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That move you're referring to is what's called a Verdant Arte, and each character has 2 for their main Pokemon. To use them, depending on which move you're going to use, requires a certain amount of Focus. Renegade Strike is a one-hit KO Verdant Arte, and those require all of your Focus. You can use them as many times as you like in battle, but building up Focus takes awhile, since it only builds when you take damage or deal damage. Or use Focus Sparks outside of battle. Vivian has: Storm Shuriken Renegade Strike Vice has: Soul Strike Soul Punisher Marissa has: Twilight Rift Almagest Krista has: Divine Judgement Verdant Elysium Hiro has: Radiant Roar Temporal Drive Allan has: Aura Storm Super Dragon Hammer

Video Update: So, after you destroy the Northern Base, and complete that arc entirely, you gain access to character-specific side-quests, such as this one, which pertains to Vivian:

Due to some stupid, irl issues I've been experiencing the contest will actually be extended for an additional 2 weeks, before I call the results. This doesn't change the start date for the contest, but, it does change the ending date for it, because of Dentist Bills interfering with shit and shit. So, the ending date is estimated to be October 14th or so, depending. Once, I hear definitive news on the School Refund that I'm getting around late Sept./Early October, will be what decides when the ending date will be. Otherwise, there is still 2 weeks remaining before the contest officially starts! So, for those of you who participated in the previous contest, feel free to try your hand again, if you'd like to have another go at it! Also, I'm deciding if I should change the theme of the contest to be something... more simple, rather than it being battle focused. What do you guys think?

A question to my readers: How do you all prefer my updates? Do you prefer to see them in the morning/afternoon/night? Also, how do you prefer the format to being? Also, new update in regards to ze game. New location: Horizon City - Lighthouse Island. This island was originally accessible, in the earlier versions of the game, but I expanded it so that way the player can now get the new swimsuit costumes ver. 1 and ver. 2, as well as serving for Vivian gaining access to her own, personal, Shaymin. Because, yes, you can enter the Flower Paradise, from the northern part of Lighthouse Island. The shack featured in the lower part of the first screenshot serves as the location for where you get the swimsuit costumes for all the characters, via an event where Vivian (because I love doing this to Vivian, hahah), is chosen as the next swimsuit model for the shack, as well as possibly being featured in Pokemon Trainer's Swimsuit Magazine Monthly. The graves featured in the 2nd screenshot are past caretakers of Shaymin Village, with the 5th, 7th, and 10th caretaker's graves being accessible. Vivian is, "unofficially", the 13th caretaker of Shaymin Village. Checking those graves is what triggers the event for Shaymin to take you to the Flower Paradise, the first time. Afterwards you can go there anytime, by checking the grave on the nearby, small island. These maps are also one of the first maps that actually utilize Krista's "Call for Help" ability the most, which allows her to surf on the back of a Wailmer. That said, this special in-game, optional event can only be triggered AFTER you finish the Northern Base and Androids Arc of the game - much like most character specific, optional events like this. Same goes for the swimsuit - you can only have the swimsuit modeling event trigger after you finish the Northern Base and Androids Arc. Update from yesterday included, because new page on this forum post was made and it annoys me whenever that does happen :L Update: So, I've been kind of sick the past few days, due to dentist visits and having to take some nasty medication that they prescribed to me and shit - which means that I haven't been too much at work on my game. BUT, I have managed to complete several new aspects of my game. I've changed the EXP Yields for all the Pokemon in the game to be 3/4th's as much as they once were, due to the game being too easy. The player can now unlock the both beach costumes, in-game, via an event near Horizon City, which involves a photo shoot with all the characters, at the beach. The player can now unlock the Christmas costumes, when the player is able to purchase a house on Freezedry Path, and the characters end up celebrating Christmas early. Northern Base is now accessible, and is the end of the 3rd Arc of the game out of 5. The 4th Arc is the Celestial Island, which is really short, with the final Arc being Next Dimension Tournament and Destiny Outlook. I've refined some programming aspects of the game to make it run smoother, while also adjusting some boss fights to have dialogue in them as well as scripted scenes in those fights. Also, new artwork for battle damaged Vice, during the Final Boss fight of the game. Yeah, in the final battle Vice gets pretty fucked up. Also, I can't remember if I already posted this, but Verdant Tales artwork for Vaan vs. Mia:

Update: So, I've been kind of sick the past few days, due to dentist visits and having to take some nasty medication that they prescribed to me and shit - which means that I haven't been too much at work on my game. BUT, I have managed to complete several new aspects of my game. I've changed the EXP Yields for all the Pokemon in the game to be 3/4th's as much as they once were, due to the game being too easy. The player can now unlock the both beach costumes, in-game, via an event near Horizon City, which involves a photo shoot with all the characters, at the beach. The player can now unlock the Christmas costumes, when the player is able to purchase a house on Freezedry Path, and the characters end up celebrating Christmas early. Northern Base is now accessible, and is the end of the 3rd Arc of the game out of 5. The 4th Arc is the Celestial Island, which is really short, with the final Arc being Next Dimension Tournament and Destiny Outlook. I've refined some programming aspects of the game to make it run smoother, while also adjusting some boss fights to have dialogue in them as well as scripted scenes in those fights. Also, new artwork for battle damaged Vice, during the Final Boss fight of the game. Yeah, in the final battle Vice gets pretty fucked up. Also, I will be posting another video of my game, very soon, but it won't be anything too amazing, since it will be mostly just a Sanctuary and I just felt like posting the solution to the puzzle there.

SO, for those of you unfamiliar, my game has a host of 10 costumes that the player can wear, once unlocked. I have a video of it on my YouTube channel, for those interested. I had a random thought come to my mind, and that was "fan-service". I had this thought, when I was looking back at several of the Tales games and how they went about their use of fan-service, and then it struck me: let's do more with that. And you know when that comes to mind, you just know that I'm going to do something ridiculous. Like what? Well, I thought about doing more with the swim suit designs, because... why not? XD Well actually it's because I wanted to depict them (mostly the females) in actually their swimsuits. So, you'd be able to play as them with them partially clothed, and with just swimsuits on. The males will get a redesign that functions as just a 2nd swimsuit for them. And I intend for these to be as... *ahem* fan-servicey as possible, because why not? The scenes will also have different and unique scenes for each character as well, rather than them posing in front of a green-screen. In a nut-shell, this is 2nd helping of upcoming swimsuits is JUST for fan-service, and can be unlocked as soon as you obtain the 1st set. Vivian's Swim Suit Hiro's Swim Suit Krista's Swim Suit Marissa's Swim Suit Vice's Swim Suit Allan's Swim Suit

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Spoiler Character Update! If you do not want to be spoiled on the details of this character, then do not click the spoiler tag.

So, manga news: Here are some progress details on some story-boards in relation to the manga pages. Been working hard with my manga artist to get pages as perfect as possible, however again, I am not posting the actual, finished pages, because as I've stated 100000 times, the manga will only be available for purchase as it is not free, unlike the game which is free. So, for now, enjoy these story-boards. If you want to read the first 7 pages of the manga, you can on my dA Groups page. (See post above for link or in my signature or even on my profile page)

Characters and Shit Edna Rose Is playable in the 2nd game, and only appears in the ending to the 1st game. Celia Magnus Main villain of the 2nd game. Also, if you've noticed, I like to have a black outline, around the eyes of my villain characters, as well as Vice in his Verdant form. It's just a style choice that I choose to do with villains and Vice.

