Cursed
Godking Ragnarok CXVII
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- Seen Dec 13, 2009
*Note: I saw nothing that seemed to stop my idea in the rules, so please inform me if this RPG is rulebreaking.
Pokemon: The Arcane Tome
Just for the record, I am not referring to a tomb in which mummies and the like are buried. A tome is a large or learned book, such as an encyclopedia.
How our story begins:
In ancient times, a king and queen would be divinely chosen by a legendary being, having 3 brothers all made of noble metals, like himself. This creature governed the peoples' lives, both personal and public. However, one leader, after being chosen by the creature, deemed this being unworthy of him. He ordered the royal sorcerer to banish him from his kingdom, regardless of the price.
The sorcerer then melted gold, poured the liquid gold into ink, and wrote out the divine spell that banished it to the bottom of a crater that instantly filled with rainwater and sealed the tomb of it with a magical lock that only the holder of the book would be able to open. Over time, more magical spells were demanded of the sorcerer, and he used the same form of golden ink to write them. He then bound the book with ancient fibers long since forgotten and added a lock made of almost all of the supply of an unknown element on Earth. The remainder of the metal was used to craft the key, a beautiful work of art that held back information pertaining to every aspect of the skill of magic. The king himself then saw to it that the tome was sealed in the bottom of a dungeon that had previously been used as a prison for lawbreakers of this civilization.
Eventually, however, the townspeople were angered by the creation of this tome and burned down the castle. The dungeon, however, had been buried in debris and only the king himself knew of the location of the spell book. As for the key, prior to the burning of the castle, a common thief had discovered it amongst the treasures of the ancient castle and figured it to be a key to some vault in which a vast storage of treasure would be hidden. Although the thief never found the true purpose to the key, it was passed down from generations until the origins of the key were forgotten entirely.
The tome itself was enchanted upon completion to be immune to time itself. Only those chosen would ever find the connection between the key and its lock. Roughly 3000 years later, in A.D. 2007, Pokemon trainers are intertwined into this legend and forced into a fight that could determine the fate of the very universe. During this time, in the region of Sinnoh, enough new species of Pokemon have been discovered in order for Sinnoh to have its own Pokedex section. Along with this, people have gained rights to use the Pokemon of this region in other areas. The Pokemon of Sinnoh have also been discovered on a megalopolis archipelago, known as the Kerbala Islands. The Kerbala Islands are where our legend of the tome took place. Unknown to the key and tome's possessors, the two items are unable to be carried out of the island chain's perimeters, marked by Sunset, Sunrise, and Twilight Islands. Although the islands of the Kerbala region are quite similar in climate to that of Sinnoh, there are Pokemon there that were discovered there as opposed to the archipelago's mainland counterpart. Along the way to the archipelago, a cruiser full of new Pokemon trainers wrecks upon a small island seeming to have no name. After circling the island, the crew finds that the island is actually a long-lost part of the island chain known as Dusk Island. From fear of waking the Pokemon supposedly resting in this island, the crew hastens to build a crude raft and take the trainers to Palroot City, where they will receive their starter Pokemon. Curious trainers, however, explore before the sailors are prepared to leave and each find, either on their own or in groups of friends, find strange, somewhat heavy pieces of paper with strange writings on them. The ancient language of these writings is a thick one, but if the trainers decipher it, they shall find rewards of unknown proportions. During their brief stay on the island, each of the trainers brave enough to explore this forgotten wasteland saw a strange rock with the following inscription:
What could these unusual markings mean? Only time will tell, but as of now, the trainers have left Dusk Island and are heading for Palroot town, their first step in an epic battle of good and evil.
Sign-up sheets:
Character's Name:
Backstory(Please don't mention the Arcane Tome here, there's a space for that further down.):
Appearance:
Starter Pokemon(It may be shiny. I will be using a random number generator for that, so don't get your hopes up.):
Connection to the Arcane Tome:
CURRENT SIGN-UPS:
Character's Name: Chris
Backstory: Chris generally travels alone, but he has been seen with a group of friends at his side. He is often looking at a Pokedex he personally programmed and trying to find errors in his coding. His skills with computers are practically unrivaled, and is determined to use these skills in battle. However, because he declined to use an official Pokedex when he received his Pokemon, he is sometimes left in a rut due to the features he has yet to program into his own.
