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February 14
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January 16
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December 3
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Also, drop by the Surge Steppes to help Professor Ash in the new side quest: Steel Yourselves!

November 13
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And also please welcome back C0D13, our premier bug-busting AI and diligent customer service assistant!

October 25
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September 23
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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!

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May 16th
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April 11th
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April 5th
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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.

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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 Nov 6, 2023 17:04:56 GMT 9 You know, there's only so much time one can spend brooding over the post apocalypse when constantly immersed. Like, take the post apocalyptic movie genera for instance. They came mostly in two flavors, the somber melancholy film finely crafter by an auteur to tell a warning story about human nature, or a loud and brash Michael bay movie that told you more about the creator than people. In the second type of film, length doesn't really matter because it's just rad dudes in leather doing demolition derby antics, pacing was a lost cause from the word go. But the first one? That shit took nuance, the careful use of lighting, judicious applications of imagery, actual directorial talent. It was the sort of stuff that left you feeling things, and contemplating what it was really about However. If you were to chart one's enjoyment over time of the Bay movie versus the sad movie, you would find something rather fascinating. Fast cars going boom was always a spectacle, and while your returns might diminish slightly over time, more vroom typically means more enjoyment. The Sad movie on the other hand, that shit can wear out it's welcome real fucking quick. I suppose the bush this whole train of thought is beating around is that Orion was having some mild mixed feelings about Ostellia. On one hand, it more content was always hype. The post apocolypse was definitely NOT the genera he was expecting, but he wasn't expecting half of the absolute HORROR this game was capable of conjuring on seemingly a whim. He wasn't expecting this city to be empty, with a capital M T. There were no new mon as far as he could tell, nor were their any sorts of critters at all. There was...something out there, but he very rarely got a good glimpse of what it was. So, it was less a Bay film and more a sad film, which was totally fine until Orion had run out of thinkjuice to let his brainworms wriggle in the sad vibes. So here he was, walking along the shattered pier of this abandoned town looking for clues, any hint to what calamity befell this town, why it was free of the corruption, and where all of the mon went. Finding nothing but riddles scrawled in the spaces unseen, the frantic scratches at the door begging for escape, for freedom from whatever hell befell this place. His eyes would listlessly sway side to side, robotically searching the ground and area around him, seemingly lost in trance. Then he saw it. A stainless steel vessel moored to the shore with petrified rope tangled around a crumbling concrete pylon. The soft lapping of the waves causing the edge of the boat to bump and bang against the metal of the pier. Orion's eyes widened as he approached carefully, scanning the nearby area for any of those environmental storytelling skeletons before finding a set of keys laying in the shade of the drivers seat. "Aww shit!" Orion yelped, jumping into the air and pumping his fist with excitement. "ITS MOTHAFUCKING BOAT TIME!" Without thinking twice his UI was open and he was slapping out messages to one Yggy Br00ks Cayge_Match: Oh shit dog Cayge_Match: I found a Boat Cayge_Match: Grab some brewskies Cayge_Match: Let's tear it up and find all the secrets Cayge_Match: There's gotta be hella treasure up in this beach Cayge_MAtch: Or Lore documents dude Cayge_Match Shared his location with you Cayge_Match has invited you to a party Cayge_Match: Shit dog, the gas is still good and everything Cayge_Match: I smell hella adventure Cayge_Match: Or maybe that's just the sea

