PhanRift App
Feb. 3rd, 2018 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhododendronhoneyOOC Information
Player name: Gray
Player age and gender: 24, she/they
Any other characters in game? Nope, planning to app Nathaniel this round as well
[THIS IS THE END OF YOUR FIRST COMMENT. EVERYTHING AFTER THIS GOES IN REPLIES TO THE FIRST COMMENT.]
IC Information
Character name: Coriander Bliss
Character canon: Pokemon Tamers (Pokemon Tabletop United campaign)
Canon point: One month after the Final Choice
Physical Description: She looks mostly like this, but with less extreme hair curl. She's 15 years old, of average height for a teen of that age.
About the Character: Coriander, or Cori for short, is the middle child of the Bliss family and the future heir to their bakery. She was fascinated by the "magic" of her family since her youth, knowing the secret recipes and words for almost every snack her family made, and could usually be seen with several amulets and written wards on her person. Despite this slight eccentricity, she was actually fairly popular in school for both her cheerful personality and willingness to share free samples.
However, the day eventually came when magic started to come into the world, or, as Cori put it, "come back." It started with a dream, where she met a talking mushroom creature named Fern, that claimed to have a message from a separate world that had become entwined with their own: the world of Pokemon. She and some selected others were meant to protect their world by stopping the intrustions that happened. After the dream, Cori woke to find Fern sleeping on her bed, and a watch from the other world.
Cori would go on to meet the rest of the chosen group: the genre-savvy Kenta, the tech geek Everett, the jock Ryota, and the mysterious adult Peter. Their very first fight against an intrusion showed that intra-party conflict was already a thing, when Peter knocked out a shiny Bidoof that Kenta wanted and Cori had to play mediator, something she would continue to do for a while.
After the intrusion cleared up, Cori suggested that the group come back to her house to talk to her grandmother, who would be interested in their story and hopefully be able to explain more about magic. Only Kenta and Ryota were able to make it though. Granny Bliss was happy to welcome the group and feed them, while teasing Cori a bit about her "new boyfriend."
Their second mission would take them to an unfinished construction site, now infested with Pokemon. When they reached the top, they met a Mega Altaria who was in a manic, mutated state, unable to properly speak and begging to be defeated. It was also revealed that she had previously loved Archimedes, Peter's first companion, but he had forgotten her. She couldn't be helped, and the team was forced to defeat her. She disappeared, leaving behind a Sky Plate.
After that, though, the group encountered a situation similar to the fog that had surrounded the areas of their previous missions, but without any alert directed at them. They soon realized another group, Legerdemain, had gained Pokemon and powers of their own, and ended up battling. Despite the attempts of the leader Wallace to get them to hate each other, it turned out the other group included one of Ryota's old friends and Peter's brother James, along with a girl named Viktoria, whose family owned a rival bakery to the Bliss', and who Cori attempted to befriend. It seemed to work, since she came to Cori's house to play a board game together later on.
Their next mission led them to an abandoned subway tunnel, where lack of communication led to Peter sacrificing himself to possession when Cori leapt in front of a tank he was driving in an attempt to show mercy to their Mega Steelix opponent, who had regained lucidity at that point. The being now possessing him claimed to be Arceus, who had been sealed away, and required the plates the mutants were leaving behind to regain his true form. The group accepted this, and he ended up staying at Cori's house, masquerading as her "Uncle Archie."
Right after that, though, she was attacked by a ninja named Luke who was apparently opposed to him. Cori managed to not tell him anything important, and Luke ran away after being found out, but called Cori "Mom" once, making her blink. And then when their next mission brought them to a death trap water park, he called Kenta "Dad" as well. Cori quickly decided to accept responsibility for him, threatening any creature that attacked him, and after defeating the boss Pokemon of that place invited him to dinner. While he didn't accept, she did bring Kenta back to her house due to him being badly injured in the fight. The two had a bit of a talk, and finally had their official first kiss.
