Pokémon RP Kanto quest, sign up and lets catch 'em all!

[Prpl_Mage]

It might sound like a stupid idea. But I'm actually serious, rather this than FF7.

The RP has started!
Pokémon RP, The adventure begins.

I'm pretty sure that everyone at least played one game so at least the first 150 of the 490 should be common.

All you need to do to sign up is writing this:

• Name
• Trainer type, 'cuz I assume that people prefer to RP as trainers rather than pokés in a Mystery Dungeon-fashion.
• What your character is like and the classic RP introduction.
• Where you're from - make up a town for the heck of it unless you guys prefer to play in a set in-game world.
• Your starting poké OR "pokémon-less" if you're gonna get/ catch one soon.

If you discovered this after the Rp started - you can always join in along the way, it's a big world after all.

Note: Please don't include too many of the Black and White pokés since I'm pretty sure that the Japanese names will change and that most of us don't really know much about them.

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Things that would be nice to know though:
Where should this take place? I want people's opinions on this since some people like more freedom than others. We don't want someone catching a Dragonite in Viridian Forest and 4 other people throwing a tantrum over it.
How much story do you want? Same here, some people like to go about their own pace and story while others prefer a more story-thick RP. I'm ready to do both while avoiding too many of the TV-show clichés.(Although I only watched the first season the pokémon tv show.)
If we want a story-based rp, would people prefer to travel as one group to begin with or do you prefer crossroads?

Things that you should know!
Will take place in a fictional Kanto (The place where Red,Blue and Yellow took place.
A really malicious team rocket is currently exploiting the Kanto region.
Gyms, contests and such will not be available until the area is free from oppression (in most cases, it all depends on).
I will be understanding with people breaking habitants and behaviour of wild pokémon.
Be aware that levels and such are relative. I won't be all "You can't beat Lt.surge with a low levelled poké like that!" if the story takes us to Vermillion city and people want to challenge the gym.

[spoiler= Facts about Team Rocket]
A malicious team as mentioned before, under new management they have increased their horrific behaviour and is nowdays doing more wrongs than before.

Examples of criminal activity:

• Fraud: fooling people to get their money. If it is "special medicine", rage candy bars, slowpoke tails, shuckle shells or online trickery you can be pretty sure that the team is behind this.
• Exploiting: digging fossils, copying TMs, farming parasects or turning the safari zone into a huge pokémon breeding facility. They really like their money.
• Business: The team is behind a lot of fun in Kanto, the game corner, the lottery, the contests, pokéathalon and even betting in battles and tournaments. They also like to sell fossils and stones to scientists, space related contents to the Hoenn region, any ancient stuff to Jotho and everything that can become energy including bug pokés are a nice export to Sinnoh.
  But the largest market they have at the moment is raising and selling strong pokémon. Tournaments are held outside the Elite 4 jurisdiction where trainers really can go all out. Rich people like to bet at trainers here and strong pokémons are a must if you want to make it far. There are many ways to make money by legal means but there is most likely something dark and rotten hidden beneath the nice outer.
• Usurping: The team likes to abuse people and make their ways harder. They are known to steal research, steal pokés and even steal air time on the radio. They are pretty much in control and can do what they feel like to expand their wealth.
• Violence: When the team meets resistance they rarely faces it "mano tu mano" they wouldn't risk a public humiliation so they like to take the hard way around the problem and use people's weaknesses. Imposting, kidnapping, stealing, blackmail or just threats in common will make the citizens stay inside and ignore whatever is happening

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Some basic rules lads:

• Feel free to use any NPC with only your fantasy(or decency) as the boundary.
• Try NOT to use a "connected character" that one of your fellow participants created. If it is someone's father, brother, rival, daughter. Let them be as much as you can allow yourself to avoid upsetting someone. Of course. Some people won't mind if you add a little personal touch the the whole thing (like me).
• Try not to control other player's characters too much. If you want a change of scenery write something along the lines "And then they went to...", this does not point of specific people doing something, so if someone object - he can claim that he stayed behind or went somewhere else.

It's interesting that people get to know each others characters so well that the story seems to go well with people controlling each other from time to time. Might not need any rules after all.
I might have to make up new rules as we go if people have opinions about what others do.

If you have any wondering or such, feel free to send me a PM.

