Continuing from the random Spinarak to the actual shiny hunt target, on the 24th...
I saw an undiscovered mark on an outbreak in Kitakami, which was weird to me as I completed all my dexes. I headed over and found Poltchageist... Artisan Poltchageist that is.
3 Level 3 Sparkling Power Grass sandwiches and nothing shows at all.... oof.
4th attempt: Level 3 Sparkling Power Ghost type sandwich. Spotted a Poltchageist that looked ever so slightly off and had Ceruledge attack it to be sure. Ceruledge refused. I save and then remembered Poltchageist at this level has Memento so I quickly taught Ceruledge Substitute, losing sight of the the little bugger in the progress.
I just knocked out everything nearby till Ceruledge refused to attack again.
Caught it, picnicked to reset the area and then the second Poltchageist I look at catches my attention. I double check by ordering Ceruledge to attack... refused again. I save and then catch it.
12 minutes left on my shiny sandwich... would be a waste not to try and use it. No Ghost type outbreaks aside from this one though.
Could only think of 1 thing on the spot... Area Zero, see what Ghost types show up in the cave.
Dreepy and Drakloak apparently are the only ones to show. Nice, don't have this line at all yet.
And then I see this...
and with 30 seconds left on the clock I see this:
So uh... 3 Shiny Sparkling power 3 sandwich duds followed by 1 where I catch 4 shinies in 1 sandwich? @_@
Weird how things go some times.... oh well. Shiny Poltchageist was really dang hard to spot tbh... especially in the sunlight. They tiny too.
One more outbreak to attend that day... a Summer Deerling outbreak in Paldea. Used up my last Herba though, for the time being anyway, so I'll have to use the cafeteria meal.
I first went and did a few black raids though, and got enough Herba for 1 more sandwich =3
5 cafeteria meal duds. Time to do a Grass shiny sandwich.... running low on time.
First one is another dud. Second one a Pink flowered deer
FINALLY shows up 5 minutes before the sandwich ends. Tried to use the remaining time for a shiny Turtwig but no luck there.
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Moving on to the next day... my luck remained sour... not quite so with the Deerling, but dang that Skiddo was kinda painful.
2 Outbreaks to attend that day. Autumn Deerling and Skiddo. I did my daily black raids for more Herba.
First Sparkling Power 3 Grass sandwich is a dud.
Second one I get the Deerling at about 9 minutes left. I go to Skiddo to ride it out but no luck.
Two Cafeteria meal duds at Skiddo before I go back to the Grass shiny sandwich.
Which also results in 3 duds. There's barely any spawning around the outbreak mark on the map tbh... the big groups of Skiddo are all far enough away they might not be getting the outbreak boost.... the cliffs surrounding it aren't helping either.... who knows how many are behind the walls lol
In which case...
... I noticed they seem to be the only Grass type spawning around here so I'll just try zooming around a nearby flatter area on my next attempt.
Welp got it first try zooming around lol.
22 minutes left on the sandwich so back to the area of the terrarium where only Turtwig spawns with a Grass Sandwich active.... but no luck
Picnic screenshots of Poltchageist/Sinistcha (Tried to position the camera to show the stamp/mark on the bottom on the second one):
Picnic screenshot of the summer Deerling reunited with my Summer Sawsbuck:
Picnic screenshot of my new Autumn Deerling evolved into Sawsbuck and reunited with the Autumn Deerling I already had:
And the new Skido, now Gogoat, reunited with the Skiddo I caught some time ago:
Summaries: