*[Quest: The Shady Thief]*



The player begins the quest when they chance (or hear about it in a rumor or something) upon a small factory. The player can walk in and take a look around, but will be stopped by the owner of the factory who is in quite a rut.

Apparently, the factory is a small, family owned Pokeball manufacturer, and just recently someone stole a very important blueprint to a new Pokeball.

The owner asks the player to help out and then sends them to the ground floor of the factory to 'ask' the employees if they saw anything. The ground floor will have wild Pokemon battles and there are seven trainers in all to battle. Battling 4 of them will get the player the information they need, but battling all seven will get the player an extra reward afterward.

The story: [A couple nights ago, factory workers noticed a shady-looking man standing by the forest's edge watching the building. They have not seen him since the robbery.]

Returning to the owner will complete the first part of the quest.

Reward (Four Trainers): 5 Greatballs

Reward (Seven Trainers): 5 Greatballs, 2,000 [Insert Currency Here]

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The owner sends the player next to a back room where a security guard is waiting. There is a vault on the far side of the room, opened, where the theft took place. A Mightyena will engage the player if they try to walk by and into the vault, and the guard warns against this, as the Mightyena is very strong (kinda like a mid-boss). The thief took down the Mightyena when they stole the blueprints, and the Mightyena is still angry about it. So the player really has no choice but to fight the Pokemon. When they beat it, the player goes into the vault and looks around, and eventually finds some "white powder" on the ground near one of the shelves, and some "bits of blue paper". The guard, after talking with him again, will direct the player behind the factory and through a thick maze of woods to a cave, where a type of white rock rests. It might be where the Shady Man has been hiding....

After a trip through a forest and a 2 level cave system the player comes across the Shady Man and begins to battle him. When they win the Shady Man drops a scrap of blue paper and reveals that the Mightyena took him by surprise during the theft and tore the paper up. In his haste to leave, the theft dropped the paper scraps on his way to his hideout. Not that he cares anymore, as his only goal was to insure the new Pokeball will never be made. The player then returns to the owner with the news.

Reward: 2,000 [Insert Currency Here], and maybe some player XP.

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The player speaks to the owner again, who states how overjoyed he is that nobody got the Pokeball blueprints. The player then has to go on a search for the last remaining pieces of the blueprints; one hidden in each of the three locations (the factory (in a sub-basement level), the forest and the cave). Clues and hints will help the player out a bit. When they have all the pieces they will (try) to return to the owner only to find the Shady Man challenging them to one last battle for all the blueprint scraps. The Shady man will be stronger this time around, and have more Pokemon.  So, blahblahblah, the player beats the Shady Man and then returns to the owner who is so happy and crap that his blueprints are safe and sound in several pieces.

Rewards: 5,000 [Currency], Player XP, and a small, strange tin coin

The owner explains that when the new Pokeball is ready, the player can come back and exchange the tin coin for the Pokeball and any number afterward (the first is free, the rest aren't) for testing purposes. And with a final goodbye, the player leaves the factory and the quest is over.

...BUT WAIT(!) THERE'S MOAR!1!


The Shady Man

One of the Players on a Scooter

The Shady Man and Player (without a Scooter) in a dramatic confrontational scene!



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And then, because I did a badass job on the floor tiles and conveyor belts, there's THIS.       (Ignore the white rectangle thing.  )