🍀 PURITY FOREST SUMMARY 🍀


At the behest of the Expedition Society, led by Winifred, the GSCF embarked on a mission into Purity Forest! Upon entering, the guild members faced traps, wild encounters, and about everything anyone might expect. They met a Friendly Arcanine, a Pair of Merchants, Hidden Passages, Lots of Locals, Secret Doors, the Occasional Bandit - all standard fare for a Mystery Dungeon.


What wasn’t expected, however, was a Raging Salamence on the final floor. Seething with rage and absolute terror, she appeared entirely out of control and sought to tear through the entire floor. Luckily, she seemed to finally calm down after the GSCF managed to successfully get her to the final floor where the Guardian of Purity Forest, Celebi, was able to help purify whatever had afflicted her. [ 🔓 Majority Ending | Most players took this route! ]


Winnifred and the Expedition Society were impressed with the work of the GSCF and have Allied with you! You’ve still no answer to what caused Salamence to go berserk like she did but you know the forest’s purifying qualities seem to have helped snap her out of her destructive rage. Upon questioning, you’ve discerned that she had been to the Spiral Archipelago and that her state may be connected with the happenings there... [ 🔓 ]


But, oh…? That’s not the end of it!

After everyone came back with their information and the guild began to mull over what to do next, a voice chimed out. Soothing, yet peppy, it’s the voice of the guardian of Purity Forest, familiar to many who ventured through her forest! A brilliant glow illuminated the room and the silhouette of a Pokémon appeared. A pink, fairy-like person. She seems happy to see you all!

"Greetings, explorers! To see you all conquer Purity Forest -- it makes me happy! It was so great to have visitors again!" She bowed to everyone, "My name is Haruki. After my dear Grovyle passed, I spent years travelling through time. But the forest felt so different here and, seeing all that’s happened, I’ve come to stop now in this time."


The antennae atop her head twitched slightly as she glanced around. "It goes without saying, but something is amiss. I know not what the trouble is, but the sinister force taking hold of Pokemon is not natural." 


She gave a smile, "The adventurous exploits of the GCSF and Expedition Society are immeasurable! I would be honored to be an ally to your foundations. Let us hope this storm passes without trouble."


[ 🔓 Allied Guardian Ending | The GSCF collectively impressed the Guardian of Purity Forest with their skill, compassion, and perseverance within the dungeon and she has Allied with the guild. Moving forward, Haruki the Celebi has promised to lend aid to the GSCF in stopping whatever has been driving Pokemon mad! She’s no regular Celebi and is, in fact, a Pokemon of legend - the Guardian of Purity Forest is on our side! ]


What Next?

Between Kaimana’s radio silence and the out-of-control Salamence’s recent visit to the Spiral Archipelago where Kaimana was headed, plus the unnaturally raging storms occurring there, it’s safe to say that something strange is brewing there.

For now, the guild is encouraging you to go check it out, see if you can find any clues…

Just be careful, we don’t know what’s happening out there.




🍃 Everything past this is just-for-fun bonus & behind-the-scenes information for those interested in more in-depth info from the Purity Forest event! You don’t have to read any of it to get any critical knowledge! 🍃


EVENT RECORDS

OVERALL RECORDS

A WHOPPING 37 PLAYERS ACROSS 20 ROOMS TOTAL FINISHED THIS EVENT!

11 Players ran SOLO

5 groups of TWO

4 groups of FOUR

⭐ Event Roll Average | 11

⭐ The average number of Turns To Complete the Dungeon was 18! [ One turn is each post a player makes! ]

⭐ Players wrote a total of 94,732 words over the course of the event for an average of 2,560 (including outliers; without outliers, the average word count comes out to 2,110)!!

[ This includes any post-finish line text players wrote after reaching the tenth floor but does not include all that was written by the DM in rooms! ]


⭐ About a Fourth of the characters running the dungeon were PACIFISTS!

[ Players who never took an offensive action/attack in the dungeon! Using non-damaging items like Stun Seeds or moves like Hypnosis with the goal of getting away or peacefully subduing an opponent do not count to break a pacifist streak! ]


⭐ No Players were TRAITORS!

