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    The Somar Region


    Occupying an archipelago of two large islands with four smaller islands between them, the Somar Region is a mini region with very few unique native Pokemon species. However, over the centuries many pokemon from many other regions have migrated there and settled permanently or semipermeable, giving the region a great deal of diversity in wild pokemon.

    The Somar region for decades suffered from severe poverty but approximately thirty years ago the, at the time small, "Pokemon Bio-Organic Research and Innovation Incorporated," or "PoBORI Inc" moved their main operations there. PoBORI Inc's mission statement? "Humanely and ethically studying the biology of pokemon and the flora that have evolved alongside them, discover the biomechanical and bio-physical mechanics behind them, and use them to create technology to improve the lives of both man and pokemon."

    Their first major success was using the Somar Region's native, unique Apricorn species, one heartier than most other varieties, for crossbreeding experiments with other species. By doing this, PoBORI Inc was able to mass manufacture Pokeballs far more cheaply than many competitors. While PoBORI Inc has not been able to displace Silph Co's monopoly in the major regions, they've been able to make a killing in smaller markets and by selling certain specialty balls at more affordable prices.

    This fortune was not only used to fund further research, it was invested into various parts of the Somar Region, building up prosperity for its people and investing in, emerging with, or sometimes, if necessary, buying out struggling local businesses.

    Now the eight major cities of the region sprawl and bustle, with people riding around in their PoBORI Inc made Rotom cars, browsing the internet and doing business on PoBori Inc brand Rotomphones, Pokemon Centers using PoBORI Inc medicines and equipment to save the lives of the beloved Pokemon companions of the Somar Regions happy, prosperous citizens who live happy, stress-free lives thanks to PoBORI Inc Lobbyists influencing the Region's governments to keep the cost of living low and all of the high paying PoBORI Inc jobs(with great benefits!) and cheap, comprehensive education that can be easily obtained from any of a number of affordable PoBORI Inc sponsored schools.

    Somarian people are entertained by tournaments, exhibition matches, and Leauge Battles held in grand PoBORI Inc sponsored stadiums, and League trainers train, battle, and test their might in PoBORI Inc sponsored Gyms(Located in All Major Cities!)

    CEO Ace Helix, despite his aged appearance, projects a friendly and approachable demeanor and, when not at the office, is an avid Pokemon Battler... In fact, he's won the League Championship fair and square more than once and currently holds the position.

    Other than occasional easily quelled terrorist actions by Team Greens, a bunch of ineffectual eco-terrorist whackjobs who claim with no proof think that PoBORI Inc is performing inhuman experiments on Humans and Pokemon. Things are great. But really, very few people ever get hurt and Team Greens is easily dealt with by the authorities.

    All is well in the PoBORI... I mean, Somar region.
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    No, no it's not.

    PoBORI Inc's CEO and Board of Directors, as well as all major investors, are motivated entirely on Greed and lining their own pockets.

    They didn't come to Somar to be generous, but because the laws in the Somar Region in regards to certain kinds of... Research, aren't as strict as in other regions.

    Nobody talks about how trainers sometimes go missing in the caves between Hemoglo City and Mount Cranium, for example.

    All of the kind, generous, 'sharing the wealth' actions they've taken were to get the people on their side as they slowly infiltrated, subverted, and took over every aspect of Somarian society. PoBORI Inc is the government, they are the league, they are the police, the firemen, the schools, the hospitals...

    PoBORI Inc, over the last few decades, has become the Somar Region.

    Only the upper-crust of the upper-crust know just how extensive their control is, but the Company has ways of making sure only the loyal or the buyable make it to any position of real power.

    The Leadership of Team Greens consists entirely of PoBORI Inc paramilitary agents who find and radicalize anyone with valid complaints against the company in order to both keep control over potential dissenters and to discredit anyone who tries to expose their crimes.

    The Elite Four all hold undying Loyalty to Ace Helix and the company, and the Gym Leaders are more or le loyal to the Elite 4.

    ...Though, one has to wonder how loyal some of the Gym Leaders knew what was being done in the secret laboratory in the heart of Osteo forest. Something that Ace Helix thinks will pave the way for the transition from dominating Somar to ruling the World.

    There are so many loopholes regarding the international regulations on the use of Pokemon in the military after all. And very few regulations on the use of humans.



    The Archipelago that makes up the Somar Region consists of Renal Island to the West, Respir Island to the East, named for their shapes, and between them Northwest Phlemg Island, Northeast Chole Island, Southeast Melaina, and Southwest Blood Island.

