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Inevitable

 

Follower Pokémon

Introduction:

What with the impending release of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver we have decided it’d be a nice idea if one of the new features of these games was implemented in the OITRPG. Now, as you may already know, you can write your RPG stories with Pokémon out of their pokeballs if you wish to, just like in HGSS and, indeed, Yellow. However, this mechanic intends on creating an official version, with advantages and disadvantages.

NOTE: You will still be able to have Pokémon follow you around in a story sense, though these will not benefit from this mechanic.

Mechanic Overview:

At the end of every battle when you have a follower Pokémon selected, it has a chance of randomly picking up an item from a pre-prepared list. These items include berries, special pokeballs, hold items and TMs, not to mention the rarest of all: The Shining Leaf.

Rules:

1. The mechanic cannot be used until you’ve defeated your rival for the first time. Furthermore, you will also only gain berries until you reach Valencia Island.

2. At the start of a new adventure thread, you can specify that you wish to assign one of your party Pokémon follower status. This must be done before anything else. You cannot pick one at any other point in the thread. You also cannot change your choice or deposit the chosen Pokémon. You have to stick with it all the way.
2. a) If you are returning to a previous thread, you can make a choice in your first new post of that thread. Attempting to exploit this system will result in punishment.

Try and keep this clear. Something along the lines of “I would like my Swablu to be a Follower Pokémon” rather than “John sent out his Swablu to stretch its wings.”

3. Each wild Pokémon battle you engage in must start with the follower Pokémon being sent out. You may immediately withdraw it if you wish, but that first round must have it being sent out.
3. a) When in towns, trainer battles not related to the story must also start with the follower Pokémon. This is only in town, on the routes, trainer battles can be started with any Pokémon. This means that Gym/Rival battles or Team event battles are exempt from this rule.

4. At the end of each battle you must tell the mod you have a follower Pokémon. Staff are not required to check. They will then check to see if you get an item, and if so what item, and include it in a reply. If you forget to do this, it is not the staff’s fault, it is yours.
4. a) Some may take this to meaning staff won’t check certain things, and therefore try to exploit the system and not start battles with the follower Pokémon when they should. If you are caught doing this, you will be punished.

In Short:

Pros:

Chance of getting free items.

Cons:

Can’t change the Pokémon.
Can’t deposit the Pokémon.
The Pokémon must be used first in wild Pokémon battles [on routes].
The Pokémon must be used first in non-story trainer battles [in towns].

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Well, let's examine the pantheons:

The Egyptian pantheon is technically composed of a single multi-faceted god who would express different identities for different purposes, but all the gods were, in fact, a single supernatural entity, a lone god commanding all of creation by expressing itself in different manners, and as such is its own mother.
(Yeah, this is true. Religious Studies was NOT a wasted class!)
Yo Momma jokes, as a rule, become incredibly awkward when Yo Momma is actually present. I learned this the hard way.

The Greek Gods, however, are many and various and much more human than the supergod that the Egyptians worshiped. They had more flaws and more vices, and as such are probably much better at coming up with Yo Momma jokes to begin with. Some of those, however, can be touchy subjects and result in the ranks of the gods dropping out of the competition early, given that about three goddesses were the mothers of about everybody else, and Zeus was the mother of everybody whom they weren't the mothers of.

So all considered, who would win?

Neither of them.

I mean really now. Even if we accept the existence of two pantheons -- which is paradoxical in and of itself, due to the fact that if one pantheon is the truth then the other must inherently not be the truth, and therefore not exist -- these two pantheons would be incapable of communicating with one another. The Egyptians, of course, spoke in, well, Egyptian, while the Greek gods spoke Greek (or, after assimilation and transmutation into the Roman pantheon, Latin), neither of which is remotely compatible with the other. To break the language barrier would require a masterful translator, which would inherently ruin a lot of the inflection of the joke as he has to transliterate between languages. What began as a simple slight:
"You Momma so fat that she casts shade on the Sphinx!"
It would be translated as:
"Your mother is so thoroughly endowed that she is capable of casting umbrage on the large cat-bodied monument over the horizon."

Not a very good Yo Momma battle.

But if they persevered despite the poor translation attempts, they would ultimately come to a standstill. Many of the Greek gods would grow bored after the third decade of exchanged insults (Zeus himself would have left within about twenty minutes in order to go rape somebody), but the more stalwart -- poor Hephaestus, no doubt, accompanied by Athena -- would stand and continue slinging insults as best they could unto the deaths of their respective civilizations.

Ultimately, both of them would have to give up just by virtue of the fact that nobody who actually believes in them exists anymore (or until there exists nobody who speaks Ancient Greek, Latin, and ancient Egyptian fluently), but these would truly be the final lines:





What does that mean? Hell if I know.

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When a girl and a boy love each other very much… They both die LOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOL. This was before that, and that, and even that. Before the Watermelonhubbabubbasaurus, before TMM nommed upon his first twinkie, before people started mocking me for using the word, “Upon”. There was nothing but a computer, logged on to Chatango under the name “bob”. Then one day, when the dark wallowing hole of empty depression and broken dreams that was the universe was especially happy sunshiny and cheery, it posted LOL. Then in a puff of magenta purple smoke, there was Chuck Norris and a roll of duck tape. Chuck arched an eyebrow. The duck tape exploded and created the big bang, which in turn, formed the spaghetti.

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They keep the lawyers away. No, seriously. The French words for lawyer and avocado are the exact same (l'avocat, in case you were wondering. Useless facts from French class are fun). So, if you're eating the lawyers, the rest of them are much less likely to come anywhere near you, right? Plus you get a big pat on the back. The best possible use they could be put to is getting you some protein and vitamins. Sometimes cannibalism is worth it. So remember to always eat your avocados, kids! You're saving the human race!

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Wait, no:



Oh damn it! I'm just gonna guess!

FONZIE!

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My answer to this was pretty bad-ass, but unfortunately some moron over at Publishing seemed to think much of the material was copyrighted to the Orange Islands Slavedrivers' Guild, so I can't post it here on risk of being thrown into handcuffs instead of into the traditional slave bonds. Damn legislation.