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plot progression.
PLOT PROGRESSION
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- ⬥ Minato Arisato and Chiaki Nanami arrive in Cassava.
→ SEPTEMBER 2020
- ⬥ A large group of travelers from different worlds arrive in Toran, with more appearing throughout the month.
⬥ The travelers obtain several Mudkips who know whirlpool, allowing them to reestablish a travel route between Toran and Mango.
⬥ After several failed attempts to stop the storm, an impending tsunami forces everybody off the island. During their escape, a flash of light is seen and the storm clears, although Minato is lost to the sea.
→ OCTOBER 2020
- ⬥ Radio signals from the radio tower in Mango cause wild ghost, dark, and psychic-type Pokemon to rampage. Removing the radio tower antenna stopped the signal from being broadcast, but many lives are lost.
⬥ Following the cessation of the radio signal static, the sandstorms between Mango and Melona calm down enough to allow for guided travel between the two towns.
→ NOVEMBER 2020
- ⬥ Search and rescue efforts in the desert ruins around Melona uncover a Groudon shrine and the home of a Cosmoem, which Melona's gym leader is also researching.
⬥ A shady organization seems to be involved with kidnapping children and targeting Legendary Pokemon.
SEPTEMBER 2020 side quests
BOBA ZOMBIES
⬥ Details: Many townspeople are seen lying around the streets, unconscious and in a zombie-like state, with empty boba cups scattered around them.
⬥ Progress: Atsushi learns that one of the boba shop employees has been experimenting with other flavors aside from Combee honey, which are running low due to the hives and trees being destroyed by the Gyarados and the storm. Efi and Fai approach a doctor, who determines that the zombies are experiencing intense sugar crashes due to the addition of Bounsweet sweat to the boba. Strangely, Minato seems to be immune. The zombies are treated and the boba shop employees work with Fai to find a safe amount of sweeteners for their boba.
⬥ Result: solved
MISSING CHILDREN
⬥ Details: Several children are reported missing, with rumors that Drifloon are kidnapping them.
⬥ Progress: Akira, Rhel, Sagi, and Joonghyuk follow the Drifloon to the hospital, where they are taken into a room hidden by Gastly's illusions. Here, they learn that the Drifloon were taking children to play with a sick girl, Gale King. After some ice cream bribes, the children agree to return home.
⬥ Result: solved
⬥ Details: A suspicious man is seen abandoning a little girl to a shadowy figure in the dead of night.
⬥ Progress: Efi and Theo follow the man home, confronting him and taking his wallet, which includes an ID (Clive Weatherford) and a blank keycard. He lets slip that "they" are taking the kids because they need them, but refuses to speak any further. He is turned in to the police.
⬥ Result: solved (see November 2020)
GYARADOS
⬥ Details: An angry Gyarados suddenly appeared in the lake around a month ago, and has been attacking anybody who goes near and damaging the surrounding area with its Hydro Pumps.
⬥ Progress: Akira and Joonghyuk befriend the Gyarados enough to allow them to see its two children, a normal Gyarados and a shiny golden one, which it has been protecting. When the tsunami hits Toran, the Gyarados' respect for Akira convinces it to stay and use Hurricane to prevent the annihilation of the town. Afterwards, it and its Magikarp return home to the ocean in the northwest.
⬥ Result: solved
NORTHWEST BEACH
⬥ Details: The beach on the northwest side of the island appears to be different than the rest of the shoreline.
⬥ Progress: Akechi and Rhel discover that the ocean level is higher on the northwest beach, and that the sand is much rougher and darker compared to the rest of the sand on the island. They determine that the sand is lava rock and that the rising ocean level are warning signs of a volcanic eruption and tsunami, allowing Toran enough time to prepare for evacuation and prevent casualties.
⬥ Result: solved
⬥ Details: Travelers (newly apped characters) appear in Toran's northwest beach.
⬥ Progress: Throughout the month, strangers have been appearing on the northwest beach with a mysterious band tattooed somewhere on their body. After the group travel away from Toran, newcomers start to arrive in other places, such as the middle of the ocean.
⬥ Result: pending
STORM
⬥ Details: There is a storm raging over Toran for the past two months, stirring up massive whirlpools that prevent travel away from the island.
⬥ Progress: Sagi and Minato attempt to sail away from the island, encountering whirlpools and thunder that seems to be alive, as it directly attacks their boat. Nanami helps several others obtain Mudkip who know Whirlpool in order to traverse the sea, and almost everybody is able to reach the shore on the other side. The storm stops with a flash of light, but the cause of the storm and the reason it stopped is currently undetermined.
⬥ Result: pending
OCTOBER 2020 side quests
STATIC
⬥ Details: A constant static can be heard in the air, and those with a heightened sense of hearing can notice the strange pattern.
⬥ Progress: Hythlo is able to see the static as "squiggly" waves originating from the radio tower. Sagi captured the static on a card, which is depicted as black scribbles with tiny eyes randomly amongst them. After removing the radio tower antenna, the static captured on the card appears as broken up confetti, still with spooky eyes amongst them.
⬥ Result: solved
FLICKERING LIGHTS
⬥ Details: Small lights blink in and out in the forest surrounding Mango, and there is a constant feeling of being watched.
