#smoochumquest

Egg 51!!!! At long, long last, she has returned to me.

Eggs 28-34: Still no shiny Smoochum. I have achieved several non-shiny Smoochum, as well as multiple shiny Elekid and Magby, at least one shiny Cleffa, and yesterday where none of them were shiny but I did hatch like, four Tyrogue out of six eggs and three were in a row, and I’m pretty sure my first Igglybuff were both today.

Our first shiny comes in at Egg #5 with Magby!

First two Dizzy Punch eggs were a Tyrogue and Elekid, no shiny (which makes my life easier, really, because if I get a shiny I don’t have already I’ll have to decide what to do with it - those would be Igglybuff, Cleffa, and Elekid in addition to the desired Smoochum.)

To make a long story short, you actually CAN manipulate the Gold/Silver/Crystal VC clock by manipulating the 3DS’s, but I’m pretty sure it only goes forward and I’m pretty sure it’s not immediate. Which has proven somewhat inconvenient, as I need two Pokemon who appear at night and am not a morning person and am now about twelve hours in the future (in-game) relative to reality. But I’m pretty sure Oddish wouldn’t have been THAT helpful ahead of Whitney (beyond potential immunity to Attract, but ultimately my Wooper’s Mud Slap meant that wasn’t a problem the way Milk Drink was. WHY does that have such high PP?)

Given I have a limited timeframe and am going to be, at MINIMUM, resetting a random-chance egg until it gives me a specific combo of shiny and Pokemon, and who knows what I’ll do if I get a shiny Cleffa or something from that egg BEFORE the Smoochum, I think I’m just gonna make as much progress as I can tonight and catch my Birb tomorrow.