JANUARY PLOTTING POST

[bayhelpers]

⋆✩ 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 5450 points *
Ren 3650 points
Emmet 3500 points
Shoka 3300 points
Ingo 2600 points
Bigby 2000 points
A.B.A 1700 points
Flamebringer 1550 points
Sanji 1500 points
Umemiya 1450 points
Noelle 1100 points
Kris 1000 points
Parvati 1000 points
Cedric 800 points
Kinger 600 points
Maya 550 points
Impmon 450 points
Catrina 450 points
Eleanor 400 points
III 350 points
(* Akechi has earned an upgrade to high-tier housing!)

Cheri Berries
Siffrin 3550 points
Laios 3250 points
Guilmon 3050 points
Flowey 2600 points
Firoza 2450 points
Archnemon 2300 points
Aegiomon 500 points
Tenna 450 points
Agnes 350 points
Henry 100 points

Lum Berries
Emporio 5100 points *
Anasui 4850 points
Perrin 2050 points
Akira 1700 points
Ring-Spirit 1300 points
Dolly 950 points
Chara 750 points
Seto 650 points
Mayaka 600 points
Odile 200 points
(* Emporio has earned an upgrade to high-tier housing!)

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

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

Congratulations to Akechi and Emporio, 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 into High Tier Housing; as this is an optional upgrade, you are also free to remain in Middle Tier Housing instead.

AVAILABLE QUESTS

Click here to see all the available quests!

Remember - Players can submit their own quests, here!

WHEREFORE ART THOU??
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Zangoose & Seviper
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★★✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by January 30th.

My friend and I live in different towns. It was hard to see each other before, but now that Skull Town is more established it should be easy to see each other in person right? And that means they could finally come here to Bottlecap! Please, escort us both!

POINTS REWARDED: 100 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: Random matching items

BOUFFA-LOAD
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Lurantis
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★✩✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by January 30th.

Bouffalant is in charge of a project for Death Blood Murder Skull Town's roadway development. I need reliable Pokemon who can help clear snow, salt paths, and construct necessary walk-ways.

POINTS REWARDED: 50 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: No

NUTTY BUDDIES
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Mightyena
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★✩✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by January 30th.

The city is in constant need of supplies. Right now, it's a great time to forage for nuts and mushrooms under the snow. Accepting anyone and everyone who can help gather some.

POINTS REWARDED: 50 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: No

EEVEESIVE MANEUVERS
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Ribombee
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★✩✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by January 30th.

Lately, groups of Eevee and their evolutions have been attacking the city! They seem to be focused on the Canopy - something about a mossy rock. Please help fight them off!

POINTS REWARDED: 50 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: No

QUEST UPDATES & IMPORTANT NOTICES

Hello everyone! We have some quest-related updates and requests to make.

First: we've recently been noticing a trend where, on occasion, some character pairs will submit for a significant amount of quests together - and one or both characters will have few if any quests with different CR. While we understand that this is IC for many characters and players would like to acknowledge those relationships, this is against the spirit of quests, which are meant to encourage building or progressing a variety of CR. Light quests currently don't require threads in order to accommodate for energetic characters who would ICly be very active, even if a player can't keep up. We'd still like this handwaved activity to involve engaging with many players/characters in order to earn points, however!

While we aren’t explicitly tracking this right now, we’re requesting that players avoid doing a large number of quests with the same partner in a single month. For those characters who would ICly do a lot together, you are very welcome to say that they are still doing additional quests offscreen!

Related: if a quest is being repeated, and all characters involved have already submitted for it with another group, there's no need to actually submit the quest! Points for each individual character are only counted once, and we're not currently tracking any further than that. You may just thread or handwave it!

Second: starting in January 2026, characters are only allowed to take on one heavy quest per month. As the game continues to grow, we're looking for ways to keep the mod workload manageable while still allowing for characters to have customized experiences, and this is one of those ways!

