FEBRUARY PLOTTING POST

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⋆✩ 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 5700 points
Ren 3800 points
Emmet 3500 points
Shoka 3500 points
Ingo 2700 points
Bigby 2050 points
A.B.A 1800 points
Sanji 1650 points
Flamebringer 1600 points
Umemiya 1550 points
Parvati 1200 points
Noelle 1150 points
Kris 1100 points
Cedric 800 points
Catrina 650 points
Kinger 650 points
Maya 650 points
Impmon 600 points
Eleanor 500 points
III 350 points
Oko 0 points
Tomoro 0 points

Cheri Berries
Siffrin 3650 points
Laios 3400 points
Flowey 3250 points
Guilmon 3150 points
Archnemon 2600 points *
Firoza 2450 points
Aegiomon 650 points
Agnes 400 points
Henry 150 points
Cater 0 points
Neige 0 points
Robin 0 points
Sherlock 0 points
(* Archnemon has earned an upgrade to middle-tier housing!)
(Tenna has been swept from the game.)

Lum Berries
Emporio 5300 points
Anasui 5100 points *
Perrin 2200 points
Akira 1700 points
Ring-Spirit 1300 points
Dolly 1200 points
Mayaka 950 points
Chara 750 points
Seto 650 points
Odile 350 points
(* Anasui 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 Archnemon and Anasui, for achieving the next tier of accommodation! You free to assume at any time during the month, that your Guild Leader has approached you with an offer to move into Middle Tier Housing and High Tier Housing respectively; as this is an optional upgrade, you are also free to remain in Lower Tier and Middle Tier Housing instead.

AVAILABLE QUESTS

Click here to see all the available quests!

Remember - Players can submit their own quests, here!

BOUNTY: GLITTERING GUERRILLA
QUEST TYPE: HEAVY
QUEST GIVER: Polteageist
CLAIM LIMIT: Limit one Heavy Quest per character
DIFFICULTY: ★★★
THREAD REQUIRED?: Yes
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by FEBRUARY 15th 11:59 PM EST.

Recent sightings have been made of an unknown Pokemon within Furnace Mountain - descriptions include a metallic scent, glittering eyes, and flower-like shapes, and witnesses are wary of their intentions.

Due to local tension, we have determined it best to investigate the identity and whereabouts of this Pokemon, to determine if they are a threat to others. We now call on any Pokemon able to weather extreme heat, resist potentially toxic materials, and scent through burning environments to band together for this search.

Report to Polteageist for more information.

POINTS REWARDED: 300 points (200 points for failure)
EXTRA REWARDS?: Potential for plot information (if successful), risk of consequence (nothing to ever ruin your time in game).
NOTES:Please use the summary section to fill out how your character will prepare for this quest. Information on what the team will encounter will be presented in their reply. While we will use a super-secret rubric to decide success/failure based on later summaries, your beginning advice is to prioritize safe navigation through the region over battle.

BOUNTY: RINGING RISK
QUEST TYPE: HEAVY
QUEST GIVER: Ribombee
CLAIM LIMIT: Limit one Heavy Quest per character
DIFFICULTY: ★★★
THREAD REQUIRED?: Yes
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by FEBRUARY 15th 11:59 PM EST.

Recent sightings have been made of an unknown Pokemon within the Northern Forest - descriptions include the sound of bells, strange shadows, and the sight of colored streamers, and witnesses are wary of their intentions.

Due to local tension, we have determined it best to investigate the identity and whereabouts of this Pokemon, to determine if they are a threat to others. We now call on any Pokemon able to navigate local woods, ignore auditory distraction, and clearly see shadows to band together for this search.

Report to Ribombee for more information.

POINTS REWARDED: 300 points (200 points for failure)
EXTRA REWARDS?: Potential for plot information (if successful), risk of consequence (nothing to ever ruin your time in game).
NOTES:Please use the summary section to fill out how your character will prepare for this quest. Information on what the team will encounter will be presented in their reply. While we will use a super-secret rubric to decide success/failure based on later summaries, your beginning advice is to prioritize safe navigation through the region over battle.

BOUNTY: FRIGHTENING FREEZE
QUEST TYPE: HEAVY
QUEST GIVER: Mightyena
CLAIM LIMIT: Limit one Heavy Quest per character
DIFFICULTY: ★★★
THREAD REQUIRED?: Yes
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by FEBRUARY 15th 11:59 PM EST.

Recent sightings have been made of an unknown Pokemon within Icefall Lake - descriptions include a tall silhouette with horns, an alluring voice, and clouds of ice, and witnesses are wary of their intentions.

Due to local tension, we have determined it best to investigate the identity and whereabouts of this Pokemon, to determine if they are a threat to others. We now call on any Pokemon able to resist Ice types, illusions, and cold weather to band together for this search.

Report to Mightyena for more information.

POINTS REWARDED: 300 points (200 points for failure)
EXTRA REWARDS?: Potential for plot information (if successful), risk of consequence (nothing to ever ruin your time in game).
NOTES:Please use the summary section to fill out how your character will prepare for this quest. Information on what the team will encounter will be presented in their reply. While we will use a super-secret rubric to decide success/failure based on later summaries, your beginning advice is to prioritize safe navigation through the region over battle.

TOTAL WHITEOUT
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Lurantis
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★★✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by FEBRUARY 25th 11:59 PM EST.

The recent avalanche has set back numerous projects, and worse, stranded many local Pokemon who may have been in the area. We request the help of any and all able-bodied Pokemon able to search for and rescue potential victims from the snow!

POINTS REWARDED: 100 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: None

BLINK AND MISSING
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Lickitung
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★✩✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by FEBRUARY 25th 11:59 PM EST.

