Mysteries and Dungeons Two

 Hello. C J here. Time for more Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team. And also time for more Heart and Fur. More on that later in this post. So far I’ve beaten the first three dungeons at least once. The first dungeon is a small woodland with plants and rocky walls. I wonder though, what is life like for the Pokemon that live here? They have food that you can gather there and are often willing to join your team. What do these wurmple, eggecute, pidgey and sunkirn get up to? Do they go on dates? Do they have families?

My setting is often built out of these kind of questions. What is life like for the monsters in a dungeon when all of those monsters like apples and can meet you and become your friend? Friendship monsters. I wonder if that’s what Pokemon means in Japanese. What do these Pokemon use their moves for when not fighting? What does an absorb or a tackle do when out having lunch? Do they hang out with the higher level ones? What would a story about a sunkirn and a wurmple friendship look like?

What happens if one of the pidgey go into town to buy some orbs or TMs? Do they recruit people to go live in the wilderness with them? There’s this part of me that wonders if the different races have jobs. There are also poochyena here and there’s a lot of them so I wonder if I could make a story about a culture of lupine, the wolf folk in my setting. The lupine hang out in their wilderness home eating fruit and waiting for adventure to come to them. What does a poochyena and an eggecute have in common?

 Also, Pokemon have innate powers. This is the premise of the series. Their powers are normally called moves and are a unique set per Pokemon. Here’s my question. Magic doesn’t exist in the setting. There are psychic types but no magic types. So, if there isn’t magic, how do these moves work? They have to be innate biological abilities. Some real life animals can generate electricity, sense magnetism, or have venom. Taking this idea further though requires explaining things like floating instead of walking, manipulating fire and altering the weather.

These stories really need to be told. They’d make a great game so long as I don’t actually use Pokemon for it. I can make each one of these concepts into a unique magic engine of some sort. I don’t really want these in the main game line because they have no bearing on real life history or spirituality. The Heart and Fur game line could use them though, probably as a core setting line. This sounds fun, mostly because it involves a lot of pikachu fan art that I need to draw. I know Japanese culture has fewer rules about adult content than Western culture does. I find that more reasonable. The game line here is romance themed and is intentionally parody of other genres so this seems like a safe project. Next time onto Thunderwave Cave, dungeon two.

C J Mcpherson