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Posted by: Kamaitachi Oct 30 2013, 01:06 AM

That's a crap title I threw down, because I can't title anything to save my life.

Let's come up with a plot! Because having plots is good.

Posted by: 7eeveelutions Oct 31 2013, 01:07 PM

Just about anything plot-wise will work for me.

Where will our characters be? My vote would be somewhere outside of one of the big cities. Scott has travelled outside the Loch Ranch area much apart from going to some of the larger cities (mostly Gigarte) when he needed to go shopping for something he couldn't find closer to home, so he'd probably be wandering around looking for interesting places to visit and build up his Ranger skills.

Posted by: Kamaitachi Nov 14 2013, 01:48 AM

So, rt and I were thinking Arasam. We can be outside Arasam first. I know Tikal and Cesc will somehow, magically, wind up in a training match to help prepare Tikal for her gym battle with Otis.

Also, Tikal will take on Otis for the Emberwing Badge. Cesc will challenge Troy for the Metalliclaw Ribbon. Seems pretty legit, no?

Anyone catching any Pokemon?

Tikal may be catching a Swablu? Cesc may be catching a Gligar? Let's talk!

Posted by: rt117 Nov 14 2013, 03:32 PM

Im starting to have second thoughts about catching a Pokemon in this thread, only because i might want to wait awhile longer to hasten the rate at which my teams levels at. Opinions?

Posted by: Kamaitachi Nov 14 2013, 04:25 PM

I'd wait. 15 levels gets spread pretty thin across more pokemon, ya know?

Posted by: 7eeveelutions Nov 15 2013, 02:17 PM

I doubt I'll catch anything. If I did, it would probably be some kind of bird. Or maybe an Absol. Whenever Mega Evolution gets allowed, an Absol would be awesome to have :p

Scott would probably be interested in observing any gym battles. And eating at Charizard's Maw sounds like fun.

Posted by: Kamaitachi Nov 15 2013, 03:16 PM

Okay, Tikal will also need to run into some moon stones at some point. Is there some "ranger business" that Scott can be up to wherein he needs Cesc and Tikal's help? Maybe they find a cache of Moon Stones?

Posted by: rt117 Nov 15 2013, 05:19 PM

I know, I was just thinking out loud for something she'd eventually do
Probably will wait until high 20s (near 30s) before I do any captures

Posted by: 7eeveelutions Nov 16 2013, 02:27 PM

Maybe...... I'm not totally sure what kinds of things Rangers do (and I've played the Ranger games). I would think it would be along the lines of stopping poachers and Team Deception, and making sure Trainers aren't abusing their Pokemon. But Scott is still a Ranger-in-training, so I'm not entirely sure what the higher-ranked Rangers would let him do. He'll probably be fine just helping Cesc and Tikal if they run into a problem and maybe getting into a battle or two or three. He does have a bit of a unique style of battling, at least when he's using his Vulpix......

Finding Moon Stones seems like a fun idea, though. Any evolution stones, really. Maybe we can find some sort of cave full of evolution stones, with some kind of really strong Pokemon guarding them?

Posted by: rt117 Nov 16 2013, 03:21 PM

If you need some direction on what Rangers do, trying watching a couple of the episodes about them. It'll probably help give you a better idea (basically keep things in the balance while stopping criminals in the like from poaching, as you mentioned before).

There was also an episode similar to your suggestion too, and it came out fairly recently:
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/BW135

Posted by: 7eeveelutions Nov 16 2013, 03:49 PM

Ahh! An episode with Eevees! Those are dangerous, they can cause terrifying levels of distraction when shown to me......

I've always thought of the Pokemon Rangers as being similar to US Park Rangers, keeping nature clean and undisturbed, with maybe a little bit of State Trooper mixed in since I'm sure they can arrest people and they aren't confined to one small area like normal police or Park Rangers. Scott doesn't have one of those capture disks either, you never see a Ranger with one of those in the main series games.

I also can't help but wonder what a Ranger would do if a cave like the one I suggested was found. If a Ranger is supposed to keep nature as undisturbed as possible...... maybe Scott would be supposed to try and keep everyone else from taking the stones? He already has a Fire Stone for Ruby and the two Eevees will be Espeon and Umbreon eventually, so he doesn't need any himself.

I can see some criminals finding the cave and trying to take the stones to sell them. That would be interesting.

