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Posted by: SilverLugia456 May 9 2012, 11:18 PM
Created By SilverLugia456
Welcome!
To Explorers,
This group was created for people who have done explorations, who enjoy them and even for people who want to write them. In this group you can discuss the explorations(Without revealing tasks), give reviews of them(how were they?) and even write your own.
Introduced in September 2010, explorations give users a chance to earn various prizes. They range from Legendary Pokemon, specific Novelty Pokemon, or very rare/hard to come by items. An exploration is a series of tasks based on a story, that you need to complete for the reward of a special, hard to obtain pokemon. The great thing about explorations are that they are not entirely based on luck - they require a number of criteria to be able to start them, and have tasks that take a bit of work to do.
There are two types of explorations - Special, and Normal. The stats on GPX+ will read not only the amount of special and normal explorations completed, but also the total amount of explorations completed and unique explorations completed.
What's New? As we talk about explorations, something new has been added to what this group can do. Many of us might have a story or an idea for a exploration and would like to put it out there for others to see. Well, now you have a chance to do it, this group will also be a place where you can share your exploration story and ideas. To be able to write them out and have others read them and even help you out. I hope you enjoy your stay and have fun!
Sincerely,
The Exploration Institution
Rules:~
DO NOT POST TASKS FOR EXPLORATIONS~ All forum rules apply.
~ No spamming.
~ Please don't argue or fight if a disagreement emerges.
~ When it comes to others people writing or sharing, it's alright to correct but don't be mean about it. Be polite and respectful.
~ If any of these rules are broken, you will be banned from the group.
~ To show that you have read the rules please answer the question in the form with the words: Exploration Go!
~ New rules will be added if needed.
Requirements:~ Have the Newbie Explorer Achievement
~ Have at least 20 achievements
~ Been a member on the forums for at least 1 Month
~ Be Active
Form:Name:
Link to Party:
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique):
Have you read everything?:
**Form won't be accepted if everything isn't filled out right.**Notes: ~ Since this group did carry over listing of members and how many explorations total they have completed, instead of updating constantly how many explorations you have completed you can post your updates once a week or every other week. This is so that we don't have the constant spamming of people saying when they have completed another exploration.
~ When writing exploration stories, if you choose to write it all at once it would probably be best to place it in a spoiler tag so that the page doesn't stretch out from long posts containing exploration stories/ideas.
~ If you have a name change either message me or write it here so that I can update the members list to have the proper name.
Exploration so far shared
-these are exploration stories that are either being currently worked on and part already shared, or someone has shared their full story already.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ho_K99SpH275oSrN7erjesQqxbK8tw_tvjsoEZUWY90/edit
The Explorers
Leader: http://my.gpxpl.us/SilverLugia456
Members:
http://gpxplus.net/user/Manah - 95
http://gpxplus.net/user/Orenji- 75
http://gpxplus.net/user/Samoo - 90
http://gpxplus.net/user/knowledge - 25
http://gpxplus.net/user/Shadow+Suicune - 17
http://gpxplus.net/user/KiD+MiCro - 74
http://gpxplus.net/user/Sweeter - 123
http://gpxplus.net/user/Mizuhisa - 36
http://gpxplus.net/user/40800 - 48
http://my.gpxpl.us/Keyda - 47
http://gpxplus.net/user/Doctor+Octopus - 71
http://my.gpxpl.us/ProfessorLayton - 20
http://gpxplus.net/user/championkasq17- 17
http://new.gpxplus.net/user/AOPSUser -26
http://new.gpxplus.net/user/purple+umbreon - 27
http://new.gpxplus.net/user/AdmiralPerry -17
http://gpxplus.net/user/Shadow+the+Assassin - 44
http://gpxplus.net/user/Zac11th - 37
Posted by: Dreoilin May 10 2012, 08:00 AM
Congratulations, Kim, on being selected as the new leader of the Exploration Institution.
And now, a form for you!
Name: Dreoilin (Ryn)
Link to Party: http://gpxplus.net/user/Dreoilin
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 52
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
I approve of the new rule change regarding updates. Make sure members are aware of it on a fairly regular basis for now so anyone who re-joins doesn't mistakenly "break" that new rule.
Posted by: Manah May 10 2012, 08:47 AM
And again~
Name: Manah
Link to Party: http://gpxplus.net/user/Manah
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 89
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
Posted by: Orenji May 10 2012, 09:34 AM
I can't remember if I ever applied to the other one...Oh well, here's my application form 
Name: Orenji
Link to Party: http://gpxplus.net/user/Orenji
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 75
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
Posted by: Freeze Shock May 10 2012, 10:07 AM
Name: Freeze Shock (Sam)
Link to Party: http://my.gpxpl.us/Freeze+Shock
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 90
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
Posted by: knowledge May 10 2012, 10:18 AM
And again~
Name: knowledge
Link to Party: http://gpxplus.net/user/knowledge
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 25
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
Posted by: Natural Harmonia Gropius May 10 2012, 10:38 AM
Name: Natural Harmonia Gropius.
Link to Party: http://gpxplus.net/user/Natural+Harmonia+Gropius
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique):17
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
Posted by: KiD MiCro May 10 2012, 10:39 AM
Need to reapply okay~ Here's mine~
Name: KiD MiCro
Link to Party: http://gpxplus.net/user/KiD+MiCro
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 71
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
Posted by: SilverLugia456 May 10 2012, 10:55 AM
All Applications have been accepted
Like i said in the first post, this group has kinda expanded to more than just updating how many explorations you have done, now you are able to talk about and share ideas and stories. If you have a writing for a exploration you want to share and have people read you can post it here. While posting your ideas here others could get inspiration from it and also help you out. You can even post ideas and opinions of the current explorations(Just remember don't post exploration tasks.)
Also remember that when people post their writings or ideas, you are welcome to correct them or help them but make sure you are polite and respectful about it.
Anyways I'll start out with an idea I'm working on now:
I was thinking sometime in the future this could happen, were a exploration that has to do with obtaining 2 or 3 pokemon/items could have a story split. What I mean by a story split is that the first few tasks are the same for everyone but then you need to choose which path story you would like to do. So say you are doing a exploration for the Lake Trio....the story would begin the same for everyone then on task 3 or 4 you are given a choice and depending on what you choose, will decide what storyline to follow and what pokemon you would get. Instead of waiting until the end of the exploration and just choosing one there.
Some upsides to this is that you could look forward to going through 3 different stories instead of just repeating the same one until you get all 2 or 3 pokemon from it.
Right now I'm currently working on implementing this idea into a write up for the lake trio I'm doing.
Posted by: Sweeter May 10 2012, 12:02 PM
Here I go again~
Name: Sweeter
Link to Party: http://gpxplus.net/user/Sweeter
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 109
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
Posted by: Mizuhisa May 10 2012, 03:46 PM
Name:Mizuhisa
Link to Party:http://gpxplus.net/user/Mizuhisa
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique)
5
Have you read everything?:Exploration go!!!!
Yay expect a name change from me in a couple of days
yay I have enough time to be in a group just not owning a group
Congratz for taking my place Kim
Posted by: KiD MiCro May 10 2012, 10:25 PM
QUOTE(SilverLugia456 @ May 10 2012, 11:55 PM)
All Applications have been accepted
Like i said in the first post, this group has kinda expanded to more than just updating how many explorations you have done, now you are able to talk about and share ideas and stories. If you have a writing for a exploration you want to share and have people read you can post it here. While posting your ideas here others could get inspiration from it and also help you out. You can even post ideas and opinions of the current explorations(Just remember don't post exploration tasks.)
Also remember that when people post their writings or ideas, you are welcome to correct them or help them but make sure you are polite and respectful about it.
Anyways I'll start out with an idea I'm working on now:
I was thinking sometime in the future this could happen, were a exploration that has to do with obtaining 2 or 3 pokemon/items could have a story split. What I mean by a story split is that the first few tasks are the same for everyone but then you need to choose which path story you would like to do. So say you are doing a exploration for the Lake Trio....the story would begin the same for everyone then on task 3 or 4 you are given a choice and depending on what you choose, will decide what storyline to follow and what pokemon you would get. Instead of waiting until the end of the exploration and just choosing one there.
Some upsides to this is that you could look forward to going through 3 different stories instead of just repeating the same one until you get all 2 or 3 pokemon from it.
Right now I'm currently working on implementing this idea into a write up for the lake trio I'm doing.
I love that idea where we can choose different tasks and get different ending~ I've thought about it before but I'm not really good at writing stories so I just keep quite LOL~
Posted by: Velocity May 10 2012, 11:32 PM
Name: Velocity
Link to Party: http://gpxplus.net/user/40800
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 42
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
Congratulations on becoming new leader Kim, I'm sure you'll do great! xD
Posted by: SilverLugia456 May 10 2012, 11:47 PM
Thanks for the congratulations, I will sure try my best 
@KiD MiCro - ya that would be the basic idea cause then you could look forward to a different storyline so say you went for Azelf...well if you went for Mesprit next it would be the same story for the first few tasks and then choose the mesprit path and you will be reading a different story that would probably contain different tasks. It would be something new and probably cool to try in the future. The one thing though is that, that would be two different stories, with artwork, it would probably take a good amount of work to get it done.
As for writing your own exploration and showing ideas I myself have started one like i stated before which can be read here:
First idea for a exploration. (click to showhide)
The Lake Trio exploration story.
Task 1
"It must be hard...to be that one person..who had everything and then is left with nothing. To be someone who knows warm and comfort of those who are close to you, then have that ice cold chill of loneliness creep up on you and consume you. You think you know yourself...then you find out a truth that turns your whole world upside down and you become a stranger to everyone including yourself. No ones life is perfect, but there are those out there who wish they were more than what they had become. Each of us has experience true loneliness....but how many of us were able to walk the shadows searching for that one light that leads us towards the warm and comfort we so long for? Will we ever make it there? Will we be able to find ourselves...our true selves..."It is a snowy night and the sound of crunching footsteps can be heard as someone tracks through about a foot of snow. It has been snowing heavy now for the past few days and it shows no signs of letting up. The cold chill in the air is bitter and harsh, and the howling winds moving through the trees doesn't help matters much. Its easy to tell that the stranger is struggling to keep their warmth within their body, they shiver nonstop and try to bundle up more as they continue to fight the still dropping temperature. Each step to them now, is like a burden, a burden that they no longer wish to carry or acknowledge that it exists. The snow gets higher and their steps get smaller as it passes their knees, to push through the snow is like pushing through thick mud, no matter how hard to try to go forward its either slow or impossible.
Would probably be some length of interactions.
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Task 2
By now all of the person's strength has almost diminish, leaving them as empty as when they first began this walk of hopelessness, lost and alone. It isn't long before a huge wind gust comes by and knocks the fragile human to the ground causing a lot of snow to kick up by the impact. The figure just lays there, all hope, all light, it all seems to leave the falling person...as it continues to snow into night.
"Hey.....that is a funny place to be taking a nap you know......" A small almost light voice comes from the wind.
"H-h-huh?" You stir and turn your their head to see who could possibly be out in the middle of this misery. At first they see no one and assume its just your imagination playing tricks on you until...
"I said that is a pretty funny place to take a nap......its too cold....." A faint red light appears floating down towards where you are laying.
"W-w-w..." you try to answer but have very little energy to be able to speak the full word.
"We see you have lost something..." In that moment the light splits so that there are 3 seprate ones. One is blue, one is yellow and the middle one remains red.
".............." You are unable to speak due to each intake of breath, with the cold wind constricting your lungs, making it hard to even take a breath without feeling a sharp pain.
"You lost something, we can help you reclaim it" The three lights lower themselves so that they are floating just above the snow in front of you. The lights soon fades and sitting there in the snow are 3 orbs, a blue one, a red one and a yellow one.
"Pick one and we shall help you"With the little strength you have left you slowly reach forward, even though you have little feeling left in your fingers, you somehow can tell that you have one grasped in your hand.
This is the task where you decide which path or which story out of the three you would want to do
now that is just something that I thought of, there is probably errors in it, but I have changed many things around as new idea start to form, and continue to write the three separate stories, just so give an example what it would be like if something like that was implemented in a exploration.
Posted by: Keyda May 11 2012, 11:33 AM
Name: Keyda
Link to Party: http://my.gpxpl.us/Keyda
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 47
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
I really like that idea, I'd be glad to help anyone out once I get through finals next week. Are there rules on what kind of explorations you can do?
Posted by: SilverLugia456 May 11 2012, 12:04 PM
Form Accepted
As for the kind of explorations, its really any ideas that you have, for pokemon or for items like the few that were already done. Write out a story put it in spoiler tags others can read it and discuss it. Same with any ideas you might have post that and people can discuss it, add to it, and give their opinions on it.
Continuing from my last post, I'm still trying to think up a good storyline for each of the splits I think I have something good for one of them but I don't know about the tasks that each part would need.
Posted by: Sweeter May 11 2012, 04:26 PM
Here was one I started on about a year ago today. I put it aside because I was getting bored with it but now that this group included posting exploration stories I was thinking some of you can suggest stuff for it, like if the tasks need to be harder or something was worded weird or whatever.
This was all part of this idea I had of individual explorations for legends that have a 100% chance of being shiny. The user can only do one every once in a while. It obviously wouldn't be fair if someone were to do this more than once. I know it'll most likely never happen but it's an idea. Maybe I could convert this into one that'll give you a Rainbow Wing.
Over the Rainbow (unfinished) (click to showhide)
Over The Rainbow
- All the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true
Requirements:
Total interactions: 1,500,000
Dex entries: 625
Total Achievements: 150
Waiting period: This exploration can only be done once
Task 1/20:
You just completed a long hike. After the walk is completed, you decide to rest against a large rock. You take a deep, relaxing breath and take time to admire the vast view of the forest before you. The sun was shining brightly in the sky as flocks of Pidgey and Taillow zoom by. Your stomach growls a bit so you reach into your bag and pull out what you called the perfect sandwich: tuna salad with light mayo on toasted white bread with the crusts cut off. Perfection. After you eat up the sandwich, you get ready to take a well-deserved nap. As soon as you doze off though, you could hear a strange, faint cry.
"Ba..."
You figure you're just getting delirious since you hiked this forest for two hours straight. You get back to your little nap, but the noise comes again and this time it's a little louder than before!
"BA!!!"
So thankfully you weren't crazy. There may be a Pokemon in trouble! Though you were still worn out, the adventurous side of you wanted to go rescue the poor thing. You get up and go!
Locate the strange noise: Get 1,000 interactions
Task 2/20
You quickly run deep into the forest in order to pinpoint the location of the strange cry. You wanted to know what time it was and looked down at your w atch. What luck! The battery in it died, stuck at 1:47. You angrily sigh but there's still something you must do. Keeping your ears open, you proceeded to look on, only stopping for a few seconds to catch your breath or sip on some water. During one of the rest stops, you notice the noise you're hearing was now louder than before.
"BA!!!!"
You looked around to see if there was anything hiding in the bushes or in the rough patches of grass, but to no avail. You decide to look up just in case, and what you saw shocked you.
On one of the treetops, there was a ladybug-like creature perching on top. But from the downtrodden look on its face and the oddly moving wing, something was up. It kept sounding its heartbroken cries, but it seemed in vain. You felt sorry for the little creature...until you looked at the height of the tree. It seemed quite a few meters high, not what you were expecting. Though you were still a little bit tired, you wanted to save the upset Ledyba. Taking a deep breath, you began to climb the tall tree.
Rescue the Ledyba: Get 800 interactions
Task 3/20
After many failed attempts, you were finally able to reach the top of the tree and got the Ledyba that was lying on the top of the tree. As you climbed down, you notice a strange sparkle out of the corner of your eye. You took a short peek but nothing too significant seemed to have caught your eye. Maybe you were just dreaming it.
You finished climbing down the tree and you placed the pitiful Ledyba down. You could tell by its shorter antennae that it was a girl. Still, her left antennae looked a bit torn, and one of her wings looked damaged to the point that it couldn't move. You touched that part of her wing and felt sort of a chill. You're not sure how that might have happened, but you figured that she might have been harshly attacked by an Ice-type Pokemon. Either that or the Pokemon met up with some cold air, but that really didn't explain the damage it sustained.
Tears formed in her round eyes as she began to sob in pain. Reacting to it, a tear formed in your eye. It's upsetting how this little girl was suffering so much. You held it close to you and made a promise:
"I'll help you out. It's okay. I'll make sure you're all better!"
Wasting no time, you dug around in your bag once again to pull out some berries.
Help heal the injured Ledyba: Have 150 people feed Ledyba a berry
Task 4/20
The Ledyba seemed to have enjoyed the berries. It's now much happier! For some weird reason, all the berry-feeding seemed to have healed up her wing a bit! You watch in glee as the Five-Star Pokemon zipped across the clear sky when all of a sudden she started to cough a bit. Before you knew it, she slowly landed, still feeling just a little bit whoozy.
You can tell that she still felt a little bit sick. You once again look around in your bag for something that may completely heal her up.
Finish healing Ledyba: Have an Antidote in your inventory
Task 5/20
After you spray the medicine on the still sick Ledyba, she once again started to perk up, this time being completely better! She let out a joyful cry, happy that she was now fully healed! You waved goodbye to the bug as it flew away from view. It felt nice to do some good for a poor Pokemon in need.
You were just about to head back to that rock you were napping on when a dark blue blur suddenly zipped out of nowhere. You turned around and before you was a strange dark blue bipedal creature with a pink feather sticking out of its right ear. Its claws looked razor sharp and ready to attack. It was a Sneasel!
The Pokemon seemed to have identified you as an obstacle, because it launched a light blue beam from its mouth. An Ice Beam attack! You quickly dodged out of the way, but not without a little bit of your foot being encased in ice. You angrily growled at the creature as it attempted to slash at you with its claws. You luckily got out of the way of that attempt too, and that was when you realized something. When you felt that Ledyba's back, it was really cold. Perhaps this was the Pokemon that attacked the poor defenseless thing. This is when it got personal.
You detached a Pokeball from your belt.
"You wanna play rough, huh? Well I'm not going down without a fight!" you cried as you threw the Pokeball.
Prepare your Charizard for battle: Have a Charizard, at level 60 or higher, in your Party
Task 6/20
"Go, Charizard!" you shouted.
Out of the bright light that poured from the Pokeball stood the orange dragon-like Pokemon, breathing fire before letting out a majestic roar.
It looked down at the tiny Sneasel it was going to face. Charizard simply snorted at it. The Sneasel softly growled as it charged at your Pokemon, claws sharp and ready to tear.
"Quickly! Get out the way!" you cried.
Charizard spread its wings and headed up to the sky, easily dodging the Sneasel's attack. The Ice-type, however, did not hesitate to try it again, launching another Ice Beam. Like before, Charizard got out of its way, but it didn't notice that the attack was able to freeze a part of its left wing. When you and the Pokemon finally saw, it was too late. Charizard came crashing down. Sneasel snickered.
"I'm not giving up that easily! Charizard, Flamethrower!"
Despite the mishap, Charizard got up on its feet and breathed out a blazing stream of flames.
Sneasel retaliated with yet another Ice Beam. The two attacks collided.
Battle the wild Sneasel: Have Charizard win a Vs. Seeker battle
Task 7/20
The force of the two attacks triggered what looked to be a small explosion. After the smoke cleared, Sneasel laid there completely knocked out. Charizard roared out in victory! After the short celebration, you called your Pokemon back into its Pokeball.
Today certainly became weird. First you encounter an injured Ledyba. Then, you get attacked by a wild Sneasel. All you wanted to do was take a rest after your walk! You breathe a sigh of relief and prepared to sit against the same tree you earlier climbed and tried to get a rest. Your eyes were almost shut when you encounter a familiar sight: a strange twinkle of light. You figure you were once again losing it but soon after you attempted to close your eyes again, the twinkle appeared again, this time a little bit brighter. You decide to look around and notice a strange stream of glittering golden lights pointing to the west.
Okay. This time you must finally be off the rocker. That was until you heard yet another cry. A weeping sound can be heard from a distance, strangely from the same direction the sparkling path was leading. It must be another Pokemon in need! Sucking it up, you follow the golden light, like a yellow-brick road.
Follow the strange light path: Get 2,000 interactions
Task 8/20
It might have hurt a bit, but you still ran, towards the second cry, using the strange path of light as your guide. It leads you to a deeper and more tree-shrouded part of the forest. You start to look around to find where the sound was coming from, but like the first one, you didn't have too much luck. Not even in the trees.
You start to lose hope, but you still keep wandering around to find what you were looking for. Just then, you felt something slimy hitting your right arm. You turn to your arm and there was a sticky stringlike substance lying on top of your skin. You cringe at the sight and moved forward a bit, this time you feel like you stepped on something. Looking down at your feet, and there was that same sticky mass on the ground. You lift your left foot and from the looks of it, some of it got stuck on your shoe! Gross!
