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APRIL 2025 EVENT LOG
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.
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.
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!
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!
⟡ 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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[She asks after a few moments.]
[cw: endwalker spoilers]
But it's called Etheirys.
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...It is my home. And though no one soul can see it all in one lifetime, I want to try. There is unique beauty hidden in every corner, peoples with all different ways of thinking, and adventure waiting to be found, always. I would have no other star to call mine own.
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[She nodded.]
I feel like Irida would like you because of that. She talks about the Space of Hisui and it being so vast and everyone is so lucky there is so much of it to explore.
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[An obvious exaggeration, but still.]
She is also hot.
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Oh, I see. So-
["So you had a crush on her" is what she wants to say, but stops herself, because like...that's rude, to put on people. It could be a totally benign observation. Let's swerve that train of thought.]
-Sssssso, she was very opinionated on...the creation of things. Like this Adaman.
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[She nods wisely.]
Like, I 80 percent support them getting together, if they do. A part of me is hoping for Adaman to, like, notice me after Volo, but you know how it is- you snooze you loose.
[Also, if you place your bets on cute history nerds, there is a chance they might be crazy.]
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Akari do you wanna smooch both of them]
It sounds like a very complicated net of relationships.
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Oh it is, it would be less complicated if Volo didn't go crazy. Like, do you know how bad it feels to be like 'Oh, he is cute. I am not going to fumble this.' then it turns out you couldn't fumble it anyways because he wanted to destroy the world or something?
[She is trying to gesticulate as well as she could with her nubby little arms.]
Like, you know, I was in a bad place, he could have been like 'Hey, let's be nuts together.' and I would have seriously pondered it.
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[Zenos viator Galvus is not ugly, Firoza's just either asexual or demisexual, and he doesn't do it for her.]
If things had been different, I certainly could have walked a very different path.
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[Sometimes you punch a man to your almost death at the edge of the universe and you get a renewed understanding of his brain situation.]
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[Hey. Hey. Valid question for Akari.]
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[Now Asahi, that was a messed up little gremlin man.]
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Okay, I have never heard it put that way.
[But she still shakes her head.] I...haven't found much in the way of that. Not with looks, I suppose? Maybe with one's character.
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Oh? What kind've character do you like?
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[She flushes softly. Haven't really given this much thought before! As if there was ever time. But she closes her eyes and thinks on it now, reaching back to those moments when her heart was full and words, at the time, could not describe it.
What she says comes slowly, picked through and examined in her mind's eye before shared.]
...They would have to care. Not just about something, but about others. But, having a cause or interest they dedicate themselves to is...appealing. And if they had a strength of heart about them. But also a gentleness? And a willingness to understand their own shortcomings, and a want to improve. And...maybe...hm. Maybe to be willing to look the fool if needs be? Gods know I've made a fool of myself many a time.
[Just absolutely falling face first into mechanics and getting yeeted across the battlefield on the regular will humble even the mightiest hero.]
But even then - to rise again, after falling. To never give up, even until the last, and to see things through no matter the cost.
[So you're saying Determination is Sexy.]
Zenos had many of these things. But no gentleness resided in his heart, no care for anything outside the thrill of battle against ever stronger opponents. To hear him at first was to feel the need to shelter others from his thirst for blood. And then to hear him at the last brought understanding...but certainly not anything appealing in that regard.
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[she sighs.]
Like, I can tell, you're a catch. Sucks that he had to suck, trust me I know.
[Except, Akari would have been more willing to be crazy with him. Because, you know, everyone in Jubilife are bitches. (Really, she ain't bitter. Still.)]
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[Firoza, several people alive and dead from your world are lining up to prove you wrong right now and they have no idea why]
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Playing humble when it's an obvious fact is not an attractive trait. Own it.
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