Amethyst

Closing this cuz yeah. Best reason ever, right? We'll open a poll in a bit. Thanks everyone~

I'd be willing to co-host every now and then, but it's not something I have the time to take on regularly.

Male- Kaito's Shoes Kaito's Pants Kaito's Jacket Kaito's Jacket Backing Kaito's Scarf

Absol~ The isolation suits me, as does the fashion.

Female- Miku's Boots Miku's Sleeves Miku's Skirt Miku's Top

Geo is out, guys. He can't even see this. I'll second Cloud and Savage, as well as add Hark and Mafia for consideration. We'll probably have two stages of voting after this, so it's okay to have a really long list.

Mmmmaaayyybe, but I don't intend to try. I'm use Mina as my set up rain, like I did back on my Gen 4 team. Rain Dance+U-turn into whatever wants to abuse it this time~ Even allowing wild cards, I still have Lithion for Stab Thunder... Soooo, eh~

As a type suggestion, perhaps Dark/Psychic? Very similar to Dark/Ghost, but not done yet. One immunity, one resist, one weakness (and not a common attacking type, like with Scizor's one weakness)

Okay you know what it was three in the morning, sorry. >> System of a Down. I know that. System Down is actually a project some of my friends are working on, so I sometimes say that out of habit. <<

All surf chores south of Ecruteak completed! Onwards, to the sea! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Day 11 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BrokenOpal the Starmie- 25 Turquoise the Vaporeon- 25 Lithion the Magnemite- 26 Mina the Golbat- 25 Snickety the Quagsire- 25 Emerald the Poliwhirl- 25 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *totally just lied* Onwards, to the hell known as Olivine Lighthouse! For some sad reason I know by memory that first up is the gentleman with the Noctowl, but Emerald makes short work of that, and levels up in the process~ ..and then he wants my phone number. I AM A TEN YEAR OLD GIRL WITH BAD FASHION SENSE AND YOU WANT MY PHONE NUMBER? YOU CREEPY OLD MAN GTFO ...Then a sailor. Emerald > his Poliwag/Whirl. AND HE WANTS MY NUMBER TOO. WHAT IS THIS. And before I know it, the area is cleared. So much easier than in the originals... Oh well~ Now, Onwards, to the sea! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A bit later, Route 40 has been entire cleared~ I've learned a few things about this team: Mina + Turquoise = Wreck shit. Emerald + Lithion = Hax magnet (AHAHA SEE WHAT I DID THERE ITS FUNNY BECAUSE LITHION IS A MAGNEMITE LOLOLOLOLO (And to be perfectly honest, that was originally unintentional >>)), but except that, wreck shit. Snickety + Shell Bell = Hammertime (Can't touch this.) BrokenOpal + Anything = Win. I don't think there's anything here it hasn't OHKO'd even if Not-Very-Effectively attacking. o.o Back to the Pokecenter to heal, and we're going for Round 2, at Route 41. Which means, the catch of the dayyyyyy. inb4tentacool. Which would actually not be the worst thing, but if I can sometimes use the power of even more luck than I had when catching BrokenOpal, my fingers are crossed for Mantine. Looking it up in my Perfect GSC guidebook, it's a 4% appearance rate. lolno. Tentacool was caught! Nickname... After trying to decide between "Society" being that water+poison = Society pollutin' shit, or some spin off of Toxicity by System Down... I end up with SocialDown. Note to self: See if this has a lonely nature or something like that to suit its rather asocial name. >> << ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...random phone call from the sailor in the lighthouse: "Sup! My POLIWAG's looking tougher than ever! It even looks tougher than me!" So I can only imagine that my sailor friend has somehow morphed into the likness of a squished prune, because that's about the only thing Poliwag looks tougher than. