WORLD EVENT: HIGH TIDE RAID

Furrlicity is heartbroken that the Mini C0D13 he had pack bonded with had perished.

That just means he would need to capture a new one to force to be his friend.

A new area beckons. Furrlicity moves forward as his messages ping. He frowns and rolls his eyes before replying.

luke i told u 2 stop messaging me i dont want 2 go on another date with u =/

Furrlicity slams that send button back to the [DELETED USER] before he realizes the splendor of the new area. A proper response would be to be shaken, but Furrlicity is more worried about his forced Mini C0D13 friend and dealing with Luke in his physical body.

Glancing around, he saw a few other players already here. Finnegan Fjord, manish, inari, some person he didn't know (orioncayge). He walked over and tried to slap Finnegan Fjord right on the ass before examining his choices.

"Oh, this is an easy choice." Furrlicity leaned over and snatched up his Sobble, who screamed in fury as he dropped her on top of it. "Bye, bitch!" He said cheerfully as he clicked the SACRIFICE button.

He'd probably be able to get her back.

Maybe.

Sobble: 290/300 HP SACRIFICE
Solrock: 300/300 HP
Shinx: 110/150 HP OUT
Espurr: 130/150 HP OUT
Treecko: FAINTED
Litten: FAINTED

For a brief moment, there was quiet and peace. It was almost unsettling, seeing how dead and quiet the world was now. Parts of it seemed alive and full of life, the Crater seemed to be buzzing around like usual, but her lovely Coastline was in tatters. The digital remains of the miniature COD13's were scattered across the world, and she finally took a moment to pause and breathe.

And then she noticed the messages.

Players were deleted, and they needed help. What even did that mean? They weren't actually here, right? Was it some major buggy nightmare-scape their consciousnesses were subjected to? How could Hydance even let this happen? Even for a Beta, this was legitimately a traumatizing experience, and way too meta to seem planned.

She was quick to attempt to reply, hoping that by some glitch in the code that it would get through to them.

"trying my best. be safe. unplug if you can if it gets bad. just be safe. - L"

And so she did the only thing she could. She went back to the Crater just like the messages said. A new opening had been made in the attack, a secret cave. It would have been intriguing, it would have been cool, and exciting if the circumstances of her arrival didn't foretell even more danger ahead.

The Bedrock Shrine stood intimidating before her, the sheer pressure of the situation almost overpowering. Other players were already here as if they had realized the choice that suddenly came up on the tooltip.

Pray or Sacrifice.

Laguna had no doubt that this was a shrine to Groudon, to equal the power of Kyogre. Perhaps someone, or perhaps something, could counter-act the primal-infused COD13. After all, it had Kyogre's strength, and if there was anything that could defeat Kyogre...

Her Pokemon seemed unaware of the difficult choice ahead of her, their own excitement and eagerness to explore overriding their fear. All except one.

Glacia stared at the shrine, the Bergmite smarter than it looked. It was born at the High Tide Shrine, it understood the over-powering presence of the shrines. But perhaps more importantly, their kind soul only needed to look at the other trainers to know what was going on.

"Glacia..." Laguna spoke, kneeling down to hug her Bergmite gently in her arms after she quickly recalled the others. "I know what it suggested, and I know what others have probably done, but-"

The Bergmite said nothing, only closing its eyes as it enjoyed the warm hug for all it was before it just nodded. Or perhaps more accurately, shook its whole body in a nod.

Laguna fought back a few tears, nodding her head back as she approached the shrine, ice-pokemon held ever so reverently in her arms. She spoke, praying even as she made up the mind to sacrifice. "Groudon... A pretender has claimed your rival's eternal power. A pretender claims to dictate what is right, and wrong, what deserves to exist or not. This island, is yours, is it not? The land and all that walks upon its domain owe its very life to you. And so," She holds up Bergmite over her head, the small, physically weak pokemon standing as proudly as it physically could. The fight before had not been kind to its health.

"We beseech thee, to right these wrongs. To show that the island is yours to rule! Please, take this Pokemon, her valiant spirit, her passion, and her sweet soul. Let Glacia be a part of you!" She knew it was a video game, that everything was coded, but to her pokemon? The NPCs? It was too real to not be passionate about wanting to protect it.

