#cipher admin dakim

[cipher-legal-and-ethics-dept]

[manbehindtheshadows]

Twenty years ago, one of my absolute favorite games released in Japan. One year later, I would pull some of the shadiest shit involving bad grades and a white out pen in order to get my hands on a gamecube-- to which I spent countless nights over the years pulling allnighters with friends (with the assistance of Doritos and a variety of mountain dew), create stupid ass OCs and """"original"""" comics, roleplay as one of its main villains-- Pokemon Colosseum holds a huge place in my heart.

Thank you Genius Sonority, Pokemon Company, and Nintendo, for this wonderfully dark and edgy experience.

[pivziksixdude]

OK, so I had an unusual dream yesterday. (this is another random Pokémon topic)

I’m in Pyrite Town (a prominent location in Pokémon Colosseum), and all of a sudden, the four Cipher Admins start swarming the town in search of Regieleki. Little did they realize, it was a hoax. I can’t imagine the looks on their faces! 😂

(I will make some artwork for this little dream/scenario eventually!)

[icykyurem2224]

Pokémon Villain Nightclub HCs

Giovanni secretly runs a nightclub called Black Rocket for villains and other villainous teams such as his own, Teams Aqua, Magma, Galactic, Plasma and Flare, this also includes Cipher, Team Dim Sun, Go-Rock Squad and several others including Team Skull and Aether Foundation personnel.

It opens at 5 pm and closes at 2 am.

The Go-Rock Quads perform music for the patrons, even doing requests and even allowing patrons to do karaoke.

Blake Hall, the boss of Team Dim Sun also is the nightclub’s bouncer, the Black Rocket has an 18 or over only policy, anyone visiting requires ID to enter.

Ghetsis gets extremely drunk easily and dancing.

Dancing is also a thing in the nightclub aswell as singing, sometimes the songs sung are explicit or vulgar.

Venus, Ein and Dakim also help with music and lighting during a karaoke hour.

Ghetsis and Archie had a drinking contest that ended in a draw.

Gordor also is the bartender, ironically he isn’t a big fan of alcohol, one of his men functions as a DJ.

N comes along with Ghetsis, he normally doesn’t drink and orders a mild alcohol.

Archie and Maxie fight eachother while drunk, Giovanni and Cyrus had to split them.

“Shots! Shots! Shots! EVERYBODY SHOTS!” - Ein, drunk of his rocker, Dakim was like, “Okay scientist, I think you had enough….”.

Naps got drunk so he didn’t have to deal with Lovrina.

Greevil and his sons sitting at the bar, Ardos doesn’t see the point in it, Eldes is dancing to the beat.

Evice got way too drunk and Nascor had to take him home.

Colress and Ein got on like a house on fire, Both spend the club chatting about science, Colress drunkenly cheered he is going to start a science club.

Lysandre and Xerosic both drank together, the other admins were dancing to the music except Mabel who sat with her boss

Zinzolin just comes here to get a drink, Ghetsis and Colress come to party and forget their troubles.

[ariadosanon]

You lost the hair through either

1. Exposure to shadow pokemon and the corrupting auras they emit

2. The explosion caused by Wes could have singed your scalp, leaving you unable to grow it back fully

3. Lost your scalp after losing a bet with Dakim.

1. not a THING

2. who is WES

3. I am not personally ACQUAINTED with former CIPHER ADMIN DAKIM.

Let’s go with the EXPLOSION one. It sounds the COOLEST.

[land-of-appletun-and-anime]

The post traumatic stress this song induces for Pokemon Colosseum players is unreal.

I call it The Anxiety March.

[reflectiondetonation]

friendly pokemon reminder!

>cipher admin dakim

>earthquake + protect

>entei doesnt have protect

[shadowscientistein-blog]

     “Somebody kill these two…”

     ~((More Draw the Squad, or what I will call it Draw the Cipher Admins being completely ridiculous. Pose from here))~

[lopuiiart]

You are challenged by Cipher admin, Dakim!

