The Pokémon Adventure

It is a full game, not a novelty command: a starter, wild encounters, catching, levels, evolution, items, packs, trades and auctions, gyms, duels and the Elite Four.

Getting In

Open /menu › Gaming › Pokemon. Your first press picks a starter. After that the console has five tabs — Pokemon, Poke Center, Progress, Battle and Places — and only the middle of the card changes as you move between them.

The console is open to every member, and no setting closes it. A server that closed it to its admins before that setting was removed still has it closed, and there the Pokemon door on Gaming is greyed out for everyone else, with a line above it saying why.

Wild Encounters

Wild Pokémon appear only where your admins have given a category an encounter channel. There a card appears with one Battle button, and everyone who presses it meets their own. Wear it down, put it to sleep or freeze it, then open Bag and throw a Pokeball. Miss or not, the Pokeball is spent. The Bag carries your medicine too: a Potion or a Revive goes to one of yours, and like a throw it costs you the turn while the wild Pokémon still acts.

Setting it up is the one thing an admin does. On the Access screen, open a group's Settings, press Add channels and add Pokemon spawns. For a new one, make it with New Group first. The channel gets the group's own access. There is no switch to turn the adventure off, and no separate switch for the market, gyms or tournaments — they are simply part of it.

The Five Tabs

• Pokemon — your party and your box. Make a lead, teach moves, give items, deposit, withdraw, swap, put one up for auction, or release one (that asks twice). My Bag holds your items.
• Poke Center — heal your party, the Poke Mart, Trades and the auction board, Trials (stake a party for a chance at a legendary fight), Packs, which open on the spot, and the Judge, who reads one of your Pokémon's six IVs exactly for a small fee per read.
• Progress — your badges, your record, and the Pokedex, with a filter and a row-count button.
• Battle — Training against a trainer scaled to your party, a Duel with another member (a stake is optional), the gyms in order, the Elite Four as a run of fights with no healing between them, and Battle Tower after your first Elite Four clear. Your sixth gym badge also hands you an Exp. Share: give it to the Pokémon at the front of your party and it learns what you earn chatting and in voice.
• Places — the Day Care and eggs, the dig site, the move tutor, and the Fossil Lab. Where a server's dig site buries fossils, one you find either comes back as a Pokémon at the Fossil Lab or sells from My Bag for the price on its button.

Evolution

There is no evolve menu. When a Pokémon levels up after a battle, is traded, or is given the item it was waiting for, the card you are already looking at asks whether to let it happen. Stopping it now costs you nothing later.

What it Costs

Nothing. Asbern is free: every feature on this page is included in every server, and no card is needed.

Money spent in the adventure — on Pokeballs, packs, training fees, the dig site, the Day Care and the tutor — is the same virtual money members earn everywhere else in the bot.