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Welcome to the Kalos Friend Safari! At the Friend Safari we have begun to hold capture contests! As the name implies it is a contest to see who can catch the biggest, rarest Pokemon out there! The contest is simple, in the Friend Safari you will find many different kinds of Pokemon, from all over the world in fact! We give participants three Safari Balls to use and attempt to capture the best Pokemon they can, or you can use any three Pokeballs of their own, if you do, we do not give you any Safari Balls. [You may use one of yours and two of ours and so forth.] You are allowed to take just one of your own Pokemon into the park to use to weaken a wild Pokemon for capture, so don't let it get knocked out! Pokemon are judged on their quality, rarity, and how well the capture was roleplayed. So are you interested? Then sign up, take your Safari Balls, and hit the grass and find the best Pokemon you can!

Also, the Pokemon available is always different as there are several different areas to the Friend Safari! The zone we'll be hunting in this time is the Tundra zone, a chilling land of extreme cold, little to no vegetation, freezing water, dark caves, and no trees.

How to Participate:

The rules for the Safari Contest are simple. Pick one Pokemon to use in the contest, and when you post your character looking for a Pokemon use the random number generator to find out what Pokemon your character finds. Set the lowest number to 1 and the highest to 100. Once your post goes through, check to see what number you got, then, look at the list of available Pokemon, at the bottom of this post, to see what Pokemon appeared.

Then, in your next post once the Pokemon has been decided, begin battling it all in one post. But before you post your battle, use the Random Number generator again to see if the capture was successful, setting the lowest to 1 and the highest to 10, however, different Pokeballs have different success rates depending on what Pokemon or area you are using them on/in. Consult the list below to see what Pokeballs benefit this area.



[Safari Ball] 50% Success Rate on any Pokemon.

[Pokeball] 50% Success Rate on any Pokemon.

[Great Ball] 60% Success Rate on any Pokemon.

[Ultra Ball] 70% Success Rate on any Pokemon.

[Net Ball] 80% Success Rate on Bug and Water type Pokemon, 50% on all others.

[Dusk Ball] 80% Success Rate on Pokemon found in caves, 50% on anything else. (Pokemon in this region that benefit: Swinub and Piloswine are found in caves.)

[Quick Ball] 80% Success Rate on your first Pokemon encountered only, 50% on all consecutive.

[Timer Ball] 80% Success Rate if it's your last Pokeball only, 50% on any prior.

[Repeat Ball] 80% Success Rate on a Pokemon if you encountered the Pokemon in your previous post, 50% if not.

[Heal Ball] 80% Success Rate on a Pokemon if you failed to capture it once already, 50% if not.

[Fast Ball] 80% Success Rate on a fast Pokemon. (Pokemon in this region that benefit: Sneasel)

[Heavy Ball] 80% Success Rate on a heavy Pokemon. (Pokemon in this region that benefit: Beartic, Wailmer, Glalie and Hariyama)

[Level Ball] 70% Success Rate on a first stage Pokemon (Azurill, Wingull, etc.), 50% on all others.

[Love Ball] 80% Success Rate on a Pokemon with only a single gender (Smoochum, Jynx, etc.), 50% on all others.

[Lure Ball] 80% Success Rate on a Pokemon fished out of the water.

[Friend Ball] 80% Success Rate on a Pokemon that evolves with happiness.

For success rates of 50%, you must receive one of the following numbers from the Random Number generator to capture the Pokemon: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

For success rates of 60%, you must receive one of the following numbers from the Random Number generator to capture the Pokemon: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

For success rates of 70%, you must receive one of the following numbers from the Random Number generator to capture the Pokemon: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

For success rates of 80%, you must receive one of the following numbers from the Random Number generator to capture the Pokemon: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

For success rates of 90%, you must receive one of the following numbers from the Random Number generator to capture the Pokemon: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9



As long as you still have Pokeballs you may continue to hunt and capture Pokemon until you get one you are comfortable with. If you catch a Pokemon, but then choose to catch another, you must release the first Pokemon you caught before keeping the second. Once you run out of Pokeballs your time is up and the Pokemon you last caught will be the one judged.