[heroofelectricityingemperor]

Mt. Battle is located in the north central part of the Orré region. A place of training, a solid, unaffected part of the landscape. 100 trainers, all armed to the teeth, ready at all times for any challenger. Mt. Battle being in danger was like... having an entire state utterly destroyed. A solid, stable part of the world as they knew it... something they all took for granted... about to be gone. Thomas & co. ran over there as fast as they could. Civilians said the invaders were led by a colossally muscular man with an incredibly savage pokémon beyond their wildest dreams. Thomas battled his way up, until... he found him. Dakim. The next Cipher Admin. Thomas saw Dakim punch an area leader named Vander, sending the poor soul flying. Then Dakim noticed Thomas and let loose his pokémon. Dakim was incredibly powerful... and smart. He had a metang, a marshstomp, a golem, and a camerupt, all of which knew Protect and Earthquake. One would use Earthquake while the other used Protect. It was incredibly tough, but eventually Thomas managed to pull off a groundbreaking victory. But then... Dakim pulled out one last pokémon...

A Shadow Entei.

Entei is a legendary pokémon. Only a few exist around the world, and are generally regarded as mere myth. It is said, each time Entei roars, a volcano erupts somewhere. Legendaries are part of creation myths and uphold the balance of the world. Entei is also part of a trio, also composed of Suicune and Raikou, the Legendary Dogs. Together, they have a close connection to a greater legendary... Ho-oh. Bird of hope.

Cipher caught and shadowed a legendary.

Thomas wasted no time, working frantically to keep his team alive against the onslaught of Shadow Entei. Eventually though, he managed to whittle down Entei's health. Then... Thomas did something impossible. Something only he could do.

He caught Entei.

Dakim was dumbfounded and horrified, fleeing the scene. Vander thanked Thomas and explained why Cipher was after him. He pulled out a legendary artifact... a Time Flute. It is said that if you play a Time Flute, you can encounter Celebi directly, but only once. Thomas took the item and gave Vander his thanks. After heading back to Agate and reassuring Yuki's grandparents that they were okay, Thomas heard that Cipher might be involved in controlling another town... The Under. A city buried deep below Pyrite Town. Thomas, Yuki, and company set out once more. Stay tuned.

[cipher-legal-and-ethics-dept]

Leaked footage of Dakim applying for the Cipher Admin position.

He was, of course, hired immediately

[manbehindtheshadows]

CIPHER ADMINS WOULD LIKE TO BATTLE!

This was one helluva project, but I am glad I saw it through to the end!

This one is for my Cipher homies, I hope Nintendo will finally bring the spotlight back to you eventually.

[annoyedlilywhite]

Pokemon Colosseum - Mono-Bug Run - Cipher Admin Dakim

Probably the dumbest challenge I've done to date. This run doesn't truly start until purification becomes available. Yanma is your only Bug type for this part of the game and is required to be Level 65+ to even be able to live the attacks of both Entei and Metang all at once, in addition to getting Giga Drain from the Phenac Stadium to be able to deal with Golem, Marshtomp and Camerupt as well as a White Herb to combat the Special Defense drop from Psychic.

[hunty627]

Venus & Dakim are two of the original admins of Team Cipher.

Battle! Cipher Admin | Pokémon Colosseum

[themattress]

Old vs. New: Pokemon Colosseum vs. Pokemon XD

Which is better, the original or the sequel? 

GRAPHICS: The same in both. Advantage: Both.

MUSIC: The same in both. Advantage: Both.

GAMEPLAY: The same in both. Advantage: Both.

WORLD: The Orre region is the setting of both games, a desert wasteland full of scum and villainy, and no wild Pokemon.  Between the desert there’s the beautiful Phenac City, the gritty run-down Pyrite Town, the rugged Mount Battle, the lush and peaceful Agate Village, the literal criminal underworld known as the Under, and the high-elevated Realgam Tower. It’s all very atmospheric and unique for a Pokemon game. Sadly, in XD, Orre has gotten tamer.  The greenery from Agate is spreading, there’s now a regular Pokemon lab with a professor, a seaport with communication from other regions, Pyrite Town is cleaned up and the Under has been shut down, and it all just feels safer and more conventional for the Pokemon series. The only truly foreboding place introduced in XD is the volcanic Citadark Island where the climax transpires, but that’s not enough to offset the disappointment. Advantage: Colosseum.

