Despair Syndrome

Welcome (back) to Reborn, friend! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ eat these srpinkles I would love to encourage your masochistic self. ;^) Half of the people here are masochists anyways.

Welcome to Reborn, Tomokoi! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ eat some sprinkles Sadly I don't play any of those titles :c I'm sure you'll find a lot of people here who do though!

Welcome to Reborn, Lati! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ eat these sprinkles I am mildly disappointed that there is no Latte in this post. If you want to share your story, Creative Works for that (though you probably already know) Of course, I'd read it if you PM'd it to me too~

Glory is when you beat her without the cheese of course. ; ) Well technically, she's not wrong. :B

LMAO, that cheese. Definitely going to add this in when the time comes, truly despicable. Is there anything you get out of defeating that insane trainer though?

Don't worry. I hate myself for referencing Keemstar too. Also, I chose not to put in the sans cause it'll hurt the eyes, considering how text heavy the guide is. it'll probably hurt the eyes regardless though Also, Chapter 2 is up. >.>

CHAPTER 2 – Your Story Begins Here Nope Just Sidequesting TASK – Find Melia at Route 1 and rescue her from inevitable danger. I just realized that we bumped into Melia on the way in, and just 5 minutes after that, the good ol’ prof asks us to go check on her. Hate to break it to you, prof, but she’s probably still on the train to Goldenwood. Go back down to the bottom level of the lab but before you leave, talk to the rightmost girl at the counter. A new facility has been opened up to you – the EV Training Centre. You can train your Pokemon’s EVs here, which is a really neat feature. Sadly, only the HP and Speed rooms are available at this point of the game. If you chose a sweeping starter (Blaziken, Greninja etc.) you may want to max out their Speed EVs right off the bat here. Note that HP Room is pretty good for grinding since the Clefairys and the Jigglypuffs give decent EXP for Pokemon between levels 1-12. Once you’re done with everything here in the lab, feel free to re-enter Gearen City. . . . TASK – Complete a shit ton of sidequests. Melia and mom can wait. GEAREN CITY : REVISITED Wild Pokemon: Morning: Day: Night: From this point on, wild Pokemon and wild trainers will be attacking you here at Gearen, so watch out. Now our goal is to go check on Melia, but since this is a COMPLETIONIST™ guide, we’re going exploring first. Note that if you're having any trouble (or lack thereof), you can visit Mr Luck's Tent in East Gearen to change your, uh... luck...? Look, it's for switching difficulties alright. The first time's free, but any subsequent visit will cost 3 red, blue or green shards. This is the first time the handsome Blue text is gonna show up and it definitely won’t be the last. If you wanna go ahead with the story, then feel free to ignore all this nifty BlueText™. GEAREN CITY SIDEQUESTS – PART 1 VELVET APARTMENTS Wild Pokemon: Event Pokemon: First things first, go ahead and check out the first building to your the West. This is the Velvet Apartments. On the highest floor there’s some grass where you can catch wild Pokemon. Nothing spectacular, but notably this is the only place in Gearen where you can nab a Burmy, so I’d suggest you do that before leaving. If you come here at night, there’ll be Pachirisu running about. If you give it a Gourmet Snack (which is Rejuv’s version of Pokesnax), it’ll battle you. You can get Gourmet Snacks at the market street in East Gearen for 2000$ a pop. VIOLET APARTMENTS After leaving the Velvet Apartments, continue down the street. The next building here is the Violet Apartments. Remember, if you ever get lost, you can always refer to the map. The room on the first floor has a girl and her depressed Lillipup. Rememebr this place, we’ll be coming to nab her Lillipup later. On the third floor, there’s a kid playing Danganronpa. Spoilers: your favorite character dies. Guranteed. Talk to his mother and she’ll give you a Potion. Talk to the old lady on the fourth floor and she’ll give you another Potion. Now with our bags a little bit heavier, feel free to leave Violet Apartments. Your next destination is… EMERALD APARTMENTS Event Pokemon: Enter the room on the first floor, the lady here will give you a Full Heal. On the second floor, some guy will ask why you’re in his house like an actual sane person. He then throws out his Pokemon in self defence. You know the drill. Sick ‘em. On the fifth floor of the apartment, the lady will give you an Oran Berry. Now finally, we’ll get to catch my favorite Pokemon. Enter the top floor of Emerald Apartments at night, then interact with the box on the top left corner of the room. Boop. Misdreavus. Once you catch/kill it, you’ll told that it’s presence isn’t really gone. Touch the box again for another encounter. Whoo boy, you really know how to push my buttons, Jan. In a nice way. Basically you have infinite Misdreavus here at your disposable should you decide to begin your sick breeding program or whatever. I found one with good IVs and stuck with her. Next up, let’s check out East Gearen. EAST GEAREN Wild Pokemon: Morning: Day: Night: Event Pokemon: If you exited through the Northeastern exit, you’ll find yourself in some sort of market street, the people here sell you a bunch of basic necessities, so stock up! To note is that this place sells Gourmet Treats for 2000$ a pop. These are Rejuv’s version of Pokesnax so I’d suggest you get one or two in case you need it in a pinch. On a different days and times, different shops will appear here, Here's a list: - MooMoo Milk: At morning, during Wednesday, Friday and Sunday - Flutes: During daytime, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday - Revive/Soda/Candies: During daytime, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Treasure hunting time. To the topright of the Pokemon Centre here is a Super Potion, be sure to grab that. Also, in a little alcove to the right of Chrisola Hotel is an Iron. You can also find a TM83 (I forgot what it was) by the entrance of the hotel. The Southeast end of this place houses a street gang, we’ll be dealing with them soon, but for now, grab the Reverse Candy. Where to now…? AQUA APARTMENTS Event Pokemon: To the East of the ‘+’ shaped fountain is another one of these damn apartments. Barge right on in. With security like this, no wonder Team Xen, shit as they are, are such a prominent threats. Beware