Pokemon Y - A Day Is Skipped
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xyzzysqrlYesterday I had a doctor's appointment, which means I didn't actually sleep the night before. Happily, I'm doing pretty well. Blood pressure's coming down and all. I came home from that and went straight to sleep like a brick. Hell, I still feel kind of out of it, but I got a long rest at least.
So what did I do yesterday with regards to Pokemon? NOT A GODDAMN THING okay that's actually a lie because I -did- do some Super Training and Pokemon-Amie (remind me to write a thing on those later, because they're REALLY COOL and I want to explain why) and I did sign up to the Global Link, a website that as far as I can tell has little purpose.
You can play a balloon-popping minigame (which is basically gambling, since every individual balloon has a point value but you aren't told what until the end) and you can look at your medals (Achievements? NINTENDO! REALLY?!) and you can get a coupon for half off any transaction at a clothing store. I will be holding on to THAT until they let me in that one store in Lumiose City that's all "Y'ALL AIN'T FANCY-PANTS ENOUGH FOR US". That's right. I'll buy your clothes ON DISCOUNT. Who's snorting derisively now?
All of that stuff was done with Xao still poised to enter Ambrette Town! So... let's go in.
Okay, let's see... everyone in Ambrette Town is all like "FOSSILS YO" and "Hey did you hear about fossils" and "FOSSILS! DUN DUN DUN" and so on. So I'm ASSUMING this is where I get a fossil pokemon. Also, people in town are just -throwing stuff- at Xao. Like pokeballs (ow stop that) and the "Rock Smash" and "Nature Power" TMs and such. *scratch head* WHY. What did I ever do for these people? Oh well.
Calem and Xao hit up the local Fossil Lab (I KNEW IT) and they are all "You should go to our Glittering Cave dig site!" and Calem is like "Is this plot-related?" and they are like "We're not tripping the next event flag unless you do." and he is like "SIGH. OKAY."
Ease off the metagaming, Calem. That's MY schtick.
So off we go to Route 9, which requires you to mount a Rhyhorn and ride it around. It's plodding but cool, and he can smash rocks with his horn, and of course all the people running the Rhyhorn Rides are estastic about "Grace the famous Rhyhorn Racer". Shame you can't pull child-of-a-celebrity privledge on them.
Catches on Route 9: Catoblepas (Sandile), Copperbell (Helioptile, and is it just me or is this basically a Sgt. Frog character?)
Catches in the Glittering Cave: Zell (Machop), Nora (Kangaskhan)
Down in the very bottom of the Glittering Cave, Xao gets attacked by a dude in a bright orange suit. (I want one.) He calls himself a member of Team Flare, who only care about making themselves happy! Xao clobbers the hell out of his pokemon. As it turns out the place is CRAWLING with them, so there is a general free for all beatdown thanks to our Warrior Cat and eventually Calem, who shows up as well. Once we've driven them off, we're offered a choice of two fossils!
There's the "Sail Fossil", which turns into an ice-beam shooting dinosaur that has a very nice type combination and could potentially be incredibly useful on my team, or there's the "Jaw Fossil" which turns into a T-Rex which would be kinda useless on my team but OMG T-REX.
...
Xao takes the Jaw Fossil. It's too jawsome to leave behind. Getting it reconstituted back in town gives us Tyrunt. I sit and strongly consider a reshuffling of my party for a while. Eventually I bench my starter (Sorbet the Quilladin) and Meteor the Larvitar in favor of the new Tyrunt and Kain the Absol. EXCITING PARTY-SHUFFLING ACTION. We'll try this setup and see how it works out.
After some training, I elect to keep Absol around (he is USEFUL) but not so much Tyrunt. I kinda figured as much. Sigh. I swap him out for an Aerodactyl made from some amber I found in the cave instead, experimentally, and that gels MUCH better. Of course as a friend points out this means my entire lineup is "Heavily Physical Attackers". Azumarill is a bit of a tank, but that's really it.
I'd like to keep a small roster of 'mons leveled for easy swapping in and out, but I'm not sure that's feasible. I'm not the kind of person who's good at things like "planning a team" or "understanding synergy", I just use what I like! So I just train up Kain the Absol and Aerodactyl the Aerodactyl (I need to find the Name Rater dude and get this renamed!) 'til they're at a working level with the rest of my crew, then head off towards town again, through the town aquarium and out down the coastline of Route 8. (Yes, MORE Route 8.)
Great Moments in NPC Dialogue: "I'm getting tired of wearing this swimsuit! I'm going to make this my last battle in it!" ...sure thing, lady! Just... wait 'til I'm out of view before you take it off. Ratings, y'know.
Okay! Cyllage City, where they just HAND me a bicycle. Okay thanks. I'm sure I'll get great use out of this until some jackass kid with a hat wrecks it for me. More importantly, I end up spending like $12,000 pokebucks on new clothing. Oof! But yay! I am pink as hell now! I'll let you all see as soon as I find another photo-op location.
Blah blah here's the Strength HM, blah blah gym leader... okay! The next gym is... Rock-type, and it involves free-climbing on various walls. With no safety ropes. Can I sue this gym if I fall off? Given that my team has a grass/ghost type and a water/fairy type... the Rock Gym is not really a big roadblock for me.
Cliff Badge: Get!
Rock Tomb TM: Get!
Rock Tomb meshes well with Aerodactyl's type, so it goes straight on him. "Strength" is another of those puzzle-solving moves I mentioned, and I seem to be loading Star Marmot down with those, so that goes on her too.
Batteries are low, but again I zipped off and snapped a photo at the nearest Photo Op point.
Behold! I suck at pictures! ...
See you next time as I leave Gym 2 behind. Onward!
