#ranger rambles

[ringtownrangerlark]

Pokeballs vs. Capture Stylers

As a ranger, it is my deeply held belief, based on observation and experience, that Pokeballs are an under-estimated danger to pokemon and the environment. They can cause harm even when used properly and with good intentions. When used by someone with criminal or otherwise nefarious intent, they make causing harm ludicrously easy. Let's do a little comparison, shall we?

How do you get it? Pokeballs can be bought for money in Pokemarts, and are often handed out for free at promotional events. Capture stylers are given only to certified rangers.

What about more advanced versions? Some types of Pokeball require a certain number of League badges to purchase. Others are gated only by cost alone. Capture stylers have built-in limits that can be gradually removed by senior rangers once a ranger has proven experience and risen in rank.

Who regulates it? Pokeballs are produced by the Silph and Devon corporations. While they have some cooperation with the Pokemon League, and are regulated by government, their fundamental motivation is profit. Capture Stylers are regulared by the Ranger Union. Even if one could mass-capture using a styler, it would not benefit the Union to do so.

How many pokemon can you catch? While league battles allow only a fighting team of six, a person can buy and own as many pokeballs as they can carry. Even for the highest-ranked rangers, the maximum number of friend Pokemon is 7.

Can you take pokemon somewhere unsafe for them/the environment? Capture stylers prevent taking a pokemon out of it's native habitat, a limitation removed only for Top Rangers. A brand-new trainer could catch a magikarp and then immediately release it into the desert if they wanted.

What happens if you capture a wild pokemon? With a pokeball, the pokemon is now permanently registered as captured by the trainer. It can be released. Depending on the training experience, it may or may not be safe/appropriate to release back into the wild, even in its native habitat. With a capture styler, the pokemon remains wild. It can temporarily assist a ranger, and then return immediately to its natural environment and behaviors.

What if you try to catch someone else's pokemon? A pokeball prevents re-capture of an already registered pokemon. A capture styler can be used to capture an owned pokemon (this is often done to return lost pokemon, or soothe agitated or injured ones) but it does not change the ownership of the Pokemon.

Is there skill involved? There is strategy in Pokeball capturing, especially via battle. But theoretically, one could still bombard even a legendary pokemon with enough pokeballs and capture it by sheer statistical chance. Proper use of a capture styler requires education and training. Even if someone stole a capture styler, they would not automatically be able to use it.

What if someone "bad" tries to catch a pokemon? Anyone can buy and use a pokeball regardless of intentions. A capture styler conveys the intentions of the ranger. No matter how skilled/experienced, a person could not capture a pokemon they wished to harm in an unmodified/unhacked styler.

What about evil teams? Criminal organizations where pokeballs are readily available (Johto, Kanto, Hoenn, etc.) have simply used regular pokeballs for purposes of robbery, poaching, etc. Evil teams in regions where capture stylers are popular (Fiore, Almia, and Oblivia) have either heavily modified an experimental styler (Super Stylers) or needed to invent and produce an entirely new capture system (Gigaremo, Capture Gauntlet). This vastly limited available supply to team members, and speed of plans. I'm going to repeat that bit. Without access to pokeballs, evil teams found it easier to make, manufacture and distribute their own inventions than to use capture stylers for crime.

What happens if you defeat a criminal using a pokemon? Defeating a criminal (such as an evil team member) in a trainer battle may lead to an arrest, but they may also run away and keep the pokemon they own. When using a styler to capture pokemon controlled by other means (e.g. gigaremo units) the pokemon return to the wild.

You see why I think it's insane that of these two methods, one is meticulously regulated, and the other can be bought for pocket change at a corner store? In case anyone lacks reading comprehension, I'm not saying pokeballs make people evil. But it is a hell of a lot easier to commit crimes like mass trafficking with pokeballs than with stylers. And even well meaning, perfectly nice people can do things like drastically alter local pokemon populations by catching many in a short time span, or releasing them inappropriately. Pokeballs are insane and I'm so tired of people thinking I'm the weird one for saying so.

#pokeballs #ranger rambles #honestly more of a #ranger rant #lark lore #capture styler

[rangingfarandwide]

Side Quests

~ Outdoor Edition

The changeable weather conditions are upon us and that means making the most of favourable weather conditions to get outdoors.

Grab a D10 or simply choose any activity that takes your fancy and get out there!

Happy Questing!

