Indigo League Mafia/RPG Final Scene

[Serbia]

That's all fine and dandy, but I haven't played Mafia on this site in years, and only know the older players. I don't know what mitch is like, or Tim, or even you Dak, when it comes to mafia - so I have to go on what I see. If mitch is like this, let him explain it. And isn't that what Day 1 is for anyway? Besides, his first attempt at an explanation resulted in what you refer to as:

"OR AM I" is a different thing though, but I guess it's his way of trying to get more info from others by trying to confuse everyone with an obvious scum tell.

And I agree - it was scummy. So lets hear from him.

[HotShot53]

To those pointing out that I have been not posting enough in recent games, I have to agree with them, I admittedly wasn't posting too much. I guess a combination of often being busy, and not really having anything new to add to the conversation usually limited my posting... and since it seemed the less I said the less likely anyone was to make a case on me was an added benefit. I guess I pushed that a bit too far though, so I will sincerely attempt to post more often this game.

The mix of lots of former players who don't know the new ones, and new ones who don't know the old players, does make for an interesting combination in this game, as basically no-one knows the meta of everyone else. We're all going to have to somewhat trust those who do know the metas of players we don't know.

Has there ever been this many vote counts in a day 1 before? Many games don't have this many vote counts in the entire game lol. While it's a lot better than almost never having one, a new vote count doesn't have to posted after every vote you know... once or twice a day is good enough unless someone is close to being lynched or something.

FP by Serbia

[Anarkistsdream]

I gotta agree with Tim here, Nark. it dopes come across as you trying to say "hey, maybe i'm a trainer too" to MM with that comment. Which in turns make you ssupicious, because I'm wondering if the trainer deal is that they are actually cult or recruiting masons and they can "catch" (recruit) the pokemon in the night phase? And they have to kill the other trainers to win the game (i.e outcompete the others) - seems like the sort of mad stuff Mandy would do.

Dude, that is a ridiculously good thought process... Whether or not you are suspicious of me, that, sir, is an excellent idea. Also, if you will note, MM makes NO rebuke towards me, even though I am the one who voted him! He immediately moves on making more jokes and not facing up to what was said against him...

If he continues to evade, and just uses meta as an excuse, he will be my vote...

Masket! Make yourself heard.

[The Weird One]

Firstly, let me just say that I'm dissapointed in you all...I missed nearly 48 hours, and nobody's tried to crucify me for lurking, yet.

This might be a bit disjointed, but I'll try to get all my thoughts out there. Semiconscious, at present, so apologies in advance. If I repeat anything that's been touched on by others, it's less skimming and more of giving a belated opinion on it as I was unable to post closer to when it happened. Also, I'm writing this as I reread with minimal revisions, so you get the unfortunate front row seat to my train of thought. Just throwing that out there to explain changes of tone from beginning to end on things.

First point that really jumps out at me is with Timwoodbury

Doom why mention team rocket who says they even in the game are you team rocket??

Ebwop its dakky not doom posting from phone sucks

This seems to straddle the line of a pretty thin excuse to vote for someone while still being an attempt to use logic. What I mean by this is that a large portion of the early votes are entirely joking and made with little to room for such nicities as logic, reasoning, or sanity. This, to me at least, instead seems to be an attempt to find the first excuse to try and start a bandwagon. In all fairness, though, you don't actually cast a vote, here...Because of the setting being what it is [Indigo League], one would think that the villians from that arc of the tv show that make an appearance in almost every episode will show up in this game in some form. Also, as they're the villians and whatnot, it could be assumed that they would be some flavour of scum.

A side note: Serbia's early vote on dakky based upon Tim's reasoning, I would mark down to his ignorance to the setting [he states he knows nothing of pokemon]...Either that is sincere ignorance, or an excuse to jump on the reasoning.

Although only team rocket deal in absolutes, if I can mix my references, the exchange between dakky and Tim got me thinking. Dakky may be guessing that team rocket are in the game but Tim seems unwilling to speculate on the setup, which seems counterproductive (hence scummy) in such a large mafia. Vote Tim

nah i was just poking dakky to see what he would say, was wanting to provoke a response good or bad from dakky wich it seems he has ignored. is he ignoreing because its such a small not out there thing or does he not wanna say to much makes you go hmmmm. but for now ill give dakky a pass as he claims he is doing the same as i

So knowing Dakky's history of drawing attention to himself without your help, you decided to go for the easy target?

