Breeding Centre/Foster Home UPDATES

[ex_cashcow493]

( my gif-fu isn't nearly as cool as my predecessor's... )

Hello Route, I'm Kattu and it's time to get down to business to defeat the Rockets!! The Breeding Centre has been left in the care of Saber and while she's eager to keep the awesome going, there's been a lot of changes that need to be worked out. So I'll just summarize everything with bullet points and hope I cover it all!

    ☐ There is now a community for all Breeding Centre and Foster Home related things: breedingcentre. Please update your links and take a look. Subscription is unnecessary as all updates with new eggs will be posted to pokedaycare or route_006.

    ☐ The Points System has been renovated a little: some prices have been adjusted and it'll be Saber baking cookies instead of Souji I'm sorry in advance, plus I've updated it for all purchases made. Characters that are dropped will be removed from the list and their points reset. You can see your current point tally here. If I'm wrong, please don't hesitate to let me know.

    ☐ The Foster Home is still a work in progress, but there's a new post with an included form to drop off any Pokemon you want to remain in their care and not in the wild. I'm currently updating the post to include everything, but you're free to put in your current Pokemon under the appropriate threads.

    ☐ Eggs! The post is outdated, so every egg listed there is now limited. Once they're out, they may be out for good. I'm currently working with Ichi to figure out what Pokemon are remaining to breed. More importantly, if you end up with extra eggs and you'd like to donate (or have the Centre sell them for you), there's a post for that too! For the time being, I'm going to lift the restriction on the Newbie Deal just to clear out this post as quick as possible. So please ignore the asterisks and pick a free Pokemon up if you haven't yet!

    ☐ Employees! I have no idea who is actually still working or living at either branch. I have created a directory for employees here, as well as housing information here. It's important that if you're still interested in working here to please let me know as soon as you can. Are you interested in working for either branches of the Breeding Centre? Please let me know as well. It doesn't matter if you're new or not (although new players will be asked to stay in Goldenrod City instead of traveling to Kanto due to costs), Saber is willing to welcome anyone so long as she can see them as trust worthy. That means no Ryuunosuke.

    ☐ Housing! Due to the low amount of employees working in Goldenrod City (none by my count right now), the huge house there is EMPTY!! Saber will be looking to turn it into a boarding house for those who want to live in Goldenrod City. Any interested parties should let me know through this post. There will be a fee for those who aren't working (of course), but Saber's willing to work with ladies and children. Stupid chivalric code! PGC members who are interested in keeping an eye in Goldenrod City might also be interested in this (;

As always, if I've missed something or you need to get in touch with me personally, private message this account or toss me a ping at Plurk on aozaki!

Comments

[islandshore]

Since the Foster Home is only available in Goldenrod, I'd be cool with Riku maybe opening the Training Center as a second drop off site. That's really your call, though-- just thought I'd offer it up, since he's been using the TC to house some dropped Pokémon already.

Also, thanks for the updates! There are some Pokémon I've wanted to put up for adoption for quite some time, so I'll go ahead and toss them up.

[ex_cashcow493]

That would be well appreciated. How does he feel about taking care of the herd of Shinx that Saber adopted... :P

That's a joke. Really.

I also wouldn't be opposed to doing more with the two. I know I mentioned mingle logs before, but there were a few events that kept me from getting those up. Hopefully we'll be able to squeeze them in more regularly once there's enough employees/drive for them.

Thanks for filling up the post so quickly too :D Hopefully I'll get a neat chart of them up for everyone to see soon enough as well!

[islandshore]

Excellent. B] The TC has some nice habitats for Pokémon to hang around in, and Riku wouldn't mind letting them battle if that's their thing-- the TC could always use more representation and all.

He'd also be willing to let some of his monsters breed potentially, though he does like to make money off of his ridiculous egg moves. I just think it'd be fun to do more with the TC & BC partnership and all. :)

And no problem! I may add a few more of Sonic's later. I just need to study first.

[pinnedbangs]

Question! I know I brought it up once before ages and ages ago but what if Rin did the cooking around the Kanto breeding center and in the house as well? Maybe he can take up the task of cookie baking, if that's alright?

Also, advertising. Is it possible for the Breeding Center to have a commercial on the Radio?

[ex_cashcow493]

Yes, that would be really good. The Kanto Breeding Centre is a single building (two story, but hey) so if he would like to do the cooking there, that's great.

... and yes, his help with the cookies would be appreciated.

I'm not sure if that's possible or not, but I can talk to a mod about it. Unless you meant over the PokeGear? In that case, poor Saber needs to hire a PR team because she is the Least Likely Candidate For Public Speaking unless there's a war involved OOPS.

[ex_cashcow493]

Oh another thing is that there are three rooms (I think) to the Kanto Breeding Centre. For some reason when I was typing it up, I put Lancer and Rin together. I don't mind if they were bunked separate though. Should I change to reflect this?

[pinnedbangs]

Awesome, thanks! He will make her all the meat and sweets she wants. His cookies will be an edible work-in-progress!

Sorry, I did mean over the Pokegear. ...Ah yeah, a PR team would be best in that case. xD Rin wouldn't be the best Why not treat the Radio announcement like military recruitment?

I don't mind that they share a room~. I don't think there needs to be a change. Perhaps I'm not completely understanding the question... Do you mean that someone might look at the page and assume Lancer and Rin were sharing a bed...?

[paladinlost]

The work you're putting into this is amazing~♥ Thanks a lot!

