Post by Peregrine on Oct 20, 2020 19:34:37 GMT -6
A letter arrives in your mailbox...
Congratulations, recruits!
Welcome to Game 96, our triumphant return to interactive murder mystery entertainment.
--- Important Note ---
As you may have realized, this game will draw heavily from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky (in what may be the most ambitious Chunsoft crossover game to date). You do not need any knowledge of PMD: EoS to participate. However, it is recommended (but not mandatory) that you have some familiarity with Pokémon (such as species, abilities, and mechanics of moves). If you’ve played even one of the main series Pokémon games you should have more than enough knowledge!
This game will use 6 nightly actions; Vulpix will be responsible for all nightly actions. Please PM your actions to them through either DRG or Discord. Action results will be sent every 24 hours from the start of Deadly.
There will be activity-related rules, as follows:
You are required to:
1. Be active for at least 4/6 actions during any Night that you are alive.
2. Investigate at least one area during any Deadly.
3. Post at least your alibi and investigation results during any Trial. (Preferably not copy-pasted, but we get it)
4. Vote during any Trial. You will be given the option to abstain.
If you are unable to do any of these things, please let one of your hosts know in advance. If you are inactive without telling a host beforehand, you will receive a warning. If you are still inactive after the warning, you will be removed from the game. You don't want to let Wigglytuff down, do you?
We will be making use of the following mechanics, in addition to the DRG Standard Procedure:
Action 0
Between Daily and Deadly there will be Action 0, which will allow the Blackened the option to take a day or two to prepare their murder. Each living player will be sent a PM explaining roughly what they did and who they saw during Action 0.
Status Conditions
Like in Pokémon games, certain conditions may make life more difficult. The status conditions in this game include paralysis, poison, burn, and sleep. Paralysis prevents the inflicted from leaving a room for one turn. Poison causes a player to spend the action this condition was inflicted and the next action feeling very sick, possibly vomiting uncontrollably. Burn prevents the inflicted Pokémon from using any moves for one turn, including passive moves. Sleep prevents the inflicted from performing an action.
Moves and Abilities
Here's where the magic happens! All players will be provided with a unique moveset after signups have completed. A full list of each Pokémon's moveset and ability, along with a brief description of their effects, will be publicly available. Moves and abilities may be used in ways you wouldn't expect from the original games, so get creative! Each Pokémon will have four move slots, three of which will be filled at the start.
...Hold on, only three? If you want to fill that fourth slot, you'll have to find...
Hidden Machines
While exploring Treasure Town, you may stumble across a Hidden Machine (HM) which will permanently provide a new move to the first Pokémon (with an available move slot) to touch it. You will be told what they are and what they do at the start of each daily, and it’s your responsibility to find and use them! There are no restrictions as to which types of Pokémon can benefit from what HMs; it's a free-for-all, baby! There will be 2 HMs hidden at the beginning of each Daily. No Pokémon may have more than one HM, and there's no forgetting or trading—you're stuck with what you get!
3-Credit Search: Move Detective
During Deadly, each player will get 3 credits to search (which reset with every Deadly, Toasty). As usual, you may spend 1 credit to scan an area or 2 credits to do an in-depth search. 1 additional credit may be spent on any search action already being taken to confer the benefit of the Move Detective! This handy dandy little gizmo detects whether a move has been used on a particular object or Pokémon. It will not discern which move has been used specifically—only whether the subject has been directly affected by any move during that Night.
Spirits
A Pokémon who dies (for whatever strange reason) will return as a Spirit, forced to wander Treasure Town unseen by the living, with only their comrades-in-death for company. Spirits will be allowed to take only 3 actions during Nightly, resolved every 48 hours. During Daily, the dead will post in their own Graveyard Roleplay sub-board, where they can freely explore the town at their leisure. Death being the great equalizer, Spirits will not be able to make use of any moves or abilities*—they are, after all, mere shadows of life given form through shared suffering. Spirits cannot post in regular trials, nor can they sign up to be Blackened.
--- VERY Important Note ---
The mechanics and rules listed above are subject to change at any time.
We, the Hosts, solemnly swear that any rule-change will be accompanied by a public announcement explaining what was changed as soon as such a change occurs.
Without further ado:
To sign up, please reply with your character’s Species Name, Gender, Ability* and finally, your Super Duper Explorer Talent! Why does Wigglytuff want you? (Yes, this is the equivalent of your SHSL/Ultimate ability)
Species:
Gender:
Ability*:
SDET:
If you want, you may also provide the following information (this is not necessary):
Picture
Dominant hand/paw (if applicable)
Favourite colour
Favourite food
Hobbies
Greatest fear(s)
Allergies/sensitivities (if applicable)
Blood type (if applicable)
Myers-Briggs Personality Type
General opinion of rap music
*Ability must be available to your chosen Pokémon’s species. Hidden abilities are included.
Banned Pokémon:
Wigglytuff
Chatot
Mewtwo
Mew
Vulpix
Bidoof
Corphish
Loudred
Sunflora
Chimecho
Diglett
Dugtrio
Croagunk
Kangaskhan
Mega/Gigantamax/Dynamax forms (Don't be a Mary Chu)
NO DOUBLES! This includes regional variants, i.e.: if someone chooses Alolan Raichu, no one may choose Kanto Raichu.
(Two different Pokémon from the same evolutionary line are acceptable, i.e.: a Jolteon and a Leafeon, or a Murkrow and a Honchkrow)
Need a Suggestion?
Click this link for collection of PMD portraits.
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Good ones to choose are some of the Pokémon listed below. They have many different expressive sprites that you could make use of to make the game more immersive!
Bulbasaur
Charmander
Squirtle
Pikachu
Meowth
Psyduck
Machop
Cubone
Eevee
Chikorita
Cyndaquil
Totodile
Igglybuff
Phanpy
Treecko
Torchic
Mudkip
Skitty
Turtwig
Chimchar
Piplup
Shinx
Riolu
Munchlax
Manaphy
(This list is only a list of the ones with the most sprites. Many more have multiple sprites. And Pokémon from generation 5 or later are completely acceptable! We just don’t have the old mystery dungeon sprites for them.)
Good ones to choose are some of the Pokémon listed below. They have many different expressive sprites that you could make use of to make the game more immersive!
Bulbasaur
Charmander
Squirtle
Pikachu
Meowth
Psyduck
Machop
Cubone
Eevee
Chikorita
Cyndaquil
Totodile
Igglybuff
Phanpy
Treecko
Torchic
Mudkip
Skitty
Turtwig
Chimchar
Piplup
Shinx
Riolu
Munchlax
Manaphy
(This list is only a list of the ones with the most sprites. Many more have multiple sprites. And Pokémon from generation 5 or later are completely acceptable! We just don’t have the old mystery dungeon sprites for them.)
There will be a maximum of 16 recruits. Otherwise, sign-ups will close 4 days as of this post.
Good luck, and happy exploring!
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