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Welcome to the Safari Zone! At the Safari Zone we have begun to hold capture contests! As the name implies it is a contest to see who can catch the biggest, rarest Pokemon out there! The contest is simple, in the Safari Zone you will find many different kinds of Pokemon, from all over the world in fact! We give participants three Safari Balls to use and attempt to capture the best Pokemon they can, or you can use any three Pokeballs of their own, if you do, we do not give you any Safari Balls. [You may use one of yours and two of ours and so forth. You are only allowed to use three Pokeballs total.] You are allowed to take just one of your own Pokemon into the park to use to weaken a wild Pokemon for capture, so don't let it get knocked out! Pokemon are judged on their quality, rarity, and how well the capture was roleplayed. So are you interested? Then sign up, take your Safari Balls, and hit the grass and find the best Pokemon you can!

Also, the Pokemon available is always different. The zone we'll be hunting in this time is the Forested Mountain Zone! A tall mountain jutting out of a dense forest at its base, the shrubby fading away the further you make it towards the mountain's summit. Something dangerous may wait at the top.

How to Participate:

The rules for the Safari Contest are simple. Pick one Pokemon to use in the contest, and when you post your character looking for a Pokemon use the random number generator to find out what Pokemon your character finds. Set the lowest number to 1 and the highest to 100 for the main area and 1 to 50 for the side areas. Once your post goes through, check to see what number you got, then, look at the list of available Pokemon, at the bottom of this post, to see what Pokemon appeared.

Then, in your next post once the Pokemon has been decided, begin battling it all in one post. But before you post your battle, use the Random Number generator again to see if the capture was successful, setting the lowest to 1 and the highest to 10, however, different Pokeballs have different success rates depending on what Pokemon or area you are using them on/in. Consult the list below to see what Pokeballs benefit this area.



[Safari Ball] 50% Success Rate on any Pokemon.

[Pokeball] 50% Success Rate on any Pokemon.

[Great Ball] 60% Success Rate on any Pokemon.

[Ultra Ball] 70% Success Rate on any Pokemon.

[Net Ball] 70% Success Rate on Bug and Water type Pokemon, 50% on all others.

[Dive Ball] 70% Success Rate on Water type Pokemon, 50% on all others.

[Dusk Ball] 70% Success Rate on Pokemon found in caves, 50% on anything else.

[Nest Ball] 70% Success Rate if Pokemon is a lower stage than your own Pokemon.

[Repeat Ball] 70% Success Rate. Allows a fourth and final capture attempt after the previous three have failed.

[Quick Ball] 80% Success Rate on your first Pokemon encountered only, 50% on all consecutive.

[Timer Ball] 80% Success Rate if it's your last Pokeball only, 50% on any prior.

[Heal Ball] 80% Success Rate on a Pokemon if you failed to capture it once already, 50% if not.

[Luxury Ball] 80% Success Rate on a Pokemon that evolves with happiness.

[Fast Ball] 80% Success Rate on a fast Pokemon.

[Heavy Ball] 80% Success Rate on a heavy Pokemon.

[Level Ball] 80% Success Rate on a first stage Pokemon (Spearow, Stunfisk, etc.), 50% on all others.

[Love Ball] 80% Success Rate on a Pokemon with only a single gender, 50% on all others.

[Lure Ball] 80% Success Rate on a Pokemon fished out of the water.

[Friend Ball] 80% Success Rate on a Pokemon that evolves with happiness.

For success rates of 50%, you must receive one of the following numbers from the Random Number generator to capture the Pokemon: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

For success rates of 60%, you must receive one of the following numbers from the Random Number generator to capture the Pokemon: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

For success rates of 70%, you must receive one of the following numbers from the Random Number generator to capture the Pokemon: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

For success rates of 80%, you must receive one of the following numbers from the Random Number generator to capture the Pokemon: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

For success rates of 90%, you must receive one of the following numbers from the Random Number generator to capture the Pokemon: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9



As long as you still have Pokeballs you may continue to hunt and capture Pokemon until you get one you are comfortable with. If you catch a Pokemon, but then choose to catch another, you must release the first Pokemon you caught before keeping the second. Once you run out of Pokeballs your time is up and the Pokemon you last caught will be the one judged.

When everyone is done (a specified time will be given when the contest will end, regardless if others are done) all Pokemon caught will be judged. Each Pokemon will be judged individually in separate posts where a random number will be used to judge their quality, between 1 and 5 and the number it lands on will be its quality. The other stat taken into consideration is the Pokemon's rarity, its species. A rather common Pokemon like Spearow won't give as much points as a Pokemon like Absol would give much more. However, with quality, a Spearow could beat out a Absol.

Contestant Prizes:

Prizes will be given out to the top three contestants, as well as a consolation prize to those who don't make the top three. All participants get to keep the Pokemon they caught. The first place contestant may choose to get a Snag Emblem or additional Snag Coins apart from the normal prize.

1st place prize: 15 Snag Coins and one Snag Emblem OR 25 Snag Coins!

2nd place prize: 15 Snag Coins

3rd place prize: 10 Snag Coins

All participants who did not place receive 5 Snag Coins as a consolation prize as well as their captured Pokemon. Snag Coins can be spent in the Snag Mall.

