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Post by Dew on Oct 19, 2024 16:26:07 GMT
A Hedge Maze Appeared!
The stars that usually twinkled in the sky so late at night were... gone. A few shined through the thin wispy clouds, but even the moon seemed to be a bit hazy... in the bright light of this amazing park! People and children running past as they went to whatever event, ride, or game that they wanted to partake in. Candied apples were in dozen of hands and the mascots Solrock and Lunatone floated around, happily taking pictures with guests and assisting lost children in finding their parents. Yes, this place was filled with so much life and countless pokemon! Both wild and not. Yet, the rest of the park was not the point of this visit, oh no! The real attraction was on the grassy hills, laid out on the largest and flattest part of the green. Eight foot tall and two feet thick green hedges stood proudly and intimidatingly to those that didn't like random turns and getting lost. Yes, the Sol-Lune Park Hedge Maze was calling! And one ticket ready to go... Only five people were allowed inside at a time and when someone made it to the other end, the attendant at front would let another person enter. Yet the maze was so large and the entrances so staggered there was very little chance of running into anyone else. Pokemon or items on the other hand... With ticket delivered to the attendant at the front and a quick run-down of the rules it was time to begin! At the very front of the maze was a large sign as well: Remember!
The Pokemon of Sol-Lune Park are friends, not enemies!
NO BATTLING ON PREMISES. What will you do?
Your Choices:
None yet!
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-Capturing is permitted
-One capture attempt per encounter
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Post by Arris Yule on Oct 24, 2024 9:16:38 GMT
The night was wearing on, but the fun had yet just begun! Arris and his little Spooktacular Team had already been having a blast at the park; fully in costume, there had been games to play, prizes to win, delicious treats of all kinds to gorge on, and delightfully terrifying fun rides… to immediately get sick after because of nausea induced by large amounts of motion and the aforementioned gorging on goodies.
But that didn't stop the indomitable team, no sir! Captain Arris and his motley ghost crew were here to plunder the depths of the labyrinth! The wagon had made a reappearance this year, with a fresh coat of DIY delight to turn it from paltry project to mechanical marvel, no longer the little makeshift wagon boat Arris had once pulled around, but a true beauty of a ghost ship, tattered and ragged and run fully-automated like an RC Car being controlled by the little Rotom in his new phone. And better the Rotom (Dexter, Arris had named him) than Skipper, lest there be… less than intended consequences. Was it still vehicular manslaughter if it was a ghost ship? Skipper was at the bow of the ship; the penguin had begun molting something fierce as he approached evolution, and it only added to the scraggly undead sailor look he donned. Behind him was Lookout Pepper in the crow's nest, scarf and sunglasses replaced by an eyepatch and a ragged pirate's coat; beneath Pepper, settled safely in its decorated incubator, visible below the grates in the deck, was the egg that the team had been so diligently watching. And walking beside Arris off the larboard side was First Mate Gains, every bit the undead sailor as the rest. Captain Arris looked every bit the part, from beads layered in his hair peeking from beneath his hat, to the flowing coat, the buckles, the ornate flintlock tucked into his belt, and the rum bottle of — water, this was a kid friendly park! — that he was taking sips from as the group's stomach settled from the last ride.
With one final swig, Arris winked at the attendant as he pretended to stagger, cackling with that mischevious mirth. "Aw-right ye scallawags, hoist the colors n' set free the sails! 'Tis time to conquer these blackened seas!" With a rousing call of approval from the Pokemon crew, the party sets off into the maze as their time begins! 'Tis certain indeed to be a rousing bout!
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Post by Dew on Oct 24, 2024 22:58:01 GMT
A Hedge Maze Appeared!
After the staff had finished cooking over the adorable costumes, it was time to get started! With ticket delivered and spent, the maze was open for Arris and his team to move on through. And the start of the maze started off rather... traditionally.
The right?
Or the left?
Both equally good options, but the fog and dim lights did very little to help offer hints about which way was correct. If anything, it just added to the mystery! Plus, the footprints from previous maze goes did not instill any sense of confidence either. After all... they went everywhere and trampled on top of each other so... only one way to find out! What will you do?
Your Choices:
-Go Right
-Go Left
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-Capturing is permitted
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Post by Arris Yule on Oct 25, 2024 8:40:25 GMT
Left… right… left — or right?