Appearance: normally wearing a black bandana over short, brown hair, a black vest with several pockets over a white t-shirt, a red backpack, and dark blue jeans.
Starter Pokemon: Cyndaquil(Male)
Connection to the Arcane Tome: After he found a strange page of parchment lying on the beach, he became interested in the folklore of Kerbala.
Character controlled by: Cursed(Yes, I pick Chris to be the name of my character everywhere(RPGs, Fanfics, Videogames, etc.))
Character's Name: Victor Ritham
Backstory: Basicly Victor is an enigma. Not many people know much about him. Victor has always wanted to train pokemon. Ever since he saw a pokemon battle when he was three. Now Victor wants to get a starter pokemon of his own in order to beat every single trainer in the world. Victor is someone who doesn't talk to many people. He is usualy seen looking at a pokenav he has at his belt all the time. People like to talk about him in many different ways.
Appearance: Victor is someone who likes to wear things that dont make him look very different. He wears a brown jacket with a hood. The inside of the hood is green. His pants are light blue jeans with a brown belt and a silver buckle. His shoes are white sneakers with black socks. He has a black hat with a strange circle logo on it
Starter Pokemon: Charmander
Connection to the Arcane Tome: He went to travel the island alone. After tripping over a rock he found a parchment. He was scepticle so he decided to find out what this strange writing ment
Character controlled by: Grim
Character's Name:Andrew Pali
Backstory: Andrew has had a great life-family, friends, poularity. One day there was a fire in his house. He was the only suvivor. He didn't want to get shiped off the some orphanage, so he just ran. He ran far from his hometown. He spent most of his life traveling from town to town. But, he never got any Pokemon. He made his way to Shinnou and got the oportunity to get a starter Pokemon.
Appearance:Andrew has grey black, short hair. His eyes are a sparkling, sapphire blue. He has a thin, lanky figure with a strong upper and lower body. He has a black under shirt with a comfy, loose, wite shirt. He has blue pants that match is glowing eyes. He has sparkling clean, white running shoes. He stands tall at 6'3". He has a thin, confident, face.
Starter Pokemon:Torchic
Connection to the Arcane Tome:One time there was a worried Pokemon that led him to a cave. He followed it into the cave and went through the winding paths. He and the worried Pokemon reached a dead end. At the dead end there was a thick piece of parchment. He picked it up and tried to read it. He couldn't make the words out.
Controlled by: weavile3
CHARACTERS WHO NEED TO BE REVISED BY THEIR OWNERS:
Character's Name: Silver Harper
Age: 13
Gender: Male
Backstory: Born on a small island, Silver grew up with a love for nature. He enjoyed raising plants and feeding Pokemon, and made a lot of friends on a daily basis. He had a special bonding with Grass Pokemon, and had always dreamed of having a Bulbasaur or Chikorita as a companion (He was not fond of Treecko). Silver was the kind of person who enjoyed taking care of Pokemon as opposed to battling with them.
Appearance: Standing at 5'6, Silver has long black hair that reaches to the back of his neck when tied back and occasionally covers his deep brown eyes. He loves wearing the color green, and often wears it in the form of a short-sleeve shirt and sweat pants. His shoes are white, and he doesn't mind getting them dirty. Around his neck hangs a round locket with a picture of all of his Pokemon friends back home in one side, and a picture of his family in the other.
Starter Pokemon: Chikorita
Connection to the Arcane Tome: On one of his adventures in the forest, a Beedrill whom he had befriended brought him a piece of parchment from the tome. The Pokemon had hoped that he could read it, but he could not.
Character controlled by: Garouga! Bare Your Fangs!
Character's Name: Genji Saotome
Backstory: Genji is the son of two scientists in the Sinnoh Region. They died ina fire in thier mansion leaving the only person alive to be Genji. Genji's only companion was his Squirtle, Gary. They grew up on the streets and taught themselves how to do things. He has chosen to be put ina special orphanage for gifted children. Being a bright boy, Genji had gained a job at a pokeblock company and then decided to go on a journey with Gary.
Appearance:https://tn3-1.deviantart.com/fs10/300...y_EmoGhost.jpg
Starter Pokemon: Squirtle(Male/Gary/Not Shiney)
Connection to the Arcane Tome: Genji found a page of the Arcane Tome on the ground when he was walking to his apartment. Gary and him tried to decipher it it. However, they could not to no aveil. The premisce of their journey is trying to decode.