When everyone is done (a specified time will be given when the contest will end, regardless if others are done) all Pokemon caught will be judged. Each Pokemon will be judged individually in separate posts where a random number will be used to judge their quality, between 1 and 5 and the number it lands on will be its quality. The other stat taken into consideration is the Pokemon's rarity, its species. A rather common Pokemon like Azurill won't give as much points as a Pokemon like Sneasel would give much more. However, with quality, a Azurill could beat out a Sneasel.

Contestant Prizes:

Prizes will be given out to the top three contestants. The top three are allowed to either keep the Pokemon they caught, or take a prize of Snag Coins. The first place contestant may keep both the Pokemon and take the Snag Coins, if he/she so chooses to do so. Note, that the Pokemon still counts towards your rank limit.

1st place prize: 10 Snag Coins and Pokemon, if not taking Pokemon, 15 Snag Coins. Or, you may choose an evolutionary item, but you get no Snag Coins and can not keep your Pokemon.

2nd place prize: 10 Snag Coins or Pokemon.

3rd place prize: 7 Snag Coins or Pokemon.

All participants who did not place receive 3 Snag Coins as a consolation prize.

And that's it! Get out there and have fun!

Available Pokemon:

1. Spheal (2 Star rarity)
2. Spheal (2 Star rarity)
3. Bunnelby (1 Star rarity)
4. Shellder (2 Star rarity)
5. Beartic (4 Star rarity)
6. Pelipper (3 Star rarity)
7. Seel (2 Star rarity)
8. Seel (2 Star rarity)
9. Bunnelby (1 Star rarity)
10. Dewgong (4 Star rarity)
11. Vanillish (3 Star rarity)
12. Vanillish (3 Star rarity)
13. Makuhita (2 Star rarity)
14. Makuhita (2 Star rarity)
15. Snorunt (3 Star rarity)
16. Smoochum (4 Star rarity)
17. Cubchoo (3 Star rarity)
18. Bunnelby (1 Star rarity)
19. Slowpoke (2 Star rarity)
20. Slowpoke (2 Star rarity)
21. Delibird (5 Star rarity)
22. Bunnelby (1 Star rarity)
23.Bunnelby (1 Star rarity)
24. Wingull (1 Star rarity)
25. Snover (3 Star rarity)
26. Dewgong (4 Star rarity)
27. Smoochum (4 Star rarity)
28. Hariyama (4 Star rarity)
29. Bunnelby (1 Star rarity)
30. Wingull (1 Star rarity)
31. Spheal (2 Star rarity)
32. Sneasel (4 Star rarity)
33. Bergmite (3 Star rarity)
34. Azurill (1 Star rarity)
35. Goldeen (1 Star rarity)
36. Azurill (1 Star rarity)
37. Shellder (2 Star rarity)
38. Vanillite (1 Star rarity)
39. Goldeen (1 Star rarity)
40. Stunfisk (0 Star rarity)
41. Goldeen (1 Star rarity)
42. Makuhita (2 Star rarity)
43. Snorunt (3 Star rarity)
44. Beartic (4 Star rarity)
45. Makuhita (2 Star rarity)
46. Cubchoo (3 Star rarity)
47. Marill (3 Star rarity)
48. Munchlax (4 Star rarity)
49. Glalie (4 Star rarity)
50. Shiny Azurill (6 Star rarity)
51. Wingull (1 Star rarity)
52. Swinub (2 Star rarity)
53. Seel (2 Star rarity)
54. Wingull (1 Star rarity)
55. Cryogonal (4 Star rarity)
56. Swinub (2 Star rarity)
57.Wailmer (3 Star rarity)
58. Swinub (2 Star rarity)
59. Lapras (5 Star rarity)
60. Sealeo (3 Star rarity)
61. Finneon (1 Star rarity)
62. Bunnelby (1 Star rarity)
63. Vanillite (1 Star rarity)
64. Seel (2 Star rarity)
65. Bergmite (3 Star rarity)
66. Snorunt (3 Star rarity)
67. Vanillite (1 Star rarity)
68. Spheal (2 Star rarity)
69. Sneasel (4 Star rarity)
70. Vanillite (1 Star rarity)
71. Sealeo (3 Star rarity)
72. Piloswine (4 Star rarity)
73. Makuhita (2 Star rarity)
74. Spheal (2 Star rarity)
75. Vanillite (1 Star rarity)
76. Wailmer (3 Star rarity)
77. Wingull (1 Star rarity)
78. Finneon (1 Star rarity)
79. Seel (2 Star rarity)
80. Wingull (1 Star rarity)
81. Cryogonal (4 Star rarity)
82. Finneon (1 Star rarity)
83.Swinub (2 Star rarity)
84. Finneon (1 Star rarity)
85. Jynx (4 Star rarity)
86. Sealeo (3 Star rarity)
87.Finneon (1 Star rarity)
88. Bunnelby (1 Star rarity)
89. Vanillite (1 Star rarity)
90. Seel (2 Star rarity)
91. Bergmite (3 Star rarity)
92. Snorunt (3 Star rarity)
93. Vanillite (1 Star rarity)
94. Spheal (2 Star rarity)
95. Sneasel (4 Star rarity)
96. Vanillite (1 Star rarity)
97. Sealeo (3 Star rarity)
98. Piloswine (4 Star rarity)
99. Waimer (3 Star rarity)
100. Spheal (2 Star rarity)

