Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-24304510-20140416200630

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Upon entering the Celadon City Pokémon Center, one is greeted by the familiar, government-standard setup, though it is nearly unrecognizable in its current state. The floors, once pristine, have become tarnished with a week's worth of dirt and grime from feet returning from the battlefield. Almost all of the lobby's electronics have been disabled to conserve power, as the monitor behind the reception desk and the line of videophones along the right-hand wall stand silent and dark.

A number of tables adorn the room, though the cushions that usually surrounded them have been removed for bedding. The few bookshelves that haven't been broken up for firewood have only a meager selection of Pokémon reference books, and the PCs that used to have lines of Trainers waiting to use them sit abandoned on the back wall. An escalator, motionless, leads upwards to the rooms and shower facilities. A door to the right leads to the Rec Room, and one to the left heads out to the Garage. A large double door near the counter leads back into the ICU and medical facilities, but most Trainers have been prohibited from entering that area since the attacks broke out.

Nurse Joy can usually be found sitting behind the reception desk, when she is not taking care of injured Pokémon or people.

''Welcome to this outside-of-mission discussion thread. More may be made in the future and any suggestions are welcome. As you will have guessed, this is where general discussion of the game’s situation takes place. There is a range of things that you can do of which reflecting on missions is just the start of it. Our main tip is to just act in character, like you would in any mission thread. The only real difference is that there is no immediate danger to worry about.

''The Pokémon Center is a place for players to communicate with each other, in character. You are restricted in what you do here only by your characters. Your characters actions here will impact on how your player is viewed by NPCs in the game world.

''Whenever you see a post like this, with information being posted by this account in italics, it is Out-Of-Character information. Most frequently, you'll see this being used in GM posts made by Electric Spark, to announce certain events, such as the missions being put up. As players, you may use this to give instructions to people posting in threads you've made, such as when you've made a thread to advertise your services in some skill (for example, making Pokéballs out of Apricorns). Try to not use it too often however.

''Whenever information is being posted in normal text, it is something that is actually happening in the game. This could be practically anything, from an announcement over the loudspeaker of the Center, to an action by an NPC. Your actions here could potentially spur off side-quests for yourself and other players, or impact on relations with the NPC's. If you *do* get a side-quest, it will be moved to the Missions forum, and a post made by this account in the old thread before the split-off will direct you to it.

''When moving your character to separate areas of the Pokémon Center, please make it clear that you are doing so, whether in-character or out-of-character. When a shift in timeline occurs (for instance, when a mission starts or ends), I will create a short post in every area, letting all players know of the current time.

''You can post here even if you are currently engaged in a mission. The only thing we ask is to not say anything about what happens during it until after completion. (Otherwise you could end up saying something that doesn’t fit the situation by the time your character would get back to the Pokémon Center.) Of course, you can post your immediate reactions in the mission thread so that shouldn’t be a problem.

''As a rule of thumb, all posts in this thread fit into the timeline as happening between mission registration and their accompanying mission rounds OR between a mission round and the subsequent mission. If we have a situation where players are left in the Pokémon Center following the start of a mission round, and they wish to RP, that RP can be posted this thread for that round, or a private RP thread. When there are multiple missions ongoing, and a mission finishes, the timeframe of the thread will be changed to after the finish of that mission, but before the completion of the next one. I will periodically post in this thread to let players know when the timeframe of this thread changes. I will generally give you a couple of days to finish your current RP after the end of a mission round. 