Dr.Gunsforhands
2024-02-01, 09:14 PM
Name: Renault "Monty (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1utkM4IPGfisvyj_4Zlcq4Q2UYwQvotERHyZ-ArNeAYY)" Montblanc
Arcana: Tower
Background: A relatively new transfer student that was moved over to live with his aunt after his parents died in an accident en route to visiting family in Kalos. While normally proactive and outgoing he's in a really bad place, in a new place and faced with intrusive thoughts that it wasn't an accident.
Everyday Life: Charlie... Charlie makes him laugh, which is probably the only thing keeping Monty above-water, so the speak. Assigned to the same study hall, Charlie is the only one that's really been able to get through his shell. They don't really hang out much outside of school, with Charlie busy with her band and active social life. The two still get up to the occasional mischief.
Acquaintance: Scott is one of the regulars at the gym where Monty goes to blow off steam. They talk occasionally but never see each other outside of the occasional running into each other. However, Scott's dad did go through a recent "prepper" kick and now is trying to get rid of his folly (rations, clean water, first aid supplies)
Secret Society: Aunti Lizz is part of the League religion. Fun fact - there are competing faction. Lizz is 'speaker to the flame prophet' of the 'children of dome' faction.
Background: Fletcher (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KlbznNC8bMyxLycVv7XJ4X8tMk3wlwl3FvrFA03Av0E/edit#gid=0) has always wanted to be a scientist. From elementary school, he's been hardworking and curious, always wanting to learn more about each topic. But when his mom died of cancer, he set his track on medicine. He wanted to help people with the same problems, and cure other diseases. He moved to Saffron City, where he got a scholarship to the University involving his research of medicine patches, which would make medicine cheaper and safer to use in higher concentrations on patients. Since then, he's been working long hours, researching and studying, hoping to solve problems.
Everyday Life: Prof. Claire is Fletchers mentor. She has helped him through his research, and guided him through tough times. Fletcher owes his success with the patches to Claire, and they are slowly becoming friends, which Fletcher definitely needs.
Acquaintance: Ryan Uptmore is a classmate who occasionally studies with Fletcher. He used to be someone he could talk to, but lately he’s been acting strange, almost… emotionless.
Secret Society: Prof. Claire is working for Team Rocket and wants to use the Patches to deliver performance enhancers at a high price. Fun Fact: Team
Rocket wants to establish a monopoly on the performance enhancer business.
Roland (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y8lEC8L6wRwIYDdP8w_-DmaohZxcjEeX-UvtNwYAVak/edit?usp=sharing) is obviously still in progress but I want to make sure the sheet is accessible.
Background: A part of the Saffron City police force for a couple of years now, he is currently on paid leave after he reported having strange dreams involving seeing monsters roving around at night and shadow people with glowing hearts - assumed to be trauma related by his therapist. His fiancée fell victim to White Out Syndrome shortly after the meteor strike: she is sufficiently listless that she stopped taking care of herself and is currently in long term care.
Daily Contact: Bika Excelsa serves coffee at Roland’s favorite coffee shop, which he stops by almost every day his morning run. Friendly and keen of mind, she knows when to keep her mouth shut and when to lend a sympathetic ear – both assets for the shop as Roland’s not the only member of the force to stop by that particular place for coffee.
Weekly Contact: Roland's work therapist, Lara Midia to whom he goes for therapy about once a week. She's the one who recommended him for leave. She hunts for interesting rocks in her spare time - geodes, agates, occasionally pans for gold - mostly she just finds curiosities and she hasn't struck it rich yet, but it's a hobby she enjoys. She also has good general knowledge of the surrounding area where said rocks are found, such as campsites and lesser-known trails, and a working knowledge of who to contact if you or a friend are stranded in said areas in need of assistance. Ask her how she knows! :smalltongue:
Secret Faction: One of his other co-workers moonlights as an acolyte at the Sky Dragon's Aerie (church of Rayquaza) faction of the League religion. There's a rivalry between the Sky Dragon's Aerie and the Temple of Time (Dialga) over who is the One True Dragon - nothing serious, it's mostly things like the Temple trying to one-up the Aerie's number of donors at the annual blood drive, the Aerie deliberately scheduling their bake sale on the same day the Temple has their craft fair, that sort of thing.
In case that it is still alive, I'd like to throw my hat in the ring as well.
Finn Leister (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zx289jkTgP3SHs-HmV8qT19nHzxT5mW5acDMzbHLiOU/edit#gid=0), programmer desperately trying to figure out why this fox is burning so brightly.
