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QUESTBOARD
⋆✩ quests ✩⋆
One of the core responsibilities of guild members within Bottlecap Bay is to complete quests from the Questboard. Located in the center of the city, the questboard is a physical board where Pokemon can submit requests for help, resources, exploration, and all sorts of things. Each quest rewards characters with points to not only increase their member ranking, but also raise the guild ranking, thereby having a direct effect on the direction of the game!
QUEST TYPES
LIGHT QUESTS
These quests are simpler, RNG-style quests that are far more straightforward and don't require a summary or a thread! Light quests are available every month, but during TDM months, they are the only type of quest available, meaning that nothing plot heavy or significant will be placed into the quests. They also typically reward 50 points to characters.
HEAVY QUESTS
Heavy quests are more intensive, thread-required quests that often hold bits of plot or more intrigue, and are only available every other month. They are also often more dangerous than light quests, and unlike light quests, are not guaranteed to be completed when submitting for them! Sometimes you can fail these heavy quests, and in that case, no points are rewarded. But depending on the results, these quests can reward anywhere from 100-300 points each!
PLAYER QUESTS
These are quests submitted by other players, available as players come up with them. A player may submit a quest during any month, and may even post the same quest again on a subsequent month, when it makes sense ICly to do so. They are otherwise very similar to Light Quests; more information can be found below, but as a rule, they reward 50 points to characters.
ALL QUESTS
So what do all quests have in common? They must be submitted by the deadline date on the quest itself, and each character may claim points from a given quest only once, though they may repeat the quest with other teams as many times as they like.
Mod quests in particular will have difficulty levels, determined by the filled in stars on a scale of 1-3, with three filled stars being the most difficult. Difficulty can mean anything from physical danger to intensive puzzles, depending on the quest! Mod quests of both types may also sometimes have claim limits, with the number of teams allowed listed per quest.
Lastly, players can feel free to roleplay any of the NPCs that are not listed on the Locations page under the NPC section! If it's not game breaking or contradicting anything in the information available to players, then we generally play by the "do what's most fun!" rules.
AVAILABLE QUESTS
CLAUS FOR ALARM!!
QUEST TYPE: HEAVY
QUEST GIVER: ???
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★✩✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by DECEMBER 10TH 11:59 EST.
GREETINGS POKEMON! WE ARE S.I.N.T.O! WE WILL BE ARRIVING SOON…WE HOPE!!!
BUT WE HAVE FALLEN BEHIND! THERE ARE TOO MANY POKEMON!!
PLEASE EVERYONE! DELIVER THE GREATEST THING IN OUR PLACE!
PS: DON’T SAY IT WAS YOU!!
POINTS REWARDED: 300 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: ???
NOTES: This is a Secret Santa Form! Rather than a typical Heavy Quest, you may submit this form alone, in order to participate in this year’s IC Secret Santa event.
For your initial summary submission, please include what other characters would be able to glean - from observation or asking other characters - about your character’s IC likes, dislikes, preferences, and any other details. Submissions will close on the 10th of December, after which we will hand out everyone’s Secret Santa assignments!
As a final note, while there is no thread requirement for this quest, follow-up responses/gifts must be delivered by the 30th of December - anyone who fails to do so will not receive their points!
GHOSTS OF TEATIMES PAST
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Polteageist
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★✩✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by DECEMBER 30TH 11:59 EST.
As we approach the end of the year, the Lum Guild is seeking more records to add to our shelves from newer additions to the community. We invite all Pokemon with stories to share to the Archives, in order to record tales of their homeland within our halls.
POINTS REWARDED: 50 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: A gift from Polteageist!
HAPPY PAWLIDAYS
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Mightyena
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★★✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by DECEMBER 30TH 11:59 EST.
The tunnels of the Spire are very expansive, and every year the Oran Guild has more and more to decorate for our longest night. I am requesting as many as possible to come and help us decorate our halls.
PS - There may be wet clay, but it should not harm anyone who steps in it.
POINTS REWARDED: 50 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: A gift from Mightyena!
