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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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C0D13 • Bug Maniac Administrator Posts: 1,826 Trainer Class: Player Name: C0D13 OOC Username: Ladybug	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by C0D13 on Feb 9, 2024 21:04:15 GMT 9 NOW LOADING: STARTER LAB WELCOME TO THE VIRTUAL WORLD OF UNOVR! You arrive at the Pokemon Lab on the edge of a new frontier— miles of unexplored wilderness that hide secrets, corrupted Pokémon, and unknown potential. As you are teleported from the starting screen into the Lab, you don't know where to step, much less move. Books are stacked in haphazard piles on the floor, beakers of bubbling black fluid balanced precariously atop them. Styrofoam containers of old takeout are piled up in the garbage bin. Strange machines built of PVC piping and salvaged materials are scattered around like a car show gone wrong, some clearly still in-progress, some in the process of being rebuilt. A small woman in a stained lab coat is crouched on top of the desk, looking for something. "Where is it... where is it... NYA-HA!" She straightens up triumphantly, fitting an oversized monocle into one eye, and scooches forward so that her legs now dangle off the front of the desk like a kid in a high chair. "There we nyare! Hiya, nyewb! I'm Dr. Bunya!" The region's newly-appointed Pokemon Professor seems more like a stray cat that wandered into someone's house than any kind of working professional, but you don't see an alternative. "Sit nyanywhere! You're here for a starter Pokenyan, right?" Your eyes are drawn to the display case behind her, where 27 sealed Pokeballs wait quietly behind the glass. System Admin:Bunyaa makes a show of shuffling some papers on her desk. "I got some questions to ask nya first! Heheheh..." Her expression changes from gleeful to panicked as she seems unable to find the relevant manual. "...Eh, I'll just wing it," you hear her mutter under her breath before turning back to you, chipper as before. "Nyall righty! When you're ready, say 'fire!'" Alicia Westfield: REPLY TO START THE INTERVIEW!

STARTER LAB: ALICIA Posted Feb 9, 2024 21:04:15 GMT 9 Edited by C0D13 Feb 10, 2024 8:08:44 GMT 9

Alicia Westfield • Player Character Posts: 135 Trainer Class: Player Name: Helen Rose OOC Username: AzureGhidorah Arena Points: 16	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Alicia Westfield on Feb 10, 2024 5:22:20 GMT 9 Alicia took a deep breath once she arrived in the lab, which made perfect sense as to where one would start. UNOVR did have mainline elements, but she was hardly going to fault such a sensible design choice. Especially since she was immediately struck by the fact that this particular professor was nothing like those from mainline. In fact, she struggled to think of any Professor with a similar feel. It was actually kind of endearing in a way? She seemed so much like a misfit, it reminded her of her own real life self. And then while the Professor was talking she glanced up and saw something odd with her UI. That was not the name she inputted! It was very close, but the ending vowels were wrong! Oh dear, was she going to have to send a message through their support services already!? That was not a good first impression… Oh well, that would be Future Helen’s problem. Alicia in the meantime had an apparent questionnaire to get through, though she did have a Pokemon in mind. The one she had gotten by pure chance on her first run through of Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team. Hopefully this questionnaire turned out similarly to that one, because there was something special about the leafy dinosaur, even if in most games it was held back by poor design choices. “I am.” Alicia confirmed readily when asked, though she couldn’t help but smile reassuringly at the brief flash of panic on Bunya’s face. Was this what she looked like when she was caught out by surprise? It was surreal seeing an expression she could empathize with on someone she was directly talking to. “Fire away miss Professor!” Outside of the thing she’d have to message tech support about, this was shaping up to be what she’d hoped it was.

