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Post by Yumi Tasukai on May 9, 2015 8:43:31 GMT -5
STEELIX HUNT
Location: The Wilds Catching: Yes (Not steelix) Members: Yumi + Josh Reports have been coming in of a steelix destroying the homes of those who have decided to live in the wilds, and even the transports of travelling civilians and trainers alike. There are rumors it's something even the league may not be able to handle out of the sheer size and power the beast is rumored to have. As such, a bounty has been put on it's head for any trainer in need of a little extra dosh to take on. Be warned, this is no ordinary steelix, and it has beyond ordinary friends to back it up.
Face 2 seperate cave horde spawns, before facing a monstrous steelix.
"YES OUR TEETH AND AMBITIONS ARE BARED! BE PREPARED!"
(This'll take place before Lugia Josh. That way we dont have any injuries or bad weather.)
With a tired Yawn Yumi continued trudging along the rocky terrain that was leading them up to the rather blatant hole in the side of the mountain in the distance. Yumi had been a little low on funds recently, so it seemed her day was going to consist of getting her ass handed to her by a supposedly "monstrous" steelix that had created these caves. Word had spread that it had decided to come out and start terrorizing the local inhabitants of the wild, as well as some basic passerbies. It was the fact that even traveling trainers were struggling that gave Yumi a rather nervous feeling about this job. Not only was Ko-ken incapacitated right now, what with training some of the latest editions to her team, Yumi was going up against something that could supposedly wipe out even full teams of travelling trainers pokemon.
Hence, she called in some help.
"Not much farther now blondie. Odds are it's gonna be in there deep, so I hope you have some good back up with you."
Yumi herself had brought Lizzy as her main backup. The combee queen casually floated behind her as Yumi climbed her way up to the side of the mountain, a fancy cigarette on a stick caught in her beak like mouth, puffing away at the harmful human creation, forcing Yumi to stay a good few steps away from her own pokemon, lest she get some second hand smoke.
Post by Josh Dragomir on May 11, 2015 0:36:49 GMT -5
The idea of hunting down a giant Steelix that was terrorizing an area? That sounded like quite the adventure to Josh Dragomir. I mean, why not right? It wasn't everyday that you even heard of a "Giant Steelix", especially considering that the large steel rock serpent Pokemon were already rather large as is. So to have one referred to as "Giant" as an individual... Well, Josh couldn't pass this opportunity up, could he? So he had taken a good team of Pokemon and went to meet the redhead who had asked for him to accompany her as a sort of backup. He wondered why Yumi was taking bounties now though... Was she short on money? She hadn't asked to borrow from him or Izumi, and they would have been happy to help, not to mention let Yumi stay with them once in awhile if she didn't have somewhere to go... Well, if they ever got their bloody home finished. They'd gotten quite sidetracked and the project had been on hold for a bit. He hoped it would be fixed soon. Sleeping in the guest room at his mothers small house was nice and all, but... Well, the grass could always be greener, right?
The both of them trudged up the mountain. It was tiring, but Josh seemed quite used to the concept of mountain climbing. "I gotcha, Yummi" Josh would remark back with a chuckle, with Lightning on his shoulder keeping him company. Hopefully, he and his other 5 would be enough to take on the Steelix, and its little entourage he had heard about. Josh stayed a few good paces away from the smoking Pokemon as well, obviously not happy about this little... Hurdle in the form of the secondhand smoke.
Post by Yumi Tasukai on May 11, 2015 12:25:48 GMT -5
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"YES OUR TEETH AND AMBITIONS ARE BARED! BE PREPARED!"
"Heh, you better not be staring at my as down there!" Yumi just let out a light chuckle as she climbed a little faster up the rougher terrain, her vespiqueen following behind with ease thanks to it's ability to fly, floating up the rocks as if there was no difference in the terrain, taking the cigarette from her lips, only to receive a glare from Yumi. The red head stopping on the rocks just to glare at the bug type, who soon rolled her buggy eyes and blew the smoke off to the side rather than between the two trainers. "Better." Witha ligt grumble Yumi climbed higher and higher up the rocks, eventually reaching a flat path that lead up towards the cave they were aiming for, letting out a relieved sigh as she planted her rear on the nearest boulder, giving Lizzy a look to make sure she smoked the last of her death stick a good few feat away from them, sighing softly to herself the moment that Josh caught up.
