Sacrifice
a distant memory.
Looking for a way to introduce greater structure and control to roleplaying in the Pokémon fandom he originated in, a younger Boo-Koo slowly built in his head and misshapen barrages of text messages over the course of years to fandom friends: The ingredients, plot devices, characters and means to create a more grounded, realistic Pokémon.
Though originally it was only the mechanics themselves he was opting for, over time these evolved into becoming twists and spins on the original product, so much indeed that it began to differentiate enough to be its own unique version.
Eventually, I had asked a partner at the time to partake in writing an epic roleplay with me that would make light use and field test the mechanics of this new and potentially sharpened, dynamic version of Pokémon; However, what I offered to write as a prologue became so long and drawn out before we could start, that my partner quit after a week and a half of me working on it.
So became clear at that point, what I was doing, hadn't been preparation for a roleplay, but a setup to lead him down a path I could write myself, whereas the partnership existed as an excuse to work on it rather than a means to continue- So I continued.
To preface this version of Pokémon:
In this, Pokémon began as a man-made solution to a man-made problem of severe planetary decay after an extreme and total scientific renaissance transformed humanity into the role of creators.
Every nation or political body on the planet existed within 3 supercell governing bodies, taking the entire planet's worth of land rights in their wake and being so destructively capable through means of new atomic weaponry that every one completely ditched the means to actively combat one another on the ground and instead relied upon gargantuan dome particle-shields that generated fake atmospheres to guard the citizens from space radiation and caustic, lethal levels of pollution, dotted with highly reactive particles suspended in a field that covered the entire sky and border of their civilizations, that would essentially vaporize anything touching it.
Their lives were all a part of a totally closed system that relied on artificial competitions and entertainment to keep their spirits up, wherein the governments all kept a stern eye on eachother, as the only method of attack was total annihilation.
However, as lifespans grew ridiculous and scientists ran out of things to do with the human bodies capped at their scientific limits, it was proposed between what little contact there was between the nations, to take care of the Earth's decay issue by designing a new, radically fast-acting ecosystem for it, wherein inspiration drawn from what had been lost in flora and fauna of the past could become useful in designing a tougher series of creatures that could perform the same process of terraforming the Earth into a habitable state that was done naturally billions of years ago in just a few hundred.
This was the only thing they were permissed to have outside of their evenly-spaced borderlines, without arousing conflict.
Since these initial prototypes were developed and released in small test-groups, they became known as Pocket Monsters; Their existence and survival in the tortured environment outside of city walls garnered much in the way of interests from curious onlookers, who were fascinated to witness the only change on the planet occur in front of their eyes.
The goal of the project itself was straightforward-
Make a ecosystem of creatures that could all balance eachother's populations, make use of and experiment with the absolutely most radical science they had to offer, and burn off, metabolize what minerals and energy they could find as quickly it was feasibly possible to do so.
This directive, in combination with interests in their entertainment value led them to design increasingly radical monsters that grew larger, more powerful, and explosive in the way they interacted with eachother- As they naturally dispersed into the environment and fought in a darwinistic cycle of predation and primal group conflicts, they along with engineered flora, berries packed to the absolute maximum density possible with vitamins and minerals that grew to full and reproduced in days, recycled the pollution at an astounding rate, and soon the public began to take their own roles in it.
One nation producing remote-access machine combatants that could play a part in the fighting, another working on stand-alone species that had larger roles in coalition with global satellites that could create artificial weather, and a third slowly building war machines that would be allowed close to the other's borders under a facade of progress, all chugged away in evolving their species respectively-
Internationally, there were nomenclatures assigned to the different types of Pokémon that described what their genetic makeups allowed them to do, with some being designed to catalyze their energy out of orifices to make various degrees of heat ( Fire ) , some cellularly built to allow for extreme physical feats of rigidity and strength ( Fighting ) or creatures that could adversely affect and manipulate the nervous systems of their opponents ( Psychics ), all of which had varying degrees of success among one another, like Psychics being effective against Fighting types because of their typically extremely densely packed and hyper-reactive nerves and muscle tissue could be affected quicker by a tempering.
As well, different moves of different types could be broadly categorized and seen in use by many varieties of differing creatures, but ultimately their genetic makeups determined how well they could use the respective attacks.
All of the creatures were designed to take such severe punishment that upon reaching a cataclysmic point of internal or external damage they could induce themselves to an automatic stasis coma wherein what was left became preserved and dormant until repairs could be made through the use of some kickstart of energy, like certain plants or Pokémon moves- In cities, repair stations.
And most importantly, to allow for natural reproduction yet still huge forms with huge energy factors, a process of "evolution" wherein the gradual growth of a creature could be catalyzed to happen in instantaneous stages from birth to adulthood was devised from a mix of the stasis system and by ensuring that a certain amount of stored energy remained in the individual for the process to occur, though for some it may differ, as their designs became extremely competitive and varied.