of the girl on the second floor, she has a level 85 Alakazam. Normally I wouldn’t advocate pussying out of a fight, but it’s not like we have a choice in this case. If you don't want to pussy out of a fight, check out the spoilers below. Coutesy of IntSys: The guy on the third floor bought a Pokeball, but the clerk gave him an Ultra Ball by mistake. Somehow, that means he has to give it away to the first person that enters his house. That would be you. The girl on the fourth floor will trade you a Bunnelby for a male Cherubi. At the final floor, a guy will be muttering to himself about a perfectly legal shipment. Since you happened to be there, it’s up to you to go get this shipment for him. He tells you that the person he’s supposed to meet is at the Southeast part of Gearen, which surprisingly, isn’t the pier with the street gang. Instead, it’s North of there. You’ll stumble upon this red bloke. He’ll give you some o’ dat perfectly legal Mystery Good. With Mystery Good in hand, jog all the way back to Aqua Apartment’s top floor. For your efforts, he gives you a Nugget. Not bad, not bad. I would easily jog 100 meters for some bling. He tells you to come back later for more perfectly legal work. Sounds fun. How does it feel being someone’s personal delivery service? Sucks? Well get used to it. Cause that’s what we’ll be doing a lot for a lot of the future sidequests. After that little shindig is done, head to the little section to the Northeast of Central Gearen. The pink building is Magnolia Library. There’s not much to do here except getting to know a bit more about Shadow Pokemon. Our real destination is to the left of the library… GEAREN HELP CENTRE QUESTS Welcome to the Help Centre! There’s place like these scattered all about Aevium, each with their own unique set of ‘requests’, or as I like to call them - Sidequests! These requests earn you some cash, sometimes items and some even have a chance of rewarding you with an exclusive Pokemon! That’s my kind of deal. Accept the first quest and let’s get rolling. SAVE STARLY! Rewards: 350$ Pretty paltry, but we’ll take it for the sake of the COMPLETION™. Let me be completely honest with you, I never did any Help Requests on my main run. Nope, not one. What I’m trying to say is, I’m going into all of these help quests blind. Uhhh… yeah. “Despair!” I hear you say, “Are you really qualified to write this guide if you-“ And to that I say, “Shut up.” If I’m not going to do it, who is eh? Besides if I missed anything, you can simply post it in the Discussion Thread. This is a COMMUNITY_EFFORT™ and I won’t be able to do this without you guys. ; ) Rant aside, let’s begin. Our petitioner is waiting for us at Gearen Labs. Let’s go! Once you’re there, you’ll find the red-clothed lady in front of the healing station. Anyway, she just blabbers her entire life story to us. Ok, lady, what’evs, man. Like, point me to the culprits and I’ll beat the crap outta them. Oceana Pier, y’say? *cracks knuckles* Looks like those thugs won’t live to see tomorrow. OCEANA PIER - REVISITED Wild Encounter: Event Pokemon: Before we go fisticuffs on those gangsters, there’s some stuff to do here in Oceana Pier. Firstly, the Wingull flying about. If you bump into one, you’ll be able to initiate a battle. Next, at the leftmost South pier (where everyone was waiting for the S.S. Oceana earlier), there’ll be a Buizel hanging around (not sure if there are any other conditions for it to appear). Give it a Gourmet Snack and it’ll join your team! Towards the Eastside, there's a Terajuma representative who will give you a free Ducklett! With your roster of Pokeslaves a little larger, it’s time to rip those gangstas a new one. You’ll find them at the Southwesternmost pier, to the left of where you got your Buizel. You’ll find three of them ganging up on a single Starly… on bikes. (…) They notice you and decide to go after you one at a time. (…) Bad guys in Rejuv are pretty shit. With bad guys like this, you’d expect Aevium to be a safe, peaceful place, but nope. Law enforcement here is even more shit. Hah. Easy. Which one of you suckers is next? Wait wha- It looks like your killing spree is interrupted by a random ninja magical lady. With some ‘bippity boppity boos’, the 3 bikers ride off into the sunset. The lady introduces herself as Karen. She knows magic apparently. Big deal. I know how to play the piano. She gives some backstory on the Garufa. Sadly, I don’t give a shit. If this lady is gonna steal my bounty, I ain’t having none o’ dat. Luckily she lets us collect the loot ourselves while she cleans up the mess. I like Karen. Go meet with the lady at Gearen Lab. Once you have confirmed Starly’s safety, head back to the Help Centre to collect your reward of 350$!! (…) Now, look at the board to see your next mission. MISSING MOTHER Rewards: 500$, Free Haircut, Full Heal If your mom was missing, I wouldn’t post a bulletin offering a measly reward. I’d instead go to the nearest police station. Anyway, you’ll find your petitioner at the Petal Salon in East Gearen. She tells you that her mother went for a ‘private haircut’ in Aqua Apartments. Sure… She suspects some type of foul play is involved. Only more reason for her to report to the police instead of posting a help bulletin that I might’ve ignored on my first run. Anyway, head on to Aqua Apartments. Her mom’s client is at 4E. Talk to her, and she’ll tell you that Rosa (our missing person) came and gave her a private haircut cause the customer was being a lazy shit. All in all, she wasn’t helpful whatsoever. For all we know, she could have Rosa’s corpse stuffed underneath that stupid sofa she’s sitting on. Return to Petal Salon. Rosa’s daughter will give you another lead (I don’t think you can even call it a lead). 3C at Velvet Apartments. Let’s roll. The lady here doesn’t give you any useful information either. She just tells us that Rosa came here and left. I bet this lady is in cahoots with that Aqua Apartments lady and Rosa is in fact, in a plastic bag underneath the Oceana Pier. Head back to Petal Salon. Face it kid, your mom’s gone for good. Nope. There’s still hope! Violet Apartment 3C. Could these guys be the murderer? What do you mean murderer isn’t the right word? Rosa’s presumed dead unless she’s proven alive. Apparently, we learn that this kid at Violet 3C is an asshole and a moron. Luckily for us, he actually has some information! Apparently he saw Rosa speak with another girl in front of the apartments. Detective Despair on the case! The girl says that Rosa is headed towards Oceana Pier. Hm. Seems dodgy. Alright, I rest my case. Call in the forensics. We’re sweeping the ocean for a body. Return to Petal Salon, o bearer of bad news. Sorry kid, we couldn’t find your mother. Don’t worry though, I have my team sweeping the nearby oceans- Ba-damnit! She ran off! After her! You’ll find the daughter in front of a door at Oceana Pier. Talk to her. Apparently, she gathered intel on her own and it seems that a woman had just entered the house. Sorry kid, but uh, I’d just like to confirm with you… is your mother really a barber? Anyway head on in, where Detective Despair and her faithful apprentice, Mr Reader shall finally put this case to a close! Holy shit. What the fuck. I don’t even. Fuck it, let’s grab our reward. 