Non-HPU: Pokémon: Explorers of the Veil

Post by **CyberDragon** » Wed Apr 24, 2019 11:16 am

At least one person is already working on their post, so I think I will keep things as they are.

Champion Wallace · Post by **Champion Wallace** » Wed Apr 24, 2019 12:38 pm

How can you tell if someone is in the process of writing a post?

Post by **CyberDragon** » Wed Apr 24, 2019 12:50 pm

They PMed me with a nearly complete and rather detailed post to get my opinion on it.

Legotron123 · Post by **Legotron123** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 12:40 pm

The day I’ve feared has finally come. The commanding officers have moved me to the front lines, a twelve to eight concessions shift on the opening night of Avengers Endgame. Our scouts have reported the stampede size to be over 2000, and growing by the hour. If you do not hear from me again by tomorrow evening, it means I have perished. In the event of my untimely demise, I leave my characters here to Gameb18oy, and my characters in Beacon to Welsh. You all have been the finest group of role players I’ve ever served with, and I bid you all ado.

But seriously, I have a very busy night at work, so I’m not going to be able to post until tomorrow at least.

Deske · Post by **Deske** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 2:49 pm

Man, I'm glad I don't work customer service anymore. Gig was garbage. Godspeed.

Leafolawl · Post by **Leafolawl** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 5:47 pm

I wish you luck. May the crowds be kind to you.

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:47 pm

try working tech support between september and january.
the rest of the year is a cakewalk, but those five months... eurgh...

furrygamer793 · Post by **furrygamer793** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 12:10 am

Hello, I've decided to rejoin the RP, with a different character of course.

character sheet wrote:Name: Cabbage
Color: #00BF40
Type: Main
Species: Skitty, Just a simple Skitty, what did you expect, a shiny?
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Appearance: She looks like any other Skitty
Personality: Naive, She is kind when unprovoked, but won't resort to tackling other Pokémon if they get too annoying. She likes chasing her tail and eating. she doesn't like it when it's much below freezing as she can't play around as much
Inherited moves: Zen Headbutt
Ability: Normalize, it turns the Pokémon's moves into normal type moves
Dynamic stats:
Level: 27
Hp: 72
Attack: 37
Defense: 37
Special attack: 32
Special defense: 28
Speed: 44
Static stats:
Perception: 7
Charisma: 3
Intelligance: 6
Luck: 8

Leafolawl · Post by **Leafolawl** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 2:24 am

The problem there is the dynamic stats can't be calculated without nature.

You also might want to consider going through the exercise I suggested before with writing your character talking about what they like and don't like and the reasons behind it, then paraphrasing it—removing some of the why—in the personality field. It can either let you know what nature to pick, or give us a better idea of the character to be able to give suggestions. Right now I don't have any good suggestions. I tried and got a spectrum.

I'd also suggest not going with a color you have to put spoiler tags behind just to be able to read it without highlighting. It can be visually jarring for others and monotonous for you to have to put in all the time. You could use #8080FF maybe?

Bold and italics are also used to indicate emphasis, and italics on its own can be used to indicate thought. It might be confusing if you just use them.

furrygamer793 · Post by **furrygamer793** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 6:32 pm

Leafolawl wrote:The problem there is the dynamic stats can't be calculated without nature.

You also might want to consider going through the exercise I suggested before with writing your character talking about what they like and don't like and the reasons behind it, then paraphrasing it—removing some of the why—in the personality field. It can either let you know what nature to pick, or give us a better idea of the character to be able to give suggestions. Right now I don't have any good suggestions. I tried and got a spectrum.

I'd also suggest not going with a color you have to put spoiler tags behind just to be able to read it without highlighting. It can be visually jarring for others and monotonous for you to have to put in all the time. You could use #8080FF maybe?

Bold and italics are also used to indicate emphasis, and italics on its own can be used to indicate thought. It might be confusing if you just use them.

well, I fixed it...
I probably forgot something, though

Leafolawl · Post by **Leafolawl** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:21 pm

Looks like you missed running it though the calculator.

Level: 27
Health: 71
Attack: 37
Defense: 37
Sp. Attack: 32
Sp. Defence: 28
Speed: 44

This is what I got by running Skitty with the Naive nature, with no EVs through the calculator.

Can we get a third party check?

furrygamer793 · Post by **furrygamer793** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:28 pm

No, I just don't know what I'm doing

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:36 pm

Just out of curiosity, what's the 6th orb in scallop's collection?
and how likely is he to notice 100-200 extras of it?

asking for... um... lats say, future shenanigans.

