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

[Lord Celebi]

Look, @XaiakuX, we're going to need to come to some kind of consensus here on how the RP works. As it stands, I cannot, as a GM, let you win because that means that the hard work and coordination that Neo, Tazz, and myself spent three weeks working on goes completely down the drain. It will mean that effort is valueless and we can just pull things out of our *** for an equal effect. This RP will devolve into freaking Lookie and that's it folks, its over. Likewise, if we completely steamroll you, it's going to mean you guys are going to need to start actually looking into R&D and from the sound of it, you guys do not want to do it.

We are at an impasse with this battle and it is going to determine the course of the RP's future. If we do not resolve this dissonance, one faction or the other is going to be very butthurt at the conclusion of the battle. As GM and WAR Leader, I want to nip this in the bud before it becomes a problem.

[XaiakuX]

Look, @XaiakuX, we're going to need to come to some kind of consensus here on how the RP works. As it stands, I cannot, as a GM, let you win because that means that the hard work and coordination that Neo, Tazz, and myself spent three weeks working on goes completely down the drain. It will mean that effort is valueless and we can just pull things out of our *** for an equal effect. This RP will devolve into freaking Lookie and that's it folks, its over. Likewise, if we completely steamroll you, it's going to mean you guys are going to need to start actually looking into R&D and from the sound of it, you guys do not want to do it.

We are at an impasse with this battle and it is going to determine the course of the RP's future. If we do not resolve this dissonance, one faction or the other is going to be very butthurt at the conclusion of the battle. As GM and WAR Leader, I want to nip this in the bud before it becomes a problem.

@Lord Celebi; Okay then, you and I need to talk one on one, and come to a solid solution. If it's reasonable on both sides, then we can keep it clean. I had intended to have a conflict with Giovanni before having it out with Team Aqua. However, with my no internet, and everyone else being kind of slow with replies, we've come to a point where the only real option is to lose this battle. Because where we spent a couple hours in an office building, your team was busy causing mass *** whoopin'. It's all a little confusing to keep up with. It also doesn't help that I have to be a good guy. I'm so much better at being evil.

[Lord Celebi]

@Lord Celebi; Okay then, you and I need to talk one on one, and come to a solid solution. If it's reasonable on both sides, then we can keep it clean. I had intended to have a conflict with Giovanni before having it out with Team Aqua. However, with my no internet, and everyone else being kind of slow with replies, we've come to a point where the only real option is to lose this battle. Because where we spent a couple hours in an office building, your team was busy causing mass *** whoopin'. It's all a little confusing to keep up with. It also doesn't help that I have to be a good guy. I'm so much better at being evil.

Sending you a PM in a second regarding a one-on-one.

You know, bro, you don't have to be good. You can just suddenly become evil and we can have a villains' brawl.

[XaiakuX]

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Name: Giovanni

Gender: Male

Age: 64

Team: Rocket (Awesome)

Description: Giovanni is a relatively tall man. Although with his age starting to get the better of him, he has developed a bit of a hunch. The lines in his face tell a sad tale. His life has been a sinister story written by the devil himself. He is commonly seen wearing an all black suit, with a bold red R placed over the left side of his jacket. Despite his stature, he is relatively nimble, and strong as a man, and as a thinker. He rarely smiles, and when he does, there's usually a wicked thought behind it.

Personality: Giovanni is a leader. He is a mastermind, and often compares himself to God. His thoughts don't remain thoughts for long. Whether it's immediate, or slow acting, it is certain that his ideas always come to fruition. If his plans fail, or become consistently interrupted, he grows livid. He is impatient in certain aspects, and could calmly wait an eternity in other aspects. Giovanni is best explained as unpredictable and volatile. Whatever he wants, he takes, and he doesn't give up until he gets it, or is rendered unable to continue pursuit.

There isn't a single kind bone in Giovanni's body. Nor is there a caring bone, or unselfish bone. Giovanni is all that matters to Giovanni. Power, control, domination, and power. These are things that Giovanni could bring himself to 'love.' If Giovanni has something to gain, he will even assist his foes against common enemies.

Background: A former Viridian City Gym Leader, and underground crime lord, Giovanni is many things. Since he lost the Radio Tower the hard way, he needed another way in. That's when some young couple bought the tower. This was perfect. He could infiltrate and get everything he needed. He even got them to fork over half the shares. Their trust in a perfect stranger was astounding.

