[ti]scenario[/ti]ASPER CUP: Thunder Road

Seeing the Bayleef in front of her weaving around the rainbow-colored Pit Zone, the opportunistic Shalin shouted toward Alicia Westfield and her Bayleef, "Don't think I haven't forgotten about my word!" She wasn't kidding, either; the glitch hunter, perched on the Pheromosa's wing, leaned into the wind. "Nymris, AGILITY!" she ordered, bracing herself for the worst.

The Ultra Beast's strides were so rapid that to those who had their framerates set lower, it may have looked like he had just a few frames of animation. To those with higher framerates, his spindly legs were a blur, not unlike a Pokémon's would appear while using the move Extreme Speed. With every dip in the course, she could feel her gut rising toward her throat; with every incline, she could feel it slamming toward her rear. Paralyzed from the surreal sustained speed, all she could do was lean as low as possible to avoid being blown off the wing and suffering a similar fate to her friend.

Asper Cup: Thunder Road

NEW AUDIO: Osc-Sync Carnival

As the grueling challenge continued on, many racers began to realize the importance of pacing. Particularly Alicia Westfield and her BAYLEEF, the grass-type coming off the high of a MIRAIDON's speed burst. Sensing her starter's lethargy, the Gardener reined her toward the energizing strip... briefly falling off her mount.

After a pep talk, she was back in the saddle, but not before losing position to ACE SHEEKE's CHARIZARD and Shalin Nariya 's PHEROMOSA. The two fiercely battled along the inside, every spurt of AGILITY matched by a purple tail flame fueling the fire-type's DRAGON DANCE.

Upon seeing the blinking-red ERON IUNIS and his tired ABSOL wisely utilizing the winding strip to recover, those behind him made their moves. Altair 's ONIX utilized ROCK POLISH to slide down the backs of hills while lunging up their fronts, while ARAVAN ESCHER's KYOGRE continued to swish its AQUA TAIL vigorously. A skillful exit left the two in front of Alkaid 's CELESTEELA by several lengths,.

As the rest of the field rounded the final corners well behind Josh Devlin and his ZEBSTRIKA in peak form, a waving white flag would show up on the top of their HUDs. It was an indication that this was the last circuit around the track. In the run-up to the start of the final lap, the BLUE ORB secured in front of the saddle ARAVAN ESCHER was seated in began glowing a deep azure...

FINAL LAP | OBSTACLE 1

Prompt: After a long straightaway meant to build speed was an uphill, semi-blind, right-angle left turn. Even Pokémon that were tall enough to see over the hill might find the curve a challenge; with its slope being level instead of rounded, it would be quite easy to slip both entering and exiting the turn. Faster Pokémon might need to ease off their high-end top speeds to avoid a nasty impact. Competitors needed to be ready for more right-angle turns afterward, only having a second or two to get into position for them!

Target Number: 120 (Reaction)

Special: Pokémon do not apply ranks in Speed to this Obstacle.

STANDINGS & COURSE MAP

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RULES

PLEASE HEED THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES. These rules are also subject to change.

• Your Pokémon are now LOCKED IN and STATIC for the remainder of this thread. You may not upgrade mid-thread.
• The Asper Cup guidelines can be referenced in this thread's first post.
  
• Your character's Pokémon can only use ONE move at a time. Remember that moves that could conceivably be used to make your Pokémon go faster are PROHIBITED DURING THE FIRST LAP OF THE RACE.
• Please provide a TL;DR summarizing your character's actions and/or BOLD moves/abilities used with each post.
• Missing too many posting rounds will result in YOUR CHARACTER'S DISQUALIFICATION.
• You MUST ROLL THIS ROUND in the Story Mode Rolling thread. The default roll will be 2d100.
• Please POST ONLY ONCE THIS ROUND.

DEADLINE

AUGUST 19, 11:59 PM CDT (9:59 PM PDT)

The moderator post is expected to go up no later than August 21.

Oh, cazzo, what happened?

Clearly there was a ‘disconnect’ between himself and the Celesteela—how had they fallen so far behind?! Either way…

“Merde,” he would spit out; the uncharacteristic French curse dropping with such a bang that the Celesteela revved up her—

“What are you doing—” he would exclaim; before the invasive Pokémon would suddenly lurch forward in an Autotomize burst of speed!

Never mind if they were going to crash straight through the obstacle; fuck all of that; they were here to not finish in last place!

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using Autotomize to BOOST!

link to roll; fuck me

lap 3, obstacle #1

Josh and Raiden had a clear lead going into the final lap. They could coast through most of the final lap and bask in the glory of the checkered flag, if they desired. Having played and mastered a variety of racing games, including a series that advertised itself as the fastest in the galaxy, merely winning was not enough for him. He wanted to humiliate the field. "HYPERSONIC..."

Rings of white Z-POWER formed around Josh's Z-GLOVE and his mount's hooves, putting his complete trust in Raiden. He set the horse's reins down and spread his arms at a wide angle.

"...PLASMA CHARGE!!!"

He grabbed the reins once more not a moment too soon, the Z-Energy the duo had built up releasing itself in a Z-MOVE: BREAKNECK BLITZ that felt like a cheat code in the brief time it lasted. It was as though Josh didn't even need to steer the horse; Raiden seemed to follow the course on his own, without any input from his rider, and at whiplash-inducing speeds at that. After exiting the turn, a cone of air surrounded the speed demon. Only his newly-obtained BOLTER class let him withstand the fastest Pokémon move an ordinary Pokémon could learn.

Asper Cup: Thunder Road

Audio: Osc-Sync Carnival - Final Lap

A white flag waved beneath the lap indicator on the HUDs of all racers: a continuous indication that it was crunch time. The last time around the long and challenging course. The curves shaped like lightning were little trouble for the field, having had two laps to get used to them. They were steadily making up time on Josh Devlin , cutting into his lead one hundredth at a time.

