Marcello

July 30, 2015

What's that sound? Why it's the sound of all this HYPE and RELIGION I acquire in part 2 of the LP! Link to Part 2 is below, and will also be added to the OP.

Part 2:

http://imgur.com/a/KwH6G

July 30, 2015

I enjoyed this. Moar

I would play another 50 turns right now just to get another update in, but last time I played Civ at like half 1 in the morning I didn't sleep.

But I'll do AT LEAST another update tomorrow. Probably more; once I start playing Civ, it's rather hard to stop.

July 30, 2015

Well, if you clicked on the topic, you know pretty much exactly what it entails.

To give some background, there's this mod which has a huge map of Tamriel from The Elder Scrolls series, and has 13 Civs based on the 10 playable races and 3 others, unless my count is off. It has a setting to have them all start in the exact locations on the map where their capitals would be.

A setting which I am totally not using. This run is far more chaotic than that.

This will be done by albums of imgur pictures, and unless there's a period where like nothing happens, each album will depict 50 turns of gameplay. I'll basically update as and when I play, and also when I get inspiration to write captions for each pic ~~they're funny in my head, I promise~~

Anyway, here we begin with part 1!

Part 1:

http://imgur.com/a/CKlI0

Part 2:

http://imgur.com/a/KwH6G

Part 3:

http://imgur.com/a/rTuCz

Part 4:

http://imgur.com/a/iEsQP

Part 5:

http://imgur.com/a/hAwiW

Part 6:

http://imgur.com/a/BEcpG

Part 7:

http://imgur.com/a/vuys1

EDIT: Oh hey, I wrote my instead of me in the title. I SUPPOSE that still makes grammatical sense, but I might hurt a little inside whenever I update this topic. Whoops.

EDIT 2: Mod list, before I forget. People on Reddit kept asking for it

Really Advanced Setup

Religion - No AI Free Pottery

War - Less Damaged Captured Cities

Barbarians Evolved

InfoAddict

Barbarians - Unlimited Exp

Promotions - Expansion Pack

The Elder Scrolls Civilization V Pack (BNW + G&K)

DBZ Planet Trade Organization Civilization

DBZ Saiyan Civilization

DBZ Earthlings Civilization

DBZ Namekians Civilization

Halidom of Ylisse

Theocracy of Plegia (G&K and BNW)

Amazons

The Goths (BNW or GK)

The Empire of Germany (Hitler) (BNW)

The Papal States (BNW)

The Soviet Union (Stalin) (BNW)

The Sioux (Brave New World)

Octoski's Las Vegas

Wu Kingdom

Wei Kingdom

Shu Kingdom

Jin Dynasty

Lu Bu Forces

Xia - Erlitou (Brave New World)

[bNW] Pridelands Civilization - Colonialist Legacies

The Duchy of Normandy (William I)

[bNW] Canada Civilization - Colonialist Legacies

The Kingdom of Italy (Mussolini) (BNW)

[bNW] Australia Civilization - Colonialist Legacies

[bNW] Mexican Civilization - Colonialist Legacies

The Buccaneers

North Korea (G&K)

Cthulhu Civ

July 29, 2015

So, to clarify, the Lecture Hall Room will eventually be open to anyone, not just those who get picked? Because this has sparked my interest to learn Ruby either way.

July 28, 2015

Just like Etika said, I can't stand how I have to have my volume at 250% just be able to hear the breathing, and for that it's a pretty big turn off from me actually playing this game. I'm excited for lore and theories (cough Mat Pat cough) though.

With the last two patches upping the breathing volume, I'm actually finding it unsettlingly loud. I mean, unsettling is good and all, but still. Breathing volume seems good for me, although i didn't play before he patched their volume up so I can't say what it used to be like.

July 27, 2015

Oh hey thanks. This became more of a S E L L O U T post then I was expecting but I guess thanks! I just mostly wanted to show off the shirt but thanks for loving the music.

Haha, the shirt is awesome too. And your beard. Best I can grow is a goatee, so I'm jealous of your band's music, your clothes, AND your ability to grow facial hair.

July 27, 2015

Thanks for the link Kuro.

Pyon, your band's music is awesome. I stumbled here just as I was looking for something good to listen to. My wishes have been fulfilled.

July 24, 2015

I'm gonna put my money on either Ghost/Normal (Ghost seems to fit the most thematically) or Dark/Normal (Because of the dusk in it's name).

The normal just sorta... I dunno. It's a doll. I just like things with normal as a secondary typing, I guess.

July 20, 2015

I reluctantly accept my title of cellardweller. Although the goal here is to do better than I did in PRCL, where I only had one victory and that was by default.

Still, matches are fun to play and watch, so I won't complain, even if I lose every single match, haha.

July 18, 2015

Hey, glad to see all the people enjoying this! Well, due to popular demand, It looks like I'm joining the Aqua Gang. So I guess we'll open with some curbstompage.

All these Level 30 pokemon. I still haven't decided which battles to list my team for, but seeing as they're all going to be easy because I'm doing this 30 odd levels later than I should be...

Team for the entire Aqua Gang questline right up until 7th:

Airy Lv57

The Godbat Lv57

Peach Lv57

Brainfreeze Lv56

Mozilla Lv57

Lucky #6 Lv55

That should save time and space.

First thing I should point out, which I don't know is an event glitch or a text oversight, but even though Archer talks about meeting at night and after sundown, you can have the meeting whenever. Either that's intended and the text is wrong, or it's unintended and the event is wrong. Not that I'll complain because if I had to wait until night that's my plot progress entirely halted.

Y'know, part of me is unhappy about the number of shady things our character is forced to do to advance the plot ~~why do I have to read the damn diary~~ but, while I may feel bad about joining a gang, robbing a woman as unpleasant as Craudberry does put a smile on my face.

Darm was easy, because #6 knows Earth Power.

Break was easy, because #6 knows Earth Power.

Unsurprisingly, Ponyta wasn't shiny. Would've been nice if it was, because dat Rapidash (Although I have to say, while I do think the rainbow rapidash is brilliant, I prefer the black flames of the original shiny. Hell, the original ponyta shiny's blue flames make it one of my favourite vanilla Shinies fullstop.)

Next up, attacking their base.

Kriz & Nihil were easy, because #6 knows Earth Power.

I remember how I seriously struggled in my battle against Maxwell on my first file. So I take great pleasure in this revenge:

Maxwell was easy, because #6 knows Earth Power

Alright, now that's all dealt with, I'm heading down to 7th to continue with plot. ALso, seeing as I tend to comment on music, I'm not all too fond of Lapis Ward's music. I very much like 7th's though. Subtlety can make a lot of difference.

Even down in 7th, Darm was easy for the same reason as before.

Now, a brief detour to fight Craudberry. Who's pokemon are stronger than mine. That said,it wasn't too hard. Mozilla dealt with Victreebel, Brainfreeze dealt with Druddigon, and The Godbat dealt with Qwilfish. That was almost as satisfying as robbing her. Rain Dance get!

After buying all the pokemon, Arclight gave me a Lucky Egg, which is very much appreciated. Especially if any of them are Shiny (I've yet to check). This only makes me like him more. Cleaning up Reborn in his own way.

Now, onto a battle that might actually prove difficult.

Team Vs. Maxwell (2):

Lucky #6 Lv57

Brainfreeze Lv57

Mozilla Lv57

The Godbat Lv57

Airy Lv57

Peach Lv57

I opened with Toxic Spikes, but only managed to get one layer up because i got unlucky on the confusion check. From there, Mozilla with Psychic was my go to guy. Ninetales insisted on spamming Extrasensory against Mozilla, so I had no trouble there. Between Poison and Psychic, Heatmor went down fast, although took of a chunk of HP with a Thunderpunch. I swapped to Airy for Houndoom, and took him down, but not without losing Airy in the process. Charizard took down Mozilla, Brainfreeze and The Godbat while sustaining heavy injuries, but Peach finished him off. Which left me with a +1 Peach against a Pyroar.

