Admin is on hiatus through October 25th. Currently on a female ban.
MOBILE NAVIGATION Every year young pokemon trainers travel from region as far and wide to visit Pallet town. There, in Kanto, lives an eclectic Pokemon researcher named Professor Oak. Traditionally, Oak is known for his generous gift of starter pokemon to new trainers. He has also been known to give out Pokemon such as Bulbasuar, Squirtle, and Charizard - as well as the occastional Pikachu or Eevee - to these travelers. This year, he’s decided to do things a bit differently. Rather than aiding just those from the Kanto region alone, he has decided to extend an invitation to all new trainers who recently have received their Trainer’s License to visit Pallet Town and receive a new Pokemon in addition to their starter. Provided that these new trainers take a Pokedex along on their journey, helping to further his research.
Hey Professor, thanks for the Tentacool! Since I’ve got seven Pokemon now and would like to train it up, I was wondering if you could take care of this annoying darling Illumise for me for a little while? She won’t stop popping out of her Pokeball at inconvenient times. Thanks.
I am Brock, leader of the Pewter Gym and master of rock-type Pokemon. It has come to my attention that relatively few of you have challenged me, instead opting to travel onto Cerulean City without defeating my gym. I think perhaps you might need to train your Pokemon a bit harder in order to take on my unmovable Pokemon. Therefore, I am offering you an opportunity to train and earn a strong new team member at the same time.
It has come to my attention that a group of trainers have taken to Nugget Bridge just north of Cerulean. Until recently, it has not been a problem but word has reached me that a criminal has taken to hiding behind this strong group of trainers and he has stolen an actual nugget from a nearby bank. Your challenge is to beat this group of five trainers and this petty criminal and return the nugget to Bill who lives in the lighthouse just north of Nugget Bridge on Route 25. Anyone who successfully completes this challenge will earn a desirable Pokemon from me and another more precious gift as well which will be revealed upon your completion.
The only catch is that this challenge is timed. I can’t expect this criminal to keep hanging out at Nugget Bridge forever, eventually he will take off with his loot. So you must defeat him or attempt to by Friday night. Good luck trainers.
OOC NOTE
This prompt is not mandatory and open to all members of the roleplay. In order to get credit for this prompt, it must be turned by 12am EST on October 24, 2015. The reward for the successfully completed prompt will be a Pokemon off your character’s wishlist and a special surprise gift relevant to our next event, it may be completed alone or in pairs. Make sure your prompt is tagged with vroadprompt2 in order to be eligible to receive a Pokemon.
This prompt is also designed to alert trainers to Team Rocket’s existence, as a Grunt stole the nugget. If you take this challenge in pairs, there will be two Rocket Grunts at the end of Nugget Bridge instead of one for each of you to battle. As you may have noticed, there is also a slight time discrepancy between this prompt’s due date and Brock’s due date. You have until the 24th to complete your para, however in order to be eligible for the second, secret prize it must be started by Friday the 17th at 11:59 PM to keep in time with our next event. Good luck! If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the main.
As part of Prompt 2, the following areas have been unlocked:
As of now, you should have all received your prize Pokemon from my laboratory if you stopped by my lab while you were in Pallet Town and took me up on my challenge. If you have not received a prize, please send me some airmail as my feeble old brain probably forgot I had an incident with a Psyduck earlier this week too and I’m still confused. I’ll send one of my assistants off with your Pokemon in a hurry. Don’t despair if you’ve missed your opportunity for a challenge though! My good friend Brock should be issuing another in just a few days.
Welcome back to the rolepaly, XC! Your application for the role of original character Robin Nolan has been accepted! Please consult the new trainer checklist to get started. Welcome to the world of Pokemon!
Born right smack in the upper middle-class, Robin’s parents were a pair of mildly successful investment bankers. She never really saw them around the house very much, considering the nature of their jobs and she got quite used, early on, to expensive birthday gifts and disappointing voicemails. They had a nice big house in Celadon City that always felt emptier than it ought to be. Left to the care of easily distracted college kids hoping to make a quick buck and occasionally the company of her introverted cousin, Robin learnt to keep herself entertained by just … zoning out. It turns out that time passed really fast if she went on imaginary adventures in imaginary worlds with imaginary Pokemon. Hell, after a while, she even stopped watching television. This got her into quite a bit of trouble in school, when she was always unable to answer the teacher’s surprise questions. Her report slips constantly had something along the lines of ‘exhibits potential in her studies but lack of effort leas to her falling short’.
Fortunately, for Robin, her parents never pressured her or showed any inclination to want her to join the finance industry. Instead, they constantly made jokes (whenever they were around) that she shouldn’t follow in their footsteps if they wanted to spend time with their children. Robin shrugged it off, never really considering it a loss or anything - she never knew their companionship, after all. Two holidays a year to exotic places, expensive birthday gifts, whatever she wanted, and good food? She was happy enough.
