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Reserved for NPC overview Academy Professor Craig Redwood Devin Cadmus Tyron Silva Archibald Fisher RoG Will be updated when they make an appearance Extra (These characters play -most of the time- a small role, but are here to complete the world.) Oswald

The idea behind the RP: Ymora Region The Ymora Region is famous for its breeding program. All kinds of Pokémon are being bred and requested all over the world, including by the professors in other regions. Furthermore this region is the birthplace of the new LT-system as well as having the most powerful League. Ymora is located South from the Hoenn region and shares a similar climate when it comes to temperature. It’s warm through the entire year with a very hot summer and frequent rain showers in the winter. Snow can only be found on Snowpeak Mountain which is 24.681 feet high. Because the mountain stands alone people offer refer to it as ‘Lonely Mountain’ or ‘Fourth Brother’. It is located on the western part. The region is almost split in half by a mountain range; Boulder Hills. This range has 3 peeks so people called it The Three Brothers. Between these mountains is Valley Road; popular for being the safest passage from north to south and many vendors along the way. Valley City is located directly in the middle and is considered the heart of the region. Directly south of the Boulder Hills lies the Southern Forest; Ymora’s biggest forest and a part of it is under the Academy’s direct supervision. The south-east part of Ymora is famous for its natural hot springs. The waters are deep and it’s advised not to go swimming there. From the different havens tourist boats make a tour around the small islands. Under these islands is a gigantic underwater volcano that’s still active, causing steam and hot water. The volcano is connected to the natural hot springs on land. The main attraction in the northern part is Cape Ducklett; famous for its beautiful beaches. Many tourists come here to relax and to take the Safari Tour. This tour includes visiting the Safari Park; including a swamp area for certain Pokémon species and Hippowdon Reservoir; a small desert-like area where Pokémon live. History Timeline Licensed Trainer System The LT-system is based on professor Redwood’s paper to change the old system were 12-year olds started a journey. Now they can just go to Pre-Academy (non-mandatory) for three years. However in the year future trainers turn 15 and they still want to go on a journey, they have to follow a 3 year training program at the Academy. They learn everything about Pokémon, sportsmanship and economics. When a student graduates, he or she receives a unique Pokédex that contains the trainer license. It gives trainers the right to challenge gym leaders, participate in tournaments, contests and all other battle-related things involved Pokémon. Trainers will also receive free treatment in Pokécenters. With the system change, the gyms changed as well. Leaders have to meet certain quota to qualify as a gym leader. Right now there are 12 different gyms located through the entire region, under the supervision of the Leagues President (previous champion). Trainers have to beat 8 of them to earn the right to compete in the Ymora League. It works similar for coordinators. The amount of contests increased to 10 and they have to win at least 5 of them to enter the Grand Festival. And last but not least: Breeders that graduate receive an extra Breeding License. This shows their capability and helps them to start their own Breeding Facility or work in one. But what really made this system unique was a Pokémon Danger List. Professor Redwood included certain Pokémon that shouldn’t be trained by rookie trainers. These Pokémon include species that have a rather violent nature, pseudo-legendries and Dragons. Especially combined they’re shown to go berserk if not handled correctly. Academy Academy ground and buildings Academy Forest Available Pokémon / Evolutions / Moves / Battle Strength / Items & Training Ymora League After the results of the first Academy’s graduates, the Ymora League received a make-over. There’s a president (ex-champion) who keeps an eye on everything. Currently there are 12 gyms: Water, Fire, Ghost, Dark, Psychic, Fighting, Poison, Ground, Steel, Fairy, Flying and Bug. All leaders have to meet certain quota before they are given the position. Some are considered harder than others but a challenger only has to defeat 8 of them to compete in the League. Ice and Rock don’t have a suitable gym location or leader yet. Grass, Electric, Dragon and Normal teams are used by the E4 so they don’t have a gym either. Rise of Greadia (RoG: pronounced as Rock) Playable characters First year students! This mean you’ll be 15. (Or 14 if your PC’s birthday is after September 1st. Older 1st years need a reason) Keep in mind you can be from any region as Ymora Region’s Academy is pretty popular and has the best educational system. You can have one starter already at lvl 8 before Academy starts. And you can choose between the Programs. Young RoG agents! You're the same age as a first year student and have successfully infiltrated the Academy.