It didn't go well.

Attempt number 2 forgets Toxic Spikes, moving straight into Earth Power. Ninetales went down, with no damage to Mozilla and #6 still down. This time Heatmor chose Sucker Punch over Thunderpunch,so I lost Mozilla and Airy. The Godbat went up against Charizard, and i got lucky with a few flinches, so just managed to get him down. And then Houndoom took out The Godbat, Brainfreeze, and Peach in one fell swoop.

Attempt #3 opened with Two Calm minds from The Godbat, and, thanks to some Fire Blast misses, he took down Ninetales in two shots. A lucky crit had Heatmor down in one shot, although I feel like he would've gone down anyway (If I remember correctly, Heatmor's special defense is awful. Plus thanks to the Psychologist, The Godbat no longer has a -Sp.Atk Nature.) Charizard also fell to the mighty Godbat. I swear, half his team down and I'm still on full 6, I don't see why I don't ALWAYS open like this. Houndoom FINALLY managed to end The Godbat's reign of terror. #6 Made short work of him though, thanks to the ever-useful Earth Power. And then dealt with Pyroar (Who is adifferent gender to the last battle, which amused me a bit).

So huzzah! I won! After much anguish, Sunny Day get!

Now, returning to the plot, which I admit I've somewhat neglected so far.

I can vaguely appreciate how gullible the player is for assuming Bennett is that gullible. But, well... He sure pulls off gullible well.

I believe I mentioned last time how El's outfit change and name lengthening intrigue me. Plus normal types are awesome, so I really do look forward to our eventual full battle against him.

I despised this segment in the original, because I first did it during mock exams so I wasn't organised to have paper handy and my memory is pants. Luckily the screenshot function exists. More lukcily, I still have said screenshots. Although the patrolling might still be a pain to get around, this should be far less painful than my first tiem through here. Also, hey, so THIS is where the Holy Field is. How fitting.

Now that I get to the bit I need screenshots, it seems like theh ard part is scrolling through 1638 backup saves. I save OFTEN. I look forward to the streamlining of the backup system in the next release. So, in case anybody else wants a quick reference:

Emerald: 3827 Sapphire: 1605 Ruby: 2303 Amethyst: 0204

Now, I went and read some books because I didn't appear to have the screenshot for the Ruby password. I'm sure there are new ones, and one of them stands out to me mentioning 6 pillars: Emerald, Crimson, Violet, Gold, Azure and Ivory [seal as told]. Which is... New. Ivory and Gold have not had any involvement, whereas the other 4 are the Reborn colours under different names (except Emerald, under the usual name). I mean... Arceus is White and Yellow, I guess but... I feel there's more than that going on. This will no doubt become relevant, methinks. And also a mention of Blackest Beast lying at Light's End. Ever intriguing. And another book mentions four pillars of light, which one assumes are the standard ones.

Hmm. I recognise one of these generic teams from my up to date playthrough. For the sake of memory, I'm bolding a name to remind myself when I get to the E15 content: Cultist Kaiden, Dragonair+Shelgon

I have to wonder if there's ever a situation where Cain deems it inappropriate to make lewd jokes. He's very refreshing to have around, particularly in life threatening situations such as these. Also his 'What is your hair even doing?' to Bennet is absolutely brilliant. And he's right about not getting to be the very best like no one ever was. That'll be me, sorry Cain. And 'Thanks for the lead'? I... wonder what that was about. And Luna's mention of 'The darkness in Master's heart'... So many mysteries, dammit. But I guess I'm off to Iolia Valley.

After teaching #6 Rock Smash, progress was smooth. I love this place too, it's so pretty. Bit laggy outside though.

I am far more amused than I likely should be that there's a phone to the Grand Hall in the cave luna does her battles. It's brilliant. With that said, I have a battle to do. Two, in fact!

Team Vs. Bennett (2):

Brainfreeze Lv58

Peach Lv58

Mozilla Lv60

Lucky #6 Lv60

The Godbat Lv60

Airy Lv60

Darkness is gathering...

Other than the Life Orb on Yanmega, which threw me a bit, this was pretty straightforward. Imagine if I had rock types, too... Bennet's team has a long way to go before he's Elite Four material, that's for sure.

That aside, I find it hard to get a read on how Bennett will end up. He could very easily fall over the edge and go completely evil, but he could just as easily come back and help us. He's a confused and lonely guy but... Well, only time will tell.

Oh, and as a nice detail, the Light Shard in here respawns, to function as a healing machine before the gym. That's awesome.

Team Vs. Luna:

Lucky #6 Lv60

Brainfreeze Lv58

Peache Lv58

The Godbat Lv60

Airy Lv60

Mozilla Lv60

Darkness is gathering...

So, knowing she opens with her Bisharp, I get my Toxic spikes out, as he won't remove 'em later. #6 gets out both layers but faints in the process. And then I switch to The Godbat, but for a very different reason to usual.

..So, in other news, Flash doesn't change the field to a normal Crystal Cavern. Welp, lesson learnt. Earth Power probably woulda done the job, too. I guess I'll try that out if I lose this time. But Mozilla made short work of The Carpenter, and Peach of Bandersnatch. Brainfreeze mostly took down Humpty Dumpty, but he switched out once Brainfreeze fainted, so then Peach set up against March Hare and dealt with that. Then Jubjub Bird took down Airy and Peach, and various other faintings happened previously that I forgot to write down, so I lost. I guess I'm trying Earth Power this time.

I managed to get both layers of spikes up AND Earth Power, which had no effect on the field, but took down Bisharp in one shot. The downside is that Bisharp got off Stealth Rock, which will tear right through my team. When I thought all hope was lost for the field, her Tyranitar used Earthquake and got rid of it for me. Everything went fine and then, once more, Honchcrow tore through nearly my entire team. But I now learnt Mozilla can outspeed it, and will burn next time.

Battle three opened with an Earth Power. Can't risk Rocks, especially if T-tar turns the field into a cave. He did, but I still got up a single spike layer, and no rocks in sight. Peach and Airy dealt with Ttar. Airy with Malamar. Mozilla with Honchcrow (Finally!), Mozilla+Brainfreeze with Sableye and, finally, Airy with Umbreon.

Three tries seems to be a running theme this time, just like the fight with Maxwell.

Now, I guess it's up to Agate, but I'd say that's enough Reborn for me today. ~~Agarest and Skyrim demand my attention.~~

Oh, and seeing as what Shinies I have are the same as last time, I'll change it up and put the backsprites instead of the frontsprites for once! Especially considering these are the sprites I tend to see.

Shiny Collection

Mozilla Brainfreeze Jalapeno?

UniqueTyping Jackie Pan Lucky #6

S.Quawking Sonicette Dr. HAWKing

The Godbat Mystery 0/10NotGrbdr

Peach Bigglesworth Kevin

Airy

July 10, 2015

To add to Dobby's post above, here's the actual Replay:
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/reborn-ou-25416

July 10, 2015

Alrighty, after a really long Haitus, I'm back!

After much thought, despite how useful he's been, we will be boxing Sonicette for Airy.

...Right AFTER beating Radomus. Airy will temporarily be replacing Lucky #6 for the duration of the Psychic Gym, because weaknesses, but after that, I will indeed be cutting down to only one Ground type.

I trained everyone a little bit, but I'm a bit further off of cap than I would like to be. Luckily, however, I recall Radomus being a slight pushover on my original file. ~~Then again, so was Corey and we all saw how that happened on this run.~~

Airy is fully evolved, but otherwise no team changes. So, I venture through the chess puzzle, which is always fun, meanwhile questioning at what point Elias got out of Radomus' control, if he ever even was. And why he keeps the changed outfit after this. El and Radomus are all rather confusing, as I'm sure I've said plenty of times.

Anyway, the Chess puzzle was nice and fun, so I suppose that means what comes next is...

Team Vs. Radomus:

Sonicette Lv56

The Manbat Lv55

Mozilla Lv56

Peach Lv56

Airy Lv55

Brainfreeze Lv55

Opening variation set.

