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https://rentry.org/PokepocalypseQST</span> ;
<span class="mu-s">Quest Archive:</span> <span class="mu-i">
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Pok%C3%A9pocalypse%20Revival</span> ; (Start here if you want to catch up on the quest's previous threads!)
Updates will be attempted every 2 days! Ideally, I will be back to daily updates by the end of this thread. Absences will be announced in advance and given definitive end dates if I can manage it.
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<span class="mu-i">Within the Year of Our Lord, 1884, upon a world quite similar to our own, all civilization is at war with a peculiar breed of creature...</span>
...all civilization, that is, save for Walter Buchanan and his companions. Walter, an aspiring naturalist, sees the good in these creatures: these demons of earth and sky, able to command the very heavens themselves, privy to the inner thoughts of man and the very souls that animate them. He has tamed four such creatures, all of whom walk by his side: Aster, his flaming foal; Mary, his electric sheep; Taylor, his silk-spinning caterpillar compatriot; Florian, his aromatic flower sprite.
These creatures, whom he dubs "neofauna," are not his only company. Walter is further joined by two human travelers: Thomas J. Steele, a businessman and state representative of Indiana, and "Andrew," a former buffalo hunter now employed as Steele's own bodyguard. All three of these men share a common cause: a desire to return to the East Coast.
This trio is further bound together not only by shared experience, but by their shared allegiance to the Staters: a movement led by a group of rebellious Californians looking to upend the most recent state governor, C. P. Huntington, for his atrocities against the state of California. The treacherous governor has used the state militia to launch a coordinated raid on the Staters' former headquarters, and suspicions abound that he is now responsible for multiple deaths within the movement-- deaths which the Stater's stalwart leader, Aaron Muyr, now seeks to avenge...
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>>6341355 >letting the scorching September sun beat down upon his tailored back like a Southerner once beat his slaves I almost spit out my drink reading this.
>>6341359 >You wanted to take in the sights and sounds of the nation, and document as much of these neofauna as possible. No matter your current doubts, you were still fascinated by the things... and almost certain that they were no longer exclusive to California, or even the States themselves. [A scenic, less dangerous route.] This seems like the option that will give the QM a broader range of stuff to write about, so I opt for this choice. However, I wouldn't be against the other one.
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>>6341359 >It'd be best if you headed straight for New York. There was far too much business the three of you needed to tend to in that general area, and there was no use wasting time sightseeing when matters were so urgent. [The fastest, most dangerous route.] Anonymous
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>>6341359 >You wanted to take in the sights and sounds of the nation, and document as much of these neofauna as possible. No matter your current doubts, you were still fascinated by the things... and almost certain that they were no longer exclusive to California, or even the States themselves. [A scenic, less dangerous route.] Anonymous
I kinda want to know the state of the Bee and the like before we go. We might have finally gotten a response in the mail.
>>6341359 >It'd be best if you headed straight for New York. There was far too much business the three of you needed to tend to in that general area, and there was no use wasting time sightseeing when matters were so urgent. [The fastest, most dangerous route.] I'm concerned about what Huntington said about New York.
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>>6341359 >You wanted to take in the sights and sounds of the nation, and document as much of these neofauna as possible. No matter your current doubts, you were still fascinated by the things... and almost certain that they were no longer exclusive to California, or even the States themselves. [A scenic, less dangerous route.] Not going for a safe route is going to get us killed.
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>>6341912 >I kinda want to know the state of the Bee and the like before we go. Me too!
>I'm concerned about what Huntington said about New York. Me too...
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PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E ID:la5pFxqQ Thu 04 Dec 2025 04:10:40 No. 6342177 Report Quoted By:
Wow, lots of votes this time around! Thanks, everyone. 4:2 say we're going the scenic route. Writing.
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PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E ID:la5pFxqQ Thu 04 Dec 2025 05:06:11 No. 6342202 Report Quoted By:
"...ah thought it might be best t' take a more scenic route. T' see as many sights an' sounds as we could, while helpin' whoever's there."
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PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E ID:la5pFxqQ Thu 04 Dec 2025 05:12:19 No. 6342209 Report Quoted By:
After rooting around in your haversack for a moment, you procured a map of the United States. It was a big one-- covering nearly the entire West Coast and parts of the interior. You'd gone searching for something like it soon after getting to Sacramento, but only found success recently.>Aim for the northern territories. Although settlements and support will be scarce, as will food and warmth, you'll avoid becoming caught up in a war and be free of the blazing sun. >Aim for the southern territories. There's more infrastructure, more people, and more life. Trudging through a hundred-degree sun and ongoing war is close enough to what you've already been doing not to concern you.