No sooner had the team stepped foot into the fog that the first immediate conundrum approached. "Yargh," Arris said simply. It was a pretty solid conveyance. Pepper nodded in agreement. Yargh indeed.
It was the most classic choice of all time. Left or right? Where to go?
"Well, me mateys," Arris drawled with a laugh. "'Twould appear we've a split upon the path, right off the docks — which way will the current take us?" He looked to his Pokemon, curious for their answer. It was up to them as much as it was him, afterall. Normally, Arris would expect Belle in all of her bouncy sweet excitement to lead the charge… but for the first time since he'd gotten Belle four years ago, she did not accompany their little team. Evolution had brought a surprising seriousness to the Pokemon sweeter than a Combee's honey. She was still kind and happy — but more mindful. Protective. Less drawn to impulsively follow the scent of adventure without abandon the way her trainer was. And after Salve, she had opted to stay back in the room they were renting in the Sunhaven Pokemon Center, instead fretting over their new teammates.
Arris respected her wishes… but that didn't mean they weren't going to bring her and the rest of the team back tons of goodies!
Pepper looked down over the crow's nest of the boat to the egg nestled below, and then out into the fog. Left… right. Left… and then right. And then — fed up without a response from anyone, Skipper, puffing his chest up with a sharp inhale, pointed like a captain urging his ship on ahead. "Llllluuup!"
"Aye aye, sailor!" Arris laughed.
Left it was!
OOC: Arris' team chooses to Go Left!
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Post by Dew on Oct 26, 2024 14:49:36 GMT
A Hedge Maze Appeared!
Taking the turn lead to a very quick dead-end, but it was not for nothing!
Sitting on a table surrounded with the fog was a cardboard cut-out of an egg sitting in a fake nest. Under it was a sign that said: "You found me! Take me to the end of the maze and exchange me for a real Pokemon Egg! (Background checks will be performed before eggs are handed out. All eggs supplied by the Mistveil Pokemon Laboratory). Take one and one only!"
Taking the egg would cause another one to rise up from under the table, taking its place. The camera that was watching this whole exchange was hidden up in the corner, ensuring someone didn't take more than they were allowed.
But now, that lead to a conundrum. Heading back to the entrance, the only choice was the original right. Now, after walking for a bit, a new choice was presented.
Go straight? Or turn left? What will you do?
Your Choices:
You have to turn back! At the original starting point you have to go to the right, which leads to two more choices:
-Go Straight
-Go Left
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Post by Arris Yule on Oct 28, 2024 9:03:59 GMT
An egg! Or well, kind of — a soon to be egg! "Argh, how egg-citing," Arris chuckled. Both Pepper and Skipper slowly looked at him, unimpressed. He ignored them entirely in favor of adding the cutout to the hold of the ship, in a compartment adjacent to the real egg. Gains clapped his hands with a pleased cry — this was quite the treasure indeed! "Hey," Arris shrugged at the duo, breaking character for a moment. "At least this one isn't a disaster rescue. Or a tragedy. And our first little one can have a sibling. Right?"
Skipper shrugged after a moment, seeming to be willing to drop the topic as long as Arris didn't make another egg joke. Pepper beamed — the Pikachu was already fond of the original, rescued in the storm. He certainly wasn't going to turn down more! "Aye, mateys," Arris ruffled the Piplup's feathers, shaking his hand to rid his fingers of the few molting feathers that came up with the action. "There'll be no mutiny of me humor — on with ye, turn the rudder, pull the sails, about-face scallawags and we continue!"
The boat made a little beep-beep noise that was very non-piratey as Dexter reversed it to face the other way. Gains waited patiently for the boat, and Arris gave a thumbs up to the Rotom in the machine before the team continued back. Glancing to the right — …wasn't that where the entrance was? It didn't feel like they'd gone far, but… eh! That was how mazes worked! Now… straight or left?
Gains clicked his mandibles at Arris, and the captain nodded. "As ye say, First Mate — hold steady, lads, steady onward ahead!"
OOC: Arris' team chooses to Go Straight!
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Post by Dew on Oct 29, 2024 23:25:51 GMT
A Hedge Maze Appeared!
Going straight led to a new choice right away… after a short detour. Straight ahead, afterall, was another dead end — this time with a bowl of candy at the end of it! After a handful is taken (but no more than would be fair), the only path remaining diverges, which led to a question. The age old question in any good maze, one for the ages. One that would never grow old (not if this maze had anything to say about it, no sir!) yes, one of the best and most solid of decisions anyone ever had to make that was worth of any salt at all. And for these sailors, did they have what it takes?