Name:Finn Leister
Arcana: The Hermit IX
Background: Daemon_Ologist (++Focus, +Edu: Tech, -Combat, -Survival, -Intimidate)
Classes: Ace Trainer/Special Attack Ace/Duelist/Researcher(General/Gadgeteer)
Starter: Emrys the Fennekin
Close Contact (The Moon XVIII): Xena Munroe, Finn's lifelong friend. The two share an interest in the occult, though Xena's runs a lot deeper, and she has gotten deep into spiritualism. When the two are together, their particular energies, quirks, and obsessions tend to equal parts amplify and negate each other. As a result, together they tend to spiral in distinctly different ways than they would when apart.
Casual Acquaintance (The Emperor IV): Gavin Trevors, Finn's cyber security professor, and closest thing Finn has to a personal mentor at the university. He's been in the business for a while, and has a lot of connection and resources that can be tapped into, within reason.
Secret Society (Hierophant V): Avery Oden, Finn's Machine Learning Professor, is also employed by Silph Co, working on some of their high end AI projects. Fun fact: Silph Co. is working on an artificial digitial Pokémon to help explore and exploit the Dark Hour.
Name: Nui Londalt * (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ut_zOrfbQEpcqRmF0vEKYsplS59cnCvTfJoVY1Egmk0/edit?usp=sharing)
Arcana: The High Priestess
Background: PreMed Aspirant (MedEdu++, Intution+)
Starter: Harrow the Litwick
Everyday Contact: (I - The Magician) Rex Colton, Nui's eternal rival for top of the class and the chaotic yang to her ordered yin. At least to hear their classmates describe them. In truth Nui and Rex have been study partners since high school, exchanging expertises in biology and organic chemistry, and they find the speculation of their peers alternatingly amusing and exhausting.
Acquaintance: (XVII - The Star) Tanya works at the small health and wellness shop where Nui buys protein shakes on the way to and from school. The punk goth girl frequently badmouths the mainstream pharmaceuticals that makes up most of the store's stock, but is oddly upbeat about their homegrown supplements and herbal tonics. (Herbal Restoratives, Herbs, and eventually Vitamins)
Secret Society: (VII - The Chariot) Nui's mother, Jade Londalt, works as a paralegal for Silph Co's marketing and legal department. Unknown to most Silph Co owns a non-controlling but significant share in most of the major television channels, not enough to dictate policies but it certainly doesn't hurt with pushing advertising and reporting on any new product lines.
Nui is a Medic, Commander, Firebringer, and Ace Trainer (the last largely for lack of better options that fit the concept). They focus on active support in the form of healing and multiple orders, and in a big fight can apply Burn for DoT and reduced defense. They will later gain the ability to spread those Order bonuses to allies.
The Dark Hour. A period of frozen time, taking place each night between 12:00 AM and 12:00:00:01. Some of you have experienced it almost every night since a certain small meteor struck Mt. Moon a few months ago. For others, this will be your first time seeing it.
For most other humans, the hour is imperceptible, since they are frozen in time along with everything else. Their bodies become ghostly silhouettes surrounding glowing, heart-shaped cores. The mountain in the distance sprouts crystalline towers and stairwells. Strange monsters in the forms of bats and fairies invade the city, more of them each night, and steal away people's hearts. When time resumes, these victims are left listless and affected, almost robotic, a condition termed White-Out Syndrome by doctors who don't know better.
Stories of monsters are still retold, of course. They have even made virtual pets based on the ones from folklore, which have become fairly popular despite complaints that they're sacrilegious. Some people venerate the monsters' memories through various traditions, while others deny that they ever existed. In any case, humanity has long been adapted to a world without them.
As some of the few people who can see what's really going on, it's on you to fight back the monsters and shut down the mystery dungeon that seems to be spawning them. That said, it seems that they're not all bad, necessarily? Each of you has a monster that comes to your aid when you need it most, which is certainly helpful. Not very informative, though. You have a lot to investigate!
If you're a teenager, you're a student at Cerulean Academy, a high school in the North of your country's Kanto prefecture. If you're looking at an academic future, the best universities are in Celadon City and Saffron City, known for their colleges of botany and engineering, respectively. Modern transportation means these cities are only a short train ride away, kept running by a huge multi-modal power plant East of town.
Here's the discord link! (https://discord.gg/HD7k4MNR) It expires on 2/8, so if you haven't used this by then, tell me and I'll regenerate it.
EDIT: Here's the dice thread! (https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?657269-Pok%E9sona-Pinball-Neon-Crystal-Dice-Rolls) Yes, I know the first post links to Red. I can't edit it! You can't edit posts in the dice thread!
Everyone post here and there to check in. The discord is shared with everyone playing in Red because why shouldn't you all talk about this together? If you have something important or that we'll need to remember, here is better; for quick questions and random fun, discord is better.
As long as you're checking in, before I make the IC thread, there are a few meta-narrative things I'll ask first:
- [Vote] Would you like the IC opening to be outside during the dark hour itself, or with you all gathered together in a meeting?
- [Individual] Would you like to RP your character's initial awakening, or start out already knowing what's going on?