So, I learnt a cool feature about Reborn. I had The Manbat open up with Calm Mind. Which I believe, thanks to Simple, is +4 Sp.Atk & Sp.Def. I was expecting the usual message of Drastically which happens with +3 and above, but I instead got treated to 'The Manbat's Special Attack went way up!'

So yeah, I opened with Swords Dance on Sonicette and Calm Mind on The Manbat. So we're at +2 and +4. So, of course, I then followed with Earthquake and Psychic.

I did not realise Reuniculus was tanky enough to take a +2 Earthquake. I know Sandslash isn't the strongest pokemon, but wow. Luckily, for the second turn in a row, he opted for Focus Miss instead of trick room.

Now, Metagross took down the Manbat, but Sonicette is still going strong. Peach came out next because she can take about three Quakes from a +2 Sonicette. Together they got both Metagross and Malamar.

Which leaves Slowking and GG herself.

I'm assuming Radomus' levels got dropped a bit. I recall him being the first leader to break level cap, but GG appears to be AT cap here. I guess will be the first one, then. Which is a shame really, because doubles ai refusing to use TR means he's not that hard. Plus Sonicette is really strong.

Anywya, GG and Slowking both took a quake, and then knocked out Peach and Sonicette in vengeance. But they're low on health, so I'll be fine... Right?

...anyway, on to the second attempt.

Second attempt opens with the same pokemon. In fact, im basically trying the same strategy, but hopefully playing a bit better.

This one went even worse. Took out Gallade Early, but Focus miss didn't miss, so I also lost Sonicette early. Meaning the crux of my Earthquake spam strategy is dead so a new strat is needed. I sent Mozilla in expecting Metagross, and I was luckily very correct. He JUST survived a Flamethrower, but thanks to the brilliant judgement of a master chess player, ice punched Mozilla intead of The Manbat. I won't complain, but this ai is a bit... yeah.

Still, it worked for me because it means Radomus ate up his Hyper Potions. Hell, I'd argue this battle is going even better, despite the loss of Sonicette.

And then Reuniculus finally used Trick Room. Balls.

Luckily the remainder of his team is special, and The Manbat is on +6 Sp.Def, and Peach on +2 (Although thanks to the double Quiver, TR makes her slow as hell). So, my entire team sans Mozilla and Sonicette versus Slowking and Gossip Gardevoir. They got Peach, but both are now very low on health. Next turn, they got Brainfreeze, but we got GG. The Manbat is slightly untouchable thanks to Calm Mind Shenanigans. He is no longer a mere Manbat. Therefore Airy+The Godbat go to fight a yellow health Slowking.

Unlike the embarassing end to my first attempt, I did it! Millenium Badge get!

Vanhanen Castle is creepy with a lack of lighting and music. Just wanan throw that out there. And after everything in Astrae, only an idiot would trust Elias for a getaway, methinks. Sadly, the Player is apparently an idiot.

Oh Cain. "I don't go down without a fight. Or at least some sweet talk first."

Anyway though, out of the castle I go, meanwhile Cain namedrops El as E4. (Well, he tecnically only called him one of the Elite. Which means there's a possibility that he's Champ. But c'mon, why him when there's a far more obvious candidate in ~~Victoria~~ ~~Lin~~ Anna.)

Also dearie me, must Radomus TRY to make himself even more confusing? Suggesting he might seem suspicious but then brushing it off as nothing. Who even DOES that? He has the Amethys pendant, for goodness' sake. I'd really like that back.

And... huh. 'I once heard stories of these keys being purchased from a travelling merchant. I wonder who that could've been?'

I... had forgotten this line. Which changes the tone of the story quite a bit. He could be implying himself, or it could be a genuine question, hard to say, as it always is with him. But... There's a character somewhere who has more involvement in all this than we thought, selling these pendants to beging with. Perhaps Radomus, perhaps Shade... Who knows? For once, I don't have any real crazy theories.

Anyway, it was about now I realised I have entirely forgotten to do the Aqua/Magma gang quests. So prepare for some roflstomps next episode as I handle all that. As for this one, I'm going to find a TV and then wrap up, and I'll leave a poll as to which gang I should join.

Anyway, as for the TV:

Interview was with Aya. No interesting reveals, but damn was that funny. Aya calling police on the random talking pokemon that just appeared in her house, Gardevoir making a remark about Hardy, Aya attacking Gardevoir. That sure got a chuckle out of me.

As for the profile, this is the most helpful yet. It tells you what all her pokemon are, given that they're nicknamed, this is a rather significant boon. I remember my first battle with her on my old file was brutal. I got utterly slaughtered.

Anyway, that's all for now! Hopefully I'll be updating more regularly now, although I'm busy over the weekend so there won't be anything until Monday earliest. Which gives more time for the poll on the Gang stuff. Anyway, that's all for now!

Shiny Collection

Mozilla Brainfreeze Jalapeno?

UniqueTyping Jackie Pan Lucky #6

S. Quawking Sonicette Dr. HAWKing

The Godbat Mystery 0/10NotGrbdr

Peach Bigglesworth Kevin

Airy

June 27, 2015

Wow, how lucky are you to have found all those shinies (or did you just grind that much? good on ya sir)

this looks interesting and fun though i may try out this challenge run....

Pretty much all my grinding has been in the Grand Hall, so Shinies certainly aren't there. Well, I suppose both Dodrio's can be attributed to pre-Grand Hall Grinding, but otherwise, I've been super lucky, haha. Although I did reset for my starter, obviously, and I breeded the Sneasel until I got a Shiny one. ~~Plus I totally spent all my money on Floral Charms to catch the flabebe.~~

So yeah, mostly luck. But if you want a super legit tally of what I have, probably best to take away three.

June 27, 2015

Alrighty, after a brief hiatus ~~Exams are over so I don't get the guilty joy of this being procrastination anymore~~ It's time to continue! (Also woo, 100th post)

So, I'm pretty sure our next location of interest is Astrae. But if this thread has demonstrated anything about me thus far, it's that I'm not terrible at pokemon ~~except when I am~~ and that my memory about the order of game content is abysmal.

Also I've been replaying Zeta recently and it messes with my head that the two games are identical in controls EXCEPT with a different quicksave button, given that I'm the sort who compulsively saves every minute or so when a game has a quicksave feature.

So, we follow Radomus who follows Cain.

Also it's sunny af, I'm used to Chrylosia and route 1 being too dark because I tend to play at night, now it's hurting my eyes because it's so bright.

I really love the small details Reborn sometimes throws in. Like when walking past the gear in the Gates, your sprite as always facing forward because yo're sidestepping.

I like Radomus' response to Cain, as well 'I'm going to pretend I didn't understand that remark.'

I'm also intrigued about him saying that getting past the gear would be harder for a man of his stature. I mean, his battle sprite when you face him seems rather skinny. In fact...

I would argue that THIS: is arguably skinnier than THESE: &

But I dunno. It could just be me nitpicking, and it's hard to get an idea of build from these sprites.

I still have serious concerns about Radomus' attitude. He forced himself through the gear and knocked Cain down the hole, which he had no way of knowing was a survivable fall. And he didn' seem all THAT bothered by it before looking down the hole. Firstly, I doubt a man who appears to be a borderline genius would have forced himself through in such a manner that he might knock Cain down a gaping hole. Secondly, I understand that aloof is the word to use with him, but even HE should've been significantly more stressed than he was at potentially killing someone, both before and after he found the drop wasn't a dangerous one. Perhaps I'm overthinking things, perhaps he did it on purpose, perhaps he knew what was down there... I don't know, but if I don't ramble on about my speculation here, I probably won't put it anywhere. ~~And then if some of the crazy stupid shit I say turns out to be right, I have no proof for bragging rights purposes. #Victoria4Champ~~

As I random aside to fill the space while I'm heading through, I headed back this way on my main file a while back because I needed to see what Astrae looked like for reference on a thing. I found, and I am not exaggerating, THREE Shiny Unknowns. I mean, I know they aren't the best pokemon and I'd almost certainly never use them, but it'd make for one hell of an update to this if I did that.

