Rutile Nature Preserve

The Rutile Nature Preserve is a location in Amberstone. It is where the story begins, and the construction of a stadium over it is what prompts the story to occur.

Description

The Rutile Nature Preserve is a nature preserve adjacent to and overseen by the town of Rutile. It serves as a sanctuary for Beasties to live and thrive with minimal influence from humans.

The Preserve is made up of at least 5 screens on the map. Some of these screens are blocked behind a railway gate, requiring the player to hit a lever with a Beastieball to open the way.

The section of Preserve behind a railway gate contains Beasties of levels 17-20, while damaged areas of the Preserve contain Beasties of levels 4-7.

There are many known Beasties living in the Preserve, including:

• Sprecko
• Kichik
• Axolati
• Bildit
• Collarva
• Shooga
• Supassum
• Sefren
• Kaleidarn
• Platenna
• Diggum
• Humflit

Story

The story begins with the player as a child in the Preserve several years ago, where they meet four wild Beasties and their new friend Riley. After playing some Beastieball, they go home to Rutile.

Several years later in the present, the player and Riley are relaxing in their camp when they hear commotion coming from the Preserve. There, they find Construction Moe tearing down trees under instruction from the Beastieball League. Riley insists that the player hurry to town and ask Marlin for more information.

Marlin admits that the League wants to build a new stadium there, and he has no say in it due to his poor standings. Seeing this, Riley suggests that the player takes over as head coach so they can defeat Ranked Coaches, climb the rankings, and eventually convince the League to cancel the project. If all goes as planned, the Nature Preserve and its inhabitants would be saved.

One of the mushroom colonies being studied by the Beastie Research Society can be found in the preserve. This one causes Sprecko to metamorph into Bongus.

SPOILER WARNING This section contains endgame spoilers for Beastieball! Consider yourself warned.

After the Crown Series, Valerie Stride can be found in the preserve, and will come back every weekend for rematches. Additionally, Axolati, Bildit, and Kichik begin appearing in the preserve. Riley attributes their disappearance to the stadium project disrupting the environment, and says that they’ve begun returning after its cancellation.

Trivia

• After the tutorial, no music plays while the player visits the damaged area of the Preserve.