Eos: OOC Thread

[JX Valentine]

This is the sign-up/OOC discussion thread for the sci-fi RPG Eos. Sign-ups are still open. To learn more about the game and read the action thus far, click here.


Teams and Accepted Characters

White – Normal (currently the underdogs)
Captain: Kenji Enigma Darkrose
Available Starters: Rattata, Cleffa, Igglybuff, Meowth, Lickitung, Happiny, Munchlax, Sentret, Togepi, Aipom, Snubbull, Teddiursa, Zigzagoon, Slakoth, Whismur, Skitty, Bidoof, Buneary, Glameow
Players:

Kenji Enigma Darkrose (played by Eletj)
Partner: Porygon
Level: 1
Current Number of Points: 0

Pink – Poison, Psychic
Captain: ???
Available Starters: Ekans, Abra, Drowzee, Grimer, Koffing, Mime Jr., Wynaut, Ralts, Spoink, Chingling, Skorupi, Croagunk
Players:

Majella Karp (played by BUG♥CATCHER★BREEZE)
Partner: Nidoran (M)
Level: 1
Current Number of Points: 0

Red – Fighting, Fire
Captain: Katharine Elizabeth "Kate" Anderson
Available Starters: Charmander, Vulpix, Mankey, Growlithe, Machop, Magby, Cyndaquil, Slugma, Torchic, Makuhita, Meditite, Numel, Chimchar
Players:

Katharine Elizabeth "Kate" Anderson (played by Mira)
Partner: Ponyta
Level: 1
Current Number of Points: 0

Samuel "Sam" Hakini (played by sasuneuchiha)
Partner: Riolu
Level: 1
Current Number of Points: 0

Alexander White (played by The Purple Dow)
Partner: Tyrogue
Level: 1
Current Number of Points: 0

Orange – Ground, Rock
Captain: Alexis Löwe
Available Starters: Cubone, Geodude, Rhyhorn, Omanyte, Kabuto, Bonsly, Phanpy, Nosepass, Baltoy, Anorith, Cranidos, Shieldon, Hippopotas, Trapinch
Players:

Alexis Löwe (NPC)
Partner: Sandshrew
Level: 1
Current Number of Points: 0

Lance Ackart (played by Got-a-Plan-B)
Partner: Larvitar
Level: 1
Current Number of Points: 0

Yellow – Dragon, Electric (currently the favorite)
Captain: Sara Miriani
Available Starters: Pichu, Magnemite, Voltorb, Elekid, Mareep, Electrike, Bagon, Shinx, Gible
Players: ???

Sara Miriani (played by *Lanee)
Partner: Dratini
Level: 1
Current Number of Points: 0

Green – Grass, Steel
Captain: Cornelia Dawn
Available Starters: Oddish, Bellsprout, Tangela, Chikorita, Seedot, Shroomish, Cacnea, Budew, Turtwig, Cherubi, Snover, Aron
Players:

Cornelia Dawn (played by Dutchesse)
Partner: Bulbasaur
Level: 1
Current Number of Points: 0

Aesir Sedgewick (played by Cirrus)
Partner: Beldum
Level: 1
Current Number of Points: 0

Zach Sydney (played by Down with the darkness)
Partner: Treecko
Level: 2
Current Number of Points: 2

Blue – Ice, Water
Captain: ???
Available Starters: Squirtle, Poliwag, Slowpoke, Krabby, Staryu, Smoochum, Totodile, Chinchou, Azurill, Wooper, Swinub, Mudkip, Lotad, Corphish, Piplup, Buizel, Shellos
Players:

Annabelle "Anna" Hawthorne (played by Dutchesse)
Partner: Snorunt
Level: 1
Current Number of Points: 0

Indigo – Ghost, Bug
Captain: ???
Available Starters: Gastly, Misdreavus, Shuppet, Duskull, Drifloon, Caterpie, Weedle, Paras, Venonat, Scyther, Spinarak, Wurmple, Surskit, Nincada, Kricketot, Combee
Players: ???