[spoiler=Kanto map][/spoiler]

[spoiler=Trainer catches and current location]
Frank:
Murkow, Primeape, Kabuto, Rhyhorn, (Sentret)
Route North of Saffron
Joseph:
Totodile, Pidgey, Pineco, Jigglypuff, Pichu, (Dunsparce)
Route North of Saffron
Lucas:
Aron, Nidorino, Paras, Qwillfish
Pkmn Center before Rock tunnel
Edwin:
Clefable, Zubat, Barboach, Glaceon
Pkmn Center before Rock tunnel
Christopher:
Geodude, Noctowl
Pkmn Center before Rock tunnel
Corey:
Starly, Luxio, Mankey, Gyarados
Pkmn Center before Rock tunnel
Rock John
Raticate, Raticate, Rattata, Sandslash, Squirtle, Poliwag
Pewter City
Myrin
Piplup
Route 25
Veles
Riulo
Route 25
Saiar
Koffing, Espeon, Steelix, Gengar, Articuno
Unknown
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[spoiler=Synopsis_Part 1]
Team rocket attacked Pallet town and tried to get the professor's research. Trainers came to fight Team rocket once the news spread. People finally revolted against the team rocket in Pallet town when one of the rockets escaped. Frank a cooltrainer from Jotho was sent to stop him.
As he thought he was out of harms way the Rocket bumped into Lucas who were travelling with his Aron. The Rocket attacked and beat Lucas.
Chris the son of Pewter city gym leader Richard were heading down to Pallete when he found Lucas in distress and battled the Rocket. Midway through the battle Frank showed up and took the credit.
They all headed back down to Pallet only to see all the trainers defeated and also found an escapee from Pallet.
A Rocket Executive appeared holding them away as the Professor was taken by sea. The Executive's Gyarados fired a Hyper beam which sent all of them running.
They regrouped at the Viridian City Pkmn centre were one of the professor's aides asked them for a service. To recollect the data of all pokémon which the professor deleted from the Pallet CPU.
Corey arrives by boat from Sinnoh when he's attacked by a rocket, he's defeated but saved. He sets out to find the rocket who did it and heads to Pallet through the Diglett Cave. When he arrives at Viridian he finds out that Pallet has fallen and that the Professor is missing.
Edwin is on the run from Cerualean and ends up with Rocket trouble, he escapes them and meets his contact in Viridian Forest where he's advised to surrender. He runs instead and end up in Viridian City.
The trainers rest, level and stock up before continuing their adventure.
Catches:
Lucas: Nidoran (m)
Edwin: Zubat
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[spoiler=Synopsis_Part 2]
The trainers got to know each other a little better and discussed future plans, after training and catching some pokémon the team feels ready to move on.
Frank decides to challenge the Gym and wins after a heated battle against Viridian City leader Josh. He was awarded with the badge and the TM Sandstorm.
After the battle Lucas decides to take Josh on as well and fight his reserves, after proving himself knowledgeable in battle Josh decides to declare Lucas a winner as well.
The rest of the party decides to wait with Gym challenges for now and the team decides to move on to Pewter city. Lucas left early and left the others behind, Corey and Chris followed and Joseph tried to catch up. Frank catches Joe on the way and they all arrive at Pewter city where the gym apparently is up and running again.
RockJohnAxe is a small dojo master who tries to run a special dojo. He watched the team fight the Gym and was amazed by their cunning. He gave the trainers some battle hints and advice before going out to catch a Poliwag.
Edwin trained his pokémon when he got on the nerve of a local girl. Some time after the fight he bumps into her brother who happens to be Josh the gymleader. After proving his strength Josh hands over the badge and thanks him for entertaining his sister.
While travelling through Viridian forest Edwin gets a nasty run-in with Beedrills and ends up fainting. Once back at the center he is given one of the pokédexes left behind and is informed that the other kids are waiting in Pewter. He travelled safely through the forest this time and ended up at Pewter, looking to head for Cerulean.
Catches:
Frank: Mankey
Chris: HootHoot
Corey: Mankey
Joseph: Pidgey, Pineco
RockJohnAxe: Poliwag
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[spoiler=Synopsis_Part 3]
In Pewter city most of the team heads over to Mt.Moon and makes some new catches and trains.
Frank starts training his pokémon when a lass named Maya walks up to him. She recognizes him as a strong trainer and decides to become a devoted fan(stalker).Frank later bumps into a man that drops an Old Amber, he returns it to the museum but is given a Kabuto for the trouble instead of Aerodactyl which was the pokémon inside the amber.
After many attempts to find the team and after a lot of trainer he heads to the Gym to fight the leader.

