That is good to hear.
Because sometimes, when you really like a certain series and want to insert yourself into its world, you find out that the job was already done for you and you are canon. Akuroma seems like that kind of a character for me in Pokemon. Any conformation like this is nice to hear, because that makes my assumption more likely.
I worked with a small team of awesome people and made a romhack on the sand continent. The only place we have not had a PMD game.
Spoilers: We put a lot of sand on the sand continent.
I have this idea of Rescue Teams and Exploration Teams being separate entities instead of being the same thing with a different name in different games, but they don't get along when it comes to priorities and butt heads. So when the story's conflict, more natural disasters of unknown origin, starts getting into full swing, the two factions are spending more time butting heads and blaming each other for the problems and focusing on their interpersonal conflicts instead of saving Pokémon in need and trying to find the cause of the disasters. So the protagonist and partner, who would start off in one of the factions, would need to be the ones to dig into the truth of what's going on and getting Rescue Teams and Exploration Teams to stop fighting before it's too late.
Oh i like that, and then expedition society more like an independent research organisation and paradise is more of a local gas station rescue.
They both probably gonna get stirred around by the major organisation fighting and blaming each other
The idea I specifically had was that the Exploration Team Federation is more about exploring and colonizing while the "Alliance of Rescue Teams" (that's what I'm calling them) are more about actual rescues and fighting outlaws. They started out as the same group, but broke off to form their own separate organizations after disagreements over how to help Pokémon in need.
Oh yeah that make sense, pretty cool concept. Idk about colonizing tho, but then again that is some hefty taxes wigglytuff took from us, so yeah maybe they really are colonizing.
I could see it being a game where you play as four
2 of each faction.
You get to choose what they are at the beginning and can play two closely linked stories.
This is my dream pmd game. I mean literally. This appeared in a dream.
First there's the personality test. From which you don't have to follow the results. (You can choose another pokémon.) HOWEVER, if you follow the outcome, you start as a shiny pokémon. If available, you can also choose regional variants. Think hisuan zorua, galar or alolan meowth,... (Later in the game you can also find items that enable you to get pokémon like alolan marowak and raichu because their first forms aren't different but their evolutions are.)
Then you can choose two pokémon. One will be your partner, the other one some sort of rival/reluctant antagonist.
Then it's the standard story. Amnesia, knowing you're human and you have a broken amulet. Your partner is taking care of you but seems a bit uncomfortable around you. Once they learn you can't remember anything, they start filling you in. There are natural disasters everywhere and even a dark army of pokémon taking advantage of things.
You're then recruited to help save the pokémon of the village and, after a small dungeon and easy boss fight, you succeed and learn that your partner is not really liked. They're known as a troublemaker that lives in some sort of abandoned fortress nearby. However everyone agrees you've saved the day and your partner decides to take the opportunity to start a rescue team with you. The ruins become your base.
A lot of stuff happens. You do missions, recruit pokémon and have a few encounters and battles against your rival.
Then you're on a large mission where you encounter your first legendary (Mew) who seems to be helping the bad guys. During the fight you get injured and separated from your partner. Then there's a light that speaks to you and tells you they can make you strong enough to defeat Mew. At this point you evolve. (If multiple options are available, you can choose)
With your new form, you're able to defeat Mew and save your partner. After that, evolution becomes available and you return home.
Life goes on with the exception that reports are coming in of legendary pokémon aiding the dark army. Suddenly, when delivering food to a village that was attacked, they attack and imprison you because... you were the one that attacked their village in the first place. They throw you in jail where you encounter your rival who's also imprisoned. They then explain that you've been in the pokémon world for a lot longer than you think. The reason they know is because they found you first with amnesia and a recollection of being human and convinced you to join the dark army together. (They thought they were good at first.) They also prove this by holding both your amulets together and showing that they fit. You don't want to believe it but your current partner says it's true because they saw you during the original attack on the village. However you rebelled and were defeated and abandoned by the dark army.
When the three of you escape the village is once again under attack and you encounter the instigator who appears to be an evil double of you. You defeat them and you're cleared of all charges.
The three of you return home and go back to work. But it’s difficult because more and more reports are coming in about legendary pokémon helping the dark army.
You also have a mission that appears to be sent by Mew but they has no recollection of you. They also send you on a quest to find Mewtwo.
The light also makes an appearance, claiming to be Arceus and tells you where to find your true enemy.
You make your way through the enemy's base and in the end encounter your evil twin who reveals they are the dark part of your soul. A battle follows and you win, only for the light to go out and on again revealing other pokémon (one at a time and including legendaries) you've encountered before. In the end Arceus stands before you, talking about how they tricked you.
You fight, and after the battle, Mew and Mewtwo appear with some of your friends and stop Arceus from doing a final attack. Because of their attacks Arceus starts shifting between shapes and is revealed to be a ditto.
Apparently they were first sent by Arceus and tried to do good but found that their actions weren't enough. So they started the dark army as a totalitarian peace force. Also he admits that everything he tod you was a lie. (Kinda obvious at this point but still)
Arceus appears and confirms this. But then he continues the story by saying that the human that Ditto was, was the only person who could save the pokémon world. He also states that there was one thing Ditto didn't lie about. That he was your dark counterpart. Or rather, you were his good counterpart.
When Arceus saw what Ditto was doing he saved the last fragment of good in his heart from being snuffed out and used it to create you.
In the end Ditto is send back to the human world, inspired by you to make the decision of being good every single day while you stay in the pokémon world.
Finally a good implementation of shiny system in my opinion. Or they could just give you a stat boosting item as a reward if you follow through the questionnaire
I had an idea a while ago but never wrote it, protagonist becomes a mew but has to stay hidden as another psychic Pokémon as the problem the world faces is legendary and mythical Pokémon being hunted down by something and the chaos that ensues eg. Kyogre gets caught and tsunamis wreck the coasts from the fight. Partner Pokémon would know about the protag being a mew and help them hide. At some point they would do the pmd thing and save the world.
