ACTIVITY CHECK (OCTOBER '22)

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SHIV

GONGAGER
he/him
25
October 13
GONGAGA
gongaga-romantic
gongager
gongago
me?
gongaga
808 height
808 height
WHERE ARE UNOVA REMAKES
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ACTIVITY CHECK (OCTOBER '22)
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE AC
NOVEMBER 5TH, 11:59PM PST



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CLEAN UP TIME



HELLO, EVERYONE! it's time for an activity check. It has been at least two months since our previous activity check, and now it's time to clean up once again! There is no canon activity check this time around. It will come later!


GENERAL AC REQ.

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  • 1 linked IC-post from OCTOBER TO NOVEMBER 5TH from every character you own.
  • Confirmation that characters are in the MEMBER DIRECTORY and the FACE CLAIM DIRECTORY.
  • Please note, TEXT/COMMS posts or threads do not count.


DEADLINES


This activity check will close NOVEMBER 5TH, 11:59PM PST.[break][break]
The next activity check is tentatively scheduled for JANUARY 2023!


ACTIVITY CHECK POST CODES



INSTRUCTIONS



USE THE FOLLOWING CODE(S) below to post in the activity check. Feel free to remove any non-applicable sections. Please let us know if you have any questions and concerns!


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HIATUS / COMMUNICATED / NEW



COMMUNICATED


NOTE: characters/players that have shown chronic signs of no activity, but ask for continued hiatus will still be archived.[break][break]

@suzume @yuna @soren @suzume @yuna


NEW ACCOUNTS


REGISTERED ACCOUNTS FROM OCTOBER 23RD & ONWARD do not need to be accounted for in this activity check. However, feel free to include them in your activity check post.[break][break]

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shiv

the good commissioner
she/her
34
lilycove city
bisexual
league commissioner
commissioner
single
5'9" height
5'9" height
i used to dream in the dark of palisades park.
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  • any notes/comments: thank you all for sticking with us for so long! s/v is coming up and a new narrative arc!
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Wanderer

The Liberator
he/him/his
24
April 10
Lavaridge Town
Figuring it Out
Penitent
Renegade
I've got a, I've got a
Pocket fulla sunshine
Short King height
Short King height
Turned on my friends and brought them pain. I have no right to show I can change. But I gotta try!
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  • any notes/comments: FIRST! (You don't count, Shiv >:[ )
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Epic BugCatcher

Dr. Doug
He/Him
20 (40)
March 3
Viridian City, Kanto
It just works
AQUA, Combat Medic
Bug Catcher
Dreaming
of our future
5' 11" (181 cm) / 180 lbs (82 kg) height
5' 11" (181 cm) / 180 lbs (82 kg) height
You're being healed. Please do not resist.
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John Sullivan
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  • ic posts for characters: random doug postrandom Gwyar post
  • are characters in directories?: Y
  • any notes/comments: Think I've gotten back on m'horse after having fallen off. Let's hope I don't burn out my candle too quickly this time.
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Azul

Mars | Tuesday
He/Him
28
August 4th
Canalave City, Sinnoh
Bi / Demiro
POG Bank CEO
Underboss
Veni. Videre. Vincam.
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Kiwi

Ash
He/Him/Them
26
December 2
Aspertia City, Unova
Pansexual
Picking up the pieces
--
But I, I will, go on howling and hollow
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POSTED ON Oct 30, 2022 4:44:15 GMT
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  • character tags: , @trish ,
  • dropped characters' tags (if applicable): hahaha none
  • ic posts for characters: Ash - Trish - Genny
  • are characters in directories?: Y
  • any notes/comments: We just gettin STARTED BAYBEE.
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Scarlet