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PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E ID:la5pFxqQ Thu 04 Dec 2025 05:13:56 No. 6342212 Report After rooting around in your haversack for a moment, you procured a map of the United States. It was a big one-- covering nearly the entire West Coast and parts of the interior. You'd gone searching for something like it soon after getting to Sacramento, but only found success recently.>Aim for the northern territories. Although settlements and support will be scarce, as will food and warmth, you'll avoid becoming caught up in a war and be free of the blazing sun. >Aim for the southern territories. There's more infrastructure, more people, and more life. Trudging through a hundred-degree sun and ongoing war is close enough to what you've already been doing not to concern you.
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>>6342212 >Aim for the southern territories. There's more infrastructure, more people, and more life. Trudging through a hundred-degree sun and ongoing war is close enough to what you've already been doing not to concern you. So my hope is that, if there is a Ghost Dance or similar religious movement taking hold early in light of the Pokepocalypse, maybe Andrew being so gosh-darned good at training them (and having the nutberries) will make him the next best thing to a holy man to them.
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>>6342212 We are in September right now, and I guarantee you we WILL be caught in the late 1880s winter if we go north... but we do have Ponyta and Andrew has Combusken. Steele's Indiana can help carve up trees for wood even though he's more suited to earth, and we can easily get us fire going whenever. Maybe Indiana can help us dig a small burrow combined with Taylor's silk for support, and we can have a half-decent hole to shelter out the cold in. But even so, frostbite and unironic non-Pokemon cryptids are things in the deep north we could easily suffer from, and that's ignoring new mon-based threats. None of this is anywhere close to solving our food issue either unless we begin to figure out how to eat mons firsthand.
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>>6342212 >Write-in >Take the California Trail until we reach Fort Hall, then take the Oregon Trail further east to Scottsbluff, then to Council Bluffs in Iowa, then to Nauvoo in Illinois This should take us more or less down the middle, helping us avoid the extremes of the North and South. If Mormons aren't a problem for Steele and Andrew
(they are a problem for me though; Mormons are Masonic heathens pretending to be Christian) , we can take a shortcut through Salt Lake City to save some time.
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>>6342242 They’re a problem for a whole different reason. Brigham Young’s “Zion” at this time was fond of a practice called Blood Atonement.
Outsiders in their territory were regularly shot. It might not be as dangerous as Apache territory, but it’s no walk in the park either.
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>>6342212 >Aim for the southern territories. There's more infrastructure, more people, and more life. Trudging through a hundred-degree sun and ongoing war is close enough to what you've already been doing not to concern you. Anonymous
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>>6342212 I'm
>>6342236 My vote is
>Aim for the southern territories. There's more infrastructure, more people, and more life. Trudging through a hundred-degree sun and ongoing war is close enough to what you've already been doing not to concern you. Anonymous
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>>6342341 At one point during the Mormon Reformation era, IIRC, the Mormons even teamed up with (possibly tricked) some Paiutes into joining up with their party for the Mountain Meadows Massacre so they could try to evade accountability to the American government by framing their attack on immigrants as tribal warfare. That said, Brigham Young died in 1877, and John Taylor started shifting away from blood atonement by extrajudicial church authority. By 1889 IRL, they repudiated it outright...
But who knows how the Pokepocalyspe affected that, kek? Great State of Desert when?
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>>6342212 >Aim for the northern territories. Although settlements and support will be scarce, as will food and warmth, you'll avoid becoming caught up in a war and be free of the blazing sun. Anonymous
>>6342624 Actually, change my mind - Southern
We got more than ourselves to look after, so the infrastructure and familiarity is crucial
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>>6342212 >Aim for the northern territories. Although settlements and support will be scarce, as will food and warmth, you'll avoid becoming caught up in a war and be free of the blazing sun. Avoid the sun. God knows what creatures it brings. Also, more injuns in the desert who will not hesitate to leave you a corpse.
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>>6342626 We're going to get absolutely assraped in the south. I believe the north, though tough, is gonna be our best bet. It'll also allow us to board a boat on the many Mississippi tributaries there earlier to get to Saint Louie.
