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- | ====== Sehto Gym Circuit ====== | ||
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The **Sehto gym circuit** is rigged. | The **Sehto gym circuit** is rigged. | ||
- | Specifically, | + | Specifically, |
- | you're not going to win it. The entire idea of the gyms on the way to the last one is to discourage people | + | |
- | from even //trying// to get all the way through, and then they' | + | |
- | they' | + | |
- | Why would anyone want to play Sehto if they' | + | Why would anyone want to play Sehto if they' |
- | players. Not for the characters. :3 You're invited to compare this to | + | |
- | [[http:// | + | |
===== Order === | ===== Order === | ||
- | The Sehto gym circuit does not inherently demand any particular order (other than [[place: | + | The Sehto gym circuit does not inherently demand any particular order (other than [[place: |
- | necessity being the last and denying anyone battle trying to tackle it first). Nonetheless, | + | |
- | traversed as follows: | + | |
===== #1: Njoty: Path Badge ===== | ===== #1: Njoty: Path Badge ===== | ||
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* **Place**: [[place: | * **Place**: [[place: | ||
* **Leader**: [[character: | * **Leader**: [[character: | ||
- | * **Specialisation**: | + | * **[[Types|Specialisation]]**: |
- | * **Usual rule preference**: | + | * **[[Pokégym rules|Rule preference]]**: |
- | Njoty' | + | Njoty' |
- | saw it unfold in earnest. As such, it has no particular lesson in mind for the Sehto-aspiring //I want to | + | |
- | be the very best// pokétrainer, | + | |
- | want to do that? Well, okay, have fun.//" | + | |
- | It's the only pokégym traditionally simply passed on from generation to generation, but that doesn' | + | It's the only pokégym traditionally simply passed on from generation to generation, but that doesn' |
- | the gymleaders from equally traditionally having better things to do than battling. Like all gymleaders, | + | |
- | they' | + | |
- | one bit, it's quite far removed from their point on the map and circuit, after all. | + | |
- | The Path Badge is a metallic, stylised dragonfly pin, its tail bent to the left only to end in a wicked | + | {{ : |
- | scorpion' | + | In most continuities, |
- | unexciting, almost dull. | + | |
+ | In others, it's taken on the black and yellow warning guise of a wasp, and its tail is additionally segmented, as in the image depicted here. | ||
===== #2: Nahla City: Dust Badge ===== | ===== #2: Nahla City: Dust Badge ===== | ||
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* **Place**: [[place: | * **Place**: [[place: | ||
* **Leader**: [[character: | * **Leader**: [[character: | ||
- | * **Specialisation**: | + | * **[[Types|Specialisation]]**: |
- | * **Rule preference**: | + | * **[[Pokégym rules|Rule preference]]**: |
- | Nahla City's pokégym is where it gets serious. If you've ever found yourself asking why rock pokémon don't | + | Nahla City's pokégym is where it gets serious. If you've ever found yourself asking why rock pokémon don't just crush the life out of other pokémon and call it a day during battles given their immense weight and sturdiness, this pokégym' |
- | just crush the life out of other pokémon and call it a day during battles given their immense weight and | + | |
- | sturdiness, this pokégym' | + | |
- | In short, expect to lose a pokémon here, unless you already know the lesson it exists to teach you, which | + | In short, expect to lose a pokémon here, unless you already know the lesson it exists to teach you, which is that pokémon battles occasionally result in //dead pokeymans// |
- | is that pokémon battles occasionally result in //dead pokeymans// | + | |
- | fainted pokémon from the battlefield //very quickly// to avoid more grinding to a pulp than is absolutely | + | |
- | necessary to win the fight. | + | |
- | If you're still serious about doing the gym circuit after this point, you are commonly considered insane | + | If you're still serious about doing the gym circuit after this point, you are commonly considered insane and fair game for what you're setting yourself up for. |
- | and fair game for what you're setting yourself up for. | + | |
- | The pokégym is firmly in the hands of trainers that have been through Taqnateh. Jagdish insists, even if | + | The pokégym is firmly in the hands of trainers that have been through Taqnateh. Jagdish insists, even if the type of person he tends to instate here is rarely happy with their position, be that as a deathbringer or as a cog in the gym circuit wheel. |
- | the type of person he tends to instate here is rarely happy with their position, be that as a | + | |
- | deathbringer or as a cog in the gym circuit wheel. | + | |
- | The Dust Badge's description | + | {{ : |
+ | The description of the Dust Badge as it was described in various continuities | ||
===== #3: Nightclaw: Glint Badge ===== | ===== #3: Nightclaw: Glint Badge ===== | ||
