Jane Crocker and the Sburb Alpha

THE FLETCHER GYM


HOURS OF OPERATION:

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: 8am to 6pm

Tuesday and Thursday: In the field, but could be at the gym any time between 9am to 4pm

You'll be informed if she's in or not, and can leave a challenge request card at the front desk - she'll call you when she gets back so you can get started.

The gym itself is repurposed from an old warehouse, but it looks more to be like a small townhouse (shutters would be blue and not red for the record) that's been built "next" to the warehouse, which serves as an entrance. The foyer is more like a cozy lobby, in which a gym trainer will welcome visitors. Since Jane's gym operates as both a gym and a base of operations for her PI business, visitors will indicate which they are here for. Potential clients will be brought upstairs to Jane's office on the second floor without any fuss, and she will come to meet them and discuss what it is they need help with. Please note she has various framed novelty prints (source) on the walls, making for rather friendly atmosphere.

Challengers do not have it so easy!

The front desk trainer will lead a challenger to a parlor and instructed that they have fifteen minutes to figure out how to get out of this room and into the next before they will be offered advancement via trainer battle. Trainers must find one of several different solutions to the room's puzzle to advance through five more rooms, each connected by long hallways and built into the old warehouse to allow for more mobility and larger rooms to battle in. While there are different solutions to each puzzle, the rooms will always be the same: a parlor (as linked above), a kitchen, dining room, a study, a recreation room, and a bedroom (the rec room will always reveal either stairs, a ladder, or some other means of ascending to the second floor in order to get to the bedroom). The rooms are all decorated with props and those windows are fake, so don't worry too much if your Pikachu breaks something on accident. The bedroom is also available for you to take a nap in to heal up once you have solved the puzzle or beaten its trainer!

The bedroom's passage will bring you to Jane's office, where she will congratulate you on solving her gym puzzles and flip a switch, which will drop a rope ladder down from the ceiling. Taking the lead, she'll bring the challenger up to the warehouse roof, where a battlefield has been set up, for your badge battle! Do keep in mind the day's weather as it will effect the fight - rain operates like Rain Dance, snow operates like Hail, hot and sunny days operate like Sunny Day, etc.

Counting the receptionist (who will battle trainers in the parlor if they cannot move forward), there are 6 trainers that can be battled before you reach Jane. The types of Pokemon they have can vary, because Jane wants you to expect the unexpected! They all make use of the Scope Lens.

Challengers who complete the puzzles but happen to lose their battle with Jane are given a special card, which they can turn in after at least one week has passed to come back and battle again without having to go through the puzzle rooms - unless they want to.

Any trainers trying to game the system and claim to be a potential client to get to Jane's office the easy way will be congratulated on their ingenuity, and then pied in the face. You'll have to come back another day and request a challenge properly, I'm afraid!

Challenges will be judged as follows:

OOCly, I will roll a D6 to determine if your character solves each room's puzzle or not. A 1 will result in facing a gym trainer. 2-5 will get you a straight solution, and a 6 will not only get you a solution, but the option to face the room's gym trainer if you so wish. Please indicate if you would like an optional battle in your challenge! Held items are permitted in all battles, while Mega Evolution is only permitted when battling Jane.

REWARDS:

• The Cluedo Badge - It looks (and fuctions) like a tie clip! The clip part is gold with six small blue inlaid crystals, and the top part where a bauble might be is actually a small magnifying glass, about the size and rough outline of a thumbprint! You can in fact use this as a tiny magnifying glass.

• P20,000

• A Scope Lens

Use the form below in a comment to this post to issue your challenge!

<b>Name:</b> Character's name | <user name="journal"> <b>Challenge Level:</b> Elite or Regular <b>Team:</b> Your roster <b>Battle Details:</b> What's your strategy for fighting Jane? (recommended) <b>Optional Battles:</b> If I roll a 6 for any of the puzzle rooms, would your character want to battle its trainer anyway? <b>Memes:</b> Show me your best meme!