STARTER LAB: ALICIA Posted Feb 10, 2024 5:22:20 GMT 9 via mobile Edited by Alicia Westfield Feb 11, 2024 16:03:42 GMT 9

System Admin • Administrator Posts: 1,293 Player Name: System OOC Username: M00K	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by System Admin on Feb 11, 2024 1:11:32 GMT 9 Bunya sits on the edge of the desk, kicking her feet as she waits for you to take a seat. "So it's 'Nyalice', right?" she says, scribbling down your (incorrect) name at the top of a sheet of printer paper. "Just three questions and I'll letcha go, okay? Here's nyamber one. Uhh..." [BunyaQ]pVyea3br1d50 she asks, tilting her head to the side. [BunyaQ]1d50 [BunyaQ]1d50 Alicia Westfield: ANSWER THE THREE QUESTIONS TO RECEIVE YOUR STARTER! 1d50·1d50·1d50

STARTER LAB: ALICIA Posted Feb 11, 2024 1:11:32 GMT 9

Alicia Westfield • Player Character Posts: 135 Trainer Class: Player Name: Helen Rose OOC Username: AzureGhidorah Arena Points: 16	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Alicia Westfield on Feb 11, 2024 7:38:02 GMT 9 Alicia blinked a bit as Bunya noted the incorrect name, quiet as she grabbed a spare chair to be seated. Maybe this was a built in system to correct possible mistakes in the programming? She was gonna take the chance to see if it was true. “Actually, Professor, it’s supposed to be ‘Alicia’. Maybe there was a clerical error somewhere?” Hopefully that would help matters. She the brushed some long pink hair back, and that was still as surreal as everything else. She… really was someone else right now. Someone she wanted to be. But the questions were going to roll in shortly so she set things aside to focus. She did hear Bunya mention winging it so presumably this could be… possibly off the wall. Though the first one was already a doozy. One she’d actually considered a number of times already. “What power as a superhero? I have to pick just one? … Energy constructs I have complete control over. It would take some learning and some interesting leaps of logic at times but it would technically be one of the most flexible options if mastered. It interests me more than a more boring answer like ‘reality manipulation’ or something. There’s got to be meaning to the power, potential to be shaped and earned. Am I making sense?” The second one hit far too close to home once she fully heard it, and for a moment the façade of the bright and cheery hero-wannabe receded. A glance off to the side, a deep frown, and a heavy sigh revealed the lonely soul underneath. It probably didn’t mean much in the face of an NPC that she’d probably only meet in tutorials and the odd request or two, but it still had an impact. Bunya was quirky enough that she was already forgetting that there wasn’t one specific person behind the avatar, if any at all. “I… never got close enough to anyone to really feel comfortable calling them a ‘friend’. So the closest I could say is something of a cop-out answer, but I’d have my mom with me.” She did smile softly at the thought of the final question though. A snap answer occurred in her mind. “‘The Little Engine That Could’. One of the first books my mom got for me. It’s a classic child’s story for a reason. For when those who think themselves too important to care for those less fortunate, who can you turn to? Someone has to stand up, no matter how scary it is. And with a little faith… anyone can be the hero for those who get forgotten. Even if they’re held back by something inherent in their birth, or put down by the dismissive and the cruel. I still get my old copy of it out from time to time.” All that was left was to see who she got. She did have a Pokemon in mind from the beginning, and the process did let her enter a choice if she wanted to. In hindsight that might’ve been the reason Bunya ended up not having what she needed for a more ‘proper’ interview and this was all a formality in the end.

STARTER LAB: ALICIA Posted Feb 11, 2024 7:38:02 GMT 9 Edited by Alicia Westfield Feb 11, 2024 16:10:00 GMT 9

