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
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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QUESTIONS

[bayhelpers]

NEWBIE DIRECTORY

[bayhelpers]

Emporio Alniño

[seacub]

PLAYER INFO
PLAYER: Usagi
ABOUT: Full Time nights worker in the EST zone of Canada, I live with my partner and two cats, and love playing Pokemon, Zelda, and a bunch of other games that I'll probably not mention unless you mention it first. Currently being devoured by IRL renovations and also Pokopia, but from here on I'll be doing my best to clear inboxes at least once a day!!
CONTACT: usagisquared, or discord @ usagisquared - feel free to add me!

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER: Emporio Alniño
CANON: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean
POKEMON: Cubone (wears helmet on back)
GUILD: Lum
INFO/PERMISSIONS: Tadah (I really need to update this thing whoops)
ABOUT:

He's here he's sad, less sad than before, also he's THIRTEEN we missed his birthday, it was in February and he probably had a very quiet thing with Anasui if I'm being real but feel free to attack him with a belated if your guy realizes it's been a year-

Emporio!! Emporio grew up in the worst possible place for a kid (jail), hidden (somehow), and as such has spent the last year kinda learning how to..beeeeee a kid? Now that spring is REALLY here, he'll hopefully go and take the advice he's been handed and set up some baseball, because boy, he used to look like he should know how to play. REALLY smart kid, also utterly loaded with trauma, but he's got a good heart so come on, make friends with the cubone.

PLANS:

I was all set to note that Emporio is taken for Heavy Quests and then saw that the Heavy Quests is Heavy Quest and I laughed being real-

THAT SAID

HE'S BACK BABY. HE'S ALL PATCHED UP, HE'S READY FOR QUESTING. I'm especially looking to not only branch out to the newbies but to really invigorate my old CR paths that haveeee uhhhh....how we say...Gotten a little rusty, thanks to the last number of weeks kicking my rear whoops. To that end though, since this obviously will hopefully lead to some threads, I'm up for minor quests in group teams!

Beyond quests, since it seems like a relatively chill month, I guess Emporio's just Emporio-ing. Maybe he will evolve? Maybe he will not? I have the reward purchase ready so if it happens we are in for a T r e a t.

ANYTHING ELSE:

[shotinhead]

PLAYER INFO
PLAYER: Kururu
ABOUT: So. March, huh. Ahaha.
Anyway, Australian in my 30s, adhd, a bit of a mess but also loving everybody here. Slowly getting Out Of The Soup, in this, the Year of Drizzt.
CONTACT: discord @ dodola, plurk @ shslivalice

[shotinhead]

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER: Perrin
CANON: Fallout: New Vegas
POKEMON: Dragonite
GUILD: Lum
INFO/PERMISSIONS: here!
ABOUT:

The chill and put together weirdo of a Dragonite, who's been slowly adapting to a calmer world, but never properly will. He's been recovering from his injuries, and is proud of having proven himself to the guild enough to move into new housing! I also had a large ramble about him on Plurk recently, aha. Look at him!

PLANS:

Perrin is already taken for the Heavy Quest this month, but other then that, his goal is to keep settling into his new home. So, once again, he's open to anything! But I'd love for him to help with Not A Minior Matter, because like. Let him show he's actually really fucking good at making things. And lauching things.

He's been claimed for the bullshit. BUT. I am planning on a Perrin post where he finally explains where he's from, at least.

luka!

[edgewater]

PLAYER INFO
PLAYER: luka!
ABOUT: uk they/them. autistic concept art student fighting demons, and those demons are my video game addiction. ask me about my beloved special interest final fantasy xiv or literally any crpg.
CONTACT: lesbiankrile or you can ask for my discord! (if only because it's a nightmare to spell and you'd need to copy-paste it)

[33elk]

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER: Oko
CANON: Magic: The Gathering
POKEMON: Zorua ✨
GUILD: Oran
INFO/PERMISSIONS: here!
ABOUT:

Do you sometimes have a guy you just think too much about, even if he doesn't deserve it? That's me and Oko. He's a hypocrite of a man - a shapeshifter who runs from responsibility, but longs deep down for a place he can stay. He is petty, he is an asshole, but he sometimes decides he'll be nice to you. His morality is as fae as he is, and it seems to have settled on the morality of 'actually it's more fun being a Stantler', using his Illusion ability to look like one. He's also been fucking around pretending to be an Abra called Jace.