Anyway though, upon arriving Astrae, I recall how very pretty it is. Plus I'm a sucker for the music. Plus I believe there's a Shiny Stone down here for Airy later, if I recall correctly?

That aside, we met Adrienn. Xe is... Interesting. I consider xem rather... Overzealous in their protection of Gardevior, and the resulting being manipulated by El. But, from what litle we've seen, it seems the opposite end of the scale to the hyper-pragmatic zealot sort we find ourselves allying with such as Sapphira. You can tell xe's seriously condemning us, despite being generally polite, when we arrive. But there wasn't even the slightest hint of violence. Whereas if you put Sapphira or certain other characters we ally with in his shoes, we'd near certainly be dead by now.

For anybody who was interested, I was correct about the Shiny Stone, btw.

I always wonder who the 'Girl climbing up the cave wall' Adrienn mentioned is. Now, I BELIEVE the prevailing theory is Lin, but she must've been there before him. And it was 10 years ago xe fell down, right? Wasn't the whole Lin/Orphanage business more recent than that? I mean, Anna's what, 13/14? And Lin was younger than her. And I doubt the rather malicious child that Laura described was 2. Although I could be underestimating Anna's age, or perhaps I'm missing something on timing here. Either way, I'm reluctant to believe that whoever Adrienn saw was Lin.

Also I'm intrigued about Cain asking Adrienn's gender. I'm playing as Decibel (I have established male and female characters that I play in games, I took this run as an oppurtunity to establish a genderfluid one), and everyone has seemed to have a gender 6th sense for me. Although, thinking about it, Victoria and Adrienn ARE the only people I believe have outright used any pronouns regarding the player character thus far, Cain's always opted to use my name. Still, it seems strange he appears to have some sort of gender-radar for the MC but nobody else. But I suppose that a scene at the beginning where a non-binary MC explains all that to Cain and Victoria would be really very dull.

Now for one of my favourite parts of Astrae, the logic puzzles! Now, I don't remmeber these, so it should be fun. For those of you that don't know, I'm a total maths nerd. Hell, I even did a few extra exams, and one of them was an entire exam ON formal logic. Seriously, I love this stuff.

So, I'm gonna type up my reasoning on the logic puzzle here, because I lack paper, but I'll spoiler it because I hardly want to delete all my work when I'm done, but I also appreciate that people generally would rather skip over it.

So, abbreviating the pokemon as C, M, & I

IF(C=L): M=L, I=D

IF(M=L): C=D, I=D

IF(I=L): C=D, M=D

It's apparent that only one of them is Light. Any pair of truths contradicts eachother. And yet it seems that only having one truth is contradictory in itself as either M or I being false implies truth of the other two.

I should mention that, despite being good at formal logic, and being a maths nerd, I am reasonably pants at logic puzzles.

Giving it another look over, I have decided the key is C. It NEEDS to be Light, as it being Dark just contradicts all the things. But then that says M is light which says C is dark and my head hurts. I'm reading the setup pillar again because I'm probably just beign dumb and missing a rule.

Hmm... The setup MAY imply that Light MUST tell the truth, whereas Dark simply CAN lie. It's hard to say. Unless I'm missing something obvious, working with absolutes makes this puzzle impossible. But, as I've said, I'm totally pants at this stuff, although I'm seriously tempted to draw a truth table.

Alright, so, Chimchar is a liar. He says Monferno always tells the truth, and Monferno says he can lie. Regardless of exactly who's lying about what and in what capacity, Chimchar is a liar. But the lack of absolutes here only tells that Chimchar is dark and Monferno MIGHT be light, but he totally coulda lied about the infernape thing. Now, Infernape's talk about Chimchar implies he ONLY lies, whereas all the others talk about darkness which is probably a sometimes lie. That can work. The puzzle works if Infernape is telling the truth (Light), Chimchar lied about everything (Dark), and Monferno was telling the truth abotu Chimchar but lyign about Infernape (Dark).

I guess my interpretation must be right, as the game agrees. Onwards!

Now, just for fun, I do the Amethyst puzzle even though I totally don't have to and I already struggled far too much with the Ruby one (Although only because I misunderstood the setup at first.)

Doesn't help these are all C's. Using 1, 2 & 3 instead, for order of evolution

IF(1=L): 2=L, 3=D

IF(2=L): 1=L, 3=D

IF(3=L): 1=D, 2=L

Now that I understand the setup, it should be noted that this time Clefable is the one specifying Liar instead of just darkness. While that could be interpreted as 'can lie', I'm gonna go with 'WILL ALWAS lie' for ease. If we take that meaning, it's entirely contradictory, saying that CLefable both does and doesn't lie. Ergo, Clefable is lying about something. If she's lying about Cleffa and tellin the truth about Clefairy, then we have a straightforward solution. Clefable is Dark, the other two are Light.

On principal, I don't offer to give Adrienn the Ruby Ring. Like, even if I was inclined to believe El in all this, Sapphira told me to look after the keys and she's way scarier than Adrienn. I also appreicate Cain's humour even in serious moments like this, and also Radomus' almost funnier responses.

Oooh, there's a nice touch. Cain dropped an 'Oh, so like Azrael. No wonder you're both so cute.' After Adrienn briefly explained the non-binary stuff. I approve of that, I was worried he might act all confused like on my original file, I'm glad to see it was considered. And I swear it was Adrienn suggesting pronouns in my original file, but here it was Cain, likely knowing them from my character. As I said before with the gear, I do love the small details about Reborn.

Although if you talk to Adrienn before opening the door, xe does go on a little mini-rant about xyr understanding it might take me a while to understand or get used to it, and that xe'll explain it better later, despite Cain saying moments ago that my character is non-binary. That's probably a slight oversight, so I'll drop it in bug reporting after I'm done with this.

Now, next logic puzzle. Spoilering this too.

IF(Ty=L): Chan=D, Lee=L

IF(Chan=L): Lee=d, Top=L

IF(Lee=L): Ty=L, Top=d

IF(Top=L): Lee=D, Ty=L

Now, this time to save hassle, I've distinguished between the soft darknesses (d) who can lie or truth, and the hard liars (D), who always lie.

So, two people said Tyrogue was telling the truth, so I'm starting with him. Now, I can say Hitmontop must be dark of some degree. If he was telling the truth, we have contradictions on Hitmonlee. Ergo Chan is dark as well, because he says top is light. If I then take Tyrogue as true, Chan would correctly be a liar [but a full one], making top a correct liar, Lee truth, truth from Lee agrees with Ty, and both his truths work out. Thus Ty & Lee are Light, Chan and Top are dark. Once more, I guess I got the hang of this, because the game agreed!

Now, I have typed an huge amount this post, and we haven't even had a battle yet. I am now going to rectify that, although it may be the only battle.

Now, I side with Radomus for a number of reasons, the first is naturally foreknowledge of the plot. Now, I would LIKE to think that I would side with Radomus on principle even if I was uninformed, given that by now if you've been paying attention it's been all but confirmed that El is Meteor-alligned, and his first few lines when you arrive here at the sanctum do rub me the wrong way. But I remember agonizing over the decision for a while on my original file, so obviously I wouldn't have it as clear cut as I'd like. Either why, this means it's battle time, and I of course am required to win.

Although before that, the exchanges between Radomus and El certainly imply a history between them. And yet when we first met Radomus, he assured us that the first he'd seen of El was him trying to recover Luna. I'm definitely not flly trusting of Radomus, but I'd certainly rather side with him than El.

Team Vs. El:

The Manbat Lv54

Brainfreeze Lv51

Mozilla Lv55

Peach Lv55

Sonicette Lv55

Lucky #6 Lv55

So, for once I'm slightly underlevelled. But I'm going to the grand hall after this to train Airy anyway, so it's not an issue.

