Pokemon: The National Journey

Due to my recent obsession with Pokemon I’ve decided to make an RP.

Introduction

Professor Oak calls to his contacts in every city in Kanto and Johto asking for any youthful trainers that would do research for him using the latest Pokedex. Most of the cities and towns reply by sending their latest trainer to Pallet Town with their first Pokemon.

Upon meeting each new trainer Professor Oak has his assistants help him hand out a Pokedex to each recruit followed by a lecture to all of them that they must collect data on Pokemon while they should also challenge gyms to battles. With final parting gifts of PokeBalls, a town map and a PokeGear to any who don’t already have one Professor Oak sets the young trainers off on their first adventure in small travelling groups.

Rules

1. Forums and section rules apply. Go read them if you haven’t yet.
2. 1 character max so far.
3. Do not try to take over the story in any way, I will remove you instantly if you try.
4. Try to progress the story and not stay in the same place for the whole RP without breaking rule 3.
5. Do not use moves that your Pokemon can’t and doesn’t know or over power your Pokemon.
6. No instantly finding Pokemon, we have a system for wild Pokemon depending on location and a random number generator with an attached Pokemon to that number.
7. 1 starter per character and it’s first come, first serve.
8. Read everything, if you make a mistake especially when it comes to wild encounters I will either tell you to change your post or remove you from the RP depending on the seriousness of it.
9. I will be using this random number generator to decide which Pokemon you battle in the grass/water/caves/etc depending on your location. Such as if you where on route 1 you would say in your post something like “Suddenly a wild Pokemon popped out of the grass”, I would run the number generator and viola, which ever number the pokemon is (in order from the list on bulbapedia) that is what you will battle.
10. DPWolf is willing to make trainer sprites using Pokemon sprites for people if they want to.
11. Also, no main character sprites unless they are edited versions.
12. 3 encounters per person per day, each encounter must be separated by 3 hours. This rule might change depending on the flow.

Character Information

From the beginning each character will have:
A starter Pokemon
A PokeDex
5 Poke Balls
A backpack with different containment pockets
A PokeGear with map feature already installed, Professor Oak’s number and the character’s mother‘s number.
5 Potions

Starter Pokemon

Your starter will depend on your town. There is only one of each starter per town. First come, first serve.

Every starter is level 5 from the beginning.

Spoiler

Kanto

Pallet Town
Bulbasaur
Charmander
Squirtle

Viridian City
Rattata
Nidoran♀
Nidoran♂

Pewter City
Geodude
Sandshrew
Zubat

Cerulean City
Poliwag
Horsea
Goldeen

Vermilion City
Pikachu
Diglett
Drowsee

Lavender Town
Gastly
Cubone
Vulpix

Celadon City
Oddish
Jigglypuff
Paras

Fuchsia City
Venonat
Koffing
Doduo

Saffron City
Tyrogue
Meowth
Growlithe

Cinnabar Island
Seel
Voltorb
Ponyta

Spoiler

Johto

New Bark Town
Chikorita
Cyndaquil
Totodile

Cherrygrove City
Sentret
Pidgey
Hoppip

Violet City
Bellsprout
Hoothoot
Spearow

Azalea Town
Spinarak
Ledyba
Slowpoke

Goldenrod City
Snubbull
Houndour
Ekans

Ecruteak City
Gastly
Koffing
Eevee

Olivine City
Magnemite
Krabby
Shellder

Cianwood City
Machop
Manky
Chinchou

Mahogany Town
Swinub
Magikarp
Mareep

Blackthorn City
Dratini
Phanpy
Teddiursa

OC Form

Username:
Name:
Age: 10 (Everyone is 10)
Appearance: (Preferably something that you’d expect in Pokemon so no ridiculous anime pictures of some emo character).
Hometown:
Starter:
Other:

Groups

Group 1:
Fayt-Harkwind
DPWolf
Rayku

Group 2:
Ego Imperium
Guardian_Soul
Alex856

Group 3:
Protecter212
Sora is cute
TerryNirv
Cloud of Darkness

Group 4:
Akua WaterDragonKing
Twilight Blader
AnimeGirl104
TheDeadGuy

Trainers:

Username: Fayt-Harkwind
Name: Leon
Age: 10
Appearance:
(As a 10 year old)
Hometown: Blackthorn City
Starter: Dratini
Other: None

Username: DPWolf
Name: Akane
Age: 10
Appearance:

Hometown: Goldenrod
Starter: Houndour
Other: N/A

Username: Ego Imperium
Name: Coltin (Colt) Dutreau
Age: 10
Appearance: http://th08.deviantart.net/fs40/300W...o_No_Kuchi.jpg
Hometown: Lavender Town
Starter: Ghastly
Other: N/A

Username: Protecter212
Name: Dean
Age: 10
Appearance: *Pending*
Hometown: Pallet Town
Starter: Charmander
Other: N/A

Username: sora is cute
Name: Mage
Age: 10
Appearance: http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/8702/magetrainer.jpg
Hometown:New Bark Town
Starter: Chikorita(which she named Strawberry)
Other: She's paranoid about a lot of things. And she doesn't like to talk about herself.

