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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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Lucky Guy • Soldier, Poet, King Player Character Posts: 359 Trainer Class: Player Name: Lucky Guy OOC Username: AleDog#9110 Arena Points: 30	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Lucky Guy on May 6, 2022 3:32:10 GMT 9 Bryan Nautilus was an important man. For the sake of gathering only the best of quality for UNOVR, he was given free reign to pull in only the most talented of young and experienced coders to the project. This meant that, with the right communications, progress had leaps and bounds over other games in the same era. UNOVR really was a promising project that everyone looked forward to diving into. It also meant that he had to deal with the best of the best, regardless of their personality. "What the hell do you mean by my fuckup you right tosser?! Last time I checked we didn't hire ciotóg handicapped children to write the code, and I'm out here having to fix an unlisted third party installment shoved into the program myself! You're saying that fixing a problem means I deserve to get flagged for it? Hah?!" He'd been dealing with listening to this spitfire of a at-home hire from out in Wicklow for a few minutes now. Lucky was a right tempestuous woman when she got angry, and boy was it showing right now of all times. It was incredible how a woman like her could keep such a violent voice up for so long. Thankfully, it didn't seem that she was going to continue for long. As if she had just been blowing out steam on the poor guy, she was quickly running out of fervor and had started to just run on gas instead. She took a moment to breathe as her anxieties about the whole situation began to settle in, something that was picked up and could be heard through the phone. It's not as if she was just yelling at a stranger, though. Bryan had Lucky under his employ for several jobs as of this time-they knew each-other pretty well at a time like this. She wasn't yelling at her boss, she was venting to her friend. "W-What am I gonna do? What do you think I should do?" Lucky McConnel asked of Bryan Nautilus. That question came out so much weaker than her other words that it really sounded like a different person entirely. It seemed like she wasn't actually mad. She was scared about the whole situation and didn't know how to let it be known other than by butting heads. Lucky only hoped that Bryan was as understanding of her as the day he first hired her.
	Current Pokemon: ______________________
Spitfire Posted May 6, 2022 3:32:10 GMT 9

Big Bee • Bandana Guy Round 2 Posts: 685 Trainer Class: Player Name: Bryan Nautilus OOC Username: Ladybug Arena Points: 49	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Big Bee on May 6, 2022 22:25:21 GMT 9 Bryan's usual tropical Zoom background was set to a more serious 'Shibuya Crosswalk'. Lively, exciting, energizing, full of businessmen rushing between meetings. Maybe that had been a mistake. This meeting was serious. And it was professional. But he didn't want to aggravate what should be a non-issue. The fact that nobody else was on the call should have been signal enough that Lucky wasn't in any real trouble. Not this time. The heat in Lucky's voice cooled, and Bryan leaned back in his chair, letting the tension dissipate. Time was the great healer. And with a few words in the right space this could even turn into a positive experience. "Lucky, I hear ya bud, and it sounds like 90% of this is just a chronic case of just 'people trying to do their job'." Bryan said, smiling behind his blue-tinted glasses. "Ya did good with the fix! You always do! And I love the initiative. That's not the problem. The problem is protocol." Bryan switched his background to a waterfall. It reminded him of training in martial arts movies. Toning your mind and spirit. Lucky was fantastic. A maverick. Especially compared to the other programmer on the team. He knew it. She knew it. Poor bloody Trevor knew it. "You know me. I don't care how you find the bugs in the game. All I ask is that you help me plead the fifth, and that if you see a bug, you log it with Codie! That's what he's for. If Codie can't fix it, it'll end up on your desk anyway and you can fix it on the clock, with some proper tracking in place. Ya get me?" He was pretty sure she got him, so he continued. "How about this. You tell me three ways this could have gone sideways and I'll unflag your account right now." It was a bluff. Or really, a formality. They both knew that Lucky's account would be unflagged in five minutes, but Bryan needed to hear that she knew better before he could drop the issue and things could get back to normal.

Spitfire Posted May 6, 2022 22:25:21 GMT 9 Edited by C0D13 May 6, 2022 22:53:28 GMT 9

Lucky Guy • Soldier, Poet, King Player Character Posts: 359 Trainer Class: Player Name: Lucky Guy OOC Username: AleDog#9110 Arena Points: 30	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Lucky Guy on May 8, 2022 14:12:01 GMT 9 A harsh, sharp sigh escaped between the gaps of her teeth. It was a terrible sound to listen to, and Lucky acknowledged this, which is probably why she did so as quietly as she could. Unfortunately, microphones had a terrible habit of picking up certain kinds of sounds and making them just absolutely nuclear to listed to in any zoom call. Lucky noticed what she'd done after hearing her own feedback from Bryan's microphone. "Shit, sorry, mate. But I've got to say-Haven't they already gone sideways? I-Well, I don't remember C0D13 himself giving out flags. The anticheat named after him? Sure. The staff? Sure... C0D13?" She let that hang a while in the air. Truthfully, she had no idea if it was supposed to be normal for C0D13 himself to do that. She was pretty sure that Bryan, for all his being above her in the pole, might not have actually known the answer to that either. "And that wasn't a bug I wiped, sir-It was a third party program not a part of the license. What I'm getting at here-well--I don't know how to say it. I feel like a chiseler talking it out with her pops here, sir. This didn't feel right like a job." Aside from the accidental implication that he was something like a father to her, Lucky didn't know what she was even supposed to get across, let alone how. It's like she felt as if something was wrong right in front of her face, yet she wasn't able to figure out what it was... not even though she was staring it straight in the eyes. Well, the last thing she wanted to get across to him was the wrong impression-or that her job was technically to only work on the code of the login process and nothing else. She enjoyed the leeway she had to meddle in things when he conveniently forgot such things. This was getting nowhere. It would be best for now to just respond like he wanted now. "Ugh. Either way--I could have caused a split in the dreamscape, I could have caused a bug myself and I could have wound up with injury from the reckless use of neural diving."
	Current Pokemon: ______________________
Spitfire Posted May 8, 2022 14:12:01 GMT 9