Lisa Bortiforte
She/Her
31
August 30
Camphrier Town, Kalos
Bi/Heteroromantic
Bioterrorist
Underboss
Unattached
Black Widow
5'9" / 175.26 cm height
5'9" / 175.26 cm height
Bury me in the roses and rot; I'll come back thorned.
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  • ic posts for characters: Elisa + Talia
  • are characters in directories?: Y
  • any notes/comments: Checking in on Hoenn continues to be one of the better parts of my day-to-day. Excited to be here for another activity check, and looking forward to more plots to come post-METENO~!
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thorn

the Harbinger
he/him
37
october 28th
circhester, galar
demisexual
underboss
the harbinger
I want corruption, I think I'm the devil in disguise.
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POSTED ON Oct 30, 2022 4:51:10 GMT
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  • are characters in directories?: Y
  • any notes/comments: Orion's still alive, it's a miracle!
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borfus

He/Him
28
September 1
Fallarbor, Hoenn
HETEROSEXUAL
Baker
civilian
Hoagie & Boudin
6'4" - 193 cm height
6'4" - 193 cm height
Baked Fresh
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space

anna
she/her
24
july 4
mauville city
bisexual
ranger
captain
matias silph
dating
5'4 height
5'4 height
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  • are characters in directories?: Y
  • any notes/comments: aaron only survives this dark age because he's my mascot
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gunsmile

The Devourer
he / him
36
January 8
Lavender Town, Kanto
heterosexual
general of war
god general
nenet nzingha
starstruck ✨
6'3" / 190 cm height
6'3" / 190 cm height
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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  • player/ooc name: gunsmile
  • character tags: @marshall @nikita @bishop
  • dropped characters' tags (if applicable): n/a
  • ic posts for characters: Zev / Marshall / Nikita / Bishop / Gunner
  • are characters in directories?: Y
  • any notes/comments: Another AC so soon?! Time has flown by! Have I really only been playing for a little over 4 months?!
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lou

harper beck
they/he
twenty-nine
august 11
stow-on-side, galar
pansexual
forger
rocket admin
in any universe
you are my dark star
6'0 (it's 5'8) height
6'0 (it's 5'8) height
long black tulips, born in your blue tints. lemongrass eyelids, smoke in your slick lips.
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spiral

silph
SIR
twenty-nine
august 12th
saffron
oppressive
silph co. ceo
council member
POWER IS TAKEN, NEVER GIVEN—SO TAKE WHAT YOU ARE OWED
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  • any notes/comments: ^_^V
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toppa

Supernova Shredder
He/Him
30
march 21
mauville city
heterosexual
music artist
Trainer
an anxious object
single
6’3” height
6’3” height
I’d rather watch your star explode
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raikourider

Master of Faster
He/Him
25
December 12
Goldenrod, Johto
Straight
Mauville Gym Leader
Champion
Single; Not Looking
6'1" height
6'1" height
"With great speed comes great responsibility."
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POSTED ON Oct 30, 2022 7:55:58 GMT
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JOSH DEVLIN'S ACTIVITY CHECK


OCTOBER 2022 ACTIVITY CHECK



player/ooc name: RaikouRider
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Weekly IC posts for character:

Week of August 21: Baby-Doll Eyes
Week of August 28: Here Comes the Beat
Week of September 4: Chasm
Week of September 11: Old Dogs, New Tricks
Week of September 18: To Cure What Ails Them
Week of September 25: A Wrinkle in the Woods
Week of October 2: Anarchy's Rainbow
Week of October 9: Melody's Quick Badge Challenge
Week of October 16: Racing Hearts
Week of October 23: Delivery Down the Fiery Path
Week of October 30: Soul on Fire


Summarize 2 plots that are in-progress and being threaded:

1a) Pursuit of Legendary Pokémon Raikou / The Three Virtues

The VALOR Initiative, as well as Josh's newfound duties as a Major League Gym Leader, have turbocharged his pursuit of the Legendary Pokémon Raikou. Since his last vision, Josh has finished developing the Three Virtues, supplementing his own Three Virtues. They had become the Six Virtues.