SNOW PLACE LIKE HOME
QUEST TYPE: LIGHT
QUEST GIVER: Ribombee
CLAIM LIMIT: None
DIFFICULTY: ★✩✩
THREAD REQUIRED?: No
DEADLINE: Must be submitted by DECEMBER 30TH 11:59 EST.
We have done well to clean up from the recent storm, but there is still much work to be done. I need as many Pokemon as possible to clear and salt our snow covered roadways and bridges.
POINTS REWARDED: 50 points
EXTRA REWARDS?: A Gift from Ribombee!
PLAYER QUESTS
Player Quests are now open! These are quests ICly posted by your character to any of Bottlecap Bay's quest boards. They may be quests that are meant for the benefit of the city (or outlying outposts, or good relations with local Pokemon), or they may be quests for a character's personal concerns... and even joke quests are very welcome, for CR purposes!
(Just keep in mind IC reactions while devising a quest - guild leaders may choose not to reward points for "come perform a handstand for me," and there may be negative consequences for posting "assassinate my annoying guild coworker!")
Some general guidelines:
- To respond to a player quest, other players may use the same submission form as for mod quests; they do not have to provide a thread, but do have to fill out the summary.
- For all quests, quests may reward 50 points! Points track how helpful a character is overall, so they may be awarded for (reasonable, non-joke) personal quests as well!
- For quests for the benefit of Bottlecap Bay, guild leaders will generally also allow for item rewards from guild resources. These rewards should be restricted to a single item or type of item chosen by the quest-writing player, and can be one of: berries, basic stones, basic accessories (with no special effects), or small furniture items. A character may also offer handmade items that they are able to make/obtain the resources for.
- For personal quests, guild leaders will not allow for item rewards from guild resources... but a character may still offer handmade items that they are able to make/obtain the resources for!
- Characters who are ICly posting the quest obviously cannot join their own quest! However, at mod discretion, posting a quest may result in extra points in the next point tally, particularly if the quest is for the benefit of Bottlecap Bay - the guild leaders will reward someone looking out for the success of the city.
- Quests may not have limited entry slots.
- Quest-writing players will decide whether responses pass or fail. (They may choose to respond with a blurb with more flavor details, or just a note saying pass/fail.)
- Posted rewards will be fully awarded regardless of pass/fail. If a quest says the reward is 50 points and a berry, then even failing teams will get those rewards.
- It is fine for personal quests to have a biased pass/fail outcome for CR purposes, such as a designated team being pre-arranged to be the only one who succeeds. However, this must be made clear beforehand OOCly, and the above point must be followed.
- Players may decide whether their quest is worth 50 points or 0 points. We're trusting players to use their best judgement! (ICly, points are always awarded by the guild leaders, but will still be awarded for non-joke personal quests that take effort. For example: "My important item is missing, please help me search the woods" or "I want to make a feast to cheer up my friend but I don't know how to cook, please help.")
- If a player would like to have their character ICly post a problematic quest and receive consequences from their guild leader, please contact the mods on the mod contact beforehand! (This is for quests that would be viewed as actively harmful, rather than silly ones.)
- Players may not have their own characters, even their other character, submit for a quest that they posted.
SUBMISSION FORMAT
Please use the following format to set up a player quest!
If you would like, you may also use the following format when responding with quest results (but this is not required)!
QUEST SIGN-UP
To claim and sign up for a quest, simply fill out the form below and reply to the current month's thread for mod quests, or to the individual quest for player quests. All quests require at least 2 characters to complete, with no maximum unless specified. Keep in mind that for quests requiring threading, 3 is probably a good number. Multiple quests can be signed up for in one comment.
PLAYERS: Players involved.
CHARACTERS: Characters involved. (2 minimum)
QUEST: Name of the quest you're signing up for.
SUMMARY: (Optional for light, required for heavy or player quests.) How will the quest be tackled? Write a short summary of how the characters intend to succeed and include any relevant details (tensions within the team, particular skills or weaknesses, any relevant triggers to avoid, etc.)
