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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, but occasionally reward 100 points.
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! Depending on the results, these quests can reward anywhere from 200-300 points each depending on success! Characters may only participate in one heavy quest per month.
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
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.
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.
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Infestigation: Become an Insect Collection!
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CHARACTERS: Beetlejuice, Dolly, and Bigby
QUEST: Infestigation
SUMMARY: Beetlejuice is down to get covered in mysterious bugs because what ELSE has he got going on? He pulls his "coworker" Bigby and his returning-to-civilization-and-getting-free-juice friend Dolly into this very important scientific research. Everybody gets super itchy and Beetlejuice instantly has Regrets. He usually loves being covered in bugs but NOT THIS TIME. Does he feel bad for pulling two other Pokemon into this? Was this his game from the beginning??? Unclear.
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As the trio explores, the few bug Pokémon they meet say they don't know the move Infestation, and it seems like as they go on more bug Pokémon tend to be avoiding them, possibly because they don't know why these three weirdos are asking to be infested and they don't want to know.
Eventually, Bigby's hunger starts to kick in, and he smells something candy sweet nearby. Somehow, in the forest, there is an unattended candy apple! As Bigby rushes for it, Dipplin wakes up and is has some things to say on the eating Pokémon discourse!
Dipplin launches a salvo of Syrup Bombs at the party before they can either explain the misunderstanding and apologize or take it out in battle (pick your poisoned apple!) but after the confrontation they all start to feel a little itchy from more than just the Syrup Bombs. Dipplin sheepishly explains that in the combat, he did use Infestation! Mission success? Success never felt so bad.
When they get back to Kinger, he looks over them and he initially deduces that they covered in some sort of green worms! But actually, it would be more accurate to say wyrms! After checking against information in the Archives, Kinger concludes that they have been infested with young syrpents, the component beings that make up Dipplin's evolved form, Hydrapple! After they all get the syrup cleaned off, the syrpents lose interest and head back into the forest.
Everyone receives 50 points and a Tanga Berry!
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CHARACTERS: perrin and parvati
QUEST: Infestigation: Become An Insect Collection!
SUMMARY: Because why wouldn't two characters from settings with giant mutant and/or alien bugs want to try a quest like this? It's funny bug-related research, with the two of them being more than used to being sprayed with acid or bug poison and even being knocked out because why wouldn't they! Oh. Oh you mean normal bugs? Okay. Just don't describe grasshoppers in detail or crawling ants, we get squicked by those.
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Kinger is very familiar with the bugs in the forest, so when he is presented with two very capable adventurers, he asks them to investigate near the base of Furnace Mountain! It doesn't take too long of exploring for the two of them to hear the sounds of combat, and see two Scolipede butting heads, fighting over something. Seeing the new arrivals, one of the Scolipede sprays the other in the face with glowing poison, briefly blinding her and letting him escape. The remaining Scolipede shakes off enough of the poison to see the two new arrivals, and charges at the two of them in a rage!
Scolipede is absolutely the kind of bug that the two of them are used to fighting, so they deal with her handily, with most of the glowing poison being shaken off in the fight. When Scolipede is on the ropes and the poison is mostly shaken off, she comes to her senses and apologizes for getting so aggressive. However, that glowing poison has instead splashed on to Parvati and Courier Six, and it feels like something is crawling in it. Scolipede admits that she can't remember if she used Infestation in her fervor, but she does know the move. She also explains that the other Scolipede was her brother, who has gotten much more aggressive since he went exploring the rifts a couple months back, along with the glowing effect to his Acid Spray.
When the two get back to Kinger, he examines them and despite the very clear feeling of crawling bugs, Kinger cannot find any, until he puts a hand into the poison and starts to feel some crawling on him too. Hearing how the poison affected Scolipede, he concludes it has lightly psychoactive effects, leading to Scolipede's increased aggression and the crawling feeling on their skin. This sadly means no new information about Infestation bugs, but it is new information about Scolipede because there's no information on Scolipede being able to do something like that.
They both receive 50 points and a Tanga Berry!
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CHARACTERS: Ritsuka, Mayaka
QUEST: Infestigation: Become An Insect Collection!
SUMMARY: Overhearing that the new arrival Ritsuka wants to tackle this quest, Mayaka takes it upon herself to accompany the gung-ho Rufflet just in case something happens to her. Mayaka is not a fan of the idea of being covered in bugs, but as long as Ritsuka's the one getting infested, Mayaka feels it's her duty to watch out for her new friend and make sure they make it back safely. The two of them will try looking for bugs in the Canopy. Things should turn out fine, right?
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CHARACTERS: Emporio, Simon
QUEST: Infestigation
SUMMARY: Simon might not know what fleas are. Or most bugs! He's in for a rude awakening when The-Child gets himself covered in them, but it's all in the name of science, right?? Emporio's fine. And itchy. And fine. Simon might be slightly perturbed.
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CHARACTERS: Ren Amamiya, Catrina Calavera
QUEST: Infestigation
SUMMARY: While neither Ren or Catrina can learn Infestation, Ren got curious when he read Kinger's request... and Catrina got the wrong idea. Coming from a world where insects are large and often kept as pets, she thought they were basically going to investigate the Pokemon version of a cat cafe... boy, is she in for a big (or little, heh) surprise! While Ren's not exactly keen usually to get hit with Infestation... what can you say, curiousity killed the cat!