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THE MARBLE CAVE OF MISSOURI

A very large protion of the State of Missouri is honeycombed by caverns to such an extent that the underground drainage in many places deprives the surface of small streams. For many years, the existence of a large cave in the extreme southeastern portion of Stone County, Mo., has been known, but the inaccessibility of the locality has kept travelers, with but few exceptions, from attempting to visit it. Within the past year, however, such remarkable accounts of the wonders and extent of the cavern have appeared in the local and metropolitan newspapers that the Missouri World’s Fair Commission and the State Geological Survey determined to investigate the cave thoroughly and see what there was of truth in the stories which had been so widely circulated. Consequently, our party of three, representing both organizations, besides our photographer, Mr. C. E. DeGroff, of Warrensburg, Mo., left Aurora, a live mining city of Lawrence County, about 270 miles southwest of St. Louis, on the “Frisco” road, one charming day last fall, to explore the new wonder of the world. The 40 mile drive over cultivated prairies and through fine open but almost uninhabited forests might be dilated upon, but the limits of our space compel us to hasten on to the description of the object on our journey. Stone County lies for the most part on the southern slope of the so-called Ozark Mountains. Three mountains, however, are merely hills and ridges which have been formed by the erosion of the plateau which is known by geologists as the “Ozark Uplift” and would (continued on page 70.) [transcription continues after images]

(Continued from first page.) not to be called such by one familliar with the Alleghanies, the White Mountains, or even the Catskills. No railroad has yet touched the county, the forests of oak, with sycamore, elm, and walnut in the valleys, are for the most part in their primeval condition, and thousands of acres of fertile land may still be taken up under the U. S. homestead laws. The forests are free from underbrush and much grass grows under the trees, giving the scenery a park-like aspect.

Mr. Truman S. Powell’s claim occupies Echo Glade and the neighboring hills about a mile and a half from the mouth of the cave and about 300 feet below it, and is the best headquarters from which to visit the cavern. Mr. Powell is the editor of the Stone County Oracle, published at the county seat, Galena, 18 miles from his farm. He says that he has explored fifty caves in Stone County. He is a firm believer in the future of the county and is an ardent admirer of Marble Cave. His eldest son, William T. Powell, is the good-natured, efficient guide to the cave. He is strong and active and a keen observer whose judgement is very reliable.

Climbing this hill, which is known as Roark Mountain, we saw in its top a large sink hole about 200 feet long by 150 feet wide and 55 feet deep, the bottom of which had dropped out, leaving a yawning chasm opening into the chamber below. Descending a series of log steps in the side of the pit, we came to two short ladders which led through the opening to a platform, from which we descended a large, strong wooden adder into what seems to be a bottomless pit. This part of the journey is fraught with many imaginary dangers to those unaccustomed to ladders, but our party had received considerable training in entering mines in different parts of the State, and consequently we hastened down without fear, anxious to see what was in store for us. The bottom of the ladder rests upon the top of a mound of debris, about 45 or 50 feet below the platform above mentioned. Climbing down this cone of earth and slabs of limestone, we reached the bottom of the vast room which is called the “Grand Amphitheater.”

Some light comes through the great rift in the roof, which is the bottom of the sink hole, and as soon as our eyes become accustomed to the semi-darkness we could see something of the really grand dimensions of the immense dome in which we stood; but when the room was illuminated by red fire, its full g r a n d e u r was revealed. The dimensions as given in the newspaper accounts are greatly exaggerated, but the truth is sufficiently grand. The room is about 150 feet wide by 200 feet long, and the roof rises in a magnificent arch to a height of 165 feet from the floor. Some stalactites were seen on this broad expanse of roof, but the beauty of the scene lay chiefly in the symmetry of the arch and the variations produced by the differences in the limestone strata.

Two beautiful examples of drip formations occur in this great amphitheater. One is the “Great White Throne,” a magnificent stalagmitic mass of pure white onyx about 50 feet high, 50 feet in extreme width and 12 or 15 feet in thickness, showing all the beautiful forms which one might imagine to be caused by the freezing of a fountain. It is hollow and one can climb more than half way to the top inside.

A few yards from the Great White Throne rises the “Spring Room Sentinel,” a beautiful fluted column of combined stalactite and stalagmite about 20 feet high and 2 to 3 feet in diameter with swelled base which stands near to the opening leading from the Grand Amphitheater to the Spring Room and to the Animal Room. This passage is a long, straight, gradually converging one following a “joint” in the limestone, which lends to a large low room of unknown dimensions which contains the mummified remains of hundreds, even thousands of animals, mainly, if not entirely, of carnivorous species. Admittance to this room is positively forbidden by the owner of the cave, but the assistants to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington have had access to the material from it and are now at work upon their identifications. A specimen from this room which was shown to me consisted of the skull and jaw bones of a cat-like animal to which portions of dried skin and fur still clung. It had a very ancient appearance. The continuation beyond the Animal Room of the joint leading to it seems to emerge in the side of a ravine outside the cave. What was once apparently an opening here is now filled with earth and debris.

Mr. Will Powell thinks that this is the place where the much desired horizontal entrance to the cave can be made with comparatively little trouble and expense.

Opening out from the passageway to the Animal Room is the Spring Room and beyond this lies the “Shower Bath Room,” the latter being a perfect example of a conical dome some 30 feet high, down the roof of which the water trickles down and flows over a low precipice to the spring room. This water showed the remarkably low temperature of 48° F.

