New Life, New World: A Pokémon RP

[JVElEven]

New world, new life: A pokémon RP

As regions go, the isolated islands the make up the region of Eltiqua is a bit of an oddball.

The region, made up of the five islands of Huinjoh, Hoarjin, Tondae, Sinjoan and Ho-Shuntae along with several smaller islands distinguishes itself by having not only a Pokémon League, but also an active presence of the Pokémon Rangers, too. Contrary to most other places, where the two organizations usually stay to their own devices, they coexist in Eltiqua, split between the North, where the developed, industrial cities are numerous, and where the Pokémon League stand strong, and the South-East, the more rural part where the Ranger Union of Eltiqua are more popular. In between, they share.

Also unusual is the fact that Eltiqua’s league, despite being in a divided region, has a stunning 17 gyms, as well as the league. This has had a great deal of trainers journeying to Eltiqua in search of the ultimate challenge for trainers.

You will start as a newbie trainer in Nova Town, on the northern coast of Huinjoh, the north-western island of the archipelago. The region’s authority on pokémon, Professor Jeremy Maple, resides there, and from him you will be given one of the three starters of Eltiqua (Don’t worry, no fakemon) and set out on your journey to be the best.

On your way, you will encounter hardships, fun, adventures, but most of all the marvel that is Eltiqua.

Gameplay:

Put simply, it will go like this: You are a trainer. You want to conquer the Pokémon League of Eltiqua, with whatever adventure that brings you.

Please bear in mind that the following things will be done with the supervision of the DM:
Battles between players and against important DM Characters such as Gym Leaders.
Evolution.
Moves learned (Except by TM (Remember: Must be compatible)).

In battles against standard trainers, you are given free reins to RP them out as you wish, but please note that these battles will receive less focus over the course of the RP. Battles in which the DM supervises will consist of the DM deciding whether or not your attack hit (Based on dice roll) and then you are free to act out what your Pokémon does, building on that. As such, you are free to decide when your pokémon faints even in those battles, however the DM will force-faint you if I deem it unrealistic.

Rules:
1. No godmodding.
2. No Mary Sues.
3. Proper grammar, punctuation and capitalization.
4. Please no coloured text, as the DM has trouble reading it.
5. No idiocy. Abide by common sense.
6. Only one character per person, save for very minor, one-shot characters like parents etc.
7. Get your character approved!
8. You can have the usual 6 pokémon on your team. I will allow two players to play together as a double team which will play exclusively double battles, but that will limit those players to only three pokémon outside their pc box. Please make arrangements with another player before the RP starts if you want to play double battles.
9. No sexual anything between characters below the age 15, 15 included. Kissing is exempted.
10. Failure to comply by rules 1 to 9 will result in polite chastising and, if the issue persists, eventually you will be kicked.
11. In addition, inactivity for one week without good reason will also result in kicking.

Character Sheet:
Full Name:
Gender:
Age: (Let's say between 13 and 16)
Physical Description:
Clothing and accessories:
Personality:
Background: (May be hidden and revealed during play)
Type preference: (If one exists)
Double Trainer: (If yes: With who?)

Atlas of Eltiqua:
The below is for reference throughout the RP. Consider it your town map.

Spoiler:

Main islands
1: Huinjoh Island
2: Arrow Island
3: Fayen Island
4: Windsheer Island
5: Hoarjin Island
6: Tondae Island
7: Sinjoan Island
8: Ho-Shuntae Island

Battle Area Islands
9: Wiwou Island
10: Jukon Island
11: Towai Island

The Footprint Islands
12: Windscreen Island
13: Daylight Island and Nightsky Island


Cities and other locations:

Spoiler:

Western Huinjoh:
1: Fayenwind City
2: Razarrow Town
3: Nova Town
4: Asterton City
5: Galaxinger Town
6: Comeltrander City
7: Acculesa Town
8: Tsunvest Town
9: Cannister City
10: Frayspike Town
11: Praindrop Town
12: Gallogheria Town
13: Shintonchester City
14: Sebeck Woods
15: Windsheer Hollows Cavern
16: Arrow Bridge