This was until the land between borders was so hyper-populated with these Pokémon and their respective flora that eventually the opportunity to cause havoc was perfect for one of the superpowers, who staged a full frontal assault with gargantuan waves of purpose-built assault weapons including Regigigas, ( Plural for a lot of them- ) who were camouflaged to the environment and masked in the public records as Gorilla familiars meant to stimulate artificial glacial activity by teaming up to move mountains, and satellites that royally screwed the minds of the standalone terraforming units like Kyogre and Groudon, who were meant to be creating an artificial water cycle for the planet, into causing the largest storm Earth could possibly have.
The havoc broke through the defensive barriers, after making a hole into the perimeter of their shields and let in what in seconds became a full-scale war against a genetically pure, delicate race of intellectuals versus biological super-animals and their larger, purpose-built, towering cousins backed by hurricane winds.
To counter this, the nation eventually resorted to a nuclear detonation and selectively took out huge portions of its border population and heavy chunks of mainland in an explosion that was powerful enough to totally annihilate almost every one of the bordering war machines while simultaneously wrecking the rest of the barrier and shredding the environment, with the explosion ionizing the atmosphere in its severity and essentially blanketing everything in sight with additional radiation.
Being clued into what was going on at this point, the next nation in line decidedly ICBM traded the attacker and both of them suffered similar fates.
There are two main possibilities that led into the "Normal" Pokémon, and then Mystery Dungeon.
A: Humans survive this and enact a radical containment measure wherein they invent devices to ensnare and encapsulate a weakened Pokémon, then imposing an altered stasis lock on them and rewrite a part of its information to be communicable to humans, and a production run of similarly built Pokémon are birthed to aide the population in containing the threat in smaller numbers- To ensure security, the civilizations rebuild into the image of a competitive, tournament style gladiator society wherein various licenses through badges are administered to individuals who can contain and command more and more powerful Pokémon, which is a process started at the youth and encouraged into adulthood.
B: Humans do not fare well despite their best efforts, and the damage leftover proves irreparable to what is left of them; Due to this, humanity dies off in the presence of their more capable, feral children and in their wake, leave behind a wasteland of war machines, tribal gangs and satellite-controlling monsters to take over the Earth. Because of the way Pokémon perceive the environment by design, a flaw surfaces in the fact that unobserved areas begin to fluctuate due to what is effectively a freakout of quantum physics, being that the effect of a Pokémon observer is different and less absolute than a human. Because of this, any buildings leftover from the humans have wildly warped and deteriorated into fantastical shapes and layouts, whereas areas catalogued and distinguishable, such as mountains or well-travelled towns, Pokémon-made artifacts and homes, remained stable in place, with dead-zones left behind on the outskirts of land where some spots had become "neutralized" from not being observed at all, and being un-observable from the inside or out.
The latter is where this fanfiction comes in.
Large nuclear explosions and warfare is not wherein this story begins, as that is only the backdrop to where they are-
Regarding the writing itself:
The idea of the original roleplay was that, aside from testing new mechanics, like how these versions of attacks would work, it was based on the idea that the Guild from the game has passed onto another leader and that, since its infancy, it was poorly received by some large portions of the "Wild" Pokémon for having a warped and biased system of judgements and punishment, where elite groups could be sent out from a home location to brutalize certain locations and extract criminals who may have only been protecting an area they had stakes into.
Despite the actions of some very heroic members, like the exploration team who start and finish the DS game, they gained a very mixed reputation, with some begging to be taken by them whenever a team arrived and others fiercely rebelling against them wherever they appear- The story is meant to follow a character who starts off in a Guild and ends up becoming a part of a traveling resistance group that gains members as they pass through areas, try to survive off of the land, without badges can't teleport out of areas when knocked out, and are constantly being hunted by teams trying to earn money and awards for their capture, which escalates up to the supposed end of the story.
I deleted this story and the notes I kept with it on every device I placed it on, but I forgot it was here; Since you cannot explicitly "Delete" an account on RPN and Private Workshops weren't wiped as the site updated, the file remained here with the inconspicuous name "Proto" until I found it yesterday.
It should be made clear as well, that this was an incomplete prototype of all things, and that parts of the story doubled as both placeholder notes for upcoming improvements and ideas, plus an actual story to be reviewed by people who cared at the time, which was not very many.
This is effectively just a prologue to a roleplay meant to "Briefly" exhibit how fighting and interacting with this world would supposedly go and be allowed for the partner, likewise, the last time I personally worked on this was in 2016, and would likely be dramatically transformed if I were to uptake it as a project now, however, it seemed then and became lately a pointless task by most means, that is unless a certain amount of interest was garnered in its continuation. If anything here may be of use to someone else, they may be free to take it as well, since the only reason it exists is because of this site, it might as well exist for everyone to see if they are curious.
