Yggy Br00ks
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Pikachu Fan
Round 2
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Player Name: Kenneth Garfield
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Post by Yggy Br00ks on Dec 21, 2021 10:50:42 GMT 9
{TUTORIAL: WHAT WAS HIS NAME AGAIN?}
Cue the battle music, your RIVAL APPEARS! He's cool, he's hip, he's got a guitar. CHOOSE A NAME for your game rival. If you skip this tutorial, the default will always show up as "Your RIVAL." Your RIVAL is a spunky, confident young man who immediately challenges you to a Pokemon Battle. Your RIVAL only has Chimchar and Blitzle in the tutorial, but perhaps later you'll see him with an expanded team.
Unlike the games, this battle can be avoided if desired, but once encountered, your RIVAL will continue to pursue you throughout your experience on UNOVR until you battle him at least once.
His BETA FERRY TICKET in one hand, his Oshawott in the other, Yggy Brooks left the Starter Lab in high spirits. <Sure is bright out here!> the Oshawott exclaimed as they emerged into the light. <You know what, I've decided: I'm gonna stare into the sun! See what happens!>"You probably shouldn't do that, man!" Yggy said, turning the Oshawott around in what he thought was a clever counter. Unfortunately, the Pokemon's head also turned as Watson continued staring over his shoulder. "Agh! Cut it out, I don't know what it'll... well, actually, you'll probably be fine," he said after a moment, remembering the little starter Pokemon was entirely virtual and probably wouldn't have lasting optical damage. Right? If Pokemon could get hit by Draco Meteors and Fire Blasts and Z-Moves and stuff, they could probably take a little eyestrain. "Manish, are you coming? I wanna go to the Beta Island thing, did you get your ticket from the Professor?" Yggy set Watson down and jogged back to check on the fancy man he'd met in the starter lab. He grinned cheekily at his starting pal, gesturing over at the docks. "I think the ferry will be here in like, five minutes." He checked the in-game clock in the bottom of his UI just to make sure, giving a decisive nod. "Yup! Five minutes!""Just enough time to riff up a couple of mainland goonies," came a smug, confident voice. Standing on the dock to Beta Island was a white-haired young man with a backwards ballcap and an electric guitar. He was unmistakably a Pokemon Rival. He kissed the Pokeball in his hand, then tossed it intimidatingly up into the air. "Beta Island is my stomping grounds. Hah! What do you say we have ourselves a little Pokemon Battle?""No way!" Yggy exclaimed. "It's—"The other dude cut him off, pointing his guitar at Manish. "Uh, I was talking to him." |
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Post by manish on Dec 23, 2021 10:22:21 GMT 9
Manish left the lab, following behind Yggy with his newly acquired Bulbasaur wrapped tightly in his arms. He’d barely started the game and already had a pet and a new friend, or at least he hoped he could eventually consider Yggy a friend. He wasn’t sure what exactly the time frame was before someone could be a friend. Probably more than just their short encounter so far, but since Yggy wanted to spend more time together Manish figured he still had time to really solidify friend status. He didn’t know exactly how to do that, but he was pretty sure he could figure it out. Probably. Hopefully. Upon hearing his name, Manish was yanked out of his internal thoughts “Oh, uh what? Oh! Yeah,” he shifted Ryan over to one arm to reach into his pocket to fish out his ticket, “yeah I have it right here.” A new voice pulled Manish’s attention. Whoever this new person was, they were definitely very cool, what with their guitar and backwards hat and all. Manish was instantly intimidated and froze slightly behind Yggy. "Uh, I was talking to him."Manish tried to follow the line created by the pointed guitar and leaned out of the way to make room for whoever the new person was pointing at. He looked behind him to see who exactly had the cool guy’s ire. Not seeing anyone instantly behind him, Manish kept turning around, but there wasn’t anyone else around. Now that was very confusing. He looked down at Ryan who seemed to be trying to wriggle out of his grasp. <It’s your rival! We should show him who's boss!> Ryan said with glee as he finally freed himself and jumped down to stand between Manish and the rival. Slowly Manish pointed at himself. The cool guy gave a nod to confirm Manish’s worst fear. “Ri..rival? What? No, I don’t uh, I mean, I haven’t even done anything? There’s got to be a mistake.” There’s no way he could take on this guy. He had a backwards hat! That alone was cooler than Manish could ever hope to be, let alone the guitar. Manish wasn’t even wearing shoes, how could he be considered someone’s rival? Manish wiggled his toes amongst the small mushrooms that started to grow out of the ground around his feet. "I'm gonna rock your world," said his rival, smirk clear on his face “What do I do?” He stage whispered to Yggy, hoping the kid would know how exactly to handle this situation. Or better yet, would explain that the rival was just confused and that Yggy was actually who he was looking for. |