It was at that moment you realized that you walked into a sticky web! Before you knew it, you were covered in sticky strings. And then as quick as a flash...
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!"
You feel electricity surge through your entire body! You screamed so loud it almost split your eardrums! The attack lasted a few seconds, but time seemed to have passed rather slow and it felt like an eternity. When it all ended, you landed on the earth, blacked out.
Seconds passed like minutes; minutes passed like hours. You slowly opened your eyes and started moving your body a little bit. Miraculously, you survived the shocking attack. You felt a tad disoriented, so it took you a little while to figure out where you were. Then it clicked. You were led here by some strange light show, and then you stepped in an electric web and everything unfolded from there. Now why would that thing lead you here and almost kill you? It was at that moment you remembered one other detail: there was a Pokemon in trouble!
You finally get up only to have your eyes met by a giant yellow spider! You recognize the weird Pokemon as a Galvantula, a part-Bug, part-Electric type! That thing must've set up that web! Angered, you took out a Pokeball and prepared to bring Charizard out again so the thing can pay for what it did, but before you did, you noticed that it had a sad look in its eyes. Part of you thought this may be an act of sympathy, but another asked you this: Was this the Pokemon that was crying out?
You once again look at the web and see a bunch of tinier spider Pokemon, Joltik, crawling all over the web. This Galvantula must be a mother looking over her babies, but she was still sad. Maybe some of them went missing!
Your assumption was correct, as it was looking around the web, noticing three empty spaces amongst the small group of Joltik. So that must be it! The mother's upset because some of her children disappeared! You have to find them!
Find the mother Galvantula's babies: Adopt 3 Joltik from the Safari Zone
Task 9/20
In your arms, you carry three shivering Joltik, still a little bit startled by you scooping them out of that weird nest you found, but you're glad you helped another Pokemon who was in trouble. You place the three Joltik on the ground and they quickly scurried up their mother's web. The Galvantula looks happier now, so that must have been the reason why she look so depressed. Still, when she looked at you, she was a little bit scared you might attack her. You still feel a little bit tingly because of the zap from the web, but you didn't have any hard feelings. It was, hopefully, more than likely an accident.
Just then, you hear an odd noise, like something is slowly but surely approaching. Then all of a sudden, a bright blue blur streaked across the net and as it finished, all of the Joltiks were gone! You look up and caught a glimpse of the culprit. It looked similar to a vampire bat with a long scorpion-like tail and two huge claws carrying the ten Joltik babies. It turned it head and flashed its bright yellow eyes. It was a Gliscor!
That particular one was different though. You know that a regular Gliscor was purple. This one was instead bright blue! It was a shiny one! A rare sight indeed! That was when everything suddenly clicked! That nest where those three Joltik were found must've been that of that Gliscor! Now it's coming back with a vengeance!
You had no time to marvel at its rarity. That thing had to be stopped or who knows what it'll do to those poor little babies! The Gliscor was fast, so you needed a faster Pokemon that could possibly finish the job!
Defend the Galvantula and her children: Have a Scyther, level 70 or higher, in your party
Task 10/20
"Go, Scyther!"
In a flash, the green mantis Pokemon appeared and immediately pursued the shiny Gliscor. The creature was kind of far away at that point, but Scyther appeared to be much faster. From the corner of its eye, the Gliscor saw the Pokemon that was gaining on it. It tried to fly faster, but before it could do anything, it was struck by a powerful X-Scissor attack. It let out a loud cry before it fell.
The bad news: it lost its grip on the ten Joltik! Thankfully, Scyther flew in at the nick of time and caught all ten of them with ease. Sure it looked a bit silly carrying all them, but it didn't mind. It then flew back down to where you and Galvantula were and gently placed the Joltik on the web. The ten chirped happily, glad to be back with their mother!
You called Scyther back to its Pokeball and were about to turn back home when you notice the same glimmering path that lead you to this web. This time, it lead to a path east of Galvantula's home. Knowing that you have to continue on your journey, you bid Galvantula and her Joltik farewell and go on your merry way.
This pathway seemed a little bit longer than the previous one, but you didn't mind. You looked ahead and noticed that it ended at a rather large river and in the middle of that body of water there was a mound of earth with a small cage perched on top. Inside there looked to be some things flopping around like they're desperately trying to escape! This situation looked dire, so you had to hurry right along before it gets worse!
Get to the river: Get 1,150 interactions
Task 11/20
You make it to the river's area, wipe the sweat off your brow, and immediately sit down to take a look at what's happening inside that cage. What you saw inside it shocked you. There were three Finneon weakly gasping for air! They were barely alive! You were so startled that you almost began to cry! Who would do such a thing?
You get to the edge of the river to get a better view. As you get a closer look, you wished you didn't. The Finneon's skin looked almost completely dry. Their cries were so faint that someone else would need a very good ear to hear them. They were slowly but surely flopping their butterfly-like tail fins. Indeed it was pitiful.
You were so shaken that you just wanted to get them out! You look at the cage and saw that, like almost every other cage, there was a padlock keeping the door shut, but the key was not even near it! You then looked around for at least a single glimmer, but to no avail. This was going to be a harder task than you would imagine. And the one day you forget to bring a Water Pokemon!
Without hesitation, you leapt into the river and began your hopefully not-in-vain search for the key. The Finneon are counting on you!
Find what the Finneon are looking for: Exploration item task
Task 12/20
As you swim up the river, you notice a strange gleam coming from the bottom. You take a breath and dive deeper. The water blinds your eyes a bit, but you were still able to make out a shape of a key under the muck. You grab for it, only getting nothing. After a few more attempts though, you were finally able to grab that key!
You quickly swim up to the surface and as you come back up, take a few gasping breaths. Thankfully you didn't get the bends. You were soaked from head to toe, your clothes completely drenched, and you were so focused on getting those Finneon out that you forgot to take off your sneakers! Wet shoes just have to be the worst! Still, the Finneon were just up ahead and you had to make a quick swim for it before it's too late! You hold the silver key between your teeth, holding it down tightly as you started to swim upstream.
Minutes passed and you make it to where the Finneon were. You were thankful that you didn't accidentally swallow the key on your way here. Taking it out of your mouth, you put the key in the padlock and proceeded to open up the cage.
Free the Finneon from the cage: Release 3 Finneon
Task 13/20
The Finneon inside the cage were so weak that they couldn't get in the water themselves after you opened it. So, you took each of the three and put them in the water in order to perk them up again. They didn't seem too responsive at first, but within a few minutes, they were slowly but surely starting to regain their energy. Before you knew it, they were splashing and swimming around with glee. The three then turned to you, smiling. They were proud of you for going through all of that, even if you had all your clothes and no Pokemon assistance. The Finneon then began to swim away from you as you wave goodbye. Nothing's better than making new friends.
Just then, as you were about to step out of the water, you feel something wet and slimy wrap around your left ankle. Your eyes widened in shock as you looked around to see what the cause of that attack was. Nothing, so you did what any person in trouble would do and try to yank your leg out of the tight trip this thing seemed to have. You even tried to get the slippery gray rope or whatever it was untied with your hands, but it was all in vain. Even with all that effort, you were not able to get that thing to let go of you. Tough cookie.
You still tried to get out of the shallow part of the river to see if something would happen. As you were about to, you hear something rise up from out of the water. You took a quick glance and saw a gigantic blue jellyfish with two large red spots and one smaller one on its forehead. Its gray tentacles flopped around and struck the water and the ground like whips. Its eyes stared you down like you were its prey. It was a Tentacruel!
Before you knew it, the Jellyfish Pokemon was reeling you in like a fish on a hook! You try to hang on to the small mound of dirt that kept the cage afloat, but you quickly lost grip and were now seconds away from becoming Poke-food! You had to think fast!
Escape from the attacking Tentacruel: Get 1,600 interactions
Task 14/20
Mere seconds before the Tentacruel consumed you, you made one more desperate attempt to esacpe its clutches. You opened your mouth and bit down on the tentacle that had tightly gripped your leg. Tentacruel were known for being resilient, but even with that, the Tentacruel cried out in pain, inadvertantly unwrapping its tentacle from your ankle. While it was distracted by the surprise attack, you got out of the river as quickly, grabbed your bag, and ran off.
Today started off as a normal one. You just wanted to go on an easy-going walk, and before you knew it, you were aiding an injured Ledyba, batling a stray Sneasel, saving a Galvantula's babies, stopping a thief from taking them, freeing a trio of Finneon, and just seconds ago, you were almost in the stomach of a giant jellyfish! This day couldn't possibly get any more weird...or annoying.
Oh yeah, it does. That same strange sparkling path that led you to the web and the river was pointing straight towards something. You look ahead and notice a strange dark-colored castle towering almost to the clouds. On top was that same sparkle you kept seeing, but it seemed a little weaker than before. Even though it was starting to get on your nerves, you follow the light path anyway.
You keep running towards the strange castle for a few minutes until something strange happened. The light on top the castle slowly began to grow dimmer and dimmer. Before you knew it, that sparkling light path that always popped up went away, and the light on top of the castle went off. What's worse, the sun was starting to set, meaning it's almost night time. You are heading in the right direction, but when that light went off, suddenly you started feeling upset, like all hope seemed to have gone away along with that light. You sat down on the ground and took a deep breath. Numerous questions started to pop up in your head. What is this all about? Why did you have to rescue those Pokemon? Why were those others trying to stop you? Are you some chosen one or something?
As you pondered those burning questions, you move your right leg a bit only for it to hit something hard. You look to your leg and saw that it hit what appeared to be an egg. It was light blue with purple sides. Curious, you decide to pick the egg up. It seemed heavy though it didn't really look like it. You start holding it when it began to glow! What's happening?
Hatch the strange egg: Have a Zubat egg in your party
Task 15/20
The light coming from the egg faded as a small blue bat appeared in its place. Its first sound was a light screech. It was a Zubat!
As the Bat Pokemon began to flutter around you, you thought of a plan. Everyone knows that bats are nocturnal, and you still want to find the source of that light that kept following you around these past couple of hours. And Zubat, along with its evolutions, are really fast and are really good at finding things in the dark. Eureka!
You tell the Zubat all about what had been happening to you lately. Either it thought you were telling the truth or you were just plain crazy. Anyway, the Zubat agreed to help you out. Finally a breakthrough! You command Zubat to go in the direction of the castle in the distance, but as it tried to, it suddenly looked as if it got lost! It was flying around like someone shut its eyes! You do realize that this Zubat was just a hatchling and it would take a while for it to get used to going long distances without getting lost. The bad part of it all? You didn't have that much time! So you thought about this some more and you decided that you were going to try to evolve the thing to its final form, Crobat. There was not that much time to do it in, and the night can only last so long, so you had to do this quickly before the sun came up!
You grabbed Scyther and Charizard's Pokeballs and tossed them into the air. The two Pokemon appeared in front of you and you explained your plan. They were going to attempt to make Zubat stronger as soon as they can!
You went on to explain your other plan to the Zubat. At first it seemed a little scared with the thought of it being constantly struck and attacked by your two comrades, but you assured it that by doing this, it'll become stronger and possibly evolve! It took a few minutes to convince it, but it worked. With that, you ordered Charizard and Scyther to use Flamethrower and Slash respectively on the Zubat. The two executed their attacks which struck the Zubat hard. It was sent tumbling in the skies, but it still held out.
For hours and hours, the two Pokemon fought with the Zubat, with the bat starting to learn how to dodge their attacks and fight back. The three were getting exhausted, as was you, who was finally that rest you wanted. You closed your eyes and started to snooze when once again a bright light interrupted everything. Is it finally happening?
Train your Zubat: Have a Crobat, level 75 or higher, in your party
Task 16: Open the doors of the lair: Have two Up-grades in your inventory
Task 17: Wake up the sleeping Slowpoke: Have 200 people feed the wild Slowpoke a Chesto berry
Task 18: Get to the top of the lair: Get 2,500 interactions
Task 19: Battle against the mysterious man: Win a battle against the NPC trainer in the Battle Tower
Task 20: Find the sick Ho-oh: Get 6,000 interactions
Prize: A Ho-oh egg with a 100% chance of it being shiny
Posted by: Doctor Octopus May 11 2012, 04:55 PM
I have a possible exploration story idea whirling around in my head, and was going to post about it, but then I realized I haven't actually rejoined yet, whoops. XD So let's get all this technical junk out of the way first.
Name: Doctor Octopus
Link to Party: gpxplus.net/user/Doctor+Octopus
Explorations Completed: 70 (will be 71 once I finish this run-through of Ripple in Time)
Have you read everything?: Exploration go!
Laura, I'll read your exploration while I'm waiting for this to get accepted. c: I'm sure it'll be great!
Posted by: SilverLugia456 May 11 2012, 04:59 PM
@Doctor Octopus - Form Accepted
I liked your story it was well written, though i need to say if its an exploration for a shiny pokemon especially a legendary the requirements and the tasks within the exploration would probably be higher. When it comes to explorations the equation should be requirements + Task = Reward. So you need to make sure what your requirements and tasks are equals your reward and since its pretty nice as a shiny(Legend) then both should be high for example:
you did raise requirements and stuff those are decent.
Tasks you could have berry feeds between 100-200
Pokemon level 100
But also since it is such a specially reward you could also have an exploration that is a one time thing for a shiny. Like with the token exploration where you only do it once and change the story up a bit.
Posted by: ProfessorLayton May 11 2012, 05:06 PM
FORM
Name: ProfessorLayton
Link to Party: http://my.gpxpl.us/ProfessorLayton
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 20
Have you read everything?: "Exploration GO!"
Posted by: Doctor Octopus May 11 2012, 06:11 PM
@Sweeter: Pretty much just echoing Silver here- the requirements probably ought to be upped a bit (but probably not by much), and the tasks increased in difficulty. Interaction tasks would be longer, berry feeding tasks would require more berries, that sort of thing. whoops you already fixed that before I could finish my post ahaha. Like I said- they could be a little harder, but I think they're relatively okay. I mean, it's not like you're trying to make another TBD here.
Thus far, the story itself is good. There are a few grammatical errors like with tenses and such scattered through it, but those can all be fixed pretty easily. :P The rest of the stuff that I noticed to fix was really just personal things to kind of make it flow better and/or put it into my style, so yeah, I won't really mention those much more than through this. XD
And now on to my exploration idea! I don't have any of it actually written yet since it's still kind of a conglomeration of ideas rolling around in my head, but I figured I'd post what I have figured out thus far.
... Get ready for a text wall. I'm eloquent. XD
Hoenn Weather Trio (click to showhide)
This'll be another early-split explo like the one Silver has in the works for the lake trio, but this one will be for the Hoenn weather trio: Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza.
What I have thus far for it is this:
Task 1 would be the intro to the exploration (obviously)- you're a trainer living in Lilycove City (or Fortree, but I figured Lilycove would be more likely due to it being a relatively large city rather than an isolated tree town XD) and you've lived there for most of your life, growing up on the legend of the Weather Trio and the heroic trainer that did what they could to calm them. (basically the events in Emerald happened somewhere between ten and fifteen years prior to when this exploration is set, so you were a small child when it all happened) Said legend is widely taught and circulated in order to keep the same sort of thing from happening again- even more so around Fortree and Lilycove because of their proximity to Mt Pyre (also in Sootopolis but that won't really come up in the explo). I mean, really, you don't want to be screwing around with nature's balance. It kind of goes without saying.
Ever since you were a small child, you always liked learning about the legend, searching out as much information you could about each legendary Pokemon and learning about them, as well as (once you were old enough) regularly traveling to Mt Pyre to visit the old couple that guarded the orbs and chatting with them.
Anyway, as you're going about your daily routine, you notice a report from the Weather Institution on your TV talking about unusual weather patterns all across Hoenn - torrential downpours, sudden periods of incredibly strong sunlight and hot temperatures, gusts of wind stronger than anything normal (hurricane force possibly, but only single gusts at a time, never for any extended period of time). Now that you think about it, Lilycove has been weirdly sunny and hot for this time of year at a coastal town over the past couple days...
Suddenly, everything clicks in your mind. The legend you grew up reciting in school mentions often the strange weather patterns that accompanied the raging legendaries. Winds being tied to Rayquaza was never mentioned in the legend, but you figure that the rains for Kyogre and sunlight for Groudon is enough to send synapses sparking in your brain.
Quick as a flash, you decide to go to Mt Pyre to talk to the keepers of the orbs there and see if they have anything to say about the weird stuff happening.
The actual task would vary depending on whether or not you fly there (there could be gusts of wind surrounding Mt Pyre that prevent that), or whether you walk (interactions) and surf over (a water-type at a certain level). For the first one, it would only be one task; for the second, it would be split into two- the first one to explain everything and get to the water separating Mt Pyre from the route outside Lilycove, then the second one to send out your surfing Poke to get there.
Task 2/3 (according to whether it gets split or not) would have you reach Mt Pyre only to find the guardians of the orbs (the old couple from R/S/E) collapsed on the ground and all three orbs smashed to pieces. The orbs being destroyed is what sent the legendaries into a rage. The orbs are the least of your worries, however- you need to make sure that the guardians are still alive.
Obviously, they are- they just got knocked out. After a moment's recovery, they take you inside wherever they live (a homely little place inside Mt Pyre somewhere, obviously) with the shattered fragments of the orbs taken in with them to shield them from the elements. They shakily tell you that a lone person came in and blew past them, smashing the orbs for no visible reason, then knocking them out and leaving. They don't know who the person was or why they were there, only that they were clearly a few fries short of a Happy Meal. (I don't have this set in stone yet, but I'm thinking of maybe having it be one of the Team Galactic admins trying to continue Cyrus's plan. I don't remember which one it was, but I remember one of them being particularly weird. Cyrus couldn't do this himself since he's stuck in the Reverse World or whatever it's called. I'll have to do a little research to figure this out)
You're not sure where to go from here- there aren't any leads on the mysterious person, so the only choice you have now is to try and find one of the legendaries and calm them down to help restore balance. The guardians advise you that whichever legendary you decide to go after, to take its shattered orb with you. Chances are that the legendaries are so angry that without the orb, you wouldn't be able to get their attention before they just wiped you out.
Thus, your task for this one would be to choose one of three: Take the shattered red, blue, or green orb. Red for Groudon, blue for Kyogre, and green for Rayquaza, obviously.
That's where the story splits into three lines. I don't have much past this split, but here's what I have:
The next task, if you choose Groudon, would be to make your way to Lavaridge, where the volcano is rumbling and sort of half-erupting. (Not actually erupting, but spitting a little bit of stuff out nonetheless- like along the lines of what Death Mountain is like in the Legend of Zelda games) Winds would keep you from flying there, so you take land transport- a Dodrio. Dunno about the level, but I figure a Dodrio would be plenty fast for over land travel.
After that, once at the base of the volcano, another task would be that you'll need a Rock or Ground type (not sure which yet) and a Psychic type to get you to the top- the rock/ground to break rocks in the way and/or carry you up, and the Psychic type to shield you from any falling debris.
If you choose Kyogre, your next task would be to surf your way to Mossdeep City- another water type at a certain level.
You go to Mossdeep because you're not really sure where exactly Kyogre is, but you know it's somewhere around there. You ask around the city a little to see if the locals know anything, and with a little digging, you find that there's an underwater cavern not far off from Mossdeep and to the south (positioned almost equally far from Mossdeep, Sootopolis, and Evergrande), so your next task would be to have a diving Pokemon to take you down to it. Not sure which one that'd be at this point though. It'd be a specific water-type, I know that much.
Finally, if you choose Rayquaza, your next task would be to get a strong flier to get to the base of Sky Pillar. Being that Rayquaza hangs around at the top, the winds would be too strong for even your strong flier to get through, so you have to land at the base. I'm thinking for this one, it'll be a Fearow at a certain level. Fearow have large wingspans, so it should be able to maintain flight long enough to get to the Sky Pillar.
Once there, it'd be a fairly sizeable interaction task in order to make your way to the top- recall that in Emerald, once you've already been there once, the second time you go back there's a lot more debris on the floor and it's harder to climb. Said debris would only worsen over time, so you have to trail your way up Sky Pillar through that.
Past all of that, I'm not sure where to take it. I have a few vague ideas of the shattered orb catching the respective legendary's attention for long enough that it instructs you to place the pieces back together so that it will repair itself, and then you commune with it more once that's done. In the presence of the orb, the legendary is calmed enough to help.
As for the mention of the Galactic admin, I'm thinking that eventually you have to go talk to someone from Sinnoh and see if you can get more info from them- maybe Cynthia, since it's been shown that she travels around a bit, or the international agent on the trail of said admin. Eventually it'll have to culminate in something that ends up with the admin being caught, and the balance being restored.