[ This includes players who incurred the traitor penalty by taking an action that knowingly/purposefully betrays or harms their party! Things like choosing to attack or sabotage a party member  or choosing to hide found treasure without telling your party in order to keep it to yourself would trigger this! ]

PLAYER RECORDS

⭐ Most 20's Rolled | SolarSnivy

⭐ Most 1's Rolled | CrystallizedPastel

⭐ Longest Word Count | Emi-XStitch


⭐ Cutting it close! | JustJoinedForThis, StarDCat, Honuzer42, CrystallizedPastel, skelephobe

[ Finish your run on 1 HP! ]


BEHIND-THE-SCENES OUTLINE

> Click here to view the [ redacted ] Event Outline going into the event!

This is the REDACTED™ (Any story spoilers have been totally nuked out) version of the full outline that I’d had going into this event!!!


EVENT NOTES!

*You can see the original event pitch doc was much more rigid in format - die rolls were the full determinant for results at every turn! BUT, as the event started, I ended up scrapping a lot of what I had here!

This was both because I found that die rolls alone made text matter a lot less so I adjusted rooms and results from their standard beta versions on the fly to switch to full custom text format for every room and turn that would take the player’s text choices as the main factor for results in every room with dice rolls being supplementary and less punishing because I felt it was unfair in some situations if the text was extremely creative/innovative and had good solutions to a problem but the die was just low


*I also lessened a lot of the buffs I gave NPC’s because holy smokes


*You can also see that a lot of the end is missing/not as detailed as the beginning rooms tight formulas/copy pastes - I was working on this bastard up to the start of the event and it was quickly apparent in the first few days that that almost every room would be taking its own unique path and there was no way I could keep up with fully pre-predicting every action of all players and that’s when I started taking the more loose, non-formulaic approach and stopped fleshing out strict options on the outline!


NPCs

🐕 GILGAMESH

Species | Arcanine

Pronouns | They/Them


Gentle | Often dozes off


Favored Item(s) | Thoughtful gifts [ Dependant on player description & reasoning ]

Disliked Item(s) | None!


Default Disposition | Friendly

Hostile Conditions | Take a traitorous or violent action; attack Tiamat without trying to negotiate. They will prefer to Flee over fighting but will step up and attempt to block or stop the player from harming other Neutral or Friendly Players/NPC’s.


Behaviors | Can be found asleep on the Sunny Floor! The player can try to interact with them there, try to get around them to continue past, or avoid them guaranteed by taking the alternate Shady Path.

✧ Will wake if the player chooses to rouse them; may accidentally lash out with a sun-boosted Ember (chance to burn) depending on the method of approach/rolls doing so

✧ Will take hits for the player and engage Hostile NPCs in the area for any player or other Friendly/Neutral NPC that has an Unfriendly or better relationship with them. They will defend even people they don’t like as they’re not pushed to full-on hostility.

✧ More likely to try to Flee if attacked by the player than Fight if they’re the only target

[ i.e. the player isn’t threatening any other NPCs in the area ]

✧ Likely to Follow the player if asked to do so as long as their relationship is Neutral or Above. Reduces Trap and Encounter odds to Zero while on the Sunny Floor. Slightly reduces Trap and Encounter Odds on other floors.

✧ Knows Shortcuts through the dungeon and can lead the player down them


🔓 Majority Ending | Most players made a good impression on Gil; they are very friendly toward the GSCF and grateful for what they’ve done to help with Tiamat.


✦ Most people took the Treasure Offer from Gil, the second most accepted offer was the one that had Gil take them to their Friend [ Tiamat ]

✦ Gil was knocked out in Once. [ By Tiamat in defense of players ]


🔓 Compilation of Discovered Info |

✧ Their full name is Gilgamesh but they usually like to call themself Gil!

✧ They live in the dungeon 

✧ They are Best Friends with Tiamat! Their nickname for her is Tia.

✧ They went to the Spiral Archipelago around August with Tiamat. They expressed they had a fun time there; they expressed they didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary and have been there a few times before with her. They mainly played in the sand and surf by the beach while out!

✧ They started getting Nightmares after their trip. This is unusual for them; normally they sleep very well!


🐉 TIAMAT

Species | Salamence

Pronouns | She/Her


Adamant | Sturdy body


Default Disposition | Hostile

Friendly Conditions | She will actively attempt to check herself and resist attacking the player. This becomes harder for her if the player is actively attacking her or tries to Flee in front of her eyes but becomes easier if the player attempts to Reason.


