Aphelli
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The Odd One Out's new chapter is online! We're closing the Orphanage arc -- and re-instituting character ratings, and chronological order as well.
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Here's the new chapter, we're ending the Orphanage arc here. Which, alas, leaves us to deal with the consequences afterwards... Something something Shade fight something something Azurine something something screenshots something something Amaria something something Blacksteam (don't pay attention, that's just my subconscious complaining about the next chapters not coming too smoothly -- but it'll work out in the end). Chapter 34: Breaking Out Character ratings:
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As a Wise Old Wizard (TM) once said, it’s easier to forgive people for being wrong than for them being right. For very many people, it’s hard to acknowledge they’re wrong and the other speaker is right even when you know (or “subconsciously” believe) it. It’s easier to grudgingly apply their advice. Also, isn’t Vanilla a bit selfish when considering how Pikachu’s death affects her (or her plans)? After all, she’s denying the actual victim their desire to fight. Then again, it’s a really understandable reaction. I wish I could find the drive to read back the mom chapter and try and find clues, but I’m pretty bad at spotting these and, even then, at connecting the dots. Vanilla not being harmed suggests that Candy’s message was successfully delivered, but how? She couldn’t just threaten Lin, the latter wouldn’t be fazed... did she sell the Devon raid, against a commitment to not harm Vanilla? Improbable... Very nice chapter. I look forward to the Power Of Friendship (TM) is going to destroy Adrienn... good luck (I’m not sure levels really help enough though – a specific choice of mons would, but it’s not really your approach)!
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I remember beating that Sirius fight with revives, x items, and lots of save scumming (not that I didn’t struggle with many other fights as well!). This is one reason why I don’t know where you are now, but if that fight is the one you remember, I think you still have lots of difficult battles ahead. Enjoy!
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Regarding Nova: Regarding the real world: I 'm not sure, but it looks like Toxicroakite isn't available yet.
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I would switch them (even though the grinding is going to be a pain) but I am not that great at the game. Noivern has slightly better defences virtually everywhere, far better speed and its special attack significantly beats Pidgeot's attack (also iirc fighting-type Pokemon rarely have a great special defence). It also learns Hurricane, Dragon Pulse, and perhaps even Boomburst (if you can use the move relearner) which is boosted on the field. It also resists everything Pidgeot resists, nullifies its electric weakness and fighting weakness, at the cost of being *4'ed by ice and weak to fairy. It's also resistant to fire, so perhaps also a good option to deal with the fire leader.
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I've been trying out Zumi's Rejuv character sorter. I had 68 characters, after removing Rifts and PCs. But when looking at the results, the only thing I can think of is how it took over 320 ~ log_2(68!) comparisons to sort the list. Truly, you can feel the difference between O(nlog(n)) (minimal average number of comparisons for a list-sorting algorithm) and n when you have to specify each comparison by hand (Volta or Florin? Jolene or Alexandra?...)
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Theory Crafting Thread
Aphelli replied to enderowl's topic in Official Rejuvenation Club's Discussions
That’s not a bad idea, but the timeline doesn’t seem to track, does it? Amanda says their plan has been in motion shortly before the MC returned to Aevium. But I’m pretty sure the Interceptor project is much older than that (at least Garufa old). -
I recently found out that my Reborn story's title (The Odd One Out -- there's a new chapter just available btw) was almost the name of a (entirely unrelated) YT channel with millions of subscribers. People (including me) are weird, I guess?
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Hey, new chapter here! Perhaps I should apologize to Ame for how I portrayed her self-insert... You'll decide for yourselves, I guess. Chapter 33: Shocking Authorities
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Time spent procrastinating the Shade fight because I feared I would get so wrecked: a couple of weeks.
Time spent preparing for said battle: a few hours.
Final score after first battle: 6-0.
Maybe, just maybe, counting the number of times I fail makes me overthink stuff? Or am I just getting better?
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Thank you @Evi Crystal for your comment! I was trying to answer yesterday and it devolved into more or less a retelling of every internal monologue Gabriel had to this point... so something pretty useless. So I'll try to summarize Gabriel's attitude differently. He's lawful good at heart, but he's in Reborn City, a place almost as far as possible from everything he's ever witnessed. A harsh, torn apart, unforgiving place, where he doesn't even believe he had any reason to go to in the first place. So he has two main goals: survive and leave. Hence, as he's not a fighter, his attempting to not make any enemies (especially not any officials, because they control when the station is rebuilt) and remain on the sidelines. Trying to not take sides, and especially to not go to extremes, is pretty natural to him. In the Orphanage situation, there is also (I think I wrote about that) another reason for him not wanting to storm the place: his first-world belief in institutions in general (hence the "lawful"), and in particular in the Orphanage being very likely a better place to children than just living in Reborn's street. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by my universe's situation plot? It's not exactly like it, but it's set in a universe mostly like canon Reborn, with minor differences that will appear in time.
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Hey, it's been quite a while since the last chapter -- that's summer vacation for you. (I swear, I'll try not to make that many excuses from now on) The views counter keeps growing, I'm quite amazed -- thank you to all those of you who read. This chapter and the next one follow a nonlinear time structure, meaning that some events in chapter 33 happen between some of those of chapter 32 and some of those of chapter 31. I've tried to keep mentioning the correct timelines so that you don't get too confused. There is also a little riddle in the chapter -- do you like crypto? Whether you played the game or not, you have all the necessary information to solve it (if you're interested) at the end of the chapter. Finally, a point for more about the story as a whole -- there may be spoilers for some books, films, or fan fictions. But they'll be written carefully enough, so that one can't realize which work this spoils, so I don't think that counts. Chapter 32: Undertakings
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How about writing disclaimers for every insane action done by the characters, shuffling them, and putting the entire list in the prologue? No one would read it in full, let alone remember it, but you would be un-suable. Also fEtR is a good title, the one we all know and love, I don’t think there’s any need to change it?