[ex_cashcow493]

Thank you! If there are any suggestions or stuff you'd like to see (or anyone really), please just let me know. I'm trying to really branch this out as much as I can. It used to be a home for so many players, so I'd like to try to revive that.

[paladinlost]

Weeell, maybe the Centre could offer some sort of breeding meetups? Where breeders (and trainers/rockets who like eggs) could meet and exchange tips, and maybe decide to breed some of their Pokémon together for movesets/rarer species/awesome? It'd be a good way to generate CR and a way of getting people to physically visit the Centres, which might convince a few to stay and work there.

[usedlaserbeam]

Okay, so being that there has always been a longstanding tradition of togetherness between the Breeding Center and the Tennis Haus — and the fact that Yagyuu is a breeder himself whose roster has reached critical mass — I just want to put out there that I would be happy to contribute his roster to the available breeding pool and/or have him breed on contract, as you prefer!

He could also theoretically help keep an eye on the BC house in Goldenrod considering he, y'know, lives next door and their backyards are basically interconnected, but tl;dr, I would be happy to pitch in and get some rapport going between these two on a breeding front, for the sake of the longstanding tradition of excellence between their two houses alike in dignity, etc etc.

[ex_cashcow493]

Between Saber's roster and Yagyuu's roster, a lot of beautiful things could be born. I'm always game for that sort of thing, so it might be nice to do something for the new year. I'll let you know as soooooon as I figure out the current roster for the Foster Home (and which ones can be used for breeding), as well as tally up any extras we have over.

Keeping an eye on the house would be appreciated too. I have Saber traveling between both every few weeks, so if we could backdate something or handwave to where she might have asked him sometime this week? I have her returning to Kanto due to two castmate drops, but she wouldn't have left the house there alone unless someone was keeping an eye on it. If you would? :)

[usedlaserbeam]

There are a handful that he'd call off-limits, breeding-wise, but for the most part his roster is fully open — and I know he inherited whatever Eevees/Eeveelutions of Souji's that didn't get claimed, so those will still be on the table, too, of course. Happy to be of service!

And sure, we can definitely handwave that — how about if I hit Saber's new post and have Yagyuu say something to the effect of "the house is fine, I'm keeping tabs on it as you asked" and they can establish a further rapport ICly from there?

[soggypastry]

Nothing to add, but just wanted to say thanks for the idea of using the Breeding Centre (Boarding Centre? xD) as room and board for PGC in the area. x3 that will most definitely come in handy at some point, I'm sure.

[ex_cashcow493]

Indeed. I thought it would after reading the friends list and seeing some interesting stuff come up. Saber would be happy to have people listed as employees/volunteers there just to keep the guise up.

[grapecape]

-ooh. This situation actually matches up with something I'd been thinking of having Ondorus do in the future. Namely, maintaining...well, a boarding house/area that would also serve as a safehouse for PGC stuff. Whatta coincidence.

That said, can I get him in on this operation? He has (a lot of) experience with being a caretaker sort of person, and at this point would ICly actively go after an opportunity to get back into work he knows how to do and likes doing. Taking care of homeless monsters/traveling anyones/whoever needs a place to stay eeeee <3.

[ex_cashcow493]

That would be excellent really. I hadn't heard of anyone wanting to do anything of that nature, so if he wants to hop in and help out with this, it would be really great. Saber's been left a huge house and as far as I know, no one is in it other than her and the Pokemon.

But yes, I'm all for this! We haven't had them meet yet in game, but I'm wondering if he knew anyone that was here before? Souji? If not, they can meet somehow through the PGC if he's a member of it.

[autocratic]

Offering up another Saber here to join her twin in the work!

[ex_cashcow493]

Yes, this would be good. Did you want her to do her business-related stuff there too? I could give you access to the community if you wanted to put posts there or I could just make an additional post for other services to include links to your own posts? :D

[combat_butler]

Hayate is like THE ANTI BREEDER but while he's lurking in Goldenrod he could maybe help with the housing upkeep? I'll have to ping his current housemates to see if they'd be interested in moving in there, since he rented a big house but only three of them are left now... Still, having a butler in the place wouldn't hurt the appeal of staying there I'm sure.

[ex_cashcow493]

That would be great. Mentioned earlier was making some kind of PR/marketing team. If Hayate would like to be a butler there, the others could possibly work on promotion there? :D That way they wouldn't have to stick to the responsibilities of other workers, yes?

It'd be a good place if temporary during the winter. Saber's not fond of people traveling in the cold, so if the lot of you folks would like to stay there, it's fine by me <3

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

If Saber's interested in trying to get a new stock going, Apollo has some eggs available here. She just needs to convince him that they'll be well-cared for.

And for the future, he does have a few less-common Pokémon kicking around. Zangoose and Deerling couldn't be ICly bred this time around, but eggs from those will be available eventually. His Fearow, Golurk, and Solrock can be bred if someone has a Ditto and I can figure out how to get him to a meet-up. Sadly, I don't see him ICly being involved with the Breeding Center, but I can at least OOCly offer eggs.

[ex_cashcow493]

That would be great. I'd love to set it up so that players who end up with extra eggs can trade them in possibly for other eggs or for money or just so someone else can sell them for them. I'll hit up that post after a while (since you just posted it, would love to wait to get others who are interested in taking them), but I can easily have her reply to any IC discussions about it.

[the_whitequeen]

If Saber needs employees, Lacus wouldn't mind settling down to help a friend. :)

[ex_cashcow493]

It's totally up to you :D If you want her to hang out there and earn some money on the side, that's fine. It can even be temporary work (since winter makes it hard to travel, etc)