I fele strike kinda hit the nail on the head in responding to Tim's defense of his vote. I'll add on, though, that I don't really know the playing dynamic betwixt dakky and Tim. This could be perfectly normal behaviour for them. That's a potential issue that is unfortunately kinda inevitable when mingling multiple completely different groups of players -see also: dakky's comical vendetta on the chu for a vote on a nonplayer.


Moving right along...
A post that slipped by me, the first time or two:

Doom why mention team rocket who says they even in the game are you team rocket??

Vote Tim

I would be up for lynching Skoffin for red text too.

Well, it didn't slip by me entirely so much as I noticed it for the wrong reason. The statement that they'd be up for lynching skoff for the red text seems too thin of a reason for me and makes me cringe. That said, I can understand -to some small degree- the excuse that this is day one. The voting for Tim, though, bothers me. You give no reason other than quoting a simple -albeit idiotic- question that was asked. It's day one. It's the time for idiotic questions Then again, it's also time to draw and quarter some poor bastard for asking the wrong idiotic question because we've got nothing better to do...I'd rather avoid that outcome...that's just the events of far too many day 1s that I've seen. Anyone, away from the rambling and back to your vote: While everyone else is just talking about it...trying to poke and see what is said, and if tim is going to slip up, you just throw a vote in with no actual explanation, and follow it up with offering to vote for someone else on no impactful reason.

On to page nine...

I will vouch for Benga being a decent player. Doesnt post mega often, but will post essays infrequently.

Just seen that Hotshot is in this game. Unvote vote Hotshot. Scumarines as scum. Scumarines as town. Easier just to lynch him now. Tim and Dakky do this every game, even if I think Tim may have truly slipped this time.

I could be grasping at straws, here, but this still feels off to me...You're backing off of the failed bandwagon on Tim [of which you were the first to vote with the least explanation as to why]. That's all I see that as: you jumping off because you don't see it getting enough steam. You follow that up with turning on someone who posts infrequently and push to lynch them for that alone. They haven't done anything yet, in this game, and, at that point, they'd been more active than a number of the players, so this still just comes off as scummy as you are basing this off of nothing related to this particular game [maybe I'm being a bit touchy about someone getting a vote for infrequent posting with my barely existant activity, thus far....]

And, now, for something completely different:

Dakky you being suspicious of my FOS... does that mean you aren't trying to get lynched?

Tim is suspicious for the above mentioned reasons. Kind of a red flag to question the existence of Team Rocket. However, since it's still early and I promised myself at the end of the last game that I will second and triple guess myself before voting tim or mitch until I can understand them better, I won't vote.

Idk if they are new to mafia or just not sure how to go about discussing who may be the baddie here (obvs Team Rocket and whoever leads them), but it just seems suss.

This here seems (to me at least) even more suspicious than Tim. Assuming anything concrete about factions in a non standard game is scummy at worst and dangerous at best. There's been mentions of pokemon, trainers, and team rocket so far. That's at least 3. I can't help thinking that this is an attempt to gain early town credit for future use.
Unvote Vote Skittles
This is page nine, still...Either you're skimming or you're being scummy as all hell...From page 8:

Also, this game is Indigo league, therefore Team Rocket would be the scum team for the game. Otherwise why call it Idigo league?
And let's face it, anything past Gen 2 is inferior and not worthusing anyway.

Now, this is just a heavy implication, so I guess we could assume that you didn't connect the dots, so, just to be clear:
Indigo league = Gen 1
Gen 1 Villians = Team Rocket

I'll leave that as a heavy FOS that I might change to a vote in my closing thoughts, but, presently, still torn between you and wing...




So, moving along to the MM/Nark exchange.

Where was Pokemon roles mentioned? I assumed it would all be trainers. Then again my memory of the Indigo series is very fuzzy. I know there've been loads of trainers introduced over the years but perhaps there weren't that many way back then.

So you are a trainer? Well golly gee. Let's put a big ol' target on you... Or maybe not. Maybe we are all trainers. But what you just said guarantees you are 1) lying to get info or 2) admiting your role... I don't like either choice.

Vote: Minister Masket

I have to agree with Nag's point a few posts later [I'm trying to not drown you in quotes, here....Probably failing miserably, but, in light of that attempt, I'll just paraphrase...It's near the bottom of page nine that Nag reasons that, while this soft claim at trainerhood isn't the wisest thing to do and is a misplay, it isn't necessarily scummy. Using the entirely black and white good/bad spectrum that the show had, you have trainers on both sides [ash, brock, and misty on one side, and team rocket on the other, to give just one quick example]

What I do find more interesting about this is the post immediately after AD:

@ Anark ( just lazy ) like your post about the minister, makes sense ,
more than a lot other posts. UNVOTE VOTE MINISTER MASKET

This is blatant hopping on a bandwagon. I don't think there's anything else to add...