500$ and a Full Heal to boot. Not too shabby I guess. Well you’re there, accept the next Help Request too. Finishing this quest also allows you to use the Petal Salon’s services. Basically they give one of your Pokemon a ‘haircut’ (still not buying it, Rosa) and this will boost their happiness, once per day. Use it to help Pokemon that evolve via friendship. Let’s see her try to give my future Litwick a haircut though. The woman here at the bottom left is the friendship checker. When you reach max friendship with a Pokemon, she’ll say something. I don’t know what yet though, my Pokemon hate me. :c THE HIDDEN LIBRARY Reward: 5x Great Balls If you’re looking to complete the Pokedex 100%, this mission has some pretty great rewards for you, considering you can’t buy Great Balls yet. It’ll help you catch those elusive event Pokemon. The petitioner is in the Gearen Labs. He’s looking at the bookshelf on the right. Anyway, we’re gonna be his personal delivery service (Hey, I told you to get used to it). Today’s item to be delivered: Knawlej™. He asks you to gather info from three people. A woman at Leaflet Park, the receptionist at the Chrisola Hotel, and Karrina, the leader of the local street gang. I have no idea what these people have to do with the fucking Garufa civilization but fuck it. We didn’t take this job to ask questions. The three people are fairly easy to find. The woman at Leaflet Park can be seen sitting on a bench with her child. The receptionist of Chrisola Hotel is at, well, Chrisola Hotel. Lastly, Karrina can be found at the Southeast end of East Gearen. CHRISOLA HOTEL Wild Pokemon: While you’re at the Chrisola Hotel, head to the East. The man at the first room will hand you a Super Potion and you can find a TM Frustration in the third room. You may take the elevator up to the rooftop. There’s wild Pokemon to be caught here, notably Cherubi, which you can then trade for a Bunnelby at Aqua Apartments. Once you’re done, head to the Casino. The first room here will be a pool, and to the Northeast, the casino. I’m totally not too young to be here, please don’t kick me out. Talk to the red-haired lady here. In order to destroy her gambling addiction, she flushes her Coin Case down a toilet. Yeah, cause you can’t use your purse to keep your coins. For now, you can’t play on any of the machines, cause apparently, the protagonist doesn’t have a purse either and also requires a Coin Case. Unfortunately for us, the closest available Coin Case has been flushed down a toilet and is probably floating in the sewers somewhere. *wink wink nudge nudge* With nothing else to do, you might as well leave. Back to the sidequest. Once you finished talking to all three people, return to the guy at Gearen Labs. Anyway, you have to answer a series of questions. This is so ridiculously easy, that it’s impossible to fail. Even if you somehow manage to get the answer wrong, the guy just lets you pick again. Anyway, the guy comes to a logical and sound conclusion: He will never ever find the library in the entirety of his miserable existence. Or in his words, he is “royally screwed”. I like this guy. Your rewards are back at the Help Centre. Head back and collect them, then accept the next quest. LOVE LETTER! Rewards: 350$, Nugget This one’s gonna be stupid. I can tell from the name. Our petitioner is in front of Leaflet Park, so let’s head on there. Talk to the black-haired guy there. Without any context whatsoever, he gives us a Love Letter, asking us to deliver it to ‘them’. Well, I would, but I don’t know who ‘they’ are, moron. He tells us that they are at the shopping district, so let’s head on there. You can find the letter’s recipient next to the Petal Salon. He’s the white-haired orange guy. (…) Look, Mr Client, I know you’re embarrassed, but you don’t need to hide the guy’s gender with ‘they’s and whatnot. I would’ve found out anyway. It’s not like I’m homophobic or anything. Go back to Leaflet Park and you’ll find Eric has been replaced by a representative. Ba-damnit, I didn’t get the chance to tell him how much of a moron he was. She tells you that the reward is waiting for you at the Help Centre. Well, at least we got paid for that stupid little delivery game. A Nugget and 350$. Not bad considering this is the easiest mission by far. Next up we have… DANGEROUS POKEMON! Rewards: 350$, Super Potion, Now this is more my style. None of that personal delivery service bullshit. Our client is being a little dickish and doesn’t want to see us. Wahetever, cause we don’t need to. Head out to Oceana Pier. As soon as you leave the checkpoint at Gearen, head East. You’ll run into a pack of Growlithe. Someone then thought it was a good idea to drop a Fire Stone on one of them. Nice. More EXP. You know the drill. Sick’ em. Now this battle can be a bit tough if you’re coming in fresh. You can do a bit of grinding around Gearen or come back after the events at Route 1. The rain in Oceana Pier will also help. After that battle, one of the Growlithe will want to join you! Cool. Return to the Help Center for your rewards. BATTLE ME! Rewards: 600$, Our final request. This guy wants to battle us. Seems simple enough, considering every single kid and their mothers wants to battle us in Pokemon games. Meet the petitioner in the Battle Room of Chrisola Hotel, which is located in the basement. HARDCORE TRAINER ADRIAN Now this battle is tough, her Pokemon’s levels are around the 15 ranges. It’s probably gonna be your first battle against a team of 6, so a highly recommend you come back after the events of Route 1 if you’re seriously having trouble. After the battle, we can get our rewards back at the Help Centre. Score! That trainer gave us a Litleo! Turns out she wasn’t that bad after all. Now that we have finished all these damn sidequests, it’s time to continue on with the story. *deep breaths*