Also, if you use a Pokemon that's not fully evolved that Pokemon will earn Evolution Points/Happiness Points at the end of the contest depending on how many Pokemon it knocked out. For Evolution Points your Pokemon gains 0.50 points for first stage (Caterpie), 0.60 points for second stage (Metapod), 0.70 points for base (Tauros), and 0.80 points for third stage (Butterfree). For Happiness Points you must battle at least five Pokemon to gain one happiness point, including a successful capture. If not catching anything then it's seven battles. You can also gain Purification Points in the same way as Evolution Points. Don't worry, the Safari Zone is protected by an Immunizer so no virus spreading here! Evolution/Purification Points will be rounded up at the end and we ask you post how many points you accrued in your final post. Bonus points (Evolution, Purification, or Happiness Points) will be rewarded to all participants at the end based on how much effort and content went into your posts. You may lose points if your battles were one liners or just in general lacked any effort.

And that's it! Get out there and have fun!


Available Pokemon:

minefoo[Main Area – Mountain Summit]


[Side Area A – Forested Base]


[Side area B – Shrubby Mountain Side]

"I'll give it a shot," Absinthe said once she made it to the Safari Zone grounds. After getting her hands on some Safari Balls, she let Angela out of her ball and made her way to Side Area B. The Torchic immediately made a perch of one of Abby's shoulders, though the teen didn't react to that.

After a little walking, Abby come across another Flying-type, this time a Spritzee. "Another bird?" she asked, checking its Pokedex data. Before she could say anything else, Angela jumped off and landed in front of Spritzee.

"Let's get our point across. Flamethrower, Angela," Abby insisted. With a sharp inhale, Angela complied, exhaling a gout of flame that covered Spritzee. It managed to dodge the brunt of the attack, but still took a good bit of damage and got burned for its trouble. Fortunately, it was able to quickly use Aromatherapy to heal the burn.

"Not bad," Abby smirked. "Push the attack. Flame Charge."

After stomping the ground for a bit, Angela lunged forward, using it's internal flame to heighten it's speed. After a bit of running, she leaped up and collided with Spirtzee, knocking it out of the air and fainting it.

"Yeah, that's what I thought. Come on, Angie," Abby sighed, taking her Torchic and moving on.

As expected, Machop burst out of the Safari Ball almost immediately. Abby was ready for him, though. "Alright, punish him with Crush Claw!" she ordered. With a leap, Angela brought her talons down on Machop, pushing him down with added weight thanks to the Normal-type energy of the move. However, Machop took this to his advantage and grabbed on to Angela, leaping into the air and using Seismic Toss to throw her back down.

"Use Quick Attack to get out of it!' Abby yelled. With a burst of energy, Angela lunged forward, reducing the velosity of her fall enough to avoid taking damage upon landing. With a hard push, she leaped forward again, aiming to collide with Machop's torso and leap off it before it could get ahold of her. Fortunately, the second Quick Attack knocked Machop back, preventing it from grabbing her.

Abby decided to try the Safari Ball again before Machop could regain its momentum, hoping to keep it in the ball for a while so it could cool off.

||Ulla and Leon||

Once again, another Safari Constest. This time Leon was going to participate. Unfortunately, it wasn't on his own will. As his little sister was pushing him to go and enter with the help of Lucario. "Ulla, Lucario. Please stop pushing me. I do not want to enter." He said as he was not even trying to stop them from pushing him as that would use up a ton of energy. "No way, last time you pushed me into going. And it's only fair if you go now!" She said as both of them made it to the entrance. Ulla looked more happy than he did. Then again, right now he was dreading on even being dragged here.

Ulla was looking at the map as she pointed at the main area. "You should go here. Mountain Summit." Leon groaned as Lucario was digging through his pockets as he pulled out most of his Pokeballs. The Aura Pokemon closed his eyes to read all of Leon's Pokemon's aura as he put them all back except for one. He gave it to Leon as he popped it open. His Zubat popped out cheerfully as he wrapped his wings around his arm like a hug. "Hey. I'm guessing you want to play?" The Zubat nodded as Ulla joined back to with Leon. "Was there a certain Pokemon you wanted for our team?" The little girl shook her head as she smiled. "Whatever you come back with. It would be a really nice addition to our family. Just becareful, apparently there's been some weird energy readings." Ulla handed over her Great Ball and Ultra Ball she had kept just in case Leon really needed to use it. With that, Leon went with his Zubat to check out what was going on.

Arkelos shows up to the registration stand. "Hmmm, this safari looks promising." he muttered to himself. "Riolu, you ready for some fun?" Riolu grinned happily. "So be it; let's go check out the Shrubby Mountain side." Riolu nodded in approval.

After filling out the forms, the two make for the Mountain side. "Well, here we are, let's see what we can find." After walking for a yards, the two get jumped by a pokemon.

Wren, somehow, found himself standing at the entrance to a Safari contest and walking inside with Nutmeg resting on his shoulder. The Bounsweet seemed to be convinced they could win this but the channeler was more interested in his partner getting a bit of experience in battle now. Since joining Snagem, he'd discovered a need to train his Pokemon that had never been there before.

Registering his partner and preparing himself for what was coming, the pair headed off to the Forested Base of the mountain. Something in that forest was calling to the Channeler. Maybe it was the strong energy emanating from it? Maybe it was the calls of Grass-types he could hear in the distance? Whichever it was, the man felt his normal anxiety melting away as he found his way to that place of comfort within the woods.

||Ulla and Leon||

Leon was now getting a bit annoyed that he was still here as he climbed higher on the mountain top. "Come on...this is suppose to be a Safari...where are all the Pokemon?" He said as his Zubat was perched on his shoulder. "Next Pokemon we encounter, we are battling them for sure buddy. That way you can get your needed exercise." The Zubat nodded as it chirped to signal that there was something behind some rocks. "Alright...here we go."