Winds of Change (PMD Dual-RP) [OOC/Signups]

{Story}
Three weeks ago, the world began to change. An unknown affliction, which affected the minds of those it struck, turning them into aggressive, primal beasts, began to spread. It began with only a few isolated cases, but quickly spread through the population at seeming random, despite the best efforts at quarantine. Although it was mostly seen in Pokémon whom lived in the wilds, those in the capital cities were not immune, and the best the governments could do to avoid upheaval was to expel these cases away from settled areas. This disease was not the only anomaly, however - strange time shifts began to take place, altering the stability of select locations throughout the world and turning them into so called 'mystery dungeons' - places which seemed to reshape themselves at random. What was stranger, was that those affected by the disease were inexplicably drawn to these places. Because crossing through these areas was required to travel between cities and regions, both adventure teams and bandit activity are on the rise...

Furthermore, beyond the fear and instability on ground-level, political tensions are off the charts. The four major regions making up the continents, already on shaky ground, immediately began slandering each other at the rise of the turmoil. The leaders of these regions and the high positions within have begun hosting constant political summits, though to little avail - and whispers of war float on the horizon...

{Summary}
~This RP, as may be obvious, takes place in a 'Pokémon Mystery Dungeon' style alternate universe. It is meant to be dark, gritty, bloody and violent - so know what you're getting yourself into. The story is somewhat similar, Mystery Dungeons are spread throughout the world, and wild Pokémon inhabit them, turned aggressive. Each region has their own Adventurer's Guild and Guild Leader, and they may all operate differently - however, all PC's will be operating out of only one region to avoid spreading out too much. It may be possible to travel to other regions in the future, and the other region's leads will likely interact between their counterparts.

In addition, each region's leads are controlled by a different person - Me, Big Red Cherry Bomb, Moon-Panther, and Dark Shocktail respectively. We will be playing an 'RP within an RP' via political summits, in order to bridge (or break) the regions. Common adventurers will always receive summaries of the day's talks via the region's mail services and postings, allowing them to directly respond to these actions. In addition, depending how these characters are played between us, will be how the world as a whole is affected, and thusly the PC adventurers.
Each region has a Region Head - the one calling most of the shots and representing their region during summits, a Security Cheif - one in charge of law enforcement, and if need be, military action, and a Guild Leader - one who heads and maintains the local adventurer's guild, handling most outside job postings. Some regions will also have and/or introduce 'Minor' characters, ones who may play a heavy role within the region, but are not directly involved within the political rings.

Finally, it will be up to the players to decide which region we inhabit to begin! The one playing that region's leaders will thusly gain 'landscape control' of the RP. Each sign-up sheet has a line to place a vote for which region to play in (initially). Keep in mind that your character does not have to be native to the region we start in.~


{Names to Know}

Region 1 ~ L'il Dwagie
Loosely France-based. Politically a republic, and advanced slightly medically. Somewhat seperatist, and 'loosely' allied with Region 4 (after many wars in the past...)
Main:
Prime Minister - Jean Lévesque (Jarooda, F)
Guild Leader - Maëlle Cloutier (Desukan, F)
Security Cheif - Brice Lécuyer (Shiny Shubarugo, M)
*Army Colours - Pink*
Minor:
Doctor - Basile Roux (Scizor, M)

Region 2 ~ Big Red Cherry Bomb
An artistic, yet war-like region, bordering on ancient-roman philosophy. 'Prime Minister' is a loose term, and strength is important in their political system.
Prime Minister - Deimos Megalos (Smeargle, M)
Guild Leader - Aella Metaxas (Barujiina, F)
Security Cheif - Nereus Kokinos (Shiny Gyarados, M)
*Army Colours - Red*

Region 3 ~ Moon-Panther
Loosely Chinese based, or otherwise oriental - the most peaceful region, but with very capable fighters nonetheless. With an Imperial leadership, they have interesting alternative medicines and fighting styles. Of course, they aren't spared the typical violence from gangs, bandits, and the disease.
Main:
Emperor - 'Buddha' (Lickilicky, M)
Guild Leader - Halan Storm (Lucario, M)
Security Cheif - Zhu Bajie (Emboar, M)
*Army Colours - Gold - Reds / Blues*
Minor:
Clandestine - Val ? (Zoroark, F)

Region 4 ~ Dark Shocktail
Loosely England based, a monarchy. The Queen has a much larger say over the region than other leaders. They are slightly mechanically inclined, and 'loosely' allied with Region 1.
Main:
Queen - Victoria Wheatley (Chirachiino, F)
Guild Leader - James Robertson (Arcanine, M)
Security Cheif - Richard Hardy (Gallade, M)
*Army Colours - Vermillion*
Minor:
Engineer - Oliver McLain (Porygon Z)



{Rules}
- Don't be an asshat. No, seriously.
- Type like a civilised person else be murdered.
- Do NOT even think about god-modding or Mary-Sueing else be /violently/ murdered.
- No, you cannot take the role of a major political player. Perhaps if you play well enough, though, you can be noticed.
- I would prefer not too many people played a 'bandit' role, so please have a good explanation for doing so.

