Pokemon Gijinka Randomizer Nuzlocke (Complete)

I rolled, then discarded the first because it was a starter and I got upset.

Dice Roller • Orokos.com

According to the national dex, we are now a Rhyhorn. Not my favorite, but certainly not the worst.

...you can roll yourselves and ignore this.
 
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Nope. Only first/prevo/only stages. You can't randomly roll an Alakazam or even a Pikachu. Rotom doesn't get extra slots for all its forms. Rolling a Mega Charizard doesn't give you extra shots at being a Charmander.
You have to clean the list first and then roll. It comes out to a little over 300 choices in total, I'd have to populate the list again before I roll it. I forgot the exact number from when I checked last night.
And for the sake of sanity, I might roll three times and have you choose one of the three. That reduces the odds of you getting screwed over by unusable pokemon or ones you wouldn't enjoy questing as.
 
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Nope. Only first/prevo/only stages. You can't randomly roll an Alakazam or even a Pikachu. Rotom doesn't get extra slots for all its forms. Rolling a Mega Charizard doesn't give you extra shots at being a Charmander.
You have to clean the list first and then roll. It comes out to a little over 300 choices in total, I'd have to populate the list again before I roll it. I forgot the exact number from when I checked last night.
And for the sake of sanity, I might roll three times and have you choose one of the three. That reduces the odds of you getting screwed over by unusable pokemon or ones you wouldn't enjoy questing as.

I like the 3 random rolls idea
 
I'm not too fond of 3 random rolls. People knew the risks! It shifts the bell curve of final results up to, like, the 78th percentile or something. If we go for Random, then it should be Random!
 
I like the 3 random rolls idea


I'm not too fond of 3 random rolls. People knew the risks! It shifts the bell curve of final results up to, like, the 78th percentile or something. If we go for Random, then it should be Random!

Hm... I personally like the idea, but I can see where @tricholysis is coming from. It is ultimately up to @rkyeun anyway... but can anyone think of a suitable middleground?
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That is not "make two rolls instead of three"?

The only thing I can think of (if this even is up to debate) would be for the QM to roll once at first and check the result; if it is usable, continue with that. If not (i.e. Magikarp), add two more and allow the players to choose from that.
But that sounds needlessly complicated...
 
Oh, you want me to lock you out of the glory that is Gyarados? No, Magikarp is in.

I am fine either way; besides, this was about "useless / barely usable" results before, so... naming Magikarp actually sounded like a good example to me. I mean, sure, it will be glorious if we reach the point of evolution, but everything before that point will be really unpleasant. Probably.
 
Sure, but how would you like being used as a bludgeon? I doubt our PC would enjoy it.
 
If ambiguous gender wins and it really turns out to be Magikarp... or any fish-type, really... is there a chance for our PC to become a mermaid?
(Probably not, just getting those ideas out of my system beforehand... although I will probably have another one once we actually know what we will be.)
[On that note: should we get Arceus, I insist that we react every time someone around us says "Oh my god".]
 
Hm... I personally like the idea, but I can see where @tricholysis is coming from. It is ultimately up to @rkyeun anyway... but can anyone think of a suitable middleground?
...
That is not "make two rolls instead of three"?

The only thing I can think of (if this even is up to debate) would be for the QM to roll once at first and check the result; if it is usable, continue with that. If not (i.e. Magikarp), add two more and allow the players to choose from that.
But that sounds needlessly complicated...

How about if inside of multiple rolls, we just got one (or more) re-rolls? That way there's the risk that we might get stuck with something even worse than our initial roll if we mulligan.
 
2 | Clothes On A Fish
TIME IS UP! THE DIE IS CAST!
CHAOS REIGNS AND THE STARS ALIGN!
REAP WHAT YOU BEGGED FOR!
POKEMON GIJINKA RANDOMIZER NUZLOCKE!
GAZE UPON YOUR FORM AND PRAISE LORD HELIX!

Mantyke is Water/Flying, and stays that way through both stages.



As your wits slowly return to you, you start to make out voices outside your metal home. Your head's still too muffled to make out what they're saying, but you feel exposed and vulnerable now. And the voices sound alternately worried and angry. Are you in trouble? Are they going to try to hurt you? You move carefully and quietly, pulling your cloak around you.

Huh. You have a cloak. Except it's not clothing, it's part of you. You have strong cartilage extending from the sides of your neck along your shoulders, supporting the leading edge of wings of rough leathery flesh, and branching to extend down your sides as well. The cloak is attached at your neck and shoulders, behind your armpits, and down your sides to your waist, leaving most of your back exposed behind it. Or perhaps not, since your back seems to be the same tough texture of your... fins, you come to realize. Lesser cartilage radiates out from the vertical pair of supports in rays that stretch to your wingtips, and it's layered with muscle.

