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Post by Jinyu on Sept 3, 2023 23:48:06 GMT 9
❝Really??❞ and it was not an overstatement to say that Jinyu's eyes sparkled. Seriously, he didn't know what he was doing, so to hear from someone that he actually was able to gather a good set of ingredients really lifted a weight off of his broad, virtual shoulders. ❝That's great! But I guess we still don't have everything, huh?❞ he realized that he had yet to check the UI for this particular game, and sure enough, there seemed to be two other things that they needed things for: the bread (oh yeah, what was a sandwich without bread?) and, err, condiments? Like salt? Why couldn't they just use the salt from the ocean? Oh yeah, because it was salt water. Haha!
(How did he manage to get that PhD?)
❝What to do for the bread, hmm...❞ he looked around the island and wondered what else would spawn, and then he saw it: something jumping out of the water like a breaching whale, but it was much smaller, and also it was--
❝BREADFISH!❞ Mr. Golden Retriever ran into the water, and somehow without the use of a fishing rod, managed to act like a bear during salmon season and wrestle a very odd looking fish from the shallow water. ❝I've no idea how this fish works! You think cutting the loaf around it will make good bread? Is it salty? Oh, there's another one!❞ he quickly swam back to shore and tossed the fish to astrum before running back. pFSR0XHt1d101d10 1d10·1d10
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Post by Jinyu on Sept 3, 2023 0:08:47 GMT 9
Good lordy that sandwich looked kind of horrible. Maybe. Will the game turn it into something prettier once he hit the confirm button hovering somewhere around the level of his face? Jinyu suddenly felt less confident and decided that it might be better to search for more ingredients and figure out what other combos were possible. So right now he had some unidentified fish, a bunch of sliced berries, and a bunch of sea grapes. Maybe he needed some kind of meat to balance things out, or something salty? Sea grapes did have that salt, but they were also kind of sweet.
Y'know what sounded good right now? Beef. He wished that there were surfing cows in this game so that he could turn them into beef (without realistic depictions of butchering them, of course). Mulling over what to do, he noticed a new player (astrum) had joined the game and had caught quite a lot of fish. He ran up to him, dry from the Swimmer class flavor still in effect. ❝Hey! Do you know how to make a sandwich? Like a good sandwich, 'cuz I sure don't! What did you get so far?❞
He gestured to the amalgamation that was his sandwich on a nearby table. ❝Actually I can't tell between the real fish either. Wanna work together? Oh--!❞ he immediately ran off along the coastline before lunging onto something, which the inventory considered a capture and so the mysterious item did not fight back. It was a crab! ❝I got a crab!!❞ and he showed it off to the new player he met like a golden retriever catching a ball. 1hG3IJ7D1d101d10 1d10·1d10
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Post by Jinyu on Sept 1, 2023 22:20:37 GMT 9
Fishing was easy, but identifying which fish would be best for his sandwich was not. How was he supposed to know if the bigger fish tasted better than the tinier fish? Was this fish fatter? Did that play a part? Did their colors do something like with the berries? Because most of them were blue and gray, did that mean they were dry like what that other player said?? So many questions...at least they weren't Magikarp! Herr Forehead would've been sad if he ended up using his brethren for the sandwich, even if he wouldn't know.
He decided to pick a fish at random and chop it up with the game's knife. That didn't mean he was actually chopping it up, but pressing a floating button and turning the fish into sliced sashimi the next moment. Great! Berries, sashimi...what would go well with these? He glanced around to see what the other players were up to and saw one of them (Big Bee) swimming out into the open ocean. Ohhh, why didn't he think of that? There were plenty of other ingredients hiding underneath the water!
❝Wait for me!❞ he waved as he ran on the sand, leaving his ingredients behind on a conveniently placed white table. ❝Woohoo!❞ since he was using his in-game avatar, it somehow felt like the flavor from the trainer class was still active. Swimming was a breeze! An underwater breeze, if that were a thing! But grabbing seaweed didn't seem very inspired, so he dove deeper and kept scanning the area, deliberating moving to an opposite direction of that other player (why was he going near to the underwater volcano? Anyway...) He didn't have to move far before the seaweed gave way to something else. Seaweed, but not quite.
