Shoshopu

I wouldn't want to to be the regular, but it could happen! Especially in the case of, say, arcanists or maybe people who use mammets? If you don't mind emoting for two!

Shopu & Totowai present Spellguard, a new small-team and magic-based competition! Test your teamwork and tactical skills in contests of magical strategy! You and a teammate must protect your team's shield generator, which protects you from the opposing team's spells. Your team's goal is to deactivate the opposing team's generator. The team which goes undefeated for the entire night will be rewarded a modest gil prize and bragging rights as the finest Spellguardians! All are invited to spectate, and all mages are invited to compete! We only ask that spectators do just that, and not interfere with the event! IC RULES: **Updated 7/23/2016** No killing. Spells with the intent to maim or kill your opponent will not be tolerated. This rule is enforced for the duration of the event. No forbidden magic. While we encourage a wide variety of magic and aetheric manipulation, and don't mind if you bring experimental elements to the competition, we desire to keep the magic safe for the users, competitors and spectators. Magic such as Void Magic and Black Magic, for instance, can endanger yourself and others around you. We shall enforce this rule for the duration of the event. Please have a word with Spellguard staff in advance if you are unsure whether your particular school of magic is permitted. --- The Familiar Clause: If you are an arcanist, mammeteer or use other, multiple magical or magic-wielding familiars, we ask that you choose one (1) familiar for each round. Be considerate and respectful to eachother! This includes: fellow competitors, fellow spectators, equipment, and event staff. Event staff are to be respected and treated as a temporary form of authority by spectators and combatants in regards to Spellguard. In the event that combatants themselves become injured during the round, you are required to accept healing from Spellguard staff in order to proceed to the next round. We reserve the right to remove violators from the premises for the duration of the event. Time: Every other Friday at 10 pm EST (Time conversion) Next tournament: May 11 Location: Seagaze Markets at the Mist, 6th Ward Mechanics and OOC Spellguard is a new RP event on Balmung that aims to take a tried and true formula and offer it from a new angle: 2v2! A team of two has a "node" that defends the team from their opponent's spells. While the node protects anyone within its shield, it can't protect itself! These defense nodes can take three hits before shutting off, and once that happens, the match is over. While the mechanics will still be similar to the /random vs /random you know from events such as the Grindstone and the Runestone, from an IC aspect this will open up opportunities for a lot of fun character interactions! To participate, you and your teammate should arrive between 9:30PM and 10PM at Seagaze Markets and line up in the half-circle of Seagaze Markets. Once it's showtime we'll /yell for everyone to get in line, go over the rules, and will pair off teams with an opposing team. Matches are one-off competitions, with the winning team moving forward and fighting someone else in the next round. This process repeats until only one team is left undefeated! Combat is thus: Both teams will use the /random command for their rolls. Both teams will choose one person to roll initiative. The highest roll wins and will attack first. Each team will choose who is attacking and who is defending. While one person can do both, we encourage teams to divide the roles so everyone gets to RP. The attacking player writes their attack in a custom emote using /em. After posting, they roll with /random. The defending player rolls to defend. If the defender rolls higher than the attack, they have successfully avoided their node taking damage. A lower roll means your node takes a hit. In the event of a tie, both parties reroll. After determining the result, the defender posts their /emote in response. The defending team's attacker now rolls a counterattack with /random, which the other team's defender will attempt to defend against. This process continues until one team has failed to defend against three attacks. IC, the node protects the team players itself from spells, but it is vulnerable to spells itself. The team can either defend it by knocking it out of a spell's path or defending it with an additional magical shield, or however your character could conceive of protecting it!

actually this was later found to be wrong because helping hand does not stack

he's gonna wreck it

holy shit I just remembered I have the bootleg Deoxys This one was actually bought from a different store than all the tiny ones I've been posting and if you think that's funny, wait until you see the bootleg of that Deoxys that was also at that store (I didn't buy it)

I'm pretty sure that's what he is. The sculpt is actually surprisingly detailed and I want to repaint him sometime. You think nail polish remover/acetone would strip the original paint off?

here is a family picture of all my children

Rampardos is unfortunately hampered by its terrible speed and defenses. It works best as a suicide lead (with a focus sash) or as a revenge killer against a wall or something slower than itself.

I love bootleg tepiplusachu Fyril started calling it "Topeg" (or "Topag"?) so that's what we've been calling it. Tepiplusachu is so great though

two things: 1) I got a custom-made thing of my favorite Pokemon Fyrilsunn got this for me as a late Christmas present.... http://i.imgur.com/LL7cOvF.png[/img] 2) there's a chain of stores in east TN called CM Games and the bigger ones have these buckets of really cheap bootleg Pokemon toys and I actually have a bunch, they're hilarious and I need to post pictures of them, but today I found this one Most of the bootleg toys you can tell what Pokemon they're supposed to be, but honestly?? I Have no idea with this one. Tepig maybe? But he's my new favorite in my bootleg collection.

For Shoshopu ... and for my roegadyn son Awyrbyrt too let's be real

I'm pretty sure mega-Swampert is definitively the best Rain team sweeper, and it's always been one of the better fully-evolved starters not named Blaziken. It's got my vote.

Shoshopu's entire family worships Oschon (although since the patron diety thing seems to be based on birthdays??? Shoshopu and her father are the only ones actually born under Oschon, which is a point of pride if you ask them) because, well, they're wanderers too. They're nomads that ride around on giant adamantoises and live off the land. Although most of them (except for the oldest brother and the parents) have moved on to other things in life, they still revere him. Shoshopu just sees it as wandering beyond Thanalan. Awyrbyrt was born under Menphina but he's not really religious. I mean, he kind of is? But not for the Twelve. He reveres the Twelveswood and the Elementals more than anything. Dyrstswys was also born under Menphina, and although I don't imagine her as being a particularly devout person myself, it definitely reflects on her relationships and how she treats others. My other alts are so rarely played (Dyrst included, to be real) as to not be of interest...