Violet – Flying
Captain: ???
Available Starters: Pidgey, Spearow, Zubat, Doduo, Hoothoot, Ledyba, Natu, Hoppip, Yanma, Gligar, Taillow, Wingull, Swablu, Starly
Players: ???

Black – Dark
Captain: Shelby "Scarecrow" Wallace
Available Starters: Sneasel, Murkrow, Sableye, Absol, Stunky
Players:

Shelby "Scarecrow" Wallace (played by Scarecrow1113)
Partner: Poochyena
Level: 2
Current Number of Points: 2

Marina (played by Murder)
Partner: Eevee
Level: 1
Current Number of Points: 0

Raphael "Phaiel" Hasendra Finitio (played by Neo Groudon)
Partner: Houndour
Level: 1
Current Number of Points: 0


The Character Form

(Remember to read the first post of the game thread before attempting to sign up.)

Spoiler:

Name: Character name. Full name, nickname, both, I don't care.
Age: Your character must be 15 or older. Sorry, but do you think you'd be noticed by some mysterious group of folks if you just started on your Pokémon journey?
Gender: Male or female. Check your pants. You've got something there.
Normal Appearance: Four lines minimum. No pictures; those will be rejected on sight. Yes, you have normal Earth clothes as well. Unless you were naked when you were abducted. (At which point, it kinda sucks to be you.)
Battle Appearance: For some of you, transforming into your battle uniform might change your appearance slightly. Other than the uniform described above, what do you look like? Temporary changes (gaining of sunglasses, randomly gaining makeup and jewelry, or putting your hair up, for example) only. No disappearing/reappearing tattoos, piercings that you don't already have, or hair/eye color changes. This field is completely optional.
Personality: Four lines minimum. Be as detailed as possible. The Benefactors will want to exploit the crap out of this one.
History: Four lines minimum. Detail your character's life on Earth. This also serves as an occupation field, so tell us what you were doing for a living before randomly getting abducted by the Benefactors.
Team: Pick a color. Any color.
Pokémon Partner: All you need here is a Pokémon species from the list below, but if you want to give your partner a bit more detail (personality, gender, name, et cetera), feel free to do so here.
Other Things To Know: Is your character allergic to pollen? Vegan? Afraid of clowns? Jewish? Talk about whatever else the above doesn't cover for as long as you want.
Writing Sample: Just to make sure you're literate, give us a taste of how you play.

 

[processr]

A quick note for anyone who wishes to sign up to the Eos RP, our GM Valentine is currently away, and is thus unavailable to process any sign-ups. Feel free to post a sign-up, but don't blame us you don't get a reply until Friday, when Valentine returns.

As for our current game members, where's all the activity gone? D: For a couple of days there were a flurry of replies, but we haven't had one for over 24 hours now. =<

 

[Underoos]

Well I ended my day, so I can't really do anything until Valentine posts the next day ^^; As for everyone else who hasn't finished their day...>>

 

[JX Valentine]

And I am back with, unfortunately, a really lame IC post. (Sorry!) Day two is technically up with that last paragraph, but if anyone wants to sneak around in the night, feel free to get in a quick post, and I'd be happy to walk you through in case you try to get into anything secretive.

In the meantime, hi, shiny OOC thread. You are indeed open to new sign-ups. *pets*

 

[Underoos]

Haha, sneaking sounds like fun. Too bad I have writer's block XD But yay, points!