Behind the Great White Throne, in the Grand Amphitheater, is a passageway which leads to the waterfall and to the other portions of the cave, which will be described as we gon on. The first room to which this passage leads is called “The Registry Room” because the walls are covered in places with firm, damp, red clay, in which numerous visitors have inscribed their names with finger or staff - an unstable method of gaining celebrity. Here our guide called our attention to the fact that the atmosphere had become much warmer than it was in the first great chamber. There is, in fact, a difference of six or eight degrees. Then pointing to a great black hole in the floor of the room, he said “Listen!” and taking a huge rock cast it into the abyss. After some seconds we heard the sound of the rock as it fell into water below us. The abyss is called the “Gulf of Doom.” Actual measurement proved this precipice to be 88 feet in height!

Turning to the left and descending a slippery clay bank and a narrow ladder, we reached a point at which the cave divides, one arm going past a great slab of limestone standing on end, known as “The Lost River Sentinel,” in a direction S. 30° W. to “The Lost River Canyon,” a journey which we reserved for another day. Taking the other arm, leading in a directly opposite direction, and clambering through two passages like the “Corkscrew” in Mammoth Cave, we soon reached the top of the waterfall. The edge of this fall is about 20 feet across, and the water passes through a series of beautiful little pools with projecting rims of calcite crystals before it takes its final plunge 50 feet into the darkness. The top of this waterfall is about 285 feet below the top of the hill at the entrance of the cave.

Retracing our steps for some distance from the top of the waterfall and turning on our track again at a lower level, we reached the bottom of the pit (8) into which we had cast the stone from the Registry Room above, and then passed on down a narrow defile by the aid of ladders and over slippery clay banks until we stood at the foot of the beautiful waterfall. Half way down the precipice a projection has caught the spray from the water, and the deposits of ages have formed there a beautiful bowl of carbonate of lime. Pointing to a 25 foot slope of miry clay and water, which lay just beyond us, Mr. Powell Said: “That’s the way to ‘Blonde’s Throne,’ the prettiest thing in the cave.” We looked at the prospect in dismay, and anxiously inquired whether there were no other way to get there; being answered in the negative, we left him behind, as he said there was no need of a guide, and plowed our way through the miry mass, which came to our knees. After toiling up this slope and through a narrow cleft in the rock, we reached the beginning of what they called “The Dry Crawl.” We wondered what the wet one was going to be. Down we went on our hands and knees and began the toilsome journey. One hundred and fifty feet of this, most of which was too low even for this method of locomotion, brought us to the “Midway Rest,” a small room, out of which a passage leads upward to several small chambers, in which were phantastically carved shapes in the limestone. We suggest the name of “The Temple” for one of the chambers, which contains fine Doric capitals. But Blonde’s Throne did not lie in that direction. As soon as we had gotten our breath and adjusted our surveying instruments we started on the “Wet Crawl,” and wet it surely was! We were pretty careful about the first pool, and tried to keep out of the water as much as possible, but when we reached the second pool we saw there was nothing to do but plunge in and work our way across. After thirty or forty yards of this kind of travel on hands and knees in the water, or worming our way through comparatively dry holes in the rocks, we reached a room a the base of the ascent to our destination. Further progress on the level on which we had come was stopped by a pool of water of unknown extent, known as “Mystic River,” spanned a the beginning by a low symmetrical arch of limestone.

A short, steep ascent led us to a great narrow cleft in the rocks about 100 feet high. Following this a short distance, we came to a steep incline of wet, slippery limestone, up which we climbed 25 or 30 feet, then pushing our way through a hole in the wall, barely large enough for our bodies, we were in Blonde’s Throne. This is a small room, only about 15 feet in diameter, but it is a gem. It is almost completely filled with beautiful and curious stalactites and stalagmites. Some of the stalactites were in sheet-like folds, and a sufficient number of them gave forth musical sounds when struck to enable a skillful musician to play simple tunes. The stalactites here are in all stages of growth, from narrow, hollow tubes, like pipestems, to solid pillars several inches in thickness. A small opening in the side of the room revealed the existence of a room which has never been explored. Rockets fired into it show that it must be a room of large dimensions.

Returning from Blonde’s Throne, and slipping and sliding down by the aid of the slimy rope which had helped us up the steep ascent, we reached the bottom of the incline all to soon for some of our party, Lighting up the cleft by magnesium ribbon, we could see weird drip formations filling the crevices and projecting from the walls far above our heads. The return journey to the bottom of the waterfall was made much more expeditiously than the advance, because, being thoroughly wet, muddy, and cold, we did not stop for scenery or surveyor’s measurements.

Another day was spent in exploring the windings of the “Lost River Canyon,” which, as stated above, lies out to the southwest from the Registry Room. Climbing over huge blocks of limestone which had fallen from the roof, or threading our way between slabs standing on edge, we soon came to the beginning of a much longer but drier crawl than the one just described. After worming our way along for some 200 yards, we came to a beautiful stream of water flowing swiftly through the underground channel which it had carved for itself in the l i m e s t o n e. This was the “Lost River.” In several places tortuous passages led out from this canyon, which are barren of interest, and serve merely to confuse the traveler and add to the length of the cavern. Somewhat less than a quarter of a mile from the Registry Room we ascended a steep slope and arived at “Springsted’s Throne.” This is a room about as large as Blonde’s Throne, but with a smaller amount of drip formation in it. The special feature of this room is a small recess, which is separated from the main portion by a lattice of stalactites. The cave has been explored for about a fourth of a mile beyond this room, but nothing of interest has been discovered in that direction.

The explorations thus far described have been along galleries opening out from only two places in the grand entrance dome. On the north side of the Grand Amphitheater another series of chambers opens out, most of which are comparatively small and devoid of drip formations. The first of these is the Mother Hubbard Room, in which an isolated waterworn pillar of limestone stands which has received the name “She” from its suggestion of Rider Haggard’s weird descriptions. A dry crawl of 70 feet from this room takes one to the “Battery,” a dome which is 60 feet in greatest diameter and 50 or 60 feet high. Here the bats congregate in vast numbers, whence its name. From one side of the battery a series of rooms, one of which is known as the Dungeon, and low dangerous passages extend to the Grand Amphitheater again. A low narrow passage leads from the Mother Hubbard Room to the northwest to a series of barren rooms two of which are said to rival the Grand Amphitheater in size. This part of the cave is dry. The second room reached contains considerable amounts of epsomite, MgSO₄+7H₂O, and therefore is called the Epsom Salts Room. The passage to these rooms is called the Windy Passage on account of the strong current of air which sweeps through it.

