Howdy, SHC!!
Gosh, 18 days since my last post? 3 new pages? "lol" that's got to be a new record for longest I can go without posting, haha! :pink_laugh:
I've still been hunting and popping into the IRC from time to time (which you can conveniently find
here), but I haven't had all that much to update. Here are my current hunts:
Eevee - 3279 (Primary Hunt)
Spiritomb - 419 (Secondary Hunt)
Snivy - 500 (Tertiary Hunt)
Tepig - 41 (Primary subsidiary of the Tertiary Hunt)
Oshawott - 43 (Secondary subsidiary of the Tertiary Hunt)
Icefall Cave - 10495 (Quaternary Hunt)
Chimchar - 150 (Quinary Hunt)
Dratini - 432 (Senary Hunt, although it possesses potential to rise in the distant future)
Palkia - 5702 (On hold; affectionately dubbed "
Hunt Zero")
Manaphy/Turtwig - 17 (Septanary Hunt)
Nincada/Zigzagoon/Taillow/Whismur/Skitty - 500 (Octonary Hunt)
Route 216 - 301 (Nonary Hunt)
Johto starters - 0 since Totodile (Denary Hunt, although it possesses potential for a meteoric rise depending upon whenever I decide to stop being too lazy to trade Totodile to another game and restart to start looking for more starters)
I AM PROUD TO ANNOUNCE A NEW CONTEST!! STARTING APRIL 1ST, THE SHC WILL HOST ITS FIRST CHAINING CONTEST: A COMPETITION TO DETERMINE WHO IS THE GREATEST CHAINER OF THE SHC!
The competition will last from April 1st, 2012, until May 1st, 2012. All SHC members are eligible to enter. Chaining must take place on Diamond, Pearl, or Platinum. No ROMs or external devices are allowed.
There will be two concurrent challenges:
- Obtain the most shinies from a single chain!
- Obtain the highest chain!
There thus be two victors, unless one champion is worthy enough of being crowned with titles, in which case the astonishing feat shall be rewarded with permission to declare oneself "Greatest Chainer of the SHC" and display such glory in their usertitle under their name.
To prove your conquests of glory, you must post a picture of the shinies you got from the chain as well as the bottom screen of the DS which shows your highest chain. If your highest chain during the month is lower than your third-highest chain of all time, that's fine; just post explaining that and say what your highest chain of the month was.
Good luck and have fun!
A huge thanks to Chr. Draco for suggesting the competition!! If anyone has any ideas or suggestions for the club, feel free to post them for discussion or PM one of the owners or co-owners and we will be more than willing to discuss implementing new features or contests to the club!
And now, ladies and gentlemen, we would like to introduce a new segment to the program. This portion of the show will be called "Keruso's Kaptures!" and will detail the weekly captures of one of the most prolific shiny-finders of all time. This will be spoilered-inside-a-spoiler, as its length is far too long for even the most avid readers of singularly-spoiled G-Money text might lack the endurance necessary to truly comprehend the vastness of Keruso's Kaptures.
And now for the welcomes, where we greet the newest shiny hunters rising to the challenge:
Welcome to the club!
Welcome! We hope you have fun here at the SHC! :)
Welcome to the club! You can hunt for whatever you want and post about your progress here, but if you want to race someone, you can post that here too! Just throw out the names of some Pokemon you'd like to hunt and I'm sure someone would be interested in racing you. :cer_wink:
We also have the March Quest going on, which is a search to find two green shinies. You have four days to find two green shinies, so get going! :P
Aw, sorry to hear about the Golbat. Welcome to the club and hopefully you'll find many, many more to make up for it! :)
Sure, welcome to the club! Good luck on getting Growlithe!
Welcome to the club! Congrats on getting Marill and Umbreon, and good luck with your Snorunt quest! Shiny Froslass is so awesome...but so is Glalie! You'll have quite a decision to make once you get your shiny, "lol."
