PURCHASING & REDEEMING

welcome to the poké mart!

(kasib & egg move tutor are coming from his PC stash!)
1x kasib berry (00 PD) on Kyouya the Braviary to give him a seventh move slot!
1x egg move tutor (00 PD) to teach Kyouya the Braviary Roost!

1x passho berry (350 PD) to replace the harvested passho berry!
2x salac berry (50 * 2 = 100 PD) to replace the harvested salac berries!

HARVESTING & REPLANTING

be sure to visit the pretty petal flower shop near rustboro!

1x passho berry
2x salac berry

TOTAL

do come again!

450 PD

GOODBYE GALAR SIGN-UPS

RAID: RUSTED SWORD

CHARACTER: Alexei Ivanov[break]
PKMN TEAM (6 MAX): see below.[break]
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?: “honestly a loaded question if I ever encountered it. lately, though, the answers to that have changed… one of the things I absolutely would not want to come true is to wake up in a world without Guillermo Marceliño. that would be even worse than my own fear of bleeding to death.”

time for someone (oops) to get into trouble :dorime:
Cillian Quinn

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APRIL 2023 CANON ACTIVITY CHECK

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• player/ooc name: ven
• character tags: Alexei Ivanov (Laurence Anderson has been listed in a separate post)

4 ic posts for canon characters:

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• ultra crater: agel (april 5)
• no fear when i’m with you (april 11)
• silph cup 2023 at fortree gym (april 19)
• halls of origin (april 25)

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

• 1. FORTREE GYM LEADER: BUSINESS AS USUAL[break]
  Keeping up with the stream of challengers that come by the Fortree Gym, he’s already considered placing future requests for non-traditional challenges on-hold, in order to allow more challengers to come by and get his badge. Some of the challenges that he’s recently completed are:[break][break]
  
  
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  • believe it or not, i’m walking on air (with Isaac Merlo)
  • sky high (with Amor Rose)

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  While here are the other challenges that are progressing or close to wrapping:[break][break]
  
  

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  • homing pigeon (with lam logan)
  • baby battle (with CIAN MAHER)
  • laying low (with aaron faust)

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  The queue of challengers has to keep moving, after all! (Michael Navidson has expressed intent on challenging the gym, we’re ironing out finer details via DM and this will be going up soon!)
  

• 2. SLICE OF LIFE & ‘KAGUYA’[break]
  Of course, outside of gym battles he’s settled into a tried and true pattern of pre marital bliss with Guillermo Marceliño, and honestly if they’re not Fortree’s ‘married gay dads’ at this point then honestly what are they?! Shenanigans abound, including but not limited to:[break][break]
  
  
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  • magic off this feeling
  • bright in the right light
  • how the turn tables
  • saint slumber

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  (slice of life thread pacing is due to both our RL work demanding our full attention, however we do love our threads and we take our time with the silly gay dads!)[break][break]
  
  And then, on the other side of things, they’ve already gone into the Ultra Crater two separate times now, however the fact of the matter is that the closer he gets to actually obtaining ‘Kaguya’ (Celesteela) the more dangerous things will become as a whole.[break][break]
  
  For one thing—in their second expedition, the merry band of travelers (him, Memo and Elinor Anderson) rescue a ‘child’ (Lasciel Elis) who they have no idea ended up inside the strange realm in the first place. Another fact of the matter is that they discover a graveyard of dead ultra beasts, which steels Guillermo Marceliño’s resolve in general not to get involved with them in any way, shape or form—but of course what the Birddad™ wants, the Birddad™ will get.[break][break]
  
  Even if it means walking into a trap that would have him relive some of his worst nightmares come to life.[break][break]
  
  Back to the lighter side of things, him and Josh Devlin are hosting the Silph cup 2023 at the Fortree Gym, where surprisingly there are not as many speed obstacles as the self-proclaimed ‘Master of Faster’ would’ve charged ahead on. Instead, the new course is much more technical and involves precision and navigational skills put to the test.[break][break]
  
  There’s also a planned, plotted encounter with Remiel Calcifet regarding certain things the Galarian Ambassador. As to what it is? That’s a surprise, and will be coming in the next few days!
  

