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!

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ROCKET PRESENTS

[fingersandteeth]

So. For whatever reason, Steven decided that yes, he was going to get something for all his co-workers currently on Team Rocket and because he's fucking ridiculous, he decided that he was going to make them all individual different presents. The over-achieving asshole. So, more or less in order of when they joined:

Carly is getting two more fossils for her to use as paper weights: a claw fossil and a lump of old amber. She's also getting an all weather notebook kit. It writes in the rain!

Dirk is getting the result of Steven's attempt to make a marionette out of a stuffed toy, following a tutorial he found on staryutube. It seems to move correctly when you pull the strings?

Steve Palchuck was harder than you'd think to find a present for and finally Steven ended up going to Emet-Selch for help in making it. Remembering the screaming footballs of his youth, Steven got Emet to build a little electronic device to attach to the foam footballs he'd painted with miltank and shiny miltank patterns, thus creating Foam Footballs That Moo (Moo) When You Throw Them.

Emet-Selch himself will get paperback copies of three plays: the Unovan comedy The Nerd and William Shakespearrow's A Midsummer's Night's Dream and The Tempest. He's also getting a heartfelt, hand-written note expressing Steven's feelings about everything he's learned from Emet during these months of gradually befriending him.

Diego gets a glossy poster of a Rapidash and her shiny foal.

Jules is getting three hacking-themed t-shirts all sized to be extra long.

Speedwagon is getting a jaunty green hat

Doppio is getting a pair of Morpeko-themed coffee mugs.

Scorpia is getting recordings of The Care Bewears Movie, The Care Bewears Movie II: A New Generation and The Care Bewears Adventures In Wonder-Region.

Hermes is getting socks with wings!

... and finally there's Lanque who Steven quite cordially loathes already and who only showed up a couple days ago anyway. Steven went back and forth as to whether or not to include the little asshole in his gift-giving. In the end, he decided to send the 'gift' anonymously: a 2.5 inch empty tin pail on which the words The Amount of Fucks I Give have been written in black paint pen.