Funny, cause both options give me the "No means no!" dialog. It may be bugged though so I'll definitely try it out again. Take that meme back to 2012, Amaria. (And I'll be taking that picture) I didn't recall them being called Dexoy on my first run. Even if it's just a name for Deoxys clones, I still think it's pretty stupid. I probably just really want an excuse to bash Team Xen. I remember even Melia calls them morons at one point. I didn't notice that Oshawott thing, I never set foot in the Water biome I think. Reborn made me lose my faith in Water starters. I wonder if the other starters do other Pokemon-ish stuff... Fixing this, thanks for pointing it out~ c:

CHAPTER 1 – Can You Really Call This a Chapter, I Didn’t Receive a Pokemon Battle or Anything TASK – Get this horrendously long intro over with. Our story starts with someone telling their child a story (storyception) about a Zorua and a Pangoro. The gist of it is that they had a Mexican standoff and it ended in a tie (which is definitely bullshit, Pangoro obviously has the advantage over Zorua). They ended up being friends. What’s the TV Trope for something like this? One day, Zorua decided it was a good idea to pretend to be his best friend’s deceased mother. “That would surely give him a good ol spook!” I quote Zorua, I shit you not. Basically Pangoro walks home to see his dead mother, drops all his precious food whilst Zorua cries “It’s just a prank, bro” in the background. But that doesn’t matter. What matters is that Pangoro found a golden apple. What this golden apple does, we will never know, for the story ends there. And congratulations, you have wasted 5 minutes of your life reading this story and another 5 minutes reading a shitty summary written by yours truly as this story is completely irrelevant to the main game. Congratulations. . . . MARIA’S HOUSE Sidetracking a bit here. I just wanted to say that that was not the intro I was greeted with the first time I played. It used to be some girl getting sacrificed with spooky music playing in the background. Anyway, you wake up as Maria, with one of the most stereotypical waking up monologue ever. Walk out to the living room (feel free to interact with the stuff around here for some character flavor). Maria’s mother will ask her to get her father, who’s in the study. But since this is an RPG, it’s our responsibility to check out everything but the place we’re going to. Uh, I know that’s pretty Out of Character for me since I’m the one who wrote the other Horrendously_Written_Guide™ but bear with me. We’re not getting anything done if you’re gonna start questioning my random personality swap. The bottom right exit leads outside the house. Maria’s mom will stop her if you try so don’t bother. To the top left corner, there’s two rooms for you to check out, a lower and upper one. Maria’s dad is in the upper room, so that means we’ll be going in the second. I’m a rebel. Just try and stop me, mom. You’ll be greeted by some stairs. Maria says she isn’t allowed in there. Well I’m not allowed into the local bar cause I’m underage and guess what? I uh… I stay away from it cause I’m a respectful, law-abiding citizen. But this is a video game so fuck it, we’re going in- What. What the hell. It turns out Maria is a law-abiding citizen as well! Ba-damnit, Jan. What’s the point of giving us an option if they both do the same thing? Note that I’m playing this intro bit blind cause updates so I basically just wasted my time typing the previous few paragraphs and you have wasted your time reading them. Anyway, with your little misadventure out of your way, go grab daddy at the upper room. Maria will tell his dad to get his cheeky lil ass butt to breakfast. He procrastinates, like all dads do, so simply return and talk to your mother. Mom will then ask you to freshen up upstairs. Uh oh, lood scenes incoming. But instead of lood scenes, we’re given green light and ominous music. Then there’s a crash downstairs. Since you’re a young little girl with a bright future ahead of her, we’re gonna check it out. Come down to meet this weirdly dressed lady (?). She monologues with herself about chaos and what not. Maria is having none of that shit. The weirdly dressed lady then casually tells Maria that her parents (Maria’s, not the lady’s) are downstairs. Sure, let’s listen to the oddly dressed lady shouting weird things in your house. The lady gives you some words of encouragement before you leave. With a thumbs-up and a “Gotcha, fam”, Maria heads downstairs. Come down to see Maria’s dad sacrificing his wife. Uh. I’ll just quietly run away, I’m sure Child-Protection Services will- Oh nope. Go intercept him. Ba-damnit, Maria. . . . And boom! This was the scene that I first played through on my first run. Therefore, I totally know exactly what to do. All you have to do is keep heading straight cause this place is literally just a straight line. Note how her name changes to Marianette here. Ominous indeed. Anyway, you come out to meet a guy and his harem of maids. Looks like something straight out of a doujin. Tags: “dirty old man” (Yes, that is an actual doujin tag). Dirty Old Man then summons the lord, Arceus. The maid standing on the pedestal then vanishes into nothingness, Dr Manhattan style. Maria’s next it seems. Maria promptly declines. Tbh, I would too if I saw a maid getting turned into electrons. But you had plenty of chances to back out earlier, Maria. Ba-damnit, the maids grab her. She begs for her life as the Dirty Old Man utters that weird Arceus chant, oblivious to the fact that somewhere in this world, a 13-year old has Arceus in his Pokeball. And tearing noises as Maria presumably gets torn into negatively-charged particles. Nice touch, Jan. . . . S.S. OCEANA TASK – Get another horrendously long intro over with. And milliseconds after that tearing noise comes one of the most anticlimactic things to ever happen in a Pokemon fangame. You get 3 difficulty options: Casual, Normal and INTENSE™. Guess which we’re going for. If you guessed wrongly, in addition to not reading the disclaimers I put up there, you are also not very bright. Luckily, I’m here, so even the dullest of you can manage to get through all of Jan’s demonic little puzzles. “REGISTRATION…… start!” We get a nice little intro with a some cheery music. Hard to imagine that we just watched a little girl get brutally murdered a few minutes ago huh. Meet Amaria. Like 80% of the other Rejuvenation cast, I don’t like her. But not now. She’s a nice change of pace. She gives some lore on the land of Aevium, which is where Rejuv’s set in. She then goes on to explain about the Aevium League. Part of me wishes that we can just go to Aevium, finish the league and get it over with. But that’s probably as simple as clearing the Reborn league while there’s, lord, twenty gym leaders stuck in orphanages? Anyway, once your character is created, Amaria tells us that we should meet her at Gearen Laboratory after our boat docks. Take a picture, trick. I’m on a boat, bitch. . . . After that, the lady at the counter gives you your trainer card. She tells you it isn’t verified whilst casually breaking the fourth wall. With that, you’re free to move around the ship! Completely, uh, Pokemon-less. But before that. Boom, character box! Feel free to talk with the people here. They don’t offer anything useful, so you might as well leave. As soon as you exit, you’ll meet another cool character. None other than the protagonist’s mom! Now as much as I hate shoving another character box down your throat. I guess I’ll have to. Mom tells you about a