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April 6
The next part of the Asper Story Quest has been unveiled, themed around exploring the new Corruption Zone in Area 2. Join Dr. Bunya's STORY QUEST 2: Heart of Darknyas!

February 14
The month of love has o-fish-ially started! Ol' Blarney's Valentine's Hookup! is wet and underway, so grab a friend, grab your tackle box, and drop a line anywhere that water Pokemon might be hiding.

January 16
The Tower of Cats has been cleared! You can now re-challenge the Cat Tower, either alone or with your friends. Meanwhile, a new Challenge Tower has begun. Join the fight against legions of Pidgey in the Tree of Worms!

December 3
Patch Notes 1.2 are out! Check out the developer update to learn more.

Also, drop by the Surge Steppes to help Professor Ash in the new side quest: Steel Yourselves!

November 13
Hot, crawling darkness gathers in the settlement, and shadows slither towards a manor on the edge of town. Signups for the Noonlight Raid are now open!

And also please welcome back C0D13, our premier bug-busting AI and diligent customer service assistant!

October 25
Did someone say Halloween Speed Dating? We know you didn't, but it's here anyway! How many so-called 'Spooky Effects' can your character accrue before October 31?

September 23
Everyone ready for Finals Week? Our Back to School event is almost over! Check out everyone's hilarious answers to our Pokemon Essay questions here.

June 6th
The corruption has been pushed back, and Professor Ash also wants your help cataloguing the ecology of the now accessible Asper Region!

Frolic in the fae woods of the Birchwild Grove, get lost in the creeping fog of the Misty Timberland, or marvel at the vast and thunderous Surge Steppes! There's dozens of new Pokemon to catch, or you could set up the coffee shop of your dreams in our new, gothic-themed settlement!

Wondering what happened on Beta Island? Check out the new Codex page here!

For further details, check out our Patch 1.1 Patch notes!

May 16th
With C0D13 and Kyogre defeated, we're ramping up to roll out the next BIG update: Asper! Check out all the balance changes and details in our 1.0 Pre-patch!

April 11th
The STORM is bearing down, so with all the prepping taking place on the island we've done some of our own. Check out the functionality changes for Spawning and Catching, as well as our updated pricing here!

April 5th
With the Beta Island Quest Line finally completed, we are moving into the penultimate arc of this season: THE STORM. Check out the details in the link!

January 17th
New spawn types, an update to the Beta Island questline, and two new forum skins! There's a ton of new goodies packed into this update. Check out the finer details here!

December 28th
Since our Beta launch we've been hard at work adding, tweaking, and fixing. Patch 0.2 is all about quality of life improvements and getting the site running as smooth as Silcoon. You can check it out here!

December 18th
Patch 0.1 is here, and with it, the opening of Beta Island! This glorious, sunlit isle is just a hop, skip and a shipwreck away from the Asper mainland, and is full of lush, untextured jungle, buggy beaches, and Pokemon that run according to their programming.

If you find any glitches or abandoned technology, bring it to Codie at the Glitch Report.

For a deeper look at all of the new features introduced in 0.1, check out our Developer Roadmap.

Looking for a challenge? Check out the team-based mechanical puzzles of the Tower of Cats!

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orioncayge • Bandana Guy Round 2 Posts: 629 Trainer Class: Arena Points: 10	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by orioncayge on May 10, 2023 15:33:13 GMT 9 It took a bit of asking around, but it turned out that Briarbane had a small smithy on the edge of town. A half built, ramshackle player built sort of affair that had been inactive long enough that it went from a private project to something anyone could put a little elbow grease and spitshine into to get up and running. To be frank the thing wasn't OSHA compliant, and the fire marshal would probably have a conniption if they saw how close the fuel pile was to the actual furnace. Regardless, someone had put enough time and energy in to get the actual FORGE part of the smithy working, a couple metal working tools had been donated into a communal tool pool, and there was just enough building to let you get your build on. It would suit what Orion and Tuesday would have in mind. "Man, this place is kinda..." The thuggish fighter would pause, furrowing his brow and gesturing into the air as if his fingers would pull the words he needed from thin air. "Rustic." Taking a few steps in he would examine the furnace for a bit, the rust hinge of the fuel bay squeaking as he pulled it open. "Reminds me of something you'd see in like...American Pickers, or some sort of HGTV project house that some newlywed couple would buy to work on while taking a break from their contemporary interpretive Yoga Sock Puppet Show." Hyperbole aside, he would take a brief stock of things before turning to the catgirl. "So I've only done this once or twice at summer camp, but I think step one is load this bad boy up with some fuel and get it nice and toasty. Wanna help me load er up and we can use one of our mon to start the fire?"

Hephes This! Posted May 10, 2023 15:33:13 GMT 9

Tuesday • Battle Legend The Creed Posts: 1,602 Trainer Class: Player Name: Martín 'Mars' Marzán OOC Username: Stells Arena Points: 138	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Tuesday on May 11, 2023 17:59:47 GMT 9 "Rustic." Tuesday echoes orioncayge's adjective of choice, her mismatched gaze inspecting the forge as he speaks in similes and colourful hyperbole. Apparently, when it comes to armour crafting, this is as good as it gets in Briarbane, which isn't really all that great. But, sometimes one must know how to compromise, right? That goes even a meticulous perfectionist like Tuesday. "You had me at Yoga Sock Puppet Show. That's some 'Mister Rogers went on an Ayahuasca retreat' type shit. Alright, let's do this!" With a joke and a smirk, Tuesday opens her inventory to retrieve a bandana of her own, although this one is used for the sole purpose of tying her long golden hair into a ponytail so that it won't get in the way. Stylish as it may be, it sure can be an inconvenience sometimes, and oh the sympathy he feels for everyone who has long hair in real life. "You know, I kind of expected the game to simplify the process a little, but maybe that comes later. Crafting table and all." She muses while getting to work. This time, not only her Tinkatink accompanies her but a Charcadet too — watching them while clad in her own flaming armour. At least Tuesday has the sense to keep the fire type at a safe distance while working with very-much-combustible fuel. The fire part can come in a moment, although little Alba looks all too eager to help.
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Hephes This! Posted May 11, 2023 17:59:47 GMT 9 Edited by Tuesday May 27, 2023 8:00:06 GMT 9

