Asber Exploration Agency

[Phoenixsong]

Hm. I'll take the Pokédex and do a detailed scan of the Rattata. The Meowth, too, I guess.

 

[allitersonance]

Kusarigamaitachi

Tankard didn't have a a problem following orders and sat quietly where he was, looking around at his surroundings with some wonder. Possibly he'd never been out in the wild before.

No new pokemon had moved into the immediate area; no doubt the sounds of battle had discouraged any that had been considering it. The nuzleaf you'd seen before was still overhead, though, watching, its expression inscrutable.

I call Tankard over to my side (with appropriate warnings if he's about to get stuck in quicksand or something), and we'll keep going a little deeper into the forest until we find more pokemon. I'll do a quick pokedex scan of any pokemon we find.

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

I'll recall Mark and head toward that sunny place you mentioned just now.

 

[Negrek]

(( More tense suckage. Sorry... I'll try to figure out if I want to write this in past or present and stick to it. ))

Kratos Aurion

The pokédex almost immediately displays, "This rattata is level 1. This rattata is level 4. This meowth is level five." Holding the scan button for a longer period of time would elicit, "Rattata: Female, level 1. Run away. Rattata: Female, level 4. Run away. Meowth: Female, level 5. Technician. Valid registration."

Naturally, both pokémon were at least as interested in this information as you yourself. The rattata stopped their careless wandering, looking around for the meowth with an almost comical expression of dismay on their rodent-y faces. The meowth, on the other hand, shot you a wrathful look before charging. The rattata scattered, but the weaker of the two was no match for the larger, stronger, and faster meowth. The cat pokémon leapt upon him, claws at the ready, and laid into hier with a heartfelt scratch attack. The other rattata, meanwhile, was no hero: she bolted for the nearest bush without a care for her previous companion.

Kusarigamaitachi


Tankard struggles back to his feet and follows you as you start to head deeper into the woods, keeping as close to your side as possible while watching the surrounding trees with wary eyes. Clearly he doesn't trust this place, which is probably wise. The nuzleaf above you watches you go impassively, then darts away into the canopy, vanishing from sight.

Continuing into the trackless forest, you pass a nincada emerging from beneath the soil, its eyes glittering as it shakes soil from its carapace. The gentle cooing of a pidgey sounds from somewhere over your head, although you can't see it from ground level. Up ahead is a glowing light that dances back and forth between the trees, blinking an erratic rhythm as it goes.

Blastoise428

The closer you get to the sunny patch, the more difficult it is to continue; naturally, the undergrowth is denser closer to the light, and you find yourself having to shove around saplings and through bushes in pursuit of your goal.

At last, though, you break through into the sunlight, and find yourself in a small clearing full of saplings and bushes. The fallen tree that caused the clearing in the first place is virtually invisible, transformed into an uneven heap of moss and mushrooms, only the occasional patch of bark showing through to indicate what it had once been. One or two of the small bushes have small, red berries mixed in with their foliage. Whether or not they're the kind of berries pokémon like to eat is unclear, but you certainly aren't the first to get the idea to check the little clearing out.

As you look on, a weedle motors its way across the rotting log and disappears onto the far side, a stunky is nibbling on one of the mushrooms near the closest berry bush, and a natu watches you, unblinking, from the stub of a broken branch on one of the old trees across the clearing.

 

[allitersonance]

Kusarigamaitachi

Tankard struggles back to his feet and follows you as you start to head deeper into the woods, keeping as close to your side as possible while watching the surrounding trees with wary eyes. Clearly he doesn't trust this place, which is probably wise. The nuzleaf above you watches you go impassively, then darts away into the canopy, vanishing from sight.

Continuing into the trackless forest, you pass a nincada emerging from beneath the soil, its eyes glittering as it shakes soil from its carapace. The gentle cooing of a pidgey sounds from somewhere over your head, although you can't see it from ground level. Up ahead is a glowing light that dances back and forth between the trees, blinking an erratic rhythm as it goes.

Quickscan of the nincada, the light (and the area around it if I don't find anything), and I'll also try for one of the pidgey by estimating its location from the sounds.

 

[Phoenixsong]

Kratos Aurion

The pokédex almost immediately displays, "This rattata is level 1. This rattata is level 4. This meowth is level five." Holding the scan button for a longer period of time would elicit, "Rattata: Female, level 1. Run away. Rattata: Female, level 4. Run away. Meowth: Female, level 5. Technician. Valid registration."