spectacular event behind some doors. She tells you to walk around the ship talking to people. This is such a huge contrast to the action-packed previous intro, I’m not even sure if they’re the same game. Your room is on the top left (labeled A on the map), as your Mom probably told you. If you speak to her, she’ll ask you to talk with the people around the ship. Now, I’m not exactly sure what you must do to progress at this point, but I assume you must talk to everybody in this bloody ship. Huh. In the leftmost room on the middle row (labeled E), you can see these weird pebble things, stand on it and interact with the wall for some eavesdropping. For some reason, eavesdropping in this game somehow equates to looking through the wall and seeing a lady put on a weird uniform whilst planting a bomb. Planting a bomb. You now have critical information about an imminent terrorist attack on this boat and what does your character do? Ignore it of course. Gotta immerse yourself in the silent protagonist role. On the second cabin from the right at the lower hallway (labeled H), this lady won’t let you look into her cabinets. Damn you, lady! You know full well that looting people’s wardrobes for treasure is the job of the main character of any RPG. People nowadays, so inconsiderate. Well, I guess we’ll just wait til the ship inevitably blows up to find out what’s in here. You can get the item from the cabinet if you go to the room if you go right after talking to Augustus, but before going to the banquet with Mom, it's a Hyper Potion (which is amazing rn) There’s a Potion here in one of the Eastern rooms on the middle hallway. Across from where you got your Trainer Card. It’s the room labeled I. The room here on the South East end (labeled K) has another eavesdropping spot. Pop in for a short cutscene featuring mom and some weird lady. We now have critical information that mom isn’t what she seems and that there’s a ticking bomb on this boat. But our silent protagonist isn’t called silent for nothing. So they keep quiet about this too. This is all we can do here in the cabins. Now, head West to find yourself on the deck of the S.S. Oceana. Nothing much to do here. Once you’re done chatting up the passengers, head back to the cabins and go down the stairs at the bottom left. You’ll find yourself at the lower area of the ship. Talk to the people here and once you’re done, head back up. This time head to the far right. Two more people here to mop up. Lastly head up the stairs on the top right to find yourself in a nifty café, with a friendly pianist and her Jigglypuff. Talk to the lady at the counter on the far North for a free Fresh Water. Once you’re done talking to everyone here, head to the East. You’ll be outside again. More people to talk to. Same ol’, same ol’. The lady here will give you a Rare Candy. Save it for a rainy day. On a side note, I’ve beaten Rejuvenation and I still haven’t used this Rare Candy. Head West this time to find a sailor having trouble fixing a milkshake machine which turns out to be a healing machine. Aevium must be in a state of chaos if milkshake machines actually look like that. Finally, head back into the café and climb the stairs at the top right. Here is the captain’s room. The captain will invite you in and he’ll introduce himself as Augustus. He and your mom were old friends apparently. He’ll explain a bit about the Aevium League, notably, instead of an Elite 4, there is an Elite 8. Fantastic, Aevium, as if 4 consecutive battles without healing wasn’t tough enough. This also shows how incompetent Amaria is at her job, having the Aevium League rules explained by an old sailor instead. Our protagonist also wisely chooses not to inform the captain about the bomb ticking beneath their feet. Good choice. With that, he announces the beginning of the banquet. Bon voyage! I’ll see you there! . . . TASK – Banquet time! Eat to your heart’s content. Meet your mom in front of the huge doors. Together, the both you stride into the banquet. The three of you then get seated. What pisses me off most about this banquet is that there’s only three chairs per table. What the hell, Jan. Augustus proceeds to give a speech. Which nice and all if a bomb wasn’t about to blow the ship up in a few minutes. In a scene ripped straight from the first Harry Potter, the lady who planted the bomb gives one of the best terrorist attack quotes ever. “That’s because I’m the troll” – RIP Irrelevant Terrorist. She tells everybody about the bomb. Been there done that. Tell me something new. Your mom asks the mysterious lady from before to get you to safety and you’re teleported away. Cool. Why didn’t she just teleport mom as well. And also herself. Personally, I’d put my own safety ahead of others but I won’t judge. And boom. Surprisingly and with no foreshadowing or context whatsoever, the ship blows up. Totally didn’t see that coming. If Augustus used his budget for tighter security instead of a stupid banquet, maybe this wouldn’t have happened. . . . TASK – Blow (geddit?) this joint. Jokes aside, I totally didn’t see these tentacles coming. Damnit, Jan, what kind of fucked up bomb is this? You’ll wake up in the captain’s room, maybe it would help if that mysterious lady teleported us to somewhere that wasn’t this boat, huh? Climb down the stairs to find the pianist, who watches helplessly as some kid gets dragged under by a tentacle. B A D T O U C H. She tells you to go look for your mom back in the banquet room. This piano lady is a cool person. I like her. Exit stage, bottom left. You’ll find yourself at the cabins. But before we go find our mother, there’s more important things to do. Sorry mom, rescuing you from tentacle bombs isn’t exactly on the top of my priority list right now. Remember that lady who didn’t want us touching her drawer? Well, I take no pride in looting the dead. But… It doesn’t matter. Cause it’s gone. Ba-damnit, lady. Japed once again by that damned lady. If she wasn’t dead already, I probably would’ve punched her. With that done, go look for your mother in the banquet room. You’ll find Augustus in a depression episode a la that cameraman from King Kong. I’m sorry, man, but there are more important things to be worried about than your stupid boat. It turns out your mom jumped down a hole trying to extinguish fires. Considering we’re on a boat that’s probably sinking, I think that’s kind of stupid. Our protagonist wants to jump too, and Augustus shits all over our pride by saying that we should take the stairs instead. Geez, old man. Rescuing our mother is top priority, we shouldn’t waste time walking down some stupid stairs. It’d be like wasting time trying to loot the dead which we totally didn’t just do! Ignoring the deranged old man, leave the banquet room back to the cabins. Exit stage, bottom left. With water spraying about a la geyser, I don’t there’s many fires for our mom to extinguish, but that’s beside the point. As long as her heart’s in the right place. Go to the room at the top right. This is the storage room, where there’s many water and nada fire. (I’m surprised MS Word’s grammar check didn’t underline any of that) You guys have a sweet reunion before this purple haired bitch walks in with her posse of Deoxys… Deoxyses? Deoxi? Plural of Deoxys. She walks in with her posse of PluralOfDeoxys™. Turns out she’s only after ur mom. Oooo. Pretty overkill, don’t you think? Our mom thinks so too. These bad guys are shit at kidnapping. As a side note, later on, you’ll find that these bad guys are shit at pretty much everything they do, but it always works. Somehow. Damnit, Jan. Anyway, mom