#adventurecore #naturecore #rangercore #forestcore #nomadcore #vagabondcore #questcore #farandwidejobboard #ranger rambles #self care #side quests

[darkforestimagines]

Darlings, can someone explain to me why 1st person POV is so controversial these days?

#someone wrote on my ao3 fic that they put up with 1stperson because they liked my fic? #twilight saga #ranger rambles

[castletownranger]

I want to. Play in a dnd campaign where I can be a warlock of the Feirce Deity. Is that TOO MUCH to ask

#even a paladin or cleric of the fierce deity would be cool as hell #sigh #ages may pass but my absolute awe of the FD will remain the same #ranger rambles

[foldingfittedsheets]

Out of Context DnD Quotes: I don’t care what’s in your pants, as long as it does radiant damage.

#ramblies #funny #dnd #dungeons and dragons #our paladin got gender swapped with magic fuckery #but his ranger boyfriend comforted him that he still loved him

[lazylittledragon]

hey! I'm always curious how artist's tav's look in game😅 could you show how dorian looks like?🥹

i don't have any screenshots of the first version of him because i play with mods now and loading the old save might explode my computer, BUT i just started a tactician run to do everything i missed the first time (and just bc i wanted to play him again)

i just wish i could make him squishier y'know

#ramble #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #he's a soft boy he's not supposed to have all these cheekbones #he looks a Lot better this time around though #i did spend 15 minutes on the nautiloid with basket of equipment getting him out of the default ranger clothes

[kindlythevoid]

I have read Fellowship of the Ring more times than I have cared to keep count and every time I read Boromir’s, well, possession for lack of a better word, I have read it in fear, in discomfort, in horror, indifferently.

This was, I think, the first time I read it in pity. I looked at all the plans Boromir was making, how he would save his beloved city, how obstinate he was in his belief that the men of Minas Tirith would not be corrupted when wielding the Ring against Sauron —and I felt sad. He’s waving his hands and hollering and part of him is desperate just for the Ring, of course he is, he’s been traveling beside it with no hope for months, but he’s also desperate for hope. He’s desperate for a chance to save his people, save his brother, save his city.

Moreover, every time he calls out the Elves or the Wizards, you have to remember that he doesn’t know them. All he knows is that he traveled almost a full year to get their advice and they send him on, in his eyes, a hopeless venture. The one hope they give him is Aragorn, who promises to return and help save Minas Tirith with him, but even that all changes once Gandalf dies. They come to Lothlorien and of course it’s a welcome break, but they cannot, or maybe in Boromir’s eyes will not, help his people. And once they leave, Aragorn assumes his role as leader of the Fellowship in Gandalf’s stead more permanently and suddenly even that one, brief, uncertain hope of his is gone. Aragorn will follow Frodo. And it’s almost certain that Frodo will not go to Minas Tirith.

So is it any wonder, really, that tired, desperate, hopeless Boromir, out of his realm, out of his depth, already hanging by a thread when he joins the Fellowship and having been gnawed on by the Ring for months upon months afterwards, finally snaps once it’s clear that he will have to return home empty-handed and almost certain that somewhere far away Sauron is capturing the Ring and killing the companions that he had bonded with? Of course part of the Ring is making him lust for power, but it’s also his only “reliable” (in his mind) source of hope left to save his city.

And so I read Boromir’s (intelligent and thought out, mind you) raving and I don’t feel scared for Frodo, not after reading it so many times and knowing what ultimately happens, but sorrow for Boromir.

#hey yeah sorry if I keep repeating myself in this #I can just never seem to find the right words to properly express what I want to say #So I ramble on until I think I’ve thoroughly covered it #So sorry about that #but also friendly reminder that Boromir is an intelligent military leader #Whose fatal flaw was deeply loving his city a bit too much #And an inability to accept hope after so long being denied it #I’ll probably make a separate post after I read his death on his relationship with hope and how Aragorn “Estel” Ranger factors into that #but for rn it’s sad Boromir hours :/ #the lord of the rings #kiki re-re-re-reads the lord of the rings #just yelling into the void #boromir #the fellowship of the ring #minas tirith #aragorn #gandalf #frodo baggins #elves #the ring

[iwanttobepersephone]

Hey has anyone ever talked about how traumatic holding Pritchards dead body was for Halt and how maybe whenever he gets a really bad depressive episode one of the things that keeps him going is promising himself to never have to make Gilan or Will do that?