Gameb18oy · Post by **Gameb18oy** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:49 pm

Buster wrote:Just out of curiosity, what's the 6th orb in scallop's collection?
and how likely is he to notice 100-200 extras of it?

asking for... um... lats say, future shenanigans.

I never mentioned a number, but I think a life orb be funny as a precaution against that kinda behavior

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:05 pm

ȺᴎД ҰѺՄ ₲ᴇ† Ɐᴨ ₒᴙᴃ●●● ȺᴎД ҰѺՄ ₲ᴇ† Ɐᴨ ₒᴙᴃ●●● ȺᴎД ҰѺՄ ₲ᴇ† Ɐᴨ ₒᴙᴃ●●● ȺᴎД ҰѺՄ ₲ᴇ† Ɐᴨ ₒᴙᴃ●●●

Post by **CyberDragon** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:12 pm

Buster wrote:ȺᴎД ҰѺՄ ₲ᴇ† Ɐᴨ ₒᴙᴃ●●● ȺᴎД ҰѺՄ ₲ᴇ† Ɐᴨ ₒᴙᴃ●●● ȺᴎД ҰѺՄ ₲ᴇ† Ɐᴨ ₒᴙᴃ●●● ȺᴎД ҰѺՄ ₲ᴇ† Ɐᴨ ₒᴙᴃ●●●

Translation: Oprah reference.

Also I just realized, isn't missingno related to the item multiplication glitch?

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:29 pm

i did not know that was the origin of that quote, ive just seen it pop up alot elsewhere. now i feel kinda dirty... *shudder*

also yup, having a misingno in your party leads to a code error setting inventory slot 6 to "-1". except it's an unsigned integer so that rolls over to max value, and since the counter only shows 99 of the 255 items in that slot, it looks like they're infinite.
and when you take into account that the error is easy to accidentally trigger again as long as the glitched mon is present, by accessing any one of a few dozen different things including the PC and your pokedex, setting it back to 255, it may as well be.

EDIT:
Ignore that. while looking up what the save glitch is i found out i was remembering that wrong. it's 127, not 255, and the trigger is encountering a missingno, not performing actions while one is in your team. performing certain actions while a missingno is in your team is how you break the level cap, not duplicate items. two different glitches.

Post by **CyberDragon** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:48 pm

My sister and I used the save glitch. Fun fact, the save glitch appears again in Generation 3 I believe at the Battle Frontier in Emerald. I used to use it to clone master balls.

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Sat May 04, 2019 9:30 pm

good times.

EDIT:
*Pokes whoever's next with a stick*
I'm waiting on CD, my next post planned is for the morning.

Post by **CyberDragon** » Sat May 04, 2019 10:08 pm

I'm hoping more people will post. Only about half of our players have posted in response to this. I know Gameb18oy is busy, and I know Wallace wasn't really enthusiastic about this so he might not be posting.

If nobody else posts by tomorrow evening, I'll move things along.

Legotron123 · Post by **Legotron123** » Sat May 04, 2019 10:25 pm

I completely forgot I hadn’t already posted. I’ll start working on it now.

Leafolawl · Post by **Leafolawl** » Sat May 04, 2019 11:28 pm

Having already poked Gameb18oy, I can say he's not keen on doing too much with it—which is why Einar left Scallop in the bedroom.

Post by **CyberDragon** » Sat May 04, 2019 11:32 pm

Right then. I'll see if I can get something up tomorrow.

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Fri May 17, 2019 10:31 pm

cd who are you still waiting for?

Post by **CyberDragon** » Fri May 17, 2019 10:34 pm

Gameb18oy, but I can move without him tomorrow if he hasn't posted by then.

Leafolawl · Post by **Leafolawl** » Sat May 18, 2019 7:35 am

He said he'd be gone for a vacation to somewhere without internet, and I'm pretty sure he won't be back for a few more days.

Post by **CyberDragon** » Sat May 18, 2019 10:31 am

Right, forgot about that. I'll write up the next update today.

22xander · Post by **22xander** » Thu May 23, 2019 11:56 am

Idk If this is open for people to join, but I decided to try because frankly I just want to make more chareters XD

Character Name: Kabus

Color: Royal Yellow (FADA5E)

Type: PC

Species: Mimikyu

Age: ??

RP: Pokemon

Level: 15

Nature: Timid

Appearance: Kabus is a basic lookng Mimikyu, but no one can really tell that from under their mask. They wear a slightly different style of costume, that which looks somewhat like a sylveon, and try to excentuate fairy aspects.

