Charcherry Weekly - Issue 159
Aug 19, 2023 3:02:16 GMT -8
Post by SJmun on Aug 19, 2023 3:02:16 GMT -8
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TOPIC: Charcherry Weekly - Issue 159
The Charcherry Weekly
Augh.... so many thing happening this week. This is Mage of Light Nick Card. Let's get to it.
Summer Festival!
Early this week, the 2nd annual Unity village summer festival kicked off to a start. This year things stayed relatively busy, providing a lot of much needed revenue and publicity for the village. Page of Mind Samm and Shard's seaking shaped taiyaki stall was quite the hit, with a number of filling options available. A surprise vendor that showed up was the Greatdex stand, offering a style of pokedex that has more features than a standard issue pokedex, but doesn't quite have all the exhaustive features of an Ultradex. As a bonus, The Park's stand this year actually got more of its information accurate this year! There are still some glaring inconsistencies, but anything is better than the absolute mess of misinformation they had last year. Meanwhile, your dear newsletter writer managed to attract some new visitors to the local library! Granted, most of the visitors just wanted to swim in the pool, but I did my curative duty of asking around if anyone needed to find any books or particular information. Its really weird that with the way that search engines (particularly google) are getting worse lately, that its lead to libraries becoming more important than ever.
Regardless, I have a feeling this place will continue to get a few more visitors now that it has an active librarian.
Wrap-up in the Clockwork City
Shortly after the kickoff of the festival, the people of Ironways arrived back in their reclaimed city. With word that Heir of Time Thoren Emit and Heart container server Gracidea Emit would soon arrive, out of town temporeans flocked to the site.
Also of note, the party met up with Druid Lohannid, the chaotic green elf that was responsible for the quest to seek the Dew of the Mountain in the first place. They were accepted into the party, though with close watch applied to them.
Upon nightfall, the active party was commended by the elders upon six stage for saving the city. Fighter Kale Ominoi was also given the conclusion of his rite's journey, essentially freeing him of all obligation and debt. They chose not to join the Grand Network for personal reasons.
Eventually, Thoren and Gracidea arrived by air to greet the city. They arrived to six stage and it was firmly confirmed that Gracidea would now act as the god worshiped by the temporean church. A friendship between temporeans and pokemon was also established. At the end, Thoren offered a few personal words to Kale, before going off stage and being confronted by their sister Prince of Time Flux Emit. The rest of the active party took off down the road to the local pub for a couple drinks. Its at this point that the party finally decided upon a name to call themselves. From this day forward, they would be known as the Odd Squad.
The next day, after the majority of the hangovers were conquered, they prepared their horses and cart to depart from the clockwork city. The odd squad set off for the coastal town of Shoreport to the north, to hopefully assist someone with seeking out a boat, possibly to make use of it to cross Lake Poole.
The party was provided with cellphones and established their own memo to communicate through. It appears to be whitelist only so I do not know what the contents of this memo would be.
The odd squad continues their journey towards further adventures. Who knows what awaits them upon the horizon.
Pokemon Battles Galore
On thursday, the Unity Village Summer Festival Pokemon Battle Tournament was held in Unity Village, much like it was last year, though this time without the caveat of gym leader obligations at the end. Also, this time it was conducted in an elimination bracket style rather than round robin, since there were more participants than before.
The first battle was HAZEL vs Elwood. It took a while for the new mysterious trainer to arrive, but he soon showed his skills at the gym.
Elwood had a team comprised of Jeffery the eggecute, Sullivan the solrock, Marcel the maractus, Zippy the sudowoodo, Juniper the phantump, and Don the fartetch'd. HAZEL's team comprised of FLOWER the shiny shaymin, MONF the monferno, MELVIN the umbreon, TIMBER the tropius, RIPPLE the bibarel, and LUKE the lucario. It was an exciting first match of the day, with HAZEL reaching her last pokemon while Elwood still had two, but MELVIN came in clutch with a wish that was sufficient enough to turn everything around in their favor! In the end, HAZEL's team won and continued onward.
This sort of heated competition would come to define the mood for the rest of the day.
The second match was Heir of Time Rise Emit vs obviously a member of the jo-baddies Johnny. Rise brought their sinnohan team to the table, comprised of azumarill, Atlas the machoke, gallade, kricketune, steelix, and mew. The last party member managed to gather some shock and awe from the crowd. Johnny's team meanwhile comprised of Nasty the sneasler, a charizard called Flamelord the Smol, a venusaur called Big Beau Vinny, Takeshi the lokix, Almighty jr the exploding silvally, and a shiny blastoise known as Blasto the Master. Rise and Johnny remained rather evenly matched the entire time, keeping score neck and neck to the very end. It appears that the toxic spikes set early on by Nasty had done a number to Rise's team, and kricketune was no match for Big Beau Vinny's tankish exterior. Johnny emerged the victor in this match and continued onward.