He is surprised the real Jace hasn't come and yelled at him, but he's still certain he's got all of this worked out, in his own way. (Chat, he has no idea Jace is fucked up and fucking up the Multiverse.)

PLANS:

He's gonna be chilling around town, he doesn't wanna go on that Heavy Quest. Animals get lost all the time, right?

But please do Ditto To That with him. He needs to find the shapeshifters of this world. He needs to be inspired.

ANYTHING ELSE: strixhaven this month :3

Mayaka Ibara

[sharpjustice]

PLAYER INFO
PLAYER: bread
ABOUT: freshly 33 y/o piece of bread (: full-time arts manager in gmt+8, work is stressing me out now which means fun creative stuff like rp is much needed in these times...
CONTACT: here, inbox or discord @ bread9696 ! i do not have the wits to figure out a new platform so i am very much cat standing "what they doing over there??" re: plurk
CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER: mayaka ibara
CANON: hyouka
POKEMON: hisuian sneasel
GUILD: lum berry
INFO/PERMISSIONS: here
ABOUT:

sharp-tongued, opinionated, responsible and nosy young lady who loves drawing manga (but has complicated feelings about her skills as an artist and doesn't like talking about it cos she's embarrassed). helps out at the archives a lot cos she was a school librarian. she is literally just a high school girl, thank you to all your muses for hanging out with of her <3

mayaka kept to herself last month! while bread was on hiatus, she locked in and spent most of her time reading in the archives and finishing the draft of her manga one-shot she was rushing to submit to a competition before winding up in bottlecap bay. current things on mayaka's mind include:

- what she is going to do with her completed manga draft
- anxiety re: losing her human-ness and becoming too comfy being a pokemon
- after getting egged on by flowey, encouraged by bigby and trained by ume, she feels she should put more effort into training (maybe she'll learn a new move!)

PLANS:

- QUESTS! -- i missed out on the heavy quest last time (which is IC tbh) but would love to do that with a group this time round. and mayaka is open for all other quests ~
- building CR with friends old and new! look out for my tags!
- a network post about turning 18 soon... maybe asking all the older characters what they did when they were 18?
DW RP NEWBIE QUESTION - if i'm okay with other characters responding and having separate conversations in the network post, do i just say something like threadjack to your heart's content?
- a log post concerning the manga draft, it's been almost half a year, i think it's time she got found out LOL

ANYTHING ELSE:

for the manga draft imagine this but with less detail and more shaky lines... she got debuffed by her claws rip (she drew this for culture fest in the anime!)

also CR list if you are curious ! some new names and some updates to developed cr!

[edgewater]

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER: parvati holcomb
CANON: the outer worlds (2019)
POKEMON: tinkaton
GUILD: oran
INFO/PERMISSIONS:
ABOUT:

who knew spaceship engineers could become your local handyman? parvati's been grounded in the bay longer than she was ever aboard her ship at this point and she's. fine. she's totally fine. she's been building new skills thanks to her insatiable need to always be doing something with her hands, missing her wife, and being a good friend flowey dni. overall she's just your local sweet gal who's willing to help with literally anything and everything if you give her a push.

PLANS:

does anyone else hear that ominous bell tolling...?

finals are going to get me so bad but i'd like to optimistically say i'm out of the woods and into the part where i can slack off a bit and take it easier. sorry for dying completely on pavs last month the eleanor hyperfixation collided with my lack of energy from all of my research and stress. but it is OKAY! i'm not at college right now and won't be for another like, week and a half. so i'd like to make the most of this time now, and do some quests! handwaving is totally fine for lights of course but i would really really love not to because i haven't had my girl out in the wild in a hot minute.

also! need somepony to do the heavy with on parvati! hit me up for any teams if you want a tinkaton with a huge hammer for bonking and a decent sense of diection.

