ROCKET MOCKUP

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OOC notes: Here it is, the part where your characters get to explore the Rocket Base and discover its secrets! Maps of each level will be posted in this top post as they are opened up, with blacked out sections being revealed as obstacles are cleared. Obstacle clearing will be based on total comment count to any mod comment with a count listed, whether those comments are contained in a single thread or spread out over multiple different ones. As many people can comment to an obstacle or base level as wish to, for as long as they want, even after it has been cleared. There are a total of two obstacles (including the first one) which are triggered by character actions!

Anyone who wants to thread anything out in the base or mansion during the time characters are trapped (and who doesn't want to use this log for whatever reason) is free to make their own network/action posts with whatever they like! But mods will not be coming around to those with interaction, and they will not count towards clearing obstacles.

Questions? Ask them HERE!

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Level Two

MAP#2

Level Three

MAP#3

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BASEMENT 1

[ieva]

[The dust hasn’t quite settled yet, but it’s clear there’s been a shift in the battle - Rocket Grunts scramble to retreat in the wake of the prom-goers and their mighty Pokemon, and in their haste, the strange, newish door where a basement entrance would be has been left wide open.

Descend the stairs, and you’ll find yourselves in a room that feels like it should be much bigger than it is. The floor tiles have been laid down neatly, and a small room to the left has an ajar door. Piles of pilfered loot - trophies, rare books, tasteful paintings, many of which attendees of past proms might recognize as having once adorned the halls and rooms above - have been left in disarray before a very hastily constructed and shitty dividing wall. That too has a door, a decidedly mechanical one with a card key slot beside it, and beyond it you can hear the distinct, yet faint whirring of mechanics. Something’s on the other side for sure, but until you can get that door open, all you can do is guess.

Hm...knowing Team Rocket, it might be worthwhile to take a look around to see if a Grunt might have left a spare card key around in case theirs was lost.]

[The small room with the ajar door is surprisingly untouched, as rooms in ransacked mansions go. A plush carpet of purplish blue and a Welcome mat embroidered with Dratini welcomes you in. There’s photos on the walls of Lance posing with his various Dragons, and candid pictures of other notable Dragon-Type trainers from across the regions with their teams. Doodles of Dragonites breathing fire and articles on legendary dragon spottings are pinned up on cork boards, and a table stands along the far wall covered in...scrapbook notions? Yep - stickers, patterned cardstock, tape with designs on it, all manner of markers and pens - everything you need to make some really choice scrapbooks lays out in a clutter along the table...save for one very obvious empty spot, just big enough for an open book to lay.

There’s also a pair of black shoes peeking out from underneath the table that scuffle back at the first sound of someone approaching the entrance. Uh...what?]

((OOC: While digging through the items, your character has the chance to pull out one special-fun item that the mods will determine through RNG. Some are cool, some are harmless, and one or two are sure to earn a laugh. What have you got to lose?))

BASEMENT 2

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[The terrified shrieks of the rustled Rocket Grunt echo through the new rooms the warp brings you to - though, you’d do well to remember which warp you took to get in here in the first place, because this sure is WARP PAD HELL. Can anyone keep track of what warp leads where? It’s likely not even the Rockets can, but that Grunt from before sure is trying his best, because if you happen to spot him, it’s only as he steps onto the next pad to the next room!

What’s even in here? Well, that main long room you first warp into is chock full of cages where Pokemon native to the waters and forested areas of Tojo Falls have been locked up - so THAT’S where they were! Poor things look absolutely miserable, too. Surely you wouldn’t be as cold-hearted as to leave any of these Pokemon to become slaves to Team Rocket:

Electrike, Castform, Frillish, Rufflet, Vullaby, Shuppet, Pawniard, Roggenrola, Makuhita, Huntail, Gorebyss, Foongus, Poliwrath, Kingdra, Throh, Sawk, Gothita, Beldum, Swalot, Quilfish, Relicanth, Lotad, Slakoth, Spoink, Bibarel, Carvahna, Dwebble, Mantyke

These Pokemon will all be anywhere between Levels 20-30.

While all of these are awesome and rare creatures, we do ask that trainers who wish to bring any home limit themselves to one Pokemon per character. After all, these are wild Pokemon who would most likely want to return to their homes, and it’d be poor form to poach Pokemon that other poachers have poached. There is also a small machine at the end of the room that dispenses anti-vertigo medication...for P100 per two pill packet. What, Team Rocket’s gotta make money!