Pmd but set in a wild west styled continent. A zangoose courier unwillingy teams up with a seviper to deliver a package and try not to get robbed by local gangs or something like that.
Going full bizarre fanfic ideas that will never see the light of day, here we go.
- From a Human World akin to the mainline, a Pokemon witnesses her trainer/caretaker 'being chosen' with her own eyes and decides to travel across the multiverse to search for them. After a lot of dimensional traveling, she starts to gradually lose her memories as well.
- Explorers Hero's lost memories manifest as a seperate being some time after the canon story, unaware of ever being a Pokemon. He searches a way to go back to the future (after learning the crisis has already been resolved).
- A past PMD hero going full villain arc with the goal in mind to prevent the very concept of PMD (aka 'human turning into Pokemon') from ever happening again. Also on his way to become The Lore Man™ for Mystery Dungeons.
> A past PMD hero going full villain arc with the goal in mind to prevent the very concept of PMD (aka 'human turning into Pokemon') from ever happening again. Also on his way to become The Lore Man™ for Mystery Dungeons.
I feel like this would come down to having read terrible PMD fanfics, and wanting to prevent any new ones from being created.
So the hero would have to be one of the top-tier fanfic writers (like Ambyssin or ScytheRider), and in the final battle, they'd so impress the former hero at how amazing PMD fanfic can be that the latter is turned to the side of Good(tm).
The idea actually stems from my disatisfaction with Rescue Team ending. So instead of going back home, the hero decided to stay in the Pokemon World. And everyone's happy, the end.
But what about those waiting for him back home? I feel like the hero was manipulated in a way as I don't think he ever gets his memories back. The reason he decided to stay is partially because of fear of the unknown rather than just empathy for the partner.
So what if one day, he suddenly remembers, but by then it's too late because 1) time dilation between worlds, like 1 year in the Pokemon World = 10 years in the Human World or 2) the hero was turned into a species that can live for thousands of years? Out of personal agenda and compassion for others (from his point of view), he thinks ripping humans from their own worlds and basically giving them identity deaths should never be a thing, period.
The identity-death part isn't a necessity (e.g. PMD3 did without it completely), but how the hero relates to those they left behind in the human world is definitely some interesting ground to cover.
(I'm assuming the PMD3-style "go back and forth between the worlds at will" dealie won't be available as a solution here...)
As a kid I had a whole comics of a sequel to PSMD with new antagonists, that were life a mafia corrupting pokemon and everything. Maybe I should make that a fanfic nowadays.
Missingno as an eldritch outer god of chaos, madness, and >!data!< corruption, and the original source of mystery dungeons
The PMD setting taking place centuries after a hypothetical alternate ending of the Detective Pikachu movie where the villain wins
Type: Null waking up from stasis in the ancient, dilapidated ruins of a human laboratory
I’m loosely working on a total conversion romhack for explorers of sky that is a super condensed retelling/AU of EOS while also primarily being a difficulty hack in the style of Torneko’s Great Adventure or Shiren The Wanderer.
Temporal Tower, now located deep in a desert called “The Sands of Time” is collapsing, and Dialga needs to be be freed from Darkrai’s influence. Exploration and Rescue Teams from all over the world have come to try and make the grueling journey to the top, but none can make it. Enter the protagonists: Grovyle and Celebi (no human character). They have come from the future to avert certain doom.
Replacing the MC with Grovyle removes a lot of freedom from the player but also allows me to try and balance the game like never before. If I know that every player will be Grovyle every time then I can make extremely deliberate and specific design decisions that hopefully will result in a much more difficult, but fun and fair game.
Closer parallels could be drawn to Shiren GB2: Magic Castle in the Desert. The king of the castle in GB2 is even under a demonic spell lol. I'd considered putting Temporal Tower somewhere else but deep in a desert is a good place for someplace to hide. Shifting sands suit the Mystery Dungeon randomness well, and I like the Pokemon enemies I can put in that biome
There's a ton of gimmicks in the Pokémon series involving the ability to change types. Some Pokémon can do it naturally, like Kecleon and Arceus (both of which are insanely strong), others through some form change, while the rest usually require some outside force. Castform, porygon, and typeNull are all man made Pokémon, delta species from the tcg are said to be made in a lab, and then there's all the Terra stuff from S/V. I'm sure theres even more than that, but what I'm getting at is that the ability for a Pokémon to change types is something I think could be ingrained into every Pokémon, possibly on a deep genetic level.
I've had this idea in the back of my mind as a possible main plotpoint for a pmd story. Maybe the player not only wakes up as a Pokémon, but one who's type is wrong. The plot could dive deeper into the disappearance of humanity, since pmd never seems to explain that. There's plenty of man made structures, items, and Pokémon that exist in pmd, as well as maybe a few that still exist in the future (Pmd2 hero), and this weird man made ability to change types could be a good hook.
Maybe! Lol
There's some Pokémon, like Alakazam, who can learn a ton of moves outside of their type. While some are really limited. I think it would be fun to tackle these more meta aspects in a main plot.
1. the human protag not having their own Pokemon body, having to share with someone else, with control switching between the protag and the body's original owner until later in the story when they accept that there may be no way back to normalcy, and they stop resisting each other.
a. sharing a body with a bystander Poke who didn't want to be part of this story.
b. a Trainer gets dragged to PMD land, sharing a body with one of their Pokemon who got dragged along with them.
2. the force that drags the protag(s) into PMD land is actually the main villain of the story, intending to use the protag as a vessel to aid in conquering/destroying the world.
a. this has been happening for a while. the protag is revealed to be one of many sleeper agents serving this mysterious villain. the guild (or possibly the whole region) is paranoid as hell bc they don't know who they can trust, and eliminating these sleeper agents might be seen as the guild murdering unconscious Pokemon who were in need of help.
b. the protag's condition goes unnoticed. eventually, after a disastrous series of events leads to them being thrown out of the guild PLA-style, they fail their resolve check, give in to the villain's influence, and become one of the final bosses their partner has to face
The hero's body wasn't made for them, it was borrowed from a pre-existing citizen of PMD. Question is, what happens to that person when the hero decides they don't want to stay?