Now that we're keeping track of who's in the city, I've realized that I haven't seen Rotom 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.

TOUGH LUV
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Timburr
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★✩✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by FEBRUARY 25th 11:59 PM EST.

Lately, there have been Luvdisc attacking the city! They seem to be focused on Bottlecap Bay's Harbor. Please help fight them off!

POINTS REWARDED: 50 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: No.

LIGHT CONSTRUCTION
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Lurantis
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★✩✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by FEBRUARY 25th 11:59 PM EST.

Forretress is in charge of a project to create lightposts throughout the town. I need reliable Pokemon who can help retrieve charged rocks from Heavy Downmoor's caves.

POINTS REWARDED: 50 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: No.

QUEST UPDATES & IMPORTANT NOTICES

A big thank-you to everyone enjoying Bottlecap Bay’s Questboard system! We have a quick note regarding quest deadlines, which can be seen in the current posting.

After internal discussion, we have decided to adjust the deadlines for quests to give mods more breathing room for processing. For light quests, this is just a few days before the end of the month! But for heavy quests, the initial submission is being moved closer to the middle of the month. This will ensure that mods have enough time to write customized experiences for these quests, while players are still given enough leeway to begin their follow-up thread and submit it.

In addition, following the dreamshare event, the kinks in the Grumpearl upgrades have been ironed out, and a handful of new Grumpearl features are available!

Characters are now able to block pearl messages - both blocking all public transmissions while still receiving inbox transmissions, and/or blocking specific other characters (whether messages are public or inbox). If a character is blocked, but is sending something in public, the blocker will still perceive public responses to that character unless they block all public transmissions. A blocked character will be able to tell that they were blocked only once they try to send an inbox transmission to whoever blocked them, in which case they'll feel it being rejected - in public, it will just seem as though they're being ignored. A blocked character will also still be able to see all public transmissions made by whoever blocked them.

(OOCly, this has been calculated for maximum drama. Please enjoy.)

In addition, characters are now optionally able to have a Grumpearl wake them up if they receive a message in their sleep. (The Grumpigs promise there will be no more dream hiccups!)

As a final note, we realized some points went missing during December’s calculation - this has hopefully been fixed, but please let us know if that isn’t the case!

There are a lot of exciting things planned for the incoming year, so please continue to enjoy Bottlecap Bay!

INCOMING EVENTS

Reports of mysterious, over-powered Pokemon have begun filtering back to the bay, meriting investigation! Unfortunately, chaos doesn’t take turns - after all the warning and preparations, February brings a massive avalanche and Pokemon in Skull Town preparing for exploration will find themselves sidetracked in responding to disaster! Of course, that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy the thawing winter either.

LET'S GET PLOTTING
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Comments

[0dchess]

Waiting for an answer from the mods to see if Kinger can even get what he needs to build a rudimentary DC motor, since I don't know how easily he could find magnets.

I feel like it's probably reasonable to assume a 1995 computer scientist would be able to do basic electronic tinkering? It seems like something he might have done in a science class at least once along the way.

[sharpjustice]

alrighty! and if it's not possible to find magnets / make the fan... akechi and shoka have cellphones that mayaka could ask to borrow for kinger's experiment ? that's the closest to technology i can think of that exists in game now haha but i hope kinger can make his fan !!

[0dchess]

Okay, so based on the mods' answer I think I have an idea for a pitch:

PLAYERS: Bread and Holly
CHARACTERS: Mayaka and Kinger
QUEST: Blink and Missing
SUMMARY: Kinger finds himself once again in the Archives, doing some research on the natural materials in the area. When Mayaka finds him, he explains what Akechi told him about Rotom possessing appliances, and while he doesn't know how to build anything that complex he can build a rudimentary fan. He needs magnets and wires though, and he goes into details about how he's pretty sure he would be able to find magnetic lodestones in Heavy Downmoor, and maybe if they dug up the right kind of metal, a fire type might be able to help mold it into wires... and then Mayaka lets Kinger know that she's already seen regular magnets and wires for sale in town.

Mayaka gathers the materials and helps with the design as Kinger makes a fan that is technically functional, but would probably burn out quickly if continuously used. From there, Mayaka and Kinger will explore both places where technology is concentrated (such as the SINTO-gifted technology in The Spire, and the non-electronic kitchens) and then moving on to more natural areas where ghosts or electric types tend to live.

[sharpjustice]

Thank you for doing this up!! I will belatedly add that with Mayaka's fear of ghosts she'd need to be convinced / reassured by Kinger about going into a ghost concentrated area, or insist they only go in the day time or something haha. Though that wouldn't work for Kinger so they'd probably go at night right?

(I forgo Rotom is ghost type....) if we want to thread this, maybe at the start Mayaka has a misconception Rotom is a purely electrical being and dutifully helps out Kinger... until they're out in the wild in the middle of the night and Kinger clarifies that they're looking for a ghost. WELP too late for her to turn back now !!

[sharpjustice]

Just to say that I'm good with what you have for the quest summary !! Don't think we need any changes to it but there would be some extra fun bits if we were to thread haha. I'm ok to handwave the quest otherwise !

[0dchess]

Submitted! I'd be down to thread it out once we get the results.

[sharpjustice]

yay ok thank you holly!

[0dchess]

well these results don't seem ominous at all

[sharpjustice]

hehe GREAT !! and for the thread which part would u like to start ? the fan-building part or in media res in the forest / heavy downmoor (also can mayaka paint the fan pink)

[0dchess]

I think starting with Scooby Doo level hijinks in Heavy Downmoor would be fun! And I'm not just saying that because of the Mystery Club talk

[sharpjustice]

oh yes that's great .... did you want to write the starter? if not i'm happy to~ we can thread in my log post here unless u'd like a separate post for it!