So, here's an update for NOT this game. Except for one of the new characters in this, who is actually just a regular Pokemon, much like Iggy. The characters I am going to be showing off, right now, are mostly for the 2nd game, aside from Master Shao, the blind Mienshao of the Celestial Island. The first character shown above is Celia Magnus, the main villain of the 2nd game. Also, in case you haven't already taken it in yet that my game is super weird, well... enjoy the ride, because it only gets weirder. Celia is a natural born Planet Herald and Keeper of Time from the future timeline set 7 years after the events of Symphonic Horizon 2. She has lived for centuries and is technically the first Keeper of Time. She is extremely dangerous as a rogue who managed to kill the cast of main characters in the future timeline of when this game takes place. The 2nd character is Caryl Rose, also known as the daughter to Velvet Amelia Rose the Witch. Caryl, is very much like her mother, aside from the fact that she does not possess the same abilities that Velvet does - transforming into a Persian at will. That said, she does use a similar broomstick to travel between dimensions, just like her mother does as she is capable of going too and from the Next Dimension and the City of the Timeless at will. She isn't so much an important character in the 1st game, as she appears in the ending of the game, but she is very much important in the 2nd game to assist in future travel. The last character on the list here is Master Shao, the Blind Mienshao. Very similar to Iggy, where I decided to characterize a Pokemon with human characteristics, such as... wearing clothes XD Master Shao is a Mienshao that possesses the ability to speak the human tongue, but lost his eye-sight several years prior to Symphonic Horizon 1. He serves as a mentor character in the Next Dimension Tournament arc, and even takes part fighting in it, as himself. Master Shao eventually reveals that behind his blindfolds are eyes that are always shut, due to him being... well blind. He becomes intrigued by Marissa Brennan, after she loses her eyesight, and begins teaching her how to battle without her eyes and to sense things around her. He even teaches her how to further master her Mega Evolution beyond what it can normally do, and evolves it into a completely different transformation all together. (Note) This is all before Cresselia restores Marissa's eyes with Heaven's Gaze, two purple eyes that allow her to see life energy and verdant energy, while also restoring her vision.

For those of you interested in another video update, here ya are: The Nishima Island Hot Springs and it's wonderous dialogue about, you guessed it, boobs. In typical Tales fashion, the game has the usual, girl boob talk. Yes, that is a thing, for those of who haven't played a Tales game.

So, the Draw My OC Contest that was held previously in March is going to be held, once again, in the coming August! It's start date is August 28th, and will focus on all the characters, once again, but this time with action scenes! So that means more than 1 character will be in the scene and it will be them doing something action-y! Start Date On August 28th, 2017 I will be hosting part 2 of my "Draw my OC/Characters" contest on my deviantART Group Page, and the Reborn Forums, with PRIZES Also, I have finally decided on the prizes and theme for the next contest! The upcoming contest and rules are as such: PRIZES!!!!! $200 for First Place and a cameo placement anywhere in the game, whether it be battle or whatever. (Or something of equal value, like dA points, etc) $150 dollars for Second Place and a cameo placement (Or something of equal value, like dA points, etc) $100 dollars for Third Place and a cameo placement. (Or something of equal value, like dA points, etc) $50 dollars for Fourth Place and a cameo placement. (Or something of equal value, like dA points, etc) $25 dollars for Fifth Place and a cameo placement. (Or something of equal value, like dA points, etc) Anything below will have a cameo placement somewhere in the game of their choosing. Contest Theme The theme for this contest will be ALL about Summer Swimsuits! Basically, you have to create a situation where the characters are just at the beach in their swimsuits, easy and simple. You are free to add in anything you want, into the scene, including their main Pokemon. Only 1 submission is allowed. Has to be their designs and nothing that you would attribute to them. So, basically, they have to look like how they normally do. Putting them in costumes is allowed, but it has to be the themed costumes that are currently in the game, i.e. Tales Costumes, Beach Costumes, Halloween, Christmas, and various other costumes that they wear in the game. You can have as many characters in the artwork as you want, so it doesn't have to be just 1 character in the scene. You are free to use any style you wish. You can even do pixel art if you really want to. That'd be... pretty unique and awesome to see actually. You can give them things in their hands like Poke Balls, or whatever. Even swords for shits and giggles XD No gore, blood or anything really profound and disgusting. Don't have another person create the art for you. I want YOU to make the art and not someone make it for you. Have fun with it~! EXTRA PRIZES!!!! 1st Place: Super-large sized wall-scrolls of Hiro Monochroma and Krista Harper! Also, you will be able to choose one extra wall-scroll of ANY artwork in my gallery! (Any Size) 2nd Place: Your choice of any wall-scroll from my gallery! (Large) 3rd Place: Your choice of any wall-scroll from my gallery! (Small) Where Do I Go For The Refs? My deviantArt Groups Page, make sure you go here, otherwise you won't be able to find the character designs without sifting through my game's thread: http://symphonic-horizon.deviantart.com/gallery/ Or, you can be cool and sift through ALL the pages on my game's forum post. (not recommended assuming you don't even know about my game and never caught up with the posts.) So, prepare your butts, and hopefully there won't be anyone procrastinating like last time, because >.> Also, Vivian Vance is indeed taking autographs:

For those of you interested, there is a 7 page preview on my deviantART Groups page for said Manga: http://symphonic-horizon.deviantart.com/gallery/62248919/Comics Only 7 pages, because you all will be having to pay for the full manga, in order to read past the first 7 pages. Mostly also because I know that there are some slime-balls who think it's funny to post other people's works illegally online, without my permission, so fuck you to those who do that. Also, there is a funny comic in there that is completely unrelated to the manga, and I felt like having this made, because it's hilarious as shit. The comic was more or less a parody that I commissioned a few years ago XD

I don't charge anything to play a fan-game. However, the manga you do have to pay for, because that is technically not illegal, and I actually have to enlist an actual, professional manga artist to draw the manga.

Aside from the obvious venting that I did about female protags and shit, I am going to be bringing about some solid news. Part 1 of the News You all know about the ending anime-style animation that I made for my game, yes? Well, most of you know, hopefully: At the moment, I am putting about 2000+ dollars on a large-budget, anime intro animation for my game, this coming August/September. This opening animation will play at the start of every New Game. Also, I am going to spoil the song that will be used for the intro. The song that will be used is called: 夢は終わらない - "The Dream Will Not End" and will feature much smoother animation than the current ending that you see here, since I will have a MUCH larger budget, compared to when I made this. Speaking of the ending, I will also be going back to older frames of animation, in the ending, and tweak the cels and add new frames to make the animation smoother, within the coming month. Part 2 of the News New maps, including the aforementioned Nishima Island Hot Spring are finished, at last. You can, indeed, visit this island at any point in the game, once you get the ticket to go there, via the S.S. Valeria, after unlocking Allan and Hiro.

I "deleted" said post mostly due in part that I didn't want to offend anyone, but it does still irk me when people address this to me as a problem. And it just so happened that the ratios ended up being what they are. It's too late to change it, and I'm not gonna change it for anyone just because "it has to be that way, because fuck you." Because I don't remember there being an undisclosed rule that all RPG parties MUST be primarily comprised of males. And if there way, then screw the person who made it.

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For those of you curious - here is the finished design for Ashera: I am also going to copy/paste her biography below her artwork, in a spoiler tag, in case people didn't check the previous page. Also, if you're curious, no, her hair isn't black at the end, it's just the shading is why it looks that way. What's in the first spoiler box isn't necessarily spoilers, but just a rough description of her - however, the 2nd spoiler is spoiler heavy and should only be read if you don't care.

I am going to be name dropping several characters from my game, and if you have not been a regular, in regards to the huge cast of characters in my game, familiarize yourself with who I'm talking about here: Ninetales' Human Form: Velvet Amelia Rose: Here's yet another update. This is the promised character that I mentioned last week - This is Ashera with no last name, because she doesn't have a last name. This character is very much like Ninetales and Velvet in that she can transform into a Pokemon. However, unlike Velvet, and very much like Ninetales, she can actually use her Pokemon form offensively, whereas Velvet cannot. She is actually one of the main, playable characters in the 2nd game, but the downside to her in that game is that she cannot use Pokemon, but can only fight in her Pokemon form. Which... is pretty rough, but the catch is that she can turn into Rayquaza and Mega Evolve at will. Ashera She is quite the recurring character, in that she becomes somewhat of an important character in this game by being this game's equivalent of the airship - the downside though is that you get her at the end of the game and isn't playable. As for her character though she is no scrub. Much like Ninetales and Velvet, she is many, many centuries old and has outlived the average human and Pokemon, seeing generations come and go. In fact, she is the youngest of the 2 other characters, in that she is only 3114 years old (explicitly stated be her, herself), and the youngest Rayquaza that exists on Earth. The three of these characters all have relations to one another, which is why they can transform to and from a Pokemon form, and live indefinitely. With the exception to Velvet, whose transformation doesn't boast any properties that Ninetales and Ashera have. It's very spoilerific, but if you don't care about spoilers, then click the spoiler tag below. Ashera herself is stated by Ninetales to be "a basket-case with too much energy for her own good. And a curiosity that boasts eagerness to the worst degree." What the translates to is an extremely mischievous, and playful Rayquaza with curiosity that borders on naivete. That's, however, to be expected since for her, 3114 years old is the equivalent to adolescence in terms of age, compared to a human; though no matter how old she gets, she will retain the same form as she appears in her artwork. She is extremely high-energy and prone to be a bit of a prankster, in human form. Ashera has a fondness for wrestling with Allan, Vice and Vivian, mostly because she has almost never seen any humans before Ariana and uses them as an outlet. After the events of the game, and even though Hiro marries Vice, Ashera has a fondness for Vice, given that after this game he is primarily around her and is his preferred method of travel. That said, she doesn't get along well with any of the higher-ups from the Next Dimension, due to her being forever banished to the Celestial Island, until freed by Vice and his friends.

