It's the season of GIFTS GIFTS GIFTS

[indigo_league]

With Christmas scooting ever closer, it's time to start thinking about the real reason for the season and that is gifts. Yes, yes, joy to all, peace on earth etc etc, but deep down what we all want to do is tear some wrapping paper off boxes and be dazzled by the contents.

In order to keep things a bit organised, we'll be putting this up as a central gift-giving post, and it will feature three things.

★★ Arceus' gift As many of you long term players might already know, Arceus tends to drop a few gifts on the people he has brought here on Christmas day. And this year is no different! These gifts will be revealed on December the 25th, so please check back then to see what your character will be receiving. And yes, these gifts will go out to all. Arceus doesn't judge. Maybe he should, but he doesn't. ★★ Secret Santa Though these gifts won't officially be delivered until the 25th, this post will also feature a thread where you can post up the gifts your character has gotten their Secret Santa recipient. Feel free to start posting these up as soon as this post goes up (we are not going to make you wait) ★★ Your gifts And finally, your gifts! If your character is the kind to get their friends a bunch of things, feel free to use this post to distribute the offerings. Much easier than hitting up a bunch of inboxes! If you would rather distribute your characters' gifts individually in various inboxes, feel free to do so! This post is merely an option for people who'd like to keep things in one central location.

Now with that all out of the way, let us take a moment to wish you all a very Merry Christmas (or, at the very least, a nicely adequate Thursday if you don't celebrate). 2020 has been Quite the year, and I don't think any of us could've predicted it turning out this way. (Turns out none of us had 20-20 vision). But we've made it through and while the times are still somewhat uncertain and unforeseen, we nevertheless hope it will all be looking up from here on out for all of us.

We want to thank you all for being such lovely players and for having contributed to the game as you did! Thank you for ruining baseball, for coming to Sinnoh with us, for Prom being Prom yet again, for submitting so many badge requests and for slipping in every app that you did.

And onwards to 2021, another year for pokemon shenanigans and nonsense!

Comments

Dirk stop handmaking so many of your gifts challenge

[uber_marionettist]

Jane's gifts are wrapped in "over the hill" joke birthday paper, but she will be receiving a powerful flashlight that he advises her not to look directly into, and additional gijinka dolls for her dollhouse, corresponding to the rest of her Champion team. These come with an tiny, functioning flashlight that is not quite as powerful, but does come with a note suggesting she hit him up if she needs additional bulbs for it... so it's not exactly meant for Christmas lights, either.

Emet's gift is a level 50 Bolthund (trained up from a level 10 Yamper) named Cerberus, along with a handwritten letter containing as much mythos about Cerberus as Dirk can remember. Which turns out to be kind of a lot. Emet also gets a custom smuppet, modelled on himself. It's stuffed a bit differently... especially at the ass. Dirk couldn't use the kind of precise measuring instruments he'd have liked to, but it's as close to the real thing as he could still achieve without ruining the surprise.

Steven, Carly, Jolyne, Akane, and Doppio all receive little experimental dolls that can be unzipped and turned inside out.... Doppio's is just his Morpeko's two moods, thankfully(?), but Steven (Gengar), Carly (Alcremie), and Jolyne (Slowking) all get dolls that reverse from being a Pokemon to being a UFO catcher style doll of themself. Akane's, weirdly, reverses into... a doll of Connie.

Akane also receives a printed and bound copy of Connie's book, along with a glossy print of the fanart Dirk did of said book.

Dave will be receiving two (slightly muddy) mismatched fossils ("the dirt is authentic") and a pair of coolguy shoes for the road.

Hythlodaeus will be told to his face that Dirk had no idea what he wanted besides [CENSORED BUT IT INVOLVES EMET]. Just ignore how many gifts Dirk gave that the recipient didn't actually want

Estinien receives a gold-plated fancy santa(?!), around whose neck is looped a pair of noise-cancelling headphones. The disc shapes on those headphones are shaped like Jigglypuffs, for some reason.