All that said, I feel that the reasoning on madmitch is soundest. I'll stick to just an unvote for now because we're past the joke voting stage, it would seem, and I'll try to get on here and make sense of all this when I'm somewhat coherent, tomorrow.


On a side note: damn, is it good to be seeing all the old names floating around again.

[WingCmdr Ginkapo]

Hotshot has acknowledged, and psst Anark, notice he said sweet piss all.

Doom why mention team rocket who says they even in the game are you team rocket??

Anyway. Unvote vote Tim

Feel free to write more war and peace on this wierd one.

[mandalorian2298]

Vote count:

spurgistan (1) - Tim

Talapus (1) - Strike

kwanton (2) - kwanton, Minister Masket

Strike wolf (1) - spurgistan

Skoffin (2) - Hotshot, Fircoal

dakky (1) - Samlen,

Samlen (1) - Talapus

Tim (3) - Exile, new guy, Wing

Fircoal (2) - DoomYoshi, Skoffin

Serbia (1) - dakky

Skittles (1) - BuJaber

Wing (1) - Ragian

Minister Masket (1) - madmitch

madmitch (1) - Serbia

26 alive, 14 to lynch

On the subject of activity: Given how many players there are and that all and all activity is good, I decided not to send prods until someone don't post anything for 3 RL days of Daytime. If you catch someone being inactive that long without me noticing (for you are a multitude), feel free to point him/her out to me.

On a personal note, I would like to applaud TWOs choice of graphic novels. Unless you saw the movie, in which case I'm withdrawing my applause and am ready to provide a rant if explanation is required.

[madmitch]

That's all fine and dandy, but I haven't played Mafia on this site in years, and only know the older players. I don't know what mitch is like, or Tim, or even you Dak, when it comes to mafia - so I have to go on what I see. If mitch is like this, let him explain it. And isn't that what Day 1 is for anyway? Besides, his first attempt at an explanation resulted in what you refer to as:

"OR AM I" is a different thing though, but I guess it's his way of trying to get more info from others by trying to confuse everyone with an obvious scum tell.

And I agree - it was scummy. So lets hear from him.

@ Serbia ,This is how I usually play , I don't like writing big posts all the time,I rather read and make points to my self then get into it. I liked where my vote was ,but lately I am thinking of changing it , but maybe I won't ,I don't like the unvoting and revoting habit, it makes you look unsure of your self or just a follower.@ Skoffin sorry!!

[Minister Masket]

I gotta agree with Tim here, Nark. it dopes come across as you trying to say "hey, maybe i'm a trainer too" to MM with that comment. Which in turns make you ssupicious, because I'm wondering if the trainer deal is that they are actually cult or recruiting masons and they can "catch" (recruit) the pokemon in the night phase? And they have to kill the other trainers to win the game (i.e outcompete the others) - seems like the sort of mad stuff Mandy would do.

Dude, that is a ridiculously good thought process... Whether or not you are suspicious of me, that, sir, is an excellent idea. Also, if you will note, MM makes NO rebuke towards me, even though I am the one who voted him! He immediately moves on making more jokes and not facing up to what was said against him...

If he continues to evade, and just uses meta as an excuse, he will be my vote...

Masket! Make yourself heard.

Firstly I have to say I haven't really been thinking about game mechanics so far, but I too think exile has made a very good shout there. Fits the theme very well.

Secondly I'm currently sitting on one vote (like many others) so I hardly think a full rebuke is necessary, but...

So you are a trainer? Well golly gee. Let's put a big ol' target on you... Or maybe not. Maybe we are all trainers. But what you just said guarantees you are 1) lying to get info or 2) admiting your role... I don't like either choice.

I have a habit of making bold Day 1 posts, and it seems even after many years, old habits die hard.
I don't really consider it a slip up however since some rather interesting posts have developed from it (yours included). And that benefits the whole town more than the scum on Day 1 since it's far more likely for the town to weaken over time than get stronger.

Unvote Kwanton since he's a wimp and doesn't like bugs when it's the best type evar.