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Over 4,300 views for The Odd One Out, that’s amazing! Thank you to all (human) viewers!
The next chapter is coming as soon as I can get a good Wifi spot – a dozen days at latest.
On a not-too-unrelated note: I used to be stuck on some soon-to-come part (chapters 35-ish). I couldn’t write it satisfactorily – it felt poor, eventless, almost a waste of words, among others. A couple of days ago, I had a, er, great idea and I finished to write it entirely. Now it’s much more epic (and, I’m confident, more original), but... kind of weird at the same time.
SpoilerThere’s poetry from two different languages (one which I translated myself into English, so I’m not sure how it actually sounds), for crying out loud!
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This looks absolutely amazing, cass. Thanks a lot for it all, code modifications, code cleanups, and the dev posts (and please, take care of yourself). I’m a math guy, but I like coding (although my stuff is much, much smaller-scale), so your posts make me code vicariously. Just a stupid question: what exactly does the compiler do? Does it gather Pokemon, move, and ability data from .dat/.rxdata files (as I think I understood from your post, which already sounds really not-straightforward)? Does it do something else?
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Very nice chapter! So many call-backs... I don't have the courage to read them all, even when I know I'm forgetting about events. But, it's summer break, so maybe I'll gather the courage to read it all from start (and give you your word count if you haven't checked it yourself ). I can't say I'm too much a fan of Sandy though. Perhaps you should add disclaimers about slash-and-burn agriculture and not try large controlled forest fires without professionals.
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Indeed, I had forgotten about Pokesnax (as Abyss had also suggested on Discord). The event doesn’t activate without it. Thank you!
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Alas, I am positive that the weather for me is windy (and it's night) and Murkrow doesn't show up:
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Hello, I'm currently right after Shelly's Gym Badge and I'm planning ahead for a few upcoming boss fights, so I'm trying to grab a Murkrow. So I think I did everything right: I joined the Aqua Gang, stole Ms. Craudbury's (?) Pokemon for them, beat the Magma Kingpin in his own hideout (with a couple of Revives and way too many Lemonades). Now it's a windy night (I used the SetWeather from the SWM Modpack for Reborn 18.2; I tried wind both normal and harsh; it's around 11pm in game), I'm in the Aqua Hideout... and no Murkrow is there? Is there something I'm forgetting? Or is it a wild encounter like the Espurrs, Trubbishs, Alolan Meowths of that place? Thank you (I can attach a save file or a screenshot if useful).
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Wait, you mean that Vanilla isn’t... Well... I’ll, er... be right back. ... Yes, Gabriel does care... in his way. His rationale is that it’s not an easy commitment to make to provide for Heather’s physical needs (food, shelter, safety, stability) until she comes of age. He doesn’t believe Cain understands that and won’t commit himself because he certainly intends to have left Reborn City far before Heather comes of age. So of course (as a first-world math nerd) he concludes that an orphanage suits Heather better, if they (or at least Shelly) are allowed visits, to provide for Heather’s (and Shelly’s maybe) emotional needs. Of course, in Reborn canon the decision is wrong, but given the information available, can you blame him? Heather’s likely fate as a 10-year-old on her own in Reborn City could be... tragic (look at what very nearly happened to Lucia and Victoria in Chronicverse, and they’re about adults!), even without Team Meteor to hunt her. @Evi Crystal: I wish you luck for your job applications! It’s easier to say as a reader than as a writer but I trust your readers to be patient. (Although seven months’ wait for Derog’s Rejuv is a little long... here’s to hoping it’s not cancelled)
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A survivor from study, summer and a bit of manual work, The Odd One Out is back for a historical chapter.
For the first time...
A Gym Battle happens...
Only 5 chapters after the previous one!
There is also an important plot deviation which you will see more about in the next chapters.
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Thank you @Evi Crystal for your comment! And you haven't even seen how Gabriel takes it. So, I haven't been following my posting schedule, it's surprising the amount of things I've had to do these last days -- help grandparents move out, finish writing my master's thesis, understand the answers to some technical questions I had asked the researcher who knows the topic very well... Never mind. About the present chapter -- as you've seen, we've started not following the game's timeline. I think it's a good place to recall a disclaimer I think I already wrote somewhere: Gabriel isn't supposed to be a role model -- he usually means well, but that doesn't make his actions themselves advisable. Chapter 31: Relapse Character rates: Death count:
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Wow, I can't believe I managed to so completely miss the release of your chapter. It was pretty nice too, although I was quite surprised at Flannery's brutality -- it's well-motivated, of course, but it's still unsettling to see violence escalating this much. (Although I believe she would have a very long way to go to be what Sirius would wish for her to be) Your visuals are amazing too. I'm surprised that no one seemed to comment on Fern's behavior -- and how Flannery was perhaps slightly hypocritical when she complained about the blatant lack of empathy of men she had known. Fern's attempt to defuse and pass the bucket is, if somewhat thoughtless and cowardly, very human in my opinion. It was Flannery's choice to escalate violence to "I'll literally burn you" levels in the confrontation, without Fern's backing. That Fern decided to rather let her down rather than risk being burnt alive as retaliation isn't surprising (not heroic, for sure, but hardly callous).
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Theory Crafting Thread
Aphelli replied to enderowl's topic in Official Rejuvenation Club's Discussions
I watched that scene a few weeks ago, and I don’t remember Kugearen being mentioned or alluded to... could you please be more specific?