• 3. ‘NEVER FORGET 17.5.21’[break]
  (more like, when worst nightmares and suppressed trauma all come to life in a single month, a.k.a. not everything is as it seems)[break][break]
  
  surprise: you’re dead. well, not really dead yet, but you know how it is. you’ve been living in comfort for so long it’s like you’ve already forgotten how it felt like to slip into the abyss.[break][break]
  
  (and no, the abyss from cyberspace hell doesn’t count because you can’t remember it.)[break][break]
  
  there comes one month of the year, where your paranoia goes from near-zero to off the charts, all because of the deep-seated trauma, the suppressed memories, all come flooding out in full force. your insomnia, which you thought you’d already defeated while sleeping in the arms of your world (Guillermo Marceliño), suddenly makes an ugly return.[break][break]
  
  ‘never forget 17.5.21’, the words rise unbidden. two years to the day you almost lost your life right where you live, because back then you were so naïve, so foolish, to believe that you were talking to Archie. but no. it wasn’t him. it wasn’t him at all, you learned that fateful evening.[break][break]
  
  one year ago you woke up screaming, you called for help, you revealed a little bit of what bothered you. you found refuge in the world, his world, and the world moved forward. stability, peace and quiet—despite what happened in cyberspace, you still went forward with everything. lived your life.[break][break]
  
  tonight though, with Cillian Quinn, you get a grim reminder that this month, May, is not that at all happy.[break][break]
  
  The timing of this couldn’t have come at a more opportune moment. With May literally just around the corner, this is the one month of the year that poor Alexei unravels like a spool of yarn. Eleven out of twelve months of the year he’s safe.[break][break]
  
  Come May, though, it’s all downhill from there. Putting it down to his fear of blood, of dying, of death, all the repressed negativity that he keeps at bay for the entire year all comes crashing out on this one month. As someone with a lifelong medical condition that actively puts him in danger of bleeding to death, well, it’s easy to see why the world literally recedes away the moment he gets physically injured.[break][break]
  
  May 2022 would’ve been a repeat of 2021 had it not been for a certain someone (who at the time, they weren’t together yet) coming over and helping him get through the worst of it all. Now that May 2023 is here, though? With Team Rocket actively running around?[break][break]
  
  This makes him a perfect target, a macabre reminder that he’s on borrowed time.

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• ALEX & TORNADUS[break]
  Not an avatar, but he does have a ‘smaller’ version of the Wandering Stormbringer himself (as evidenced at their last encounter in the skies above Lilycove). Said smaller version of the ‘weather god’ (as Guillermo Marceliño calls him) has been sighted at the Littleroot battlegrounds during Meteno, however has been mostly kept out of the ‘public’ eye since then, with some notable exceptions.[break][break]
  
  (I know that he’s not an avatar yet? maybe? but Alex practically has a legendary companion upon themselves, and has a Z-move to boot because emergency contingency reasons that went down during the two times he’d made a trip to the Ultra Crater right in Fortree.)

• any notes/comments: compared to Lars who literally went into the underbelly of the beast during Postdormitum, things have been quieter on the Fortree home front—but that’s not to say that he’s been too quiet. there are gym challenges on-going and being wrapped as well, to keep the line moving. also, otome burnout hit maybe a little harder than expected… many apologies![break][break]
  
  with the upcoming ‘goodbye galar’ raid, though, things would definitely change and hopefully swing in his favor—he still has yet to unlock Therian forme for the djinni who travels with him (seeing as during the goodbye galar event, Lars would be busy elsewhere trying to bust his cousin out from Team Rocket’s greasy cluthces).[break][break]
  
  p.s.: I’m currently in the middle of moving physical work places (our company’s office is relocating to another city) so things on my end will be hella busy until the end of this week, considering as we’ve got to move literally everything over (which includes locker spaces, badge access, commute routes, to name a few).

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