So what did I do yesterday with regards to Pokemon? NOT A GODDAMN THING okay that's actually a lie because I -did- do some Super Training and Pokemon-Amie (remind me to write a thing on those later, because they're REALLY COOL and I want to explain why) and I did sign up to the Global Link, a website that as far as I can tell has little purpose.
You can play a balloon-popping minigame (which is basically gambling, since every individual balloon has a point value but you aren't told what until the end) and you can look at your medals (Achievements? NINTENDO! REALLY?!) and you can get a coupon for half off any transaction at a clothing store. I will be holding on to THAT until they let me in that one store in Lumiose City that's all "Y'ALL AIN'T FANCY-PANTS ENOUGH FOR US". That's right. I'll buy your clothes ON DISCOUNT. Who's snorting derisively now?
All of that stuff was done with Xao still poised to enter Ambrette Town! So... let's go in.
Okay, let's see... everyone in Ambrette Town is all like "FOSSILS YO" and "Hey did you hear about fossils" and "FOSSILS! DUN DUN DUN" and so on. So I'm ASSUMING this is where I get a fossil pokemon. Also, people in town are just -throwing stuff- at Xao. Like pokeballs (ow stop that) and the "Rock Smash" and "Nature Power" TMs and such. *scratch head* WHY. What did I ever do for these people? Oh well.
Calem and Xao hit up the local Fossil Lab (I KNEW IT) and they are all "You should go to our Glittering Cave dig site!" and Calem is like "Is this plot-related?" and they are like "We're not tripping the next event flag unless you do." and he is like "SIGH. OKAY."
Ease off the metagaming, Calem. That's MY schtick.
So off we go to Route 9, which requires you to mount a Rhyhorn and ride it around. It's plodding but cool, and he can smash rocks with his horn, and of course all the people running the Rhyhorn Rides are estastic about "Grace the famous Rhyhorn Racer". Shame you can't pull child-of-a-celebrity privledge on them.
Catches on Route 9: Catoblepas (Sandile), Copperbell (Helioptile, and is it just me or is this basically a Sgt. Frog character?)
Catches in the Glittering Cave: Zell (Machop), Nora (Kangaskhan)
Down in the very bottom of the Glittering Cave, Xao gets attacked by a dude in a bright orange suit. (I want one.) He calls himself a member of Team Flare, who only care about making themselves happy! Xao clobbers the hell out of his pokemon. As it turns out the place is CRAWLING with them, so there is a general free for all beatdown thanks to our Warrior Cat and eventually Calem, who shows up as well. Once we've driven them off, we're offered a choice of two fossils!
There's the "Sail Fossil", which turns into an ice-beam shooting dinosaur that has a very nice type combination and could potentially be incredibly useful on my team, or there's the "Jaw Fossil" which turns into a T-Rex which would be kinda useless on my team but OMG T-REX.
...
Xao takes the Jaw Fossil. It's too jawsome to leave behind. Getting it reconstituted back in town gives us Tyrunt. I sit and strongly consider a reshuffling of my party for a while. Eventually I bench my starter (Sorbet the Quilladin) and Meteor the Larvitar in favor of the new Tyrunt and Kain the Absol. EXCITING PARTY-SHUFFLING ACTION. We'll try this setup and see how it works out.
After some training, I elect to keep Absol around (he is USEFUL) but not so much Tyrunt. I kinda figured as much. Sigh. I swap him out for an Aerodactyl made from some amber I found in the cave instead, experimentally, and that gels MUCH better. Of course as a friend points out this means my entire lineup is "Heavily Physical Attackers". Azumarill is a bit of a tank, but that's really it.
I'd like to keep a small roster of 'mons leveled for easy swapping in and out, but I'm not sure that's feasible. I'm not the kind of person who's good at things like "planning a team" or "understanding synergy", I just use what I like! So I just train up Kain the Absol and Aerodactyl the Aerodactyl (I need to find the Name Rater dude and get this renamed!) 'til they're at a working level with the rest of my crew, then head off towards town again, through the town aquarium and out down the coastline of Route 8. (Yes, MORE Route 8.)
Great Moments in NPC Dialogue: "I'm getting tired of wearing this swimsuit! I'm going to make this my last battle in it!" ...sure thing, lady! Just... wait 'til I'm out of view before you take it off. Ratings, y'know.
Okay! Cyllage City, where they just HAND me a bicycle. Okay thanks. I'm sure I'll get great use out of this until some jackass kid with a hat wrecks it for me. More importantly, I end up spending like $12,000 pokebucks on new clothing. Oof! But yay! I am pink as hell now! I'll let you all see as soon as I find another photo-op location.
Blah blah here's the Strength HM, blah blah gym leader... okay! The next gym is... Rock-type, and it involves free-climbing on various walls. With no safety ropes. Can I sue this gym if I fall off? Given that my team has a grass/ghost type and a water/fairy type... the Rock Gym is not really a big roadblock for me.
Cliff Badge: Get!
Rock Tomb TM: Get!
Rock Tomb meshes well with Aerodactyl's type, so it goes straight on him. "Strength" is another of those puzzle-solving moves I mentioned, and I seem to be loading Star Marmot down with those, so that goes on her too.
Batteries are low, but again I zipped off and snapped a photo at the nearest Photo Op point.
Behold! I suck at pictures! ...
See you next time as I leave Gym 2 behind. Onward!
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Date: 2014-02-27 09:53 pm (UTC)Maybe you'll get them all to have useful HMs instead.
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Date: 2017-07-20 02:18 am (UTC)... the 256 Rare Candies I happened to get out of the deal thanks to related inventory integer overflow nonsense absolutely were cheating, though.
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Date: 2014-02-28 12:55 am (UTC)What are they?
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Date: 2014-02-28 01:00 am (UTC)As to what they are... I'll write up something soon.
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