Though originally it was only the mechanics themselves he was opting for, over time these evolved into becoming twists and spins on the original product, so much indeed that it began to differentiate enough to be its own unique version.
Eventually, I had asked a partner at the time to partake in writing an epic roleplay with me that would make light use and field test the mechanics of this new and potentially sharpened, dynamic version of Pokémon; However, what I offered to write as a prologue became so long and drawn out before we could start, that my partner quit after a week and a half of me working on it.
So became clear at that point, what I was doing, hadn't been preparation for a roleplay, but a setup to lead him down a path I could write myself, whereas the partnership existed as an excuse to work on it rather than a means to continue- So I continued.
To preface this version of Pokémon:
In this, Pokémon began as a man-made solution to a man-made problem of severe planetary decay after an extreme and total scientific renaissance transformed humanity into the role of creators.
Every nation or political body on the planet existed within 3 supercell governing bodies, taking the entire planet's worth of land rights in their wake and being so destructively capable through means of new atomic weaponry that every one completely ditched the means to actively combat one another on the ground and instead relied upon gargantuan dome particle-shields that generated fake atmospheres to guard the citizens from space radiation and caustic, lethal levels of pollution, dotted with highly reactive particles suspended in a field that covered the entire sky and border of their civilizations, that would essentially vaporize anything touching it.
Their lives were all a part of a totally closed system that relied on artificial competitions and entertainment to keep their spirits up, wherein the governments all kept a stern eye on eachother, as the only method of attack was total annihilation.
However, as lifespans grew ridiculous and scientists ran out of things to do with the human bodies capped at their scientific limits, it was proposed between what little contact there was between the nations, to take care of the Earth's decay issue by designing a new, radically fast-acting ecosystem for it, wherein inspiration drawn from what had been lost in flora and fauna of the past could become useful in designing a tougher series of creatures that could perform the same process of terraforming the Earth into a habitable state that was done naturally billions of years ago in just a few hundred.
This was the only thing they were permissed to have outside of their evenly-spaced borderlines, without arousing conflict.
Since these initial prototypes were developed and released in small test-groups, they became known as Pocket Monsters; Their existence and survival in the tortured environment outside of city walls garnered much in the way of interests from curious onlookers, who were fascinated to witness the only change on the planet occur in front of their eyes.
The goal of the project itself was straightforward-
Make a ecosystem of creatures that could all balance eachother's populations, make use of and experiment with the absolutely most radical science they had to offer, and burn off, metabolize what minerals and energy they could find as quickly it was feasibly possible to do so.
This directive, in combination with interests in their entertainment value led them to design increasingly radical monsters that grew larger, more powerful, and explosive in the way they interacted with eachother- As they naturally dispersed into the environment and fought in a darwinistic cycle of predation and primal group conflicts, they along with engineered flora, berries packed to the absolute maximum density possible with vitamins and minerals that grew to full and reproduced in days, recycled the pollution at an astounding rate, and soon the public began to take their own roles in it.
One nation producing remote-access machine combatants that could play a part in the fighting, another working on stand-alone species that had larger roles in coalition with global satellites that could create artificial weather, and a third slowly building war machines that would be allowed close to the other's borders under a facade of progress, all chugged away in evolving their species respectively-
Internationally, there were nomenclatures assigned to the different types of Pokémon that described what their genetic makeups allowed them to do, with some being designed to catalyze their energy out of orifices to make various degrees of heat ( Fire ) , some cellularly built to allow for extreme physical feats of rigidity and strength ( Fighting ) or creatures that could adversely affect and manipulate the nervous systems of their opponents ( Psychics ), all of which had varying degrees of success among one another, like Psychics being effective against Fighting types because of their typically extremely densely packed and hyper-reactive nerves and muscle tissue could be affected quicker by a tempering.
As well, different moves of different types could be broadly categorized and seen in use by many varieties of differing creatures, but ultimately their genetic makeups determined how well they could use the respective attacks.
All of the creatures were designed to take such severe punishment that upon reaching a cataclysmic point of internal or external damage they could induce themselves to an automatic stasis coma wherein what was left became preserved and dormant until repairs could be made through the use of some kickstart of energy, like certain plants or Pokémon moves- In cities, repair stations.
And most importantly, to allow for natural reproduction yet still huge forms with huge energy factors, a process of "evolution" wherein the gradual growth of a creature could be catalyzed to happen in instantaneous stages from birth to adulthood was devised from a mix of the stasis system and by ensuring that a certain amount of stored energy remained in the individual for the process to occur, though for some it may differ, as their designs became extremely competitive and varied.