Dobby is online just in time. I'll make the OOC and go to the dentist. After that I still may tweak some details about RoG but all the rest should be good. And totally not 99% the same as the previous one

@Homophobic character: I agree with Murdoc. It can be a good character but only if played well. If you just want to use it to bring edginess, you won't make the cut. If a character was being bullied for having gay parents or even was raised with a strict belief, I can accept that they aren't comfortable around gay people. In this case the PCs have other issues and gay couples reflect those problems, but aren't the subject of hate. If done like that I may consider it as long as there aren't anti-gay comments. @Prankster: I was considering Liepard... It's one of those Pokémon that can be really interesting to write. (in my opinion) And the OOC will go up later today. I need Dobby here since he has to claim the third post for a PC overview. But I forgot I have to go to the dentist (ugh -.-') so it may take a little longer.

Alright, the OOC should be up tomorrow. The moveset isn't too difficult but if you're not familiar with Ymora: 6 moves per Pokémon. 4 attacks and 2 support moves are allowed. An attack can also be used as support (Rapid Spin for example which is somewhat useless unless someone actually goes for hazards). Oh and RoG already infiltrated the Academy if that wasn't clear. That's the one big chance for chapter 1 so you won't miss anything by joining the bad guys.

You mean with that website? Not really, you can use it if you want but describing is fine.

I was planning to include that when I actually open the OOC but it's not that different from other RPs. Name: Age: 14 (Unless you have an idea for a non student character. If that's the case PM me and Dobs) Program: Trainer, Breeder, Coordinator Starting side: Student or RoG (switching sides during the story is allowed) Appearance: Personality: Starter: (level 8, details about the moveset will be released when the OOC gets up) Backstory: If RoG, include how they recruited your character. Extra: Not really necessary. Example: Monoteam or not, ...

Unlike Stratos I don't put a restriction on the amount of players. Dobby and I agree that we can handle a lot of people and normally we won't reach 20 like last time. I think we're going to get 12-15 PCs so everyone can start signing up whenever they want. If they put some decent thought into their character, they are in. But if they would make a backstory that wouldn't work with the settings for some reason (or any other problem), I can give them a few extra days to fix that problem. (If I open the OOC right now everyone still has 10 days at least) And people using their old character again already have an advantage so there's nothing I can do about that.

Happy Bday!

I'm glad to hear that. I'm sure you can enjoy yourself discovering other Pokémon to use. Wait until the OOC opens. I'm just doing this first since some people already seem to have characters ready or are finishing them. And since I have limited time due to work (I'm currently training a very, very slow new colleague), so it also works in my favor. Now I get extra time to help out new people.

IC. I can use most of the OOC that I already had. I'm not going to change the history and I'm still going to use the Dragon limitation. A part of this RP was born when they introduced Fairy types because Dragon types were so powerful, so I actually don't have to mess around with details too much. Right now I'm just deleting stuff I'm not going to use anymore and try to limit the wall of text. The only thing I seem to have lost is my Academy and Region map.

So I have a small announcement. I'm going to open the OOC and Sign-ups a little early, but this does not mean the RP will start early. My goal is still October 4th (if there aren't any drawbacks when I actually move). The reason for this is that I noticed some people already finished their characters which bring me to the most important part of this post. Sign-ups will be a lot stricter. I'm going to use Stratos's example and only accept characters that will contribute to the story. If you don't put any effort into creating your character, chances are you won't make the cut unless you're really good at that. But Ymora is a big RP so I'm not going to put a limit on the sign-ups. So by opening the topic a little early, Dobby and I can actually give some feedback about what does and doesn't work for this RP. We won't shut down anyone. We're also aiming for some fresh blood so we don't want to scare away new players. In fact we're going to help them out as much as we can so that they can enjoy themselves as well. Now there's one more problem I have to address. Normally I would PM, but since that didn't work out last time (I got completely ignored), I'm going to try it this way. @K_H: Last time you were kicked out. Obviously you start with a clean sheet, but considering the way you behaved and played out your character last time, I'm going to keep an eye on you. First of all I want to make clear that your character will be evaluated like all the others. However I want to see something different from you. I've noticed that in the Pokémon RPs, you tend to go for the same Pokémon every time, give them more or less the same personality and you always nickname them the same way. I have no problems with you going for your favorite Pokémon, but it gets rather boring quickly. But considering how you played this out last time, I'm going to limit your character when it comes to the available Pokémon. Your character can not start with a Riolu or Zorua. You also won't be able to obtain one unless you show us you can handle their 'abilities'. I do this in order to avoid you powerplaying / solving everything even though your character shouldn't be able to. So no more talking Zorua because of Illusion or a Riolu / Lucario that somehow can sense everything with his aura.