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* **Place**: [[place: | * **Place**: [[place: | ||
* **Leader**: [[character: | * **Leader**: [[character: | ||
- | * **Specialisation**: | + | * **[[Types|Specialisation]]**: |
- | * **Rule preference**: | + | * **[[Pokégym rules|Rule preference]]**: |
- | Nightclaw' | + | Nightclaw' |
- | rigged against you. Specifically, | + | |
- | not lightbringing moves like //Flash// can be used, or whether they' | + | |
- | loss, is plotline-specific. | + | |
- | Nightclaw' | + | Nightclaw' |
- | easy to fill, thus reasonably frequently run by people who've been through Taqnateh. Nightclaw' | + | |
- | tends to be quite loyal to the cause. | + | |
- | The Glint Badge' | + | {{ : |
+ | {{ : | ||
+ | {{ : | ||
+ | The Glint Badge' | ||
===== #4: Pyu Ivvi: Feather Badge ===== | ===== #4: Pyu Ivvi: Feather Badge ===== | ||
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* **Place**: [[place:Pyu Ivvi]]: [[place:Pyu Ivvi:Zubat Cove]] | * **Place**: [[place:Pyu Ivvi]]: [[place:Pyu Ivvi:Zubat Cove]] | ||
* **Leader**: [[character: | * **Leader**: [[character: | ||
- | * **Specialisation**: | + | * **[[Types|Specialisation]]**: |
- | * **Rule preference**: | + | * **[[Pokégym rules|Rule preference]]**: |
- | Pyu Ivvi's pokégym is... different. While it's entirely possible to win by normal rules, almost all | + | Pyu Ivvi's pokégym is... different. While it's entirely possible to win by normal rules, almost all pokémon battles here are decided by Zubat impact - though despite the swarm of them that inhabit the cavern the gym is set into, that's not as trivial as it sounds, since they' |
- | pokémon battles here are decided by Zubat impact - though despite the swarm of them that inhabit the | + | |
- | cavern the gym is set into, that's not as trivial as it sounds, since they' | + | |
- | that have no interest in running into things. | + | |
Somewhat contrary to the feel of Sehto' | Somewhat contrary to the feel of Sehto' | ||
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Its involvement with Taqnateh is comparable to Nightclaw' | Its involvement with Taqnateh is comparable to Nightclaw' | ||
- | The Glint Badge' | + | {{ : |
- | did write all of them down once. Just another **TODO**. | + | {{ : |
+ | The Feather | ||
===== #5: Ehqaj City: Haze Badge ===== | ===== #5: Ehqaj City: Haze Badge ===== | ||
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* **Place**: [[place: | * **Place**: [[place: | ||
* **Leader**: [[character: | * **Leader**: [[character: | ||
- | * **Specialisation**: | + | * **[[Types|Specialisation]]**: |
- | * **Rule preference**: | + | * **[[Pokégym rules|Rule preference]]**: |
- | Ehqaj City's pokégym, huge aquarium aside, is quite a regular pokébattle, | + | Ehqaj City's pokégym, huge aquarium aside, is quite a regular pokébattle, |
- | (if circumstances allow) sets out to prove that pokémon trainers are part of the playing field and need to | + | |
- | guard themselves against area effects and distractions. | + | |
- | The pokégym of Ehqaj, like Njoty, is quite rarely run by people who've been through to Taqnateh. They' | + | The pokégym of Ehqaj, like Njoty, is quite rarely run by people who've been through to Taqnateh. They' |
- | still in on the setup, but due to their vicinity to Vale and Taqnateh - both in gym circuit ' | + | |
- | physically - tend to be a little more negatively affected by the whole thing and would probably appreciate | + | |
- | if the whole thing just went away. (Since the people who engage Ehqaj' | + | |
- | through Nahla City, trainers usually don't elicit enough sympathy to make the gymleader consider a rule | + | |
- | breach.) | + | |
- | The Haze Badge' | + | {{ : |
- | reflective low sphere set into its center, its hue lost somewhere between transparency and blue, like a | + | {{ : |
- | large, elaborate raindrop captured and frozen in time. | + | Canonically, |
===== #6: Kzye City: Pyre Badge ===== | ===== #6: Kzye City: Pyre Badge ===== | ||
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* **Place**: [[place: | * **Place**: [[place: | ||
* **Leader**: [[character: | * **Leader**: [[character: | ||
- | * **Specialisation**: | + | * **[[Types|Specialisation]]**: |
- | * **Rule preference**: | + | * **[[Pokégym rules|Rule preference]]**: |
- | Kzye City's pokégym is the gym circuit' | + | Kzye City's pokégym is the gym circuit' |
- | comfortable with. It's easily the most difficult pokébattle in the circuit to master, since it combines | + | |
- | many of the prior lessons into a single experience - pokétrainers being part of the battle and the | + | |
- | environment being rigged against the challenger as the most prominent. | + | |
- | Depending on trainer reactions to the confiscation (which happens regardless of overall battle outcome), | + | Depending on trainer reactions to the confiscation (which happens regardless of overall battle outcome), the gymleader may decide to give them back - the lesson is learnt either way, after all, so usually, only the smug and uncaring will not have their pokémon returned. |
