Spring 2025 Holiday Hills!
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Spring Holiday Hills ends on April 30th at 11:59 PM EST!
Extensions given out for this Holiday Hills will end on May 7th at 11:59 PM EST!
DUNGEON:
☔ Dewdrop Meadows ☔
☔ Dewdrop Meadows ☔
An open field of grass sits before you as you arrive at the site of this year's spring festivities. Beautiful flowers are in bloom, marking the end of the winter and the reawakening of nature once more. The fields are the the edge of a forest with streams flowing through it, lending to a calming and peaceful atmosphere that you could revel in forever. Just as you're about to go and enjoy the sun for the first time in a while though... plonk!
Looks like it's about to start raining. Of course, there would be April showers...
You aren't going to let this deter you though! Through drizzle or storm, there's always plenty to be explored during the Holiday Hills season! The meadows still look just as wonderful as they did when the sun was still shining so it's time to grab an umbrella and some boots and get trekking! There are sights to see and new recruits to meet! Once this is all over, maybe you'll even get to catch sight of a rainbow!
[ The images below are loosely for inspiration on how to depict the dungeon and other Holiday Hills environments. These are primarily optional, so feel free to come up with your own interpretations while keeping to the overall theme of the event! ]
🌟 Recruitable Pokemon 🌟
🌟 Recruitable Pokemon 🌟
There are 6 special Seasonal Variants in this dungeon!
If you recruit any Seasonal Variant Pokemon, their feral design must be somewhat similar to the reference! If you wish to deviate slightly from its design, you must post it in the #design-check channel for approval. However, once they evolve, their design is up to you!
For more on Variants, see the Potions & Variants page!
Variant Recruits
Variant Recruits
✦ Spring Petal Ledyba by LevairTaivas
✦ Iridescent Growlithe (Hisui) by Sungeist
✦ Magnolia Vulpix (Kanto) by TheNaturalKid
✦ Lily of the Valley Mawile by littleforestcritter
✦ Carillon Misdreavus by tomcatblep
✦ Lily Pad Totodile by FeralGator
Other Recruits
Other Recruits
✧ Dewpider
✧ Chikorita
✧ Caterpie
✧ Wooper (Johto)
✧ Cherubi
✧ Froakie
Dungeon Information
Dungeon Information
🌟 Submission Guidelines 🌟
🌟 Submission Guidelines 🌟
Read this section for information on creating and submitting a dungeon for Holiday Hills!
🌱 Like a regular dungeon, a Holiday Hills dungeon consists of:
a maximum of 4 characters belonging to a team
rewards for Poke and Candy capped at a maximum of 7 characters in art pieces (such as 4 player characters and 3 NPCs)
requirements for art pieces including a background
requirements for written pieces having a word count of at least 500 words
🌱 There are no level requirements in Holiday Hills, so characters of all levels are permitted!
🌱 Unlike a regular dungeon, characters do not gain levels and teams cannot use items! Post-dungeon items like Poke Radars or Encounter Swaps can be used afterwards however!
🌱 Use the Holiday Hills Dungeon Grader to submit your work -- just like you would submit a regular dungeon!
🌱 Variant Recruits gained from Holiday Hills cannot be altered using other Potions or Juices for a minimum of 3 months! For more information, see Restrictions on Holiday Hills Recruits.
🌱 As always, please put genuine effort into your work! Spamming low-effort or otherwise rushed work in an attempt to "grind" is highly discouraged and may result in a warning if abused!
🌱 Be sure to check the Earning Poke guide to see what counts as a simple or complex dungeon background, and for requirements for characters to be counted as a part of a piece for rewards!
🍬 To see how much Candy you should be receiving for your work, see the Holiday Hills page!
Joy Seed Scavenger Hunt
Joy Seed Scavenger Hunt
During Spring 2025 Holiday Hills, there will be a little scavenger hunt going on for Joy Seeds!
There are 10 seeds total hidden throughout the group's official website!
Some might be easier to find while others might take a bit of digging, but every seed is found on this Google Site. There are no seeds hidden in the Discord or on any other external site that the group might use (such as the backup graders or spreadsheets)!
Scavenger Hunt Google Form
Scavenger Hunt Google Form
To acquire your rewards from the scavenger hunt, submit a form here with your username and the locations of each of the seeds you were able to find! If you submit a form and then later find another seed you didn't include in your form, you can edit your response as long as the form is active!
