Keeping Gyms Safe

Hello! I'm an interregional gym inspector who makes sure that gyms are both safe and accessible! | Pokemon IRL blog run by Bench

[interregionalgyminspections]

Not quite used to these, but I'll give it a go.

Hello! I'm Breve, a gym inspector. 41, and use he/they pronouns. I go around to different gyms to make sure that they're safe, accessible, and fair. My partner Pokemon, Temsik the Absol, helps me a lot with my job. Couldn't imagine doing it without them!

Not quite sure what it is, but Pelipper Mail is enabled.

Anyways, that's about it. I'm not all too used to internet stuff, but I figured it'd be nice to give it a go.

OOC

Hello! Bench here again! This used to be a self-insert Faller blog, but I wasn't having much fun with that, so I repurposed this into being a blog for an OC idea that's been rattling around in my head since I started Illanero's blog.

Breve here goes around to different gyms across the mainline Pokemon world to make sure they're up to code. If you have a gym that you want them to inspect, send an ask and I'll try to prioritize that gym! Gyms from fanregions are fine, as long as you include either a written or visual description of the gym. Elite Four chambers, Champion rooms, and battle facilities also qualify!

UPDATE: Gyms from grimdark or post-apocalyptic settings are not allowed.

No NSFW stuff whatsoever, and magic anons are disabled. Pelipper Mail and all its variants (Unmail, Malice, Musharna Mail, Musharna Malice) are all enabled, though. And sapient Pokemon interactions are welcome and encouraged!

Also, please note that I am not an OSHA inspector myself, nor am I an expert on safety and accessibility. I may be wrong about some things on here. If I am, please let me know!

I hope you all enjoy this blog!

[ifbench]

As tumblr's new update is...very, very bad, I'm putting all my RP blogs and askblogs on indefinite hold for the time being.

If you'd like to contact me, I'm ifbench on discord, and I have a multifandom RP server linked below.

Hope to see you all again when this update reverts, but for now I'm taking my leave.

Check out the The Green Room community on Discord - hang out with 359 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

[ifbench]

Welcome to the Green Room!

The Green Room is a Deltarune-focused, multifandom-friendly RP server I've been running since June 19th of last year!

Features include:

- Multiverse! If someone's already playing a canon character you like, don't worry, you can make your own version!

- Multifandom-friendly! While our main focus is Deltarune, we're fully open to characters from other fandoms! Heck, the character I write there the most is a Pokemon OC!

- OC-Friendly! We have tons of OCs here, both from UTDR, other media, and even fandomless OCs! Show us your cool characters!

- No character submission process! Feel free to just chuck a character into the IC chats and start having fun!

- In-character chatrooms! Feel free to have your characters chat with each other through the medium of in-universe discord!

- No character limit! You can have as many characters as you'd like! We're not stopping you!

- Dedicated infodumping and brainstorming channels! Want to gush about your characters for hours on end? You can do that!

- Daily prompts for your characters to answer! Prompts range from "What's the easiest way to spook you?" to "What would you do with 500 cobs of corn?" and much more!

- Connection Bot! An in-universe discord bot that allows for characters to send each other stuff, and even visit each other's worlds!

- The Lobby! A sort of multiversal hub area that your characters can easily travel to and from! Supports both lightners and darkners!

- 50+ Variations of Tenna! There's an in-universe group DM of just Tennas. They get into near-daily fights. Send help.

- A wide variety of characters from many different medias! We have Hat Kid from A Hat in Time, Webby from Ducktales, Vexen from Kingdom Hearts, Optimus Prime from Transformers, even Word Girl from Word Girl!

- Cringe is dead! Bring in Shadow the Hedgehog and give him more guns! Do what you want forever! We won't judge!

- And more!

I hope you enjoy if you decide to join!

Check out the The Green Room community on Discord - hang out with 336 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

[ladyzee-oddityhunter]

I need to go out and explore some more spooky or haunted locations. Does anyone have any suggestions?

A while ago someone reported unusual happenings in the abandoned Rocket base under the Game Corner in Celadon. Perhaps I'll start there and write a list of more in the meantime!

[ghostgirlcara]

You know, I've heard rumors of a haunted house somewhere along Route 26 in Kanto!

[interregionalgyminspections]

There's the abandoned Galar Mine No. 3, but I urge you to use extreme caution if you go there. It's very prone to cave-ins.

[interregionalgyminspections]

I highly recommend keeping at least one escape rope on hand at all times, especially if you plan on going cave-delving.

[interregionalgyminspections]

Happy New Year!

Please remember that extreme caution should be used when handling and using fireworks. If you don't know what you're doing, it's best to either hire a professional, or abstain from using fireworks entirely.

[interregionalgyminspections]

Please remember that safety features are there to keep you safe, and shouldn't be messed with unless you're a professional.

Using the emergency fall failsafe of Rotom Phones too frequently, such as to do parkour, can tire out the Rotom, and cause you to plummet.