willingly gets kidnapped. She gets grasped by a bunch of tentacles (Bad touch) asking you to gtfo. Normally I’d argue, but I don’t want to end up in a weird doujin position, so I’d say run. You run out only to find a Deoxys closing in on you. And with a heroic cry (“Justice rains from above!”) a piano smashes that thing. Logic dictates that it’d probably just blow the piano into pieces, but it works, so I won’t argue. Turns out it’s the piano lady. 30 minutes in, and one of my favorite characters is down for the count. Get used to it, Rejuvenation does this a lot. Meanwhile shitty characters, (I won’t name one, but it rhymes with ‘Hen’) survive and prosper. Our protagonist runs out to the deck. Good idea. Even if there weren’t any bad guys here, where would you go now? Our protagonist isn’t really a very bright person, but she gets better. Hence, character development. Luckily for us, the strongest Pokemon in the game who could totally 1v6 a team of Deoxys swoops down and rescues us. The bad guy in black then calls for a tactical retreat. Uh, I don’t want to rain on your parade, big bad, but where exactly do you tactical retreat to? You’re stuck on a sinking ship. Also he leaves the screen towards the left, as if there’s anything there other than the bow of the ship. The bad guys aren’t exactly very bright either. . . . OCEANA PIER TASK – Get a Pokemon. (Finally!) Meet Tesla, your savior (she’s the lady, not the Talonflame). Your protagonist explains what happened to her, if they had explained that there was a bomb on the ship to Augustus, maybe this wouldn’t have happened, but hey, it’s a step in the right direction. Tesla is a member of the Elite 8, so you’ll probably come to hate her 50 hours from now (Talonflame used Brave Bird!). I’ll do a character box on her later when she becomes more relevant to the plot. With that, she leaves on the back of her Talonflame. Uh, Mrs Tesla! I think you forgot your boat… Anyway, you’re free to explore the docks. There’s nothing much here except for some people who are waiting for the S.S. Oceana to dock. Well I hate to break it to you… Once you’re done walking around aimlessly, head to the huge building up north. That’s the entrance to Gearen City. . . . GEAREN CITY You’ll need a passport to enter Gearen, which is really stupid. No other city here in Aevium does this. Ba-damnit. Anyway, talk to the lady at the counter and she’ll renew and verify your trainer card for you. There’s nothing else for you to do here, so let’s go to Gearen! Welcome to Garen City, where armour-clad men randomly jump out of bushes and spin at you. Wait, that’s a different city. This part of the game is pretty cheery, considering your mother just got kidnapped by an evil organization. Gearen is huge. I’ll say that now. It’s easy to get lost your first time here so I’ll be providing map on the second part. For now, you can only go straight. See you at Gearen Laboratory. And you’re greeted by Amaria! Ugh. She asks what took us so long. As our protagonists opens their mouth to tell her that the ship they were on sunk and that their mother was kidnapped by an evil organization, Amaria proceeds to say it doesn’t matter. Damn you. Feel free to have a look around Gearen Laboratory. There’s not much here other than people to talk to. Once you’re done familiarizing yourself, speak to Amaria. She casually calls you a ‘newbie’ (Bitch, I’ll have you know I beat Reborn) before showing you in. As you walk through the door, you collide with another trainer. Despite the rude first impression, she’s one of the rare characters in Rejuv that I actually like. Remember her. Climb up the stairs and go into the room. The two of you walk into Professor Jenner, having a little one-on-one with some lady on the screen. This is obviously very dodgy. Anyone having a one-on-one video chat session with some weird lady is dodgy. Especially if you quickly AltTab out of there once you’re aware of someone’s existence. Amaria, however, gives no fucks. Even though this Professor could potentially be hooking up a camgirl. Or maybe even working with an evil organization. Amaria simply gives no fucks. Anyways, Prof Jenner. Anyway, Prof Jenner casually acts like nothing happened and tells you how to pick your starter. Bitch please, I’ve done this countless times already. Head into the Starter Collection... Pod? (Don’t question it, Despair, don’t question it) Once you’re in, Amaria comes and interrupts. Damn you, Amaria, I want to ponder my selection in silence! STARTER COLLECTION ROOM Starter Pokemon: Fire: Grass: Water: Jackpot Starters: Worth nothing is that Axew currently is the only jackpot starter unavailable through other means. Other than the Mystery Egg. So basically both choices revolve around RNG. RIP. The gist of it is that there are 3 biomes: Grass, Water and Fire, with the starters of each respective type running around being all Pokemon-ish. If you’re indecisive “like 80% of America”, feel free to use the Jackpot machine to let RNG decide. The Jackpot machine might even give you a starter that’s completely different from all the other starters in this room. You can see what those starters are above. The first time I played, I got a Turtwig from the Jackpot machine. Needless to say I quickly F12’d outta there. I never touched it since. Until today that is, I’m currently rerolling for a Ralts. I’ll check back in once I get one and we can continue with this guide. Back guys, the first Ralts I got had an Adamant nature. Thanks, RNG… With your Pokemon selected, feel free to leave- Oh nope, we’re stuck here til we defeat Amaria. Fine then. Prepare to get curbstomped, bitch. A nice little touch before the battle is that Amaria will comment on which starter you picked. Damnit, I don't need you to judge my choices! SCOUT AMARIA - Ooh, boy. Our first Pokemon battle. After like an hour. I’m so hyped for this scratch-off. - So yeah, the battle is pretty much the same as any rival battle you fought in previous Pokemon games. Just scratch them to death. Simplez. I totally did not lose this battle. Once that’s done, Prof Jenner catches you guys getting all kinky. Go away, old man. Go look at your camgirl or something. Anyway, Amaria gives us some Pokeballs, the first (and only) favor she does for us in this game. When Amaria, finally leaves, Prof Jenner decides it’s a good idea to talk to you about his daughter. But nope, we’re interrupted by another annoying person. Meet Ren. The professor decides that you should fight Ren. Ugh. Fine, another scratch-off it is… POKEMON TRAINER REN - As if he wants to make me hate him, he starts the battle saying “Beginner’s luck quickly runs out”. Uh, Ren? The battle hasn’t even started yet and you’re acting all cocky. - Basically another scratch off. Show his Froakie no mercy. I totally did not lose this battle either. Anyway, Prof Jenner asks him to get back to work, which is the professor equivalent to asking someone to fuck off. I’m starting to like Prof Jenner, despite him being all creepy in his room. Prof Jenner asks you to go look for his daughter, Melia, who’s in Route 1. We have to take a train and head through Goldenwood Forest to get there. Sorry, prof, but my mom needs rescuing and- HOLY SHIT RUNNING SHOES. Thanks, Prof! I’ll get your daughter for you ASAP! With that, the prof takes his leave. He somehow runs straight upwards instead of turning right and climbing the stairs. What the- did he just disappear into the jackpot machine or something? Anyway, take the elevator down. Your adventure has officially begun… (After an hour’s worth of intros)