Spoiler:

Eastern Huinjoh:
17: Lunstell City
18: Shayris City
19: Flare City
20: Antchord City
21: Mt. Tower with Caverns
22: Impregnable Cave
23: Lake Vinay
24: Lake Zotay
25: Lake Caray
26: Lake Menay

Spoiler:

Hoarjin:
27: Doveyda Town
28: Brayshade City
29: Lorey Town
30: Callay City
31: Shelleaston City
32: Sharamall Town
33: [&@%!] City
34: Crossroad Cave
35: Trench Abyss
36: Starborn Bridge
37: Overgrown Forest
38: Overgrown Peak and Cavern
39: Relic Pass
40: Millionfeet Bridge

Spoiler:

Tondae:
41: Rayshade Town
42: Shurac Town
43: Winterbray Town
44: Luvinard Village
45: Viral City
46: Rayshade Rocklands
47: Mt. Stratos and Caverns
48: Rockland Cave
49: Rockland Bridge

Spoiler:

Sinjoan and Western Ho-Shuntae:
50: Swayshine Town
51: Broan Town
52: Duke Town
53: Meberella Town
54: Victory Road
55: Pokémon League
56: River Bridge
57: Windeck City
58: Rook City
59: Palland City
60: Boreleda Town
61: Caylin Town
62: Joriandi Town
63: Zuandialli Town
64: Choredda Town
65: Rora Town
66: Chutage Town
67: Quora Town
68: Valiand Town
69: Ruira Town

Spoiler:

Eastern Ho-Shuntae:
70: Wilwidda Town
71: Chotello Town
72: Huistein Town
73: Orat Town
74: Liurin Town
75: Endless Forest
76: Swanloch Village

Spoiler:

Battle Area:
77: Barrsbay City
78: Villeton City
79: Tull Bridge
80: Newton City
81: Accord Bridge
82: New Striaton City
83: Cape Executive City

Spoiler:

The Footprint Islands:
84: Port Deponair

I apologize for the size of those pictures, and for the bad quality of some of them. Any questions to the maps will be answered.

Players

EpicAbrad:

Spoiler:

Full Name: Tim Hopkins
Gender: Male
Age: 14
Physical Description: Tim is tall, with brown hair and blue eyes. He is skinny, not having filled out yet, and has light, almost pale skin. He is not very strong, preferring mental activity over physical, but people generally think of him as good-looking (although he doesn't know it).
Clothing and accessories: He usually wears just a casual orange T-shirt and jeans, as well as a blue and white baseball cap. He always has his watch on his wrist, and prefers to wear running shoes most of the time. He wears a small backpack to carry his items.
Personality: Tim is usually nice and easygoing, and loves a good joke. He has trouble differentiating between the time to be silly and the time to be serious, though, and often makes unnecessary wisecracks in a serious situation. When interacting with other people, he tries to make observations, not judgments, but there is the rare occasion where his temper flares.
Background: Tim grew up in the city of Sootopolis, in Hoenn, and was often near water-types due to the preference of the gym leader and location of the city. His parents traveled often, as was part of their job as Pokemon Rangers, and Tim was always left at home with no one but their pet Poliwag. When he was old enough, he decided to travel to Eltiqua, for a new opportunity in the Pokemon League there.
Type preference: Water
Double Trainer: None

The-Shadow-One:

Spoiler:

Full Name: Inobac Keohto.
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Physical Description: A very skinny boy, not very tall only about 5' 10", Has blue eyes and raven black hair cut chin length at the front and shoulder length at the back
Clothing and accessories: He wears a bandana which he wears over one of his eyes, his clothes are black or purple with a stud braclet, and wears gloves all the time.
Personality: Unusually perky or depressive, depending on the mood he is in. Is happy to be with his pokemon all the time.
Background: A well known figure in Nova town as he visits it a lot, He goes there to deliever the good his family has picked and packaged
Type preference: Ghost
Double Trainer: N/A