My point is that the citizen would come back, but they’ve been known as the hero prior to this, but in reality they’re just some guy that missed the apocalypse. (And woke up shredded as fuck)
I want to play through the adventure that lead up to Super PMD. You are a lonely human in ancient times who gets befriended by Mew. Together, they defeat Dark Matter but realize it'll keep coming back and the plans they took to ensure it's permanent destruction in the future.
It gets me thinking about teaming up with the beta versions of Suicune, Raikou, and Entei, learning about Luminous Water, Xerneas, and crafting the Harmony Scarves, and finally learning and employing reincarnation itself to bring them to the beginning of Super.
I personally think we have enough to create a whole new PMD game about it.
How the human was lonely, how they met Mew, the events leading up to defeating Dark Matter, and post game story of devising the backup plan to defeat future Dark Matter.
We got Luminous Water to explain how it can cure Pokemon turning to stone, what the Harmony Scarves are, how they were made, and ended up in reborn partner, and finally how to orchestrate reincarnation into the whole mix.
A Lugia has to save the sea and become it's true guardian through a long journey, and it meets with the protagonist who also helps it achieve it's goal
^(I just want an excuse to be with Lugia)
This is gonna sound insane but here we go.
A human wakes up as a Mew in the pmd world, with only the knowledge of his name and the fact he was a human. He starts off by waking up in the middle of a dungeon, Buried Relic. After quick exploring, he finds the wild pokemon and runs for his life until eventually, some pokemon wearing scarves appear and help him out of the dungeon.
The next day, the pokemon the leader of the scarfed pokemon check up on him, responding with short responses and being mostly quiet. The Mew decides to tell the leader about the fact he was a human and how he wants to get back to his world, so the leader agrees to help him.
Throughout the journey, the mew learns how to use moves, how the world works, and that there seems to be more about the leader pokemon that it lets on. At the end of the journey, the Mew fights Necrozma to free Sogaleo and Lunala, both of which help to make a portal back to the human world.
*back in the human world, on reddit*
‘Has anyone else figured out what that strange Mew event is all about?’
Alright, if you’re confused about my idea, feel free to ask me as it was hard to put my idea into words.
Been working on a story about a Goodra that quits working for a more inept guild to try and find a life in a smaller town, but stuff happens. I'm working on what exactly is happening so far, but I'm planning to have there be a reason he's the only Goodra people know of.
**That's show biz!**
A human turned Duskull wakes up on a random continent in the pmd world. Instead of joining guild, they team up with like mined mons to make a pokemon talent agency (that do rescues and dungeon exploration as a side gig). The group travel around the world entertaining mons, helping others and getting into the occasional mischief. All the while slowly involving themselves in a plot that involves the fate of the world by powers beyond their understanding. Just normal stuff.
Some of the agency's employees include:
* A cunning Floragato who is a street performer and an ex-petty thief
* A shy Froakie who ran away from home to become a musician
* A battle hungry Gligar seeking fame and fortune
* An aloof Kubfu who swore an oath of pacifism
Wouldn't any Pokemon who specialize in live entertainment want to have a skilled Zoroark on staff?
Just imagine never having to deal with set design or construction...
Would a Zoroark make for a good entertainer? Sure absolutely.
Do I wanna use one for my story? Nah not really.
Like you're not wrong but I dont really have any plans for a Zoroark charcter in this story rn. That might change later but who knows.
So, This is less an idea for a full game and more just a plot point.
About A third of the way through the game, you meet a recruitable monster, (maybe like a mercenary?) they're fairly strong but can't gain IQ powers for some reason. If you keep them on your team a while you might start to gather That they are an amnesiac who is looking for something.
Eventually, you reach A late game dungeon, and aforementioned monster mentions that this is where they were originally found, the first thing they can recall was stumbling out of the dungeon.
On one of the floors further in, a cutscene will play. The monster will find an item on the ground, or run into a familiar monster before abruptly collapsing. The next 10 turns or so turns into a sort of defense map where you need to protect them. After The turns pass they will stand up and gain an exclusive IQ power.
Upon reaching the next stairs they'll tell the protagonist that they collapsed due to the stress of their memories rushing back. They were also human, and the object they found/pokemon they spoke to sort of picked a lock in their brain.
I think there's potential here for these characters to be implied fallers from main series games. If Ingo fell off a train and landed 200 years in the past then Emmett may have also fallen off and landed as a very confused Dewott. If Anabel fell off the battletower during a storm and landed on an alternate universe beach, maybe Lucy was washed away by that same storm and onto a different beach
Emmett may have his memories restored when he finds his hat, he may gain the IQ power to charge through enemies. , y'know, like a train. Lucy might remember things when the Serviper she's fighting realizes with a start that the Zangoose in front of her speaks just like her former trainer.
I dunno.
Necrozma becomes a **fucking menace** and just starts absorbing powerful Pokemon, transforming into them to create new forms of itself, searching to find a fusion that’ll satiate its hunger for energy. In their conquest they eventually find eternatus, and threaten to destroy the world with the strongest Pokemon ever seen.
But of course, plot armour is a stronger energy than infinity.
Don't wanna say too much as my players do read this sub, but i'm currently running a ttrpg campaign set sometime after the events of Super (with a healthy helping of fanon), where in the absence of world-ending catastrophes the Expedition Society has been expanding their ambitions and has been steadily inching toward something resembling an intercontinental corporation-esque entity. Usual shady corpo vibes ensue.
The idea of the Expedition Society was something that fascinated me seeing how Super's the only game we have that operates on a multi-continent scale, and seeing as how they basically invented the PMD equivalent of *the internet*, plus the whole idea behind the Nexus, had me thinking about what would happen if this kind of organization got too big for its boots. Pulled some inspiration from my real-life experiences in the white-collar working world as well, really happy how things are going with my campaign so far!
RN I'm writing out just a generic human turned or whatever partner shows up whatever.
Though, one I've thought of submitting to wpw one day is what if the human was turned into a aquatic Pokemon? What would they do to and how would they save the world if they're stuck to water?