As there were no means at hand of exploring this passage and the dangerous route beyond, we did not undertake to visit it.

In addition to bats the living animals to be found in the cave consist of crickets, newts, and eyeless fish. Plant life is represented by a peculiar white fungus which grows on the rocks in the Grand Amphitheater. Vast numbers of bats make their home in the cave, especially during the winter season, and the floor is covered to a depth of many inches with bat guano. Mr. [Page 71 begins] Powell has distinguished five kinds of bats here, none of which, however, are of unusual size or appearance.

That the cave was known to the early settlers and explorers of this region is shown by the notched poles which were found in the cave when it was first rediscovered, and which evidently served as ladders for entrance into the cave. Two of these are now to be seen in the Mother Hubbard Room. Local supposition is that these notched trees were used by the Spaniards, as it is known that they occupied the land in this region before the English settlers took possession of it.

The cave as thus described is of considerable extent and possesses variety in scenery and interest. It is well worth a visit, and when the projected railroads from Aurora and Springfield pass near it, it will undoubtedly become a summer resort; but the estimation of the distances, heights and depths which have appeared in certain usually responsible papers and magazines are very wide of the truth. Its unexaggerated beauties are enough to recommend it to the popular fervor. The accompanying map represents, as accurately as the circumstances would permit, almost all of the cave that has been explored. It is certain, however, that the cave is by no means fully explored and that further investigation will add largely to this map. At present even Blonde’s Throne and Springsted’s Throne are practically inaccessible to the average visitor, but a not excessive amount of work would materially lessen the most serious difficulties in the routes.

My special thanks are due Mr. J. D. Robertson, assistant on the Missouri State Geological Survey, and Mr. H. D. Card, draughtsman for the Missouri World’s Fair Commission, for their painstaking assistance in making the accompanying map and measurements and the thermometric determinations that are given herewith. To Mr. Powell and his family is due the credit for almost all the exploration that the cave has received.

An exceptionally low temperature, 48 F°., was observed at the lowest point of the Grand Amphitheater and in the air and water of the Spring Room. Throughout the rest of the cavern the temperature seemed to be about that usually found in caves, 54° F.

In considering the scientific value of this cave, the fact should not be overlooked that this is the first cavern reported in this country containing mummified animal remains in large quantities.

#nonfiction #speleology #1890s #geology #cave #caving #long post

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hotaugust · 1 year

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stoked that my post made it to someone cool :””) thoughts on will & testament overall??

i’ve read all vigdis hjorth’s english translated books so far except ‘is mother dead?’ but i’m so excited for that ~ i absolutely love her stream-of-consciousness writing style (she’s definitely one of my favourite authors)

{side note: would love to talk books with u more ~ do u have a goodreads or storygraph? weeeeeeeeeeee}

pls see attached a bit of the intro to ‘the freezer door’ ~ mattilda bernstein sycamore which i ♡ and i hope u do also

Omg first of all thanks!! And love that u have the Care Work url / explanation! That book looks really good, I’m excited to read it.

Just half way through the last chapter of Will and Testament. And because I’ve been listening to the audio book and falling asleep to it I feel like I haven’t fully experienced it.

I am really enjoying it though. I think the writing style is perfect for this narrative and she’s able to convey some very nuanced interpersonal stuff in a very clever way, without being explicit with it. The subtle humor in some bits is nice. The looping narrative and descriptions of how she feels is very relatable, she has a very good understanding of what it’s like to be grappling with and trying to live with such a life experience. Im also in a vaguely similar place in my recovery from the same kind of thing that happened to Bergljot and the book has given me useful new ways to think through some things.

I haven’t read any of her other books. You seem like quite a fan! Which one is ur fav?

And I don’t have good reads or anything. Would love to see yours tho! Is it linked somewhere?

Oh thanks for sharing this book! It looks darling ! Have u read please miss by grace laverly or Paul takes on the form of a mortal girl by Andrea lawlor?

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fellowshiphq · 10 months

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L A U R E L

name: devna jain

age: 24

gender: cis woman

pronouns: she/her

species: halfling

kingdom: freld

commitment level: 1

proficient skills: acrobatics & stealth

fc: amita suman

A B O U T

laurel is the sidekick. they would never be the ones to lead their own story; they wouldn't know how. but they are great at helping others find their adventure and happy endings. they're an excellent adventuring companion and their skill matches your loyalty. they are driven by the bonds of friendship, a sense of duty to others, and a desire to become something more memorable than the story that was prescribed to you.

S P E C I A L S K I L L S

your mother always calls you 'little squirrel' and the name is quite apt. you can scurry up trees and jump from branch to branch as easily as you can walk on level ground. you've spent your life climbing the oaks; watching others quietly and trying to disappear. you are lithe, agile, and silent. your skills in acrobatics and stealth make you a perfect spy, although you've never had anything more interesting to spy on than a dispute over stolen cabbages.

