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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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Respiro • Mythstar Posts: 130 Trainer Class: Player Name: Miquel Torres OOC Username: M00k Arena Points: 10	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Respiro on Oct 16, 2024 13:18:58 GMT 9 Respiro crawled up and out of the dark, out of the elevator shaft, out of the broken windows and eroded walls of Midas Corp. He was exhausted. His head nodded on his shoulders, his spine stooped. Vivillon rode on his back like a pair of wings, drooping listlessly. Dodrio had been recalled to its Pokeball after fainting: drained, but safe. It just needed healing. No more grayed-out-icon. No Everworld. Looking up at the pale sky, Nihilego poison caked beneath his fingernails, Respiro let out a sigh of relief. Lo hicimos. They did it. He had never spent much time in Ostellia. It was too much of a reminder of what he'd left behind: the European server where Area 3 had never been unlocked. He had felt happier tracing old paths, swimming in old memories. But he'd learned new memories could be good too.

[ti]spawn[/ti]MOSSGREEN Posted Oct 16, 2024 13:18:58 GMT 9

Respiro • Mythstar Posts: 130 Trainer Class: Player Name: Miquel Torres OOC Username: M00k Arena Points: 10	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Respiro on Oct 16, 2024 13:26:50 GMT 9 Vivillon stirred, its blue wings raising to an upright point, like the sail of a ship. It gave Respiro the appearance of a great shark's fin, a forbidden creature rising from the depths. <We're back,> the bug-type said. <We made it out.> It was not a question: Respiro would not understand, or answer. Vivillon knew this well. It spoke to itself as well as the boy with the bird beak, including him in its not-so-silence. Respiro stepped out onto the street. The ancient pavement was violently cracked, the fractures filled in by moss and lush weeds. The whole Nexus was like this: cracked, broken, but reclaimed. Nature came back. There was always a way. The little fighter gave a start. Nature came back. The wild Pokemon! Had they come back too? He'd gotten a notification in the middle of the raid about them returning to Ostellia. Had life returned to the dead city?

[ti]spawn[/ti]MOSSGREEN Posted Oct 16, 2024 13:26:50 GMT 9

Respiro • Mythstar Posts: 130 Trainer Class: Player Name: Miquel Torres OOC Username: M00k Arena Points: 10	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Respiro on Oct 16, 2024 13:36:33 GMT 9 Vivillon was too exhausted to protest as Respiro hunted, prodding and poking and searching for life in the city ruins. Grass tinkled on ancient asphalt as an old pane of half-melted glass fell out behind him. He had no idea he was the one being watched. An Aipom swung from a half-toppled telephone pole, testing its newly-regained strength. But Vivillon saw it. Like the sealed Hearteater, the creature whose thousand-eyed hive mind had watched over Ostellia for so long, its compound eyes reflected the monkey's shape from above. <There's one behind you.> The butterfly patted Respiro's shoulder and the little fighter turned, beaky head questing curiously. <Up there.> He saw it. "!!" Respiro pointed at it excitedly. An Aipom! He'd never seen one in Asper: and surely no one had in Ostellia. Not for hundreds of years. His heart lifted. It felt good to have made a difference. What a strange feeling.

[ti]spawn[/ti]MOSSGREEN Posted Oct 16, 2024 13:36:33 GMT 9

Respiro • Mythstar Posts: 130 Trainer Class: Player Name: Miquel Torres OOC Username: M00k Arena Points: 10	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Respiro on Oct 16, 2024 14:01:47 GMT 9 Aipom was not as happy to see him. Or maybe it was, in its way, eager to use muscles that had been atrophying for generations, to test itself in combat after so long away from the game. Vivillon was in no state to respond, but the same was not true for Respiro. As the monkey leapt at him he ducked and spun, one leg fully extended, sliding beneath the normal-type before it could land on him and begin pummeling his body. The Aipom landed on the ground on all fours, then slapped its tail against the pavement, elevating itself back up like a blooming flower. It took a few punches at Respiro, hissing, while the fighter danced away.