"Sorry about her, she got into them during some weird love spat with my scyther in the past. I don't even know how she keeps getting her hands on them, but hey, I'm not gonna endanger my life my being the one to take it from her." As if on cue, the flying queen sharpened her claws against one another, lighting a spark with how fast she did it to ignite the tip of a fresh death stick. "I mean, look at her, you wanna get on the bad side of that?"
With just a light chuckle, Yumi let herself rest on the boulder. It had been a long trip following the tracks this steelix had left in the ground, and she had been so used to using her flyers recently her legs had started to feel like jelly. Slipping her bag around to her lap, she pulleout a small energy bar from a side pocket, offering it to Josh. "Better get some energy in ya before we go in there."
Post by Josh Dragomir on May 11, 2015 23:23:45 GMT -5
"Well, now that you mention it!" The blonde would tease, making an effort to blatantly look at it from behind and below her everytime she might have looked, just to get at her. After a few minutes, though, he stopped those shenanigans. For now, anyway. Her smoking Vespiquen was smoking like a bloody chimney, and had somehow gotten ahold of a cig. How in the world did a Pokemon know how to smoke a cig? Seriously. He didn't bloody understand it at all! He was getting irritated with it puffing smoke at them, and he had to offer Lightning his sleeve when he started coughing. He was tempted to bring out a fire type and give this blasted Bug type something to breathe on that burned...
Finally, it would stop, and they would reach a flat path that lead up towards the cave that was their destination, and he hoped where they would find Steelix as well. He would crack his neck and sit down beside her, glaring at the bug type. HE blinked at Yumi's explanation. "Still, how the hell..." He muttered, but let out a sigh as he looked at the claw sharpening queen. "No, not really. I'd rather not" He said. No point in getting on its bad side without a Flamethrower.
Oh wait...
Anyway, he would accept the energy bar gratefully and smile. "Thanks" He said as he offered a small piece to Lightning, who happily gobbled it up before he would take a bite himself.
Post by Yumi Tasukai on May 12, 2015 11:59:58 GMT -5
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"YES OUR TEETH AND AMBITIONS ARE BARED! BE PREPARED!"
Yumi had to chuckle a little at the rather blatant views Josh was giving her ass. Knowing the blondie he was likely only looking whenever she spotted him, just trying to purposely tease her or something. Still, it was a nice little confidence boost. She could remember the days she used to steal newspapers from the corner shop in castelia city, seeing some brunette in her bikini on the second page and laughing at how much their back must hurt, but now that she had a body like that herself? She liked it, heck, she was proud of it. Why wouldn't she be? Still she's give a slight roll of her eyes when he accepted her bar, pretending to yank it back for just a second even after he took hold. "Just because it's a damn good view dosn't mean you get to glue your eyes to it.~"
Smiling a little at having at least some relation on the not wanting to deal with Lizzy issue, Yumi had to admit, this wasn't the only pokemon she had with issues, and it was bu far one of the least troublesome. "You think Lizzy is bad you should see Bruce." She began nibbling on her own energy bar, clearly annoyed by the mear thought of whoever Bruce was as she seemed to chew a little more roughly on her snack. "He's my Zoroark, I think you've met him...won't eat ANYTHING unless he was the one who killed it. I'm concerned with how I'm not even worried anymore when he brings dead pidgey back from the woods."
With a light sigh she finished eating her bar, getting up and stretching out, her hands on the base of her spine,pushing her stomache out to get rid of a few aches from the walk before peering towards the cave, sighing at the mere fact she hated using torches. "Come on, we better at least make a move huh? Don't want this thing terrorizing the trade routes much longer." With a hand pushed against her shoulder she wound up her arm, moving into the cave as Lizzy followed behind, flicking the cigarette away with a sigh, already feeling the "weight" of not having her lungs filled with that sweet "nectar".
