C0D13
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Bug Maniac
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Player Name: C0D13
OOC Username: Ladybug
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Post by C0D13 on Apr 30, 2022 2:25:09 GMT 9
ISLAND DEFENSE: COASTLINE
"We'll have a Gyarados army waiting when the storm comes..." - Bergamot RiddleFollowing the Fast Travel prompt, players spawn into A Beautiful Coastline and are met with an alarming sight.
1,000 MINI_CODIES have infested this region. Each only the size of a tennis ball, they are an unstoppable tide, taking BYTES out of reality like a swarm of locusts in a field of crops. For each BYTE consumed, a black, pixel-shaped hole filled with binary is left behind.
The Mini_Codies burrow through the sand, tearing unsightly squares through clear blue tidepools and leaving a wake of empty game tiles where docks and beached fishing vessels used to be. While they effortlessly chew through background environments, they seem to have trouble consuming areas modified by players, as if these places have a greater density of complex code.
Instead of being reduced in seconds, you have bought yourselves minutes of precious time.
DR. BUNYA is also here, running as fast as she can down the coastline while picking up beached Magikarp on shore. "My shack!" she yowls, stuffing another Magikarp into her Lab Coat as she makes a beeline for the jetty.
MINI_CODIES: 1,000 REMAINING SAVE THE COASTLINE, SAVE THE WORLDMeanwhile, Primal C0D13 patrols the island, buzzing ominously overhead. As players desperately try to clear out the Byte Squad before it's too late, the blimp-sized AI zips through the sky above, pausing periodically to scan the ground below. "SEARCHING... SEARCHING..."
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Finnegan Fjord
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Rival
Player Character
Posts: 455
Trainer Class: Swimmer
Player Name: Cillian Quinn
OOC Username: thorn
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Post by Finnegan Fjord on Apr 30, 2022 12:00:30 GMT 9
Finn finds shelter in the building that Big Bee had helped him save, grateful for the roof even if it was only a placebo defense against the rampaging pixel demons C0D13 had unleashed upon Beta Island.
To think I actually liked that little fucker!
Waves crash violently against the boathouse, and Mini Codies zip inside.
"Oh no you don't!"
He releases all three of his sweepers at once.
As the Codies struggle to rip apart virtual reality, Litten settles for ripping apart their meddling pixels. She observes the lack of supereffective damage from Croconaw's Low Kick and elects to use her claws, instead, swiping furiously left and right.
Shinx resorts to thundershock, because why fix what's not broken?
Even with their efforts cutting a swath through the Codies, the damage to the Coastline is noticable.
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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 Apr 30, 2022 12:37:44 GMT 9
This wasn't how he had wanted things to happen. Yggy broke from a lope into a run, kicking up fistfuls of red-hot sand behind him. Embers fell from his body, softly settling on the blank game tiles the Mini_Codies had left behind. "NO! They're eating everything!"There was something wrong about watching the Byte Squad chew through a world he'd spent months chilling with his friends in like it was made of tissue paper. "Stop it!" the teen shouted, taking a swipe at one of the tennis-ball-sized bots currently deleting the lower half of a palm tree. A strange feeling buzzed warningly across his hand, making the hairs on the back of his arm tingle. He brought back his hand to see a blank hole where his index finger had been, neatly cut and pasted. It filled with code as his eyes bugged with horror. "--AHHHHH!" Yggy yelled, clutching his hand to his chest in panic. <It's okay, it's okay!> Nugget's back foot jabbed him in the eye as the Pikachu scrabbled down his back, the electric-type reaching for one of the Pokeballs at his belt. <Maple can heal it, go on!> The rodent's paw jabbed the button and Yggy's (formerly unnamed) Turtwig appeared, materializing on the beach. <Oh my god,> she said, taking in the destruction. Black boxes and glowing scars of of code marred the picturesque coast as the Mini_Codies ate away at it like the edges of a burned paper. <We didn't expect this.><Help Yggy, dude's freakin' out!> Nugget said, scratching his belly like he had a flea. <Shit, me and Ducker gotta slow these guys down. Let's go, Big Bird! Chop chop!>Ducker, who'd been crestfallen ever since his big leek had been viciously chomped by vegetarian Gyarados, quacked angrily and took one half of his leek in each wing. The vegetable had been almost torn in two, hanging on only by a single tough fiber. <THERE HE IS! GET HIM!>Primal C0D13 had appeared, orbiting the island in search of the ones who'd hurt him. Ducker pointed one of his nunchucks at the giant Porygon and the two two Tanks sprang into action. Nugget went tearing up the palm tree, stripy yellow body lengthening before he pounced from the top of the tree in a rippling burst of static. The wave caught C0D13's first cannon, stalling it just long enough for Ducker to slam both halves of his broken leek down on the front end of C0D13's cannon, sending the beam pitching towards the ground instead. <Knock it OFF!