[PKMN FULL] BEYOND ooc

Pok?mon BEYOND
Kanto based. Rating is T. spots are CLOSED for now!

[S-HIGHLIGHT]IC thread found here <<[/S-HIGHLIGHT]​

Year 2021, April:
Kanto has never been the most popular region for its nature, its culture or even its native species of pok?mon. What makes the region great, is its people. So many famous trainers, actors, businesspeople, researchers and explorers have their origins in Kanto, and they outshine the natives of other regions in many situations with their pride for their region and brilliant energy and minds. At least... that's what they're saying in Kanto.

One career in which Kantonians have historically been particularly dominant, is pok?mon battling. Anybody owning a pok?mon is legally a trainer and obliged to follow trainer laws. But taking it one step further and battling other trainers for money - that makes you a battler. As with any type of sports, there are hobbyists, and there are those who strive to actually pursue a professional career. Most battlers undertake journeys through a region both at the start of their career as a test, as well as later on to stay sharp and well versed in skills and environments - as well as to build a web of useful contacts from around the world if they can! Every year, the Pok?mon League also resets. This means that any battler can challenge the gyms around the region. If they manage to collect at least 8 gym badges, they have earned the right to challenge the Elite 4 for the title of Kanto Champion.

You aspire to be a battler, but you don't own any pok?mon yet. As the Kanto community prides itself on its outstanding reputation for producing great battlers, the government has set up an office where trainers can receive a starter pok?mon for free and a complimentary pok?dex - which becomes registered as an ID in their name - to kickstart their career. This endeavor started a few decades ago and has proven to be successful. The pok?mon species given out have largely remained the same, with a few seasonal and promotional changes now and then, and the core trio which were originally very rare pok?mon, are now widely known as "the Kanto starters". A professor Green Oak is officially responsible for handing the starter and pok?dex out to new battlers, and the facility can be found in Pallet City, a modern and still growing settlement in the southwestern part of the region.

... However, you (currently) live in Fuchsia City. You might have wanted to sign up in Pallet City, but for one reason or another, you became aware of a new endeavor going on in your own town. Another pok?mon researcher, professor Cypress, is starting up her own battling agency called Battle Beyond, through which she hopes to rival the official monopoly on teaching new battlers how to think and train. This flamboyant figure offers a different selection of starters, bred in the local Safari Zone by her team of researchers. They are at least as strong as the classic "Kanto starters", and according to Cypress, they are even more intelligent.

The catch? Cypress believes strongly in aura. As the existence and influence of aura in battles and pok?mon growth is hard to prove, Cypress so far isn't taken seriously by other scientists. She will require you to agree to try your best to get in tune with your own and your pokemon's aura over the course of your journey, and report any unusual behavior or findings back to her. That doesn't sound too hard, does it?

And Team Rocket isn't really big and dangerous, and you won't need to worry about them... Unless you're training strong pok?mon. Then you should probably be very worried. What are they really up to, though?


Setting
There are a few things you should know about the Kanto we're playing this out in. First of all, the year is 2021!

- The story of RBY/FRLG never happened. There were two trainers called Green and Red starting their journeys at the same time though, receiving one pok?mon each from Green's grandpa back in 1996 along with the first portable pok?dexes. Green took his grandpa's place eventually, while Red became the Pok?mon League Tournament champion before vanishing mysteriously.

- Team Rocket didn't rise back then. They were always low key and not really known to the public.

- As this is 2021, you might not recognize all gym leaders or places in Kanto. Things change!

- Humans hurting humans physically is a widespread taboo, even among those you'd call criminals. For hundreds of years, the much more durable pok?mon have done all the fighting for humans, as it has benefitted them both - humans don't get hurt, and the pok?mon grow their bodies and aura stronger and thus often evolve.
--- This is why it's not considered such a strange thing to send a teenager alone on a journey around the region, as long as they can take care of themselves and have sufficiently strong pok?mon with them. Strong people can be bad trainers, and great trainers are seldom bad people.

