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Trails of Tera Steel (Kiseki-inspired Pokemon Academy Quest)

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[X] Nickname: Roland
[X] Ostia: You met them (a boy? girl? you really couldn't tell) while you were transferring stations to the Levincia High Speed Rail. They looked barely older than Tamara and they seemed sad and all alone with just a Beldum as company. Unable to stop your older sibling instincts, you decide to keep them company. They played and were enthralled with Dreepy which kept them happy and distracted for a while. The Beldum, if your eyes weren't playing games on you, seemed to be grateful.
 
ArvisPresley said:
Elise Montenix
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Huh, found the rean of the story.

[X] Nickname: Roland
[X] Elise Montenix: You met her while changing stations in Zapapico. A girl with dark skin, long dark blue hair and turquoise eyes from Montenevera. You find that she's a kind and sociable person. Mid-conversation, the long curved sword in a sheath that she was carrying along with her luggage suddenly stood up. The blade peeked out from its sheath and a blue eye on the base of the hilt opened and stared at you.
 
Wait.........if we're blending Kiseki and Pokemon lore, does that make KeA a Mewtwo?

An attempted recreation of Kanto's lost legendary.
 
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ArvisPresley said:
Your parents and Jenkins have explained this to you over the years: when a Pokemon in the wild is old enough, and powerful enough, they become part of the world. Their environment moulds to their desires, and the Pokemon comes to rule over the territory they now consider theirs and theirs alone. Like this, age stops---Pokemon that ought to live for twenty years last for centuries, unchanged near their prime.

At the heart of their Domain, the Pokemon is much more powerful. But they can never leave, else they lose their power and timelesness, and so they draw in Pokemon to keep them company. Warping the world around them in a very literal way. Freezing tundra where there should be idyllic routes and forest path. Sun-scorched deserts in thriving Farmlands. In that regard, some Pokemon have no choice but to migrate and new Pokemon come to thrive in their place.

Yet Domains can change. When their holders die or disappear, or when they fall to emerging new Domains or human contamination. Most Domains in Paldea are barely two centuries old. Only a handful are as old as the very beginnings of the region. Before the Great Collapse, before the First Empire, before the oldest and most ancient ruins in the world. Those who stretch to the very bowels of time.
You saw one of these once a year or so back. You were with Jenkins and Doremi who was teaching you some new things about wild Pokemon. You really can't remember that lesson all that well anymore. What happened after was a lot more important. And haunting. While you were on your way back you noticed that there was smoke and fire coming from that Mine the Paldeans set up a while back. It only cropped up recently.

Dad said it was an illegal mine and a company had set it up. That they should complain to the fort who'll do something about. Mom scoffed saying that she doubted the Paldeans would do anything. Not until it was too late. You remember a dark look on her as she said that. They'll be sorted out eventually she said verbatim. You never understood what she meant until that day.

When you pointed it out to him he looked contemplative. I suppose it'll be best for you to learn he said, gesturing for Doremi to head to a cliff overlooking the mine. He warned me to keep quiet, don't go close no matter and if it gets too much to stop looking. When we landed and dismounted, he gave me a pair of binoculars he kept on a satchel with him.

There you saw.

You saw Zangoose and Servipers, bitter enemies working together to destroy mining machinery. Groups of Mankey throwing exploding Pineco and Geodudes at the windows of one of the two still standing buildings in the Mine. A flock of Swellows and Fearows flying around said building carrying Bug and Grass Pokemon who were firing attacks at a pair of Trainers on the roof who were trying to fight them off. You saw... Digletts and Arons carrying out the crushed corpses of miners from the caves that dotted the quarry the mine was built on. You saw a group a group of Lairon bring down the other building by collapsing the foundations. You heard screams. A trainer in the collapsing building jumped out the window and flew away on his Braviary. Ignored by the Pokemon who continued their attack on the Mine.


You---hear an unfamiliar squack behind you. You turn around and saw a Fearow on the ground, wings folded on its sides, just looking at you. Gramps turns to the bird assuring them that you're just watching. That neither him nor you would interfere. You were frozen in fear. Squacking one last time the Fearow flew away to join its flock. You were shaking when Gramps asked you if you've seen enough. You nodded and gave him the binoculars. The trip was quiet on the way back. Gramps said they were called Wild Hunts.

When Wild Pokemon put aside all of their differences to attack a place. According to him most of them are caused by and play out similar to what happened below. Wild Pokemon could tolerate the little human encroachments, tiny , barely even noticeable in the large scale. But stuff like mining complexes in the middle of the wild, mass bulldozing of habitats, massive oil rigs and such. Those cause Wild Hunts. Sometimes the humans win and the mine or oil rig or whatever stays. Sometimes the Pokemon win and the place is abandoned and forgotten by whoever set them up. And the people working them... well... y'know.

You stay silent the entire day.
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Interesting stuff. I like the Domains, I bet Pokemon that have them are pretty powerful and would make good team members. Although in classic JRPG fashion, these bosses are probably a lot weaker outside of their Domain and in our party. Unless we decide to never move again.

Wild Hunts I thought would just be faeries, but nope it's literally a hunt of wild pokemon, here to kick your ass.
 
justinkal said:
Wait.........if we're blending Kiseki and Pokemon lore, does that make KeA a Mewtwo?

An attempted recreation of Kanto's lost legendary.
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Or a Genesect. An ancient being found nowhere in the modern world. Brought back and improved by modern technology which grants it power over elements the original could never command.