Edwin visits Pewter and stocks up - he bumps into Frank and tell him about the pokédex but is told to keep it. He then heads over to Mt.Moon where he finds and team up with a Hiker. They bought fight against team rocket before emerging victorious.
Edwin then carries on to Cerulean where he meets up with Leader Lyle and gets a Barboach as a gift.
Rock John is having trouble with his squirtle back in Viridian but also decides to hand over his dojo to his friend. He then sets out to best the other gyms to grant his dojo a place within the Elite Four jurisdiction. He starts of with the local gym Leader Josh and beats him after a heated 3 on 3 battle.
Myrin wakes up at a beach with a Piplup scaring her, she can't ditch the pokémon but finds it useful after it chases out a man from the bushes. The man is called Veles and got a Riulo and food.
They talk some and eat, and the day after they set out for Cerulean city.

Frank backtalks Elliot - the leader of Pewter city as the battle is about to begin unknowingly that Chris is Elliot's son. He makes a name of himself in Pewter after a heated battle and let's the rest of the team fight her. He can't hide the fact tha he thinks Elliot is weak and keeps mentioning over and over for each party member that defeats her. When only Chris is left - Frank crosses the line of insult and gets challenged to duel by Chris.
Frank accepts with his coolness at stake and the two brawl it out (with pokémon of course).
When the battle is about to be wrapped up it is interrupted by a sudden storm, at the head of the storm is one of the Legendary birds - Zapdos. All attention is drawn there as the static and thunder leaves Pewter in a mess.
The team of Frank, Lucas, Joseph, Corey and Chris all walks off with a badge in hand.
The tv station gains interest in the battling team and does some reports. Frank lies saying that he isn't out to fight Team Rocket but hides his true agenda from the public eyes.
In the end, Frank decides to chase after Zapdos which headed to Cerulean dispite Lucas' warnings.
Catches:
Frank: Kabuto
Lucas: Paras
Corey: Secret
Edwin: Barboach
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[spoiler=Synopsis_Part 4]
Frank and Lucas ventured through Mt.moon. Frank went training and Lucas defeated the gym.
Chris, Corey and Joseph travelled through Mt.moon where Chris' Sandshrew ran off. Upon arriving in Cerulean Corey and Joseph travelled up north to the old pokémanic's house where Joseph found a Pichu.
Edwin takes his place as a gym trainer but gets beaten by Lucas who later defeats Lyle.
Frank returns to the pokécenter and finds Team Rocket invading town. He and Lucas fight their way out and meets up with Edwin and Chris.
Joseph and Corey bumps into Nigel who guards Cerulean Bridge. Joseph stay behind to defeat the rocket while Corey runs down into town.
They all fight the rockets and emerge victorious most of the cases when Frank suddenly stand face to face with his old Tyranitar. He fights Darren of Team rocket who is equipped with Frank's old pokémon but can't beat Tyranitar for the heck of it. He runs away and bump into a returning Corey and helps Chris.
When Frank, Corey, Lucas and Chris exits the Gym Frank meets up with an old flame - Saiar who explains the situation. They see Zapdos flying overhead and the chase begins.
Frank gets Saiar's Steelix to fight Zapdos while she takes care of Articuno and the rest of the riff raff takes care of Moltres. It is done to prevent chaos with the three birds getting together again.
Lucas and the grunts manage to put Moltres to sleep and rejoice.
Frank beats Zapdos with the very superior Steelix. But after fainting it - the bird rises again and takes off.
Moltres wakes up and follow Zapdos.
Articuno on the other hand is captured by Saiar after a heated battle.
Catches:
Lucas: Qwillfish
Joseph: Pichu
Corey: Gyarados
Edwin: Eevee
Saiar: Articuno o.O
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[spoiler=Synopsis_Backside1]
Team rocket tries to capture the three legendary birds. While on this quest they attack Pallet town, steal the research and kidnap the professor. Admin Lynn is taking care of the operation and has a run in with some trainers stirring up trouble, but few things can match a raging Gyarados.
Back in Vermillion Admin Arnel is having his sweet life with pokémon going in and out of Kanto without so much as directive from his side. His goons are incompetent but he still manages to hear the latest news.
One of those news were Admin Saiar from across the sea sent by the Boss to get things done. She confronts the goons of Vermillion and lets them know that treating pokémon like crap ain't good. But it has nothing to do with love and care. It's about keeping the blade clean before cutting. A broken sword won't do good when someone breaks it further, it needs to be sharpened.
At the same time, the operation to secure the Silph building is going according to plan.
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[spoiler=Synopsis_Backside2]
Administrator Saiar sets out with 7 grunts after heated discussion with Arnel.
The team is Alec, Koffin-kicker Holly and 5 other guys.
She learn the incompetent grunts how to train and use their pokémon when she is awoken in the middle of the night by the passing Articuno.
After following the Articuno she ends up fighting it with no gear and a single pokémon. One of her grunts - Holly manages to catch up and interrupt the battle which made the Articuno flee.
Admin Saiar and her henchmen arrives in Saffron after the recent creation of the Obedience ball (Luxery ball with obedience instead of affection) and has a talk with the stationed Admin in charge of the Silph building.
They carry on North towards Cerulean City where the Articuno was last seen heading.
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[spoiler=Synopsis_Backside3]
A grunt in Saffron tries to get a proposition about peeving and tempting Frank with his old pokémon team but gets the "thumbs down" from the stationed admin.