[benchspkmnirlhub]

I've been working on revamping this server, so!

Welcome to the Gilded Gaggle of Goofs!

This is a Pokemon-focused multifandom-friendly RP server that I run!

The in-universe premise is that a longtime group of online friends decided to open their server to the public, but it became a lot more public than they expected, and now pretty much anyone can find themselves added to the server!

We have both OOC and IC spaces, with places for people to share art, writing, and music that they made!

As for the IC side, we have both IC chatrooms and in-person RP areas!

I hope you all enjoy if you decide to join!

Check out the Gilded Gaggle of Goofs community on Discord - hang out with 108 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

[wingsofachampion]

OOC

Come join my silly little RP server!

[osha-unova]

(@interregionalgyminspections) Greetings! It's nice to see other safety workers on here. How's it been going for you? -Breve

Nobody wants to be safe, but we’re making progress! Rankings are starting to climb! Good luck on your end! Hopefully things are working out better for you.

[interregionalgyminspections]

I'm glad to hear you're making progress! It's far better than things getting worse.

I've unfortunately just learned about the "Roto-Glide" trend of people using safety features in reckless ways, so things could be better, but I'm working on that.

[isle-delino]

Heya

Not comfortable sharing my real name, but you can call me Delino. He/him, and 17 years old

I'm Kalosian, and live in Brun Town. If you're wondering why you've never heard of it before, that's because it's not an official town on most maps. We're a new settlement on Route 15, based out of the Lost Hotel, and our sorta-leader is the legendary skater themself, Dancing Whirlwind

I'm here for similar reasons as most of the others in Brun Town: We couldn't financially afford to keep at the League circuit. Being a Pokemon trainer can get expensive, and there's only so much Pokemon Centers can do. So us washed-up trainers banded together, and formed a place of our own

Better here than the Society of Being Cruel, as a friend of mine called the SBC

I don't have a lot of Pokemon to my name anymore, just my Meowstic, Sticks. Couldn't afford to keep housing the rest of my team, so...I had to trade them away to a friend

I'll probably be talking about my friends from time to time, so look out for that. Nice to be here

Hi! @ifbench here again, with...a regular trainer in the mainline Pokemon world with no special gimmicks? What?

This is a sorta reboot of one of the characters from my very first PokeIRL blog, @gildedgaggle. I've been thinking about him a bunch lately, and decided he might as well finally have his own blog.

This blog will reference stuff that happens in Legends ZA, though it likely won't be a major focus, as Delino doesn't reside in Lumiose anymore.

Pelipper Mail/Malice, Mystery Gift, Musharna Mail/Malice, and Union Circle are all enabled. Pelipper Unmail, however, is not. Interactions with sapient Pokemon are welcome and encouraged.

I hope you all enjoy me bringing new life to this old character!

[benchspkmnirlhub]

I decided to bring back one of my very first PokeIRL characters, now with a blog of his own!

[interregionalgyminspections]

Town Maps

While they've been largely replaced by map apps, Town Maps are still a handy item to keep around. Supplying detailed info on the layout of a region, as well as the Routes and towns within them, without having to worry about bloatware or extensive power consumption.

However, did you know that the designs and even functionalities of Town Maps vary by region?

That's what I'm here to talk about today. A breakdown of the Town Maps of various regions.

Kanto

Kanto's Town Map takes the form of a digital scroll, which can be opened or closed by pulling the two sides. The display itself has changed a lot over the years, from just being monochrome lines and squares that tell you little about the locations, to a more colorful version that also included the nearby Sevii Islands, to the current version, which gives a brief synopsis of each location, as well as a list of major buildings for towns. The latest version even has compatibility with Pokedexes. If you connect your Town Map to a pokedex, you can see where the habitats of various species of Pokemon are. Quite handy!

Johto

Johto, being a closely related region to Kanto, used to have a very similar Town Map to Kanto's original, to the point where many Johto Town Maps include Kanto in them. However, if I may state my opinion, Johto's Town Maps have a key feature that even modern Kanto ones lack: The ability to put down marks. If you find something interesting while out and about, you can mark it down on your Town Map with one of 8 different symbols. The main downside to Johto's Town Maps, though, is that they're primarily made for Pokegears. You'll have to get a Pokegear and a Map Card in order to use Johto's Town Map.

Hoenn

Hoenn's Town Map, similarly to Johto's, is locked to a separate device, the Pokenav and Pokenav Plus. Interestingly, the former actually has a feature that the latter lacks: namely, showing the layouts of towns. Admittedly, though, the town layout part was even more barebones than Sinnoh's, and the Plus version has far more features than its predecessor, such as linking with the VS Recorder to detect on which routes you have trainers seeking rematches with you, among other things. Still, it's interesting to see a feature having been removed entirely.