Her whole marijuana hobby started off when she was dragged to a party by her school friends who decided that she needed to be more social outside of class. Very quickly, she decided that loud music, sweaty bodies, and alcohol was not her thing, so she looked around for somewhere quiet. What she stumbled upon was a soundproof room somewhere in the house, filled with smoke. She met the friendliest, most welcoming people she had ever seen, and they instantly offered her a bong. For a girl who loved to zone out and chill, it was love at first breath.
Her parents started becoming more successful towards her Senior year in high school, which only cemented Robin’s laziness further - she supposed that she could live off them forever, and have a trust fund or something she could use for the rest of her life. But it was also this time when her parents semi-retired, and started being around the house more. This not only meant that she had to be a lot more discreet with her smoking (switching to brownies and the like), but also having to tolerate being peppered with questions about university.
Only after a few months of pestering from her parents, Robin applied to the first university brochure she picked out from the pile - which happened to be Kanto University of Pokemon. Surprisingly enough, her two weeks worth of cramming for finals exam (PANIC!) granted her good enough grades to be admitted to the rather prestigious, if not expensive school.
Thank goodness she had someone real chill for a roommate, though, because she’d probably have been kicked out within the first few months there - either because she was not handing up her work, or because she had been reported for being in possession of drugs. She earned Robin’s undying loyalty simply by sharing a pot brownie, once, and they just laid there and stared at the ceiling … while a high Robin rattled off about some philosophical nonsense that made no sense to either of them by the time they recovered.
After much deliberation, she took Sports Science on as a Major, with a Minor in Pokemon Training. During her years at college, Robin realised that her skills lay not in Pokemon Battling but in analysis and tactics. She helped out in the Training Team as some sort of coach, helping the Trainers watch match replays and etcetera so as to work out strategies and even drawing up training schedules and nutritional guidelines for their Pokemon.
Upon her graduation, Robin set out to make her own name in the Pokemon world, understanding that to achieve her dream of being a professional Pokemon Trainer-Coach, she’d have to get herself a few badges first to establish some sort of legitimacy.
POKEMON
Have you been exposed to Pokemon previously?: I’ve played the games since Yellow. I’ve been there to cry when Ash turned to stone.
What Eevee evolution would your character prefer to have?: I don’t know, but I feel like Robin doesn’t prefer a single Eevolution. She sees a Pokemon that has so many evolutionary paths as something … special, above the rest. There’s a reason why it should be able to change under so many different conditions, and Robin doesn’t presume to try and think she knows better than the Pokemon. She’d love to keep a plain Eevee and cuddle it daily until it decides to evolve, wherever, whenever, to whatever.
What legendary Pokemon does your character most desire?: Mewtwo. Maybe not desire to capture and own, but to have as a partner, as a companion. Robin approaches training scientifically, with a methodical rationality, and it seems only fitting for someone like him to come together with Robin. I don’t know if Robin actually wants to own a Legendary Pokemon - she reveres them in a way that she thinks it’s too arrogant of her to try and own one. She’s satisfied with an occasional encounter.
Due to a lack of available resources for Rahul Kohli, Sid’s faceclaim will be switched to Jesse Williams.
In addition, this roleplay is now on a female ban apart from returning members due to an imbalance in the male to female ratio. The original character application will be posted later today but we currently are not accepting applications for female canons or OCs.
As you know Victory Road was closed a few months ago due to unexpected construction in Cerulean City. I’m happy to announce that it is now reopened for travel. However, due to the conditions of the roads beyond Cerulean, it will no longer be able to support as many trainers. Any hopeful masters who would like to return are welcome, but new trainers will only be accepted on a case by case basis. However, if you are interested in returning to Victory Road just shoot us some airmail and we’ll be happy to reinstate your trainer’s license.
Professor Oak
OOC NOTE:
So we are once again open for business! However, due to lack of time on the admin’s part I am severely restricting the nixing of the group. At this point Victory Road should not exceed sixteen players. Anyone who would like to pick up their old characters is welcome, but I am also opening original character applications later this week. I should warn you all before you apply for them, I am extremely strict about both bios and appropriate faceclaims so it may turn out to be a giant headache on your part.
We will be picking up where we left off with the players currently in Cerulean City. However, the date will reflect the current month and day because having to deal with date changes is too hectic. Also, I have not forgotten the last prompt and if anyone would like to respond to it that hasn’t, I will gladly distribute prize Pokemon later this week. If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, please don’t hesitate to ask. I’m very excited to be back in action and to roleplay with all you lovely people again. :D
Hi guys, I’m sorry for the radio silence on my end the past week or so. I’ve been sorting out some stuff in my personal life and my head just hasn’t been in the mindset of roleplaying. And with the new update rolling out and making Tumblr roleplaying even more difficult yet again, it really didn’t help things. I’ve decided for the time being to close Victory Road and take a break from roleplaying in general to focus on some issues in my personal life.
I appreciate all of you who joined or even looked at this roleplay so much and I’m so sorry to have to do this so early into the game. Hopefully it will be back and revamped in the next few months, even if it ends up being somewhere beyond Tumblr. You are all amazing and I’ve been lucky to get to know some of you over the past few weeks.
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