FancyKiddo
Your Alien Friend!
Hey, FancyKiddo here! For a long while, I’ve desired a certain style of Pokemon game, but what I’ve seen other people creating just hasn’t been what I’m looking for. So now, the time has come to make it myself.
Your characters were once human, but now, not so much. You’ve each been transformed into Pokemon, though the world is still largely cohabited by Pokemon and humans alike: this is not the Pokemon-only world of the Mystery Dungeons, but that of the main games, in a state of disarray and terror. For, though Pokemon and humans have peacefully coexisted for as long as history recalls, things have suddenly gone sideways, and friends have become enemies. Not every pet has gone crazy, but enough have that the world is quickly descending into chaos: and whatever is causing this is spreading.
You wake in a field; lost, sickly, and possessing a body you don’t understand. Thankfully, you’re surrounded by new friends, others in the same boat. Some immediately, in a panic, run off, but a few of you have the good sense to form an alliance, at least as long as it takes to figure out what’s going on.
Warnings:
This isn’t planned as a happy-go-lucky adventure. An insanity mechanic is in place for players and characters to phase in and out of the roleplay (partly because, let’s face it, it’s gonna take a few flukes to find people who are serious about the long haul), and the characters you once considered friends may turn into your enemies at any moment. The party will be used, abused, and hunted. Allies will be rare, true allies rarer still. And you’re a small but significant part of larger machinations that you may never understand: only time and roleplay will tell.
Player Expectations:
Players are expected to write well and punctually. Those who do not will be helped if they’re willing, and kicked if they are not. I’m not fond of hard-and-fast style rules, other than the use of third-person past tense, but I will let you know if your posts need fleshing out or trimming.
No foul language. I’m not fond of it in writing: it’s lazy and overused. Figure out some other way to portray your character’s distress.
PG-13 otherwise. Let sex fade to black. Better yet, consider that there’s not much time for such things in a war setting like this. If you’re going to do romance, please make it interesting for everyone else, too.
Metagaming will result in your character’s insanity, causing them to become GM property. You’re encouraged to try to piece together the story, but keep OOC knowledge OOC.
Characters are to make sense for the setting. This is, once again, not a happy-go-lucky adventure, and though there may be happy-go-lucky characters even so, I expect depth and reasonable characterization.
I expect each player to look out for everyone else’s fun: no hogging the spotlight, bullying each other, or negatively affecting others’ characters without consent.
Further terms and conditions may apply. Use common sense and your well-honed roleplay skills, and you shouldn’t have any problems.
Mechanics:
The majority of the roleplay will be play-by-post. However, there will be tabletop elements for combat: we’ll use a modified version of TORG, a tabletop system that encourages cinematic player cooperation. I’ll compile rules for that as we’re getting everything rolling.
“Divine intervention” will be a thing, so if players get stuck too much, expect to see a Legendary show up and guide you along your way. You may certainly disregard such advice, as the world is open-ended and entirely available to explore. Keep in mind that the story will be progressing, regardless if you decide to follow it, and that will have effects on the world as a whole.
Player characters have special powers, due to their human spirit. To facilitate the tabletop portion of the experience, you will each fill out a character sheet, and the stats thereon will determine your abilities. Unlike natural Pokemon, you will have high cognitive abilities that allow you to use moves outside of your new body’s normal abilities, should you develop your character that way.
Your most important stat will be Humanity. This can be lowered by fumbles while using your Humanity, as well as being Knocked Out. Your character will not die, but losing all Humanity makes them wild Pokemon, and they come under the GM’s jurisdiction. You may make a new character, and we’ll work them into the party at a logical point.
We’ll try out a Discord server to facility player communication. I’d like to see how this goes: it may be that the OOC thread is the best option for that, but I suspect Discord will be better.
I’m looking for 4-6 players.
