Plotting Meme: October

[these_balls]

PLOT DISCUSSION

TRAINER TIPS:
→ This is for general, game-wide or location-wide plots, larger-scale player plots, and general plotting ideas. This is not a CR meme.
→ The idea of this post is to help generate discussion, inspire, or plot out overall plots, as well as bounce ideas off of your fellow players and moderators. We will also be letting everyone know the overall ideas of what we'll have coming up, and you can give us input on those as well!
→ Please play nice while discussing things! Remember, it's okay to disagree, but be polite!

MOD PLOTS:
→ A special swarm will begin on the 23rd of October and last until the 28th. More information will be given out soon!
→ The mods are holding a tournament in November. The timeline is currently unknown (it depends on how many participants we have) but we anticipate it going for a good chunk of November!

Comments

Nerds of Route, unite! (But non-nerds are welcome, too)

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Reid is determined to figure out the rules behind Route and to get a leg up on criminals. This means that he has a lot of research going on at once; at the moment, the main projects are his survey (speaking of, sorry I haven't kept up with tags on it, but I've been reading all the replies and I'm making a write up of Reid's notes), Ghost- and Psychic-type Pokemon and how their powers can be defended from, and possibly finding a way to create the equipment he needs to get into the nitty-gritty of Pokemon biolody. (And by that, I mean that he might try dragging in fellow engineers and make a makeshift MRI to help with his Pokemon research.)

What does this mean for everyone else? Well, lots of things! If you're playing a nerdy character or one who just wants to help, Reid would really like some helping hands. So far, a bunch of people are pitching in for the survey stuff, and Reid and Albert are the main guys researching flora/fauna and trying to make useful things out of them. Anyone can offer Reid help, anecdotes about weird goings-on in Johto/Kanto, notes on Pokemon he hasn't encountered yet, or even just lend him a Pokemon he hasn't seen so he can get a good look at them.

Is your character not the nerdy type and more the 'take other people's stuff' type? That works too! So far, Reid hasn't made it a secret that he's doing a lot of research into this world, and seeing as he's pretty thoroughly with the 'good guys', anyone can make the leap of logic to guess that he might try cooking something up to put a wrench in Team Rocket. Therefore, I'm totally up for a plot that involves him being threatened, attacked, or stolen from to get at his notes or something. Really, it'd be totally IC, since the kid has some weird ability to attract abuse like nothing else.

So if you want a piece of this general player plot or you have suggestions or something, please tell me right here or use a PM. There's no specific schedule or anything big that has to immediately happen, so there's a lot of room for creativity. Go wild!

[enjoymyatelier]

did you say

neeeeeerds

Kayneth has been sort of trying to get some kind of initiative together for this, so he'd definitely be interested in this... right now he's mostly dicking around in the Ruins of Alph and checking out Unown and shit, so that could probably come up...!

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Reid has stumbled around the Ruins a little, but since he's only one person, he's been forced to prioritize his other projects over checking it out too thoroughly. Reid would be glad to put Kayneth's notes on the Ruins together with his more general notes about the world and trends. If it's possible, Reid might set up a document on the network that he and the people who're helping can access and edit together.

[enjoymyatelier]

Yeah, that could work out pretty well. He'll be looking into other stuff, of course, but this has been his big project as of late, so!

[eagletalons]

Sticking my nose in here because this is one of Director Beansprout's interests!

Hope's been to the Ruins about two years ago game-time, but his notes are all outdated and such. He'll definitely be making a second visit to update his research when he gets to Violet-- probably the end of the month or early of next, depending on when he can beat Bugsy and how quickly he and Lightning can travel. Or how well Silver and I can map out their path.

If Kayneth and/or Reid are in the area by that time, I'd definitely be open to some shenanigans manly teaming up.

[dreamsofahero]

Sion already has a keen interested in Reid, from what he's seen. The guy's plainly extremely talented and Sion has things he's looking into that could benefit from that kind of talent.

