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Actually I sort of thought it'd be more technological integration, given I mentioned Cyrus and that's what he mostly does science-wise.
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Actually I sort of thought it'd be more technological integration, given I mentioned Cyrus and that's what he mostly does science-wise.
Seems a bit to late to suggest a coordinator background, and while I like all these options like spelunking and pokemon RIDING, I choose the bees!
[x] Combee-keeping and Honey know-how.
[x] Evelyn (F)
[x] Floaroma, a flower garden of a town next to a stream and windmill farm.
[x] Combee-keeping and Honey know-how.
[x] Evelyn (F)
[x] Floaroma, a flower garden of a town next to a stream and windmill farm.
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Maybe we get published in niche magazines/fanzines.
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One reason I didn't put a Co-ordinator background is that, well, you kinda need to own Pokemon to be a Co-ordinator in the first given, whereas Ride Pokemon are usually lent out. Granted, I could say you were a judge or prominent fan, or you're from a Co-ordinator family, but the other reason I didn't put it is because, well, I figured I'd had too many options up already.
Also, surprised everyone's on board with the name 'Evelyn', especially since I gave the option to write-in otherwise.
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I could certainly add that to the outfit options next post.
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TimEd
Meteor maker
Or we get contracted to build Trick Rooms, Gym shenanigans, or maybe non-lethal security measures.
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So Evelyn (F) and Solaceon are the clear tally winners, but 'Researching Ruins' and 'Spelunking Underground' are tied, so the next vote will be the tiebreaker.
For some extra incentive, picking 'Spelunking' will let you start off with a Fossil, be it Skull, Armour or another canon one, and is the obvious option if you want Spiritomb quicker, but picking 'Ruins' could play a part in how you interact with Sinnoh's Legendaries and Mythicals, and give you some bonus info on them that you wouldn't usually get until the plot gets underway.
For some extra incentive, picking 'Spelunking' will let you start off with a Fossil, be it Skull, Armour or another canon one, and is the obvious option if you want Spiritomb quicker, but picking 'Ruins' could play a part in how you interact with Sinnoh's Legendaries and Mythicals, and give you some bonus info on them that you wouldn't usually get until the plot gets underway.
TimEd
Meteor maker
Might just be me, but all these talk about the deeper lore of the mythics and legendaries make me want to play our mc as someone so completely ignorant of them so as to open the possibility of our mc interacting with legendaries without knowing they were legendaries in the first place.
Obviously mainly those not immediately apparently powerful looking ones like Shaymin.
Also on the secret base builder, I wonder if we would be able to make a secret base for a legendary, or just pokes struggling in their current habitats?
Obviously mainly those not immediately apparently powerful looking ones like Shaymin.
Also on the secret base builder, I wonder if we would be able to make a secret base for a legendary, or just pokes struggling in their current habitats?
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Solarstream
It's all in the cards
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switching votes then!
[X] Spelunking in Sinnoh's Underground and Secret Base decorating.
[X] Spelunking in Sinnoh's Underground and Secret Base decorating.
Vote closed
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So, when you say prequel to gen 4, do you mean the story only? Does that mean we can get fossil pokemon like tyrunt, dracozolt, etc.?
That Fateful Day: Select your Starter
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Last thing to do before leaving is to get dressed for the occasion. Your parents packed enough clothes for the journey that you could always change later, but for making your first impression on your very first Pokémon and the Professor, you picked:
[ ] A dark blue coat with a snow-patterned scarf and gloves, matching your darker blue hair, Sinnoh is the chilliest of all the nearby regions after all.
[ ] A striped purple-and-black jacket over a white buttoned shirt and a black skirt, your fluffy lavender up in a ponytail with a black bow, trying to be fashionable.
[ ] A hot-pink jacket and black shorts lined in yellow, something more sporty for the outdoors environment, yet contrasting with you brunette bob, red headband and glasses.
[ ] A tasseled orange jacket above brown checkered flannel, your blue denim skirt and grey stockings contrasting them, your scruffy light brown hair, and your brown-and-red boots. Perfect for working with Pokémon.
[ ] Write-in.
