[Cecil is sitting at his Official Gym Desk today, looking... well. Not unkempt, not exactly, but like a man who has been very busy dealing with unplanned complications. This may or may not be related to the occasional Pokémon attack that can be heard distantly. Still, he smiles as he speaks.]


Everyone, should you be having slight... infestation issues at home or at your hotel, feel to come stay at the Lunar Gym. Exceptionally, our facilities will include additional portable cooking appliances and cots, open at all times to anyone who may need them while this lasts. In addition, Gym challenge hours will not be affected and we will operate as usual. Yes, those mice have started appearing as far as route 7, but we are not nearly affected as Vermilion or Saffron, and have the situation under control.


[A Tandemaus (two Tandemice?) chooses that exact moment to scramble up his chair's back-rest, pieces of cheese clutched between their paws. A growl rumbling off-screen is all the warning Cecil gets before he has to dodge one of his own Luxray as she attempts to recover the goods. Both Pokémon fall off the furniture, and the chase continues through the room.]


...Mostly under control.

[ A strange man appears on the PokeConnect feed, his expression a mixture of fondness and frustration. He holds his Poke'Gear at arm's length to better film himself and on one shoulder a Murkrow with a scarred beak perches and preens. ]

Well hello again, Johto. It's been a while, hasn't it?

[ He lifts a spidery hand to stroke Edgar under her chin. The Murkrow croaks happily and squeezes her eyes shut.]

When I was home, this place was hardly even a dream of a memory. Both times I've been here before. Now that I'm here again, I remember it all along with time passing in Halloween Town. It's strange...but wonderful too. And I have to wonder, is there anyone out there who remembers my name?

[ He's been reading the paper. It's been a long, long time. He's sure many of his old friends are gone, but there's a chance...]

[It takes a bit, but Emporio is settling back into the swing of things at his Gym. The courses didn't stop for the teleporter fiasco of course, but challengers were just a little more...challenged, when they got to Cherrygrove and other similar half-way stops and found their intended Pokemon missing.

Glad that's over. But anyway, Emporio- in one of his usual Pokemon-matching outfits per the standard of his challenges sounds...confused.]

Well, we're back! Technically I've been home for a few days, but this is the first I've been back to the challenger's arena on the course since those teleporter malfunctions.

(Let's not talk about those here though, okay everyone?)

This is a first though. I've never had someone ask for pictures after finishing the battle.

Especially not multiple times. They said something about posting them to their webpage, so I guess they must be a photographer, but I'm surprised they went through multiple courses to do that.

These things take more than a day after all!

Swept Characters

The following characters will be swept:

None!

If there's been a mistake, please contact us immediately. Thank you!

Hello folks! The FAQ/game mechanic rewrite is (theoretically) complete. Please click on "Patch Notes" for an extensive (and yet still not exhaustive...) list of changes!