Justice knight:

Spoiler:

Full name: Will Reynolds
Gender: Male
Age: 14
Physical Description: Tall for his age- just standing under 5'8", he has piercing blue eyes and short, scruffy black hair.
Clothing and Accesories: Will wears a dark red jacket over a grey t-shirt. He keeps his jacket unzipped and he also wears black trousers. The only other distinguishable item that he wears is a small pendant that he wears around his neck in the shape of a flame.
Personality: Will could be described as fire- Warm and uplifting one moment and burning everything around him the next (quick to anger) especially of Pokemon are being hurt.
Background: Will moved around a lot at a young age as both his parents are Pokemon trainers, during his time he learned to respect and adore Pokemon. On his most recent birthday he decided he wanted to try against a Pokemon league. His parents took him to Nova town to begin his dream.
Type preference: Fire.
Double trainer: Anyone really.

Gandalf:

Spoiler:

Full Name: Connor Gauntlett.
Gender: M.
Age: 14
Physical Description: Short, about 4' 12", and scrawny. Always messy hair, which is a dark brown, almost black colour.
Clothing and accessories: Plain orange T-shirt, and white shorts. He also has a pair of black sunglasses.
Personality: Always tries to do the best for people, but is very naive. He'll do what he thinks is the right and moral thing, even if it is in truth completely wrong or immoral. He is fairly smart, but nothing special. Logic manages to evade him at every turn, and he never checks to see if something isn't as it should be, unless he is told to or it is pointed out to him. He loves all pokemon, but has a massive love for Dragon-types, and has a particular friendliness to Fire-types.
Background: Not very entertaining. He was a normal boy, grew up in Nova Town. Average kid in every way, except for his almost obsessive fascination with dragons and therefore Dragon-types.
Type preference: Dragon.
Double Trainer: Thin air.

Skyr:

Spoiler:

Full name: Zedh Skerj
Gender: Female
Age:16
Physical Description: She is a little taller than the average of his contemporaries. She have some short white and gray hairs, collected in part in a tail in the right-back of his head, and the other fall on his face, at the left side. Althought she have a small corporature, she has a quiet muscular build, where she invested some times during the last two years. His skin is soft and white, like many other girls. Also she has a little scar, under his neck, hidden by the hairs.
Clothing: Usually she wears a black jacket, with no sleeve, and some red edge. Also there is a little hood, hidden in the back. She use some male pants, more lighter than the jacket, but nearly as the same colours. She has a stripe to collect his hairs. Also a little bag, a gray one, in on his left-back, leaved low. A belt is used to store pokeball, but only on the right side of it.
Personality: Since she has been raised as a male she behave, indeed, like one. In the past she had many time a bullish behaviour, acting towards the other. She prefers to stay lonely, and if she is with someone else, she act as a chief, or she stay sticked to the other, but by walking as far as she can. Usually she is very surly, and she not deny some type of "bad" action, as stealing and fighting.
Background: She born in the northern part of Hoenn, travelling with his father in different lands. She once visited both Kanto and Jotho, place of legends by her view. Her dad tried to send her in a school, but after many rebuke she escaped, and starts her own adventure. One years later, when she was 13 she has her first pokemon battle. Not far from now she refounded his dad, that raised her like a real pokemon trainer. She then decided to try to get some experience and so she travelled here.
Type preference:Dark
Double trainer: well, no thanks

Unokitsune:

Spoiler:

Full Name: Evelein Natalie Yelms
Gender: Female
Age: 15

Physical Description: Dark Violet black hair. She has Central heterochromia, in which her eyes start off as a golden yellow but have a center blue ring around the pupil. Pale peachy skin and her hair is thick.

Clothing and accessories: She does like Lolita-type dresses and frilly skirts but knows in traveling she has to wear some slack pants, a skant or skirt-pant, a nice blouse and vest on top of leather boots. She likes to have her hair up in a somewhat utilitarian frilly bow.

