The Official HPF Region Information and Discussion

Well, it's been spoken about for quite some time. Where in the Pokémon world is the Hungry Pokémon Forum 'located'? We have a few geographical features already fleshed out, our most prominent one being our large restorative lake which Galen established, where eaten Pokémon are safely restored to form. But nothing has been officially established. I seek to fix this now.

A thread was started on the Everything Else section that speculatively defines the HPF as the 'Vorre' region...some good ideas were presented, but to be honest I did not support most of the suggestions made therein. To being speculation to rest, and to create a solid foundation for us to work of, I spent some time doing some research...

The major Pokémon regions (Kanto, Jotho, Hoenn, Sinnoh, and the upcoming Isshu) are all based upon different regions around Japan. The Pokémon region names are also all variants of real Japanese words. Seeing these trends, I decided we also needed to follow a similar vein, and I think I've managed to devise a good region for us to inhabit. =3~

I feel that the name most appropriate for our forum is...the Shokotan Region! This word is a combination of two Japanese words: "gentan" and "donshoku", both of which mean gluttony, voracity, ravenousness. This seems to be an appropriate term for our little community, heheh...

In addition, the word Shokotan is also a play on the word "Shikoku", which is an island region in Japan. (See/Read about it here.) This real region is what I wish for Shokotan to be based off of. :3~ So what is the geography of our region then? While liberties can be taken, I would like it to roughly follow what is described of Shikoku in the Wikipedia article I linked to above. But we would need a mapmaker and some good thought put into this to really construct our geography, including the location of our special lake.

So, I seek your opinions, users. Is Shokotan an agreeable region name? How should our geography be laid out? I especially wish to know if anyone would be interested in constructing a good region map for us. =3

I'm sorry, but I have to strongly disagree with the idea, Charem. We've created this world on our own, and shouldn't base it on anything that already exists. Apart from that, no region in existence could possibly contain all the areas that would suit all the pokemon varieties that inhabit the HPF. What we've been coming up with lately seems best to me, so... I'm sorry, but I don't support your idea...

I simply wish to establish a foundation...if I constrain our lore and ideas, then I am not doing what I should be doing. I'm trying to establish 'our world' so that it can thus live that much more.

While I've said Shokotan would we based on Shikoku, this doesn't mean we are limited by this. I understand the multiple terrain needs, and a great deal could be covered by our region without too much trouble. While a region normally has limits to how many ecosystems it contains, there are workarounds too.

Personally I'd like to see something a little...less defined. It leaves us with a lot more working room when we want to go outside of the lake area, but not to IMs or something. Though I do like the overall idea of it: it's still very close to the actual pokemon world, yet is still something original so I'm all for it really.

I'm kind of 50/50 into this idea char. like I mentioned before in my other post, I see the HPF region as two massive islands; one for the forum, another for the chatbox. I feel that Shokotan would fit rather well with the forum island, but not so much to the chatbox island. due to the wild, undiscovered, and magical sensation you get from going into the chatbox, an island that does not exist might fit better than an island based on actual geography.
as for the name, I feel its too long... we have Kan-to, Jho-to, Ho-enn, Shi-nnoh, and I-sshu. going for 2 syllables might be the way to go. Shokku or Kottan could be alternate choices if we go with the vore words and the actual island. we could actually go ahead and use both, one for each island, if we go with the double island idea.

I've got mixed feelings, myself; on the one hand, putting something so definitive together could be restrictive on 'private' RPs, particularly the ones that go on in the chatbox (which really aren't private by definition, but meh). To cater to everyone, the region would have to include pretty much every terrain imaginable. And then... we'd need names for all the major geographic features. As fun as it would be to make some type of vore-pun cave... yeah.

On the plus side, it'd offer a good framework to people writing stories taking place in our little reality, as it were. Y'know, so that if their story is in a mountain or a desert, they know precisely what areas are nearby; if their story involves a journey from point A to point B, they know exactly what types of terrain they need to go through on the way.

Of course, if we do this, we'll need a map. I'd suggest putting a link to said map up top with all the various animated link-buttons. Just for ease of access for when people actually need to make use of it for whatever reason.

I still have to support our original idea for the chatbox having its own little place. The general map i made up was based on what people seemed to want, so to have someone suggest a general template instead is a bit... i dunno, doesn't feel right. If you want to do that for the forums area, by all means. But i just feel that the chatboxers [o.o;] wanted something more like what we've been cooking up.

I am curious about Gym Leaders and how trainers are reformed.

This is for the chatbox by the way, for a forum RP the setting would be defined by the thread starter:

In the chatbox trainers reform just like the pokémon do, generally somewhere around the lake or sometimes in it (It's my thoughts that along with the magic of the lake, after reforming, you will float on the surface rather than drown. This doesn't apply to if you've just dived in though, when it acts just like normal water.). You'd reform with the items and clothing which you had when you died.

As for gym leaders there isn't actually a league at all, it's a completely wild area devoid of human settlement.
That's not to say trainers don't come here, they do for a whole number of reasons: to catch rare pokémon, to train devoid of the peeping eyes of any rivals, because they got lost and came by accident, to relax around on vacation and of course to take part in some select hobbies which would previously be restricted by the laws on cannibalism and possibly pokéality which govern the place they came from.

Well that makes sense. Thanks for elaborating on that. Gives me more to work with.

Anthan wrote:This is for the chatbox by the way, for a forum RP the setting would be defined by the thread starter:

In the chatbox trainers reform just like the pokémon do, generally somewhere around the lake or sometimes in it (It's my thoughts that along with the magic of the lake, after reforming, you will float on the surface rather than drown. This doesn't apply to if you've just dived in though, when it acts just like normal water.). You'd reform with the items and clothing which you had when you died.

As for gym leaders there isn't actually a league at all, it's a completely wild area devoid of human settlement.
That's not to say trainers don't come here, they do for a whole number of reasons: to catch rare pokémon, to train devoid of the peeping eyes of any rivals, because they got lost and came by accident, to relax around on vacation and of course to take part in some select hobbies which would previously be restricted by the laws on cannibalism and possibly pokéality which govern the place they came from.

I really liked the idea.
Maybe humans in the past tried to create a city in here, but had to flee afther most of them and their pokemons ended being devoured.