[ti]spawn[/ti]MOSSGREEN Posted Oct 16, 2024 14:01:47 GMT 9

Respiro • Mythstar Posts: 130 Trainer Class: Player Name: Miquel Torres OOC Username: M00k Arena Points: 10	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Respiro on Oct 16, 2024 14:09:01 GMT 9 Respiro let out an undignified squawk as the Aipom's grasping tail-hand finally found his ankle and seized it. It lacked the strength to sweep him off his feet, so Respiro was simply pulled forward, half-hopping on one foot as he tried with his hands to pry the monkey's three fingers away. He hadn't wanted to fight the new Ostellia Pokemon - only look at them! Adding them to his Pokedex hadn't even occurred to him, so focused had he been on Asper and the server that came before. Should he start collecting the Pokemon here? Respiro wasn't sure. Ostellia confused him. It was outside the bounds of what he knew, outside the familiar structure of UNOVR. Unlock the shrines. Clear the World Event. Cleanse the Corruption. They'd cleared the World Event, but there was no cleansing. There hadn't been last time, either, from what he understood. It didn't matter to him either way, but it made him wonder. What was going to happen next? What could he count on, when the pattern from before was broken?

[ti]spawn[/ti]MOSSGREEN Posted Oct 16, 2024 14:09:01 GMT 9

Respiro • Mythstar Posts: 130 Trainer Class: Player Name: Miquel Torres OOC Username: M00k Arena Points: 10	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Respiro on Oct 16, 2024 14:21:41 GMT 9 It would never have occurred to Respiro to compare Aipom to Respira, his former Infernape. Though both monkeys, he got a completely different feeling from the two of them. Respira was pure power, grace, controlled energy. Aipom was more like— Well, like Respiro. How would it look with a blade in its hand, he wondered. Or two blades, when it evolved? A rapier and a parrying-dagger? A shortsword and cloak? With more hands free to hold battle items? He would need to unlock Ironsmith before such a thing was possible. But for a moment, he let himself dream. Smack! Aipom's fist connected with his chin and the boy's head rocked back, feeling the leather of his mask bite into his skin. Ouch! Even through reduced pain settings, he felt rocked by the strike. He had just finished fighting from the top-down in a World Event dungeon, after all—by no means was he at full health. For the first time, feeling himself slow—he! Rook the Quick!— he wondered if this was a losing battle.

[ti]spawn[/ti]MOSSGREEN Posted Oct 16, 2024 14:21:41 GMT 9

Respiro • Mythstar Posts: 130 Trainer Class: Player Name: Miquel Torres OOC Username: M00k Arena Points: 10	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Respiro on Oct 16, 2024 14:28:46 GMT 9 His head snapped back down and he struck out with one knee, using the momentum from Aipom's strike to flip backwards. His knee caught the monkey in the chest, sending it flying up above him with a startled cry. Respiro saw the world turn upside-down and completed his arc, palms grinding into pavement as he caught the falling Aipom with a fiery double kick. Bam! Bam! Embers flew off his feet as he finished his back handspring and spun around, breathing hard, Vivillon flat against his back. Surely that had finished off the Aipom. Respiro didn't stop to check HP: fluidly, all part of the same Moving Circle, he pulled out his Golden Pokeball and threw.

[ti]spawn[/ti]MOSSGREEN Posted Oct 16, 2024 14:28:46 GMT 9

Respiro • Mythstar Posts: 130 Trainer Class: Player Name: Miquel Torres OOC Username: M00k Arena Points: 10	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Respiro on Oct 16, 2024 14:31:20 GMT 9 It was over. Respiro trotted up to the capsule, watching it squirm and wiggle on the ground as the Aipom struggled to escape. He almost felt bad for it. Centuries of not-quite-life beneath the city, drained of color, only to be captured again now. Pzzeeeeew! He leapt back: a brilliant flash of light had issued from the Pokeball as the Aipom broke free, tail held high and threatening. It chittered angrily at him. If he focused, he could make out English words beneath the monkey-noises, but little else. One more time! Skipping backwards, putting more space between himself and the purple monkey, Respiro threw the capsule for a second time.

[ti]spawn[/ti]MOSSGREEN Posted Oct 16, 2024 14:31:20 GMT 9

System Admin • Administrator Posts: 1,467 Player Name: System OOC Username: M00K	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by System Admin on Oct 16, 2024 18:26:07 GMT 9 CAPTURE COMPLETE! Aipompom-purin! AIPOM has been added to Respiro's box!

[ti]spawn[/ti]MOSSGREEN Posted Oct 16, 2024 18:26:07 GMT 9