(Underground background selected) Before you left, you did have one last item you consider, which you quickly took out of your PC Storage Box: A Fossil you'd found from all your time spent messing around in the Underground. You hadn't gotten the opportunity to revive it yet, so you figured it didn't technically count as your first Pokemon.
[ ] The Skull Fossil.
[ ] The Armour Fossil.
[ ] Cover.
[ ] Plume.
[ ] Jaw.
[ ] Sail.
[ ] Write-in (Note that some Fossils in Sinnoh may have 'tweaks' compared to normal).
You heartily called Bye to your parents as you raced down to your front door, your mother rushing over to give you one last farewell kiss, but your father barely budging from the couch with his head in a newspaper, only murmuring a "Bye Evelyn" in return.
Still being Winter, the hatched roofs of Solaceon Town were all covered in glittering powder snow, out of the corner of your eye you could even see a Cubchoo huddled near the trees, and a Hoothoot getting rudely knocked out of its sleep when a clump of snow fell from the branch above it. The peaceful morning air was broken for a second by a honking Mudbray on a nearby farm, a farmhand rushing out to attend it as you figured it still wasn't adapting to the change in weather from Alola.
But you couldn't let yourself be distracted too long, as the Professor would probably have little patience for a latecomer, given what you'd heard about his temperament. You headed eastward into a small grove that still took up half the town, as you'd heard he'd planned to meet you and your new peers in the local ruins.
"Solaceon's Ruins..." you could hear someone mutter, as you then turned your head to see this voice had come from a girl your age with shaggy blonde hair and a black jacket over a blue skirt. A girl you think you recognised from somewhere.
"Oh, hi there!" she turned around and giggled "Sorry, got distracted and didn't see you there. My name's Cynthia, and I'd guess you'd be Evelyn, right? I was told a spelunking prodigy was going to be joining us".
Nodding to confirm your identity, Cynthia smiled and then went on with "Have you heard of the Ruins of Alph in Johto? They say these ruins possess a spiritual similarity with them and the fabled Sinjoh- Oh, ah, sorry, I'm getting carried away again, you would've been told I'm a folklore student, right? Still, you could say we both have a common interest in what's dusty and buried, couldn't you-".
"We're here on a matter of business, not a socialisation event" Cynthia was cut then off by a cold, snarling voice belonging to a solemn blue-haired boy standing beneath the shade of the trees, who by him being your age and process of elimination you figured was the enigmatic Cyrus. Sheesh, no wonder you'd been told little about him, if this was what he acted like.
"Oh come on, you honestly think a Pokemon journey's supposed to be all business?" Cynthia spoke up against him, crossing her arms "This is a once-in-a-lifetime meeting you know, I don't want to coldly gloss over it".
"Sentimental attachment will only drag your little journey down," Cyrus sighed and looked away "I also don't know why the Professor insists on meeting us at these ruins, you'd assume a man of his learning would care far more for modern advances than obsolete relics".
Cynthia by now had to hold back how much she was ready to burst; you almost thought to jump in between them. "The-weight-of-our-past-means-nothing to you?" she seethed.
"Our past?" Cyrus scoffed "You seriously think my ancestors had time for meagre superstitions?".
But before you could act, Cynthia had thrown the PokeBall she already had, sending out a tiny yet voracious Gible to chomp right down on Cyrus' face, leaving the boy screaming.
"What in good blazes is going on here?!" an older, gruffer voice exclaimed from just out of your field of vision, belonging to a middle-aged mustachioed man in a lab coat, "Hmmph, says little of the Sinnoh region that a bunch of impudent squabblers are apparently its most promising prodigies" he scoffed.
Cynthia gasped and immediately recalled her Gible, leaving Cyrus tending to the bite marks all over his face. "Oh, ah, Professor Rowan, just er, having a heated debate, that's all" she tried to smile and look natural.
Rowan chose not to dignify that with a response, skipping ahead to say "Right then, Miss Cynthia, Master Cyrus, Miss Evelyn, as I'm trusting you know, you've been called here today to be entrusted with an invention straight from Kanto, the PokeDex. With it, you shall be given the privilege, nay, the purpose, of documenting all the Pokémon this Sinnoh region has to offer". He then took out three red, electronic booklets and handed one each to you, before he grumbled under his breath "Though to be honest, Oak may have set his expectations too high, our Sinnoh is so old that I doubt there's much left still to uncover".