[ti]quest[/ti]Bro's on a Boat Posted Nov 6, 2023 17:04:56 GMT 9

Yggy Br00ks • Pikachu Fan Round 2 Posts: 393 Trainer Class: Player Name: Kenneth Garfield OOC Username: M00K Arena Points: 68	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Yggy Br00ks on Nov 7, 2023 18:21:29 GMT 9 A message from Orion?! She tried not to hyperventilate as she opened it. Yggy Br00ks said: A boat!! Aaaaah I'll be there soon! She was pretty sure brewskis meant beer, which meant stopping by the Round 2 Base in Birchwild Grove before getting her fast travel on over to Ostellia. Ostellia. The new Area. When Asper had first opened, she'd barely left the half-constructed starting settlement, sure that Kenny's missing father would show up sooner or later if she just stayed in one place. Plus she'd had tests, and school, and trauma... It was weird to think of UNOVR that way. Beta Island had been so neat and fun, everyone thought so. Orion himself was the hero of the High Tide Raid, just look at all those people cosplaying him at UNOVRCon! He'd actually punched C0D13, waaay before the Black Belt (now Fighter/Player) class had even been released! But the truth was— and this was something she hadn't even admitted to Orion— Yggy hadn't even seen the legendary moment. She hadn't been there, because she'd been deleted. Having Area 3 open up was... conflicting. It brought back strange emotions. From the Thunderfall Raid, from the start of Asper, from opening up the WorldScreen back in the real world and trying to figure out what his dad was trying to tell him. Wondering what was waiting out there for him on the other side. Then, it had been Beta Island— now, it was Ostellia. On the other hand... *"So cool!"* The teen tomboy waved energetically from the end of the pier, grinning ear to ear. She held up the two 6-packs she'd snagged from Chadwick (one of beer, one of Hydance Coca Cola) and jogged down the creaking, busted-up dock towards Orion's boat. "Hey, this place is awesome! Did you get here on Day 1?" It was like they were back at the con again. "I haven't had time to explore! Oh woah, there's a quest!" Her attention was immediately diverted by the blinking marker on her minimap. *"Dragon's Den? Niceee."* Yggy fidgeted by the side of the boat, rocking forwards and backwards on her heels. "Can I get on? Is it safe? We don't have to row, right, haha, because that would suck. Well, I guess we could send out some Pokemon to do it. Oh, you said there was still gas! Can you drive a boat? I can try if you want!" There was a beat-up old motor on the back. She stepped over the railing, wobbling a little, then decided to take a moment to change her extra Trainer Subclass from Aviator to Swimmer. Just real quick. You know, in case she fell overboard being doofy or something and started drowning and had another near-death death experience. SPOILER: Click to show {Quest Details: Dragon's Den}During your time exploring Ostellia, you find a rusted key linked to this quest in ROUTE 7: DROWNED HARBOR. Notably, this quest only activates at night. As you walk to the end of the pier, you find a small rowboat chained and padlocked to the dock. The key you found matches perfectly. When at least one other player with the same quest has arrived, a location marker for DRAGON'S DEN will appear on the map somewhere out to sea beyond the harbor. Make your way to the location, bearing witness to the following: - One or more 'invasive' species carrying lights across the sea - A new constellation shaped like a spiral - The massive whirlpool marked 'Dragon's Den' You may request a spawn if desired, or just NPC your own! You may encounter NPCs, invasive species, or other challenges along the way (such as the boat leaking, threats in the water, etc). If you end up going down the Dragon's Den, your character will either black out and wake up back in the boat close to shore or white out and re-spawn at the Thunderfall Shrine (Everworld optional).

[ti]quest[/ti]Bro's on a Boat Posted Nov 7, 2023 18:21:29 GMT 9 Edited by Yggy Br00ks Nov 7, 2023 18:27:31 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 Nov 9, 2023 12:45:34 GMT 9 "Ayaaaay it's the moffugun YGGSTERRRRR!" Orion would offer an arm to Yggy and help lower her onto the rickety aluminum boat, which rocked side to side with the addition of new weight but didn't list to close to the waters edge for Orion to fear capsizing. Yet. With precious cargo acquired and stowed at the bottom by their feet, Orion went to work smashing out answers to the machinegun fire questions that the mighty Yggster had barraged him with in her approaching charge. "You fucking KNOW, I was in and on day 1. Shit, you gotta SEE what's under this bay homie." He paused. "Not right now though because honestly the idea of boatin over all the stuff I've seen makes me think I need a bigger boat, but like, totes safe chica." He didn't outright lie, he wasn't quite sure if anything from the deeps would render itself a danger to them and their craft, but he totes level of assured it was safe either. "It's got an engine right here! I'll work the rudder, but if you want to be our lookout on the front and keep an eye out for like any submerged rocks or shit we don't want to hit." He would choke up on the pull chord attached to the boat, and in the patented 100% success rate Cayge one pull start, turned the engine in one yank. Letting it idle, he began going about untying the boat from the more. "That being said, we don't have any PFD's, no airhorn, no whistles, oar, or otherwise any other safety devices created in the last hundred years of maritime safety. If shit hits the fan, make sure you have swimmer equipped if you wanna try and duke it out, otherwise I'd say just fucking bail to as safe a spot you can find and rip a fast travel back to shore. We can always come back later with mon or find another boat." With a powerful kick, he would push the boat off the moor violently, perhaps almost too strong as Orion almost stumbled backwards over the side with a litany of swears as the boat rocked. Only the sheer weight of his metal boots kept him steady and still in the boat. Once settled in, Orion would take a deep breath and wipe a bead of sweat from his brow, before letting a wide grin spread over his face. "Aight, with all of that out of the fuckin way, next stop! Treasure!"

[ti]quest[/ti]Bro's on a Boat Posted Nov 9, 2023 12:45:34 GMT 9

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