 

[Down with the darkness]

Sounds fun! *Silently slips out and hacks into the library computers*

 

[Underoos]

Haha, there I got another post up ^^ Yay, my whole vacation is that of RPing! XD

 

[{Swan}]

I'm going to try this again ^^;; sorry from last time

Name: Cornelia Dawn
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Normal Appearance: She is very tall and loves this. Her length is spread pretty even, she doesn't have spectacularly long legs or a clumsy upper body. Her complexion is quite pale, something that frustrates her. She doesn't like the fact that she barely tans and burns a lot. She has very faint freckles under her eyes and on the bridge of her nose, but they are very faint, and that's the way she prefers them to be.
Her eyes are a warm and dark brown, sometimes they look mysterious and alluring, sometimes simply furious and sometime they plainly look bored. Her eyes are pretty much the windows into her moods. While her lying skills are very good, her eyes often betray her.
Her hair is honey blonde and naturally wavy. It has that flair about it that says they are well taken care of in a diva kind of way. She never steps out the door without having her hair look fabulous. It is fairly long, and she doesn't have any bangs. In stead the hair that frames her eyes is cut shorter than the rest and waves around her face.

She's not a fan of heavy make-up though, and she doesn't need it. She loves her clothes bright and only makes an exception for white and black. She's not afraid to show her skin, but she isn't ****ty either. Her hair is usually either loose or shoved back with a headband, she rarely wears it in a ponytail and only wears a braid when she sleeps. She carries a round, white bag with her at all times that has all her stuff in it.

Battle Appearance: When she changes into battle style her hair changes from whatever it was before to being tied up in two curly ponytails over her shoulders.

Personality: Cornelia likes the spectacular. When she was little she had been obsessed with being a coordinator and to make all her moves look gorgeous. She quickly found out that coordinating was nothing for her. She was too in love with the thrill of battle, but she still likes to make her pokemon and her look beautiful.

She's also a bit obsessive. When something is on her mind, it is sure to stay that way for a long, long time. In fact, unless she'll find something better to obsess about, she'll only stop when it's been done. One of those things were contests, and when she had won enough ribbons to consider the job done, she went to the League Challenge.
Also, she doesn't let things go. Be it good things, or bad things. If she doesn't like you, she doesn't like you. This is a bad pairing with the fact she judges quickly. So if she sees you as a scrawny little nerd that is as weak as a reed, this image will stay the same unless she sees you arm-wrestle with a Charizard, so to speak.
Grudges is another specialty of this lady. You insult her, she'll hold it against you for quite the while. In fact, if you've really hit it, she'll shoot you down at every opportunity. Yes, she has no problem with fierce come-backs, be it under her breath or in your face.

Corny's temper is another thing. She gets mad easily, and she shouts. A lot. A verbal fight is easily encouraged, and she won't hold back. She might throw some serious insults at you, or simply walk away when she can't win. Also, she doesn't like admitting she's wrong. So, if she said something awful to you, rather than completely regret it, she'll try to tell herself that it was partly deserved. She's one of those people that, even if it is in a situation where it's useless, she'll yell and shout threats and insults to you.
Her big mouth is definitely one of her worst features. She gets mad about the littlest things. Overall she's quite a person to deal with, and you really need to know exactly how to deal with her.

History: Corny's mother was a coordinator and taught her all there was of the subject. She grew up with rules involving looks and behavior. Her mother insisted that she be graceful at every moment. Never would she wear her pajamas outside of her bed. Her hair was always in a pretty hairstyle and she always wore girly and pretty clothing.
Cornelia loved it, from when she was a child she would be proud of her frilly dresses. Too bad her hair was Copper, for pink would clash horribly with it.

She grew up in Lillycove City, where her mother participated in the Master Contests. Her mother taught her the business, beginning with the most affective moves and ending with how to make them beautiful but deadly. She received her first Pokémon when she was seven, a Meowth received from her father. He was rarely home, and one day he brought home the Pokémon as a gift for her.
She loved the little demon, for the Meowth was quite mischievous when he was little. Always playing with it and brushing it.

When she was 14 she decided to become a coordinator like her mother. She traveled all over Hoenn and trained her little Mau, but after she won her first ribbon, she found that she didn't like it that much. She loved the battling more than anything else. So she started the gym challenge. Her natural talent for battling came in pretty handy, and of course, she had a way of cheating when she could. No, Cornelia wasn't the nicest opponent. After two years in Hoenn, she finally beat everyone there was to beat in the region and she decided to try and do the same thing in Sinnoh. Sinnoh was a lot harder for her because she hated the cold. No, really, she did. She also developed quite a habit of swearing in this region. She didn't get very far into Sinnoh, because her reputation as a win-no-matter-what trainer got her sucked into a spaceship. Quite literally.


