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
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CANON: Canon, or Original if an OC
POKEMON: The Pokemon they ended up as, and if they're shiny or a regional variant!
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PLAYER INFO
PLAYER: Isa
ABOUT: Nerdy hobbyist who wants to do everything at the same time and never has issues with that going poorly ever! Returning from Hiatus after being gone all October to try to finish a cosplay. Con got me real tired but I had a lot of fun :)
CONTACT: PM or I sometimes give out my discord on request!

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER: Flamebringer
CANON: Arknights
POKEMON: Absol
GUILD: Oran Berries
INFO/PERMISSIONS: Doink

ABOUT:

An Ex-mercenary turned employee of one Rhodes Island Pharmaceutical, where his new job is now basically the same as his old job, but the benefits are a lot better! So are the morals, but those aren't necessarily his first priority. He's the lone wolf type. He doesn't go out of his way to forge connections with others or play nice. He will speak up if he deems it to be worth his time, but any other time he keeps to himself. His disposition and appearance of being extremely strong and hostile often scares away his fellow operators, but he couldn't care less.

His experience at Bottle cap has been alright enough he supposes. You could do a lot worse than having a roof over your head, food on your plate, and coworkers who aren't too annoying. Things have taken an extreme turn for the worse for him recently, he didn't enjoy Frosslass's little takeover- and passing out from the strange "illness" shortly after has done him no favors...

I am back from Con hiatus (allegedly) and oh boy this guy is NOT having a good time.

He's been knocked the heck out for the entirety of October- Other pokemon might've noticed him slowing down or oversleeping a lot near the end of September as well.

I ran out of time to TL him back on the September TDM, so I'm just going to put it all here for handwaving- He was attempting to actively resist Frosslass back when she was about- and as a result was carrying around One William curses (read: like 3). Due to so many other pokemon being influenced he often avoided other people entirely if he could. Near the end of celebrations he caved just enough to help out at the maid cafe for maaaaybe a week or so. Mostly so he was. Less cursed. Frosslass didn't take away ALL his curses but she stripped it down to being like one curse, which is the constantly feeling cold curse.

Ever since his natural body temperature has been lower. Nothing dangerous or anything- but enough to put him off his game severely and make him paranoid. He normally runs warm back on Terra- and he already ran colder in this place, now its worse!
Once things calmed down on the Frosslass front he did come out from hiding- but he was still pretty skittish. Not that that lasted long- because soon after he passed out- and now here we are!

He did NOT take waking up in the clinic very well. If anyone was on shift when he did it probably very quickly seemed like he was having a panic attack. Once he calmed down he played nice until he could sneak out of the clinic. Ever since he's been avoiding all clinic staff and others who might try to drag him back- while doing his best to act like his body doesn't need to actively recover from being asleep for an entire month.

As a result he can't get clearance for any of the more active quests, which has only soured his mood more. He can still manage Furfrou’s sake! and Woolly Activity if anyone wants to grispen him for a quest. You will have a very quiet and cranky teammate who looks the whole time like he wants to be anywhere but there aslkdjfLSKDJGSD

I'll probably try to have some of the fallout of this on the TDM- fingers crossed since I keep getting overwhelmed around them whoops. But I'm super down to do handwaves around any of the events I've described above- CR who witnessed him disappear or worried about him? SO down. Any clinic frequent fliers who would've noticed him being in a coma or trying to escape? HIT ME UP. Completely new people who just want a slice of the pie over here? COME AT ME BRO- I'm open to the idea of doing actual threads for stuff too- but that will be a bit more played by ear in terms of my availability, since I have old tags to return to- and I don't want to drown myself before the TDM.

Backtagging or handwaving concepts for what could've happened during/at the end of September I'm also super down for- Since I also disappeared around those times.

ANYTHING ELSE: Meme.exe not found. Too tired post con

NOVEMBER PLOTTING POST

Isa || Flamebringer