For maps, getting info or tools and learning how to mine! 6.2. Miner’s Shop. Skip all the hard work of actually mining and buy what the miners are selling! Varies every day! 6.3. Comfy Igloo. If you just want to rest, have a chat, relax, restore health. 7. Area Specific: Mining. People here mine the ice for items and Pokémon caught in the ice. You could too! 8. Wait for Joshua. He’s in there looking for an Ice-type, apparently. Erika could wait for him, if she wanted to.
Connected areas: Route 5. Exit the mines and you’ll be right there. Frozen Cave. The Frozen Cave proper awaits beyond the mine.
Common: #225 Delibird
Uncommon: #238 Smoochum
Rare:
In Ice: #321 Wailord #686 Inkay
After digging some, there is another item that seems to have a different shape than ordinary rocks. Is that a gem? … It IS a gem! A green gem! … Pale-green gem!
Erika obtained Bug Gem!
She’d probably feel the mining starting to take on her arms now, seeing how she isn’t used to mining. But she could probably continue for a bit longer, should she desire to.
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