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Darktober Mysteries

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The big Halloween Event is over now! So many people have participated in it and many mysteries of Emera Town have been solved. While many of you solved all ten darktober mysteries, there are also some who got stuck at one or two mysteries. So here is the solution to all the mysteries:

Mystery #1:
This mystery was a story told by a Pokémon. It tells you about it's caring trainer (who seems to be related to further mysteries as well). At the end it says that you should put a Pokémon of its species in your Party. But what Pokémon was meant?
The important hints in this mystery were: Evolved one late night under the moonshine & fur. Well there is only one Pokémon that fits very well to this description: Umbreon! :)

Mystery #2:
This mystery was a diary entry from 1996. It tells you a story about a man who took a walk late night and who met a weird creature at the fountain of Emera Town.
Solution: Go to the "Town" center of Emera Town and click on the Fountain.

Mystery #3:
"Tiger, Tiger, burning bright \ In the silent forests of the night [...]"
Third mystery was this riddle. So it basically describes a burning Tiger(-Pokémon) in the silent forest. Simply: Send Growlithe or Arcanine to the Silent Forest (Rumble Map).

Mystery #4:
Another diary entry. The main word of this entry was "FOCUS", which was used over twenty times. At the same day, the "concentration" game was released at the Game Center. Hm? Hm? :P Easy?
The task was to play the game and find the matching Darkrai cards.

Mystery #5:
A Teddiursa asks you to help him find his lost item. He says that he lost it outside of Emera Town when Zubat attacked him and his friends.
And what place outside of Emera Town is famous for Zubat? Of course: The Royal Tunnel!
You simply had to play a few levels and then easily found the lost item - Misdreavus Cosplay. (It's a new forme-change item)

Mystery #6:
In this mystery you were given six anagrams which all meant a Pokémon name. (For example: OTAYPN => PONYTA). After solving all six anagrams and placing these Pokémon in your Party, the mystery was solved.

Mystery #7:
Diary Entry No. 3: The (apparently) old man talks about a black mystery box that he got from his new "friend". He said that he is hiding the box outside of Emera Town, so "they" can't find it. He is also saying that his friends, the [Pokemon Name] are going to protect it.
Now the Pokemon Name was different for every user. All you had to do is search for that Pokémon species in the Tall Grass - and when you click on a grass spot, you find the black mystery box.

Mystery #8:
"Meet me at the fountain" was all you got as your task. Well, pretty simple: Same thing to do as in mystery 2. When you went to the fountain, you had a short conversation with Darkrai where you received the black mystery key. After opening the mystery box with it, you got a new rumble area map: New Moon Island.

Mystery #9:
This one was a simple maths riddle. All you had to do was solve all equations (e.g. 2 + 2 = 4) and then convert the number into a letter. (1 = A, 2 = B, 3 = C, 4 = D etc.).
The complete word was "Daycare", which is where you had to go and finish the mystery.

Mystery #10:
The last mystery was also the last diary entry. The old man is hysterically telling you that he had done something incredibly bad and he would like to undo it - and go back in time.
Now your task was to go back in time. That one was a bit tricky, but all you had to do was go to the Index-Page and scroll down to the oldest News post :P



... Aaaand after solving all ten mysteries, you had unlocked ten letters as the big code word: Q L J K W P D U H V
But how to solve it?
Well, that was maybe the hardest task, since it probably took some time until you find out that it's... a caesar code :D
All you had to do was to decrement all letters by three positions in the alphabet. (E.g. D => A, E => B, F => C, etc.)
So after doing that you should have solved the biggest mystery of all: N I G H T M A R E S! That was the super secret code word.

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Now as it was announced, three randomly selected users who solved that secret code win a shiny Darkrai! But before announcing the winners, let me say a few words about it:

Some might be wondering why it took two days until the winners were announced. Well the answer is: It took quite long to filter out as many cheaters as possible. And there were a lot. Out of 406 users who submitted the right code word, only 371 users had solved four or more mysteries. The other one's were either wildly guessing or were being spoiled.
From this still large amount, we have evidence that 260 users were cheating: Either by spoiling the code word or by asking for code word spoilers.
That leaves exactly 111 (fair playing) users. Over 70% have cheated in this event.