Which is to say, hi we should plot sometime. :)

[leftinbasketforfbi]

What kind of things? I'm intrigued. :3a

[dreamsofahero]

He's trying learn details about the legendary pokemon. Primarily/ostensibly to be able to better prevent/deal with a situation like what happened with the Rocket plot earlier this year, but being prepared to know what to do to get on a legendary's good terms should he ever encounter one again is up there, too.

That, and he also has a plan in the very, very early stages to potentially try to strike back against Team Rocket from a direction no one's really used before, and which will eventually require recruiting people with considerable technical knowledge (hacking, security devices, possibly even modern weapons and especially defending from such, etc) to assist with if it actually goes anywhere.

Obviously there are plenty of uses he could put a profiler with a flawless memory to on either/both of these.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

I can definitely see how Reid could be useful. Reid would be totally up for helping, especially if they were in the same town. You want to talk more when Sion feels comfortable enough with Reid to actually ask for help?

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

Apollo didn't fill out the survey because he can't read and listening to the text reader for something that long annoys him, and he hasn't responded to the various Science! posts because he doesn't get what's going on/they don't sound interesting/he's not a nerd, buuuut he could fit in with this. He can "talk" to Pokémon and ask them things, and he's well on his way to knowing what all the edible and medicinal plants are here, both for humans and Pokémon. Once spring comes he'll be trying to plant various Berries and stuff from the PokéMarts, so he'll be a source of hands-on knowledge about that stuff, including the nightmare of trying to grow the Sitrus Berry he won from the Bug-Catching Contest, which according to the mods is from a warmer climate and will be hard to take care of.

So just leaving this out here even though I have no idea how to get him to talk about this stuff with Reid.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Well, I can definitely see him managing to be worked into the plot. Reid is mainly dealing with the mental and emotional effects of Pokemon/the world that shouldn't happen, whereas Albert's been dealing with the stuff in the physical realm. You should probably talk to Alex about Apollo and Albert somehow talking about the berries, because I think the nerd duo would find that very useful. :3

Reid's pretty set for talking to the Pokemon, though, because he's friends with Fluttershy and has a psychic Pokemon who's happy to translate for him.

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

*nods*

Fluttershy's better at it than him. He has to be near the Pokémon and can't communicate anything too complex; it's just a series of concepts and images. Fluttershy can do it over the Gear and just talk, while he has to use one of his Pokémon as a "translator" of sorts if he wants to do it over the Gear.

Re: Nerds of Route, unite! (But non-nerds are welcome, too)

[worktodo]

> threatened, attacked, or stolen from

Reid.

Reid, are you really eager to see what is going to happen if someone even tries this.

You just want to see Team FBI mobilize, don't you.

Don't you.


ETA: P.S. can we put the Pokemon MRI in the basement of Albert's Kickass Free-Range Justice Farm O' Science.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Reid doesn't. His mun totally does, though. Reid says that Albert should blame the mun.

And yes. Yes, we can. We can put all the other various medical devices Reid builds in the basement too. It will be made of Pokemon and science.

[worktodo]

All the bootleg jury-rigged medical devices.

I picture them sneaking out in the dead of night like college guys rushing a fraternity to appropriate big chunks of helpful technology from Pokemon Lab dumpsters and hauling it back to the Treehouse so they can build it into a NASA-esque control center of science awesome.

*Ambushes you here*

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

*points to the thread above*

I don't know how they'd get talking about it, but Apollo's becoming pretty knowledgeable about the plants here that're edible and medicinal for humans and Pokémon. Plus, once spring comes, he'll be trying to cultivate some Berry plants in a more convenient (for him) location, including the Sitrus Berry he won from the Bug-Catching Contest. If he can get a reasonable production out of them he could be persuaded to give the nerd duo a couple Sitrus Berries for testing, but the mods said that they'll be smaller than normal because it's not the right climate, so it wouldn't be a perfect match. A different hands-on view about the plants and their growing conditions might be useful though, even if Albert's science stuff would go way over his head.

