Trial Mission Board

[HaganeGir]

Note: Trial is a fancy word. To put it more simply, I'm gonna be rather occupied for the next 24 hours so everything is generic and bland for now. Later, this will be very pretty, with fireworks and epic space battles, but for now it's a lazily written first mission that all people must complete. I will make this look much...better...when I have the time.

For the sake of mentioning it, there will be two separate threads for mission boards for both rescue and explorer missions, but you can take whichever kind of mission whenever you want. You'll just be expected to do more of one kind of mission based on the preference you decided on the in starting up thread.

So here's the first mission. For now, you'll only need to make a brief post where your starting team take the note and decide to go on the mission. You DON'T need verification from a staff member for this mission, just make a post and run.

A note, as well, that the first mission details will change every month, so that new members won't be doing the exact same mission older members did way back whenever, spices things up a bit.

That's a lot of dribble. Here's the first mission for the month of July, 2009.

There's a lone request hastily pinned to the board above you. It's written in a terrible scrawl, and it takes some time to decipher some of the words towards the end, but it looks as though it says something like this:

Client: Granbull
Dungeon: Small Woods
Objective: My darling wife, Wailord, has disappeared in the Small Woods! Oh, please help her! Despite being the size of like fifty blimps, she's frail and could get hurt easily. She's a water Pokemon, so she may be at the lake, cos you know, that's important for keeping her alive. I mean, you should see my freaking water bill! I've had to take five extra jobs just to pay for water! Don't get me started on food! Uhh...maybe I should keep quiet for now. Just please, rescue my bloated wife!
Mission Requirements: Two Pokemon. No Items.
Rewards: 300 poke + ???

[Don't look at me. I wrote this at 12:30 am. That's late at night for me. I'm not a night owl, but then again, I'm not a morning person either. What the gagagoogoo am I?]

[Cue Dramatic Music]

Skia yawned, stretched out, cracked her knuckles and headed over to the message board. All right, first day as a team here- she was going to try and be the best she could. Exploration was more her style, but she might do a bit of rescuing if that's what was best at the moment. Either way, she was going to take whatever mission she first saw right now, try to prove herself and her partner.

Behind her, the Abra that had become her partner blinked sleepily and rubbed his eyes. Nick had just taken his medication, so he was sane right now, but it'd really be best if the mission didn't take all day. He got... weird, when he didn't get to his pills and such in time. And how had he ended up on a team with this Sandshrew girl anyway? Most of the time, she made him feel like he was the sane one- she was always running after a fight or smashing coconuts with those claws. Still, she wasn't a bad person, despite all her quirks. Hmm, time to go look for a mission.

"Aw, come on, only one? I thought people were in all kinds of trouble!" Skia's loud voice snapped Nick out of his tired haze- he looked at the board. Indeed, only a single piece of paper was pinned up, fluttering lightly in the wind. He didn't see why on earth Skia was complaining- it was better than nothing, wasn't it?

Nick walked up and looked at the mission, then squinted his eyes in an attempt to decipher the handwriting. After a few minutes, he turned to Skia, and then gave a quick nod. "Yep, it's good enough, don't worry."

"Let me see!" Catching him by surprise, Skia shoved Arsenic back, and then proceeded to take a look herself. There was a brief silence before the comments returned. "Wow, if you're gonna ask for help, why do it in such crappy handwriting? Am I supposed to read this?" After a while more, she seemed to be able to read bits of it, talking out loud. "How the hell does a Wailord get lost? What's up with this Granbull? Frail? As if! Oh, and now he's whining about her!"

Nick, having known Skia a while, was used to this sort of thing. "It's our only choice. Small Woods aren't too dangerous, anyway. And it'll probably be easy, as soon as we get to the lake. We're going." He didn't anger easily, and even now he seemed perfectly calm. "As your co-captain for Team..." He paused.

"You didn't think of a team name yet? Well, fine, I'll give you one! Psychos. Team Psychos. You're crazy, everyone's crazy, let's just go with it." Ignoring his protests, Skia scurried up to the pokemon waiting for people to accept the mission that sat all alone up there on the board. "Team Psychos, accepting that one, I guess." As she spoke, she punctuated her statement with a pointing of her claws at the paper, and then stalked off, Nick reluctantly dragging behind.

[Trickzi`]

Team Reapers' Trickzter and Geoff walk up to the mission board.
"I guess this is the only mission for now. We'll have to take it. Too bad it's a rescue mission." Geoff says quietly.
"Yep. Our first mission. Squee! It'll be so much fun. Let's hope we don't get killed or anything!" Trickzter says gleefully.
"Err...yeah...that'd be bad." Geoff says glumly.
"Team Reapers be claiming this mission here."
They walk off from the mission board.

[HaganeGir]

Just throwing in a note that you can start your missions as soon as you want. I'm eager to update at least one before I pass out for the night and no one seems to be making to start a thread...

OMG THE RPG IS DEAD

[EonFire]

"La-laa-laa! Laaa-la!" sang a girlish voice approaching the mission board.
"Would you shut up, Aaren?" growled a second voice, somewhat deep yet undeniably female. "You know I have a headache in the morning."
"Otaaaay~," sang Aaren, "Sorry, Aubrey!" The other Pokemon, a Lotad, sighed and tried to speed up on her stubby legs as Aaren skipped along.
Upon reaching the mission board, Aaren frowned and whined, "Aww, no fun."
"What?"
"There's only a rescue mission here. I was hoping we could explore."
"Oh, shush." the Lotad rolled her eyes, "Just read it."
After a few moments of silence, he whined, "I can't read it!"
"Lift me up so I can see it!" The Lotad commanded. When eye-level with the punctured piece of paper, she, too struggled with reading it. Then, "What in the world is this guy's problem?"
"Huh?"
"Nevermind. We have to find a Wailord in Small Woods."
"Okay!" Sang Aaren again, skipping off and dropping Aubrey upside-down.
"Hey! Come back here! I can't get up!"