The third match was Nate vs Joey. The powerful unovan native against the space boy. Nate's team comprised of ferrothorn, braviary, samurott, electvire, victini, and zoroark, while Joey's team comprised of Sunny! the solrock, XenoFey the clefable, Star! the starmie, Da Moon! the lunatone, BEM! the beheeyem, and Xeno-morph! the defense forme deoxys! While Joey's space themed team was dazzling, it was leveled by Nate's team, only encountering major difficulty with Xeno-morph! acting as a last line of defense for a number of turns. Nate managed to win with only two pokemon knocked out and continued onward.
The fourth match was Professor Coleman Branch vs Samm. Coleman's team was comprised of Big Locis the aerodactyl, Umbous the shiny umbreon, Fenris the arcanine, Kachin the genesect, Mordred the cereluge, and Flechette the drakloak. Samm's team was largely gym rentals from her husband's gym trainers, as she did not have a full team to enter on short notice. Her team was comprised of Krab+28 the kingler, shellder, venomoth, Reggie the riolu, Kla the klawf, and Pika the pikachu. Though she held on best she could, her largely unfamiliar team was bested by the professor's team. Coleman claimed victory and continued onward.
The fifth match Coleman was once again up, now against Gym leader Jovin. Jovin's team was comprised of Funny Guy the psyduck, Pow the kubfu, Mr. Fish the gyrados, Hercules the machop, Sir the sirfetch'd, and Shroom the breloom. Coleman retained the same team lineup as before, fully healed before beginning. It was an even but tough match-up between the two of them, Mordred dealing the final blow with a super effective bitter blade. Jovin awarded Coleman with the three-part Fury badge (badge name pending) for defeating him in an official match. Coleman yet again won and continued onward.
The sixth match was HAZEL vs Johnny. Nasty once again lead with toxic spikes, but LUKE was able to take out two pokemon before being bested. Halfway through, the toxic spikes were upgraded to inflict toxic poison. Almighty jr managed to hold back from exploding for long enough to take MELVIN by surprise. FLOWER quickly dispatched of Blasto the Master with seed flare. Overall, it was a well balanced match-up. HAZEL walked away the victor and moved onward.
The seventh match was Nate vs Coleman. Big Locis started out with a stealth rock, posing difficulty for Nate's team. There was a great deal of switching out during this match. At one point, zoroark disguised as electivire, though did not last long against Fenris. At the end it was Umbrous vs victini. Umbrous held on the best he could, but was bested by victini's U-turn, followed by a grass knot. Once again an intense battle, though sadly the professor's journey would fall short here. Nate claimed victory and moved onward.
The eighth match, gave Coleman one last chance to prove himself in battle against Johnny. Both sides applied field obstacles to each other, the toxic spikes managing to reach their full potential when Flamelord the Smol began using Dragon Tail to drag Coleman's pokemon out into the toxic spikes! Almighty Jr waited until Coleman sent out his last pokemon, Umbreous, to explode and clench the match. Johnny won this match and walked away with third place.
The final match was Nate vs HAZEL. Braviary's superpower managed to do some major damage before retreating. There was a fair amount of switching out. Ferrothorn held fast, being tough and holding leftovers. He won the war of attrition against TIMBER, who was downed by iron barbs. HAZEL's last pokemon, FLOWER, couldn't hold on long due to two layers of spikes wearing them down quick, and refusing to wake up after using rest. In the end, Nate managed to win, having only gotten one party member knocked out.
Nate was declared the winner of the tournament in first place, while HAZEL ended up in second place. All three, Nate, HAZEL, and Johnny received trophies for their achievements on this day. HAZEL signed Nate's trainer card, and he also received a basket of rare evolution items from mayor Brae Emit, including a link cable. HAZEL was presented with a bouquet of flowers for second place.
With the tournament drawn to a close, everyone made their way to the stage where Samm would perform a dazzling mindfield illusion show. The crowd greatly enjoyed this display and erupted in applause afterwards.