Welcome to the Discussion Thread for a Horrendously Written Guide to Rejuvenation™! If you haven't read that, then what the hell are you doing here? Basically, this is the place to ask questions, point out stuff that I missed and all-around, family-friendly Despair bashing. Please direct all your complaints to this thread. Also, feel free to donate your Rejuv screenshots here. If I deem them useful enough, I might add them to my guide, along with a stupid witty Despair™ Brand Caption. LIST OF STUFF THAT I'M GONNA ADD TO THE GUIDE BUT HAVEN'T* - Helpful Links - Some more pictures - Ratings for some Pokemon and why you should choose them - More detailed character boxes *Originally, I was gonna put the purpose of this list here, but I think it's pretty self-explanatory. Now, I don't know what more to add, so have a picture of Sombra. Boop. CHANGELOG

TABLE OF CONTENTS COLOUR CODING Normal - Everything Else Pink - Chubb Notes Red - Items #ff1111 Blue - Sidequests #00fff9 Green - Battles/Pokemon Encounters #49ff00 Yellow - Character Boxes #e3ff00 Orange - Branching Story Paths HELPFUL LINKS - Discussion Thread - Rejuvenation Directory/FAQ (literally all the helpful links are in here) - Read it or Zumi will fight you (ง’̀-‘́)ง HALL OF FAME People who contributed much to the guide! - SansTheSkeleton (Wild encounters and boss data) - Futility4Ever (Boss strategies) - Neco (For stuff that I missed) - IntSys (For stuff that I missed) Hello and welcome to… *drum roll* A_HORRENDOUSLY_WRITTEN_GUIDE_TO_REJUVENATION™ Property of Despair&Chubb co. It’s been a long time coming and I guess it is about time I get into writing this. Now, a bit of foreword before we dive right in. Unlike my previous Horrendously_Written_Guide™, which is merely a continuation of another guide and is focused on getting you through the story, this guide’s gonna be much different. Instead of trying to rush you through the story, I’ll instead cover everything. Sidequests, events, treasures, everything. Therefore, this guide will be able to cater to all those COMPLETIONIST™ out there. Of course, Rejuvenation is a massive game. Getting everything 100% is a gargantuan feat. That’s why I’ll need some help. First things first, I have good ol’ Chubb (sweet guy) helping me out on this, sorta like a guide collab, you guys will know him for his Perfectly_Written_Guide_to_Reborn (not trademarked as of yet sadly), he’ll be adding notes here and there (you guys will probably be seeing him a lot judging the viability of Pokemon) and you can recognize his notes as they’ll be in Pink text. Next, I’m gonna have to make a selfish request here, but I’m asking a favor from all the beta-testers/developers/Jan (love you, bro), may I have the PBS file for Rejuvenation? I promise I won’t abuse it in (I have no idea how to anyway). I’m currently compiling boss and wild encounter data from Editor.exe with the Reborn PBS (It broke halfway through chapter 1), and if you guys have been on Editor.exe for 5 minutes you’ll know that it’s a pain in the bum to navigate. So… pretty please? C: Chubb has it. luv u bb. And lastly, I’ll need help from all of you, my dear readers! No matter how many Chubbs or PBS files I have, there’s still gonna be mistakes or things that I miss, so it’s up to you to point them out in the Discussion Thread. If you have pictures to contribute or strategies to share or even just a simple question, there would be the place to do it too. With that out of the way, let’s dive in- Whoa there, cowboy. I’m not even done with the disclaimers yet. There’s still many more to go. Please read these disclaimers to ensure maximum enjoyment is obtained when reading my guide. They’re all sorted from most important to least. And with those disclaimers read and gotten over with (I hope you read them), it’s time to finally enter the guide. Alright guys… LET’S GET ROIIIGHT INTO THE NEWSS. PS - I just realized how insanely text-heavy my guide is, so uh, grab a coffee so you don't want to doze off halfway?

