#treehollow

[arcanagoat]

the fall of Treehollow

​art for a new campaign I’m very very insane about <3

[dindleseed]

Hi and welcome to ‘my new dnd character I’m obsessed with’

[skiddoozle]

THE CODPINE TRIPLETS

Dnd art! I'm playing Coral Loblolly Codpine the 14 yr old bard on the right <3 Bonus art of her full design + how she looked at 10 yrs old:

also she yelled at a baby Dragonborn who loved her but in her defence she is 14 and very traumatised its up to You The Viewer to forgive her

[heybiji]

[dallieart]

I had an idea I couldn't unsee, so it had to be drawn. Meme time with The Boys (including

@heybiji's drow warlock, Dande and our favorite DMPC Jalester). I may have spent a little too much effort on this meme....

[ninjanissie]

for @heybiji

[wevelocityteampresents-blog]

After reading about the rules for the White Treehollow again, I decided to clear all the floors. I already beat the first 5 when I was a kid. So, I only had another 5 to comb through before I could face Benga.

The floors were pretty easy to go through. All it took was some deductive reasoning and knowledge. (As well as a bit of strategy.)

After a few days, I finally made it to Benga. Even with two Pokémon against three, I was able to beat him and clear the gauntlet.

And what was my reward for completing this challenge?

A bit of a letdown after finally beating this thing...

Thankfully, Benga promised to give me something better.

So, I went back to Alder's place in Flocessy Town to see what he was talking about.

I've read about being able to get a shiny Dratini in this game. And now, I've finally got mine! It's a shame that I didn't get a Gible, though. But that would mean that I'd have to play Black Version 2. So, Dratini it is!

Now that I've cleared the White Treehollow, I should go back to fighting on the Battle Trains.

[markedonestalker]

The 8th chapter of "Overcoming Yourself" is ready! Victor Reznov need to pay off the debt for Avery Tailor, so he temporally leave the hospital. And he will have some first interesting events in Treehollow...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61258495/chapters/167257690

[arcanagoat]

another moody Haddock piece… as a treat

[dindleseed]

Fit the mould,

But at least you belong.

[z-cerulean]

Soirée, the Paldean Hatterene That Did.

Gonna do a write up about something I've been doing for the past few weeks.

So this story begins with VGC. Watching enough Wolfey videos got me interested in giving it a shot again for the first time since Ultra Moon.

Following some testing, I arrived at a start point: Hatterene. She was more than slow enough to dominate in Trick Room, packs a lot of power, and had reasonable bulk on top. A great pick both as a relative novice and for what appealed to me.

After going through a few iterations of a team, I eventually arrive at this:

This was based on a team by Gerty2Dirty on Twitter. The primary two cores are the same, those being Hatterene and Indeedee for Psyspam, with Torkoal and Hisuian Lilligant as a secondary trick room sweeper and fast option respectively. I made a few moveset adjustments to my liking, as well as altering the last two Pokemon of the lineup (Porygon2 is both a favourite Pokemon of mine and a very solid Trick Room pick, and Kingambit felt like a good fill for the defensive gaps in the rest of the team). While I'm sure there's better iterations of hard Trick Room teams out there, these 6 managed to push through into Master Ball tier, and all managed a Master Rank Ribbon for their troubles, reaching the top 6000 for the October 2024 VGC ladder season.

The entire team might have their own stories one day, but for now, we're going to focus on Hatterene. More specifically, my now Master Rank Hatterene, Soirée.

I had caught many wild Hatenna, Hattrem and Hatterene in a hunt for one with a 0 Speed IV, even finding three with a perfect Speed IV before eventually coming across her. Despite as many good changes for modifying stats as the newer Pokemon games have made, getting low stats is still pretty obnoxious and has to be done the hard way. As some sort of final joke, she also came in with a Jolly nature at base as well (+Spd -Sp.Atk), perhaps the worst possible nature for any Hatterene. Ultimately not a problem due to mints, but something about it stung after how long I'd been looking.

Besides being as slow as genetically possible and possessing a Master Rank level capability to click Expanding Force, however, there's... not much ostensibly special about her. Having to catch so many Hatenna meant I'd stuck to using fairly standard catching methods, landing her in the pretty ubiquitous Ultra Ball. She's not shiny, much like every other Hatenna I saw, and she has no personality marks despite the significant odds increases stacked with the Mark Charm and title power. Her modestly "slightly smaller than average" stature further barely distinguishes her, leaving her ineligible for both the Mini and Jumbo Marks.

It's at this point Ribbon Mastering comes into my attention again. I've been carrying Pokemon through games for many years now, I still have my story playthrough team that beat the White Treehollow in White 2 from 11 years ago. But despite this, I never paid much conscious attention to Ribbons. Most of my Pokemon had at least one, usually a given region's Champion ribbon, but collecting them on a Pokemon was something I'd never particularly gone out of my way for. And, now, with both adult responsibilities and many other games coming out I wanted to play, it felt difficult to justify committing to something like a Ribbon Master project, despite admiration towards those that did it.

Since one successful run, I'd wanted to handle the November ladder with a new team. This proved less than fruitful. Most things I tried didn't feel like they fully clicked, despite my best efforts, and I ended up burning out of teambuilding.

