We Are All Pokemon Trainers Discussion

Whoever disneyfan20 is, given the nature of your suggestions for the Sun/Moon preplan doc, they should be handled by comments on the doc rather than straight-up suggested doc additions.

EDIT: Thanks, Keys.

edited 7th Dec '16 4:23:34 PM by Umbramatic

Anybody mind it snowing in the Solaceon Town general area?

Considering RL weather patterns the area ought to be blanketed in snow already, so no.

I've got a freer weekend than expected, (less Christmas decorating, woo!) so expect me to try and knock out a meta thing I've been sitting on a while in between bouts of working on Rude Awakening Chapter 4.

edited 9th Dec '16 10:48:43 AM by Umbramatic

Whenever I see a Skarmory or Chansey I get slightly triggered because of my smogon days :P. This is really fun btw.

Good news, all:

I got an offer for a full time job!

Means I'll be less available on weekdays, but more available on weekends and yay~

Nice! Congrats :)

Congrats!

Also, new Pokemon Generations, this one featuring none other than DAN GREEN

At least, I think it's him.

edited 9th Dec '16 9:44:14 AM by BittersweetNSour

Yv@n/nne: -sarcasm- Well that brings back memories.

And thanks Jho.

edited 9th Dec '16 9:48:35 AM by Umbramatic

Edit: Disregard this post, the original content has passed

edited 9th Dec '16 9:50:53 AM by BittersweetNSour

See above.

edited 9th Dec '16 9:52:00 AM by Umbramatic

Good luckwith the new employment Crow!

Lysandre: I SUMMON YVELTAL IN ATTACK MODE!!

Player: But can it withstand the power of the X Eyes Blue Stag?

Yknow Umbra, you're guy seems pretty fly.....

Jho: ;)

Anyway, whipped up that meta thing waaaay quicker than expected (Using Google Docs on mobile is surprisingly distraction-minimizing, especially with notifications for more distract-y apps turned off) so have something I initially proposed back in July, a new Tone Essay patch on a subject that commonly crops up with newbies! Keep in mind this is designed to be inserted into the middle of the essay for reasons you'll see shortly:

Tone Essay Patch 2: Lore is No Bore

Alduin: <And whatever you do, try to tie it into the existing lore and setting of WAAPT! There's a lot you can work with! And who knows, maybe you'll make up some lore of your own!>

-Thinks a bit-

<Though, actually, if you're just starting out, you gotta be careful about that too!>

Robin: -tilts his head- How so?

Alduin: <Well! This RP has a very long history, and during that history its world has evolved into a Pokemon fanverse of great scope, incorporating things from all across the Pokemon franchise and even way beyond for crossover factor!>

-taps headhands together-

<That said... Trying to throw extra stuff in there without really being familiar with it tends to get messy.>

Robin: I suppose we'll need a demonstration.

Alduin: <Yep! I think I'll need... Dvorak, was it?>

Robin: They should be good.

-Sends out a Sceptile-

Dvorak the mad inventor Sceptile: <Hey! What's up?>

Alduin: <Congratulations, Dvorak! You've been selected to join WAAPT as a player right off the bat!>

-confetti-

Dvorak: <Awesome!>

Alduin: <But you still have to submit a character!>

Dvorak: <Hmmm... His name is Dominic Sneezetuff... He's a human, average build, blond, wears yellow and blue...>

Alduin: <Good, good...>

Dvorak: <He owns a Porygon-Z and a Golurk named Bunsen and Beaker...>

Alduin: <Also fine!>

Dvorak: <...And he's a former affiliate of an organization known as Ecosystems Unlimited of the Varroa region! Don't worry, I've already drawn up the maps, it covers up where Fiore normally would be!>

Alduin: <...Um, we don't have any evil organizations or regions by that na->

Dvorak: <And they're scheming to spread across the whole world so they can convert evolutionary stones into those crystals from Re: Burst and then use them to create the AI brains of an army of computer-hacking robots because information wants to be free! And then Dominic and the J-Team have to team up to stop them before the robots uncover information on how to create an army of zomb->

Alduin: <Okay that's enough Robin you can recall them now>

-Robin does so-

Robin: That went both worse and better than expected.

Alduin: <You tell me!>

-shakes his heads-

<But as Dvorak there demonstrated, trying to introduce new concepts, including new regions, organizations, and plots, right off the bat can really derail existing material and plans! If you're making a new character, you should use what you know of the canon incarnations of the Pokemon franchise - especially the main series games, the anime, and Pokemon Special/Adventures - and what you know of the WAAPT world from its recommended reading to build a character! Now to demonstrate... Robin, I need Dvorak again!>

-Robin sends them out-

Dvorak: <-And then the zombies and J-Team pirates fight the aliens in a three-way battle to get all seven Dragon Ba- Oh, right, you weren't listening, let me repeat all tha->

Alduin: <Er, you don't need to. Let's just say your character's A-OK but his backstory isn't. There just too much that messes up the RP setting!>

Dvorak: <Wait, really? Aww...>

Alduin: <But fear not, Dvorak! Dominic could easily be a repentant ex-member of [SUN AND MOON SPOILER] and work with the implications of that instead!>

Dvorak: <Wait, really? Gee, thanks!>

Alduin: <And if you stick around long enough you can maybe retool some of your old ideas to fit the RP world!>

Dvorak: <Thanks then!>

-heads off-

Alduin: <See? If you stick to what we've got lore-wise in your signup, you'll be fine! And if you stick around long enough to get chummy with the locals and become more familiar with the RP setting, that's when you can start getting creative and incorporating your own ideas for the RP's world - so long as you ask permission first! Ask if you're just plain unsure as well!>

Robin: Is that it?

{cue crunch vs. fluff section of essay}

Any constructive feedback is appreciated.

edited 9th Dec '16 3:24:17 PM by Umbramatic

That looks good to me as an addition

Thanks. I'm gonna need a couple more bits of feedback before I decude to put this thing in the actual essay or not.

Also, that [SUN AND MOON SPOILER] is in fact due to be replaced by an actual Sun and Moon spoiler when the spoilerblock lifts, but the spoiler is a big enough one I can't mention it publicly before then.

I think there should be a little bit about how, if you're not sure about if something meshes well with the history, ask somebody.

Done, check the end of Alduin's last line.

This idea makes sense to me.

Alright, then, unless there are any further suggestions I'll be plopping this into the existing Tone Essay and announcing such in the Signup thread.

edited 10th Dec '16 2:43:00 AM by Sixthhokage1

POSTED TOO EARLY DERP

edited 10th Dec '16 1:38:21 PM by Umbramatic

guys

guys

rude awakening chapter 4 is up

Read it any of these places:

Second forum

Serebii forums

AO3

FFNet

Enjoy and feel free to comment, including on the second forum and AO 3!

Now to take a break and then work like crazy on getting the Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Plasbad revision done before the end of this year like I originally intended to. Also possibly Yuletide pinch hitting.

edited 10th Dec '16 3:34:18 PM by Umbramatic

tmw Dialga and Naga bond over cat videos

There's Gen VII starter evos mentioned within btw if people are still keeping themselves unspoiled.