OTHER INFORMATION:
Deciphering:
Weekly, the Pokedexes will reveal the translation of a single character, which can be used to decipher the parchment each person receives. Each piece of parchment is a reusable spell, which can be reused once per battle (The effect is not permanent.). People can also check their Pokedexes, which will be posted in a secret area so as not to give others hints, for each key will have different amounts of letters posted in it. People are allowed to decipher the parchments on their own, but I will not inform them of any errors in their translation and they will only find out when they cast the spell and I tell them on their logs that the parchment does nothing. Also, be aware that I am not going to use my spell until everyone playing decodes their own pieces of parchment.
Parchments:
The parchments themselves have unique properties, such as bestowing upon a Pokemon knowledge such as that of a new attack or increments in a skill such as speed or power. The parchments are usable once per battle, and take up one turn.
Logs:
Each Player will be given a log in which they can post attack decisions and such without breaking the rules about post length. The log is private, since it holds the information such as the key to the parchments.
Battles: All decisions for a battle will be made in the battler's log. The post there and I use my Pokemon battle generator to determine who wins. I then post the mathematical results of this battle in their log so that they will be able to beef the battle up with description in their posts on this forum. As for human vs. human battles, there will be a place for the role players to post battle decisions, in which I am the referee. The two of you can then decide who will post the battle and its results.
Mathematics of this RPG: Although a majority of the game is relying on formulas from the video games, there is a single element that makes the game somewhat more dangerous - terrain. If a fire Pokemon, for instance, is battling in a damp area, its attacks are weakened by 15%, meaning that a pokemon may just barely survive and land a hit strong enough to end the battle. The percentage of increase/decrease varies upon the magnitude of the conditions, such as a dew-soaked meadow could charge an electric Pokemon's attack by only 5%, a raging thunderstorm may add on 50% to the attack.
Pokemon: The Arcane Tome
Just for the record, I am not referring to a tomb in which mummies and the like are buried. A tome is a large or learned book, such as an encyclopedia.
How our story begins:
In ancient times, a king and queen would be divinely chosen by a legendary being, having 3 brothers all made of noble metals, like himself. This creature governed the peoples' lives, both personal and public. However, one leader, after being chosen by the creature, deemed this being unworthy of him. He ordered the royal sorcerer to banish him from his kingdom, regardless of the price.
The sorcerer then melted gold, poured the liquid gold into ink, and wrote out the divine spell that banished it to the bottom of a crater that instantly filled with rainwater and sealed the tomb of it with a magical lock that only the holder of the book would be able to open. Over time, more magical spells were demanded of the sorcerer, and he used the same form of golden ink to write them. He then bound the book with ancient fibers long since forgotten and added a lock made of almost all of the supply of an unknown element on Earth. The remainder of the metal was used to craft the key, a beautiful work of art that held back information pertaining to every aspect of the skill of magic. The king himself then saw to it that the tome was sealed in the bottom of a dungeon that had previously been used as a prison for lawbreakers of this civilization.
Eventually, however, the townspeople were angered by the creation of this tome and burned down the castle. The dungeon, however, had been buried in debris and only the king himself knew of the location of the spell book. As for the key, prior to the burning of the castle, a common thief had discovered it amongst the treasures of the ancient castle and figured it to be a key to some vault in which a vast storage of treasure would be hidden. Although the thief never found the true purpose to the key, it was passed down from generations until the origins of the key were forgotten entirely.
