APRIL 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 6500 points
Ren 4350 points
Shoka 4100 points
Emmet 3500 points
Ingo 3000 points
Bigby 2300 points
A.B.A 1800 points
Noelle 1650 points
Parvati 1650 points
Umemiya 1650 points
Kris 1450 points
Cedric 1350 points
Catrina 1300 points
Maya 1150 points
Impmon 1000 points
Eleanor 1000 points
Kinger 850 points
III 450 points
Oko 150 points
Tomoro 0 points
Beetlejuice 0 points
Jack 0 points

Cheri Berries
Siffrin 4200 points
Guilmon 3750 points
Flowey 3450 points
Archnemon 3400 points
Firoza 2600 points
Aegiomon 750 points
Agnes 400 points
Robin 350 points
Cater 250 points
Henry 150 points
Sherlock 100 points
Neige 100 points
Aelita 0 points
Ritsuka 0 points
Simon 0 points *
(* ICly, Simon is not listed on the Member Rankings.)

Lum Berries
Emporio 5950 points
Anasui 5650 points
Perrin 2750 points
Dolly 2000 points
Mayaka 1300 points
Chara 750 points
Seto 750 points
Odile 400 points

⟡ 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!

OVER THE BRINK
QUEST TYPE: HEAVY
QUEST GIVER: Polteageist
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★★✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: Yes
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by APRIL 14th 11:59 PM EST.

We are facing an unprecedented circumstance as numerous Lum Researchers tasked with making contact with a Pokemon known as Decidueye have since gone entirely missing. Our witness and local guide, Chimecho, states that she was leading them through the area beyond the cliffs when they were set upon by a thick, heavy fog, not unlike what recently blanketed our forest region and bay. We have little understanding of what to expect. While Pokemon taking up this quest will be teleported in with the Lum's prototype room, after retrieving the Lum Research team, Pokemon must be prepared to make their own way back to the Bay through unknown and possibly dangerous terrain. Prepare for anything - adaptation will be key.

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 the potential to adapt to any given terrain.

GOING UP
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Mightyena
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★✩✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by APRIL 25th 11:59 PM EST.

As reaching the mountains beyond the Spire is easier said than done, Spinarak has begun a city project to erect safe stairways and walkways along the cliffside to make it easier for future travellers. Please help them with either constructing, or gathering the necessary materials.

POINTS REWARDED: 100 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: None

NOT A MINIOR MATTER
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Electrode
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★✩✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by APRIL 25th 11:59 PM EST.

Some of the rescued Minior from last month have been able to make their own way back to the sky, but others still need a little help. We need Pokemon to help construct two large catapults for launching Minior into the upper atmosphere... and others to man the devices when they're constructed! (Alternate methods of launching Minior are also welcome.)

POINTS REWARDED: 50 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: None.

DITTO TO THAT
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Swellow
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★✩✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by APRIL 25th 11:59 PM EST.

Lately, there have been all kinds of Pokemon attacking the city from the cliffs! They seem to look different somehow, but that doesn’t make them any less dangerous! Please help fight them off!

POINTS REWARDED: 50 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: No.

STEEL YOURSELVES
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Toxicroak
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★✩✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by APRIL 25th 11:59 PM EST.

With all the ongoing projects underway, we are finding supplies of metal running lower than originally anticipated. Join me in the caves under the Spire, and help to gather more minerals for smelting.

POINTS REWARDED: 50 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: No.

INCOMING EVENTS

With the recent Bounties revealing dire times for missing Lum Researchers, it’s no surprise that the town is preparing to avoid that kind of thing from ever happening again! But while rescues are underway, numerous unexpected Pokemon are flocking at the beaches from their winter homes. What are they doing here?

And for that matter, hey look! Lurantis has her reward ready!

LET'S GET PLOTTING
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Jack Wynand | Bioshock

[belowthesea]

PLAYER INFO
PLAYER: Bones
ABOUT: I'm a commission artist living in EST, and I'm responsible for a lot of the PMD-style icons in the game here! Returning with one of my comfort characters after some time away, and I might be a little slow at the beginning since I'm still figuring out how to be in two games at once but I'm gonna try my best to keep up! I'm super friendly, I'm always around to chatter on plurk and discord and I will talk to you until the end of time about Bioshock. Or dogs.
CONTACT: necromantica or canineconfetti on discord!

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER: Jack Wynand
CANON: Bioshock
POKEMON: Teddiursa
GUILD: Oran
INFO/PERMISSIONS: Right here! Includes opt-out info for spoilers or potentially triggering topics.
ABOUT:

Jack is a 24-year-old from 1950's Kansas who was the only survivor in a plane crash that landed him directly on top of the underwater city of Rapture. He went down there out of curiosity, immediately got trapped and then spent ten hours fighting for his life to get back out. He's still very early in the process of recovering from that, which is why he doesn't speak much. And why he is... deeply, intensely, weird.

