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WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
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AHOY! HELP WANTED. THINK YOU’VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES TO BE THE FACE OF ESCORDVI’S VERY FIRST ADVENT CALENDAR? POST YOUR GLAMOROUS PICTURES TODAY. POST THEM NOW!
A group of collaborators is looking to put together Escordvi’s very first annual advent calendar. For its inaugural year, they want to compile a collection of pictures of beautiful riftfarers to represent each month. These pictures can range anywhere from beauty shots, to thirsty body shots, to tasteful fashion poses. Anything goes!
Have your character post their own (or their friends, enemies, boyfriends, girlfriends, dogs) photos to this network post. NPCS can also be used to post photos. Then feel free to comment around on the photos with which month or season you think would suit them best. Or just comment about how much you like the photos. Who’s hot? Who’s not? Or about how horrified you are that someone posted yours! Any and all feedback is needed so they can create the best calendar ever!
At the end of the month, an advent calendar for 2025 will be created! If there are enough submissions, there will be multiple calendars so don't be shy or think you'll be left out! For ease of use, the calendar has been broken down into the four seasons so that multiple themed shots can be posted. Get posting!
PLEASE USE THE FORMATTING CODE PROVIDED IN EACH TOPLEVEL! Putting the character's name in the subject line is optional but helpful for quick reference. Any who don't follow instructions will have their comment screened so it can be edited. This is mostly to ensure images are not too large and stretching pages. Please try to crop images to best fit the code, especially long ones. The code will automatically resize images to a max width of 300px, so an image with a 3:4 or 3:5 ratio would be ideal.
QUICK LINKS: SPRING 🌻 SUMMER ☀️ AUTUMN 🍂 WINTER ❄️
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[ guilty as charged - even his tiny archipelago world probably had more than a thousand kinds of fish birds and domestics, but... he is aware of other kinds of animals scattered throughout the worlds, though he's also assuming this is in addition to normal animals, and pokemon are all pretty big like these guys. that seems like a lot.
xehanort rereads the info provided a few times over, noting one thing in particular. ]
oh, like magic affinity. that makes sense. eighteen is a lot of different types to keep track of, especially if they can have more than one?
what qualifies a "dark" type...?
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[Interesting-- some places knew about other dimensions and worlds, while others, like his-- only had Earth.]
Yeah, it is kinda like magic, isn't it? But a lot of it is scientifically researched too, so. Dunno where it falls on that scale.
And yeah, no kidding.
[Huh, Dark type--
He'd take a moment to ask Turo to make sure his own thoughts made sense, what he remembered...]
Dark types...
In terms of typing:
When using a Dark move against another Pokémon-
Super effective against (x2):
Psychic/Ghost Types
Not very effective (x1/2):
Fighting/Fairy/Dark Types
When a Dark Type Pokémon is defending vs another Pokémon move
Weak to (x2)
Fighting/Bug/Fairy Types
Resists (x1/2)
Dark/Ghost Types
Immune (x0)
Psychic Type
That's the technical stuff, but... Dark type Pokémon tend be cunning and sneaky. They'll hit hard and fast, sometimes using dirty tactics to win. Also tend to be nocturnal, or have omens associated with them.
But-- importantly, Pokémon are just Pokémon. They might have particular natures, but very few if any can be considered what humans may morally call 'good' or 'evil'. Absol for example is considered an 'Bad Omen' for natural disasters, but it doesn't cause them; it can sense them about to happen and will come down from the mountains to warn humans and Pokemon about it.
It's just what come natural to them, no different than a cat hunting a bird because of what it's instincts tell it, even if it has food waiting for it at home.
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[ he absorbs the information on dark-types carefully. it's amusing to him that they're weak to bug - maybe he should try throwing a caterpillar at a heartless and see what happens sometime.
the confirmation that dark does not equal evil makes him feel weirdly validated. ]
thankyou for answering so thoroughly. do you or... turo? have some resources i could read so i don't take up all your time with questions? learning about other worlds was part of my schoolwork back home, and i find it engaging to study information like this.
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[He has to refer back to Turo for a sec since he remembered him working on something--]
Actually, Turo-- well, Professor Florentino Turo, has been working on a book known as a 'Pokedex' in his world. An Encyclopedia of Pokémon, writing down everything he knows.
[It helped having the dex uploaded into the guys own brain, let alone what the original Turo remembered himself--]
And it was with the full intent of sharing it with people, so once it's ready I'll let you know and you can come look. But I don't mind answering questions for you. Helps me tested out how well I've been studying too.
Plus, I was working on a record of where people were from. I need to get back to that, but once I have it tidied I don't mind you looking at it. The results people told me were pretty... varied. I think the responses are mostly public still too if you want to scroll back the shellphone a bit.
[Hey, of course he's going to encourage a kid to keep studying even when out of school. That's good work ethic right there.]