Big Bee • Bandana Guy Round 2 Posts: 685 Trainer Class: Player Name: Bryan Nautilus OOC Username: Ladybug Arena Points: 49	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Big Bee on May 11, 2022 11:47:57 GMT 9 Bryan's laughs kindly at the mistake. It's one a lot of people make, especially when they find out about the unorthodox system Hydance uses. "There's no anti-cheat named after C0D13," he says simply. "There's just C0D13." "He's got access to every log, every scrap of code, and if he thinks something ought to be flagged then BAM!" Bryan made an quick opening motion with his hands, like he was revealing a magic trick. "More flags than the fourth of July." He switched his background to a display of fireworks over a harbor and grinned. This was going well. "Of course we've got our 2FA, appeals processes, etc, but C0D13 exists so that we can keep the team slim and focused." Bryan leaned forward, looking into Lucky's face as directly as the Zoom setting would allow. "C0D13 is the backbone of UNOVR, Lucky," he said gently. "He's judge, jury, and, well executioner is a bit of a double-edged term for an AI, isn't it?" He chuckled sensibly at his own joke. "If something goes wrong, he's on our side. He's here to make sure things never go too wrong. He's fast, he's effective, and he's optimized as heck, pardon my language." "Third-party? That doesn't sound right. One sec." There was a silence as Bryan brought up the report, scanning it again quickly again before he answered. "Your report to C0D13 mentioned one of the corrupted Pokemon was a problem because of its third-party model, right? I think we've gotten some wires twisted along the way. Have you been briefed on the Corrupted Pokemon yet?"

Spitfire Posted May 11, 2022 11:47:57 GMT 9 Edited by Big Bee May 11, 2022 11:48:30 GMT 9

Lucky Guy • Soldier, Poet, King Player Character Posts: 359 Trainer Class: Player Name: Lucky Guy OOC Username: AleDog#9110 Arena Points: 30	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Lucky Guy on May 11, 2022 12:04:32 GMT 9 "Admittedly... No, I haven't the foggiest on a rundown." She wasn't briefed on a lot of things, actually. Bryan here was the only one who actually told her things about the code at all. That would be because while she wasn't forbidden from looking at the code of the game itself, per-se, she certainly wasn't given access to it. It was always generous of the man to give her anything to go on at all. For instance, AI? When the hell were they going to reveal to anyone that an AI was part of the program? That had to be a misnomer, right? They weren't real, right..? "But it wasn't the model I was talking about, sir. Rather, I found a program running on my computer-well, the headset which I plugged into the computer, anyway-unrelated to UNOVR. It worked sort of like how a plugin or how a mod would, and it seemed to be related to the Pokémon itself." It felt wrong to her, not that she was about to say it. Surely something... anything was off? Was she just spooked by an unexpected horror twist before overreacting over it?
	Current Pokemon: ______________________
Spitfire Posted May 11, 2022 12:04:32 GMT 9 Edited by Lucky Guy May 11, 2022 12:04:42 GMT 9

Big Bee • Bandana Guy Round 2 Posts: 685 Trainer Class: Player Name: Bryan Nautilus OOC Username: Ladybug Arena Points: 49	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Big Bee on May 20, 2022 10:46:56 GMT 9 "Then let's rap," he said, as the kids did these says. He kept his background as the crashing waterfall. "Corrupted Pokemon are a part of the game, different from the glitches your colleagues have been hunting. They don't use assets by us or by Nintendo because we outsourced them. That's why they look third-party. There's an engine running in the game that generates corrupted influence, and we've set the parameters pretty wide, so you'll see some weird stuff." He took a moment, thinking about how best to phrase the fatherly advice. "Don't...mess with the live game, okay? Don't go deleting plugins or mod while the servers are up and running. Don't do it without the go-ahead from me, and definitely don't do it while players are nearby. That's just asking for low reviews and broken immersion." Bryan changed the background to a sandy beach, trying to harsh the blow. "I hired you because you know what you're doing, but that doesn't mean you always have the full picture, or that you're going to know how to handle something weird." "That's why you have me. That's why you're part of a team. Don't leap before you look, Lucky. Just ping me and ask 'Hey Bryan, wassup with this funky thing?' and I'll tell you, okay?" He smiled. "That being said, I'll look further into your report. If you really think it's some malicious plugin then either I need to have a strong word with our asset source, or we have a way bigger problem on our hands." Bryan brought up Lucky's player profile on his laptop and removed the flag. "We good? Any questions?"

Spitfire Posted May 20, 2022 10:46:56 GMT 9