    Collectively, the Islands between Renal Island and Respir Islands are called the Islands of Good Humor.

    At the Northernmost section of Renal Island, there is a forest of bone-white barked trees that dominates as far as the eyes can see, all the way out to the cliffs that make up the northern shore. This is Osteo Forest, and entrance to it is strictly regulated due to the presence of many dangerous Pokemon that live in the area... Particularly some unusually aggressive Regional Variant Phantumps and Trevenant.

    As an aside, most dusk stones in the region are found in Osteo Forest by carefully trained extraction teams employed by PoBORI Inc.
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    Bark is White, they're able to learn dark type moves, particularly dark pulse, and a few minor poison type moves. They evolve from Dusk Stones instead of trade, creating a Dark/Grass Type Trevenant


    South of Osteo Forest is Spinabase City, where most trainers taking the league challenge try to earn their first badge. A relatively small city, Spinabase's Gym Leader, Skelo, is friendly and specializes in common normal types, stating his personal belief that anyone and anything can be great with adequate care, hard work, and maybe a hand up. Many people who now work in the Gym started out as trainers who came to challenge him, lost for one reason or another, but decided to stay around because his kind words of encouragement made them feel like they could do more good working with him than going off on their own... This was, of course, not what he meant, but he won't turn down anyone who wants to join his Gym without a very good reason.

    Further south are vast plains and rolling hills dotted with small towns and villages until one makes it to the southern shores of the kidney-shaped isle, where one finds a beach. Follow the path east and you'll run into Adrenal Town, home to another Gym and a free Ferry Service to Blood Island.

    Blood Island's only major city is Lymphocyte Town, which hosts a Gym, though to the far north one may find a small town infamous in the region for "the Duke," an old man who it seems refuses to die. A surfer in his youth, in his old age he claims that he can teach anyone or anything how to easily traverse the seas on body or board... Though most dismiss him both for his ridiculous claims ("My Charizard knows surf!") and his open distrust of PoBORI Inc

    Phlegm Island is similar, though almost a mirror image, one large town and one small settlement in reversed positions, and the pattern is repeated on Chole Island and Melania Island.

    Strong natural currents and the presence of Whirlpools around the northern end of Lungshaped Respir Island direct all travelers coming by sea to the Southernmost section of the Island, a beach somewhat Rockeier than one on Southern Renal Island, which leads up into plains until arrives in the Twin Cities of Oxy City and Hemoglo City. Despite being right across the Pulmonary River from each other and built along similar plans, and despite being dependant on each other due to one city holding the factories that produce products the other needs, the citizens of each city hate each other with a passion each claiming that the other's Gym draws attention away from its own.

    North of the city are a series of small mountains that are difficult to navigate on foot. Most people take the Tram north to Cerebellum City, home of both The Elite Four and PoBORI Inc headquarters, but it's tradition for trainers taking the League challenge to walk or bike through a series of tunnels that start just outside of Hemoglo City and take the trainer directly to Mount Cranium, a large but more navigatable mountain that has a trail that leads to Cerebellum City.

    Legend Has it that a trio of Rare and Powerful Pokemon make their homes in the three caves near the rounded peak of Mount Cranium, which from a distance make the impression of a small skull at the top of the mountain, but everyone who has ever tried to find them ha either returned empty-handed or been lost in a mountaineering accident, leading to the paths towards the peak being chained off.


    So here's the base setting, but obviously, there's room to flesh things out.

    Gameplay will Start with the PCs escaping from the laboratory in Osteoforest and, well, surviving in the forest.

    The PCs are all... Unwilling experiments of the least ethical of the company's means of research. The on's aimed towards... Military use.

    I have several options planned out but don't feel constrained by them if you come up with something good.
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    Created via using a modified strain of Pokerus to CRISPR a human subject with genes from Evee, Ditto, and one other Pokemon species and then exposing them to
    a radiation chamber that emulates the aggregate radiations of all known types of evolution stone, the subject metamorphoses in a manner similar to Pokemon Evolution into a Hybrid of human and Pokemon.

    Hybrids are humanoid enough to obviously be people, but are very clearly not fully human anymore. El Goonish Shive's "furry forms" would be a good ballpark for what I'm going for, EG

    New Hybrids are born in the initial form of the pokemon they are spliced with the genes of but are capable of undergoing evolution as their pokemon. They have access to all of the abilities of an exceptional example of their species, and can potentially learn any move that can be learned by that Pokemon.
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    ...We've all seen or Played Detective Pikachu, right? Or played the first games or their remakes and met Bill?