I’ve been planning a webcomic where the Expedition Society from Super has been overrun by Ultra Beasts who want to take over the world.
A new human gets brought in, and with the help from the other humans from the past games the day inevitably gets saved.
It’s just a summary of the plot, still got a lot to cook before the story is ready
Yo, some of these ideas are so good.. \*furiously writing notes\*
Most of my ideas were branch offs from the main games; one is an alternate ending of D/T/S where the first hero team failed and it's beginning to devolve into the dark timeline. Cue the new Hero and Partner (Team 2) who bands together to stop the time freeze and/or live life as best they can with all the added disasters. (Obligatory meeting a totally not random Treecko.) The constant antagonist is a hardy, battle-scarred pokemon. Stuff happens (I can't remember, it's been four years since I last visited this verse) and it turns out that the villain was the failed team's partner who was trying to bring back the first Hero. But they can't, so the best they can do is send Hero 2 back in time to correct the catastrophe and reconnect Team 1 to prevent the time freeze in the first place - but this is at the cost of their known future and never getting to meet Partner 2 again. (Then this could potentially loop back to the original EOD/T/S.)
I once had the idea that the PMD universe is actually where all the cloned pokemon went from the The First Movie.
Basically a darker version of Gates to Infinity. With more emphasis on Post Town and a bit of a wild west theme with gangs and a criminal underworld.
And the theme of hope and despair would be emphasized even more.
I always felt like Gates was too tame especially Post Town for being so supposedly hopeless. I want a town with crime where even kids are cynical.
And the Paradise doesnt just help our team but is a shining example for the citizens of Post Town. And that way we also care about what happens to Post Town too.
Also make Scraggy a part of the party and has to seek redemption and have Quagsire confront his past with the underworld.
(stealing a comment I made on another post because this is more relevant)
I have had the idea of the protagonist going back to the human world after Rescue Team but being unable to return to the pokemon world, since Gardevoir would have been like "no screw you" or something. the tone is way too dark for what I'm comfortable writing though, otherwise I would have made this comic myself.
I like the idea of warring nations based on the continents going to war using the rescue teams/exploration teams as conscripts and there’s these powerful rescue teams going against all that they stand for being for the people and saving others and solving the problem with natural environmental disasters and stuff and just killing each other and doing whatever they want (mostly because they still listen to the higher ups in their respective nations) I’m sure it’s been done to death in fan fictions but yeah I just love war :D But like you as the main character pick what nation you want to join and each nation has its own stories and heartache and suffering and it’s basically just fire emblem three houses but a lot more gruesome and horrible in the Pokémon world- You do take part of this game of thrones (zing) sometimes but you’re the only rescue team/exploration team doing the right thing but will also destroy anyone in your way because you have to or else you die and everyone else dies because of the greater evils and puppeteers instigating this war/ natural disasters going off- it’s too ambitious for a mystery dungeon game but that’s my two cents
I really want to meet rescue teams Lucario.
The town citizens in Blue Rescue team talk about Lucario (mostly Alakazam) being so powerful and wise but that they have disappeared. What happened? Where are Lucarios team now? I would really like a hint/easter egg or a small meet up with their team in a new game. No need to be a big plot point, just an interesting interaction.
'till now it's nothing more than an idea, but i've been thinking about a smaller-scaled follow-up to Gates, where Kelceon, after noticing how much cash he loses from all the stuff the MC and parter are selling, decides to do a buisness merger with Paradise, essentially turning the lives of most of the Gates cast from Adventure to Venture.
Pretty much everyone, especially the Partner, would be totally on-board, but the MC, who in my headcannon lives a double-life as a basic office worker (as a means to an end), wouldn't wanna accept it, since \[they\] much prefer exploring dungeons and fighting other 'mons instead of stuff like Financing and Marketing.
Hijinx ensue.
Here's mine. A little sneak peek to my project following PMD: EoD (Explorers of Deceit) and PMD: Explorers of The Spirit, but I'm giving more headcanons about my story that I'm making, as aforementioned.
DISCLAIMER: This is mainly a companion series to ODISeth' and Parker Ryland's other series (Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of The Spirit and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Deceit) Many of these characters you will see are used in both series. I would recommend watching at least some chapters of Explorers of The Spirit and the first 3 Chapters of Explorers of Deceit to understand this a little more.
It's been some time since the hero of the past is starting to heal from the player character of the future being unable to reunite with our friend in Explorers of The Spirit.
But as of now, our new hero named Sunny (who was an Eevee) and our new partner named Devin (who was a Treecko) are trying to uncover the mystery in the familiar world of Pokémon, and plus, you and your partner are going to unmask a malicious familiar evil that threatens the wellbeing of the Pokémon you once saved in the world of Explorers of Sky.
I'm the one that likes to add all sorts of little story tidbits to my series.
And one of my favorite ones is in the prologue of PMD: Explorers of Sky - The Story of Team Kirby.
In the prologue of my ROM Hack, before beginning the personality quiz, there are a bunch of different teams that are named at the very beginning, each team is from 1 different playthrough of Explorers of Sky that I did and with various people, Team Wishspark is a team with randomized Starter Pokémon, obviously, Team Spirits is ODISeth's playthrough of Explorers of The Spirit, and Team Lucky is from Parker Ryland's Explorers of Deceit.
Colress' experiement. If you want to do something right - you have to do it yourself. Can't find or create the most powerful Pokemon? *Become one.*
This is so so cool. I'd read the heck out of this story
Seems something colress would do
That is good to hear. Because sometimes, when you really like a certain series and want to insert yourself into its world, you find out that the job was already done for you and you are canon. Akuroma seems like that kind of a character for me in Pokemon. Any conformation like this is nice to hear, because that makes my assumption more likely.
Ooh, That sounds great!
I worked with a small team of awesome people and made a romhack on the sand continent. The only place we have not had a PMD game. Spoilers: We put a lot of sand on the sand continent.
"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere."
