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| Topic Started: Apr 11 2013, 11:20 PM (382 Views) | |
| Xander | Apr 11 2013, 11:20 PM Post #1 |
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Greetings my fellow Alternian's! We are gathered here today to fix an unbelievable wrong that has been dealt to us! For too long have we suffered this great injustice in silence, but no more! Let us cast off the shackles that hold us back and move towards our future by learning from our past. Alternia has gone on for quite a while, and well, there are things that need changing. Many things. We'll try to touch base with everything we can, but right now our concern is safeguarding our fractured history. Alternia has very little history known. We need to change this, so to all our great writers, and brilliant minds, here is a chance to shine. You are all challenged to write a brief history that we can use for the site. While is fairly well known by the members who migrated here, we were all "transported through space" by some Legendary Pokemon just as the old world was destroyed. But this is just one part of Alternia's history. We must uncover more. This world has existed as long as the old one, but we know nothing about it. We have an established league with no founding date. Evil teams with shadowed backgrounds outside of their histories in their profiles. Gym Leaders with no founding as well as cities that exist but no known knowledge on how each city runs. Its time to expand and color our world more than the various shades of black and white that created a fog over our history. Members! Alternian's! Lend me your skill and imagination. Allow us to create a proper back story for our beloved site as we start to move forward into the future. ----- Submissions must be 500 words or more. You can pick anything to write on. Any city, background choice, founding of the league, points in history that don't effect the current time of events. Evil teams will be expanded on later by staff and historians. The Judges will be the Historian group that was founded by Sora. Prizes so far consist of Star Tokens. The exact amount will be posted at a later date as well as any other possible prize. |
| Mezmo | May 26 2013, 03:37 PM Post #2 |
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Founding of Nogou Village The founding of Nogou Village can be dated back approximately sixty years ago. It was the summer of love, and a group of friends had heard that the area northeast of the Forest of Legends was going to be bulldozed down, to provide lumber for an expanding Kijitsu City. This band of friends didn’t want to see the forest destroyed, and so the set up camp. David Kemper, an idealistic young man and fresh from college, was an avid outdoors man. His girlfriend and Pokemon rights activist Cherry Dillon was with him. The couple had brought their good friends Mike and Linda Schwartz with them on this camping trip. As they approached the area of the Nogou Woods, thick smoke could be seen. This smoke came from the bulldozers and large trucks sent from Kijtsu to collect lumber for their growing population. At first, the campers and the loggers didn’t have any problems. While disappointed that the woods were being harvested, the foursome didn’t know what else to do. As night came, the campers turned in, ready to get some sleep, and to plan on leaving the woods in the morning. That night Cherry had a visitor. ”I was asleep in my sleeping bag. Then I woke up suddenly, and heard a noise. At first I thought it was Dave, but he was still asleep. I assumed it was Mike or Linda, but the sounds I heard…” The visitor in the camp site wasn’t any of the campers. It wasn’t a logger either. As Cherry went out to see who was there, a pokemon could be seen sitting by the embers of the campfire. It’s shape was indistinguishable in the poor light. As she neared the creature, her mind flashed with images. ”I saw pokemon being hurt by the machines. Their trees, their homes, were destroyed! I felt their pain and I knew I had to do something.” Cherry woke her friends, and told them of the experience. ”I didn’t know what to think!” Mike said. ”Live in the trees? It sounded crazy! But, hey, you gotta be a little crazy to make a difference, right?” Cherry’s plan was simple. By living in the trees, the loggers wouldn’t be able to cut them down. By dawn, the four young people had built a rudimentary system of tents and bridges, connecting a series of trees. As dawn turned to day, the bulldozers came. ”I’ll admit it. I was scared. Frankly, we had a ram-shackled mess up in the trees. It barely held together in the wind,” Linda recalled. Days went by at a stalemate. The bulldozers sat, poised to knock down the woods. David, Cherry, Linda, and Mike were living in the trees. The lumberjacks just had to wait them out. After three days, the activists were hungry, tired and ready to give up. Then a miracle happened. ”I knew what we were doing was righteous, and this was the proof! I mean, how often do Pokemon start bringing people food?!” It was the truth. Pokemon, from all over the woods, were bringing bits of food and water to the foursome in the trees. With some provisions, their intent had been fortified. A week later, and the lumberjacks had to move on. It was decided that they had spent too much time and money waiting. News of these events reached neighboring communities, and nature-lovers and “hippies” from across the region came to see. Some took up the cause, building better homes within the trees. Gardens were planted on the outer edges of the woods to provide food for the flourishing community of eco-activists. Now, as we know, only the oldest of homes are still in the trees, still connected by ladders and rope bridges. Most homes are built on the ground, and farming is now a major source of income for the small town. ”I see these new farmers, setting up on the outskirts of town. Do I regret letting them move into our community? Sometimes. But, they stick to the edges, and they seem to respect the woods. It could be worst.” |
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