- Oh yeah, Aura is canon here. Think of it as The Force but in pok?mon instead of Star Wars. Feel free to have your characters develop it as a means to become psychic (psychic humans have been canon in the game/anime verse ever since gen 1) or communicate with their pok?mon or channel pok?mon abilities or moves or anything like that, eventually. Creative freedom! Help Cypress' research out (: You may of course opt out and be a normal person, if you prefer.


Mechanics
Let's simplify this a lot.

Every IC day, you can make 1 advancing action. Either:
- Teach a new move to one of your current pok?mon
- Evolve one of your current pok?mon
- Capture a new pok?mon

Everything else, you can do as much as you want, with whomever you want. Go! :)


Rules
- If you trade with an "NPC", you can only receive pok?mon that were previously or currently available for you to capture, and the GM will decide its moveset.

- It's probably a good thing to keep track of your pok?mon and their moves in every IC post!

- Rating is T. That being said, feel free to make your character and the world around them seem realistic rather than overly kid friendly.

- Be friendly at all times ooc!


Sign-up Sheet

Name:
Gender:
Age: (min 13, no max value!)
Birth town: (in Kanto. Currently you are living in/near Fuchsia)

Appearance: (picture or description - or both!)
History: (what's worth mentioning in order for us to understand the character? Family? Events?)
Personality: (weaknesses & strengths? acting among people vs alone? interests?)

Battle Beyond starter:
As you are not a trainer yet, you will receive a pokemon from the professor along with a pokedex. You get to choose whichever species you like, ad long as it is unevolved and not legendary. State what gender and nature you'd like them to have, and I will give you a moveset and an ability if you are accepted into the RP. Only one starter of each kind for now.


Players
adventure - Trapinch - Paige Perrary
Godzil - Espurr - Elise Greene
FireSnow - Crabrawler - Martin Lovett
Arachneo - Spinarak - Damien Lalune
Aquacorde - Golett - Sorley

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Pokémon BEYOND[S-HIGHLIGHT]IC thread found here <<[/S-HIGHLIGHT]

Year 2021, April:
Kanto has never been the most popular region for its nature, its culture or even its native species of pokémon. What makes the region great, is its people. So many famous trainers, actors, businesspeople, researchers and explorers have their origins in Kanto, and they outshine the natives of other regions in many situations with their pride for their region and brilliant energy and minds. At least... that's what they're saying in Kanto.

One career in which Kantonians have historically been particularly dominant, is pokémon battling. Anybody owning a pokémon is legally a trainer and obliged to follow trainer laws. But taking it one step further and battling other trainers for money - that makes you a battler. As with any type of sports, there are hobbyists, and there are those who strive to actually pursue a professional career. Most battlers undertake journeys through a region both at the start of their career as a test, as well as later on to stay sharp and well versed in skills and environments - as well as to build a web of useful contacts from around the world if they can! Every year, the Pokémon League also resets. This means that any battler can challenge the gyms around the region. If they manage to collect at least 8 gym badges, they have earned the right to challenge the Elite 4 for the title of Kanto Champion.

You aspire to be a battler, but you don't own any pokémon yet. As the Kanto community prides itself on its outstanding reputation for producing great battlers, the government has set up an office where trainers can receive a starter pokémon for free and a complimentary pokédex - which becomes registered as an ID in their name - to kickstart their career. This endeavor started a few decades ago and has proven to be successful. The pokémon species given out have largely remained the same, with a few seasonal and promotional changes now and then, and the core trio which were originally very rare pokémon, are now widely known as "the Kanto starters". A professor Green Oak is officially responsible for handing the starter and pokédex out to new battlers, and the facility can be found in Pallet City, a modern and still growing settlement in the southwestern part of the region.