Naturally, both pokémon were at least as interested in this information as you yourself. The rattata stopped their careless wandering, looking around for the meowth with an almost comical expression of dismay on their rodent-y faces. The meowth, on the other hand, shot you a wrathful look before charging. The rattata scattered, but the weaker of the two was no match for the larger, stronger, and faster meowth. The cat pokémon leapt upon him, claws at the ready, and laid into hier with a heartfelt scratch attack. The other rattata, meanwhile, was no hero: she bolted for the nearest bush without a care for her previous companion.

Hrm. On second thought, I won't bother with them. I'll just keep moving to my right and start circling around the outskirts, looking for something else; if I can't go to the right I'll head left instead, and if I can't go that way I'll just move forward into the forest.

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

I'll scan, in detail, the Pokemon I saw, and then, if possible, scan those berries. I doubt it'll work, but, hey, what could it hurt? After that failsI'm done, I'll check out those mushrooms you mentioned.

 

[Negrek]

Kusarigamaitachi

According to the pokédex, the nincada was level five and the blinking light was a level three volbeat. The scan of the trees found a level six pidgey.

Kratos Aurion

The meowth ignored you as you moved off around the grassy area, and the hiding rattata certainly didn't show her face. The other, of course, had bigger things to worry about than just some trainer with no apparent inclination to help her out of her predicament. The clear area on the outskirts of town was a fairly monotonous sort of place, dominated by recently-planted bushes and litter. After a bit of walking, though, a rustling noise would catch your attention. It was coming from the side of a garage bordering the empty area, where a growlithe was rooting through the garbage. It was rather scruffy and small for one of its species, and something appeared to be wrong with its coat--it glinted a weird yellowish color instead of the usual red-orange. It wasn't exactly being subtle about its raid of the garbage bins, but it actually let out a sharp yelp and jumped back a step, overturning a can entirely as something within startled it. This "something" slithered out and hissed at the offending canine, apparently of the opinion that it had first dibs on the trash--although one probably wouldn't expect to see an ekans dumpster-diving in the first place.

Something could be seen glittering in the bushes at the edge of the forest, low to the ground and largely obscured by the plants' leaves.

Blastoise428

The pokédex didn't react at all when pointed at the berries, but it was able to give information on the pokémon found: "This stunky is level 7. This natu level 6. This weedle is level 5." After a brief delay, a new screen appeared with further information: "Stunky: Male, level 7. Aftermath. Natu: Female, level 6. Early bird. Weedle: Male, level 5."

Meanwhile, the mushrooms, upon closer inspection, were of medium mushroom size with light brown caps dusted with raised white bumps. Its stalk was thick and the same creamy white as the bumps.

 

[allitersonance]

Kusarigamaitachi

According to the pokédex, the nincada was level five and the blinking light was a level three volbeat. The scan of the trees found a level six pidgey.

I order Tankard to use Aqua Jet on the nincada twice.

 

[Phoenixsong]

Kratos Aurion

The meowth ignored you as you moved off around the grassy area, and the hiding rattata certainly didn't show her face. The other, of course, had bigger things to worry about than just some trainer with no apparent inclination to help her out of her predicament. The clear area on the outskirts of town was a fairly monotonous sort of place, dominated by recently-planted bushes and litter. After a bit of walking, though, a rustling noise would catch your attention. It was coming from the side of a garage bordering the empty area, where a growlithe was rooting through the garbage. It was rather scruffy and small for one of its species, and something appeared to be wrong with its coat--it glinted a weird yellowish color instead of the usual red-orange. It wasn't exactly being subtle about its raid of the garbage bins, but it actually let out a sharp yelp and jumped back a step, overturning a can entirely as something within startled it. This "something" slithered out and hissed at the offending canine, apparently of the opinion that it had first dibs on the trash--although one probably wouldn't expect to see an ekans dumpster-diving in the first place.

Something could be seen glittering in the bushes at the edge of the forest, low to the ground and largely obscured by the plants' leaves.

Hm, cool as it is that I found a shiny Growlithe I already have the Don, and clearly I also already have an Ekans, so. I'll point the Pokédex at the sparkly thing I can barely see and do a quick scan on it. If it isn't a Pokémon, I'll go over and move the bushes out of the way as best I can and look at it.

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

I'll pick up one of the berries (with my undershirt) and throw it at near the natu to see if it'll eat it. If it gets mad or eats the berry, I'll send out Mark, my Bulbasaur, and use Grasswhistle. If Grasswhistle works, he'll use Tackle, and if it doesn't he'll use Safeguard.

Grasswhistle~Tackle/Safeguard

Also, are there pokemon living in the streets of ASB Central?