And with that, the Bergmite closed her eyes, comfortable and accepting with her place. She hadn't lived long, but to her, this world was the only one she knew. Such a heroic soul could not accept any other option than self-sacrifice.

Active:
Bergmite (93/350) Sacrificed

Standby:
Squirtle (300/350)
Froakie (50/150)
Popplio (150/150)
Litten (100/100)

HIGH TIDE RAID: ROUND 5

Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns
And till my ghastly tale is told, this heart within me burns

Finnegan Fjord makes the first move. His fainted Meowth sinks into the stone, limp body growing transparent before vanishing completely.

Around him, the crystals shine renewed with rum-red light.

manish moves next. Caught up in concern for his Pokemon, he places his Dustox at the mouth of the shrine. But his moth does not recover. Instead, she sinks into the stone, her body like mist as she disappears.

orioncayge prays before the black stalactite, calling for a real-world God to aid him in his virtual plight. The veins in the walls run dark with building power, the pressure in the air magnifying, multiplying. The surface of the water shivers, as if caught in a high wind. Just a little more, it seems to whisper.

Then comes Furrlicity Purrfection.

Sobble's sacrifice is met with screams of fury as his starter Pokemon fights back against her fate. But the choice has been made: she is swallowed whole by the Bedrock Shrine, and the cat-man hears a voice that thrums through his skull like an aftershock.

I am listening.

At the altar, two more players pledge their Pokemon to the inverted shrine. Buddy BamBam's model flashes warningly and he sees the words you have whited out! as he sends his one and only Popplio on a one-way ride to eeby deeby. To all eyes, the clown suddenly disappears, a white band passing across his body as he is temporarily de-spawned.

Buddy reappears at the High Tide Shrine, encountering an immediate error message. you are out of usable pokemon, it says, then unexpectedly: enter the everworld?

Back at the Bedrock Shrine, Laguna is last to act. She beseeches a legend, begging it to reclaim the land that rightfully belongs to it. She commits Bergmite to its name, and the thirsty altar accepts without question. It is no proof of a bargain. It is merely food for thought.

Audible to all, the voice answers, slow and low as tectonic plates.

This island is not mine.

A roar hums through the belly of the earth. Volcanic steam rolls in clouds from the spring, obscuring the walls, the stone, the shrine. You can hardly see your hand in front of your face as it coils around you. Obstructing. Concealing.

It is yours.

Something round glows in the cloud like a distant sun, round and bright and red as fresh-forged steel. THE RED ORB is revealed as chips of black stone flake away from the altar, framing the ruby at its heart.

The orb pulses.

A ripple of primal energy blasts through the cavern, scything through the fog. Light like molten rivers sinks into your Pokemon, running in rivulets down their bodies. Glowing eyes snap open, blazing with power. Each player's Pokemon has been transformed, illuminated, infused with geothermal life-lines.

And they are powerful.

Finnegan Fjord manish inari orioncayge Furrlicity Purrfection Laguna and Xavier Vale have gained a boon from the RED ORB. All of their Pokemon receive a +100 BUFF to attacks.

You must go now. I will open the way.

SPOILER: Click to show

{THEME OF THE BETA TESTERS}

The jaws of the altar gape, and the ceiling splits as a massive fissure rocks the Bedrock Shrine. Light pours down from the high tide shrine above as the hot spring pressure beneath you builds, exploding into a massive geyser blasting you back towards the world above.

C0D13 spins, letting out a startled buzz as seven superheated trainers rocket from the core of Beta Island, alive, triumphant, and better than ever.

"UNEXPECTED!! BZZZT!"

Pages of dismissed Bug Reports go straight into the Spam folder as the Primal AI spins and readies himself for battle, struggling to re-form the ZONES before his enemies regroup. The process is slow-going: it seems a background process is taking up an unusual amount of memory, and the game struggles to load the archived battlemap.

With his processors lagging and server traffic at its peak, C0D13 is open to your assault.

CUSTOMER SERVICE AI: PRIMAL C0D13 | 6,359/10,000 HP

ROUND 5: FINAL ROUND

This is it!

The deleted players have activated Primal Kyogre in the Recycle Bin, overloading his subprocesses and giving you the brief window you need to take down C0D13 and stop the deletion before it's too late.

You have one round to succeed, or be deleted. Players only have one post this round.

All players who posted at the bedrock shrine have received a +100 BUFF to attacks.