Maybe by the end, the legendary you chose the path of was weakened enough that it would turn back into an egg for you to take care of? I'm not sure- the only really cemented parts are from the beginning to the journeys to the respective legendaries.
Questions? Feedback? Warm fuzzy feelings? Bueller?
Posted by: SilverLugia456 May 11 2012, 06:42 PM
That sounds really good so far.
When it comes your story it seems like there might be a lot of detail that would need to work into about a 10-15 task exploration.
Going through what you said:
the task split is good at 2/3 cause that gives you plenty of time to give each story without rushing it.
As for where the story should go, that could probably head a few different ways:
Red is basically groudon -> which means you could chase around intense sunlight rays to like two different locations cause that would give you at least two pokemon tasks before the final task. This also gives room for berry feeding tasks and items. Same could go for Kyogre. As for Rayquaza with the winds, you could use the winds or maybe sightings to choose two locations before sky pillar, and save a least one task for the sky Pillar climb. You could probably use the last few task as a confrontation one if there is a villain featured in your exploration.
As for mine, I already posted what was going to be in the beginning so I'll give a overview of what I'm doing.
A Lake Trio Exploration (click to showhide)
How my exploration starts out is that you are wandering in a snow blizzard and a bunch of thoughts are going through your mind kinda leading to what the exploration is about. As your energy leaves you, you are visited by 3 lights that are red, blue and yellow. After the lights greet you they float down and you reach out to one of them which would be task 2 or 3. Depending on which light you choose, decides which of the three stories you will be.
After that your play out the story that you choose, the first one could be Mesprit which is emotion, this story of course will be focused on regaining emotion, this could happen though a certain time and it cause the feelings to stop, where everything looked the same.
For Uxie the story would be focused around Knowledge, maybe a mistake that was made and something needs to be learned about it or a truth that needs to be revealed.
And lastly for Azelf, which would be Willpower, that could be Willpower something that is along the line of something that had one meaning to it but then when this vision or visit happens a new meaning comes out which changes the person for the better so that they will be able to handle it better.
now those are just stretches, for given ideas for each story and I'm always looking for ideas that could help turn these ideas into exploration stories with tasks, I'm already writing a story for Mesprit but I would need others for Uxie and Azelf.
What is different though is at the end they kinda all merge back into one story have a similar ending mostly likely being the spot where you click End the Exploration.
I look forward to other stories and ideas that other people come up with, so far these ideas and stories are looking good and could be expanded on with new ideas and opinions.
Posted by: Doctor Octopus May 11 2012, 07:00 PM
Hm, that does sound good, except perhaps the Rayquaza one. The thing with that is that, with 'you' being such an aficionado of the legend, you would know straight away where Rayquaza usually hangs out: the Sky Pillar. However, a way around that could be that you try to fly directly to the top, but get blown away by the winds, and your Fearow gets pretty badly beat up by the crash landing. That'd leave a berry task for you before you attempt to climb up the Sky Pillar. So basically: Fearow task to try to fly there, feeding task to help it heal, then climb the Sky Pillar.
(Or perhaps an exploration item task in place of the berry feeding one- part of the orb could have gotten knocked loose from whatever you're carrying it in when you crash landed, so you have to find it)
As for Groudon and Kyogre, the first task following them could be the same- go to the Weather Institution to see where the sunlight or downpours seem to be concentrated the most, then go from there. For Groudon, Dodrio could get exhausted before you get to Lavaridge, requiring a berry feeding task, and for Kyogre... surf around the area for a bit and not find anything (surfing Poke), go to Mossdeep (interactions), and get your diving Pokemon plus maybe a few items for 'preparation'? The item thing could be split up when you try to dive first and realize that whoops, you can't breathe underwater. Dunno what items you'd need though...
Villain confrontation: That's what I figured, but I'm not sure how I'm going to go about doing that yet, so it'll require some more thought.
@Lake trio thoughts: Maybe instead of the lights turning into orbs, they could coalesce into chains of the same colours- thus tying it in to the D/P/Pt stuff, and still be something physical to grab on to. Part of me is kind of not liking the orb thing because of parallels with the Hoenn stuff- the red and blue ones matching, basically. It's all just symbolism in here, I know, but still. :P
Uxie: Expanding on the idea of a mistake, perhaps 'your' difficulty and reason for trudging through the snow would be that you've made such a bad mistake that it's eating you up inside, and Uxie teaches you that not everything ended after your mistake, and that some things can still be turned around. Granted, there would still be consequences to the actions of your mistake, but things can get better. Technically this is more 'wisdom' centred and knowledge =/= wisdom, but for the exploration I think you could pull it off.
Azelf: Again, 'you' could be struggling with a problem, or a big decision that you need to make, but what you know is the right thing to do requires you to do some difficult things, whether physically or mentally. Azelf could show you that, despite the seen difficulty, with willpower and perseverance it's not as hard as you thought.
I dunno, these're still pretty nebulous ideas, but hopefully that'll give you a little more to work with.
Posted by: Apple Bloom May 11 2012, 07:37 PM
Mizuhisa is now Apple Bloom
Posted by: Doctor Octopus May 11 2012, 08:02 PM
Okay, well, turns out inspiration struck (again) while I was out getting ice cream at Dairy Queen with mum, so here's what I have.
Spoiler because I have a tendency of being long winded (click to showhide)
So remember what I said in my first post about not really being sure what would happen after first getting to the legendaries, fixing their orb, and 'communing'? Well, solved that.
Once the orb has been made whole again, the legendary calms enough to speak to you. The general thanks and stuff goes on, but then there's an exchange of information: the legendary doesn't know what happened after their orb got smashed because it made this primal rage take them and they don't really remember all too much (or if they do, it's detached, like they were watching some other Groudon/Kyogre/Rayquaza do all the stuff they did) so you tell them about what happened at the top of Mt Pyre, about the mysterious dude that came and screwed everything up (repeating a vague description the old couple gave you of whatever Galactic admin it is). The legendary considers this, and when you ask what to do next, whether you should try to take the other shattered orbs to their respective legendaries, it responds in the negative. It tells you to go find out more about this mysterious baddie, and that it will go try to calm Groudon and Kyogre (if it's Rayquaza)/go appeal to Rayquaza (if it's Groudon/Kyogre- because seriously, the feud those two have going is probably still kind of there even if it is kind of a friendly rivalry normally. Even so, with the rage they're all in, said 'friendly rivalry' part would be forgotten in favour of "I HATE YOU RAHHHH"). It walks/swims (Kyogre would probably take you as far as the surface since whatever cave it was in would probably collapse when it left)/flies off before you have a chance to ask how to do that since you don't have much to go on.
After a moment's thought, you remember something about some important person from Sinnoh visiting the Hoenn region, and wouldn't you know it, they're staying in your home town of Lilycove. Thus, the task from here would be to make your way back to Lilycove City. Depending on which branch you're on, the method would vary - fly back on your Fearow for Rayquaza, surf back on your water Poke for Kyogre, or run back on your Dodrio. Depending on how far away Lilycove would be from each of those places, the interaction count would vary somewhat as well.
Once you arrive in Lilycove, you go to the hotel there to have a talk with Cynthia. There would be a little hassle from the hotel staff because Cynthia is one important lady and I'm sure she wouldn't want to be disturbed by common trainers, but you would show off your newly repaired orb and it'd be enough to shut them up. Once inside, you explain what's happened to her (showing her the orb as proof) and repeat the description of the baddie to her as well. She recognizes them as the Galactic admin, and tells you that he is probably going to try and continue his marooned boss's plans to remake the world (except obviously this would be physically rather than unmaking this world and making a new one like Cyrus's original plan with Palkia and Dialga).
I'm not sure what the next task or two would be (I think at some point I want 'you' to go back to Mt Pyre to grab the other two shattered orbs), but eventually you end up in Evergrande City (the half by the Pokemon League, not Victory Road) to find the Galactic admin already there... with Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza in tow. He has some machine or something that keeps them under his thumb, and even the presence of all three orbs can't snap them out of it. You have no other choice but to battle him- thus the task would be a battle against him in the BT with Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza as his Pokemon. 76-100 and 3 Pokemon, obviously.
Once the battle is won and the legendaries are all knocked out/exhausted, you manage to get whatever gizmo is keeping them under the admin's control away from him and smash it. The admin tries to get away, but right at that point, Cynthia would fly in with Finder or whatever the international agent's name is, and he would arrest the admin. After they have left, you approach the legendary that you first befriended, worried that you inadvertently battled too hard and injured them too much.
As you approach, however, the three orbs pulse brightly, the light rebounding off of the legendaries and causing them to glow as well (markings first, then the rest of their body). The legendary you originally went to opens their eyes and reassures you that it's okay. They're just going to rest for a while, that's all - you gave them a good battle, and now they trust you to keep them safe. With that, the glow brightens to blinding, and the next thing you know, there's three eggs sitting where the legendaries were.
The very last task would be an interaction one: take the eggs and orbs back to Mt Pyre to leave with the guardians there. Once there, however, they only take two of the eggs, letting you keep the one for the legendary you went to first. They're only two people, after all, and besides, they're getting the feeling that that egg wants to stay with you.
And so you return home with your legendary egg. Yay happy ending!
So yeah, that's what I've got. :U
Posted by: SilverLugia456 May 12 2012, 10:01 AM
That sounds good you just need a story now to back that up with, along with what tasks could possibly accompany each parts of those stories like if there is a confrontation either a battle in battle tower or a pokemon leveling task. There would probably be a few pokemon leveling or obtaining tasks since the places jump a bit.
As for your suggestions for mine, i will definitively keep those in mind when writing my three separate stories, since those give me a few ideas of what could each story be focused on. Cause one thing that I don't want is each story is different but I don't want them all to be closely the same cause that defeats the purpose of each individual story. Thanks for the feed back.
Posted by: Shadow Suicune May 12 2012, 01:28 PM
Natural Harmonia Gropius->Shadow Suicune
Posted by: Doctor Octopus May 12 2012, 04:31 PM
Well, with what I've got described there, it seems like the three different paths won't differ all that much after you actually find the respective legendary, but they do still differ a little bit... so they do merge back relatively quickly, but I think it'll still be okay.
Aaaaand if all goes well, I'll probably start writing it out sometime soon. I have something that I need to draw and finish before Wednesday, so I may focus on that first, but hopefully I'll start writing soonish.
Another thing I thought of is, well... what will the powers that be do once there is an exploration for all (or most, at least, since I can't see Arceus having an exploration anytime soon) of the normally unobtainable legends? Will they make ones for summonable legends, or for their respective summoning items, or just completely leave them out of the exploration roster? Just something I'm sort of curious as to what they'll end up doing, I suppose.
I have to make sure to temper my delusions of grandeur with this thought, ahaha XD since chances are that the powers that be won't be making summonable legendary explorations anytime soon, if at all
Posted by: Sweeter May 13 2012, 09:17 PM
I've been coming up with a couple other explorations. I'm still brainstorming stuff. One of them involves getting five random Battle Gems you don't have yet or just five random ones if you have them all, and the other I'm not sure about. I'm thinking either for a novelty or a new item. For the second one the main character is transported to a strange dimension where some Pokemon are enslaved and forced to hurt innocent Pokemon. The slave master owns a Hydreigon but I don't know if it's gonna be a special one or not. I have some task ideas:
Task 1: Item-finding
Task 2: Interaction (when you're transported)
Task 3: Have an Infernape in your party
Task 4: Have Infernape win a battle in the Vs. Seeker
Task 5: Have 85 people feed Infernape a Cheri Berry (it wins but it gets paralyzed in the process
(I'm not sure how many other tasks will be in between)
Task ??: Have a Dragonite and a Pinsir, at level 65 or higher, in your party
And that's all I have thought of so far.
Posted by: Manah May 14 2012, 10:02 AM
I love the idea of different paths. That'd make doing explorations several times a lot less...hm, boring isn't the right word, since I still enjoy doing them, but you get the idea. And I love reading the stories, so I'd love to be able to have different story paths.
Posted by: SilverLugia456 May 14 2012, 10:41 AM
I'm glad others like the different story ideas, its something new and could probably work somewhere down the road.
@Doctor Octopus - thanks, yes they will have similiar to each other but yet different in the sense of a different setting or a different time, with a different goal maybe. As for what could come for explorations after one is done for ever unsummonable legendary, they could possibly do ones for summonables, one for items that are had to obtain(like a blue stone, the battle gems/items) maybe even have a new item that gives something new to the site. I'm sure when that time comes new ideas will come out on what explorations people could do.
@Sweeter - that is a interesting story idea, and its something new, you could have a story like that stretch though 9 - 12 task depending on what the setting is and what happens. As i can see now, you have a main character transport so that's a good few interaction tasks, then pokemon tasks to fight others berry feeding tasks to heal injured pokemon, maybe a item finding task to find a key or key item for something, and also battle tower battles going against the top person or maybe if the characters runs into any other threats. As for a reward that could be offered for it, that I wouldn't know at the moment but a new novelty or a new item sounds good. Nice job, if you write out a exploration story for this, i look forward to reading it.
Posted by: Keyda May 14 2012, 07:16 PM
Just out of curiosity, I know you're working on an exploration for the lake trio. What happens if the admins already have something for the same ones, or had someone do one? Do you have to stop working on it or would they either incorporate yours or use yours completely?
I was thinking of starting a google doc to store all these story ideas, that way people can read them without sifting through posts. Would people be okay with that?
Posted by: SilverLugia456 May 14 2012, 07:37 PM
You see, there is really nothing that says these ideas or stories will be used. There is always hope that, something like that could happen but people writing these explorations(myself included) I would think could be doing it cause maybe they love to write, or they had an idea for a exploration story idea for something that was already done or hasn't been done yet and would like to get it out there for other people to read and get opinions on it.
Also if the time comes where new ideas need to be brought up for explorations people could look here and get them. And even if the admins/contributors already have one done for the site, i don't believe it would hurt to share an story or idea if you have a different one than what is out already. Stories are always fun to read, and some fun comes in writing/creating the story, which having fun is one aspects of this group.
As for the doc idea might be a good idea, and its something that could probably be tested out to see if it makes reading the stories more easier.
Posted by: Keyda May 14 2012, 07:49 PM
Okay, so it's more for fun and if it gets used then that's wonderful. I wasn't saying don't write them, I hope it didn't come across like that.
I'll put together a doc tomorrow when I can function a little more. Today was my final and it was exhausting.
Posted by: Keyda May 15 2012, 08:37 AM
Here's the documents, let me know if you like it or not. I've only included actual tasks if they have been labeled as such, that way it keeps it more organized. If something needs to be fixed just let me know where it goes and repost the entire task again with the changes.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ho_K99SpH275oSrN7erjesQqxbK8tw_tvjsoEZUWY90/edit
Posted by: SilverLugia456 May 15 2012, 09:23 AM
okay I'll look at it as soon as you approve my request to look at it since it asked that when I clicked on the link, then after that I'll add it to the first post so that everyone will know where to look and where to click, though if they need permission to view the document that might be a small problem so if you can, have it where it doesn't need permission and is a open document for people to view.
Posted by: Keyda May 15 2012, 09:35 AM
Sorry, all fixed. I forgot to change it from private to anyone with the link can view.
Posted by: SilverLugia456 May 15 2012, 10:26 AM
looks good so far except you need to change the requirements for the exploration i did, since there was none and it can't be one time anyways since you need to embark on it at least 3 times to get each lake legendary, the only requirements that were listed where those from Sweeter's exploration, if i could edit it myself i would but i can't since its only in view only. Other than that it looks pretty good.
Posted by: Keyda May 15 2012, 11:05 AM
Fixed. I copy pasted then forgot to edit. Guess my brain really is fried.
Posted by: SilverLugia456 May 16 2012, 11:31 PM
Its alright now that the list is updated, now it can be edited whenever there are new stories or ideas are shared, it should help keep things more organized and i thank you for bring up the idea and making the list out.
As for the exploration update for my story: I'm still working on the emotion storyline it seems like I'm making each task a bit too long and too detailed. i need to reword a few things and make a few changes to shorten it as well so it isn't over 20 tasks xD which shouldn't be a problem.
Posted by: Sweeter May 23 2012, 01:40 PM
I'm now up 114 completed explorations. Unfortunately my exploration ideas have slipped my mind as of late. I hope to get everything back together soon.
Posted by: Velocity May 27 2012, 08:03 PM
Update: Just finished Sweet Success for 48 explorations completed.
Posted by: SilverLugia456 May 27 2012, 11:55 PM
everyone has been updated as of today a few minutes ago.
As for me I'm still trying to work on the lake trio exploration story I have but each time i type it up it always seems too long i need to find a way to cut it down so its not all stop and stuff like that. I'm trying to find the balance so to speak so...ya I should have a part of it done this week if i have time since I get a few weeks break from my online classes.
Posted by: Manah May 28 2012, 07:29 AM
Haven't updated in a while... 94 completed explorations, and I'm currently on task 5 of A Ripple in Time. Expect to finish it today or tomorrow.
Posted by: Keyda May 28 2012, 07:37 AM
QUOTE(SilverLugia456 @ May 28 2012, 12:55 AM)
everyone has been updated as of today a few minutes ago.
As for me I'm still trying to work on the lake trio exploration story I have but each time i type it up it always seems too long i need to find a way to cut it down so its not all stop and stuff like that. I'm trying to find the balance so to speak so...ya I should have a part of it done this week if i have time since I get a few weeks break from my online classes.
You could post it and I could try to help you shorten it. I've been told I have a gift with writing, so I'd be glad to try if you want.
Posted by: Shadow Suicune May 28 2012, 10:27 AM
Mine isn't done but...
The Trio of Lakes (click to showhide)
Task One: It's a normal day for you in Sinnoh. You grab your Pokeballs, who contain Chimchar, Bidoof, Starly and Budew. You were going to fight the first gym leader, Rorark. But instead, you decide to go from your home in Twinleaf and head to Verity Lakefront. Get to Verity Lakefront. (Get 500 Interactions.)
Task Two: Once you arrive at Verity Lakefront, you see something in the distance. It looks like the cave your father always told you stories about. But something is outside of it, so faint you can't see it. You decide to hunt down a Buizel. Find the Buizel. (Have a Buizel in your party.)
Posted by: SilverLugia456 May 28 2012, 05:55 PM
@Manah - Okay that has been updated.
@Keyda - I'll keep that in mind, I currently am rewriting it but after this version is done I'll post it so that others will be able to help, take
out stuff that maybe isn't needed or add stuff that is.
@Shadow Suicune - that looks like a good start to a exploration, probably could think of more of a storyline to add to it after those two tasks, or maybe even expand on those so that a storyline starts to take shape.
Posted by: championkasq17 May 29 2012, 03:24 AM
Name: Championkasq17
Link To Party: http://gpxplus.net/user/championkasq17
Explorations Completed: 17, working on 18 by the end of May.
~Read Everything: Exploration go!~
(:
Posted by: Keyda May 30 2012, 06:42 PM
Updated the document with Suicune's tasks. It looks like a good start, but it needs a little more descriptive details, I think.
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Jun 1 2012, 01:41 AM
thanks for the update with the exploration stories.
Okay as for me, i finally have 1/3 of the trio exploration done, so far i have only done the mespirt which is the Emotion story. For this just so people understand when they read it, i didn't really focus mainly on emotion but what could happen if emotion is strong, so a different aspect of it.
Mesprit Story for Trio Exploration (click to showhide)
Tasks for Mesprit Story.
Task 2: have 3 mystic waters
You wake up when a warm breeze hits your face, when you open your eyes you are staring up at a bight blue sky with clouds slowly passing over you heading East.
"huh?"
You sit up and look around, the last thing you remember is a bight light and then nothing, slwoly standing up you start to get your barings and looking in the distance you see what appears to be a small town. Hoping to find out what is going on you start to head towards the direction that the town is.
Task 3: 1000 Interactions
It isn't long before you come across a wooden sign that seems to be just on the outside of the town, on wooden sign there seems to be a picture of a man and below there seems to be a reward and a description.
"Dangerous man on the loose, recent attacks on both pokemon and people have been made by this man who seems to attack unexpecting trainers and their pokeon leaving them very wounded"
You are shocked that anyone could even possibly think about doing that, just as you start to head off again you hear a cry for help. Quickly turn you see a women running towards you almost out of breath
"Please you half to help me...my son was playing and is trap by a large bounlder!"