    You know how it goes, a human and a Pokemon fused together in such a way as to result in a Pokemon of human-level intelligence. Since there are multiple ways in the source material to do this and differing results, my preference is to lead the exact details up to the player, but don't go crazy and for convenience, the fusion should be able to talk.

    In terms of power... all abilities, all moves, like with the hybrids
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    This is your more Frankensteinian option.

    We've seen the Galar Fossil Pokemon right? The ones that are two fossils mismatched together?

    The Revives are a human who was dead with pokemon body parts grafted onto them and then resurrected with Fossil Revival technology. The fusion should be relatively seamless and the central nervous system should remain human(So I'm gonna say no psychics unless you were psychic, to begin with) but otherwise feel free to go nuts, mixing and matching.
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    It's not Cyberpunk Without Cyborgs.

    The Enhanced are modified with genes from Rotom and Beldom which allow their bodies to seamlessly merge with implants and prosthetics with nervous-system like circuits and parts made of a synthetic "bio-steel," a regenerative living metal retro engineered from studying the physiologies of many steal-types and other living metal

    Enhanced run the gamut from minor military-grade augmentations o full conversion cyborgs.

    To the "living" nature of their prosthetics and implants, they do not require maintenance and possess a limited ability to self-upgrade.


    The Hybrids and the Fusions have defined strengths and weaknesses, while the Revives and Enhanced are more Ala Cart, you pick what you want within reason. If Your revive is Centaur made from the lower half of a ponytail and the upper half of a human, your powers are probably gonna be pretty similar to a Hybrid or Fusion that's a Ponyta.

    Starting Power Level...

    So Imagine a Level 10 starter... That has perfect IVs and EVs for every stat and somehow has every ability its species can have. That would be the ballpark to go for.

    And it is my preference to treat the "Four Move Limit" from the Pokemon Games as a gameplay abstraction. If you know a move then you know that move, period, even if you learn a couple more.

    In terms of Tone and Theme, Obviously, there's the Cyberpunk Element. This is gonna be a bit darker than most of the franchise, but I don't want it getting too dark.

    I kind of want to explore how individual characters feel about the things that were done to them. Nobody had this done willingly, or if they did it was under misleading circumstances, but how do they feel about it after the fact? Like it, hate it? Want it reversed, want to keep it? Do they develop sensations of dysphoria or dysmorphia or do they now feel like the "real me."

    An example character sheet, and the character I intend to use, will be forthcoming
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    Registering interest; I’m thinking ‘cancer patient who signed up for an experimental treatment and ended up part Kabuto’ and I’m also thinking gills (do Kabuto have gills? They’re Water types...)

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    here is my character, Rachel and her grunt partner Lizzie, so to say:

    Rachel Nightley
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    Age: 16
    Gender: female
    Height: 5ft
    Weight: 150pds
    Species: Pokemon Hybrid
    Station: Former Rocket Grunt

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    She looks like a hybrid of female nidoran and a human, with light blue skin, cyan blue hair, big ears, buck teeth, a horn on her forehead, two spikes jutting out of her spine,, two whiskers on both sides of her face, red eyes and wearing a rocket grunt uniform


    Personality:
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    Rachel, being a former rocket grunt, is a cynic and thinks lowly of herself. She knows how much she has failed Team Rocket and how she is probably not getting accepted back in because of it. Furthermore she has an educated guess that if Team Rocket is still interested in her at all, it'll be as a specimen for them to experiment on and replicate so they can pokemon hybrid soldiers.


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    Rachel Nightley was once a pokemon trainer. But she couldn't even defeat a single gym leader and gave up the challenge. Feeling disillusioned and useless, Team Rocket came to her in her lowest moment: why follow the rules when you can just take what you want? So she joined up with them and became a grunt taking pokemon from others. She was partnered with a teenage girl named Lizzie. Together they did various small time crimes, until their superiors were impressed with them enough to give them a more high profile assignment.

    It came in the form of a mission involving a Snag 'Em Machine: Team Rocket had recently acquired one from Orre, but their only division that could reverse engineer it to make sure they can make it larger numbers was in the Somar region due to how much control the mega-corp had there and therefore was protected from usual authorities. The original rocket member who took it were pursued by the police, so to throw them off the trail it needed to be handed off to others who won't attract attention. So of course Lizzie and Rachel accepted this mission.

    Everything went smoothly getting into the region, they had completely lost the authorities. But then something went wrong: The night they were to hand off the Snag' Em Machine to their Somar division, they didn't show up. Then they were ambushed by corporate thugs, Lizzie got caught up fighting a few of them and she had to run with the machine , but got cut off by someone using hypnosis on her and falling asleep.