Not quite feeling a break from Pokemon entirely though, a thought occurred to me. As far as ribbons go, Soirée had already done the most difficult one in achieving the Master Rank Ribbon. The Effort Ribbon was a given, and another run of the Academy Ace Tournament for the Paldea Champion Ribbon wasn't a problem either with a reasonably levelled story team, let alone one that was Master Rank capable. The Best Friends Ribbon simply asked for some picnic activities including and besides making sandwiches, and the three achievable Marks in S/V weren't hard more so than tedious (particularly the Partner Mark, why is it like this). Besides all those, the only two remaining ribbons available to her would be in Sword and Shield, plus it would be a reason to push through the Battle Tower finally, having mostly left Sword after the end of my original run.

Though despite all that, some reservations lingered. As mentioned, Soirée is pretty non-descript as far as not just most Hatterenes, but most Pokemon go. On top of that, she could knock out all her Ribbons in just two regions. Would that really make much of a compelling story? Most well-known Ribbon Masters had come from places like a Japanese GameCube eReader. Would there be all that much to tell at the end of it all?

But... then I recalled NeverHappy. A Budew abandoned in a second-hand copy of Platinum, only to be one day found, have value placed within it, and go the full distance with only sheer love and pettiness for fuel. Soirée had already captivated me simply by doing this:

All that mattered was what Soirée meant to me, not how notable she was for anything she wasn't. She could - and would - go as far as she could.

The Paldean portion made sense to finish up first. Ultimately, this was mostly just the three obtainable Marks, two of which (Itemfinder and Gourmet) weren't a huge deal. The Partner Mark was by far the most obnoxious, forcing me to opt for using a hair tie to pull my controller's sticks together after half the rest of my active party got it by coincidence. Fortunately, though, this took not too much longer after driving Miraidon in circles for a while, noticing she had the Mark after accidentally knocking the controller.

A visit to Galar's Battle Tower in my copy of Sword was next up, and was by far the most individually time consuming aspect of the journey. I picked up Sword quite late after passing it up at launch and only going back after playing Violet. The game had been left off after the final Leon fight, with only a brief return later to catch Zacian and do the final Hop battle, so the entire run to Master Ball was ahead of me.

Courtesy of a friend with the DLC I didn't have (will get it eventually but... not right now), Soirée was able to get a serving of Max Soup, and took full advantage of one of the likely few windows she'll get to assume a G-Max form, and presented a more than suitable compensation for her temporary loss of Expanding Force.

I opted for Doubles, both because of VGC and out of personal preference. Additionally, this time Soirée would get a different cohort. Since the Galar Battle Tower doesn't prohibit any Pokemon as long as their learnsets match Gen 8 legality, a not insubstantial part of the run was handled by a few Pokemon I had used a bit less than I'd have liked.

Specifically, her three accompanying teammates were Morning Star, (a Necrozma assuming Dawn Wings form from my years old Ultra Moon run, in consideration for a team on the return of Reg G), Arboria (a Suicune from the Ultra Space Wilds I had reset on to have a decent nature and stats) and my unfortunately unable to be renamed Genesect, which I'd had in the background since an event distribution in 2016. Genesect did, unfortunately, suffer from a limited moveset on account of TR availability, so I wound up opting for a funnier strategy than simply using Iron Head instead.

Ultimately, the Battle Tower posed little issue, taking only one loss to Leon from a poor string of luck. All four pulled their weight, and I'm overall very pleased with the Pipe Bomb Genesect strategy's performance considering the circumstances of its implementation.

Being pretty short, the Galar Champion Ribbon following it was anticlimactic for the final one. The run's last opponent was Piers, so it was more or less a clean sweep.

And that was the end of the journey. A short one, considering most Ribbon Master journeys, but at the end of the day, expressing admiration for the best Expanding Force clicker I'll probably ever have is more than enough.

If you've made it this far, then thank you for following Soirée's short but, I hope, meaningful journey. I'd certainly like to do more Ribbon Master runs after this, and perhaps you'd like to bring your favourite as far as they can go as well.

[heybiji]

dandelion's clothes are always either too big or too small for him (because he steals them)

[dallieart]

 “Okay. Well, good luck, then.”

Just another drawing of Lafavel and Dande. Dedicating it to @heybiji

[ninjanissie]

More recent DnD game doodles.

Our (npc) friend Orelna got into some transmutation water and turned into a spider-headed...thing...anyway, she was freaking out so we came to stop her/calm her down

Then we went to look for Khari, who got taken away by vampire bullywugs.

We saved Khari and got rid of the vampires!

[coldslaws]

Odd question that could be used lore wise; which one is canon in Harmonia Posting, the White Treehollow or the Black Tower?

white treehollow! i think ive only mentioned it like once in passing in reference to benga. whatcha thinking about 👁👁

[natural-harmonia-posting]

Boy he likes? Boy he likes? Boy he likes?

Uh oh. Can you all keep a secret?

He met a boy out fishing one day, near White Treehollow. Can't remember his name.. I'm getting old. Something with a C, I think. Conner, maybe? Or Christoph? Shoot. I haven't actually met the kid yet, he says he's busy a lot.