Setting

**"Welcome to the Calyrex Game Corner's Pokémon DND Campaign! Featuring Cindy, a young vagabond from the Hoenn region with pyromaniac tendencies. Gimli, a stocky, burly miner from Sinnoh looking for his lost son. Elodie, an enthusiastic foodie and baker from Kalos. And Schmidt, an enigmatic man from Johto... with a Duck."** - Richiban, Game Master of Dunsparce & Drampa.

The events of Dunsparce & Drampa occur beginning 15 years after the events that transpired in a timeline that combines Pokémon Emerald and Pokémon ORAS. This includes the events of the Delta Episode. The timeline specifically presumes the player character of the mainline games in question to be May rather than Brendan.

A festival held in Lilycove City brings the four party members out on vacation, unbeknownst of each others' existences. The festival, being a hub for consumerist activity and a venue of summer leisure and excitement makes an ideal place for each party member to decompress and escape their daily troubles.

Cindy, the native Hoennian grandchild of the two and only Berry Masters, attends the festival as an aid to their stand. Of course, childish excitement over pretty lights and summer sights takes ahold and she can't help but enjoy the festival as a guest rather than an employee herself. Her grandparents, being the Masters of berries that they are, offer her a random large sum of money as "they couldn't care less, they love you." and Cindy makes her way into the depths of the city streets alongside her companion, Soul Eater the Vulpix.

Gimli, a workaholic miner, and his Roggenrola, Trevor, step off of the ferry after Gimli's wife insists he take a break from both work and his tireless efforts in locating their son. There he happens to meet some of his coworkers regardless. Many are there on vacations themselves, though others are there selling stones and wares discovered in the mines of Sinnoh. Gimli and his closest coworker, Cletus, give each other a powerful handshake that could disassemble mountains without the need for pickaxes before they and a few more coworkers head off to get wasted.

Elodie, an overworked baker with a boss who cares for her given her consistent due diligence, is offered a ticket to Hoenn as well, arriving in Lilycove alongside her bubbly fun-loving Milcery, Cabbage. Naturally interested in the wide array of global cuisine being presented at the festival, they try samples of a few things, taking the first damage of the game as Cabbage ingests a very spicy kebab that cannot be quelled as Milcery cannot consume the milk she is made of.

Schmidt, having come off the same ferry as Gimli, given his ticket by his mother (concerned of his ramping stress levels), initially mistakes Gimli for a homeless person before choosing to disperse himself from the scene. He checks into a grandiose hotel, one fitting of a man with such a button-down shirt as his own, though interestingly lavish given he is but an office worker. Schmidt ensures that an exact number of buttons of his shirt are undone, specifically "one more than generally considered acceptable", before heading to the coast again to explore the wonders that await in the dating scene of Hoenn. Accompanying him is his trusty Farfetch'd, Quacko: a duck of few words and big actions.

Shenanigans ensue before a sudden halt. An aircraft appears in the sky, absolutely unexpected, as suddenly the festival finds itself under attack. Legions of masked figures hang off the side of the aircraft as they point odd-looking Pokeballs that use black de-atomizing rays (as opposed to the signature red of the anime), capturing Pokémon into them that already belong, or rather belonged, to other trainers. Among the abducted Pokémon is a prominently powerful Gengar owned by a former ace trainer who was invited to participate in an exhibition match for the festival.

Once the chaos dies down and the mysterious group has disappeared, the town is in disarray. The group are all drawn together by the calls of desperation of a distraught Kay, owner of Kay Mart, as he attempts to locate his Pichu, Pablo. For certain Pablo was not taken by the masked figures, however he was most definitely lost in the chaos. The party is formed and the adventure truly begins.