    Next she woke, she was in a laboratory, the Snag' em Machine taken and her starter, a nidoran female not at her belt. Then a scientist in an experiment transformed her into a hybrid of human and female nidoran and she was thrown into containment to be studied as a lab rat in the mega-corps basement.


    Story So Far:
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    Rocket Grunt skills:
    She has skills in burglary, deception, street smarts, as well as basic knowledge of team rocket organization and her place within it.

    Female Nidoran Biology:
    Is immune to being poisoned, can hear and smell better than humans, and is quicker and stronger than them as well. But is weak to Ground and Psychic type attacks

    Ability:
    Poison Point:
    May poison those who physically attack her or touch her.

    Known Pokemon Moves:
    1-Growl:
    a quick growl to intimidate people to get them to back down
    2-Poison Sting:
    fires poison needles from her horn
    3-Scratch
    slashes with her claws on her hands
    4-Tail Whip
    whacks people with her tail or feints a kick to catch people off guard to set up an opening for another attack



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    Lizzie Duskley
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    Age: 16
    Gender: female
    Height: 5ft
    Weight: 150pds
    Species: Human
    Station: Rocket Grunt

    Description:
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    She is blonde, long hair with blue eyes, and is wearing a rocket grunt uniform.


    Personality:
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    Lizzie, being a rocket grunt, is a cynic and thinks selfishly. She however cares for Rachel as a partner and wants to get her back so they can work together again.


    History:
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    Lizzie is a Rocket Grunt who has been doing this a few months. She was partnered with a teenage girl named Rachel. Together they did various small time crimes, until their superiors were impressed with them enough to give them a more high profile assignment.

    It came in the form of a mission involving a Snag 'Em Machine: Team Rocket had recently acquired one from Orre, but their only division that could reverse engineer it to make sure they can make it larger numbers was in the Somar region due to how much control the mega-corp had there and therefore was protected from usual authorities. The original rocket member who took it were pursued by the police, so to throw them off the trail it needed to be handed off to others who won't attract attention. So of course Lizzie and Rachel accepted this mission.

    Everything went smoothly getting into the region, they had completely lost the authorities. But then something went wrong: The night they were to hand off the Snag' Em Machine to their Somar division, they didn't show up. Then they were ambushed by corporate thugs, Lizzie got caught up fighting a few of them not sure where Rachel went, now returns to base and rallying other grunts to get her back, justifying the need by saying that only Rachel knows where the Snag'em machine went and they need to get that back.


    Story So Far:
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    Abilities:
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    Rocket Grunt skills:
    She has skills in burglary, deception, street smarts, as well as basic knowledge of team rocket organization and her place within it.

    Pokemon Caught:
    1-Ratatta (tackle, tail whip, quick attack, focus energy)
    2-Zubat (absorb, supersonic, mean look, astonish)
    3-Sandshrew (scratch, poison sting, defense curl, rollout)


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    Spoiler: Example Character Sheet
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    Name: Self Explanatory
    Age: Be exact or give a ballpark. Preference would be for characters to be no younger than late-mid adolescents and no older than early 30s but exceptions can be made.
    Type: Are you a Hybrid, a Fusion, a Revive, or an Enhanced? And If a Hybrid or fusion, with what?
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    What do you look like?
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    What are you like? How do you feel about what's happened to you? What was your life like before his?

    Do you remember what your life was like before this?
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    What special powers do you have because of your modifications?
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    Anything else you feel like sharing.


    And my character
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    Name: Violet
    Age: Late Adolescense/Young Adult
    Type: Hybrid(Salandit)
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    Short and thin, Violet's skin is a smooth amphibian texture, grey except on her face where it's black. Her eyes are purple and slit, her lips thin, her nose small and flattish, her teeth sharp. The only sign that she was born a mammal is her shoulder-length purple hair.

    Her fingers and toes are rather long, and somewhat adhesive, though not enough to hold up her weight.

    She also has a long tail with an orange pattern on it, which serves as the origin of many of her abilities.

    She's rather flexible, and prefers to sit crouched down on all fours.
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    Violet is rather curious. She... Remembers, being human. She remembers her education, she remembers the taste of food, she remembers her name, but... Everything else is a blur.

    She thinks she's an orphan, and she has vague memories of going to some kind of job placement thing? Then nothing until waking up in the laboratory.

    Because of this amnesia, she doesn't really know how to feel about the changes in her body, but...

    Mostly, she's just curious. She has an intellectual knowledge of most things but is effectively actually experiencing it all for the first time.