The tome itself was enchanted upon completion to be immune to time itself. Only those chosen would ever find the connection between the key and its lock. Roughly 3000 years later, in A.D. 2007, Pokemon trainers are intertwined into this legend and forced into a fight that could determine the fate of the very universe. During this time, in the region of Sinnoh, enough new species of Pokemon have been discovered in order for Sinnoh to have its own Pokedex section. Along with this, people have gained rights to use the Pokemon of this region in other areas. The Pokemon of Sinnoh have also been discovered on a megalopolis archipelago, known as the Kerbala Islands. The Kerbala Islands are where our legend of the tome took place. Unknown to the key and tome's possessors, the two items are unable to be carried out of the island chain's perimeters, marked by Sunset, Sunrise, and Twilight Islands. Although the islands of the Kerbala region are quite similar in climate to that of Sinnoh, there are Pokemon there that were discovered there as opposed to the archipelago's mainland counterpart. Along the way to the archipelago, a cruiser full of new Pokemon trainers wrecks upon a small island seeming to have no name. After circling the island, the crew finds that the island is actually a long-lost part of the island chain known as Dusk Island. From fear of waking the Pokemon supposedly resting in this island, the crew hastens to build a crude raft and take the trainers to Palroot City, where they will receive their starter Pokemon. Curious trainers, however, explore before the sailors are prepared to leave and each find, either on their own or in groups of friends, find strange, somewhat heavy pieces of paper with strange writings on them. The ancient language of these writings is a thick one, but if the trainers decipher it, they shall find rewards of unknown proportions. During their brief stay on the island, each of the trainers brave enough to explore this forgotten wasteland saw a strange rock with the following inscription:
VJOT OT VJI VUNC UG VJI GUYSVJ UG
VJI MIHIPFESZ FINUP SEDI APAPAPCUESUAT VJI SAMIS UG
FATL VJI UPI XJU FOTVASCT VJOT VOVEP UG FITVSADVOUP
TJEMM QISOTJ OP JOT XELI VJI UPI XJU DEP FIGIEV
JON OT EASUPAPCAT VOVEP UG VXOMOHJV
VJI MIHIPFESZ FINUP SEDI APAPAPCUESUAT VJI SAMIS UG
FATL VJI UPI XJU FOTVASCT VJOT VOVEP UG FITVSADVOUP
TJEMM QISOTJ OP JOT XELI VJI UPI XJU DEP FIGIEV
JON OT EASUPAPCAT VOVEP UG VXOMOHJV
What could these unusual markings mean? Only time will tell, but as of now, the trainers have left Dusk Island and are heading for Palroot town, their first step in an epic battle of good and evil.
Sign-up sheets:
Character's Name:
Backstory(Please don't mention the Arcane Tome here, there's a space for that further down.):
Appearance:
Starter Pokemon(It may be shiny. I will be using a random number generator for that, so don't get your hopes up.):
Connection to the Arcane Tome:
CURRENT SIGN-UPS:
Character's Name: Chris
Backstory: Chris generally travels alone, but he has been seen with a group of friends at his side. He is often looking at a Pokedex he personally programmed and trying to find errors in his coding. His skills with computers are practically unrivaled, and is determined to use these skills in battle. However, because he declined to use an official Pokedex when he received his Pokemon, he is sometimes left in a rut due to the features he has yet to program into his own.
Appearance: normally wearing a black bandana over short, brown hair, a black vest with several pockets over a white t-shirt, a red backpack, and dark blue jeans.
Starter Pokemon: Cyndaquil(Male)
Connection to the Arcane Tome: After he found a strange page of parchment lying on the beach, he became interested in the folklore of Kerbala.
Character controlled by: Cursed(Yes, I pick Chris to be the name of my character everywhere(RPGs, Fanfics, Videogames, etc.))
Character's Name: Victor Ritham
Backstory: Basicly Victor is an enigma. Not many people know much about him. Victor has always wanted to train pokemon. Ever since he saw a pokemon battle when he was three. Now Victor wants to get a starter pokemon of his own in order to beat every single trainer in the world. Victor is someone who doesn't talk to many people. He is usualy seen looking at a pokenav he has at his belt all the time. People like to talk about him in many different ways.
Appearance: Victor is someone who likes to wear things that dont make him look very different. He wears a brown jacket with a hood. The inside of the hood is green. His pants are light blue jeans with a brown belt and a silver buckle. His shoes are white sneakers with black socks. He has a black hat with a strange circle logo on it
Starter Pokemon: Charmander
Connection to the Arcane Tome: He went to travel the island alone. After tripping over a rock he found a parchment. He was scepticle so he decided to find out what this strange writing ment
Character controlled by: Grim
Character's Name:Andrew Pali
Backstory: Andrew has had a great life-family, friends, poularity. One day there was a fire in his house. He was the only suvivor. He didn't want to get shiped off the some orphanage, so he just ran. He ran far from his hometown. He spent most of his life traveling from town to town. But, he never got any Pokemon. He made his way to Shinnou and got the oportunity to get a starter Pokemon.
