Also, here's the RP I promised. IC explanation for Game Plan!
Applications: The 'Yoink-o-Matic'[ *1], is a fairly experimental device, developed by Professor Blue to aid in pokemon mobility. It has some relation to the Ranger's styler, but is much more highly specialized-it consists of a device, commonly attached to the wrist[ *2], with a length of charged energy contained within it. It has two functions-upon command, the line lashes out unerringly toward a chosen target, grasping it without harm, and pulling or pushing it along. This helps when trying to snag unconscious pokemon from the middle of battles, or even unconscious fellow trainers. [*3] Desmond Blue has so far refused our suggestions to add an offensive capability-the line itself is currently impossible to use in a physical or aggressive fashion toward an unwilling subject. We're trying to convince him otherwise.
It's secondary function is far more secretive-and in fact, should not be spoken of outside of Blue Company offices until our public announcement.
In truth, the Yoink-o-Matic can actually deliver a concentrated burst of contained temporal energy to a target on command-invisibly and near instantly. A microtear is opened in the space time continuum-for all intents and purposes, our Theorists hypothesize that fate can be altered this way, if extremely subtly. Right now, it only affects movement speed-we're calling it 'Emergency Boost', and testing further applications, naturally.
Professor Blue is understandably very proud of this invention, and had expressed interest in further application-perhaps even the full application, to a his own time machine. For now, testing is ongoing.
Side effects are unknown, at this time-the first working model has been given to Gerome Blue, for field testing.[*4]
Personal notes:
[ *1] Professor Blue's suggestion to call it the 'Automatic Wrist Jerker' have been unanimously vetoed by the board of investors.
[ *2] Larger models are being developed currently-up to and including a tank and helicopter sized version for Kantoan Military for medical transports and tactical insertion-unfortunately, cranial dismemberment is a certain problem we have not yet solved on heavier versions.
[ *3] Personal Log, Desmond Blue "I was actually playing with little Gerome-trying to teach him Chess-when I got distracted by my wife. She wanted um...poundcake.
Afterwards, I had a sudden memory-Vanessa. Which was odd. She was the person I most remembered from my first adventure. I remembered physically pulling her out of a nest of...Durants, I believe. I started thinking, shouldn't it be a little easier than that? An odd thought, yes-but it inspired me to start on the AWJ...admittedly, the secondary function was also inspired-but by a death. Unekarus Onix, to be specific. If it had just been moved...it might have survived. So, I took a piece of the Time Machine I had somewhat surreptitiously kept for myself...and the rest, is history? ha ha! Not yet, not yet. But, it's start. I'll say it for the record-though, this is all being recorded, of course!-I'm really trying to save lives here. Oh, it probably had combat application as well...
[ *4] Gerome Blue's already begun his own technical modifications on the device-though, he's complained of power usage problems, Gerome had already managed to quintuple the power output and double the range.
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Topic: Pokemon Tabletop: Trainers of the Treazur Islands (Read 77473 times)