Team: Green
Pokémon Partner: Bulbasaur
Other Things To Know: Cornelia cheats. She doesn't believe in being a goody two shoes. Also, she swears, so I'm sorry in advance, but I might need to swear soe (In censors of course)
Writing Sample:

Spoiler:

Something was nudging Ivory, and she didn't like it. Couldn't they see she was asleep? Geez. Maybe if she ignored them, it would go away. That would be nice. But it didn't stop. Actually, it became more urgent. Fine, whatever, she'll tell them nicely to stop. The bed wasn't all too comfortable anyway. Did she eat something before going to bed? It felt like there were crumbs. Also, were there Wingull around?
Ivory opened her eyes, and immediately squinted against the burning sun. Strange. She looked at whatever was nudging her, and looked into the eyes of her Lapras, Amphitrite. Wait what? Wasn't Amphi supposed to be in her Pokéball? Plus, why would she be on the deck of the Louisia? Why was Ivory on the deck of the Louisia? Obviously she wasn't in her room anymore, there was no sun in her room. Why couldn't she remember anything?! Wait…

~Flashback~

Ivory was sitting in the sun outside on the deck. It felt glorious, even though she knew what it did to her freckles. She was wearing her most summery clothing, which were the light denim shorts ending a little below her butt and the yellow top with the frills. She knew the top made her small figure look better and that the shorts hugged her form nicely and made her look older. Well, made her look her age instead of three years younger. Also her red hair was only partly pulled back, the rest wave nicely curling down. Well, maybe a little wilder than wanted, but she had still managed to tame it.
So all in all she felt nice, and she looked nice. Was it imagined or was she actually being checked out by some boys? Ahh, cruises. You gotta love them.

Her Pokémon were also obviously having fun. Cubone was hitting things with her Bone, as always. She didn't really worry about anything as long as she heard a metallic clang and not a human screech. Mareep was safely in her Pokéball, the ship would only frighten her anyway. Ivory knew how Apolla could get frightened and therefore kept her securely inside her Pokéball. Lapras was also still inside. She'd let her swim freely overboard, but the waves had gotten a bit more aggressive and she didn't want to risk Amphitrite getting lost or anything.

So all in all it was a great day. Ivory slid her sunglasses on the back of her head as she squinted to look around without them on. Her piercing green eyes looked around. There was a lot of grey clouds going on far away from the boat. She hoped they wouldn't come nearer, she didn't want to chance getting seasick again. Not on a day like this.
"Aaaah!"
Ivory looked around to see people pointing at the horizon. A huge wave came towards the ship. She barely had time to summon Persephone back into her ball and it hit. The entire ship rocked. She held on to the railing but she saw another wave come behind the one before it. She elt someone bump into her and she fell overboard. It all went kind of slow-motion. She remembered taking Amphitrite's Pokéball out just before she hit the water. The Lapras got out and then… blank..

~Flashback~

She tried to get up, but her head hurt too much, she just collapsed back down again. Is that what shipwrecking did to you? Make your head hurt? That should be the least of her worries, but sadly, it wasn't. It was like watching yourself in a movie, it didn't really clue in what was happening to her. She attempted sitting up again, this time very slowly. It worked, even though her head still wasn't entirely agreeable.

"Hey Amphi. How are you doing?" She smiled at the Lapras, even though it was a weak smile. The Lapras answered with a high pitch, which sounded beautiful, as it always did. She looked nice and healthy to Ivory, so everything must be fine with her. Ivory knew that Amphitrite was still young, and so she worried if she was okay, but she seemed just fine.