Done and PM'd! Done and PM'd!

Welcome to Reborn, friend! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ eat these srpinkles I absolutely love your profile picture btw~ ; )

This looks fun~ You probably don't know me that well, so here's a hint: ; )

Welcome to Reborn, Kai! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ eat these sprinkles I actually managed to read through that wall of text! Seldom do we get such a well thought of introduction~ And I'm not the only one here who plays Vanguard~ Woooo Hopefully, for the sake of future hobbies, you did not spend as much money as I did on this blasted card game. ; )

Welcome to Reborn, friend! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ eat these sprinkles I see you're in the middle of a Reborn run. Well, good luck~ you'll need it

Welcome to Reborn, friend fish! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ eat these sprinkles I see you're in the middle of a Reborn run. Good luck~ you'll need it Hopefully when you say you like Rooster Teeth, you don't actually mean literal rooster teeth.

Welcome to Reborn, Misty! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ eat these sprinkles I see you're shiny hunting? Good luck. You're gonna need it. If you have stories you wanna tell, you should definitely check out the Creative Works forum~ someone probably already told you this though

Welcome to Reborn, friend! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ eat some sprinkles I'm assuming you're still playing Reborn? Then in that case, good luck. You'll need it. ; )

Ghost. Because im a filthy edgelord reasons.

Welcome to Reborn, Rude! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ eat some sprinkles I'm not even gonna ask what you did to deserve that nickname. (Although it'll probably be really awesome)

Welcome to Reborn, Sparta! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ eat these sprinkles If you're gonna start Reborn soon, allow me to wish you luck. you'll need it Anyway, I'm pretty excited for your game, can't wait to see it when it's announced! ; )

Welcome to Reborn, Go! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ eat some sprinkles Did someone say troll champs in LoL?

This may seem pretty stupid, but you're opening the Pokemon Reborn .exe file right? Not the Game.rxdata file. Done and PM'd! I didn't add the Eviolite for you btw, but you should be fine without it.