S T A T S

dexterity: +2

strength: +1

charisma: 0

wisdom: +1

intelligence: +1

constitution: 0

C O N N E C T I O N S

DOGWOOD - dogwood has been at your side for as long as you can remember. you like to pretend that they follow you around like a lost duckling, but the truth is the opposite. you know that they'd be content to go off on their adventures alone, but you can't let that happen. both because you'd worry they'd get themselves in too much trouble but also because you'd worry they'd discover a new better life without you, and you'd be alone forever. SPRUCE - as an overly suspicious person you don't often warm up to people quickly, but the moment you saw spruce you felt an overwhelming adoration. they were just so . . . cool. you've spent your life trying to be as cool, calm, and collected as they are seemingly without effort. you want them to teach you their ways. but you are scared to approach them. how do you even tell someone that you want to be just like them? SYCAMORE - sycamore isn't a bad person, not really. they're just incredibly irresponsible and reckless and their behavior tends to rub off on everyone around them. they could pull their shenanigans all day and you really wouldn't mind. except for the fact that they're such a bad influence on dogwood, and that makes your self-assigned role of dogwood's protector so much harder.

this character is currently TAKEN. they are written by ADMIN KATE.

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#c #taken #freld #halfling

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librarycards · 2 years

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do u have any nonfic or fantasy recs?

yes! in terms of the nexus of nonfic and fantasy , Akwaeke Emezi's Dear Senthuran (cross-reffing your goodreads and I agree, it's heavy and triggering as fuck) and Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars are amazing works of speculative memoir. M.G. Doherty also self-published a remarkable fairytale-memoir that more people should know about, called In the Nucleus [x]!

There's also a brutal, but incredible, book of speculative-historical poems called Zong! by M. NourbeSe Phillip that will....it will change the way you think about Everything. It's about the transatlantic slave trade and not for the faint-hearted.

I don't actually read too much *fantasy* per se, and when I do, it's lower than a fucking limbo bar -- but I can try! Event Factory is in the vein of Invisible Cities. Except waaaay more inspired. Plain Bad Heroines is fun as hell, too.

In the realm of MG/YA fantasy, there have been several good ones recently! I enjoyed Six Crimson Cranes and Daughter of the Moon Goddess,

For speculative poetry: Terese Maison-Pierre's Manifest!

For nonfic, That's Revolting! edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is a great, if a little vintage, collection of radical queer writing. The first edition is the best imo but it's not available anywhere (I actually had to reach out to Mattilda via facebook messenger to get a section to cite lmao).

There's also an academic text my colleague and I have been using a lot in our ongoing work on disorderly eating, counter-community, and social resistance - Kyla Wazana Tompkins's Racial Indigestion. She argues, among other things, for a shift from "critical food studies" to "critical eating studies". It's an amazing book on race, gender, and the politics of consumption.

#hope this works!!! tried to make sure it wasnt stuff you'd already read so like i didnt mention pterry or leguin or pierce or butler lmao #ask #discworldwitches

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mayakern · 3 years

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Since everyone is asking about designs that don't sell well I'm curious about the ones that do sell well. What type of designs do u see tend to sell better than others? Like is it mainly just the darker colored skirts?

right now our best sellers are the bee skirt, whale skirt, cherry skirt, and sycamore skirt. the star gayzing skirt did pretty well for its first round so we’ll likely bring it back. i’m not 100% about crystal swords yet. the DM skirt was flagging for a while but seems to have recovered after we removed the trim in the last round of preorders. the witch skirt is kinda flagging so we’re considering shelving it for a while. the mushroom skirt did pretty well in its return but i’m not 100% about it either. hands and snails habe been doing pretty well and will likely return for the next round of preorders. i’m not sure about everything else.

so yeah it’s mostly darker skirts with the cherry tree skirt being the big exception.

#ask #store

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dracula-enthusiast · 3 years

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did you change your url or

nope ive had the same url since like. 2015 i think :0 (except for when i changed prof sycamore to sans undertale for like a month when deltarune came out) u might have me confused for someone else?

#also scream sorry for following then unfollowing #i dont recognize ur url so i went to see if we were mutuals n i pressed the wrong button sdfkghsdfkjgd

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sinnohqueen · 3 years

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looking for one on one pokemon rp

(possibly other fandoms but mostly pokemon lol)

hi folks! i figured i'd try this again after a few months. i'm trying to get back into roleplaying for writing purposes and making friends! im 24 (they/she) and looking for ppl age 21+ to rp with over discord. i have really been craving pokemon lesbians bc i love them....

some basic things u should know i guess:

please be 21+ (cannot stress this enough im sorry)

possibly interested in a group rp, but mostly looking for onexone in a discord server i can create

nsfw welcome but not a requirement. characters must be of age i am not doing anything nasty thank u

OCs welcome! i prefer to play canon characters and i will try ocxcanon cus im personally ocxcanon trash. or heck if you wanna play a canon and i'll play an oc, we can discuss that too!

mostly interested in playing f/f ships (im gay irl lmao), probably m/m too. there are maybe like a whole Three m/f ships i like im sorry

i want to branch out with the characters i can play but i am most comfortable with Cynthia, Diantha, Elesa, Skyla, and newly Melony!! also my OCs bc i need to develop them lol

i have some plot ideas u can see under cut

also writing samples can be found at my old rp blog @cynthiacelestic

if any of this interests you, please feel free to add me on discord!!! i dont mind strangers adding me just pls let me know who you are lol

juliana#0099

plots & ships under cut :^)

ships i rlly love:

Cynthia/Diantha Skyla/Elesa Shelly/Tabitha (RSE verse and mostly pokeani verse bc those two are hilarious also i latched onto them as a kid and idk why) Melony/OC (mine) Roxanne/OC (mine)

we definitely are NOT limited to just these ships, just wanted to throw them out there for ideas i guess?? i really love cynthia/any female character i feel she'd get along with (nothing weird please and definitely not dawn)

and lastly here are some basic plots i feel would be fun idk

zombie au because i am basic. are the humans zombies??? are the pokemon??? I GUESS WE'LL FIND OUT

post-plot villains i am honestly just a sucker for villains

Diantha/Cynthia timeline where they meet because of Professor Sycamore. in this au diantha is sycamore's adopted sister, sycamore works under rowan and cynthia also interns for him while she prepares for the next League conference. diantha and lysandre come to visit for the summer and shenanigans ensue. i can elaborate ofc lmao

harry potter au bc im absolute trash im sorry-

faller au involving rse shelly & tabitha i dont have this one planned out too much unfortunately but i REALLY like the idea of mixing rse and oras together and fucking shit up

wallace & winona the gay ex-lovers lmao just kind of dated and realized oops! im gay! so am i! and here we are, no bitter breakup needed!! they are best friends. i figured we could do a lot with this but i like the idea of roxanne being the new League Baby and everyone has to take care of her but steven basically assigns these two to be Mom and Dad bc roxanne has a hard home life

shelly and tabitha post-rse aftermath au i have a whole elaborate thing planned out where they run away together bc they have no choice after the groudon/kyogre battle and are on the run......enemies to lovers im basic as fuck-

clair & cynthia working together with lance to take down Team Rocket but clair has a huge crush on a certain blonde oops

thats it for now!!! these dont make much sense except in my head but maybe they will spark some ideas idk

#pokemon rp #pokemon roleplay #pokerp #poke rp #discord rp #roleplay search #how many other things can i tag this as-

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radramblog · 3 years

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Nuz Report- X Water/Poison

God I feel like shit both mentally and physically right now, and I cant put a button on why. This might be an issue, considering I’ve got like half an hour or so to get this bad boy done.

Hmm. Let’s talk about the nuzlocke I finished yesterday, that’ll work, I can vomit words on that.

I finished a Pokemon X Duolocke with 1 death yesterday, but the fuckers made me fight for it.

For round 6 of the Nuzlocke Premier League, we did Duolocke Runs of Pokemon X and Y. Now I was hoping to take this month off, since only 3 of the team’s 4 members have to do each round, and I’ve done literally all of them previously without a break. But unfortunately, our 4th had to pull out for real life stuff- understandable, but still a pain. Kalos is probably my worst region for Nuz stuff (save Galar which I haven’t tried yet) and being locked to two types, after my allies had taken the starters I didn’t despise, was not exactly a thrilling prospect.

(these screenshots were taken post-E4. I was Lv.68 going in, same as Diantha’s ace.)

With my teammates taking Psychic/Normal and Fighting/Dark respectively, my only starter choice was Froakie. This is literally the first time I’ve used Froakie for anything, and it meant I had to reckon with the abyss that is its natural learnset. Chau (named after Knives from Scott Pilgrim) was an absolute mess until it hit Greninja, and even then took forever to be actually good. Pinch-hitting with U-turn was useful, but that TM comes frustratingly late.

With Froakie in mind, and Dark taken, one of my types had to be Water. I ended up choosing Poison for the natural synergy- Poison can take on the Grasses that scare my Water types, and Water can deal with Poison’s Ground weakness. Greninja, being also Dark, can scare off Poison’s Psychic weakness, with the Poisons taking the Fairies that Gren doesn’t like. It made sense to me.

The only other super earlygame mon that made it to the final team was Pikablu the Azumarill. Gen 6 introduced a thing where baby Pokemon get 3 perfect IVs by default, and Pikablu’s ended up in Attack, Defense, and Speed (with Huge Power of course), making it one of the best Azumarills you can possibly end up with. Funny rabbit didn’t get to abuse its powerful Fairy STAB until learning Play Rough very very late, but thwacking things with Return and Aqua Tail proved to be enough.

While I played around with a Beedrill and Panpour early, the next mainstay wouldn’t show up until Sycamore offers a Gen I starter in Lumiose, where I of course chose Bulbasaur. Rafflé was such a versatile, hard-hitting mon that did a patently absurd amount of work in the E4. Sleep Powder is a useful enough tool that access to it guaranteed him staying on the team, but being the first actually good Poison around (save Budew->Roserade, but I didn’t know where to get a Shiny Stone and it’s redundant anyway) meant a lot early on.

It was around here that I had the only death of the run. Outside of Connecting Cave lies a trainer with an Axew, which I completely forgot knows the frankly overpowering at that point Dragon Rage, one-shotting Anaesthesia the Croagunk. It was a real shame, I was kind of hoping she’d be able to redeem the line for me, but I guess it wasn’t to be. She was Modest anyway so she wouldn’t have been good regardless, I suppose.

Moving through gyms and the awful Kalosian pacing, I ended up picking up a few other temporary team-members- Vaporeon and Crobat. [bad meme] the Vaporeon, despite having an excellent nature, just didn’t have the stats to cut it, and I wasn’t comfortable with Flaps adding yet another Electric weakness to the team, especially with Clemont approaching.

[bad meme] would get replaced by Lagrange the Lapras, since Ice seemed like an extremely handy type to have around. Lapras is another one of those mons that’s just generally pretty solid, his bulk being much appreciated along with the coverage Ice Beam (and later, Thunderbolt) brought. Looking back, I ended up with a bit of a bulkier team than average, but I feel like that was fine to make up for the fragility of Chau and one of my later members.

Clemont was the first Gym that actually scared me, and it wasn’t because of his actually good Pokemon. My main answer to him was Venusaur, except, he has an Emolga….that bloody rodent gave me more trouble than anything else on the team, since it hit everything super-effectively if I didn’t grind something else up (and I didn’t).

Choices for the team ended up being pretty slim pickings. The lategame of XY has a lot less variety for my two types than the earlygame, with multiple repeated options, and a lot of them were less than appealing. Combine that with my lackluster luck with a lot of areas and my team felt a little stretched for playables. That Beedrill only left the team after Clemont.

It would be replaced by Quaaaaaaaaag. Despite having the worst of Quagsire’s two abilities, he pulled more than his weight, even if he just clicked Earthquake most of the time. An immune switch for Electric was absolutely essential for the run, letting Chau’s U-turn be extremely safe in certain scenarios.