Wait! What about the others. She looked around frantically, where was her bag? Where were the others? But she must have had her bag, or she would never have been able to summon Amphi out. Right? Then where was it?! She felt something slowly tugging at her and looked to see Amphitrite with Ivory's bag in her mouth. And the strap was attached to… her. She felt so stupid, how could she not have noticed she was wearing the damn thing already? She pulled the strap over her head and retrieved her other two Pokémon. Thanks god they were there, the Pokéballs. Would the water affect them? Only one way to find out.

"Persephone, Apolla, come out little ones!" The Cubone came out unharmed, and so did the Mareep. Well, Apolla was physically unharmed at least. The poor thing was entirely shaking! And the shaking was making her wool go extremely static. Poor thing. "Hush, little one, it's okay. We're unharmed. And look! We're on a vacation! Tropical Island included. Now where is the resort?" She joked around, but Apolla still looked like a frightened cat, except in sheep form. Well her hair was indeed standing straight with electricity.

"You know I would hug you right now, but I believe that might be fatal." She smiled at the thing, but it was still shaking. Sparks were flying off her back and she was nervously looking around. Ivory knew this behavior and also knew that it wouldn't stop for a while now. So instead she looked around for Phione, who was nowhere to be seen. Great. An overactive Cubone with a weapon was on the loose. And she was going to have to claim responsibility for her.

Ivory noticed she was still sitting, well time to get up. Her head had decided to calm down just a tiny bit, so she assumed it was okay. As it turned out, shipwrecking also left your legs without much support. She had to stabilize herself my holding onto Amphitrite's head, which the Lapras wasn't too thrilled about. After awhile, her legs began working again and now she stood she could really see. The beach went on for a while and then ended abruptly, turning into a thick green forest. She couldn't really see beyond the forest, the trees were too entangled to really see anything.

She looked behind her and noticed there was also no sign of the ship. The sea was gorgeous, that had to be said, a pure turquoise. But no ships, nothing was really on it. The beach was the only place that showed what had happened. There was rubbish everywhere. Large chunks of wood from the boat, some crates that were either smashed and empty or closed and who knows what was still in them. There wasn't much more than crates and rubbish. Well, if you didn't count the people that were laying between them. People!
And, one was being hit by a Cubone. A strangely familiar Cubone, that was.
"Persephone! Stop that immediately!" She quickly made her way towards the stranded boy. Well.. as quickly as her rubbery legs allowed her to.
"I'm sorry, uhm. Are you okay?"

 

[JX Valentine]

To Dutchesse, no problem. Take your time, m'dear.

Eeeeencidentally, players already in the game, today's IC post was brought to you by the letters Foreshadowing and Hint and the number WTF These Aren't Even Single Characters.

Seriously, though, the writing's pretty important itself, but for those of you who are like, "WTF, Valentine, seizure on the keyboard," that's actually a font. Possibly default on Windows XP. In any case, yeah, that actually says something, but because I purposefully made it a pain in the rear to draw attention to a few other points there, if you want to decode it, that's cool but not something I expect people to strain intellectual muscles over.

Also~, yay ductwork hints!

And, for that matter, an introduction to sinister-sounding voices somewhere in the ship.

Lastly, Down with the darkness, remember to check with the other players before using the playerdex. Some people would probably want to have certain things be classified/specified, so it's just easier to double-check with them before having the glasses talk about something they shouldn't (or something that's not exactly correct). Just as a heads up.

 

[Underoos]

Oh wow, that was very scareh ^^; Anyway...I think this next post will end her first day...night...whatever it is XD

 

[JX Valentine]

Awesome. Yeah, sorry. I just meant to give Shelby an idea of which direction not to go. XD But don't worry. There's still plenty of fun things for her to find. And plenty of other people to torture through the vents.

Also, yeah, I know the first round game was supposed to start today. It'll start tomorrow morning, however, so those of you working on night scenes, feel free to head on to the morning. Robots will still be blaring alarms, and you'll get to roam for a bit before the Benefactors announce the game.

