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Believe It Or Not, I'm Walking On Air [Gym, Nontrad #3]
POSTED ON Mar 6, 2023 19:17:22 GMT
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On the most part, the Golurks got a ‘free car wash’ (in more ways than one)—but that left a lot to say about Isaac’s Golurk simply because the mud cannons were literally doing them a number as Alex’s own Golurk flew onwards and forward—finally breaking through the downpour to another…

Oh, this was a new one?!

This literally gave new meaning to the words ‘I came in like a wrecking ball’ in more ways than one! While the first obstacle was Circus Charlie on steroids, this one was… just…

Utter chaos.

While the swinging balls were large enough to ram a Golurk from the side, what made them even more dangerous was the fact that they were not on fire, but frozen solid.

So, think of like an Overqwil, only instead of it being a Pokémon, they were literally mace heads blown up to a hundred glittering with sharp, painful shards of super-frozen ice.

(And yes, he had to call in a favor from his friend who had a shitton more Ice-types than he did just for this next segment!)

“Well… we did come in like a wrecking ball, but apparently these frozen wrecking balls can inflict… frostbite,” he gritted through chattering teeth as he shoved his bangs off his soaking wet forehead.

“Try not to get rammed off-course!”

…of course, they weren’t just coming from the left and right—they were also coming from above and below!

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Part 3: we came in like a wrecking ball! Get the exact same roll as the numbers of Alex’s rolls to safely get through the first half of the third obstacle. Do you want to know what happens if you miss the objective?


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Fight or Flight [Gym][Alexei]
POSTED ON Mar 6, 2023 18:48:07 GMT
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A singular, sharp whistle meant that the Crobat had to get the hell-ass out of range as the Extremes Speed attack came screeching into range, and there was nothing else to it—the attack scored a direct hit but he wasn’t going to go down yet! Not just yet.

How many more turns were they waiting before releasing the surprise attack? Quite a few.

Now it was time for a Venoshock attack, the noxious attach bubbling all around the Crobat as he came within striking range once more.



Crobat took damage from the Extreme Speed attack, and used Venoshock on Togekiss upon approach!


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Believe It Or Not, I'm Walking On Air [Gym, Nontrad #3]
POSTED ON Mar 6, 2023 18:38:43 GMT
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The downpour cooled down literally everything around them, and thankfully for him he’d managed to squint through the near-zero visibility downpour, the mud squelching and barely missing his line of vision—yikes, that was close!

Isaac, on the other hand—unfortunately was the target of a rather large splattering of mud that soaked him from the top down, clouding his field of vision with the way it landed—some of the remnants also landed in the Golurk’s eyes, to boot.

Whoopsie!

The downpour wasn’t just the only obstacle pouring down, because as they cut through the latter half of the skies, there were sudden bursts of thick, viscous mud attempting to knock the Golurks out of the air!

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Part 2: zero visibility! Roll between of the numbers of Alex’s rolls to safely get through the second half of the second obstacle. Do you want to know what happens if you miss the objective?


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homing pigeon [gym]
POSTED ON Mar 6, 2023 18:27:00 GMT
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What was up with all his receptionists not being at the front desk lately? Oh, that’s right—Ethan was running errands for the little old ladies who lived in the retirement housing area on the opposite side of the city; while Claire was busy down with the little kids at the local Trainer’s School giving a few lessons on battle.

For it was Alexei who looked up directly from the small pile of papers that were left behind and blinking.

“Whoa, hey, catch your breath,” he began, standing up and holding out his arms. “You’re here for—oh, you’re Lam?” he confirmed as he stepped out from around the receptionist’s desk.

“Come on, catch your breath and let’s go out back. Don’t be nervous!” he continued. He could tell there was tension in the air and here was here to diffuse it!

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Believe It Or Not, I'm Walking On Air [Gym, Nontrad #3]
POSTED ON Mar 6, 2023 18:12:00 GMT
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He noticed that Isaac had looked over his shoulder and made something like an extinguishing gesture before the singing smell got stronger and then he realized—

“Ah, shit!”