PATCH NOTES

• Rules page updated
  • Primarily rewording for clarity
  • Age minimum for players (not characters) has been raised from 15 to 18
• Activity Check overhaul
  • No actual activity requirements have been adjusted this time! This is primarily a timing/administrative update. (Phew.)
  • From now on, the next activity check comment will now be posted immediately after the previous activity check closes. (I.e. it will be available to respond to all month!)
  • Starting with the upcoming activity check, AC will be due on the 1st day of the following month. (Rather than the 8th.)
  • Starting with the upcoming activity check, there will no longer be a separate "AC Warning" and "AC Results" post. AC results will be posted on the 2nd of each month; players will have a grace period of 2 days to respond to the post with a link to their late AC submission. After this time players without AC will be swept (with no additional post).
• Trainer/Breeder/Rocket character classes replaced with Class Ranking system
  • Character Class Ranking page added (please view page for all details)
  • Character Class Change page removed (will now be handled with Character Class Ranks)
  • Rocket Mission page deprecated (will now be handled with Character Class Ranks)
  • Trainer, Breeder, Rocket 101 pages updated to remove things now handled with Character Class Ranks
  • Applications "Affiliation" section now just asks whether a character will show up as a standard trainer or as a Rocket
• Significant FAQ overhaul
  • Pages removed/combined into main FAQ or other relevant pages:
  • Extended FAQ: Travel & Locations
  • Extended FAQ: Money & Jobs
  • Extended FAQ: Battles & Pokemon Moves
  • Extended FAQ: Moves, Abilities, and Weather
  • (Old) Battling 101
• General FAQ sections reworked
  • Sections reduced from Game Info, Team Rocket, Training and Raising, Johto/Kanto, and Misc. to Game Basics, Pokemon Basics, and Setting Basics
  • Extended FAQ sections reworked to be: Training 101, Breeding 101, Rocket 101, Pokemon, Non-Player Characters
  • Lots of rewording for clarity and/or simplification
  • FAQ updated to refer to new Class system rather than old Trainer/Breeder/Rocket system
  • Money/jobs have been abstracted to remove (most) mentions of actual money, so people don't worry about tracking it
  • Re-applied characters can now regain nearly everything they achieved in their previous run
  • Many many other changes!
• Extended FAQ: Pokemon page simplified
  • Pokemon with similar special evolution conditions combined into one entry
  • FAQ questions reworded for clarity/simplification
  • Some info moved from Training 101
• Training 101 updated (from Trainer 101)
  • Added a “give me the bare minimum” section
  • No more trainer discounts, as money is not being tracked
  • Pokemon growth rates are now based on Class Ranking rather than being a Trainer (I.e. by default, Pokemon grow at 5 levels a week for everyone)
  • Everyone can now catch wild shinies. For more details, see "Shiny Requests reworked" section later
  • Upon gaining their 16th badge, everyone can now get a second Mega Stone
• Breeding 101 updated (from Breeder 101)
  • Added a “give me the bare minimum” section
  • For more details, see "Breeding reworked" section later
• Items reworked
  • TMs are no longer seasonal. All TMs not listed elsewhere can be found in Goldenrod and Celadon.
  • Berries and TM pages are now linked in the general Items page.
  • Berries now have a “give me the bare minimum” section
• Badge Requests updated
  • Added a “What should I be putting in the Battle Details?” section
• Shiny Requests reworked
  • Wild shiny requests are no longer locked to Trainers
  • Breeding shiny requests are no longer locked to Breeders (but require a minimum Class Rank)
  • Shiny requests now require evidence of activity (please view page for all details)
• Breeding reworked
  • "Simple" breeding option added (please view Breeding FAQ page for all details)
  • Perks locked to Breeders are now unlocked and/or removed (i.e. all trainers can breed Pokemon with Hidden Abilities)
  • Shiny breeding is now handled through Shiny Requests
  • Some editing of JKBA pages so they’re no longer locked to Breeders. For now JKBA is staying; based on player poll results we may deprecate it in the future, if it sees no use.
• Hiatus and Drop pages combined
• Reserves page deprecated (with the slow pace of VR applications, reserves are not really necessary anymore)
• Taken list updated
  • Removed Trainer/Breeder/Rocket Grunt affiliation from entries and form
  • Removed email field from all entries, except in cases where it was the only contact provided, in which case it ended up in the Contact field.
  • Standardized plurk contact in all entries, and updated form for standardization

If you have any concerns, questions, or other comments, please do go ahead and comment below! And please do the same if you find any broken links, or links to pages that are now deprecated/seem to refer to something that no longer applies! (There is a non-zero chance we missed something in a fury of editing.)

In addition, we have a very quick poll for players! VR's Fourth Wall event is usually around November - however, this year, we started keeping events bi-monthly, rather than monthly. November happens to be an "off" month with no event, so we were originally planning to do it in December... but December is also a month that's heavy on holidays and people not having much time to RP. So we decided it would make more sense to check what players would like!

Please head on over to vote here. (There are a few other options besides November and December.)