Some rooms are home to quite a few rows of old, clunky computers, the likes of which you’d have thought would surely be out of commission by the 1990’s. They seem to be stuck on the same kind of maze screensaver - maze-merizing, isn’t it? There is also a Rocket Rec Room with a beat-up sofa, a dinged up fooseball table, an air hockey table that will not work no matter what you do to it, and a beat up old DVD player(in case you found any DVDs while searching that loot and are curious to see what's on them...). There's also a warp with a sign indicating that it leads to the bathroom (and it does, in fact, bring you to a small bathroom, freshened by the most disgruntled Spritzee and containing ONE HECK OF A BIDET) and...an inflatable pool that’s half deflated. And full of plastic balls. Like a ball pit. A sign has been posted on the wall above it that declares it as “NAUGHTY ROCKET JAIL”. Do...do you even wanna know?

There IS an exit, though, and it’s possible to find it. It just takes determination!]

OBSTACLE - WARP HELL (20 comments to clear)

BASEMENT 3

[ieva]

[Thankfully, this new floor that the long-sought warp pad brings you to doesn’t seem to be any sort of hell. There’s a hallway, light spilling into it from where it hooks to the right, and when you emerge, the first thing you’ll notice is two doors with keypads mounted on them. One is a double-door set, large, to your right, and it looks fairly sturdy and important. There’s also a locked glass case on the wall beside it, with five sets of Pokeballs resting inside. The other is a single door that is VERY sturdy, right across from it. That darned slippery Rocket you’ve been following all through the base is scrunched up on the floor by the second door, holding that scrapbook like it’s a lifeline. He’s also looking at you with the widest eyes and palest face imaginable as he presses his back against the smaller door like he’s trying to barricade it with his body.

Somebody didn’t think you’d end up making it this far, but somebody’s got nowhere else to run. This might be your best chance to get some answers on where the Elite Four are, what Team Rocket expected to get out of ambushing such a large group of trainers at once...

...And what’s that crackling noise coming from behind the far wall on the left?]

[ieva]

[The double doors’ keypad grants access when “SLOWPOKE TAIL” is entered, and when the doors open, the room beyond floods with light, and four voices groan and hiss at the sudden shift in their surroundings. Though they’re a reclusive bunch and worse for wear, the figures of the Elite Four and their Champion are hard to mistake for anyone else - Will, Koga, Bruno, and Karen all have an air of strength about them despite their wounded pride and bound arms, and Lance is...well, he looks like he’s been knocked out cold, but he’s alive. It’s been a trying ordeal for all of them, so if you want to speak to the four that are conscious, try to keep it to one Elite Four member. They probably want to get to that glass case with the Pokeballs outside more than they want to be individually questioned.

Also, if anyone needs it, there is a small bathroom sequestered off in the cell. Just. Just putting that out there.]

[ieva]

[“SLOWPOKE TAIL”...what a generic evil team password! But that Grunt really did try to keep it from you for a good reason. Entering it into the keypad grants you access to a small room. Inside, there are several television monitors positioned at different angles, focused on a cage of energy being powered by several Electrodes. Judging by how the energy ripples, there’s something inside that’s been trying to escape for some time, but unless the power source is removed, it’s not likely to make any headway.

There is also another door in here, and the crackling sound can be heard at its loudest behind it. Fortunately, you don’t seem to need a key OR a password to open it. Want to see what’s on the other side?]

[Surprisingly - or perhaps unsurprisingly - what we have behind this door is exactly what you saw on the monitors in the room before: an energy cage powered by Electrodes. For some of you, especially those who attended last year’s out-of-this-world prom, the prisoner might be familiar, but it is far from the creature you encountered on the moon. The ever-shifting nebula of its fur has dulled to a languid and cloudy grey, its body no longer stands proud but puddles at the bottom of the cage in exhaustion, and its voice has been diminished to a weak, paltry growl.

Just how long has Nephelis been in here? What is it doing here? It can’t be good if the poor thing is in such a dismal state, even if you know what it is or not. Surely you won’t leave it to waste away in a weird Rocket basement, will you? But hm, how to best get those Electrodes from pumping the cage full of power…]

OBSTACLE - ELECTRODES (10 comments to clear)