Posted by: Kamaitachi Nov 16 2013, 04:12 PM

Cool,

And just a side note, Team Deception is widely unknown. By virtue of being deceptive, they typically don't run around yelling mottos telling everyone who they are. Unless he's dealt with them directly, there's a slim chance he'd know they exist.

I'm fine with the caves.

We'll double whammy it up. Here's the current plot idea.

Cesc and Tikal meet up, and have a training match near Scott, who is on patrol after getting a report of poachers in the Arasam area.

Scott questions Cesc and Tikal, wondering if they've seen anything. Being good natured, Cesc and Tikal probably agree to help him search. They wind up finding some Pokemon caught in various traps. Let's say one of them is a Pokemon like Growlithe, Poochyena or Spoink, who has Odor Sleuth, and they use that to track down the poachers to a cave.

The poachers have several captured Pokemon, as well as an illegal mining operation, where they're digging up evolutionary stones?

Cue Battle.

That should be enough, I believe.

Tikal and Cesc can have their Gym and Contest Battles in the next rp, as I think this should be good to cover it. I'd rather Scott be able to join up with another rp where he can actually do something, so you're not bored watching us slug it out for badges and ribbons.

Posted by: rt117 Nov 16 2013, 05:37 PM

Sure thing! A follow up means more opportunities to rp anyways

Posted by: 7eeveelutions Nov 16 2013, 08:45 PM

Works for me.

Scott has no idea who Team Deception is. He hasn't really had anything interesting happen during his Ranger training thus far.

On a side note, it might take me a couple posts to get the hang of how you guys RP here. I've roleplayed before, but not in an RPG like this. Hope I don't slow you guys down much.

Posted by: rt117 Nov 16 2013, 08:46 PM

as long as you make the effort to keep up, im happy

Posted by: 7eeveelutions Nov 17 2013, 02:50 PM

Keeping up with the roleplay will be easy. I'm used to much shorter posts that are made much more quickly than what's normally done here, though. I'm most curious to see how Scott's special way of battling with Ruby will work.

Also, what will the poachers be like? Will they be Team Deception or just some random criminals?

Posted by: Kamaitachi Nov 17 2013, 03:17 PM

Random Criminals.

I may be a bit slow to post at first, as my calender this month has things written like: "Sleep? Maybe?" about one day a week. The main thread should be up soon.

Posted by: 7eeveelutions Dec 10 2013, 10:40 PM

Just so you guys know, that Absol I introduced is going to be somewhat important to the RP, as she is one of the guardians of the cave full of evolution stones. She's at least a mid-level and at this point in the story won't be letting anyone catch her, but later on if Cesc or Tikal wants to catch her that's fine. If I decide to catch an Absol it will end up being one of her lower-level children.

Also, I've got a slightly different plan as to how Scott finds out about the cave's existence and about the poachers.

I was thinking that a different Ranger was recently (about a day prior to the story) scouring the mountainside on patrol and stumbled upon the previously-undiscovered cave full of evolution stones (and maybe mega stones?) with several strong Pokemon guarding them (possibly those who can use mega stones? Although that isn't the reason I chose an Absol for the first guardian). He was unable to win the Pokemon's trust so he could not enter the cave, but he did take a detailed journal about the cave and he called Ranger Command to report his findings, but didn't know his exact location, which is important because after returning to a little-used Ranger Station in Arasam he was robbed (he was the only Ranger on duty at the time). The object of the robbery was his journal, which detailed the location of the cave, and the robbers were the poachers we'll meet later.

The Ranger was then airlifted to a hospital unconscious, so he can't tell anyone the actual location of the cave, and without the journal nobody knows anything more than which side of the mountain the cave was on. With most of the other senior Rangers occupied doing other things, Ranger Command wants Scott to find the cave and then either enlist other nearby Trainers to help secure the cave or simply wait for backup.

Scott doesn't know any of this yet, but Command will call him soon enough to give him his mission.

Is this okay with the two of you? Any changes you want to make?

I have no idea how many of the guarding Pokemon there should be or what kinds of Pokemon they will be. As for the poachers, I think ten of them ought to be a good enough number to give everyone problems. Most of them would simply have low-level Dark-types that even weak Ruby could deal with, but they'd have lots of them and use a strength-in-numbers kind of tactic. I do think throwing in a Tyranitar or Hydregion or something similar for the leader might be interesting......