Welp, I have here, for you, today a smol update in regards to an optional area of the game. This is Nishima Island the Island of Hot Springs. Because, yes, even my game has to appease the Tales pre-requisite of a hot spring area in the game. This is a completely optional area of the game with no Trainers to battle, aside from getting some funny dialogue from the other characters, some items, the new Hot Spring Towel costumes for all the characters, and an optional mini-game that I programmed myself. At the moment I'm still working on the other maps, such as the hot springs themselves, the caverns and the Sanctuary Tower where the hot springs actually take place at. That said however, here is the main part of the island. I made this map out of wanting to write some funny dialogue and conversation trades between the main cast of characters. Especially after I replayed Tales of Phantasia on the Super Famicom and a certain line of dialogue that Arche Klein says. For those who played the original Japanese version of the game, you know what line I'm talking about. That one line is what made me make this series of maps - just to appease my inner shipping goals for the characters. Here's a little preview of what I wrote: it's pure fanservice at it's finest. What you can't actually see, because they are events, are the actual geothermal vents, laid out across the map. You will only be able to see them in-game, because lol-screenshot doesn't show events. The way you get to this island is after a certain point in the game, when you get the S.S. Valeria ticket, and unlock Hiro and Allan you will be able to go here at your leisure. The Pokemon here aren't especially high leveled, nor are there any Trainers to fight.

Well, I got back from the Doctor's about 3 hours ago, and it turns out that a lot of the vomiting of blood was mostly caused by some serious irritation of the inner-lining of my stomach walls - due to me taking that pill of Oxycontin by accident. Why did I take that medication? Because, hilariously, I mistook it for aspirin on my desk, but then remembered what it was. I originally had it sitting there, 3 months ago for pain that I was having with my back, but never took it. Also, it was only half of a pill of Oxycontin. A HALF! A half fucked me up so bad that I ended up vomiting blood and experienced all kinds of negative side-effects. But yes, I was diagnosed with seratonin syndrome, and for the most part I got over it pretty quickly. They kept me in the hospital for longer than I wanted, but they got me back up without me feeling like total shit constantly. But... I will never take that shit ever again. Because jfc did it fucking suck. I wouldn't wish that kind of pain on anyone. Don't take Oxycontin unless told to by a doctor, otherwise THAT will happen. It's also worse because it's an opiate, and that shit will fuck you up.

I'd rather not give those kinds of theories the benefit of the doubt. Especially since it's a pride thing for me to write everything myself than to be accepting of someone's, possibly less impressive and unfitting, idea that isn't welcome in the game, in the first place. But, I also don't pay attention to "theories" anyways, so eh. In any case, I am quite sick at the moment, for anyone else reading this rambling. I actually became sick through my own fault, because I accidentally ate a medication called "Oxycontin" and has since fucked me up all day today. I've been throwing up blood, feeling off-balance, woozy, body sore and my heart is racing at a million beats per second. So, I apologize if I seem a little on-edge today, more than usual, because I am seriously not doing well, because of my own stupidity.