ONGOING EVENT

EXPLORATION

SKY PILLAR[break]✥ LESSER MEGALOPOLIS

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Ultra Megalopolis - Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon

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THE SKY PILLAR is an ancient, abandoned tower created by the Draconid for the veneration of Rayquaza. Discovering this dilapidated pillar was once notoriously difficult and exclusive to descendants of the original Sootopolitans and Draconid people, but dimensional disruption has exposed its location.[break][break]

Sometime in EARLY MAY, fern delaney's PRIMAL SHARD from the MT. PYRE WARFRONT has detonated by SKY PILLAR'S BASE due to the dimensional instability that has returned to this universe,. A PRIMAL RIFT remains torn before this consecrated space—but who knows where it will lead to?[break][break]

LESSER MEGALOPOLIS IS A RUINED CITY IN ULTRA SPACE. It is unclear whether this is a different universe's Ultra Megalopolis or smaller colony. Regardless, it is a dark city with intermittent sections of flickering, artificial light... Large, black prism-like skyscrapers loom above flat black streets. Much ruin has fallen here, but you get the sense that you're not alone...


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SPECIAL HUNTS

EVERY THREE EXPEDITIONS TO LESSER MEGALOPOLIS[break]UNLOCKS THE SPECIAL HUNT PROMPT:

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🗺️ SPECIAL HUNT: your character(s) will be able to encounter and catch a GUZZLORD or BLACEPHALON (one or the other). they may be armored or embedded with BLACK METAL &/OR SPARKLING STONES. this material may allow them to unleash devastating Z-MOVES, which makes their subduing and/or capture notoriously difficult. afterward, the material will fall from their bodies as defunct scraps.[break][break]

Or you may encounter and catch a POIPOLE that is local to the area. You may be able to discover a POIPOLE EGG, or are able to capture or captivate one to your ownership.[break][break]

🗺️ [b]SPECIAL HUNT:[/b] your character(s) will be able to encounter and catch a [b]GUZZLORD[/b] or [b]BLACEPHALON[/b] (one or the other). they may be armored or embedded with [b]BLACK METAL &/OR SPARKLING STONES[/b]. this material may allow them to unleash devastating [b]Z-MOVES[/b], which makes their subduing and/or capture notoriously difficult. afterward, the material will fall from their bodies as defunct scraps.[break][break]

Or you may encounter and catch a [b]POIPOLE[/b] that is local to the area. You may be able to discover a [b]POIPOLE EGG[/b], or are able to capture or captivate one to your ownership.

LIST OF PROMPTS

BELOW IS A POOL OF PROMPTS you may use when creating an expedition. A successful expedition requires the completion of AT LEAST FOUR PROMPTS, including any extra conferred upon creation. More will be added as time goes on and expeditions are completed.[break][break]

Click on the SPOILER TAG to reveal the list.

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SPOILER: Click to show

01 use an ELECTRIC-TYPE Pokemon to help light your way.

02 use an ILLUMINA POKEMON to help light your way, or to distract/attract threats.

03 encounter hostile zombie-like MEGALOPOLANS that have been driven mad by the darkness. you may encounter any amount from a single one to a large swarm.

04 discover permanently defunct and dull Z-CRYSTALS scattered about the city.

05 survive a cyclone of sheer, swirling darkness that siphons all light into them and disables technology that utilizes electricity.

06 hide.

07 discover barely working vending machines that dispense odd tasting energy drinks in exchange for defunct Z-CRYSTALS.

08 explore an abandoned or dangerous building that represents a societal institution (e.g. a destroyed school, a dilapidated church, a powered down 'police station').

09 encounter a friendly megalopolan that has not gone mad yet. this megalopolan has not known a life outside of this ruined megalopolis, having been born while or after the city was reduced to ruins.

10 escort the megalopolan in prompt 09 to safety.

11 risk scavenging for supplies, which include megalopolan versions of everyday supplies (e.g. flavour them as alienesque and futuristic).