⬥ Progress: Efi and Itaru follow the flickering lights into the forest and come across a group of Litwick arranged in a circle. Joonghyuk and Fai come across a Hypno, which was causing flickering lights via the moon's reflection off its pendulum. Itaru and Joonhyuk come across a Sudowoodo caught staring at them, which then attempts to lead them elsewhere. Sooyoung and Joss come across a circle of Litwick and Sooyoung proceeds to bully them. Sooyoung and Joonghyuk come across a Litwick, and kills it. Stop being mean to my Pokemon. After they stop being mean, Sooyoung and Joss are guided through the forest and discover Hypno watching over a group of sleeping children and other wild Pokemon. They learn that the children and Pokemon were taken far away from Mango in order to keep them safe from the dangerous static, and after the static and rampaging stops, the children are returned home.
⬥ Result: solved
RAMPAGING POKEMON
⬥ Details: Near the end of October, ghost, psychic, and dark-type Pokemon go wild and attack anybody nearby.
⬥ Progress: Sagi removes the radio tower antenna and the Pokemon stop rampaging, very confused over their own behavior.
⬥ Result: solved
RADIO TOWER
⬥ Details: The static and source of the rampaging Pokemon originates from the radio tower.
⬥ Progress: Sagi and Efi break into the company president's office and find a wilted desk plant, an Oddish, an Exploud, and a bunch of overdue paperwork. Sagi and Hythlo break into the basement and almost found the generator that would have allowed them to power off the radio tower safely and without destroying the antenna. Following the end of October, the radio tower is inaccessible due to police investigation.
⬥ Result: solved
CEMETERY TOWER
⬥ Details: Something is frightening ghost Pokemon on the top floor of the cemetery.
⬥ Progress: Hien and Joonghyuk explore the cemetery, and learn that his Litwick refuse to go near a certain wall. Hien and Hythlo revisit the top floor, and upon destroying the wall, discover a four-year-old child named Bryson hiding inside. He is apparently a strong trainer with eight gym badges, and is convinced to leave the ghost Pokemon within the cemetery alone to focus on stopping the source of the rampage at the radio tower. Following the end of October, the cemetery is inaccessible due to repairs.
⬥ Result: solved
NOVEMBER 2020 side quests
EARTHQUAKES
⬥ Details: Throughout the month, earthquakes can be felt through the desert, damaging the ruins.
⬥ Progress: Rhel, Joss, and Efi explore the ruins in search for missing students and come across a Golem which has been using Earthquake in distress due to its head being stuck. After gaining the Golem's trust and freeing its head, the earthquakes subsided. It is still unclear what happened to the Golem to get its mantle smashed and head stuck in the first place.
⬥ Result: solved
MISSING CHILDREN
⬥ Details: Students and chaperones from the Pokemon school are reported missing on field trips to the ruins.
⬥ Progress: Rhel, Joss, Efi, Akira, Sagi, and Fai explore the ruins and discover a Groudon shrine along with the students, including Gale King's parents. They were trapped due to collapsed tunnels and a dangerous Golem, but the path out has now been cleared and the Golem calmed down.
⬥ Result: solved
⬥ Details: The students split into two groups, so second search and rescue is conducted.
⬥ Progress: Rhel, Joss, Sagi, and Toki explore the ruins and meet Jules and his Sandshrew, who leads them into the ruins and betrays them. The group use headband trackers to find the missing students, but the organization who had kidnapped and held them hostage escapes. Though they rescue Gale King's brother, one student remains missing.
⬥ Result: solved
⬥ Details: Clive Weatherford is seen in Mango and overheard talking about meeting somebody in Melona.
⬥ Progress: Toki and Efi report Weatherford to the police, where he is now in Mango police custody. Efi later overhears Weatherford having hired a guide to take him to the ruins where Cosmog is rumored to live, but he never shows up due to being in jail.
⬥ Result: solved
MISSING GYM LEADER
⬥ Details: Melona's gym leader is missing, with rumors that he went to find a Legendary Pokemon linked with the sandstorms.
⬥ Progress: Hythlo helps a young girl break into the gym and find the leader's Chimecho to help lead them to the ruins. Joonghuk, Dokja, Sooyoung, Fai, and Hythlo explore the ruins and eventually come across a Cosmoem which they helped break free of the rock encasing it. Cosmoem warps them to another dimension, where they discover the aftermath of the gym leader apprehending members of a shady organization who had come to steal Cosmoem. The gym leader returns to Melona's gym.
⬥ Result: solved
⬥ Details: At Cosmoem's ruins, Dokja, Fai, and Hythlo are particularly affected by the empathy of the location.
⬥ Progress: Of the group that explored the ruins, Dokja, Fai, and Hythlo have psychic type mysterious bands tattooed somewhere on their body. Cosmoem, a psychic type Pokemon, is able to convey its emotions to them, and using psychic type abilities in the ruins reveal hints on how to access and navigate the ruins.
⬥ Result: pending
ROOMBA
⬥ Details: There is a roomba with a kitchen knife.
⬥ Progress: Sagi smashes the roomba and takes the knife. He and Efi go around asking people about it, but are told they encountered a Metang. Later in the month, a second roomba with a knife appears. Sagi traps it in a card, knife and all, and after showing it around, is told he encountered a small Metang.
⬥ Result: pending