The form will close on April 30th at 11:59 PM EST, and there are no extensions allowed for this activity! You get to keep every seed you find, so even if you don't find all 10, remember to submit a form before the end of the month!
Try to be specific about the location where you found each seed! For example, here's what a Joy Seed looks like!
On the form, you would write the location as something similar to:
✦ Holiday Hills Spring 2025 > Joy Seed Scavenger Hunter section
Another example may be:
✦ NPC Glossary > Next to Wyndam's portrait
You don't have to be extremely specific, but you should give us an idea about where exactly on the page you found the seed!
In the spirit of the activity, please DO NOT share the locations of any Joy Seeds with fellow members!
This one DOES NOT count as finding a seed!
What's a Joy Seed? How do I use it?
What's a Joy Seed? How do I use it?
🌱 Joy Seeds are an item that can be used to immediately grant any character on your team 1 level per seed used.
🌱 Seeds will be added to your first team's inventory but you are able to freely move them to your other teams and use them on characters on your other teams!
🌱 To use a Joy Seed, simply send a message in #inventory stating which character you'd like to use it on!
Holiday Hills Tasks
Holiday Hills Tasks
Unless otherwise state, these event prompts are for characters in gijinka/humanoid form!
Prompts done with ferals will not count for Candy but can be submitted for Poke!
01 | April Showers
01 | April Showers
Looks like the forecast for this month has a lot of showers predicted, so best be prepared for that for this month! What will you be doing during these showers? Going out and having fun in the rain, splashing in the water, getting poor unsuspecting victims wet, or chasing rainbows, maybe even finding the elusive double rainbow? Or perhaps you're more of an indoors person who'd rather stay inside during the wet weather, snuggled up in a blanket, reading a book, or playing board games with friends to pass the time. Maybe you still want to go out and do stuff, but the rain is an inconvenience to you, such as needing an umbrella, or a raincoat to keep you dry, or change of clothes for when people carelessly splash you with puddles of water.
02 | Flower Festival
02 | Flower Festival
With Spring having come around, the flowers are now in full bloom, and there is plenty to go around! Some gardeners have put together a little flower festival showcasing their best flowers and arrangements for visitors to have a stroll through to take a gander! They even have stalls and activities for those interested in picking up, or making something for their friends or loved ones!
You could try out a craft activity in which you make bouquets, flower crowns, daisy chains, wreaths, or anything else you can come up with! If you're not into that, then perhaps taking a stroll through the flowers or finding a nice area to relax is more your thing!
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...what's this?
03 | Cassie & Orion's Secret Mission
03 | Cassie & Orion's Secret Mission
Cassie and Orion have pulled you aside suddenly in the midst of the festivities. They've taken you to a quieter part of the Holiday Hills grounds in order to speak privately about something on their minds...
Go to the link above before reading the task details for Task 03 and Task 04!
Cassie and Orion seem concerned about the presence of the Guardian Deities. They seem to think that Leilani and Miliani have been observing them closely, and it's unnerved the two enough to turn to the guild members for help in spying on the visitors.
For completing this task, you will gain a one-time bonus of 500 candies!
04 | The Guardian Deities's Concerns
04 | The Guardian Deities's Concerns
After hearing the two children out, you're left wondering what you should do. As you weigh your options, there is one other path you could pursue instead...
The link above goes to a continuation of the dialogue with the Cosmogs! Be sure to read up on the first part before continuing!
The Guardian Deities, Leilani and Miliani, have their own concerns about the Cosmogs and the circumstances of their presence in Ethovalon. They wish to enlist your help in gaining the trust of the mysterious pair and finding out anything you can about their origins.
For completing this task, you will gain a one-time bonus of 500 candies!
For Task 04, if you want an idea of what information you can get out of the Cosmogs, see the page linked below!
Though this information is more likely to come up in Task 04, anybody is free to read this regardless of what task you plan to complete!
"Cassiopeia"
"Cassiopeia"
"Orion"
"Orion"
Leilani
Leilani
Miliani
Miliani
❗ NOTE: You may only complete either Task 03 OR Task 04! ❗
By completing either one of the two, you CANNOT make a submission for the other!
Read Participation & Submission Details below for the step-by-step instructions on how to participate in either task!
These two tasks are special and are NOT submitted the same way standard tasks are!