Cynthia twitched a little as she heard that.
"Ahem, anyway..." Rowan spoke up again "To assist you in your task, you each shall have to opportunity to select a rare Pokemon to accompany you on your fact-finding task", opening a briefcase with three PokeBalls within.
"Well I've already got my own Starter, so it's only fair you choose first, Evelyn" Cynthia said and turned to you.
Cyrus at least admitted "The more tactical move would be to observe what Starters my peers have already chosen, to plan accordingly. So indeed, choose first".
[ ] Turtwig, the Tiny Leaf Pokemon.
[ ] Chimchar, the Chimp Pokemon.
[ ] Piplup, the Penguin Pokemon.
Nickname:
[ ] Write-in.
[ ] Don't bother.
(Note: Due to Sinnoese Forms, and later gen Pokemon introduced into Sinnoh, what wild Pokemon you'll later be able to catch will differ from the D/P/Pt usual, e.g. if you don't pick Chimchar you won't be stuck with Ponyta as your only other fire option.)
[ ] A dark blue coat with a snow-patterned scarf and gloves, matching your darker blue hair, Sinnoh is the chilliest of all the nearby regions after all.
[ ] A striped purple-and-black jacket over a white buttoned shirt and a black skirt, your fluffy lavender up in a ponytail with a black bow, trying to be fashionable.
[ ] A hot-pink jacket and black shorts lined in yellow, something more sporty for the outdoors environment, yet contrasting with you brunette bob, red headband and glasses.
[ ] A tasseled orange jacket above brown checkered flannel, your blue denim skirt and grey stockings contrasting them, your scruffy light brown hair, and your brown-and-red boots. Perfect for working with Pokémon.
[ ] Write-in.
(Underground background selected) Before you left, you did have one last item you consider, which you quickly took out of your PC Storage Box: A Fossil you'd found from all your time spent messing around in the Underground. You hadn't gotten the opportunity to revive it yet, so you figured it didn't technically count as your first Pokemon.
[ ] The Skull Fossil.
[ ] The Armour Fossil.
[ ] Cover.
[ ] Plume.
[ ] Jaw.
[ ] Sail.
[ ] Write-in (Note that some Fossils in Sinnoh may have 'tweaks' compared to normal).
You heartily called Bye to your parents as you raced down to your front door, your mother rushing over to give you one last farewell kiss, but your father barely budging from the couch with his head in a newspaper, only murmuring a "Bye Evelyn" in return.
Still being Winter, the hatched roofs of Solaceon Town were all covered in glittering powder snow, out of the corner of your eye you could even see a Cubchoo huddled near the trees, and a Hoothoot getting rudely knocked out of its sleep when a clump of snow fell from the branch above it. The peaceful morning air was broken for a second by a honking Mudbray on a nearby farm, a farmhand rushing out to attend it as you figured it still wasn't adapting to the change in weather from Alola.
But you couldn't let yourself be distracted too long, as the Professor would probably have little patience for a latecomer, given what you'd heard about his temperament. You headed eastward into a small grove that still took up half the town, as you'd heard he'd planned to meet you and your new peers in the local ruins.
"Solaceon's Ruins..." you could hear someone mutter, as you then turned your head to see this voice had come from a girl your age with shaggy blonde hair and a black jacket over a blue skirt. A girl you think you recognised from somewhere.
"Oh, hi there!" she turned around and giggled "Sorry, got distracted and didn't see you there. My name's Cynthia, and I'd guess you'd be Evelyn, right? I was told a spelunking prodigy was going to be joining us".
Nodding to confirm your identity, Cynthia smiled and then went on with "Have you heard of the Ruins of Alph in Johto? They say these ruins possess a spiritual similarity with them and the fabled Sinjoh- Oh, ah, sorry, I'm getting carried away again, you would've been told I'm a folklore student, right? Still, you could say we both have a common interest in what's dusty and buried, couldn't you-".