Altair and Alkaid , both feeling the pressure after landing from the course's first jump, were poised to make moves. The redhead's CELESTEELA, disconnected from their trainer, fired their AUTOTOMIZED thrusters a bit too hot. Even with a perfectly-timed turn, the Ultra Beast was simply going too fast, bouncing off the guardrail harshly and rocking their rider. The move Altair 's ONIX made was more deliberate, recklessly dashing ahead on a perfectly smooth, ROCK POLISHED underside.

He couldn't have picked a worse time to floor it.

At the speed they hurtled ahead, no amount of agility, barring a Z-Move, would let them avoid an earthquake-like impact with the outer rail. Had it not been for the rock-type's reflexes, latching on with his tail, the Sky Trainer would have tumbled off the course completely. Even so, the consequences of his foolhardy move were dire; the ONIX began to flash red, their breathing growing more laborious in the last half-lap.

Altair loses one use of BOOST.

In almost perfect unison, ACE SHEEKE and ERON IUNIS raised their MEGA ACCESSORIES skyward, their Pokémon simultaneously MEGA EVOLVING. The fiery racer's dragon, in their apex form, boasted a much more limber body, with elongated wings and tail that let them make buttery smooth turns compared to the clumsy flight they had before. The white-haired competitor's ABSOL sprouted wings along their shoulders. While they could not use them to fly, they did improve the Pokémon's overall racing performance.

Seeing his rivals make their moves, ARAVAN ESCHER took one hand off his KYOGRE's reins to raise his BLUE ORB above his head. The legendary Pokémon glowed a much deeper blue, the field from front to back able to feel a wave of horrific energy pass through them amidst the leviathan's PRIMAL REVERSION. With a much stronger tail, the creature could turn on a dime, the oceanographer hurled to the right side of his saddle in a nearly consciousness-robbing motion. All three of the transformed Pokémon whizzed past Shalin Nariya , though there was still a great distance between her and Altair behind her. She would be able to feel the rumbling and shaking of her unusual, glitched mount's wings, and at one of the worst possible times, too.

Shalin Nariya's PHEROMOSA's erratic actions mean she must roll one additional die this round. The highest die's result will be dropped.

The MEGA EVOLVED Pokémon served as a further incentive for Alicia Westfield and her BAYLEEF to remain strong. The whites of their eyes glowed yellow with electricity, making it appear as though the female rider was a BOLTER. With superb reaction time, she was able to cut ERON IUNIS off, preventing him from passing her.

As Josh Devlin and his ZEBSTRIKA zoomed around the blind curve with fluid grace and precision, an announcer sound bite echoed from all around him:

"POUR IT ON! YOU'RE WAY OUT IN FRONT!"

Little did he know how much of a curse trying to blow away the rest of the field would be... for what racing title was without rubberband mechanics? All seven of the racers behind him would find themselves filled with vim and vigor down the home stretch...

FINAL LAP | OBSTACLE 2

Prompt: In the waning seconds of the race, the course's final true challenge was before the competition. After one last chance to pit seconds earlier, the course takes a sharp, flat left that almost certainly requires braking to navigate successfully. Immediately after that is a section of wavy road. Unlike the pit area, these waves are uneven, higher on one side than the other. Even the course itself is tilted at an angle, making it easy to slip and fall into the rail!

Target Number: 170 (Reaction)

Special: Pokémon also apply half their Ranks in Endurance (no rounding) to this Obstacle. TP gained on this Obstacle is increased by 25%, rounded up, per racer that is in front of them.

STANDINGS & COURSE MAP

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RULES

PLEASE HEED THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES. These rules are also subject to change.

• Your Pokémon are now LOCKED IN and STATIC for the remainder of this thread. You may not upgrade mid-thread.
• The Asper Cup guidelines can be referenced in this thread's first post.
  
• Your character's Pokémon can only use ONE move at a time. Remember that moves that could conceivably be used to make your Pokémon go faster are PROHIBITED DURING THE FIRST LAP OF THE RACE.
• Please provide a TL;DR summarizing your character's actions and/or BOLD moves/abilities used with each post.
• Missing too many posting rounds will result in YOUR CHARACTER'S DISQUALIFICATION.
• You MUST ROLL THIS ROUND in the Story Mode Rolling thread. The default roll will be 2d100.
• Please POST ONLY ONCE THIS ROUND.

DEADLINE

AUGUST 22, 11:59 PM CDT (9:59 PM PDT)

The moderator post is expected to go up no later than August 24.

Are… are you kidding me?

From what he thought was a perfectly-executed jump over the obstacle and hopefully propelling themselves into ‘manifest destiny’, sadly the exact fucking opposite happened!

“WHOA!” he yelped; very nearly getting thrown off had he not been holding on like a madman onto the Onix’s head horn.

“Gee, this place is absolutely fucked up,” he would growl, hanging on by an arm in mid-air before forcing himself to use his arm as leverage and swing around to get back on ‘solid ground’, a.k.a. the top of the Onix’s head.

“Guess that was not the right time to do… are you kidding me?!” he would yell a few moments later.

His original plan was to boost on every single stage of this lap, but the fact he was down one Speed boost now threw a colossal-sized monkey wrench into his plans!

(Why couldn’t he master—oh, that’s right, Aviator he may be, he was not riding a Flying-type mount, which was why. Maybe if he’d entered with a Flying-type mount then everyone would tremble in fear at the sight of him fully ‘airborne’ and on his preferred mount of choice.)

“Nuts,” he would grumble a few moments later, before squaring his shoulders.

“Well… let’s just get on with it.”

And they would continue from where they had left off.

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link to roll; oh FUCK ME

Altair entering with Onix!