APRIL 2025 EVENT LOG

[bayhelpers]

⋆✩ SPRING FLING ✩⋆

The sun rises, and a gentle breeze blows. A day like any other arrives in Bottlecap Bay, and for many of the pokemon that so recently arrived it is a now familiar process. Members of the various guilds flock to the Quest Board, in search of tasks to better provide for the town. Others, maintaining businesses of their own within the small settlement, start to open their doors for another day of work.

There is something different about this day however, and it is a difference that defines the next number of them. There is never truly a dull moment here after all, and it’s time to get involved.

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DONATION DRIVE

As spring fully settles into the bay, the clinic begins to advertise for additional activities on the Quest Board. A call for donors is made- but donors of what? Pokemon arriving in response to the request will find that answer to mean “anything and everything that can be given” - along with potential medical samples to help with further research into the mysterious illness, there are a great many things that can be made from shed feathers, brushed-out undercoat or trimmed horns and claws.

Or even sweat, alarming as that may seem.

Those willing will be given small interviews in which they determine what to donate, and after the process (however involved), be given a small boxed treat as compensation. And of course, they’ll record the contributions with their guild leaders too!

⟡ WHAT NOW?

Donated materials can be used for a great many things, and throughout the later half of April local businesses will be happily showing their relevant crafts off. Pokemon are invited to try their hand at sewing satchels made using Spinarak threads, spinning yarn from Stufful fur, or stuffing pillows with Ducklett down- and perhaps if they donated anything themselves, they can even make something of their own.

Literally.

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NO “I” IN TEAM

With the need to re-evaluate the results of recent expeditions through the surrounding forest before making the move to branch out further, the leaders of the three guilds have come together with some training exercises to better pass the time. Rather than sit and wait between tasks determined by the quest board, the last weeks of April see various events hosted through the city with one goal in mind:

Team Building.

A. ⟡ SHOW-AND-TELL

As part of an effort to encourage understanding and community, the Guilds each host various meet-and-greets in their personal buildings- or in the case of the Lum Guild, the public Archives. It’s a chance for pokemon to show each other where they sleep and eat, to share a little of their lives with their fellows from other guilds.

There are also more awkward sharing activities- tossing a ball in a circle and giving a fact about oneself. Tying each other limb to limb and performing races. Or even gift exchanges with the donor crafts! Nothing says community like a present from the heart.

B. ⟡ STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT

As an extra step from simply showing what each guild room looks like, sleepovers will be encouraged through the remaining month as well. Perhaps it’s time for a repeat of the great Oran Sleep-Pile- or maybe a sequel hosting can be held in the Canopy with the Cheri Berries.

It’s a little trickier with members of the Lum Guild, with each one having their own apartment of sorts, but just ask! Surely a few friends can pile together in their Lum buddy’s house.

C. ⟡ THE GREAT ESCAPE

Polteageist is thrilled with the success of the ‘escape rooms’ from March. As such, the existing courses and challenges have been since repurposed in order to encourage pokemon to work together, improving on the initial project. Once again working in pairs, dangerous (but not lethal!) challenges await those who wish to sign up for them. As with before, there are three different rooms to choose from, and experienced rescue Pokemon will be on call the entire time. Anyone who takes longer than the allotted time will be rescued.

⟡ Ocean room. Two Pokemon are put to sleep and wake up in a small cave beneath the water, with pockets of oxygen for those who need them. Upon waking, they must work together to escape the labyrinth of caves beneath the water and make it back to Bottlecap Bay. Some obstacles along the way may include: a maze-like cave system with misleading routes, paths with less or no sunlight, strange plants that may inflict status effects, agitated or disoriented wild Pokemon, and varying water temperatures/underwater geysers. It has an hour time limit, so good luck!

⟡ Forest room. Two Pokemon are put to sleep and wake up in the center of a dense forest, with tree cover blocking most sunlight. Upon waking, they must work together to find their directions, navigate through thick brush and forest, and make it back to Bottlecap Bay. Some obstacles along the way may include: the fog, collapsed floors into cave systems, sudden steep drops, aggressive Pokemon and plants, vines, thorns, poisons and toxins. It has a two hour time limit, so good luck!

⟡ Cave room. Two Pokemon are put to sleep and wake up far beneath the city, in one of the many tunnels belonging to the mines. Upon waking, they must work together to reorient themselves and find a way out to Bottlecap Bay. Some obstacles along the way may include: unstable sections of mines leading to collapses, a vast assortment of tunnel directions leading to disorientation, extreme temperatures, lava pits, and lessening oxygen levels. It has an hour time limit, so good luck!

