[ti]quest[/ti][open] A BREWING STORM

QUEST: A BREWING STORM

OPEN QUEST 2 PARTICIPANTSARTWORK BY ohdon

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With starter in hand, you've found yourself sitting in a black carriage bound for the first proper settlement of Asper, sitting across from a unfamiliar face - but before you can begin to properly meet the stranger across from you, the Spectrier pulling the carriage suddenly grow uneasy, snorting and shivering before, with a cry, they break free of their traces and kick free of the carriage, fleeing into the brewing storm. Luckily, it seems like you might just be able to get through this storm with a little help from your friends...

OBJECTIVES

• Repair the Broken Carriage Axel
• Locate a suitable tree
• Cut down the tree
• Refine the tree into a makeshift axel
• Install the axel on the carriage
• Recapture the Carriage Horses
• Locate and retame the first steed
• Locate and retame the second steed
• Reach the Briarbane Settlement

Note: This quest satisfies the requirements of the Intro to Asper quest line!

MECHANICS

Party Mechanics Characters enter the quest with up to 6 Pokemon in their party. This party cannot be switched or adjusted mid-thread. There is no combat for this quest, so players are unable to white out.

Actions Each character is allowed to make one primary action during their post. This action can be movement (moving from the carriage to the tall grass or the surroundings), progression (pursuing a fled Spectrier or solving a puzzle), spawning (searching for a wild Pokemon), taming (attempting to tame a wild Pokemon), or recovery (restocking on berries).

Pokemon Taming After the carriage breaks down, all characters will be able to gather 5 berries from a nearby tree to be able to tame nearby Pokemon to help them with their current objective. Taming is a simple pass/fail dice roll with a d6 but cannot be attempted in the same post the Pokemon is spawned in. If a character rolls a 1, the Pokemon will take 2 berries and not be tamed; if they roll a 2-3, the Pokemon will take 1 berry and not be tamed; if they roll a 4-5, they will take 1 berry and be tamed for one task; if they roll a 6, they will take no berries and be tamed for one task. Characters can regain 3 berries if they have a Pokemon native to the Steppes and 2 otherwise.

Carriage Repair The carriage repair portion of the quest functions as a simple logic puzzle that is solved with either an automatic pass based on the members of their current team or by successfully taming a native Pokemon to perform the task for them.

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{PASS LIST} Locating the Tree:
Grass Pokemon
Rufflet or Yanma

Felling the Tree:
Fighting Pokemon
Phanpy or Duraludon

Preparing the Tree:
Clawed Pokemon
Drilbur or Nidoran

Installing the Axel:
Psychic Pokemon
Nosepass or Doduo

Horse Recapture The horse-recapture portion of the quest functions as a mild chase with some adaptability. Characters will advance 3 spaces when on a Ride Pokemon or 2 spaces normally to chase the missing Spectrier; once they reach 6 spaces, they will have caught up to the Spectrier, which will not need to be tamed. However, if they wish, they can instead opt to search for and tame a Blitzle, Ponyta, Tauros, or Mareep to pull the wagon instead, should they be able to spawn one.

Enemies Enemy Pokemon species will be randomized from this list: Yanma, Nidoran (m), Nidoran (f), Blitzle, Ponyta, Mareep, Doduo, Phanpy, Tauros, Drilbur, Duraludon, Nosepass, Rufflet, and Shinx. All Pokemon have an equal likelihood of appearing; however, due to combat being disabled for this quest, all Pokemon will flee if they are not successfully tamed.

ADDITIONAL

Activity Expectations For the sake of progression, participants are expected to be able to post at least once a week. Double-posting is permitted as long as at least 3 calendar days have passed from the previous post. If a player goes more than 2 weeks between posts without a valid reason, their quest rewards may be reduced.

GM Involvement Since this quest is meant to be pretty much entirely self-sufficient, honestly, I'm not anticipating needing to do any GM posts at all for this quest.

Quest Repetition While I don't have a problem with other members doing this exact same quest with a different party, I do ask that, as a courtesy, they wait until this initial run has concluded before starting theirs.

Impact Look, this is just me getting a horrible idea to do something a bit more official with my intro quest, okay, don't judge me for my sins-

Bonus Yes I do know Shinx can't actually spawn in the Surge Steppes, but sue me, they seem like they'd appear there if they had an area in the wilds, so I'm dropping them there for the purpose of the quest (especially since it is meant to tie in with the later questline I have planned oops-)