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Baymod Helpers ([personal profile] bayhelpers) wrote in [community profile] bottlecapooc2025-11-01 10:40 am

NOVEMBER PLOTTING POST


⋆✩ plotting post ✩⋆

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
Akechi 4500 points
Shoka 2700 points
Emmet 3250 points
Ren 2700 points *
Ingo 2400 points
Bigby 1300 points
A.B.A 1200 points
Sanji 1150 points
Umemiya 1100 points
Flamebringer 1050 points
Noelle 550 points
Kris 400 points
Parvati 300 points
Cedric 250 points
Kinger 250 points
Impmon 150 points
Need 100 points
(* Ren has earned an upgrade to mid-tier housing!)

Cheri Berries
Siffrin 3250 points *
Guilmon 2500 points *
Laios 2500 points *
Flowey 2400 points
Firoza 2000 points
Fireheart 1600 points
Archnemon 1550 points
Agnes 300 points
Henry 100 points
Ken 100 points
Tenna 100 points
(* OOCly, Siffrin (ISAT) has 600 points and Siffrin (SA) has 2650 points, but ICly they were mixed up and their points were pooled together. Also, Guilmon and Laios have earned an upgrade to mid-tier housing!)

Lum Berries
Emporio 4000 points
Anasui 3750 points
Perrin 1400 points
Akira 1350 points
Ring-Spirit 1250 points
Chara 550 points
Seto 350 points
Dolly 250 points
Odile 50 points

Congratulations to Ren, Siffrin (SA), Guilmon, and Laios, for achieving the next tier of accommodation! You are free to assume at any time during the month, that your Guild Leader has approached you with an offer to move to Middle Tier Housing; as this is an optional upgrade, you are also free to remain in Lower Tier Housing instead.

Note: It is entirely possible that Ribombee will approach Siffrin (ISAT), due to confusing them for each other.

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

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

AVAILABLE QUESTS
Click here to see all the available quests!

Remember - Players can submit their own quests, here!

WHO WATCHES THE WATCHLIGHTS
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Lurantis
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★✩✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by NOVEMBER 30TH 11:59 EST.

Calling all available Pokemon capable of rescue! Team Watchlight of the Cheri Berries Guild has yet to return from their mission. According to their most recent mission report to Pellipper, they were located within the Heavy Downmoor region - more specifically, the flood basin.

Please, if you can bring anyone back, the guild will be forever grateful! You will know them by the reflective bands each member wears.


POINTS REWARDED: 100 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: No


FURFROU’S SAKE!
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Delcatty
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★★✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by NOVEMBER 30TH 11:59 EST.

Now that we're keeping track of who's in the city, I've realized that I haven't seen Furfrou in a while... Does anyone know where they might have gone? It might take some investigating, but I'll give you a cool rock for it!

POINTS REWARDED: 50 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: A random evolution or power-up stone.


WOOLLY ACTIVITY
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Ribombee
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★✩✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by NOVEMBER 30TH 11:59 EST.

As winter fast approaches, it is vital we properly supply ourselves. Right now, we're in need of shed fur and wool to create blankets and garments. Accepting anyone and everyone who can help gather and transport some.

POINTS REWARDED: 50 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: No.


BAX TO ARCTIBAX
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Mightyena
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★✩✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by NOVEMBER 30TH 11:59 EST.

As proof of solidarity with our allies, it is important to help defend the territories of the Forest from those who mean harm. In particular, Arctibax have been spotted harassing local Ghost Pokemon - remind them that they have their own place to call home!

POINTS REWARDED: 50 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: No.

MAYORAL VOTE RESULTS!

On a makeshift stage, as her last activity during this trip to Skull Town, Mightyena counts out the votes collected from all the poll boxes - gently discarding invalid votes to the side. (A Pelipper from the post office reviews that pile, making sure she didn’t make a mistake.)

The other end of the stage holds all five candidates - though Grimpig seems distracted, busily chattering away over telepathy. There’s an increasingly apprehensive silence from Umbreon in particular as the tally starts racking up more and more in his favor, and the pile of votes grows small… and then Malamar exclaims and points. There’s a Swalot near the pile with a suspiciously full-looking mouth!

Swalot is quickly bullied into using Spit Up, revealing a slimy bundle of additional votes. Mightyena dutifully calls these out as well, though she’s hiding a grimace at the clammy texture. By the time she reaches the bottom, though the vote is respectably close, there’s still a clear victor!

As promised, we’ve tallied the IC Vote on our new Mayor for (Death Blood Murder) Skull Town. With that in mind, we’d like to give a hearty congratulations to Cheri Berry Guild’s Lurantis!

Lurantis replaces Mightyena to make a very short, if still gracious, speech - though she’s outwardly calm, perhaps she doesn’t enjoy speaking to crowds? She thanks those who voted for her and promises again to focus first on preparing Skull Town for the encroaching winter, and on relations with the local Pokemon. Then she steps delicately down off the stage and into the crowd to make herself available to talk to.