You weren't expecting to find a cloak as part of your body, but now that you're aware of it that does seem right somehow. As you lean forwards you feel a tingling prod somewhere above your forehead. Antenna? No, not antenna, some kind of fin again, but you have less control over this. The pair of them are sensitive and springy. You can't move them on their own, but if you push them they pop back up. They stick out from your bangs on either side a little above your temples. Your hair feels fine and straight and a bit stiff, like you'd been swimming and combed it out while wet and then left it to dry like that. It's a bit ticklish at the base of your neck where the cloak blends into normal human flesh.

You have some stiff horizontal patches on your throat and upper chest and down your side to the bottom of your ribcage. Part of your ribcage. Like your ribcage could move an extra way than just breathing normally. You can twist your ribs down a little? It feels like you could open them, hmm, only all at once though, there seems to only be one muscle controlling all of it to...

PAIN DRY RAW TENDER ACHING SHARP!

You whimper a little as the air rushes out of your lungs and your chest collapses, and quickly shut them and draw in a fresh breath through your mouth. Gills then, those are gills. And apparently not for use on land. So you're a fish? You seem to have fairly normal human arms and legs, though you can't help but notice how smooth and tight your skin is. No body hair at all.

Your eyes are starting to adjust to the dark and the cotton you've been resting on is clothes. Which is good, because now that you can see and feel yourself you're feeling really rather anxious about your body coloration and human features on display. Huh, you can still make out colors pretty well in the dark. You have an instinctive need for a sky blue ventral surface to blend against the sky when viewed by things below you, and a dark blue dorsal surface to present to the sky so you camouflage as the sea to things above you. Your cloak and antenna are colored correctly, but your peachy-pink-white human flesh is not, and that feels like dangling a worm in front of... uh, the kind of thing that would be swimming above or below you and wants to eat worms.

Anyways, back to the clothes. You've got one part that's solid black, and probably supposed to be either a swimsuit or underwear. It covers your chest like a bikini top, a bit thicker and harder on the cup so you won't poke through. It secures with loops around your shoulders and neck, leaving your back and belly open but covering your gill slits. That's probably intentional. The fabric is tight and elastic and you're pretty sure it wouldn't stop water flow. But it would stop you from getting a lungful of sand. Its attached lower half is like a thong bikini bottom, with the waistband joined by the side straps from the top and riding low enough to fit under your wingfin junction. The crotch of it is also kind of like the cup, with a firmer material so no shapes show through. Black is the wrong color though, so after putting that on you keep looking.

The swim trunks are the right color, with an elastic band and drawstring to cinch it up further. The elastic band definitely helps keep it from riding down when you move the bottom of your wingfins. You want it tight enough it won't slide off your hips and loose enough the drawstring won't scrape at your fin. Fortunately, that seems to have been taken into account too, there's spongy padding to keep the rope's tightness off you.

Next is the top, which is the sleeves and front of a tee shirt without any back half, and it secures by just two strings around the back of the neck and around the waist. But it has long flexible elliptical plastic rings embedded in it above your gill slits, where its fabric doesn't cover. The shirt's material seems almost like a vinyl, so that's probably for the best.

Black gloves with some kind of sticky stippling on the fingertips. Black high boots, strangely enough with an elastic top to close against your leg pretty tight. You consider for a moment the kind of drag you'd have if they were open. And for a moment you have the human thought of wondering how you're supposed to use your feet to swim with boots on, before of course realizing that your feet won't be contributing to anything except the pushing off. There's also a pair of circular-lensed black-rimmed glasses with a goggle strap. You need those, too.

And the last is a dark blue hoodie that has pockets on the inside for your wingtips to stick into, and is long enough to hang just past the top of your boots. The inside is sky blue as well, and there's two circular rings on the back and a sweeping crescent below them that feel very comforting to you and as if they should be intimidating to others. All spread out you'll look like a huge face rushing up to engulf things. It's not in any sense waterproof, and indeed it feels quite damp. Huh, there's actually some kind of sponge liner in it. You can squish or stretch it to squeeze water out of it, and when it relaxes again it sucks up water to dry itself.

Properly clothed, you turn back to consider the voices again. Their language feels familiar, but in the sense like you had this class in school rather than it being a native language. That's starting to clear up as you listen though. Memory is returning all too slowly for your liking.


Who are these people?
[X] The League.
[ ] Team Rocket.


Where are you?
[ ] Pallet Town.
[X] New Bark Town.
 
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Made some minor corrections to contradictory things I missed removing after rethinking. Gah.
 
Made some minor corrections to contradictory things I missed removing after rethinking. Gah.
...I was gonna ask about the gloves, but I see you've beaten me to it.

This is pretty cool, though. We're apparently some kind of stingray person that can fly, which could have been a heck of a lot worse. I'm guessing that the 'Uhh...' gender won?

Anyway, I don't really know enough Pokemon lore to know the significance of the towns, so I'm just going to vote:
[x] Team Rocket.
 
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