Sea Grapes! That didn't sound like it'd fit the sandwich at all, but he took it gladly, harvesting quite a number so that he could snack on them when he swam back to the surface. Ah, he wished that he could hold his breath for this long in real life, but VR was not half bad.
Soon, he resurfaced and swam to shore with his free hand, proudly showing off a huge batch of a very beady and green plant. ORSWYb9b1d101d10 1d10·1d10
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Post by Jinyu on Aug 31, 2023 7:55:48 GMT 9
Ohhh, he asked for help, and help came! A person with a lab coat had shouted at him which berries were which (or more of, which ones likely had flavor to watch out for). Even if he had played Pokemon before, he wasn't a berry enthusiast, and he wasn't exactly a competitive player either, so yeah, berries were completely out of his knowledge (except for maybe the Sitrus berry, which did its job keeping his Pokemon out of death's door).
❝Y'think the one we're making the sandwich for has more of a sweet tooth or is a spicy thing?❞ he also snickered to himself at the mention of 'dry', for he recalled that one of his Australian friends loved to joke about things being dry (it was a dry rain). He did wonder how that was like though. Maybe in reference to wine that dried one's throat? Should the game even have something like that when kids were a huge demographic ?? Suddenly, Jinyu was in crisis. Anyway, he decided to collect a good variety and run over to the person giving him instructions (Valentine ), dropping a few along the way, but that was alright, the other Pokemon could have it (if there were any of them in the minigame, that is).
❝I'm more of a sweet tooth guy myself! How 'bout you? Don't think we can just give a pure berry sandwich though. A hearty sandwich needs meat! We should go fishing!❞ 9J|3mjq81d101d10 1d10·1d10
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Player Name: Andrew Yang
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Post by Jinyu on Aug 31, 2023 7:39:07 GMT 9
It was Jinyu's first time here. It was also Andy's first time here.
But he wasn't scared. None of his Pokemon were here. In fact, he was hoping to get a new Pokemon out of whatever went down in these halls (he recalled online that there was something about trials, and that he had to reach out to the Pokemon in order to bring them back with him. Herr Forehead needed a friend, and it was nice to diversify the team a bit. He couldn't fish out all of them; he thought of it like...adopting? Yeah! Adopting the fish that didn't want a home. He was 90% certain that there was going to be a Magikarp or two here. They made the perfect sacrifices, after all...
Seta did give him the heebie jeebies though. ❝Heyyyy uhhhh, guardian of the Everworld? I was hoping I could fish in here or something? You know there's a game like that, where I can fish for chaotic fish in the void. Though there is no void here, huh? Just walls. Oh! Guessing those masks are..? Some of those look like Magikarp, I knew it!❞ he had a big grin on his face at first, but when he faced the NPC again, who was as stoic as a stone, his expression fell and he cleared his throat. ❝What will be different? I want to give one of them a home. I'd like to come back for the others too, but one step at a time, yeah? I...know what it's like to be cast aside. Us buds gotta stick together.❞
His grip on the fishing rod tightened. ❝Can you give me a chance?❞
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Player Name: Andrew Yang
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Post by Jinyu on Aug 31, 2023 0:13:37 GMT 9
| HERR FOREHEAD | [tangent=]WEAKNESS[/tangent] [tangent=ALWAYS APPLICABLE +5 Uncommon Pokemon +5 Water Type
CIRCUMSTANTIAL ---]➕ BONUS[/tangent]
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MAGIKARP | MALE | WATER | | SWEEPER | 150 HP | ATK: 2d20 | UC (+5) |
BASIC MOVES 01-10 Splash
TIER 1 MOVES 10-20 Tackle
TIER 2 MOVES 20-30 Flail
TIER 3 MOVES 30-50 ---
TIER 4 MOVES 50-70 Z MOVES
TM/HM MOVES Move Mod: Flash Cannon
| OTHER INFORMATION: Also referred to as "Sunny" sometimes. Stares a lot, but maybe that's just something all Magikarp do? Is very tolerant of Jinyu's shenanigans, especially after getting the Flash Cannon move mod.