[pokemon_water_trainer_kyogre]

A squirtle and a bulbasaur walk in, looking around.

Squirtle: HI! I'm the leader of this Rescue team, and we would like to accept this mission!

Bulbasaur: Are you sure this is a good idea? We ca always go back home and watch ash run around like an idiot pretending he's never seen a pokemon in his life in every single episode.

Squirtle: Yeah, but I really like this idea, maybe we can meet new people. And plus, his wife is missing!

Bulbasaur: He doesn't seem to miss her that much...

Squirtle: True, true... Very, very true. But still, we have some rescuing to do!

[~PC~]

A Squirtle(PC) and a Zangoose(Z) walk in.

PC: There's the note. Let's take a look.

Z: I didn't get enough gel in this morning! My hair could be ruined!

PC: Shut up and let's go.

*Team Zero takes mission*

[Pikawho?]

*James rushes through the door, soon followed by Claire* Huffing and puffing, James says triumphantly, "Ha! I win again!"

Claire rolled her eyes. "It's just a footrace. You're a guy and much more physically fit. You will never bet me when it comes to puzzlesolving. And if you ask me, it's kinda pathetic that it was really close."

"Whatever" James responded, let's just get our mission and get out of here." The two sauntered over towards the mission's board. Claire jumped up and snatched the worn piece of paper off the board and began reading it.

Upon finishing, she sighed. "This is definately going to be an interesting mission. Why couldn't we start with a normal one?"

"Cause you're anything but normal." James muttered.

Claire scowled at him. "What's that supposed to mean?! >O"

Ignoring her, James snatched the paper and read. "I agree, this sounds like a load of crap. But it's a mission nonetheless. Let's go get it over with...."

*The two ran off to the Small Woods*

Team Pikawhoots Accepted the Mission!

[Zaidbenh]

Zaid and Mudkip strolled in...

Zaid: Ahh A Mission...

Mudkip:......
Mudkip hops up and down

Zaid: Lets take it!

Zaid walked out while mudkip was jumping in circles going out...

[Anthem]

A young Eevee runs up to the mission board knocking down a few bystanders along the way.

"I told you there was a new mission!" yelled Elf.

Slowly, a Sneasel walked up to the board in an uncaring fashion. "Great..." he said in a droning voice. "Now just accept it so I can take my 3:00 PM nap."

Elf took the mission, spirits unfazed by his companion, and ran back to their base.

Team Luna has accepted the mission!

[God]

A Ditto lazily slithered towards the board, followed by a flailing Magikarp. Neither of them were particularly excited to put any effort into this, but they needed to eat sometime. The Ditto squinted at the board, before climbing the wood to get nearer to the scrawled notice. Sighing, it nodded back down at the Magikarp, and they began their long trek towards the Small Woods.
Team Practical has Accepted the Mission.

[HaganeGir]

Without warning, a faded green ball slams violently into the mission board, knocking the sheet of paper onto the floor. A purple Pokemon bounces over as the green ball rolls and examines the note.

"Ergh," Pinch coughs, "I don't even know if we should take this mission. There she be laws against marriages like this!"

Wukong shrugs. "Oh, why did I consider forming a team with you? This can't end well. So what does the mission actually say?"

"Go to the Small Woods!" Pinch yells. "Find a giant blimp! Get it back to Granbull! Uh...how are we supposed to get Wailord back? It's a freaking blimp!"

"We can figure that out later," Wukong sighs, taking the note and stashing it in a pocket he totally has in his fur. "Come on, we've got work to do."

[m190049]

A Scyther dashes into the area, stopping in a pose, with a Porygon following swiftly behind.


"Hm, looks like there's only one mission there..." Raider says, slowly.


Civex stops besides him, and uses his scanner on on one of the 500 copies of paper pinned to the board. "MEMORIZED." Civex states.

"Impressive..." Smiles Raider. He takes one of the sheets of paper. "I think I'll take this with me anyway..." He quickly reads it over...

"AFFIRMATIVE. WE SHOULD GET GOING."

"Alright!" Raider smiles. He dashes out of the area, as Civex follows.

[Tamat]

Alan runs to the board and reaches out for the flyer. SUDDENLY,



"BLERG!!!" Royce screams as he jumps out of the billboard.

"Knock it off Royce," Alan says with a grin as he grabs the flyer, unphased by Royce's shenanigans...

"HEY! I DON'T DO SHENANIGANS... LEPRECHAUNS DO SHENANIGANS. I DO HIGH GRADE PRANKS GOT THAT!?" Royce shouts... apparently at no one...

"Uhh... Royce?" Alan says with a raised eyebrow. "You okay?"

"Yeah... I guess..." Royce says as the two leave... however, Royce continues to stare up into the sky...

-T-

[raglflagl]

"God Vash, you're soo slow." A voice yelled in the distance.

It was a Chansey and right behind her, a Spinda.

"Maybe it's because you're so small." The Chansey laughed.

The Spinda simply glared at the Chansey. "I'm almost as tall as you, Robin." Muttered Vash.

Robin simply tried to laugh it off. "Whatever, you're still short. Anyways, back to the reason. The mission?" She tried to change the topic.

"Over there!" Vash pointed towards the board.

"Don't, like, worry Vash. I'll get it for you." The Chansey simply shrugged and took the mission.

This made the Spinda furious. He began to ran after her.

"Wow Vash, you're, like, so slow!" Robin laughed as she and her partner left.