12 scale a megalopolis skyscraper, leap from one skyscraper to the next, or descend one.

13 use a light source in some way to distract a swarm of mad megalopolans.

14 be quiet.

15 search for suitable locations to set up camp/base (e.g. an abandoned building).

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16 encounter pokemon who have been displaced here. some of these pokemon have been corrupted into SHADOW POKEMON who use NON-LEGENDARY SHADOW MOVES.

17 encounter a large section of the city that has been destroyed. rubble stretches all the way until the city's perimeter, which looks out into a view of what seems to be space.

18 attempt to spend the "night", surviving the elements or any threats.

19 encounter the haunting corpses of megalopolans that have been completely overtaken by black crystal or metal. it seems like the megalopolan's flesh has been completely overtaken by the material.

20 the city's tallest tower, lesser megalo tower, may occasionally flicker with a blinding light. every time the light turns on, the crazed megalopolans will attempt to flock toward it.

21 visit the lesser megalo tower and its first floor. there are no staircases to the upper floors, just an malfunctioning elevator. there are doors to empty custodial rooms, offices, and makeshift living quarters that may or may not contain threats inside.

22 encounter one or several blacephalon slumbering in a building, alleyway, or any place else in the city. they will use their move, MIND BLOWN to detonate their ever-spawning head like a firework. every explosion will attract danger to the area as they prance about before fleeing.

23 encounter a blacephalon that has slithered toward you and/or your party stealthily. they will attempt to explode their head for a surprise ambush.

24 witness frenzied drawings etched into walls of an ULTRA NECROZMA DESCENDING UPON THIS CITY; your characters will not know what ULTRA NECROZMA is (until they do)—but may find it similar to one of the tapestry found in GOODBYE GALAR'S ALTERNATE 'REALITY' HAMMERLOCKE and make logical deductions.

25 clear barricades, fencing, or other megalopolan-made obstacles to create possible escape routes, make traversal easier, etc.

PROMPTS EXCLUSIVE TO THE 3RD EXPEDITION & ONWARD

26 utilize prismatic mirrors, devices, and light (from your Pokemon, devices, etc.) to activate machinery, devices, doors, etc. or blind/distract/lure away enemies.

27 make use of vast of debris-based canyons, valleys, or tunnels created by guzzlord having eaten through city districts.

28 encounter gargantuan guzzlord who devour anything or anyone without discrimination. occasionally intriguing items, or disturbing remnants from their meals can be found on or between their teeth.

29 become ensnared by a guzzlord's pincer like tongue that undulates to draw you and/or your pokemon within its endless gut.

30 reach floors 2-4 of the lesser megalo tower. these floors are pitch-black containing extremely violent and maddened megalopolans hiding among the debris. moving to a higher floor will require repair of the elevator in the future.

31 in lesser megalo tower or anywhere else in the city, encounter documentation, notes, or stories describing or illustrating how ultra beasts were smaller beings many centuries ago.

32 find and wear megalopolan recon squad uniforms and helmets to help bypass obstacles, fellow megalopolans and more.

PROMPTS EXCLUSIVE TO THE 4TH EXPEDITION & ONWARD

33 repair the elevator or find some way to get to floors 5-10. in these floors, encounter various rooms and corridors with flickering lights, laboratories, and ultra beast egg nurseries guarded by mad megalopolans.

34 encounter documents or depictions of necrozma traveling around ultra space, granting its light to various planets, civilizations, before coming to megalopolis.

35 encounter machines that seem to harvest light and energy from mechanical and biological sources; curiously, they look like "shiny machines" in hoenn that can help change a pokemon into their shiny palette.

36 encounter ultra wormholes that open up violently and randomly near you. they may bring other ultra beasts, inanimate materials, structures, or machines, or anything else within reasonable. they may also act as dangerous obstacles like black holes that attempt to suck you into their portals before closing. traveling into them would mean certain death— or at least, never being able to return.