After the show, HAZEL managed to calculate the updated ELO rankings for the group:
Katie 10.2
Nate 10.06
Jovin 8.92
Rise Emit 8.26
Brae Emit 7.82
Hazel & Gwyn 7.49
Johnny 5.81
HAZEL 5.12
Remote Soulbot 3.77
Professor Coleman Branch 2.28
Charles 1.03
Anton 0.37
Kid, Trainer of Pre-Evolutions -1.57
John, The Common Specialist -1.83
Joey -1.83
Elwood -1.83
Maggie -1.83
Samm -2.84
Nick Card -3.09
Shellderspire Isle VoidCo Employee -3.09
Shellderspire Isle Shellder -3.9
Hissnclinkanck -5.1
Unfortunately, directly after this was posted, HAZEL had been sent to another version of her world via surprise celebi collision, younger and with her shaymin, FLOWER, de-levelled to the point of debilitation.
Her current team as of writing, aside from FLOWER, is NIGEL the glaceon, PHOBE the charmander, SAM the spinda, JIRACHI, and an egg. It is unknown when she will be able to return to Starter Planet.
A New Gym Leader?
The next day, a mysterious mist enveloped the village and a sinister masked rider appeared, riding spectrier, the ghostly horse pokemon. He dramatically offered an open invitation to challenge him to a pokemon battle, in return for a gym badge.
Witch of Time Katyleen Kitten answered the call, HAZEL's remaining pokemon team temporarily working alongside her. Katie carefully made her way through the misty forest, relying upon LUKE's aura sense to lead them to the site of the battle. The macabre gym leader appeared before the challenger, appearing to emerge from a conspicuously placed coffin! After confirming the particulars of the battle, they began the match!
Gym Leader "Nameloc"'s team was comprised of Stuff the banette, Mordred the cereluge, Flechette the drakloak, sableye, and finally Caliburn the aegislash. Katie's borrowed team from HAZEL was comprised of MONF the monferno, MELVIN the umbreon, TIMBER the tropius, RIPPLE the bibarel, and LUKE the lucario. She worked surprisingly well with HAZEL's team and was able to whittle down "Nameloc"'s pokemon.
For defeating him in an official match, the mysterious gym leader presented Katie with the Hourglass badge.
This week’s known market stands in Desertia Town:
-Katie’s potion stand (*CaFAI filling in for Katie when unavailable)
-shinyjiggly pokesnacks stand (ran by Rufus)
Dang, way too many thing happened this week. At least I managed to get some sleep tonight and get some solid progress on that flash animation. It is very likely that desertia town may gain a new wave of commerce as more visitors from the Plit portal show up to visit. For now though, I need more sleep.
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TOPIC: Charcherry Weekly - Issue 159
The Charcherry Weekly
Augh.... so many thing happening this week. This is Mage of Light Nick Card. Let's get to it.
Summer Festival!
Early this week, the 2nd annual Unity village summer festival kicked off to a start. This year things stayed relatively busy, providing a lot of much needed revenue and publicity for the village. Page of Mind Samm and Shard's seaking shaped taiyaki stall was quite the hit, with a number of filling options available. A surprise vendor that showed up was the Greatdex stand, offering a style of pokedex that has more features than a standard issue pokedex, but doesn't quite have all the exhaustive features of an Ultradex. As a bonus, The Park's stand this year actually got more of its information accurate this year! There are still some glaring inconsistencies, but anything is better than the absolute mess of misinformation they had last year. Meanwhile, your dear newsletter writer managed to attract some new visitors to the local library! Granted, most of the visitors just wanted to swim in the pool, but I did my curative duty of asking around if anyone needed to find any books or particular information. Its really weird that with the way that search engines (particularly google) are getting worse lately, that its lead to libraries becoming more important than ever.
Regardless, I have a feeling this place will continue to get a few more visitors now that it has an active librarian.
Wrap-up in the Clockwork City
Shortly after the kickoff of the festival, the people of Ironways arrived back in their reclaimed city. With word that Heir of Time Thoren Emit and Heart container server Gracidea Emit would soon arrive, out of town temporeans flocked to the site.
Also of note, the party met up with Druid Lohannid, the chaotic green elf that was responsible for the quest to seek the Dew of the Mountain in the first place. They were accepted into the party, though with close watch applied to them.
Upon nightfall, the active party was commended by the elders upon six stage for saving the city. Fighter Kale Ominoi was also given the conclusion of his rite's journey, essentially freeing him of all obligation and debt. They chose not to join the Grand Network for personal reasons.
Eventually, Thoren and Gracidea arrived by air to greet the city. They arrived to six stage and it was firmly confirmed that Gracidea would now act as the god worshiped by the temporean church. A friendship between temporeans and pokemon was also established. At the end, Thoren offered a few personal words to Kale, before going off stage and being confronted by their sister Prince of Time Flux Emit. The rest of the active party took off down the road to the local pub for a couple drinks. Its at this point that the party finally decided upon a name to call themselves. From this day forward, they would be known as the Odd Squad.