Their next mission ended up attracting the notice of a government agency. Despite the fears of most of the group, they turned out to be quite reasonable and even willing to help protect the party's families. They also told the group that they had apparently determined the next place of intrusion to be a Pokemon convention, and gave the entire group tickets to said convention. While the two Pokemon they met during said intrusion seemed to be perfectly lucid, revealing the fates of their companions let to them going mutated and manic as well. The group won this fight as well, but were informed that a dark portal had opened above a tower far from the convention, and they rushed to make it there, discovering that Ledgerdemain had made it their HQ and abducted Cori's grandmother and Archie. This enraged Cori greatly, and she was ready to rip Wallace apart for hurting her family.
The tower was full of annoying puzzles, but after solving them all Cori faced off with Viktoria. She managed to convince Viktoria that she didn't need Wallace to summon Arceus to grant her wish of being beautiful, and ended up kissing her as well to convince her that she was beautiful. However, when they reached the tower summit, they discovered that James was already hard at work on a device to summon Arceus to bring his brother back. It was also revealed that Archie was, in fact, the one sponsoring Legerdemain, and was not Arceus, but in fact Missingno, being sealed the only true part of his story. The machine worked, and he regained his true form. Everett tried to catch him with a Masterball, but he simply switched it with a random stone from Peter's pocket and crushed it instead. Luckily, they were saved by Celebi, who brought them into a space outside of time. Iris, a servant of the true Arceus, told them that she would try and unlock their true powers, which would require them facing their worst fears. All of them accepted this. After some trials, Cori faced her "other self," who claimed they were unable to help anyone. Cori refuted this quite fiercely, and managed to convince said other self to join back up with her.
The final battle was hectic, but by using the strange stone that he had inadvertently swapped to Everett, Peter was freed and Missingno defeated with one final punch from Ryota. The true Arceus appeared to congratulate them, and warned them that "killing" Missingno would allow him to respawn. It was eventually decided that they would seal him away permanently, while also sealing the connection between the two worlds. Cori bid Fern and her other Pokemon farewell. Since they had kept their powers, the Bliss bakery continued running with real magic behind it, and Viktoria was brought into the Bliss home, with her, Kenta, and Cori all being in a relationship together.
Missingno/"Archie" has affected Cori's ability to trust somewhat negatively. She is more likely to suspect that people wearing concealing clothing or accessories are hiding something, and will probably act paranoid about that. Her adventures have also revealed a much more aggressive side of her. While she can still put on a cheerful facade even around someone she dislikes, she has a hidden sadistic side that she's happy to let out towards those who might threaten her loved ones, whether via threats or direct action. She's still willing to talk before fighting most of the time, especially if her opponent seems controlled or coerced, but she won't waste time trying to sway someone who seems happy to do terrible things.
Character abilities: Crest of Reliability: A symbol on Cori's right hand that she gained after rejoining her "other self." It acts as a Keystone, allowing her to mega-evolve her Pokemon, including Fern, despite Amoonguss normally not having a mega evolution.
Cooking: Cori can make really tasty food, although her specialty is baking. In general, her food has been tasty enough to get Pokemon to join her without a fight. She can also enchant her food to have various positive effects on whoever eats it.
Focus: Cori is fairly good at concentrating on a given task, and it's not easy to distract her with little things.
Strength: Cori is somewhat stronger than her figure would suggest, quite capable of doing most heavy lifting in the bakery, carrying sacks of flower and tiered trays of treats.
Poisons: Cori has knowledge of how to create and identify most common poisons, although it's in an academic sense, and she's never actually tried to do so for real.
Crafting/enchanting: Cori can craft various magical items, usually clothing,
as well as enchant existing items with various magical effects. She does require concentration and proper materials for this.
Magical Knowledge: Cori is knowledgeable about magic in general, and can sense the effects on others of magic involving compulsion or mind control.
Mental Resistance: Cori has 10 DR against Dark, Psychic, and Ghost moves,
and once per Scene/Battle can cancel the secondary/status effect of such a move against her completely.