orioncayge • Bandana Guy Round 2 Posts: 629 Trainer Class: Arena Points: 10	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by orioncayge on Jun 7, 2023 19:24:23 GMT 9 "I'm willing to bet..." Orion grunted, shoveling another hefty heap of coal into the chimney, a small puff of back dust billowed skyward illiciting a soft cough from him, pausing his speech. "-that we gotta like, refine this down to ingots and then pack one of the craft craft revolution games." Cracking his neck he would stretch once the last of the coal was in the furnace and motion to her charcadet. "Let er rip lil dude, time to get toasty." Wiping a bit of coal infused sweat across his brow, smearing it in the process, he would look to his partner. "Looks like we're gonna need to get this thing to like...temperature yeah? Something something...billows or...fans? I imagine we don't have to be super precise given how slapshod they typically are with this shit, just get it to like, heat mode and it'll prompt us to slap in the ore." Looking around, Orion managed to find one of those ye olde timey forge fans, you know the type, the comically large A-framed apparatus connected with a collapsing accordion like leather pouch that squeezes air at high velocities. Except this one had more holes than swish fuckin cheese and sounded like a dying pig with each contractions, a fraction of a fraction of the air actually hitting the flame. "God fuckin..." With a flourish he reached into his pocket and whirled out a ball. With a flash of red, his Yanma would appear. "Argos, give the fire a lil wind action my guy." "Affirmative." The rapidly produced wind quickly blew the embers of the fire into a rip roaring blaze, and Orion would shoot Tuesday a thumbs up. "That should be the stuff." His gaze would wander from the fire, to her mon, and then back to her. "Nice Bandanna by the way, really practical while still looking fresh!"

Hephes This! Posted Jun 7, 2023 19:24:23 GMT 9

Tuesday • Battle Legend The Creed Posts: 1,602 Trainer Class: Player Name: Martín 'Mars' Marzán OOC Username: Stells Arena Points: 138	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Tuesday on Jun 21, 2023 8:50:49 GMT 9 Just when Tuesday thought this forge's set up couldn't get any jankier, the fan orioncayge manages to get his hands on proves that she had been remarkably wrong. It has some many holes that it can't really even be called a fan anymore, and after a few seconds of wincing at the agonizing squealing it makes, she's damn glad he decides to release his Yanma instead. "Fucking hell... We sure that thing isn't actually a misplaced torture device or something?" Thankfully, where their equipment fails them, their Pokémon get the job done, and it's within a moment that her Charcadet turns to look at her and gives her a little thumbs up (Charcadet have very tiny thumbs). Between Alba's flames and Argo's fanning, the furnace burns red, and when their ores are placed in the crucible, they don't take very long to melt down into deceptively pretty glowing orange goo that they should definitely not touch despite how poke-able it looks. "If you don't look fresh in the game, you're doing it wrong, no?" Tuesday smirks in response to the compliment on her hairstyle choices, being quick to get to work. "Doubt anyone can look fresh while doing this rhythm game bullshit, though. It's like they think smithing is playing whac-a-mole with a steel rod." Thankfully, while Tuesday herself will take care of the finer details when it comes to crafting her armours, her Tinkatink is more than happy to do the initial whacking for her. Hell, Gloria even has her own hammer! "What are you thinking of crafting first? It's armor for your Pokémon, no?"
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Hephes This! Posted Jun 21, 2023 8:50:49 GMT 9

orioncayge • Bandana Guy Round 2 Posts: 629 Trainer Class: Arena Points: 10	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by orioncayge on Jun 24, 2023 12:19:54 GMT 9 "I'm thinking something along the lines of horse armor for my Blitzle Zeus." Orion mused aloud. He'd watched Tuesday thwack rhythmically at the piece of molten metal, almost certain that she was hammering the bass drum part to Highway to Hell for a moment. He too would enter the crafting menu and begin to pick through various schematics of various shapes and sizes. It was rather curious how intuitive the system felt, and as he thought about what he had in mind, the game managed to pull close approximations of what he wanted in the preview. "I figured some sick ass metal armor on my noble steed while I charged into battle would look fucking sick, and you're right, if you're not just absolute quirked up with bling what are you even doing?" He would press the start button, twirling the hammer in his hand as he was almost sure the rhythm chart for Master of Puppets. "As for looking fresh while doing it well..." Orion would bring the hammer down with a flourish, sending a showy shower of sparks scattering precariously along the wooden floor. Thankfully it would appear that the devs hadn't programed fire spread from mini game effects, otherwise the two of them would burn alight like Jean de arc before their righteous crusade even started. "What about you though?" Another flashy pose before an even flashier swing clanged across the metal, letting a sonorous PING echo through the room. "What are you thinking about making?"

Hephes This! Posted Jun 24, 2023 12:19:54 GMT 9