A wibbly wobbly June event!

[indigo_league]

It's finally June, and that means summer is here! And what better way to celebrate than to plan some good old Midsummer festivities? Many locations throughout Johto and Kanto have their own small, local traditions, but this year one in particular is drawing a little extra attention. According to rumor, some unusual things are happening in the vicinity of Azalea Town. What kind of things, you might ask? Well, details are vague at first, but they include reports of plants suddenly sprouting overnight where none were before, flowers staying in bloom unusually long, and one or two people who swear they caught a glimpse of something at the shrine in nearby Ilex Forest... Could it be? Could the Guardian of the Forest be making an appearance this year? Perhaps you should join the crowds heading for Azalea Town and see for yourself! Who knows what surprises await if you do.

This event will span most of June, with the main festival in Azalea Town taking place on the solstice. The timeline for the first part of the month is as follows:

June 1-7: The first rumors of Celebi’s presence start to make their way around the region, though for now they seem to be just that, rumors.

June 8-14: Rumors intensify and so do the sightings and strange happenings, gaining enough momentum to feature in news reports, drawing in squads of Bigfoot legendary seekers. Characters in Azalea Town or the surrounding routes (even, rarely, the nearest cities) might even see some of these strange occurrences for themselves! Or they might want to join or get together a search squad of their own!

June 9-21: Things start to get weird. You might take a walk for lunch, only to find that you've apparently been gone for hours when you get to your destination. Or maybe you could swear you've been lost in the Ilex forest all day, but upon finally reaching town again it turns out you only left a few minutes ago. Maybe you've even gotten stuck in a loop, repeating the same short span of time a dozen times before things go back to normal. These temporal anomalies are (mostly) harmless, if inconvenient! While the area in and around Azalea Town by far has it the worst, the rest of Johto and Kanto isn't getting away completely unaffected, either, so you never know where (or, more importantly, when) you might run into one!

June 21: The festival itself! More details will go up closer to the date, so stay tuned!

If you have any questions, ask them here!

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QUESTIONS

[indigo_league]

[dreamsofahero]

Not related to the event itself, but these magikarp in the swarm! If a character were to catch one and later evolve it, would it keep its markings to some extent? So that you could have, say, a gyarados with white and black (or darker blue) patches, for example...

[indigo_league]

We're going to say yes! The evolved gyarados would have slight variations that go with the Magikarp's markings. For example, a pink Magikarp would not turn into a pink Gyarados, BUT the resulting Gyarados might be a lighter, more lavender-y blue than normal. Or a calico Magikarp might turn into a Gyarados with somewhat lighter patches.

[dreamsofahero]

Follow-up question: will magikarp bred from the multicolored ones be normal, or can they ALSO have patterns? If so, are the patterns strictly determined by the parents, or fairly random and unpredictable like with real-life domestic koi? (e.g. someone breeds and orange/white calico with a pink orca could potentially end up getting orange dapples, etc)