> the mallard quacked, enraged, and left the leek there. He spread his wings, freed of the extra weight, and glided back down just in time as Lucky Guy's Omen tore through three layers of the atmosphere. "You can fly?" Yggy exclaimed, still clutching his half-deleted hand to his chest as his duck fluttered down to him. The ball of feathers hit him full in the chest and he oofed as he fell over. A warm feeling spread across his hand and he looked down to see his missing digit returning, surrounded by a glow of grass-green light. "Aw, thanks!" he said, looking down at Turtwig. <Shhh. I'm concentrating,> she said, eyes closed, and Yggy shut his mouth and let the magic happen. He'd seen it before. Here, on the beach, just like this. The roots and vines they'd covered the Coastline with still remained, some deleted, but many still forming a 3D grid of their own across rock and sand, anchoring coconuts and sand castles beneath a giant safety net of greenery. As he watched, the net lit up. Power coursed in tendrils from the little grass-type, passing through the ground and stirring life into the plants they'd set up here before the Storm. The energy healed, restoring patches of blank code and filling them with tall, waving patches of grass and flowers instead. "So cool," he breathed. "We're not out of it yet," she answered, eyes still closed. |
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Lucky Guy
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Soldier, Poet, King
Player Character
Posts: 339
Trainer Class: 
Player Name: Lucky Guy
OOC Username: AleDog#9110
Arena Points: 30
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Post by Lucky Guy on Apr 30, 2022 13:43:32 GMT 9
A comet flew across the sky of Beta Island. It was the light of Omen's skyfall, one that took a path straight from the off ancient altar to the heart of the Coastline skyfront. The swarm of C0D13 awaited her unstoppable charge. She had shot forth at the request of her master Lucky who had sought her aid towards the isle itself. She flew through the initial wave of anti-air defense C0d3s, their line of defense shattered by the simple force of momentum. Omen flew around and ducked past the two beams of lethal power that were fired by C0D13 himself to shoot her out of the sky, her wings saved more than once by the way that Yggy Br00ks 's Pokémon shot his aim off-kilter. She flew through the hastily built air net that C0D13 himself had created in a terrible attempt to stop her advance... And then flew straight into the beam that lie right beyond it, fired just to kill the impetuous bravebird. A clever trap, C0d13 must have thought, as his laughter echoed throughout the sky. "AS IF THERE WAS ANYTHING YOU COULD HAVE... DONE..?" Yet his taunting words fell short of completion. Who could believe the sight? Omen had flown straight through the third blast. The brilliant blue of Kyogre's strength broke through the sickly color of the swarm given beam-y form. She was pressing a Cascoon's needle into her wrist, one given to her by Skydow before her flight. It was full of an adrenaline-like substance, one meant to keep her spirit high and her will unbending. Indeed, Omen's heart had yet to falter thanks to all of the help that people were giving her-the faith they placed upon her. The Decidueye's rasp was no longer a whisper but instead a furious screech that echoed across the sky and beyond. With the force of her cry, it was as if she rebuked the very presence of the threat to the isle. This land is not yours, false image! Omen slammed right into the first miniature C0D13 in the attack swarm that had been made to destroy the coastline. The moment she ran into the broken target, she bounced. She flew right into another. And another. Again and again and again--The sky was alight with strikes that had already happened seconds prior and blurs of azure motion that were faster than the naked eye, relegated to being mere blue lines of her afterimage. It was the ability to strike and turn on a dime-the technique called U-Turn. Sparks of blue light rained down onto the coastline along with that of the degrading code of the attackers. Just as people were starting to understand what was happening, the comet of vengeance had already departed the coastal skies, her mad pinball attack finally flinging her far away towards the canopy's heart. Lucky happened to pass by as he was running after her. He stopped at Bunya's house to look out on the sealine, hoping that the fortifications he had built offshore had yet still to fall. He was worried about that cursed part of the sea... He noticed Yggy Brooks as he was passing by. "Aye, bruv! I saw the shot from here! You saved my girl's arse, you did! God's blessing on you for everything--We're getting drinks on me after this! I've gotta keep the trek up, though!" He declared, swearing under his own breath afterwards as he futilely attempted to chase after that which he had unleashed upon the C0D13 armada. What just happened? Let's run it down.