    She hopes that something might shake her memories loose, but...
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    Being combined with the DNA of a Salandit, Violet possesses the special abilities Corrosion, allowing her to inflict Poison on poison type and steel-type pokemon(or beings that function like them) and Oblivious, which prevents her from becoming infatuated or taunted by supernatural means.

    She is able to use the Pokemon Moves Scratch, Poison Gas, Smog, and Ember.

    Scratch: A highly accurate Normal Type move, a simple scratch with claws or similar, that does a small amount of damage.

    Poison Gas: An area of effect attack that Poisons hostile enemies but does no immediate damage

    Smog: A cloud of toxic fumes that harms a target susceptible to poison type damage, and has a chance to Poison them.

    Ember: A line of sparks and small flames that harms opponents susceptible to fire damage and has a small chance to Burn them.
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    how do you feel about me making an additional antagonist: a scientist who helped make all the hybrid stuff, turns himself into an abra hybrid, and goes to teleport away and spread the hybrid transformation?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Raziere View Post
    how do you feel about me making an additional antagonist: a scientist who helped make all the hybrid stuff, turns himself into an abra hybrid, and goes to teleport away and spread the hybrid transformation?
    That is absolutely fine.
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    Also: why did you take me so seriously that you stopped yourself from doing the magikarp character, rater? I didn't intend for you do that, I was just debating for the sake of it.

    okay, got it, here he is:
    Professor Turbert Stanwix
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    Age: 30
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5ft
    Weight: 140pds
    Species: Human
    Station: Transhumanist Scientist

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    He is a human-abra hybird, with yellow skin, fox-like ears, yellow fox tail, wild black hair, brown-armor like segments around his chest and shoulder areas, and three-toed feet. He wears black pants a tattered labcoat


    Personality:
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    Turbert is both a scientist and pokemaniac, and firm believer in transhumanism. He always wanted to become a pokemon. However he is pessimistic about civilization. At some point he grew to believe that all of the world's problems sprung from humanity's biology, and that by turning people into hybrids he can change them to be better-that if they are more like pokemon, perhaps they would be better people- even if he has to force them to.


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    Turbert Stanwix is a verified genius, seeming understanding the fields of biology, genetics and biochemistry at a young age that most take a lifetime to achieve. His intelligence and interests made those around feel he was creepy, while he could not relate to anything those vapid morons ever talked about, seeing them as focused on unimportant frivolous things he had no time for. Soon however he basically sped through high school and college and got a Ph.D in Bio-Engineering at age 20.

    He wanted to find a way to turn himself into a pokemon hybrid so he could transcend this imperfect human form. So he sent out proposals for projects to get funded by various companies. Most rejected it as nonsense that they couldn't understand....except for PoBORI. They instead loved the idea and hired him immediately, his theories and mathematics being miles ahead of anything they had thought up. He was brought, but of course, Turbert knew that the company only thought of this being used for its own greed. No matter. He would use them like they were clearly using him, so that he could take the opportunity to bring the world his unique gifts of transformation.

    Ten years pass, and today after making sure his first experiments were a success, has transformed himself into an Abra, determined to go forth and spread his “gift” before the corporation can take his research and equipment away to be studied by others or something.


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    Genius Transhuman Scientist:
    Is an expert on turning humans into pokemon-human hybrids, and the use of the Pokerus-2 virus.

    Abra Hybrid:
    Has the psychic powers and abilities of an abra, being resistant to Psychic and Fighting attack attacks, but weak to Bug, Ghost and Dark attacks

    Moves:
    1-Teleport
    Teleports to someplace else within a region's distance.



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    and are we still doing the Pokerus-2 thing, or not, and if we are are these strains okay? just let me know if any of them aren't, I'll take them out:
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    Pokerus Nekomimi Strain:
    The most benign strain of Hybrid Pokerus, it transforms humans only slightly giving them a pokemon's ears and tails but little else and immunizes them to other pokerus strains.

    Pokerus Werepokemon Strain:
    This strain of Hybrid Pokerus instead of permanently transforming people instead alters someone to have a second pokemon hybrid form that they temporarily turn into when certain conditions are met, these conditions are:
    -adrenaline is rushing through their body/they experience a fight or flight situation
    -they go into heat at certain times of the year
    -they give into their anger or fear depending on whether they are more predator or prey like

    Pokerus Gender-Match Strain:
    This strain has mutated to acquire psychic type properties and not only change people into pokemon hybrids but change people's sex to match their gender.

    Pokerus Sex Change Strain:
    This strain has mutated to not only change people into pokemon hybrids but change people's sex to the opposite one without consideration.