Alerted by this you nod to the women who turns and heads off in the direction where she came from and you follow behind her
Task 4: 600 Interactions
You Follow the women into the outskirts of the nearby forest where you start to hear the faint cries of a small kid. As you approach the site of the accident you see a bunch of boulders that seem to be blocking the entrance of a cave. You need to think of something quickly before the worse could happen to the kid. As you start to look around for anyhting to use the mother looks at you hopefully, a slight panic starts to enter you but stops as the voice from before in the snow comes to you.
"You can help, use that pokemon"
You become a bit alerted as you feel your belt press against your side, you quickly look down and see a pokeball attached to it. Hoping that whatever pokemon that is inside that belt could help you, you take out the pokemon and release the pokemon inside.
Task 5: [Have the pokemon remove the boulders] Have a Rhydon Level 40 in your party.
It takes only a few minutes for your pokemon to remove all of the boulders revealing a small child leaning up the caverns wall, he stands up and runs over to his mom hugging and cry still scared of his ordeal he just went through. Very grateful for your actions the mother approaches you with tears of joy coming down her face and a smile on her face.
"thank you thank you so much if there is anyhting I can do to repay you, anything at all."
You think for a minute and then tell the women of your current ordeal about just waking up in the middle of the field and that you don't remember walking there or anything, At first the women just looks at you and you fear that she will call you crazy, but then she speaks.
"Well there have been a lot of strange happenings around here, nad its all center around that forest, you might be able to find those answers there"
She points towards the forest off to the side, you look to see the entrance of the dark forest, you feel slightly creepy feeling coming from it and when you turn to thank the mother she is nowhere to be seen. You become slightly alarmed from this as you look back and something catches your eye. In the distance just beyond the forest entrance there is a small pink light that seems to be heading deeper in. Taking a deep breath, you slowly but surely start to walk into the forest.
Task 6: [Try to find and follow the pink light] 1500 Interactions
If feels like you have been walking forever when you come across a lake scenery, laying right at the lakes shores is the pink light, you squint your eyes but you can't make out what pokemon could possibly be giving it off. As you walk closer the light seems to move over the water but where the light was there seems to be a injury water pokemon. At first sight you rush over and start to inspect it for any wounds.
Thinking quickly from all those times you have study pokemon medicine you reach into your bag and start to being your treatment for the pokemon. Everything seems to be running smoothly until you notice you have run out of the medicine that you need. Knowing that the pokemon needs more you lay gently back on the ground and stand up heading off into the nearby bushes and try to get more so that you can finish healing it.
Task 7: Have 85 people feed Piplup
Having fed the Piplup it is once again fully healed and heads off. You stand up and a smile appears on your face, but it isn't long before your attention is once again on that pink light which seems to be heading back into the woods almost like leading you somewhere. You quickly roll your eyes and start to head into the dark forest once again, this time though everything seems more darker. Looking ahead of you, you can start to see the pink light fading into the distance.
"Hey wait up!" You call towards the light but you seriously doubt that the light would stop, since you aren't even sure if there is a pokemon who is giving off the light. Stopping for a moment to catch your break you notice that the bag you had with you has gone missing and in that bag had your medicines and other nessesary needs for your traveling. Letting out a sigh of frustration knowing the pokemon you were following is long gone, you start to search for your bag.
Task 8: [Find your bag] Find a exploration Item
After finding what your bag, you continue through the forest looking around for where that light could have gone to. The forest around you seems to have gotten darker and darker which starts to make you uneasily, it doesn't take long until the feeling of someone following you starts to take hold making you walk a bit faster. After a few more strides you hear a twig snap behind you and this causes you to quickly jump around and look to see who is there, at first you can't see anyhting but then out of the shadows almost like a ghost a man appears.
"What have we here...a lost traveler I reckon, seems we should maybe help out this person"
The man chuckles but its a chuckle that sends a shiver down your spine, could this be the man you heard those group of people talking about, the one who attacks both pokemon and humans relentlessly. You take a step back and get into a fighting stance as the man throws three pokeballs in the air releasing a Arcanine, Brivaiary, and Aggron. All three pokemon look fierce and dangerous in their own ways as all eyes seem to fall on you.
"You...you won't win!" You respond as you look down and are surprised to see that more pokeballs seem to have appeared on your belt. Taking a deep breath knowing that you are facing a very bad situation to take the pokeballs out of your belt and release the pokemon inside them.
Task 9: Have a Lapras, Jolteon and Typlosion at level 36 in your party.
The battle between all 6 pokemon is fierce as attack's fly left and right and heads clash, it isn't long before the three enemy pokeon finally fall to your own pokemon's attacks, but at the same time your own pokemon have also maintained a lot of damage. You let your guard down knowing that the other three aren't attacking any time soon and go to check in your own pokemon. As you start to head towards them, a noise catches your attention and you look to your left to see the same man standing there but with another poke ball in hand
"What?!" You exclaim in your mind as you see him throw the pokeball and Mightyena appears.
"I never lose...i do anything to win." The man's hand points towards you and the mightyena charges, you look down at your belt but this time no pokeballs appear. In great distress you try to back away by your legs are froze, to the side you can hear your wounded pokeon crying out. Knowing there isn't anything you can do, you close your eyes and preparing for the worse that could happen, waiting for that split of pain or unbeileveable weight again you.
After a few seconds through it never comes but instead you hear a high pitch cry,this catches your attention and you open your eyes to see a pokemon shrouded in pink light in front of you taking the full blunt of the mightyena's assult.
Task 10: Defeat the Mightyena in Battle Tower
The pokemon in the pink light throws back the mightyena and then fires a strong attack towards both Mightyena and the human hitting the ground in front of them. In a panic the man returns all of his pokemon and runs off disappearing into the dark forest within minutes. It takes you only moments to regain yourself and run over to your own wounded pokemon and start to apply treatment to them.
"Weak...Its weak..."
You perk up when you hear the voice again and start to look around, you notice this time the voice is a bit faint and you can barely make out what its saying.
"Where are you? Hello?!" You return your pokemon to their pokeballs and stand back up look around at the trees to see if you can find anything.
"Please, find" The voice once again disappears and you think. "Find? Find what?"
It then dawns on you that the other pokemon, the one who protected you could need medical attention as well. You look around for a few minutes but can't see any signs of it but then you spot something that stops you cold. You walk over to a near by bush and feel a substance on its leaf, it feels thick, sticky and wet, the smell is overwhelming and it makes your stomach turn. You see the substance almost like a trail head towards the north where the distance hill is.
"Oh no" You only have enough time to get those two words out of your mouth before you head off in the same direction, your legs carrying you as fast as they can.
Task 11: [Find the wounded pokemon]900 Interactions
After running for a little while you come accross a cave like scenery laying just in the mouth of the cave is the pokemon who saved you during your dangerous encounter. You rush over and is shocked by its condition, the poor little pokemon as three deep cuts going across the front of it most likey made by the mightyena's claws. Acting quickly you take out some banadges and try to patch up the cuts as much as you can.
"Come on, hang in there, you saved me..."
You look down to see the small pokemon's eyes open a little and it almost seems to smile up at you, a few tears come to the corner of your eyes as you go back to working on help its wounds. As you almost finish you look back and the pokemon is still looking at you with a small smile, but this time as you look into its eyes there seems to be less light there than before.
"Please, don't give up. You are the only one friend i had, i don't know why...but you seem so familiar, I don't want you to leave."
Tears start to stream from your eyes as the pokemon looks straight up towards the sky, slowly the light fades from its eyes and they slowly close. You let out a small choke gasp as you feel the pokemon's chest lower and heart beat for the last time. With the pokemon in your arms you start to cry, the one pokemon who you made friends with was gone, it was able to save you but you weren't able to save it, a feeling of lonliness and despair start to over come you but then that voice comes to you again.
"Save..."
You look up eyes still feeled with tears "What?"
"Save...here"
You quickly stand up and look around and the wind starts to pick up around you, it seems to be blowing straight up the mountain that is located towards the left side of the cave. Knowing that you can't just sit there , you start to head up the mountainside trail with the small pokemon in your arms.
Task 12: [Go up the mountain] 2000 Interactions
You make it to the top of the hill after walking for what seems like forever, and even though you know the pokemon you are carrying is gone, it didn't feel right just to leave it there. This pokemon has saved your life in more ways than one and you felt you needed to repay it somehow, someway but you couldn't think of anything. As to take a step onto the flat peek of the mountain you are greeted by a thick fog. A few sniffles escape your nose as you try to see ahead of yourself.
"You have choose to come here, your emotion...Thank you"
Once again the voice you have been hearing all this time once again appears and you look around as the fog seems to dissapate and you can finally see a good distance ahead of you. As you squint your eyes you can make out what appears to be a stand of some sort, you approach it slowly until you are a mere few feet away from it.
"place the pokemon there..."
Not wanting to go against the voice since it seemed to be wanting to help you all along on your journey you slowly place the pokemon's body in the middle of the flat stand, a few small tears appear at the corner of your eyes as you stand up again.
"I see in your heart of what you now want"
The stand starts to glow and a light comes up from the ground around it, it gets brighter and brighter until you become blinded. The light remains shining for a few seconds before it starts to slowly fade away, as you open your eyes and look back you are shocked to see a pokemon egg there instead of the pokemon's body. The pokemon egg itself is weird you have never seen one like it before.
The wind starts to pick up around you as the voice who has guided you all along on this journey speaks again this time though it seems to be fading away and from what its saying you can only make out one word.
"....Friends"
You small a bit as you lean down and take the egg, just as you touch it however your head starts to pound and the world around grows dark.
Continue to Exploration's End
You wake up and the snow around you seems to have subsided for now and the weird thing is you no longer feel weak and are able to stand up. As you begin to dust the snow off of your pant legs, something round shimmers next to you in the snow. Slowly you turn and look down to see the egg that you grabbed just before the world around you went dark. With a smile on your face you reach down as a small tear comes from your eyes, almost like you were being reunited with a lost friend.
"well, its thanks to you for helping through this time tough time, I promise that this time, I won't be so careless...emotion in the end isn't a bad thing, its something everyone needs."
With the egg in your hands you start to walk through the snow heading off towards the distance where lights can be reflecting off of the cold night sky.
Exploration End
Well there is the Mesprit story I'll probably work on either the Uxie or the Azelf story next but I wanted to share this one to see how it came out, personally i teared up a little bit as I was writing it, but hey that is just me. I hope you all enjoy it.
Posted by: championkasq17 Jun 1 2012, 02:47 PM
I personally love that exploration, the only thing i dont quite get is task 13, you already got the egg in task 12, why do you need an extra task to happen just to show it, specially because its already completed in task 12? Personally i say mix 12 and 13 together into just task 12(:
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Jun 1 2012, 03:28 PM
yes, towards the end of the task I wasn't sure if it would be better than to have two separate tasks or maybe one combined together so i wrote it like that keeping both opinions open for people who read the exploration and get their take on what it should be.
I'm glad you like it though, it literally took me like a week to think up something and a few days to write it out.
Posted by: championkasq17 Jun 1 2012, 03:42 PM
i probably wouldnt have the patience to do that lol, tho i have a mind to do that easily xP maybe if u want to have something at the end like that you can do either 1) dont get the egg till task 13 and make it like 300 interactions or something small like that. 2) combine the 2 like i mentioned earlier. 3) just make it that u dont even get the egg till the exploration end. ~Either way i think will be fine i just dont like the setup of it the way you planned it out in the above post, my opinion i deffinantly like it overall tho(:
Posted by: Keyda Jun 2 2012, 10:11 AM
It's a very good story. I agree that the receive the egg task, if you want to make it a separate one, should have an ending paragraph before you click end exploration. I had to add the task numbers differently though, because in the last posting you had task 2 as the pick which path to follow so I adjusted the numbers and fixed the spelling mistakes. pokeon is an interesting word, lol.
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Jun 2 2012, 10:35 AM
lol, that is what I get for using wordpad instead of the actually Microsoft word. In wordpad it doesn't auto correct or underline any words that are misspelled. So i had to read it like 10 times before i posted it and even before then i was pretty much half asleep so i kinda figured that a few spelling errors would get through, I plan on doing the next story in Microsoft word so hopefully there will be less errors like that and going to work on those tasks arraignments as well
but i am glad you like the story took me like a week or so to come up with it, that includes in constant deleting and retyping to get the story to sound right.
Edit: I edited the story I posted, since I just got done with a current exploration and found out that the task 13 should probably be a continue to exploration's end instead of another task.
Posted by: Keyda Jun 3 2012, 01:53 PM
I'm confused. I can't tell which task goes to which step. In task 12 you have that you need 2000 interactions but in that step you black out. Can you add the tasks to the bottom of the story that they go with like in the real explorations?
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Jun 3 2012, 02:32 PM
Let me explain a bit, I have it so that the tasks go to the part of the story that is located above them like you would see in a exploration public on a site. So in a current exploration you have the story then at the bottom you have the exploration task. I have it set up the same way as that, so the 2000 interactions go with the part of the story that is located above it. And the task 2 that is listed at the top of the spoiler comes from the split in the story so that would be the first task that changes depending on which path story you choose to do.
Posted by: Keyda Jun 3 2012, 06:14 PM
Ah, okay. Let me fix that then.
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Jun 4 2012, 12:42 AM
Thank you for fixing that.
Okay after much time thinking, like a few weeks I finally have a full exploration completed with 3 seperate stories, keep this in mind these were only to give a feeling for what kind of explorations i was kinda hoping that these would be, these could always be adjusted or changed if someone things another scenery or another story would be more appropriate.
Full Lake Trio Exploration (click to showhide)
"It must be hard...to be that one person..who had everything and then is left with nothing. To be someone who knows warm and comfort of those who are close to you, then have that ice cold chill of loneliness creep up on you and consume you. You think you know yourself...then you find out a truth that turns your whole world upside down and you become a stranger to everyone including yourself. No ones life is perfect, but there are those out there who wish they were more than what they had become. Each of us has experience true loneliness....but how many of us were able to walk the shadows searching for that one light that leads us towards the warm and comfort we so long for? Will we ever make it there? Will we be able to find ourselves...our true selves..."It is a snowy night and the sound of crunching footsteps can be heard as someone tracks through about a foot of snow. It has been snowing heavy now for the past few days and it shows no signs of letting up. The cold chill in the air is bitter and harsh, and the howling winds moving through the trees doesn't help matters much. Its easy to tell that the stranger is struggling to keep their warmth within their body, they shiver nonstop and try to bundle up more as they continue to fight the still dropping temperature. Each step to them now, is like a burden, a burden that they no longer wish to carry or acknowledge that it exists. The snow gets higher and their steps get smaller as it passes their knees, to push through the snow is like pushing through thick mud, no matter how hard to try to go forward its either slow or impossible.
Task 1: 800 InteractionsBy now all of the person's strength has almost diminish, leaving them as empty as when they first began this walk of hopelessness, lost and alone. It isn't long before a huge wind gust comes by and knocks the fragile human to the ground causing a lot of snow to kick up by the impact. The figure just lays there, all hope, all light, it all seems to leave the falling person...as it continues to snow into night.
"Hey.....that is a funny place to be taking a nap you know......" A small almost light voice comes from the wind.
"H-h-huh?" You stir and turn your their head to see who could possibly be out in the middle of this misery. At first they see no one and assume its just your imagination playing tricks on you until...
"I said that is a pretty funny place to take a nap......its too cold....." A faint red light appears floating down towards where you are laying.
"W-w-w..." you try to answer but have very little energy to be able to speak the full word.
"We see you have lost something..." In that moment the light splits so that there are 3 seprate ones. One is blue, one is yellow and the middle one remains red.
".............." You are unable to speak due to each intake of breath, with the cold wind constricting your lungs, making it hard to even take a breath without feeling a sharp pain.
"You lost something, we can help you reclaim it" The three lights lower themselves so that they are floating just above the snow in front of you. The lights soon fades and sitting there in the snow are 3 orbs, a blue one, a red one and a yellow one.
"Pick one and we shall help you"With the little strength you have left you slowly reach forward, even though you have little feeling left in your fingers, you somehow can tell that you have one grasped in your hand.
Mesprit Exploration Story (click to showhide)
Task 2: have 3 mystic waters
You wake up when a warm breeze hits your face, when you open your eyes you are staring up at a bight blue sky with clouds slowly passing over you heading East.
"huh?"
You sit up and look around, the last thing you remember is a bight light and then nothing, slwoly standing up you start to get your barings and looking in the distance you see what appears to be a small town. Hoping to find out what is going on you start to head towards the direction that the town is.
Task 3: 1000 Interactions
It isn't long before you come across a wooden sign that seems to be just on the outside of the town, on wooden sign there seems to be a picture of a man and below there seems to be a reward and a description.
"Dangerous man on the loose, recent attacks on both pokemon and people have been made by this man who seems to attack unexpecting trainers and their pokeon leaving them very wounded"
You are shocked that anyone could even possibly think about doing that, just as you start to head off again you hear a cry for help. Quickly turn you see a women running towards you almost out of breath
"Please you half to help me...my son was playing and is trap by a large bounlder!"
Alerted by this you nod to the women who turns and heads off in the direction where she came from and you follow behind her
Task 4: 600 Interactions
You Follow the women into the outskirts of the nearby forest where you start to hear the faint cries of a small kid. As you approach the site of the accident you see a bunch of boulders that seem to be blocking the entrance of a cave. You need to think of something quickly before the worse could happen to the kid. As you start to look around for anyhting to use the mother looks at you hopefully, a slight panic starts to enter you but stops as the voice from before in the snow comes to you.
"You can help, use that pokemon"
You become a bit alerted as you feel your belt press against your side, you quickly look down and see a pokeball attached to it. Hoping that whatever pokemon that is inside that belt could help you, you take out the pokemon and release the pokemon inside.
Task 5: [Have the pokemon remove the boulders] Have a Rhydon Level 40 in your party.
It takes only a few minutes for your pokemon to remove all of the boulders revealing a small child leaning up the caverns wall, he stands up and runs over to his mom hugging and cry still scared of his ordeal he just went through. Very grateful for your actions the mother approaches you with tears of joy coming down her face and a smile on her face.
"thank you thank you so much if there is anyhting I can do to repay you, anything at all."
You think for a minute and then tell the women of your current ordeal about just waking up in the middle of the field and that you don't remember walking there or anything, At first the women just looks at you and you fear that she will call you crazy, but then she speaks.
"Well there have been a lot of strange happenings around here, nad its all center around that forest, you might be able to find those answers there"
She points towards the forest off to the side, you look to see the entrance of the dark forest, you feel slightly creepy feeling coming from it and when you turn to thank the mother she is nowhere to be seen. You become slightly alarmed from this as you look back and something catches your eye. In the distance just beyond the forest entrance there is a small pink light that seems to be heading deeper in. Taking a deep breath, you slowly but surely start to walk into the forest.
Task 6: [Try to find and follow the pink light] 1500 Interactions
If feels like you have been walking forever when you come across a lake scenery, laying right at the lakes shores is the pink light, you squint your eyes but you can't make out what pokemon could possibly be giving it off. As you walk closer the light seems to move over the water but where the light was there seems to be a injury water pokemon. At first sight you rush over and start to inspect it for any wounds.
Thinking quickly from all those times you have study pokemon medicine you reach into your bag and start to being your treatment for the pokemon. Everything seems to be running smoothly until you notice you have run out of the medicine that you need. Knowing that the pokemon needs more you lay gently back on the ground and stand up heading off into the nearby bushes and try to get more so that you can finish healing it.
Task 7: Have 85 people feed Piplup
Having fed the Piplup it is once again fully healed and heads off. You stand up and a smile appears on your face, but it isn't long before your attention is once again on that pink light which seems to be heading back into the woods almost like leading you somewhere. You quickly roll your eyes and start to head into the dark forest once again, this time though everything seems more darker. Looking ahead of you, you can start to see the pink light fading into the distance.
"Hey wait up!" You call towards the light but you seriously doubt that the light would stop, since you aren't even sure if there is a pokemon who is giving off the light. Stopping for a moment to catch your break you notice that the bag you had with you has gone missing and in that bag had your medicines and other nessesary needs for your traveling. Letting out a sigh of frustration knowing the pokemon you were following is long gone, you start to search for your bag.
Task 8: [Find your bag] Find a exploration Item
After finding what your bag, you continue through the forest looking around for where that light could have gone to. The forest around you seems to have gotten darker and darker which starts to make you uneasily, it doesn't take long until the feeling of someone following you starts to take hold making you walk a bit faster. After a few more strides you hear a twig snap behind you and this causes you to quickly jump around and look to see who is there, at first you can't see anyhting but then out of the shadows almost like a ghost a man appears.
"What have we here...a lost traveler I reckon, seems we should maybe help out this person"
The man chuckles but its a chuckle that sends a shiver down your spine, could this be the man you heard those group of people talking about, the one who attacks both pokemon and humans relentlessly. You take a step back and get into a fighting stance as the man throws three pokeballs in the air releasing a Arcanine, Brivaiary, and Aggron. All three pokemon look fierce and dangerous in their own ways as all eyes seem to fall on you.
