the_plateau | Giftmas!

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 delivered December the 25th, but we won't make you wait any longer. Your characters may need to a bit more patience, but not for you players! 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. Please try to remember to put the recipients name in the post title, so everybody can easily find what they are getting.

★★ 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, that's fine too! 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 and for those that don't celebrate, just kind of a Cool Weekend.

Finally, as mods we'd like to thank you all for another great and fun year, in which we messed with time, got Arceus kind of upset at us, had a cool battle tournament and chased so many swarming pokemon off our doorsteps with brooms. Now we travel onward to 2023, which will hopefully be a year filled with many more badges, cool new pokemon, friendship and such, and at least one ruined prom.

(you know it is gonna be ruined, lets all be real here)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Hythlodaeus will receive a suspiciously oblong package that contains a very well-made, professional-grade wooden training sword in a leather sheath. There's also a belt and shoulder harness combo to attach the sheath to.

And there's a note:

I don't know what you were after, but at least the measurements you gave me were useful in sizing the sword belt and harness properly.

No, he has no idea whether his giftee can fight with swords or not. He does know Hythlodaeus lives with Emet-Selch, and that Emet-Selch is unfortunately an extremely skilled swordsman, but honestly that didn't factor into his choice of gift at all. Give him a useless message, he'll give you what he would want as a gift. You're welcome, Hythlodaeus.