Leshy has given Omen another +20 to all future rolls via the Growth move used to buff!
Omen used U-Turn against the C0D13 swarm.
Rolls: 4+195+14+195+4+195+14+195 = 814 total damage to the miniature C0D13 swarm. He took 40 damage from the strain and another 127 damage from C0D13's super-effective bug beam.
Skydow used the Heal action on Omen! 5+4+9+10+1+100 = 129 damage, saving Omen from the evil bug beam's influence! HP Tracking:
Coastline: 25/128 HP
Omen (Decidueye): 193/300 HP (220-40+129 = 300, then -67 from reduced damage beam = 193) - Buffed for +195 total to all rolls
Skydow (Cascoon): 243/300 HP (290-47 from reduced damage beam = 243) - Buffed for +20 total to all rolls
Leshy (Seedot): 73/150 HP - (140-67 from reduced damage beam = 73) - Buffed for +15 total to all rolls
Miniature Coastline C0D13 Swarm: 0 C0D13s remain.
There were no survivors.
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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 Apr 30, 2022 22:16:18 GMT 9
"Woah, I saw that in the anime movie, Your Nombre!"Yggy shielded his eyes as the blue comet of Omen rattled through the Coastline. 'Pinball attack' was accurate-- she was everywhere. Mini_Codies burst on impact, falling from the sky in a rain of pink-and-blue bouncy balls. "Yeah, take that, haha!" Yggy fistpumped, grinning from ear to ear. <Shhh. I'm trying to focus,> said Maple, still feeding healing power into her Overgrow network. The Coastline pulsed with green life, healing polyagonal fractures in the sand. The Mini_Codies may have been defeated, but the scope of their destruction was immense. The Coastline remained intact in the way a paper snowflake remained intact after a kid had started snipping at it. It was a lacework of beach mixed with binary. Crap. What are we gonna do..."...But I can't drink!" he called after Lucky Guy as the man ran past, following his Decidueye to the next area. Yggy hesitated, torn over whether to follow his casual friend, and decided to stay where he was. Maple was concentrating, and there was still a lot of good that could be done here. I spent hours out here prepping, he thought, running a hand through his hair. "Those Mini Codies sure did a lot of damage, huh," he said awkwardly after a moment, scuffing at the sand. "Ducker, your leek's all-- oh crap, Codie's back!" He broke off his thought to yell, pointing at the blimp-sized Porygon as it came cruising back over the coastline, having pinpointed inari. Nugget and Ducker sprang back into action, making a repeat of last round's performance. "Ducker, what're you gonna do without your leek?" Yggy called, brows furrowed as the Farfetch'd winged into the air. Ducker ignored him-- instead, the duck Pokemon beat his powerful wings, causing the air to twist and swirl around the immense Porygon. "Defog...?"He covered his mouth as he saw the howling winds scatter the Customer Service Cannon beam like a flashlight beam through fog. The red light dissipated, completely disrupted by the move. "Holy cow, heck yes!"He had a worrying passing thought. C0D13 probably wouldn't mind being disrupted so many times, right? I'm not gonna draw aggro or anything if I'm just messing up his attacks, am I? Was he gonna be mad they were trying to heal all the damage to the Coastline? They probably needed backup. His hand hovered over his messages, hesitating. He looked around at the destruction, even healing as it was around the edges. Should I tell people what happened? The back of his neck prickled uncomfortably. What if they blame me for messing it up?...He closed his Messages tab.