Though I think either of those options might be missing the much more important factor of KeA. Not nearly adorable enough. Lapis the Magearna won't be handing out many points there.
 
LunaticPanda said:
Or a Genesect. An ancient being found nowhere in the modern world. Brought back and improved by modern technology which grants it power over elements the original could never command.

Though I think either of those options might be missing the much more important factor of KeA. Not nearly adorable enough. Lapis the Magearna won't be handing out many points there.
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I went with Mewtwo over Genesect because Mew seems more like a primordial important thing lorewise than whatever ancient bug got turned into Genesect. Genesect is more like the various fossil pokemon but with a bunch of high tech add-ons.
 
[X] Atticus Henzo: You were still wearing your deel when you met him. Introducing himself as Atticus, an apprentice weaver from Zapapico, he enthusiastically inquired about your clothes. Question after question about the quality, craftsmanship, sewing and stitching of your deel. Eventually, he noticed you were exhausted and apologized. As recompense, he woke the Spinarak clinging to his uniform and over the course of the rest of the train ride, he sewed you a decent bracelet out of Spinarak silk.
 
[X] Nickname: Voodoo
[X] Ostia: You met them (a boy? girl? you really couldn't tell) while you were transferring stations to the Levincia High Speed Rail. They looked barely older than Tamara and they seemed sad and all alone with just a Beldum as company. Unable to stop your older sibling instincts, you decide to keep them company. They played and were enthralled with Dreepy which kept them happy and distracted for a while. The Beldum, if your eyes weren't playing games on you, seemed to be grateful.

Ostia huh? OZ-tia. Definitely need to keep an eye on them.
 
LunaticPanda said:
I think Ostia's the Millium-equivalent. Seemingly too young to be here, definitely mysterious, cheerful. Plus Beldum is a metal hand, and that's roughly what Airgetlam means anyway
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Premise29 said:
Ostia huh? OZ-tia.
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...Why does this line up way too perfectly? You too are very perceptive, and I hope you're right. (Although, given the apparent alignment with the Villain Background, I suppose it'd be more Altina then Millium?)

Regardless, more reason to befriend the child!
 
[X] Nickname: Roland
[X] Elise Montenix: You met her while changing stations in Zapapico. A girl with dark skin, long dark blue hair and turquoise eyes from Montenevera. You find that she's a kind and sociable person. Mid-conversation, the long curved sword in a sheath that she was carrying along with her luggage suddenly stood up. The blade peeked out from its sheath and a blue eye on the base of the hilt opened and stared at you.
 
ArvisPresley said:
You heard from Gramps that it used to have a Ranger Station but not anymore.
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Maybe people have already realized this, but I think this indicates that Bracers have been replaced by Rangers. Anyone have ideas what kind of changes that will have on our field studies?


[x] Nickname: Missile
[x] Ostia: You met them (a boy? girl? you really couldn't tell) while you were transferring stations to the Levincia High Speed Rail. They looked barely older than Tamara and they seemed sad and all alone with just a Beldum as company. Unable to stop your older sibling instincts, you decide to keep them company. They played and were enthralled with Dreepy which kept them happy and distracted for a while. The Beldum, if your eyes weren't playing games on you, seemed to be grateful.
 
[X] Elise Montenix: You met her while changing stations in Zapapico. A girl with dark skin, long dark blue hair and turquoise eyes from Montenevera. You find that she's a kind and sociable person. Mid-conversation, the long curved sword in a sheath that she was carrying along with her luggage suddenly stood up. The blade peeked out from its sheath and a blue eye on the base of the hilt opened and stared at you.
 
[X] Nickname: Roland
[X] Elise Montenix: You met her while changing stations in Zapapico. A girl with dark skin, long dark blue hair and turquoise eyes from Montenevera. You find that she's a kind and sociable person. Mid-conversation, the long curved sword in a sheath that she was carrying along with her luggage suddenly stood up. The blade peeked out from its sheath and a blue eye on the base of the hilt opened and stared at you.
 
Aw, no love for the foreign royalty? I suppose the draw of K!Protagonist-Chan and more importantly the sympathetic villain is too bit a draw.
 
[x] Nickname: Missile
[x] Ostia: You met them (a boy? girl? you really couldn't tell) while you were transferring stations to the Levincia High Speed Rail. They looked barely older than Tamara and they seemed sad and all alone with just a Beldum as company. Unable to stop your older sibling instincts, you decide to keep them company. They played and were enthralled with Dreepy which kept them happy and distracted for a while. The Beldum, if your eyes weren't playing games on you, seemed to be grateful.
 
[X] Elise Montenix: You met her while changing stations in Zapapico. A girl with dark skin, long dark blue hair and turquoise eyes from Montenevera. You find that she's a kind and sociable person. Mid-conversation, the long curved sword in a sheath that she was carrying along with her luggage suddenly stood up. The blade peeked out from its sheath and a blue eye on the base of the hilt opened and stared at you.
 
[X] Nickname: Missile
[X] Ostia: You met them (a boy? girl? you really couldn't tell) while you were transferring stations to the Levincia High Speed Rail. They looked barely older than Tamara and they seemed sad and all alone with just a Beldum as company. Unable to stop your older sibling instincts, you decide to keep them company. They played and were enthralled with Dreepy which kept them happy and distracted for a while. The Beldum, if your eyes weren't playing games on you, seemed to be grateful.
 
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