welian
#BlackLivesMatter
Yeah, yeah, you heard that right. I've been sitting on this concept for a while - I love it, it's so ludicrous, taking the kid-friendly Pokemon universe and smashing it together with the crude humor and ultraviolence of Borderlands.
Problem is... well, basically, I've got a rough framework of what I want, but I've been stuck at the details for a while. I'm hoping some fresh insight from you guys will help me get this thread done and rolling.
Story Overview:
70% Pokemon, 30% Borderlands. In the desolate wasteland that is the Orre Region (see the Gamecube games Coliseum and Gale of Darkness), a mining company called Apex Industries that specializes in mining and selling evolution stones has accidentally uncovered an Eridian Vault. A small team of scientists and archeologists was sent to investigate, but they disappeared. Eventually, word of these strange ruins gets out, and opportunistic trainers set out for Orre, wanting to see this vault for themselves. As things tend to happen in the Pokemon world, the rumor is that the vault contains ancient Pokemon that were sealed away - after all, that's what was in the OTHER ancient ruins.
Shortly thereafter, weird glowly purple ore starts showing up. With nothing better to do, Apex Industries starts, well, mining it and collecting it, running tests on it.
Meanwhile, Orre is dealing with its own internal problems - because it's a vast wasteland, very few wild Pokemon can be found there. Almost all Pokemon are imported from other regions. Smuggling and theft of Pokemon is a huge problem, and one of the leading names in criminal organizations here is the Dustfiends, a group of loosely organized and allied theives. They have hubs in Gateon Port and Phenac City, but otherwise are spread out in encampments across the region, acting as a giant network to pass illicit goods along and take part of the profit for themselves. Some of these goods are Pokemon, but many shipments also include technology, fuel, water, food, plain money.... anything that can be carried and paid for, they'll take it where it needs to go. And if you can't pay up, well... it's theirs now, and good luck doing business with them ever again. They're starting to profit off of the influx of trainers visiting the region.
Anyways
So basically, in this RP, trainers take the place of vault hunters, Apex is an expy of Dahl or maybe Atlas, the Dustfiends are obviously bandits. Apex has clearly found eridium and doesn't know what to do with it, but if you've played BL2 then you know that Handsome Jack found lots of creative applications for slag. And if you've played any of the games, then you know that there's always a Vault Guardian - a giant monster to fight. Pokemon are monsters, so there's obviously going to be a bigass Pokemon to fight when the vault gets opened.
But here's some stuff I still need to work out:
Things that I have definitely worked out:
And of course, if you have any questions or see any plotholes, please speak up and say something! I want this to be a fairly solid boat when I go to post my interest check.
Problem is... well, basically, I've got a rough framework of what I want, but I've been stuck at the details for a while. I'm hoping some fresh insight from you guys will help me get this thread done and rolling.
Story Overview:
70% Pokemon, 30% Borderlands. In the desolate wasteland that is the Orre Region (see the Gamecube games Coliseum and Gale of Darkness), a mining company called Apex Industries that specializes in mining and selling evolution stones has accidentally uncovered an Eridian Vault. A small team of scientists and archeologists was sent to investigate, but they disappeared. Eventually, word of these strange ruins gets out, and opportunistic trainers set out for Orre, wanting to see this vault for themselves. As things tend to happen in the Pokemon world, the rumor is that the vault contains ancient Pokemon that were sealed away - after all, that's what was in the OTHER ancient ruins.
Shortly thereafter, weird glowly purple ore starts showing up. With nothing better to do, Apex Industries starts, well, mining it and collecting it, running tests on it.
Meanwhile, Orre is dealing with its own internal problems - because it's a vast wasteland, very few wild Pokemon can be found there. Almost all Pokemon are imported from other regions. Smuggling and theft of Pokemon is a huge problem, and one of the leading names in criminal organizations here is the Dustfiends, a group of loosely organized and allied theives. They have hubs in Gateon Port and Phenac City, but otherwise are spread out in encampments across the region, acting as a giant network to pass illicit goods along and take part of the profit for themselves. Some of these goods are Pokemon, but many shipments also include technology, fuel, water, food, plain money.... anything that can be carried and paid for, they'll take it where it needs to go. And if you can't pay up, well... it's theirs now, and good luck doing business with them ever again. They're starting to profit off of the influx of trainers visiting the region.
Anyways
So basically, in this RP, trainers take the place of vault hunters, Apex is an expy of Dahl or maybe Atlas, the Dustfiends are obviously bandits. Apex has clearly found eridium and doesn't know what to do with it, but if you've played BL2 then you know that Handsome Jack found lots of creative applications for slag. And if you've played any of the games, then you know that there's always a Vault Guardian - a giant monster to fight. Pokemon are monsters, so there's obviously going to be a bigass Pokemon to fight when the vault gets opened.
But here's some stuff I still need to work out:
- How might slag affect Pokemon?
- If there are Sirens in this setting, how will their abilities tie in with the Pokemon world? With the plot?
- This whole RP implies that Pokemon are aliens like the Eridians. In that case, what other plot elements should I be borrowing?
- How should I handle Pokemon battles, if at all?
Things that I have definitely worked out:
- There's gonna be guns and violence, fo sho.
- There's gonna be lots of illegal experimentation going on.
- There is no gym system in Orre, however, I'm using all the locations that already exist (and adding something) so there's totally a battle arena inside a volcano. The volcano may or may not erupt during the course of the RP.
And of course, if you have any questions or see any plotholes, please speak up and say something! I want this to be a fairly solid boat when I go to post my interest check.
"). That's..WOW. There hasn't been anything subtle in the way that that same Pikachu instead, be dragged kicking & screaming into an alleyway, with the players hearing a gunshot shortly after. Same result, but the second way is a more mature and not overly horrific presentation.