    Pokerus Euphoria Strain:
    This strain has mutated, now having psychic type properties, making people feel euphoria when they indulge in using their pokemon abilities to convince them to their new form so that they have a reason to not seek a cure.

    Pokerus Uplift Strain:
    This strain has mutated to instead infect pokemon with human DNA and and thus turn them into half human hybrids from the other direction.

    Pokerus Division Strain
    This strain with psychic tying influences the user to regard themselves as a new species of life separate from their previous form and to reject identifying as human anymore while hating humanity.

    Pokerus Sleeper Strain:
    This strain instead of having any immediate effect, instead infects people in more subtle ways. It changes the reproductive system of humans so that their children will be born as pokemon hybrids.

    Pokerus Puberty Strain:
    This strain infects children then when they experience puberty the child turns into a pokemon hybrid as apart of their growth.

    Pokerus Tauric Strain:
    This strain infects people in way that transforms their lower half of their body into a centaur like configuration of one pokemon or another, leaving their upper half untouched or mostly untouched. Often focuses on pokemon with four or more legs.
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    Completly honest, there's very little difference between Violet and the Hypothetical Magikrp hybrid in terms of characterization.

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    I’m looking at the Gen VIII movesets/stats/etc. for my baseline, yell if I should be looking at something else.

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    Average height, appears to be a normal healthy weight for her size (being part Rock-type she’s a good bit heavier then she looks). Brown hair, usually kept braided, with a growth of chitin/exoskeleton holding it away from her face like a headband. Her outline at first glance is a very tanned human but her movements are a little stiff since there are large plates covering much of her arms, legs and torso. Smaller plates on her face and hands allow more range of motion but give her a faceted look close up.
    Her eyes are now red, apparently pupil-less, and glow faintly (brighter if she’s stressed, angry, excited or feeling some other emotional high).


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    She signed up for an experimental treatment she was told would re-write her DNA to remove the cancer. Well, it did do that…

    She’s been through what she considers to be a rather traumatic experience but otherwise remembers who she is, where she came from, and how she got into this mess. As such, she’s prone to zig-zagging wildly between reluctant acceptance of the new body (reasoning that it’s too late to go back to the old one now and even if she could, cancer) and fits of crying, screaming and general distress.

    She has family, but they live a region or two away, and no children or significant other. Which was probably how she ended up on PoBORI’s radar as a potential test subject.


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    What used to be skin is now a good bit tougher, functioning as built-in Battle Armor which makes it very hard for her to be badly hurt. Her new body has been reconfigured just enough to give her an impressively Swift Swimming speed as well as allowing her to make good use of wet, slick surfaces to move rapidly on land. She also has gills that let her breathe underwater and much better than human nightvision.

    Her Pokémon attacks consist of Absorb, Harden, Scratch, and Sand Attack.


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    It's been years since I've done a freeform Pokémon roleplay. It's where I first really started writing and I feel a nostalgic enough to revive an old character that seems right at home with this premise.

    Name: Alex Morgan
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    Alex is a short, overweight man that -- unless you look at his head -- looks completely human on the surface. His head however looks as if took everything from the nostrils up and replaced it with a Magnemite's body. A single enormous, unblinking eye dominates his face and where he once had brown hair to match his scruffy beard is now a metal dome. Beneath his skin has also been laced with wiring to help support his electronics and reinforce some vital areas of his body.

    He wears a old, slightly tattered fisherman's hat and a collared shirt and zip-up jacket, as well as long pants and hiking sneakers.

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    Alex was once a freelance researcher who travelled the world studying non-biological Pokémon in the wild. His research papers on the likes of Magnemite, Bronzor, Beldum and others attracted the attention of PoBORI Inc. They offered him a great opportunity to further his research and a generous (perhaps too generous) paycheck. He accepted and soon moved to their HQ in Somar Region. However, working along other PoBORI scientists soon revealed the types of experiments that they were undertaking, mutilating both humans and Pokémon. He started to gather evidence to shut them down, but was caught. Being too much of a risk to let, the scientists he once worked beside turned him into an experiment. Being in somewhat poor physical shape meant he wasn't a good fit for the soldier program, so they turned him into a prototype officer variant meant to command other Enhanced soldiers.

    Alex remembers all of this. But part of his procedure included implanting an advanced combat AI into his brain whose protocols and analysis can sometimes overwhelm him. Still, he maintains most of his old personality. He's a smart and kind man, though a bit lazy at times. He has a great sense of humour and a large stomach.