After claiming a quest, a mod will reply with confirmation and/or more details, and may request more information on how the team tackles the quest. For quests that are limited in some way, players who manage a sign up one month will be required to wait for 24 hours after quest posting to sign up for a limited quest the following month.
FULL NAVIGATION
(frozen comment) SEPTEMBER 2025 SIGN-UP.
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PLAYERS: Bre, Elaine, Lu, Mauyn
CHARACTERS: Bigby, Firoza, Ingo, Emmet
QUEST: Bea-very Chilled
SUMMARY: Bigby regrets his life choices: the quest. Local
hamsterpizza rat freezes his ass off in the cold while staring at Firoza "thirty winters" Istus, Ingo, and Emmet wondering why they're handling it so much better than he is (spoilers: it's because Firoza is one, hardened to the cold, two, bundled up, and the Hisuian variant brothers are. well. subarctic species). Congratulations on having to huddle up to the local space heater for warmth, buddy.Anyway, three out of the four did head south for the big explorations the month previous, and Bigby is no slouch too when he's not a frozen rat-sicle, so between the four of them probably they'll be able to handle the tracking/search and rescue fine? They even have a fire-type to help with counteracting any potential hypothermia, provided they do it slowly and carefully.
(frozen comment) BEA-VERY CHILLED
The team makes their way out to the frosty Icefall Lake early in the morning, with only a poorly written note and some clues to go off of. Gumshoos was at least able to track their friend's scent toward the woods leading to Icefall, but claims the cold was too much for them from there. The note mentions something about a 'singing tree' however, and between this and the scent of Bidoof in the snow they're able to make it to the Heart of the Mountain...where Bigby's keen eye spots something brown hidden in the environment. Bidoof is found entirely unconsious, and the group needs to get them out of here! After carrying Bidoof out of the main chamber and rousing them, they apologetically explain themselves. Apparently, Bidoof intended for this to be a very short trip - but after just a few moments near the Heart, they got so dizzy they passed out!
Escorting the Bidoof back to a still panicked, but no less relieved Gumshoos, each member of the team is rewarded with 50 points and a scarf! Good job!
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CHARACTERS: Akechi, Ren, Courier Six
QUEST: Toedally Missing
SUMMARY: Ren wants to get back into more serious questing and sees this as an opportunity to ease back into things. It just so happens that with Perrin doing so much work around the Outpost and Akechi trying to keep an eye on Ren, the stars have aligned for a three 'mon band! Akechi has flight on his side, Perrin has experience in the area, and Ren is a crafty little Phantom Thief with his sharp feline senses. As the three have worked together before, it should be a fairly smooth team dynamic!
(frozen comment) TOEDALLY MISSING
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CHARACTERS: Laios, Flamebringer, Anasui
QUEST: AS A CORSOL-ING RIVER
SUMMARY: Despite Flamebringer being put with two people that exhaust him very much, the trio have historically worked very well together. For the quest, Laios has his nose to help tracking Corosola down, Flamebringer has their danger sense to keep them aware of any danger happening at Heavy Downmore, and Anasui can partially keep his team safe from the weather with his psychic abilities. Flamebringer is a bit slower than normal because he's been pushing himself to keep up but between their particular set of skills, they should be okay (Anasui will be compensating by quietly lowering their marching pace plus giving him a bit more shelter from the rain than usual). They'll probably even have time for Anasui to give Laios a pep-talk because Laios has been internalising things for the last two months (aka Anasui will smack the sadness out of him).
At least Flamebringer will be nicer to Laios when he notices Anasui being 'kinder(?)' to Laios which means he'll be less mean and basically saying "you're fine" in both blunt and round-about ways.
(frozen comment) AS A CORSOL-ING RIVER
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CHARACTERS: Noelle, Shoka
QUEST: Scholastic Decisions
SUMMARY: Shoka has recently learned Protect, and Noelle is focusing on her healing and support abilities. Both will act as capable bodyguards, only getting a little distracted by each other from time to time.