Admin Saiar trains and educate her grunts as they make their way towards Cerulean.
Once there she is met with hostility but have told her crew to remain calm, they stay at the pokémon center for the night but her grunts sneaks out despite orders to keep out of trouble.
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[spoiler=Synopsis_Backside4]
Arnel and the boss of Saffron sends out Darren to observe Saiar, interrupt with the Articuno catching so that they can take the credit, Extend the Rocket hold and his own personal mission - make a fool out of Frank with Frank's old pokémon. He gathers some grunts and head to Ceruelean where one of his friends Nigel is handing out nuggets at the Cerulean Bridge.

In Cerulean Darren meets trouble and starts battles. Saiar's goons hear the commotion and participates in the battles. They all fight for control and Darren is having a blast with the Tyranitar he got.
He find and beat Frank where he rubs it in his face a bit. Although two of his pokés were beaten.
After the battle he bumps into Saiar who seemed mad of his presence and his treating of Frank. They battle out and Darren is left in the dirt. He flees the battlefield but continued to watch Saiar from a distance.

Saiar and her goons team up again after some battles. Some of her team got beaten but some made it out okay. They also bump into Frank and c:o but are interrupted by the knowledge of Zapdos and it's very appearance.
They chase it and engage it in battle together with the other two legendary birds.
Saiar lets Frank handle Zapdos with her Steelix while she takes on Articuno. Her grunts and the remaining trainers get to deal with moltres.
After a heated battle her grunts and trainer Lucas puts Moltres to sleep who is awoken by Zapdos department.
Moltres follows and they flee.
Saiar continues to fight Articino and manages to catch it in the end. A great Rockety success!
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Signed up people(9):
Prpl_Mage *
AFL *
Lucas *
Ed *
Drenrin *
Corey *
RockJohnAxe*
Sai*
Midnight*x2
.* Profiled
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Added some basic rules
Started the RP
A map in a spoiler tag
"Player statuses" in a spoiler tag
Synopsis of the "part 1 events"
Synopsis of the "part 2 events"
Synopsis of the "rocket events"
Synopsis of the "part 3 events"

[X_marks_the_ed]

rather this than FF7.

Agreed.

I'll gladly join if enough people want to as well. Still needs a bit more background before I can come up with something for my dude, though.

[drenrin2120]

I may actually do this. But, mayhap there should be an... RP mod? Someone that determines probabilities without bias. Like a ref? Those probabilities being catch rate, who wins a match, things like that.

[X_marks_the_ed]

Someone that determines probabilities without bias. Like a ref? Those probabilities being catch rate, who wins a match, things like that.