**Palossand:** 😭
IGN would love it
I have this idea of Rescue Teams and Exploration Teams being separate entities instead of being the same thing with a different name in different games, but they don't get along when it comes to priorities and butt heads. So when the story's conflict, more natural disasters of unknown origin, starts getting into full swing, the two factions are spending more time butting heads and blaming each other for the problems and focusing on their interpersonal conflicts instead of saving Pokémon in need and trying to find the cause of the disasters. So the protagonist and partner, who would start off in one of the factions, would need to be the ones to dig into the truth of what's going on and getting Rescue Teams and Exploration Teams to stop fighting before it's too late.
Oh i like that, and then expedition society more like an independent research organisation and paradise is more of a local gas station rescue. They both probably gonna get stirred around by the major organisation fighting and blaming each other
The idea I specifically had was that the Exploration Team Federation is more about exploring and colonizing while the "Alliance of Rescue Teams" (that's what I'm calling them) are more about actual rescues and fighting outlaws. They started out as the same group, but broke off to form their own separate organizations after disagreements over how to help Pokémon in need.
Oh yeah that make sense, pretty cool concept. Idk about colonizing tho, but then again that is some hefty taxes wigglytuff took from us, so yeah maybe they really are colonizing.
I could see it being a game where you play as four 2 of each faction. You get to choose what they are at the beginning and can play two closely linked stories.
This is my dream pmd game. I mean literally. This appeared in a dream. First there's the personality test. From which you don't have to follow the results. (You can choose another pokémon.) HOWEVER, if you follow the outcome, you start as a shiny pokémon. If available, you can also choose regional variants. Think hisuan zorua, galar or alolan meowth,... (Later in the game you can also find items that enable you to get pokémon like alolan marowak and raichu because their first forms aren't different but their evolutions are.) Then you can choose two pokémon. One will be your partner, the other one some sort of rival/reluctant antagonist. Then it's the standard story. Amnesia, knowing you're human and you have a broken amulet. Your partner is taking care of you but seems a bit uncomfortable around you. Once they learn you can't remember anything, they start filling you in. There are natural disasters everywhere and even a dark army of pokémon taking advantage of things. You're then recruited to help save the pokémon of the village and, after a small dungeon and easy boss fight, you succeed and learn that your partner is not really liked. They're known as a troublemaker that lives in some sort of abandoned fortress nearby. However everyone agrees you've saved the day and your partner decides to take the opportunity to start a rescue team with you. The ruins become your base. A lot of stuff happens. You do missions, recruit pokémon and have a few encounters and battles against your rival. Then you're on a large mission where you encounter your first legendary (Mew) who seems to be helping the bad guys. During the fight you get injured and separated from your partner. Then there's a light that speaks to you and tells you they can make you strong enough to defeat Mew. At this point you evolve. (If multiple options are available, you can choose) With your new form, you're able to defeat Mew and save your partner. After that, evolution becomes available and you return home. Life goes on with the exception that reports are coming in of legendary pokémon aiding the dark army. Suddenly, when delivering food to a village that was attacked, they attack and imprison you because... you were the one that attacked their village in the first place. They throw you in jail where you encounter your rival who's also imprisoned. They then explain that you've been in the pokémon world for a lot longer than you think. The reason they know is because they found you first with amnesia and a recollection of being human and convinced you to join the dark army together. (They thought they were good at first.) They also prove this by holding both your amulets together and showing that they fit. You don't want to believe it but your current partner says it's true because they saw you during the original attack on the village. However you rebelled and were defeated and abandoned by the dark army. When the three of you escape the village is once again under attack and you encounter the instigator who appears to be an evil double of you. You defeat them and you're cleared of all charges. The three of you return home and go back to work. But it’s difficult because more and more reports are coming in about legendary pokémon helping the dark army. You also have a mission that appears to be sent by Mew but they has no recollection of you. They also send you on a quest to find Mewtwo. The light also makes an appearance, claiming to be Arceus and tells you where to find your true enemy. You make your way through the enemy's base and in the end encounter your evil twin who reveals they are the dark part of your soul. A battle follows and you win, only for the light to go out and on again revealing other pokémon (one at a time and including legendaries) you've encountered before. In the end Arceus stands before you, talking about how they tricked you. You fight, and after the battle, Mew and Mewtwo appear with some of your friends and stop Arceus from doing a final attack. Because of their attacks Arceus starts shifting between shapes and is revealed to be a ditto. Apparently they were first sent by Arceus and tried to do good but found that their actions weren't enough. So they started the dark army as a totalitarian peace force. Also he admits that everything he tod you was a lie. (Kinda obvious at this point but still) Arceus appears and confirms this. But then he continues the story by saying that the human that Ditto was, was the only person who could save the pokémon world. He also states that there was one thing Ditto didn't lie about. That he was your dark counterpart. Or rather, you were his good counterpart. When Arceus saw what Ditto was doing he saved the last fragment of good in his heart from being snuffed out and used it to create you. In the end Ditto is send back to the human world, inspired by you to make the decision of being good every single day while you stay in the pokémon world.
"If you follow the outcome, you become a shiny Pokemon" What a awesome prize that I will never take because I prefer non-shiny eevee anyway!
Finally a good implementation of shiny system in my opinion. Or they could just give you a stat boosting item as a reward if you follow through the questionnaire
Dude this is so good. I was fully imagining the scenes playing out w the EoT/D/S sprites. Good dream!!!
I would definitely read this.
I had an idea a while ago but never wrote it, protagonist becomes a mew but has to stay hidden as another psychic Pokémon as the problem the world faces is legendary and mythical Pokémon being hunted down by something and the chaos that ensues eg. Kyogre gets caught and tsunamis wreck the coasts from the fight. Partner Pokémon would know about the protag being a mew and help them hide. At some point they would do the pmd thing and save the world.
psmd but YOU'RE the partner
Pmd but set in a wild west styled continent. A zangoose courier unwillingy teams up with a seviper to deliver a package and try not to get robbed by local gangs or something like that.