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Land Ho! And a few poking around houses I meet some excuse for a trainer! "Boohoo, my Pokemon was just stolen! Here, take the other one!" Either he realised he wasn't worthy to be one, or he's just really that lame. This is how adventure happens, man! Keep this other Pokemon, and use it to OWN EVERYTHING and go on a hunt for vengence! Find you friend! Live a conquest! But no. He'll just cry about it. Oh well, more for me~ Shuckie the Shuckle was recei- ... Shuckie? Really? You horrible, horrible nick-namer. I am doing this Shuckle a favor, not you. He won't have deal with your incompetence anymore. Never own a Pokemon again please. ...When did I become so much of a bitch? ._. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anyway, combing the rest of the city, and then- WTFSUICUNE Of course, it gets away, but- ...Of course Eusine shows up too. ._. E: Yo, Amie. A: H-hey! Where'd you come from? E: Wasn't that Suicune just now? A: Suicune? W-what? Uh, n-no, of course not! E: I only caught a quick glimpse, but I thought I saw Suicune running on the waves. A: Ahaha, really? That's- That's ridiculous. You can clearly see there's no Suicune here! (And if there is, I'll catch it before you do. >> Maybe.) E: Suicune is beautiful and grand. It races through towns and roads at simply awesome speeds. A: She is rather pretty... E: It's wonderful. I want to see Suicune up close. A: Yeah, me too... (I totally just did, ahaha~) E: I've decided. I'll battle you as a Trainer to Suicune's respect. A: Yea- waitwaitwait, what? What does Suicune care about me...? E: Come on, Amie! Let's battle now! A: Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmkay. Mystery Man Eusine sends out Drowzee! Amie starts with Lithion (Lv 28 Magnemite)! Lithion goes for a Supersonic, but misses. Drowzee takes the chance to put Lithion to sleep with a Hypnosis attack... But Drowzee squanders its turn failing to use Disable. Lithion wakes up and paralyses Drowzee with Thunder Wave, followed by missing another Supersonic! Well, if Parafusion won't work... We'll just go for it. Drowzee beats away at Lithion with Confusion! But even a critical hit does almost nothing thanks to Lithion's steel typing~ Lithion uses Sonicboom, but Drowzee's bulk takes it well. Drowzee puts Lithion back to sleep! A couple turns later, not productive ones on Drowzee's part, Lithion wakes up and scores the Supersonic! Drowzee hurts itself immediately, and Lithion goes in with an array of Sonicbooms~ Drowzee quickly reaches critical condition, but the killing blow misses, and Drowzee puts Magnemite to sleep yet AGAIN. It continues firing away with Confusion, which is now actually accumulating damage... And one hit puts Lithion into a confused status too! >< Lithion wakes up... With all the confusions its taken, if it hurts itself this could be bad... And... Sonicboom! Drowzee goes down! Eusine sends out Electrode! Lition, come back! Go, PerSnickety (Lv 28 Quagsire)! ...if this thing uses Selfdestruct or Explosion or anything of the sort, I'm screwed. Mud Bomb! Electrode is looking pretty hurt. It just used Screech, which means... Hm. Sonic Boom! Phew~ And 20 damage means nothing to PerSnickety. Electrode faints! Eusine sends out Haunter! PerSnickety, switch out! Goooooo, Turquoise~ (Lv 28 Vaporeon)! The quickest match of them all~ Haunter uses Curse, only to be KO'd by Turquoise's Shadow Ball attack! Surprise~ E: I hate to admit it, but you win! A: At least it was a pointless battle~ E: You're amazing, Amie! A: Thanks, but- E: I'm starting to understand why Suicune was keeping an eye on you. A: waitsuicunewaswhat E: I'm going to keep searching for Suicune. I have a feeling we'll see each other again someday. See ya around! A: ... So Eusine is stalking Suicune is stalking me. So Eusine is stalking me. Of COURSE he'll see me again. ._. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now for the real battle. After freeing chuck from the confines of his waterfall trainer, we're set to rock and roll. C: Oomph! The pounding waterfall right onto my head! A: The sentence fragment. C: Arrgh! A: I know. Grammar, it gets you every time. C: Why did you stop the waterfall from pouring on me! A: When asking a question, it's customary to end with a question mark, not an exclamation point. C: You just spoiled my training! A: And you are spoling the souls of many an English proffessor. C: I have to warn you that I am a strong Trainer training every day under this waterfall. A: Yes. You have honed your skills of redundancy quite well. But that has nothing to do with Pokemon. C: What? It has nothing to do with Pokemon? A: That is what I just said, yes. C: ... A: ... C: That's true! A: ...You think? C: ... A: ...Oh wait, you're a Fighting Type Leader. Of course you don't think. C: ... A: ... C: Come on! We shall do battle! A: ......... Chuck sends out Primeape! Amie starts with Turquoise (Lv 28 Vaporeon)! Primeape is tightening its focus! Turquoise used Surf! Primape lost its focus and couldn't move! Primeape's in critical condition... got a Potion for us, Chuck? Why yes, he does. But Primeape takes a second Surf to send him right back to the red. Primeape uses Double Team, but is instantly KO'd by another Surf! Chuck sends out Poliwrath! Turquoise, switch out! Come back! Go, Mina (Lv 28 CROBAT)! Indeed, somewhere across the sea, Mina finally evolved into Crobat~ And as fun as it would be to just Wing Attack Poliwrath into oblivion, I suspect it carries Rock Slide or something to that tune, so that simply won't do. C: We haven't lost yet. A: You sure? I give it four turns. My plan is already set. Turn 1! Mina uses Rain Dance! Poliwrath uses Hynosis! Mina falls asleep! A: And then Focus Punch, I'm sure... Not a bad straegy after all. But in this case, it throws me off only a little bit. Mina, come back! Gooooooooo, BrokenOpal! (Lv 28 Starmie)! But now, it's raining, such a pretty rain~ Turn 2! Poliwrath uses Body Slam on the switch. BrokenOpal takes it in the green, so no pr-...oblem. BrokenOpal is paralyzed... Just my luck. Turn 3~ Poliwrath uses a Rain-boosted Surf! BrokenOpal takes it~ Aaaaaand, THUNDER. Politoed pulls down to the yellow, but has a Sitrus berry... Thanks to that Berry, it might live a second Thunder after all... C: No... Not...yet... A: ...Really? Really? PUT A SPACE AFTER YOUR ELIPSIS, CHUCK. BrokenOpal, finish this moron! Because it IS yet. It's Turn 4~ THUNDER! Poliwrath is KO'd~ C: We...lost... A: WHAT DID I JUST SAY ABOUT THE SPACE?! Amie is the victor! C: Hmm... I lost? A: ...You literally just acknowledged that; why are you asking now? C: How about that! All right. You're worthy of the Storm Badge! Amie received the Storm Badge from Chuck! A: Storm Badge for a battle ended in Rain, huh? Appropriate. Not only that, you correctly used "All right" as two words instead one, the way everyone else does! Great job, I'm impressed! You're learning~ Everyone wins! Aaaaand, I got a Focus Punch TM... Well now. I was honestly quite surprised by his Hypnosis/Focus Punch combo (even if he didn't use it...) Originally I was going to let Emerald learn Wake-Up Slap instead, before I evolved, buuuuut~ Hmhmhm. [scroll] Newbark Town- DaQiao the Quilava- lv 25 Route 29- [s]Sentret[/s] Route 46- [s]Rokurolla the Geodude- lv 18[/s] Cherrygrove City- [s]Sauria the Gyarados- Lv 24[/w] Route 30- #27 the Pidgeotto- lv 32 Route 31- TopPercent the Raticate- Lv 25 Dark Cave- Violet City- Emerald the Poliwrath- Lv 28 Sprout Tower- [s]Rattata[/s] Route 32- Snickety the Quagsire- Lv 28 Ruins of Alph- Serenity the Natu- Lv 22 Union Cave- [s]Geodude[/s] Route 33- [s]Rattata[/s] Azalea Town- Stricken the Fearow- Lv 24 Slowpoke Well- [s]Soma the Zubat- Lv 21[/s] Ilex Forest- Repentence the Gloom- Lv 25 Route 34- [s]Rattata[/s] Goldenrod City- Turquoise the Vaporeon- Lv 28 Route 35- FemmeFatale the Nidorino- Lv 18 Route 36- Moon'sDoom the Noctowl- Lv 21 National Park- Paperweight the Caterpie- Lv 14 Route 37- [s]Pidgey[/s] Ecruteak City- [s]Pineco[/s] Burned Tower- [s]Rattata[/s] Route 42- [s]Mareep[/s] Mt. Mortar- Mina the Crobat- Lv 28 Mahogany Town- Route 38- Lithion the Magnemite- Lv 28 Route 27- [s]Tentacool[/s] Route 39- [s]Magnemite[/s] Olivine City- [s]Magikarp[/s] Route 40- Broken Opal the Starmie- Lv 28 Route 41- Social Down the Tentacool- Lv 25 Cianwood- Shuckie the Shuckle- Lv 20 [/scroll]

