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  • Thousand Roads has been around for six whole years! We're running a number of events to celebrate--check out drabble bingo, our mini review blitz, or TR writing buddies special prizes, going on for the whole anniversary period, and keep an eye on the announcement thread for updates as we add more to the lineup! Happy sixth birthday, TR!
  • Thanks to everyone who participated in our Saturday writing sprint! We ended up reaching a whopping 15728 words written in total!

TR Writing Buddies

windskull

Bidoof Fan
Staff
Partners
  1. sneasel-nip
  2. bidoof
  3. absol
  4. kirlia
  5. windskull-bidoof
  6. little-guy-windskull
  7. purugly
  8. mawile
  9. manectric
381 more on drabble bingo today. One down, started the next.

My Trainer Card
Progress: 2/4
Day streak: 26
Words remaining for next level up: 10
Total words written: 990
 

Flyg0n

Flygon connoisseur
Premium
Pronouns
She/her
Partners
  1. flygon
  2. swampert
  3. ho-oh
  4. crobat
  5. orbeetle
  6. joltik
  7. salandit
  8. tyrantrum
  9. porygon
  10. giratina-origin
May 2nd: Slow progress but progress all the same, 34 words!

My Trainer Card
Progress: 1/4 [3]
Day streak: 5
Words remaining for next level up: 136
Total words written: 8,364

Echo reached level 18!
 

Negrek

Three of Cups
Staff
Premium
Setting up a couple additional buddies for some other writing projects of mine, which I'll be working on for the big sprint today! Going to aim for 3k today all told. Adding 177 after a late-night sprint!

My Trainer Card
Progress: 1/4
Day Streak: 1
Words to Next Level: 323
Total Words Written: 177
 

ShiniGojira

Multiversal Extraordinaire
Location
Stranded In The Gaps between Multiverses
Pronouns
He/him/they/her
Partners
  1. froslass
  2. zorua-gojira
  3. salandit-shiny
  4. goomy
2017 words. Most of it is just second draft of drabble but first drabble's finally done!

My Trainer Card

Progress: 1/4

Day streak: 9

Words remaining for next level up: 349

Total words written: 6151, +4 Lvl
 

CuteBunnyGirl

Volo Enthusiast
Location
Somewhere
Pronouns
She/Her

yooloo33

Bug Catcher
Pronouns
He/Him
I was in flow state for two hours. 2482 words today!

Progress: 2/4
Day streak: 2
Words remaining to next level up: 10
Total words written: 3058
 

yooloo33

Bug Catcher
Pronouns
He/Him
A little bit more written just now. 622 words. I reached the end of a section and don't have the energy to continue so that's all I've got for the day.
Progress: 2/4
Day streak: 2
Words remaining to next level up: 12
Total words written: 3680
 

Flyg0n

Flygon connoisseur
Premium
Pronouns
She/her
Partners
  1. flygon
  2. swampert
  3. ho-oh
  4. crobat
  5. orbeetle
  6. joltik
  7. salandit
  8. tyrantrum
  9. porygon
  10. giratina-origin
May 3rd, the anniversary of LA! 813 words, working hard at Ch 35

My Trainer Card
Progress: 2/4 [3]
Day streak: 6
Words remaining for next level up: 323
Total words written: 9,177

Echo reached level 20!
 

Chibi Pika

Stay positive
Staff
Premium
Location
somewhere in spacetime
Pronouns
they/them
Partners
  1. pikachu-chibi
  2. lugia
  3. palkia
  4. lucario-shiny
  5. incineroar-starr
  6. grovyle-ralsen
Alright, I really need to log the words from the last week <<; Do note that these are from the previous week, not the all-day sprint. (I'll try to get some in before midnight lol)

Also I'm changing the structure of my checkins to better work with my brain

My Trainer Card
Total days: 21 (5 levels)
Day streak: 21 (3 levels)
New words added: 489 (ik ik, not great for a week)
Total words written: 2376 (4 levels)
 

icomeanon6

That's "I come anon 6"
Premium
Location
northern Virginia
Pronouns
masculine
Partners
  1. alakazam
1,006 words today.