Personality: She’s shy and often distrustful of people and if she senses anything bad she’s quick to avoid them, but unsure of what to do when she meets someone of good energy. She prefers to practice hovering in secrecy and can levitate pokeballs and other smaller objects. She can’t however levitate a rope and carry her up a cliff with it. She can hover a little bit off the ground but doesn’t predict the future like psychic’s are “famed” to do.

Background: Evelein was born to a Pokemon Breeder and a formal Team Rocket Grunt turned Researcher in Mistralton City where she grew up. Her father Stewart Yelms, like herself and her mother, loves all pokemon but specializes in breeding rare pokemon types on top of water and dragon types. Her mother Violleta Mary Lexington-Yelms, was forced into Team Rocket at an earlier age due to family debt and troubles. As soon as she was able to, Violleta left and vowed never to return to such a cruel criminal group and instead met the rich Stewart and fell in love. Violleta had always been into researching ways to bring more fossil pokemon back to life and to sustain them in current world as there are records of places where fossil pokemon have survived to this day through hibernation. Violleta and Stewart do not come from known Psychic stock, and first came aware of their daughter’s abilities when a traveling Pokemon trainer came with a young Abra and an Eevee who soon evolved into an Espeon. He was looking for a breeder who could look after the two and breed them for his own daughter. Evelein was a young girl at this time who ended up bonding with the Abra, and the Abra bonded with her in return. Evelein never cared for prediction of future but instead on levitation and hovering, being shown part of her abilities by that Abra. However she couldn’t keep the Abra herself as her parents wished to shelter her from her abilities in fear of Team Rocket or another organization coming and taking Evelein from them. It was hard on both that Abra, named Neils, and Evelein to be separated. To fill the void, Evelein began exploring the nearby forests and ocean waters. She envied the bird pokemon and the bug pokemon who could fly away and sought to be like them while practicing her own psychic powers in secret. The Water pokemon could swim away and breathe underwater. The few grass pokemon she met were similar to her in that most could only watch from the ground. When She came of age, her parents sent her to live with an Aunt in Nova Town, where she could hopefully begin her pokemon journey as she showed no interest currently in Pokemon Breeding or Researching.

Type preference: Grass, Psychic, Flying and Water is her preferences but is accepting of other types of pokemon.
Double Trainer: Maybe

Musicman:

Spoiler:

ull Name:Bambi Takei

Gender:Female

Age: 16

Physical Description: Bambi is fair skinned, stands 5'4" tall and is slightly overweight, but not enough to call her fat. Her auburn hair falls just past her shoulders. She has a pleasant round face bespeckled with freckles and inset with big cool blue eyes. Her nose is small and elf-like, her lips of an average size.

Clothing and accessories:Bambi wears plain blue jeans, green sneakers, purple socks and an orange shirt. She carries a black backpack where she keeps all her stuff.

Personality:Always looking on the bright side, Bambi is bubbly and altruistic. She tries to make friends quickly, but often tries too hard. She is trustworthy and so is trusting of others as well.

Background: Bambi has lived in Praindrop Town with her mother and father all her life. Her family grows and sells flowers. One day she saw a Pokemon battle and decided she wanted to try it out.

Type preference: unknown

Battling

Battles between the players and battles between a player and a regular trainer can be sorted out without the DM's help. Wild battles and battles with important characters cannot be carried out without the DM's presence.

They will work on a system like this:
I have a 20d dice roll website open, and use that to determine whether DM pokémon hit or not based on accuracy, since every accuracy number is divisible by 5, which then matches a number on the 20 sided die. The players do that with their own pokémon as well. Of course, if a move has 100 accuracy, I'll have it be at least a 3, so there's at least a risk of it missing. So, example:

Example: Screech has an accuracy of 85 %. 85 divided by 5 is 17. Ergo, for screech to hit, I must roll a 4 or larger, since the last three is out of the range. A 1 and a 2 is always a miss, and the three is the last five percent of the remaining 90 %.