Take back your reality. You are the gods now.

REPORTING GLITCHES

As Codie's automatic bug-catching processors find themselves swamped with data multiplying in the Recycle Bin, players may notice an increase in glitches on the battlefield.

Legitimate bugs may be posted in the BUG REPORT to distract Codie during this final round of combat. Each bug reported will add a flat +20 Damage to your post. Bugs must be legitimate: ads, falsified claims, and reports about C0D13 himself will be automatically filtered into C0D13's Spam folder.
Feel free to roll for glitches in the DICE ROLLING thread using the button.

RAID POINTS

Posting each round is not mandatory, but Raid Points will be awarded based on participation. You (the OOC Player) will earn 50 Raid Points per post. At the end of the raid, a limited-time SHOP will open that you can spend your Raid Points at.

Additionally, every round there will be additional prompts that will earn 10 Raid Points each if incorporated into your post. These prompts may change between rounds, so make sure to read carefully.

REALIZE YOU CAN BE THE HERO +10

CHARACTER RECORD | SKILL TREES | BATTLE MECHANICS | ROLLING THREAD | CALCULATOR

manish Big Bee Finnegan Fjord inari  Furrlicity Purrfection Laguna Bergamot Gristleborg orioncayge  Xavier Vale Natsuki

Red light erupts like lava from Furrlicty's pokeballs; all of his had been returned until he threw Tiramisu Ice Cream Cake Milk right into the trash pile with the other sacrificed pokemon. He makes a face as energy fills him. It's a strange feeling. Furrlicity used this game as a means to escape the terrible pain he was always in and for a chance to walk without having to stop for frequent breaks. he's not felt this good since he was a teenager, rough housing with his friends in the Tennessee summer heat after sneaking out to the lake. The time before the effects of his illness really set in and he was properly diagnosed.

He felt powerful.

It was bittersweet. Furrlicity knew that when he took the headset off later he would just be tired again. Chu-e couldn't carry this burst of energy into his real life as much as he wanted to do so. He wondered if this was why people played games so much; so they could feel this kind of power. To be the hero and feel like it.

Furrlicity's tail swarped back and forth in annoyance, his ears laying back on his head.

No sense in wasting this feeling while he had it.

The shrine split and pressure builds. Furrlicity is washed away with all the others. Something like a determination is in him now- or maybe he's just looking for something to take out all these new, complicated feelings on. C0D13 would pay.

Furrlicity opens his menu. Finds that two of his remaining's pokemon's slots are blocked out, unable to be selected. He snarls out a curse but slams his fingers on the spots anyway.

"Come out!" Is barked out, his last three pokeballs releasing what they held. Solrock, Shinx, and Espurr. They glowed with a new found power, red likes ripping up their bodies in geometric shapes. They glitched, too. When Shinx hit the ground, her model twitched oddly, the mesh seeming to flinch off the skeleton to warp the electric lion's form. All of Furrlicity's pokemon vibrated and twitched oddly like this- until they moved.

Solrock shot forward like a rocket, it's mesh seeming to trail behind behind catching up. It's body span as a powerful surge of fire erupted off itself; the speed that it was going, the Solrock stuck into C0D13's side like a flaming hot ninja star.

Espurr has much the same effect. His model glitched from the high speed, unable to process fast enough to keep up, as the pokemon floated upwards. He cried out as he tried to control himself, circling C0D13 like a leaf in the wind, unable to control himself. The shockwaves of the screaming rippled through the air and caused raw code to vibrate.

Shinx had the most trouble.

When she had landed in the sand, her model had half sunk inside it. It was like her already glitched out body was clipping through the sand oddly, the collision off. She still tried to charge forward, small feet picking up inedible speeds, but she was locked in place by the sand. Sparks shot off of her body as she charged up, a ferocious snarl leaving her.

Then the anti-collision detection finally popped her out of her sand prison.

She kept all her momentum, launching at C0D13 with all the build up speed on top of her glitched speed. She's a bullet being shot, launching into the Raid Boss with the added power of her built up speed. Her model ends up half fused with C0D13's, her back legs wiggling in his side as she tries to get free. Errant sparks still come off of her.

Nothing happens.

There is no change of HP. It's enough to make Furrlicity frown, wonder if his glitched out pokemon even mattered. If whatever the hell happened in the secret shrine even mattered.

