TWO YEARS AGO, A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION GOING BY THE NAME TEAM IMUM WRECKED CHAOS ACROSS THE LAND, DAMAGING CITIES AND KILLING THOUSANDS OF CITIZENS. While Imum itself has long since been disbanded, however, the region remains broken: entire towns have been laid to waste and the Association struggles to find homes for those who were lucky enough to survive the attempted genocide. Reconstruction trudges on as usual... but with three factions - the Association, the corporations, and the people - each wishing to take the rebuilding of an entire region down opposite paths, how long will it be before Lyeant's last leg gives out permanently?
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01.28
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Care to hear about our lord and savior Operation: Mindcrime? In all seriousness: Hello, hello! I'm Pharaoh Leap – or just Leap – local head admin and rock opera enthusiast. On the rare chance you catch me in a time when I'm not bawling about characters entirely written into song, you may see me actually doing work around the site, like skinning, making too many characters, and encouraging others to also make too many characters. I only know how to write angst, and in no fewer than six trillion words an app or post, so if you like dying while reading like I like dying while writing, I'm the girl for you. ;o
Howdy guys! The names Astro and I am your resident Brit & Red muse (you'll honestly see me more on him than any of my other characters). I'm a moderator and my main job is to make sure everything is running smoothly so the Admins can focus on other things, you'll often see me within the apps and shops, etc when I'm not on Red. What can I say about myself? Apart from being a Red fanboy I like music and games and yaoi huehue, I honestly never now what to put into these sort of things but ohwell, I'm more of a "ask me and I'll tell" sorta guy. Anyway, from my personally I hope that you enjoy the site and what we produce here but also if you're new, please look around and if you like what you see please consider joining for rad plots that everyone gives! :D
Hey there~ Nano over here! I uh.. Wait, I'm doing this right, right? Bleh. So I'm a moderator over here - fun, fun - who kind of just.. Keeps an eye on everyone. You know, the whole app thing and what not. Uh.. Lets see.. When I'm not doing school work (because I may or may not be trying to be a good student) I'm probably storming up new ideas like events and etc. Or plots. Plots are always good, too. As you can see, I uh.. Have the horrible habit of making way too many characters. I swear, I was tempted with plots, ships and angst. It's like, the holy trinity. Uh.. What else is there about me? Oh, right! Please excuse my obnoxiousness. I'm just really loud in general so don't be surprised if I start screaming as loudly as I can caps. So yeah. Nice meeting you!
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YO, TAO TRIO BRO. I apologize in advance for asking Youhei to put up with this mess of a woman, but when there is a Kyurem to plot my Reshiram with, I simply cannot refuse. Legendaries kind of have a sense for where the others are – in addition to generally knowing who decided to go to where and into what body by means of verbal communication – but to be entirely truthful, Victoria didn't exactly pay too close attention to the activities and whereabouts of the others in favor of doing her own thing. Heck, she probably didn't even know that Kyurem took on a human host at all until these two actually bump into each other (or shortly before? who knows?). When she does, though, she's definitely not going to be very subtle about it. Unlike Zekrom, who she's more than a little envious of and angry toward, Kyurem's done nothing to evict itself from her good graces, and being one of the two closest people to family she's got, she'll definitely waste no time trying to get back in contact with him. Unfortunately, when you try to pair up a drunken twenty-something-year-old with an overly intelligent barely-even-a-teenager, things don't exactly tend to turn out so great. Read more specifically: Stranger Danger. It probably won't help Tori's image at all when she's very insistent that he's secretly a god (while simultaneously downing, like, three bottles of alcohol over the course of twenty minutes). You said that Kyurem sort of latched onto Youhei's personality, so I dunno exactly how much control over him that would give it, but I honestly think it would be hilarious to, for at least their first encounter or so to be spent with him thinking that this crazy homeless lady is trying to kidnap him or something. She only wants to look after him, though (maybe even feels/tries to act a little motherly around him? coddling as well as someone who's poo faced can coddle, I suppose), so whether a ghostly voice from the back of his mind tells him that this lady's chill or she just proves how not creepy she actually is through some GRANDIOUS ACT OF HEROISM, I do hope these two can end up on good terms. Maybe even as friends. Er, well, again, as much of friends as a grown adult and a child can be.
This one's not as obvious, but I do have another legendary who won't be nearly as upfront about being a legendary as Victoria and falls closer to Youhei's age group, being just a year younger. Marley's occupation is as student, since I'm assuming there's school in the Pokemon World (albeit more optional than in our's? at the very least, college is a canon thing, so it stands to reason that there would be school prior to that...). Assuming Youhei also attends school, they could be schoolmates? Heck, maybe even classmates if we pull a whole “kid enters school a year earlier/later than most” for one of 'em. /waves hand dismissively Since he's one smart cookie and she couldn't be bothered to do the work material even if she was under threat of death/just generally doesn't understand these human studies, maybe a teacher saddles her onto him in hopes that he'll help catch her up? Just, like. Help her out with math homework or something. Just so that “F” turns into a “D”. (And then later, he can be all, “Some drunk lady told me I was a god”, and very nonchalantly Marley can be all, “Are you only just now realizing this??”) At the very least, they've got being empty in common – Youhei in that he's innocent, Marley in that she's one hundred percent dead inside. Really, it's practically the same thing.