There is an in character explanation for this as well! As characters and players likely noticed: last month, for the first time in a long while, the Guild Rankings shuffled around, with the Oran Berries overtaking the Lum Berries... and the guild leaders have all been reacting to this!

Mightyena is extremely proud of her guild, and has been trotting around with her tail up and wagging all month. Those who see her regularly may notice she's also had something of an anxious air when caught unawares, though - is it just that she's not used to being in this position? If any members who have been around a bit longer question her about it, she's willing to confide - while she's proud of her guild members, she's started to get worried that some are overworking themselves, and will burn themselves out or become too tired to keep safe on dangerous quests. Some of her more ambitious guild members seem to be holding up very well, but eventually that has to run out! And she's also had many members land in the clinic; some have yet to emerge. (If Mightyena is being talked to in the Spire, characters may catch her trying and failing to keep from shooting concerned looks at the doorway to a specific room, where there's a feathery and grass-scented shared nest.)

Polteageist, on the other hand, has been restraining a foul mood nearly the entire time, with only short breaks when they got into the Longest Night spirit. They're used to the Lum Berries being on top and having the resources to match! While nobody in town actually seems inclined to take away any of the Lum Berries' privileges - after all, they still run the clinic and the Archives, and it's only to be expected that the smallest guild won't always have the most points - guild members close to Polteageist may comment on them staying up at their desk late into the night and morning, muttering irritably as they work through bureaucratic tasks.

Lastly, Ribombee seems outwardly unconcerned about his guild's standing - he's quick to say that the Cheri Berries do plenty of work for the town, and everyone who's paying attention knows it! If they don't do the most highly awarded tasks like the Lum Berries... well, someone still has to do the unglamorous selfless work, and the Cheri Berries should be proud of themselves no matter the guild's standing in the rankings. If someone does bring up guild rankings to him, he might even be seen to roll his eyes; he's more concerned about performance within the guild! However, he grows more thoughtful toward the end of December, after Mightyena talks with him about her worries - after all, the Cheris have as many members in the clinic as the Orans.

Regardless of their individual motivations, the guild leaders gather together at the beginning of January to make an announcement. They're going to start restricting how many heavy quests guild members are allowed to take on! With the boom in membership from the native Pokemon and everyone who has been transformed into a Pokemon, they're not anticipating that there will be any issues with quest fulfillment even with this policy. But if there are, they can always adjust again in the future.

INCOMING EVENTS

The snow this month is heavy and annoyingly persistent, and it seems that if anyone new arrives they’ll just have to deal with the mountains of cold. But there’s newer things on the horizon as well - or at least, that’s what the Grumpig brothers claim! With so much work cleared from the plate, maybe it’ll give you something new to do!

Or maybe something will go wrong again, and all of your dreams and nightmares will be put on blast.

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Kinger

[0dchess]

PLAYER INFO
PLAYER: Holly
ABOUT: I've been RPing with Andrea for over 15 years now, and our earliest characters were Pokémon so we've come full circle back in a Pokémon RP.
CONTACT: hollyfrosty on Discord. I'm also going to be attempting to learn how to Plurk so I can get better about knowing which human person is behind each character, and I'm hollyfrosty on there as well.

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER: Kinger
CANON: The Amazing Digital Circus
POKEMON: Morelull
GUILD: Oran Berries
INFO/PERMISSIONS: Info and permissions here!

ABOUT:

Kinger was originally a human, a long time ago, but for the last unknown amount of time (implied to be decades) he has been trapped in the digital avatar of a chess piece inside of a digital realm from which there is no escape. Which is why it took him a while to accept that he had, in fact, escaped into a different fantasy realm. Kinger has incredibly poor memory and focus, only being able to gather his thoughts when he's in the dark.

The arrival of modern technology from SINTO(?) and Kinger learning a little more about Psychic and Fairy abilities through the Grumpearl and Polteageist's Morelull information has made Kinger realize he might be able to make himself useful by combining his Earth knowledge with his new Pokémon magic.