[kwanton]

Maybe my comment was a slip-up but I was only referencing the role talks from a couple pages before. Honestly I don't mind making myself a night-time target possibility because there's so much ambiguity on roles / night actions at this early stage that it's almost impossible to predict what will happen. It sure beats being the Day 1 Lynchee.
A good Town Doc player watching closely combined with some daring posting can be effective in screwing over early game Scum plans.

IIRC Mandy said he was gonna try and not do many of the classic mafia roles. I wouldn't bank on a doc.

[kwanton]

EBWOP

#3 under updates on the first post:

3. No, or almost no (I'm still working on figuring out playable alternatives for the last two roles), "classic" Mafia powers are going to feature in this game.

Wonder if this counts for scum as well as town. Could scum maybe be able to do something else besides kill at night since thats what they classically do?

[Fircoal]

I agree with the thought that it seems that there are likely different town factions. Due to what Mandy said in the beginning it implies different trainers are up against each other. While right not it's not terribly important it is something to keep in mind for possible intensions of votes.

As for scum I highly doubt it's only Jessie, James, and Meowth. Giovanni and the like play too much of a role in the games and in the anime for them not to show up. Furthermore 3 scum in a 26 player game is very unlikely. There may be even more scum than those 4 + persain. Butch and Cassidy showed up in the anime at times although they aren't exactly relavent.

Why are we all so hung up on some 9's. I mean assuming they mean something. What would they mean? I find it hard to think of anything they could mean personally.

I have made a case... It is my best lead. What good does talking about these other cases do me? None, because that does not help my case.

While it makes sense to focus on one's own case. One also must pay attention to all the cases as important info can be gathered from them.

It sure beats being the Day 1 Lynchee.

Unvote. Vote: Masket

I will vouch for Benga being a decent player. Doesnt post mega often, but will post essays infrequently.

Just seen that Hotshot is in this game. Unvote vote Hotshot. Scumarines as scum. Scumarines as town. Easier just to lynch him now. Tim and Dakky do this every game, even if I think Tim may have truly slipped this time.

But HotShot posted twice just before you. And neither post seemed like typical scumarining. I'm all for pressuring scumariners but you can't just pick a name out of a hat and call them that. The game just started. He's done enough so far.

It's due to Hotshot'so recent history. He's become one of the least reliable posters on the site. He's a good player when he's active but it's rare to get him active any more.

Right but we're not talking about history. Each game is a new game in itself. While each game should be referenced to see one's normal behavoir one is not going to be scum just because they acted a scummy way in a previous game. It looks out of place to me.

@ Fircoal: dakky is voting you because "they" told him that voting non-players is a scumtell. New guy's scumtell is when people get serious too early. Why is it a scumtell for him? Because "they" frowned upon it once upon a time. Both players are referencing outdated metas that have no bearing on this game. It's nice to follow some mantras like LAL and follow the cop but every now and then players need to think for themselves.

Understood. I don't disagree with that. Metas are weird tricky things imo.

Just for the record, since all of you have been wondering, "THEY" are the people from this forum who thought me those few basic scum tell tactics. I got lynched in my 1st or 2nd game for voting mod or NPC and afterwards THEY told me that is a scum tell.

And they were wrong. I can see how indecisiveness can be seen scummy in this game but don't assume that when there can be other lolzy reasons for NPC/mod votes.

@Fircoal. If you ever have a feeling that Hotshot isnt contributing, dont think just lynch. It is important that you guys know this. Hence my post to draw attention to it.

What!? No! Thinking is always an important part of being town and trying to find out who to kill. Advising to lynch without a thought is a nice way to get the loudest person to yell to lynch someone and them being lynched. You need logic or feeling over a lynch. Rushing things without comment is a great way for the scum to push the game forward without giving off much information.

Hotshot has acknowledged, and psst Anark, notice he said sweet piss all.

Doom why mention team rocket who says they even in the game are you team rocket??

Anyway. Unvote vote Tim

Feel free to write more war and peace on this wierd one.

It was weird but going off of what others who have played with them have been saying it seems like it's more or less Tim's normal behavoir in this game. Do we need to be bringing it up again? And for what purpose? It sorta feels like you're trying to fan the flames back onto Tim and catch wind of an easy lynch.

[Anarkistsdream]

Hotshot has acknowledged, and psst Anark, notice he said sweet piss all.
.

I agree... So why didn't you vote him? Seems exceptionally obvious... Why is the vote for Tim a better vote than one for Hotshot?

Please explain.