Also, since these are poachers, would it be against the RP rules for one or two of the poachers to have a rifle or shotgun? If they can't, then that's fine, I'm just curious.

Posted by: Kamaitachi Dec 11 2013, 12:03 AM

I didn't plan on Cesc catching the Absol OR Ruby for that matter.

If you have a good way to introduce the Senior Ranger subplot, then go for it. I'm down.

As for Pokemon in the cave? Probably not too powerful. Tikal and Cesc's Pokemon are in the 30s. Same with the Poachers, we can't have them too powerful. 10 enemies with teams of Pokemon is too much for me; I tried that in an rp once, and the battle took FOREVER.

So to keep it simple, I think 3 poachers is fine. Each one can have a team with Pokemon equal to one of our heroes, so we each get a fight. If you want to have a leader with Higher Level Pokemon they have to gang up on, that's fine too. Hydreigon or Tyranitar is a bit much. Realistically, they'd stomp our tired team out pretty badly.

We can use Pokemon that could evolve with Mega Stones, but Mega Stones haven't been formally introduced into PANE, so they wouldn't be Mega Evolving.

They can have a rifle or shotgun, but they should only whip it out as a last resort, please.

Posted by: 7eeveelutions Dec 11 2013, 01:32 AM

I'm still trying to figure out bits and pieces of how to introduce it. I thought that initially just having someone up in Ranger Command (or whatever they're called) contact Scott to give him the task of figuring out where the cave is, but only giving him very vague information on where it may be and only a little information about the thieves/poachers and what happened to the other senior Ranger. Later on, Command could send another message with greater details after the senior Ranger wakes up. Other than that, I can't think of much as far as implementing the idea.

As far as "powerful" goes I was thinking mainly around levels 20-25, something which would probably be fairly strong for a wild Pokemon. Maybe one or two around level 30-35 for a greater challenge, but I'm not sure it will even matter because by the time we reach the cave the poachers will be our main problem and these evolution stone guardians will be more of an ally than an enemy. Afterwards, though, anyone who wants a stone will probably have to beat at least one of the guardians though to be let into the cave again......

I see your point for the poachers. I don't know if three is enough, but it is a convenient number so we might as well use that. They'll need to be strong enough to defeat all of the cave guardians, so maybe having one "boss" to gang up on isn't so bad of an idea. We could fight the other two weak poachers as a group, and then gang up on their boss afterwards. The weak guys could have Pokemon around level 15 so Scott's team won't be totally useless, while the boss might have a team around level 35 or so.

A firearm will probably exist in the possession of one of the poachers, something to scare Scott, Cesc, and Tikal but it (hopefully) won't be used against us. It could have been used for the robbery on the other Ranger and to scare the cave guardians and make them easier to trap. If it's a handgun, it could even be something for Ebony to steal with Covet.

As for the Mega Stones, they could exist in the cave but without anyone knowing what they actually are. They wouldn't work without a Mega Ring anyway. At least, it's an idea about where you could possibly find Mega Stones for future roleplays.

Posted by: 7eeveelutions Mar 23 2014, 06:34 PM

Excuse the double post...... but I have a few ideas and notes for the upcoming battle.

First note is that Scott's team is currently almost falling apart. Scarlet's not in a state where she can currently battle, and although she won't show it to anyone Ruby is absolutely exhausted, as battling on her own without Scott's help is more tiring for her because she has to think and strategize more/faster than if Scott were giving orders. That just leaves Ebony, but he may have other tasks to do with Covet, as I'll mention later. His team just isn't used to having multiple battles in quick succession. And that isn't even taking the group's fear of Mightyena into account......

That'll leave Cesc to take on all three remaining poachers on his own, although Ruby will do her best to help. Even with the wild Absol/Glaceon and eventually (hopefully) a wild Lucario helping (that Lucario from the pictures we found earlier), I'm not sure how to get around this. I suppose trying to lure one of the poachers away from the others and then taking him out might help, but that'll only make Ruby (and Cesc's team) even more tired, or even knock her out entirely...... if it works at all.

One rather evil idea I had was to drop the Fire Stone Scott is saving for Ruby down in front of the cave, and wait for one of the poachers to go and pick it up before we drop something/someone on top of him. I don't really want to kill someone though, and dropping a large stone (or Tybalt/Scott/Cesc) from 20 feet up onto someone would probably have rather painful effects.