 

[Grass King]

Paying for the Champion Pack

[Gaia] Chikorita (F)
Ability: Overgrow
Level: 5

[Simeon] Chimchar (M)
Ability: Blaze
Level: 5

Question: If I had a Slowpoke, and s/he was fishing with his/her tail, and it was bitten by a Shellder, would s/he evolve into a Slowbro?

 

[Negrek]

Kusarigamaitachi

It takes Tankard a moment to realize that you are giving him an order; preoccupied as he is by the forest around him, he hasn't been paying you that much attention. He responds speedily enough, though, blasting off from the ground in a gush of water and rocketing into the nincada. The bug hisses as it is torn free of the earth and flipped onto its back, claws flailing.

Tankard lands beyond it, then turns around and jets off again, sending the nincada rolling away. This time, though, the nincada is a little more prepared for the attack and rolls back to its feet, the dainty wings on its back already beginning to vibrate. Tankard claps his paws over his ears as a high-pitched keening fills the air, making even your ears ring as the nincada unleashes a vicious buzz. It's already looking battered from Tankard's attacks, but the squirtle himself isn't exactly fresh, either.

Kratos Aurion

"This venonat is female and level four," flashed on your screen almost immediately after you pointed in the direction of the glint. Meanwhile, the garbage fight looked to be escalating, with the scruffy growlithe, well, growling, and the ekans refusing to back down as well.

Blastoise428

(( Yes. ))

Picking a berry from the nearest bush, you throw it in the natu's direction. The bird pokémon barely bothers to glance at it before returning its eyes to your face. It continued to stare, which probably meant it wasn't terribly angry. Meanwhile, the stunky stops eating and turns to look at you, though for the moment it does no more than that.

Grass King

(( Yes. ))

It seems you've been stuck in this plastic chair an age, waiting for the starter pokémon you ordered to arrive. The little office doesn't offer much to alleviate your boredom--not even a few out-of-date magazines--and there's no one else to talk to. At last, though, the nondescript door through which the lab aide disappeared opens once more, and the aloof woman steps back into the room, tapping a pen against her clipboard.

"So that's chikorita and chimchar, is that it?" she asks, pulling a couple of pokéballs from the pocket of her lab coat. Without waiting for a reply, she thrusts them at you, then adds a pokédex for good measure. "Your order's in at the pokémart, too." By now, you don't have any free hands, but this doesn't stop the woman from adding a small slip of paper to what you have to handle. Printed on it is the list of items you ordered ahead--apparently you'll need to go and pick them up yourself.

The woman flips through the forms on her clipboard without much interest. "Everything checks out here. Looks like you're good to go."

You have received a level five female chikorita, a level five male chimchar, a pokédex, and an item waiver.

 

[Grass King]

Well then I suppose I'll go and pick up my items.

 

[Phoenixsong]

Hm, all right. I'll release Adonis from his Pokéball.

"See that Venonat, Adonis? Freeze it in place with Disable, and then Leer at it."

Also, question. What happens if a Pokémon in Asber evolves in regular ASB? Can something be done to apply the evolution to Asber, or is it just ignored and the Asber Pokémon needs to evolve normally ingame until you get a game over? What about applying exp earned in ASB to the game after a Pokémon has already entered?

come on, free Arbok free Arbok free Arbok...

 

[nastypass]

Hey pal, Bliss isn't dead yet. >:|

Caution was highly advisable, especially given the condition of the tree you had decided to climb. The pidgey watched you go with suspicious eyes, but no attack from above came as you eased your way down through the branches. At one point, the bough you'd stepped on snapped beneath your weight, sending you sliding down the side of the trunk, scrambling to grab something that would break your fall. Though your hands grew a bit scraped from pawing at the tree's old, crumbling bark, you managed to catch yourself before you fell too far, and you were otherwise unhurt. If you'd been less cautious, though, it's likely the episode could have ended badly--or you might have inadvertently stuck your hand in the midst of the little group of weedle the pokedex had noticed before, which were occupying a crevice in the trunk. As it was, you managed to avoid them, and it wasn't long before you were standing on solid ground near the path into the forest, relatively unscathed.

Carry on into the forest, stopping to check for any rare and/or potentially dangerous Pokemon with the Pokedex every so often.

 

[Phoenixsong]

Well, obviously I mean after this round. And it doesn't matter if Adonis loses anyway, because he only needs 1 more exp. Two is just icing on the cake.

To make this post actually relevant, are player-run businesses already available back in ASB Central, or are we going to have to wait for those to appear, like dex registry Pokémon? And I'm assuming that purchasing something from your own business in Asber is the same as doing so in the normal ASB, right?