Over the next 20 years would be a fun little project for him. He even managed to have his way with the traveling CEO's lonely wench of a wife. He experimented with the Burst Hearts, finding ways to use them to enhance more than humans. Finding ways to enhance the technology that wouldn't make human errors. Giovanni desired to make the Burst Hearts a weapon that he could use to seize control of the entire world.

Throughout the years, discoveries would be made about these Burst Hearts. They could be modified to work with not only people and pokemon, but the elements. Dangerous elements, and each element would cause an alternative reaction. When combined gases, they would combust violently, and it was otherwise impossible to escape the rapid widespread destruction. When met with various metals and minerals, they melted into liquids, and ate through things of a like make-up. When met with liquids it would immediately evaporate and become nothing at all. There was much to experiment with, and it would certainly take even more years to produce effective weaponry.

Giovanni also found himself with another child named Alastair. While he was forced to play uncle to these miserable cretins to keep up faces, he secretly groomed up Alastair to become his heir. He knew that he was getting old, and had to face the facts that he needed a proper successor. He wasn't about to let Domino take over. But around the time Alastair turned 16, he began to see his own son as a waste of time. So he gave up on the idea of teaching him anymore of his secrets.

Then it happened. The news of an Ancient Burst Heart existing in Johto. This was perfect. He had already weaponized the Burst Hearts in such away that not only could he level buildings and even small towns, he could null the effect of burst stones. With this Ancient Burst Heart, he could bring everyone on this planet to their knees. He had infused the missile systems of his air, land, and sea vehicles with these burst heart weapons. He also had his foot soldiers carry cannons and RPGs with these small rockets infused with these Burst Bombs.

Burst Bombs, the fruit of the labors that ended countless lives under the instruction of Team Rocket. The modified stones were ground into a powder. This powder would be placed into a pod that separated lithium and hydrogen and the newly dubbed burstium. These tiny explosives would easily act as a violent grenade that would leave a chemical compound in the air that would set the lungs on fire upon inhaling the fumes. The burstium would tear a burst trainer and Pokemon apart and kill them separately. The larger ones, as previously mentioned, have the capacity to level a small town, or a city block, as well as cause a little genocide. Anything larger would be too easy to detect, and would send unwanted visitors to Team Rocket's doorstep.

Giovanni's madness, and desire for power turned an unpredictable power source into a violent weapon. He ingenuity didn't stop there. He began to experiment on ways to fuse humans to the actual weapons they carry. Many people died in the process, and because of this, he put the idea aside. However, this managed to catch the ears of Mary and Oliver Harper. It was time to put them down, and abandon Harper Industries.

Since then, he had gone in search of the Ancient Burst Heart. When the scientist was discovered, he... forced the retrieval of the stone, and burned down the home of that scientist. Now the time had come to exploit all of his resources to pick at the potential of this new power source. However, it would take time for it to be processed. It was at this stage that Team Rocket's intelligence intercepted an order to attack Harper Industries. If Team Aqua was going to come to Johto, Giovanni would be there to greet them. If nothing, to prevent them from further meddling in his plans.

Pokemon: Rhyperior, Persian, Nidoking, Nidoqueen, Steelix, Swampert.

Other: Yes, Giovanni has an Ancient Burst Heart. No, I will not officially use this until we have earned the right to. As far as Burst Bombs, I will not be using them right now, I'm still experimenting with the actual sciences behind it, so everything that's about to go down will not involve everything in his back story. They'll be a thing much later, but right now, it's just there so I don't forget about it.

[Lord Celebi]

Provided you nix the parts about Burst Bombs leaving noxious fumes because WMD aspects like that are not particularly fair to RPers, you're good to go.

[XaiakuX]

Provided you nix the parts about Burst Bombs leaving noxious fumes because WMD aspects like that are not particularly fair to RPers, you're good to go.

I'll fix it when I get around to actually using them.

[Saraibre Ryu]

WAR Week 3: Post 91 to 110

So it's been a rough week at the start. For me I had a rough week all week, so I wasn't at my best when I started reading. I was kind of worried what was gonna go on but what I read was probably some of the most fun I've read in the RP so far. I pretty much enjoyed everything everyone wrote. This made it hard to give out points again, but in a good way. All the differences were worked out and now we're on a pretty good field. There is creative detail, good writing, nice interaction and just good RPing all around. It was a nice thing to come back to from my crazy week. Due to that though I don't have quite the in-depth comments for each individual, so I summed it up above. Also I'm giving out points a tad differently, because I just could not decide who was the best this week. You were all pretty much on equal grounds be it interaction, getting people going, detailed writing and how well things were set up and written.However for the sake of Rust's MVP OCD I'll point things out below anyway.