Personality: Cutsie. While Kabus is a ghost, they try to be as cute as posible at all times, just wanting to be recognised as cute. They have trouble because of their status, and try to simply act cute at all times. When they get angry, well, they drop the fisade for a second and are far more ready to attack.

Other notes: Kabus' father was a Haunter, making them more ghost than fairy, which makes them dislike that liniage all the more.

Ability: Disguise: allows the bearer to avoid damage for one attack, but busts their discuise up in the prosess

Special Moves:
Nightmare

Dynamic stats
HP: 46
Attack: 32
Defense: 33
Special Attack: 24
Special Defense: 41
Speed: 41

Static stats (24 points):
Perception: 4
Charisma: 8
Intelligence: 5
Luck: 7

Champion Wallace · Post by **Champion Wallace** » Thu May 23, 2019 4:14 pm

Yay, a non-Dark type (I kid, people, I kid; you’re a good crowd).
I don't think we're at capacity for players yet, though you may have to wait a bit to be introduced since it's the middle of the night in-character right now. You should probably indicate somewhere in your sheet that Kabus is level 15 and Timid nature. Why is the age "??"? Are you saying as a ghost they don't age, or you haven't decided on an age yet? Is the disguise good enough to be mistaken for a real Sylveon, or is it about as convincing as the normal Pikachu disguise.

Also, Legotron123. *Poke* I think people are waiting on you.

22xander · Post by **22xander** » Thu May 23, 2019 4:25 pm

Champion Wallace wrote:Yay, a non-Dark type (I kid, people, I kid; you’re a good crowd).
I don't think we're at capacity for players yet, though you may have to wait a bit to be introduced since it's the middle of the night in-character right now. You should probably indicate somewhere in your sheet that Kabus is level 15 and Timid nature. Why is the age "??"? Are you saying as a ghost they don't age, or you haven't decided on an age yet? Is the disguise good enough to be mistaken for a real Sylveon, or is it about as convincing as the normal Pikachu disguise.

Also, Legotron123. *Poke* I think people are waiting on you.

Somehow I thought I had indicated those things, and yeah... idk what age to put since ghosts don't age XD

Leafolawl · Post by **Leafolawl** » Fri May 24, 2019 4:13 am

They might not get old, no. On the other end, they can never exactly be young, either. However, that part seems to be shared by non-ghost pokemon, hatching fully developed and only needing time to learn and mature emotionally.

Assuming all but some abysmal fraction of ghost pokemon don't remember being alive(which also assumes they're not just creatures that have ghost-like qualities as well as that they're not in their first lives), it can easily be argued they need time to mature mentally and emotionally as well.

With these considerations, "??" age could mean a few different things.

If it was a thought of "Ghost pokemon don't need to count age", I would argue otherwise, clearly.

Legotron123 · Post by **Legotron123** » Fri May 24, 2019 4:42 pm

I’m not sure if it’s good to say something you wrote made you laugh, but I love the line “What the snick-snack didily-dack is that?”

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Wed May 29, 2019 5:33 am

is it bad that i'm kinda hoping the bee breaks out the old 'routine training exercise' line that nobody EVER believes?

Leafolawl · Post by **Leafolawl** » Wed May 29, 2019 5:38 am

It's actually a thing I've heard about for comedians, Lego. If you don't laugh at it when you write it, it's not funny.

Kabus' sheet hasn't been updated to clarify anything Wallace pointed out, or asked about. Something up, Xander?

In some ways, Buster? Yes. Not a lot of exercises translate well between beped and quadruped body types.

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Wed May 29, 2019 10:34 am

no i mean making a paper thin claim that the thing you're not supposed to worry about is a training exercise, in an attempt to get you to ignore it.

Post by **CyberDragon** » Wed May 29, 2019 10:52 am

Well... technically the training exercise excuse wouldn't be inaccurate. Hagane was training after all.

22xander · Post by **22xander** » Thu May 30, 2019 7:50 am

I finaly remembered to fix my sheet... Sorry that took me so long.

furrygamer793 · Post by **furrygamer793** » Sat Jun 01, 2019 6:54 pm

*Skewers the GM and Co-GM's with a spork* I've been waiting for my character to get GM approval/disapproval. So is my character good, or not?

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Sat Jun 01, 2019 9:12 pm

uh... said GM is indisposed at the moment. you're probably going to be waiting atleast another week.

Post by **CyberDragon** » Sun Jun 02, 2019 12:09 am

Hawk, since Gameb18oy is out for a while, Lego and I will be taking a look at new characters In his place. However, it's past midnight right now, so we will have to take a look tomorrow.