Then there is the sound of multiple collision box strikes at once, followed by @codei's hp flickering before dropping.

Sobble: SACRIFICE
Solrock: 290/300 HP BATTLING
Shinx: 80/150 HP BATTLING
Espurr: 100/150 HP BATTLING
Treecko: FAINTED
Litten: FAINTED

damage roll
glitch roll
rolled glitch report 1
rolled glitch report 2

reporting 4 glitches total? (not sure if the first two counted or not, links for those are in the post itself)

Solrock used FLARE BLITZ. Did 172 Damage to C0D13 (+100 for Shrine Bonus)
Espurr used DISARMING VOICE. Did 354 Damage to C0D13 (+10 for Rarity, +100 for Shrine Bonus) x3
Shinx used SPARK. Did 358 Damage to C0D13 (+5 for Rarity, +100 for Shrine Bonus) x3

884 Damage Total

PRIMAL C0D13 | 5,475/10,000 HP

All of them would have to do whatever they could in order to make sure this would work. Of course that meant he would have to step up his own game. It was their turn to be a hero after all. And stop this giant Cod13 from doing whatever it was he wanted. It was rude to misbehave like this. And he wasn't about to just let it go when it meant he was in the way of the raid rewards. Nothing was going to stand in the way of him getting raid rewards. Except... Maybe the fact that he felt himself clip through the ground a bit, slipping underneath the pixels and ending up in a dark void. Fuck fuck fuck. Still, he could work with this. All he had to do was find his way up.

Seeing a bit of light and hearing a bit of noise he 'swam' upwards in the void and grabbed on through the ground to the first thing he could grab. That unfortunately was Furrlicity Purrfection 's ankle. But using that he pulled himself back up out of the ground void and into the battle field. The sand began to glitch around him as he rose up, clipping through the air in chunks as it tried to figure out what was going on. This was annoying. But he would be able to work with it for now. Brushing aside some of the sand in the air he regained what composure he could.

"Let's give it everything we have!"

Attacking was all they could do. There was no more time for blocking or healing. That would all have to wait until later on when they were finished with this. At least the healing part. Attacks cut through the sand hard as they swirled together. After all they would just have to live with whatever they could do here. Regardless of how cool the leaves and fire looked together he couldn't help but feel nervous. Especially since he wasn't sure where the rest of the damage was going to come from.

charmander dragon breath ( fast attack x2 )
Damage Taken:
20 DMG

Your PKMN's Remaining HP:
87 HP

Total Damage Dealt:
450 DMG

Target's New HP:
3933 HP

snivy leech seed ( basic attack )
Damage Taken:
10 DMG

Your PKMN's Remaining HP:
120 HP

Total Damage Dealt:
130 DMG

Target's New HP:
3803 HP

yamask disable ( charge attack )
Damage Taken:
10 DMG

Your PKMN's Remaining HP:
230 HP

Total Damage Dealt:
130 DMG

Target's New HP:
3553 HP

The shrine itself seems to answer Laguna's praying, accompanied by a roar and steam. Xavier can barely see their hand in front of their face until red light cuts through the cloud- a pulse of primal energy that makes them feel like maybe, this time, they could be the hero. One of them, anyways. From what they can tell, they're not the only one impacted by it; not that they get to really pay attention before the geyser washes them away just like the others, near where C0D13 is trying to...Fuck it, actually, they're not even going to try to pretend to know what C0d13 is doing now.

Bunya speaks up, from...somewhere. Halfway through, her voice audio glitches abruptly, leaving Xavier unable to hear her on one side. And maybe they're not paying as much attention as they should, just because most of their attention was focused on not getting deleted. Fumbling with the Pokeball, they released their Charmander again, blinking as they take in red lights going down Lysander's body and the way their Pokemon's eyes blazed with a new power, not unlike the one they had felt.

"Oh." For a second, they're not sure what else to say, but they're shaking away their shock just as fast (they hope). "Use Dragon Rage..?" Their voice trails off, a bit awkwardly, as the Charmander practically throws himself into battle, as if inspired by his newfound power. Which, honestly, Xavier can't blame him; it doesn't stop them from wincing as Error text pops up right after the Charmander attacks C0d13...and just stays, hovering in the air like it's solid itself.