Appearance:Andrew has grey black, short hair. His eyes are a sparkling, sapphire blue. He has a thin, lanky figure with a strong upper and lower body. He has a black under shirt with a comfy, loose, wite shirt. He has blue pants that match is glowing eyes. He has sparkling clean, white running shoes. He stands tall at 6'3". He has a thin, confident, face.
Starter Pokemon:Torchic
Connection to the Arcane Tome:One time there was a worried Pokemon that led him to a cave. He followed it into the cave and went through the winding paths. He and the worried Pokemon reached a dead end. At the dead end there was a thick piece of parchment. He picked it up and tried to read it. He couldn't make the words out.
Controlled by: weavile3
CHARACTERS WHO NEED TO BE REVISED BY THEIR OWNERS:
Character's Name: Silver Harper
Age: 13
Gender: Male
Backstory: Born on a small island, Silver grew up with a love for nature. He enjoyed raising plants and feeding Pokemon, and made a lot of friends on a daily basis. He had a special bonding with Grass Pokemon, and had always dreamed of having a Bulbasaur or Chikorita as a companion (He was not fond of Treecko). Silver was the kind of person who enjoyed taking care of Pokemon as opposed to battling with them.
Appearance: Standing at 5'6, Silver has long black hair that reaches to the back of his neck when tied back and occasionally covers his deep brown eyes. He loves wearing the color green, and often wears it in the form of a short-sleeve shirt and sweat pants. His shoes are white, and he doesn't mind getting them dirty. Around his neck hangs a round locket with a picture of all of his Pokemon friends back home in one side, and a picture of his family in the other.
Starter Pokemon: Chikorita
Connection to the Arcane Tome: On one of his adventures in the forest, a Beedrill whom he had befriended brought him a piece of parchment from the tome. The Pokemon had hoped that he could read it, but he could not.
Character controlled by: Garouga! Bare Your Fangs!
Character's Name: Genji Saotome
Backstory: Genji is the son of two scientists in the Sinnoh Region. They died ina fire in thier mansion leaving the only person alive to be Genji. Genji's only companion was his Squirtle, Gary. They grew up on the streets and taught themselves how to do things. He has chosen to be put ina special orphanage for gifted children. Being a bright boy, Genji had gained a job at a pokeblock company and then decided to go on a journey with Gary.
Appearance:https://tn3-1.deviantart.com/fs10/300...y_EmoGhost.jpg
Starter Pokemon: Squirtle(Male/Gary/Not Shiney)
Connection to the Arcane Tome: Genji found a page of the Arcane Tome on the ground when he was walking to his apartment. Gary and him tried to decipher it it. However, they could not to no aveil. The premisce of their journey is trying to decode.
OTHER INFORMATION:
Deciphering:
Weekly, the Pokedexes will reveal the translation of a single character, which can be used to decipher the parchment each person receives. Each piece of parchment is a reusable spell, which can be reused once per battle (The effect is not permanent.). People can also check their Pokedexes, which will be posted in a secret area so as not to give others hints, for each key will have different amounts of letters posted in it. People are allowed to decipher the parchments on their own, but I will not inform them of any errors in their translation and they will only find out when they cast the spell and I tell them on their logs that the parchment does nothing. Also, be aware that I am not going to use my spell until everyone playing decodes their own pieces of parchment.
Parchments:
The parchments themselves have unique properties, such as bestowing upon a Pokemon knowledge such as that of a new attack or increments in a skill such as speed or power. The parchments are usable once per battle, and take up one turn.
Logs:
Each Player will be given a log in which they can post attack decisions and such without breaking the rules about post length. The log is private, since it holds the information such as the key to the parchments.
Battles: All decisions for a battle will be made in the battler's log. The post there and I use my Pokemon battle generator to determine who wins. I then post the mathematical results of this battle in their log so that they will be able to beef the battle up with description in their posts on this forum. As for human vs. human battles, there will be a place for the role players to post battle decisions, in which I am the referee. The two of you can then decide who will post the battle and its results.
Mathematics of this RPG: Although a majority of the game is relying on formulas from the video games, there is a single element that makes the game somewhat more dangerous - terrain. If a fire Pokemon, for instance, is battling in a damp area, its attacks are weakened by 15%, meaning that a pokemon may just barely survive and land a hit strong enough to end the battle. The percentage of increase/decrease varies upon the magnitude of the conditions, such as a dew-soaked meadow could charge an electric Pokemon's attack by only 5%, a raging thunderstorm may add on 50% to the attack.
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