[Minister Masket]

3. No, or almost no (I'm still working on figuring out playable alternatives for the last two roles), "classic" Mafia powers are going to feature in this game.

Wonder if this counts for scum as well as town. Could scum maybe be able to do something else besides kill at night since thats what they classically do?

I was banking on the 'almost' part of that rule being true and that there's at least some protective-type role out there. I wouldn't have thought Pokemon can defend themselves since most moves (in the games at least) are offensive.

[Fircoal]

3. No, or almost no (I'm still working on figuring out playable alternatives for the last two roles), "classic" Mafia powers are going to feature in this game.

Wonder if this counts for scum as well as town. Could scum maybe be able to do something else besides kill at night since thats what they classically do?

I was banking on the 'almost' part of that rule being true and that there's at least some protective-type role out there. I wouldn't have thought Pokemon can defend themselves since most moves (in the games at least) are offensive.

FYI there is a move called protect.

... it does exactly that.

However, it was only introduced in Gen II. (wow it feels like it's been around forever. SO MANY YEARS.)

[WingCmdr Ginkapo]

Tim scum slipped. Its blatant.

[Metsfanmax]

Tim scum slipped. Its blatant.

It's really not.

[DoomYoshi]

3. No, or almost no (I'm still working on figuring out playable alternatives for the last two roles), "classic" Mafia powers are going to feature in this game.

Wonder if this counts for scum as well as town. Could scum maybe be able to do something else besides kill at night since thats what they classically do?

I was banking on the 'almost' part of that rule being true and that there's at least some protective-type role out there. I wouldn't have thought Pokemon can defend themselves since most moves (in the games at least) are offensive.

FYI there is a move called protect.

... it does exactly that.

However, it was only introduced in Gen II. (wow it feels like it's been around forever. SO MANY YEARS.)

In Gen 1 we called it Harden.

While I respect your bold play MM, I must also unvote vote Masket. Before roles are handed out, it's fair to assume a game called Pokemon would feature Pokemon. I think your comment is a legitimate slip.

[strike wolf]

Tim scum slipped. Its blatant.

I think you are underestimating the complexity of this game. It seems to me that the belief previously stated that there are factions within the town itself is probably true.

@Nark: don't sell it too short. I was playing a bit of a doubting Thomas on the Masket case but there was some warrant to it.


@mitch: if you want any case you join to be taken seriously, explaining the scumminess is necessary. No one would ever follow a case from someone unwilling to put forth their reasoning. Your tendency not to post enough about your cases is part of why you get lynched so often.

Bit rushed right now. Will try to post more in the morning when thinking more coherently.

[BuJaber]

The Weird One - Be careful with big posts that have quotes within quotes as it is easy to type within the quote. This time I caught it because it was my own post you quoted. As for my vote on skittles... I understand that this is based on gen 1 and I also understand that team rocket were the villains in gen 1. I am not saying that team rocket are a charity organization.. all I'm saying is that we cannot know for certain that mandy followed conventions and based this game exactly on the anime/games. It is too dangerous, especially in a game this size where we're bound to mislynch a few times, to jump to conclusions about faction as early as day 1. In the wheel of time game that just ended 4 townies died before everyone was fully convinced that our original assumptions were wrong. Only someone who is scum would know for sure that they were scum. So if they are in fact team rocket, it makes sense to talk about how bad team rocket are in order to earn town cred. And yes, I am also jumping to a conclusion about skittles, but certainly at the time of voting I felt that it was at least on par with the other top lynch cases if not better, since day 1 typically involves quite a bit of guessing.

[madmitch]

Okay guys and gals the only thing I know about Pokemon is what I see on netflicks, I have been reading about them in wiki and am starting to make some sense of it all. So what I got so far from all the posts that we are in Indigo league which is Gen. 1 and the bad guys are Team Rocket , am I correct ? If so why would anyone bring up team rocket when we all know they are scum? was it a slip or are they as mentioned before looking for town cred? H ow many teams are there? As someone else asked are the trainers fighting against other trainers? How many trainers are there? and are there pokemons without trainers? These questions must be answered before we get a good sense who to go after. Can someone answer any of these questions?