(frozen comment) SCHOLASTIC DECISIONS
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CHARACTERS: A.B.A, Firoza, Laios
QUEST: Scholastic Decisions
SUMMARY: Three strong Pokémon to look after the scholars? I mean, talk about ideal. That said, the girls will also be trying to cheer Laios up in the process. This may sound like a hindrance, but considering it's Laios and barking may be involved, it's possible they'll scare off any would be danger before it even shows up.
(frozen comment) SCHOLASTIC DECISIONS
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CHARACTERS: Akechi and Ren
QUEST: Scholastic Decisions
SUMMARY: Akechi craves knowledge. He also craves more time with Ren, who is also eager to prove he can get back on his feet after a month of (relative) downtime. They've got team synergy, they've got quick wits, and they can absolutely work together to keep the scholars safe.
They're also just very obviously dating and the scholars will undoubtedly notice.
(frozen comment) SCHOLASTIC DECISIONS
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CHARACTERS: Noelle, Bigby
QUEST: A Dour Struggle
SUMMARY: Noelle isn't much of a fighter still and is notably weak to Fire-type. However, she has been working on her support skills and would be able to back Bigby up as he learns and uses Stomping Tantrum to their benefit. There's a good chance she winds up quite hurt, but Bigby will do his best to protect her, and if things look bad, she may come through with some new attack moves of her own to defend herself.
(frozen comment) A DOUR STRUGGLE
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CHARACTERS: Noelle, Archnemon
QUEST: No Pain No Grain
SUMMARY: Noelle is working on her confidence and ability to help out. Archnemon is encouraging her! What could go wrong?
(frozen comment) NO PAIN NO GRAIN
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CHARACTERS: Flowey, Anasui, Emporio
QUEST: Scholastic Decisions
SUMMARY: Flowey and Emporio are close friends, as are Emporio and Anasui, but Flowey and Anasui are fairly at odds with each other. All of them will do their best to protect the scholar, but there's a good chance that Flowey and Anasui will bicker with each other.
(frozen comment) SCHOLASTIC DECISIONS
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CHARACTERS: Bigby, Courier Six
QUEST: No Pain No Grain
SUMMARY: Two old men shoot the shit while foraging together. Both will be in their element in different ways — Perrin with his experience scavenging in the wastelands, and Bigby with his scent-tracking for food — making this a far calmer adventure than their last. A perfect time to bond (and also for Bigby to apologize over that whole ripped bag situation)!
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PLAYERS: Bre, Mega
CHARACTERS: Bigby, Guilmon
QUEST: No Pain No Grain
SUMMARY: No one is immune to Guilmon, not even Bigby. As far as duos go, they could not be more different, but Bigby’s been fond of this little dragon (is he allowed to say that when he’s the smaller one) since he helped him out of the caves that one time. Sure buddy, let’s get gather some resources together for bread later (and extra berries for snacks now).
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PLAYERS: Bre, Usagi
CHARACTERS: Bigby, Emporio
QUEST: A Dour Struggle
SUMMARY: Bigby chaperones a hound hunting adventure: part two. Luckily, they won’t have to worry about any type-disadvantages this time around, and they’ll be able to come a little more prepared thanks to Bigby’s first run at this. Emporio might be a little concerned with just how willing the Morpeko is to throw himself at danger, but what else are they going to do? Just talk to them?
Where’s your anger, Emporio?(frozen comment) NO PAIN NO GRAIN - with Kururu
(frozen comment) NO PAIN NO GRAIN - with Mega
(frozen comment) A DOUR STRUGGLE
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CHARACTERS: Laios, Guilmon
QUEST: Shielding Questions
SUMMARY: Laios and Guilmon are on the case! While their interrogation skills might be a little lacking, they’ll have no problem sniffing around together to find that missing Ability Shield when they gather enough clues. They absolutely got this, don’t worry. The nose knows!
(frozen comment) SHIELDING QUESTIONS
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CHARACTERS: Courier Six, Akira
QUEST: Scholastic Decisions
SUMMARY: While this is them aiding, this is also them working to figure out how to work as fellow Lum Berry members.
