Poke-Fiction, Part Dux

     So, here's some Ideas I had the other day while playing through Pokemon Soulsilver again.  I know pokemon fan fiction is really overdone but I just find thinking about this interesting.  This is my take on the "War" Lt Surge (The Electric gym leader in Kanto) talks about.

WARNING - If you are not a fan of Pokemon, then this will probably make little sense to you.

I may turn some of these ideas into some short stories, or it may just die here.  What do you want from me, Consistency?  Anywho, here goes:


 - Kanto and Johto used to be one country called "Tohjo"

 - This is the story of the first of two Civil Wars that split the country in twain, this also explains why they are the only two regions in the game that share a Pokemon League and Elite Four.

 * First Tohjo Civil War, lasted 9 months (from late January to early October) *

 - Johto declared Independence in November and began fortifying Blackthorn City and Camp New Bark (Located at the site of present day New Bark Town) for war.

 - By Christmas, peace talks and negotiations had broken down, by January open warfare had begun.

 - Tohjo United (Kanto) forces invaded Johto over Mt Silver in January with orders to arrest the separatists and "Bring the west back into the fold"

 - Kanto was newer and more industrial than Johto, and had more resources.

 - Johto people felt they were fighting to defend their homeland and their Independence

 - Indigo base (located at present day indigo plateau) was the command HQ of the Tohjo United Armed Forces (Kanto Army)

 - Goldenrod City was the ersatz capitol of "The Free Nation of Johto" and the HQ of the Johto Freedom Alliance (Johto army)

 - Gastly line was SUPER rare in Tohjo before the war, could only be found around sprout tower, this is why Johto had first use of WMD (gastly line)

 - At the start of the war, a breeding program (The Ekruteak Project) was hastily set up in the sprout tower to make more gastly as fast as possible.

 - Tohjo United (kanto) command got wind of the "Ekruteak Project" and sent Lt. Surge with a small force to march to Ekruteak and stop the project by any means necessary

 - "Surge's March" was about stopping the threat of gastly being used in the war (as Chemical Weapons).  Surge was following incorrect intelligence that the Gastly breeding program was in the Tin Tower, it was not.

 - After the burning of the Tin Tower, Surge retreated North-East and got lost in the mountains near Lake of Rage

 - Aside from "Surge's March", Most of the war had been fought in a series of give-and-take trench warfare battles across the Johto side of Mt. Silver.  From as far north as Blackthorn to as far south as Tohjo Falls

 - Icicle Base (known as "I-C-B") was Kanto's (then Tohjo United) largest forward base on the Johto side of mt. Silver, less than 15 kilometers from Blackthorn city.

 - I-C-B was close enough to shell Route 45 and stop supplies from getting through from what was then Camp New Bark (Johto Base guarding the southern pass into Johto)

 - It is mid-September, and the snows are already starting.  Ice path would soon be closed off by winter.  If Kanto could take Blackthorn, they would have all winter to shore it up into a major base of operations, within air striking distance of Mahogany and Violet towns.  Johto could not allow this.

 - Blackthorn only has 2-3 weeks of provisions left.

 - This is a mere six weeks after Surge's March had burned the tin tower in Ecruteak, outraging the Johto government and populace.

 - Desperate to halt the seemingly unstoppable Kanto forces, the order came from Goldenrod to "Deploy the Ghosts".  This is seen as the single most horrific act of the war, and every ground soldier involved either went mad or committed suicide when they realized what they had done.

 - Everybody remembers Gastly as a ghost type, but nobody seems to remember that it is a dual type, Ghost/POISON.  Just after midnight on a cold Thursday morning in September, thousands of gastly were released to engulf the entirety of Icicle Base in a "Purple Cloud of Death and Screams".

 - Johto lost control of the hastily (and poorly) trained gastly, and they also fell upon Blackthorn City

 - By dawn the base and city were nearly devoid of life.  the Gastly had engulfed and suffocated every single living thing, then dissolved most of the flesh in poisonous acid.  Approximately 32,000 men, women, and children were slaughtered horribly, screaming as their flesh dissolved and their lungs burned for oxygen.  less than 50 survivors total, mostly those holed up in Dragons Den.

 - The intervention of Celebi, Ho-Oh, Lugia and the Legendary Beasts (Entei Suicune and Raikou) was the only thing that stopped the mass of Gastly from spreading into something even MORE catastrophic.

 - The war came to an immediate halt after "Black Thursday".  The entire world was SHOCKED at the destructive power of the Ghost Pokemon.  Johto forces began surrendering before the end of September and by the end of October the Tohjo country was reunited once more (A peace that would last approx. Three years, until the Second Tohjo Civil War)

 - The masterminds behind the "Ekruteak Project" and those who gave the order to deploy were tried in the international criminal court as war criminals.  Found unanimously guilty, they were sentenced to death by hanging.

 - A global ban on Ghost/poison pokemon used in warfare was ratified in a document known as "The Unova Conventions", signed by every nation on the planet.