He then frantically fanned at the back of his head and felt heat—thank fuck the flames were extinguished in short order. Eventually his own Golurk flew through the unpredictability of the fires that burned brighter than the sun—

Only for them both to be suddenly drenched with a torrential downpour.

“From fire—water!” he sputtered, as the torrential downpour replaced the blazing heat from earlier. While normal weather obstacles made up one of his other non-traditional challenges, what made this even harder was the fact that alongside the downpour, there were also mud coming down alongside the storm!

Now it was a battle of visibility—would the mud get in your eyes?

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Part 2: zero visibility! Roll lower of the numbers of Alex’s rolls to safely get through the first half of the second obstacle. Do you want to know what happens if you miss the objective?


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Fight or Flight [Gym][Alexei]
POSTED ON Mar 6, 2023 17:57:48 GMT
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It was an explosion of energies meeting—and the Tri-Attack that connected alongside the Cross Poison—shame, there was a Safeguard up that prevented the poisoning effect from sticking.

Which was alright, they just had to come in flying and screaming and wearing down the protective screen as long and as much as they could before throwing out that Confuse Ray that was supposed to have gone out the first turn.

Flying backwards, the Crobat screeched, and then spread his wings wide for a Wing Attack, attempting to strike the Togekiss in the face.



Crobat took damage from the Tri-Attack, and used Wing Attack on Togekiss on the retaliatory strike!


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Believe It Or Not, I'm Walking On Air [Gym, Nontrad #3]
POSTED ON Mar 6, 2023 17:34:57 GMT
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It was hilarious that two Golurks were flying around in the skies—it was literally a show to see, seeing as most of the Sanctuary staff that wasn’t busy had turned out to see the insanity that was going on up there.

Instead of one of the flaming obstacles beaning the Golurk where Isaac was flying on—inching ahead and making it through the fire, it was Alexei who had almost gotten unseated by the blaze of flame that came hurtling his way.

“Holy hellballs on a stick!” he yelled as his Golurk got struck by one of the obstacles—thankfully the flames slid past the monolith’s shoulders—however he could smell the singe of burning hair as they flew onward.

The ‘pillars’ of aerial fire only increased in size—and intensity—as the two Golurks flew forward. Just how was it possible to avoid getting burned at this point?

Time to go through the Gauntlet Wall™ of Fire and Flames!

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Part 1: a literal trial by flame. roll exactly one of the numbers of Alex’s rolls to safely get through the second half of the flaming gauntlet. Do you want to know what happens if you miss the objective?


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baby battle
POSTED ON Mar 6, 2023 17:00:31 GMT
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It was at this point he realized that they were ganging up on the Oricorio—but what Cian may not know (or did he) was that this particular Oricorio of his was one of the more stubborn ones.

Right as the first attack came screaming at her, the Mirror Move kicked in that transformed into a Psybeam that was sent flying straight back at the Kecleon as the yellow avian took the first incoming attack and was forced back by the second attack as well.

The Drampa wasn’t going to stand around either, and aimed a Dragon Breath toward the Froakie, hacking away at the other Pokémon as well.

Wasn’t it strange that it was just the Oricorio being assaulted? But he knew that there was more to that…



Drampa & Oricorio (Pom-pom) are out on the field!

Oricorio is being focus-fired on, and used Mirror Move to return the Psybeam at the Kecleon! Drampa used Dragon Breath aimed at the Froakie!

Safeguard 3 / 5; Oricorio’s Hurricane is Disabled (2 / 4)!



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love's true form (gym)
POSTED ON Mar 6, 2023 16:27:02 GMT
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The point clearly went to him, however in a moment of sheer cheek, he felt the lightest touch of something brush the top of his head before he looked down and was like—

“Frog!” he hissed, although the blush was there. “You know I get the first point,” he followed up afterward, scrunching his eyebrows together for good measure.

