Autumn Appeals Contest

[Admiral Striker General]

[OOC: On behalf of Adrian Bane, some of her staff team (read: some actual board staff :B) will be judging these contests.

Please post appeals for the Autumn Contest here. Participants must be of Water, Dark, Ghost, Flying, or PLAIN Normal types. (Read: not Deerling, Girafarig, etc.)

Please try to limit appeals to four or five moves. Appeals should be fully RP'd in somewhat glittery detail (but don't make it painful; purple prose should always be handled with great care if it's used at all). If you aren't sure what you're supposed to be doing, please look into anime contest appeals rounds; it's putting on a little show with Pokemon moves used by a single Pokemon for a crowd.

This and the Winter Appeals will run simultaneously, but in-RP they are held on two separate days-- we'll say "Sat, Dec 17" for fall and "Sat, Dec 31" for winter. OOC, they'll start when this is posted and run through Jan 31. Starting in February, the top four contestants from each contest will compete in the Fall VS Winter Contest, which IC will be held on "Sat, Jan 14".

For Fall:

Entry Prize: 1 Token (per character entered)

Fourth Prize: 1 Token + $100 + Move on to FvW Contest

Third Prize: 5 Tokens + $500 + Move on to FvW

Second Prize: 7 Tokens + $1000 + Move on to FvW

First Prize: 10 Tokens + $1500 + Move on to FvW


You may enter once per character with as many characters as you want, but for mysterious reasons that may or may not make logical sense IC (:B), only one of your characters will win more than an entry prize... unless this completely flops and less than four total players enter. x3;; Heh.

(If someone's really good, their characters might 'win', and it'll be posted in order for bragging rights, but prizes will be bumped to the runners up until four separate people have won, and all but one character belonging to a single member will mysteriously not be able to make the FvW contest. x3 Also, if you do technically "earn" more than one prize slot, you can choose which prize to take. Most would obviously choose the highest one, but if the character you most wanted to win got a lower amount than a char you weren't as excited about, we won't force one over the other. If that made sense to anyone.)

You CAN win in BOTH the Fall and Winter contest, and one character CAN progress from EACH. (If the SAME character of a single player progresses from both, his or her progression slot from one will be given to a runner-up. If the character wins different places in each contest (ex: third in Fall and first in Winter), the progression slot will be given to someone in the contest he or she did worse in (in this example, Fall, since third is lower than first); if the character wins the same place (ex: second place in both contests), a coin will be flipped.

:B Good luck.

PLEASE POST APPEALS IN THIS THREAD~]

[Rarity]

Riku, dressed in a somewhat revealing though elegant purple dress, black strapped heels, and a black fedora hat with a purple ribbon, stepped onto the stage. The lady didn't mind going first, not one bit. She had a newly-hatched Pokemon she wanted to try this contest with, and she would gladly set the bar for the following contenders.

To begin, Riku tossed the ball high into the air, where it popped open and released an interesting hybrid Pokemon. It was a Rotomask, a hybrid of Rotom and Yamask, that now looked around somewhat nervously at the crowd. She hadn't expected to be put out into the world so soon, but she didn't appear to mind once she realized where she was. "Romaaa~" she said loudly, proclaiming that she was happy to be there.

With a sly smirk, Riku spoke the first order: "Charge."

The Rotomask happily obliged, curling her arms in and closing her eyes as she began to glow a brighter blue than her usual aura. Said aura grew to be nearly a foot outward from the Pokemon when the attack was done.

"Now use Discharge." Riku looked expectantly up at the Ghost-type.

Rotomask suddenly opened her eyes. "Rooooooootooo!" she cried out as the blue surrounding her body surged outward, crackling brightly as it exploded. She decided to follow up without waiting for her next orders, choosing to use Rain Dance to make the electricity in the air crackle even more as it fizzled out. She looked to her trainer once more.

Though her Pokemon had somewhat ruined the plan she had made up, Riku decided she had to roll with it. "Shadow Ball and Round."

The ghost seemed to get what Riku was getting at, and she threw three small, weak Shadow Balls up into the air. She began to juggle them with small bursts of electricity from her aura as she started to sing. It was basically glorified humming, but with the electricity still fizzling out around her and the dark shadows she was tossing around, the effect wasn't bad. This was her first contest, after all.

[VEGETA]

Next up on the stage was Tyson who disguised himself in what he called a Dark Saboteur outfit. It came complete with a mask to hide his eyes and a black cape that when with his black suit. To most the knew him it would be hard to tell who he was so he entered the stage and tossed a pokeball into the air which sent out his Shiny Frillish who sparkled in the light of the stage and floated in front of the audience.

Tyson who choose not to speak at the moment simply snapped his fingers once and Frillish began to use a very slow but large bubble attack which resulted in bubbles as large as he was and they floated around him in a circle like native americans around a fire. Tyson then snapped his other finger and once again Frillish began to spin but this time sent a low power Ice Beam towards each one of the bubbles which froze them in place and they began to drop towards the ground and it looked like they were going to smash into bits when all of a sudden they began to glow blue and floated in the air around Frillish due to it using Psychic on them and they began to spin while moving around the Ghost Octopus with a sort of dancing routine. Tyson then clapped his hands together and Frillish then generated a Flash attack which caused the frozen bubbles to shine brightly with the 7 colors of the rainbow.

To finish it all off Tyson then waved his hands and Frillish gathered a Will-o-Wisp in his hands and shot it so it split and hit each one of the bubbles causing them to break and rain down in a bright display of Red and Blue sparks that filled the stage with their beautiful colors. Frillish then floated down to Tyson and they both bowed before exiting the stage to allow someone else a turn.

[Jay]

Stormy watched each performance with a careful eye. Though her mother was a bit leery about letting the young woman go out this far away from home, Stormy had pressed to come to the Winter Festival, and finally after a considerable amount of complaining on her part, she had been allowed to go. Upon coming to the Desert Palace, she had quickly signed up for the contest thinking it would be a fun new experience. Though coming up with a routine wasn't something she normally did, Stormy had come up with something, at least. Now as it seemed it was her turn to go, the blue haired young woman walked onto the stage and quickly released her Swampert.

"Tsunami let's go!" she called. "Use Whirlpool" she called. The Swampert raised up her hands and slowly made a spinning motion that grew larger and larger still into the water move. However, before she finished it, Tsunami suddenly threw it upwards into the air causing the water to shimmer in the air for a brief moment. Perfect Stormy grinned to herself. "Now use Ice Beam followed by Hammer Arm!" Arin called. Tsunami didn't need to be told twice and released the Ice attack straight from her mouth. The Whirlpool was instantly frozen forming a large twister of ice, the water having been frozen in mid motion and giving the entire thing a sort of top-like feel, that quickly descended downwards. Just before it hit the ground, the Swampert clenched her arm into a fist and made to smash the ice straight upwards. Hitting the base of the ice and breaking through it, Tsunami caused the ice to shatter into multiple shards and reflect the light around her as the ice crystals. Adding her own taste to the move, the Swampert suddenly released a Scald causing all the ice to melt once more into seemingly glittery water.

Stormy watched her Swampter's actions and grinned before jumping up and down a little. Though she had been surprised by Tsunami's extra move Stormy was pleased with it. "Great job Tsu! " Stormy cheered a moment before bowing rather quickly and returning her Swampert before getting off the stage. Well that hadn't gone too badly~!