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OOC NOTES.

⟡ CWS: body horror, medical imagery

⟡ Though dates specified cover only the last two weeks of April, players may assume continued donation drives and crafting projects to be available through the start of May, though less frequent.

⟡ We of the Bottlecap Bay Help Team would like to extend a sincere thank-you to everyone for their patience during the transition of tasks concerning the upkeep of the game. Current events have been taking a significant toll on many, but we are hoping to finalize Exploration Quest responses within the next few days. Thank you again, and happy threading!

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Comments

[offtracks]

Yes, yes. We cannot all be so lanky!

[Ingo knows, objectively, that Typhlosion are not especially slow Pokemon, but it sure feels like that when he's hanging out with Emmet. It's those long legs!]

[arceusstansme]

[At least you two have limbs that actually have joints!]

Wonder why we got the Pokémon you two did. I know why I got Cyndaquil.

[outbounds]

[ Time to start power leveling, Akari. ]

No idea! Guessed a bit for Ingo's but ultimately nothing conclusive.

[offtracks]

I thought it might be because of that theory I had.

[Ingo says like obviously she knows what he means.]

[arceusstansme]

Please refresh me on this theory.

[outbounds]

[ Glances back and forth between them. Is this the theory he's already heard or is there another one. ]

[offtracks]

Ah - that my former partner was a Typhlosion!

[arceusstansme]

But Emmerson told you that it was Chandelure.

[Emmet, Akari.]

And that wouldn't explain why he is a Zoroark.

[outbounds]

I am Emmet?

[ Emmerson??? ]

Already said we don't really know.

[offtracks]

[Ingo just shrugs a little.]

Emmet says that Unova has different Zoroark. Black ones, who are dark types!

[arceusstansme]

[Ingo might be able to sense that Akari now has discovered a way to tease Emmet. Stop her before she thinks about doing it again.]

So before they all died, but I could imagine a dark type being so spiteful they'd come back like that.

[outbounds]

Before they all died? Maybe in Hisui. They are still definitely around in Unova.

But you got me. The secret is out. [ is she still trying to figure out why he's a Zoroark and landing on spite or the lack thereof? ] I am Emmet. [ raises and waggles his claws in a terrible imitation of a bedsheet ghost. ] Fare dodgers will be perrrrsecuted to the utmost extent of the rules, yep. Those who disturb the sanctity of the subway will not be forgiven.

[offtracks]

[Ingo watches the exchange, a little furrow between his brows. But Emmet seems fine, so...it must be fine. Of course it is; Emmet doesn't know how it is back in Hisui, with the Zoroark.]

Maybe it is only because we are both Hisuian ghost types! It would be my fault, then.

[arceusstansme]

Goodness Ingo. Turning everyone into a ghost. Sad boy vibes I bet.

[And looks at Emmet.]

I am going to go to your job, and dodge all the fares.

[outbounds]

Oooof course you will. Why should I have expected anything different.

[ His poor Depot Agents. Emmet doesn't know about whether it can be said to be Ingo's fault- maybe, that'd be ... let's go with interesting, but whatever the reason is! Here they are, at the table. Didn't take that long, did they? ]

[offtracks]

They do have tea here!

[Ingo shares with Akari, because obviously Emmet knows already.]

A number of berry smoothies as well! Berries are used in many dishes here!

[arceusstansme]

Oh my goodness, a smoothie, I can be such a girl over it. Got to pick out a cute one.

[outbounds]

I am pretty sure I've seen mocha flavored Pokepuffs somewhere here ...

[ so surely there's got to be regular coffee too. ]

[offtracks]

Mocha?

[his ass does Not remember all the Coffee Words]

[arceusstansme]

[Akari shrugged her non-existent shoulders. Guess Arceus decided she should remember girlie smoothies but not mocha or coffee.]

[outbounds]

Coffee with milk and chocolate.

[ Not his preference, but anyway. ]

[offtracks]

Does that make it taste better?

[he tried it once and it was awful!]

[arceusstansme]

[Akari turns to look at Ingo then to Emmet to see what Emmet says. WELL DOES IT?]

[She tried to remember the last time she had chocolate! (She couldn't remember, but she bet she has! Just seems right!).]

[Also, she tried to remember the last time she had coffee! (Whatever that was!)]

[outbounds]

Thaaaat! Depends on your preference. A lot of people like it that way. [ certain people used to. ] The sweetness balances and mellows it out or something.

I prefer it black.

[offtracks]

Oh, yes, that! I did not like that at all!

[He hasn't even figured out how one might order a more palatable coffee drink; he just immediately went back to his habitual tea.]