Entering the Safari Area without a word to Snagem or anyone else, Aria examined the chilled area before cursing. Seems her best friend was useless for the moment, she started on her trek into the featureless tundra.

The hallucination would persist, popping out of the ground to hunt Aria down. And be ignored, for the moment.

Cloven digging under snow, like he always does, with his red spikes being the only thing noticeable. "Jeeze Cloven I would swear you where a sh SH-A-AAAA.... ooff" Kain said as he tumbled down after tripping on a Spheal. "Hehe Sorry.... Cloven lets go."

"Scraaaaa" Cloven replied in a happy tone.

Turning around Kain heard a little high pitched "arrr," looking down there was the speal with kains boot print on its head. "yeesh sorry. Here have a pokepuff," Tossing the Spheal a treat Kain made his way onward again.

"whats with all the round pokemon? anyways lets go." Kain said with a questoning look and carried on.

Disinterested in the Cryogonal that she came across, Lynnette would keep walking. She had a good idea of what she was interested in here, and the weird snowflake looking pokemon was certainly not it.

Deciding to take her chances near the water, Lynnette continued to walk until suddenly she was splashed with a fair amount of water. Shivering now that she had been drenched, the girl turned to see what had soaked her. A Dewgong sat in her path, glaring at her for intruding on its territory. The Sea Lion Pokemon opened its mouth, ice beginning to form in the back of its throat as it charged up an Ice Beam. Not having the time to have Hook attack the opposing Pokemon, the girl leaped to the side, rolling into the snow to avoid the attack. Angry that its attack had missed, the Dewgong charged at the trainer and her Snubbull. Hook, having fallen when his trainer landed in the snow, stood up and held his ground, glaring at the incoming Dewgong. Hook's mouth turned into a snarl, his face contorting to pull off a rather terrifying Scary Face attack. However, the Dewgong wasn't fazed by this odd display, stopping its tracks to swipe its tail at the Fairy Pokemon. Hook was knocked to the side by the Aqua Tail attack, but quickly rose to its feet again. Lynnette backed up, trying not to lose eye contact with the terrifying Pokemon that seemed to be after her for no reason. "Could I get a little help over here, Hook?" Lynnette called out, her voice wavering slightly, her eyes wide with fear.

Hook ran towards the Dewgong, jumping forward to Headbutt the Sea Lion Pokemon in the side of the head. The Dewgong's head turned, and it snarled angrily at the Snubbull. But, rather than attack Hook straight on, it decided to turn tail and Dive into the water, swimming beneath the ice. Hook raced around, trying to figure out where the Dewgong would come up. Unfortunately, the ice was just thick enough that it was difficult to see beneath it. The Dewgong aimed for the small shadow that the Snubbull cast, bashing through the ice and tossing the small Pokemon into the air, or so it thought. Hook had clung to the Dewgong's head, doing his best to hold on tightly. "Hook! Thunder Fang!" Lynnette called out, having been watching the two Pokemon very carefully. Hearing his trainer's words, Hook slid down to the Dewgong's neck, biting down on the tender flesh there, electricity coursing through his fangs. The Dewgong cried out in pain, thrashing about. Hook kept his hold, and he could taste blood in his mouth from having bitten down so hard to keep a hold on the Dewgong. Finally though, he released the Sea Lion Pokemon. The Dewgong would fall to the ground, breathing deeply.

Lynnette saw this as her chance, and threw the Safari Ball in the direction of the Dewgong.