{Sign-up}
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Species:[/b]
[b]Appearance:[/b]
[b]Background:[/b]
[b]Other:[/b] (Including affiliations)

[b][i]Region Vote:[/b][/i] (Region 1-4)


{Sign-Ups}
Mawile - Emlyn [Shuppet]
Blastoise - Pascallion Sectaporum [Parasect]
Barubu - Enviiko Ekoupos [Emonga]

{Reserves}
dragonair
shadow_lugia
Exo-Raikou
Mewtwo
Male Gardevoir
Psymon
Alraune

Reserve!

Name:
Gender:
Species:
Appearance:
Background:
Other: (Including affiliations)

Region Vote: Region 4!

Name: Emlyn
Gender: ♂
Species: Shuppet
Appearance: Emlyn is basically your average everyday Shuppet. However, he uses a piece of white string as a scarf to distinguish himself.
Background: Emlyn has practically paid literally no attention to the world around him and is just now learning about the Mystery Dungeons. For his whole life, he has lived in a tree playing with his string, but when the tree got cut down, he had to actually figure out what the heck was happening. He then decided to become an adventurer because he wanted to actually do something with his life.
Other: He is mostly clueless about what is happening, except for the fact that Mystery Dungeons filled with savage Pokemon are spread out everywhere. He has literally no affiliations.

Region Vote: Region 2

I guess I'll reserve too.

Name: Ulna

Gender: Female

Species: Marowak

Appearance: Ulna's skull-helmet and bone-club are a bit dinged up; while she does her best to keep them clean and functional, they have a fair share of nicks and bumps. While obviously a bit short and stout like most Marowak, she makes sure to train herself every day, and looks perhaps a bit more muscular than most of her species.

Background: Ulna was born in the far, lonely corners of region 3, growing up and learning mostly from her parents, both of which were Marowak. When she grew up, she started to adventure on her own, and found that she quite enjoyed seeing new places and things. When she first came to her region's capital, she was quite surprised at the fact that so many creatures could live comfortably in one small space, and, although at first she was resentful of crowds and did her best to stay on the outskirts, she soon came to enjoy the place, finding that there were so many more things to do and see. She joined up with the guild, feeling that she might as well do some good for others while achieving her own dreams of exploration.

Other: She is left-handed, and wields her club accordingly.

Region Vote: Region 3

Reserving as Well

Name: Agemo Nolispe

Gender: Male

Species: Sazandra

Appearance: Agemo mostly looks just like any other Sazandra: A large, three-headed dragon with several shadowy wings. However, unlike your garden-variety Sazandra, the maroon "mane" his heads have is more of a dull orange, while his blue scales a a darker red. His wings are also somewhat larger than the normal wings of a Sazandra, and the middle head's eyes are the same red as his scales

Background: When Agemo began his life as a Monozu, his thoughts were completely coherent, and there was never anything to be considered "wrong" with him. Once he evolved into a Jiheddo, Agemo's mind seemed to split into two personalities: one of them was more calm and thoughtful, while the other was filled with hatred and rage, and it was theorized that half of his mind had been inflicted with the disease the exact moment he evolved. He abandoned the "tribe" of his kind in hopes that he could somehow "tune out" one of the two sides, but only found that as he grew older, it grew worse, and when he evolved into a Sazandra and sprouted a third head, he developed a defined split personality complex with his heads: one of his heads is his logic, one of his heads is the vicious, violent mind, and one of them is a "creative" combination of the two; the creative head is usually the one that comes up with the plans for battle, and lets the logic head make any necessary adjustments, while the violent head is the one that does most of the battling while one or both of the others provide backup. This complex kept him mostly out of the major cities of each region, so he took to life as a bandit, attacking any stray traveler that crossed him.