Male- Cal's Blazer (HAHA GET IT) Cal's Pants Cal's Shoes Fireball Style Cal's Fohawk Cal's Style

In that case it means we won't be able to verify battle dates and possibly not aliases, so if it is on another server, then you run the risk of the kill being disputed by either of those things. Alias checks- we can just ask one of their auth to do the same thing, but I doubt that all servers log everything like we do.

Female- Amaria's Armbands (Seafoam, White) Amaria's Shorts (Blue/Seafoam, Black/White) Amaria's Blouse (Blue/Seafoam, Black/White) Guys tomorrow.

Not me. I only did when- and because Reborn opened. But welcome back, Dazzle~

It'll be harder for everyone if it has to be all six. Is that something everyone wants to do, then? Wolf- Safe zones are usually the classroom buildings/players homes, but since neither of those really apply to Reborn, I don't think there will be any.

To your first question, see the first reply I posted in this thread. To the second, because the IRL version of the game instills certain amount of paranoia and disturbance into the day-to-day life of its players. They take extra precautions even moving from their front door to their car. In order to recreate this, I've lowered the kill-number to two so that people might change their battling style as the cautionary measure instead. It also means that there's a greater emphasis on stealth and trickery than the battling itself, which I think is the appeal of this tournament.

Q: Hypothetically, what if someone goes on a different server, then comes on the server with an alt under the name of their opponent and makes a fake battle? A: If there's reason to suspect that, Nyu logs literally everything on Reborn's server. We can check. Bullet- The equivalent of this in the live-action game would be never leaving the house/safe-zone. However, more often than not, that doesn't work out how one would anticipate it to, even if the person does have the discipline to follow through on such a thing. It works better in theory than in actuality. Inuki- The person that's target is the person trying to kill you... So, a triangle, right? A hunts B hunts C hunts A. A kills B, therefore, A hunts C hunts A. In that case, it's basically whoever KOs two Pokemon of the opponent first. The final round will probably come down to something like this anyway. Once their Pokemon are down, take the log and run before they can finish killing the second of yours.

Well, that would be a pretty poor strategy on their part because it means that they won't have a chance to hunt their target either. What's much more likely is that they'll only come on under aliases, in which case you'll have to do some detective work to figure out who they are. In that case, they're probably still going to be talking to their friends and such, wherein maybe you can get one of said friends to spill the beans on who the person is. Even better, if you can somehow find out who your target's target is, you may even be able to bait them into a channel using their target, where you can kill the person yourself. Just ideas~ It'll be difficult if people play smart, but if they don't want to lose, which they don't, they'll -have- to be around.

Q: If you knock out two of your assassin's Pokemon when they challenge, are they eliminated? A: No. Because in the first place, if your assassin has any kind of stealth on their side, you won't know that that's who they are, so you wouldn't know to try and KO two of theirs, or to PM me the log. However, it's irrelevant because you can only "kill" the person who is your target. The except is if, probably in the final round, your assassin also happens to be your target. Then of course it would count (that is again, assuming you're aware that this person you're battling is indeed your assassin/target).

They're coming for you. [b]Assassins[/b] [u]The Premise[/u] Are you familiar with the live-action game, Assassins, commonly played at high schools and colleges? [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin_%28game%29"]In case you aren't, this should help.[/url] Now we're going to do the same thing. [u]Rules[/u] -This is a game of survival. If you are killed, you are out of the tournament. -This is a game of goals. If you fail to kill your target, you will not progress to the next round. -At the start date, each player will be sent the name of another player. That person is your target. -Just as you are hunting someone, someone else will be hunting you. Be on your guard. -In order to "kill" a person, you must KO at least 2 of their Pokemon in a battle. --It's okay to use an alias for the kill, as long as we can trace it back to you to confirm it really was you. --Official Gym Leader matches will not count. -In order for the kill to count, PM a log of the battle to me on the forums. If you do not do this, it will not count. -If you successfully kill your target, you will then receive their target. You are not required to kill the second-hand targets in order to advance to the next round, but if you do, it will mean less competition later on. -If you and your target are in a back-channel, alone, and you make it clear to them that they're being hunted for the tournament, they may not refuse your challenge. --If this is the case, and they still do refuse the challenge, PM a log of the event in place of a log of the battle. In choosing not to defend themselves, they will forfeit their "life." --Auth may not use the /invite command to satisfy this channel rule. [u]Rounds[/u] In order to clear the round, you must: 1- Survive 2- Eliminate your target (and PM record proof) If you fail to do either of these things, you are out. However many people survive to the next round is how many there will be. This means only as few as two players might make it to the second round. No matter how many players there are, or how many rounds it takes, the last one standing is the winner. [u]Restrictions[/u] Pokemon from Reborn's Uber tier may not be used You are NOT restricted to use the same team from match to match, nor do teams need to be registered. [u]Prizes[/u] 3rd Place: $R 1000 2nd Place: $R 1500 1st Place: $R 2000 [u]Entry and Dates[/u] In order to enter, PM Amethyst on the forum confirming your interest. When you receive a confirmation, assume you are in the tournament. It is advised NOT to post your entry to the tournament in this topic, because it will blow your cover, so to speak. I will also not report the identities of players, only the number of people playing. If you have any questions or confusions about the game at all, regardless of if you intend to enter or not, please do ask about them here.

...Should I just assume you're going to judge every round from now on?

OH GOD PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT US THROUGH A SCREEN [u]Rules[/u] -There will be three judges, myself and two other members, any of whom are free to volunteer. First come first serve -Being a judge will mean you cannot enter the contest yourself. -Members can PM me images for future weeks contests. Their use is not guaranteed. -If a Member's image is chosen, they may not enter the contest that week -You are limited to one caption per week, but it can be changed before the contest close -The contest ends on SUNDAY at 12 AM EST [u]Prizes[/u] -Each judge's favorite caption will receive $R400. If this means three different people get $R400 or one gets $R1200- so be it. -One random entrant each week will be given $R300. This is independent of the winner. Judges will be included in this draw. -If a Member's image is chosen, they will be awarded $R500 [u]This week's Image~[/u] [spoiler][img]http://www.pokemonreborn.com/images/cc/cc12.jpg[/img][/spoiler] To enter, just post the caption you think best suits the image in this topic~

Both Genders- Go-Goggles Female- Amaria's Hair Amaria's Extensions

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Judges are entered too.