While they are re-releasing Red and Blue for the Virual Console, that's for the 20th anniversary of Pokemon Red and Green and not what's currently being discussed What people in this thread are talking about, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, are remakes of the GBA games Ruby and Sapphire I confess, I am not a pokemon master and the topic diversion was unintentional. :roll: And I feel kinda bad if my reaction was knee-jerk. xP I too am hype for Pokemon GO and SO SHOULD ALL OF YOU BE /stares at the rest of thread

While they are re-releasing Red and Blue for the Virual Console, that's for the 20th anniversary of Pokemon Red and Green and not what's currently being discussed What people in this thread are talking about, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, are remakes of the GBA games Ruby and Sapphire and they're freaking fantastic remakes, so!! (sorry, gen 3 is my favorite and I can get defensive of it; playing emulators of old games won't accomplish what Aaron is looking for, in any case, although that's definitely a valid option in addition) I would definitely recommend getting them if you want to catch up to everything that's happened. You'll get access to all the Pokemon you listed, Aaron, as well as all of the current mega-evolutions. If you weren't into the original Ruby and Sapphire, Pokemon X or Y were also great games, although you won't have all the mega-evolutions in those games, the ones that were introduced in ORAS (like Mega Altaria, Mega Audino... etc). However I assume Pokemon Z is inevitably coming eventually, and that probably will have all the mega-evolutions up to now, if not some new ones, too. But I don't think they've announced when it will be finished Between the beautiful graphics and awesome mega-evolutions and the ability to get all sorts of cool legendaries with Mirage Spots, and the revamped Secret Base system(!!!) I simply can't recommend it enough if you want to get back into Pokemon. It'll tickle your nostalgia bone if you have one and catch you up on all the current mechanics.

I feel these two particularly. It's part of why I'm never just sitting around in the Quicksand and it kinda makes it harder on myself to try and get myself "out there" or whatever -When you've named and developed four older siblings and parents for your characters -And their pets/mounts -And try to RP them -Every time you try to make a joke character they turn into serious/kinda depressing characters the minute you start considering a backstory

THE HAAAATS OH MY GOD I love the earrings too, but Shopu isn't usually one for earrings. Still! I'm gonna have to grab this stuff on all of my characters! +_+ edit: waitaminnit WHY ARE HATS GENDERED

Seitsuda's is finished! ;w;

GRABBIN SEITSUDA Gosh he's cute references

Done with Steel Wolf's :'D I stuck her in a spoiler tag to be safe hhhhhh

OK I'M CLAIMING LYNGBAKR RIGHT THE HECK NOW edit: Dammit Steel, now I gotta draw two roegadyn! But that's fine |D I know you said armor was optional but is no clothing too relaxed? (I hope bare shoulders aren't nsfw here sorry) references again

/screams because this thread moves so fast Too May Refs (too many refs)

Do you want anything to start with? I was fortunate enough to get a 6iv feebas through breeding, and I kinda started using him as stock for others. Branched out into his two egg groups, then from those kids into others. I'd love to get a 6iv in each egg group, but it comes down to gambling. I could help with that process! With Power-Items and the Destiny Knot, anything is possible!

I enjoyed breeding 5IV things, naming them, and wonder trading them off. I'm one of those tools that believes heavily in nicknames, and I tend to collect nicknamed pokemon that come to me in trade, or I'll seek them out on the GTS. I wish I found enough with good stats that I would raise and use. I wish the trading factor were a bit stronger in this game. As it is, I feel like you kinda trade to get something, then you go and breed from it and make it your own. What I've done sometimes is breed from a nicknamed pokemon I got in a trade, but pass on the same nickname to all of its kids, and hang onto the parent's original nature. I have a few kids from doing that. The VGC community, when I was more active in it, often bred battle-ready Pokemon and traded them around to eachother. I'd trade those and the extras for people who needed a shot of stats in their own breeding stock. I feel trading should be supported more in the ingame mechanics some way, though. Another thing... For a while there was a program that actually let you check the stats of eggs, even the hidden ones like the SIV and the PID, and people would use it to see the ID of their eggs and find people whose games had a matching SIV so they could hatch their eggs for eachother and they'd hatch shiny, then they'd trade them back. People would make lists of all their extra eggs and their eggs' SIDs and make the lists public, and they could be claimed by peoples whose game's ID matched. That was really cool! Unfortunately the same technology could be used to read your opponents' teams in online battles so the loophole was patched out after a couple weeks.

I don't get into competitive games anymore, usually because of meta. When I have to pick certain good characters over certain bad characters, I lose interest. Hence, I just kinda breed pokemon just to pop out things with good stats, but then they go sit in the box. I like to follow the meta and battle occasionally, but I do find breeding to be a lot more fun. I'd often breed stuff for friends and trade away the extra, slightly imperfect ones. I have some very special shiny babies... uwu I'm kinda the same way in MTG. I like the brewing and building process a lot more than playing, usually, but I'll play a little bit to get the satisfaction of my build being successful. The most fun I had in a semi-competitive environment was a Pokemon league hosted on tumblr in which I was a normal type gym leader, and I enforced VGC-esque rules in my gym- Item Clause (each Pokemon has to be holding something different) and double battles. I named all my Pokemon after A Song of Ice and Fire characters. I actually rarely used my mega Kangaskhan, my Braviary was my MVP. Unfortunately that league went inactive after a season or two. I really miss it!