My Trainer Card
Progress: 1/4
Day streak: 1
Words remaining for next level up: 138
Total words written: 3862
 

Chibi Pika

Stay positive
Staff
Premium
Location
somewhere in spacetime
Pronouns
they/them
Partners
  1. pikachu-chibi
  2. lugia
  3. palkia
  4. lucario-shiny
  5. incineroar-starr
  6. grovyle-ralsen
Ok 552 isn't actually that bad for half an hour,

My Trainer Card
Total days: 22 (5 levels)
Day streak: 22 (3 levels)
New words added: 552
Total words written: 2928 (5 levels)
 

Negrek

Three of Cups
Staff
Premium
And in the end, I met my goal of hitting 3k words!

My Trainer Card

"Butterfly"
Progress: 1/4
Day Streak: 1
Words to Next Level: 481
Total Words Written: 1842

Salvage
Progress: 1/4
Day Streak: 1
Words to Next Level: 487
Total Words Written: 1013
 
Partners
  1. suikaibuki
  2. ranyakumo
Okay, so you guys wanted a sprint, huh? Well, here I am...probably too late to get in on the count for it despite it still being Saturday here, but doesn't matter. 2834 overdue words on a little bit of a different thing that...I'll figure out a buddy for in a bit, because it's not related to my main ficseries. 390 words for the main thing, mostly while waiting on food. More for it tonight, but I'll log it now. Never mind I'll count that up before I go to sleep as usual.
 
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Nekodatta

Pokémon Trainer
Pronouns
She/Her
Partners
  1. koraidon-apex
  2. miraidon-ultimate
  3. skitty
With the posts logged here, we've reached a grand total of 44884 words!!
That's almost an entire average book we've collectively written!!
I'm sure there's even more that people haven't logged here, but still, we have smashed way past the threshold of 20k words for the event! Awesome job to everyone, no matter how many words you contributed!!

Since we reached Tier 1, I want everyone that took part in the event to post the following for their Mystery Egg reward:

- The generation of the egg
- The type of the egg

Note: to simplify things and help people "aiming" for specific Pokémon, generation refers exclusively to the Pokémon that were added in a specific game/Pokémon generation, not what region they are found in. So make extra sure to check when a certain Pokémon was added.
Yes, Slugma and Skarmory are Gen 2, doesn't matter that everyone remembers them as Gen 3 because you find them in Hoenn much more prominently than Johto :mewlulz:

- If the Pokémon has two types in its base form, it will be found in eggs of its primary (first) type. So yes, if you look really carefully at the Pokémon types of what you hope to get, that drastically increases the odds of something specific hatching from it! (A freaking Gen 4 Fire egg would have... An extremely limited egg pool lol) That's why I put being able to choose the gen *and* type as the Tier 1 reward.

If you have doubts about what generation a Pokémon is, either ask here or check the National Dex.

- Unique stuff like for example the Galarian legendary birds would be Gen 8, because while they are still an Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres, they are still pretty much different subspecies and so different Pokémon.

How will the egg hatching work?
After the anniversary ends, I will reply to each request specifying how many possible Pokémon can come out of the choosen egg. Then I will roll a die or generate a random number to determine what comes out of it, and *then* I will generate a number between 1 and 3 to see if the Pokémon is shiny!

So to go back to the Gen 4 Fire egg from before:

It only has two possible candidates, Chimchar and Heatran. (Magmortar is Gen 4 but does not count because the base form is Gen 1)

So if 2 comes out, it's an Heatran. If then 1 comes out in the next random number, it will be a *shiny* Heatran!
 