[usedlaserbeam]

That'd be great! Albert's managed to collect a fair number of the berries himself, though I forget which ones in particular, but naturally more samples are never a bad thing.

My only concern would be, like you said, how we'd get Albert and Apollo talking about it, considering Albert's general temperament and his current track record with making people angry about how he behaves toward his Pokemon. So that's something we'd have to find a way to work out! But I'm definitely open to brainstorming to see if we can come up wtih something.

[islandshore]

Riku isn't a super nerd, but he has done a metric ton of research on Pokémon and has a very large selection of species if Reid wanted to examine some of them. One includes a technically extinct Pokémon, but due to Terror's viciousness, he'd be very, very hesitant about lending her unless Reid had something that could stop her in her tracks, like Thunder Wave or Hypnosis.

He's also been in the game since it started, so he has loads of personal experience on odditites like the MISSINGNO. incident.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Riku. You are needed. @.@

But no, seriously, Reid would find his expertise/Pokemon invaluable. Although he might want to leave Terror in her nest for the meantime, because Reid is totally not ready to deal with angry!dinosaur thing. But otherwise, since Reid is a total sweetheart and goes out of his way to treat Pokemon well, any Pokemon loaned to him would be taken care of well and, unless they wanted to be difficult, wouldn't find much reason to complain. He really just wants to watch them in action, ask them some questions via Flora, maybe ask them to help build an FMRI etc.

[islandshore]

Yeah, Riku wouldn't wish Terror on anyone who couldn't handle her. He already has enough trouble with her on his own!

Are there any specific types he'd like to look at? Riku's got at least one from every major type, including a metric ton of steels, dragons, and fires.

[eagletalons]

I think I saw the word nerds

and I went yes plz

UNFORTUNATELY Hope's not a bio guy but he does make extensive notes of stuff he goes through this place. He's also got an archaeology bent so if you want someone with a lot of info on the Ruins of Alph he's your man.

Also. Engineering.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Up above, we're talking about some kind of communal file where researchers could pool their findings. If everyone could throw together their knowledge, something could be done with it.

And yes, Reid might try dragging in Hope for the FMRI thing. Reid remembers the mechanical diagrams he's looked at over the years and he has a PhD in engineering, but he hasn't really tried making a machine like this. He could pull it off on his own, but it would go a hell of a lot faster (and probably a with a hell of a lot less frostbite and electrocution) if he had someone with experience on board.

[eagletalons]

I'm currently thinking of something along the lines of Wikipedia or some such where people could post and edit whenever they feel like it. Though with the limited network the PokéGears it may need to be something simple. I was thinking of a possible private server but for both of those someone would need to maintain it all and such, and that someone would need a good deal of knowledge about software. Hope can certainly do that but is there anyone else? Also idk maybe a filter just for the nerds to spare other people from the immense nerdery that's sure to happen.

For the fMRI... well that'd be a little tougher considering the materials needed and such. He could do it, yes, but he'll definitely need a lot of time and help with it.

[friendyousohard]

Twilight is, of course, all over this particular initiative. She's more used to working solo or under the supervision of her mentor than she is to working in an actual group, but she's open-minded and always eager to share her findings. She just might have to have it directly pointed out to her that maybe working with someone else on a particular experiment might be a good idea.

Notes directly related to Pokemon and their abilities are her primary focus (for now anyway) with a side interest in legends. She also occasionally does experiments just based on a subject she's recently gotten stuck in her head (like the one where she tested repel's effects, which ended up with a Zubat in her hair). And since one of her most powerful pokemon is a Kadabra, she'll have lots to contribute on the subject of Psychic-types.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

If they're ever together or she's willing to work over the the network, Reid can give her some semblance of mentoring. He's not really the supervising type, but he can do it, and he's already giving Mio an education.

Reid might want to make use of her Kadabra, since his priority at the moment is the study the effects Psychics have on the brains of different Pokemon types (he wants to know what it is about Dark Pokemon that neutralizes Psychics and ghosts), and otherwise would just plain be interested in seeing her notes.