My initial plan was to brute force this, but Arceus was 2 stronk 5 me. Thus, I put a sash on Brainfreeze, Icy Winded to cut his Speed, had Peach, who now outspeeds an Arceus 20 LEVELS HIGHER THAN HER when he's at a -1 to Quiver, and then hoped for the best. It didn't do all that much. Next up was Mozilla who Flamethrowered, stealing Leftovers [This is not the first time I've found Magician way more useful than it should be], then Wisping, so El wastes a turn on Full Heal. That turn is spent on an SD from Sonicette, who then gets of a powerful Earthquake, and #6 finished the job with two poison jabs. I'm seriously impressed that half my team was capable of outspeeding a Lv75 with base 120 Speed after just one Icy Wind.

I cannot get over the hilarity of Radomus' costume change to policeman.

Now, I'm just quoting the voice that speaks when you leave, so I can look back at it later, because it's got to be important:

'Hee hee

This is fun...

Hey... Everybody... Come back and play again sometime, okay?

Let's keep playing together for a long, long time.. Isn't that right~? Hehehe...'

It's hard to tell if that's malicious or childish. Due to time shenanigans under the Gates, I'm inclined to believe that's a mischevious Celebi, but... Well, I see no reason for it to not be Arceus itself.

After having time shenanigans explained, I headed back to the Grand Hall in preparation for training, and I think I'll leave it there. Team is identical to last time so I won't pose it, and next time I will probably swap a team member out for Airy. No idea who yet. I'll decide on the fly. And then we can finally get to Radomus' gym battle, and TV, and some other misc stuff I've been meaning to do!

June 24, 2015

Well, I was just reading about somebody's experience with Lin the first time you meet her, and something clicked. Now, I know this may sound far-fetched, but think about this:

-Anna can't see Lin. Anna's vision can prove a lot about a person (the Protagonist glows, so he/she/xe's special, Shelly has lots of strings attached to her because she has many friends she doesn't know about, etc.), so this has got to be significant.

-Doctor Sigmund apparently did something to kid Lin after she pranked him; whatever it was, he keeps mentioning that adult Lin can't be kid Lin.

-Ten years ago, Adrienn saw somebody crawl down into the ruins beneath the city. Since adult Lin is confirmed to be younger than Julia, and ten years passed while Adrienn was in stasis, let's assume this was Lin.

-According to Shade, two of the deaths foreshadowed by the screens won't happen. Since Corey and Kiki already died, and their deaths were foreshadowed, this means Lin's death scene (which was also foreshadowed) might not happen as well.

Now then, here's my theory: What if the Lin that we saw in the Tanzan Meteor Hideout was only part of Lin?

Here, let me explain. My theory is that Lin broke out of the Orphanage when Sigmund tried to punish her, and she fell down into the ruins. Sigmund saw her fall and assumed she died, hence his incredulity about her apparent survival. While she was hidig in the ruins, however, they somehow caused her soul and body to split; her soul stayed within the ruins (as the voice that we heard when we left after battling the Ditto-Arceus), while her body left, becoming the Lin we know today. This would explain a lot: Anna can't see Lin because Lin doesn't have a soul; Lin acts so coldly because, since she lacks a soul, she can't feel emotions; and she won't actually die after falling apart because her soul will still be alive, possibly possessing somebody.

...But, that's just a theory. A GAME THEOR- (gets shot due to copyright infringement)

So, what do you guys think? Feel free to discuss and pick apart my theory in the comments below.

~~I wonder who's first meeting with Lin you were reading about~~

It seems to make a lot of sense to me. I mean, the most significant factor about Lin is the Anna not seeing her thing, which I never picked up on on my first file, and it does suggest something along these lines. I have to wonder, I know original Lin was younger than Anna, but where was it confirmed Adult Lin is younger than Julia? I probably just missed this, but I don't remember seeing it anywhere. I don't remember seeing much of anything about adult Lin.

June 24, 2015

Interesting.

weird how it's limited to two specific characters and each depends on the version of the game you get

It's weird that it's split between the versions, definitely, but only two people makes sense. I mean, an army of what, 20 or 30 people? Only 1 or 2 of them being gay or bi is probably about normal, especially if it's seen as taboo in universe. Plus this IS one of Nintendo's first foray's into this sorta territory, so it makes sense they'd be wanting baby steps.

June 24, 2015

Alright, so I was typing this up and then closed out of the window like an idiot. To paraphrase what happened thus far, I had hope for an easy Noel when he didn't open with Cincinno, that hope was crushed when I found out he still had that devil pokemon. My first victory I tried to win normally, and got slaughtered. Second time I tried burning field shenanigans, I got slaughtered. This time I'm trying Misty Field, and if it doesn't work,I'm probably gonna have to suck up my pride and change my team around.

Team Vs. Noel:

Brainfreeze Lv51

Mozilla Lv50

The Manbat Lv50

Soicette Lv53

Peach Lv53

Lucky #6 Lv51

The field in full bloom.

Mist settles on the field.

Alright, so I opened with Mist from Brainfreeze, and this is the first battle where Wiggly hasn't opened with T-wave.

Annnnd Wiggly setup rocks and Mist went down before Wiggly even went down, let alone later. Balls.

I decide I'm tired of losing, and having established with Manbat in an earlier battle that Wigglytuff was setup bait, I sent in Peach. And Quiver Danced. SIX TIMES. I REFUSE TO LOSE THIS BATTLE.

Wigglytuff Down.

Swellow Down.

Porygon-Z down.

Cincinno Down.

This is the point I recall Girafarig has Sap Sipper. I am so glad the AI is slightly borked, because he could've totally stopped that semi-sweep in it's tracks if he hadn't've waited for 4 KOs to send it out.

Mozilla Flamethrowers Girafarig twice. Lucky #6 Poison Jab's Clefable twice.

THE BATTLE IS FINALLY WON.

While you didn't get to experience my anguish over the first two losses, trust me, I was getting seriously frustrated. Why didn't I think to use Peach before. Thus far, that's essentially been the answer to any problem I've had. Just use Peach.

But yeah, Standard Badge get! Naturally, my first order of business isn't silly things like progressing plot, it's checking the TV.

Oooh, Arclight is the interview. I know next to nothing about him, I'll take it. There was nothing really enlightening in the interview, but still, it was nice to see he seems to be a pretty cool guy.

Radomus' profile was just a standard profile, but still. I hadn't seen either of these before, so it's nice to pay attention to the TV.

So, heading back to deal with terrorists some more. Sapphira demonstrates the already obvious fact that she's tough as nails, I note the puzzle to get the Yureyu key as changed (I need the plug thing from Iola valley now, it seems), so I head to the Aventurine Woods.

WHAT THE HEL WAS THAT I SAW A BIG SPRITE OF SOMETHING JUST SPEED OUT OF THE GRASS BRB RESETTING TO GET A BETTER LOOK.

Well, that was Heracross. Huh.

Well, before I can really follow after it, I'm ambushed by some kind of disgusting, slimy creature.

Team Vs. Fern (5):

Brainfreeze Lv51

Mozilla Lv51

Peach Lv54

Lucky #6 Lv51

Soincette Lv53

The Manbat Lv50

The field in full bloom.

How does he have a badge more than me with his pokemon not even Level 50? I mean, There's no way he battled Noel, and it seems incredibly unlikely he battled Shade. Even assuming he DID beat Shade, an extra badge over us would mean Radomus and Luna, which also wouldn't happen. I get that he's just bragging, and with all the stuff going on and Leaders away from gyms, maybe there are behind the scenes backup leaders we're to assume he beat or whatever, but still. I get it's mostly just Fern having a reason to be Fern, but still. Anyway, my gripes aside, his team seems to have evolved from being Monograss to just being 'Anything, as long as you're weak to Ice'. Which begs the question of how he managed to take Serra, too.