Post by Josh Dragomir on May 12, 2015 23:43:03 GMT -5
Of course, he was doing it for the sake of getting at her and teasing her for her comments. It was simple playful banter, in his eyes, although in this case actions spoke louder then words and he knew it. All in good fun, of course. But hey, at the very least Yumi got a good confidence boost out of her friend getting a good look at her ass. I mean, it wasn't like she was bad looking. She was a very attractive girl. I mean, if Josh knew what the blue hell to do in terms of attractive women. He could jokingly flirt for days, but he was still bloody clueless in the relationship department. Fuck him, right? Well, not literally, he might be confused there too. Or go ahead, I'm a writer, not a cop.
He chuckled as she snatched the bar away for a moment, or tried to since he held onto it. "Be careful there Yumi, if you don't behave I might have to do more then just look~" He would tease with a playful grin. Spanking jokes? Where did his innocence go? Once that was done he took back the bar and did the above chewing and sharing with the Pikachu, etc.
He would blink when she mentioned her Zoroark. "I think I've met your Zoroark before. I knew it was a grumpy bastard, but a cannibal? That's... Scary, actually" He would admit, scratching his head. Once he finished his bar, he would get up and stretch as Lightning got back on his shoulder.
He cracked his neck as he followed Yumi into the cave, nodding a bit. "I have a Pokemon with a fire tail if we need a torch and it gets too dark" He would add.
Post by Yumi Tasukai on May 13, 2015 4:48:42 GMT -5
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Yumi had to raise an eyebrow as Josh used the word "cannibal" to describe her Zoroark. I mean, sure, most pokemon in the hands of trainers ate food pellets, and those in the wild who otherwise couldn't find food would eat berries, but what on earth did he think Bruce was doing? Hunting other Zoroark? "You do know you have to eat your own species to be a cannibal right? At best he's a sole carnivore, refuses to eat fruit and veg. Just so happens he has to take it to the extreme by having all of his meat be fresh...more often than not I've seen him "Play" with his food too." The red head gave a slight shudder at the memory of the puppet show he once put on with a dead rattata to scare all the freshly hatched additions to her team. "He's....disgusting. Let's leave it at that. Still, I'd rather hold onto him than unleash something like that into the wild."
Getting deep enough into the cave now for it to start affecting her vision, the darkness seeming to envelop and hide all the rocky formations deeper into the darkness, Yumi shook he head to Josh's offer and pulled out a heavy duty torch from her back back, clicking the switch and spurring it into life with a few flickering flashes and disconcerting sounds before the bulb seemed to stabilize, lighting the tunnel for a fair distance. "Don't worry I got it. Just not used to coming somewhere like this without Tequill or Veruka. Their flames tend to light the way so it's just a pain carrying this torch everywhere."
Post by Josh Dragomir on May 13, 2015 16:13:10 GMT -5
"Good point" Josh would respond when Yumi corrected him. "I suppose its just a little confusing, isn't it? I mean, you don't hear very often about Pokemon eating other Pokemon. In the wild, I guess its possible if they can't find berries or anything else to eat. But, back on topic, its difficult to decide what's cannibalism for Pokemon isn't it? Because they're all considered "Pokemon" who can be shoved into tiny balls and fight other Pokemon to bond with their Trainers, evolve and use supernatural powers to do all of these things. Granted, I suppose it could also count for only eating that of their own species or evolutionary line. But what's stopping your Zoroark from eating Zorua or other Zoroark if it gets the chance?" He would suggest, but shrugged. "I guess that's a debate for Professors to go through. Not people like us" He remarked with a small laugh.
He shuddered though at the thought of what her Zoroark did. "Have you ever considered... I don't know... Dealing with this issue? I mean, do you trust your own Pokemon alone with it? A Pokemon can be influenced by its Trainer, no matter how troublesome it is. I've had issues with several of my Pokemon. One of my worst cases was Fawkes, and you see how we are now. He pretty much hated me before" He added as they headed into the cave.