Cause if they have I haven't seen it

#rangers apprentice #ranger's apprentice #halt o'carrick #rambles #sad lol #ra pritchard

[findingcrow]

I would really like to remind everyone that it’s canon (we didn’t make this up. We didn’t have to make this up Flanagan made it canon for us) that everyone just. Accepts that Will is Halt’s son. Gilan says that even though he and Halt will always be close, Halt and Will’s relationship is much closer and is father & son like. Pauline treats Will as her son. Horace sees Will as his brother and Halt as his uncle. Everyone sees Will and Halt and are like “this man. This man has adopted a child” which is so funny to me because imagine you’re in araluen and you see Greybeard halt who never smiles with his happy son who doesn’t shut up (AND they’re the same height). Flanagan does a lot wrong in the series but making Halt see Will as his son and the found family aspects are NOT one

#sometimes I remember that I made this acc and got tumblr specifically for tra and question my life choices #no because like. everyone just accepts that Will is halts son it’s so funny but it also makes me sick with joy #I’m sick and tired irl so I don’t feel like doing my normal rambling tags #but I think you get the point #rangers apprentice #john flanagan #ranger's apprentice #will treaty #halt o'carrick #horace altman #gilan davidson #books #tra

[capncunt]

this tweet is so real but Know that i saw power rangers (2017) three times in theaters i fucking love that movie

#ramble on #power rangers

[hearts4hughes]

people arguing about matt rempe is the highlight of my evening

#it’s so entertaining #this 6’7 boy does not care what anyone thinks #he’s a millionaire #😭😭 #LET HIM LIVE #nora rambles :0 #devils lb #rangers lb #matt rempe

[ringtownrangerlark]

I hate pokeballs I hate pokeballs I hate pokeballs I HATE POKEBALLS

#ranger rambles

[rangingfarandwide]

Side Quests

~ Mammal Check Edition

Disclaimer: these are basic suggestions. Everyone is different, you may need more/different things included and that's okay.

I hereby introduce the 'mammal checks'. Enforced between friends or independently, they serve as a very basic way to stay in touch with our bodies, especially during times of stress.

These are some of the minimal checks, kept short so they are easy to remember, quick to complete and adaptable. The idea is to complete all 5 checks during a break between tasks.

Happy Questing!

#adventurecore #naturecore #rangercore #forestcore #nomadcore #vagabondcore #questcore #farandwidejobboard #ranger rambles #self care #side quests

[castletownranger]

Thinking about how my first oc EVER was literally just. A nature spirit who watched over and protected the Hero of Time

#she was either a wind spirit or a tree spirit??? #she had died and was reincarnated as a form of nature #but one day Farore was like BITCH YOU’RE NOT DONE and told her to follow and protect link #and I was like 10 when I made this oc so I had no idea about the downfall timeline yet #but thinking about how there IS a timeline where the hero of time fails and the implications this has for my oc………………. #god she’d be crushed #anyways I am once again suffering brain rot #ocarina of time is not my favorite loz and it never has been #but there’s something about the hero of time #there’s just SOMETHING about the hero of time #if you’ve made it this far you get a hug and a cookie #ranger rambles

[aro-ace-from-outer-space]

I re-read Ranger's Apprentice and I remember how much I loved it as a child. How I idolized Will and Halt and Gilan and snuck around and built a sling and drank black coffee. I remember willing myself to be shorter and running through trails trying not to make a sound. I remember crying for Will in book four and Halt in book nine. I remember reading my first fanfiction, discovering Wattpad. God, those were the days.

There's a sort of grief, I think, in remembering.

#ranger's apprentice #halt o'carrick #will treaty #gilan davidson #john flanagan #reese rambles

[juicingbeetles]

In Praise of Horace Altman

This is a Horace apreciation post because I feel he needs more love. Obviously, Will and Halt are totally amazing but I feel that my Oakleaf Knight is a real mvp.

One thing I love about Horace is that he defies exoectations. He starts out as a basic bully, and is implied to be stupid and brutish, but hes not!!!! Throughout the series, Horace is smart and witty, and skilled.

He grows and changes; early on Halt messes with him a lot but later, Horace can match him in banter every time!

Emperor of Nihon-ja is really where Horace gets to shine, which is awesome too.

And dont even get me started on Hill/Whorace. Enemies to friends to lovers; thrir dynamic is peak.

Horace is definitely one of my favorite RA characters

#rangers apprentice #rambling #i just love Horace so much #horace altman