... However, you (currently) live in Fuchsia City. You might have wanted to sign up in Pallet City, but for one reason or another, you became aware of a new endeavor going on in your own town. Another pokémon researcher, professor Cypress, is starting up her own battling agency called Battle Beyond, through which she hopes to rival the official monopoly on teaching new battlers how to think and train. This flamboyant figure offers a different selection of starters, bred in the local Safari Zone by her team of researchers. They are at least as strong as the classic "Kanto starters", and according to Cypress, they are even more intelligent.

The catch? Cypress believes strongly in aura. As the existence and influence of aura in battles and pokémon growth is hard to prove, Cypress so far isn't taken seriously by other scientists. She will require you to agree to try your best to get in tune with your own and your pokemon's aura over the course of your journey, and report any unusual behavior or findings back to her. That doesn't sound too hard, does it?

And Team Rocket isn't really big and dangerous, and you won't need to worry about them... Unless you're training strong pokémon. Then you should probably be very worried. What are they really up to, though?


Setting
There are a few things you should know about the Kanto we're playing this out in. First of all, the year is 2021!

- The story of RBY/FRLG never happened. There were two trainers called Green and Red starting their journeys at the same time though, receiving one pokémon each from Green's grandpa back in 1996 along with the first portable pokédexes. Green took his grandpa's place eventually, while Red became the Pokémon League Tournament champion before vanishing mysteriously.

- Team Rocket didn't rise back then. They were always low key and not really known to the public.

- As this is 2021, you might not recognize all gym leaders or places in Kanto. Things change!

- Humans hurting humans physically is a widespread taboo, even among those you'd call criminals. For hundreds of years, the much more durable pokémon have done all the fighting for humans, as it has benefitted them both - humans don't get hurt, and the pokémon grow their bodies and aura stronger and thus often evolve.
--- This is why it's not considered such a strange thing to send a teenager alone on a journey around the region, as long as they can take care of themselves and have sufficiently strong pokémon with them. Strong people can be bad trainers, and great trainers are seldom bad people.

- Oh yeah, Aura is canon here. Think of it as The Force but in pokémon instead of Star Wars. Feel free to have your characters develop it as a means to become psychic (psychic humans have been canon in the game/anime verse ever since gen 1) or communicate with their pokémon or channel pokémon abilities or moves or anything like that, eventually. Creative freedom! Help Cypress' research out (: You may of course opt out and be a normal person, if you prefer.


Mechanics
Okay, fasten your seatbelt and we will get through this. It's not as complicated as it might seem... I hope! This RP will, simply put, consist of players doing a number of actions during a 2 week period. Two weeks IRL = One day IC, unless there are special circumstances. If you fail to make at least one action during any 2 week period without having giving the GM a good reason for your absence, you will be warned. If it happens two IC days in a row, you risk being removed from the RP. Keep up!



Below is a list of things that will count towards your weekly actions. You can do the same action several times, if you wish.


Each action needs to be validated with at least one post, and as you know, the minimum word limit here is 100 words.

You can either make several posts throughout the 2 week period or one post with several (or all) your actions in it.

Even posts with several actions can be short, if you really can't be bothered to RP a bit more thoroughly... /sadface

This means that if you want to mostly write short summarizing posts and just enjoy growing a team using the RP mechanics, then do. If you would rather like to use your creative vein and love to write, then write more!

Every (other) week, a new area will (usually) open up if there is at least one player who wishes to proceed.


Rules
- Max 5 actions per week, minimum 1. You can make any number of posts, however, as you can have several actions in one post, or let one action span several posts.

- If actions are concluded, please state at the end of the post what actions you performed. I'll keep track of your details in a list in the start of the IC thread.

- Rating is T. That being said, feel free to make your character and the world around them seem realistic rather than overly kid friendly.

- Be friendly at all times ooc!