Long story short, Brainfreeze had fun, not much interesting really happened. Although what he says piqued my interest. The fact that he's concerned with not being able to get through to Agate so he's gonna try and find Noel... Well, that cuts out the possibility of some backup Normal Leader. And he would be going to Vanahaen or however you spell it if he hadn't already beaten Radomus and likely Luna. So I guess it was them he beat. They probably just gave him badges so he'd leave or something, idk. I wouldn't want Fern in MY house either.

So, after using nearly all my pokeballs (I was 30 levels higher than it, I couldn't afford any damage done ), we have acquired a new Team member, who I'll definitely train up (although probably only after Astrae because I'm not walking back to The Grand Hall the long way).

Even though it totally just looks like a normal black flower version (I THINK the body's I different colour? I dunno, it'll probably be more obvious when she evolves). I wanted to name here 'What's Outrage?' but it's two characters too long. Thus, welcome aboard our newest member, Airy!

~~I totally didn't buy like 30 Floral Charms because I really wanted a Florges. Nope, not me. I would never do that. I have complete and utter integrity with regards to this run.~~

I ran into Titania, an event I never recall seeing in my original file but have heard about.

...'Fern was here, Azrael is a loser.'

...Screw that guy.

Anyway, liking the Vanhanen Castle music. I was, of course, politely greeted by Luna. Speak to Radomus with his awesome Pyramid Hat ~~When he next shows up I want even more ridiculous hats~~ and finally, a challenge from my favourite Rival!

Team Vs. Cain (5):

The Manbat Lv52

Mozilla Lv55

Sonicette Lv54

Lucky #6 Lv53

Peach Lv55

Brainfreeze Lv51

Opening variation set.

As usual, I opened by setting up The Manbat. Cain decided to Minimize >;[ Conveniently, thanks to the Chessboard, one Calm Mind from my Simple Manbat is a whopping +4, so I could proceed to spam Psychic with Abandon. I took out Muk, Galvantula AND Samurott that way before he brought out priority in the form of Absol (Also, how in the hell did a Swoobat manage to outspeed a Galvantula?)

Sonicette set up a Swords dance and then Quaked Absol and Nidoking, and Mozilla finished us off by Psychic-ing Gengar. That was relatively painless.

Radomus is... Weird. I like him, but I can't even remotely get a read on him. Maybe it's just me, but I have no idea to tell if he's being overly serious, or joking, or anywhere in between. His reading of El's letter is brilliant, and funny at points, but I still couldn't tell you if Radomus was going for humour.

Having played this segment before, I can appreciate why Radomus wants us to not act. And essentially, his entire going along with things and heading after El is all just a big act to reassure Luna so she doesn't put herself in harm's way. He sure is devoted to protecting her from El...Which certainly begs questions for later.

But anyway, that's all for this time. Next time I guess it's down to Astrae! And then we battle Radomus! And then more TV!

Shiny Collection

Mozilla Brainfreeze Jalapeno?

UniqueTyping Jackie Pan Lucky #6

S. Quawking Sonicette Dr. HAWKing

The Manbat Mystery 0/10NotGrbdr

Peach Bigglesworth Kevin

Airy

June 23, 2015

For anybody who doesn't know, a store in China broke street date so... Yeah. Serenes forums are exploding as streams of the game are going on right now. Won't post anything here because I know a lot of people don't appreciate spoilers, but figured I'd let you all know.

June 23, 2015

It went from a cotton candy pink to a blue I could describe is blue raspberry candy color. It's still cute, but I'm super fond of the cotton candy pink Mareep and Ampharos more then blue for the three.

I've noticed a lot more of the shinies have been getting recolorings more and more to really amazing and creative ones like Rapidash has a rainbow color now for the flames so I'm hopeful mareep and etc get something that amazing and cute!

Well, in theory the Shinies are done now. They were recolouring them Gen by Gen, and E15 finally had them all done, main reason I decided to do the run.But hey, a blue Ampharos sounds awesome. And probably Majestic af if it gets the same colouring on Mega.

Anyway though, onwards to Noel/Abra/Sigmund, but almost certainly not in that order because my memory is awful!

Goodness me Anna's a strange one. I used to dislike her because she was the main flaw in my 'Victoria's the Champion' theory, being a FAR better candidate. Buut I've accepted that my theory is not the most reasonable thing in the world and based on arbitrary gamepay facts, and I've grown to love Anna's character. I certainly wanna find out more about her and Noel. Still, I'm not sure what's weirder, her giving Nostra the medicine, or it actually working...

Also, I guess I was right on Noel beign first. Interestingly, I've never watched the Noel leader profile. Hell, I sorta stopped watching TV around this point in the game on my main file because I went on holiday a bit after beating Serra, and so forgot about all the TV stuff by the time I came back. So you'll probably get my thoughts on interesting stuff I see on the TV from here on out after each Leader.

But anyway, with the Noel profile, the end of it is a VERY interesting one:

'For those curious about how such a young boy became gym leader, he was promoted at the recommendation of an existing leader. Which one? You'll never guess!

Should we tell you? Maybe we'll leave just a hint...:

...'

And that's the end of the interview. My first thought was naturally Radomus, because of all the stuff that points at him being Anna & Noel's dad. BUT, not only am I skeptical about that theory because it seems a bit too obvious, it occured to me that maybe they actually DID give a hint. Meaning it's Shade, because that's the majority of his dialogue. Which is curious indeed, Anna seems to like him, at the very least. But we know so little about him, and while I originally assumed he was just some ghost and there wasn't really any more explanation needed, I've been getting increasingly more inclined to believe that Shade is CENTRAL to Reborn's plot, in some way. Perhaps he's their father? I initially thought that'd be weird because htye're both miles better trainers than him but... Well, Laura is theoretically better than her big sis. Heather than her dad. Luna than either of her (fake) parents [Although she's no doubt significantly worse than El], I have a feeling we'll eventually battle Hardy after Titania, although that's baseless speculation. The point is, age doesn't necesarrily make someone better, it seems, even within the same family. Not to mention, if Shade is their dad and he's actually dead, maybe he lost all his pokemon and stuff when he died.

But anyway, paragraph of Marcello's musings and speculations aside (The tl;dr is that I think Shade is very important.) I have a gym battle to get to. Now, I think this was tied with Charlotte for the absolute hardest Gym Battle on my original file, because I fought Charlotte with her original team. Now, I managed to beat her with the wonders of Rain Dance, but Noel? He broke me. I wasn't creative enough to tweak my team to better handle him. To cut a long story short, my main file has a box with 6 level 50ish Fire Types I trained up specifically for Noel,, because he made me angry so I just set everything on fire. Still, hopefully better luck with it this time, especially because I hear that Staraptor is gone!

Team Vs. No- Wait, I called it too soon. Looks like the good Doctor will be first!

I guess I'm protecting the house from a buncha terrorists, as per usual.

Oh hey, I love the Paranoia music, digging the slowed down version that plays here in the house. Dunno if it always did that. Anyway though, I have a batle with cool music to do! One which I never did in my main file, I add:

Team Vs. Dr. ~~Butt~~ Connal:

Sonicette Lv48

Brainfreeze Lv49

Mozilla Lv49

Lucky #6 Lv48

Peach Lv48

The Manbat Lv48

Sonicette gets off a +2 Magnitude thanks to SD, and Jolteon goes down. But he couldn't ouspeed Electivire, so he went down. #6 went in and set up Toxic Spikes, as he should've from the onset, although only one layer because Ice Punch is stronk. Anyway, though, Electivire was dealt with by Mozilla, as was Luxray. And Lanturn is exactly what I need. Or as I call it, 'Setup Bait for Peach'. Three Quiver Dances Later...

Petal Dance! - Lanturn Down

Petal Dance! - Eelektross Down

Petal Dance! - Rotom Down

And that method of victory is exactly why Liligant is my joint second favourite Grass Type [Along with Whimsicott], only topped by Abomnasnow, because I love Ice types. Pretty much everything from 4th place down to 10th is Grass/Poison, given that I love poison too.