STORY: In Colosseum, a member of Team Snagem named Wes discovers a conspiracy to take over Orre and ultimately the world by the Cipher organization, which involves messing with Pokemons’ minds and turning them into vicious “Shadow Pokemon”.  This is too evil for even him, so he quits his life of crime, joins up with a girl named Rui with the psychic ability to identify Shadow Pokemon by their aura, and the two of them set off to stop Cipher’s plan by stealing, er, “snagging” Shadow Pokemon so that they can be purified.  In XD, a boy named Michael starts work under Professor Krane and inadvertently gets drawn into fighting against a resurrected Cipher’s new plan for world domination, five years after their defeat in the original, and the same snag and purify Shadow Pokemon antics unfold, though Michael uses a scouter-like device instead of a psychic sidekick. The sheer lack of originality in the sequel’s story really drags it down. Colosseum’s plot feels a lot fresher. Advantage: Colosseum.

GOOD GUYS: The main character of Colosseum is Wes, a former hood who cruises around in a vehicle with his trusty Espeon and Umbreon, plus his female friend Rui. Wes is badass, with a cool, almost sinister design befitting of a former villain turned roguish anti-hero, and Rui also has a cool design and a likable personality. Their allies include police chief Sherles of Pyrite Town, Rui’s wise old grandfather Eagun of Agate Village, and the Kids Grid of the Under. In XD, the main character is a simple boy named Michael, with allies including his mother Lily and annoying sister Jovi, his mentor Professor Krane, the wacky Dr. Kaminko and his wacky assistant Chobin, and surprisingly enough the boss of Team Snagem, Gonzap. Personally, I think the heroes of Colosseum have more charisma to them, and their struggle seems much more worth investing in since they are battling against the odds and lack all the resources available to the cast of XD which evens the playing field. Advantage: Colosseum.

BAD GUYS: The incarnation of Cipher in Colosseum is brilliant. There are a variety of peons and hired thugs to contend with, some of them even standing out like the male duo of Folly and Trudly, and the female duo of Reath and Ferma. The Cipher Admins include the comedic starter villain Mirror B., who is a truly bizarre and memorable presence, and the more dangerous Dakim, Lady Venus, and Dr. Ein, each carrying one of the three Legendary land Pokemon of Johto. The leader of Cipher’s activities is the terrifying Nascour, while the true boss is the equally frightening Evice, whose public front is Mayor Escade of Phenac City.  XD’s roster is less impressive - the peons are usually way more comedic than they are intimidating (there’s even a Sentai squad of them!), and while the Admins Gorigan, Lovrina and Snattle are cool characters, they don’t have the same edge as their predecessors. Worst of all is the leader Greevil, now retconned to have been the true boss all along, who lacks the convincing front Evice put on and is obviously evil from the minute you see him as “Mr. Verich”. He is so ridiculously evil up to the ending where he has a sudden, unrealistic change of heart and turns himself in, resulting in a big anticlimax. His bodyguard sons, Eldes and Ardos, had potential, but they sadly aren’t very well developed. Advantage: Colosseum.

PLAY VALUE: Colosseum, being the story mode to a bigger game, is shorter than XD, but this gives it much more replay value. XD is more one-and-done. Advantage: Colosseum.

At a score of 8 to 3, the winner is Pokemon Colosseum!

[rhythmantics]

a collection of doodles; stuff for a 3rd Orre game idea I bounce around sometimes and a couple of OCs

the dream is to one day make a fangame for the orre series

tbh with the way pokemon currently is i don’t trust them at all to handle orre

xd was already Lighter and Softer than colo, and i can only shudder to imagine how much lighter they’ll crank that dial. we might even see shit like...routes...and wild pokemon on them...like??

the orre games had this wonderful moral ambiguity and urban decay that i don’t think pokemon is capable of catering to right now, since they’re trying so hard to have this image these days of this sprawling, kid-focused series. and yeah, s/m’s story got dark and shit, but the game wasn’t marketed that way, and it’s more of a juicy tidbit than the core of the experience.

If a third orre game isn’t unnecessarily gritty and edgy then, like, what’s even the point lol

So i do have rpg maker xp and I do have pokemon essentials and i think i’ve more or less worked out the mechanics i need to have implemented, but i dont think i ahve the time to spare to actually finish it in any capacity because the amount of new assets i’d have to create - tiles, character models, etc - is so massive it would realistically take me several, several months even if i was doing it as a full-time job

so in any case here are some ideas to titillate your interest:

GAMEPLAY:

level scaling across the entire game, across every trainer (possible to turn off for a more traditional pokemon experience). Regular trainers would be set ~3 levels below your team, “strong” trainers (ie cail, rider willie) would be set at your team, and bosses would always be a few levels above. The only place this wouldn’t apply would be Mount Battle, which is, after all, a side challenge. This mechanic would pretty much do away with the need for level grinding except to balance out team levels. reasoning: the orre games are known for their higher difficulty curve, and this plays off it. Double battles also make for very interesting avenues of strategy exploration; with bosses always a little tougher than you are the hope is you might wipe out a couple times before figuring out a winning strategy.

