bottlecapooc | NOVEMBER 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
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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PLAYER INFO
PLAYER: Mauyn / Mii! but i will also respond to basically any corruption thereof, i've probably heard most of them by now
ABOUT: A perpetually tired pigeon in PST who may or may not lob tagbacks at you at ??? o'clock in the morning, don't worry about it. I have approximate knowledge of a decent amount of fandoms! I also have a horrible tendency to ramble if set off, oopsies. If I'm taking my sweet time on a thread then feel free to give me a nudge and I can prioritize it! on that note please don't mind the belated event tag ins or tagbacks you may be receiving soon.
CONTACT: Discord is fastest/most reliable if you really need to get a hold of me or just wanna chat, please just ask me for it, otherwise you can hit me up at

ellipsesinaction! I do try to respond to pings within a reasonable timeframe!

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER: Emmet
CANON: Pokemon B/W
POKEMON: Hisuian Zoroark
GUILD: Oran
INFO/PERMISSIONS: right this way
ABOUT:

~~One of those two inexplicably popular guys who keep getting mentioned in unrelated games in the series all the time~~ Train conductor from the modern era of fictional New York City but two steps to the left because surprise, Pokémon have always been a thing in his world! Cheerful and Always Smiling. Can be somewhat blunt and to the point! A bit of an adrenaline junkie, maybe, if that's what we're calling being into battling as much as he is. Because if a battle is not serious, it is not fun! Surely the eternal grin matched with this kind of attitude on a spectral white ghost fox who sometimes can be a little overwhelming especially when he gets (over)excited will be fine.

Where he's from he's one of the two who should be running Unova's equivalent of the Battle Tower, except out of the subway because nothing says New York like making your morning commute PVP enabled. Here in the Bay, or now the newly christened skull death all that goth stuff etc etc Outpost, he mostly keeps himself busy with missions and training and helping people get used to the Pokémon thing if need be, when he's not keeping himself attached at the hip to his (previously very, very missing) brother Ingo. Please understand that he will get zoomies if he is not doing something at all times.

Oocly I will probably be taking it easy this month and catching up since it's a TDM month! also I have stuff going on. I'm probably going to limit how many new heavier threads I take on as a result across both characters (this is unlikely to affect low effort faffing around on the network or more lighthearted threads), but if you're waiting on something from me/we have something currently ongoing/previously discussed then don't worry!

Also, it was floated a while ago to him icly by Ingo, and then also oocly egged on by the mods but then got backburnered with so much else going on ... but given how recentish events in Sept/Oct might have affected morale/everyone's spirits, he might be looking at revisiting that idea of a big cross-guild sleepover? You know, to cheer people up/get to know each other a little more? What better time than when most everyone's probably going to be in the same place anyway? Do we want to do another sleepover?

Also, who wants to gather up all of Emmet's shed for the fur and wool quest, lmao. It's basically free points. As always I am always open to any of the quests, esp the rescues!

ANYTHING ELSE:

( x ) it was Halloween yesterday therefore—

Ingo will definitely be helping to brush Emmet ~~and cash in on that fur.~~ Also I think this month he's going to maybe uhhhhh start stockpiling a bunch of food in their shared quarters, so. Look forward to that??? 👉👉 Also probably whatever emotional fallout there may still be from the Ghost Incident

hang on are we doomsday preppers now, do we have reason to believe the guild stores are going to not be enough to keep up
- a man who has not lived through a hisuian winter or anything more inconvenient than 'remember to keep the water running, it keeps pipes from freezing' in really cold winters, not counting the flash freeze kyurem did of the northern part of the region that one time

on the bright side the room they're staying in truly probably will never not be cozy, between the resident fire type and all the ~~fur~~ insulation,

Honestly the only reason he's waited this long to start is because of the apparently fruitful guild stores! But now that winter is really looming he is getting increasingly anxious! He wouldn't even describe himself as anxious, mind; he's just being practical! But it's definitely an anxiety thing.

A N Y W A Y yeah they can probably keep reasonably warm and their shelter is unlikely to be impacted by any snowfall so that's all great! So it's really just the food thing!

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER: The First Fallen Human (Chara Dreemurr)
CANON: Undertale
POKEMON: Unovan Yamask
GUILD: Lum
INFO/PERMISSIONS: alleyoop
ABOUT:

Behold! It is a walking spoiler for the hit indie RPG of 2015. Though as of the anniversary streams a month or so ago maybe they are finally freed from the status of being treated as quasispoilers...? Anyway, they are your helpful disembodied narrator as you go through the Underground, offering such wise and valuable mid-battle advice as "burn (this is what you'll probably do if things keep going this way)" and "heckle (even they think you're being too mean about it if you keep doing it)".

Their backstory/general character comes with some potential but notable CWs, so if you want more information on that, then please head on over to their permissions/info post to find the details + an opt out if so desired!

Glances at whatever the hell is going on with the UTDR cast and looks away. One, now that we know a smaller Noelle was actually in Snowdin... two, whatever's going to go on with Flowey and Kris and how that all is going to shake out ... whew, huh? Anyway, need to see how the UT-DR revelations go first before anything super concrete probably, so that works out with me taking it oocly more easily this month anyway. Like several of us I sort of got swallowed by Z-A too.

If you want to set up an interaction or need an idea on how to jumpstart/handwave basic cr, they can often be found reading in the archives, working at the clinic, or gardening! Please note that they are unlikely to have given anyone their name even so (that said, it is quasipublic knowledge given that Flowey's mentioned it a couple of times on the network if people are really paying attention), and would have encouraged them to just call them whatever they like.

( x ) remember, the question to always be asking:

We really should have these two meet! They could do it at that Lum party, or maybe just trip over each other in the archives? Odile's certainly spending quite a bit of time there herself!

I would LOVE to throw Tenna at Chara honestly I think it'd be sooooo funny. If you don't mind a smaller interaction I'd be totally down for that! (The Legends ZA pull is strong...)

chara and perrin is becoming such fun cr already. like. they get each other. and like i imagine perrin has heard charas' name but won't bother using it. perrin is a lot more protective of his name, i can't believe only three-four people technically know it.

we should also do more with them, the weird unhinged lums who have a Connection to flowey. i can imagine them getting along like a house on fire. this is clearly the adult influence needed.

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