 - "Black Thursday" led to the development of Spell Tags and other technological defenses against Ghost Pokemon.

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WOO!  That got DARK!  I love it!  Goodnight, lovelies!

Cure For My Blue(Red)'s!

So, I was bored and depressed, tonight, and something awesome happened that cheered me up!  I will now share!

Warning, if you don't play Magic: The Gathering you wont get the specifics, but its entertaining nonetheless.

I logged into Magic Online to see if it needed an update and found a bunch of phantom points.  So I hopped into a Phantom Legacy Cube Draft.  I draft mono red and have a deck with Kiln Fiend, Chandras Phoenix, Guttersnipe, Koth of The Hammer, Chandra Ablaze, Grim Lavamancer and literally Seventeen burn spells.  I Blast, Burn, Bolt, Blow-Up, and Blaze my way to the final round fairly easily.  This is an abbreviated log of the final match. 

With my - commentary -.

 - GAME 1 - 

12:45 AM Magicpokey: sorry, bit of lag this time of night

 - I make a misplay, costing me a vital creature. - 

12:48 AM TheWhiteKnight: oopsies

12:48 AM Magicpokey: yep...  im kind of an idiot tonight

12:48 AM TheWhiteKnight: living the dream

 - I draw my sixth mana in a row - 

12:49 AM TheWhiteKnight: bah

12:51 AM Magicpokey: yeah...  no more mana, deck.  kthnxbie

 - He casts a ninja creature that clones his Thundermaw Hellkite (while staying a ninja) - 

12:52 AM Magicpokey: ok, that will officially be a Thunder Ninja Dragon...  and that's AWESOME!

12:52 AM TheWhiteKnight: lol

12:53 AM TheWhiteKnight: dragon ninja

12:53 AM TheWhiteKnight: fate reforged got nothing on this

12:53 AM Magicpokey: yeah

 - I had one turn to draw Bonfire of The Damned, and didn't.  He killed me. - 

12:53 AM Magicpokey: I was LITERALLY hoping for a miracle there

12:54 AM Magicpokey: The Thunder Ninja Dragon Hellkite should totally be a card in the next UN-set

 - GAME 2 - 

 - Near the end of the game, he has me dead on board.  At the end of his turn, I hit him with a burn spell bringing him to 3.  He thinks he has it in the bag. - 

12:57 AM TheWhiteKnight: its gg

12:59 AM Magicpokey: laaaaaag

1:00 AM TheWhiteKnight: oooooooo

1:00 AM TheWhiteKnight: get there?

 - I topdeck Incinerate for the win - 

1:00 AM TheWhiteKnight: siiiiiick

1:00 AM TheWhiteKnight: gj

1:00 AM Magicpokey: goat there

1:00 AM Magicpokey: gg, and thanks

 - GAME 3 -  

 - He and I are trading land-go's - 

1:03 AM TheWhiteKnight: never seen mono red burn in cube

1:03 AM Magicpokey: I started with the red god from theros, but i never stopped getting passed removal

1:04 AM Magicpokey: sometimes you just wanna set stuff on fire, you know?

1:04 AM TheWhiteKnight: i dont

1:04 AM TheWhiteKnight: ive never drafted mono red

1:04 AM TheWhiteKnight: in like 20 rounds of cube

1:04 AM Magicpokey: this is actually my first cube draft, most of my magic is in paper

 - he casts Spellskite, neutering most of my burn and protecting his Flametongue Kavu, which is beating me down. - 

1:07 AM TheWhiteKnight: spellskite MVP

1:07 AM Magicpokey: yep, just waiting on a char now

1:07 AM Magicpokey: or 2 more lands

 - Then I topdeck and cast Arc Trail, targeting his kavu for 2 and Spellskite for 1, this makes mtgo kinda bug out - 

1:09 AM Magicpokey: confusing interactions MVP

1:09 AM TheWhiteKnight: yes

1:09 AM TheWhiteKnight: i was like

1:09 AM TheWhiteKnight: i cant do it

1:09 AM TheWhiteKnight: no wait

1:09 AM TheWhiteKnight: i think i can

 - The Kavu is killed despite him activating Spellskite for 2 life - 

1:09 AM TheWhiteKnight: WHAT

1:09 AM TheWhiteKnight: MTGO

1:09 AM TheWhiteKnight: LOL

1:10 AM Magicpokey: Yeah, arc trail already targeted the spellskite with its smaller ability and that made modo crad its pants

 - He goes on to win the game with Inferno Titan - 

1:12 AM Magicpokey: ggs

1:12 AM TheWhiteKnight: gg

1:12 AM TheWhiteKnight: twas fun

1:12 AM Magicpokey: twas.  have a good night

It was really entertaining, and cheered me up immensely!

I guess setting a bunch of things on fire with Magic (for fun AND profit, I came in 2nd after all) was just the cap this day needed.

Goodnight all!