The last team member was somewhat of a surprise. I was running around Frost Cavern for the only legal encounter, a 10% shot at Haunter. I’ve always been a lot less high on that line than most, gotta get that hipster cred in, but that does fly out the window when you get to legitimately use a Shiny one.

Unfortunately due to the rules of the NPL, I was not permitted to get Mega Akuta running, confining him to the shade shiny he was. But I wasn’t going to pass up the chance anyway. Akuta had huge utility being able to switch into Normal, Fighting, and Ground completely freely, and break just about anything with a variety of heavy Special attacks. His paper-thin defenses didn’t matter if he never got hit, though I was always loathe to switch him in just in case he got Crit to death on entry.

The final team paired up awkwardly against the Kalos E4, and I was a bit worried about having 4 waters and 2 poisons instead of 3/3 (my other options were like, not good) but we made it through without losing anyone. Malva and Drasna were, unsurprisingly, not hard, and Siebold’s Gyarados terrified me with Dragon Dance but didn’t actually get an attack off before Lagrange’s Thunderbolt took it out. I was extremely concerned about Wikstrom, but a rather silly strategy prevailed- using Rafflé to Sleep Powder and set up Growth (shoulda taught Swords Dance tbh) before rolling him with Bulldoze (I forgot to get the Earthquake TM). Diantha was similarly scary, seeing as her Mega Gardevoir had SE on everything except Quaaaaaaaaaag , and he wasn’t going to be able to take two. Chau was in when she came out, and I knew Night Slash wasn’t going to KO, so she had to get out of there- U-Turning into an already chipped Akuta was the only play and I had to hope she went for Moonblast instead of Thunderbolt. She did, but it got the Special Attack drop, which presented its own conundrum- does Akuta KO from here, or does he die? Because I can’t switch around forever, chip damage wasn’t going to get me far when she had healing items in reserve. I went for it, and it turns out Akuta did get the KO, but I was nailbiting the whole time.

I’m hoping next round, Crystal Superless, is less grating on my nerves, if I even have to do it at all. Because, fuck, I need a break.

What’s that, NWC is starting again? Oh, sign me up fam,

#ramble #pokemon #nuzlocke

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pokemagines · 4 years

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Why didn't I put Sycamore and Lysandre in with my faves why am I so du-- oh right I wanted to balance them and not just say every gen six character (except Mr Bonding) and every dragon tamer

HDJSJS WHO IS MR BONDING AM I STUPID HAHA

oh.... every dragon type specialist has rights perhaps u have taste !!!! carry that torch for gen 6 babieeee !!!

#not an imagine #mod touko speaks #pkmn

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irradiatedsnakes · 5 years

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okay so .... im fairly unsatisfied with the vast majority of the Older Pnfs stuff ive seen (including the canon ones cough cough. somewhat i was going to say that as a fun aya jab but i actually did enjoy how much of the characters ended up in where they were in life then like. theater kid buford? candace going to law school and crushing it? baljeet already a college professor at like, 19? wonderful.) except for the aya stuff i mentioned in those parentheses and that one post that i cant find anymore that was like “ferb becomes a rockstar” which is like, yeah, absolutely he does

anyways i wanted to do some of my own thinking cus yknow thats a fun thing to do and trying to figure out how to convincingly age A Triangle and The Letter F so its yknow a fun excercise....obvs theres A Lot More phin here than ferb or candace but that’s mostly just cus im better at drawing phineas and the older ferbs i do have didnt come out as well and i think need a lot of work.

also phineas’ definite destiny at at least some point in his life is a summer camp counselor i mean COME ON. i was going to put “campe diem” on his shirt there as a fun pun because carpe diem is like yknow the whole song and Theme Of The Show and stuff but then i remembered campe diem is the god damn c*mp c*mp slogan so uh, f.

as usual additional comments and stuff in the image captions. oh also these are a littttttle bit old not super old just a bit i think if im gonna doodle some more theres some things id change like probably give candace glasses entirely as a reference to a silly one-off joke line in flop starz and remove ferb’s glasses there cus i mostly put them on him just to make him look a bit older without trying all that hard and i think i can do better than that. i mostly just need to get better at drawing ferb in the first place

anyways thats my 4 paragraphs of justification for this post i hope u enjoy it thanks for watching dont forget to like comment and su

#art #pnf #phineas and ferb #phineas flynn #ferb fletcher #candace flynn

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I love the way make my fave professor (AKA Sycamore) petty as fuck because tbh that is sooooo me. I wish I can achieve that level of petty. I was also wondering if you could do headcanons for everyday life with Sycamore and his s/o. Like does he try to initiate tickle fights but end up getting roundhouse kicked to the face by accident. Pls. I need silly and funny headcanons with our French bae.

SYCAMORE IS THE BINCH WHO PLAYS TOO MUCH AND ENDS UP LOSING AN EYE CAUSE HE DIDN’T LISTEN WHEN HIS S/O TOLD HIM TO STOP FOR HIS OWN SAFTEY

probably fucks w/ his S/O a bit if they don’t speak french, initially whispering actual sweet cute things in french and slowly start saying just more and more like abstract things until one day he literally just calls them his ‘little baguette’ and!!! Now there is no trust! Even when he tries to call them normal french pet names now they won’t believe him bc they aren’t sure what is actually a culture gap and what is him just being an asshole

he is so petty don’t even try to tell me he’s not - he’s just mostly petty in that one way where it’s like ‘living well is the best revenge’ but takes it to the level where he’s making sure the people he’s got the beef with Knowthis bitch is posting on instagram about self care and how he’s never felt better right after a fight with lysander or smthn, and goes out clubbing to show Just How Good He Is Feeling And He Couldn’t Give Less Of A Shit About Whatever Drama Went Down (also clubbing in France is off the fucking chain where my french girls @)

Doesn’t know how to swim, but he will get out into the middle of the ocean with only an inner tube and half a bottle of sunblock spf 5000 to protect his pasty ass bc he loves the water

The most useless grown ass man ever, probably needs his assistants to open pickle jars for him and really…what else are men for…(jk bb u kno ilu come back)

#i think i used up all of my french experience from 4 years of classes and one trip abroad in this one post #i will never fully understand those wild french keep doing u france #except that turban ban thing that targets muslims #thats just plain fucky n u kno it #Professor Sycamore #Augustine Sycamore #Sycamore #headcanons #zac-baegans

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gems-of-lirema · 5 years

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Who did you play in your first RP? What’s an RP Pet Peeve? Who do you wish your Muse could interact with? Why did you start RPing? What’s an unsaid RP rule?

