Swept Characters

The following characters will be swept:

None!

If there's been a mistake, please contact us immediately. Thank you!

Swept Characters

The following characters will be swept:

None! :D

If there's been a mistake, please contact us immediately. Thank you!

Hello folks! We're here to report the results of the Game Direction poll, and the responses we're planning to take. Preemptively: to preserve anonymity, we're going to be grouping similar sentiments and paraphrasing answers rather than directly quoting any.

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As mentioned a few times above, this post is open for feedback - have at it!

Swept Characters

The following characters will be swept:

None! :D

If there's been a mistake, please contact us immediately. Thank you!

Hello folks! By player request, we'll be extending the Contest deadlines for another week. So:

Contest entries are now open until 11:59 PM EST, March 30th.
Voting is delayed and will open March 31st.
Voting (and editing in a Judges' Choice thread link) will be open until 11:59 PM EST, April 6th.

Questions and submissions should still go on the previous OOC post here.

We also want to remind players that you are very welcome to post plotting/partner-finding comments on that same post! Just post a comment that's not under the Question or Submission headers.

It's been some time since the last contest, but hosts Riegfried and Soy are finally back! Through the first half of March, characters will be able to catch video and audio announcements advertising their next contest and encouraging all trainers to enter.

The duo are in particularly fine form this month, and are rotating their outfits and props for every single announcement. There’s only one commonality between all these switches - they’re clearly alternating between matching each other’s looks or having exact opposite vibes. Wonder what the theme could be this time…?

( Contest time! )

The good news is that we're about 2/3rds of the way through our FAQ rewrite and page consolidation! Unfortunately, a lot of the pages are reliant on each other in such a way that we can't update them separately - we're going to have to replace almost all the pages at once. (For the curious, most of what’s remaining is related to breeding and Breeders!)

With that said: we're at a bit of a turning point here, where we need to decide just how much we want to be reworking things! The people this is going to most affect is you, the players - so that means it's time for a poll.

We're not collecting emails/names, you are very welcome to answer this anonymously. In addition, we want this poll and particularly the first question to be open to people who are not currently in the game, but might be interested in joining/returning. (Whether that's in general, or only if specific changes are made to the game!) We'll be plurking this with that in mind - please do share this around to your friends!

GAME DIRECTION POLL
If you have any other questions about this announcement, feel free to comment below!

What's happening?

The Swinub Scurry is a tradition in Blackthorn City! Every other Winter, trainers bring their hardiest Pokemon and compete in a sled race through the wilderness surrounding Blackthorn. The race length is such that trainers will need to spend one to two nights in the Winter wilderness, managing survival, navigation, and wild Pokemon much stronger than those found on the normal routes.

There's some extra prestige in winning, but most participants are celebrated for just finishing the course. The foremost rule of the Swinub Scurry is that the race stays "open" until everyone has either made it to the end or given up or needed a rescue. There are always people at the finish line ready to cheer racers arriving, day and night (taking shifts if they need to)!

This beloved tradition has been out of the spotlight in recent years, with local organizers getting snooty about trainers without influential family roots in Blackthorn participating. In the past, petty local politics and old money have done a poor job of advertising the event, even though it was ostensibly tourist friendly. Now, the old guard is on its way out, and this year the organizing committee is looking to change things up! Trainers will see fliers in towns across Johto and Kanto inviting them to this seasonal event!

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