"You...you won't win!" You respond as you look down and are surprised to see that more pokeballs seem to have appeared on your belt. Taking a deep breath knowing that you are facing a very bad situation to take the pokeballs out of your belt and release the pokemon inside them.
Task 9: Have a Lapras, Jolteon and Typlosion at level 36 in your party.
The battle between all 6 pokemon is fierce as attack's fly left and right and heads clash, it isn't long before the three enemy pokeon finally fall to your own pokemon's attacks, but at the same time your own pokemon have also maintained a lot of damage. You let your guard down knowing that the other three aren't attacking any time soon and go to check in your own pokemon. As you start to head towards them, a noise catches your attention and you look to your left to see the same man standing there but with another poke ball in hand
"What?!" You exclaim in your mind as you see him throw the pokeball and Mightyena appears.
"I never lose...i do anything to win." The man's hand points towards you and the mightyena charges, you look down at your belt but this time no pokeballs appear. In great distress you try to back away by your legs are froze, to the side you can hear your wounded pokeon crying out. Knowing there isn't anything you can do, you close your eyes and preparing for the worse that could happen, waiting for that split of pain or unbeileveable weight again you.
After a few seconds through it never comes but instead you hear a high pitch cry,this catches your attention and you open your eyes to see a pokemon shrouded in pink light in front of you taking the full blunt of the mightyena's assult.
Task 10: Defeat the Mightyena in Battle Tower
The pokemon in the pink light throws back the mightyena and then fires a strong attack towards both Mightyena and the human hitting the ground in front of them. In a panic the man returns all of his pokemon and runs off disappearing into the dark forest within minutes. It takes you only moments to regain yourself and run over to your own wounded pokemon and start to apply treatment to them.
"Weak...Its weak..."
You perk up when you hear the voice again and start to look around, you notice this time the voice is a bit faint and you can barely make out what its saying.
"Where are you? Hello?!" You return your pokemon to their pokeballs and stand back up look around at the trees to see if you can find anything.
"Please, find" The voice once again disappears and you think. "Find? Find what?"
It then dawns on you that the other pokemon, the one who protected you could need medical attention as well. You look around for a few minutes but can't see any signs of it but then you spot something that stops you cold. You walk over to a near by bush and feel a substance on its leaf, it feels thick, sticky and wet, the smell is overwhelming and it makes your stomach turn. You see the substance almost like a trail head towards the north where the distance hill is.
"Oh no" You only have enough time to get those two words out of your mouth before you head off in the same direction, your legs carrying you as fast as they can.
Task 11: [Find the wounded pokemon]900 Interactions
After running for a little while you come accross a cave like scenery laying just in the mouth of the cave is the pokemon who saved you during your dangerous encounter. You rush over and is shocked by its condition, the poor little pokemon as three deep cuts going across the front of it most likey made by the mightyena's claws. Acting quickly you take out some banadges and try to patch up the cuts as much as you can.
"Come on, hang in there, you saved me..."
You look down to see the small pokemon's eyes open a little and it almost seems to smile up at you, a few tears come to the corner of your eyes as you go back to working on help its wounds. As you almost finish you look back and the pokemon is still looking at you with a small smile, but this time as you look into its eyes there seems to be less light there than before.
"Please, don't give up. You are the only one friend i had, i don't know why...but you seem so familiar, I don't want you to leave."
Tears start to stream from your eyes as the pokemon looks straight up towards the sky, slowly the light fades from its eyes and they slowly close. You let out a small choke gasp as you feel the pokemon's chest lower and heart beat for the last time. With the pokemon in your arms you start to cry, the one pokemon who you made friends with was gone, it was able to save you but you weren't able to save it, a feeling of lonliness and despair start to over come you but then that voice comes to you again.
"Save..."
You look up eyes still feeled with tears "What?"
"Save...here"
You quickly stand up and look around and the wind starts to pick up around you, it seems to be blowing straight up the mountain that is located towards the left side of the cave. Knowing that you can't just sit there , you start to head up the mountainside trail with the small pokemon in your arms.
Task 12: [Go up the mountain] 2000 Interactions
You make it to the top of the hill after walking for what seems like forever, and even though you know the pokemon you are carrying is gone, it didn't feel right just to leave it there. This pokemon has saved your life in more ways than one and you felt you needed to repay it somehow, someway but you couldn't think of anything. As to take a step onto the flat peek of the mountain you are greeted by a thick fog. A few sniffles escape your nose as you try to see ahead of yourself.
"You have choose to come here, your emotion...Thank you"
Once again the voice you have been hearing all this time once again appears and you look around as the fog seems to dissapate and you can finally see a good distance ahead of you. As you squint your eyes you can make out what appears to be a stand of some sort, you approach it slowly until you are a mere few feet away from it.
"place the pokemon there..."
Not wanting to go against the voice since it seemed to be wanting to help you all along on your journey you slowly place the pokemon's body in the middle of the flat stand, a few small tears appear at the corner of your eyes as you stand up again.
"I see in your heart of what you now want"
The stand starts to glow and a light comes up from the ground around it, it gets brighter and brighter until you become blinded. The light remains shining for a few seconds before it starts to slowly fade away, as you open your eyes and look back you are shocked to see a pokemon egg there instead of the pokemon's body. The pokemon egg itself is weird you have never seen one like it before.
The wind starts to pick up around you as the voice who has guided you all along on this journey speaks again this time though it seems to be fading away and from what its saying you can only make out one word.
"....Friends"
You small a bit as you lean down and take the egg, just as you touch it however your head starts to pound and the world around grows dark.
Continue to Exploration's End
You wake up and the snow around you seems to have subsided for now and the weird thing is you no longer feel weak and are able to stand up. As you begin to dust the snow off of your pant legs, something round shimmers next to you in the snow. Slowly you turn and look down to see the egg that you grabbed just before the world around you went dark. With a smile on your face you reach down as a small tear comes from your eyes, almost like you were being reunited with a lost friend.
"well, its thanks to you for helping through this time tough time, I promise that this time, I won't be so careless...emotion in the end isn't a bad thing, its something everyone needs."
With the egg in your hands you start to walk through the snow heading off towards the distance where lights can be reflecting off of the cold night sky.
Exploration End
Uxie Exploration Story (click to showhide)
Task 2: Have 1 Escape Rope and 3 Lemonades in your Inventory
You slowly wake up to find yourself located in a dark room; you look around not even able to see an inch in front of your face. Slowly you put your hand on the ground to make sure that wherever you are you are on something solid. As you stand up a small light can be seen a few feet away from you which is the only thing that catches your attention. The light itself is very faint but bright enough to illuminate a object of which it’s attached to.
“Knowledge is important, without knowledge we cannot learn, nor can we expect to be taught what is right. Do you think you can show the kind of knowledge you have?”
You look around quickly as you hear a voice this voice though is different than the one that came to you in the snow. Attention drawn on the voice instead of the light, the light then chances to a yellow color almost like it wanted to get your attention back, trending cautiously making sure you don’t get hurt you make you way over to the light. As you get closer you can see that now the light is a bit brighter and is lighting up words on the wall behind it. Even though it’s not easy to make out what the words are saying once you squint your eyes you are able to make out the line.
"What Grows as you feed it but dies if you give it a Drink"
“What? A riddle?” you think to yourself as you reread the line over again in your head. Thinking for a few minutes you go over in your head anything that could possibly be described in that line. It doesn’t take long before something comes to mind and you start to look around for what might be able to help you get out of that room.
Task 3: Answer for exploration task: Fire(Find fire making supplies)[Find Exploration item]
After feeling around for what seems like a while you bring a few materials into the faint light, as you hit the rocks together the fire is started up and almost right away the room around you begins to shake. Panicking a bit you quickly look around but then see the wall in front of you start to rise up revealing a huge burst of light that almost blinds you when it makes contact with your eyes. Taking a few minutes to get your eyes adjusted to the light your first though is that you have made it back outside to the fresh sunlight, you take a few steps out and are met with soft grass but no breeze.
Looking around it’s like you are standing in the middle of a clearing but as you look up you can see instead of sky a rocking ceiling giving you an idea that you must be in some sort of underground or cave environment. With a quick sigh knowing that you aren’t on the outside and that there is probably more stuff to come you start to walk forward to see if you can find anywhere to go, it doesn’t take you long to come across another rock wall but this time it has 5 drawings of pokemon that seem to be in a circle and in the middle of that circle there is a square. The drawings seem to resemble a Salamance, Flygon, Dragonite, Altaria, and Rayquaza. Taking a minute or so to examine the drawings you come to the conclusion that the middle square must be where the answer goes but what does the drawings mean?
Looking around the picture you try to see if you can find any line of writing and before long you do manage to spot writing towards the bottom.
“What do these pokemon all have in common? Look towards the type for the answer.”
Once again you study each of the pictures that are drawn and come to the conclusion that they are all dragon types but what is the answer that they are looking for. Getting a few ideas of what it might by you look around for a rock or something to carve your answer, as you look towards your left you see an object on the ground.
Task 4: have 5 Dragon Scales and a Dragon Fang in your Inventory
Using the object which you have found to be a Dragon Fang you reach up and carve in your best drawing of what appears to be a Dragon Scale seeing as that is something you know all dragons have in common. When you lower you hand the wall in front of you seems to crumble away revealing the next room which seems to be darker but this room unlike the dark room you woke up in is lite but many torches along the wall.
As you step out of the light from the last room you end up in what appears to be a rock like hallway, taking in a deep breath and treading cautiously once again you head down the hallway until you seem to start to hear a small echo. Stopping your walking so that you would be able to hear it more clearly you seems to make it out as a distress call from a pokemon. Not wasting any time second guessing you hurry quickly down the rest of the hallway and go around the corner before stopping. Right in front of you, you can see a Pikachu, it looks like it has a burn on its back and its laying there in pain.
“Hold on you’ll be okay” you talk to it soft as you approach it not wanting to scare it or make yourself seem like a threat, the Pikachu seems to be in too much pain to even attack so you kneel beside it and start to rummage through your bag for the proper berries to heal it.
Task 5: Have 70 people feed Pikachu
It isn’t long before the burn on pikachu’s back is heal up enough for it to stand, it looks at you and gives you a smile and tilts its head to the side. You smile in return but then wonder what it’s doing as you start to see the Pikachu walk over to a dead end wall.
“Um…what are yo-“ You don’t even have time to finish your statement as the Pikachu unleashes a thunderbolt on the wall causing it to collapse and reveal the next room, you slowly stand up in awe.
As you walk into the room you look around for the Pikachu and notice that it has somehow disappeared from sight. Thinking that it might have ran off you cross the small room which seems to be the smallest one you have come into so far and see just a plain wall with nothing but writing on it.
“You open this wall through the button, but the button is buried, use a pokemon whose color is Gray and whose strength allows you to drill through rock”
Almost right away you understand what the message said but you start to look around to see where the drilling would happen, almost all around the room everything looks flat with no rock pile ups or anything that leads to something being buried. Thinking quickly you decide to try right in front of the wall hopefully something might be there.
Task 6: Have a Rhydon level 40 in your party
Using your pokemon you drill holes right in front of the wall and after the third hole you see a red button, sighing with relief that you don’t need to drill throughout the whole room you kneel down and press the button. The room around you shakes as the wall in front of you opens up like a door revealing a crystal like room. Everywhere you look there are crystals whether it is the ceiling or the ground or even the walls.
“So far so good, knowledge is good what else can you do?”
Once again you hear that voice and look around not seeing anything but that same small yellow light moving along the crystals towards the opposite wall where there seems to be a waterfall and a small underground pond. Relieved that you have finally found water you walk fast over to the edge of the pond and use some of that water to cool yourself down. After a quick refreshing you look around to see if you can spot that yellow light but once again it has disappeared.
Standing up you look towards the waterfall and shocked to see that as the wall falls down you can see a image appear along with writing. Somehow both are forming as the waterfall is rushing into the pond below. Walking over closer to the waterfall it becomes clearer of what the words are saying even though the picture itself can’t be made out.
“A water pokemon is what you need since you will be swimming in the deep, it is accompany by 2 large cannons that pack more power than a water gun.”
Thinking for a minute you get an idea of what you need.
Task 7: Have a Blastoise in your party at level 45
Having the pokemon that has been described in the waterfall, you smile but then start to think of the next part of the clue that is giving. You sit down on a nearby rock and start to think harder since the next part makes no sense, you looked in the pond and saw the bottom of it not being too far away from the surface and even placed your hand and felt the ground a few inches below. It’s not long before your pokemon comes over and tries to push you back to the small pond apparently there is something you are not getting.
Standing once again at the small pond’s edge you look back and see what you though the bottom of the pond a few inches below but what catches your eye is that the ground seems to be disappearing as you gaze draws closer to the waterfall. With great curiosity you stand right beside where the waterfall is crashing into the pond and place your hand in the water trying to feel the bottom, this time you reach as far as your shoulder into the water and feel nothing.
“Of course, there must be a place where it’s going” you think to yourself as you look at you pokemon and soon enough the next part of the clue clicks in your head. Whistling for you pokemon to come over it responds and gets into the water, jumping in after it you hold on and take in a deep breath as your pokemon dives under the surface and heads into a underwater tunnel swimming as quickly as it can.
Task 8: 1750 interactions
Within a minute or two your pokemon resurfaces in once again another room, you get out of the water and shake yourself somewhat dry and look around, this room is different from the others because it’s not as well lit and there are many drawings on the wall, also the room is square. As you walk towards the center of the room that same voice seems to echo around you.
“Which way would you take, what is easy and what is right?”
You sigh starting to get a bit tired of all these riddles that are making your head hurt; you head over to one wall and look at the drawings. The first set of drawings to see to be that of two type pokemon and 1 pokemon of one type, on the opposite wall when you check seems to be the complete opposite showing 1 type pokemon and only 1 two type pokemon. In the center though you see a third drawing that shows what appears to be a human drawing and 3 pokemon around them. The writing below the picture says:
“These are a trainer’s best friends, they are obtained at the beginning, by the end, their bond to their trainer is completely inseparable.”
You smile as you look closely at all three riddles knowing that there was only one right path to take, thinking back to what the voice said before, you think long and hard at which one you should answer. Soon you come to one conclusion and walk towards the wall of the riddle that you will be answering.
Task 9: Have 3 starter pokemon fully evolved at level 50 in your party
Having those three pokemon with you the wall you chosen doesn’t open up like you have expected but the ground below your feet disappear and you end up falling, letting out a small scream of surprising you feel yourself sliding down towards you don’t know where. It’s only a matter of a few minutes before you hit ground with a loud thump, and the result of your bottom hurting from the impact. You slowly stand up rubbing your bottom and look forward where you see a line of torches leading somewhere.
“I hope that this is almost over” You say before picking your bag up off of the ground and heading down the torch lit hallway.
Task 10: 1000 interactions
It isn’t long before you reach what you hope will be your final obstacle in this headache, on the wall it shows once again 4 pokemon one seems to be above the three which some sort of arrow point from that one pokemon to the three but it seems like they are scratched out either by someone or something so you can even make out what they are. However just below them you can see the words and even those you can barely make out. Trying to see them better you get a bit closer and try to make out as much as you can.
“T_hese p__ke_on e___ve us__g __ree s_o_nes, hold th_m u_ to pass”
You let out a sigh this one is going to be difficult because you haven’t encountered a riddle where half of the riddle is missing. Looking back at the scratched out pokemon pictures and then at the writing to start to think of what it could possibly say. After a few minutes of thinking you figure out a few of the words that seem to be almost fully readable but some you just can’t make out. However you look back up at the picture something about the way its formatted seems familiar to you from a book you read. You think back to the time you spent in a library and try hard to think of the page, it doesn’t take long before something comes to mind and you go off looking to see if those items are either in your bag or nearby
Task 11: Find those three stones[Find the exploration item].
You rise the stones up and they start to shine red, yellow, and blue and the pictures on the walls start to glow the same each picture that belongs to each stone starts to disappear and slowly the wall melts away like it was water and you step into a wall but then something about this room seems off, there are no drawings, not rocks it just a cave like room with rock walls, not exit no words no nothing. A bit worried about this you turn to go back the way you came thinking there must be something you are missing and almost smack your face into another wall, the way you came is no longer there. Seeing this and no way out almost sends you into a full fury panic as you start to hit the walls seeing if anything will react.
After hitting the walls numerous times you flinch in pain and look at your hands which have turn red and pulsing with pain from just hiding the rock hard walls repeatedly. By now the panic you had is now replaced by fear and worry as you lean back again the nearby wall and slowly fall to the ground. For once on your adventure you have no idea what to do or how to get out of this mess, you wonder if this is the end of the journey, did you somehow make a mistake along the way and this is your price for it, many other questions come buzzing into your head as you put it in your arms.
“It’s not over yet”
You slowly lift up your head, your eyes somewhat watery for on the verge of tears, you wipe them and look around trying to see if you can find out where the voice is coming from.
“Have you forgotten? One more riddle…what is used to escape places with no exits or if you become lost?”
This time as the voice speaks the sentences it starts to fade away and you can barely make out what it is saying “….Find me”
Looking down your eyes widen and you almost fall to your side as you quickly stand up and start to search your bag, you have just the item now that you have come to think of it that could get yourself out of here.
Task 12: Use 1 Escape Rope.
After using that item you find yourself in a room that is more spacious but right behind you comes a breeze and on the ground in front of you, your shadow reflects showing that sunlight is coming from behind you as well. You slowly turn to see the exit, you smile a little but before you head towards it you look off to the left and see a stand on the stand there appears to be a egg or some sort on it. Curiosity slowly takes over as you start to walk towards the rock stand, you look at the walls as you pass them and stop as you stare at the pictures. It doesn’t take long before to realize what they are, each picture that is carve into the wall shows different scenes of which you faced while solving each riddle, one of a person holding a blastiose while swimming in a underground tunnel, another of a person who seems to be sliding down something. As you walk the whole adventure you just had seems to be written out right in front of you.
Staring in awe you then notice that you have reached where the egg is, you stare at the egg for a few minutes it has these weird markings on it that you have never seen before.
“You knowledge has proven to be a great strength, to solve many of the riddles, you slowly learn what knowledge you do possess.”
You slowly pick up the egg and it seems to give off a warm and comforting feeling that you have never felt before.
“We will truly be great friends”
Turning around you head right towards the exit it and as soon as you reach it the light becomes blinding and you feel yourself falling but not quickly and soon enough you black out.
Continue to exploration’s End
You wake up in the snow, the snowstorm seems to have subsided for now and all the strength that you have lost seems to have come back and you slowly rise from the snow. Through you are still shaking a bit from the cold you brush off the snow and look to your left to see the egg that you grabbed laying right there. With a smile on your face you slowly reach down and pick up the egg cradling it in your arms.
“Thanks, I have almost forgotten about what my knowledge can do for me. Even though I don’t use it all the time I need to learn to do what is right over what is easy. You taught me that and I will never forget that lesson”
You bundle your coat back up and place the egg inside it so that it doesn’t get too cold and you continue on your way, looking ahead you can see the lights of a nearby town. You decide to head there to find shelter to rest and then you will be able to head back home.
Exploration’s End
Azelf Exploration Story (click to showhide)
Task 2: Have 3 Spell Tags in your Inventory.
You wake up in a damp grassy field, sit up and look around to see where you have landed; it doesn’t take long before you spot two castle like buildings a little distance away. Standing up and dusting yourself off you and notice that the sky is unusually dark, you are startled a bit when all of a sudden a flash of lightning lights up the sky and a loud crackle of thunder follow it. Knowing that it might rain soon you start to take off towards the buildings but before you get far a voice soon stops you.
“You sure you want to go there? There is danger and trouble. Something evil is there”
The voice you hear was a lot different than the one you heard back in the snow but it also has a bit of concern and seems to also be giving you a warning about the place where you were heading to. Thinking it must have been a trick of the mind or something you shake your head and continue to head off towards the only shelter you can see.
Task 3: 700 interactions
It isn’t long before you make it to the front door of the first building, by now it has already started to rain and rain heavy. Slowly you knock on the door and almost like if the place was haunted the front doors open up on their own, without any help. This surprising you a bit you also second guess of going in someplace that might be haunted, but another lightning strike and loud rumble of thunder helps make up your mind and you rush through the doors. As you enter the front hall you are greeted by a dark atmosphere along with marble walls and floor with a red carpet leading to the first door in front of you.
“Hello?! Is anyone here?!” You shout towards the darkness and the only reply you get is silence the eerie silence that would make anyone’s skin crawl and hairs stick up in the back of your neck.