Orre

Orre doesn't actually have an official Town Map. There is no normalized map of Orre that exists in the region. However, there are alternatives. There's cartographers that brave the harsh desert and chart out their own maps. While these maps can vary quite a bit from each other, they're homemade, and have been painstakingly created by the efforts of very determined people. If you ever find yourself in Orre, I recommend rewarding these cartographer's efforts with a Town Map purchase.

Sinnoh

Sinnoh's Town Map is a flip-open device that has a display rather similar to Johto's most recent Town Map, though with an added feature of being able to zoom into towns to look at their layout. It's rather rough, and only really shows you the locations of Pokemon Centers and Pokemarts in each town, but it's still quite handy, especially if you need to find a Pokemon Center in a hurry.

Unova

Unova's Town Map, while its lines-and-circles design hasn't been updated much over the years, has had its layout modified more than perhaps any other region's Town Map has. After the incident with Team Plasma, and the subsequent collapse of the old Victory Road, the map was redesigned, and several locations not included in the original Town Map were added, such as the recently-built Undersea Tunnel.

Kalos

Kalos' Town Map is similar to Unova's, having a lines-and-circles design as well, though the main sticking point is that Lumiose City has a much larger circle than the other towns, and has a pokeball symbol in the circle. Lumiose City actually has a Town Map of its own, designed by Quasartico Inc, though it's delegated to a Rotom Phone app. Even so, Lumiose's Town Map is packed with features, such as displaying the locations of Wild Zones, and if you're part of the Z-A Royale, Battle Zones.

Alola

Alola has its Town Map and Pokedex together in one device, and has a few neat features, particularly being able to see the details of Routes. It's static images, so it won't update if something big happens, but these images are special: They're hand-drawn. Every detail on these maps was drawn out by cartographers surveying the Routes of Alola. That's pretty nifty, huh?

Galar

Galar, like Orre, doesn't have an official Town Map item. While Orre had homemade Town Maps, though, Galar has a surprisingly robust app for phones. It can discern the weather at various locations, even in the Wild Area, and can link up to flying taxi services to show destinations. Each sector in the Wild Area is given its own name on the map, too, for ease of reference. It's even free of bloatware, for the most part. The diorama of Galar in the background may look pretty, but it takes up quite a bit of storage.

Paldea

Paldea's official Town Map is also relegated to an app, though it's a bit different to Galar's, or perhaps any other region. Instead of showing distinct Routes, Paldea uses a satellite to take a gander at the whole region at once. Every area in each province, all loaded at once. This fascinating technology allows you to even seamlessly zoom in and out on the map, and even detect Tera Dens in the area. Though given how much it displays at once, Paldea's Town Map can be prone to lag.

I hope this has proved informative!

[interregionalgyminspections]

Well. Whoever is running these experiments is getting a hefty fine at minimum.

You do not lie about whether someone is being monitored or not, especially in a workplace environment. That is a very serious violation.

Where are the fire extinguishers, by the way? Are they all in the offices? What happens if there's a fire in the testing area, do the test subjects just have to hope they survive until staff puts it out? I certainly hope not.

[interregionalgyminspections]

The next chamber has even more large drops. Not much to comment on there, other than don't do that.

The next chamber, however, has yet another large drop, and a cube dispenser above it.

Anyone standing in the pit when a cube gets dropped is at serious risk of a major head injury.

The announcer is saying that the next chamber isn't being monitored, which is interesting. I wonder what the point of that is?

[interregionalgyminspections]

The handheld portal device is rather nifty! My player character can now shoot blue orbs that open up blue portals.

Seems pretty up to code, too. I'm glad it's been clarified that the portals are completely safe. And the upfront list of safety information is very nice, though it should probably have been given before we acquire the device.

Only problem is that, once again, the most important part got cut off because of a glitch with the automated announcements.

[interregionalgyminspections]

Ok, we have our first major violation. The emancipation grills.

I don't care how rare it is, if there's even a sliver of a possibility that it could vaporize someone's teeth, you don't install it. Or at the very least, you don't force people to walk through them.

At least there's some proper stairs right after, instead of another drop. Though they could use a handrail.

Except right through the next portal is another drop. What, you're telling me you only had the budget for one set of stairs?

[interregionalgyminspections]

Right off the bat, there's some serious flaws in the second chamber. There should not be a drop that large. Would it really hurt that much to put in some stairs?

I'm also concerned about what might happen if you're halfway through a portal when it switches.

And that line about "prolonged exposure to the button" gives me concern. Is that button radioactive or something?

Most importantly, though, where's the emergency exits? There doesn't seem to be any so far. How could our character escape in the case of an emergency?

[interregionalgyminspections]

So we're some sort of test subject for this Aperture company, huh? Interesting premise. I hope the player character is getting compensated for this.

The automated voice seems bugged, to a concerning degree. It skipped right over the most important part, the safety instructions.

The portals are rather interesting. Never seen any teleport pads like them before.

And I'm rather concerned about the lack of protection around the cube dropper. That could seriously hurt someone.