- | the gymleader may decide to give them back - the lesson is learnt either way, after all, so usually, | + | |
- | only the smug and uncaring will not have their pokémon returned. | + | |
Like the Nahla City gym, Kzye's is firmly in the hand of people who have been through Taqnateh. | Like the Nahla City gym, Kzye's is firmly in the hand of people who have been through Taqnateh. | ||
- | The Pyre Badge is shaped like a stylised corona of a sun with a circular cut-out where the moon would be | + | {{ : |
- | during a solar eclipse, with an equally stylised lightning bolt spinning around its attached axis within. | + | {{ : |
+ | Canonically, | ||
+ | |||
+ | When pinkgothic was making badges in real life she took a completely different approach based on the fine detail that she didn't think she could sculpt a lightning bolt out of clay without it turning into a disaster. You're welcome to use that as a template, she's certainly happy with how it turned out. | ||
===== #7: Vale: Vale Badge ===== | ===== #7: Vale: Vale Badge ===== | ||
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* **Place**: [[place: | * **Place**: [[place: | ||
* **Leader**: [[character: | * **Leader**: [[character: | ||
- | * **Specialisation**: | + | * **[[Types|Specialisation]]**: |
- | * **Rule preference**: | + | * **[[Pokégym rules|Rule preference]]**: |
- | Vale offers a very environment-based pokébattle - the place has labyrinthine qualities. Other than that, | + | Vale offers a very environment-based pokébattle - the place has labyrinthine qualities. Other than that, though, it's a rather straight-forward pokémon battle, though the normal typing of many of Yarver' |
- | though, it's a rather straight-forward pokémon battle, though the normal typing of many of Yarver' | + | |
- | pokémon make his a very offensively-geared line-up that's difficult to beat. | + | |
- | Marking the only reasonable way up to Taqnateh, Vale's gym is exclusively in the hands of people fiercely | + | Marking the only reasonable way up to Taqnateh, Vale's gym is exclusively in the hands of people fiercely loyal to the cause. |
- | loyal to the cause. | + | |
- | The Vale badge is... something simple, but the description is still not at this wiki's disposal yet and | + | {{ :vale-badge-against-background.png? |
- | so // | + | {{ : |
+ | In most continuities, | ||
===== #8: Taqnateh: Astral Badge ===== | ===== #8: Taqnateh: Astral Badge ===== | ||
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* **Place**: [[place: | * **Place**: [[place: | ||
* **Leader**: [[character: | * **Leader**: [[character: | ||
- | * **Specialisation**: | + | * **[[Types|Specialisation]]**: |
- | * **Rule preference**: | + | * **[[Pokégym rules|Rule preference]]**: |
- | The Eighth gym battle is designed to be unbeatable. Jagdish ' | + | The Eighth gym battle is designed to be unbeatable. Jagdish ' |
- | selection of Legendaries, | + | |
- | birds of Kanto, [[pokemon: | + | |
- | of battle (//"If you win, you get the Astral badge. \o/ If you lose, you lose everything, including the | + | |
- | right to your life."// | + | |
- | put through the [[Legendaries|legendary Council]] to decide their fate, which he then tends to execute | + | |
- | with admirable efficiency. | + | |
- | The Astral | + | {{ :astral-badge-flipped.png? |
- | //given to people// occasionally. Just not for regular reasons.) | + | {{ : |
+ | {{ : | ||
+ | There used to be a description | ||
- | Jagdish is the undisputed leader of the gym circuit and all other gym leaders. He frequently receives | + | Jagdish is the undisputed leader of the gym circuit and all other gym leaders. He frequently receives support in the form of money and food from the closest friends he has in the circuit, something he rather relies on. His role as pokémon-chosen [[Arbiter]] makes any sort of act of mutiny doubly unlikely; but at the end of the day, most of the gymleaders think he's a pretty okay guy with some pretty okay ideas and deserves some support. |
- | support in the form of money and food from the closest friends he has in the circuit, something he | + | |
- | rather relies on. His role as pokémon-chosen [[Arbiter]] makes any sort of act of mutiny doubly unlikely; | + | |
- | but at the end of the day, most of the gymleaders think he's a pretty okay guy with some pretty okay | + | |
- | ideas and deserves some support. | + | |
- | The current gym leaders rank from 'close friend' | + | ===== Gym Leaders ===== |
- | follows: | + | |
- | [[character: | + | The current gym leaders rank from 'loyal supporters of the circuit' |
- | [[character: | + | |
+ | [[character: | ||
+ | [[character: | ||
[[character: | [[character: | ||
+ | |||
+ | The timeline of gym leaders in recent years looks as follows: | ||
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+ | {{ : | ||
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+ | {{tag> |
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