[WAR] Role Play: Terminus (Sign-Ups)

[Lord Celebi]

Prologue

Terminal Conditions

For the past sixty-seven years, the nations of Maridia have thrived in an unprecedented peace. Food was plentiful, trade was high, and happiness was abound all over the planet. Humans began to invest much of their time and energy towards science and education, hoping to advance their species beyond the third rock from the sun. Dr. Boris Petrovich, a scientist searching for a better way for humans to communicate with Pokemon achieved a breakthrough in biological technology. At the 2014 Hoenn Biomedical Conference, Dr. Petrovich debuted the “Burst Heart,” a device that is able to merge the pulses of Pokemon and human into one being. Demonstrating its effects, he merged his wife, Katarina, with a Gardevoir. From the smoke emerged a pale-skinned humanoid figure garbed in the fine silks of Gardevoir. With only a thought, Katarina Petrovich was able to move objects and members of the audience with only her mind. Her Pokemon’s power had become hers.

In the back of the audience, General Terence Eiling of Hoenn was impressed. He saw to it that Petrovich received funding to mass-produce the Burst Hearts, with Hoenn’s military having a monopoly on the Burst Heart technology. With this breakthrough, war had changed. The balance of power shifted in Hoenn’s favor.

Drunk with their new power, Hoenn put higher taxes on their exported goods and demanded their imports for a lower price under the threat of violence. All nations capitulated except for one: Orre. Staunchly refusing to export their precious Dracaria metal for any price lower than what they thought was fair, Orre refused to do business with Hoenn.

On May 6th, Hoenn struck back. In the dead of night, a single platoon of Burst soldiers destroyed Realgem Tower and filled a barge in Gateon Port with as much Dracaria as would fit. They sailed these pirated goods back to Hoenn and delivered a message to the rest of the world: Hoenn is at the top of the food chain.

The Burst Hearts kept a dark secret. What Petrovich did not reveal was that the Burst Heart was not science, but in fact, ancient magick whose secrets his wife, an anthropologist, discovered in an ancient Nasmar Temple hidden in the jungles of Fiore. This secret was uncovered by a separate anthropological team deployed by Violet University to explore the Fiore Temple. The four scientists returned with a four relics from the antiquated civilization: the Ancient Burst Hearts. When one used this Burst Heart, it allowed the merged Pokemon and Human to achieve a Mega Evolution, greatly enhancing their power. Understanding that these devices could literally turn the tide of any war, the four scientists separated, each taking an Ancient Burst Heart with them.

Fearing Hoenn’s power, every nation put a bounty on the heads of the scientists. Everyone existed in a state of constant tension: rumors persisted that such and such nation had found one of the Ancient Burst Hearts. Suddenly, each nation was left to fend for themselves against every other country on the planet. A world war was imminent. All that was necessary was a catalyst.

On June 23rd, 2014, the oil tanker Vulkar exploded off the coast of Kanto, filling the country’s bay with millions of tons of toxic sludge. Whilst the surviving crewman insisted that this was due to a mechanical failure, the nation of Kanto suspected foul play from the neighboring nation of Johto. Kanto quickly declared war on Johto as the two fought to a stalemate in the heights of the Silver Mountains separating the two regions. With two nations going at it, the rest attempted to capitalize on the situation and carve up both Kanto and Johto, hoping to find an Ancient Burst Heart.

With the world at death’s doorstep, various factions, NGOs, guerilla groups, and terrorists took up arms to take their world back. Amidst the chaos of the world, these rogues, outlaws, and heroes hoped that they could shift the tides of war and remake the world in their image.

This infinite-sided conflict was dubbed by the newsmedia to be World War Terminus, the war to end them all.

Burst Hearts

• Burst Hearts are from the Pokemon spinoff comic Reburst. For more information on their original source and what a Burst Mode looks like, be sure to check out the relevant Bulbapedia page.
• You are allowed to Burst with any of your six Pokemon.
• Bursting is a temporary power-up. Simply grab your Burst Heart and merge yourself with one of your six Pokemon. Your minds will become one, and you will be able to borrow from your Pokemon's power. This also changes your appearance, giving you a kind of armor that looks similar to your Pokemon.
• All RP player characters will start with a Burst Heart as a pre-requisite, as a small cache of Burst Hearts has leaked from Hoenn onto the black market. NPCs will need to steal them from the Hoenn military.
• Bursting with a legendary Pokemon is more powerful than bursting with a normal Pokemon.
• Ancient Burst Hearts allow one to Mega Evolve while in Burst Mode, greatly increasing your power. I wonder what happens when you use an Ancient Burst Heart with a legendary Pokemon?
• If the Mega Evolution for the Pokemon you are going to Ancient Burst with does not exist, you may create it.
• Ancient Burst Hearts require an extensive amount of excellent RPing in order to obtain. They are this season's "collectible" item.