Munday questions (Currently accepting)

//This got long so uh...you know the drill.

[Who did you play in your first RP?]

//Answered. In case anyone’s wondering, this is my first RP Tumblr blog ^_^

[What’s an RP Pet Peeve?]

//Uuuuh...besides bringing in unnecessary drama and forcing any drastic headcanons for certain characters (ex: assuming my Guzma is abusive. He is not), I think that’s pretty much it ._.;

[Who do you wish your Muse could interact with?]

//Imma focus on the newer muses for this question c:

//🐦 While she’d hate to admit it, she still has a thing for Wallace. She’s not necessarily a cold person, and just being in Wallace’s presence does bring out her nice side a bit. In addition (since, like Steven, she’s self-aware), I really want her to yell at Anabel to stop working for the police in Alola & go back to Hoenn already. I’m still debating if they’re long lost sisters or something .-.

//💔 YO SYCAMORE MUSES WHERE U AT? YA WANNA MAKE A BROKEN MAN CRY??? (Can’t really call him a grown man because let’s face it Lysandre’s just a giant crybaby) ...Ok when I put it that way maybe Lys shouldn’t talk to Sycamore...but c’mon, you know I’m a sucker for angst c: (yes, Sycamore is dead in my main verse. Yes, Lysandre is technically responsible for his death.) I think, any optimistic muse that vaguely resembles Sycamore in personality (COUGH COUGH Palmer COUGH) will do too. I just like to make my Lysandre cry c:

[Why did you start RPing?]

//I mean I won’t go too in depth with this one, but uh...I needed to get my ideas out here somehow. And sharing them with my ex for a time was fine...until, you know, he became my ex. Now that Sword/Shield is coming out, I’ve got new material to work with! I really enjoy writing, and I do believe RPing helps a ton with my hobby ^_^

[What’s an unsaid RP rule?]

//Nothing is canon. Except for actual cannons. I think I am willing to work with...97.6% of all headcanons thrown at me. With a margin error of 32. (i.e., anyone’s free to shoot any ideas at me, no matter how arbitrary. This isn’t an excuse to force any ships on me, but it is an excuse to exploit my character’s flaws c: )

#//late reply is late #mun answers

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pacman-tattoo · 7 years

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pokemon hcs [bmc]

just general teams + other things for like... all the characters.

also none of these are fukn balanced or anything i just went with what i think the characters would use

alsoeveryonelivesinalolawhoops

no warnings. just nice pokemon stuff. happy things <3

jeremy heere - jeremy was born in kanto and raised there for most of his life - eventually moved to alola with his dad and lives on melemele island! his mother is from sinnoh (and lives there now) and his father from kanto.. he’s visited kanto a couple times with his family before his mom left, and plans to just travel the different regions one day! jeremy is the kind of person to have a full team on him at almost all times imo!

his team consists of:

a shiny toucannon! he came across her one day and managed to catch her (as a pikipek) and still cries over the fact he found her tbh. her name is leia and she will fucking fight anyone who messes with jeremy (or any of jeremy’s friends, tbh.) ((michael cries over her. everyone cries over her. the shiny bi birb......... bless..... RICH CRIES OVER HER A LOT BC!!! IT’S THE BIRB!!!!!))

natasha is jeremy’s vulpix! she is a cutie that was given to him by his dad, and she’s not an alolan vulpix (which, jeremy is completely fine with tbh, because natasha is pretty fucking rad). jeremy’s actually grown up with her so they’re pretty close.

ganon is a gengar that will fuck u up. he’s kind of an ass sometimes, but he’s apart of the team nonetheless! jer caught him after he was dared to go into the thrifty megamart (while acerola was off taking care of official business, which is... a no-no, jeremy you fuck).

galileo is an eevee jeremy has yet to evolve - mainly out of uncertainty. he’ll probably end up as a jolteon tho! jeremy caught him since the boy loves eevees. michael was probably like “so what are you gonna evolve him into” and jeremy was like “.... fuck, idk.” he’s a pretty rad eevee, tbh - but he’s a lil smaller than most. he doesn’t let that get him down - fuck you if you judge him on his size, tbh.

kalel is a tirtouga that jeremy revived! he’s a pretty rad dude who acts a lot older than he is. pretty gnarly. michael likes him. they share weird outdated lingo lmao

peggy is an ariados that’s super sweet. gentle spider baby. she’s pretty optimistic tbh!!! jeremy loves his spider baby. he raised her from when she was just a baby spinarak. his daughter. i love her.

michael mell - born and raised in alola on ula’ula island! he’s pretty content to staying in alola, but would 100% travel other regions with jeremy because honestly - that sounds super fucking cool. keeps 3-4 pokemon with him at all times. super guilty about catching pokemon and sending them back to his parents - but they don’t mind! his dad loves pokemon a lot and both of his parents research them!!!

his team consists of:

daxter the decidueye! michael’s parents managed to get daxter (as a rowlet) for him for his birthday and the two are super close! sometimes closer than michael and jer are lmao. he’s a pretty damn cool bird. fuck u jeremy and ur SHINY bird.