More spoiler-heavy description: Jack is a 4-year-old test tube baby from Rapture, implanted with the false memories of a 24-year-old from Kansas, who was created specifically as a sleeper agent to kill his father and then turned out to be too good at survival for his creator to be able to kill him off after that was done. He is in the middle of picking up the pieces after finding all of that out, and regaining enough of his real memories to not recognize the person in his false memories at all. He is very desperately in need of guidance and compassion, although his programming won't allow him to talk very much so he can't get much of that across. BUT he makes a perfect bodyguard because he is very used to just killing everything in his path to get his goals done.

PLANS:

I don't have much of a plan, just getting settled! Jack has less than zero interest in the point system, he honestly thinks it's stupid to worry about it, but he's very eager to tag along for quests (especially for anyone he met during the TDM). I'm gonna try to keep those TDM threads going too and wrap them up properly...

I'm especially leaning toward Over The Brink, Ditto To That and Steel Yourselves. Jack's a very good ally to have any time that fighting is involved, even in his new body - he's very adaptive, and he's going to learn how to move as a Teddiursa very quickly. And as for Steel Yourselves, he's already gonna be in the Spire so he may as well help out with mining.

ANYTHING ELSE:

[seacub]

i require questing with the baby boy-

And well, maybe just the general chance to get to know the other a bit but-!!

[belowthesea]

Can't wait for them to go on a quest only for Emporio to have to convince Jack not to murder a Pokemon in cold blood...


SO do you wanna do Over The Brink or one of the light quests? :>

[seacub]

One of the Light ones!!!
Emporio's already got a team locked in for the brink (Kaiba and Catrina, rip in fuck you three,)...

Unsure if Ditto make holding a teddybear back easier, or Harder though...

[belowthesea]

LMAO nightmare group I can't wait to hear about that...

Imagining Jack fighting a Teddiursa!Ditto while yelling "YOU'RE NOT ME".... lmfao I'm so bad at writing action scenes but that DOES feel like a fantastic quest for them.

[seacub]

PERFECT

But also good thing ditto are goop and inherently immune to standard fight thread rules!!!

[belowthesea]

True!!

[notyourbloodymessiah]

HO-KAY WHAT QUEST DO YOU WANNA DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[belowthesea]

OVER THE BRINK unless you're already doin' that in which case maybe Minior Matter? the kids helping with a catapult system feels... fitting.

[notyourbloodymessiah]

she's already set on that with perrin orz but she's free for minior matter!!

[belowthesea]

Minior Matter it is then!

[notyourbloodymessiah]

this is going to go so well there is surely no way this could go wrong

[lightofchaldea]

Well hello there fellow newcomer! More (mis) adventures with these two? :D

[belowthesea]

Absolutely! Any quests you have in mind for them?

[lightofchaldea]

Iiii haven't thought that far ahead yet BUT. Ritsuka being Ritsuka she'd try to do as many as possible so pretty much anything's on the table!

[belowthesea]

How about Steel Yourselves? they can gather metal together :>

[lightofchaldea]

Surely that'll go better than the honey gathering attempt, right?

[belowthesea]

ONE CAN HOPE... I'm gonna keep picking at the tdm threads but I think their thread might include Jack getting knocked out by combees lmao

[gimmeeyeballs]

Hey, hey, wanna do the Ditto quest with Catrina >:3c

[belowthesea]

Yessss absolutely!

[gimmeeyeballs]

Yay >:3c We're getting our goobers in on the Ditto madness. Would you like to fill the form in?

[belowthesea]

Can do! How does this look:

PLAYERS: Bones, Dolly
CHARACTERS: Jack, Catrina
QUEST: Ditto to That
SUMMARY: Catrina gets to see how much of a feral killing machine Jack is! And may have to hold him back from going overboard. This will go great, probably.

[gimmeeyeballs]

This looks great XD Also to add, Catrina will likely use this: "Kay, but if you kill the Ditto, yah have to eat it. :T'

[pyrodulia]

Oh man, I feel like Jack and Agnes need to talk about being created for a purpose and picking up the pieces in a strange new world when that falls apart. Something something.

[belowthesea]

Oh ABSOLUTELY. Jack can't talk very much (I'm justifying his silent protag status by saying his programming stops him from talking for more than a few words) but he sure does need support about those things. He was created for the purpose of mass-murder and regicide, and he doesn't have a purpose past that and it's gonna keep him up at night.