Moves learning and evolution is ALWAYS determined by the DM, as well as wild pokémon encounters.


Wild pokémon encounter phases
These happen while travelling between cities and other important locations. They follow the current scheme:
1. The DM announces which pokémon can be met, how big of a roll you need to roll to encounter the different pokémon, and how many encounter rolls you get.
2. The players roll all encounter rolls and report them to the DM or the co-DM, along with what pokémon they want to attempt at capturing.
3. The trainers battle the wild pokémon in order, and this follows standard battle rules (See that). Damage is determined by the DM or co-DM using a mixture of dice roll size and whatever the DM feels like.
4. A catching phase lasts until the trainer chooses to stop (You don’t have to use all rolls), the trainer runs out of rolls or all the trainer’s pokémon faint.
5. When all trainers have finished their catching phase, they do casual RPing (perhaps battle each other(But ONLY using pokémon NOT caught during the current catching session) until the DM returns (Usually at around 8 or 9 in the morning GMT+1) and makes the plot go forward.

[MARS]

D:

No Kanto?

Serious question:

Will I have to familiarize myself with Pokèmon from after Gen 1? Because that might take a while, if I do it at all.

[Frost Mage]

I honestly had no idea there was a Pokemon Universe, or lore that was actually elaborated upon. I stopped playing Pokemon games after Diamond and Pearl, whatever that generation was, and in my opinion, the universe seems a little too childish to have a serious roleplay in. But that's just my opinion, I'm sure you'll have a great RP, JV, as always.

EDIT: Wait... did you create this whole thing by yourself?! Bravo, man, bravo.

[JVElEven]

You don't have to familiarize. You might have to look up new moves and pokémon on bulbapedia if it comes up, though.

[unokitsune]

I would join a pokemon rp if it was the Kanto-Johto pokemon only from Bulbasaur to Celebi. And all the rules of that before Pokemon rangers.

[JVElEven]

Well, you can't please everyone. Personally, the only thing I don't enjoy about Pokémon is all those people who exclusively say that only 1st Generation (Kanto) was good, and says all other stuff is bad without trying it.

And to answer you, FrostMage: Yes, I did make all that myself.

[unokitsune]

im' not saying it was the best I said Johto too. It's some of the newer pokemon and what not I kinda don't understand. Don't get me wrong some of the newer pokemon I like but the skills etc

[JVElEven]

Didn't say you did.

I'd encourage you to give it a shot still. It is entirely possible to go through without needing to know about the newer pokémon.

And abilities I'm still contemplating if I can manage those or not.

[Witchery]

May I reserve a spot? I'll have a nice Normal-type lover up soon.

[MARS]

Well, you can't please everyone. Personally, the only thing I don't enjoy about Pokémon is all those people who exclusively say that only 1st Generation (Kanto) was good, and says all other stuff is bad without trying it.

I did actually try future generations. They weren't as fun to me. I think I'll join this nontheless.

[JVElEven]

As long as you tried.

[unokitsune]

I like Bulbasaur and it's evolutions
Articuno
Aerodactyl
Mew
Celebi
Totodile and it's evolutions
I"m torn between charmander and cyndoquil and their evolutions
I like Suicuine
Umbreon
And the Kanto-Johto Eevee Evolutions.

What can I get away with and can they be shiny but not standard shiny colours like the pink butterfree from season 1?

[JVElEven]

Shiny will be DM-decided, and probably chosen at random once or twice.

It won't have any difference, though.

Oh, and Witchery: Only noticed your post just now. Sorry for that, but I'll be keeping a spot.

[Dirty Spaceman]

I'll probably join, you'll have more opportunity to laugh at my avatar then, JV.

[Witchery]

First application? Weird. I'll go with another female character, as we always seem to have a surplus of males on roleplays. I hope its alright!