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Yggy Br00ks
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Pikachu Fan
Round 2
Posts: 406
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Kenneth Garfield
OOC Username: M00K
Arena Points: 68
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Post by Yggy Br00ks on Dec 28, 2021 1:12:43 GMT 9
Taken aback by the fact that the RIVAL had chosen Manish rather than Yggy-- someone in his own peer group!-- Yggy wasn't sure how to react to the situation either. His mind worked franticly for an explanation. Does the game just choose randomly? Or does everyone have an individual rival generated for them? That would be pretty cool. But how did it work? Did it just jumble random combinations of people together? Was that how they'd gotten this electric guitar guy? Reminding himself that Manish was looking up to him and he had to be the "big brother" who showed him the ropes, Yggy gave the mustached man a thumbs-up of encouragement. "You should battle him, Manish!" he said. "His Pokemon is probably strong against yours if he's your rival though, so watch out! I bet he has a fire-type. You know about types, don't you?" It occurred to Yggy that Manish hadn't even seemed to know what Pokemon were, much less the traditional Grass/Fire/Water trio. Yikes. " ...Well, it's fine! It's usually just Tackle and stuff, anyway.""You'll see who gets tackled," the RIVAL sneered, tossing his Pokeball in the air. A Chimchar appeared, its monkey-hair windswept and sexy like a 2000's boy band member. "When Chimchar and I SCRATCH this record!" The monkey leapt forward, its hands curled into claws aimed at Manish's Bulbasaur. "No fair! He wasn't ready!" Yggy yelled, pointing at the Chimchar. "Battle me instead! Don't worry, Manish. Me and Watson should be strong against this guy, because Oshawott is a Water Type! It's just like Rock, Paper, Scissors. I'll show you!"Yggy was going to show Manish, but right at that moment, something interfered. < Glitch: [Glitch]6CmGvpil1d100 > A Microsoft-Word-Style Porygon Assistant popped up between the pair of them, rotating slightly in place like a 3-D Hologram. Yggy recognized him from the Character Creation screen. <BZZZT! It's me, C0D13, your Virtual Assistant! Looks like it's BATTLE TIME!> it buzzed. <There are FOUR things you have to remember in a Pokemon Battle! One-->
<FOUR things you have to remember in a Pokemon Battle! One-->
<FOUR things you have to remember in a Pokemon Battle! One-->
<FOUR things you have to-->"Oh my god, shut up!" Yggy exclaimed. "Manish, let's get out of here, it's so annoying!" Covering his ears, Yggy tried to run away back towards the Pokemon Lab they'd just come from. 1d100 |
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Post by manish on Jan 1, 2022 1:14:53 GMT 9
“Uhhhh, wow, you mean like, battle as in fight? Like, fight that guy? Oh, man, jeeze, ok, yeah see I don’t really think that that’s my jam, you know?” Manish was not a fan of this idea. No one told him this was a violent game. His mother would be so upset if she found out there was fighting in this game. His thoughts about him potentially being grounded were interrupted by a monkey taking a swipe at his precious toad. Manish let out a very manly yelp. <That all you got? I can take more!> Oh Ryan was gonna be into this. He was gonna be so into this. “Yggy…” Manish started, but was rudely interrupted by a hologram. He cocked his head to the side. “Hey, wait, isn’t that the thing from the start of the game?” Then it started to repeat itself. “Uhhhhh…I think it’s broken?” But Yggy, wonderful Yggy, suggested getting out of there. Sure, it was in response to the busted floating thing and not the impending beat down Manish was fairly certain he was about to receive, but he wasn’t going to complain. As long as they got outta there he was happy. “Yeah, no, leaving seems uh, seems right.” He scooped up the toad who was still posted up for a fight and then decided to beat a hasty retreat. He tugged on Yggy’s sleeve as he started to run away. “Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go.” Manish called, shooting a glance back to make sure Yggy was following. He stumbled slightly, but his desire to be anywhere that wasn’t here outweighed the universal desire to see him fall directly on his face and he stayed upright. As they left, Manish’s RIVAL could still distantly be heard, “Hey! Where are you going? Get back here and finish this duet! Hey! You can run, but you can’t hide from this beat!”Manish really really hoped that was a hyperbole, but he had a feeling that this wasn’t the last time he was going to see that very cool guitar guy who wanted to beat him up.