》 Participation & Submission Details 《
1 || Pick and choose a side to take
1 || Pick and choose a side to take
✦ Choose to aid Cassie & Orion in spying on the Guardian Deities...
OR
...choose to help Leilani & Miliani in finding out more about the Cosmogs and their origins.
✦ Depending on which you choose, you'll either complete 03 | Cassie & Orion's Secret Mission OR 04 | The Guardian Deities's Concerns!
Each user can only choose one of the two! You cannot complete both sides of the stories / tasks!
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2 || Roll a dice in the appropriate #event-submissions thread
2 || Roll a dice in the appropriate #event-submissions thread
✦ Go to the #event-submissions channel and find the correct thread for the side you picked.
✦ In the channel, roll a dice by using the command /roll d:20 with the GCSF Bulletin bot.
✦ If the roll was 10 or lower, your character has failed to complete their objective.
✦ If the roll was 11 or higher, your character has successfully completed their objective!
✦ See ❗ Rolls must be made in the official Discord server below this section for more info!
✦ The number of total successes and failures to complete these tasks will affect the outcome of this storyline following Holiday Hills's conclusion!
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3 || Draw / write your task submission based on the dice result
3 || Draw / write your task submission based on the dice result
✦ Create a submission based on the result of the dice!
✦ A few examples of what you could do if your roll was 10 or lower are...
✧ If your character was spying on the Guardian Deities, perhaps they tripped up while tailing the two and a citizen caught them sneaking around.
✧ If your character was attempting to gain the Cosmogs's trust to interrogate them, perhaps they said the wrong thing and the Cosmogs are unwilling to converse further.
✦ If your roll was 11 or higher, you can portray their success in any way you wish! No curveballs have been thrown your way!
✦ Collabs are allowed and each user makes a separate roll! Submissions must be made separately!
See ❗ Collabs must be submitted individually below this section for more info!
✦ Each user makes a separate roll! Regardless of which side each person picks or if the roll is a success, everyone in the collab needs to roll and then submit separately!
✦ Here are a few examples of what you could do for a collab submission:
✧ If one team in the collab failed but another team succeeded, perhaps the team that was unsuccessful was able to distract or otherwise help the team that succeeded in some way.
✧ If one team in the collab chose the Cosmogs and the other chose the Guardian Deities, perhaps the collab could be focused on the two teams butting heads somehow.
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✦ Remember that dice rolls must be made BEFORE you create your submission!
✦ When using the Holiday Hills Task Grader, selecting either Task 03 or Task 04 from the dropdown will present you with two new boxes to be filled in.
✦ For more information on how this works, see ❕ Setting your dice roll when submitting below!
✦ As the tasks grant a bonus 500 candies for completion, remember to check the box that states you are able to claim rewards if it is your first time submitting for the task! See ❕ Check you can claim rewards before submitting below this section for more info!
❕ Setting your dice roll when submitting
When selecting either Task 03 or Task 04, you will be given two additional boxes to fill in!
✦ In Roll Result, type out the number of your dice roll!
This number cannot be lower than 1 or higher than 20.
✦ In Link to Roll, copy the link to the Discord message with the dice roll and paste it here!
The message will be one that was posted by the GCSF Bulletin bot.
❕ Check you can claim rewards before submitting
Before you submit the task, remember to check off the checkbox for your team(s) that states you are able to claim rewards!
✦ There is a checkbox beneath this text in your user box:
Is this user able to claim rewards from this task?
✦ Make sure the box is checked if this is your first time submitting for the task! You may only claim the candy reward once!
❗ Rolls must be made in the official Discord server
Attempting to link to a message that is outside of the official Discord server (i.e. a different server, a website, etc.) will not allow you to continue.
The dice roll MUST have been made in the official server underneath a thread in #event-submissions!
Remember that rolls must be made before you create your submission and not after!
❗ Collabs must be submitted individually
✦ You are allowed to collab with other people! Teams on opposing sides can collab, and users can collab regardless of the result of their dice rolls!
✦ Dice rolls must be made individually! Same as doing a solo submission, each person still must make their own dice roll before creating their piece!
✦ Submissions to the grader must be made individually! Instead of one person submitting once for the entire group, every person who participates in the collab must submit their own task to the grader!
This is to ensure that each person can submit their own dice results.
✦ Get creative with how opposing teams might interact if you're doing a collab! Is one team helping the Cosmogs while the other helps the Guardian Deities? How do their interests conflict?
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