As it turns out, she’s built up enough popularity that the crowd is packed tight! No Pokemon originating from other worlds will get a chance to speak with her directly before she eventually has to leave, but she’ll be available again in the near future. Just give her a couple of weeks to get settled into her new duties and organize the most urgent tasks and assignments!


INCOMING EVENTS

Winter appears to be arriving a little too quick for everyone’s liking this year, as once the middle of the month arrives so too will snow - and a lot of it! Get ready to see what Pokemon do during a Snow Day as we greet potential new players this month, as we begin to see snow forts, snow wars, and…snow beasts?

Hopefully whatever is coming isn’t any worse than Froslass.

LET'S GET PLOTTING
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.

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firealone: (101)

Bones + Fireheart

[personal profile] firealone 2025-11-01 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER INFO
PLAYER: Bones
ABOUT: I'm a commission/comic artist living in EST! I run a webcomic about superheroes and social unrest, and I've drawn a good chunk of the PMD-style icons in game :> I haven't been super active here but I'm trying very hard to improve that because I just love the Bay and all of the players here.
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] necromantica or ask me for my discord!
CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER: Fireheart
CANON: Warrior Cats
POKEMON: Litten
GUILD: Cheri
INFO/PERMISSIONS: Here!
ABOUT:
Fireheart used to be a housecat, before he wandered into the woods and joined a feral cat colony called ThunderClan. He lived with them for two months before ending up in Bottlecap Bay, where he was one of the first outlanders to join the Cheri Guild and has cemented himself as one of Ribombee's favorites. Fireheart recently gained his warrior name via a dream vision of his leader back home, and has been trying to recover from his month-long coma even though the fatigue never entirely went away. He's also been slowly forgetting a lot of things about Clan life, including what his best friend looks like and what a lot of ThunderClan's customs are, and he's been using less and less cat-specific language.

Fireheart has now officially been a Litten for half of his life, and he's no longer introducing himself to new people as a cat unless he's specifically asked about it. For all intents and purposes, he's pretty much a native Litten and he doesn't think he would want to be a cat again even if he got the opportunity.

PLANS:
Most importantly, Fireheart is posting a quest this month! It's been really bothering him that he ran into Jayfeather during one of the TDMs and never saw him again, so he'd like to organize a few search parties to try and figure out what happened to the Pokemon who show up during TDMs and don't get apped. These quests are ALL going to be failures, necessarily, but they should be fun flavor at least!

Fireheart's also on a learning journey about other forms of government (since the Clans have a sort of... benevolent dictatorship going on) so he might randomly ask other characters what elections/politics are like in their worlds. I want him to do some quests and get him climbing up the leaderboards again so that's probably when he'll be picking other peoples' brains. And of course, it wouldn't be Fireheart if he wasn't risking his pelt during every single TDM so that's on the docket too!

ANYTHING ELSE:


Warriors would be a two-book series if Fireheart had a gun
Edited 2025-11-01 15:30 (UTC)
dripdrive: (Judging look)

[personal profile] dripdrive 2025-11-03 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
Anasui probably: Wow, you want to go into politics? You're crazier than me...
firealone: (98)

[personal profile] firealone 2025-11-03 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Fireheart in the Elle Woods voice like "What, like it's hard?"
dripdrive: (bitch smile)

[personal profile] dripdrive 2025-11-04 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Anasui never said that, just saying he's crazy XD
cedricthegreat: (Everyone will bow)

[personal profile] cedricthegreat 2025-11-04 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Offering up my Murkrow to talk about how his world is a string of kingdoms functioning like modern-day countries (somehow), and he's buddy-buddy with his boss who's also the literal king.
firealone: (43)

[personal profile] firealone 2025-11-04 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Hell yeah! Fireheart doesn't know anything about monarchies but he'll be a huge fan, because he's a strong believer in God-given power (or rather, literally nine lives being granted by your ancestors when you earn the right to lead.) Clan leaders pick a deputy who becomes leader once the old leader dies, so that's all he knows because the only other systems he's been around are the guild leaders here or just like. Having human owners.
cedricthegreat: (But soon they'll see I'm meant to be)

[personal profile] cedricthegreat 2025-11-04 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
EXCELLENT they'll have lots to talk about then.
loopsiedaisy: (🌑 Head and heart)

[personal profile] loopsiedaisy 2025-11-10 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Sooo I still never ended up tagging in to your Fireheart network post, oop, it might be best to handwave that part at this point... wheezes. Rest assured Siffrinx was definitely happy to see him!! (And then like two days later had their identity crisis, rip -)

But I am so sending Siffrinx on Fireheart's quest this month, please hold for a quest submission with Someone.