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Fourth Wall info post
Fasten your seatbelts, because it is (almost) time for yet another Victory Road Fourth Wall!
From Friday the 25th to Sunday the 27th, Victory Road will once against be breaching its containment walls, dragging friend and foe alike into a maelstrom of weirdness and pokemon shenanigans. For three days, the regions of Johto and Kanto will be saying goodbye to the laws of physics and common sense, and instead be ruled by the capricious whims of, well, whoever it is that causes these weird weekends to happen. We don't know who it is. Do you?
In any case, during this weekend, not only your characters will be dealing with a heap of nonsense, but people from outside the game can also take a little stab at having some pokemon fun. In this info post, we will have a little Fourth Wall glossary for anyone who hasn't experienced one of these weekends before, but as is so common with these weekends, there will also be a little special going on this time. So, there also be a separate FAQ to answer your questions regarding that.
We figured that people might want a little bit of additional time to digest (and come up with plans!) for this Fourth Wall's special twist, which is why this FAQ will be going up a bit early, giving you all a chance to read over everything and ask any questions that you might have.
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! 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!
So, what is the twist this time?
Geography during the Fourth Wall weekends has always been pretty wonky. You walk outside, and suddenly you are in a different city. You open a door, and it leads to someone else's closet. These phenomena are weird, but have become somewhat expected over the years. Not that that makes them any less annoying when you are trying to find your way around!
However this Fourth Wall, while your characters are travelling around, they might come across areas that look completely unlike anything that has ever been present in these regions. Turning a corner in Goldenrod City, might suddenly lead to... an icy compound? A whole castle has suddenly appeared in Viridian City! There is a whole-ass wall around Pallet Town?!
Yes, as you might have figured out by now, during this Fourth Wall, in addition to the normal sights of Johto and Kanto, characters (both VR ones and visiting alike) will be able to stumble into areas and settings straight out of your characters' home worlds. Any places that your characters have been wanting to see? Or conversely, really been glad to be rid off? Well, (un)fortunately, this weekend, they might be stumbling right back into them.
Of course, there are a few limitations which we will go over in this FAQ.
So, which places from my characters' homeworld can show up?
Essentially, any area or building your character is familiar with can show up here in VR. Though please note that for our purposes, familiar with means that it is a place or area they have visited before. If it some place they've only heard off, it cannot appear. Similarly, if your character has visited a certain location, but not all of it, then only the parts they have visited can show up here.
Can a place that is destroyed still show up here?
Yes, that is absolutely fine! Just as long as it is some place your character has visited before, it can appear here, even if said place or building is now destroyed.
Will the places be populated?
The locations that show up here will not be populated. Any plant-life will be there, of course, but the people and animals that might otherwise have inhabited those places are either completely missing or have been replaced with pokemon. So, if the location your character remembers had large bears roaming around in it, they might find that during the Fourth Wall, those bears have been replaced by Ursaring.
Do spaceships count as viable locations?
Yes. Depending on the size of the ship in question, characters might either find someone's rust bucket of a Razor Crest just parked in a clearing like that is normal, or if the ship is extremely large, they'd just suddenly find themselves in a corridor on the ship -- as in, walk outside the pokecentre and suddenly you are on the Enterprise.
Is there is limit to how many locations can show up?
No. Go wild!
We will say that only the player whose character actually belongs to said canon can introduce specific locations into the Fourth Wall. This can either be done via introducing the location in your top level, or if you'd like to give people free reign to visit certain locations even without your character present, you can post all relevant information on said locations in this post (we'll make a separate top level for that) and then once the Fourth Wall rolls around, people can freely stumble into said places.
It is completely up to you if you want to make a certain location free to use or if you'd rather keep it contained to your top level.
Can visiting characters also add locations?
They can in their top levels, but to keep things from getting too out of control, they cannot add these locations as free-to-use ones here in this post. Essentially, if someone wants to toss Captain Picard onto the Fourth Wall, he could have the Enterprise available as a location in his top level. But because Picard isn't normally part of VR, the Enterprise couldn't be posted here.