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Yggy Br00ks
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Pikachu Fan
Round 2
Posts: 406
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Player Name: Kenneth Garfield
OOC Username: M00K
Arena Points: 68
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Post by Yggy Br00ks on Jan 2, 2022 23:39:15 GMT 9
They found themselves back in the Pokemon Lab in Professor Ash's now-empty office. Perhaps her appearance wasn't triggered if one already had a starter Pokemon. Or maybe she'd just gone out to lunch. Yggy crawled under her desk, jostling his knees and elbows on the linoleum flooring. His Oshawott crawled after him, no questions asked. "Manish, down here!" the youth's voice came, echoing tinnily. Even if Manish's rival wasn't following them, it would still be funny to scare Professor Ash once she came back. He felt bad the moment he thought it. It wasn't really nice to scare people unless they were your friends already and you had a playful relationship going. Ash had seemed nice, but Yggy wouldn't really call her his friend. Maybe because she was older, maybe because she seemed more like a teacher-figure or a medical professional, maybe because she literally wasn't real. Anyway, it was mean to scare her. "We have to make a lot of noise!" he blurted out to Manish. That was what you did to scare off bears, right? That's what they taught him in elementary school in Canada-- if you were noisy enough, you wouldn't startle wild animals and scare them into attacking you. Not that Ash would attack them. Haha. Right? How were they supposed to make noise, though? He racked his memory for wilderness survival training (which had been a 1-hr assembly in school). "Hey Manish, do you know any cool songs?"<Well, I know a song!> Watson exclaimed. <It was on last month's Top 20!>Yggy waited. <It's copyright though,> Watson said after a moment. GLITCH: [Glitch]3L6oUF7U1d100 |
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Post by manish on Jan 3, 2022 1:30:13 GMT 9
Man, Yggy could really move fast. Manish was struggling to keep up with him as they ran back to the lab. He shot a look over his shoulder and saw a small trail of mushrooms following behind them. With any luck his apparent rival won’t think to follow them. Hopefully. He watched as Yggy climbed under the desk and frowned at the teen’s suggestion. “I uh, I don’t really think I’ll uh, you know, fit? Maybe I can hide somewhere else…” Manish stopped mid-sentence as he saw his rival through the window. He dropped to the floor instantly and squished underneath the desk. There were a lot of limbs going places and he was fairly certain he elbowed Yggy in the stomach, but he was able to wedge all of his limbs under the desk. “What?” Manish whispered, “I thought we wanted to be quiet? Aren’t we, you know, like, hiding?” He squirmed, trying to adjust Ryan in his lap without kicking Yggy. “I know some songs, you know, oh! Actually, so I know this one song. Father sang it on the job he had where he met Mother. They used to sing it a lot at each other. Um, it went, uh,” He wiggled again, feeling himself start to sink down slightly. Huh, maybe there was more room under here than he thought. “Okay, so, it was, ‘...And I don’t know how you do it, making love out of nothing at all’.” Manish closed his eyes and adjusted to further lean into the space he apparently didn’t notice before. “Out of nothing at all! Out of nothing at all!” He was really getting into it, starting to belt out the song. He moved a hand back to brace himself, “Out of noth…Oh shit!” He yelled, hand not catching on the floor. He opened his eyes to see himself start to fall through the floor. “Yggy! Yggy what’s happening? Help!” Manish kept drifting downwards, watching the lab get further and further away as he descended into an endless black void around him. “Yggy! Help! Also don’t tell Mother I swore!” He hugged Ryan to his chest as they continued down through the map. |
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Yggy Br00ks
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Pikachu Fan
Round 2
Posts: 406
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Player Name: Kenneth Garfield
OOC Username: M00K
Arena Points: 68
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Post by Yggy Br00ks on Jan 3, 2022 11:06:20 GMT 9
