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Pokésona Blue Version (OOC)
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Spoiler: PremiseThe Dark Hour. A period of frozen time, taking place each night between 12:00 AM and 12:00:00:01. Some of you have experienced it almost every night since a certain small meteor struck Mt. Moon a few months ago. For others, this will be your first time seeing it.
For most other humans, the hour is imperceptible, since they are frozen in time along with everything else. Their bodies become ghostly silhouettes surrounding glowing, heart-shaped cores. The mountain in the distance sprouts crystalline towers and stairwells. Strange monsters in the forms of bats and fairies invade the city, more of them each night, and steal away people's hearts. When time resumes, these victims are left listless and affected, almost robotic, a condition termed White-Out Syndrome by doctors who don't know better.
Stories of monsters are still retold, of course. They have even made virtual pets based on the ones from folklore, which have become fairly popular despite complaints that they're sacrilegious. Some people venerate the monsters' memories through various traditions, while others deny that they ever existed. In any case, humanity has long been adapted to a world without them.
As some of the few people who can see what's really going on, it's on you to fight back the monsters and shut down the mystery dungeon that seems to be spawning them. That said, it seems that they're not all bad, necessarily? Each of you has a monster that comes to your aid when you need it most, which is certainly helpful. Not very informative, though. You have a lot to investigate!
If you're a teenager, you're a student at Cerulean Academy, a high school in the North of your country's Kanto prefecture. If you're looking at an academic future, the best universities are in Celadon City and Saffron City, known for their colleges of botany and engineering, respectively. Modern transportation means these cities are only a short train ride away, kept running by a huge multi-modal power plant East of town.
Here's the discord link! It expires on 2/8, so if you haven't used this by then, tell me and I'll regenerate it.
EDIT: Here's the dice thread! Yes, I know the first post links to Red. I can't edit it! You can't edit posts in the dice thread!
Everyone post here and there to check in. The discord is shared with everyone playing in Red because why shouldn't you all talk about this together? If you have something important or that we'll need to remember, here is better; for quick questions and random fun, discord is better.
As long as you're checking in, before I make the IC thread, there are a few meta-narrative things I'll ask first:
- [Vote] Would you like the IC opening to be outside during the dark hour itself, or with you all gathered together in a meeting?
- [Individual] Would you like to RP your character's initial awakening, or start out already knowing what's going on?
- [Vote/Discuss] Would you like your group to just be the PCs organizing from the ground up, or would you like a sponsor?Last edited by Dr.Gunsforhands; 2024-03-07 at 06:43 PM.
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2024-02-01, 10:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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[Vote] Would you like the IC opening to be outside during the dark hour itself, or with you all gathered together in a meeting?
[Individual] Would you like to RP your character's initial awakening, or start out already knowing what's going on?
[Vote/Discuss] Would you like your group to just be the PCs organizing from the ground up, or would you like a sponsor?Ask me about our low price vacation plans in the Elemental Plane of Puppies and PieSpoiler
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[Vote] Would you like the IC opening to be outside during the dark hour itself, or with you all gathered together in a meeting?
[Individual] Would you like to RP your character's initial awakening, or start out already knowing what's going on?
[Vote/Discuss] Would you like your group to just be the PCs organizing from the ground up, or would you like a sponsor?
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2024-02-02, 10:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Checking in!
I second MCerberus.
By awakening, do you mean seeing the shadow monsters or realizing they're a real thing and not a dream/hallucination? My backstory for Roland was that he's been seeing the monsters for a while, he just thinks they're hallucinations/dreams.
I don't really have strong feelings either way, but since Roland doesn't have a background in mystical stuff he's probably going to need someone to give him a tap on the shoulder and go, 'Hey, magic exists! And it's affecting the world you live in and your life specifically!'
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Before we get started, ProgressPaladin, there's issues with your build that really should be fixed, since it'll really mess with the balance of the party if they stay as is. I think you might've made some mistakes in your build because of the higher starting level.
- At level 6, you can have at most 1 Expert level skill.
- You can not have Features or Edges that are reliant on Expert Level Skills yet, with some specific exceptions (in the form of a couple of gifted feats from eg. Hobbyist's Dilettante).
- You can't use Features that grant Skill Edges that you got at an earlier level to get skill edges of a level higher than was available at the level you would've gotten the feat at (so eg. if you got Breadth of Knowledge at level 1, you can't use it to increase an Education Skill to Adept, or if you get it at level 3 or 5, you can't use it to raise a Skill to Expert)
- You can't use the level 2 bonus Skill Edge to increase a Skill to Adept.
So, in your case, you can only have one of Medicine Education, General Education, and Intuition at Expert level, the others can only be Adept at most. Instant Analysis and Medicinal Techniques aren't available as Feats for you yet, and neither is Scholar as an Edge, so you'd need to swap those out for something else that's legal. Plus you'll need to rearrange your Skill Edges so you don't get Adept General Education as the bonus Skill Edge at level 2 (though that needs to happen anyway, so you should still be able to have it at Adept anyway).