You start to walk forward and the building around you starts to creek and moan almost like its settling but some noises you hear don’t exactly sound like that. It wasn’t until you reach the first door that a loud bang noise causes you to jump and run through that door. On the other side of the door you hold your chest and try to calm yourself and play it off as just your mind playing tricks on you.
“Stop, its com-“The same voice as before pops up but as it was speaking it was like it was cut off by something. You start to walk to the center of the room you have just entered and it doesn’t take long before you start to get a chill.
Thinking that you are being watched you start to look around, as you turn though you all of a sudden feel a sharp pain in your back. This pain causes you to jerk forward and grip your back, you slowly kneel and shut your eyes as you rub your back, you decide to look over your shoulder to see what you could have possibly run your back into in the middle of the room, the weird part is there was nothing there. Getting a little scared by that you rush onto the next room trying to lose whatever was there if there was anything there.
In that next room as you enter it the room itself starts to grow dark and this alarms you, you start to feel a bit dizzy and your back’s pain seems to have subsided. It wasn’t long after that though that your vision and everything around you went completely black.
Task 4: Have a Murkrow and Noctowl in your party at level 30
As you start to come around you start to hear a lot of moaning coming from behind you, slowly you turn around and shocked to see a dozen or so trainers lying on the ground, they look like something attacked them and their pokemon not lying too far away from them. You rush over to the nearest trainer and start to shake them trying to get them to tell you what happened, after a few moments though it becomes clear that most of these trainers are either out cold or have fainted.
You slowly stand up and try to make sense of what happened but no matter how hard you try you can’t seem to remember anything of what happened, not even making it to this room. You look around and take a few steps back, as you do that though a deep laugher starts to echo around you which sends chills up your spine. This laugher seems deep and dark, and just by hearing it most of the pokemon who were lying around shuddered as a response. Thinking that whoever or whatever this was, was the cause of this you try to pinpoint the place where the laugher is coming from and taking in a deep breath you rush off to try and confront the culprit.
Task 5: 1100 interactions
You rush down a hallway and enter a third room; this room seems a bit smaller and has no windows like any of the others, you stop for a minute to catch your breath. The laughing that you had heard has then since disappeared leaving you alone once again in a dark and quiet environment. Its starts to become too quiet as your back starts to hurt again, but this time along with your back you head also feels pain, trying to brush if off as just stress from what you just saw you continue on your way until you come to a set of doors.
Slowly you open those doors and rush through, the laugh you heard once before starts to echo again almost like it is trying to lead you somewhere, it doesn’t take you long to notice that the places you were going where getting stranger and stranger. It wasn’t until you stopped at a door blockage that you noticed that you needed to somehow get through by clearing out all of the rubble that was blocking your way.
Task 6: Have a Machoke in your party at level 35
You pokemon uses its strength to move all of the beams aside, and it wasn’t long until your blocked path was not cleared and you could continue onto the next room. As you opened the door you could see nothing but a few candles that were lit around the room. The dim light that they gave off didn’t light the room up to your liking so you stay close to the wall using that as some sort of guidance. You make it half way across the space and then the whole room seems to light up as a response to someone being there, you are startled but the sudden burst of light but just as stunned when you come face to face with a pair of glow red eyes.
As you stare at the eyes the dizziness that you have once felt comes back, and you vision once again begins to blur, but unlike last time something inside you tells you to try to fight it that this isn’t normal and it’s something bad.
“Fight it..must fight it” You think was you try to refocus you vision, and get yourself collected so you can continue. Even thought you can feel yourself coming around, something happens where pain enters your back and head again, and with your thoughts focused on the pain you feel yourself losing again. No matter how much you continue to fight yourself you can feel your consciousness slowly slipping away and the world around you just like before is growing dark.
Task 7: Defeat the Enemies in Battle Tower
As you come around you find yourself in the middle of a large room, you have no knowledge or memory of even coming to that room, and lying in front of you are the pokemon you have just defeated, they aren’t in critical condition but it seems like whatever attacked them did a good number on them. You back away slowly a bit scared not only because of the way those pokemon are but because of the fact that you just can’t remember ever entering that room, the last thing you remember was facing a weird statue and then everything just goes blank.
“Please hurry…getting stronger…in danger…don’t hurt...” The voice you heard from behind is back but this time it seems like something is stopping it from reaching you. You strain to try to hear what it is saying but it’s not good the voice is as gone as quickly as it came. Looking down towards the ground you start to wonder if it was a mistake coming to this place, knowing the weird stuff that has happened since your arrival.
Looking around quickly to see if anyone else was present you pick up your bag and start to head out of the room through the nearest doorway. As you walk down a hallway it seems weird that you seemed to know where you were going where you don’t even remember ever being in this place before, passing it up as just a strange feeling you continue on your way, hoping that your questions will be answered soon.
Task 8: 2000 interactions
It doesn’t take long before you reach a pathway that leads to where the two castle like buildings connects, even against your gut feeling it was like something was drawing you down this particular path. The scenery around you was dark and lonely; the only thing you could hear was the echo of your footsteps each time your heel made contact with the marble floor below you. In the nearby windows you could see the sky light up with lightning occasionally and the rumble of thunder following soon after.
After you walked for what seem like forever through your eyes you see a shadow pass in a hallway just in front of you, thinking it could be a person who could help you answer what was going on and how you could have possibly gotten here. You quicken your pace so that you enter the next hallway a mere few seconds after you have seen the shadow, as you look down the hallway you don’t see the shadow but instead you see a small figure laying on the ground curled up.
Slowly and cautiously you approach it, the curled up shadow starts to move again almost like it sensing you coming. You stop for a moment as it lifts its head up and the rings on it start to glow right away you recognize it as a umbreon, but it doesn’t look like. You can see pain in its eyes and on its leg a wound from someone or something, you know something is up with it and kneel down before looking through your bag trying to find something to use to help it.
Task 9: Have 90 people feed Umbreon
You begin to walk away from the pokemon you just helped, as you walk through you being to stumble a bit you vision becomes blurry once again and you feel like the world around you is growing darker and it becomes a bit difficult to breath. All of these feelings only last for about a minute before you feel youself straighten up, in your mind you find this weird because you don’t remember even given your body a command to straighten up like this or walk a certain way. As this feeling continues to carry you start to feel something is wrong and try to take control back or at least get your body to listen to your mind, each attempt you make however fails.
It isn’t long though before you start to feel something enter you mind, you don’t recognize it as bad but thoughts of battling and winning battles pops into you head, you start to see all of these visions of you winning tournaments being a great pokemon trainer and defeating any opponent no matter how tough they are. To see all of this you were happy to know that it seems like this would be possible to do, and your attention was drawn away from your concern of the situation at hand and onto just wanted to win all battles you could.
As you continued on your way however a voice calls to you from behind, you turn to look to see a young trainer standing holding a poke ball out facing you.
“You won’t be going any ______” As the boy speaks you can only hear bits and pieces of what he is saying something else is happening where all his other words are being blocked from your line of hearing. Thinking that it was just another challenger you smile and get ready for a battle, but one thing strikes you as odd, instead of throwing a pokeball like the boy did, your hand rises up and three pokemon appear right in front of you.
Task 10: Have a Mightyena, Haunter, and Dusclops in your party at level 40
You pokemon seem to be doing their job what it was, the trainer you are facing is losing their battle with you. Your pokemon are using combine attacks like hypnosis and dream eater making the opponents pokemon go through endless nightmares and are on the verge of fainting or having a much worse fate. You just stand there watching not even giving any command to having it stop, it’s not until you are about to give a finally motion to finish it that something rings in your head.
“Please stop!!” The voice sounds very similar to the voice that you hear when you first woke up outside of the castle not too long ago. The voice this time though sounds very scared and urgent trying to get you to stop what you are doing, but what are you doing to get that kind of reaction, you are only battling. As soon as you second guess yourself you head starts to pound and you feel a strike of pain down your back, you stumble to the side with your eyes closed before falling to the ground.
“Hello? Hello?! Are you okay?!” you are awoken by a trainer the one you were battling in fact screaming in your ear.
“Huh?” You wake up with a pounding headache; you place your hand on your head and sit up looking around somewhat confused on how you go where you are. “What happened? Where am I?” You look over at the trainer whose eyes are a bit red; you guess they must have been crying.
“You weren’t yourself…” You look to see the trainer recall his pokemon back but before that you get a quick glimpse and see that each of his pokemon are in bad shape.
“No myself, what do you mean?” You try to stand up and the trainer next to you grabs your hand and helps you to your feet.
“I mean your eyes were all dulled over and you were giving just a blank stare, it was creepy and your just waved your hand and it seems like the pokemon you were using knew what to do.” The trainer and you start to talk about what just happened and it all becomes clear that now something defiantly wasn’t right with you. It wasn’t long before you told the trainer your thoughts and tell them to leave while you went to see what was going on.
“Your pokemon need attending to…I’ll go and see what’s going on” The trainer agrees with your works and heads off as you turn around and start to head down the only hallway you see, it isn’t long before you see a creepy looking door, at first you try to open it and it doesn’t budge it’s not until you look at the center of the door and see it needs a key. Letting out a frustrating sigh you being to look for the key you need.
Task 11: Find the missing Key[Find the exploration item]
You wake up in a dark room, almost right away a sharp pain shoots through your chest that causes you to gasp for air and cough in discomfort. The last thing you remember is coming face to face with a weird looking door and using a key you found to open it. Besides the pain in your chest you also have a major headache and can feel your head pounding as your heart beats. Slowly regaining your footing you slowly stand up and take in your surroundings, you seem to be in a old computer like factory room, the monitors all are smashed, and broken. You dust off your pants and then hear a creepy laugh that you haven’t forgotten, becoming aware you aren’t alone you turn to see a dark pokemon standing in the middle of a circular stage.
“So it seems like you have found me…” The pokemon shadow then starts to take shape and standing right before you seems to be the image of a mewtwo.
“You it was you who was attacking all those people” You say in a steady tone.
The shadow just laughs and replies “Me? No no…that was you, you were the one...don’t you remember? Oh way during that time you had no memory of doing it. Thank goodness I stepped in and guided you making sure you didn’t know you were doing it.”
“You…you were controlling me?…making me do all those things.” You speak in an angry and also a distressed voice just knowing that all this time you were being control by someone else and that person made you harm those trainers and that boy and their pokemon.
“Yes of course, I need someone to do all my work, and you seem like the perfect candidate…it was quite easy to get into your mind and change things around to work in my favor.” The shadow walks right off the stage towards you and starts to explain how in the beginning it was the one who shot a shadow in your back so that it could control your thoughts and movements, and all events that played in after that. Becoming aware of the impending danger you start to back away from it until you hit something solid, looking behind you, you are against a metal plated wall with nowhere else to go.
“You broke out of my control a bit too early” The shadow reaches out its hand and you can feel your vision starting to fade in and out, a dizziness starts to take you over again as you start to feel yourself once again sinking to the shadows you have tried to fight yourself out of. You can feel yourself struggling to break free but nothing seems to be helping. Your eyes slowly close and you are on the verge of falling until all of a sudden a voice rings out.
“Remember! You are not weak; you have a power that the shadows cannot take away. This power is something only you can use!”
Your eyes snap back open as you hear this and you finally understand what it was that got you out of the control in the first place. Slowly but surely you start to fight your way out of the control that the shadow is trying to place you under, until you let out a loud scream and completely break free from the shadows.
“You…won’t…win!” You stare up at the shadow that has now been surprised by your ability to fight back and can see a growing determination in your eyes. You stand your ground and reach into your belt taking out a pokeball. “It’s over.”
Task 12: Battle Shadow Mewtwo
The battle lasts for a good number of minutes before your pokemon take down the shadow with one final blow and sends it flying back onto the stage, but now the shadow has now taken a solid form. Even in that solid form however the shadow is starting to break apart have been defeated so quickly and its power gone.
“How…how could I have been defeated by someone like you? I had you under my control…you couldn’t fight back like this.” The shadow’s voice seems to be the one in distress now and also furious.
You are also drained from the battle both physically and mentally, but before you are able to answer the blue light that you have seen throughout this whole ordeal floats down in front of you “Discovering the willpower to overcome the darkness within the heart is something that gives anyone strength.”
With that being said the shadow seems to just disperse without saying anything else and the blue light then directs its voice straight to use. “it seems I was right, you do have the willpower, you just needed to find it”
Being so exhausted your vision starts to become slightly blurry you know you need to rest but now wouldn’t go a good time for that. You try to remain standing as the blue light in front of you grows and then lands in your arms, soon the light vanishes and in its place a egg remains. Staring down at it you know it has a strange pattern on it but you smile knowing that whatever it is, it was something that helped you overcome your nightmare.
You walk over to a nearby wall and slowly sit down, as soon as you do the room around you starts to grow dark and you feel yourself have reached your limit to stay away and soon you close your eyes and black out.
Continue to Exploration’s End
You wake up still laying in the snow; all that exhaustion that you though you felt from wherever you have came from is no longer there. Slowly and a bit shaky you get to your feet and dust the snow off of your clothes, looking to your right you see the same egg that you remember seeing in your arms before you blacked out. You smile a bit as you pick up the egg and dust the snow off of it as well, the storm around you seems to have let up and the lights from a nearby city can be seen in the distance.
“Wow, that had to be some weird nightmare, but I’m happy to know that my willpower isn’t that weak, I was able to overcome the darkness that I feared and it was all thanks to you. I won’t forget the lesson you have taught me”
With a smile still on your face you pick up your bag and place the egg in your arms and hold it closely to your chest so that it remains somewhat warm. Looking towards the lights you start to head on your way again and onto the next adventure you look forward to having.
Exploration’s End
Well those are my exploration stories that I have manage to come up with, each story has to do with what each pokemon means and go in different directions and then towards the end has a similar ending with maybe a few things changed. This like i said took awhile to come up with personally, i liked how each story came out, and I know there might be a few mistakes and changes that would need to be made, but all the same as whole its pretty good
. i hope you all enjoy reading them.
I also look forward to reading the other stories that members of this group will come up with and post
Posted by: championkasq17 Jun 4 2012, 02:01 AM
i would love to come up with a exploration, but do you mind if you could givme a pokemon or item or something i can do it on?(: then i will take my time to make one, im just not sure exactly what to make it on xD But i would love to try(:
Posted by: Keyda Jun 4 2012, 01:27 PM
How about a battle type exploration with the prize being a gem or a focus sash?
Posted by: championkasq17 Jun 4 2012, 03:59 PM
QUOTE(Keyda @ Jun 4 2012, 01:27 PM)
How about a battle type exploration with the prize being a gem or a focus sash?
That a really good idea, i have a great imagination but not with the starting idea thing haha, thank you, ill get started with it and see how i do xP
Posted by: Keyda Jun 4 2012, 04:44 PM
No problem. If you need any help, let us know.
Posted by: championkasq17 Jun 4 2012, 06:24 PM
So i spent about 3 hours on this, im glad im a fast typer took me like, 30-35 minutes to type, i hope i did a good job, please tell me if you like it or anything you would change or if you just dont like it at all.
Gem Exploration (click to showhide)
Task 1
You wake up to the sound of your alarm clock and a warm bright light glaring in your face. “Okay, Okay already” You say to yourself as you hit the snooze button and roll out of bed. All of a sudden you get a jolt of energy when you remember what day it is, it’s the day of the battle contest! You quickly get dressed and gather your pokeballs as you swing your pack over your shoulder. Just as you are heading out the phone rings and you turn around and go into the kitchen.
“Hello?” you say with displeasure as this is the last thing you want to be doing at the moment.
“Now is that anyway to say good morning to your best friend?” they say in a humorous way.
“Samantha! Nah I’m sorry, I’m just excited to get to the towns battle contest and you called while I was heading out.”
“I actually called to see if you were going, good luck out there today”
“Haha, thanks, but you know me I always win” You say mostly out of confidence. “I’ll talk to you later Sam.”
“See you around.” She says as you both hang up.
You finally head out the door with excitement as you are on your way to the battle contest.
Head to the Battle Contest (Get 450 interactions)
Task 2
When you arrive you suddenly realize how great this place is. The long bleachers surrounding the arena, the open roof so the clear blue-sky pours down onto you, and the tall gray pillars surrounding the whole entire coliseum.
“This day is going to be great” you think to yourself as you are walking into the arena floor.
No sooner then do you take your first step onto the battlefield you hear the judges complaining and worrying, frantically waving their arms up and down like they are scared for their lives. You race over to see what is going on and to see if you could help in any way.
“But we can’t continue without it Ray!”
“I know Nancy but we have to do something! We just can’t cancel the whole contest.”
You hear that and quickly cut them all off. “Excuse me, did I just hear your cant have the conte-“
“Son, we don’t need your help in this matter.” The old man suddenly cuts you off.
“Ray! That is no way to talk to a young man who just wants to help us, and you of all people know we need the help.”
The old man eyes you darkly for a second then says, “The prize gem for this contest was stolen, the winner would have it bestowed upon the, but someone stole it. ”He says with a grim expression.
“I can help you! I can go track them down and get it back for you.” You say excited but uneasily as you don’t fully know what you’re getting yourself into.
The nice lady replies, “That’s very nice young man but we can’t have you getting into trou-“
“Ill be back before the contest even starts!” You say cutting her off as you run out of the stadium, only after a short while do you realize you don’t know where to go, until you realize footprints right outside the stadium headed to the forest.
“Well, at least I know where I’m heading” you say to yourself as you start off, into the deep forest.
Find the thieves (750 interactions)
Task 3
After traveling for what seems like forever, you come to a clearing where you see two guys dressed in all black with bags over their shoulders are wispering to each other under a tall green tree.
“Hey!” you should loudly at them as they turn in shock and surprise.
They stare at you for a long time, sizing you up, to you this seems like forever.
“Get lost kid, before we have to hurt you.” the one on the left sneers at you.
“I want that gem you stole back right now, we need it for the contest!” you reply a little shakily since there are two of them.
“Shut up kid, we have enough things to worry about right now.” They say almost together.
“Yeah and we don’t need you to bug us so get lost.” One says as they laugh as they try to stare you down.
You slowly unclip a pokeball from your hip, wanting to beat these losers.
As they notice it, they look at you in surprise, they drop their bags and pull out their own pokeballs.
“You’re gutsy boy, but you’re going to regret that move kid.” The other says as all three of you throw out your pokemon.
Get the gem (Defeat the pair of thieves in the battle tower)
Task 4
It is hard to face two guys at once, but you have no problem here, as they both seem fairly simple.
“Grr, why do you have to push your nose into our business anyway!” One says at it glares at you.
“I want that gem you stole back!” You say with a lot more confidence now since you defeated them so easily.
“ohhh, The thieve who was apparently in charge, you want that? Well we don’t even have that in our possession.”
“Yeah, we gave it to our boss already and you don’t even know where he is.” They say as they pick up their bags and run off.
You want to chase after them but as you try you realize they are way faster then you, must have a lot of experience knowing they are criminals. You need a pokemon to follow them, you think to yourself as you unclip a pokeball.
“Go, pidgeotto, follow those thieves.
Keep track of the thieves (have a level 25 pidgeotto in your party)
Task 5
Your pidgeotto soon returns and motions for you to follow it. As it flies through the air from above you follow its path, running through the forest telling yourself to not stop for nothing, the only thing on your mind is getting that gem back to save the battle contest.
Catch up with the thieves (750 interactions)
Task 6
You finally arrive and call you pidgeotto back into its ball as you come to the towns power plant. You see no guards outside so you slip through the front door and head up the stairs, avoiding the few guards you see on the way up, once you get to the top the door is cracked open and you peek around the corner to see exactly what you were hoping to see, and what you were hoping not to see. You see the gem you have been searching for all this time, but you also see the boss of these thieves, and he doesn’t look like a push over.
“What took you so long!” the boss bellowed at the two thieves.
“W-we-we encountered a trai-trainer sir. We were def-defeated but we got away fr-from him.” He says very scared, cowering as if he was going to be hit.
“You fools! How stupid can you get I told you to bring the gem straight to me!” he screams as he hits him right in the face, he falls hard and doesn’t move.
You look in shock as he turns and is about to hit the other one as you heroically jump through the door as the boss jumps back in shock.
“I am the one who beat them, and you will give me that gem back for the battle contest!” You say in a lot more confidence then you can even believe you could muster.
“Fool! You think you can beat me, I’m the great master Vince, nobody can beat me!”
“We just have to see about that don’t we.” You say as you both unclip your pokeballs and get ready for battle.
Recover the gem (Defeat master thieve Vince in the battle tower)
Task 7
In a grueling battle you defeat him as he falls to his knee. You call back your pokeball as you hear sirens in the distance, someone must have heard the noise and called the police. You sit there for a moment then realize the thieve who got backhanded by Vince was sitting in the corner with a telephone, he looks at you and nods glumly, as he lays back and closes his eyes.