"Yeah, but I don't want to scare the professor," Yggy whispered back, trying to wiggle out of the way so Manish's bony knees didn't get jammed up inside his ribcage. "Ow!" On second thought, maybe there wasn't room in here for two people, an Oshawott, and a Bulbasaur. Good thing Watson was so squishy. Manish brought up his parents, and Yggy's face softened a little. "Aww! That's really nice, man." His mom and dad had used to sing to each other sometimes. "Oh yeah, I know that song!" he said, perking up as Manish sang a line of the chorus. But isn't it kinda weird to be singing that all squished up together under a desk? It felt... you know. Awkward? It was even more awkward as Manish kept singing. Yggy tried to shuffle around under the desk and recoiled from accidentally touching Ryan, who was (as advertised) slimy. "Yuck. Um, Manish..." It was kinda dark under here, but didn't it seem like they suddenly had more space? "Yggy, help! Also don't tell Mother I swore!""I won't tell!" Yggy yelled, lunging for Manish as the man sank beneath the floor with the smooth, effortless pan that only a video game could manage. "Oh, crap." Maybe it was just the tile Manish was on, but Yggy felt the texture beneath his hands and knees disappear as they clipped through the map the way a knife cut through cheesecake. It was like an out-of-body experience. The teen could still see the Pokemon Lab above them, perched on its 3D grid. The model of Manish's RIVAL was still pacing around the outside, searching for the mushroomy man who'd vanished into thin air. "Oh my god, it's glitching out! Quick, send a Bug Report!"The Porygon assistant reappeared as Yggy frantically tried to open his UI. He'd never thought he'd need to be using the Bug Report feature so soon. I guess that's why it's all still free to play. His stomach did somersaults as they continued to smoothly descend, the Starter Lab growing smaller and smaller above them. "Codie, hey, your stupid map's broken, we're literally falling into the void right now--"<FOUR things you have to remember in a Pokemon Battle! One--> said C0D13. Yggy closed his UI. It looked like they were on their own. As they fell further, something else bright appeared below them. It looked like another map. "Oh, shit!" Yggy said, also forgetting not to swear, "Maybe that's Beta Island, Manish!" What a stroke of luck-- they'd avoided the RIVAL and an annoying Ferry Ride and skipped straight to the starting quest. ...So what was with the "Boss Battle" music?
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Player Name: Manish
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Post by manish on Jan 11, 2022 13:21:36 GMT 9
The drifting through the map was really starting to take its toll. Manish didn’t think that one could get sick in a video game, but if they didn’t land soon he was fairly certain he was going to throw up. “Please tell me reporting the bug will fix it” he groaned while Yggy messed with the UI. <FOUR things you have to remember in a Pokemon Battle! One-->Manish sighed, “I’ll take that as a no.” Manish narrowed his eyes to see what Yggy was talking about. It did look like the map was getting closer. Well, the top of the map. He glanced up and could still distantly see the bottom of the map. “Woah, that’s uh, weird. Wait, are we gonna, um, you know, crash? Yggy! Yggy, are we going to crash into the map?” He started to panic and shut his eyes tightly preparing for the pain of the sudden stop as the map grew nearer and a strange music started to play all around them. After a longer time than Manish was expecting, he opened his eyes to see that they were, in fact, still just gently falling down to the map. At this rate they were going to be placed gently back on the ground. “Oh. Uh, huh. No need to panic, everything’s fine!” As details emerged, Manish could make out his supposed rival still pacing in front of the Lab. “Oh great. He’s still there.” Only once they were several feet above the ground did Manish really process what was happening. The rival was still in his outfit, still pacing, but he was no longer a young teen. No, it appeared that the rival was now a full grown adult; his clothing was a little scuffed, a scar across one eye, and a few more wrinkles. Manish was so caught up in staring that he forgot they were falling. He was gently set onto the ground on his stomach and he continued to stare up at the rival. With their appearance, the rival pointed at Manish, a scowl on his face. “You! You thought you could get away from me, but I have been waiting for this day, jamming with my full band of Pokemon everyday, so I can finally prove I rock harder than you ever could!” The rival threw a pokeball into the air and started to play a sick power chord on his guitar in time with the still echoing boss battle music. A fully evolved Infernape appeared out of the pokeball in a flash of blinding light. Manish stared at his rival for a moment before looking back at Yggy. “Uh, I think uh, yeah we should definitely try that whole um, leaving thing again probably. Right?” He glanced back over at his rival who was still strumming his guitar and the Infernape that was headbanging along to the beat. Slowly as to not interrupt the music and draw attention to himself or Yggy, Manish got to his feet and pulled on Yggy’s sleeve. “I think if we just back away slowly he might not, uh, not notice us? I don't even really like rock music.” he whispered while trying to quietly move away from the rocking rival and Infernape. |
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