Ms Blight's Think Hole

Helped the GM work on a "villain" team for their pokemon thing, and I'm extremely enthusiastic about "Team Antler"

They're effectively a more rural type of Team Skull - where they're made mostly out of bored youths that have congregated around this group that somewhat has the stylings of a "Forest Cult" but it's also intended to evoke the feelings of forest summer camp ghost stories and such.

Most of what Team Antler does is small scale, mostly just a bit of vandalism, shoplifting and general harassment but it's more irritating than actually dangerous. You find a huge stantler effigy built out of sticks in the carpark that looks eerie, but with all the soft drinks cans and fast food wrappers everywhere the attitude is more "damn kids".

The Team Antler grunts wear masks crudely made out of tree bark, whereas Antler Boss wears a full face bark mask and a headpiece made out of shed stantler horns.

The Boss of Team Antler is actually Liana, the daughter of a local carpenter and a carpenter herself. She set up Team Antler as a child having grown up playing in the forest and playing with likeminded kids - so they bonded and grouped together. Over time it evolved into a more organised group. Now Liana is 21 and has, for a few years now, aged out of the demographic for Team Antler, but she is still secretly Antler Boss as she believes that even though Team Antler is an annoyance they're still alright, and it's better than having all these bored kids running around the forest on their own getting hurt or getting into more serious crimes and whatnot.

Her team consists of various forest-styled pokemon, but she seems to have a Sceptile that she can mega-evolve as her ace. However this is a bluff. Her true Ace, and most powerful pokemon, is actually her Noctowl that was her childhood companion, and it is *witheringly* powerful. So much that just seeing or hearing a Noctowl gets Team Antler grunts to behave themselves.

The big twist with Team Antler is in the fact they have a very dangerous faction quietly growing within them like a tumour. Led by Patrick, one of the original members who never progressed past being a lieutenant, he actually left for the pokemon league but returned a suspiciously short while later and never explained why (the truth of the matter is that he got officially kicked out and banned, for forcing his Litwick to continue attacking an opponent's pokemon after it was KO-ed. This incident also was when his Litwick evolved into Lampent)

Ever since his return a few years ago, the now 19 year old Patrick has been quietly gathering likeminded (and frankly frat-bro-ish) members of Team Antler, and their particular brand of "fun" has been getting more and more extreme and damaging over time. It won't be long until they reach the point of attempting legitimate arson without caring who gets hurt. All in the name of "having fun".

No name at the moment but she's basically an unofficial Ranger. More of just... a local that's trusted to work with pokemon centres and whatnot to wrangle and deal with wild pokemon

Living out the back of her pickup truck, her team includes Fletchinder (Quick attack, Flame Charge, Thief, Aerial Ace) for speed and mobility

And Croagunk (Poison Sting, Taunt, Rain Dance, Low Kick) for stand-up full-on battles. With the implication of using poison and such to incapacitate other pokemon without serious harm (sorta like a walking tranquiliser dart) to relocate or help them.

She also has an unfortunate habit of letting her Croagunk take the wheel and keep her pickup truck steady as she climbs into the back to better direct Fletchinder in a more mobile battle. (Croagunk is pretty good at driving though, even though he can't quite reach the pedals)

As each individual Dehen is a single mind distributed across a gestalt colony of what are effectively eels, their default "form" is... well, a slithering glob of writhing eels.

However in order to better interact with other species, the Dehen have adopted the use of humanoid shaped suits that their entire colony slithers into and moves about in a humanoid form. The suits also have their preferred environment, as well as apparatus to let them communicate verbally via a synthesised voice.

And it's not an act

facecams were a fucking bad idea and are an enduring blight that spoils most youtube videos