Joey cursed when he saw the Beast preparing for the next attack. “If that hits, it's over! Ishmael stop that thing's movement!” The Serpent roared once more before tightening it's body around the Beast and moving in for a Crunch aimed at the lower half of the face. “We stopped the movement for now! Can someone please do something about that attack? I don't feel like dying today!” Joey yelled at the other people present

I'm not using Evan so none of the Pokémon are making a comeback. Not that I managed to give them enough attention to let them really shine...

Let me see... Kage x Ryan Danielle x Jacob Danielle x Slade Claude x almost everyone Henry x Raiza Mareek x Lana Henry x Lana Henry x Kristen Jacob x Kristen Ryan x random NPC I created to mess around with him Henry x Robert x Kenny x Shiro (definitely something weird going on with those 4. Complicated.) I'm pretty sure I forgot a few...

Lmao I never expected that to happen. To a decree it was entertaining and it certainly adds something to the RP if it isn't overkill. Like what Murdoc and Tacos did last time. You mean RPing in general? I don't think that's a problem since last time we had a lot of people starting out. Sure, beginning was a little rough but there are enough experienced people around to help you. I'd say that's enough interest shown. I'm going to rewrite some stuff and take Hukuna's advice. So the sign-ups should go up in a few days. And for those that are new / want to use a new character: RoG (the antagonist team) is playable from the start. You might want to consider that.

That's why I wanted to say it xD Anyway, I get why you have to lock the old OOC. The thought crossed my mind we were necro-posting but I didn't want to jump the gun and open an interest check if no one was interested. But seeing mulltiple people reacting triggered an earlier reaction. Oh really? Well I have no idea since I had no time to keep up. I didn't even had the chance to read his posts back then. Well the main reason for question one is to see if I can still use the plot with RoG. I haven't spoiled anything about their true goals. But if people don't want to see them, I have to come up with something else. And if RoG stays they are playable from the beginning. Switching sides is allowed as everyone starts at the same place.

So it's been a few months since I did anything Ymora related... For those that were around during the Ymora Academy RP: due to personal problems going on I had to step back. Not to mention other stuff that just piled up and eventually we got to the point where Ymora somewhat died. We lost some players and a co-host, but Dobby and I are thinking about reviving this RP since the story is still left untold. And I don't want to let it end like this Now I have been planning to revive this for a few weeks. However some people still showed some interest so I figured why the hell not open this topic now and make it a discussion topic as well so the older players can share their opinion and the new ones are free to ask questions and whatnot. Now I personally favor a reboot. I'll just make a list. - Some gaps in the storyline opened up last time and I realized it too late. We already hit chapter 4, but I can perfectly deal with some of the gaps now if we (Dobby and I) can implement some small changes since the beginning. - I can keep most of the story. - Small changes -storywise- starting chapter 2. So no Hills or whatever, that's going to be replaced. - New NPCs while others will be scrapped. - We lost players like Jory and DarkLight who were really active and very much involved in the story. - Fresh start is always nice because it would be really hard to get everything back on track since Jory was in charge of chapter 4 and implemented his own idea to buy time. Neither I nor Dobby fully know what he was planning to do. The only downside is the current PCs. A lot of you put in some serious effort in their characters *coughStratoscough* so it would be a waste to let them die. So this is where all of you come in. We want to know what your opinion. 1. Do you want a to see a reboot or not? If not; do you want to see a complete different story? (Aka no more RoG) 2. What do you think we should do with the current PCs? I would accept them back but should they also start from scratch? 3. Last time the battles were a problem. Should we do the separate thread for non plot related battles like we did last time? 4. What do you expect / want to see from this reboot. 5. Anything else you want to let us know. Problems you foresee / suggestions / ... So that's about it. We'll leave this topic for a few days to discuss some things and after that Dobby and I are going to decide what to do. The earliest we can get something up is in 3 - 4 weeks depending on how much we can use from last time. ~Chim out~ (I've always wanted to do this)

