bottlecapooc | 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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PLAYER INFO
PLAYER: Lil Cosgrove (or just Lil)
ABOUT: EST Canadian film, TV, and overall media buff, especially of Disney. Currently unemployed because I got laid off right before the job market tanked, but am financially well and spending my non-application time writing, RPing, doing archery, and improving my French. Also married to Yon! I've been tagging late at night but am now peppering that throughout the day as I try to get a better sleep schedule.
CONTACT: DM this account or friend me at

LilCosgrove

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER: Cedric the Sorcerer
CANON: Sofia the First
POKEMON: Murkrow - not shiny, but the side tufts on his head are grey thanks to enchantment muckery
GUILD: Oran Berries
INFO/PERMISSIONS: Ici!
ABOUT:

Imagine someone took Disney's entire canon, put it in a blender, and then scattered it all over an original princess fairy tale setting, and you get the Sofia the First universe. Then imagine a scrawny royal sorcerer whom everyone thought was a screwup because of one childhood misunderstanding, so he tried to take over his boss' kingdom as a desperate attempt to prove his worth.

Now imagine that instead he was thwarted by the love of a seven-to-twelve-year-old child just because she was the only one with unwavering faith in his abilities and even called out those who doubted him. Sounds pathetic, right? Except it worked, and with newfound external confidence, he improved, to the point where he was the one who successfully conjured a spell to save that same child from eternal confinement in her own amulet, the same one he was initially pursuing for domination. All he lost in return was his longtime raven companion who now thinks he's a wuss.

So despite desperately missing his magic and his recently-earned happy ending, he's adapting quite well! He's made a couple of friends already and participated in a ton of quests last month, so he's feeling pretty useful. He's been accumulating all of his fallen feathers to keep Orans warm in low-tier housing, which is great because he will not handle the snow as well as he assumes. Some unfortunate Poke (Anasui) introduced him to the Psychic type, which he now thinks is the Pokémon version of magic and thus assumes he can learn it easily because of his sorcerer background - this will be a long arc but spoilers, I'm making this as difficult for him as I possibly can.

Since he's been invited to Umemiya's party for this month, I'm going to take it easy with top levels and focus on tagging out on the TDM - I have been neglecting tagouts anyway, so this works out. I am, however, still determined to do quests, with new and established CR! The quests of most interest to me are Who Watches the Watchlights, Furfrou's Sake!, and Parvati's Sixteen (Tinka)tons - but I'm open to others if anyone has a compelling idea. ***[UPDATE: Who Watches the Watchlights has now been claimed by Impmon, so I'm just seeking buddies for the other two.]

Oh, and he won't talk about it much, but he's A-OK with Lurantis winning the vote. Yes, he voted for Umbreon, but Lurantis was his original option anyway, so.

ANYTHING ELSE: His Ability is literally Insomnia, he's not a fan.

Edited 2025-11-02 06:04 (UTC)

Shows up here and waves hello extremely late... I have been meaning to get some Cedric CR so I am here to bug you! If you don't have any takers for Furfrou's Sake! yet I would be happy to send Siffrinx along, they can have gotten grouped together randomly.

I'm canonblind but through osmosis I think these two could have some fun interactions... but aside from the more spoiler-y thoughts on my end, I just think it would be very funny to see Cedric's reaction to someone with a wizard hat who is very decidedly not a wizard,

Heeeeey I too have been wanting some Siffrinx CR action! Cedric absolutely would be baffled by the fake wizard, and I welcome every opportunity to baffle him.

At this moment, Furfrou's Sake is still free, so we can absolutely slap the two of them together! Let me know if you want to submit the form, if not I can toss it up tomorrow.

/thumbsup as long as you don't mind doing it! Siffrinx will just have the usual to contribute: they're familiar with the areas around and they've got a good kitty nose.

/edits to add: I'll get a top level up for the actual quest somewhere tomorrow and drop you a link! (unless you get to it before me, that is also 100% fine!)

/EDITS AGAIN here u go

Edited 2025-11-11 23:21 (UTC)

Aha, you beat me to it! Thank ye, I'll tag back to this tonight.

And now that I'm home, the quest has been submitted as well!

EDIT: Results for the above are already in! This thread is going to be great with a dash of "ooh" and "oof".

Edited 2025-11-12 16:33 (UTC)

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Lil Cosgrove | Cedric | Sofia the First

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