The next day, after the majority of the hangovers were conquered, they prepared their horses and cart to depart from the clockwork city. The odd squad set off for the coastal town of Shoreport to the north, to hopefully assist someone with seeking out a boat, possibly to make use of it to cross Lake Poole.
The party was provided with cellphones and established their own memo to communicate through. It appears to be whitelist only so I do not know what the contents of this memo would be.
The odd squad continues their journey towards further adventures. Who knows what awaits them upon the horizon.
Pokemon Battles Galore
On thursday, the Unity Village Summer Festival Pokemon Battle Tournament was held in Unity Village, much like it was last year, though this time without the caveat of gym leader obligations at the end. Also, this time it was conducted in an elimination bracket style rather than round robin, since there were more participants than before.
The first battle was HAZEL vs Elwood. It took a while for the new mysterious trainer to arrive, but he soon showed his skills at the gym.
Elwood had a team comprised of Jeffery the eggecute, Sullivan the solrock, Marcel the maractus, Zippy the sudowoodo, Juniper the phantump, and Don the fartetch'd. HAZEL's team comprised of FLOWER the shiny shaymin, MONF the monferno, MELVIN the umbreon, TIMBER the tropius, RIPPLE the bibarel, and LUKE the lucario. It was an exciting first match of the day, with HAZEL reaching her last pokemon while Elwood still had two, but MELVIN came in clutch with a wish that was sufficient enough to turn everything around in their favor! In the end, HAZEL's team won and continued onward.
This sort of heated competition would come to define the mood for the rest of the day.
The second match was Heir of Time Rise Emit vs obviously a member of the jo-baddies Johnny. Rise brought their sinnohan team to the table, comprised of azumarill, Atlas the machoke, gallade, kricketune, steelix, and mew. The last party member managed to gather some shock and awe from the crowd. Johnny's team meanwhile comprised of Nasty the sneasler, a charizard called Flamelord the Smol, a venusaur called Big Beau Vinny, Takeshi the lokix, Almighty jr the exploding silvally, and a shiny blastoise known as Blasto the Master. Rise and Johnny remained rather evenly matched the entire time, keeping score neck and neck to the very end. It appears that the toxic spikes set early on by Nasty had done a number to Rise's team, and kricketune was no match for Big Beau Vinny's tankish exterior. Johnny emerged the victor in this match and continued onward.
The third match was Nate vs Joey. The powerful unovan native against the space boy. Nate's team comprised of ferrothorn, braviary, samurott, electvire, victini, and zoroark, while Joey's team comprised of Sunny! the solrock, XenoFey the clefable, Star! the starmie, Da Moon! the lunatone, BEM! the beheeyem, and Xeno-morph! the defense forme deoxys! While Joey's space themed team was dazzling, it was leveled by Nate's team, only encountering major difficulty with Xeno-morph! acting as a last line of defense for a number of turns. Nate managed to win with only two pokemon knocked out and continued onward.
The fourth match was Professor Coleman Branch vs Samm. Coleman's team was comprised of Big Locis the aerodactyl, Umbous the shiny umbreon, Fenris the arcanine, Kachin the genesect, Mordred the cereluge, and Flechette the drakloak. Samm's team was largely gym rentals from her husband's gym trainers, as she did not have a full team to enter on short notice. Her team was comprised of Krab+28 the kingler, shellder, venomoth, Reggie the riolu, Kla the klawf, and Pika the pikachu. Though she held on best she could, her largely unfamiliar team was bested by the professor's team. Coleman claimed victory and continued onward.
The fifth match Coleman was once again up, now against Gym leader Jovin. Jovin's team was comprised of Funny Guy the psyduck, Pow the kubfu, Mr. Fish the gyrados, Hercules the machop, Sir the sirfetch'd, and Shroom the breloom. Coleman retained the same team lineup as before, fully healed before beginning. It was an even but tough match-up between the two of them, Mordred dealing the final blow with a super effective bitter blade. Jovin awarded Coleman with the three-part Fury badge (badge name pending) for defeating him in an official match. Coleman yet again won and continued onward.
The sixth match was HAZEL vs Johnny. Nasty once again lead with toxic spikes, but LUKE was able to take out two pokemon before being bested. Halfway through, the toxic spikes were upgraded to inflict toxic poison. Almighty jr managed to hold back from exploding for long enough to take MELVIN by surprise. FLOWER quickly dispatched of Blasto the Master with seed flare. Overall, it was a well balanced match-up. HAZEL walked away the victor and moved onward.