Here's a crazy idea: Tyrant can go with the original 7 kingdoms, but make only three of them playable. But I would advice a co-host for this since it would require a lot of time on his part. It can solve some problems like huge delays since players will be able to invade an 'NPC Kingdom', Tyrann can add some of the history he wants when it comes to NPC Kingdoms and he doesn't need to protect the main cities. He can also introduce some Kingdoms later on and make only the names knowledgeable from the start. By doing this there are still ways for the players to create history and Kingdoms and you only need 3 experienced people to play King / Queen. The amount of NPCs is kept to a minimum since you don't use all of them at once and would only focus on the most important figures of a Kingdom anyway. Give the name of the Kingdom, their known military power and the name of the King / Queen from the very start and let things unfold. Don't go overboard with the difficulty to conquer them. Give them all unique traits and ways to conquer. It's fine if there's one Kingdom that's superhard due to military power, but not all of them. One can be more difficult due to allies or even a piece loving Kingdom that would rather talk things through. Just make sure that the players have 3 interesting Kingdoms they can do a lot with. I used to 'run' Underdark and I felt like it had a lot of potential. (Someone already mentioned this but it can easily develop into a Kingdom that was forced to go underground many years ago and now wants to go back to the surface. I planned for them to have incredible defensive measures unlike Permafrost's invading power). Some more suggestions: - Maximum 2 characters each. - No Legendaries for the reasons Stratos already mentioned. - Kings / Queens for experienced players that don't powerplay or won't allow defeat because they want to conquer everything. Go for players that would still continue even though they lost their Kingdom and power. (Potential interesting story / character development right here) - Fix your battle system. Put a limit on the moves so it would force players to be more creative. It's fine for every common Pokémon to know 4 moves while a King can know 8, but 30 moves or everything in their moveset is a bit much. 8 is a nice max. (An extra move can be obtained as they rise through the ranks)

To be honest I've been thinking for a while now about getting this RP back up. It's the first one I tried as a host and I still believe we can create a great story. The only thing I need is a reboot. When I started about a year ago (wtf time flies) I thought I had everything I needed, but as the story progressed I found some holes in the plot, especially second year. Now I'm pretty sure I can find solutions (I have a big one in mind) around certain holes, but I need to restart and implement some things from the very beginning. I also underestimated how long some battles would take so I need to come up with a way to keep the Winter Cup interesting or replace it as a whole. I already told Dobby this but the earliest I can get something up would be the weekend after I moved. (I move the first weekend of October). That's only because I can keep the main plot and I don't need to change much about the first chapter. (Older players will have to bear with me with this one as every schoolyear starts with an intro.) From the second chapter things will change. The second change would be NPCs. No more Lana, Phoebe, probably Alvin, ... It's impossible for me to keep using them all. So I will reduce the amount and / or screentime they get and make sure they actually bring some value to the story. The only reason that keeps me from doing this; PCs. Some of you (especially Stratos) have put some serious effort into their characters. I would allow you to start over with them (or create something new), but I don't know if that's fair to ask. (Even though we're down a few like Jacob, Danielle etc.)

I should be able to get something up this weekend. I finally don't have to use all my spare time to paint and do other stuff anymore. Once I've moved my activity should increase again.

Wtf Jory is gone? Seriously? Dammit I was trying to get back into this but I got a few crazy weeks going on.

I can only see 0's when I click both your results. Anyway I got Soul Number 11. Master Number! Bow down to me bitches

That's how I made Ishmael and also the reason I was waiting for someone else to make the first move. Totally didn't rush mine