We Are All Pokemon Trainers Signup Thread

Okay, I *do* get what you're going for, but with how things work IRP, you're generally going to need a full team to beat the E4 and Champion. I think it's fine you want a main team and an auxiliary team, but you should get the main team up to 5 or 6 mons eventually if you're planning on doing anything serious with them.

But otherwise, what Umbra said about grammar. And could you address my other points?

"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also Every

My whole traveling team consists of all six named pokemon in my signup. The plan was to raise the three kanto starters during the current arc, or during the next arc. And the other three would come out if, and only if the initial three failed. If I won't have time to reasonably train the kanto starters, then I will gladly put more pokemon in my team and change my story. I only said the last three were for reserve due to balancing myself for when Im casually battling, or competitive battling. It would't be fair to anyone if my Kanjoh veterans come out onto the field and overpower everything. I also added Shade's starter as Chespin, or currently Chesnaught. I also made it so that his grandparents are running the daycare, not his parents. To Umbramatic, If Im overthinking things, I apologize. Im nervous, and very new to rping. I tend to try to hard when I get nervous. On a general note, thank you to everyone for your patience, it means so much to me. PS: If my grammar is still off, please point me to where I need to fix it. It would be expecially helpful.

edited 18th Feb '15 2:39:35 PM by usherp

Decisions were made regrets were had.

That post was much better grammar-wise; your main issue is sentence fragments and improper capitalization.

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Through further thought, I have decided to change my initial Kanjoh loadout. I have more Pokemon in reserve. However the exact details as far as who and what they are and their characteristics, have not been decided yet. If the need arises I will consider my options. But as for now, this is the team that will be shown. I may also need further input as far as to who my future team may be due to balance and future story circumstances. Also, I realize now that the Bio is rather long winded. If you guys need me to make more paragraphs I will be happy to do so. I'm sorry for the grammatical errors, especially in terms of capitalization, the issues of writing on a tablet, and then editing, created some rather odd formatting erros that will hopefully not be that big of an issue for everyday posting.

Decisions were made regrets were had.

usherp: Okay, that pretty much covers what I was about to say, so thanks.

As for your edited Signup, yeah, just make sure to capitalize location names, Pokemon names, ability names, and names in general.

And did you mean a different word other than 'dismay' in reaction to Sunny's hatching?

"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also Every

Yeah, I think the better word is surprise. I'll go back and fix it in a few. Thanks.

Decisions were made regrets were had.

So do we do the test now?

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Sure, I'm booting my laptop up right now. All ready to go.

edited 19th Feb '15 6:16:49 AM by usherp

Decisions were made regrets were had.

So because Umbra has to go, he has asked someone to do the test instead.

I volunteered.

This can't end well.

"Screw it, I AM going to enjoy this game!"

I'm ready.

Decisions were made regrets were had.

Usherp toast test

You have accidentally caused destruction on Lairon's territory.

It doesn't like that.

(Respond as if this was the RP.)

edited 19th Feb '15 10:13:19 AM by PinkCelebi

"Screw it, I AM going to enjoy this game!"

Oh crap, come on out Lance. Use Spiky Shield to block that charge!!!

Decisions were made regrets were had.

Test

Lairon: <You smash Lairon's home, I SMASH YOU!>

Lairon stomps the ground, causing a shockwave to travel along the ground. The attack is parried by the shield, though.

On note, most people seem to use third-person narration (like me), although there are few that go by first-person (like Tagg, I think?).

edited 19th Feb '15 10:50:34 AM by PinkCelebi

"Screw it, I AM going to enjoy this game!"

First person narration's totally fine, but could you write out your Pokemon's actions and, ideally, give them lines?

If you want to differentiate what Shade says from actions taken, you can write it like:

-Character A did Action B-

Or include what Shade says in quotes.

Or both or something like that.

edited 19th Feb '15 12:06:16 PM by CorvusAtrox

"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also Every

Lance( Ahhrg, that was rough) Shade commands Lance to try a Brick Break.

Decisions were made regrets were had.

Oh, and line breaks between speech and actions too.

"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also Every

Lance( Ahhrg, that was rough) Shade commands Lance to try a Brick Break.

Decisions were made regrets were had.

Test

Lairon: <Bwuh!>

He recoils backwards from the hit.

Lairon: <I SMASH YOU HARDER REGARDLESS OF HOW HARD YOU SMASH ME!>

Now he charges at the Chesnaught, while being covered in blue area.

There's the button to edit posts right there. Also, I am running out of time, so someone needs to take over. And yes, that Lairon has Rock Head.

edited 19th Feb '15 12:53:48 PM by PinkCelebi

"Screw it, I AM going to enjoy this game!"

??? Is that Head Smash?

Decisions were made regrets were had.

Was that meant to be a reaction or an OOC question? You should put OOC questions in spoiler markup.

But, yeah, that's Head Smash.

edited 19th Feb '15 1:25:39 PM by CorvusAtrox

"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also Every

I am taking over your signup test, whoo! Also, yes, that is Head Smash.

"If I am to be met with disrespect, then I must first love myself with a fierceness no fool can take away." - Vraska, Gorgon assassin

• OK* Shade: Wow, that almost didn't phase it... Shade tells Lance to dodge. Lance: I really need to move now...

Decisions were made regrets were had.

It would be wise to put each line said by a different character on a new line, for ease of reading, also we typically (it's not mandated, but typically) use <> for Monese.

The Lairon roars and charges again, again using Head Smash.

"If I am to be met with disrespect, then I must first love myself with a fierceness no fool can take away." - Vraska, Gorgon assassin

Shade tells Lance to use his shoulder to brace the impact before using Giga Drain.

Decisions were made regrets were had.

The Lairon roars again, damaged, but adamant. <I WILL SMASH YOU EVEN THOUGH YOU MAKE IT HARDER FOR ME TO SMASH YOU.> It charges back in with another Head Smash.

edited 19th Feb '15 1:49:35 PM by ConflictedPsyches

"If I am to be met with disrespect, then I must first love myself with a fierceness no fool can take away." - Vraska, Gorgon assassin