Partners
  1. suikaibuki
  2. ranyakumo
An additional 804 words on Blackout Bingo v3. A solid 1197 words on it in total today. Who knows how many words it'll end up at in the end? Maybe enough to make it a three-shot if I really want to. I've enough time with my current pace. Editing's going to be the big catch here. I'll have to put words into other fics in the series in the meantime afterwards.

I guess I'll formally announce it as Claris Willins: The Question of a Friend. I had two options (that I thought of at the time, could've done a third) for "Childhood Friend" and I went with the more long-term relevant character. And short-term for that matter. It's the first direct sequel I've written in the series, though as usual, it explains enough on its own that reading the first one isn't needed.

Since we reached Tier 1, I want everyone that took part in the event to post the following for their Mystery Egg reward:

- The generation of the egg
- The type of the egg
Hm. Generation 7, Steel. Because why the heck not?!
 
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CuteBunnyGirl

Volo Enthusiast
Location
Somewhere
Pronouns
She/Her
With the posts logged here, we've reached a grand total of 44884 words!!
That's almost an entire average book we've collectively written!!
I'm sure there's even more that people haven't logged here, but still, we have smashed way past the threshold of 20k words for the event! Awesome job to everyone, no matter how many words you contributed!!

Since we reached Tier 1, I want everyone that took part in the event to post the following for their Mystery Egg reward:

- The generation of the egg
- The type of the egg

Note: to simplify things and help people "aiming" for specific Pokémon, generation refers exclusively to the Pokémon that were added in a specific game/Pokémon generation, not what region they are found in. So make extra sure to check when a certain Pokémon was added.
Yes, Slugma and Skarmory are Gen 2, doesn't matter that everyone remembers them as Gen 3 because you find them in Hoenn much more prominently than Johto :mewlulz:

- If the Pokémon has two types in its base form, it will be found in eggs of its primary (first) type. So yes, if you look really carefully at the Pokémon types of what you hope to get, that drastically increases the odds of something specific hatching from it! (A freaking Gen 4 Fire egg would have... An extremely limited egg pool lol) That's why I put being able to choose the gen *and* type as the Tier 1 reward.

If you have doubts about what generation a Pokémon is, either ask here or check the National Dex.

- Unique stuff like for example the Galarian legendary birds would be Gen 8, because while they are still an Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres, they are still pretty much different subspecies and so different Pokémon.

How will the egg hatching work?
After the anniversary ends, I will reply to each request specifying how many possible Pokémon can come out of the choosen egg. Then I will roll a die or generate a random number to determine what comes out of it, and *then* I will generate a number between 1 and 3 to see if the Pokémon is shiny!

So to go back to the Gen 4 Fire egg from before:

It only has two possible candidates, Chimchar and Heatran. (Magmortar is Gen 4 but does not count because the base form is Gen 1)

So if 2 comes out, it's an Heatran. If then 1 comes out in the next random number, it will be a *shiny* Heatran!
Maybe a bug type from gen 5
 

ShiniGojira

Multiversal Extraordinaire
Location
Stranded In The Gaps between Multiverses
Pronouns
He/him/they/her
Partners
  1. froslass
  2. zorua-gojira
  3. salandit-shiny
  4. goomy
553 words. Finished second drabble, really enjoyed writing this one.

My Trainer Card

Progress: 2/4

Day streak: 10

Words remaining for next level up: 296

Total words written: 6704, +1 Lvl

Since we reached Tier 1, I want everyone that took part in the event to post the following for their Mystery Egg reward:

- The generation of the egg
- The type of the egg
Gen 9, Normal. Methinks it'd be goofy funny if I could get the turtle
 

icomeanon6

That's "I come anon 6"
Premium
Location
northern Virginia
Pronouns
masculine
Partners
  1. alakazam
I'd like a Gen 1 Fairy-type egg, please! (Assuming the rules are using the current typings for mons whose types were revised upon the introduction of the Fairy type. If not, then Normal-type, lol.)
 
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