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

[ohmylord]

So! Claudia's presents have two parts to them, both handmade. She's an artist, after all, and one great part of being an artist is saving money by making people little personalized presents. So everyone on her present list (who are still in game) is getting two things: a tiny hand-painted paper-mache sculpture of a pokemon she associates with them and a nicely illustrated hand-drawn 'egg vowtcher' (sic) entitling them to a free egg from her!

Said present list is as follows:

Catra (Shiny Meowth), Thace (Whismur), Shinobu (Galarian Rapidash), Sasha (Swirlix), Armin (Azumarill), Dr Pines (Togepi), Kirishima (Shiny Mareep), and Kiri (Chatot.)

(Riku is also on the present list, but instead of the paper-mache sculpture, his 'egg vowtcher' comes with a bunch of idea sketches for the Pokemon Guardian Corps logo.)

Additionally! Claudia's traveling companions current and past are getting a third present to go along with their art presents!

Shinobu is getting some really nice art supplies from the art supply store in Goldenrod, including some Copichu markers.

Catra is getting a totally cool and fashionable liepard print coat.

... and Thace is getting a very soft, very warm purple scarf which only coincidentally is also perfect for covering up the ridiculous number of hickies he's been getting from his new boyfriend.

Plus she made something for her Secret Santa too!

... also she might have gotten Shinobu some TMs (Draining Kiss, Psychic Fangs, Breaking Swipe) while they were at the Christmas market, but she couldn't wait to give them to him, so she's not counting them as part of the present.