- [Vote/Discuss] Would you like your group to just be the PCs organizing from the ground up, or would you like a sponsor?
Arcana: Tower
Background: A relatively new transfer student that was moved over to live with his aunt after his parents died in an accident en route to visiting family in Kalos. While normally proactive and outgoing he's in a really bad place, in a new place and faced with intrusive thoughts that it wasn't an accident.
Everyday Life: Charlie... Charlie makes him laugh, which is probably the only thing keeping Monty above-water, so the speak. Assigned to the same study hall, Charlie is the only one that's really been able to get through his shell. They don't really hang out much outside of school, with Charlie busy with her band and active social life. The two still get up to the occasional mischief.
Acquaintance: Scott is one of the regulars at the gym where Monty goes to blow off steam. They talk occasionally but never see each other outside of the occasional running into each other. However, Scott's dad did go through a recent "prepper" kick and now is trying to get rid of his folly (rations, clean water, first aid supplies)
Secret Society: Aunti Lizz is part of the League religion. Fun fact - there are competing faction. Lizz is 'speaker to the flame prophet' of the 'children of dome' faction.
Background: Fletcher (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KlbznNC8bMyxLycVv7XJ4X8tMk3wlwl3FvrFA03Av0E/edit#gid=0) has always wanted to be a scientist. From elementary school, he's been hardworking and curious, always wanting to learn more about each topic. But when his mom died of cancer, he set his track on medicine. He wanted to help people with the same problems, and cure other diseases. He moved to Saffron City, where he got a scholarship to the University involving his research of medicine patches, which would make medicine cheaper and safer to use in higher concentrations on patients. Since then, he's been working long hours, researching and studying, hoping to solve problems.
Everyday Life: Prof. Claire is Fletchers mentor. She has helped him through his research, and guided him through tough times. Fletcher owes his success with the patches to Claire, and they are slowly becoming friends, which Fletcher definitely needs.
Acquaintance: Ryan Uptmore is a classmate who occasionally studies with Fletcher. He used to be someone he could talk to, but lately he’s been acting strange, almost… emotionless.
Secret Society: Prof. Claire is working for Team Rocket and wants to use the Patches to deliver performance enhancers at a high price. Fun Fact: Team
Rocket wants to establish a monopoly on the performance enhancer business.
Roland (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y8lEC8L6wRwIYDdP8w_-DmaohZxcjEeX-UvtNwYAVak/edit?usp=sharing) is obviously still in progress but I want to make sure the sheet is accessible.
Background: A part of the Saffron City police force for a couple of years now, he is currently on paid leave after he reported having strange dreams involving seeing monsters roving around at night and shadow people with glowing hearts - assumed to be trauma related by his therapist. His fiancée fell victim to White Out Syndrome shortly after the meteor strike: she is sufficiently listless that she stopped taking care of herself and is currently in long term care.
Daily Contact: Bika Excelsa serves coffee at Roland’s favorite coffee shop, which he stops by almost every day his morning run. Friendly and keen of mind, she knows when to keep her mouth shut and when to lend a sympathetic ear – both assets for the shop as Roland’s not the only member of the force to stop by that particular place for coffee.
Weekly Contact: Roland's work therapist, Lara Midia to whom he goes for therapy about once a week. She's the one who recommended him for leave. She hunts for interesting rocks in her spare time - geodes, agates, occasionally pans for gold - mostly she just finds curiosities and she hasn't struck it rich yet, but it's a hobby she enjoys. She also has good general knowledge of the surrounding area where said rocks are found, such as campsites and lesser-known trails, and a working knowledge of who to contact if you or a friend are stranded in said areas in need of assistance. Ask her how she knows! :smalltongue:
Secret Faction: One of his other co-workers moonlights as an acolyte at the Sky Dragon's Aerie (church of Rayquaza) faction of the League religion. There's a rivalry between the Sky Dragon's Aerie and the Temple of Time (Dialga) over who is the One True Dragon - nothing serious, it's mostly things like the Temple trying to one-up the Aerie's number of donors at the annual blood drive, the Aerie deliberately scheduling their bake sale on the same day the Temple has their craft fair, that sort of thing.
In case that it is still alive, I'd like to throw my hat in the ring as well.
Finn Leister (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zx289jkTgP3SHs-HmV8qT19nHzxT5mW5acDMzbHLiOU/edit#gid=0), programmer desperately trying to figure out why this fox is burning so brightly.
Name:Finn Leister
Arcana: The Hermit IX
Background: Daemon_Ologist (++Focus, +Edu: Tech, -Combat, -Survival, -Intimidate)
Classes: Ace Trainer/Special Attack Ace/Duelist/Researcher(General/Gadgeteer)
Starter: Emrys the Fennekin
Close Contact (The Moon XVIII): Xena Munroe, Finn's lifelong friend. The two share an interest in the occult, though Xena's runs a lot deeper, and she has gotten deep into spiritualism. When the two are together, their particular energies, quirks, and obsessions tend to equal parts amplify and negate each other. As a result, together they tend to spiral in distinctly different ways than they would when apart.