PROMPTS EXCLUSIVE TO THE 5TH EXPEDITION & ONWARD

37 access floors 11-20. there, discover more hostile megalopolans and/or smaller ultra beasts. there are also rooms that feature defunct z-crystals in machines. presumably, they were used to help create artificial light and energy. lastly, there is a note that reads in megalopolan script: "ultra megalopolis has also fallen. there is no hope for us now. we are ruined."

38 explore an underground settlement beneath the city, found within its sewers/basements/crawl spaces, etc. friendly megalopolans exist there who will remain as neutral parties to the league or to team rocket trainers. within the settlement, there is an alarm system that is activated when ultra wormholes open or when a large ultra beast or threat (dynamax sized guzzlords, solgaleos/lunalas, necrozma, other legendaries or mythicals, etc.) is nearby.

39 encounter a SHINY TAPU BULU that is either hostile to you during a rampage (for it is frustrated it can not grow vegetation here) or a temporary ally. it rings its bell to warn those who are nearby of its presence.

40 encounter tampered z-crystals that are still active. using these z-crystals by crushing them will allow a chosen pokemon to temporarily assume a state similar to TOTEM POKEMON.

PROMPTS EXCLUSIVE TO THE 6TH EXPEDITION & ONWARD

41 encounter tampered z-crystals that have been fitted into generators or machines to generate light. this light does not last long, but shines brightly in sudden bursts. lesser megalo tower occasionally emits light due to this z-crystal technology.

42 access the top of lesser megalo tower. there are several light generators here that can be powered on by tampered z-crystals or z-moves.

43 a SHARD OF NECROZMA, a smaller non-sentient form of the creature, will arrive at the top of lesser megalo tower. it is either attracted by bursts of light from the generators, or waits for the light to come on. the SHARD OF NECROZMA seemingly comes to retrieve light to return to its original self; furthermore, the turned megalopolan denizens of this city also seem to offer it light/z-crystals to placate it. encounter it, flee from it, or fight the shard before it departs.

44 jump off lesser megalo tower.

END OF PROMPTS

EXPEDITION TREASURES

TREASURES

BELOW ARE TREASURES that can be found in the location you are venturing into. Feel free to use these items to spice up your adventures.

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LEAGUE TREASURES

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ROCKET TREASURES

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INSTRUCTIONS

RULES

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES. A more comprehensive list of rules will be published in each event thread. These rules are also subject to change.[break][break][break]

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• Your character can only be in ONE EXPEDITION THREAD at a time.
• You may participate with all of your characters; however, be aware of your ability to post.
• If a thread partner has not posted in awhile, please skip them in this event. Momentum is important for engagement.
• If a thread begins to stagnate and show signs of stalling, please let shiv know immediately.
• Since these threads may feature combat, please be reasonable with your battling. Discuss with your group if you'd like one move per post, how many Pokemon are allowed to be brought, etc.
• Please be trusting and open to communicating with all of your thread partners.
• Please INCLUDE WHICH PROMPTS you are using in your expedition thread.
• Please have at least FIVE POSTS PER CHARACTER in your expedition thread.
• Wilds threads must have at least TWO CHARACTERS.
• Please indicate in MODERATION REQUESTS how many times the participating characters have completed a Wilds thread and how many times they've been to a particular area.
• After signing up in a location's respective thread, please create your thread in the respective area.

SIGNING UP

SIGN-UP CODE

BEFORE CREATING AN EXPEDITION THREAD, fill out the template below, or use your own. Just ensure that you identify who is a part of your expedition team and how many times you've been on an expedition to this location.[break][break]

[blockquote][h1]EXPEDITION TEAM[/h1]
[h2]FAREWELL, MY FREE ADVENTURERS![/h2]
[b]CHARACTERS:[/b] @tag (at least two)
[b]EXPEDITION #:[/b] first time, second time, third time, etc.
[b]SELECTED PROMPT #s:[/b] 01, 04, 11, etc.
[b]NOTES:[/b] e.g. bringing sygna suit, mega evolution, etc.[/blockquote]