Behaviors | Can be found on the Final Floor. There is a Small Chance that she will Sneak Attack the player as they enter the room. If Gil is with the player(s), they can attempt to block this hit. Players cannot be Knocked Out by a sneak attack; leave them at 1 HP if they would’ve fainted so they don’t get super cheesed out and lose their run like That


🔓 Majority Ending | Most players chose to Bring Tiamat to the Final Floor through negotiation [ Most ], subduing her in combat, or having her chase them through [ Least ]. She is Very Friendly toward the GSCF and feels indebted to them for their help.


✦ 3 rooms Escaped Tiamat, leaving her on the 9th Floor and escaping to the 10th alone

✦ No rooms knocked Tiamat out AND chose to leave her there

✦ Boss resists most status conditions and can fight through more damage than she should. Additionally, her moves seem to ignore resistances in opponents and have an noticeably unnatural quality to them upon hitting.


✧ She mentioned the two travelled across Mist Continent from the Water Continent, then across the Sea of Division to Portsmouth. They stayed by the sea and spent most of their time in the sand and in the water.

She claims it's not unusual for them to take trips together and nothing of note happened while they were out

✧ Players observed she had displayed jerky movements and dark, glazed eyes. She claimed she felt Scared, Angry, and Confused in her rampage.

✧ Many players additionally noticed themselves feeling negative emotions and memories bubbling up in the final room. Only players who were attacked by Tiamat had a chance of feeling this.




✦ Tex

Species | Kecleon (Purple)

Pronouns | They/Them

Rash | Very finicky


Favored Item(s) | Expensive or Rare items; MONEY; Favored food is Rawst Berries

Disliked Item(s) | Cheap, Practical items [ Berries, apples, etc. - they like Expensive practical items like Reviver Seeds ]

Inventory (generated per run) | 1d6+3 x Reviver Seeds; 3 random orbs; 3 random berries


Default Disposition | Neutral

Friendly Conditions | Buying something from them will make them more inclined to like the player; they naturally lean friendly regardless however

Hostile Conditions | Attack them or attempt to Steal


Behaviors | Can be found setting up shop in a clearing!

✧ May give the player a Quest to Locate their sibling! [ Quest given 4 times! ]

✧ They can be turned against Hostile NPC’s and will Seek Out attacking Thieves. They knocked out Nidoking and Nidoqueen Once due to the player characters tattling on the thieves and helped the player with Tiamat once due to the player characters calling them

✧ Will chase the player through floors and use strategy; will attempt to seal thieves’ items every floor


Items sold: 

Pokemon Tokens [ Type, choice, & gen ]

Illegal Move tokens

Keys

Rare Candies

Potions [ Random, specific, & choice ]

Loaded Die (gives a nat 20 result for a room when used) [ Rare ]

Wishing Star [ Extremely Rare; reroll option if the player already has one and can’t use this ]

Golden Key [ Extremely Rare; unlocks secret special room | not found in event ]

✦ Dakota

Species | Kecleon (Green / Normal)

Pronouns | They/Them

Quirky | Alert to sounds


Favored Item(s) | Expensive or Rare items; MONEY; Favored food is Pecha Berries

Disliked Item(s) | Cheap, Practical items [ Berries, apples, etc. - they like Expensive practical items like Reviver Seeds ]

Inventory (generated per run) | 1d6+3 x Reviver Seeds; 3 random orbs; 3 random berries


Default Disposition | Neutral

Friendly Conditions | Buying something from them will make them more inclined to like the player; they naturally lean friendly regardless however

Hostile Conditions | Attack them or attempt to Steal


Behaviors | Can be found setting up shop in a clearing (rare) OR down in the tunnels (more likely). Less aggressive than their sibling, Dakota isn’t as pushy or sometimes rude.

✧ They can be turned against Hostile NPC’s and will Seek Out attacking Thieves. They knocked out Nidoking and Nidoqueen once by their own choice/find.