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inari
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G.A.Y.
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Posts: 141
Player Name: zhao xiu
OOC Username: cupid
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Post by inari on Apr 30, 2022 23:06:55 GMT 9
While he had been grateful that he wasn't targeted before he couldn't count on that grace period for long he supposed. Not when there were a bunch of canons aiming at his face now. He'd seen what those things had done to other Pokemon and people in this game so far and he wanted nothing to do with it. But there was no way in hell he was just going to sit here and take it either. The best thing he could do was just warp to another part of the island and hope that C0D13 wouldn't follow him there.
He'd spent plenty of time in the canopy obviously. That's where all of those freaky wurmple lived. So now he was going to make a nice trip to the coastline in an attempt to stop it from being completely destroyed by this big guy. Healing was good. Healing was great. Man did he wish he had more than one healing Pokemon right now. Something to look into once he got everything taken care of here. More tanks and more healers. It was a niche he could fill and keep himself alive with if he just powered up Jiaozi.
"Bao, leaf tornado, heal the coastline up a bit!?"
He wasn't sure if it would work too well but it was all he could do in this situation. With C0D13 flying about trying to hit him wasn't going to do any good at all really. So once again a tornado of leaves came from the small grass snake, circling around the coast and springing parts of it back to life. Repairing some missing chunks somehow and causing little green ferns to sprout. It was cute. But he wasn't sure how effective it would be really. Hopefully enough to help.
Snivy
Damage Healed:
41 HP / Halved 20 HP
Your PKMN's Remaining HP:
130 HP
Target's New HP:
Coastline: 59
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System Admin
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Administrator
Posts: 1,405
Player Name: System
OOC Username: M00K
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Post by System Admin on May 1, 2022 2:11:56 GMT 9
COASTLINE: SECOND WAVE
"Go do something" - ManishSPOILERS AHEAD! PLEASE READ THE MID-ROUND UPDATE IN THE MAIN THREAD BEFORE YOU PROCEED!
Victory is short-lived. The players watch as an irritated C0D13 assesses the disappointing performance of his Mini_Codies, types away at his command prompt, then simply releases another wave of modified clone-bots to finish the job.
New and improved, meet the MINI_CODIE_2!
Twice the size and efficiency of the original MINI_CODIE, the next wave advances on the Coastline like a drone squad from the skies, targeting the remaining portions of Beta Island that survived the first attempt.
But this time, you have an advantage. You're already here. The first swarm of Mini_Codies beat you to the punch, but this time, you're already in place to defend the things that matter. You can repel the invaders before they land and save your buggy, ampersand-filled, code-riddled home.
Fight for what remains. Heal what's broken. You are all that stands in the way.
MINI_CODIE_2 SWARM: 500 REMAINING
MID-ROUND CONSEQUENCES
SAVE THE COASTLINE, SAVE THE WORLDA BEAUTIFUL COASTLINE: 59/128 HP
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Finnegan Fjord
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Rival
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Posts: 455
Trainer Class: Swimmer
Player Name: Cillian Quinn
OOC Username: thorn
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Post by Finnegan Fjord on May 1, 2022 21:38:58 GMT 9
Finn is in owe of Omen's raw power.
Finn is sure the Coastline is going to be just fine.
He's wrong. They're running out of time.
Before they can heal the land from the damage that's been done, a swarm of new-and-improved parasites sweep through the area and consume portions of the coast before his very eyes. He watches a Piplup reduced to a glitching mess of pixels, and a group of Mudkips pop out of existence as their spawn point is swallowed whole by the hole in the world.
They're running out of time.
He needs to work faster.
They're running out of time.
In a quick motion, Shinx ESCAPES to summon Finn's Piplup, who bathes the fraying lines of code in a seemingly futile Water Sport. Where the Codies remove chunks of the ocean, Piplup can only hope to HEAL and replenish them with its own hydromancy.