The Pidgeot flew by, and the same voice snickered.

“Look, tha’s a point ta Alex, an’ ya know that!” the staff member guffawed, before getting out of range. “Ye might wanna use the noodle and try ta whack ‘im!”

“He’s right, Fro—you know. Try to win this and you’ll get something special from me later,” he lured his boyfriend, an attempt to sweeten the deal with a flustered, embarrassed grin on his face and a devious wink afterward as he then banked sharply to one side and tried to thwack his boyfriend the challenger once more!

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to score the point, roll higher than the total of Alex’s rolls! Otherwise he gets the point.

Bird: 1
Frog: 0



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Super Secret Base Flagventures 🚩
POSTED ON Mar 6, 2023 10:44:58 GMT
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alexei’s 🚩 log


BIRDDAD’S SECRET BASE ( HIDEY-HOLE TREEHOUSE )

FLAGS CAPTURED

SECRET PROMPTS


🚩 Interact with the secret base guardian. x
🚩 Use the move Secret Power.
🚩 Enter a secret base owned by a League member.
🚩 Enter a secret base owned by a Rocket member.
🚩 Interact with the decorations.
🚩 Fall for a trap or decoy item.

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hidey-hole [base]
POSTED ON Mar 6, 2023 10:40:29 GMT
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Away from prying eyes, there’s a small structure nestled in one of the bigger, girthier trees that line this perpetually rainy path.

The only way to gain access to it (should you find it) is to either climb the trunk of the tree like an unga-bunga Chimchar or to fly up to it on a Flying-type.

But it doesn’t stop there, though, because the guardians of this secret base (yes, GUARDIANS) will squawk as loudly as possible and try to drive you away unless you bring an offering to distract the shiny Toucannon (who appears to be the leader of the gang) and the entire armada of Pikipek and Trumbeak that come yelling at you since you’ve disturbed their peace.

Found inside the space once you’ve cleared away the pesky avians is a small drawer that has a pair of binoculars in it, along with a solar-powered lamp that provides illumination once turned on.

There’s a rolled-up sleeping bag in the place, along with an ice box that hilariously has a fresh supply of ice cream sandwiches and frozen treats that are replenished every time the thing runs out of sweet treats.

Various aviation pennants and what appears to be a pageantry sash are strung up along the back wall of the place.

Hanging from it are a series of fake flags—the real flag has the symbol of one of the Djinni Three Four from Unova decorating one side, and on the other, a wing that looks suspiciously like a certain gym leader’s badge…

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black mercury [safari]
POSTED ON Mar 6, 2023 7:16:39 GMT
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Clearly he had no idea how to tell most Pokémon were male or female—in some cases there were glaringly obvious ways—alas Sprigatito wasn’t one of those Pokémon.

But either way…

The moment he saw the cat jump out from the undergrowth, he was quick on the draw to snap a picture and send it to the Frog himself!

‘Hey, look at this!’ he then sent the picture to , along with the surprised Grass-type that blinked up at him—just in time for the Salamence to come screaming down from the skies with a Flamethrower attack—met with a Petal Blizzard from the small feline!

Whoa. Scary cat.

The draconid roared, the feline yowled, and they continued exchanging attacks, throwing more flames and flowers at each other the longer this went on.

Eventually, though, the feline was overpowered by the heat haze, and he threw his last Safari Ball…



catch attempt on weed cat Sprigatito!

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FATHER WINTER (CO-OP RVL)
POSTED ON Mar 6, 2023 7:08:04 GMT
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[attr="class","shovbox"]OTOME (CO-OP)
the Father Winter route ()
What the hell?

He blinked at what he saw on-screen now—one of them was bad enough, but two? And it looked like they were about to kiss?

“Yeah no, I’m a married man, you can certainly try,” he cackled as he picked the most sensible choice out of the three:

‘Deny them both’.

Even if it meant dooming them all.