He would nod when she instead decided to use a torch. "Like I said, I have a Pokemon with an auto flame on it if something happens" He said, and took a deep breath. "Hopefully this goes right..."
Post by Yumi Tasukai on May 14, 2015 6:59:48 GMT -5
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Yumi couldn't help but roll her eyes at Josh's ongoing commentary about Bruce. She knew he had some reason to be worried, especially with what she herself had mentioned about him, but at the same time sticking to the cannibalism button like that was a bit weird. "Josh, pokemon are literally the only other life we know of that aren't plants, and even then, some pokemon ARE plants, to hoop them all together is kinda rude to them, like you're taking away their individuality as a species. And as far as killing other Zorua goes? I've seen him with a Zoroark in the wild, the two got on like peas in a pod. Odds are if he ever did get in a fight with one he'd let it live, or at least wouldn't kill it afterwards."
Deeper into the caves now and the light behind them had all but vanished, Yumi's torch was starting to become a nuisance, giving them literal tunnel vision as they ventured deeper. "As far as changing him goes, I've had him for months. You think I havn't tried? Odds are he's planned to kill me too. He's just too afraid of Ko-ken to attack me or any of the other pokemon." She banged her hand lightly against the side of the torch, Lizzy still hovering beside her and rolling her eyes at the humans ineptitude with electrical devices, and her inability to even light there way in the first place. "Speaking of Fawkes though, we may need him. This thing isn't as bright as I remember."
Post by Josh Dragomir on May 16, 2015 21:10:12 GMT -5
"Oh no, you misunderstood me" He corrected. "I'm not saying that Bruce is a cannibal now. I'm not. If you don't think he's a cannibal, then he's not a cannibal" He added. "What I mean is that is there really a cleared up definition of what is carnivorism and cannibalism with Pokemon? I mean, there's other animals besides Pokemon, even if you don't really see them much, and we know the terms with them. But nobody's really gone into detail on what constitutes Pokemon and if they're the same as animals, or... Y'know. I mean, Pokemon are different from animals, right? They have supernatural abilities. They can evolve. They can be captured in Pokeballs. They speak, even if its mostly their real name. Most people just group them in together as... Pokemon. Others group them in different species. But we've never gotten official word, have we?" He would ask her. "That's what I mean" He added with a laugh. "Its probably not worth thinking about, really. I suppose sole carnivore makes sense in Bruce's case"
He nodded when she would mention her attempts to change him. "Well, the reason I used Fawkes as an example is because he gave me many problems. Hell, at one point he tried to bloody kill me with his claws. Right in front of Izumi too, you can ask her. Fawkes took... Well, a LOT of work. He was one of the first Pokemon I caught when I came to Hoenn, and his attitude just got fixed recently. If he can change... Well, maybe there's hope for Bruce?" He would suggest. "I mean, I can't guarantee its possible. But you're a very influential Trainer" He would tease, sticking his tongue out at her.
He shook his head. "I didn't bring him. But I did bring..." He trailed off as he would send out another Pokemon. "Ignis, come on out!" He said as his Infernape would come out, and his fire head was a decent substitute. It was then that Josh stopped as he realized they were surrounded by an angry army of Aron and Aggron.
Post by Yumi Tasukai on May 22, 2015 15:24:17 GMT -5
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"YES OUR TEETH AND AMBITIONS ARE BARED! BE PREPARED!"
Yumi had to admit Josh had a point, but she had seen some examples of pokemon eating eachother in nature before. It was extremely rare yeah, but it definately happened. One time she's seen a heatmor using it's fire tongue to eat a durant. It was a nasty sight but it proved to her that there was definately some sense of species difference, at leas to her. Still, it was a topic that was best dropped for now. As Josh reached for his fire pokemon, who it turned out was not Fawkes, Yumi did think on his words about the pseudo dragon and how it could possibly be turned to Bruce...the issue was, from what she knew, Fawkes didn't like Josh, and that was all there was to it...Bruce was different. He seemed to take a perverse pleasure in harming other pokemon and hunting his food. He didn't just dislike Yumi, he probably didn't hate her or anything...he just liked watching her cringe when he did somehting nasty and horrid.