Username: Guardian_Soul
Name: Etrian
Age: 10
Appearance: *pending*
Hometown: Ecruteak City
Starter: Eevee
Other: N/A

Username: TerryNirv
Name:Terry Nirv
Age: 10
Appearance:http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/marquisemadison/Pokemon_Trainer_Jet_by_Selvix.png
Hometown: New Bark Town
Starter: Cyndaquil
Other: N/A

Username: Cloud of darkness
Name: Miyoko
Age: 10
Appearance:http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs28/i/2008/082/9/d/Pokemon_Trainer_4_by_Emeraldus.png
Hometown:Saffron City
Starter: Growlithe
Other: thinks nothing of no one is quite shy around others dues not like to talk often and ultimate goal to reach indego platue

Username: Rayku
Name: Rayku
Age: 10
Appearance:
Hometown: New Bark Town
Starter: Totodile
Other: N/A

Username: Akua WaterDragonKing
Name: Jordan Rain
Age: 10
Appearance: Pending I'll PM Wolfie :D
Hometown: Cerulean City
Starter: Horsea
Other: Outgoing

Username: Alex856
Name: Komaeno
Age: 10
Appearance:
Hometown: Lavender Town
Starter: Vulpix
Other: Shy Person, Really Friendly If You Get To Know Him

Username: Twilightblader
Name: Drake
Age: 10 (Everyone is 10)
Appearance:
Hometown: Viridian City
Starter: Nidoran♂
Other:

Username: AnimeGirl104
Name: Valerie
Age: 10
Appearance: http://i426.photobucket.com/albums/pp346/AniLightning104/VEL3.jpg
Hometown: Vermilion City
Starter: Pikachu
Other:

Username: TheDeadGuy
Name:Natsu
Age: 10
Appearance: I'll get it from DPwolf after this is Approved
Hometown: Olivine City
Starter:Magnemite

 

Username: Ego Imperium
Name: Coltin (Colt) Dutreau
Age: 10
Appearance:
Hometown: Lavender Town
Starter: EDIT - Ghastly, actually. But I do shotgun Cyndiquil for a character).
Other: N/A

 

Just to expand on what Fayt said, I can edit together and recolour two to three trainer sprites in order to get your sprite if you want one.
Just specify which trainers you want, either from D/P/P or HeartGold/SoulSilver.
To specify a trainer, tell me what series, as well as the row and column number (row 2, column 3, etc.). And if you want a trainer card too, include OC's date of birth, and favorite type.
Preferably done over PM/VM, so the thread doesn't get cluttered.

 

@Ego Imperium: Read rule 2.

 

Oh. Missed the one from DPWolf. Thought it was two from you, so, yeah. I think I'll stick with Colt, even though Ghastly is a hell of alot harder to train.

 

Alright, I've added your character and crossed out Lavender Town's Gastly starter.

 

Where do you find the sprites for the characters from? I can never seem to find a Pokemon style image. Oh, and what generation are we following?

 

You can find the sprites on Bulbapedia by searching trainer classes and we're following HG/SS maps/Pokemon spots but removing the need for Hoenn and Sinnoh sound to reveal gen III and gen IV Pokemon. So on Route 1 you have the chance to catch a Shinx for example.

 

Username: Protecter212
Name: Dean
Age: 10
Appearance:
Hometown: Pallet Town
Starter: Charmander
Other: N/A

 

You'll need to change your image to a more Pokemon world appearance, we will have no card games here xD

 

Curse yooou author!!! wait a second.

 

I should probably add this to the rules, but no main character sprites unless they are edits. DPWolf might make you one from Blue if you ask.

 

Username:
Name: She is very secretive about her name, now that she's going on the road with a bunch of strangers. She calls herself Mage, and that is all you will know.
Age: 10
Appearance:
Hometown:New Bark Town
Starter: Chikorita(which she named Strawberry)
Other: She's paranoid about a lot of things. And she doesn't like to talk about herself.

Is this okay? |D;;

 

Oh okay then D/PWolf, please just change the shirt to red and the trousers to white and hair color can be black.

 

Yep.

Okay, I'll add your character to the list I'll just have the image pending.

I'll see if anymore join and we'll probably start tomorrow if more do.

 

Name: Etrian
Age: 10
Appearance: Still deciding on a sprite or picture so I'll get back to you on that.
Hometown: Ecruteak City
Starter: Eevee
Other: N/A

 

Okie dokie. I'll put your image as pending so far.

And Protecter, try PMing/VMing her so we don't clutter the thread and in case she doesn't see your edited post.

 

Would we be able to bend the standards set by Pokemon, and allow Lick to be effective against Normal type pokemon? In the games, it never seems to work on normal types, like Rattata. that's the only way I'll be able to capture anything in this.

 

first one so here i go

Username: Cloud of darkness
Name: miyoko
Age: 10
Appearance:http://www.freewebs.com/pokemonloverfanclub/pokemon trainer.bmp
Hometown:celedon city
Starter: growlith
Other: thinks nothing of no one is quite shy around others dues not like to talk often and ultimate goal to reach indego platue

 

Nope, but Gastly has Hypnosis which makes Pokemon easier to catch.

There's no main character images allowed to be used and that's Red in the image, Growlithe isn't a starter at all and not in the hometown you chose.