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the salt dump [ven's borrowed things]
POSTED ON Mar 5, 2023 2:21:35 GMT
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kyouya

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cranky ol’ codger[break][break]
the first, the og, the one who was there and saw it all. while not as cantankerous as gabriel, kyouya here is definitely the more adventurous between the two.[break][break]
if there’s one thing that kyouya and gabriel share, it’s yeeting critiques on the rest of alex’s entire armada—and yes that includes the entire ovine herd. you know those two old muppets who give scathing reviews of everything they see? yeah that’s them.[break][break]
one day all his plumage fell out and Alex had a righteous panic because he legit had a fucking bald bird with him for a couple weeks but then—out of the blue—his plumage grew back, but then instead of red it became blue. and it’s been blue ever since.[break][break]


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gabriel

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even crankier ol’ codger[break][break]
despite being the ‘younger’ of the two, truth of the matter is he’s the one who behaves more like one of those old guys in a lawn chair who yells at the young’ins to get the hell off my lawn whenever they start misbehaving.[break][break]
he doesn’t like Frog at all because of the insanity that happened during the Cyberchase Conundrum, and always finds ways to express his dismay every single time he sees his human’s life partner (yeah. there’s a lot of shit to dig through and sift there).[break][break]
would you believe his crusty ass managed to win a contest, so he’s got a tough contest ribbon to add to his incredibly short list of accolades.[break][break]


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tornadus

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the wandering stormbringer, a.k.a. the cranky dedushka[break][break]
WIP![break][break]


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zelle

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lil’ troublemaker[break][break]
before the entire ovine herd came into existence, she was there first. found as an egg in shoal cave, she has been nothing but pure, unadultered, unrestrained chaos.[break][break]

(it’s gotten to the point where he’s had to keep her under lock and key because of her destructive tendencies when she’s on the loose.)[break][break]

whenever she’s out and about she absolutely loves perching on her momma’s head without a singular care in the world and causing mass mayhem from there. like. you know those kids hopped up on sugar and don’t seem to run out of energy? that’s her basically.[break][break]

she has several brothers and sisters living in the deep, one of which, well… one of whomst died at the hands of a ‘sea bitch’. she’s out for blood and revenge, problem is how the hell is she gonna do it anyway? would anyone take her seriously?[break][break]


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mavka

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unfinished business[break][break]
probably the only other ghostie that Alex can stand being around (asides from Loki the Sableye), Mavka here is… quite an oddity.[break][break]

while he was out in the Safari Zone looking for a Drampa, he’d made an accidental catch of this little Duskull, who for some unknown reason would not stop bothering him, it’s like a literal heebie-jeebie alert 24/7 when he’s floating around with that singular red burning eye.[break][break]

however the darker truth is that after a visit to a certain memorial, the real identity of this Duskull is exposed to be Zelle’s dead sibling (yes the one that the sea bitch killed) after Bird literally poured his grief out and laid it for the world (Frog) to see.[break][break]

in Alex’s mind, however, he sees Mavka as a second Phione, not the Duskull that he really is (it’s his eternal denial. his own cross to bear).

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Sweetheart Sale 2023
POSTED ON Feb 28, 2023 20:19:16 GMT
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special request delivered by Mike, commander in chief of the shitsquawk brigade (pelipper) & all the members of the pelipper reverse-harem

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ORDER DETAILS: A huge assortment of lilium candidum because there’s just so many variants—each Pelipper is carting an individual bouquet of each kind and variant because well, the recipient likes the flower but which exact variant? Why not all of them?! [break][break] TO: [break][break] CARD: (the message is in Cyrillic, but obviously means one thing) “я тебя люблю.”



very special request delivered by the entire ovine herd

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ORDER DETAILS: A box containing a myriad of macarons. Unlike most times when there’s a theme, this is a literal mish-mash of so many flavors. It’s a box of chocolates macarons, with helpful input from the delivery team! [break][break] TO: [break][break] CARD: the card, being done in an incredibly cheeky manner, doesn’t have words on it: just Wooloo paw prints.[break][break]