So I felt up to
doing a weekend post, and, while Pidove isn’t my favorite of the normal/flying
birds flitting around the Pokeverse, this piece of art spoke to me and gave me
a lot of interesting ideas for plot hooks.
As one of the few Pokemon that is explicitly urban, there’s something
remarkably unremarkable about Pidove. Of
course, the Pokemon will sometimes forget what orders have been given and just
sit around waiting for commands, so they probably won’t be used as carrier
pidgeons anytime soon. They’re a great
Pokemon to use as a backdrop for normal city scenes to provide that gentle
reminder to players that yes, they are in fact playing Pokemon and not just
outfitting laser swords to their arms using the latest cyborg technology.
Pidove is the kind
of Pokemon that you’d never expect to have a stellar ability right off the bat,
but it gets one of the better ones in the game: Super Luck. This, plus Night Slash and Air Cutter, turn
Pidove into a remarkably dangerous foe in the right hands. It works best in the hands of a trainer using
brutal orders to expand that list even further, but having a 25% crit chance
without any sort of boost is pretty great too.
While Pidove are mostly ignored by trainers in cities due to their reputation as weak bird
Pokemon, there are always those few strange humans hanging around in parks who
are covered in about a hundred of the things because they bring bread with
them. Nomalli is one of these people,
and she sits on the ledge of the Fountain of Azelf. Few know the terrible secret hidden in the
fountain, and those who do know that Nomalli is not some simple homeless woman,
but a trainer of prodigious skill who has been tasked with guarding the
fountain for all eternity. She is able
to command swarms of Pidove to defend the fountain from those who would seek to
unearth its dark secrets, and she hasn’t failed in over three hundred years.
The PCs stumble across a Pidovelounging around in front of a restaurant and notice that it has a
note tied onto one of its legs. The
Pokemon has obviously forgotten whom it was supposed to deliver the letter to,
so it offers its leg to a PC. Of course,
where the strange map drawn on the paper leads to is anybody’s guess, and there
isn’t any indication of who the message was supposed to be delivered to. It’s even more strange because Pidove
messengers stopped being used when telephones were invented ages ago … so why
would anybody both using one now?
A local church of Mew
serves as a sanctuary for those who need protection from the corrupt lord
who rules the city. They rescue Pokemon
and people that the lord’s police force would rather not be breathing any
longer and hide them in the church until things have settled. One of the friars has the ability to see
through the eyes of Pokemon, and he uses the Pidove around the city to search
out these lost souls and rescue them.
After all, who would suspect a Pidove of harboring fugatives?
This Is a Backup Blog 