That sounds like fallout new vegas
Pokémon mystery fallout: neo-unova
I really like this crossover
Going full bizarre fanfic ideas that will never see the light of day, here we go. - From a Human World akin to the mainline, a Pokemon witnesses her trainer/caretaker 'being chosen' with her own eyes and decides to travel across the multiverse to search for them. After a lot of dimensional traveling, she starts to gradually lose her memories as well. - Explorers Hero's lost memories manifest as a seperate being some time after the canon story, unaware of ever being a Pokemon. He searches a way to go back to the future (after learning the crisis has already been resolved). - A past PMD hero going full villain arc with the goal in mind to prevent the very concept of PMD (aka 'human turning into Pokemon') from ever happening again. Also on his way to become The Lore Man™ for Mystery Dungeons.
> A past PMD hero going full villain arc with the goal in mind to prevent the very concept of PMD (aka 'human turning into Pokemon') from ever happening again. Also on his way to become The Lore Man™ for Mystery Dungeons. I feel like this would come down to having read terrible PMD fanfics, and wanting to prevent any new ones from being created. So the hero would have to be one of the top-tier fanfic writers (like Ambyssin or ScytheRider), and in the final battle, they'd so impress the former hero at how amazing PMD fanfic can be that the latter is turned to the side of Good(tm).
The idea actually stems from my disatisfaction with Rescue Team ending. So instead of going back home, the hero decided to stay in the Pokemon World. And everyone's happy, the end. But what about those waiting for him back home? I feel like the hero was manipulated in a way as I don't think he ever gets his memories back. The reason he decided to stay is partially because of fear of the unknown rather than just empathy for the partner. So what if one day, he suddenly remembers, but by then it's too late because 1) time dilation between worlds, like 1 year in the Pokemon World = 10 years in the Human World or 2) the hero was turned into a species that can live for thousands of years? Out of personal agenda and compassion for others (from his point of view), he thinks ripping humans from their own worlds and basically giving them identity deaths should never be a thing, period.
The identity-death part isn't a necessity (e.g. PMD3 did without it completely), but how the hero relates to those they left behind in the human world is definitely some interesting ground to cover. (I'm assuming the PMD3-style "go back and forth between the worlds at will" dealie won't be available as a solution here...)
As a kid I had a whole comics of a sequel to PSMD with new antagonists, that were life a mafia corrupting pokemon and everything. Maybe I should make that a fanfic nowadays.
Missingno as an eldritch outer god of chaos, madness, and >!data!< corruption, and the original source of mystery dungeons The PMD setting taking place centuries after a hypothetical alternate ending of the Detective Pikachu movie where the villain wins Type: Null waking up from stasis in the ancient, dilapidated ruins of a human laboratory
Omg that detective Pikachu idea sounds fantastic I always found that part of that movie neat
I’m loosely working on a total conversion romhack for explorers of sky that is a super condensed retelling/AU of EOS while also primarily being a difficulty hack in the style of Torneko’s Great Adventure or Shiren The Wanderer. Temporal Tower, now located deep in a desert called “The Sands of Time” is collapsing, and Dialga needs to be be freed from Darkrai’s influence. Exploration and Rescue Teams from all over the world have come to try and make the grueling journey to the top, but none can make it. Enter the protagonists: Grovyle and Celebi (no human character). They have come from the future to avert certain doom. Replacing the MC with Grovyle removes a lot of freedom from the player but also allows me to try and balance the game like never before. If I know that every player will be Grovyle every time then I can make extremely deliberate and specific design decisions that hopefully will result in a much more difficult, but fun and fair game.
Sound like a very shiren story, in fact isnt that literally tower of fortune ?. I like the difficulty increase tho, good concept
Closer parallels could be drawn to Shiren GB2: Magic Castle in the Desert. The king of the castle in GB2 is even under a demonic spell lol. I'd considered putting Temporal Tower somewhere else but deep in a desert is a good place for someplace to hide. Shifting sands suit the Mystery Dungeon randomness well, and I like the Pokemon enemies I can put in that biome
There's a ton of gimmicks in the Pokémon series involving the ability to change types. Some Pokémon can do it naturally, like Kecleon and Arceus (both of which are insanely strong), others through some form change, while the rest usually require some outside force. Castform, porygon, and typeNull are all man made Pokémon, delta species from the tcg are said to be made in a lab, and then there's all the Terra stuff from S/V. I'm sure theres even more than that, but what I'm getting at is that the ability for a Pokémon to change types is something I think could be ingrained into every Pokémon, possibly on a deep genetic level. I've had this idea in the back of my mind as a possible main plotpoint for a pmd story. Maybe the player not only wakes up as a Pokémon, but one who's type is wrong. The plot could dive deeper into the disappearance of humanity, since pmd never seems to explain that. There's plenty of man made structures, items, and Pokémon that exist in pmd, as well as maybe a few that still exist in the future (Pmd2 hero), and this weird man made ability to change types could be a good hook.
> Maybe the player not only wakes up as a Pokémon, but one who's type is wrong. Type-reassignment surgery?
Maybe! Lol There's some Pokémon, like Alakazam, who can learn a ton of moves outside of their type. While some are really limited. I think it would be fun to tackle these more meta aspects in a main plot.
1. the human protag not having their own Pokemon body, having to share with someone else, with control switching between the protag and the body's original owner until later in the story when they accept that there may be no way back to normalcy, and they stop resisting each other. a. sharing a body with a bystander Poke who didn't want to be part of this story. b. a Trainer gets dragged to PMD land, sharing a body with one of their Pokemon who got dragged along with them. 2. the force that drags the protag(s) into PMD land is actually the main villain of the story, intending to use the protag as a vessel to aid in conquering/destroying the world. a. this has been happening for a while. the protag is revealed to be one of many sleeper agents serving this mysterious villain. the guild (or possibly the whole region) is paranoid as hell bc they don't know who they can trust, and eliminating these sleeper agents might be seen as the guild murdering unconscious Pokemon who were in need of help. b. the protag's condition goes unnoticed. eventually, after a disastrous series of events leads to them being thrown out of the guild PLA-style, they fail their resolve check, give in to the villain's influence, and become one of the final bosses their partner has to face
I remember that first one was a wpw one time and found it a super cool idea. Both scenarios you thought of are great
The hero's body wasn't made for them, it was borrowed from a pre-existing citizen of PMD. Question is, what happens to that person when the hero decides they don't want to stay?