 

[Underoos]

So...tired...sleep...needed...it's almost 3 AM my time XD I don't even really know why I'm up, actually. Anyway, she'll look forward to finding those fun things and NOT getting sucked into vents XD Come to think of it, I swear I saw a movie where...*cuts off now before pointless, sleepy rant starts*

 

[Down with the darkness]

Well did you honestly just give me a puzzle?

If you knew me, you'd know I'm gonna have to crack this thing.

edit: Well my head hurts... but after nearly four hours of "Gold Bug" style decoding, I broke it. Oh you made quite a few typos.


TTERRAN DEVICES SUCH AS PESOR_POKEBALLS _IN THAT THE BEADS HAVE BEEN ADAPTED TO SCAN AND BREAK DOWN POKEMON TO CONVERT THEM TO STORABIE DATA VIA NANO COMPUTERS THAT ARE EQUALLY CAPABALE OF READING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF DATA THEN UGHOUR OWN INFORMATION NETWORK MAINTAIN EDON THECOIO DYGGDRASIL BY THE FIEET_

 

[JX Valentine]

edit: Well my head hurts... but after nearly four hours of "Gold Bug" style decoding, I broke it. Oh you made quite a few typos.

Actually, the reason why it looks like there's typos all over the place could be either you're using the wrong font or characters can code for more than one thing. Try running through it again in a different font or going through the entire alphabet. It's not just a straight run.

(Yeah, the original message was written in MS Word first and then converted into the font it has.)

Also, as a note, the reason why you're not supposed to know what the message says is because it's supposed to be a foreign language. In other words, what it actually means is OOC information, not IC. ^_^; Sorry for not clarifying.

 

[Down with the darkness]

I wasn't using a font! I thought you wrote that on you own! Damnit you mean I could have used a damn font to decode it!!!!!!!!!!

Hoy Vey! I just wasted 3 hours.

 

[JX Valentine]

I wasn't using a font! I thought you wrote that on you own! Damnit you mean I could have used a damn font to decode it!!!!!!!!!!

XD Sorry, dear.

To be perfectly clear, this is what I did: wrote the thing in MS Word in a readable font. Checked it. Removed certain characters that would end up being blocks (mostly punctuation and spaces). Converted the whole thing to a character font (that is, as far as I can tell, one of the default ones on XP because I did a data wipe about a month ago and am now running on pretty much just what's contained on an XP disc in terms of fonts -- but tell me if it doesn't match the fonts you have). Copied it to Paint and saved it as an image (to avoid the possibility that someone doesn't actually have this font).

Although either way, the language you're seeing isn't reflecting what the text might actually say because I didn't take into account how these guys would use grammar. (As I've said in my edit, it's supposed to be a foreign language, so structure might not be the same. Or it might be if I'm really lazy in trying to develop it. Depends on whether or not I want you guys to have your characters figure it out easily, which might actually be what I'm inclined to do anyway. I really want something important to be known here, but it's always more fun to have players and characters get a WTF reaction out of these kinds of things.) So, if you decode it, it's most likely just OOC information for now unless your character's good with figuring out how languages work (or can get in touch with another character who is).

 

[{Swan}]

I'm done! Finally!
So how do you want me to start now? If I'm accepted that is

 

[JX Valentine]

Dutchesse, you are definitely approved. You're free to pretty much shoehorn yourself in -- as in, as far as anyone's concerned, you were totally there the whole time. (If you'd like to do some post that details her reactions waking up and going on the tour and whatnot, feel free. It's really up to you.)

In the meantime, I'm going to make an IC post for the morning. If you're (general you here) still on the first night, go ahead and use this morning post as a mile marker to give you an idea of how much time is between what you're doing and what the rest of the cast is doing.

 

[Down with the darkness]

Oh boy! It's like Xmas morning knowing the challenge is tonight! [/nolife]

 

[Underoos]

Haha, I agree with Down with the darkness ^^ I can't wait 'til tonight. Oh and question...how exactly are we going to go about the games? I mean like involving everyone and all of the interacting required.