"We're here on a matter of business, not a socialisation event" Cynthia was cut then off by a cold, snarling voice belonging to a solemn blue-haired boy standing beneath the shade of the trees, who by him being your age and process of elimination you figured was the enigmatic Cyrus. Sheesh, no wonder you'd been told little about him, if this was what he acted like.
"Oh come on, you honestly think a Pokemon journey's supposed to be all business?" Cynthia spoke up against him, crossing her arms "This is a once-in-a-lifetime meeting you know, I don't want to coldly gloss over it".
"Sentimental attachment will only drag your little journey down," Cyrus sighed and looked away "I also don't know why the Professor insists on meeting us at these ruins, you'd assume a man of his learning would care far more for modern advances than obsolete relics".
Cynthia by now had to hold back how much she was ready to burst; you almost thought to jump in between them. "The-weight-of-our-past-means-nothing to you?" she seethed.
"Our past?" Cyrus scoffed "You seriously think my ancestors had time for meagre superstitions?".
But before you could act, Cynthia had thrown the PokeBall she already had, sending out a tiny yet voracious Gible to chomp right down on Cyrus' face, leaving the boy screaming.
"What in good blazes is going on here?!" an older, gruffer voice exclaimed from just out of your field of vision, belonging to a middle-aged mustachioed man in a lab coat, "Hmmph, says little of the Sinnoh region that a bunch of impudent squabblers are apparently its most promising prodigies" he scoffed.
Cynthia gasped and immediately recalled her Gible, leaving Cyrus tending to the bite marks all over his face. "Oh, ah, Professor Rowan, just er, having a heated debate, that's all" she tried to smile and look natural.
Rowan chose not to dignify that with a response, skipping ahead to say "Right then, Miss Cynthia, Master Cyrus, Miss Evelyn, as I'm trusting you know, you've been called here today to be entrusted with an invention straight from Kanto, the PokeDex. With it, you shall be given the privilege, nay, the purpose, of documenting all the Pokémon this Sinnoh region has to offer". He then took out three red, electronic booklets and handed one each to you, before he grumbled under his breath "Though to be honest, Oak may have set his expectations too high, our Sinnoh is so old that I doubt there's much left still to uncover".
Cynthia twitched a little as she heard that.
"Ahem, anyway..." Rowan spoke up again "To assist you in your task, you each shall have to opportunity to select a rare Pokemon to accompany you on your fact-finding task", opening a briefcase with three PokeBalls within.
"Well I've already got my own Starter, so it's only fair you choose first, Evelyn" Cynthia said and turned to you.
Cyrus at least admitted "The more tactical move would be to observe what Starters my peers have already chosen, to plan accordingly. So indeed, choose first".
[ ] Turtwig, the Tiny Leaf Pokemon.
[ ] Chimchar, the Chimp Pokemon.
[ ] Piplup, the Penguin Pokemon.
Nickname:
[ ] Write-in.
[ ] Don't bother.
(Note: Due to Sinnoese Forms, and later gen Pokemon introduced into Sinnoh, what wild Pokemon you'll later be able to catch will differ from the D/P/Pt usual, e.g. if you don't pick Chimchar you won't be stuck with Ponyta as your only other fire option.)
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Tyrant_Rayne
Probably Not Evil… Maybe
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- Canada
[X] A tasseled orange jacket above brown checkered flannel, your blue denim skirt and grey stockings contrasting them, your scruffy light brown hair, and your brown-and-red boots. Perfect for working with Pokémon.
[X] Jaw.
[X] Turtwig, the Tiny Leaf Pokemon.
Torterra is part ground so that fits with our underground choice and dragons are cool so I'm going with Tyrunt for our fossil.
[X] Jaw.
[X] Turtwig, the Tiny Leaf Pokemon.
Torterra is part ground so that fits with our underground choice and dragons are cool so I'm going with Tyrunt for our fossil.
EternalObserver
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Still trying to decide, but going by appearance, I want one that contrasts from Cynthia's yellow and black, and Cyrus' blue and white.
[X] A dark blue coat with a snow-patterned scarf and gloves, matching your darker blue hair, Sinnoh is the chilliest of all the nearby regions after all.