Yes.... right? Or left!? That's right! The maze's branches seemed to move in laughter. Right or left you ol' sea dogs!? The sea was unforgiving this time of year and one would have to point the ship in the right direction. Will it lead them out of this maze or perhaps to more dead-ends that were totally, for sure, absolutely not all stocked with prizes.
Well? Full speed ahead, oh captain, my captain! What will you do?
You get: 3 candies! (1 health, 2 tough)
Your Choices:
-Go Right
-Go Left
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Post by Arris Yule on Nov 17, 2024 8:13:07 GMT
The crew continued forward, 'til Arris raised his hand with a laugh and a soft call. "Hold, ye fiends, pull up the mast, hard turn to the left! Beyond us is an impassable wall, mateys — but not without loot! First mate, if ye would be so kind?"
Arris helped maneuver the ship easily down the left turn so that it wouldn't get stuck needing to pivot if it went into the dead end. While the team (or rather, Arris and Dexter) did so, Pepper and Skipper looking off the side to watch, Gains jogged over to the candy dish, using the gossamer wings beneath his beetle carapace to flutter up and take a small handful — just three! — that he would deposit into the hull of the ship along with the rest of their spoils. "Thank ye, sailor!"
That done, the team was faced with yet another choice, to which in his first choice, Gains looked to the other two where he was hanging off the side of the ship after depositing the candy but before jumping down, and acted as a sailor, pointing off to the right with a cry that could only be described as badly accented in pirate speech… were a Heracross able to speak as such. Skipper saluted, Pepper had paws on hips, and Arris laughed as they sailed around the corner to the right. "You heard 'im lads, on we go now!"
OOC: Arris' team chooses to Go Right!
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Post by Artificiary on Nov 18, 2024 2:18:19 GMT
Onward ye go, scallawags!
The maze seemed to shuffle in hushed laughter, as if in on a joke. And what a joke it was! You thought there was a choice? A path ahead? Oh no, captain, now there's more! These are rough seas, and the time has come to navigate the waters! First a left, then a right, then an about face around the corner, and oh no — yet again, more choices!
Those darn sneaky mazes and their choices…
Well, this time, immediately after the turn to the right there appears to be two more choices — either immediately turn to the left… or continue course dead ahead! But which would the intrepid crew choose?
OOC: The path splits again!
Your Choices:
- Go Left!
- Go Straight!
Rules:
- No Battling Allowed
- Capturing is Permitted
- One Capture Attempt Per Encounter
You are currently in: SOL-LUNE PARK [HEDGE MAZE]
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Post by Arris Yule on Nov 18, 2024 3:27:35 GMT
The crew rounded the corner, all laughter and chatting between Pokemon and trainer… only to be met with another set of turns! Arris couldn't help it — he broke character, laughing at the absolutely dumbfounded looks upon his team's face. That was the joy of mazes, afterall. They were made to confound, confuse, and enjoy!
Pepper swatted him with his tail, and Arris paid it no mind, ruffling the Pikachu's ears with a snicker. "Aye, lay off it, ye sea dog. Just a bit o' fun, eh?" The other two shook their heads, amused, and Arris continued to grin at his beloved crew. "I'll make it easy on ye, for once, lad — onward, Skipper, ya salty sailor! Sails at full mast, ride the waves onward!"
Skipper saluted — though it was Dexter within the heart of the ship who made the sails twist a little, before sailing onward, forward in a continual straight line down the path. They'd come to the turn when they did. But for now, steady the course, captain! Ride those currents!
OOC: Arris and his ghostly pirate crew Continue Straight!
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Post by Artificiary on Nov 18, 2024 7:26:16 GMT
That was the funny thing about mazes. There really was no escaping the turns, even in going straight — by nature, they were made of them, doomed to wander in increasing turns, twists, loop-de-loops until the maze-goer was freed. All this to say, for the crew's attempt at going straight, it didn't last long, as the ship would round yet another corner to the right up ahead… only to run into yet another dead-end necessitating a U-turn! The booty was bountiful tonight!
But captain… is this a crew of ne'er do well ghost pirates on their ghastly ship? Or a bunch of post-mortem baby sitters? Because at the end of the corridor is another nest! Setup in woven vines with little minature jack-o-lanterns upon the table is yet another cardboard cutout of an egg — the same as last time, one per station only!