PLANS:

Going to be test driving Robin from One Piece this month, but I still plan on being pretty active with Kinger. I'm going to put up some catch-all prompts at some point before the TDM with Kinger trying to develop his skills more. I'd like to work towards Kinger learning Trick Room in the next couple months to make a portable psychic pillow fort that allows him to stay focused in any environment, but this month I'll probably work on him picking up some more basic support moves.

As far as quests, I feel like the only one Kinger would sign up for confidently would be Nutty Buddies, but if someone wants to do another one for CR I am down. I'm also down with any sort of CR, especially with people Kinger hasn't talked to before. I'm also going to post a few more presents on the thread from last month that I couldn't think of right away or for people who posted after I posted the rest of my gifts.

ANYTHING ELSE:

[timeexistseverywhere]

SUPER HYPE to see Robin on the tdm! I still need CR with Kinger desperately, would he wanna do Nutty Buddies with Aegiomon? Aegiomon would be so excited to hear he comes from (a) digital world. ...and then horrified about what that entails.

[0dchess]

Yes for sure!!! Kinger wants to meet more Digimon. If Aelita is back to apply this month Kinger might end up trying to form some sort of digital world support group next month.

I need to binge some One Piece arcs before the TDM to get a feel for her voice, I listened to a summary podcast to get caught up to Wano but I'm going to bringing her in pre-timeskip like Sanji so I'll need to watch those arcs. looking forward to sobbing watching Enies Lobby

[0dchess]

I don't know anything about Aegiomon so you'll probably want to add some Aegiomon details to this, but here's a start:

PLAYERS: Merlot and Holly
CHARACTERS: Aegiomon and Kinger
QUEST: Nutty Buddies
SUMMARY: While two grass types might not seem like the perfect fit for snuffling through the snow, Aegiomon's fur and Kinger's recently acquired winterwear can keep them warm while they sniff things out. Winter heightening some Pokémon instincts will also let Kinger tap into his Morelull side and guide himself based on where the soil seems best to set up, which will most likely be where non-sapient mushrooms can also be found.

[edgewater]

You know if Kinger's looking for a sparring partner, I want to do some training for Parvati to justify giving her a couple extra moves like Play Rough! I think they'd be a fun match too ;3

[0dchess]

I think a sparring match with a Tinkaton might make Kinger look more like a Stunfisk, but I am still down for that ill-advised fight!

At the very least, Kinger would love to have a chance to talk to a scifi future engineer.

[edgewater]

Mushroom pancakes are probably a thing. Sorry he's gonna end up as one of those! At least they'll get to have a nice chat after!

[shotinhead]

okay so. i have to say this here, i didn't add it to gift, but just know. perrin nearly added an iou to the book he made. for a gun.

[0dchess]

incredible

Also I have no specific ideas, but I would love for Perrin and Kinger to get some CR! Especially since they did the Tenna quest together but we never threaded it, so canonically they have hung out but we've never seen that dynamic lol

[undeux_allblue]

We made the joke in another thread (Aegiomon network) that someone needs to app Luffy, the meme here right about killed me JKHJSDKLFDS who knew becoming king of the pirates came with such a cost....f in the chat. If Kinger needs help practicing moves or anything Sanji will be. Well, not openly but glad to help!

Also be prepared for the guy just openly weeping when he realizes one (1) crew member is alive and well and HERE-

(Also sent you a friend req on plurk! I am. Relearning how to use it lol)

[0dchess]

Well, "alive" might be ambiguous with the Pokemon I chose for her, though I have been second guessing myself because I've realized that Cofagrigus can never NOT have that toothy grin so Robin would be locked into a very out of character expression until I could get 20 reward points for her lmao

The other two I'm considering are Flutter Mane or Floette, but I still think I prefer the future de-Cheshire'd Cofagrigus