The seventh match was Nate vs Coleman. Big Locis started out with a stealth rock, posing difficulty for Nate's team. There was a great deal of switching out during this match. At one point, zoroark disguised as electivire, though did not last long against Fenris. At the end it was Umbrous vs victini. Umbrous held on the best he could, but was bested by victini's U-turn, followed by a grass knot. Once again an intense battle, though sadly the professor's journey would fall short here. Nate claimed victory and moved onward.
The eighth match, gave Coleman one last chance to prove himself in battle against Johnny. Both sides applied field obstacles to each other, the toxic spikes managing to reach their full potential when Flamelord the Smol began using Dragon Tail to drag Coleman's pokemon out into the toxic spikes! Almighty Jr waited until Coleman sent out his last pokemon, Umbreous, to explode and clench the match. Johnny won this match and walked away with third place.
The final match was Nate vs HAZEL. Braviary's superpower managed to do some major damage before retreating. There was a fair amount of switching out. Ferrothorn held fast, being tough and holding leftovers. He won the war of attrition against TIMBER, who was downed by iron barbs. HAZEL's last pokemon, FLOWER, couldn't hold on long due to two layers of spikes wearing them down quick, and refusing to wake up after using rest. In the end, Nate managed to win, having only gotten one party member knocked out.
Nate was declared the winner of the tournament in first place, while HAZEL ended up in second place. All three, Nate, HAZEL, and Johnny received trophies for their achievements on this day. HAZEL signed Nate's trainer card, and he also received a basket of rare evolution items from mayor Brae Emit, including a link cable. HAZEL was presented with a bouquet of flowers for second place.
With the tournament drawn to a close, everyone made their way to the stage where Samm would perform a dazzling mindfield illusion show. The crowd greatly enjoyed this display and erupted in applause afterwards.
After the show, HAZEL managed to calculate the updated ELO rankings for the group:
Katie 10.2
Nate 10.06
Jovin 8.92
Rise Emit 8.26
Brae Emit 7.82
Hazel & Gwyn 7.49
Johnny 5.81
HAZEL 5.12
Remote Soulbot 3.77
Professor Coleman Branch 2.28
Charles 1.03
Anton 0.37
Kid, Trainer of Pre-Evolutions -1.57
John, The Common Specialist -1.83
Joey -1.83
Elwood -1.83
Maggie -1.83
Samm -2.84
Nick Card -3.09
Shellderspire Isle VoidCo Employee -3.09
Shellderspire Isle Shellder -3.9
Hissnclinkanck -5.1
Unfortunately, directly after this was posted, HAZEL had been sent to another version of her world via surprise celebi collision, younger and with her shaymin, FLOWER, de-levelled to the point of debilitation.
Her current team as of writing, aside from FLOWER, is NIGEL the glaceon, PHOBE the charmander, SAM the spinda, JIRACHI, and an egg. It is unknown when she will be able to return to Starter Planet.
A New Gym Leader?
The next day, a mysterious mist enveloped the village and a sinister masked rider appeared, riding spectrier, the ghostly horse pokemon. He dramatically offered an open invitation to challenge him to a pokemon battle, in return for a gym badge.
Witch of Time Katyleen Kitten answered the call, HAZEL's remaining pokemon team temporarily working alongside her. Katie carefully made her way through the misty forest, relying upon LUKE's aura sense to lead them to the site of the battle. The macabre gym leader appeared before the challenger, appearing to emerge from a conspicuously placed coffin! After confirming the particulars of the battle, they began the match!
Gym Leader "Nameloc"'s team was comprised of Stuff the banette, Mordred the cereluge, Flechette the drakloak, sableye, and finally Caliburn the aegislash. Katie's borrowed team from HAZEL was comprised of MONF the monferno, MELVIN the umbreon, TIMBER the tropius, RIPPLE the bibarel, and LUKE the lucario. She worked surprisingly well with HAZEL's team and was able to whittle down "Nameloc"'s pokemon.
For defeating him in an official match, the mysterious gym leader presented Katie with the Hourglass badge.
This week’s known market stands in Desertia Town:
-Katie’s potion stand (*CaFAI filling in for Katie when unavailable)
-shinyjiggly pokesnacks stand (ran by Rufus)
Dang, way too many thing happened this week. At least I managed to get some sleep tonight and get some solid progress on that flash animation. It is very likely that desertia town may gain a new wave of commerce as more visitors from the Plit portal show up to visit. For now though, I need more sleep.
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