Casual Acquaintance (The Emperor IV): Gavin Trevors, Finn's cyber security professor, and closest thing Finn has to a personal mentor at the university. He's been in the business for a while, and has a lot of connection and resources that can be tapped into, within reason.
Secret Society (Hierophant V): Avery Oden, Finn's Machine Learning Professor, is also employed by Silph Co, working on some of their high end AI projects. Fun fact: Silph Co. is working on an artificial digitial Pokémon to help explore and exploit the Dark Hour.
Name: Nui Londalt * (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ut_zOrfbQEpcqRmF0vEKYsplS59cnCvTfJoVY1Egmk0/edit?usp=sharing)
Arcana: The High Priestess
Background: PreMed Aspirant (MedEdu++, Intution+)
Starter: Harrow the Litwick
Everyday Contact: (I - The Magician) Rex Colton, Nui's eternal rival for top of the class and the chaotic yang to her ordered yin. At least to hear their classmates describe them. In truth Nui and Rex have been study partners since high school, exchanging expertises in biology and organic chemistry, and they find the speculation of their peers alternatingly amusing and exhausting.
Acquaintance: (XVII - The Star) Tanya works at the small health and wellness shop where Nui buys protein shakes on the way to and from school. The punk goth girl frequently badmouths the mainstream pharmaceuticals that makes up most of the store's stock, but is oddly upbeat about their homegrown supplements and herbal tonics. (Herbal Restoratives, Herbs, and eventually Vitamins)
Secret Society: (VII - The Chariot) Nui's mother, Jade Londalt, works as a paralegal for Silph Co's marketing and legal department. Unknown to most Silph Co owns a non-controlling but significant share in most of the major television channels, not enough to dictate policies but it certainly doesn't hurt with pushing advertising and reporting on any new product lines.
Nui is a Medic, Commander, Firebringer, and Ace Trainer (the last largely for lack of better options that fit the concept). They focus on active support in the form of healing and multiple orders, and in a big fight can apply Burn for DoT and reduced defense. They will later gain the ability to spread those Order bonuses to allies.
The Dark Hour. A period of frozen time, taking place each night between 12:00 AM and 12:00:00:01. Some of you have experienced it almost every night since a certain small meteor struck Mt. Moon a few months ago. For others, this will be your first time seeing it.
For most other humans, the hour is imperceptible, since they are frozen in time along with everything else. Their bodies become ghostly silhouettes surrounding glowing, heart-shaped cores. The mountain in the distance sprouts crystalline towers and stairwells. Strange monsters in the forms of bats and fairies invade the city, more of them each night, and steal away people's hearts. When time resumes, these victims are left listless and affected, almost robotic, a condition termed White-Out Syndrome by doctors who don't know better.
Stories of monsters are still retold, of course. They have even made virtual pets based on the ones from folklore, which have become fairly popular despite complaints that they're sacrilegious. Some people venerate the monsters' memories through various traditions, while others deny that they ever existed. In any case, humanity has long been adapted to a world without them.
As some of the few people who can see what's really going on, it's on you to fight back the monsters and shut down the mystery dungeon that seems to be spawning them. That said, it seems that they're not all bad, necessarily? Each of you has a monster that comes to your aid when you need it most, which is certainly helpful. Not very informative, though. You have a lot to investigate!
If you're a teenager, you're a student at Cerulean Academy, a high school in the North of your country's Kanto prefecture. If you're looking at an academic future, the best universities are in Celadon City and Saffron City, known for their colleges of botany and engineering, respectively. Modern transportation means these cities are only a short train ride away, kept running by a huge multi-modal power plant East of town.
Here's the discord link! (https://discord.gg/HD7k4MNR) It expires on 2/8, so if you haven't used this by then, tell me and I'll regenerate it.
EDIT: Here's the dice thread! (https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?657269-Pok%E9sona-Pinball-Neon-Crystal-Dice-Rolls) Yes, I know the first post links to Red. I can't edit it! You can't edit posts in the dice thread!
Everyone post here and there to check in. The discord is shared with everyone playing in Red because why shouldn't you all talk about this together? If you have something important or that we'll need to remember, here is better; for quick questions and random fun, discord is better.
As long as you're checking in, before I make the IC thread, there are a few meta-narrative things I'll ask first:
- [Vote] Would you like the IC opening to be outside during the dark hour itself, or with you all gathered together in a meeting?
- [Individual] Would you like to RP your character's initial awakening, or start out already knowing what's going on?
- [Vote/Discuss] Would you like your group to just be the PCs organizing from the ground up, or would you like a sponsor?