Well, if we did that, then it's more like Dungeons and Dragons than an RP. I'm sure most of the participants would know that conflict with failure is more interesting than success at every turn.

[A Forgotten Legend]

I've not really done much RP before, but this sounds like my kind of plot and characters. =D

Name: Joseph
Starting Pokémon: Totodile
Trainer Type: Triathlete
Attitude: Joseph is kind of a lazy triathlete and fails at everything he attends. "Surf?  Who needs it when you could swim! ... Actually, Surf sounds like a better plan.  Swimming is hard work."
Story: Joseph recently moved to Pallet Town to live with his mother after living in Johto's Olivine City with his grandparents.  He got his Totodile as a goodbye gift from his grandparents.  It loves eating and play, being a perfect match for the trainer.  After living a few months in Pallet Town and not making many friends, he decided to head out on a journey and see the world on his bike.  On his Pokémon journey he hopes to overcome his laziness and one day become a master at Pokémon and riding a bike.  Of course, he may need to learn how to get the training wheels off first.

<-That is him


Is that good?  Whats funny is I have never used Totodile before.  I'm more a Cyndaquil kinda guy.

[Prpl_Mage]

I may actually do this. But, mayhap there should be an... RP mod? Someone that determines probabilities without bias. Like a ref? Those probabilities being catch rate, who wins a match, things like that.

If people think that we need this then we could get one of them. The question is just how very cannon the ref should be.
And I think that people would realise that catching a chansey on the first ball isn't very reasonable from personal experience, but it depends on.

Also... Will this be set before or after the games? Aka, has a ten year old already beaten the most powerful trainers in the world, and is the badass pokémon mob in hiding because a kid kicked their boss's ***?

Depends on if people want the classic team rocket and all that, we could always introduce a new team of baddies and ignore the fact that Red Ash ever existed.

And yeaah, maybe keep it just to the pokés that you can actually find or at least make sense. No catching a Dragonite in Viridian Forest, but maybe make it so we can find Beedrills in there. We can't find them ingame, but all those Weedles gotta come from somewhere, plus those Kakunas gotta evolve some day.

Yeah, sure. If one of the pokés from an evolution lines can be found in a place, maybe the others would as well, but I don't want people cathing a bunch of butterfrees and beedrills the first thing that happens, nor gravelers and golems, Nidoqueens and nidokings. There's gotta be some sense since those pokés would probably whip all of us together.


Also, I suppose the basic story will either be the classic:
"Pokémon professor is too lazy to do his cataloguing of pokémons himself and sends out a bunch of kids to do it for him. A fantastic story that stretches beyond time and place."
Or
"An evil team of baddies is wreaking havoc around the land and stops a bunch of eager trainers from completing their goals of becoming the best trainer in the world. An amazing tale of following your dreams."
OR
"Since the evil team of baddies have taken control of most towns with force and also stopped gyms and leaders from fulfilling their duties, a bunch of trainers decide to fight the evil team no matter where the battle takes them. An epic story about doing what's right."
OR
Simply something else, more detailed and thought-through.

EDIT: Why not make those things what people can base their characters on? I assume that people would like some Team of Baddies-action no matter what the story is about. Those roads would probably intertwine into one big group with one shared goal but different dreams to fulfil.

[coreystranick]

I'll join this. Sounds fun.
I like the story of the towns already been taken over. One that isn't used in every single game. But I'll go with either story.

Character:
Name: Corey
Starting Pokemon: Starly
Trainer Type: Artist
Attitude: Hates seeing people in need. Will more often than not do what is right, but is not always perfect.
Story: Corey never trained Pokemon during his time in Sinnoh and since he was 20 years old most of his friends got on him hard about it. He generally just draws Pokemon that he sees and has always admired Smeargle wishing to have one. He decides to start a new life in Kanto and plans to become a good trainer. As a parting gift his best friend handed him a PokeGear(with his phone number already in it) and an extra Pokemon he had. That Pokemon was a Starly.