 

[allitersonance]

Kusarigamaitachi

It takes Tankard a moment to realize that you are giving him an order; preoccupied as he is by the forest around him, he hasn't been paying you that much attention. He responds speedily enough, though, blasting off from the ground in a gush of water and rocketing into the nincada. The bug hisses as it is torn free of the earth and flipped onto its back, claws flailing.

Tankard lands beyond it, then turns around and jets off again, sending the nincada rolling away. This time, though, the nincada is a little more prepared for the attack and rolls back to its feet, the dainty wings on its back already beginning to vibrate. Tankard claps his paws over his ears as a high-pitched keening fills the air, making even your ears ring as the nincada unleashes a vicious buzz. It's already looking battered from Tankard's attacks, but the squirtle himself isn't exactly fresh, either.

Plugging my ears and still wincing, I order a Confusion to try to grab at and either tear off or crush those noisy wings (or just one, if that's all Tankard can grab). Then I order him to follow up with Aqua Jet. If he isn't confident enough about his Confusion, he is to replace that order with Aqua Jet.

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

Kay, I'll throw a berry near the stunky.

 

[Negrek]

Grass King

Getting your items may be more difficult than anticipated. Once out on the street, you realize that you neglected to ask for directions, and you most likely aren't very familiar with this area of the city. You're in for quite a spell of wandering before you pass the holo-hub and stumble onto a rather promising looking area.

The streets are lined with shops of all kinds, offering goods both exotic and mundane. While the storefronts are varied, there are none that quite compare to your destination--the Pokémart, which towers above the competition with its understated red and white facade that needs no introduction. Through its glass sliding doors you find yourself standing before an incredible wealth of pokémon-related items, from antidotes to advanced TM's. The counter, currently manned by two uniformed clerks, is near the entrance, and from where you are you can see one other shopper browsing through a bin of pokéballs--a teenage boy with short black hair and decked out in stained, travel-worn clothing.

Walker

You carry on deeper into the forest, more or less following the path that winds off into the trees (I take it). It isn't long before you can hear running water from somewhere up ahead, though the river isn't yet in view. What you can see as you walk along, and which might qualify as either rare or dangerous, is, well... nothing much, to be honest. There are the usual forest pokémon to be found, of course, but other than a venonat that the pokédex calls level eleven that is prowling the underbrush, there's nothing much of note.

At least, there isn't until a floating egg decides to dart across the path just in front of you. It's too fast and unexpected for you to get a scan on it, but you do get the impression of a large egg floating maybe four inches above the ground as it zips from one side of the path to the other. The egg is different than the one you saw in the pidgey's nest as well, covered in patterns of red and blue. It disappears to the side of the path almost fast enough for you to convince yourself that you didn't see it at all, but, really, a super floating egg is just to weird for you to just be making up.

Kratos Aurion

(( Evolutions that happen in the main ASB can be applied by visiting a computer terminal and writing over the affected pokémon in your party with its evolution in your main account. You cannot transfer main-ASB EXP, however.

All businesses that have been opened in this incarnation of ASB exist somewhere in ASB Central, and they operate just like the actual business thread. Presently, all of them are open. ))

Adonis does not, in fact, see the venonat. He does see some bushes in the direction that you're pointing, but his eyes aren't exactly made for sighting detail at long range. The ekans looks up at you and flicks his tongue, then turns to watch what is, to him, something much more interesting--the fight between the growlithe and the presumably wild ekans.

Adonis' is spoiled to a degree, though, when the action grinds to an abrupt halt as the front door to the house bursts open and a young man storms out onto the driveway. "Hey--hey! Get out of here!" he yells at the pokémon as soon as he sees them, making shooing motions with his arms. Both ekans and growlithe stop menacing one another and turn to look at the human. While the growlithe appears alarmed, the ekans' expression is difficult to read, especially at a distance.

Kusarigamaitachi

Being an inexperienced water-type, and one currently suffering from a headache at that, Tankard isn't terribly confident he'll be able to pull off the psychic manipulation called for. Another aqua jet is no problem, and the nincada is once more forced back as Tankard hurtles into it. The bug's had enough of this nonsense, though, and rather than attempting another direct on Tankard, turns its attention to the ground and begins digging furiously, dirt spraying in all directions as it disappears into the soil. As soon as Tankard recovers from his own attack, he runs over to the edge of what is already a rather deep hole and peers in. There's no way he's getting an aqua jet down there. He looks blankly up at you, apparently at a loss.

Blastoise428[/ b]

The stunky initially recoils, then bends down to sniff the thrown berry. Apparently detecting no danger, it begins to eat it.

The natu is still staring.