Lucky egg given early but no exp. share.

higher catch rate on shadow pokemon - since the game would start you out at lvl 25 and honestly this is just an anti-frustration feature

Again, level scaling can be turned off for a more traditional experience, but the idea would be that the levels would get pretty high pretty fast, and by midgame you’d be going up against lvl 55s and stuff (just enough to start encountering some salamences and flygons), hopefully ending the game in the 80′s.

Pokedex -> strategy memo, and seen = obtained. Strategy memo actually contains opinions from the player character rather than just standard “animal facts” type stuff.

No routes! Just cities! Pokespots still in effect to limit the player’s pool of usable pokemon.

Missed pokemon integrated with pokespots or maybe made un-faintable so you have to catch them because i’m really not that good at programming guys

SETTINGS:

Orre is a cold desert. I know technically it’s based on the Arizona desert, and I’ve been there, but friggin look at the fashion, these people would all get heatstrokes in a matter of seconds.

So to that end, my orre is actually based on the Atacama Desert, whose topography not only resembles Orre’s (volcanic mountains on one side, ocean on the other), but is a cold desert (with daytime temperatures peaking around 60 degrees F) and is considered the driest desert in the world, with some places having not seen rain in centuries, having been compared to Mars in regards to how uninhabitable it is.

you know, like how apparently wild pokemon can’t survive in orre except at the pokespots.

also the orre colosseum looks just like the atacama hand and i dont think that’s a coincidence

canyons, oases, underground rivers and deep underground cave systems, forests to the northeast and a coast that’s actually somewhat habitable via fog collection

THE UNDER IS BACK

gateon renamed Io Port (the japanese name) to go with the gem/mineral naming scheme of the rest of the game. Plaque added outside lighthouse reading “Io Lighthouse” (GEDDIT)

cipher key lair being torn down by reformed eldes, working with lovrina and gorigan, in order to create an amusement park, hopefully to be an international tourist attraction of the more innocent variety than realgam

Areas given a name. Desert is orre desert, northwest forest is Tempor Forest, mountain range is Kabla Mountains, keeping in line with Eclo Canyon

A new town named Appoak, one of those aforementioned fog-collection coastal villages, which has the distinct honor of being the place you buy your wildflower seeds, which are often scattered in the desert as funerary rites because it’s kind of hard to build a grave out there and this is a tradition that natives of orre held long before the settlers/miners came in and which has overtaken the settlers/miners’ traditions, especially during and after the starvation riots that happened after the majority of the mines ran dry and the companies stopped sending their support to the workers that were now effectively stranded in one of the harshest environments on the planet.

Dead were littered on the streets, no one had the ability to bury them all, and so the tradition of scattering flower seeds instead of erecting graves that would simply be wiped out in the next sandstorm (and have you ever tried to dig a hole in dry sand) became popular since it felt like more closure

Anyways Appoak cultivates desert flowers year-round and sells the seeds and performs funerary rites, as a result it’s considered something of a sacred locale in that no one wants to mess with it because you have no idea who you might be pissing off whose loved one was buried with Appoak rites

CHARACTERS:

Michael, 5 years later, now 18 (in xd he’s called an “unknown teen” by ONBS and honestly he’s so short that i’d feel bad if he was older than 13 at the time of the game) is your player character! Trainer class Lab Kid, with a cool hover-scooter, who is now officially a staff member at the Lab HQ as a result of reaching adulthood (though he’s been helping out with field research long before that.)

Your starter is a sylveon, level 25, because this Michael is not a blank-slate character, and sylveon is both in character and doesn’t conflict with any choice of eeveelution from the first game. In fact, this michael made it through the entirety of the first game without evolving his Eevee, like an absolute madman.

Lily and Jovi start the game off overseas giving lectures on shadowfication and purification, mostly so that i don’t have to create their sprites. But also because them leaving is an excuse for them to take all your pokemon from the first game with them, for “demonstration purposes,” leaving you with just your eeveelution and maybe some second pokemon-i-don’t-know-what-yet-probably-your-choice-of-any-starter so you can hurry up and get to the double battles without sacrificing an ability to make a choice on your starter.

