June Plotting Post

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MEMBER & GUILD RANKING

New quests are released! Sign-ups will open officially on the 3rd of this month, so until then, here's a plotting post for you all to get your Duckletts in a row! Before we hop right into things, though, here are the tallies from total quest points!

Click here for the rankings!

⟡ MEMBER RANKING
ICly, Rankings will show the points earned of all Pokemon in guilds, including NPC Pokemon not listed here OOCly. We didn't list guild leaders this time, but might in the future for fun. Keep in mind that quests available to player characters are not the entire pool of quests, and that some are likely snatched up before they can get to them regularly, which is how points vary and how some guilds pull ahead even without much player help. However, over time, player points will certainly affect the standing of guilds! Without further ado, here are the characters in ranking order by guild:

Oran Berries
Goro 1300 points
Shoka 1250 points
Ren 950 points
Emmet 850 points
Ingo 800 points
A.B.A 550 points
Conrad 550 points
Akari 500 points
Dark Heart 250 points

Cheri Berries
Firoza 750 points
Firepaw 700 points
Siffrin 600 points
Guilmon 550 points
Laios 400 points
Junpei 350 points

Lum Berries
Emporio 1050 points
Narciso 900 points
Courier Six 550 points
Ring-Spirit 300 points

⟡ GUILD RANKING
And of course, posted everywhere is the guild ranking.

1. Lum Berries
2. Oran Berries
3. Cheri Berries

AVAILABLE QUESTS

This is a HEAVY QUEST month, meaning there are quests in the mix that are classified as "heavy!" What does this mean? More chance for plot, and more risk of consequence! Characters can try each quest more than once as long as no claim limit is listed, but will only receive points for any given quest once. However, consequences can occur within these dangerous listed quests. Due to potential for consequence or harm, we recommend waiting for results of one exploration-titled quest before submitting for another.

In addition, we would like to remind players that for these heavy quests, failure is possible. While light quests use solely RNG to determine results, heavy quests use a combination of a point system and RNG-style changes. Success vs failure is calculated via points after gathering information from your submitted summary and some limited mod knowledge (quest history, Pokemon type, etc). Then, using either our “success” or “failure” map, we use a pre-written list of outcomes to formulate what the quest group experiences and form the reply from there. In the previous heavy quest round, we failed to stress the importance of the summary section, and failed to take into account certain Pokemon typing that may have advantages or disadvantages. We also realized that failure resulting in zero points may be too harsh, and have reevaluated that partial points be rewarded even for failures. These have been adjusted this round, and we will continue to make changes as needed with player feedback. The importance of the summary section will be reworded on the quest page itself, as well. Thanks for your patience!

Previously, in addition to sending teams for further investigations to the surrounding forests, investigations of violence along the coastline were made. Thanks to these efforts, three dangerous Pokemon and potential Pokemon have been identified as targets with a Bounty on their head for the month. With that in mind, here's some information about each of the areas for you to use for your threads, to keep in mind while signing up, and to use for knowing what sort of angle you want to use to tackle these.

BOUNTY LIST
Unlike typical Explorations, each of these quests have so great a level of danger ascribed to them that various NPC teams will be patrolling the locations of each Bounty. Their task is to extract any teams who need help on a retreat, so that they can live to fight another day. Success and Failure won't hinge on totally defeating these bounties; no one Pokemon team could hope to take these creatures out on their own! Instead, teams will be expected to do their best to venture into these still somewhat unknown regions and do what they can to try and do their part in the fight.

Bottlecap Bay's Coast
The open ocean Bottlecap Bay overlooks has recently been the scene of various water related attacks, and even possible deaths. Thanks to the efforts and studies of other Pokemon, this is the only Pokemon to be identified. A massive Dondozo, rumored to be a white gleam in the water, now thrashes out in the fog of the bay. Further information can be found on the quest page, but notably, bird Pokemon will find themselves at greater risk against their natural predator.

Middle Forest
A fog-laden stretch filled with steep declines and hidden pits. The mist clings to Pokemon, curving around them like a living being. The forest floor is incredibly unpredictable, and familiar figures might attempt to coax Pokemon apart from one another, or trick you further into the forest in tandem with hallucinations. Recently it has been proven that ground type moves have been playing a role in the shifting terrain, and large shadows were seen lurking near discarded bones. It would be best to prepare for a battle against a truly formidable foe.

Southern Forest
The most treacherous in terms of navigation. Landmarks and markers shift unpredictably, and even weirder, some look aged beyond comprehension. The fog exists here, but it's far less thick than in the center of the forest, even if just as disorienting. Worst of all, parts of the forest floor have already collapsed into a system of unstable, old caves. These caves may collapse even further, leaving Pokemon stranded, separated, or struggling to free themselves. While Ghost Pokemon thrive here, imitating teammates or other wild Pokemon and causing confusion, recent reports have grown sinister— while most content themselves with turning Pokemon on one another, separating them or causing cavern collapses, Ghost Pokemon with traces of green and violet auras have begun to show resistance to Ghost and Dark attacks. Pokemon should be wary of a truly deceptive creature.