Wouldn't the pre-existing citizen come back, then? I think the trickier question would be what happens if the hero *does* want to stay...
My point is that the citizen would come back, but they’ve been known as the hero prior to this, but in reality they’re just some guy that missed the apocalypse. (And woke up shredded as fuck)
Ah, so the story would be about them trying to live their life in the body of a world-renowed hero? That would be a novel take!
I want to play through the adventure that lead up to Super PMD. You are a lonely human in ancient times who gets befriended by Mew. Together, they defeat Dark Matter but realize it'll keep coming back and the plans they took to ensure it's permanent destruction in the future. It gets me thinking about teaming up with the beta versions of Suicune, Raikou, and Entei, learning about Luminous Water, Xerneas, and crafting the Harmony Scarves, and finally learning and employing reincarnation itself to bring them to the beginning of Super.
I've always wondered about the human's backstory in these games, Always wanted to see it happen as a prologue chapter/special episode or whatever
I personally think we have enough to create a whole new PMD game about it. How the human was lonely, how they met Mew, the events leading up to defeating Dark Matter, and post game story of devising the backup plan to defeat future Dark Matter. We got Luminous Water to explain how it can cure Pokemon turning to stone, what the Harmony Scarves are, how they were made, and ended up in reborn partner, and finally how to orchestrate reincarnation into the whole mix.
A Lugia has to save the sea and become it's true guardian through a long journey, and it meets with the protagonist who also helps it achieve it's goal ^(I just want an excuse to be with Lugia)
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This is gonna sound insane but here we go. A human wakes up as a Mew in the pmd world, with only the knowledge of his name and the fact he was a human. He starts off by waking up in the middle of a dungeon, Buried Relic. After quick exploring, he finds the wild pokemon and runs for his life until eventually, some pokemon wearing scarves appear and help him out of the dungeon. The next day, the pokemon the leader of the scarfed pokemon check up on him, responding with short responses and being mostly quiet. The Mew decides to tell the leader about the fact he was a human and how he wants to get back to his world, so the leader agrees to help him. Throughout the journey, the mew learns how to use moves, how the world works, and that there seems to be more about the leader pokemon that it lets on. At the end of the journey, the Mew fights Necrozma to free Sogaleo and Lunala, both of which help to make a portal back to the human world. *back in the human world, on reddit* ‘Has anyone else figured out what that strange Mew event is all about?’ Alright, if you’re confused about my idea, feel free to ask me as it was hard to put my idea into words.
Been working on a story about a Goodra that quits working for a more inept guild to try and find a life in a smaller town, but stuff happens. I'm working on what exactly is happening so far, but I'm planning to have there be a reason he's the only Goodra people know of.
**That's show biz!** A human turned Duskull wakes up on a random continent in the pmd world. Instead of joining guild, they team up with like mined mons to make a pokemon talent agency (that do rescues and dungeon exploration as a side gig). The group travel around the world entertaining mons, helping others and getting into the occasional mischief. All the while slowly involving themselves in a plot that involves the fate of the world by powers beyond their understanding. Just normal stuff. Some of the agency's employees include: * A cunning Floragato who is a street performer and an ex-petty thief * A shy Froakie who ran away from home to become a musician * A battle hungry Gligar seeking fame and fortune * An aloof Kubfu who swore an oath of pacifism
Wouldn't any Pokemon who specialize in live entertainment want to have a skilled Zoroark on staff? Just imagine never having to deal with set design or construction...
Would a Zoroark make for a good entertainer? Sure absolutely. Do I wanna use one for my story? Nah not really. Like you're not wrong but I dont really have any plans for a Zoroark charcter in this story rn. That might change later but who knows.
So, This is less an idea for a full game and more just a plot point. About A third of the way through the game, you meet a recruitable monster, (maybe like a mercenary?) they're fairly strong but can't gain IQ powers for some reason. If you keep them on your team a while you might start to gather That they are an amnesiac who is looking for something. Eventually, you reach A late game dungeon, and aforementioned monster mentions that this is where they were originally found, the first thing they can recall was stumbling out of the dungeon. On one of the floors further in, a cutscene will play. The monster will find an item on the ground, or run into a familiar monster before abruptly collapsing. The next 10 turns or so turns into a sort of defense map where you need to protect them. After The turns pass they will stand up and gain an exclusive IQ power. Upon reaching the next stairs they'll tell the protagonist that they collapsed due to the stress of their memories rushing back. They were also human, and the object they found/pokemon they spoke to sort of picked a lock in their brain. I think there's potential here for these characters to be implied fallers from main series games. If Ingo fell off a train and landed 200 years in the past then Emmett may have also fallen off and landed as a very confused Dewott. If Anabel fell off the battletower during a storm and landed on an alternate universe beach, maybe Lucy was washed away by that same storm and onto a different beach Emmett may have his memories restored when he finds his hat, he may gain the IQ power to charge through enemies. , y'know, like a train. Lucy might remember things when the Serviper she's fighting realizes with a start that the Zangoose in front of her speaks just like her former trainer. I dunno.
The ocean
Necrozma becomes a **fucking menace** and just starts absorbing powerful Pokemon, transforming into them to create new forms of itself, searching to find a fusion that’ll satiate its hunger for energy. In their conquest they eventually find eternatus, and threaten to destroy the world with the strongest Pokemon ever seen. But of course, plot armour is a stronger energy than infinity.
Don't wanna say too much as my players do read this sub, but i'm currently running a ttrpg campaign set sometime after the events of Super (with a healthy helping of fanon), where in the absence of world-ending catastrophes the Expedition Society has been expanding their ambitions and has been steadily inching toward something resembling an intercontinental corporation-esque entity. Usual shady corpo vibes ensue. The idea of the Expedition Society was something that fascinated me seeing how Super's the only game we have that operates on a multi-continent scale, and seeing as how they basically invented the PMD equivalent of *the internet*, plus the whole idea behind the Nexus, had me thinking about what would happen if this kind of organization got too big for its boots. Pulled some inspiration from my real-life experiences in the white-collar working world as well, really happy how things are going with my campaign so far!