Other: He mainly serves as a bandit due to his complex, and will naturally refer to himself as "we" in his thoughts and conversations. For all intents and purposes, logic mind will be referred to as Delta, rage will be Xi, and the third Sigma

Region Vote: Region 3

Name: Pascallion Sectaporum
Gender: ♂
Species: Parasect

Appearance: His skin and mushroom are a deep, sunset orange, and his spots are pale yellow. A pair of half-moon glasses perch inexplicably on his face. Pascallion is also rather large for a Parasect of his age, he looks more like he's in his mid-thirties than his twenties. A satchel usually hangs around his mushroom, filled with a number of things. (including a large store of the elixir that his people use to keep the mushrooms under control)

Background: Pascallion grew up with around ten siblings. (he has more than that, but they were grown up and evolved by the time he was a child) He spent most of his youth in Region 3's main city, working as a gardener and herbalist like many Paras and Parasect. He evolved several years ago, in his teens, and bought his own medical practice. He worked out of it for several years before a riot involving rival gangs of Fire-types sent his workplace up in flames. This only intensifying his natural fear of fire, Pascallion wandered for a while before making a radical change to his life; he joined the local Guild and began training. He acts as more of a medic than a fighter, but something Parasect have known for time beyond measure is that potion and poison are two words for the same thing.

Other: He's affiliated strongly with Region 3, and especially its guild.

Region vote: 3

Reserves are accepted, and sheets are in~ Although I'm a biiit concerned at how short yours is, Mawile, I suppose you have proper enough reasoning to do so.

AS AN ASIDE - The regions being named 'Region 1-4' is rather dull, but the head honchos seem to be terrible at names, so if anyone would like to make suggestions as to actual names, please feel free.

As a reference that I SHOULD have posted in the original post, please note the regions are themed as follows. If you'd like to change your vote, feel free, they'll only be tallied once we start:

Region 1 ~ Loosely France-based. Politically a republic, and advanced slightly medically. Somewhat seperatist, and 'loosely' allied with Region 4 (after many wars in the past...)

Region 2 ~ An artistic, yet war-like region, bordering on ancient-roman philosophy. 'Prime Minister' is a loose term, and strength is important in their political system.

Region 3 ~ Loosely Chinese based, or otherwise oriental - the most peaceful region, but with very capable fighters nonetheless. With an Imperial leadership, they have interesting alternative medicines and fighting styles. Of course, they aren't spared the typical violence from gangs, bandits, and the disease.

Region 4 ~ Loosely England based, a monarchy. The Queen has a much larger say over the region than other leaders. They are slightly mechanically inclined, and 'loosely' allied with Region 1.

1 - Sulepubliq
2 - Plexerium
3 - Sandiguo
4 - Pedwirnas

:D?

Do moves and abilities act like they do in PMD, e.g. bullet seed is made of awesome while transform is more like zoroark's illusion?

Kusarigamaitachi said:

Do moves and abilities act like they do in PMD, e.g. bullet seed is made of awesome while transform is more like zoroark's illusion?

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Well moves are more like... RP'd. Uh.. I shoot seeds at you.. it probably hurts.. and such.. unless you totally resist it. PMD style is moreso the 'Humans-are-no-go' suggestion. And Transform can.. pretty much be used whenever, so if a Ditto wants to disguise as someone it can.

Name: Enviiko Ekoupos
Gender: ♂
Species:Emonga (You know I had to.)

Appearance: Enviiko is a rather large Emonga, who's fur is more of a darkish-purple rather than black. He is capable of gliding for a full five minutes if he jumps off of something to the effect of a large oak tree. His gray-ish blind eyes seem to look straight through you.

Background: Enviiko was just born and at home when a group of Ariados attacked his house. Enviiko's eyes started to open. He took in everything at once. The roof, the bed he was in, the weird bug-things at the door. Then, FLASH! It all went away. He could hear the bug pokémon scurrying away, and his parents coming to him. He heard cries of anguish as his parents realized that they had blinded their only child. Determined to learn how to function normally, Enviiko joined the local guild where a Zubat taught him how to use echolocation.

Other:He spends most of his time at the guild of Region 2 and with Enurukuun; one of his best friends who he has a crush on.

Region vote: 2

Reserve, please.

Name: Enurukuun
Gender: Female
Species: Pachirisu (I had to, too, Barubu)
Appearance: Her stripe is darker, as are her cheek-pouches. Her eyes are purple.
Background: Living with her parents, two Pachirisu, and her younger sister, Muriettai, she was quite happy. However, one day, a hoarde of Digletts and Dugtrios rampaged underneath their house, seperating her from her family. She went to Region 2, the closest region, where she immediately became friends with Enviiko.
Other: Has fallen for Enviiko, and helps him "see", by describing things to him.