✧ Can be found as a Quest from Tex. They can be…

1) Fighting Nidoking/Queen (in the process/tracking them/OR having already defeated them. They can extremely rarely be found having been defeated or in trouble with the two. [Dependant])


2) In conflict with Tiamat (again; at any stage of the conflict. Can be found on either the 7th or 9th floor; much more likely to have been defeated by Tiamat than the nidos)


3) In conflict with Either Ditto (Matcha is more aggressive and confrontational ; Morgan is more jolly and tricky )


Other scenarios they can be found in : Trapped in a collapsed tunnel seeking treasure, hanging out with a random Neutral NPC, trying to get into a Secret Chamber


✦ Nidoqueen

Name | Not discovered

Pronouns | She/They

Hardy | Good endurance


Favored Item(s) | Valuable items [ expensive or rare ]

Disliked Item(s) | Cheap or common items


Default Disposition | Hostile

Friendly Conditions | [ Extremely Hard ] Negotiation/getting super super nosey & prying into her backstory [ Not discovered ] OR defeating her in battle but sparing her and not turning her in


Behaviors | Can be found attempting to Ambush the player in the Medium-High Floors; will be waiting under Pitfall traps and can be found in the Secret Tunnels

✧ She understands type-matchups and will attempt to follow the player if she feels it’s a good idea/she’s able to

✧ Will strategize in tandem with Nidoking 

✧ Will not give up if Nidoking is defeated first

✦ Nidoking

Name | Not discovered

Pronouns | He/They

Jolly | Loves to Eat


Favored Item(s) | Most things that are Edible or Shiny [ Not necessarily expensive ]

Disliked Item(s) | Apples, hates them


Default Disposition | Hostile

Friendly Conditions | [ Medium ] Appealing to him with offers of food; does not take well to taunts and is easily riled up by any cheek, becomes Very Hard to negotiate with once upset


Behaviors | Can be found attempting to Ambush the player in the Medium-High Floors; will be waiting under Pitfall traps and can be found in the Secret Tunnels

✧ He understands most Type Matchups but may occasionally forget, is willing to chase the player through floors

✧ Will strategize in tandem with Nidoqueen 

✧ Will prioritize tending to Nidoqueen if she is defeated before him and will not pursue or engage the player at this point unless he feels they’re going to attack him or her


| Nidoking & Nidoqueen |


✦ Slaking

Name | Not discovered

Pronouns | He/They

Lax | Quick Tempered


Favored Item(s) | Anything Edible

Disliked Item(s) | Anything not edible


Default Disposition | Hostile

Friendly Conditions | Giving him food or otherwise acting like he’s the best and playing along with him thinking he’s the bee’s knees [ Extremely Hard; no one tried this ]

Friendly relationship becomes almost impossible if the player chooses to try to take berries from the grove at any point


Behaviors | Can be found sleeping in the berry grove [ Early Game Boss ]

✧ Easy to flee; he will not chase players through floors. He will not use strategy and does not know type advantages. He will randomly attack and focus players.

✧ Medium-Hard to fight; lots of HP; drops lots of berries upon defeat

✧ Pokemon of the grove can be rallied against him


He was escaped by players much more than he was fought but 3 people successfully defeated him! No players befriended him!


✧ Greg

Species | Sableye

Pronouns | He/They


A relatively jumpy, strange Sableye that can be found scratching around under the dungeon


🔓 When Greg was taken to the end of the dungeon in one of his encounters, he experienced the dark feeling that some of the guild members had. Upon being asked to go back to the guild to answer questions, he obliged and said all he’d experienced based on his very positive relationship with the Player Characters.

✧ Gastly x 2

Names | Not discovered

Pronouns | They/he/she & They/he/she

Can be found in the Foggy Floor of the upper levels of Purity forest in a pair. They can be easily reasoned with and are medium to fight

✧ Abra

Name | Not discovered

Pronouns | They/them

Can be found on the Foggy Floor [ Rare / Determinant ] - more likely to be found if the player character appears frightened

✧ Morgan & Matcha

Species | Ditto & Ditto

Pronouns | They/She & They/She

Matcha - Bold / Proud of its power; Competitive, can be a little mean, not afraid to Fight if aggressed on, likes to play tricks, takes great pride in her Acting abilities but is weaker at Transformation (why she can be found in the Dark Room where it is harder to see their imperfect transformations)

Morgan - Naive / Somewhat of a clown; likes to play tricks, not the smartest tool in the shed, prefers to Flee or Hide over Fight in conflict; Wants to improve their Acting but is stupid good at Transformation