Other Notes

• I encourage you, as a team, to determine your team's back story in the Role Play. Each team should pick the region of their greatest influence to start in (one region per team).
• As has been fanonized by Neo Emolga and myself, the planet of the Pokemon World is called "Maridia."
• This is a Team RP style Role Play. For those unfamiliar, this is a Role Play centered around taking control of land from other Role Players' teams. This must be done through skilled Role Playing.
  • To assist, players can create ships, weapons, tanks and practically any other war machine that their heart desires (provided it fits within a modern technological setting). The power of these tools is, of course, determined by the amount of Role Playing effort put into them. For example, a ten-post strength battleship that was only addressed with a throwaway line in each of those post could easily be steam-rolled by a ten-post submarine whose construction was far more in depth.
  • All weapons must have some kind of weakness. Nothing is invincible.
  • Project lists are banned.
  • Don't write off your Burst Heart powers. Heroes using these abilities effectively can single-handedly turn the tide of battle.
• For now, please keep role playing on Maridia at a modern technological level and within this dimension. If the role play goes on for long enough and based on the demand of the Role Players, we can expand the RP into future technological levels, to other planets, to other dimensions, and/or to other planes of being depending on where the RP goes.
  • If your character dies, I would be open to discussing afterlife elements.
• For those unfamiliar with the art of RPing, please refer to Neo Emolga's excellent guide on how to Role Play the PXR way.
• Please refer to Serebii's Pokearth for information on the geographic locations of regions in relation to each other, except for Almia, which should be at the Southern Tip of Sinnoh. Unova takes Almia's place as the easternmost region next to Fiore and Kalos will be located on the westernmost side of the map next to Orre. The Orange Islands are not a region. In addition, anime-exclusive locations will not be featured in this RP.
• Your lovely GMs this WAR will be Saraibre Ryu and myself. Sabi will be serving as the Judge of this section when the RP starts, distributing points each week as a reward for excellent RPing.
• This RP will start next Sunday: June 29, 2014 at 12:01 a.m. EST.

Rules

• This RP is based upon the three golden rules of RPing:
  • No godmoding.
  • No bunnying other characters.
  • No instant teleportation. Travel across great distances requires at least one post of travel.
• When the GMs feel the rules have been broken, they will immediately invalidate the post in question and ask the poster to change it.
• If, following prior warning, or if done flagrantly, rule-breaking will be punished with a strike. Three strikes equals an immediate ban from the Role Play.
• If the incident is particularly heinous, we reserve the right to ban you from the RP without prior warning or strikes.
• Please start each of your posts off with the following header for everyone's convenience:
  
  

  Character Name
  City, Region
  Affected RPers:

Sign-Up Form

Name: (Your character’s name. First and last name is required.)
Gender: (Male, female, or whatever else you think fits. We here at PXR are progressive.)
Age: (Age in years. In order to maintain believability, please keep the ages above 17 years old. Furthermore, if you're RPing someone younger, keep it in mind.)
Team: (You must be on a WAR team to participate. For more information on that, check out the Groups and Clubs board).
Description: (Your character’s physical appearance. Pictures are greatly welcomed for supplement but should not be a substitution for worded description (and if someone else made the picture, please give them credit). This should be at least a paragraph long.)
Personality: (Your character’s mental state and emotional intelligence. This should also be at least a paragraph long.)
Background: (Your character’s history and background prior to the events of the RP. This should be at least two paragraphs long).
Pokemon: (Choose up to six Pokemon. One cannot start with legendaries, but may capture them as the RP progresses).
Other: (Any other details about your character, such as what weapons they may be carrying, what vehicles they may have in their possession, close NPC companions that may accompany them, and so on.)

Thank you to Neo Emolga for the sign-up framework (which I lifted from Viral Overgrowth, the first Team or WAR RP that a Google search yielded).

Accepted Role Players

Team Trainer
Molly Ann Franklin (Caite-chan)

Team Aqua
Norton "Norb" Whitehall (Lord Celebi)
Raidon Makoto (Lord Celebi)
Noah "Neo" Ashfield (Neo Emolga)
Janine "Angel" Price (Neo Emolga)