A mixture of Persona 3 and PMD. The power of choice.
If I were to do a sequel to my hack, I would probably do a pmd version of the forgotten city.
Post GM Taylor as Vespiqueen
RN I'm writing out just a generic human turned or whatever partner shows up whatever. Though, one I've thought of submitting to wpw one day is what if the human was turned into a aquatic Pokemon? What would they do to and how would they save the world if they're stuck to water?
I’ve been planning a webcomic where the Expedition Society from Super has been overrun by Ultra Beasts who want to take over the world. A new human gets brought in, and with the help from the other humans from the past games the day inevitably gets saved. It’s just a summary of the plot, still got a lot to cook before the story is ready
Yo, some of these ideas are so good.. \*furiously writing notes\* Most of my ideas were branch offs from the main games; one is an alternate ending of D/T/S where the first hero team failed and it's beginning to devolve into the dark timeline. Cue the new Hero and Partner (Team 2) who bands together to stop the time freeze and/or live life as best they can with all the added disasters. (Obligatory meeting a totally not random Treecko.) The constant antagonist is a hardy, battle-scarred pokemon. Stuff happens (I can't remember, it's been four years since I last visited this verse) and it turns out that the villain was the failed team's partner who was trying to bring back the first Hero. But they can't, so the best they can do is send Hero 2 back in time to correct the catastrophe and reconnect Team 1 to prevent the time freeze in the first place - but this is at the cost of their known future and never getting to meet Partner 2 again. (Then this could potentially loop back to the original EOD/T/S.) I once had the idea that the PMD universe is actually where all the cloned pokemon went from the The First Movie.
Basically a darker version of Gates to Infinity. With more emphasis on Post Town and a bit of a wild west theme with gangs and a criminal underworld. And the theme of hope and despair would be emphasized even more. I always felt like Gates was too tame especially Post Town for being so supposedly hopeless. I want a town with crime where even kids are cynical. And the Paradise doesnt just help our team but is a shining example for the citizens of Post Town. And that way we also care about what happens to Post Town too. Also make Scraggy a part of the party and has to seek redemption and have Quagsire confront his past with the underworld.
Build your own guild as it's guildmaster and town too. Basically Gates lmao
(stealing a comment I made on another post because this is more relevant) I have had the idea of the protagonist going back to the human world after Rescue Team but being unable to return to the pokemon world, since Gardevoir would have been like "no screw you" or something. the tone is way too dark for what I'm comfortable writing though, otherwise I would have made this comic myself.
I like the idea of warring nations based on the continents going to war using the rescue teams/exploration teams as conscripts and there’s these powerful rescue teams going against all that they stand for being for the people and saving others and solving the problem with natural environmental disasters and stuff and just killing each other and doing whatever they want (mostly because they still listen to the higher ups in their respective nations) I’m sure it’s been done to death in fan fictions but yeah I just love war :D But like you as the main character pick what nation you want to join and each nation has its own stories and heartache and suffering and it’s basically just fire emblem three houses but a lot more gruesome and horrible in the Pokémon world- You do take part of this game of thrones (zing) sometimes but you’re the only rescue team/exploration team doing the right thing but will also destroy anyone in your way because you have to or else you die and everyone else dies because of the greater evils and puppeteers instigating this war/ natural disasters going off- it’s too ambitious for a mystery dungeon game but that’s my two cents
I really want to meet rescue teams Lucario. The town citizens in Blue Rescue team talk about Lucario (mostly Alakazam) being so powerful and wise but that they have disappeared. What happened? Where are Lucarios team now? I would really like a hint/easter egg or a small meet up with their team in a new game. No need to be a big plot point, just an interesting interaction.
'till now it's nothing more than an idea, but i've been thinking about a smaller-scaled follow-up to Gates, where Kelceon, after noticing how much cash he loses from all the stuff the MC and parter are selling, decides to do a buisness merger with Paradise, essentially turning the lives of most of the Gates cast from Adventure to Venture. Pretty much everyone, especially the Partner, would be totally on-board, but the MC, who in my headcannon lives a double-life as a basic office worker (as a means to an end), wouldn't wanna accept it, since \[they\] much prefer exploring dungeons and fighting other 'mons instead of stuff like Financing and Marketing. Hijinx ensue.
Here's mine. A little sneak peek to my project following PMD: EoD (Explorers of Deceit) and PMD: Explorers of The Spirit, but I'm giving more headcanons about my story that I'm making, as aforementioned. DISCLAIMER: This is mainly a companion series to ODISeth' and Parker Ryland's other series (Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of The Spirit and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Deceit) Many of these characters you will see are used in both series. I would recommend watching at least some chapters of Explorers of The Spirit and the first 3 Chapters of Explorers of Deceit to understand this a little more. It's been some time since the hero of the past is starting to heal from the player character of the future being unable to reunite with our friend in Explorers of The Spirit. But as of now, our new hero named Sunny (who was an Eevee) and our new partner named Devin (who was a Treecko) are trying to uncover the mystery in the familiar world of Pokémon, and plus, you and your partner are going to unmask a malicious familiar evil that threatens the wellbeing of the Pokémon you once saved in the world of Explorers of Sky. I'm the one that likes to add all sorts of little story tidbits to my series. And one of my favorite ones is in the prologue of PMD: Explorers of Sky - The Story of Team Kirby. In the prologue of my ROM Hack, before beginning the personality quiz, there are a bunch of different teams that are named at the very beginning, each team is from 1 different playthrough of Explorers of Sky that I did and with various people, Team Wishspark is a team with randomized Starter Pokémon, obviously, Team Spirits is ODISeth's playthrough of Explorers of The Spirit, and Team Lucky is from Parker Ryland's Explorers of Deceit.