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#1 mike_

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Posted 25 August 2011 - 02:47 PM

Name: Jorah Lannister.
Starter pokémon: A cubone, nicknamed Yorick. Curse you, Vort, for already getting a fire-type :p
Hometown: Pallet Town.
Background: Jorah was born and raised in Pallet Town, working as an assistant to Professor Oak in the Oak Labs facility. Through the research he took part in there, he found a great interest in the behavior and biology of pokemon. Over time his academic interests began to specialize into archaeological aspects, and once this was made clear Oak gave him his first pokemon - a cubone that they had been examining in the labs. Now old enough to travel the world on his own, Jorah has taken the road to Pewter City to seek an internship at the Museum there, possibly even a field appointment.


EDIT: Didn't like that name, this is preferable :)

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Posted 25 August 2011 - 03:12 PM

Nice. I approve. And cubones are just as cool as growlithes, or even vulpixes, so don't you worry. Love the new avatar, by the way.

Am I the only one that likes giving pokémon nicknames?
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Posted 25 August 2011 - 03:21 PM

Thanks. Yeah, I thought so. Question - how does combat work? Will we have actual techniques, from the games ("Cubone, use Bonemarang!") or just be vague about it ("Throw your bone, dude!")?


EDIT: I've never been big on nicknames to be honest, I think that they're pretty rad but I'm not a fan. However, for this, I'll humor you (and both our inner Shakespeares :p).

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Posted 25 August 2011 - 03:30 PM

I'll get into the training techniques in detail over in the 'A few points' thread. I meant to cover that last night but didn't get time. Takes a while, this stuff. But basically, no, we don't have set moves. You can train your pokémon to attack in a certain style, but ultimately it will probably just go by instinct in a real fight and attack however it thinks best. But if you train it in various particularly potent methods of attack, pokémon are smart enough to remember those methods and use them in combat. So if you teach your cubone to club its enemies over the head with its bone and that seems to really work, then it'll probably remember that and do it again. You catch my drift?

And if you don't want to have nicknames, that's fine. I just always do. I tend to go in themes. My current Leaf Green set is from Arthurian legend. (I called my charizard Vortigern. :p)
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Posted 25 August 2011 - 03:31 PM

Gotcha. I think that will be very fun to write. And I did nickname it now, alas poor Yorick.


EDIT: Also, concerning the bone elements. I was thinking that instead of them literally being made of old bones (which would break in combat) they would be exoskeleton-like developments for defense (the skull/helmet) and offense (the club, which I'm thinking will be larger than that in the games). So the skull-helmet would be a natural part of the cubone's body, eventually developing to the sleeker, more robust one seen on the adult form (Marowak).

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Posted 25 August 2011 - 03:36 PM

Shakespeare is also a handy source of names for pokémon, I will grant you that. But remember, this is not set in our world. Pokémon world doesn't have Shakespeare, so please avoid in-character references if you can. Feel free to make plenty of references elsewhere, though. :p
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Posted 25 August 2011 - 03:53 PM

Oh, of course thumbsup

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Posted 25 August 2011 - 03:59 PM

Also, concerning the bone elements. I was thinking that instead of them literally being made of old bones (which would break in combat) they would be exoskeleton-like developments for defense (the skull/helmet) and offense (the club, which I'm thinking will be larger than that in the games). So the skull-helmet would be a natural part of the cubone's body, eventually developing to the sleeker, more robust one seen on the adult form (Marowak).


I'm fine with that. It can be a form of the same calciferous exoskeletal growth that rock-types have, which would make it similar to hard shell of a sandshrew. Which makes sense, given that cubone and sandshrew are both ground-types. I'm basically imagining at this point that a cubone's face would resemble any of the various ceratopsian dinosaurs, except smaller and mammalian. As for the club, I think cubones would probably use anything as a weapon, not just bones. Maybe they'd take big bones from other dead pokémon, or maybe you'd have some that have picked up metal pipes or big sticks somewhere along the way. There's no obvious advantage to a bone, after all.
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Posted 25 August 2011 - 07:07 PM

Hey Vort, do you mind if I do a short writeup for the cubone like you've done for the other possible starters? Assuming that you don't mind, here's what I've written up.

Cubone Initially quadrupedal, these reptiles adapt to a bipedal stance not long after birth - usually three to four months. Natural tool-wielders, they are regarded uneasily by humans for their use of crude weapons and the skull-shaped calciferous growth that covers their head. Reaches full maturity in about seven years.


EDIT: I've been thinking of what I'd like to have on my team later on down the road, and in the interest of figuring that out as well as fleshing out the equivalent of a Pokedex for this project (if Vortigern wishes to use these, that is) I've come up with a few more species' definitions.

Meowth Fiercely territorial scavengers, these mammals are considered a nuisance in urban areas as they struggle to survive in competition with others of their kind. The iconic golden growth that grows above their eyes is used to distract enemies and attract prey; as they mature into their more leonine adult form, the growth shrinks into a circular, ruby-colored "third eye" that is accused by many humans as giving the species the gift of supernatural foresight. However, this is not true, but does have roots in fact - the long whiskers that grow out on either cheek are very sensitive to changes in air flow and pressure, allowing them to detect movement from surprisingly distances and giving them an edge in hunting and combat. Once fully matured at ten to fifteen years of age, the meowth is a dangerous, apex predator adept at holding its territory against trespassers and hunting down hapless prey with its excellent night-vision.

