Nope, I don't mind being called AE, or Alter, just as long as you don't try to call me Ego. ^-^ *Leans back and wonders how many wise-arses are going to call him Ego now* And Tyson, there's no need to apologize for bringing up the fossils, more ideas is already a good thing and I've come up with an idea for them anyway (See below). Ahh...I haven't planned an RP together with others since the Adopter one (Shame that one of the members got major real life problems and had to quit, which kind of threw the others off) so sorry if I'm hogging the work. xD I do appreciate your input. ^^ And concerning the gym leaders...I'm actually thinking that Tate and Liza (Those are about the only ones who were young enough in the R/S/E saga to still be alive, what with their psychic mind-over-matter stuff and whatnot) could actually help later on. However, since the gyms are under government control, any gym leader openly supporting a view which is directly opposite of the government's would certainly be sacked, so any supporters of the characters would have to do so in secret.
Anyways, it looks like i simply have to explain the big picture behind the force in order to explain this. *Takes a deep breath* Okay, here's the deal;
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As we all know, Unown by themselves are very simple and weak creatures, possessing only a small trifle of psychic power to protect themselves, however, when they get together, as in the movie, they draw strength from each other and can distort reality itself. So I was thinking of it like this...rather than being individuals, the Unown of the world are, in fact, all parts of a single entity, kind of like the countless nodes used for realying information in a human brain, however, unlike with a human mind, the Unown mind is so largely spread out (Because they're all over the world) that the simple distance involved would make true thinking problematic, so at the moment they are in a state of semi-consciousness (similar to dreaming), however, the entity is of course striving to achieve true consciousness, and to that end, every Unown instinctively seeks to unite with other Unown. Once again because of the huge distances involved, this process is an extremely slow one that crosses countless generations (In human years), and when it happens...well, things go bad. When all of the Unown unite into one, a being of immense power would form, however, because this entity has no experience of the world and yet possesses such a great psychic power that it can read the minds of every sentinent being at a great radius, the sheer amount of information flooding its consciousness at the same time sends it into a state of shock and panic, and the creature would react in the only way it knows; unleashing all the power it holds at its surroundings. The resultant shockwave would not only cause the usual kind of destruction but also, because of its psychic nature, create a terrible backlash in the minds of sentinent beings, reducing them once again to their old, primeval state. The entity itself would not be spared from consequences either however, as it spends so much of its power onto this single attack that the Unown no longer possess the means to keep contact with each other, dispersing back across the world in random patterns, which leads to the entity once again loosing its sentinence, only being able to recall the events as blurry parts of its 'dream' and making way for the process to start again, while at the same time, practically all sentient beings would have suffered a similar fate, having to undergo the process of evolution all over again and start afresh, which more or less makes it into an endless cycle, and the world would be near the end of that cycle as the RP starts.
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Well, I hope that makes it a bit clearer. ^-^ Anyways, on the subject of villains...well, I do have an idea for that one. Remember the civilization that used Unown shapes as letters? I'm thinking that they would have realized the process in the making and taken precautionary steps, sealing off the Unown in structures across the world to keep them from uniting (I.e. The ruins found throughout tG/S/C and FR/LG), and the villain(s) in question could somehow have found out about this, perhaps seeking to assemble the entity in hopes of controlling it and attaining a divinity of a sort? Either that or they could be the apocalypse doomsayers who want their vision to come true. The fossil pok?mon could play a role with this method too, because they would have been alive during the time when the ancient people imprisoned the Unown and would undoubtedly have passed the tale onward to each new generation, so we could have a note of various rare pok?mon species acting in a peculiar manner (I.e. Attempting to stop the villain(s)). As for how the characters would get to know of this, I'm thinking that there would be a large enough concentration of Unown in the vicinity of wherever they are (Having them roughly in the same place would make things a lot simpler, maybe there could be some kind of bigger event or something to justify them getting together?) and they would end up communicating with the entity's child form through 'dreams' and that way quite quickly getting the picture.
Anyways, while I'm all for freedom of RPing, the idea of having people go different ways...erm, you mean actually trying to bring about the apocalypse? o.O That would require one heckuva' lot of effort. It's not like everyone has to think that they're doing the right thing, but heck, you'd think that even quite the selfish person would see that the practical elimination of civilization as we know it isn't exactly profitable for them. I'm not saying that characters shouldn't be allowed to be petty, greedy, power-hungry, selfish or indiferent, I'm just saying that they would end up doing the right thing, even if it is for other reasons (Say...wanting to dis the government, getting them of your back to get on with your life, just plain wanting to look good for a more altuirstic member of the opposite gender etc.). Total freedom of choice is a nice concept and all, but it usually leads to weak and fragmented RPs.
Soo...any thoughts? ^-^
