Anti-Rocket Group // V-day Masquerade Ball // Pokemon Foster Home Information & Updates!

[dragonspeak]

Anti-Rocket Group Information

Right before the Lj-updates went up, Merlin made a post asking if people would be interested in starting up a group that keeps an eye on Team Rocket's activities and rushes over to help people in danger. Anyone who wants to be involved can be! We need trainers who are in both Johto and Kanto, since Team Rocket is spread between the two places now.

If your character has close CR with Merlin, Ventus, Lightning, Athrun, or the Persona 4 kids, assume they were approached in person about this. If not, they could've heard it through word of mouth and decided to ask.

Also, if your character's iffy about Team Rocket, but ended up being a part of it upon arrival, we have a job for them, too! If this group's going to work, they need some reliable sources of information from inside Rocket. So far, only Marona has volunteered for this.

I'll start putting up a list of people who want to join as people reply to this entry (or plurk, I guess...)!

Members: Merlin, Cooper, Sora, France, Riku, Heiji, Arturia, Nero, Lightning, Chie, America, Ventus, Talim

Interested, but needs CR: Hughes, Conner, Misaki, Yuuji, Wally, Xion, Aoto, Nephenee




Valentines Day Masquerade Information

It's February, and the arguably most important holiday in this month is, of course, Valentines Day! Minnie and Merlin and planning to host the ball in Goldenrod, and would have sent out invitations beforehand. If your character needs a ride, assume one of their bird pokemon picked your character up and brought them to Goldenrod in time!

ETA!!!: The original date of the ball was February 14, Valentines Day, but due to the weather, it's been changed to February 18 February 20 to give people time to wrap up their Valentines Day event things!




Foster Home Update

There's a new system for the Pokemon Foster Home and the rosters have all been updated. You can take a look at them right here! The adopting process can be handwaved or not, depending on what you, as the mun, would prefer! If you'd like to reach Merlin ICly to ask about the Foster Home, you can do so right here.

Important!! As another note, if you drop your character and you note that the rest of the unclaimed pokemon will go to the Foster Home, there is a very good chance I will miss it. Please take the time to comment to this entry with the pokemon's information, just to make sure I get the information!



If you guys have any questions about the updates, just leave a comment in this entry or PM this account! Thanks!

Comments

Questions!

[dragonspeak]

If you have any specific questions about the updates, ask them here!

[tapestodiane]

Coop needs to be part of the Anti-TR group, so I'm especially sorry I totally flaked out about that last time, but am all kinds of ready to throw him into that now!
Assuming he'll approach Merlin about it ICly, since he knows that Merlin's all kind of anti-TR and would have concluded that if there is indeed a group he would probably have anything to do with it. Works? c:

[dragonspeak]

Works!! He's known Coop for a while, so that definitely checks out.

And it's okay! That other post ended up not going anywhere because of the LJ update anyway, so I'm just using it as a timeline reference now.

[islandshore]

Ha, Riku's close pals with Ventus, so I'd say he'd be interested.

[dragonspeak]

Okay, I'll add him in!

[seikaprez]

Misaki has actually just started trying to start an Anti-Rocket group herself! She wasn't aware that there was another one out there orz She's already spoken to Yosuke about it, so maybe if you want, she and whoever else in her group could just merge with Merlin's group? Easier than having two separate forces, that's for sure!

[dragonspeak]

Sure! That sounds like a pretty good plan, actually. I'm thinking we should put up a log for the group once everything's sort of settled, so maybe they could mingle and get to know each other then?

[seikaprez]

Sounds good! \o/ Someone just needs to tell one of them that there are two Anti-Rocket groups being formed.

[derpsaboutfamily]

Maes is part of Team Rocket against his will, and he'd be happy to do spying work on them.

.... 8| Only problem is, he's not likely to trust anyone he doesn't know about this whole Team Rocket thing... 'cause what if it's a trap?

[dragonspeak]

Okay, I just talked to Yosuke-mun. We can just say Yosuke told Merlin about it, and Merlin contacted Misaki? It's up to you if you want to handwave that or play it out--I don't mind either way!

[dragonspeak]

Hmmm yeah, that's the problem. Who does Hughes know right now?

[derpsaboutfamily]

Most of the FMA cast, Emmy, and Tot are his main CR right now.

I will think on this and creep on this post! o/

[dragonspeak]

HMMM only way I can think of is if Hughes someone finds out about Marion helping them, and then joins her? Since he's in the military and very good at poking his nose into things, it's a possibility.

We could always ask Marion mun if they're willing to plan something with you?

[mayieatthat]

/same mun, different journal

I'd be up for that if Marion mun is~!

I was thinking that Hughes would be likely to discover the organization on his own, since he' been kind of watching Team Rocket. But he'd probably need to watch them for a while to make sure they're what they say they are.