link the raichu (alola ver.)! A RAD BOY, MICHAEL LOVES HIM A LOT AND WILL FUCKN SQUARE UP IF U INSULT LINK HE IS THE BEST FUKN RAICHU FUCK U

clyde the psyduck!!!! a good boy!!! THE BEST BOY!!!! everyone on michael’s team is the best. michael loves his team. clyde is a giant baby who michael likes to carry around tbh.

samus the flareon!!!!!! the only gal who will fuck u up if u underestimate her. michael treasures her. she is a good bab. 10/10. likes to curl up on michael while he sleeps.

christine canigula - also born and raised in alola on akala island, but lived in hoenn for a couple of years before moving back! she loves her team and would fight u. a complete angel tbh, names all her pokemon after theatre characters (same tbh). her father travels a ton and she meets up w him sometimes while she travels!!! it’s fun times

her team consists of:

cassie the oricorio! too good for the chorus. christine loves her a ton!!! she is a good bird. very dance and gets along with christine rly rly well!!!! (most often seen as in pom-pom style)

eliza the lilligant! she is good and an angel. i love her. extrmely sweet tbh. the most liked member of the team tbh. (these descriptions get shorter with every character whoops)

macbeth is christine’s machoke! he’s ready 2 tussle if u hurt christine + he’s super gr8 at moving set pieces if necessary! once picked up jeremy and scared the fuck out of him.

puck is a togedemaru! he’s super cute and ready to destroy. probably the strongest of the team tbh. probably fucked up Many ppl. he’s super sweet though??? just don’t anger him lmao. he chills in the light/sound booth during shows. he doesn’t even do anything he just chills there.

rich goranski - from sinnoh my sweet dudes! most of his pokemon are actually like.... sinnoh-native. lives in alola with his older brother now but still visits sinnoh every year. tends to travel rather than just staying in one place. has broken his pokedex multiple times on accident. his bro is pretty laid-back tbh but probably works for aether since they pay is... good and he was support rich that way. has burn scars from a bad run-in w a pokemon :/

his team consists of:

buzz is his electabuzz! a good baby, buzz is a big ole softy who cares deeply for his trainer. a tough dude, ready to tussle if someone tries to hurt rich though.

ryder is his mudsdale! a tough, cold dude who doesn’t rly give two shits abt 99% of things. prefers naps tbh. a bit stubborn sometimes too tbh. actually rly loves brooke??? no one knows why.

onyx is his salazzle. a sharp-witted girl who would fuckin stab a bitch for rich. very protective of him. she loves her short trainer. often picks fights with daxter whenever rich and michael are together, but more in the older sister way tbh.

jake dillinger - born and raised in kalos, jake made it his personal goal to travel to every region and beat the leagues. his parents have been sort of absent from his life so he’s extremely independent and tends to mother his team, honestly. he regularly talks with sycamore (and thanks him for giving him the opportunity to travel)! strong boy. loves his team. only carries three pokemon bc he’s always ready to add to his team.

chester the chesnaught! wasn’t named by jake. a timid boy who’s a little bigger than most chesnaughts, ending up around 5′8″ rather than the usual 5′3″. forgets he’s a big boy. has always referred to jake as his papa ever since he was a chespin and he hasn’t stopped lmao. what a cutie

stephanie is his mienshao! a tall babe who is ready 2 tussle. loves jake? he is a good trainer. often spars with chester to keep her skills sharp. i love her?

beans is his reuniclus and he is a smart cookie. awkwardly smaller than most pokemon tbh? he doesn’t care. he’s happy and loves himself and his teammates. often naps but is a strong baby.

chloe valentine - born in kalos, raised in alola on akala island. met brooke there too!!! didn’t grow up expecting to be that interested in battling but something seemed to spark and she’s honestly one of the strongest trainers in alola. honestly, i could see her as an island kahuna??? ready to fight anyone threatening her island.

buster the machamp. protective of everyone tbh, not just chloe. a jolly boy who loves to eat, and often jokes around with the rest of the team and with chloe’s friend’s teams.

marshmallow the bewear. honestly a terrifying bear who knows her strength. very patient with everyone, except buster when he tells shitty jokes. often the scariest part of chloe’s team.

kate the lucario. the real threat. chloe fucking trains with her in order to keep in shape. often responsible for knocking teams out, kate is the powerhouse of the team. marshmallow may strike fear, but kate’s the one trainers should lookout for.

brooke lohst - born and raised on akala island with christine! brooke has always had an interest in taking care of pokemon and aspires to be a nurse someday tbh!!! not interested in battling tbh, but is super supportive of her friends! only keeps two pokemon with her at all times tbh. they’re good friends.

winona the chansey is brooke’s main partner tbh. she plans on staying by brooke’s side when she goes into school and helping her when she eventually becomes a nurse! good friends with rich’s mudsdale tbh. winona is very bold and very strong and i love her

terra the espeon. given to by jeremy! terra is a sweetheart who also helps brooke as much as she can, and can help calm trainers if needed. whoops i love her?

jenna rolan - also born and raised in alola on melemele island. jenna is insanely smart??? honestly she’s gonna be a professor one day. she studies under professor kukui rn! more intereted in research than battling tbh. loves her team i s2g she would fight anyone for insulting them.

frost is her ninetails (alola ver)! jeremy loves her? especially bc he was raised in kanto and woah jenna u have a ninetails wtf!!! but she’s an ice type!!! thats so cool.... but anyway, frost is a diva i s2g, she likes attention (and likes jeremy because he gives her attention).

andy is her dragonite!!! he’s a good friend, a good chubby soft boy. andy is basically a giant teddy bear who just wants to cuddle tbh. often found napping??? what a sleepy boy

i love pokemon?

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