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I must have misclicked it off I thought illusion was on there but its slot is empty on the sheet.
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2024-02-10, 03:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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IC Thread deployed!
I have selected Monty to be the one person who is doing this for the first time. Now we have some stakes right off the bat!
The enemies will start approaching in about one round.Last edited by Dr.Gunsforhands; 2024-02-10 at 03:57 PM.
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2024-02-10, 08:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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I almost forgot to ask: Does anyone want their character to be the guinea pig for the Biomonitor? It's a bunch of implanted electrodes and sensors, with either:
1) An implanted wireless radio to transfer data, or
2) A little gizmo attached to you like an insulin pump (with a plug for a wired connection)
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2024-02-10, 08:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Also also: Because this is the Pokémon world, there are no, "regular animals." Without monsters, the three kingdoms of life are humans, plants, and microbes. Feel free to make up fun facts about what people eat for world-building purposes!
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2024-02-10, 11:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ooh, I would recommend either the Time Machine method for this (sans CHUDs) or having the pokerus from one of the more wild fan theories except it wiped out everything. In any case it would require direct human intervention to maintain the biosphere and thus why the prestige university seems directly involved in plant science.
edit - or oooooh someone way back in ancient times forgot to measure how much juice was in the apocalypse machine in KalosLast edited by MCerberus; 2024-02-11 at 12:04 AM.
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2024-02-11, 06:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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No insects then? Are you counting fungi under microorganisms?
Most of our crops are going to need to be self-seeding, wind pollinated, capable of being hand-pollinated or otherwise not requiring the help of bees. (Or bats. Or hummingbirds. Or any other critters that would assist with that.) So I guess everyone is vegan/vegetarian by necessity? I second the importance of the botany school.
No eggs, plant-based milks only. Are plant-based cheeses a thing? Protein intake is going to be an issue I think. Lots of nuts, beans, seaweed is apparently a thing as far as plant based protein? I’m going to propose seaweed farms off the coast.
On the flip side: no mice, termites, ants, aphids or other insect pests wrecking harvests or spoiling food in storage. No mosquitoes, ticks etc. to bite and spread disease.
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2024-02-11, 09:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-02-14, 10:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hmm. 🤔 There’d still be a finite amount of soil resources and sunlight for them. They could still catch diseases if a given species got too prevalent. Fires could still happen. Maybe more plants develop their own herbicides vs. other species, like walnuts? Spreading seeds would be harder - actually I’ve been meaning to ask, have Pokémon existed previously and they just vanished long enough for people to forget about them, or are they a completely new thing? With the various Legendary religions I’ve been assuming the former; that would make it easier to justify the existence of things that spread their seeds via fruit, or similar methods where they would usually rely on critters eating something they produce to spread.
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2024-02-14, 11:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Your assumption matches the facts. Most plants that rely on animals for reproduction are endangered or extinct without humans cultivating them. There's a school of thought positing that ancient humans cultivated them from scratch over thousands of years, but there's no pre-poké-religious tradition nor any archaeological record to back that up.
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2024-02-15, 10:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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So, I've spent a week trying and failing to make a map that looks good. How about if, instead of that, I just express what's going on with words? That seems much suited to this medium! It might work better with the game-like initiative system anyway.
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2024-02-16, 07:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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I've always just used Google Sheets to make combat maps. Make the cells square and delineate the map space, use letters or pictures as tokens. Not pretty, but functional enough. Theater of mind def does work as well though.
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2024-02-16, 11:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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this is my first combat round with the system so I will run the first round of math by the discord when I'm home
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forum weirdness may have eaten the rolls
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2024-02-19, 08:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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As a note, you can use your standard action to just wake up a Sleeping ally without any further effort
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2024-02-19, 03:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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will get action posted this evening, but would like your opinions if the bonus trainer action from moment of action would help finish things this round and prevent Zero from getting knocked out
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2024-02-19, 04:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Moment of Action wouldn't do much in this case. It grants temp Action Points, not any form of Action. These on themself don't do much, but are used as currency to power abilities, mostly. I don't think any of us will have run out of them yet, so granting temporary ones won't do much.
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2024-02-19, 09:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pokésona Blue Version (OOC)
ProgressPaladin, you can have Fletcher wake up Charles and have Charles act immediately. They wouldn't let you do that in league battles, but it's fine as far as our turn format is concerned.
Also, I was reminded that Hypnosis can't be used twice in a row, so the last owl is targeting Emrys with Tackle now, in case that changes anything. (If you don't say anything by tomorrow, I'll post under the assumption that it doesn't.)Last edited by Dr.Gunsforhands; 2024-02-19 at 09:24 PM.
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