    Alex was born and raised in Sinnoh and despite being rather scientifically minded, he is also a follower of the Sinnoh pantheon. He has a side passion for theology and aura.

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    Magnetikinisis (Magnet Pull Ability)
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    Theta - Magnezone, his starter Pokémon
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    could another possible cyberpunk concept be a robot made by making a humanoid robotic body then having a porygon downloaded into it, or a Rotom possess it?

    this isn't for any specific character, I'm tossing out ideas.
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    Decided to see what happens if an old character from the old pokemon FFRP got mixed up with the wrong guys.

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    Subject appears to have reduced height compared to previous dimensions, while the limb circumference appears unchanged. Skin, while appearing unchanged at distance at close inspection is made of flakes of overlapping micro-sheets of silicate. Hair appears to have formed into similar hard substance of two colors. No advanced aging detected,the white segments appear to be marble-like. Similar ridges of marble appear to have grown on all limbs.

    Clothing of previous form allowed for subject as it appears to keep him docile. Common cave-explorer outfit. Khaki. Marble ridges appear to have damaged right arm and left leg of clothing.

    Face has been morphed to canid archetype including fangs. Documented more in document H.33.T during project V. Pupils and Iris retain human structure, both brown instead of the expected manifestation of heterochromia.


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    Vital Spirit - tests confirm genotypical immunity to forced sleep
    Tackle - Skin hardening and increased strength has increased subject capability for... brute force
    Sand Attack - Nails have calcified into hardened claws, which can be used on most terrain to kick up dust
    Double Team - combat instincts taking hold, allowing subject to create 'duplicates' of itself
    Rock Throw - subject attempted to use pieces of itself attempting to damage containment

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    Subject native to Kanto region but known wanderer. Experience with regional... troubles. Engaged as an explorer or investigator in order to facilitate drive to keep moving. Subject was contacted by [redacted] on relation to missing persons case. Made accidental contact with internal security agent group [redacted]. Taken into custody as part of secure information initiative and moved to current experiment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Raziere View Post
    could another possible cyberpunk concept be a robot made by making a humanoid robotic body then having a porygon downloaded into it, or a Rotom possess it?
    Maybe do both at once, have them argue over what to do with the body.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Raziere View Post
    could another possible cyberpunk concept be a robot made by making a humanoid robotic body then having a porygon downloaded into it, or a Rotom possess it?

    this isn't for any specific character, I'm tossing out ideas.
    Yeah, that kind of thing would be fine.

    And it looks like we've got a decent cast of characters to start with.

    So, should we maybe flesh out the Somar region a little more, or just dive right in and flesh the region out as we get going.
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    Some fleshing out of the setting might be a good idea, though what is the most important things to focus on? It's always fun coming up with ideas for Gym Leaders and such, but the Gym Challenge isn't really going to be a thing in this game because we'll all be wanted by the authorities. Maybe focus on the Elite 4, as those have direct ties to the big bad of the game. Maybe they are actually leaders of different branches of the company?

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    Do we want to do any introduction/history coordination before we jump in? Set up some potential hooks like Prof. Stanwix breaking out the hybrids or having some of the prisoner types having been in jailbreak squad?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MCerberus View Post
    Do we want to do any introduction/history coordination before we jump in? Set up some potential hooks like Prof. Stanwix breaking out the hybrids or having some of the prisoner types having been in jailbreak squad?
    I've got an introductory adventure sitting up how the PCs all escape, which has a built-in plot hook that we can optionally explore later in the game.

    Re: The Gym Leaders, whether we need to flesh them out or not really depends on how the PCs go.

    PoBURI controls the region, but a good chunk of that control comes from making themselves look very good to the public so there's a bit of leeway in what exactly we do after the intro.
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    Updated character sheet: Pendra has a name now.

    Quote Originally Posted by MCerberus View Post
    Do we want to do any introduction/history coordination before we jump in? Set up some potential hooks like Prof. Stanwix breaking out the hybrids or having some of the prisoner types having been in jailbreak squad?
    I don’t object to the idea, but I don’t know how to tie Pendra to the rest of you, given how she ended up in the program. That said, I’m open to suggestions.

    I would like to start the game in a human-sized fish tank, if that’s all right. Otherwise it’s going to be a hassle to have her notice that the gills work, without contriving to have her drown herself or have an accident near water. Maybe have a couple corpses floating in there too, who were experiments that didn’t work out as well...though that should probably be the DM’s call.

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    I mean my idea was that Team Rocket would be attacking where they are held and its a whole "take advantage of the chaos" thing to escape.

    while Stanwix's role would be to probably release them then teleport away while leaving some message- think of like like a recurring villain whose entire point is not to fight directly, but to evade and avoid while sending other threats after you and making plots as he runs, or make speeches about his plans from a distance.