A UNIQUE REWARD

During the Test Drive for May, it was stated that any characters to participate in the team building activities of the Archive during the heavy rains would receive a 'Unique Reward'. This reward will be presented to them on June 1st, after careful discussions amongst local tailors. What is this reward?

It's a customized accessory! Anything from hats, to scarves, to simple sashes- every participant will receive one such accessory, and they'll find it imbued with a special power. While defending friends or teammates, it makes them stronger.

OOC PLOTTING & INTRO TO NEWBIES

Lastly, along with plotting for the monthly quests, this post doubles as an OOC intro post for all new players! Because of this, there is a newbie directory for new characters to link their top levels for extra visibility.

PLAYER INFO
PLAYER: Your handle
ABOUT: Tell us a little about yourself.
CONTACT: How do you prefer to be contacted?

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER: Character name
CANON: Canon, or Original if an OC
POKEMON: The Pokemon they ended up as, and if they're shiny or a regional variant!
GUILD: Represent your new home! Feel free to change the hex #f29923 to your guild hex color, if you want.
INFO/PERMISSIONS: Link your info/permissions post and any other relevant posts (opt-outs, etc) here!

ABOUT:

Give us a little blurb about your character here!

PLANS:

Talk about goals, plans, things you're interested in, quests you want to sign up for, etc!

ANYTHING ELSE: Extra pictures, memes, or other little tidbits you want to add can go here.

<span style="color: #f29923; font-size: 1.0rem; font-weight:bold;">PLAYER INFO</span> <b>PLAYER:</b> <b>ABOUT:</b> <b>CONTACT:</b> <span style="color: #f29923; font-size: 1.0rem; font-weight:bold;">CHARACTER INFO</span> <b>CHARACTER:</b> <b>CANON:</b> <b>POKEMON:</b> <b>GUILD:</b> <b>INFO/PERMISSIONS:</b> <b>ABOUT:</b> <blockquote style="background-color:#eeeeee; text-align: justify; border-left: 3px solid #f29923; padding: 20px; color: #000000;">CHARACTER BLURB HERE</blockquote> <b>PLANS:</b> <blockquote style="background-color:#eeeeee; text-align: justify; border-left: 3px solid #f29923; padding: 20px; color: #000000;">PLAN BLURB HERE</blockquote> <b>ANYTHING ELSE:</b>

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Comments

[firealone]

PLAYER INFO
PLAYER: Bones
ABOUT: I'm a chronically ill comic artist living in EST! I do commissions sometimes that I advertise on plurk, but I'm trying to make comic subscriptions my primary means of income. Warriors and JJBA are my big obsessions, but I also love horror media and several animal violence series meant for children (Animorphs, Redwall, Ginga, etc). I also love dogs and can talk about them basically forever.
CONTACT: necromantica / canineconfetti on Discord :>

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER: Firepaw
CANON: Warrior Cats
POKEMON: Litten
GUILD: Cheri
INFO/PERMISSIONS: Right here!

ABOUT:

Firepaw is a housecat who left his home when he was a kitten, and started living in the woods with a group of feral cats called ThunderClan. He was only there for about two months before coming to Bottlecap. Since he's been in Bottlecap for most of his life now, he loosely considers himself just as much of a Litten as he does a cat, although he's still been keeping an eye out for more cats coming into the game. He also originally had a much stronger Cat Lexicon, but has started incorporating more human language in order to fit in with the other characters.

PLANS:

Firepaw's birthday is this month! He's turning a year old on the 13th (which ICly, he did not know but Emporio did some math to figure it out.) Firepaw doesn't know or care about birthdays, but OOCly I'm gonna either post a party log or add something into his toplevel for the June event. ICly I would love for one of the other characters to organize it! I just think that would be cute.

ALSO, I think Firepaw's gonna mostly stay out of the heavy quests this month, unless someone wants to fail on purpose for fun? This is a genuine offer, I don't mind failure for the sake of character development, but I don't fancy Firepaw's chances in combat with giant Pokemon lmao. Otherwise, he has some experience from tracking down Phantump so he'll be helpful in the Zweilous quest this month.

ANYTHING ELSE:

[truthdecided]

Maybe Guilmon can help look for Zweilous? He is very good at sniffin'. c:

[firealone]

Yesss they can play good cop gooder cop!

[favorforafavor]

IT'S ME I WANT TO FAIL ON PURPOSE we'll be stronger and weirder for it < 33

[firealone]

YESSS let's get our boys seriously injured <3

How about the middle forest for them?

[favorforafavor]

i LOVE playing to lose-- thanks for putting the request up!

[loopsiedaisy]

/points at you. Now that it's been a month and they have had enough time to get over themself and actually appreciate Firepaw coming after them. Sometime early this month Sif is gonna message Firepaw and offer an attempt at cat grooming time,

[firealone]

I cannot wait... he's gonna be SO EXCITED to rope Siffrin into his rich culture!!