Now, I BELIEVE the choice I'm meant to make here to get partnered with Laura is going aftr Sirius...? I mean, I'm not sure which is acually more reasonable. On the one hand, Laura is powerful and she's upstairs, along with Anna and Noel, who are also powerful, potentially incredibly so with Anna. But then down here, we have Shelly, who's likely about our level, and Charlotte, who is a fair bit above us. Basically, everyone is powerful and SHOULD be able to take care of themselves. But Laura managed to get kidnapped on my original file, so upstairs I go!

I know I made the right choice just by Saphira's 'Peekaboo, bitch.' xD

Buuut it seems I actually made the wrong choice, because this seems to be a pairing with Saphira. And no Hyper Beam Shenaigans I've heard so much about. Which I guess means I'll quickly beat Sigmund again and make the other choice!

That battle was slightly harder than before, mainly due to Sigmund getting hax-y in every possible way. A Fire Punch Burn, Thunder Punch Paralysis, and Ice Punch Freeze should NOT all happen in the same battle. That aside, Peach dealt with it more or less the same way as before. And this time I'll let the E4 member defend stuff upstairs as I probably should, and go to the Kitchen.

Oh Lord this scene is even better than Peekaboo bitch. Saphira is vicious. As she has every right to be, given what the Doctor is like. And she Hyper Beamed him through a wall after the barrage of taunting. She is one scary woman. But anyway, I think I made the right choices on this one, now. Sirius demonstrates he's even more scary, and I get to team up with Laura, woo! So it's off to Tanzan, methinks.

Anna certainly piqued my interest with this line. Particularly if things in Tanzan go similar to my original file:

'..Oh! She says that you shouldn't catch Laura when she falls!

...Whatever that means. Nostra's a little weird sometimes.'

Which is... Well Anna can certainly see things more than the average person, but that's awfully specific. Very curious indeed.

Y'know, just before carrying on, this set of choices, here and at Yureyu, appear to bug me. Because it seemed almost arbitrary which of the four options got you the extra background info that this one does. But thinking about it, it IS the most reasonable set of choices to make. Sigmund is nasty, but he was just keeping Heather for potential questioning, as opposed to harming her. But Anna was on the floor above with Sirius, who is a murderer, and God know what he wanted to do. So it makes sense to rush to him. Equally, in the house, a member of the E4 is upstairs already defending it, so it's more reasonable you stay downstairs. Essentially, pairing up with Laura is the result of making the most reasonable choices, so I now approve of this choice.

Nice touch. I remember when I came through here with Saphira she just ripped the door open. Laura accidentally trips and falls on the switch. I'm glad I get to see this pairing, I'm curious about her character and you don't see that much of it. Plus she puts the Meteors to sleep instead of slaughtering them like her big sis. I'm still not entirely sure where I stand on the whole 'Killing Meteors' issue, about whether we should or shouldn't. I instinctively want to say we should be pragmatic and kill them as possible, but the game does like to throw plenty of reasons at you why we shouldn't. Sleep is good enough for now.

I would like to point out that aroundabouts meeting up with Saphira, Sonicette learnt Earthquake, so I can finally get rid of Magnitude, and I had a talk with Simon. Otherwise, it's been a usual Meteor base raid, although I do wish this segment had a double battle alongside Laura, so I can see what E4 levels are like. Because if they're all 100 as the level curve would suggest, the Champ is gonna need one hell of a team and field to set them ahead. Which is a terrifying thought.

Connal going mad for a moment and talking to Lizzy (I believe his dead wife's name is Elizabeth?) is something I also don't mind. And it's really something to see Sirius having no regard for your presence because of how scared he is of Lin. But hey, I guess we aren't fighting Abra just yet, because we're under Tanzan now... But Laura gives us interesting Lin backstory, which is exclusive to this path, as well as giving us insight into the whole number 8 thing she has going on. So Lin WAS even younger than Anna. And really really mean. And... Dead or escaped from the orphanage. So the plot thickens. I really hope we see her again soon. There are so many characters I wanna see more of because I have so many unanswered questions. But I think it's about time for another battle...

Team Vs. The Giant Freaking Steelix:

The Manbat Lv49

Lucky #6 Lv51

Mozilla Lv51

Sonicette Lv53

Brainfreeze Lv50

Peach Lv50

The field is littered with rocks...

Woah boy. I remembered this thing being 65, not 75. So Manbat didn't survive at all. Luckily it's slow, so Mozilla got off a burn and from there it was actually pretty straightforward. Still, being faced with a Lv75 Steelix is terrifying, no matter how straightforward the actual battle is. And now Saphira is riding the thing, But after that little section, I head straight into the next battle!

Team Vs. ZEL(4):

The Manbat Lv49

Lucky #6 Lv51

Peach Lv52

Sonicette Lv53

Mozilla lv51

Brainfreeze Lv50

Machines whir in the background.

So, I know this isn't REALLY a ZEL battle, but I'm counting it anyway. I was hoping to get off a calm mind and outspeed it but... Well, I didn't outspeed it, and it dark pulsed Manbat. And then Hyper Beam'd Mozilla. Sonicette got off an Earthquake while it recharged, got Hyper Beamed, and then #6 Got it with an Earth Power whie it recharged again, bringing it down to a tiny bit of health. It Pulsed #6, Hyper'd Peach, which left me with just Brainfreeze, who finished him off with an Ice Beam. That was less difficult as it was almost a puzzle battle. Send out the right things to bait out a Hyper, and then the right things to attack it while it recharges.

Holy... This slowed down version of Solaris' battle theme is incredible. I can't remember if it was like this before, but it makes a brilliant theme for Lin. Although after sitting there listening to it for a while, it sounds less fitting after the opening. Of course she's here so briefly, I doubt you're meant to hear past the opening, so it works. I like how he just remarks that lying becomes Sirius when he introduces as as a new recruit. And also the first hint you get that El is a bad guy, because he was a pretty stand up guy in the section we'd seen him in thus far. I am intrigued though about why Lin DIDN'T kill us. She knew we were against them, she even knew the giant Steelix was to do with us. But she just left to go deal with that, instead. It's intriguing, I mean, I know that the plot dictates Lin can't really kill us but... I wonder the in universe reason.

I have to wonder what level of Hydreigon using what move can annihilate a level 75 Steelix in one shot, though.That woman is terrifying too, I really DO want to see more of her. Maybe not battle her though.

It talking to Sigmund as you're leaving he just mutters how similar she looks... He does seem to be losing it a tad, really. Maybe he DID kill the girl who pranked him in the orphanage, and this is a guilty conscience speaking up.

Although heading back to the house, it's interesting, Anna couldn't see Lin... There's so many questions about Anna.

Anyway though, I'll leave this one here. Next time we battle Noel, and then, umm... Do whatever comes after that. Citae Arc d'Astrae, I think. But we've established my bad memory about plot order is a thing, so I guess we'll find out next time!

Shiny Collection

Mozilla Brainfreeze Jalapeno?

UniqueTyping Jackie Pan Lucky #6

S. Quawking Sonicette Dr. HAWKing

The Manbat Mystery 0/10NotGrbdr

Peach Bigglesworth Kevin

June 22, 2015

Gotta say, I love that shiny for cute lil' Peach. ~~insertdisappointmentmareepisntpinkanymorewhenshiny~~

You're doing way amazing at this run!

Haha, thanks! Although me doing good is in part due to the fact that I've gotten more than a little lucky with what Shinies I've come across, it helps that I've been through Reborn once before. I'm having a load of fun doing it, glad it looks like I'm being pretty competent. Although a lot of my really close victories have been down to lucky crits or misses.

And what colour is Reborn's Mareep Shiny? What about it's Ampharos?

This is pretty dope. I'm actually trying this same run, and I'm right before the shade fight. I only have 3 Shiny pokemon lol

So I envy you xD

Ouch, that's bad luck. Or probably normal luck, and I just had it really good. Hopefully they're good shinies! If not, good luck against Shade. Although you should be fine given you beat Corey, and I spent forever struggling on him with this run.