Region Vote: 2

Reserve~

Name:Sandrino
Gender:Male
Species:Shikijika
Appearance:Sandrino looks like any normal Shikijika, though the flower on his head in a deep blue, rather than the usual yellow.
Background: Sandrino was born in Region 4, and lived with his parents and younger brother for all his childhood. He loves adventuring and is generally quite brave, though he is very afraid of Bug types as once, while he was quite young, he was attacked and nearly killed by a group of Yanma. He was narrowly saved by his parents, who drove the group away, but was left with a nasty scar on his left side. Despite this, as soon as he was old enough, Sandrino joined the local guild.
Other: He's rather young, so he may act rash or naive.

Region Vote: 4

Name: Chuntao Guozhi
Gender: ♀
Species: Tabunne
Appearance:

Chuntao's skin is plush and smooth, and she possesses very long feelers, all attributes of fine breeding. She wears a red ruqun, and a jade pecha berry hangs as an ornament from the sash.
Background: Chuntao Guozhi is the youngest of five siblings, and comes from an ancient lineage of [region 3]'s finest healers. Her family has, in the past, had members inducted into the Imperial court, but the family has been out of the loop for many generations now. Though they remain somewhat high in the social hierarchy, her parents have attempted a foray back onto the political scene by pulling some strings and getting Chuntao in as an ambassador of the region. She now travels from region to region as the need arises, usually with a small party accompanying her. However, to her family's dismay, she hasn't moved far beyond that point, being modest and not very demanding. She usually remains quiet to avoid confrontation; her family's long-term focus on healing ability has left combative skills to be desired.
Other: Chuntao has strong family ties within region 3.

Name: Cairo Hilao
Gender: Genderless (Treated as Male)
Species: Shedinja
Appearance: A normal Shedinja, but has a red scarf wrapped around it's halo.
Background: Cairo, like many other Shedinja was "born" when the host Nincada evolved. Since then, Cairo took his time to explore the world and to this day still explores.
Other: Region 2 Guild Member reporting for duty

Region Vote: Region 2

Name: Erana or 'Eriry'
Gender:Female
Species:Erufuun
Appearance: Eriry's fleece has been horribly tangled. She has gave up trying to fix it long ago. Somehow, all the Erufuun 'got lucky'. Really, she never even attempted to tame it when it was manageable, and it got worse. A good amount of the time, it has taken over her face and body, making her basicly a struggling cottonball. However, her 'scarf' has remained perfectly clean and straight.
Background: When Eriry was a child, she was unfortunately blown away by the wind with many other Monmen. She grew up with no parents, playing with other Monmen around her age. There were few adults. Therefore, she ended up childish and silly. She luckily learned to speak from a few older Monmen, but she never grew a large vocabulary. She has met up with her parents when she evolved and learned not to be controled by the wind. When she did, she heard about the mystery dungeons.
Other:

Region Vote: Region 2!

Name: Midwinter
Gender: Female
Species: Honchkrow
Appearance: A honchkrow with a bit of a light silver tint to the normally dark grey feathers.
Background: Midwinter spent most of her dungeon exploring in the northernmost and southernmost regions, as she is rather fond of the snow and the comforting chilliness. However it is still unknown whether this causes the snowy tint in her feathers. She prefers outlaw missions to rescue missions and enjoys taking out rogue Pokemon.
Other: Prefers flying to hopping or walking.

Region Vote: Region 4

Reserve. Also, if a major political charachter is a certain pokemon, am I allowed to be that same species of pokemon?
(Or, to make this simpler, can I be a gallade?)

Yes, you can be any (non-Legendary) species, more than one of them all after all, just not put one into those high-up positions.

As an aside, we've started working on the first summit~ It'll take some time yet to organise for a story-posting, but thought I'd let everyone know. If anyone wants to make a reserve (and as such, have a vote in the region) they should do so soon~ (You can join after we start, but the vote will have ended)

Name: Elijah Sabbath
Gender: Genderless, referred to as Male
Species: Goruugu

Appearance:

Background:
Elijah was born in [Region 3] and were the child of a mighty warrior. However his father died in a battle two years later, and he was taken in by a Dusknoir who had known his father prior to his passing.

As years passed, Elijah grew to become a powerful fighter, but he often questioned just to what ends his colossal strength should be used to. One day, while taking a quiet stroll, Elijah saw a young Budew being bullied by a Charmeleon. Elijah chased away the Budew's tormentor, comforted it, and realized just what his strength should to be used for.

From that day forward, Elijah started working as a bodyguard for hire, protecting those who felt they needed it, using his strength solely for the act of defending.


Region Vote: 1