Sign-up Sheet

Name:
Gender:
Age: (min 13, no max value!)
Birth town: (in Kanto. Currently you are living in/near Fuchsia)

Appearance: (picture or description - or both!)
History: (what's worth mentioning in order for us to understand the character? Family? Events?)
Personality: (weaknesses & strengths? acting among people vs alone? interests?)

Battle Beyond starter:
As you are not a trainer yet, you will receive a pokemon from the professor along with a pokedex. You get to choose whichever species you like, ad long as it is unevolved and not legendary. State what gender and nature you'd like them to have, and I will give you a moveset and an ability if you are accepted into the RP. Only one starter of each kind for now.


Players
adventure - Trapinch - Paige Perrary
Godzil - Espurr - Elise Greene
FireSnow - Crabrawler - Martin Lovett
Arachneo - Spinarak - Damien Lalune
Aquacorde - Golett - Sorley

Movesets and abilities are shown in the IC list!

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Lavender Town
starting April 29 ic / April 10 ooc

Lavender Town has always been seen as one of the most somber and sad places in Kanto - at least by the rest of the region's natives. The people living in the town themselves pride themselves on having built a thriving, caring community. Nobody in Lavender is left to their own accord if any help is needed. Much thanks to the church that was founded around a decade ago, in a chapel near the Pokémon Tower. Led by a Miss Kina Fuji, the daughter of the old well known "Mr Fuji", the church does anything it can to help abandoned or abused pokémon as well as any humans in need. Any assistance or donation or extra publicity for their cause is usually welcomed by the young woman and her partners.

Commercially, the only real thing going on in Lavender is the immense tourism. Seen as one of the oldest and most well cared for pokémon graveyard places in the world, plenty of tourists come here all year around to experience the spooky feeling of walking around in the Tower, possibly with the eyes of the dead spirits upon them... The Tower has, however, since long closed down for new burials, as it was decided that it was too full and no old pokémon grave should be removed in favor for new ones.

What to do here?

- There are wild pokémon lurking in or around the Pokémon Tower! While you are not allowed to battle on the upper levels, the caretakers of the Tower realize how many trainers see this as a great opportunity to find ghost types, and allow it in certain halls on lower levels since the pokémon who feel inclined to meet humans have learned, and can go there on their own accord without "disturbing the resting spirits".

- There is a pokémon center, a pokémart as well as countless tourist shops.

- There is a crime going on, and if you arrive in Lavender on time, you will be able to find yourself in the midst of it all... Read below!

- In this area, on April 29 and 30 ic - YOU ARE NOT LIMITED BY A CERTAIN NUMBER OF ACTIONS! On other ic days, or in other areas, you can still do a max of 7 actions before April 30 ooc, but to let you participate in everything that's going on if you arrive in Lavender on time, there will be no max action limit these days ic.

- It will likely be possible to move on to a new area on April 30 ic / April 30 ooc! Get your April 29/30 ic actions in before then - but feel free to stay for more than one IC day in any area you wish.

Team Rocket Event

Around midday of April 30 ic, there is suddenly a large commotion at the Church chapel near the Pokémon Tower. Nurses and monks come running, screaming that somebody is stealing all the recovering pokémon! Kina Fuji is apparently still in there, trying to fight the bandits off...

Wild pokémon

Ghastly Lv 11-12 // Hypnosis - Lick - Spite - Mean Look - Curse
Misdreavus Lv 11-12 // Growl - Psywave - Spite - Astonish
Shuppet Lv 11-12 // Knock-off - Screech - Night Shade - Spite
Duskull Lv 11-12 // Leer - Night Shade - Astonish - Disable
Rattata Lv 11-12 // Tackle - Tail Whip - Focus Energy - Quick Attack
Houndour Lv 11-12 // Leer - Ember - Howl - Smog

Special pokémon

Available only after you go through all of April 29 ic without battling anybody!
Cubone Lv 9-10 // Growl - Tail Whip - Bone Club - Headbutt
Will evolve into either Kanto or Alolan forme, your wish.
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