This was until the land between borders was so hyper-populated with these Pokémon and their respective flora that eventually the opportunity to cause havoc was perfect for one of the superpowers, who staged a full frontal assault with gargantuan waves of purpose-built assault weapons including Regigigas, ( Plural for a lot of them- ) who were camouflaged to the environment and masked in the public records as Gorilla familiars meant to stimulate artificial glacial activity by teaming up to move mountains, and satellites that royally screwed the minds of the standalone terraforming units like Kyogre and Groudon, who were meant to be creating an artificial water cycle for the planet, into causing the largest storm Earth could possibly have.
The havoc broke through the defensive barriers, after making a hole into the perimeter of their shields and let in what in seconds became a full-scale war against a genetically pure, delicate race of intellectuals versus biological super-animals and their larger, purpose-built, towering cousins backed by hurricane winds.
To counter this, the nation eventually resorted to a nuclear detonation and selectively took out huge portions of its border population and heavy chunks of mainland in an explosion that was powerful enough to totally annihilate almost every one of the bordering war machines while simultaneously wrecking the rest of the barrier and shredding the environment, with the explosion ionizing the atmosphere in its severity and essentially blanketing everything in sight with additional radiation.
Being clued into what was going on at this point, the next nation in line decidedly ICBM traded the attacker and both of them suffered similar fates.
There are two main possibilities that led into the "Normal" Pokémon, and then Mystery Dungeon.
A: Humans survive this and enact a radical containment measure wherein they invent devices to ensnare and encapsulate a weakened Pokémon, then imposing an altered stasis lock on them and rewrite a part of its information to be communicable to humans, and a production run of similarly built Pokémon are birthed to aide the population in containing the threat in smaller numbers- To ensure security, the civilizations rebuild into the image of a competitive, tournament style gladiator society wherein various licenses through badges are administered to individuals who can contain and command more and more powerful Pokémon, which is a process started at the youth and encouraged into adulthood.
B: Humans do not fare well despite their best efforts, and the damage leftover proves irreparable to what is left of them; Due to this, humanity dies off in the presence of their more capable, feral children and in their wake, leave behind a wasteland of war machines, tribal gangs and satellite-controlling monsters to take over the Earth. Because of the way Pokémon perceive the environment by design, a flaw surfaces in the fact that unobserved areas begin to fluctuate due to what is effectively a freakout of quantum physics, being that the effect of a Pokémon observer is different and less absolute than a human. Because of this, any buildings leftover from the humans have wildly warped and deteriorated into fantastical shapes and layouts, whereas areas catalogued and distinguishable, such as mountains or well-travelled towns, Pokémon-made artifacts and homes, remained stable in place, with dead-zones left behind on the outskirts of land where some spots had become "neutralized" from not being observed at all, and being un-observable from the inside or out.
The latter is where this fanfiction comes in.
Large nuclear explosions and warfare is not wherein this story begins, as that is only the backdrop to where they are-
Regarding the writing itself:
The idea of the original roleplay was that, aside from testing new mechanics, like how these versions of attacks would work, it was based on the idea that the Guild from the game has passed onto another leader and that, since its infancy, it was poorly received by some large portions of the "Wild" Pokémon for having a warped and biased system of judgements and punishment, where elite groups could be sent out from a home location to brutalize certain locations and extract criminals who may have only been protecting an area they had stakes into.
Despite the actions of some very heroic members, like the exploration team who start and finish the DS game, they gained a very mixed reputation, with some begging to be taken by them whenever a team arrived and others fiercely rebelling against them wherever they appear- The story is meant to follow a character who starts off in a Guild and ends up becoming a part of a traveling resistance group that gains members as they pass through areas, try to survive off of the land, without badges can't teleport out of areas when knocked out, and are constantly being hunted by teams trying to earn money and awards for their capture, which escalates up to the supposed end of the story.
I deleted this story and the notes I kept with it on every device I placed it on, but I forgot it was here; Since you cannot explicitly "Delete" an account on RPN and Private Workshops weren't wiped as the site updated, the file remained here with the inconspicuous name "Proto" until I found it yesterday.
It should be made clear as well, that this was an incomplete prototype of all things, and that parts of the story doubled as both placeholder notes for upcoming improvements and ideas, plus an actual story to be reviewed by people who cared at the time, which was not very many.
This is effectively just a prologue to a roleplay meant to "Briefly" exhibit how fighting and interacting with this world would supposedly go and be allowed for the partner, likewise, the last time I personally worked on this was in 2016, and would likely be dramatically transformed if I were to uptake it as a project now, however, it seemed then and became lately a pointless task by most means, that is unless a certain amount of interest was garnered in its continuation. If anything here may be of use to someone else, they may be free to take it as well, since the only reason it exists is because of this site, it might as well exist for everyone to see if they are curious.
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