Josh's CONFIDENCE had been supplemented by the JUDGMENT needed to make sure said confidence was justified first, as demonstrated in Gotta Go Fast". In this thread, Josh, alongside , was trusted with a mission of paramount importance: the recovery of sensitive data from a data dealer intent on selling it to Team Rocket for a large sum of money. The two were able to stop the exchange and gave chase down Highway 110. Wren looked like he was in pain from having to withstand an Arcanine's Extreme Speed. Rather than continue a dangerous chase, Josh showed the JUDGMENT to recognize that while he had failed some of the mission's objectives, he had completed the most important one: making sure he and his friend made it in and out of the dangerous warzone unharmed.

Josh's AMBITION had been supplemented by the INSIGHT needed to recognize he could not take everything he saw at face value. This was demonstrated through the course of the following three threads.

In the thread Chasm, Josh worked with to rescue an Elite Ranger and three teenage trainers from a gondola crash on Mount Chimney. Two of the victims fell into a superheated chasm where Josh's useful consciousness was measured in seconds. His Pyroar rescued one, and Matias went down to the chasm directly to rescue to the other, somehow completely unharmed by temperatures near the boiling point of water. Josh showed the INSIGHT to realize that there are people with extraordinary, even supernatural talents out there, and he cannot take everyone he sees at face value. The two later have a discussion about how Matias survived such boiling temperatures in the thread Piping Hot Pasta. Eventually, Matias becomes the first person that learns Josh not only wants to befriend and ride the legendary Pokémon Raikou, but also that Josh is willing to sacrifice part of his freedom to become Raikou's Avatar.

In the thread Old Dogs, New Tricks, Josh and are tasked with routing a pack of Mightyena from the streets of Oldale Town. With Melody's help, Josh went above and beyond the requirements of the mission in not only dispersing them from town, but getting to the bottom of why. The answer was not immediately obvious, but digging deeper and thinking outside the box led him to correctly believe the Mightyena were attracted to a Cherrim nest in a small park. By relocating those Cherrim outside the city, his actions have not only quelled this wave of Mightyena attacks, but have prevented future ones. He has demonstrated INSIGHT by realizing that just because foul play looks like it's a factor doesn't necessarily mean it always is the cause of a problem. This has taught him a valuable lesson to be open minded. The two later have a discussion about the AQUA Initiative, Avatars, and general attitude of legendary Pokémon toward humans in the thread Iron Resolve.

In the thread Racecar, Josh took on a reversal of roles since his battle with , this time being on the Leader's side of a Gym match. Expecting it to be a close race with due to being in his element, Josh was in for a rude awakening. He not only got beaten, he got embarrassed at the game he played best. This has opened his eyes to the INSIGHT that Champions are more than exemplars of the craft of battle. They are leaders, innovators, and protectors of the region they serve. Perhaps their experience together will carve the leadership skills the Johto Beast is looking for in potential human partners.

Finally, Josh's FORESIGHT blossomed in the thread Anarchy's Rainbow, , under the moniker, Blackjack, infiltrated Josh's Gym and sabotaged its main power generator to undergo a deadly overload that could destroy the Gym and seriously injure or kill anyone on the property. Blackjack substantially reinforced Josh's FORESIGHT that day. He had trusted his instincts all day, but recognized that during Luck & Pluck's NEVER-ENDING NIGHTMARE, everything he had worked so hard to trust tried to deceive him all at once. He shook his head, fought through the nightmare, and managed to save his Gym with some outside-the-box thinking, an adrenaline-fueled act of desperation, and even a little luck. His FORESIGHT was the reason the Racing Grounds lived on and continued to serve trainers of Hoenn in passing on not only Josh's honed Three Virtues of COURAGE, CONFIDENCE, and AMBITION, but his new set of Virtues: FORESIGHT, JUDGMENT, and INSIGHT. The Three Virtues had become the Six Virtues.

1b) Pursuit of Legendary Pokémon Raikou / The Spark Ignites

After the Three Virtues became the Six Virtues, Josh had another vision from Raikou, the Beast's final message as follows:

"Alongside courage, your foresight has flashed like a lightning bolt. Alongside confidence, your judgment has echoed like booming thunder. Alongside ambition, your insight has roared like a shredding downburst. I am satisfied with your spiritual grit. Now only your mental and physical grit remains. If you truly have the mental grit to fight alongside me...then catch me. If you can."