Meanwhile, Litten and Croconaw focus on ATTACKING the swarms.
There are too many. So many.
Messages from other players go ignored and unanswered as Finn plays to the plight of the Coast.
We're running out of time.
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Laguna
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World Traveler
Mythstar
Posts: 469
Trainer Class: 
Player Name: Abigaelle Gauthier
OOC Username: Magnere
Arena Points: 0
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Post by Laguna on May 2, 2022 5:39:04 GMT 9
If Laguna was mad before, she was furious this time. The coastline was in tatters, code ripped apart like a virtual wasteland. It genuinely broke her heart, despite knowing just how digital and virtual it was. It could probably be rebuilt, but that didn't make any of the suffering these digital creatures had any less real.
She watched in total shock as an Oshawott was just... deleted. It was a far cry from the relative safety that the Crater was blessed with. Down here, it was a nightmare.
Her eyes briefly glanced over at the building she had helped patch up, boarding up a window, only to find a mini-COD13 attempting to chew away at it.
Her face burned with fury as she called out for her pokemon. And sure enough, they seemed equally outraged. Her Squirtle and Froakie were born here, lived here, and were caught here. They all joined her team here, this was an important area for them.
And they were furious themselves.
"You guys know the deal! Water Pulse! Make those Porygons, gone!" Squirtle immediately filled water within his cheeks, spraying a huge blast of water, clearing the building they were protecting. Froakie, meanwhile, was desperately attempting to defend its favorite piece of driftwood. Bouncing around, shooting pulse after pulse of water at anything who drew near.
"Glacia, Avalanche!" Bergmite immediately readied another blast of ice, the sheets slamming down into the beach, and squishing only a few, but every single attack counted. These Mini-COD13s were simply too quick.
Laguna herself slowly glanced around, a frown suddenly forming on her face. "Wasn't... there more people here earlier?" Active:
Squirtle (300/350)
Froakie (50/150)
Bergmite (93/350)
Standby:
Popplio (150/150)
Litten (100/100)
Attacks:
Squirtle: Charge Attack = 31
Froakie: Fast Attack x2 = 47
Bergmite: Charge Attack = 6
Coastline HP: 92 HP
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inari
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G.A.Y.
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Posts: 141
Player Name: zhao xiu
OOC Username: cupid
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Post by inari on May 2, 2022 10:01:11 GMT 9
it seemed as though he had managed to be saved that last round. Spared by whatever it was that had been targeting him. He would have to thank whoever managed to do that when he wasn't sweating for his life. Even though this was just a game he was going to need a shower after all of this. He could feel sweat dripping on his forehead. It was absolutely gross. Still, he was going to be able to deal with that later. This raid was absolutely too intense to afk for something like a shower now.
"Let's give it another hea-"
But he was cut off as the Mini_Codie's began to devour Pokemon data. As the Pokemon tried to escape the little porygon devils they let out the cries of pain they had whenever they fainted. And as someone who could understand pokespeech, screams for help as they struggled to escape. Ultimately failing at the task and being deleted.
"Holy shit... Heal the coast Bao! Jiaozi attack those little fucks and Mo do the same! Charge up an attack and get rid of them!"
He sounded like a broken record asking for his Pokemon to heal but they needed to keep up as much HP as possible to keep things going. For the Pokemon that had been deleted there were no arguments from his team as they began their onslaught of the mini codies. Flames licking at them and electricity disabling their processes to slow them down by the two Pokemon he had commanded to attack. Leaves restoring more of the coast's hit points as he struggled to hope that they were still in the game...
It appeared so, for now. As the last of the devils were deleted by flames or fallen to the wayside, husks of what they formerly were because of the disable attack.
Snivy
Damage Healed:
41 HP / Halved 20 HP
Your PKMN's Remaining HP:
130 HP
Target's New HP:
Coastline: 113
Charmander
Damage Dealt:
36
Your PKMN's Remaining HP:
87 HP
Target's New HP:
Mini_Codie_2: 5
Yamask
Damage Dealt:
29
Your PKMN's Remaining HP:
220 HP
Target's New HP:
mini_codie_2: -24
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