System Admin • Administrator Posts: 1,293 Player Name: System OOC Username: M00K	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by System Admin on Feb 11, 2024 15:51:35 GMT 9 "Huh? It's nyat?" She leans backwards to check the desktop monitor behind her. "That's weird. Computers nyever lie." She adds a capital 'A' to the end of your name with a dramatic flourish, as if she is doing you a special favor, and then leans forward again to listen to your answers. When you finish, she tears off the sheet of paper she was writing on and reaches absentmindedly down into the file cabinet beneath the desk, unlocking it with a satisfying click. On the paper, you see a glimpse of what she's been writing. It appears to be a doodle of an energy monster, with arrows pointing towards it that say 'powerful' and 'complete control' with the latter circled in sparkly gel pen. You may have just given her a new idea. "This nyan is the best," she says, excited, then tosses the Pokeball into your hands. On the front is a piece of white tape with the name of the Pokemon written in precise, angular letters. CHIKORITA Interview complete! Reply one more time to complete your starter lab thread. Alicia Westfield

STARTER LAB: ALICIA Posted Feb 11, 2024 15:51:35 GMT 9 Edited by System Admin Feb 11, 2024 15:52:34 GMT 9

Alicia Westfield • Player Character Posts: 135 Trainer Class: Player Name: Helen Rose OOC Username: AzureGhidorah Arena Points: 16	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Alicia Westfield on Feb 11, 2024 17:02:06 GMT 9 *"I mean you're not wrong. Computers can't deliberately* lie."** Alicia agreed with a nod. She worked with computers as her job so of course she knew. "But if something went pear-shaped in the coding somewhere, or someone input the wrong data, then the machine can produce an inaccurate result. And bugs can be an utter nightmare to track down sometimes." She did wonder a bit, however, when the professor went sketching something. Though... 'sketching' might be a stretch to explain what was on the paper. And Bunya seemed a bit more excited then she expected. For a moment, she worried that she might be directly responsible for some kind of chaos later. The quirky ones seemed to always have a hint of madness to them. And Mad Scientists tended to ask 'why not' far more then 'why'. She quietly apologized to whoever might be affected in the near future. Then her starter's Pokeball was tossed to her, and she caught the orb with a smile, letting the leaf dinosaur out onto her shoulder. "Hello!" The Chikorita chimed brightly, waving the leaf on its, or rather her, head. "Hey yourself... Tikani..." Alicia replied, nuzzling what she hoped was the first of many new friends both artificial and real. "Are you alright?" Tikani asked, and the leaf whirled a bit to brush at Alicia's eye. "Did I do something wrong...?" The pink-haired woman blinked in surprise at the gesture, realizing she'd actually started crying. Smiling in reassurance, she patted the Chikorita on the head. "No... I... it's complicated, but I'm alright."
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System Admin • Administrator Posts: 1,293 Player Name: System OOC Username: M00K	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by System Admin on Feb 11, 2024 17:13:42 GMT 9 Bunya watches you take the Pokeball, still scratching her head over the whole computer thing. "I guess so!" She waves her hands in the air cheerfully. "Anyway, you are nyow a full Trainer! Your UI is all nyactivated, and you can catch wild Pokemyan!" Icons appear in your field of vision as she speaks, arraying themselves in a glowing line. Prompts for TUTORIAL MODE overlay one another in a stack of miniature pop-ups, prompting you to do things like ~~say goodbye to your mother!~~ and ~~battle your rival!~~. "You can find your way from here, right?" She looks at the well signed path into town. "I'm sure you'll be fine. Seenya, AliceA!" THREAD COMPLETE! CHIKORITA has been added to Alicia Westfield's box! THINGS TO DO NEXT: Try out some starting scenarios in Tutorial Mode! For a natural intro into the game, try the Intro to Asper quest! Spawn a Wild Pokemon in one of the Asper Routes! Choose between ~~BIRCHWILD GROVE~~, ~~MISTY TIMBERLAND~~, or ~~THE SURGE STEPPES~~. Take on a level of the ongoing Challenge Tower! New players can jump in at any time to fulfil new prompts. Make yourself a personal Inventory for your Pokemon! Hunt for Mystery Eggs at The Rookery!

STARTER LAB: ALICIA Posted Feb 11, 2024 17:13:42 GMT 9