“How could you defeat me? I’m master Vince, nobody beats me!” He screams out to you with more sadness then hatred.
You just stare back at the sad man as the police get there and take them away. You recover the gem and as you are walking out you realize you have no idea how to get back to the contest arena.
“Oh no.” You whisper to yourself as you try and go around the building to get the police but just as you round the corner they take off and you have no hopes of catching up with them.
“I need to get back.” You say out loud as you search for anything to help you.
Find your way back (Find the random exploration item)
Task 8
After a little while of searching in the power plant you find a map, you start to follow the trail back to the coliseum. After a while of traveling, it starts to rain and you decide to run. Only then do you finally realize the time.
“Oh no! I only have 15 minutes until I need to be back!” You say out of hopelessness.
You have no pokemon to travel you that fast, until you see just the wild pokemon you need, hiding under a rock to keep away from the rain.
Get back to the Arena in time (Have a level 40 Rapidash in your party)
Task 9
You catch the Rapidash with ease since it was thankfully raining. You take out your umbrella out of your pack and board the Rapidash. You open your umbrella and you and your new Rapidash hurry back through the rain. Luckily the rain doesn’t last long, it subsides before your even back. You arrive just in time for the first battle of the afternoon, thankfully its not you as you need a little break. After the battle you return the gem to the judges and they smile brightly as they see you pull out the gem of your pocket.
“Oh why thank you very much! We don’t know what would’ve happened if you didn’t get us the gem back, thank you very much.” Nancy says as she takes it and places it back on the pedestal.
The old man glares at you then extends his hand. “Thank you very much, you have done well.”
You smile as you shake his hand and head back into your trainer room to get ready and heal any further damage.
“Okay guys, we are ready, lets do this!”
Get through the first 3 rounds for the finals (Get 1,000 interactions)
Task 10
You breeze by the first two rounds and the semi-finals like nothing, barely even getting past your third pokemon. You head back into your trainer room and heal the pokemon that needs it, and straightens them all up.
“Okay guys one more battle and we can claim that gem and first place!”
Your pokemon all cheer in excitement as you are called out for the final battle. You step in the box and look down to your feet, breathe and look up at the crowd, then you realize exactly who you are facing.
“Samantha?!” You exclaim as your best friend and hardest rival stands across from you.
“I told you that you needed luck to win this tournament this morning, didn’t I?” she says as she winks at you and smiles. You smile back and laugh a bit, then get serious and you place a hand on your belt and grabs a pokeball. This is it, all or nothing.
Win the contest (Defeat your rival in the battle tower)
End of Exploration
It comes down to the wire but you Gallantly defeat her as you both are a little shocked but you have the biggest smile on your face as the crowd cheers loudly for you. You meet Samantha in the middle and shake hands.
“That was a great battle, one of the only times you have actually beat me.” She exclaims in a joking manner.
“Yeah but this battle was the one that really counted, wasn’t it?” You counter back with your own joke.
You walk to the judges as they display upon you your prize, you are all smiling as you hold the gem up to the crowd, the gem you fought so hard to recover, and fought even harder to win.
Collect your gem (Choose which gem you want)
Task 9 with the 3 battles, the only reason i did 1,000 interactions was because i thought it was pointless to make 3 separate back to back to back tasks just to battle 3 battles, so i think it is better that way, tell me what you think on that as well if you could, thanks(:
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Jun 4 2012, 06:51 PM
that looks like it could make a good normal exploration, I liked the story and everything, though instead of talking a lot, you could also balance the talking with a bit more detail of places you are going so that you can give the reader a good mental image of what is happening. As a whole though it looks like it could be a good exploration, i liked reading it, so very good job
Posted by: championkasq17 Jun 4 2012, 07:03 PM
I as well did not like all the talking even while typing it, i read over it 3 times and still didn't like it but i wanted an opinion, so i will try to fix that(: thanks
Posted by: championkasq17 Jun 4 2012, 08:24 PM
Okay that took a while i tried to take out most of the talking and add a lot more detail, i like it a lot better but i am also hard on myself and suck at actually knowing how good something i did is, so yeah please tell me what you think(:
Revised gem Exploration (click to showhide)
Task 1
You wake up to the sound of your alarm clock and a warm bright light glaring in your face. “Okay, Okay already” You say to yourself as you hit the snooze button and roll out of bed. All of a sudden you get a jolt of energy when you remember what day it is, it’s the day of the battle contest! You quickly get dressed and gather your pokeballs as you swing your pack over your shoulder. Just as you are heading out the phone rings and you turn around and go into the kitchen.
“Hello?” you say with displeasure as this is the last thing you want to be doing at the moment.
“Now is that anyway to say good morning to your best friend?” they say in a humorous way.
“Samantha! Nah I’m sorry, I’m just excited to get to the towns battle contest and you called while I was heading out.”
“I actually called to see if you were going, good luck out there today”
“Haha, thanks, but you know me I always win” You say mostly out of confidence. “I’ll talk to you later Sam.”
“See you around.” She says as you both hang up.
You finally head out the door with excitement as you are on your way to the battle contest.
Head to the Battle Contest (Get 450 interactions)
Task 2
When you arrive you suddenly realize how great this place is. The long bleachers surrounding the arena, the open roof so the clear blue-sky pours down onto you, and the tall gray pillars surrounding the whole entire coliseum.
You start to think to yourself about how awesome this day is going to be, how much fun your going to have, and how you are totally going to win as you are walking into the arena floor.
No sooner then do you take your first step onto the battlefield, before you even have time to get a feel for the emotions on the battle grounds, you hear the judges complaining and worrying, frantically waving their arms up and down like they are scared for their lives. You race over to see what is going on and to see if you could help in any way.
“But we can’t continue without it Ray!”
“I know Nancy but we have to do something! We just can’t cancel the whole contest.”
You hear that and quickly get close enough to hear exactly what is going on, but before you can even hear anything, they realize you and turn to you
“Son, we don’t need your help in this matter.” The old man suddenly says at you as he stares you down.
“Ray! That is no way to talk to a young man who just wants to help us, and you of all people know we need the help.”
The old man eyes you darkly for a second then says, “The prize gem for this contest was stolen, the winner would have it bestowed upon the, but someone stole it. ”He says with a grim expression.
You quickly realize the situation and you’re in shock. Who would do such a thing, who would steal a prized gem so the battle contest wouldn’t happen? Before you even ask if you can help to recover it, you run out of the stadium. Only after a short while do you realize you don’t know where to go. You suddenly survey the area for anything to help you track down the thieves, looking around the coliseum until you realize footprints right outside the doors. You follow them until you get to the edge of the forest. Y take a deep breathe as you close your eyes, feeling the wind in your hair, and you start off into the deep forest.
Find the thieves (750 interactions)
Task 3
After traveling for what seems like forever through the dense leafy trees, you come to a clearing where you see two guys dressed in all black, with navy blue beanies on their heads, and with bags over their shoulders are whispering to each other under a tall green tree.
You get behind a rock about ten feet away from them, they look like they are having an argument but you’re not sure. Just before you are about to pull out a pokemon they start to walk deeper into the forest. You think you should just follow them and see where they will lead you, easy as that.
They go through many twists and turns and you wonder what they are doing when they could save half of their time to just walk on the straight path. As you come to a turn behind a wall of trees you round it carefully but they somehow jump you and you fall onto your back. You scream and try to kick them off you, you get a lucky shot and hit one in the face with your left foot, then manage to roll under the other as he is very light. Apparently they knew I was there the whole time, you unclip a pokeball from your waist and prepare to battle.
Get the gem (Defeat the pair of thieves in the battle tower)
Task 4
It is hard to face two guys at once, but you have no problem here, as they both seem fairly simple. There was a lot of cheating with two pokemon against one but your top notch pokemon still handled them very easily as it seems that they were not trained very well.
They quickly recall their pokemon and take off printing as they drop their bags. You quickly recover them and rummage inside of them throwing everything out, looking under everything and in every pocket, but the gem is not in there! You look up just in time to see their skinny figures fading in the distance. You take a pokeball out knowing you can’t lose them.
“Go Pidgeotto!” You call out to follow them as you start to run off after them as well.
Keep track of the thieves (have a level 25 pidgeotto in your party)
Task 5
Your Pidgeotto soon returns and lands right next to you. You put your hands on your knees almost out of energy, breathing heavily since you have ran at least a mile by now. It quickly tugs at your pants, takes off into the air with a giant jump and motions for you to follow it. As it flies through the air from above you follow its path, running through the forest, although very tired but very determined. Telling yourself to stop for nothing, the only thing on your mind is getting that gem back to save the battle contest.
Catch up with the thieves (750 interactions)
Task 6
You finally arrive and call you Pidgeotto back into its ball as you come to the town’s power plant. You quickly survey the area and see no guards outside so you slip through the front door after passing multiple electrical wires and towers. You rapidly head up the metal stairs, avoiding the few guards you see on the way up. Once you get to the top there is a tall metal door cracked open and you peek around the corner to see exactly what you were hoping to see, and what you were hoping not to see. You see the shining gem you have been searching for all this time in a case on a chair, but you also see the boss of these thieves, and he doesn’t look like a push over. He is about six foot three, heavily built with long black hair. He has ice blue eyes with a shady brown clean-cut beard. He is wearing a heavy black jacket with ripped up dark navy blue jeans.
The two thieves you encountered earlier were on their knees in front of him as he began shouting at them so loudly everyone in the building could hear. The two were cowering down lower and lower to the ground as they were shaking very uncontrollably. Just before you couldn’t think the scene could get any worse he backhanded one of the two thieves so hard he flew back a couple feet and didn’t move once he hit the floor with a thud. Just before he could hit the other one you jumped through the door and stood there in the doorway as the boss jumped back in shock, then looked at you up and down.
As he looked you over you pulled out a pokeball from your belt, as he saw this he laughed, undid one of his pokeballs and flung it into the air.
Recover the gem (Defeat master thieve Vince in the battle tower)
Task 7
In a grueling battle you defeat him as he falls to his knee. You call back your pokeball. Breathing heavily, you have to lean back against the wall as you hear sirens in the distance, someone must have heard the noise and called the police. You stand there for a moment, watching the boss making sure he doesn’t try to escape. You realize there are no windows and the only way out is the door you came in behind you. Then as you hear the police coming up the stairs, you realize the thieve who got backhanded by Vince was sitting in the corner with a telephone, he looks at you and nods glumly with a look of peace in his eyes, as he lays back against the wall.
“How could you defeat me? I’m master Vince, nobody beats me!” He screams out to you with more sadness then hatred as the police drag him away in handcuffs.
You just stare back at the sad man as he is taken down the stairs, and shoved into the police car. You recover the gem and as you are walking out you realize you have no idea how to get back to the contest arena.
You suddenly freak out and try to go around the building to get the police. Pumping your arms and legs up and down you slide across the dirt and around the corner and just as you round the corner you see them as they take off. You try to run while shouting at them hoping they can hear you but with no success. You then frantically run back around the wire fence of the power plant, up the stairs hoping to find something to help you.
Find your way back (Find the random exploration item)
Task 8
You search all over the place for a compass, a map, anything. You go up and down to each level trying to find some sort of device that will help you to get back. After a little while of searching in the power plant you find a map. You slowly decline and exit the big brass doors and you start to follow the trail back to the coliseum. After a while of traveling down a winding dirt path, it starts to rain and you decide to run. Only then do you finally realize the time. You only have fifteen minutes to get back until the battling starts!
You have no pokemon to travel you that fast you realize out of frustration, you weigh the options of all your pokemon and none could do that job; Pidgeotto can’t fly you through the storm and none of your other pokemon can carry you. You feel like all hope is lost, slowly dragging your feet down the path, until you see just the wild pokemon you need, hiding under a rock to keep away from the rain. You feel a surge of energy flowing through your body, and grab a pokeball.
Get back to the Arena in time (Have a level 40 Rapidash in your party)
Task 9
You catch the Rapidash with ease since it was thankfully raining. You take out your umbrella out of your pack and board the Rapidash. You open your umbrella and you and your new Rapidash hurry back through the rain. Luckily the rain doesn’t last long, it subsides before your even back. You arrive just in time for the first battle of the afternoon, thankfully its not you as you need a little break. After the battle you return the gem to the judges and they smile brightly as they see you pull out the gem of your pocket.
They seemed relieved and thank you graciously; even the gloom old man smiles and shakes your hand. You head back into your trainers room through the door and into a room made just for you. Blue walls, soft purple carpet and even a glowing fireplace in the corner which you need because you are still wet. You let all your pokemon out and as they sit in a circle enjoying their snack, you sit on the bed, staring at the fire. You feel this sensation as if the fire was staring back into your soul, you know what you must do, you must win like you always do, you deserve it, and you have earned it.
You stand up and call back all your pokemon, and head out to face your first opponent, and any that may follow.
Get through the first 3 rounds for the finals (Get 1,000 interactions)
Task 10
You breeze by the first two rounds and the semi-finals like nothing, barely even getting past your third pokemon. You head back into your trainer room and heal the pokemon that needs it, and straightens them all up. One more battle to victory, one more battle to make up for all your hard word receiving the gem and training.
Your pokemon all cheer in excitement as you are called out for the final battle. You step in the box and look down to your feet, breathe and look up at the crowd, then you realize exactly who you are facing.
“Samantha?!” You exclaim as your best friend and hardest rival stands across from you.
“I told you that you needed luck to win this tournament this morning, didn’t I?” she says as she winks at you and smiles. You smile back and laugh a bit, then get serious and you place a hand on your belt and grab a pokeball. This is it, all or nothing.
Win the contest (Defeat your rival in the battle tower)
End of Exploration
It comes down to the wire but you Gallantly defeat her as you both are a little shocked but you have the biggest smile on your face as the crowd cheers loudly for you. You meet Samantha in the middle and shake hands.
You guys lock eyes like you have done so many times, congratulating each other through your thoughts like only good rivals and best friends can.
You walk to the judges as they display upon you your prize, you are all smiling as you hold the gem up to the crowd, and the gem you fought so hard to recover, and fought even harder to win.
Collect your gem (Choose which gem you want)
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Jun 4 2012, 09:51 PM
ya that looks better, you manage to balance out the details of your story and the talking more so that there isn't too much talking and the details give the reader a good image of what is going on. I think its better than the first draft, and the writing itself wasn't too bad its still a good story for a normal exploration.
Posted by: championkasq17 Jun 4 2012, 09:59 PM
Thanks(: I dont know what else to do with it so I'm just going to keep it liek that since i actually think thats pretty good compared to the first one so yeah, I'll keep it like that(: What happens to it now?
Posted by: Apple Bloom Jun 9 2012, 08:19 AM
Completed 36 exploration with the latest being my first try on TBD
@Champion That exploration idea is so good.I hope they make an exploration like yours.
Now working on Needing a friend task 4
Edit:Finished Needing a Friend so I now completed 37 explorations now
Edit 2:Completed The Babysitting Adventure for 38 explorations completed
Edit 3:Completed Mysterious Creature of the ruins for 39 explorations completed
Edit 4:Completed 46 right now
edit:53 exploratons now
Posted by: Samoo Jun 11 2012, 03:46 PM
Changed my name from Freeze Shock back to Samoo. I miss this display name too much.
ps I love your stories, Kim + Laura<3
Posted by: KiD MiCro Jun 22 2012, 11:14 PM
Just finished TBD for the 4th run a week before..
A Ripple in Time and The Great Rescue just now~
sadly Squirtle Clone that I chose not a shiny though~
Won't be able to do any more exploration for a while due to the waiting period~
Posted by: Sweeter Jun 23 2012, 12:20 AM
Completed 123 explorations as of right now.
Posted by: Keyda Jul 4 2012, 11:42 AM
Exploration (click to showhide)
Task 1
“That’s the last one” the man says as the last shelf is slid into place. “Good luck with everything” He says before walking out the door. As you stand in the middle of your brand new store, you can’t help but feel excited and overwhelmed at the same time. You’ve been dreaming of opening your own antiques store for years and now your dream has finally come true.
It’s not a big place, but big enough for you to get yourself started. It has plenty of space for shelves and a nice half counter half glass case for you to place your small valuable finds.
You walk into the back room which is covered from floor to ceiling with boxes, all full of merchandise ready to be placed on the shelves. You know it is going to be a long night, but you’re ready to take on the challenge.
Stock the shelves with the merchandise – Get 750 interactions
Task 2
It’s pretty late by the time you finish but you are very pleased with how it turned out and can’t wait for opening time in just a few hours. You decide to head to bed and get at least a little sleep.
The next morning, the store is packed with people and you’re so busy tending to them you hardly notice the time until late in the day, when the last customer has finally walked out the door. As you’re locking up for the night, the phone rings behind the counter. You answer it to find a young woman on the other end.
“Hi, I saw your flyer about your new antique store earlier in the Pokemart and I was wondering if I could bother you to come down and help me sell some of my parents’ things. They passed away a few years ago and it’s about time that someone else enjoy them as much as they did.”
“Sure, I can be down in the morning.” You tell the lady and take down her address. After hanging up, you look over at a few of the empty shelves, happy to be able to fill them again. You head to bed with a renewed feeling of excitement.
The next morning, you start off with your van to the woman’s house. You have a long drive ahead of you, but you’re determined to see what she has to offer you.
Drive to the woman’s house – Get 1500 interactions
Task 3
You finally arrive at the house and drive up a long driveway. You admire the garden that lines it and the bigger one to the right of the house. Looking out on the left you see a herd of tauros grazing in their pen. As you get out of the van, a woman comes out and stands on the porch with a smile on her face. “Hi, I’m Kat” she says as she holds out her hand. You return the handshake. “Username” You reply. “I’m so glad you took the time to come all the way out here. This way, please.” She gestures behind her to the inside of the house.
You follow her through the entrance hall to a door, which she opens and steps back. “All of their stuff is down there, please take whatever you want. I’ll make something cold to drink for you.” With that she wanders off to the kitchen, leaving you to explore. As you descend down the stairs, you find a well lit basement full of antiques sitting on shelves. You stand at the bottom of the stairs taking them all in. Suddenly you hear a strange noise coming from the far corner. You head over to investigate and find a spinarak digging in the corner. As you approach it, it turns to you and looks from you to the hole it has been digging and back to you again. “Need help little guy?” You ask. The spinarak nods in reply and you pull out a pokeball. Whatever it is digging for must be important to it.
Help the spinarak – Have a ground type in your party at level 20 or highter.
So finally got a start on my exploration. Hope it's good so far.
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Jul 6 2012, 01:54 AM
That actually does sound like a good start to a exploration, I can't wait to read the rest of it, hopefully it will be just as good as what you posted there, especially if the consistently keeps up and everything. As for me i haven't worked on any exploration stories lately cause of other reasons, mostly real life and other things i want to get done in the process so ya.
Posted by: AOPSUser Aug 2 2012, 07:49 PM
Name: AOPSUser
Link to Party: http://new.gpxplus.net/user/AOPSUser
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 17
Have you read everything?: Yes
Posted by: knowledge Aug 9 2012, 02:23 PM
Haven't updated in a while... 28 completed explorations. Currently on task 5 of Guardians Exploration.
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Aug 31 2012, 02:57 PM
thanks for all of the updates, currently I'm trying to think of something else that could draw attention to this group if anyone who is in this group has any suggestions please feel free to share them here or PM them to me.
Posted by: Keyda Aug 31 2012, 03:39 PM
Is there any way to have our own explorations here within the group? We could do trinkets or drawings for prizes.
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Aug 31 2012, 03:51 PM
that might be possible.....and to keep them a surprise i could have people PM their own explorations and use them as for prizes, trinkets(rarity based on how tough the exploration is) or sig/avy/or some sort of drawing prize(but i would need someone who is good at them) I'm working on it but I'm not that good with art yet. So now thinking about that could be quite possible.
Posted by: Keyda Aug 31 2012, 04:35 PM
If we can figure something out I don't mind running it, and doing trinkets. Anyone with suggestions can post or PM one of us too.
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Aug 31 2012, 04:44 PM
Well everything would be in the first post, lets just see if anyone else has any suggestions or likes your suggestion and then see if something can work out before giving a okay on anything.
Posted by: Keyda Aug 31 2012, 04:48 PM
Okay, sounds good.
Posted by: AOPSUser Aug 31 2012, 05:56 PM
I'm now up to 26 Explorations completed.
I'm creating an exploration harder than TBD right now. It's a bit too sadistic, but considering that the prize is an Azure Flute (to access an Arceus Exploration), it's gotta be pretty hard.
"Feed Gliscor 2500 Aspear Berries"
Yeah, that hard.