Aqua gets 3 points: Neo/Rust/TNT
Awesome gets 3 points: Xaiaku/Grassy/Velocity

Sorry I didn't go into too much detail. I was wracking my brain over who gets points this weekend. So I came up with that conclusion that efforts were tied.

[XaiakuX]

@Lord Celebi

Not sure how I feel about the whole Celebi thing. I don't feel it's right being able to control a creature that can turn back time and allow you to alter history.

Just seems like a big fat god mode waiting to happen. o.O

Unless your recent post isn't some sort of segway into controlling the little onion fairy. Then by all means, disregard this post.

[VeloJello]

Adding on to Caleb's point, @Lord Celebi I fully agree with the big fat god mode thing. I also have more personal reasons for bringing this up...

By all accounts Lenore could find, the Legends fled once Johto came under attack;

Yes, I recognize that it's one little sentence in one SU, easily overlooked. However, Caleb and I had agreed early on that the Johto Legends had fled at the start of the war. Every single one of them, by all evidence, is extremely shy; they wouldn't stick around in a region where their people were turning vicious and they were likely to see their homes get bombed out. We had planned on using their exodus as a plot-driving mechanic later on. The fact that you're effectively claiming Celebi for yourself - on top of all of your other firepower - with no discernible basis other than your outside fanfics is unsettling, too, as it seems to me that canon outside the RP should not mingle with the RP canon itself, Celebi time BS or no. Not to mention that I personally think Celebi probably shouldn't be claimed at all (without concrete limitations set beforehand, anyway) because the time issue does make it a walking godmod, but if it is, that should be something for us Johto people to do (provided we do the work we have to do to earn it, as we would for any other Legend). Hoenn has plenty of powerful Legends on its own, y'feel me?

TL;DR, this Celebi thing is unsettling and feels like an infringement and contradiction on Team Awesome's Johto canon based only upon canon that doesn't relate to the RP.

[Lord Celebi]

Guys this isn't my first rodeo with Celebi. Over the eight years I've been writing the character, I've created a very detailed rulebook for how it's powers work and Neo can attest to that.

1. Celebi's time travel powers are based on the many worlds interpretation of time travel. I've drawn from the Doctor Who, Faction Paradox, Transformers, DC Comics, and steins;gate franchise to lay out how it works specifically. Basically, there are an infinite amount of universes out there, each based on an infinite amount of available choices. It means that all fictional universes are parallel universes of each other and I have always written my RP characters to reflect that. I even had this in mind when I wrote the RP's introduction.

This means if I change something in the past, I don't actually change anything, I create a parallel universe instead.

2. I have no intention of doing such time skullduggery anyways. I want Celebi because it is my favorite Pokémon *points to username* and because Celebi and Raidon have always had a fun chemistry that I want to write again. I haven't written for the character in oh... Four years or so and I do miss it dearly. It is a trusted advisor of Raidon's and wouldn't get involved in combat anyways.

3. The outside canon referenced is just a hook. I intend on actually earning Celebi (I've planned the plot progression and everything). Said canon will never have any bearing on anyone else's characters. It is just fun for me to put my characters into a wider perspective and said parallel universes are a part of how Celebi's rulebook works.

4. I had plans for Celebi too. In fact, I mentioned it in my SU as well. In addition, Captain Lando is actually a parallel future version of Captain Finch Reynolds brought back by a future Celebi after the events of the RP. In response to your post that all legends fled Johto's, Celebi could have just teleported back. It has like three or four shrines globally that it hops amongst.

5. If you want a Celebi, feel free to get one. As per my Celebi rulebook there's an infinite amount of them. There was an RP where Mikey had that universe's Celebi and I got a Celebi from a parallel dimension.

6. If you were to get a Celebi, the same rules I am enforcing on myself I would enforce on you all as well. It's the only way to have Celebi involved WITHOUT crazy godmoding bs. Again, Neo can attest to this.

7. Why are we restrictions teams to the legendaries in their regions only? I'm not attached to any of the Hoenn legends. Feel free to take them.

Tl;Dr Celebi is my favorite Pokémon.