Gather around, gather around!

[indigo_league]

Fasten your seatbelts, because it is time for yet another Victory Road Fourth Wall!



From Friday the 21st to Sunday the 23rd, Victory Road will be welcoming all passing travellers, old friends and new acquaintances. You might have thought you were going to get a relaxing, calm weekend, but nope! You are now in the pokemon world and boy is it whacky! So check your responsibilities at the door, put on your trainer cap and come and have fun.

Oh, and try not to get stepped on by a giant Bidoof. Or trip over the miniscule Ekans. Or... wait, are Beedrill supposed to be that size?!


Right, we should probably mention we asked the PokeAni animators to illustrate this month's Fourth Wall, and, uh, it seems the pokemon sizes have gotten a little mixed up? Just a tiny bit? Whatever, it's probably fine right-- Oh god, don't step on that very tiny Arceus!!



For more information, please read our little Fourth Wall FAQ

What is a Fourth Wall Event?

A Fourth Wall event is an in-game event where people from other games, random characters, even players themselves, just randomly interact with your characters. It's a literal breaking of that invisible "fourth wall" that separates the game-verse from... the rest of the internet. It’s meant to be a silly and fun time though all kinds of CR can take place during it.

How do you participate?

In short, a character makes a post in the comm or a top-level in the mod-posted catch-all and others tag it. Feel free to just tag around if you don’t want to start a thread of your own. You do not have to stick to your in-game character accounts during this event; you can use characters from other games, crack accounts, player accounts, etc to play!

What kind of characters can participate?

Anything and everything, from AU’s to characters from other DW games, ponies, disembodied heads, zombies, Arceus with a saddle, the players, Hello Kitty, and the list goes on...

What about characters coming in, can they have a Pokémon too?

Sure thing! You can bring in any Pokémon from any generation and challenge whoever you want for however much you want. Feel free to knock down or burn down anything. Ride Arceus into battle wearing nothing but a pineapple on your head. It's all good!

Current players are also allowed to have whatever else they want in their party, but all Legendaries will depart after the weekend is over. No keeping the Groudon that followed you home!

Can my character catch Pokémon to KEEP during the event?

Yes, they may! Feel free to saddle your character with some odd Pokémon they weren't expecting to have like a surprise Magikarp appearing inside their backpack.

There are some exceptions-- Pokemon not listed on the availability pages (Johto, Kanto, Sevii) cannot be kept after the event. For example, your character may encounter a wild Chansey in Lavender Town and keep their new friend, but you would not be able to catch and keep Articuno.

Characters also may not keep Pokemon that were given to them by visiting characters-- feel free to get vague and wibbly-wobbly about how a shockingly similar wild Pokemon (as long as it's on the Availability List!) wound up in your character's possession, but nothing that a visiting character gifts to a resident one will stick around once the weekend is over.

We’re also trusting that players will keep this reasonable, and stick to just one or two Pokemon to keep after the event.

Would my non-human character remain in their VR form for the event? What about powers?

Up to you! Your character can return to their original form, powers intact, or whatever you like! Have fun.

What about the environment?

With all the strange things going on, feel free to have your characters experience anomalies while they are travelling. Routes that took days to travel before can now be crossed in minutes. Characters can suddenly find themselves waking up in a different city altogether! The landscape around them may warp and change to reflect various other canons. If your character is far from where they started out when the event ends, feel free to have them remain there!

Can my character keep items they find during the Fourth Wall?

If this item is normally easily obtainable in the world of the game, like a Pokeball from the store or some choice rare berries, then yes. The exception to this is that we don’t want people keeping rare items or TMs.

Items like a new house that didn’t previously exist on their street, twenty Masterballs, a car, or piles of rubies that appeared during the event can not be kept. This includes items they may have had access to using their abilities or interacting with the warping environment, or any items from home they didn’t already have with them. They will all disappear at the end of the event!

Will my character remember the event once it’s over? What about previous Fourth Wall events?

It is up to you if your character’s memory suddenly becomes clear and they remember previous Fourth Walls during the span of the event.

Once the event ends, your characters’ memories will be somewhat fractured and mixed up. Recalling the events of the weekend will feel like recalling an especially vivid dream, but they are true memories. If you need a number for reference, figure that a character can remember about 80% of what happens during this three-day period.

What happened to those three days our characters mysteriously lost?

There's still no explanation for that one. The Professors won't even be reachable for a few days; don't expect them to answer your calls. To make it worse, you may not be where you were last...

Does this count for the activity check?

Fourth wall threads and posts carried out by characters who are current residents of VR are fair game for AC. Fourth-wallers and AU versions of a character currently in VR (for example, the same character played as from a different canonpoint, etc) do not count towards AC, even when played by the same player.

What if I just arrived and haven't made an in-character introduction post yet?

Feel free to arrive in the middle of the event! Your character will probably just be that much more confused. You may also hold off until after the event if you wish, in order to not become lost in the confusion.

What if I don't want to participate?

Fourth Wall is not a required event. However, it does affect the game's setting, so logging would have to be backdated or forward-dated to before or after the fourth wall. If you choose not to participate, your character may enter a glitch or be asleep during the event. They will still lose three days’ time and be disoriented like everyone else.

I have a different question…

No worries! Just comment here and we’ll get on that!

And a special little FAQ for this Fourth Wall's weird sizing issues...

So all pokemon are going to be weird sizes?

More or less! All pokemon will have the potential to have weird sizes, both those owned by characters and wild ones, but the effect is (as always) very random. Ten of your pokemon might be affected, while an eleventh is not. You might encounter a normal-sized Pikachu happily playing with several berry-sized individuals. One route might look completely ordinary until suddenly you are almost picked up by a giant pidove. There is just no predicting things!

Are there any limits to keep in mind?

Well, probably don't make your pokemon the size of the moon and knock our little pokemon world out of its normal orbit, but other than that, go crazy!

Can we catch the weird-sized pokemon?

You are able to catch the odd-sized pokemon, keeping in mind the regular rules for 4th wall captures, however, once the weekend is over, they will go back to a regular size for that species. I know we would all love to have a goldfish sized Wailord, but unfortunately, those dreams can only be a reality for these three particular days.

Do all my pokemon need to be affected in the same way?

Not at all, go wild with it! Half your team could be super huge, while the other half is tiny. And pokemon of the same species don't need to be affected in the same way either. If someone would, say, own five Rattata, (why??) it's perfectly possible for one Rattata to be the size of a house, while another is the size of a car and the rest are suddenly ladybug sized.

The only thing we ask is that your pokemon remains the same size all weekend; meaning, if your Onix becomes the giant beast all those spam emails were promising it could be, it's going to be giant all weekend.

Will our characters change size too?

All human characters (player ones and NPCs alike) will remain the same size! It's only the pokemon who are getting to participate in this weekend's size madness.

(obviously, if your character is regaining their normal form/powers during the fourth wall and those happen to involve changing size, that is still perfectly fine!)

I have another question!

Feel free to ask it down below and we will get to it ASAP.

Comments

[bestswordmaster]

So I know any character can show up, but is it possible for a character already in VR to get de-aged for a day?

[indigo_league]

You could play a de-aged version of your characters, but it would be treated as a character separate from the one you normally play. So anything they experience/get involved in during the fourth wall, would not transfer to your character memory-wise, nor would you be able to use tags done with the de-aged version for your AC. Your regular character would also still be around (though obviously, you wouldn't have to play them and you could just handwave their existence somewhere).

[bestswordmaster]

Gotcha, thanks!