Life.
Forever Wandering
Woooo y'all are so quick to post.
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Fandom Pokemon Aetheric Platinum - OOC
- Thread starter Noivian
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RingSlinger
Senior Member
Haha. Uh. Yeah.
RingSlinger
Senior Member
Oh uh also, I want you all to know that this rp lets me find an actual functional use for what is literally my favorite gif of all time and I will be using it as SOON and then as OFTEN as I can.
Life.
Forever Wandering
Oh uh also, I want you all to know that this rp lets me find an actual functional use for what is literally my favorite gif of all time and I will be using it as SOON and then as OFTEN as I can.
LOL what made this gif even better was that I had Seven Nation Army playing in the background and the drum parts were matching perfectly to the image.
RingSlinger
Senior Member
Oh perfect. Yeah, this Gif goes with everything. I love it a lot.
Noivian
Drinker of coffees
Oh! Um, about the whole "What path do we take" question, you're free to go wherever you desire in this rp. Unfortunately, the path is kind of a straight shot through Sandgem Town to Jubilife City at the moment, but once you get to Jubilife, I'll get a lot more to write - I mean you can go wherever you want, challenge gyms in whatever order, whatever you like. The gyms will be scaled down to your Pokemon's "level".
Speaking of, I feel I should explain how combat works.
Combat against an NPC (such as a wild Pokemon, Gym Leader, or other trainer that isn't one of your four) will be basically you against me. You can have up to two Pokemon out and in battle at once when battling wild Pokemon, but trainers and Gym Leaders will always set the rules of battle prior to initiating, meaning sometimes you'll get a double battle and sometimes you'll get the normal one on one system that the games present. You'll never have to come up against a horde of wild Pokemon where it's a five on one battle, like XY did, unless you purposefully decide to fight against a large group of Pokemon. Tall grass won't automatically trigger a wild Pokemon encounter - those will happen more naturally. Combat between any two or all four of you will have the result pre-determined in OOC to avoid situations where combat drones on for five pages. Though, given how polite and through you all have been, I doubt we're going to have much problem with that. If disputes come up, I'll be flipping a coin to randomly decide the winner.
The actual mechanics of combat will be held similar to the anime. The term "moves" will be used rather ambiguously - if you decide to do a training session with your Pokemon, you can train them to perform certain actions in sequence, and give that sequence a name, thus making your own custom "moves". Level will be used if only to determine your Pokemon's abilities, such as making bubbles vs an actual stream of water. As of right now, your Pokemon are all level 5, meaning they're able to use type-specific abilities, but won't be very effective in combat. Level will increase when your Pokemon has won battles equal to the new level. So once your Pokemon wins six battles, they'll level up. Win another afterwards, and they'll level up again. I realize this will lead to very rapidly growing Pokemon, and will stagger this in the future, but for now that's how levels will work. I'll handle evolution and the like, so don't worry about that too much. It'll be used more as a plot device and less as a mechanic.
Speaking of, I feel I should explain how combat works.
Combat against an NPC (such as a wild Pokemon, Gym Leader, or other trainer that isn't one of your four) will be basically you against me. You can have up to two Pokemon out and in battle at once when battling wild Pokemon, but trainers and Gym Leaders will always set the rules of battle prior to initiating, meaning sometimes you'll get a double battle and sometimes you'll get the normal one on one system that the games present. You'll never have to come up against a horde of wild Pokemon where it's a five on one battle, like XY did, unless you purposefully decide to fight against a large group of Pokemon. Tall grass won't automatically trigger a wild Pokemon encounter - those will happen more naturally. Combat between any two or all four of you will have the result pre-determined in OOC to avoid situations where combat drones on for five pages. Though, given how polite and through you all have been, I doubt we're going to have much problem with that. If disputes come up, I'll be flipping a coin to randomly decide the winner.
The actual mechanics of combat will be held similar to the anime. The term "moves" will be used rather ambiguously - if you decide to do a training session with your Pokemon, you can train them to perform certain actions in sequence, and give that sequence a name, thus making your own custom "moves". Level will be used if only to determine your Pokemon's abilities, such as making bubbles vs an actual stream of water. As of right now, your Pokemon are all level 5, meaning they're able to use type-specific abilities, but won't be very effective in combat. Level will increase when your Pokemon has won battles equal to the new level. So once your Pokemon wins six battles, they'll level up. Win another afterwards, and they'll level up again. I realize this will lead to very rapidly growing Pokemon, and will stagger this in the future, but for now that's how levels will work. I'll handle evolution and the like, so don't worry about that too much. It'll be used more as a plot device and less as a mechanic.
RingSlinger
Senior Member
Noivian
So as our characters are like, walking around, or heading to Lake Verity as they are now, you'll stop us for any random encounters and stuff?
RingSlinger
Senior Member
Likewise!
Noivian
Drinker of coffees
Indeed, as encounters happen, I'll make posts about it. Right now I'm just catching up on everyone's posts, but expect an encounter soon.
RingSlinger
Senior Member
Awesome! Thanks! Really enjoying this so far. 
norway
a white butterfly
expect piplup to over react and cause lots of trouble as well xD
Life.
Forever Wandering
Hello is anyone there?
RingSlinger
Senior Member
I'm heeeeeeeeere.
norway
a white butterfly
The Hero
Hapless Savior
Yep, I just wanted to make sure everyone did what they wanted to do before I posted.
Noivian
Drinker of coffees
Ah, glad to see this is still moving. I promise I'll make a GM post for an encounter once I recover from this illness. Right now my brain is too scrambled to make heads or tails of long posts.
RingSlinger
Senior Member
Wait does this mean you have something crazy planned?
The Hero
Hapless Savior
Ah, not really, no. I just wanted to make sure no one felt left out, but I may have just slowed down the roleplay in the process. I'll be sure to get up a post soon.
RingSlinger
Senior Member
Oooh. Yeah I think since there are only four of us we'll be okay not making people feel left out. Rad! Excited to see what you write.
Noivian
Drinker of coffees
Alright! Today's the day! I feel much better than I have in the last week, so I'm going to make myself a nice cup of hot beverage, sit down and read the posts! Expect an encounter sometime today!
Noivian
Drinker of coffees
A small note about encounters: they're totally optional. You're free to do whatever you feel your character wants to do. However, the more encounters you take up, the more likely your character's successful with their end goal. Don't feel like anything I throw at you is mandatory... unless I state otherwise.
Granted, if certain events and encounters aren't dealt with, there'll be serious consequences down the road. Keep that in mind when choosing whether or not to partake in encounters.
Granted, if certain events and encounters aren't dealt with, there'll be serious consequences down the road. Keep that in mind when choosing whether or not to partake in encounters.
RingSlinger
Senior Member
Yay welcome back. Glad you’re feeling better.
RingSlinger
Senior Member
Dibs on the Starly if nobody objects too heavilyyyyyyy
Noivian
Drinker of coffees
Hm, I'm getting strong Anohana vibes from the character interactions so far... it's bittersweet. I like it.
