Pokerus

Fun fact! Spoilering it just in case, but it's just a Pokedex mechanic!

I imagine it got the Rockruff treatment, which is fine since you can't even use it until way later than you get it anyway.

I do not but I presume you get the over time.

There are passwords you can enable to make things harder, here is a link to a post with all the passwords. You will need to enable them at the start of the game or else you will need data drives to activate more later on.

I recommend manually downloading the game from the manual download link. Move the files to your Rejuv folder and replace everything asked and if you're missing files from the updater, that should give you what you need. If this doesn't work, then I'm out of ideas.

Did you launch the updater exe and let it fully download all the files necessary?

Your PC is trying to open the saves as Firefox windows. Right click on one(1) of the files and hit "open as" and open one of them as a notepad file. This will change the icon next to all of them to notepad icons and it should open in your game just fine. Edit: Make sure you click "Always open with" when selecting Notepad to change. I haven't done this is a while but I'm like 90% certain this is what is happening here and how to fix it.

Best way to find some rare Pokemon is through repel manipulation. For Blipbug your best bet is a level 61 Pokemon in the lead slot, probably something with Illuminate to boost encounter rates, and bring a lot of repels. Brings your odds to three Pokemon you can encounter instead of nine.

Just some idle thoughts I want to speak about, get off my mind. Edit: The odds of the teaser trailer being released the next day lmao

With any luck this spoilers properly. Cleaned up and colored sketch of Aevia's new design, hence the spoiler. Click at your own risk. Spent waaaay longer on this than I probably should have, to the point that cleaning up the sketch took longer than properly lining it would have, but I've always thought my sketches looked better than my lines anyways. Ah well. I have literally 0 practice at drawing shoes. Wasn't too crazy about the overalls when I first saw the design but ya know what? Having spent an hour or two on this, they've grown on me. For the record, this was almost a catgirl Aevia but I decided against it in the end. Mirrored because I'm an indecisive dummy lol