June 22, 2015

Alright, so between updates, I trained up team members, including evolutions for both the Newbies, swapped out Jackie Pan for Peach on my main team, did all the side stuff I can do requiring Strength (By which I mean Pyrous. I'm saving the Wasteland Strength stuff until i have Flash), and now I'm ready to rescue some kids! Oh yeah, and Brainfreeze evolved, which I had totally forgotten was even a thing.

Oh, right. Welcome Kevin to the team yada yada yada. Now if only I had a NON fire starter so I could do field shenanigans with pledge moves. Or something with a terrain move or mist. I just want field shenanigans, really.

Huh. A quick google search reveals Brainfreeze can learn mist, and I must've forgotten it at some point. Well, I at least know the first order of business once I get to the move relearner.

I do not remember Cain's 'Be gentle Senpai' line in Yureyu. Although I thoroughly approve, though. Anyway, me and him battled terrorists, as tends to be the status quo when I'm not in a gym.

Anyway, after the Simon and Tara stuff, (They sound why eviler after battle than I remember, too. Maybe they're just retroactively endearing after what happens later) I made the choice opposite to what I did in my original file. So it looks like I'm battling...

Team Vs. Sirius:

The Manbat Lv47

Peach Lv47

Mozilla Lv50

Brainfreeze Lv47

Sonicette Lv47

Lucky #6 Lv47

Bzzt!

So, I've never done this battle before, only fought Sigmund. While not fighting him doesn't really sit right with me, I hear you can get some extra info out of Laura from this path. Also appreciate the hinting at Lin from Sigmund this early.

As for the battle itself, now that The Manbat has Simple, it's Calm Mind is a brutal tool for setting up. Too bad he still fell to a single shadow ball from Chandelure. #6 and Cain's Nidoking made a team to fight, and they managed 2 pokemon before Nido fainted, and a further two until #6 went down. Brainfreeze then finished everything up while Cain promptly lost all his pokemon. This battle wasn't too hard, but it was somewhat tense, Brainfreeze went quite a few turns with next to no health, but Sirius was far morei nterested in Cain's pokemon

Now, Ithen acquired Flash, took a brief detour back to The Wastleand, in which I did the ~~Gastly~~ Misdreavus event. I have to say, she mentions the fact that I actually beat Solaris, which is a nice touch. Anyway though, I think this counts, so:

Team Vs. Spectral Kiki:

The Manbat Lv47

Mozilla Lv50

Lucky #6 Lv48

Sonicette Lv47

Peach Lv47

Brainfreeze Lv47

The waste is watching...

So, The Manbat died very quickly but, luckily, I got off a burn with Mozilla. And then I lost. Yup.

...Well, that was embarassing. Anyway, second time round i opened with the burn and then Mozilla alone managed to win, so I guess i had really bad luck with the first try.

After that was over with, I did the other Strength stuff in the Wasteland, and, umm... Is Rock Smash meant to be there? As in, the Rock Smash that I already have? I mean, if it is, it's a nice touch to add to the stuff I said last time about things appearing in the wasteland being copies but, it COULD also be a glitch. It's in the place where I THINK you find Mudkip/Squirtle, but I've never quite figured that event out so I can't say for sure.

Anyway, I headed back to the Railnet soon afterwards. Made my way through. When I got to the house... I always forget that Laura is only just 18. I mean, in my mind she's agged more like Charlotte's mother than Sister, but I dunno. She just seems rather maternal, despite being the middle child.

With Anna and Nostra peacefully sleeping, I'm off to Spinel town to find Medicine!

I like how in Chrylosia, you start off with little things like the odd bit of train track disappearing, and then trees offscreen, and then eventually trees right in front of you.

It was about the time I walked into the Volcain estate that I realised 4/6 of my main team was weak to Ice. Instead of going to switch to more reasonable members, like a normal person, I decided the pokemon center was far too far away for that, so I decided to just go for it

I'm also very fond of El's introduction. He seems nice enough, there's a touch of humour... I like El. He's a very cool and complex villain. The whole Elite Four thing is cool too. I look forward to seeing where his character ends up going.

Woah, Serra's gym has a puzzle now, huh? And no Bennet battle? Well, alrighty then.

Oh, wait, nevermind. Bennet fight

Team Vs. Bennet:

Mozilla Lv49

Brainfreeze Lv48

Sonicette Lv48

Lucky #6 Lv48

Peach Lv48

The Manbat Lv48

Mirror, mirror, on the field,

Who shalt this fracture power wield?

Welp. Everything but Larvesta went down to a single Flamethrower, so Mozilla swept. I do question whether his particular choice of bug types would ever allow Bennet to become a competent E4 member, sans Larvesta, he has a serious fire weakness. Hell, including Larvesta, he has a SERIOUS rock weakness. I can't recall whether he later changes up his team a bit, but with it's current makeup... Well, he isn't that great. On to battling his mother!

Team Vs. Serra:

Brainfreeze Lv48

Mozilla lv48

Lucky #6 Lv48

Sonicette Lv48

The Manbat Lv48

Peach Lv48

Mirror, mirror, on the field,

Who shalt this fracture power wield?

Leading with Mozilla, Flamethrowers had Serra waste her pokemon and THEN she swapped to Aurorus before I could finish the job, but I at least took the Aurorus down. Then I recalled that Brainfreeze knows Mirror Shot...

The mirrors strengthened the attack!

The mirrors strengthened the attack! - Cryogonal Down

The mirrors strengthened the attack! - Jynx Down

The reflected light was blinding! - Her Vanilluxe outsped me and Brainfreeze went down. Luckily, Mozilla is still in play.

Three Flamethrowers had Vanilluxe and Glaceon both fainted, but then Froslass took him out. And all I'm left with is pokemon with an Ice Weakness. Luckily, she chose to confuse #6 instead of Forst Breathing him, and he got off a crit Poison jab, and... Well, the badge is mine! That was pretty close though, all I had left at the end was Lucky #6, who is REALLY living up to his name.

Anyway, that'll be all for now, next time we'll... I'm not sure, really. I can't quite remember what order we go to the Tanzan base, battle Noel, Tanzan underground, the raid on the house... Lots of things will happen, but I can't quite say when!

Shiny Collection

Mozilla Brainfreeze Jalapeno?

UniqueTyping Jackie Pan Lucky #6

S. Quawking Sonicette Dr. HAWKing

The Manbat Mystery 0/10NotGrbdr

Peach Bigglesworth Kevin

June 21, 2015

Y'know, despite my original suggestion of Hypno or or Jigglypuff, I think I'm way more inclined to believe the whole Parasect/Breloom/Amoongus thing. The lack of sound WOULD make spores a very feasible idea... So I'm torn between Parasect or Hypno, personally. Plus I think both would have awesome looking PULSEs. I sorta wanna see a PULSE Parasect, now.

June 21, 2015

While all the signs POINT to poison, he's not really very happy about all the pollution and stuff, I'm sure he'd much rather things go back to NORMAL. Addmitedly, Normal for him is a Swamp, so that's still pretty poisony... Although I guess that puts Water type on the table too... Hard to say for this one, really.

June 21, 2015

Part of me feels like PULSE legends aren't gonna happen. I mean, they couldn't control an Abra. There's a reason none of them have been super powerful pokemon in their base form. I feel like there's no way they could possibly control a Legendary PULSE, no matter how scary Lin is. Anyway, by nature of Fern & Blake's personalities and Terra's craziness, I feel like if a PULSE Darkrai was responsible for Agate, someone would've bragged. It's more likely somethink like Jigglypuff or Hypno.

As for the City, I do hope Meteor don't redestroy it or something after it's restored. It'd suck that all Adrienne's hard work would be going to waste. Even more importantly, it'd suck that all the dev's hard work in making it all pretty and fixed would go to waste by just destroying it again an episode or two later. So hopefully we really do get a beautiful restored City!

June 20, 2015

I started playing JUST after the E12 release, I think, and made an account a little before the E13 release. So I guess I'm firmly E12.

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