[Prpl_Mage]

Name: Frank
Trainer type: Ace trainer (cool trainer)
Attitude: Awesome. Likes to battle hard and rough, healing items are for wuzzies. If the poké can't fend for itself - it's useless and needs more training.
Story: Never really got into the pokémon hype in Mahogany Town until he was attacked in tall grass, the day afterwards he imported (online) what he thought was a really strong legendary bird poké. It turned out to simply be a Murkrow.
But it was a start. Frank quickly caught a party of pokémon and dumped the Murkrow in the PC system since it was really weak compared to his new cool party. One day he received a ticket from the Kanto Elite four inviting him to take place in the tournament. But once he arrived by train the customs declared that the pokés he was carrying had to be scanned and checked before being allowed entrance into Saffron City...
Frank realized that something was odd when he was left at the station with no passport, money nor pokémon. He hurried to the nearest Pokémon centre only to realize that someone had used his ID to trade all of his strong reserves to an unknown receiver. Left in his box was nothing more than the very first poké he got. A neglected Murkrow.
Now Frank has to start anew from square 1 in Saffron City, the city of cities with a dream to become strong once more and to find out who duped him so badly.
(PS: Frank quickly got himself a new account and asked for a new passport, but both are still under production.)
Starting Poké: Murkrow



So, this is the plan:
Kanto (where the rp will take place to begin with) is currently under the "occupation" of a malicious team that tries to get their hands on the strongest of pokémon (But no, they do not do that by raising Rattatas, Zubats, Ekans and Koffings).
Their current objective is to find the whereabouts of a "Legendary Bird pokémon" that was seen landing somewhere in the Kanto region. Of course, since they have most of the place locked down - they take the advantage to use the people Team Cypher-style. Everything from kidnappings/pokénappings , threats, force, dupes, blackmail - you name it.
They want to fulfil their goals and they will stop at nothing.
PS: The team does not have a name yet, I need to come up with something suiting.


I won't be a bitch about finding what where, if you feel like catching a rare specimen of Schyter in a forest, or finding a Ledyba in a grassy field I won't mind. The pokés and their habitants changed a bit between R/B/Y and G/S/C after all.
What I'm trying to say is that I understand that people does not want to be limited to where we are right now. But keep in mind that it is also part of the charm so try not to abuse it.


Do you guys want me to make a list with all pokés where we can scratch the pokés we catch? /supernerding

Do you guys want a RP-ref that decides wherever or not it's probable that we win/ catch / encounter *pokémon*?


I'm gonna give you guys some more days to object to anything you feel is crazy.

[A Forgotten Legend]

The like the idea of an RP ref.  *fixes format of original post*

[X_marks_the_ed]

I can't believe I forgot this.

Name: Edwin
Starting Pokemon: Clefairy
Trainer Type: Ordinary Guy (Battle Revolution, apparently)
Attitude: Edwin is defensive about what others say and think about him, and is quick to strike back, though not very effectively. He is not above accepting help, but one can expect his eyes upon them at all times. He also rejects any complement towards his father.
Story: Al Stalberg is known for being the greatest trainer to come from the Tin Isles, but he was a lousy father. He left his family to further his skills shortly before his wife, Sarah passed away, leaving a small boy and the family pet to be relocated time after time for several years. With what remains of his family, Edwin decides to find his father and show him what had happened, and to punish him for the years of suffering they had endured without his care.

[Prpl_Mage]

This is getting pretty darn fine guys.
I'm still gonna wait a day or two to see if anyone else wants to join and see if Dren posts a profile.

And I will simply assume that people like what I've decided since no one is complaining.

[A Forgotten Legend]

I agree with Lucas.  Seeing a Team Rocket grunt with a Grimer isn't as scary as seeing one with a Sneasel or something.

[drenrin2120]

I'm okay with or without a ref. It was just a suggestion to keep things fair. But we all know each other and I'm pretty confident we're not gonna be dicks about this. Also, I will post a profile tomorrow. I need more time to think about it.

I like prpl mages plot. And I think, for reference, we should just stick to the best of our knowledge where wild pokemon are and aren't. I feel like a pretty big nerd saying this, but I know pretty damn well where kanto/johto pokemon are.

[Prpl_Mage]

I feel like a pretty big nerd saying this, but I know pretty damn well where kanto/johto pokemon are.

It's not like you're the only big nerd around here then. I got a pretty good idea of where to find most pokés. Remakes or not.

[drenrin2120]

It's not like you're the only big nerd around here then. I got a pretty good idea of where to find most pokés. Remakes or not.

I knoww, but still, I just get that feeling like, "wow, really?"