Operation Pory-Con!

[doitrockapella]

Hey, Routers! Alex here, with a little bit of explanation for what's not exactly a player plot, but which does provide some context for the spam mail many characters ended up receiving last night...

So for a while now, there've been OOC jokes tossed around about how, with an ever-growing Porygon population in Route (and their antics hitting the network more and more often as a result), it'd be really funny to set up an unofficial Porygon Alliance™ such that all of them could meet each other, hang out, and just kind of generally be secret internet buddies while their trainers aren't watching.

ICly, it'd just be a big hangout and kind of the Porygon equivalent of a mass friending meme; OOCly, it'd be neat to see just how many people have Porygons (or Gear-utilizing Rotoms) out there, and what their respective quirks are, and so on and so forth.

So! After a recent IC discussion between Zack and Zip the Porygons, which resulted in the idea of setting up a secret Porygon convention and calling it Pory-Con, Zack ended up deciding to spread the word in the most efficient way he knew how:

By attaching an encrypted invitation to a familiar old piece of spam mail and starting it circulating on the network, figuring that the chain letter nature would make it more likely that every Porygon or Rotom out there would eventually be exposed to it, regardless of whether he personally knew of them or not.


Therefore! If you have a Porygon or a Rotom, feel free to assume that:

1) You received the spam message (or, if you'd like to receive it ICly, I'm sure there are plenty of willing volunteers who'd cheerfully assault your character inbox with it).

2) Your tech-savvy Pokemon was able to decrypt the attachment and discover the invitation, which is basically just a given time, a given date, and a server address.

As of right now, there aren't any set-in-stone plans for Pory-Con outside of "IDK, let's just get all the Porygons and Rotoms in the game together and let them talk to each other or something, FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC", but it'll probably take the form of a route_1065 log that's essentially just..."this is a chat room, you are here, go nuts for donuts".

SO, if you have a Porygon or a Gear-using Rotom and you would like to attend, please feel free to use this post to chat with other participating players, tell us about your Pokemon, plot things, whatever! If someone would like to suggest a date for this thing, that would also be great. o/

And if you are simply one of the "unlucky" carriers of this message who wasn't an intended recipient of the invitation...well, enjoy your spam mail and here's hoping your crush kisses you next Wednesday? 8D

Either way, thank you for all the shenanigans that ensued from this (and please feel free to continue them to your heart's content!), because they've been nothing short of magical to watch. ♥

Comments

[codeforhope]

GOTTA GET THEM INVITATIONS OUT

PORY-GONE TO PORY-CON BEEP BWOP BOOP

[me_first]

Royce has one!

[babel_hacker]

Atsuro got a Porygon-Z!
Fortran will be attending the 'con.
Behold his awesome._

(A cheeky guy who acts like he doesn't respect his trainer enough, but still cares about him. Close childhood friends with Asterisk the Clefairy.)

[doitrockapella]

Might as well just check in myself, while I'm at it -

Zack the Porygon2, reporting for duty!

[superordinary]

Naegi's got Alter Ego!

[crackpotcrocker]

Denzel has a Porygon

[berkthorn]

Eve will be crashing the party like the worst little sister ever.

Vanellope will have a Porygon by then too (hatches tomorrow whee) whose name is currently undecided but will either be a computer or candy name.

Currently Razzles (maybe Razzles Dazzle) is seeming like a good idea but I am extremely tired.

[pipers_son]

Joker has one! Levi the newborn Porygon will be peeking their head in curiously before running back to "Papa" Invidia ever so often because oh gosh what if they don't like them

[ossifragant]

Greed has a bitty baby Porygon named Vergie who will be showing her stuff the best she can! She wants to be a troll like dad.

[codpieces]

gamzee has a baby porygon!! that will also be hatching soon, but it will certainly attend and spam... everyone with "miracles" like trainer always talks about......

nagi also will have one eheh

[islandshore]

Riku has Gigabyte the... incredibly glitchy Porygon2. Very twitchy, unstable, and has never actually encountered other Porygons before. How does I socialize?

Surge the Rotom will be accompanying him, and of the two he's by far the more stable. Friendly, energetic, and insanely curious. Also a touch mischievous. This is what happens when you hang with a Haunter and Zoroark.

[lullabytes]

Nanami has Galaga, a Porygon-Z! She also has Navi, a Rotom.

[captainash]

Ash has his Porygon, EXA, who will either stay very quiet in a corner or offer doomy warnings about technology and the war-loving nature of man. With any luck it won't say much.

[sitdownbecider]

AJ has Partner, her Porygon virtual assistant, which basically means she dictates text messages to him.

He's quite the social guy, but he's also a little bit of a British stereotype. Enjoy, chaps.

[unkinder]

Nagi got a Porygon named Tetris yesterday who is very curious but unsure because their trainer said not to contact anyone...

But they saw the messages about Pory-con still on Nagi's Gear and now they're so curious, so CURIOUS MMMM

They might end up trying to sneak over if they can figure out a way to without getting caught /nervous Porygon noises