I have another question!
Feel free to ask it down below and we will get to it ASAP. Please note that there will be a specific comment to ask questions in, so please put your questions there. The rest of the post will be available for people to plot, so we won't be monitoring that!
From Friday the 25th to Sunday the 27th, Victory Road will once against be breaching its containment walls, dragging friend and foe alike into a maelstrom of weirdness and pokemon shenanigans. For three days, the regions of Johto and Kanto will be saying goodbye to the laws of physics and common sense, and instead be ruled by the capricious whims of, well, whoever it is that causes these weird weekends to happen. We don't know who it is. Do you?
In any case, during this weekend, not only your characters will be dealing with a heap of nonsense, but people from outside the game can also take a little stab at having some pokemon fun. In this info post, we will have a little Fourth Wall glossary for anyone who hasn't experienced one of these weekends before, but as is so common with these weekends, there will also be a little special going on this time. So, there also be a separate FAQ to answer your questions regarding that.
We figured that people might want a little bit of additional time to digest (and come up with plans!) for this Fourth Wall's special twist, which is why this FAQ will be going up a bit early, giving you all a chance to read over everything and ask any questions that you might have.
For more information, please read our little Fourth Wall FAQ
What is a Fourth Wall Event?
How do you participate?
What kind of characters can participate?
What about characters coming in, can they have a Pokémon too?
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?
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?
What about the environment?
Can my character keep items they find during the Fourth Wall?
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?
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?
Does this count for the activity check?
What if I just arrived and haven't made an in-character introduction post yet?
What if I don't want to participate?
I have a different question…
So, what is the twist this time?
However this Fourth Wall, while your characters are travelling around, they might come across areas that look completely unlike anything that has ever been present in these regions. Turning a corner in Goldenrod City, might suddenly lead to... an icy compound? A whole castle has suddenly appeared in Viridian City! There is a whole-ass wall around Pallet Town?!
Yes, as you might have figured out by now, during this Fourth Wall, in addition to the normal sights of Johto and Kanto, characters (both VR ones and visiting alike) will be able to stumble into areas and settings straight out of your characters' home worlds. Any places that your characters have been wanting to see? Or conversely, really been glad to be rid off? Well, (un)fortunately, this weekend, they might be stumbling right back into them.
Of course, there are a few limitations which we will go over in this FAQ.
So, which places from my characters' homeworld can show up?
Can a place that is destroyed still show up here?
Will the places be populated?
Do spaceships count as viable locations?
Is there is limit to how many locations can show up?
We will say that only the player whose character actually belongs to said canon can introduce specific locations into the Fourth Wall. This can either be done via introducing the location in your top level, or if you'd like to give people free reign to visit certain locations even without your character present, you can post all relevant information on said locations in this post (we'll make a separate top level for that) and then once the Fourth Wall rolls around, people can freely stumble into said places.
It is completely up to you if you want to make a certain location free to use or if you'd rather keep it contained to your top level.
Can visiting characters also add locations?
I have another question!
Bowey Academy
This was also Cordy's school for a while before she ended up dropping out due to mental health reasons, RIP.
OOC Note: the school is very much intended to be a university/college with adult students as opposed to a school for younger students, so certain things like the projects in the lab and the books in the library are going to reflect that. Bowey Academy accepts students as young as their late teens and mostly teaches young adults, but there's also plenty of older students doing postgraduate studies.
The school also has several classrooms and some dorms, but Cordy has only been inside a few dorm rooms and the classrooms and lecture halls are all about what you'd expect for an old timey university. Pretty boring, but you can find a stray Espurr or two hanging outside the dorm buildings.
Quad/Student Commons Normally, this area is overrun with feral cats, but they've been replaced by Espurr. This is normally a space bustling with activity, but now it's actually kind of relaxing. Flower beds border a large, grassy lawn, separating the green from the courtyard's stone walkways. In the center of this area is a statue of a goblin riding a very large pig.