PLAYERS: Kururu, Solstice
CHARACTERS: Courier Six, Umemiya
QUEST: No Pain, No Grain
SUMMARY: Foraging and also discussing the whole outpost situation, while working to make sure things go well!
PLAYERS: Kururu, Elaine
CHARACTERS: Courier Six, Firoza
QUEST: No Pain, No Grain
SUMMARY: Sometimes you gotta forage with your Nidoran Female friend, who can help get into roots while you can help with things higher-up. They've worked together before, and know how the other tics.
(frozen comment) SCHOLASTIC DECISIONS
(frozen comment) NO PAIN NO GRAIN - Solstice
(frozen comment) NO PAIN NO GRAIN - Elaine
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CHARACTERS: Flowey, Akechi
QUEST: No Pain No Grain
SUMMARY: Flowey & Akechi want to take on a light quest together and use the opportunity to talk about their suspicions and theories regarding the various mysteries of Bottlecap Bay!
(frozen comment) NO PAIN NO GRAIN
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CHARACTERS: Shoka, A.B.A
QUEST: A Dour Struggle
PLAYERS: Kibi, Mauyn
CHARACTERS: Shoka, Emmet
QUEST: Shielding Questions
(frozen comment) SHIELDING QUESTIONS
(frozen comment) A DOUR STRUGGLE
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CHARACTERS: Guilmon, Archnemon
QUEST: A DOUR STRUGGLE
SUMMARY: Guilmon and Archnemon team up for training! Presuming there's no surprises in what they'll be facing (not that that hasn't happened before...) It will give Guilmon a chance to work on his ground moves and Archnemon, while usually there for support, learns that she can access effective fairy-type moves that she can utilize in a pinch as well, if needed.
PLAYERS: Usagi, Sapphire
CHARACTERS: Emporio, Archnemon
QUEST: SCHOLASTIC DECISIONS
SUMMARY: Ultimately it's a bodyguarding quest with a chance to learn More, and Emporio and Archnemon are both suited to that sort of requirement (and curious, secretly or not). Granted depending on which area gets explored, that would take some adapting (especially if running into potential type disadvantages), but they should have some ideas from experience in that regard.
(frozen comment) A DOUR STRUGGLE
(frozen comment) SCHOLASTIC DECISIONS
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CHARACTERS: Akira and Anasui
QUEST: A Dour Struggle
SUMMARY: Dark might have the type advantage over Psychic, but
surely unintentionalintimidation tactics andtotally reasonable amounts ofbrute force are pretty useful too!Akira does also have Water typing, of course.
(frozen comment) A DOUR STRUGGLE
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CHARACTERS: Siffrin, Emmet
QUEST: Scholastic Decisions
SUMMARY: They're signing up for bodyguard duty, but honestly it's possible, even likely that at some point Emmet and the scholar might end up in their own little world intensely and or excitedly discussing minutiae, at which point Siffrin starts zoning out because all of this is flying over their head... hopefully the bodyguard won't end up having to be bodyguarded themself!
PLAYERS: Pyra, Mauyn
CHARACTERS: Anasui, Emmet
QUEST: A Dour Struggle
SUMMARY: Why are they doing this, aren't they both weak to dark. Well. Yes! Yes they are. They also don't really have much in the way to hit them for super effective damage, considering, which means they're going to have to get smarter than just unga bunga type advantage brute force. That, or just more tenacious, considering that neither of them are good at backing down. Emmet might opt either for going after their legs to restrict their movement while Anasui blasts them with something, which might or might not qualify as Low Sweep, or for trying to keep his distance with things like Swift while Anasui makes like the much larger bird he is and (drill) pecks at them. Either or both, whatever works better in the moment!
(frozen comment) A DOUR STRUGGLE
(frozen comment) SCHOLASTIC DECISIONS
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PLAYERS: Terry, Lu
CHARACTERS: Siffrin, Ingo
QUEST: No Pain No Grain
SUMMARY: Whatever they are gathering, Ingo is getting to find out about the Schrodinger's Sinnoh Shrine. Have fun with that Ingo!