ANYTHING ELSE:

x

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:

Jack Wynand | Bioshock

[belowthesea]

"Chin up, boyo. The lord hates a quitter."

[sharpjustice]

luka do u agree parvati and mayaka are due for a quest together !!! wild that they haven't since they've been friends since mayaka arrived?? also down to pair mayaka with eleanor why were they so cute and a bit awkward together...

[seacub]

i require questing with the baby boy-

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

[shotinhead]

we gotta do silly bullshit,

[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]

ANSWER TO YOUR NEWBIE QUESTION yes, that's exactly correct! "threadjacking encouraged" or "treat this like a mingle post" are both acceptable ways to do that :>

Also I think these two could be interesting to throw at each other! Jack is... difficult, but he likes being around people who will carry the conversation for him because he doesn't/can't talk much. And he likes drawing, even though he isn't good at it and he's going to be markedly worse with his new Teddiursa paws. His opinions about manga are going to be extremely rudimentary (he's from before it was popular in the US and he hasn't read that many comics either) but he sure is willing to listen to her chatter about it.

[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.

[notyourbloodymessiah]

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER: eleanor lamb
CANON: bioshock 2
POKEMON: brionne
GUILD: oran
INFO/PERMISSIONS:
ABOUT:

seal girl! seal girl! ignore that she's also an eldritch genetic freak abomination god-thing! dwbi! she's sad, she's excited, and she's officially a grandma now according to shoka. happy to be running around the bay to finally figure her life out for herself with nobody trying to dictate who or what she should be, and growing comfortable in the brionne body. also, ask her about her dad collection. she's got so many! gotta catch them all!

PLANS:

hacking up a lung. hi guys. more eleanor for everyone always. she's already taken for the heavy quest with perrin (she's gonna get to sit in the bag!!) but she's totally free for everything else! she's probably gonna go questing with jack, unsure which one yet tbd but anything is fair game for now i'd say. sorry i haven't taken my meds in like a fortnight i know these are all over the place this time ghasghasd

ANYTHING ELSE:
x

[seacub]

PERFECT

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

[edgewater]

FLINGING THEM BACK TO SPACE can parvati bullshit a jet engine

[lightofchaldea]

PLAYER INFO
PLAYER: AC
ABOUT: RP oldtimer and all-around nerd
CONTACT: PM me or hit up Altocumulus on discord
CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER: Ritsuka Fujimaru
CANON: Fate/Grand Order
POKEMON: Rufflet
GUILD: Cheri
INFO/PERMISSIONS: Here!
ABOUT:

Young woman who spent the last several years trying to save humanity rather than going to high school. She's incredibly friendly and kindhearted, more than a little nerdy, and full of trauma under the surface. Currently more confused than anything about finding herself here and transformed into a strange bird monster thing, but she's rolling with the punches as she always does!

Maybe because she doesn't know how else to be.

PLANS:

ALL OF THE THINGS. Ritsuka will naturally jump at the chance to help with quests, so pretty much any/all of those are on the table! Then there's getting to know her new guildmates (and possibly roommates?), learning how to properly use this body, etc. Her canon point is one that gives her a lot of flexibility in character direction too, so I'm more than happy to throw her at pretty much anything and anyone just to see what sticks.

ANYTHING ELSE:

[shotinhead]

OF COURSE and he will improve it by giving the silliest suggestions that just. Make Sense,

Ritsuka Fujimaru | Fate/Grand Order

[lightofchaldea]

Believe it or not she would NOT rank this as the strangest experience she's had...

[edgewater]

points at the cr chart what if i cried that's so sweet??? i am so down for quests for both do you have any preference!!