Ice Cream Sand Witch

Oh, okay. I automatically assumed you'd need to renovate the railnet for anything train-related. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure why I did since we'll be using the train in E17 regardless of whether we donated to the railnet.

Yes, all the stones. I'm not sure where to find Aron.

Restoring the railnet also allows you to reach the end of the current Corrin-Rogue quest, key word being current as it will continue in the future. E16's part of the quest ends with him taking the train into the desert.

IIRC, the Trainer Emporium in Cellia also sells all the evolution stones, though you need to take the shop back from the Black Foxes and then find out what happened to the stock first.

Blackview Sky Tower roof.

There are four battles that made me wonder if I was capable of getting past them to continue the game: Florinia, E14 Serra, the final Aster & Eclipse battle, and Adrienn. I specify E14 Serra because I made another file on E16 for the relationship points, and she wasn't as difficult as she was when I first battled her in E14. Her battle changed a lot in E15. She was given a field effect and had significant team changes. The main difficulty with Florinia and Serra was probably the fact I was outnumbered. I had 2 Pokemon for both of them, and had to bring my number up to 4 for Serra (and still only won on my last Pokemon with 9 HP). The last Aster & Eclipse battle was difficult mainly because of the sheer number of Pokemon they had. I still had 4 at this point in the game, so it was 10 vs 12. I also can't rely on knowing what Pokemon they'll send out next since it doesn't tell you in double battles, so switching when I'm at a disadvantage would always take up a turn. My team just wasn't built for Adrienn's in a double battle format. I have type coverage against all of xyr's Pokemon and maybe could've won handily in a single battle, with the main problem being Mega Mawile as Delphox can KO it with Flamethrower but it has to be able to take a Sucker Punch for that to happen. But it was actually close to impossible for me to win in a double battle. On my original save file I didn't even win legitimately; I gave up at some point and used RPG Maker to give myself Pokemon that would counter Adrienn's like Magnezone. (I could've just pressed control in RPG Maker to skip the battle, but I didn't want to go that far if I didn't have to) On my second file I didn't have as much difficulty, winning on my first try. (my second file has a few different team members)

There's also a trainer on the part of Opal Bridge that leads to North Obsidia named Inuki. He's the psychic with the Porygon2 who talks about electromagnetism. There's a trainer in an alleyway of Peridot Ward who says he'll kidnap you for ransom named Erick, and another trainer somewhere (I forget exactly where) named Andreas. Erick could have been a reference to forum member Neo whose name is Erick, and Andreas could be a reference to member Eternal Edge. I think both of them have been here since the early days of the community. I'm not 100% sure if they're intended references though; Ame could have just decided "I'll name this trainer Erick and this one Andreas". In Ame's "Twenty three" thread she mentioned a trainer in the Onyx Trainers School who was a member of the community who committed suicide and Ame wished she could have done more to help her. This is the Arcade Star who asks if you think you can best her. I think her name was Lithi or Lilith. After Amaria's car accident and memory loss, Ame tested her to see if she was still okay to be a Gym Leader in the online league. Amaria 6-0'd Ame with a Ludicolo.

Caz has put status bars in the first post for episode progress before. He also does announcements sometimes. It should be noted that Caz said he'd be disappearing from the forums for a while as starting February he'd be going to university as well as having two jobs just to eat and would have less time to work on the game, so ep 5 won't be coming for a while.

In the online league, challengers who beat the normal league could participate in the X-League, where leaders and challengers could use legendaries.

No, Reborn will have 19 episodes. Ame probably said this because E16 had the longest development time of any episode, taking over a year to make.

As the episode was released not long ago, I think it'd be better if that question was put in spoiler tags. I'll be putting my answer below in spoilers.

Re-uploaded to fix a few minor issues. -Dazzling Gleam now hits both opponents in a double battle as it's supposed to -In Lee's pre-battle speech, fixed "teahcing" to "teaching" -When speaking to Kayla in the research institute, she said "I'm afraid I can't share any details with anyone about what exactly the project is. Not even Ashley." twice. Deleted one instance of it. -Made the tops of barrels passable again in the BCC because there was a grunt who couldn't pass through the barrels to reach and battle the player. It didn't occur to me until after I was already re-uploading that instead of having the tops of barrels walkable through I could've just changed where the barrels are placed... XD I'll do that for the next re-upload or episode.

The volunteers appear throughout all the wards in the city, yes. Some are outside and some are inside buildings. I think I remember a thread where people put together a guide for where each of them is.

I think Talon will have a Talonflame.

It isn't mentioned. Maybe they wanted her to have a more diverse team so she'd be less weak to Fighting types. Or maybe her new Pokemon were given to her specifically for their roles (like how she attempted to use Zoroark as a decoy). I think it'd be cool if it was the latter.

Before Reborn was a game, it was a Pokemon Online league. It from from 2010 to early-mid 2014 I think. The characters in-game (again, minus Solaris, ZEL, Taka, and Sirius) were all leaders from the online league.

Amaria's amnesia is based on an incident where the real Amaria had memory loss after a car accident, so I do believe it's real in-game too.

The key Titania has is the Sapphire Bracelets. I also don't believe Titania will be offed. The characters from Reborn (minus Solaris, ZEL, Taka, and Sirius) are based on real people from Reborn's old online league. The real Corey really did jump off a bridge and the real Kiki really did have a terminal illness. That's why they don't make it through to the end of the game. I doubt this will happen to any other characters besides the Team Meteor members. Ame herself said in the E16 Status Discussion thread by the time she was willing to lift those restraints (ending characters whose real counterparts are still on earth) the game's story was already planned out. (about Ame going even though the real Ame is still here, Ame never wanted to insert herself into the game to begin with so it makes sense she'd want to off her character)

Ame did say he did famously during his trial battle, so while El used shady tactics to get him in his skill is legitimate. It's possible that that combined with him having a change of heart (E15's TV event is Gossip Gardevoir telling Serra about Bennett's Team Meteor ties and Serra telling GG to take her to him) might be enough for him to stay.