[mandalorian2298]

Vote count:

spurgistan (1) - Tim

Talapus (1) - Strike

kwanton (1) - kwanton

Strike wolf (1) - spurgistan

Skoffin (1) - Hotshot

dakky (1) - Samlen,

Samlen (1) - Talapus

Tim (3) - Exile, new guy, Wing

Fircoal (1) - Skoffin

Serbia (1) - dakky

Skittles (1) - BuJaber

Wing (1) - Ragian

Minister Masket (3) - madmitch, Fircoal, Yoshi

madmitch (1) - Serbia

26 alive, 14 to lynch

[Serbia]

I posted this back on page 9. I think it's important to bring back up.

I went back and re-read, and will share the actual order of events here:

And btw Serb, you are allowed to voted mandy, but that would be scummy just as is DY's voting Confirm. Actually, even mentioning you'd vote Mandy is scummy. If you don't care who will you vote, then you must be Team Rocket. I'll keep my vote on DY's joke confirm but you're the serious candidate now for something more real.

Doom why mention team rocket who says they even in the game are you team rocket??

So in reality, it was DAKKY who automatically accused me of being Rocket. Tim followed it up with a question, which once ignored he let lie. My opinion? With Tim, I think it more likely he was legitimately asking the question, then moving on. With dakky, I'm not as confident. Maybe HE'S the Scum Genius immediately looking for a claim, since he's the one who actually brought it up. He's also the one who revenge voted me (scummy) and is throwing suspicions around like party favors, which also feels reckless and scummy. For now, my vote stands.

(I added the bold and large to this post - it did not exist in my original)

The first person to mention Team Rocket was dakky, not Tim. I know when I was considering voting for Tim, it's because I thought he brought it up, but he clearly was responding to dakky.

So, the two people in my mind who are most scummy are dakky and Masket, and I'd give an edge to Masket over this, because a role claim is worse than a faction identity suggestion, especially when that faction is known to be part of the story arc. (something which again, I have no idea of, as I never played the card game, haven't pokemon go'd, and never watched a second of any cartoon. I'm an old guy I guess) I still am suspicious of mitch, for his blasé vote, but perhaps less so when I think about it in reference to the other two.

UNVOTE VOTE: Masket

Just got fp by the mod

[dakky21]

The first person to mention Team Rocket was dakky, not Tim. I know when I was considering voting for Tim, it's because I thought he brought it up, but he clearly was responding to dakky.

So, the two people in my mind who are most scummy are dakky and Masket, and I'd give an edge to Masket over this, because a role claim is worse than a faction identity suggestion, especially when that faction is known to be part of the story arc. (something which again, I have no idea of, as I never played the card game, haven't pokemon go'd, and never watched a second of any cartoon. I'm an old guy I guess) I still am suspicious of mitch, for his blasé vote, but perhaps less so when I think about it in reference to the other two.

Exactly, I was the first to assume the scum is Team Rocket or at least part of the scum. Tim asked a legit question which I ignored as what was the possible answer to it? It's just like asking anyone else are they scum. Waste of words typing "NO" when the whole question is based on my own assumption.

On the other hand, mitch asking questions which can't be answered yet is something completely different.

[Anarkistsdream]

Tim scum slipped. Its blatant.

I think you are underestimating the complexity of this game. It seems to me that the belief previously stated that there are factions within the town itself is probably true.

@Nark: don't sell it too short. I was playing a bit of a doubting Thomas on the Masket case but there was some warrant to it.

Well, I thought it was a pretty awesome catch... I also stuck to it, and was lambasted for it. So, I backed off. Trump, I mean WingCommander and, IIRC, Fircoal, were the ones who thought I had no idea what I was talking about and that I should give him the benefit of the doubt.

So, I will revote:Masket since apparently other people are in agreement with me...

I also notice that , out of 26 people, we do not have many people who are even posting once a day... If they are town, they are just screwing the rest of us. If they are scum, we are far too easily slipping under the radar...

Mandy, I know you are giving people 3 RL days to post... Can we change that to 2 days? I really don't want this game lasting until March, because the majority of people will lose interest... It seems a number of people already have.

[Samlen]

Professor Oak: Thank you, Reporter. Given that most of the Gym Masters have been killed, this year we decided that it would be to dangerous to keep all our fights focused on a few specific locations. Instead, I have supplied a few kids with a Pokedex and a starting pokemon, and released them into the Kanto region to find and defeat each other. The last one of them to survive will be crowned the Champion.

Was rereading thread (and still am so I can post something more meaningful) and noticed this interesting tidbit from day 1 starting post. The bolded part insinuates that the trainers have one pokemon already, so it's entirely possible that we could go through the thread and sniff out teams of two if we wanted to find trainer/pokemon pairs.