Hi, everyone! This is George Washington Columbo, the very same man who managed Sweet Louie Johnson to the world heavyweight championship and became one of the most hyped and watched pay-per-view boxing matches of all time! All boxers wanna work for me, but I only represent the very best. If you can't draw the money, you're not worth my time baby! And I believe in only the best things money can buy. Which is why 14 lucky people have won my contest for an all-expenses paid vacation at my island resort in Sopal Isles. All the best money can buy while you enjoy the nice tropical atmosphere. Luxurious huts you can rest in. And make your way around the island, you can enjoy all the surfing and water-skiing you want. Have a nice meal at the bar-and-restaurant. Get some rays while you relax by the pool and even have all your worries massaged away at the spa. Everything here is top-notch. You can't ask for anything better. You're all too poor to enjoy it otherwise, so enjoy this nice vacation on me!

Much time has passed since the events between Shoehorn and Victoria. The old hotel is long demolished and in its place is the island resort, founded by famed boxing manage and upcoming real estate tycoon George Washington Columbo, a man obsessed with the excessive lifestyle money can bring. 14 lucky people have won a vacation to the resort, hoping for a little bit of rest and relaxation. But they're all about to walk into a vacation which will be anything but.

The island is inhabited by Dawn, the new leader of the Sharks after Shoehorn ended up leaving. She wants the island to preserve what Shoehorn tried to accomplish. And as such, has her three people wanting to kill GWC and anyone on the island to scare them off for good. And on top of this, two other people are here, too. Who both hate GWC's guts (naturally, considering his greedy, condescending personality) so much, they want him dead. And their own goals is to kill him and leave no witnesses.

And now once again’ it's survival on the island as the vacationers have to deal with two groups trying to kill each other as well as the innocent vacationers. Between the battle of threes, who will thrive? Will the vacationers make it out alive? Will GWC's enemies do away with the nasty billionaire? Will Dawn and her people get them all off the island?

This is…. Life's a Beach 2.

With your hosts

    George Washington Columbo (Matthew)
    Dawn (Dookie)

Exactly what it sounds like: A thread for discussing and sharing homebrew (fanmade) content for Dungeons & Dragons.

The first thing I want to discuss: Would "Conspiracy Theorist" make for a good background, or would it be more of a personality trait, and some other background should be used instead?

The Mushroom Kingdom. A massive land of seemingly endless adventure. While few of its citizens have answered the call to explore, a brave few have answered the call. Will you be the next?

This is a campaign for Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition, loosely based on the Super Mario Bros. franchise created by Nintendo, with a more high fantasy twist, with a few urban fantasy elements.

1. MadameButterflyKnife as Con Sensation
   
2. KungFuCutbug as Bombastian
   
3. GoldenCityBird as Goombjorg
   
4. Florien as Devon Ian Cycad
   
5. CustardAndPie as Princess Cherry
   

Discuss RPs you're interested in starting and see if anyone's interested in joining them.

Location: Birghan Peak
Date: 26th December, 2021


The helicopter you're in lands in a pretty flat area for someplace as high as Birghan Peak. It's been tough to get there in the first place, given that the altitude of the place inevitably has thin atmosphere, and the constant snow that envelops the peak.

Once the engine of the chopper turns off, all twelve of you exit it, rush to the main cabin of the place, and unpack, as the Project's lead shows up to you, introduces himself, and tells you all about The Aurora Project, all to make the ultimate telecommunications transmission hub.

But for three of you among the ones who came here...you've been assigned by an unknown party (well, unknown to the others, that is) to enact sabotage upon the Project...

Meet the Hosts!

   

Heeko Amekawa (Libre): He works for an as-of-now unknown company, who assigned him as the leader the Project. He primarily handles communications from the outside world, though, and as such he's invited twelve of you to help him with the heavy duty of construction and such. Of course, he's had a fair share of folks trying to overthrow, ruin, or overtake his Project, and so to deal with those meddlesome fools, he's enlisted the help of...

   

The Pianist (@Magolor): As her name suggests, she's the pianist of a jazz band. Hailing from the Void, she's the more calculating one of the group. Although she's just here to do a few errands, and help out, because the Singer urged her to...with a love for violence, expect her to be one of the few to not care about the death and blood. Which is real helpful when you can't just send away anyone that tries to fuck with your Project!

Hey, y'all wanna see some dead bodies?



This right here is Pokemon Inclement Emerald, a newer hack that takes the classic Pokemon Emerald experience and spruces it up with a bunch of new content! That means new places to explore, new ways to encounter Pokemon, tougher battles along the journey, and (as of the latest update, version 1.7.1) 809 Pokemon to catch and train! I've been playing around with it a bit, and it's a blast, so I decided to share it with y'all.

There is a catch, however.

I'm going to be nuzlocking this game. That means two big things, and I think anyone who's heard the word "nuzlocke" knows what the first one is.