Posted by: purple umbreon Aug 31 2012, 06:10 PM
Name: purple umbreon
Link to Party: http://new.gpxplus.net/user/purple+umbreon
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 27
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
Posted by: AdmiralPerry Sep 3 2012, 03:55 PM
Why did I not see this before?? I've been wanting to write my own exploration for awhile so this is perfect!
Name: AdmiralPerry
Link to Party: http://new.gpxplus.net/user/AdmiralPerry
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 17
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Sep 3 2012, 04:25 PM
Welcome the two newest members of the group, if you have any questions you are welcome to message me or ask them here.
@Keyda - back to your idea on explorations, I was thinking to have them like Mini-explorations....since the main explorations really are public on GPXplus, just like you have the main game then you have the mini games. I'm opened for suggestions on prizes but depending on the prize it might be good to have it reflect in what kind of exploration you write up.
Posted by: Keyda Sep 3 2012, 06:10 PM
I'm not sure what you mean when you say mini exploration. Do you mean shorter than the site or doing something completely different from what the "real" explorations do?
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Sep 3 2012, 06:19 PM
different from the main site probably would be a basic for it, i mean we could just say explorations just make it clear the prizes for completing these are artworks and trinkets nothing really big like would be offered in a regular one.
Posted by: Keyda Sep 3 2012, 06:37 PM
right, those things are what I had in mind for prizes. I'll have to think on the exploration itself, not sure how to adapt it for here...
Posted by: Keyda Sep 16 2012, 08:32 AM
So I finally finished my written exploration. Let me know what you think 
If you read the first three tasks I posted before, you have to read them again as I went back and added to them.
Treasure Hunt (click to showhide)
Task 1
“That’s the last one” the man says as the last shelf is slid into place. “Good luck with everything” He says before walking out the door. As you stand in the middle of your brand new store, deep in the heart of Lilycove City, you can’t help but feel excited and overwhelmed at the same time. You’ve been dreaming of opening your own antiques store for years and now your dream has finally come true.
It’s not a big place, but big enough for you to get yourself started. It has plenty of space for shelves and a nice half counter half glass case for you to place your small valuable finds.
You walk into the back room which is covered from floor to ceiling with boxes, all full of merchandise ready to be placed on the shelves. You know it is going to be a long night, but you’re ready to take on the challenge.
Stock the shelves with the merchandise – Get 750 interactions
Task 2
It’s pretty late by the time you finish but you are very pleased with how it turned out and can’t wait for opening time in just a few hours. You head back into the back room and admire an antique desk that you picked up on your travels in Slateport City. It’s a long, dark colored oak desk with a symbol of a boat on the front. You had bought it on a whim there and have grown kind of attached to it. Instead of putting it out you set it up in your office space to serve as your desk. With everything in order, you decide to head to bed and get at least a little sleep.
The next morning, the store is packed with people and you’re so busy tending to them you hardly notice the time until late in the day, when the last customer has finally walked out the door. As you’re locking up for the night, the phone rings behind the counter. You answer it to find a young woman on the other end.
“Hi, I saw your flyer about your new antique store earlier in the Pokemart and I was wondering if I could bother you to come down and help me sell some of my parents’ things. They passed away a few years ago and it’s about time that someone else enjoy them as much as they did.”
“Sure, I can be down in the afternoon.” You tell the lady and take down her address. After hanging up, you look over at a few of the empty shelves, happy to be able to fill them again. You head to bed with a renewed feeling of excitement.
The next morning is very busy again as customers come and go. When closing time arrives, you quickly lock up and start off with your van to the woman’s house, just outside of Fortree City. You have a long drive ahead of you, but you’re determined to see what she has to offer you.
Drive to the woman’s house – Get 1500 interactions
Task 3
You finally arrive at the house and drive up a long driveway. You admire the garden that lines it and the bigger one to the right of the house. Looking out on the left you see a herd of tauros grazing in their pen. As you get out of the van, a woman comes out and stands on the porch with a smile on her face. “Hi, I’m Kat” she says as she holds out her hand. You return the handshake. “Username” You reply. “I’m so glad you took the time to come all the way out here. This way, please.” She gestures behind her to the inside of the house.
You follow her through the entrance hall to a door, which she opens and steps back. “All of their stuff is down there, please take whatever you want. I’ll make something cold to drink for you.” With that she wanders off to the kitchen, leaving you to explore. As you descend down the stairs, you find a well lit basement full of antiques sitting on shelves. You stand at the bottom of the stairs taking them all in. Suddenly you hear a strange noise coming from the far corner. You head over to investigate and find a spinarak digging in the corner. This part of the basement has no flooring, but instead dirt. As you approach it, it turns to you and looks from you to the hole it has been digging and back to you again. “Need help little guy?” You ask. The spinarak nods in reply and you pull out a pokeball. Whatever it is digging for must be important to it.
Help the spinarak – Have a Persian in your party
Task 4
Persian quickly gets to work and starts digging where spinarak’s hole is. After a minute its claws scratch something that sounds like wood. Both persian and spinarak move aside as you kneel down and finish uncovering what’s buried in the dirt. You lift out a small wooden box, clearly old. You inspect it to find that it is not locked and open the cover. Reaching in you pull out a yellowed piece of paper. It’s a note! You look at the spinarak as it waves its legs up in down in a happy dance. Laughing, you look back to read the note:
My dear Kat
As you know, your mother and I loved collecting antiques. The pieces around you are a part of history. I know that when I’m gone you will have no need for all these things and will find good homes for them. There is one that I know you will keep, because it was always your favorite. I have hidden something inside as a special something for you to remember us and our family history by. You need a special to open it. Good luck my angel. I love you.
Dad
You bring the letter upstairs and find Kat in the kitchen. After she reads the note, she is silent for a minute before laughing out loud. “My dad was always leaving notes around the house for me to find.” She says, handing you back the letter. “The thing he’s taking about is a box on the shelf downstairs in the shape of a clampearl’s shell. It’s locked up tight and I have not been able to figure out how to open it. You’re welcome to look and see if you can figure it out.”
You both head downstairs with lemonades in hand and she pulls the box off the shelf and hands it to you. Sitting down with it, you inspect the lock. You can tell that it’s not a key lock, but the lock is too small to put anything but in. Taking your flashlight and peering inside, you can make out a type of mechanism. It is them that you know how to get the lock open: you need weight.
Open the lock: Have 2 hard stones in your inventory.
Task 5
Pulling the hard stones from your bag, you crush them up into small pieces. You place the box on the table and being to fill the lock with the crushed stone. You know that you have to fill it carefully, going over the required weight means that the lock won’t open and you’ll have to start again. Finally you hear a click and the top of the box lifts up. You hear Kat gasp behind you as you both peek inside.
You reach in and lift out the note as Kat picks up a bunch of what look like puzzle pieces. Unfolding the note you begin to read it out loud.
Kat
You’ve always enjoyed puzzles, so here are some pieces to one. The rest are hidden in my childhood hometown, in the landmark that my good friend’s great great grandfather built. Find the inscription on it and it will tell you what to do.
Dad
“His childhood hometown is in Slateport city. The fountain at the edge of town was built by his friend’s great great grandfather. He used to tell me that his grandfather hid a secret in it but wouldn’t tell me what. Are you really going to go?” She asks suddenly, seeing the look in your eyes. You tell her yes, it’s worth checking out. But really you’re just excited to go on a treasure hunt. You promise her you’ll be back within the day, you’ll fly there so it won’t take as long.
“Alright then, good luck and be careful.”
Fly to Slateport City: Have a level 25 flying type in your party
Task 6
You arrive in Slateport City and recall your flying pokemon, thanking it for getting you there so quickly. You quickly make your way to the beach and to the fountain that Kat talked about. You walk around it a few times, admiring its beauty and craftsmanship. You get down on your knees and look underneath the fountain but see nothing. As your crawling around you notice that there is a small section of the base that is not even. You inspect it to find that it could be moved and that the piece is not stone at all but a piece of plastic made to look like stone. You pull and tug and finally it comes loose. Pulling it out you find the inscription that you were looking for:
The secret is in the taster
You sit back and mull over what you have just read, gazing upward at the fountain, the sound of the water creating a peaceful melody. You rack your brain to figure out what is meant by taster. You know you’re onto something, but it seems you may have hit a dead end. Suddenly you stand up and look at the top of the fountain. The water comes from the mouths of the fish that surround a bigger fish at the very top. It might be nothing but it is worth a shot.
Climbing up to the top of the fountain you peer inside the top fish on the fountain. You reach in and run your hand along the fish’s tongue. Suddenly you feel something, a smooth spot instead of a rough one. You push down on the spot to find that it was a button and the tongue lifts up, revealing more puzzle pieces and another note. You hop down with everything and read the note:
Kat
You now have everything that you need, but I fear the treasure I hid for you may not be around anymore. Your grandparents had an oak desk with a boat decoration in their home that I put the treasure in. These pieces and the locket are the keys to opening it but I was unable to claim it when they passed away. Please search for this desk and get what is rightfully yours. I love you very much and hope that they family treasure will find its way back to you.
Dad
You sit back, surprised by what you have just read that you nearly fall backwards into the water. It couldn’t be. There was no way. But still you had to try. Running to the pokemon center, you call Kat and tell her that it was important to meet you at your store. She seems to understand the urgency and agrees right away. As you walk outside you see that the wind has picked up and flying would be impossible, so you do the next best thing: you swim.
Hurry home: Have a lv 40 Milotic in your party
Task 7
Upon arriving in Lilycove City, you recall your milotic and race to your store, where you find Kat waiting outside. You stop to tell her what you found in the fountain and show her the puzzle pieces and the note. She reads the note as you unlock the door and hurry to your office. Throwing the stuff on it aside, you inspect the desk, looking for the key hole.
After a minute of searching, your fingers glide over the boat symbol on the front and you could feel that it moved. You inspect it to find that the boat opens and a star shaped indent is visible behind it.
“I remember this desk” Kat says, taking off a necklace that she was wearing. She hands it to you and you place it in the indent and push. It fits perfectly and you hear a click as the side of the desk pops open. Pulling it the rest of the way out, you see a square box you can only assume is for the puzzle pieces.
“Well, this is it” you say, and you both begin to assemble the pieces
Put the Puzzle Together – Get 200 Interactions
Task 8
Kat places the last piece in place and pushes the puzzle down. There is another click and she pulls the top off, revealing a hidden nook in the desk and a chest inside it. Kat carefully lifts out the box and, finding that there was no lock on it, opens it. She gasps and you can see tears forming in her eyes as you both gaze at the collection of trinkets before you.
Turning to you, she says “These are things my dad has collected since he was little. He always told me he had saved them for me. Thank you.” She smiles. “Thank you for helping me find these. My father would be so happy to see these here right now. I think that he would also want you to have one, for helping me. Please take one.”
You smile and look at the chest. You see a trinket that catches your eye and you reach into the chest to grab it.
Take the Trinket – Reach in the right, middle, or left side
End
You hold the trinket in your hand and admire its beauty and craftsmanship. Kat then closes up the chest and you both walk to the door together. “Thanks again” Kat says, turning to you. “Thank you for a wonderful treasure hunt” you say as you both embrace. “Come by anytime you’re in the area.”
“I will. Good luck with your store. I’m sure I’ll be seeing you again.” And with that Kat calls out her pokemon and you watch her as she flies off. Beyond her you can see a cloud, and for a split second, you could swear you saw a man smiling in that cloud.
End Your Exploration
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Sep 17 2012, 08:28 PM
that was quite a interesting read especially it being a exploration based around trinket collecting, I liked the way the story went and was focused on what could relate to the prize. Perhaps a few more like that and there could be a few explorations opened up here with a trinket as a prize or something like that cause this would make good for one of those kinds of exploration plus a few more so that it could swap every little bit.
Posted by: Shadow the Assassin Sep 17 2012, 08:44 PM
May I join? ^-^
Name: Shadow the Assassin/Higoset
Link to Party:http://gpxplus.net/user/Shadow+the+Assassin
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 44
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Oct 31 2012, 07:19 PM
Welcome, I have been trying to think of new exploration ideas, and was wondering if anyone wanted to try their hand in creating a Thanksgiving like Exploration for November. Since we have a exploration for Halloween and Christmas right now .
Posted by: Keyda Nov 1 2012, 12:48 PM
that sounds like fun. Maybe I could do something with leftovers as the prize. or a valuable item... I'll see what I can think up.
Posted by: Garder Voir Feb 3 2013, 08:09 PM
Name: Garder Voir
Link to Party: http://my.gpxpl.us/Garder+Voir
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 20
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
Posted by: pikspore1 Apr 21 2013, 10:45 PM
Name: Pikspore1
Party: http://gpxplus.net/user/pikspore1
Explorations Completed(Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 2.5
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
I'm going to make a exploration for a gem. It IS different from the other one, and involves mining it up.
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A miner's day.
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Step 1:
Ah, what a pleasant day. The sun is shining, pidgey are chirping, and there isn't a cloud in the sky. you do have to work, though. So is life. Your bus arrives in one hour, so better get going. You get up, take a shower, eat some toast, and prepare to do some reading, but you can't seem to find the newspaper.
This would have you find your newspaper as a exploration item.
Step 2:
After some reading, you run out. you just missed the bus! You certainly can't walk from new bark to mt silver. what are you to do? Suddenly, you get an idea. you can't walk, but maybe you can fly! You dig out a pokeball, and toss it to the ground.
You would need a level 25 flying type.
Posted by: Keyda Apr 22 2013, 02:45 PM
So far so good. Maybe add a little more details?
I have one up above that I wrote if you want to read it too
Posted by: pikspore1 Apr 22 2013, 08:07 PM
Thanks. I've noticed everybody has only made one exploration. I assume I can still make more than one, but it would be nice to know. if for some reason I can't. Anyway, exploration.
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Step 1:
Ah, what a pleasant day. From your bedroom window, you can see that the sun is shining, pidgey are chirping, and there isn't a cloud in the sky. you do have to work, though. So is life. Your bus arrives in one hour, so better get going. You get up, take a shower, eat some toast, and prepare to do some reading, but you can't seem to find the newspaper. You remember taking it in while waiting for your toast to pop up. You were going to read it, but the toast poped and you went to get it, forgetting the newspaper untill now.
This would have you find your newspaper as a exploration item.
Step 2:
After some reading, you run out, speading along. Despite your efforts, you just missed the bus! You certainly can't walk from new bark town to mt silver. What are you to do? Suddenly, you get an idea. you can't walk, but maybe you can fly! You dig out a pokeball, and toss it to the ground.
You would need a level 25 flying type.
Step 3: You arive at last. you land by the building, and head on in. You check in, and go outside. walking down the mine shaft,you head down. you know the route, so you walk through the dark shaft, your instincts leading you.
250 interactions.
Step 4:
You are nearing the minecart, when you spot a spark fly through the air. rushing ahead, you find a koffing, graveler, and electrode are attacking the mine cart! you send out your pokemon to stop them from destroying the mine cart!
But you have to make this fast, because all those pokemon can explode!
A battle with the pokemon in the battle tower, level 26-50, 3 pokemon.
Step 5:
You finish them off, or so you think. but as you leave, they somhow have enough energy to start an explosion!
as they charge, you hop in a minecart and ride it to saftey!
525 interactions.
I'm thinking of making step 4 a six pokemon battle and adding whezing, voltorb, and geodude/golem. what do you think?
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Spoiler (click to showhide)
Step 1:
Ah, what a pleasant day. From your bedroom window, you can see that the sun is shining, pidgey are chirping, and there isn't a cloud in the sky. you do have to work, though. So is life. Your bus arrives in one hour, so better get going. You get up, take a shower, eat some toast, and prepare to do some reading, but you can't seem to find the newspaper. You remember taking it in while waiting for your toast to pop up. You were going to read it, but the toast poped and you went to get it, forgetting the newspaper untill now.
This would have you find your newspaper as a exploration item.
Step 2:
After some reading, you run out, speading along. Despite your efforts, you just missed the bus! You certainly can't walk from new bark town to mt silver. What are you to do? Suddenly, you get an idea. you can't walk, but maybe you can fly! You dig out a pokeball, and toss it to the ground.
You would need a level 25 flying type.
Step 3: You arive at last. you land by the building, and head on in. You check in, and go outside. walking down the mine shaft,you head down. you know the route, so you walk through the dark shaft, your instincts leading you.
250 interactions.
Step 4:
You are nearing the minecart, when you spot a spark fly through the air. rushing ahead, you find a koffing, graveler, and electrode are attacking the mine cart! you send out your pokemon to stop them from destroying the mine cart!
But you have to make this fast, because all those pokemon can explode!
A battle with the pokemon in the battle tower, level 26-50, 3 pokemon.
Step 5:
You finish them off, or so you think. but as you leave, they somhow have enough energy to start an explosion!
as they charge, you hop in a minecart and ride it to saftey!
525 interactions.
Step 6:
As the minecart comes to the end, a giant explosion causes a rock slide, trapping you in. you look around for an exit,
and find a small hole. You can't fit, but maybe a small pokemon . There might be wild pokemon on the other side, though, so you should send a strong pokemon. but what pokemon could fit? Suddenly, an idea strikes. Turning on your pokegear, you switch to a certain song, luring out certain pokemon...
Catch a chingling.
Step 7: Catching your new pokemon, you send it out and instruct it to go in the hole. as it goes in, you call it back, realizing a chingling is very weak. you start to train with it, getting it to evolve
evolve chingling.
Posted by: Lility91 Jul 17 2013, 09:47 PM
Name: Lility91
Link to Party: http://gpxplus.net/user/Lility91
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): Ahn... I can't remember exactly and haven't found where to have a look and be sure (I'm kinda new to the site xx), but, I remember completing the Spiky-eared pichu, one... The celebi one,and I'm currently doing the one for Keldeo... I think I did another one... The one for the Unown!
Have you read everything?: Yes! Exploration Go!
Posted by: Keyda Jul 18 2013, 04:31 AM
on the right where your tabs are, click the yellow card (4th one down), then look in the last column forhow many youve done
Posted by: Lility91 Jul 18 2013, 07:01 AM
QUOTE(Keyda @ Jul 18 2013, 04:31 AM)
on the right where your tabs are, click the yellow card (4th one down), then look in the last column forhow many youve done
Ah! Found it!!! I've done 5.
Thanks, Keyda!!!
Posted by: Keyda Jul 18 2013, 12:55 PM
No problem. Welcome to the group.
Posted by: Lility91 Jul 18 2013, 04:08 PM
QUOTE(Keyda @ Jul 18 2013, 12:55 PM)
No problem. Welcome to the group.
Ahhh, ok, Thank you very much!!!
Edit: btw, I didn't find the code for our banner...
But maybe it's because I'm in a mobile? Oo
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Aug 30 2013, 04:57 AM
sorry for my inactivity for this group, I'm trying to get back into being active on the forums again. Which is including the groups as well.
Posted by: Keyda Aug 30 2013, 05:19 AM
Don't worry about it glad to see you back
Posted by: Zac11th Aug 30 2013, 01:07 PM
Name: Zac11th
Link to Party: http://gpxplus.net/user/Zac11th
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 36
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
Posted by: SilverLugia456 Sep 1 2013, 02:21 AM
You have been added to the list, welcome to the group! ;3
Posted by: Zac11th Sep 1 2013, 02:36 AM
QUOTE(SilverLugia456 @ Sep 1 2013, 03:21 AM)
You have been added to the list, welcome to the group! ;3
Yay
And I also finished another exploration so +1
Posted by: Devilicious Sep 8 2013, 02:05 AM
Name: Devilicious, but most call me Avada
Link to Party: gpxplus.net/user/Devilicious
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 3, but i am almost always on a exploration
Have you read everything?: Yeah
Posted by: KevinsLunchbox Sep 8 2013, 02:48 AM
Name: KevinsLunchbox
Link to Party: http://my.gpxpl.us/KevinsLunchbox
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 11
Have you read everything?: Yeah I did
Posted by: Keyda Sep 8 2013, 03:47 PM
KevinsLunchbox and Devilicious, you two didn't read everything, 
Posted by: Elexia Sep 10 2013, 03:57 AM
Name: Espurr
Link to Party: http://gpxplus.net/user/Espurr
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 95
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
Posted by: Kaitou Kid Oct 27 2013, 11:07 AM
Name: Kaitou Kid
Link to Party: http://gpxplus.net/user/Kaitou+Kid
Explorations Completed (Please use the total number of explorations, not the unique): 35
Have you read everything?: Exploration Go!
Posted by: championkasq17 Nov 20 2013, 07:12 PM
Yeah havnt been here for a while, sorry! Only been back the last month, so my exploration total goes from 17-42 (:
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