Full Name: Brie Harrison
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Physical Description: A pretty girl of average height. She has brown hair and olive skin, with dark brown eyes and thin lips. Her expression almost always has an icy pleasantness, complimenting her features. She isn't tall, and has a peculiar charm, but she doesn't really stand out.
Clothing and accessories: She normally dons a medium-length white skirt and a modest pink sweater. Her brown hair almost always has a white headband pushing it back into an acceptable manner. She wears almost no makeup, though her nails are painted a girly pink. She has a white bag that carries her items and the like, which compliments her normal color scheme rather nicely. Brie basically looks like an annoying, innocent rich girl. Which she is.
Personality: Sweet and gentle on the outside, Brie Harrison has an attractive personality. She's compassionate and kind, and has a love for pink, frilly Normal type Pokémon. On the inside, she is actually rather judgmental and a bit harsh. She keeps a pleasant smile on for everyone at all times, even though she may actually be uncomfortable or upset. She's a bit [&@%!]-retentive. Everything around her must be perfect and tidy, and her inner neat-freak keeps her groomimg her Pokémon more than she trains them. She hates dirt and other horrible substances. Despite her warmth, she is uptight and not willing to 'let her hair down', if you will.
Background: Brie was born in the Sinnoh region, a simple rich girl growing up in Hearthome City. Her parents loved and cherished her greatly, and her mother was the epitome of . . motherliness. Brie learned many things from her, treasuring most her ability to clean almost anything and the fact that she can cook a decent meal with a few ingredients. Her father owned a large store that sold a variety of goods. Brie didn't grow up with any Pokémon to call her own, instead playing with her mother's Purugly and her father's Persian or Crobat as a girl. She set off on her 'adventure' in the region of Eltiqua.
Type preference: Normal
Double Trainer: n/a

[JVElEven]

Nicely done.

Accepted.

[Justice knight]

Okay JV I'll join this, just give me time to make a character sheet.

[JVElEven]

Of course. It's not as if there's any distinct hurry to start at the moment, so I'm sure it'll be fine.

[Dirty Spaceman]

I may have to put the accented "e" on speed dial for this RP. Too lazy to do it for the character sheet, so excuse its absence.

Full Name: Tim Hopkins
Gender: Male
Age: 14
Physical Description: Tim is tall, with brown hair and blue eyes. He is skinny, not having filled out yet, and has light, almost pale skin. He is not very strong, preferring mental activity over physical, but people generally think of him as good-looking (although he doesn't know it).
Clothing and accessories: He usually wears just a casual orange T-shirt and jeans, as well as a blue and white baseball cap. He always has his watch on his wrist, and prefers to wear running shoes most of the time. He wears a small backpack to carry his items.
Personality: Tim is usually nice and easygoing, and loves a good joke. He has trouble differentiating between the time to be silly and the time to be serious, though, and often makes unnecessary wisecracks in a serious situation. When interacting with other people, he tries to make observations, not judgments, but there is the rare occasion where his temper flares.
Background: Tim grew up in the city of Sootopolis, in Hoenn, and was often near water-types due to the preference of the gym leader and location of the city. His parents traveled often, as was part of their job as Pokemon Rangers, and Tim was always left at home with no one but their pet Poliwag. When he was old enough, he decided to travel to Eltiqua, for a new opportunity in the Pokemon League there.
Type preference: Water
Double Trainer: None

[JVElEven]

Hm?

What accented e?

[Dirty Spaceman]

In "Pokemon".

[JVElEven]

Ah...

Now I feel like an idiot.

[Dirty Spaceman]

No need to feel like an idiot, just accept my character sheet!

[JVElEven]

And EpicAbrad is accepted.

[Iamgoofball]

So, question, what gen pokemon we gonna find? Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, or what?

Or is it a mix of all of them?

Anyways, once this is answered, I think I'll post a sheet.

Also, if I try going Rules Laywer, go ahead and send a Giant my way.[/joke]

EDIT: Also, I'm guessing most cheese isn't going to be allowed, due to the, well, childish nature of the series this is based off of?