Aerodactyl Millions of years ago, when the world was largely covered by water but for rough stretches of craggy continents breaking the surface, this pokemon ruled the sky. Using its great, twenty-foot wingspan and lithe form, it was able to acrobatically maneuver through constant stormy weather, crashing waves and jutting spires of stone to reach the top of its foodchain. Primarily subsisting on the massive schools of fish that inhabitated the primordial sea, it also supplemented its diet with early crustaceans and sea mammals such as the dewgong before rampant climate change forced the aerodactyl into extinction. It is believed that it used a high-pitched scream to shock and subdue its prey before tearing them to pieces with its large fangs, though the lack of modern specimens means that this is purely conjecture; the only remaining evidence of its existence are old bones and samples of its DNA found within amber-sealed insects.

Kabuto Despite the appearance of fierce, glowing red eyes underneath its tough shell, it is actually blind. The two spots serve as a primitive bioluminescence, attracting prey directly to its mouth so that it can devour them while expending the least amount of energy. However, the light is captured directly beneath it and does not expose it to other predators thanks to the overhanging lip of its shell. Physiologically, its body - the legs and feeding claws, internal organs and other vitals - are kept coiled securely underneath its shell until its carapace becomes strong enough to support them. It feeds on krill, plankton, and others of its own kind with an equal lack of reservations; due to this, few of them reach adulthood. Its origins lie in the distant past - millions of them covered the ancient seafloor, but as landmasses shifted and changed and the seafloor shrunk, the population swiftly deflated until only a few hundred "living fossils" remain in the modern day. Of course, the upside to that is that there are ample sources of fossils and DNA samples with which to revive the species from the brink of extinction.

More coming, I have some good ideas for how the fossil pokemon can work.

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Posted 26 August 2011 - 08:22 AM

Wait, is your character Jory or Jorah? Which Game of Thrones character are you naming him after? :p

I'm fine with those details, though they're a little longer than what I had for the rest. Meh, the more the merrier. PM me your ideas on fossil pokémon and we'll discuss that.
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Posted 26 August 2011 - 02:17 PM

Jorah, sorry :p

As for the fossil pokemon, I already explained my idea above - the prehistoric version of our pokeverse would have been mostly a gigantic ocean with the only rocky, volcanic tips of continents sticking up out of the waves. As the world cooled off and the sea levels fell, the climate change made life difficult for some species (kabuto and omastar, the latter of which I haven't written something for yet) and impossible (maybe?) for others (aerodactyl). Just like in our own world, this allowed mammals to take the field and multiply, bringing us to where we are now. I don't know how you want to handle their availability to the RPers, but to me it seems the best solution would be to have the same fossils from the game in addition to relict populations at the bottom of the seafloors and *maybe* in the highest mountains.

...I say all of this because I'm really wanting my guy to get a sample of aerodactyl DNA from the Pewter City Musuem of Natural History :p

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Posted 26 August 2011 - 02:46 PM

Well, that all seems reasonable. Aerodactyl, kabuto, omanyte: the coelacanths of the pokémon world. Although given the degree of technology available to the rest of the world, I don't think this interpretation would be at a level capable of reconstituting a pokémon from an amber-preserved DNA sample. They don't even have television. Remember, most of their technological advances are based around the abilities of pokémon, and as far as I'm aware, no pokémon has the ability to clone long-dead animals. Except maybe a ditto, but nobody even knows if they're real. After all, how would you know if you've seen one? They always look like something else.
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Posted 26 August 2011 - 04:34 PM

That's a good point - maybe the moniker of "fossil pokemon" could come from their status as "living fossils", with that simply being a layman's term for them?

Personally, I think it would be pretty groovy for our crew to take part in a dive to the seafloor near Cinnabar Island, visiting a sort of reservation for kabuto and omastar. Though, how the actual diving and possible capturing would work in that environment is beyond me :p

One more thing - when are you wanting to get this thing started, and will we work as a team or have our own individual story threads?

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Posted 26 August 2011 - 06:16 PM

We will be working as a team and I will get this started tomorrow, hopefully. Weekends are always handy for doing things like this.
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Posted 27 August 2011 - 01:05 AM

They don't even have television.

Wait, is this for this RPG, or for pokemon itself? Cause I remember TV's being in pokemon.

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Posted 27 August 2011 - 04:15 AM

I'm pretty sure that he means the RPG.

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Posted 27 August 2011 - 09:17 AM

If I'm contradicting what you remember from the games, chances are I'm talking about the RP. As I said, technology has advanced differently. They have electricity, but that's from pokémon, so nobody ever made the related advances in radio technology, telecommunications, all those fields. Electricity here is a natural resource like fire or water, and nobody ever made fire into a television.
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Posted 27 August 2011 - 11:04 AM

ah ok. I have a question but i'll post it in the world section rather than junking up mike's character registration topic.

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