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Post by Jinyu on Aug 31, 2023 0:05:26 GMT 9
JINYU'S INVENTORY ACTIVESHELVED
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Jinyu
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Post by Jinyu on Aug 30, 2023 17:21:33 GMT 9
Did he really just throw real money in a game that didn't ask for it because he wanted a big ass fish to ride with his Magikarp?
Yes he did. And if it was to help a struggling bachelor with some cash, well, that was a bonus! And the third party was even so kind as to gift him a spare Pokemon so that he could actually have something to trade! (he couldn't very well trade Herr Forehead, since that was the only Pokemon he had). He put his arm around Kallisto with a cheeky grin. ❝Why so glum, sugarplum? Nosepasses are pretty rad, if I do say so myself!❞
❝I don't even know what that is.❞ he replied with a grimace before letting a sigh, ❝But I'm just overthinking. And this is still a game in the end. Having something to save up for a rainy day is a way better trade off. I confirmed the trades.❞
❝Great! Then I'll just hit this button o'er here...❞
The UI had no complaints, perhaps because there was nothing left to complain about - everything was already locked in. Yep, nothing fishy here! ❝And that's that! You're the best, dude. And thank you too, Sarah, for the Pokemon! You can be like, Kyogre's godmother or something.❞ he then turned his attention to Kallisto once again. ❝We'll catch up later offline, yeah? We're not just stocking up on instant ramen. That shit's bad for your health!❞
❝Yes, dad, whatever you say.❞
Received NOSEPASS from Sarah Lee ! Trading NOSEPASS to Kallisto !
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Post by Jinyu on Aug 30, 2023 0:38:19 GMT 9
It was one thing for Andy to be deterred by the price of the plane ticket, but the other was that he didn't really have anyone to go to UNOVRCon 2023 with, and he would rather be sad and desolate about it at home rather than in the actual convention grounds. So he was still masquerading as Jinyu, having very recently received his first true Pokemon for his team: the all amazing orange forehead Magikarp. He couldn't bring the Pokemon out though while they were integrated to the AR, which sucked, because this was a sea! Surely fish would enjoy the sea, right?
In any case, he also heard that there was prize for participating, so that was why he was here. There were already a number of other players looking for ingredients for the perfect sandwich. Actually, he thought he saw a familiar face in the mix (though he shouldn't be surprised. The person who would get his Mudkip (The Captain) seemed like someone who really liked water types, so for them to be in this mini game was a no brainer). But it looked he was preoccupied, and he also soon disappeared into the water.
Being on a nondescript boat, Andy figured that he could also ask the help of other players to get a better idea of what he should be gathering (yeah, he wasn't really listening to the instructions that closely, or more of he had no idea how to put a delectable sandwich together). It was easy to direct the boat to the island, and hopping off, he could already see plenty of berry trees growing on the cliffside that had some grass instead of sand. He could tell that they were berries rather than fruits since this was a Pokemon game, and also those trees looked pretty gnarly.
Passing by the small group of players, he scaled the cliff and climbed up one of the trees as well, picking a couple of pink berries that seemed safe to eat. ❝Hey, anyone want some of the berries here? I can't tell which is which, so any help would be great!❞ he called out to the nearby players specifically (including Morpheus), as it wouldn't be difficult to get some of these berries off the branches, but was that spiky red one supposed to be safe? What about the other weirdly shaped ones? sJCjRCtz1d101d10 1d10·1d10
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Post by Jinyu on Aug 28, 2023 18:51:22 GMT 9
It was a no-brainer trade, so Jinyu had the luxury of being picky.
He didn't open the Poke Ball that he received after skipping the Starter Lab since he didn't want to get attached. While he already turned off Pokemon Speech, he knew that a Mudkip was too fucking cute and he could easily go back on his gimmick at the very start. Actually, while waiting for his account to properly kick in, he was already thinking of possible adjustments to the "full Magikarp team" since it was pretty damn inconvenient to just travel around with Magikarps. To start with, he needed at least one ride Pokemon, something that he didn't need when he first played the game since it was just on a tiny island and he was just going there as a means to escape and you remember the waves? The sea salt breeze? The sand under your feet and Zmey happily resting by your side? You wished to bring her here and hope that it could just wash away her worries, just for a moment--
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❝I knew this was going to happen.❞ he muttered, feeling the sting on his cheek. The reduced pain threshold did little to mitigate self-inflicted harm. Anyway, the game had gotten much much bigger since he had played long ago, and he even heard of a new area opening up. Thus, he needed at least one Gyarados, and he figured that designation could go to the first Magikarp he got.