1. When my Pokemon faint, they're dead, and I can never use them in battle again.
   
2. I can only catch the first Pokemon I encounter in a given area. If I fail to catch it, I've lost my encounter for the area. Additionally, if I've already caught a particular Pokemon, I can't catch any other instances of that Pokemon.
   

Chapter 1: First Steps

The game starts with the typical "welcome to the world of Pokemon" spiel from Professor Birch. Nothing much to note from the outset.


Damb, not even gonna phrase it as a matter of pronouns or style. I thought you were better than this, Birch.


I can't fit Caliburn within the seven-character limit here, so I'll be making do with the name Callie.


They added in this little section to give a basic summary of Inclement Emerald, which I already provided y'all with. I'll be skipping over that part.


Aha, here we go! This is where the other rules of my challenge come into play! I'm going to be playing on Challenge Mode, the hardest difficulty available to me! This means a few things:

1. I can't use items in battle. That means no healing and no stat-boosting.
   
2. Battle style is locked to Set Mode. That means that, when I take out an opposing trainer's Pokemon, I won't get a free switch to another of my own mons.
   
3. Enemy trainers will have stronger teams. Pretty self-explanatory.
   

Call me sadistic, but yeah, I'd say that sounds appealing to me. Now, let the adventure begin!


...Hey so I know everyone and their mom has joked about this but why am I in the back of a moving van


No seriously mom why did I have to ride with all the boxes and junk, what's up with that


Oh cool we have giant sloths unpacking our shit


I go upstairs to set the clock, and when I come back down, dad's on TV! But I miss it, alas. You know, I just noticed that there's this ten-second music loop that plays during this scene that doesn't seem to come up anywhere else in the game. What's up with that?


Now I gotta visit my next-door neighbor, Brendan.


Honestly, dude, I dunno what I am. All I can tell you is that I'm not a guy.


Depending on how I answer this question, the starters I can pick from will change. You'll see what region I went with in a sec, don't worry.


After all that, I can finally save this grown-ass man from a small raccoon and claim my first Pokemon in the process! And that Pokemon shall be...


...the worst one I could've possibly picked!
Actually, not quite. While Chikorita's notorious as being the worst starter Pokemon, Inclement Emerald has given most Pokemon some minor buffs that make even the worst ones worth using! As such, Chikorita's got some tricks up its sleeve that I'd like to try out.


The fight with the Zigzagoon was so short that it wasn't worth screenshotting.


Aplomb. I love that word. Wish the remakes kept it in, but unfortunately, they retranslated some of the dialogue, and we lost aplomb in the process. For shame.


Unfortunately, my game crashed and I had to completely redo that opening portion, but whatever! I'm just as fine off with Narcissus as I was with my original Chikorita. The nature could use some work, though. (A red stat means it's boosted, while a blue stat means it's weaker; Chikorita is a bulky special attacker, so this is really lackluster.)


I make my way up to Oldale Town, and here we see a pretty interesting change: Poke Marts now hold equippable items for battle, rather than Poke Balls and healing items. Those are instead sold within Pokemon Centers. Speaking of which...


Another cool addition this game has is the Poke Vial! It's like a one-use Pokemon Center that you can use whenever you want!


Narcissus got a level-up on my way to meet (and fight) Brendan on Route 103. Didn't realize Chikorita got Poison Powder this early. That's gonna be fun to play around with.


Brendan still only uses one of the Hoenn starters, regardless of what region you picked your starter from. Time to stall his Torchic out and hope it doesn't know Ember yet!


Well, that wasn't too bad. Now it's back to the lab again so I can grab some Poke Balls and really get this nuzlocke started!


Oh okay thanks Brendan that's actually really kickass


Since this hack lets you run from the get-go, mom gives you the Old Rod instead of the Running Shoes. This'll be very useful for when I want to catch a Magikarp (unironically).


My first encounter on the first route is... a Zigzagoon. Dammit, I could've gotten a Zorua...


Well, at least he's got Pickup! Now I can farm items to my heart's content, just as long as I don't get Ratatosk killed while doing so.


My encounter for Route 103 is a Shinx! Bit of a shame that he came with Rivalry rather than Intimidate (Intimidate lets me start off a battle with an Attack debuff on the opponent, whereas Rivalry... doesn't), but still, I appreciate whatever early-game Electric-types I can come across.

My encounter for Route 102 is a

son of a BITCH


...Actually, with that nature and that ability, I can't be mad forever. I mean, sure, I would've preferred a Ralts or a Lotad, but Bidoof can be fun to use too.
Also, I haven't said this outright yet, but I have a mythology-based naming scheme going on with my Pokemon. Narcissus is an obvious one, but Ratatosk is the messenger squirrel who traversed Yggdrasil in Norse mythology, and Indra is a Vedic deity of storms. As for Doober?

He's Doober.

With that, I think I'll call it a wrap for this installment of my journey through Hoenn. It wasn't terribly eventful, but it was a start. Maybe there'll be some bloodshed in the next chapter! I mean, I hope not, but who knows?