Overhead, a few apple trees (a donation from prominent ranger and alumni Effie Applebottom) sway their branches.
Available Pokemon: Applin, Pidove, Espurr, Misdreavus (night only)
Cafeteria
Open from 5 AM to 9 PM daily, the cafeteria is where students and faculty can sit, socialize, and grab a bite to eat. It's pretty simple fare that doesn't seem *too* out of place given the delightfully anachronistic fantasy aesthetic of Cordy's world, but they do try their best to accommodate a variety of different dietary needs. Tables are all circular and made of sturdy wood with matching wooden stools.
As for the food, it's... Not too memorable for the most part, but not bad, either. The carrot bread, however, is surprisingly kinda good. There's not a lot of beverage options unless you like herbal tea or a couple of different boozes (beer or apple cider, neither of which is super strong.) Sorry about that.
Available Pokemon: A couple of Indeedee and a single salted cream Alcremie working the counter. Other than that...
Sinistea (rare, day only)
Litwick (rare, night only)
Labs
Various steampunk looking devices are set up here, along with work tables and a shelf full of herbs and other alchemical ingredients. A blackboard sits at one end of the room, detailing out recipes for various potions, while the other end houses a stove and various pots for cooking said potions in.
The lab also has a side yard which has a small herb garden, along with a tiny freestanding greenhouse. The greenhouse has Oddishes in small pots, although anyone inside the structure will notice that no sound can be heard or made within the greenhouse walls.
A sign reads: "FOR YOUR SAFETY, A SILENCE SPELL IS ACTIVE AT ALL TIMES WHILE IN THE GREENHOUSE."
Available Pokemon (Inside): Solosis, Charjabug, Joltik
Available Pokemon (Garden area): Pumpkaboo, Oddish, Buneary, Deerling (rare), Ledyba
Library/Study
It's a big, two-story space, full of grand oaken bookshelves that reach all the way to the ceiling of its respective level and a mezzanine that wraps around the top of the first floor. Stairs are available, but you can also go up and down via a platform that basically acts as a magical elevator. And since a lot of students are small sized, numerous floor tiles are marked with a sigil that designate it as the tile you step on when you need a closer look at the top shelves.
There's also a locked room near the back. If you can get in, it mostly houses one of a kind (or just plain rare) books that the librarian doesn't want to see damaged.
The atmosphere all over the library is undeniably spooky, with numerous lanterns that somehow pose no threat to the massive amount of books within. Once you're able to find a place to sit in the adjacent study (full of chairs, sofas, and little desks), you can finally read up on all the subjects this school offers books on. Sure, there's normal subjects like history, literary novels, and biology, but also demonology, various magical spells and alchemical recipes, even arcane robotics. Basically, any field of study you can imagine for a fantasy college is here.
Available Pokemon: Impidimp, Klefki (rare), Lampent
Bathrooms?
Thankfully, indoor plumbing exists in Cordy's world. Most of you might be slightly confused by how public bathrooms work, however, as they're segregated by size category rather than gender. You hopefully won't be confused for very long, as once you enter, the appropriately sized stalls, toilets, and sinks make it clear why the doors say things like "small" or "medium". There are also a handful of "large" bathrooms on campus with plumbing a normal person could probably drown in.
Also, no urinals, stalls and toilets only.
A few of the bathrooms, however, have odd wall panels or locked trapdoors in some of the stalls. Following them will get you INTO...
an absurdly spacious sewer dungeon. In several areas there are 10x10 cells with signs posted telling whoever is inside not to scream. It's horrible here. It smells like mold and shit. You're pretty sure you see a few skeletons. If you somehow make it to the end without crying or dying, you reach a small room that inexplicably has a fountain of a giant baby, its eyes crying tears of sewage.
As if this wasn't bizarre enough, the walls of this dungeon are also covered in graffiti, especially once you get to the baby fountain room.
Available Pokemon: Grimer, Impidimp, Klefki (rare), Gastly, Mimikyu (rare), Rattata (super common)