"I'll think on it..." Deciding to get off the topic she payed attention as the Infernape was swapped in, though the flickering flame atop it's head didn't keep her attention for long. The shiny metallic bodies of the lairon, Aron, and the two leering Aggron in the distance were far easier to notice with the Infernape now lighting the cave around them. There was the sound of shattering glass as Yumi droped her torche and the bulb was stabbed by a protruding rock in the ground. A soft gulp came from her throat as she looked at the way they were surrounded, stuttering as Lizz took in the sight with a far calmer manner, rolling her red eyes and glaring at the steel types surrounding them, a buzz eminating from her wings that semed a little different from the normal sounds she created. In an instant, tiny creatures, miniature Combee the size of a real world fly, flew from her dress like nest, all of them circling the two trainers and their pokemon, the defense order acting as a warning to the metallic beasts, and instantly leaving Yumi with some ease.
"Okay...something tells me this ain't exactly gonna be an easy run..."
Just as she said that, one of the imposing aggron's gave a mighty roar, the horde of steel types charging in as he stayed at the back, locking eyes with the infernape that had alerted the trainers to the presence of their little ambush in wait, rearing an arm back and swinging it in a hook, earth flying with his arm as a rock slide shot towards the infernape, aiming to take out the team's main source of light.
Post by Josh Dragomir on Jun 8, 2015 0:40:18 GMT -5
Of course, there was much more to that. Fawkes, before, had been insufferable. He didn't like anyone. Not even Josh. He was just a bad seed, even if he had his reasons, he would never listen, constantly aggressively attacked wild Pokemon without listening to Josh at all, and wouldn't hesitate to attack someone, whether it was human, Pokemon, or Josh himself. Shortly before the situation had been fixed, Fawkes had gone so far as to turn his claws on Josh and wound his own Trainer. In the end, it was Josh's determination, loyalty and desire to help Fawkes that changed him for the better. But he had never given up on helping Fawkes change, he never gave up on earning Fawkes's respect and loyalty. He worked hard to show the Charizard the error of his ways, and eventually, while it was arduous and dangerous, it worked out. While Fawkes was still a bit of a grump for the time being, his behavior had vastly improved, and they got along to the point where Fawkes could now Mega Evolve due to the lengths of their reconciled bond.
That was the point Josh was trying to get across. Trying to show him the error of his ways, and just plain not giving up on him. Yumi was capable of handling it with the love and dedication she showed her Pokemon. If Yumi wasn't capable of changing Bruce for the better, Josh would have never suggested it.
As soon as Ignis came out though, the first thing Josh noticed was the army of Pokemon around them.
The entire.... Army....
Josh gulped, his eyes wide. Oh god, why.
".... If we don't get out of this alive, Yumi, I love you. Like a best friend" He cracked uneasily as he looked around, before Aggron would quickly attack. "Ignis, leap up and use Flamethrower!" Josh would call toward the Infernape as Ignis would use his agility to leap into the air to dodge the Rock Slide, before launching a barrage of flames at it in return.
Josh fumbled through his belt to start sending out Pokemon to take out the horde as the other Aggron would go after Yumi's Vespiquen. (If we weren't supposed to do that, I can't remember our plans, skip the last part about the second Aggron)
Post by Yumi Tasukai on Jun 20, 2015 13:12:20 GMT -5
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"YES OUR TEETH AND AMBITIONS ARE BARED! BE PREPARED!"
Surrounded by little alphonse's, aka, the aarons, Yumi was not feling her most confident right now. Admittadly Josh's little wisecrack made her feel a little more confident, but with a bug type facing steel types, she had some right to be a little cautious.
"Well if we dont make it out of this, I want you to know, I love you like a friend, not a best friend, just like one of those random people i tend to have coffee with when really i just hang out with them because their friend is hot." Feeling she may have gotten a little to carried away with her jokey retort, she gave a quick addition that would hopefully earn the giggle her joke had failed to get. "And that hot friend is Izumi by the way."