So meeting someone who's already part of it would definitely help.

[dragonspeak]

Okay! Marion's username is oxidegreen so just pm her and tell me if you guys decide something? :D

[silver_lucifer]

I also have apologies for being flaky off and on last year, but would like to get Heiji involved; IIRC he'd volunteered before and then I had OOC moving-issues and IC him getting injured putting him out of it. I do need to bounce off his travel group whether it'd be him flitting off occasionally or them coming with, but either way he'd want to be involved.

[foreveraclone]

Conner Kent/Superboy (foreveraclone) is currently a mole in TR. However, he's been giving his notes and junk that he's gotten on the organization to Wally and now Robin. Now, I can't really speak for the rest of my cast on this, but I do know that trust is going to be a big issue for Conner if he decides to join in on this group? He's not going to willingly hand anything over until he knows that he can trust Merlin (or whomever he's passing the notes off to.)

Nothing against Merlin or anyone else in the group, but he isn't going to just willingly trust in someone he doesn't know all that well. He has a lot riding on the line here, and ever since Robin was found out he's definitely trying to keep more to himself. Mostly because he doesn't want to land up in the center for two weeks. And, as a side note: if I ever decide to canon update him, Conner's going to be in a completely different mindset all together.


On the other hand, Yuuji Sakamoto (strategizer) will probably end up joining? idk he'd need a good reason to get his lazy ass to join, but I know he'll be useful for future raids since he comes up with strategies and shit like that all the time. :'|b

[ex_cashcow493]

If Merlin is off getting himself into trouble, you can always expect Saber to be there. I guess this makes her a member of the Anti-Rocket Group naturally. She may not be willing to work with others easily (even if she's the King of Knights, she prioritizes protecting others over an outright assault), but she'll do her best.

I'd be willing to have them talk about it again if you like, but I'm sure she joined the last time we had a discussion over it :)

As for the VDay Masquerade, I'm game for either day.

[chemistryinmotion]

The YJ cast has been running a covert operation keeping an eye on TR for the past few months, so this could be a mutually beneficial partnership for the two teams to trade notes and all that, but I think they'd rather stay allies than officially become part of the group just because they'll want to continue operating as a team with their own agenda (and they've got a few trust issues). I assume their ultimate goal is the same (taking down TR), so working together only makes sense, it'll just be kind of a weak alliance until the trust issues are solved.

Also, Wally specifically will be concerned that having too many moles inside TR will draw attention to Conner, and he will have serious issues about amateurs people potentially blowing Conner's cover. He just doesn't want his other bro (or anyone else for that matter) to end up beaten and broken on the doorstep of a Pokemon Center, and because this happened so recently to Robin, the stakes for being a mole will probably be much higher since TR is now aware that there could possibly be more spies in their ranks.

[autocratic]

Both Red Saber and Xion would have their reasons for wanting to join, or are at least interested, in joining the Anti-Rocket group. Specifically for Red Saber because she does not like their sort (and as an emperor, looks after the citizenry), and Merlin sort of asked. Xion has past experience with encountering the Rockets, so... Payback! Well, that is, if Lightning, Ven, or Fang even let her at this time. But she will try!

Ohhhhh, Red Saber would like the idea of this masquerade. It's like a play, but no. Maybe she'll have heard about it.

[combat_butler]

Ahaha oh geez all this stuff. WE NEED SOME KIND OF MASS PLOTTING POST for valentine's antics in general with all this.

Also if someone asked him Hayate would probably help with the Anti-TR group since he's already delved into that a little by saving some friends way back, but he'd be more on the 'not-actively-seek-them-out' side of things.

Aoto on the other hand would be all over it if someone invited him, but I he doesn't know anyone who could tell him about it yet.

[relentless_sentinel]

Nephenee would love to be part of the anti-Rocket group...someone should approach her about it since she's about to run into them ICly I assume (Azalea town and all)?

I am game for anything on VDay Ball times :)

[dragonspeak]

Wow, I fail, I kept typing her name as Marion, but it's Marona x__x

[dragonspeak]

It's okay, don't need to apologise! We all got hit pretty hard with ooc stuff, I think

Anyway, Heiji's definitely welcome to join, since he volunteered for the raid. I'll add him onto the list now!

[dragonspeak]

Yeah, I'm thinking it'll take a bit for the potential spies to trust Merlin and the group, so that's fine! Like I said to Hughes-mun, Marona helped Merlin last time, and has agreed to work him already. Maybe we could figure out a sub-plot involving the potential moles? This way, more CR! And also, this would help us figure out how they even came to contact each other, and also get the trust building more quickly.


For Yuuji...does he know anyone from the volunteers?