December Quest 2011

It's time for the December Challenge!!

Objectives:

1) Obtain and Ice-type shiny; it can be its first or secondary type. It doesn't matter as long as it's an ice type shiny.
2) Obtain another Ice-type shiny
3) Obtain a Winter Holiday shiny - this can be a Santa Delibird, a Christmas Tree Abomasnow, a Menorah Litwick, or whatever you think of! Be creative!

Restrictions:

To keep it fair for everybody, the following restrictions are in place:

1) No chaining or Rumble shinies!
2) No trading.
3) No hacking or usage of external devices.

3 prize points will be awarded for completing this Quest.

Good luck, everybody, and make sure to post your reason for why your third shiny is Winter Holidayy! Have fun!

Part I complete!!

SHINY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I've been pretty excited to do the December Quest, and with three shinies needed to win, I figured I'd try to get a shiny roughly every 10 days. Since it's already December 13th, I decided to start on my second target and dual hunt it along with my Icefall Cave hunt. I love both Snorunt and Spheal, so I headed to Shoal Cave in Ruby, but it was high tide and my internal battery is dry, so I couldn't get to the inner chamber that had Snorunt as well as Spheal. I brushed the dust off of Emerald and decided to hunt there, as I had gotten two RE shinies on it before and could always leave it plugged in so as not to reset the RNG.

On exactly encounter number 1000, SHINY SPHEAL!!!!!!

Spoiler:

I wasn't expecting to finish my second hunt before my first, haha. I was more than 5 hours into Emerald, probably around 8 or 9. I caught him on my first Ultraball throw.

It's also my first late night (technically early morning) shiny: I caught him at 4:12 AM! Also, I was pretty lucky that he wasn't a Zubat or Golbat, or else he wouldn't count for the contest!

For my Winter Holiday shiny, I'm going to go for Snover on Route 216. It also has a 25% chance of Sneasel, which would be pretty cool too (no pun intended!).

6250 Icefall Cave encounters.

Well I almost completed one of the requirements, but I just ran from my Christmas reindeer Sawsbuck!!! I really hope I reclaim it soon. Here is the fail video

Spoiler:

Sure I will gladly take that score point and try again for my prize point!!

Finally I got to score one point too!^^

"Ice ice baby":

3 days to go before this month ends. See, if I can get another ice shiny or even complete this quest.

Can I suggest for the next January quest?

Cutty wrote:

Can I suggest for the next January quest?

Sure! Feel free to post suggestions over at https://shinyhunterscentral.forummotion.com/t37-competition-suggestions-thread!