Musician: Cori can play songs that grants all allies in the area either a +5 bonus to the damage their attacks do or a +5 reduction in the damage they take. She can play one song per turn, or two songs if she doesn't move. Each song costs 1 AP, and she has 7 AP by default, which refresh at the end of a Scene.
White Magic: Once per Scene/Battle, Cori can cure an adjacent ally of all status conditions.
Pokemon moves: Cori knows all these Pokemon moves. As her abilities are based on her belief in her family's magic, she usually has a chant or hand gesture to indicate all of those. Except for her Hidden Power. That just involves her shadow roiling to life and hitting everything around her.
Inventory: Cooking kit: A collection of small knives, forks, and assorted utensils and ingredients that allow Cori to prepare simple food on the go. The knives are kept nice and sharp enough that she could also stab someone with one.
Thumb piano: It fits in her pocket, and she uses it for most of her Musician abilities, although technically it would work even with her own voice.
Watch: The watch that Cori gained as a present from Professor Oak, the one who assigned Fern to her. It can receive messages from him, as well as display her and her active Pokemon's stats in character sheet format. It also contains a hammerspace inventory and a Pokedex. It currently contains the items listed here. It has a touchscreen, which is easy enough for even Cori to use, since she isn't very familiar with operating most technology, not having used it much in her regular life.
Fern: A cheerful, curious Amoonguss with the ability to speak the human tongue. Her moves and abiliites are listed here. She can mega-evolve (ignore stats in image), and gains the ability Thick Fat when she does so. (Note: A Connection Ability allows her to have moves above the maximum. The normal move maximum is 6.)
Dampening Mystic Water Pendant: A pendant in the shape of a drop of water, a gift from Kenta. Gives a +5 damage bonus to Water-type moves, and has been enchanted to allow Cori to cancel the effect of a foe's Ability once per Scene/Battle.
Samples: [Threads from the test drive are strongly preferred, but any thread of at least eight comments from your character will do.]
Player name: Gray
Player age and gender: 24, she/they
Any other characters in game? Nope, planning to app Nathaniel this round as well
[THIS IS THE END OF YOUR FIRST COMMENT. EVERYTHING AFTER THIS GOES IN REPLIES TO THE FIRST COMMENT.]
IC Information
Character name: Coriander Bliss
Character canon: Pokemon Tamers (Pokemon Tabletop United campaign)
Canon point: One month after the Final Choice
Physical Description: She looks mostly like this, but with less extreme hair curl. She's 15 years old, of average height for a teen of that age.
About the Character: Coriander, or Cori for short, is the middle child of the Bliss family and the future heir to their bakery. She was fascinated by the "magic" of her family since her youth, knowing the secret recipes and words for almost every snack her family made, and could usually be seen with several amulets and written wards on her person. Despite this slight eccentricity, she was actually fairly popular in school for both her cheerful personality and willingness to share free samples.
However, the day eventually came when magic started to come into the world, or, as Cori put it, "come back." It started with a dream, where she met a talking mushroom creature named Fern, that claimed to have a message from a separate world that had become entwined with their own: the world of Pokemon. She and some selected others were meant to protect their world by stopping the intrustions that happened. After the dream, Cori woke to find Fern sleeping on her bed, and a watch from the other world.
Cori would go on to meet the rest of the chosen group: the genre-savvy Kenta, the tech geek Everett, the jock Ryota, and the mysterious adult Peter. Their very first fight against an intrusion showed that intra-party conflict was already a thing, when Peter knocked out a shiny Bidoof that Kenta wanted and Cori had to play mediator, something she would continue to do for a while.
After the intrusion cleared up, Cori suggested that the group come back to her house to talk to her grandmother, who would be interested in their story and hopefully be able to explain more about magic. Only Kenta and Ryota were able to make it though. Granny Bliss was happy to welcome the group and feed them, while teasing Cori a bit about her "new boyfriend."