Wes is in the game and he is an asshole and you will love him

Cail actually serves a plot purpose

Cameos from all your favorite admins and named characters from Colo/XD, most of which remain unfought until either late or post-game (because the focus is on the new story, you know?)

Miror B and flunkies at Io Port, the proud owners of a popular and, more importantly, lucrative new ludicolo dance act.

Eldes, trying to make up for his past, sponsoring an amusement park being worked on by Lovrina and her brother, with Gorigan overseeing the construction. Snattle offhandedly mentioned as having been elected governer by default (no one else was running) and helping with greenlighting these projects since he and eldes are, apparently, sand-golf buddies and eldes has been twisting his ear for the greater good

also eldes wears a dress shirt with hawaiian print on it

Dakim lives on mt battle now

not as, like, part of the mt battle challenge. he just . sorta. lives there.

Venus is now the onbs weather girl and onbs can’t decide whether they like her or hate her

the jail squad: greevil, nascour, and evice. They’re poker buddies. orre jail for the rich is basically a retirement home because orre is ridiculously corrupt.

ardos? ein? well...

PLOT

So, your field assignment is to collect samples of M18 - also known in Almia by the name of “Dark Crystal” and sometimes colloquially referred to as “shadow crystal” in Orre - for research.

As you probably already assumed, this stuff works as a catalyst for shadowfication and Orre happens to be supernaturally abundant, though it having been strip-mined out by cipher during the last two cipher events has made it much rarer (and it’s theorized by NPCs that the return of wild pokemon may have something to do with the lessened M18 presence).

touching it initiates a small flashback cutscene, as it’s apparently transformed from normal quartz into M18 by the abundance of negative feelings somehow (again, you’re collecting it for study) so that’s how we get some nice backstory about michael’s dead dad (who isn’t eldes, sorry guys, he’s a guy named Prof. Taiga because - haha - Taiga Lily) and other characters

Somehow this investigation leads you to the first rumblings of a resurgence of cipher, who is also collecting M18, though for much more nefarious purposes

So, anyways, in XD, when you beat ardos in the orre colosseum, he sent you a creepy-ass email declaring that he’s basically gonna stalk you forever and kill you during cipher’s - what, third? - third coming, which he’s totally gonna do. Sequel hook! which comes true! because HELLO, your opponent is Ardos, who’s been working in secret this whole time, plotting your demise.

Also ein is there, which is important because...

QUICK HEADCANON BREAK

In colosseum, Cipher specifically targets Celebi because they know celebi’s power is directly tied with undoing shadowfication. (Material in-game suggests that celebi has been responsible for purification for generations of rui’s family, which means cipher didn’t INVENT shadowfication, but they did create a method for doing it ARTIFICIALLY)

However, in XD, cipher doesn’t target agate at ALL. they never even step foot in it. In fact, they’re so woefully underinformed about purification that they feel the need to kidnap Prof. Krane over it.

How does that happen?

Well, we know cipher in game 2 is the main branch, and cipher in game 1 is actually just an orre side branch. Whose only real plan with shadow pokemon was just to rig up really exciting and morally inexcusable colosseum matches for rich people to bet on. No world domination in game one!

So my theory is this: Cipher orre branch created shadowfication basically on a whim and tried to make money off it, which you stopped. When you stopping it attracted attention, cipher main branch had to take notice, and realized that, hey - fucking shadow pokemon ,fuckin world domination, right??? so they promptly took over all of cipher orre branch’s operations and replaced the old personnel with new ones from main branch, while forcing them to hand over their research.

Ein did not take being fired well.

In fact, he took it so poorly that he made sure to destroy all his information on purification before handing over his research.

Cipher in game 2 has no idea the connection between Celebi and purification.

BACK TO THE PLOT

Because Ein has been re-hired by Cipher, he brought with him his knowledge of purification.

They know about celebi.

Also wes is there? He plays a major role, mostly after it’s revealed he’s actually a cipher admin.

...His eevee and espeon are missing.

time travel shenanigans idk

it rains at the climax for the first time in 10 years!

this is a wip

if this is interesting to you guys lmk! im always open to talking about it more in-depth or hearing ideas. hahah...