Eloquent Liar

So I've applied quick patches 1 and 2, but the guy still spits me out in the cave on Route 2. Do I have to restart the game from scratch, are the patches bad, or is there just flat out something wrong on my end? (attached my game data just in case) EDIT: yep, had to restart the game. It's all good now, though. Looks great!

And those are.....? Gyarados is unavailable as of right now (and might not be available in E17, either), Octillery's decent but Flamethrower and Fire Blast are non-STAB and that's if it doesn't get OHKO'd because its speed stat is absolute garbage, and the only other thing I can think of is HP Fire which would be handy but (IMO) a pain to breed onto a water 'mon if it's just going to be used for one field/type. Am I forgetting any? Anyways, if you're going to use water types on this field, the only thing I can think of just by glancing at the field effects is to hit with ice-type m

Dunno if there's an E16 troubleshooting thread yet, but I'm getting a fatal error whenever I try to soft reset? Look at me, forgetting an entire troubleshooting subforum exists. Besides that, though, E16 was well worth the wait; my inner open-world gamer sighed happily when I saw how much had changed.

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This isn't exactly shaping up to be my magnum opus, so as far as feedback is concerned, grammar preferably comes second to how easy/enjoyable it was to read. Of course, I'm still a spelling/grammar nazi, I'm just saying that I'd really like a lot of feedback on how you enjoyed the content itself. Fun game: see how many anime references you can pick out. There's only two or three for this chapter, I think? Unless I accidentally made more that I didn't notice. That happens sometimes. It's primarily going to be updated here on my AO3; however, I'll post the first chapter here (under a spoiler