Slightly more seriously: Ingo is one of the Pokemon that Siffrin feels a bit awkward around for Various Reasons, but they don't otherwise have any problems with getting along or working together. They should be able to round up some food. Siffrin got to drag a tiny cart around behind them for resource gathering last month, so maybe that just happens again. Ingo is much larger and can reasonably go around on his back legs, so he should have even less trouble hauling stuff back.
...........also since Ingo is a fire type, if they're searching for grains and find corn, Ingo can make popcorn for everyone -
PLAYERS: Terry, Lavvy
CHARACTERS: Siffrin (1), Siffrin (2)
QUEST: A Dour Struggle
SUMMARY: So last time the Siffrins didn't actually end up having to battle. So clearly it is time. Time to have suspiciously, conveniently similar fighting styles. How weird, couldn't mean anything at all!
Aside from their coordination being suspiciously easy, the two will tend to default to trying to outspeed opponents, with Siffrinx's Electroweb and Nyafrin's Agility. Neither are weak to anything a normal Houndour should be able to pull out, and Nyafrin is outright resistant to some of it. In a pinch, Siffrinx has the ability Guts and will start doing more damage when burned, while Nyafrin has Endure and Rest to get back from the brink. (How Restful is it to sleep with a bunch of dogs around, though...)
(frozen comment) NO PAIN NO GRAIN
(frozen comment) A DOUR STRUGGLE
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CHARACTERS: Ren and Anasui
QUEST: Shielding Questions
SUMMARY: Not-Doctor Anasui absolutely wants to make sure Ren doesn't overstretch himself so he's following him to help him on his quest (No, he doesn't care. Shut up). Despite Ren's fatigue, they shouldn't have any problems.
PLAYERS: Lu and Pyra
CHARACTERS: Ingo and Anasui
QUEST: No pain, no grain
SUMMARY: Ingo and Anasui have worked well in the past, even if the two don't know each other super well. Shouldn't be any problems here!
(frozen comment) NO PAIN NO GRAIN
(frozen comment) SHIELDING QUESTIONS
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CHARACTERS: Anasui, Archnemon
QUEST: Shielding Questions
SUMMARY: A good quest for the two psychic types who can get very task-focused and forget about basic things like just introducing themselves to the other person. Will they learn each other's names? Who knows? ... But, it will be a long trek and there are clues to find, so anything's possible. At the very least, they know how to utilize the other's strengths, Anasui's speed and Archnemon's precision, if an issue arises.
PLAYERS: Lu, Sapphire
CHARACTERS: Ingo, Archnemon
QUEST: No Pain No Grain
SUMMARY: Ingo and Archnemon have worked together before, and gathering quests seem a reasonable choice to go to for a relatively "calm" activity unless something happens, of course.
(frozen comment) NO PAIN NO GRAIN
(frozen comment) SHIELDING QUESTIONS
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CHARACTERS: Ren, Shoka
QUEST: No Pain, No Grain
SUMMARY: They've worked together before, so this should be no problem! Shoka might throw berries at Ren once she gets bored, though.
(frozen comment) NO PAIN NO GRAIN
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CHARACTERS: Shoka, Ingo
QUEST: No Pain No Grain
PLAYERS: Kibi, Pyra
CHARACTERS: Shoka, Anasui
QUEST: No Pain No Grain
(frozen comment) NO PAIN NO GRAIN - Lu
(frozen comment) NO PAIN NO GRAIN - Pyra
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CHARACTERS: Laios, Shoka
QUEST: A Dour Struggle
SUMMARY: Shoka is gunning for revenge against the Houndours who stole her tail-stick the first time by bringing the local dog himself. They’ve been on plenty of quests together before, but never as a duo, so the dynamic might be a little awkward! At this point, Shoka just considers him a harmless weirdo, but Laios is still just as intimidated by her as ever. Hopefully he’ll realize she’s not as mean as he thinks she is after helping her get her tail-stick back again (he’ll try not to chew on it too much either).
(frozen comment) A DOUR STRUGGLE