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>>6342212 >Aim for the northern territories. Although settlements and support will be scarce, as will food and warmth, you'll avoid becoming caught up in a war and be free of the blazing sun. Kind of want to see a change of scenery.
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PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E ID:la5pFxqQ Sat 06 Dec 2025 01:14:35 No. 6342988 Report Quoted By:
Extending the vote 'til Sunday! Gotta wrap up some finals work and then take the weekend off to handle some family business. I'll update as soon as that's all wrapped up.
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PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E ID:la5pFxqQ Mon 08 Dec 2025 04:24:32 No. 6343994 Report Quoted By:
Clarifying here since I apparently forgot to when I posted that: I'm going to update tomorrow, but <span class="mu-s">the vote is now closed</span>. It's a very narrow one, and I'm surprised it came this close, but all you anons have decreed: <span class="mu-s">we're taking the scenic southern route!</span> 4-3 on south vs north, too. If that one anon hadn't written in, it could've been a tie.
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PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E ID:la5pFxqQ Tue 09 Dec 2025 05:16:30 No. 6344409 Report Quoted By:
The decision was a hard one. Neither option was ideal-- Steele's fantasy of a well-insulated train was all you could think about at the moment. Memories of a world now forsaken plagued you as you tried your best to decide, before...
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PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E ID:la5pFxqQ Tue 09 Dec 2025 05:18:09 No. 6344412 Report Quoted By:
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PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E ID:la5pFxqQ Tue 09 Dec 2025 05:19:10 No. 6344413 Report Taylor soon crawled over to you from across the room, surmounting the desk's steep leg, to bring you... the newspaper he had been chewing on.
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PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E ID:la5pFxqQ Tue 09 Dec 2025 05:22:53 No. 6344415 Report <><><><><>>...the future. Muyr had promised you assistance rather long ago, and it was time you remind him of his debt. >...your family. You had received their response to an old letter of yours not long ago, but had yet to look at it... >Write-in.
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>>6344415 >...your family. You had received their response to an old letter of yours not long ago, but had yet to look at it... Anonymous
This is a very interesting update. It seems the British are going to be stiff competition going forward.
>>6344415 >...your family. You had received their response to an old letter of yours not long ago, but had yet to look at it... We should check in on them.
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>>6344424 The Egyptian Infernape Corps was unexpected, yeah.
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>>6344415 >...your family. You had received their response to an old letter of yours not long ago, but had yet to look at it... >>6344425 I shudder to imagine what the Apache have gotten their hands on. There is zero chance the American military is going to beat them in a neofauna conflict.
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>>6344527 But what I wanna know is when are the Psychic mons going to band together and form their own ethnostate? Can they even hold together properly given their innate Pokemon drive to battle designed by Arceus himself? In fact, when will mankind find out about him existing? Probably from some Psychic mon or some similar being in the know. I don't think we've had signs of legendaries mentioned in the news yet either. I don't think the world of the mid 1880s is prepared to witness a true clash of literally biblical proportions as Kyogre and Groudon fight each other somewhere... or maybe all the legendaries and mythicals are spawned in dormancy/sleep to make things less immediately out of control.
Are Arceus and actual judeo-christian God in cahoots with each other? Is that why this is going on? It's some cosmic game? Or did Arceus somehow Noah's Ark all the mons in the Pokemon world and leave it forever to make it here? Anonymous
>>6344564 >implying Yahweh and Arceus aren't one and the same It's like with Aslan in Narnia, I bet.
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>>6344662 I don't think Walter is capable enough to handle whatever Arceus decides to throw at him yet. I don't think anybody in the 1880s is unless they're secretly mental asylum levels of adapted to weirdness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzfOAlFgyY8 Anonymous
>>6344564 >But what I wanna know is when are the Psychic mons going to band together and form their own ethnostate? Can they even hold together properly given their innate Pokemon drive to battle designed by Arceus himself? I imagine it would be a society that revolves around duels to settle disputes or determine social status, with the strongest of Pokemon naturally at the top of the ladder. There would be a lot more nuance, however, if it is designed by more intelligent Pokemon such as Alakazam or Metagross. That reminds me, we should try to get an Abra to tag along with us before we depart from Sacramento. An Abra would be a monumental addition to the party.
