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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 17th to Sunday the 19th, 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.
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...
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?
As we all know, geography has always been a bit strange during the fourth wall. You might be walking down a Goldenrod street and then suddenly end up in the middle of a forest. Or open your bathroom door and walk into the burned tower. This is an expected level of weirdness at this point!
However this time around, sometimes when you turn a corner you'll find everything around you has changed. Oh, you are still in Goldenrod, but somehow it's all gleaming white metal and chrome. Skyscrapers tower far higher than you are used to, very nearly into the sky itself, which is dotted with... is that spaceship? A satellite? Construction on the moon?
And if you just happen to see a Pokemon? Well, those look a little different too.
Welcome to the future. You'll be staying there for a bit.
The future?!
Yes! During this strange weekend, it's possible to visit parts of Johto and Kanto in some far-off future. How far off? It is impossible to tell, but needless to say, things look a little different. You might still see some old buildings you recognise preserved between all the gleaming chrome, especially if they hold a special significance (say, like the Sprout Tower), but for the most part, the architecture has completely changed.
It's not all gleaming chrome and seemingly idyllic scenes though. Cities may also have darker, messier underbellies. Still vastly beyond the currently level of technology, but these are clearly the areas where the future Team Rocket and likeminded folks hold sway.
Are there going to be specific references for how certain places look or--?
No, listen. We all know we ain't like that here. We don't have the time to micromanage these things, and you don't have the time to read huge descriptions for every possible location in Johto and Kanto. We trust you guys and we trust that you can keep things between the rough parameters we've set. Which is to say, cities are futuristic now, technology has advanced, and pokemon are all... robots?
Robots?
Yes, strangely all the Pokemon you might see in these glimpses of the future have all become robotic. Your own Pokemon will remain the same as they ever were, but you might find them drawing a lot of attention. About the same level of attention you might draw if you casually went strolling down the street with your pet Tiktaalik. Because that is the level of difference we are talking about here!
Of course, we realise that Gamefreak only provides us with a few future Pokemon and it'd be silly to make you all pretend only these ten Pokemon exist in the future. So for this event, you are allowed, if you wish, to use fan-created designs for any other future Pokemon you might want to run into. Come up with your own or check the web for stuff other people have come up with as reference.
(Just be kindrewind and not claim any designs as your own if you did not, in fact, design them.)
It's absolutely fine if people use multiple different fan-designs for certain Pokemon. Who is to say there aren't five different robotic Eevee counterparts out there in the future?
Can we catch the Future Pokemon?
Unfortunately, it is completely impossible to catch any of the future Pokemon. Your character might try, but the pokeballs will do nothing! They are just too old to deal with these newfangled robots.
This also includes the future pokemon that actually do have canon designs. Don't worry, you'll get a chance to catch those real soon.
What about other stuff, like technology?
Technology has obviously progressed very far and many things that are but a twinkle in some tech nerd's eye right now are commonplace and even blase in the future. And your character can absolutely find these and have fun with them. Always wanted to play with a jetpack? Go for it! Want a cool hoverbike? Just grab one! They can't arrest you for crimes, you are from the past.
The only rule we have for technology is that it cannot permanently alter your character in a way that would carry over past the fourth wall. So say, if your character is missing a limb, they can't go and regrow it via fancy cloning technology. Our other limitation is that however fancy the technology you imagine is, it cannot take you outside of the Johto/Kanto region. So while, yes, you can see spaceships in the sky, you cannot go there. Your dreams of visiting the moon will sadly have to remain a dream for now.
Do we have to interact with the future setting?
No, if you just want to have fun Fourth Wall shenanigans in our regular setting that is also fine. Just stick to the general rule that the robotic pokemon can only exist in the future areas and the normal pokemon we all know and love will be present current day.
I have another question related to this!
Feel free to ask it down below and we will get to it ASAP.
From Friday the 17th to Sunday the 19th, 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.
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?
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 time around, sometimes when you turn a corner you'll find everything around you has changed. Oh, you are still in Goldenrod, but somehow it's all gleaming white metal and chrome. Skyscrapers tower far higher than you are used to, very nearly into the sky itself, which is dotted with... is that spaceship? A satellite? Construction on the moon?
And if you just happen to see a Pokemon? Well, those look a little different too.
Welcome to the future. You'll be staying there for a bit.
The future?!
It's not all gleaming chrome and seemingly idyllic scenes though. Cities may also have darker, messier underbellies. Still vastly beyond the currently level of technology, but these are clearly the areas where the future Team Rocket and likeminded folks hold sway.
Are there going to be specific references for how certain places look or--?
Robots?
Of course, we realise that Gamefreak only provides us with a few future Pokemon and it'd be silly to make you all pretend only these ten Pokemon exist in the future. So for this event, you are allowed, if you wish, to use fan-created designs for any other future Pokemon you might want to run into. Come up with your own or check the web for stuff other people have come up with as reference.
(Just be kind
It's absolutely fine if people use multiple different fan-designs for certain Pokemon. Who is to say there aren't five different robotic Eevee counterparts out there in the future?
Can we catch the Future Pokemon?
This also includes the future pokemon that actually do have canon designs. Don't worry, you'll get a chance to catch those real soon.
What about other stuff, like technology?
The only rule we have for technology is that it cannot permanently alter your character in a way that would carry over past the fourth wall. So say, if your character is missing a limb, they can't go and regrow it via fancy cloning technology. Our other limitation is that however fancy the technology you imagine is, it cannot take you outside of the Johto/Kanto region. So while, yes, you can see spaceships in the sky, you cannot go there. Your dreams of visiting the moon will sadly have to remain a dream for now.
Do we have to interact with the future setting?
I have another question related to this!
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so, we all know that music is perma-on in usual victory road
is there electro future-sounding music in the future areas
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Such as if Bo scanned the Miraidon following her? If they do show up on the pokedex will those entries still be there once the event is over?
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