If Lin does turn out to be the Champion, I imagine they'd be too afraid of her to drop her.

It's not intentional. Ame hates how there are so many similarities between Titania and Erza.

Ame said that was made before Reborn as a game was thought of and a lot of details are outdated. It also mentions Terra as Labradorra's leader when Saphira is the leader of Labradorra while Terra is one of the Agate leaders, Sigmund as the Lapis leader when he's not the Electric leader in-game, and El as the Agate leader when Hardy is.

On Tumblr, someone asked Ame if the E4 will be fixed like in Gens 1-4 or available to battle in any order like in Gen 5 onward. She said for story reasons they'd be in a fixed order. I think it's possible El will be kicked out of the E4 due to exposed ties to Team Meteor and Laura will get her position back. I always imagined this happening before we battle them, but your idea of it happening the second time is also interesting. If El is still in the Elite Four, my hypothesis is it'll go: Bennett, El/Heather, Heather/El, Anna. and if it's Laura instead of El: Bennett, Laura, Heather, Anna this also assumes Anna is a member of the Elite Four. I think it's most likely, but it hasn't been confirmed. For others: There were no rival battles in E11-E14. Then in E15 we battled Fern and in E16 we battled Victoria. So maybe in E17 we'll battle Cain? I think Fern will be battled on Victory Road, since he's also doing the league and has the most badges. Ame said Victoria dropped and Cain still hasn't fought Radomus. I think the next Meteor admin battle will be against Sirius, since we've only fought him once so far and we're approaching the end of the game. I'm unsure if it'll be another Sigmund/Sirius choice, but I do believe we'll be battling Sigmund once more too. I think we'll battle Zero at Agate, since he mentioned going there. Maybe with his own full team since ZEL split. For those who gave Blake the Ruby Ring and didn't get the extra Aster/Eclipse stuff, I think we'll battle Aster once more in Labradorra and the A&E story will conclude there. I think Solaris will be battled once more. I think he'll have Mega Garchomp. I could see another battle with Taka when we get the end result of our decision at the WTC. Since we battled Blake twice, maybe we'll have another battle with Cal too? He mentioned the battle at Pyrous feeling empty, so maybe he'll want a rematch as his new self. I think this would likely happen around Victory Road, maybe a little sooner, but not before the bulk of the operations Meteor has left have been taken care of. Ame confirmed postgame Gym Leader rematches, saying it wouldn't be much of a postgame without them. I also think we may rematch Arclight at the nightclub. Maybe we'll be able to rematch everyone who's still around?

I'm...actually kind of uncomfortable with this question being asked. I don't really like the idea of comparing one game to another, or saying that one is better than the other. Someone did that in the Desolation thread a few weeks ago comparing Desolation to Rejuvenation, granted that person's feedback was more along the lines of saying that certain things were copied from Rejuvenation (I remember the poster saying Vejyr was copied from Valor Mountain), and Caz explained that they weren't. I also remember a thread from 2015 where Jan mentioned people used to say about his game "it isn't as good as Reborn", which made him feel bad. I would also feel bad if someone said that to or about me. I think comparing games is okay in the sense of "This game is darker/lighter than this one" or "this game focuses more on multiplayer while this one is single-player and story based", but I'm not really comfortable with "This game is better than this one". What I will say about the story of Spork, other than what's mentioned in the first post: -The Sea Stars, which are the non-human/non-Pokemon species mentioned in the first post, have been mentioned in-game a few times but haven't been introduced yet. They'll be introduced in the next episode, episode 4, where the player visits their civilization. -Spork's story is lighter than both fangames and the canon games. Not only are there no character deaths, death itself doesn't exist. Because of this, I edited the Pokedex entries to not include mentions of death, Pokemon eating other Pokemon (or people), souls being stolen, etc. A few legendary Pokemon, mainly Giratina and Yveltal, will also have their lore changed because of this. -The main post mentions that certain sidequest areas offer extra story. For the main story up to the Champion, these are optional. For the postgame story however, you'll need to do them as you'll need to have met some of the characters through them. There's actually a change of dialogue when meeting Team Portal's leader depending on whether you've done them before. If you have done them, she'll mention a character that she doesn't mention if you haven't. -Sometimes watching the TVs will give you extra info, for example Gym Leader interviews and history (there are also non-serious ones though like puns of real TV shows and movies). -While the amount of time spent with most Gym Leaders isn't as much as fangames like Reborn, they will all have appearances outside their gym at some point in the game, as will the Elite Four. You'll also get to know Team Portal's boss and admins on a personal level, not just as enemies. One admin in particular will get a lot of screen time in episode 4. -There's one story rather than branching paths. There is a decision in the current episode that has seven different choices, but this only effects one detail of the end result of this choice along with dialogue depending on what you choose. I hope I didn't come off as rude by explaining why I was uncomfortable with the question. I also hope I didn't give the impression that I'm not open to feedback. I've incorporated other peoples' feedback before mainly by improving on the maps (getting rid of excess space, making nature less uniform, etc.) among other things. I do want Spork to be as good as it can be, but I would prefer to avoid posts like "Spork is better than x game" or "x game is better than Spork" in this thread, especially since I'll be here to read it, being the creator of the game and thread.