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    I mean my idea was that Team Rocket would be attacking where they are held and its a whole "take advantage of the chaos" thing to escape.

    while Stanwix's role would be to probably release them then teleport away while leaving some message- think of like like a recurring villain whose entire point is not to fight directly, but to evade and avoid while sending other threats after you and making plots as he runs, or make speeches about his plans from a distance.

    but these can be adjusted as needed.
    That... Could work with what I have planned.

    My plan was that something... Else escape first, and in a way that's particularly... Loud.

    That happening because of a Rocket Rade works.
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    did we agree on whether this world's combat would be pure pokemon or pokemon + guns? because I prefer the former and knew you talked something about the latter at some point and am not sure the latter would work, given that if pokemon aren't immune to guns that renders most pokemon meaningless.
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    I don't think we decided.

    I'm gonna say that guns exist and are effective on at least some Pokemon since that's what is implied in the anime, but they're not exactly common. Probably very rare outside of military use.
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    I think that the rule of comedy says the level at which conventional weaponry stops being effective is "magikarp". That's why you have to have bubble guns and bazookas.
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    @ Rater: yeah, thats fair

    But why would you have bazookas in the first place? just fire voltorbs at things so they self-destruct and since they survive, they're basically reusable bombs.
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    It is one of those thing to consider when thinking about the maturity of this game. The anime has always operated under slapstick cartoon logic, which considering we're literally playing as twisted experiments of an evil corporation, might be a bit too comedic for the tone we're going for. Then again, I'm kinda on the side of humans having some sort of innate durability just so we don't have to worry about dying if a fire type Pokémon breathes in our direction. But hey, I'm good for whatever.

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    @ Rater: yeah, thats fair

    But why would you have bazookas in the first place? just fire voltorbs at things so they self-destruct and since they survive, they're basically reusable bombs.
    You use the gun instead of the Pokemon because the gun won’t refuse orders, need to eat or be trained up to level *checks* 26; it’s exactly as powerful as you need it as soon as it’s manufactured. Some regions don’t have a lot of Pokemon (Orre). Not sure how long it will take a Pokemon egg to hatch in this game but it’s probably longer then it would take to manufacture a gun.

    Of course, Pokemon have the advantage that they can use a wide variety of attacks, which the gun can’t. They provide companionship. The regions that have them you can carry around a small army of Pokemon and no one bats an eye where a gun would draw negative attention. But there’s definitely a niche for guns.

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    Yeah but that kind of runs into a "but that makes the world less different from ours" problem where its like, well yeah you can say that about guns, but now I don't want to play in those regions or with that logic as much because its less interesting.
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    Yeah but that kind of runs into a "but that makes the world less different from ours" problem where its like, well yeah you can say that about guns, but now I don't want to play in those regions or with that logic as much because its less interesting.
    ...I'm sorry I'm have trouble following your logic, re: more options making things less interesting. Please clarify.

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    ...I'm sorry I'm have trouble following your logic, re: more options making things less interesting. Please clarify.
    yeah, but if your using guns and grenades at that point your just playing a shooter with pokemon there. I didn't sign up for a shooter. if the tech so efficient, why use pokemon at all? why not just shoot all pokemon so you don't have to deal with living with them and thus simplify the world for humans, it makes the pokemon world make no sense and less interesting. a world where all pokemon can die to guns is a world where humans will USE guns to kill them because they are dangerous and full of creatures that breath fire or shoot lightning, and thus most pokemon end up dead.

    like its less interesting because sure its an option, but its a repeat option from the real world that makes exploring the thing we want to explore: pokemon, less prominent. but if instead its more based on pokemon, well that leads to actually figuring out how people get voltorb to be effective bombs, how do the institutions of the military and the world do instead of having a grenade, because they have to use pokemon instead and thus enhances the focus of the setting, which is how pokemon and people interact and work together. because if you just say grenades exist.....well you don't have anything to talk about or detail as different. its just there. its pointless.
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    yeah, but if your using guns and grenades at that point your just playing a shooter with pokemon there. I didn't sign up for a shooter. if the tech so efficient, why use pokemon at all? why not just shoot all pokemon so you don't have to deal with living with them and thus simplify the world for humans, it makes the pokemon world make no sense and less interesting.
    I'm reasonably certain I spelled out advantages Pokemon have over guns too.

    I thought about adding 'Pokemon won't go off accidentally while cleaning them' but then I remembered Pichu exist.

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