ddrox13
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Spooktacular Haloween Challenge 2018
Greeeeetings fellow humans! Welcome to the newly reconstructed Cinnabar Mansion! I'm ddrox, your host for this year's Halloween Event Challenge, and this is Zemanahrad, my incompetent minion.
This building is designed as a near replica of the original Cinnabar Mansion, which burned down when Cinnabar Island erupted a while ago. We have done our best to recreate it with as much accuracy as possible, including all the original tiles. Of course, we couldn't find a plan for the house due to the whole erupting volcano incident, so many of the rooms are recreated from memory and also may have been completely redone to fit what I needed to make this challenge work.
To celebrate the Grand Opening of the new mansion, We invite one and all to come to the Cinnabar Mansion Pokemon Extravaganza, an exciting month of Pokemon festivities. Don't forget your favorite Pokemon game, as we will all be playing through them together and nothing is going to go terribly wrong I swear.
Unfortunately, when we tried to remove the ghosts and spirits from the site of the mansion, Zemana managed to completely screw it up, and now the place is even MORE haunted than before. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
The Challenge
Your goal is to move through the mansion playing the Pokemon game of your choosing. When you sign up, you'll pick an entrance and a Pokemon to represent you as your character on the interactive map below. You start in the entry hall you picked, and after each gym, you move to an adjacent room on the map that you haven't visited before. You choose what direction you go by posting after each gym badge with number of the room you want to enter.
OH, I almost forgot. Each room in the mansion is haunted. Every time you enter a room, you gain a new rule you have to play by for the entire rest of your playthrough. This includes the starting rooms. You can keep track of your ghosts by clicking on your character on the map below. Some rooms might be less spooky than others. Some more.
General Housekeeping Policies
As a historical building, we have a short set of guidelines for behavior in the house.
- This challenge can be completed on any main series Pokemon game. Additionally, any ROM hack or fan game completed through 8 gym badges and an elite four counts as well.
- Pokemon Amie and Pokemon Refresh are banned.
- The New Experience Share is allowed for pure grinding. It should be turned off when progressing the story or adventuring, however.
- Nuzlocke rules are not in place
- You may trade or hack Pokemon to evolve them. Trade-with-item evolutions must be completed only after said item is acquired. Trading to another game to allow a location based evolution to occur is also allowed after the Pokemon has reached level 29.
- You may hack/trade in up to 2 evolution items, one each after the 4th and 6th gyms, provided the item being hacked in is unobtainable prior to that point in the game. Players of games occurring in the Alola region may hack/trade in up to 2 of any evolution item at any point after the Trial at Wela Volcano. This is because all evolution items are technically obtainable at this point, but farming Pelago is a pain in the arse.
- All other trading is banned, except with other people in the Mansion.
- The challenge is complete once you beat the region's Elite Four and the credits fully roll. Yes that means beating AZ or Brendan or running from Koko if that's the type of thing your game makes you do. You may opt to continue your challenge past this point, however. In this case, treat defeating the champion as an additional badge.
- After signing up or obtaining a badge, please wait until you are told what your new curse is before proceeding.
- In the case of a contradiction between the rules here and the rules of a specific curse, the text of the curse prevails unless noted otherwise.
- All curses stack. In the case of a direct contradiction, either myself or Janp will settle the contradiction
- Players of games in the Alola region will not face gyms. Instead, they proceed to a new tile after every Grand Trial, as well as after four specific Trials: the Trial of Verdant Cavern, the Trial of Wela Volcano Park, the Trial of the Abandoned Supermarket, and the Trial of Vast Poni Canyon.
Signup
Sign up using the following format!
What You Are Called: Forum username pleeeeeeease
What You Look Like: Choose a Pokemon to represent you on the map!
What You Are Doing: What game will you be playing
What is the Answer to Life?: 42
Room You Wish To Start In: 1, 2, 3, or 4!
Participants
jdthebud
Zemanahrad
BrewMaster
BlissyMKW
Radboy
Coffee Jeans
Goatboy88
Miau
kitetheslakoth
Completes
on154288
CodeHelmet
Credits
Huge thanks to:
Zemanahrad for being amazing and also making the map and also the original concept and reminding me that we needed to do this and poking me repeatedly when I was late finishing it.
Lycanthropy for letting me borrow his code
For those of you struggling with the weird formatting, here's the unformatted version:
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