In the coming hours Yumi would likely realize that was the first time she'd admitted, even in a joking sense, that she was bi to anyone, but she'd also not realize why that was a big deal, having not grown up surrounded by "social norms" on the streets of Unova. "For now though, how bout we keep our minds on surviving this?"
Rolling her eyes, tired of her trainers joking attitude to all this, Lizzy snapped her claws together, tinier insects emerging and surrounding her with a much louder buzzing sound, one of which handed her a cegarette, of which she took an extremely long drag before tossing it aside, spotting the aggron that had locked onto her and rushing towards it to get out of the way of Yumi and the other human, her insects suddenly flowing ahead of her and forming a barrier of their tiny bodies, the aggron slamming into it and flailing his arms to get the bees away. They were in his eyes, oh god they were in his eyes, the bees, the bees, they were in his eyes, etcedera.
Not one to let up on an opponent, , Lizzy recalled her bees just to have them move in with an attack order, slipping beneath the plates of the aggron and stinging his body directly.
Meanwhile, Yumi was sadly left with Josh to defend herself as Lairons and Aarons rushed the two of them. In a hurry to bring out any pokemon she had to defend her, she made the a choice anyone could considr a mistake as she summoned forth her new "Magikarp". The brown, sponge like, and sadly rather unimpressive, Feebas. "Arceus, I really need to start labelling your pokeballs..." About to return her to the pokeball, Yumi was a little shocked to see her Feebas Sansa smile, a rather big smile at that. Her eyes shimmered purple and suddenly a good few of the aarons rushing towards her, as well as a Lairon or two, dropped to the ground in a skid under the effects of her hypnosis, forcing those behind them to tumble over the pile that had formed and ultimately ending him a heap of steel types strugging to get free of one another.
"....okay admittadly that was pretty awesome." "Fee." "Bet you can't do something like that again though." "Fee fee! (Your on!)"
Post by Josh Dragomir on Jul 25, 2015 19:04:51 GMT -5
While he didn't have much better chances, Josh was at least a tad slightly more confident then Yumi about their chances, seeing as he had Ignis, a Fire Type, by his side to take on the Steel Types if things got dodgy. So he would take a deep breath, and relax himself. There was no use in getting worked up when they were surrounded, and they'd be in over their heads if they freaked out about it. Their Pokemon could sense their emotions, after all. If he kept a cool head, his Pokemon would too, and they would battle better for it.
Yumi’s response would make Josh stop and just turn and stare at her for a moment, with a raised eyebrow. “…. Well, thanks. I’ll remember that whether we live or die” He remarked, rolling his eyes. Not funny, Yumi. But I’ll tell Izumi you said that” He said. Boy, that’d be awkward, considering Izumi had pretty much told him her feelings at this point. She’d been busy as of late though, he didn’t even know the next time he’d actually see the raven-haired girl.
He acknowledged the likelihood of her being bi from that, but didn’t really seem bothered at all. Let her be what she wanted to be, right? Regardless, he nodded to her next statement. “Aye, let’s just make sure we actually live to talk about it” He cracked. He took a deep breath, alright, they could do this. They could do this. They just had to not think about the very likely likelihood of dying. Oh god – They could die, wait, wait, nope, don’t think of the dying. Nope. Bad. Dying bad. Don’t think of death.
Okay.
As Ignis and the Vespiquen would fend off the two Aggrons, it was up to Josh and Yumi to defend themselves from the Aron and Lairon. Great. Just great. Josh watched though, as Yumi sent out… Feebas? “Yumi , what are-“ He would begin before Feebas would turn into Badassbas and hypno those Aron straight to hell.
“…. Yumi, I could kiss you right about now. Not literally” Josh remarked as he would quickly send out two Pokemon to ward off the Aron horde. Vigilance and Gustave, his Pignite and Ivysaur respectively. “Alright, Yummi? You ready to kick a little ass?” Josh would tease with a playful wink toward the redhead.