We could also use the handgun we picked off the first poacher along with any ranged attacks our Pokemon know to try and ambush everyone and simply hope for the best. Or we could do it without the gun too.

But whatever happens, Ruby isn't going to make it through the entire battle and Ebony's going to be focusing on stealing the boss poacher's set of keys to the Pokemon cages. If he can manage that, Scott can unlock the cages and let the Pokemon inside offer their own assistance to Cesc.
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But all of this leads to one last idea, since we're so badly outmatched here. What if we plan to lose the battle? The poachers could take us prisoner and fly us off somewhere to their base, where we would have to find a way to escape. I think that might even be a way to tie in the RP's name Broken Stars (not that it's really that important to do that).

In doing so, we could possibly even put that in a second RP so that someone from the outside is able to break in and help us out. But that might just be wishful thinking on my part to try and get more levels, since it would lock our characters together for a while longer......

Posted by: Kamaitachi Mar 26 2014, 03:50 PM

Hmmmm...
I bet they would definitely have to use divide and conquer tactics. Lure one of them out and take them down rather than engaging all of them in straight up battle.

Cesc emptied the ammo out of the handgun, so they couldn't really use it as anything more than a bluff. Why don't we say this:

Scott and Cesc lure one of them out, magically, place the empty handgun to his head, then knock him unconscious? That leaves two poachers.

They can sneak in, and have Ebony use covet, taking the keys. If Ebony gets spotted, they can spring cover and ambush the remaining two. While Cesc and Ruby take on the poachers, keeping them busy, Scott can take the keys and let out the caged Pokemon. Since Ruby will most likely get knocked out, why not have Scott team up with the Absol and Glaceon as temporary partners? Then the Lucario in question? That way they can divvy up the remaining two poachers.

And...voila!

Then we can end the rp, and Scott and Cesc can move on to other adventures. I'd planned on Cesc entering a contest in Arasam, so maybe Scott can tag along for a spell? There can be another ranger instance in the city itself, so that would occupy their time pre-contest?

Posted by: 7eeveelutions Mar 27 2014, 02:15 PM

Okay, that works for me. The poachers aren't quite done getting all the evolution stones they can carry yet, so there will be a few moments when one or two of them enter the cave and our characters can move more easily without being seen.

Scott is a Ranger...... so I can't believe I didn't think of just having him team up with our wild allies. Well, I suppose that will work. Glaceon's a bit too strong for Scott to handle, but Absol and maybe Lucario will work. I might just have Lucario stay in the cave until we're done, unless something really bad happens.

Scott's going to need to head back to where his house used to be in the Loch Ranch area for a little while afterwards, because a Ranger station is going to be built on the land he owns, which will become his new home. That's what the letter that Staraptor dropped off earlier deals with. He only needs to stay long enough to get some of his preferences into the building plans though, so he'll probably wander off somewhere else soon afterwards. If he is aware that Cesc is going to be entering a contest in Arasam, he might head back there for a while, otherwise he'll just find trouble to stick his nose in somewhere else.

I can't remember if I mentioned it somewhere or not...... but I was planning on that giant icy-or-crystal-like stone in the pictures that is deep in the cave being an Icy Rock. That will be why the Glaceon was living in the cave instead of in a much colder location. I was hoping that there could be a long, narrow passageway at the back of the main cave that led deep into and farther up the mountain to where the rock is located.

Posted by: Kamaitachi Mar 27 2014, 02:58 PM

I'll make it known at the end that Cesc is going to enter the contest in Arasam, giving Scott a reason to come back. Then more shennanigans can ensue in the city. Perhaps with this same lot of poachers breaking out or something. We'll jump off of that bridge when we get to it.

I remember the big ice rock and assumed it was one in the same. There can absolutely be a narrow passageway to the icy rock

I'll try and post this weekend; been extraordinarily busy with opening a show, etc.

Cheers

Posted by: 7eeveelutions Mar 27 2014, 04:38 PM

Jumping off bridges...... that sounds like an interesting activity. At least, as long as we have parachutes or birds or something else to stop any meetings with the ground below.

Ah. Well I've been busy with spring break stuff, four exams, and a term paper over the past two weeks with another exam on Friday so I've been real busy too. And then at the end of April comes the first of the final exams and a major programming project. I can't wait until mid-May and be done with this semester.