phoenixsong

Pokémon Turquoise has opened its doors at long, long last! We're a new (ish) RP fresh off a grand reopening, and now that things are getting started we're hoping at least some of y'all are looking for a fun new place to explore! If you've ever wanted a chance to battle and adventure with the New Logoran Pokémon, or maybe to take a closer look at just what might be going on with all that weird unown stuff, now's your chance! We've got fakemon, we've got a wiki that contains all of their pokédex information and helpful guides, we've got mod apps underway if you're interested in helping out, and more fun stuff is on the horizon (like a mafia game starting in the next few weeks... and the eventual re-opening of the Serekayo region project, which will be looking for some awesome fakemon when it gets back on its feet)!

Beta RP spots are limited to the first 15 interested players at the moment, so move quickly if you want a bit of a head start while we finalize things!

See here for the announcement I made (far too late) yesterday, with a little additional information as well.

We'd love to see you all there!

Pokémon Turquoise

Hello, yes, I am still here, I still make fakemon. (Good god, was the last submission really in November? :/) Between graduating from school, looking for/starting a new job and working on the "Big Project" I've been awfully busy, although what else is new. I have in fact completed several fakemon, as well as a few revamps, in this time, but for one reason or another they just haven't ended up on dA yet. You can go poke through the Phoenixdex or my Tumblr if you want to see what you've missed due to my inconsistency, though.

I am going to get back into the swing of posting art here—hopefully very soon, I have some additional revamps open and halfway shaded in Photoshop as I type this—but in the meantime I wanted to make a quick, if belated, announcement. Specifically, the aforementioned "Big Project" is just about ready to open, and it'll be launched tomorrow, Sunday, June 16th!

Pokémon Turquoise is an RP forum that has been around for several years in a few different incarnations, but it fell stagnant after running into some trouble with continuing its fakemon/region projects. On June 16th Turquoise will reopen after a long wait, and we'd love to see you guys there when it all goes down! You'll be able to explore the New Logora region (aka the one with the red-template fakemon in my gallery, e.g. acafia, drasarkr and caslot), catch and raise the pokémon found in said gallery and more—we're going to be adding to it all the time. The RP is intended to be casual enough for newer players who just want to have fun with some new pokémon while still providing opportunities for more experienced roleplayers to stretch their storytelling muscles, and it offers both mod-driven RPing as well as roleplaying back and forth with other players, so no matter what your roleplaying style you should be in for a treat!

Due to the staff pretty much consisting of the three admins at the moment, the RPG will have something of a limited opening tomorrow to keep our workload reasonable. Moderator apps will be ongoing all week, however, so if you'd like to help us get the game running and guide people on their adventures through New Logora then give the application a shot! And while you're waiting for the mod results and the full RPG opening, we're going to have some other fun stuff going on as well—promos, an icon contest and more!

Once Turquoise is really back on its feet we'll be resuming work on our next major project: Turquoise's own original region, Serekayo, and all of the gyms, fakemon and adventures that will go along with it! All we need to be able to get Serekayo back on its feet after its unfortunate development hiatus is a group of players who want to help breathe life into its pokémon (and possibly submit ideas/designs for several!) and its challenges. I know dA has some of the awesomest fakemonners out there and we'd love to see some of that talent contributing to Serekayo—I'll definitely be making another announcement when we're ready to open up development again!

(I'd meant to post this earlier in the week and give you guys a little more advance notice, but work, preparation and other stuff got in the way. Sorry!)

The URL and some more information will be up soon! Hopefully some of y'all will drop by and check it out!

And then, like two days after I said I wasn't going to add anything new for a while, not only do I add something new, but it comes on the tail end of suddenly having to add fifteen pokémon (only one fakemon, though, so only one thing that's worth uploading here) to New Logora's pokédex. Damn it.

...mostly my fault for not thinking most of the logistics of the region through when I first started on it four years ago. Now I keep having to change things out of the blue to clean up my miscellaneous dumb messes. Ah, well.

Oh and also a bunch of the existing NL fakemon are being renumbered but that's not really anything any of you would care about.