#about the partnerships between people and pokemon and the bonds they forge what kind is considered the most powerful and how is it viewed

[yu3s]

** okay now that i'm awake for real what if i put the witch class from www in pokemon..crafting and consequences and community. in pokemon

[askfriskandcompany]

Discord link please? I want to see the pokeymans.

Very well.

The AFAC Clubhouse Discord may be joined here ----> https://discord.gg/gHMEKbG

But I will also put my pokemon stuff here. My idea is to one day run a campaign set in the made-up region of Auland which is based on Australia. It would be run using Pokemon Tabletop Adventures. It will probably be some time before I am fully prepared to run this for real because A) There’s a lot of prep-work involved, B) I’m still running multiple other campaigns, and C) I’ve never actually used this system before and the one guy I know who has DMed with it says that there’s a steep learning curve so I’ve gotta do some serious research.

But in any case, here’s what I can show about the Auland Region and eventual campain, which I have dubbed Pokemon Opal.

Here are the initial ideas for the three main starters. They would of course be completely optional for the players, given the premise of the campaign.

The premise is this... The players’ characters all must be between the ages of 10 and 18, can be from any region, and all have been convicted of a crime worthy of being sent to juvi, but nothing as serious as murder (pokemon-murder counts too). Point is that they’re young and considered a delinquent for one reason or another. The court gave them two choices... Juvi, or Camp Eucalyptus, and they chose camp.

“But TQ! Just wait one gosh darned second!” I hear you say, “Isn’t that just the plot of Holes?” And I respond, Yes. Yes it absolutely is just the plot of Holes. But this version has Pokemon so it’s automatically superior in every way. Also I think you will find the story will likely diverge a lot from the plot of Holes after the first session.

Anyway, the point of the camp is to rehabilitate problem-children AND problem-pokemon at the same time by pairing them off and teaching them to care for one another. The local pokemon professor, one Henry Eucalyptus, runs the camp in part to help children and pokemon, but also as a way to research the metaphysical bonds between humans and pokemon and how they form. Generally, Professor Eucalyptus has an antagonistic relationship with his charges, and despite the fact that he genuinely wants to help them become better people and pokemon, he is prone to loosing his cool.

Also, he’s just... kind of a dweeb. I mean look at him. He absolutely would sit backwards in a chair and tell you that drugs aren’t cool and friendship is awesome. It’s really no wonder these delinquent kids can’t stand him.

Anyway, the region has many kangaroo-like pokemon. Here’s two. They’re fighting types of course.

And here’s a grass type kangaroo fella. It comes in three variant forms depending on the area they’re caught in.

Geddit? Cause? Pademelons are a kind of kangaroo? And? Mellon? Padding? They’re probably gonna be tanky fellas.

They probably smell nice too.

Anyway I’m not totally done with the starters and their evolutions, but I HAVE decided that they all become part dragon cause fuck you I like dragons. Designs are subject to change.

And the Kelphie line is also part dragon cause they’re based on Kirin and also Leafy Sea Dragons.

The Stubbard line isn’t done yet but I imagine he will only become more of an absolute unit.

Finally we have another NPC, Freida. She serves partly as the resident badass for the players to strive to become as cool as, but also a window into the issues of the Old Aulanders. You see, this region has a population of native humans with their own culture separate from the culture of those who arrived later, dubbed New Aulanders. New Aulanders are descended from mostly galarian colonists several hundreds of years ago, whereas Old Aulander culture dates back to like the dawn of humanity. There is a complex and not entirely friendly relationship between the two groups. Many Old Aulanders have been pressured to conform to the ways of the New Aulanders, and even when they do, they are still too often regarded as savages in need of enlightenment.

In Old Aulander culture, a person forms a unique bond with one pokemon that lasts for their entire lives. This pokemon becomes soulbonded to them, forging an empathic and telepathic connection between the two. To many of Old Aulanders, the idea of keeping pokemon in pokeballs is insulting and barbaric, thus they reject it and simply keep their single partner pokemon out in the open at all times. A great emphasis is given to treating the bond as an equal partnership and never making the mistake of believing you are greater than your pokemon partner. The pokemon doesn’t need a person to survive, but a person does often need their pokemon, and thus you’d better be grateful to them.

Freida, however, DOES use pokeballs, and trains multiple pokemon aside from her soulbonded talonflame, Flint. For this reason, she was rejected by many of her own people.

Right now she’s working with Professor Eucalyptus on... something. She won’t say what. And also she occasionally arrives at camp to teach the campers about battling and the proper care of pokemon.

Aaaaaand other than that? Still working on it.

-TQ