>Are Arceus and actual judeo-christian God in cahoots with each other? There will be religious shakeups for sure. That being said, my guess would be that in this setting, Arceus is just an immensely powerful and intelligent creature created by God and given its own dimension to play with. I doubt it's something wacky like Arceus being God Himself or whatever, but there are probably many people that would falsely believe such a thing. >>6344425 I thought they were
Rillabooms or something
>>6344413 >Leigh Valley's silk plants The closest thing I could find on the search engine I use is Lehigh Valley, which is located in the Pennsylvanian Appalachians. Our fortune could lie in offering consulting services for Sewaddle care, but money would be wisely invested in companies developing new tooling or materials from silk. Silk will lose monetary value as it becomes more common, but its potential applications and effects on technological development will make it the most important fiber in the world. Steele's business acumen is sure to make the most out of this opportunity.
>>6344527 >I shudder to imagine what the Apache have gotten their hands on. There is zero chance the American military is going to beat them in a neofauna conflict. It would be a very bloody war if the U.S. devoted resources to put them under control. There's a chance that a tribe nation of sorts could form.
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>>6344762 >I thought they were... I admittedly could be taking "infernal primates" a bit literally.
>There's a chance that a tribe nation of sorts could form. The Cree-Assiniboine Iron Confederacy was still around in 1884, albeit on the wane. This being 1884, this is even the year when Chief Poundmaker held the religious dance that gave rise to the North-West Resistance of 1885... So, ironically, we may have dodged THAT Indian rebellion by staying south!
...But, uh, yeah. We are going to be in or around Geronimo's prowling grounds, at a time when he was active. Wodziwob and Wovoka were Northern Paiutes, and we'll be going RIGHT through their peoples' territory, which is why the Ghost Dance is the first major indigenous threat that came to mind for me.
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>>6344762 >we should try to get an Abra to tag along with us before we depart from Sacramento. An Abra would be a monumental addition to the party. Is that one Abra from earlier going to show up and be that for Walter?
>Arceus is just an immensely powerful and intelligent creature created by God and given its own dimension to play with. Interesting take. I hope we get to see if it holds any true
>if the U.S. devoted resources What resources?
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PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E ID:la5pFxqQ Thu 11 Dec 2025 00:58:25 No. 6345249 Report ive cut my right thum very badly whie washing dishes
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>>6345249 Oh damn. bandage that sucker up and take it easy, QM.
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>>6345249 QM Curse strikes again. Go get medical care for that
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PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E ID:fr1KWI42 Sat 13 Dec 2025 03:46:29 No. 6346254 Report >>6345292 Took your dad vice, will be better by moindnay
Hopefully will have a big entry don e then. Did not want to delay like this
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>>6346254 Take your time QM. Even if you typing like this is honestly really funny, please for the love of God do not hurt yourself on our behalf.
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>>6346254 >>6345249 Eesh... I'm sorry to hear it, QM. Rest and heal up. We'll see you soon.
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>>6346254 Rest and heal up. We'll see you soon.
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>>6346254 Rest and recover, QM. Health comes first.
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PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E ID:la5pFxqQ Tue 16 Dec 2025 18:00:13 No. 6347701 Report Unfortunately, I'm going to have to cut this thread short.
The next few weeks are just too busy for me to continue writing and the thread is already nearing the end of the catalog; I can't be confident it will still remain when my schedule clears up.
I have several health issues, mechanical issues, and obligations demanding my attention that have to take priority. As a result, <span class="mu-s">Poképocalypse is going to go on hiatus early.</span>
I should have mentioned this yesterday when I didn't post an entry-- I did, in fact, but in the wrong thread on accident. (
>>6347483 ) I didn't notice until I'd woken up that it was in the wrong thread, so I'm sorry for that.
The thread has already been archived (here:
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Pok%C3%A9pocalypse%20Revival ), so I've committed to this.
<span class="mu-s">The quest will return sometime in January,</span> likely within the second to third week of the month. I will try to update the /qtg/ thread on its status if anything happens to hamper that, but for now just look forward to thread #7 sometime then.
<span class="mu-s">The vote in this thread will remain open until it falls off the catalog.</span> I'll take the results into account for thread #7's opening post and write them into that.
May you all have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year in advance. Here's hoping next year is better than the last, and thank you for helping make 2025 much better than it could've been!
Thank you all for reading so far. I'll see you all in 2026.
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>>6347701 I hope things calm down for you soon, QM. See you next month!