Heading back the way they came once the egg cutout was retrieved and another popped up in its place, the crew would find themselves with a binary choice to make:
To turn right, down the path they had previously passed by unexplored?
Or to continue straight again, going back down the path they'd originally come from?
OOC: Prize get! A choice appeared!
You received: A Pokemon Egg Cutout (to be exchanged for the real thing)!
Your Choices:
- Turn Right?
- Go Back the Way You Came?
Rules:
- No Battling Allowed
- Capturing is Permitted
- One Capture Attempt Per Encounter
You are currently in: SOL-LUNE PARK [HEDGE MAZE]
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Post by Arris Yule on Nov 18, 2024 7:50:09 GMT
The ship had no stops! Onward it sailed down the corridor… and then — well. A dead-end wouldn't stop them! Simply delay them! The team worked together with cheers and laughter as they pivoted and turned the ship back into the storm, the way they'd come. Captain Arris trailed behind to pick up the egg, humming quietly to himself as he carried it to the ship to join the first cutout; a pair of mismatched painted eggs next to the real one, all unique in appearance. "You'd think I was starting a collection," he chuckled to himself, out of character. He didn't mind. The man loved Pokemon — more eggs just meant more family members, that was all!
Gains gave him a sideways look, and he cleared his throat. "Right, sorry. Onward! Don't give yer cap'n guff or I'll make ye walk the plank, ye hear? Onward I say! Onward and…. uh…" Hm. They'd really gotten themselves all twisted around. They'd just come from… over there, right — ah. "Turn the sails! To starboard, you scabs! Go!"
OOC: We're goin' right!
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Post by Artificiary on Nov 18, 2024 8:43:27 GMT
To the right it was… a turn and a turn and gods, but yet another set of choices! This truly was the maziest maze to ever maze — and the wildest whitewater currents that the crew's maidenless voyage had ever been upon! This choice was the most there had been at once so far! It was hard to say — where shall the crew aim?
To the right? Which appears to go down and then around a corner out of sight?
Straight ahead? Which seems to be obscured by fog…
The first left? Which — odd. Also obscured by the fog.
Or to the far left, down the path ahead in that direction?
OOC: The path is torn down many currents, cap'n!
Your Choices:
- Go Right!
- Go Straight!
- Go Left!
- Go Far Left!
Rules:
- No Battling Allowed
- Capturing is Permitted
- One Capture Attempt Per Encounter
You are currently in: SOL-LUNE PARK [HEDGE MAZE]
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Post by Arris Yule on Nov 18, 2024 9:16:42 GMT
Good gods! It was maddening, truly! What a voyage, what a trip, to be taken aback by the currents so thoroughly! The maze was a fickle mistress, she was, and her tides strong, pulling in every direction. "Into the fog, lads!" Arris chuckled — and so they did!
Onwards, straight ahead! Into what? Who knew! But goodness gracious, if it wasn't twist after turn with this maze! Thank goodness that the team of five, egg included as it rocked within its incubator, were having the time of their lives. Who needed something straightforward, when you could create your own make-believe adventure — er. Sail the seas as an undead crew on Hallow's Eve?
OOC: Straight ahead!
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Post by Artificiary on Nov 18, 2024 9:47:58 GMT
The team went straight into the billowing fog… only to find themselves coming right back out the other side of it, with a new prize in hand. It was in fact, another dead end — but that was weird. Was it the maze that just spit the team back out, booty in tow? Was there something else at work here…? Or maybe they'd just turned around like normal people — er. Normal spooky ghost pirate people.
At any rate, there were still choices to be made, places to be, deep dark crevasses of a maze to explore and get lost within. So get to it, crew! The different paths were thus:
Continuing straight, back the way the team had come.
Turning left, and going deeper into the maze around the corner.
Turning right and around the corner into another wall of fog.
Or turning right, and continuing somewhere off into the maze.
OOC: Prize get! Where to?
You got: 2 candies! (1 Health, 1 Quick)
Your Choices:
- Straight ahead (Return to where you came from)
- Go Right and Around the Corner
- Go Right and Straight
- Go Left
Rules:
- No Battling Allowed
- Capturing is Permitted
- One Capture Attempt Per Encounter
You are currently in: SOL-LUNE PARK [HEDGE MAZE]
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