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CR MEME!

Another three months have come and gone, so it is time for another CR meme. This time a winter themed one.

Please share your ideas for interactions you'd love your character to have, or plots you're rolling around in your head that might need a few more folks. Is your character looking for a friend? An enemy? A rival? You can find it all here. And remember, the more detailed, the better! We all want all the CR, but specific plans, or at least a specific direction you want to take something in, will really help out everybody involved.

Need a reminder of some things happening right now? The month of December is intentionally pretty quiet, but players and guests are welcome to continue backdating Fourth Wall shenanigans, even if the "official" dates have passed! We've also put up an IC Holiday Gift post. And, of course, there's always the Quest Board for quests and the Calendar for miscellaneous weather and swarms.

Like before, this CR meme will also include a template specifically geared towards Rocket CR. Please fill it in to let our Rocket members know how you feel about getting your characters involved in some crime.

PLAYER
Name: Your name here.
Contact: Any form of contact you'd like to provide: plurk, discord, etc.
Notes: If there is anything you would like to mention, whether it is a planned hiatus, your timezone or tagging habits, feel free to do so here.

CHARACTER
Name Character's name; <user name=CHARACTERJOURNAL>
Canon: The series your character is from.
Cliffnotes: Feel free to give a (short) rundown on your character here, whether that is their personality, things they are currently engaged in, certain set plans or anything else that might be useful for people to know about your character in order to plot some (new) CR.
Looking for: If you have any particular things you’d like your character to experience, whether a new friendship, a rivalry, a certain hobby, or anything else you can think of, please mention them here! And remember, the more concrete, the better. The better an idea you can give of what you want your characters involved in, the easier it is for others to plot with you.
Recent post: Optional, but if you have a recent post you’d welcome more tags on, feel free to link it here.

ROCKET PARTICIPATION FORM
Character’s trainer class: Trainer / Breeder
Are you down for Rocket shenanigans?: Yes / No
What type of things are you okay with?: Please remove anything you aren’t down for, and feel free to include any and all extra information.

✓ Battle encounters with Rockets 
✓ Non-battle, but still hostile encounters with Rockets (think something like getting robbed of a rare item or getting scammed)
✓ Temporarily losing a pokemon to a Rocket 
✓ Permanently losing a pokemon to a Rocket
✓ Anything else?
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indigo_league posting in

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With holidays on the horizon, it's long past time to start thinking about the real reason for the season and that is gifts. Yes, yes, joy to all, peace on earth etc etc, but deep down what we all want to do is tear some wrapping paper off boxes and be dazzled by the contents.

In order to keep things a bit organized, we'll be putting this up as a central gift-giving post.

★★ Arceus' gift

As many of you long term players might already know, Arceus tends to drop a few gifts on the people he has brought here in December. And this year is no different! These gifts will be delivered December the 25th, and yes, they will go out to all. Arceus doesn't judge. Maybe he should, but he doesn't.

★★ Your gifts

If your character is the kind to get their friends a bunch of things, feel free to use this post to distribute the offerings. Much easier than hitting up a bunch of inboxes! If you would rather distribute your characters' gifts individually in various inboxes, that's fine too! This post is merely an option for people who'd like to keep things in one central location.

Now with that all out of the way, let us take a moment to wish you all a very merry Christmas, happy holidays, and for those that don't celebrate, just a generally nice December.

Finally, as mods we'd like to thank you all for another great and fun year, in which we treated Snorunts, raced Swinubs (okay mostly other Pokemon), time-traveled to prehistoric Johto, got lost in Smeargle art, foiled Rocket plots and dealt with a warp pad fiasco, and rescued passengers from a sinking ship. We look forward to next year (which the mods are busily plotting)!

Thank you!

darkshroudingcloud posting in

fhlogs

Around Town

The sight of a spiky-haired blond around Edge is hardly unusual. The sight of one wearing a tattered cloak like Vincent Valentine's with a leathery bat wing protruding from the left shoulder is, perhaps, more unusual. He's been around since October, but mostly just trying to fix that problem with the portals after discovering he could dreamwalk like the Sephiroths. Probably no one really expected him to stay on after that.

And he could have gone home, probably. It seems like most people who came through the dream portals were able to go back. He, however, found he didn't want to. Zack is here, his Zack, alive and well. He was never dead, like they'd thought. And Sephiroth....

Of course, now that he's had to accept that his Sephiroth isn't a villain, life is much more complicated for him. He could make the excuse he's staying on to protect this world and Zack from Sephiroth, but it would just sound stupid and make him look like the jerk after Sephiroth worked overtime to fix the mess with the dreams. So if anyone asks him why he's there, he'll probably make up some other excuse. He's too prideful and too shy to just say he's there to be with his friend. And he'll never in a million years say that deep down, he wants to be around Sephiroth, to try to start figuring him out, to finally make sense of that living mystery who really isn't part of him but his own person.

Staying on will have its own problems, though. Like, what if he encounters ... himself? He's avoided it so far and hopes to continue avoiding it, but he knows that's unlikely. And anyone who didn't realize he was here fixing the dream mess will probably be confused by him. He can't retract that wing anymore, so that's always a glaring signal that he's not the Cloud anyone here knows.

Sighing to himself, he keeps walking down the street, bandaged buster sword slung over his shoulder.

Network

He really doesn't want to do this. But if he's staying here, he can't just bum around. So ...

"Anyone got any work that needs doing? I'm hiring out."

Just voice for now, but a lot of people here will probably recognize that gruff voice with the slight country drawl.

Current Mood: bored

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denise posting in

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Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means

karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.

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