Their second mission would take them to an unfinished construction site, now infested with Pokemon. When they reached the top, they met a Mega Altaria who was in a manic, mutated state, unable to properly speak and begging to be defeated. It was also revealed that she had previously loved Archimedes, Peter's first companion, but he had forgotten her. She couldn't be helped, and the team was forced to defeat her. She disappeared, leaving behind a Sky Plate.
After that, though, the group encountered a situation similar to the fog that had surrounded the areas of their previous missions, but without any alert directed at them. They soon realized another group, Legerdemain, had gained Pokemon and powers of their own, and ended up battling. Despite the attempts of the leader Wallace to get them to hate each other, it turned out the other group included one of Ryota's old friends and Peter's brother James, along with a girl named Viktoria, whose family owned a rival bakery to the Bliss', and who Cori attempted to befriend. It seemed to work, since she came to Cori's house to play a board game together later on.
Their next mission led them to an abandoned subway tunnel, where lack of communication led to Peter sacrificing himself to possession when Cori leapt in front of a tank he was driving in an attempt to show mercy to their Mega Steelix opponent, who had regained lucidity at that point. The being now possessing him claimed to be Arceus, who had been sealed away, and required the plates the mutants were leaving behind to regain his true form. The group accepted this, and he ended up staying at Cori's house, masquerading as her "Uncle Archie."
Right after that, though, she was attacked by a ninja named Luke who was apparently opposed to him. Cori managed to not tell him anything important, and Luke ran away after being found out, but called Cori "Mom" once, making her blink. And then when their next mission brought them to a death trap water park, he called Kenta "Dad" as well. Cori quickly decided to accept responsibility for him, threatening any creature that attacked him, and after defeating the boss Pokemon of that place invited him to dinner. While he didn't accept, she did bring Kenta back to her house due to him being badly injured in the fight. The two had a bit of a talk, and finally had their official first kiss.
Their next mission ended up attracting the notice of a government agency. Despite the fears of most of the group, they turned out to be quite reasonable and even willing to help protect the party's families. They also told the group that they had apparently determined the next place of intrusion to be a Pokemon convention, and gave the entire group tickets to said convention. While the two Pokemon they met during said intrusion seemed to be perfectly lucid, revealing the fates of their companions let to them going mutated and manic as well. The group won this fight as well, but were informed that a dark portal had opened above a tower far from the convention, and they rushed to make it there, discovering that Ledgerdemain had made it their HQ and abducted Cori's grandmother and Archie. This enraged Cori greatly, and she was ready to rip Wallace apart for hurting her family.
The tower was full of annoying puzzles, but after solving them all Cori faced off with Viktoria. She managed to convince Viktoria that she didn't need Wallace to summon Arceus to grant her wish of being beautiful, and ended up kissing her as well to convince her that she was beautiful. However, when they reached the tower summit, they discovered that James was already hard at work on a device to summon Arceus to bring his brother back. It was also revealed that Archie was, in fact, the one sponsoring Legerdemain, and was not Arceus, but in fact Missingno, being sealed the only true part of his story. The machine worked, and he regained his true form. Everett tried to catch him with a Masterball, but he simply switched it with a random stone from Peter's pocket and crushed it instead. Luckily, they were saved by Celebi, who brought them into a space outside of time. Iris, a servant of the true Arceus, told them that she would try and unlock their true powers, which would require them facing their worst fears. All of them accepted this. After some trials, Cori faced her "other self," who claimed they were unable to help anyone. Cori refuted this quite fiercely, and managed to convince said other self to join back up with her.
The final battle was hectic, but by using the strange stone that he had inadvertently swapped to Everett, Peter was freed and Missingno defeated with one final punch from Ryota. The true Arceus appeared to congratulate them, and warned them that "killing" Missingno would allow him to respawn. It was eventually decided that they would seal him away permanently, while also sealing the connection between the two worlds. Cori bid Fern and her other Pokemon farewell. Since they had kept their powers, the Bliss bakery continued running with real magic behind it, and Viktoria was brought into the Bliss home, with her, Kenta, and Cori all being in a relationship together.