Living in a cold area myself, I've seen what happens to people who prioritize fashion over dressing for the weather. They get cold.
[X] The Armour Fossil.
[X] Turtwig, the Tiny Leaf Pokemon.
Bastidion is weak to Water, Ground & Fighting - Torterra covers the first two and has high defense for Fighting's mostly physical moveset. Bastidion in turn covers Torterra's Bug, Ice & Flying weaknesses, leaving Fire as the only blind spot.
Living in a cold area myself, I've seen what happens to people who prioritize fashion over dressing for the weather. They get cold.
[X] The Armour Fossil.
[X] Turtwig, the Tiny Leaf Pokemon.
Bastidion is weak to Water, Ground & Fighting - Torterra covers the first two and has high defense for Fighting's mostly physical moveset. Bastidion in turn covers Torterra's Bug, Ice & Flying weaknesses, leaving Fire as the only blind spot.
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[X] TimEd
Now hear me out, tirtouga learns protect and aqua jet very early in its level movepool. Also, a turtle theme for our early team.
Edit: I'd change to the Red/Grey image, but I don't know how to.
Edit2: Screw it. @Lapin Lune is voting using usernames allowed in voting?
Now hear me out, tirtouga learns protect and aqua jet very early in its level movepool. Also, a turtle theme for our early team.
Edit: I'd change to the Red/Grey image, but I don't know how to.
Edit2: Screw it. @Lapin Lune is voting using usernames allowed in voting?
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TimEd
Meteor maker
So if we go by primary paint colors, if Cynthia is Yellow and Black, Cyrus with Blue and White, it is imperative we go with Red and Grey to slot right in.
Edit: I went a searching and here are the Turtle (and turtle looking for shuckle) pokes I found.
Maybe we could tweak it to "shielded/shelled" pokemon so we can add Forretress and maybe a few others to the pool like Cofagrigus or whoever else we want to logic into it.
Or maybe we just want to recreate the Ninja turtles and grab the 4 clear turtles, 1 rat, and whatever wild card we want.
Either way, I am buying into this early turtle theme.
[X] Cover fossil
[X] Turtwing, the Tiny Leaf Pokemon
Tirtouga comes from Cover fossil. Dome gives us kabuto.
Edit: I went a searching and here are the Turtle (and turtle looking for shuckle) pokes I found.
Squirtle
-Wartortle
-Blastoise
Shuckle
Torkoal
Shelgon (possibly)
Turtwig
-Grotle
-Torterra
Tirtouga
-Carracosta
-Wartortle
-Blastoise
Shuckle
Torkoal
Shelgon (possibly)
Turtwig
-Grotle
-Torterra
Tirtouga
-Carracosta
Or maybe we just want to recreate the Ninja turtles and grab the 4 clear turtles, 1 rat, and whatever wild card we want.
Either way, I am buying into this early turtle theme.
[X] Cover fossil
[X] Turtwing, the Tiny Leaf Pokemon
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I don't know about clothes but at the very least I think we should wear a helmet. We have to look the part of a spelunking prodigy, people! 
[X] Cover fossil
[x] Chimchar, the Chimp Pokemon.
The anime made me love Chimchar so...
Nickname:
[x] King
In honor to the monkey king he's based of.
[X] Cover fossil
[x] Chimchar, the Chimp Pokemon.
The anime made me love Chimchar so...
Nickname:
[x] King
In honor to the monkey king he's based of.
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Some trivia, the Infernape line also draws from the character Hanuman in the Ramayana, and might allude to the Ainu eternal fire goddess Ape-Kamuy (which I guess probably isn't pronounced like how we'd pronounce 'Ape').
Also, I planned at first to have variant Sinnoh Starters available too along with an Eevee, but I felt it'd be weird to have variants (outside Megas) in the region they were introduced, and I figured an Eevee could be obtainable soon enough anyway.
Also, I planned at first to have variant Sinnoh Starters available too along with an Eevee, but I felt it'd be weird to have variants (outside Megas) in the region they were introduced, and I figured an Eevee could be obtainable soon enough anyway.