Having developed the Three Virtues, Josh possessed the spiritual grit worthy of a true hero. Raikou's request for Josh to "catch him" refers to his development of innovation needed to catch a foe he cannot outspeed. To do so, he must arm himself with the knowledge of not only the Beast's strengths, but its weaknesses as well. This is being represented by completion of at least twelve threads loosely related in some way to studying Raikou or collaborating with others who could have insight in how to go about meeting Raikou.

This necessary research has been threaded in the previously-mentioned threads Iron Resolve and Piping Hot Pasta, but he knows he has need of help, and has reached out to people he knows he can trust. After his Gym battle with , he accepted an invite to the Fortree Leader's residence to spill his guts about the Johto Beasts and exchange information with the Lorekeeper, threaded in The Hero of Johto. He even went so far as to publicly announce to a small group of Rangers his pursuit of Raikou, in Rangers Rising.

While only tangentially related to this plot, but highly related to his Gym Leader duties, Josh met at League HQ to discuss deficiencies in his performance as a Gym Leader. He quickly realized that being able to effectively battle foes in situations where he did not have the speed advantage would not only be useful for improving his battle prowess, but would be even more valuable in his pursuit of Raikou, the Legendary Pokémon so fast he had no hope of outspeeding it. Not even with his Arcanine's Extreme Speed. This interaction is being explored in the thread Kindness, and ultimately he was referred to and in the threads Battle Masters and Big Bucks, No Whammies, STOP!.

All roads led to , indeed. During the landing phase of 99943 Meteno, Josh discovered that Kyle had control over the Great One, the Legendary Pokémon Ho-oh, the guardian of the three Johto Beasts...including the one he desperately sought. Post-PAAA, Josh would want to have words with the Champion and Minor League Director about how to pursue Raikou. Perhaps even Ho-oh itself would be willing to hear his plight!

Little did Josh know that his pursuit of Raikou was primed to become a source of intense faction conflict: had shared his knowledge of Josh's desire to pursue Raikou with the Team Rocket's boss, , in the thread Disguise. This pursuit of Raikou, even if he is successful, could put his life at even greater jeopardy than it already was!

2) Ranger Duties / The VALOR Initiative

Despite Josh's Ranger duties taking a backseat for his Gym Leader duties, he was still an active Ranger. He was ultimately promoted to the rank of Senior Ranger despite having only a few months of tenure, based on exemplary performance in the following threads related to the VALOR Initiative:

Chasm with
To Worry with
Wolves with
Peace, My Brother with
Donation with
Cure for What Ails Them with
Fighting Fires with
Old Dogs, New Tricks with
Gotta Go Fast with

He had to do most of this while saddled with a probation from Head Ranger , threaded in Probation Hearing.

3) Assassination Attempt

While this is a recent plot and is still being developed, it is still a very important part of his current plot. Weeks after becoming a Gym Leader, an attempt was made on Josh's life, threaded in Anarchy's Rainbow. Unbeknownst to him, the assassin was none other than one of his best friends, , under the moniker Blackjack.

Josh spent a week and a half in a hospital bed in Mauville City, discussing the assassination with in the comms thread Live Fast, Die Young. Shortly after being discharged, he also discussed the assassination with in Barrel Behind the Curve. The Mauville Leader is highly motivated to learn the identity of his assassin and make their life a living hell. Little does he know that moment is coming sooner than he thinks (this is to be threaded with starting on November 1.)

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Any notes/comments: I can't exalt and enough for their Herculean dedication to make Hoenn tick. I am wholly addicted to Hoenn, and am positively thrilled with where Josh is at right now. I am floored you have trusted me with a canon position despite only having four months of tenure. The only other major goal I have for him (the center of his first plot point) is completely in your hands. As much as I would treasure the opportunity to befriend Raikou on such a large site, I am cool with whatever plans you have for the Beast. Keep on doing what you're doing, and here's to two more months of awesome RP (and hopefully Josh reaching 1,000 posts!)
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