Now that is a shocking number, especially for me. I worked hard - very very hard - on this event. I don't think that we had many events so far which were almost as large as this halloween event. And seeing that so many users are trying to destroy the fun and the whole point of this event is simply devastating. In my opinion, this is a very sad result for our community.
I put much effort into filtering out as much cheaters as possible, but I'm going to be honest: I'm not going to do all that work again. I will not set up a big event like this again and watch it be destroyed by so many users who want to win by cheating. There's just no point.

I'm sorry for all the users who enjoyed it and who tried to win with fairness, but I simply don't see the point in organizing such a mystery event again.

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... Sooo either way. From the 111 fair playing users, three winners have been randomly selected.
Their Usernames are:
→ orrorelita
→ ToukoHarmonia
→ Tm69

Congratulations! You three have won a Shiny Darkrai Egg!

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Plushie Raffle
Our Plushie Raffle - in cooperation with pokevault.com - has ended as well. The five winners will be contacted within the next few days! :)

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(The winners of the SCE will be announced tomorrow. Sorry it's ten PM now and I just came home from university :b An exhausting school day plus seeing that so many users cheated is enough for one day)

Ooh, congrats to the lucky winners!!

And I'm sorry that so many people took advantage and cheated on this - it was a fun event, but that's quite unfair to you. ;-;
Thank you for the cool event either way~

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Well, that's a disappointing result from the community. I'm sorry to hear that. But still, thank you Riako, for all you do and have done for this site.

And congrats to the lucky winners! :)

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Hey that's even more than I thought.
I am amazed. Good job, people.
//claps sarcastically

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i haven't cheated because i never awnser the big code XD so i never could win the shiny darkrai

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Awesome event. Thanks, Riako.
And, congratz to the deserving winners.. :D (Y)

I hope "this" will be a very good lesson to the ones who spoiled the answers to "almost" everyone they know. :/

P.S.
I hope that the winners will not receive a bunch of PM asking them to sell their Shiny Darkrai price for some trivial stuff, like Nuggets, (Shiny) Mega-ables or even Megastones.. Please save them of these kind of troubles.. :,(

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they should make it so it's impossible to cheat cause it took me forever and some were like "oh tell me and i'll pay you"

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Wow that many cheated? I'm pretty... Shocked. Congrats to the winners though!

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Congrats to the winners. :D

The event was fun and an interesting one as well.

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That's sad :/ We will never have something like this again

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That's pretty sad that the ones that some of the ones that got the code Haven't Participated :<

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Title: darktober

Congrats on everytime that managed to get it without cheating ans to the 3 winners! I couldent figure out #10 before the time was up.

Ahh, that's really sad, how many people cheated on this. It was meant to be fun, and the overwhelming number of people cheating is pretty disappointing. ;-;

To the winners: Congratulations! You definitely deserve these eggs.

Ah man. I had put Nightmares as one of my codes and took it down cause I thought it was wrong.

Congratz to all! :3

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I had a few people try to help me work out the mystery myself, but I didn't want to after the day I had for Halloween. So as one of the users who was considering working towards it before all of that, I'm greatly disappointed to see how many users cheated to get the reward :<

I appreciate you taking the time to weed through all of that to only reward the legitimate users.

As for everything else, we can be patient :3 I can't wait to see who gets Victini.

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Riako, I'm so sorry that this happened. Those of us who worked so hard to solve the mysteries and find the codeword loved it and appreciate your efforts. I agree with you that it is shameful that people feel the need to cheat rather than work hard to earn what they desire. Still, kudos to you and the staff for your efforts - It really was a wonderful event to take part in! I completely understand why you don't feel inspired to do it again.

I only solved mystery 2..
Should I..should I be proud of myself?

Well, yes.

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I think your first mistake is to give away 3 shiny darkrai to people like this. You give people a reason to cheat and most of them will cheat. There is always someone or something trying to cheat anything out there in the world, its certain peoples nature. Am I mad that I put alot of time and effort into something and got nothing whatsoever? No not at all, because realistically, i didn't put alot of time and effort into it and quite frankly, don't care about a bunch of pixels. My point being, if you don't want cheaters, don't give them a reason - and better yet, don't expect things out of a large group of people and you won't have disappointment.

I think it was to hard for some people (like me). I wish I could do something but I couldn't even solve the first riddle nor any of the others...(And I play the Pokemon editions since red and blue)
But I will also thank you for this event!