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Alright lady, you get your story. I'll tell you what it was like to rule the world...I'll tell you what it was like to walk as a Saint.
One night. It's amazing what can happen in those dark few hours.
In one night, you may find that rare gem you have been searching for, buried unseen in the tallest of grass.
In one night, your future can evolve before your eyes, your blood, sweat and tears repaying you with sharper claws, fierce eyes and the power to bend the tides.
In one night, you may challenge the world with those fierce eyes and leave it crushed in your wake, your name forever known in the halls of heroes.
In one night, you can lose it all.
It was the biggest job we'd ever taken, so big that even a know-nothing rikuru-to like me was right in the heart of it. We were to break in to some corporate-owned laboratory in some valley offways in the jungle, take a shiny little box and deliver it to our contact.
Simple, right?
We messed up. Something went wrong and next thing I knew Abe'd thrown me the loot and told me to run, sending the Saints running home while he kept the law at bay.
...I got back to the base and found out the other Saints had been arrested - not all, but near enough to not make a difference. Worse, our contact had vanished, what remained of us had a price on our heads and we were collapsing from within.
We were double-crossed, our friends were in prison and we had the hottest item of the century sitting within our home.
One night. It's amazing what can happen in those dark few hours.
In one night, you may find that rare gem you have been searching for, buried unseen in the tallest of grass.
In one night, your future can evolve before your eyes, your blood, sweat and tears repaying you with sharper claws, fierce eyes and the power to bend the tides.
In one night, you may challenge the world with those fierce eyes and leave it crushed in your wake, your name forever known in the halls of heroes.
In one night, you can lose it all.
But when the morning comes, you can fight to get it back.
One night. It's amazing what can happen in those dark few hours.
In one night, you may find that rare gem you have been searching for, buried unseen in the tallest of grass.
In one night, your future can evolve before your eyes, your blood, sweat and tears repaying you with sharper claws, fierce eyes and the power to bend the tides.
In one night, you may challenge the world with those fierce eyes and leave it crushed in your wake, your name forever known in the halls of heroes.
In one night, you can lose it all.
It was the biggest job we'd ever taken, so big that even a know-nothing rikuru-to like me was right in the heart of it. We were to break in to some corporate-owned laboratory in some valley offways in the jungle, take a shiny little box and deliver it to our contact.
Simple, right?
We messed up. Something went wrong and next thing I knew Abe'd thrown me the loot and told me to run, sending the Saints running home while he kept the law at bay.
...I got back to the base and found out the other Saints had been arrested - not all, but near enough to not make a difference. Worse, our contact had vanished, what remained of us had a price on our heads and we were collapsing from within.
We were double-crossed, our friends were in prison and we had the hottest item of the century sitting within our home.
One night. It's amazing what can happen in those dark few hours.
In one night, you may find that rare gem you have been searching for, buried unseen in the tallest of grass.
In one night, your future can evolve before your eyes, your blood, sweat and tears repaying you with sharper claws, fierce eyes and the power to bend the tides.
In one night, you may challenge the world with those fierce eyes and leave it crushed in your wake, your name forever known in the halls of heroes.
In one night, you can lose it all.
But when the morning comes, you can fight to get it back.
Pokemon: Saints is spawned from a concept that has probably always floated around Pokemon fangame sites, but I am yet to see done successfully*: you are a member of a Team, the criminal organizations of the Pokemon world.
Ariel is young, only fifty years since initially colonized, and the government has yet to truly find its footing. Law is hard, largely enforced by private security forces hired by the numerous private enterprises who are leading the colonization, and it has good reason to be - the region is hardly self sufficient, with many of its supplies and necessities being imported from the other, more populous areas and most funding coming from outside interests.
It is the perfect environment for corruption and crime to grow.
Spoiler:
Fights between trainers no longer take place in a civilized, turn-based, otherworldly battle scene between two prissy farmboys who got their first Pokemon from some ambling old man - you're fighting on the streets, where each fight is a matter of life and death. Your Pokemon fight on the overworld in real time, dancing between buildings and trees to deliver devastating attacks. Their trainers are in on the action now, too, keeping close to give commands and courage to their charges while attempting to avoid blows which may be fatal.
⁂Criminal Activities
You will receive, stumble upon and concoct opportunities for you to increase your power and standing in the eyes of the criminal community. Ranging from abusing a shop keeper to earn protection money all the way up to capturing and using a Pokemon of immense power to bend the world to your will, your actions will alter the world around you and make you the stuff of legends.
⁂Territory
However, you won't easily be able to achieve your goals with only what you start with - competing Teams have buildings, sources of income and special items which you will want to obtain, fighting them to take over their territory and utilizing it to your own nefarious ends.
⁂Heroes and Police
However, the law of Ariel won't just let you take over; the police and private security firms will oppose you at every turn, and young farmboy heroes from will journey from across the ocean to put a stop to your rise.
And much more! This thread will be updated as each feature is refined, improved and fleshed out and new features are added.
Spoiler:
Credits:
*If anyone knows of a game where it has been done well, I would love it if you could shoot me a message with a name or a link.
Pokemon Ranger map rips:
· InMooseWeTrust
NPC, Player and Pokemon sprite rips:
· The good people of TSR.
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