The second was a psychic type - actually, the requirement was A Pokemon that could help the Magikarp move around comfortably. He figured that a psychic type that could make huge water bubbles seemed like a good candidate, especially if there was no body of water around to place the Magikarp in. What kind of psychic type would be strong enough to do that, though? Would any do? What psychic types were even available in the game, anyway?
Ah well, one step at a time. For now, he flipped through the options and tried to see if any of these shmucks looked like a decent guy to get his adorable Mukdip.
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Post by Jinyu on Aug 24, 2023 15:01:12 GMT 9
PLAYER: Andrew Yang | CHARACTER: Jīnyú | | | PRONOUNS: He/Him AGE: 37 ORIENTATION: Heterosexual LOCATION: New Jersey, USA OCCUPATION: Professor of Psychology at Cairn University | GENDER: M AGE: Adult ENABLE PKMN SPEECH? No PAIN THRESHOLD: Reduced TRAINER CLASS: Swimmer |
OUT OF THE GAMEHe left her.
No, stop, he really needed to move on from this. He couldn't just always start narrating his life story with a foolish decision, even if he was just following what his girlfriend said. No, he should know better than that. Did he? Actually he couldn't tell at that moment. Did she want him to leave? Was she just angry and tired? Then why didn't she say anything after the fact? After he callously shoved things into his old backpack and shut the door?
Oh, about him? Well, he grew up here, in New Jersey. Immigrant family, second generation. Parents didn't speak a lick of English at first, now they had some English with an accent. Never really learned Chinese though, but he was still bullied for looking like one. Didn't help that he wasn't the genius that his parents liked him to be either. Sure, he could score good grades, but he needed to work much harder than others just to get it. At least he was able to get the scholarship, which was the bare minimum, really, but he took it. If it weren't for that, well, he wouldn't have met the most beautiful woman he had ever laid eyes on.
Life just decided that he had too good of a thing going, he supposed. He left his girl, his baby (not a real baby, his project, his lifeblood), his home, and now he was just a sulking bachelor on a research leave. He was back in his hometown, visiting his parents every so often (and they were asking what the hell happened to his girlfriend and when he was going to get married and give them grandchildren). It felt like he had nothing to look forward to.
But that was when he remembered about UNOVR and that one of the things he left was his WorldScreen. A part of him wondered what had happened to his account. Was it still active? Was it simply dead forever? He missed the game though and did have some extra cash and extra time, so he decided to purchase a new one and do something gimmicky with it. Gotta find something to help him move on, you know what I mean?
"...sir, this is a Wendy's." | INSIDE THE GAME Jinyu is here on a mission: a team of ultra powerful Magikarp. Shiny. Golden. Some of them rainbow. But it's only Magikarp. No one else is acceptable. He'll fish them out of the so called Everworld if he must. Magikarps deserve love too! (He isn't projecting on them, what are you talking about?) It's only thanks to UNOVR's system on allowing any Pokemon to be viable that he can do this. And even then, it's not that he's aiming for the best, he just wants to surprise people. With his Magikarp. Because he relates to them always being cast aside (projecting again--stop it!)
He's much larger than his real self. Larger than life? Larger in personality? He tries to play off as a cozy guy, because he is. He laughs out loud often, because he hasn't laughed like that for some time. He's going to play the fool (he's still a fool), but he'll have a heart of gold. Because in this game of pretend, he can do that. Try to actually be of use to someone this time... | FACE CLAIMS IRL CHARACTER [Art by unkcs]
[u]ENSEMBLE STARS[/u] Sagami Jun as [a href="https://unovr.boards.net/thread/2037/jinyu"]Andrew Yang[/a] PLAYER CHARACTER [Art by higashigunkan]
[u]GRANBLUE FANTASY[/u] Vane as @Jinyu
| OOC NAME Peony! / Discord: lostpeonies
| STARTER PKMN Do you want to receive your starter in-character at the Starter Lab?
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