Missingno/"Archie" has affected Cori's ability to trust somewhat negatively. She is more likely to suspect that people wearing concealing clothing or accessories are hiding something, and will probably act paranoid about that. Her adventures have also revealed a much more aggressive side of her. While she can still put on a cheerful facade even around someone she dislikes, she has a hidden sadistic side that she's happy to let out towards those who might threaten her loved ones, whether via threats or direct action. She's still willing to talk before fighting most of the time, especially if her opponent seems controlled or coerced, but she won't waste time trying to sway someone who seems happy to do terrible things.
Character abilities: Crest of Reliability: A symbol on Cori's right hand that she gained after rejoining her "other self." It acts as a Keystone, allowing her to mega-evolve her Pokemon, including Fern, despite Amoonguss normally not having a mega evolution.
Cooking: Cori can make really tasty food, although her specialty is baking. In general, her food has been tasty enough to get Pokemon to join her without a fight. She can also enchant her food to have various positive effects on whoever eats it.
Focus: Cori is fairly good at concentrating on a given task, and it's not easy to distract her with little things.
Strength: Cori is somewhat stronger than her figure would suggest, quite capable of doing most heavy lifting in the bakery, carrying sacks of flower and tiered trays of treats.
Poisons: Cori has knowledge of how to create and identify most common poisons, although it's in an academic sense, and she's never actually tried to do so for real.
Crafting/enchanting: Cori can craft various magical items, usually clothing,
as well as enchant existing items with various magical effects. She does require concentration and proper materials for this.
Magical Knowledge: Cori is knowledgeable about magic in general, and can sense the effects on others of magic involving compulsion or mind control.
Mental Resistance: Cori has 10 DR against Dark, Psychic, and Ghost moves,
and once per Scene/Battle can cancel the secondary/status effect of such a move against her completely.
Musician: Cori can play songs that grants all allies in the area either a +5 bonus to the damage their attacks do or a +5 reduction in the damage they take. She can play one song per turn, or two songs if she doesn't move. Each song costs 1 AP, and she has 7 AP by default, which refresh at the end of a Scene.
White Magic: Once per Scene/Battle, Cori can cure an adjacent ally of all status conditions.
Pokemon moves: Cori knows all these Pokemon moves. As her abilities are based on her belief in her family's magic, she usually has a chant or hand gesture to indicate all of those. Except for her Hidden Power. That just involves her shadow roiling to life and hitting everything around her.
Inventory: Cooking kit: A collection of small knives, forks, and assorted utensils and ingredients that allow Cori to prepare simple food on the go. The knives are kept nice and sharp enough that she could also stab someone with one.
Thumb piano: It fits in her pocket, and she uses it for most of her Musician abilities, although technically it would work even with her own voice.
Watch: The watch that Cori gained as a present from Professor Oak, the one who assigned Fern to her. It can receive messages from him, as well as display her and her active Pokemon's stats in character sheet format. It also contains a hammerspace inventory and a Pokedex. It currently contains the items listed here. It has a touchscreen, which is easy enough for even Cori to use, since she isn't very familiar with operating most technology, not having used it much in her regular life.
Fern: A cheerful, curious Amoonguss with the ability to speak the human tongue. Her moves and abiliites are listed here. She can mega-evolve (ignore stats in image), and gains the ability Thick Fat when she does so. (Note: A Connection Ability allows her to have moves above the maximum. The normal move maximum is 6.)
Dampening Mystic Water Pendant: A pendant in the shape of a drop of water, a gift from Kenta. Gives a +5 damage bonus to Water-type moves, and has been enchanted to allow Cori to cancel the effect of a foe's Ability once per Scene/Battle.
Samples: [Threads from the test drive are strongly preferred, but any thread of at least eight comments from your character will do.]