And now for the section where we welcome back returning members and use excessive amounts of exclamation points to make them feel welcome once again:
Welcome back, Fufu! To quote ShinySearcher01,
Welcome back, Runa! To quote SS01,
Welcome back, NightofRemorse! To quote SS01,
Welcome back, Giraffe! To quote SS01,
Welcome back, DDD! To quote SS01,
!!
Now for the Spectacular Shiny Spactating, where we "Ooo!" and "Ah!" at the beautiful shinies that SHC members have managed to capture:
Congrats!!!! *pinches TSE*
Congrats! Heatran is an awesome shiny, and you certainly worked hard to get it!
Awesome! Congrats!
Woo! Congrats, GolurkIsDaBomb!
Congrats! Nice job making progress on the quest, and you get a shiny Charizard to boot! He's definitely in my top 5 greatest shinies ever...a black dragon with a tail of fire flying through the sky and being all awesome?
Heck yeah!
Congrats!! Safari Zone shinies are terrifying - finding one is a huge scare! Nice job on catching it; now you can forever relate the tale of your glorious quest to obtain the mythical shiny-o'-the-Zone! :cer_laugh:
Now for the Spectacular Non-Shiny Spactating, where we "Ooo!" and "Ah!" at the things that aren't shinies but are still worthy of congratulatory remarks:
Congrats!
And last but certainly not least (alright, maybe this one is the least), I hereby present to you the Miscellaneous & Spontaneous Remarks on Modern Shiny Occurrences! ... :
Oh no you didn't! You did not just say that!!!!!!!! *gets into theme fight and disappears in a cloud of swirling brawling with only punches visible outside the cloud, before realizing several minutes later that SS01 is standing outside of the cloud and G-Money has been fighting himself*
Wow, that's a lot of encounters! Good luck getting it!
*High-fives*
Haha, awesome number!
The journal only shows up once every other day, so it's not all that bad. As long as you take 10 seconds to save, it shouldn't take up more than 150 seconds per month. Less than 3 minutes! And that's about half an hour per year, assuming you shiny hunt every single day!! :pink_tongue:
Awesome shiny pics! Also, go for Nincada!! It's a two-for-one deal while supplies last, so order now!! (As a bonus, Shedinja just happens to be one of the coolest Pokemon of all time!)
Haha, you're still working on something! Every line you write develops you into a better writer, just as every non-shiny encounter we have...develops us into better shiny hunters! :P More experience helps manifest lifelong skills such as patience and endurance that are vital to fostering values with tangible effects...[/recruitment program]
Mass producing them!? How could you!!? You horrible, horrible person!! Those cute and cuddly Nincada offer you a once-in-a-lifetime deal to give you two shinies for the price of one, and you start forcing them to breed against their wills in factories!? Tsk tsk, Runa!
:P
Hmm, I'm not sure about that number. From what I've heard, chaining increases the odds by 1/200 with each successive number, so a chain of zero would be 1/8192, a chain of one would be 1/7912, and so on until a chain of forty would be 1/192. I think I've also heard people say it maxes out at 1/200, but I'm not sure if that was an approximation of the 1/192 number or if the logic doesn't follow all the way through.
That's terrible!!! I really hope you can reclaim all of them soon.
I know there's nothing I can do to help you get your shinies back, but if you ever need some moral support...
Good luck! :cer_laugh:
I'm sorry to hear about your lost Shroomish. :(
No, the club does not support ROMs or any external devices. However, if you want to hunt on ROMs and report your progress/findings in the thread, you are free to do so. ROMs aren't counted for official competitions, though.
You do realize that the penalty for misspelling Exeggcute is...*puts on sunglasses*...Exeggcution!! *is attacked by an angry mob*
EDIT: My gosh, I can't even get through making a post without Keruso getting another shiny! "lol" congrats (again!)! Sorry about your day though, but at least you got another shiny! Are you wearing a shiny magnet or something? I didn't even have enough time to finish making this week's Keruso's Kaptures before you go out and get another one, "lol!"