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Hey, Avan, and welcome to the site! The app you've got up here for Wally is lovely, and I'd love to be able to accept it, but there's a couple of problems stemming from one thing that are, unfortunately, too inconsistent to overlook. What you've got up here is a perfect application for a game-universe Wally. Unfortunately, TBE is a manga-universe roleplay – and while Wally's personality is basically unchanged between game and manga, his history and his Pokemon team are very different. If you're not very familiar with the manga, a quick read over of his Bulbapedia article should give a solid idea of the differences, or if you're really dedicated, you can read his story (along with Ruby and Sapphire's) in volumes fifteen through twenty-three here. Again, I'm very sorry for the inconvenience – but I'm sure you'll play as wonderful a manga-verse Wally as a game-verse one, and if you so choose to make the edits, I'll be more than happy to read him over again. <3 Thank you!
Post by PHARAOH LEAP on Jan 23, 2017 15:53:33 GMT -6
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Post by PHARAOH LEAP on Jan 20, 2017 17:05:28 GMT -6
Hey, guys! Leap here to shine a little light on some matters (and also hop on the plotting bus because I have characters and these plot ideas sound rad.) I should probably apologize for not being one hundred percent clear on certain aspects of the setting and plot – in this case, how far the civil war has escalated, if at all – but hopefully this'll help out here and in plots later down the line?
First of all, I'm gonna cite Callista and Deimos' posts, because I think they're right on the money on two important aspects. First:
“My understanding is that there are currently no active “warzones” on the site, but there are areas being somewhat low-key devastated by raids/mini-skirmishes etc etc. SOwhile there may not be an awful lot of new refugees being currently and actively formed, there are still those left behind after the civil war type thing that happened a few years ago in the site’s plot!”
This is true for both the lack of active war zones and the refugees left behind because of Imum (and a the few that exist because of those small raids and skirmishes)! There haven't been a lot of casualties – at least, not enough to turn heads, especially in the wake of Imum – yet as a result of civil tensions, so while there are still quite a number of people homeless/in need of aid, most of them are people that still haven't found help from after the region was nearly blown off the face of the planet. To quote Deimos, however:
[The Republic taking over New Veherna] was by no means a peaceful come to power... I imagine there are little raids happening everywhere, everyone trying to tear down their competition.
The means by which the Republic acquired New Veherna were definitely not peaceful (boom, there you go, you probably have some refugees from that takeover, too), and the streets while still relatively clear, are not as safe as the Association would like them to be – or have you believe they are. The most important thing to say here is that no war has been officially announced or broken loose as of this moment; where we currently stand is that the Republic is trying to pick a fight, but neither Parallax or the Association are mentally ready to accept. It's only been two years since everyone nearly died, after all. Which group really wants the honor of saying that they sent the region spiraling down into its second near death encounter? This doesn't mean that the Republic are the only ones causing small, individual acts of violence for their cause (those aforementioned raids, namely), though. Parallax has at least a couple of mercenaries I can think of off the top of my head taking down political enemies in secret, and from the sounds of it, the Seers' leader, Taishu, is doing as much in the Republic's name as well. Meanwhile, the Association is good about keeping their hands clean of blood, but you can better believe that you're not getting a League job or a good pay if you openly affiliate yourself with Parallax or the Republic. Political bias, yo.
Because of this, normal civilians who affiliate with one group over the others but haven't participated in anything necessarily radical should be fine in their cities, even if that city is aligned differently from themselves. An average Joe who casually sides with Parallax would be fine living in New Veherna assuming some radical, blood thirsty Republic members don't come at him with a bat or something, RIP. People who are active members of their faction, though, do put themselves at a risk by being in a separately affiliated city; Parallax mercenaries may go after League members or other high ranking Association members, for example, or the Association may make moves to ostracize a particularly vocal and march-happy member of the Republic. In that sense, yes! Extraction missions would be totally viable! Just don't feel the need to extract everyone from a given city – right now, only the people who might pose a threat are at risk. Those are the guys you want to get out before a hitman or a delinquent gets to them first.
(Also, I'm seeing some animosity stirring here, and as a fellow member and friend, I'd like to personally ask that that train of conversation be dropped altogether. Confusion causes frustration, so I can understand where it started, but with the confusion gone, there's no need for it anymore – and continuing would be an act of rudeness toward Ariel, who started this thread, and anyone else who would like to contribute to this plot idea. Otherwise, though, thank you for adding what you did to the conversation. You're absolutely welcome to contribute more. <333) Otherwise, with things mostly (hopefully?) cleared up, I hope everyone can get back on the right track and have fun plotting! 8O Remind me to throw Garett at both this idea here and the Crown because - /rubs hands together – I need to actually do plot-relevant things with my characters eventually.
Post by PHARAOH LEAP on Jan 10, 2017 20:49:28 GMT -6
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?”) At the very least, they've got being empty in common – Youhei in that he's innocent, Marley in that she's one hundred percent dead inside. Really, it's practically the same thing.
?”) At the very least, they've got being empty in common – Youhei in that he's innocent, Marley in that she's one hundred percent dead inside. Really, it's practically the same thing.
