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I can't remember what I did to win, but wouldn't Worry Seed work too to get rid of the Sturdy?

Iirc you need to find her at the beach of Sashila Village, the area right before you enter the abandoned mansion to the south. But I'm not sure what you need to do to trigger that particular event

She should be standing right next to the reception. Straight up when you enter the building.

For Serra specifically, I can only ever recommend Nature Power. You should have the TM already - and on Serra's Mirror Field, it transforms into Mirror Shot, which is boosted on the field to twice its strength. As a Steel attack, Serra's mons are weak to it, AND it has a 100% chance to lower the target's Accuracy , too. One side effect of Mirror Field is how, when a physical attack doesn't hit, it will deal 1/4 of the max HP as damage + lower Accuracy. So like, in general I'd recommend special attacks and Evasion and/or Accuracy boosts. Synthetic seed is also a good option. Iirc I solo'ed this one with my Typhlosion: Nature Power and/or Flamethrower go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Worked like a charm, especially as it was rather fast (fast enough, at least). Also, jsyk: breaking the Mirror Field will cause you to lose 1 relationship point with Serra.

Also in the future: there is the option to skip the Dusknoir/Tangrowth puzzles:

I am SO happy! I made it through the Amethyst Room of Victory Road, the one where Gardevoir's black hole hunts you! Being hunted is my absolute horror and this particular room was what made me drop my first Reborn run, so to have made it really means a lot to me!!!!!! I had to share my success with someone :DDD

I had the exact same issue, Venam just wouldn't leave, at all. At some point I wanted to dive in the Chamber, so I saved before talking to her and went for it. Turns out she disappears in the Chamber, so yeah. Kinda anticlimatic. The Saving Amber Event doesn't trigger after its point has passed (or at least it didn't for me, I'd still rec saving before, lol).

Where exactly do I find the white-striped Basculin? I don't get where "3rd layer"is supposed to be, tbqh

Yeah, the one in the briefcase is the earliest...the second-earliest (and not password-locked one) is available on Route 2, close to the healing star in front of Amethyst Cave

And this is EXACTLY why I DO think Rune getting an android body would be really interesting - if she is "just data", then why is she, as a person, still...well, acting? Thinking? After her body was destroyed? Her mind (soul?? identity?) was basically uploaded to the engine, where she created the Puppet Master. Huey unlocks her and has this tearful meeting with her, getting closure. So unlike Ren, Rune has no body to "return to", because it was destroyed. Does that mean she would be unable to inhabit a body, either android or human? As in, her soul is "forgetting" how to inhabit a limited body? And with Ren, what if something happens to his human "shell", so to speak? Can his body forget to be inhabited by a soul/identity, body decaying? Kinda thinking of a braindeath situation here, as in: if the soul is departed from the body for too long, the body has to be artificially kept alive by machines, otherwise it dies. So yeah, in conclusion, giving Rune an android body would open up a LOT of questions and interesting parallels with Ren's situation. Also with Reina - literally Ren's sister - taking over Rune's role as Huey's sister. ...man, I'm kinda talking myself into writing a fanfic about this, lol.

What, why? I mean, Ren is basically the same - his consciousness (soul??) is hosted by a mechanical body created by Nastasia. Who says she couldn't do the same for Rune, especially seeing as she managed to fix the scrambled eggs of Team Xen Geara? I'd just imagine her having the option to become a person again - that, and I think it would raise a lot of interesting questions that weren't tackled with Ren. Is Ren still a person if he's basically an android? When does being a person start?? Also Nastasia takes over control over his body/him, but is it ever really discussed how this influences him "being Ren", if other people have the option to take over? Dunno, what with Rejuv asking a lot of questions of what makes a person themself/a real person (see: Aelita), I just think having the option of android bodies didn't tackle those enough. With Rune, that would be possible. Iirc both Rune and Huey expressed their regret of Rune just...what, dying? Disappearing? Also, is Rune even dead-dead? Like, is that even stated? Or is she just...well, powered off?

I hope they'll include more ways to fuck up your Karma / get bad Karma. So far, the only Quest that really gives you negative Karma is the one at Fort Rystrine. Other than that, the only way to collect points for the Bad Ending is via just...not doing stuff (Side Quests, choosing the asshole options during talking to characters). Which, I get it, good way to make sure getting the Bad Ending has to be a LOT of conscious choices. Still, putting in a few options that'd give you negative Karma would be cool just to have a bit more leeway re: Side Quests (+ the Karma they grant). Maybe an option to spectacularly fuck up more Side Quests, just like the one at Fort Rystrine? I don't see this working with all Quests, but like...maybe 2-3 more, that would be cool. Plotwise, I hope/dread V.14 will be the Xenpurgis. It's been pointed to and feared by so many characters, and there's quite a bit of hype the Xenpurgis being T H E big ol' battle. Compared to the Terajuma Beatdown(tm), I...lowkey dread the Xenpurgis, lol. Mainly because I agree with @Dausk in thinking there will be people dying. Terajuma cost lives, too (Prof Jenner, Nim and MC (<- in a way)), so that would make sense, imho. However, if the update will be Xenpurgis, I think this would be a HUGE thing. Not just because the devs would have to create two versions (? if Paragon and Renegade split too far), but also, well, this battle will be big, so unless they'll hit the brakes in the middle and have Xenpurgis Pt. 1 and Xenpurgis Pt. 2, this will take time. More time for me to cry over Rune, then. I do think it would be ultra neat if the Paragon/Renegade mirroring would be done to the extreme. As in: in Paragon, Team Xen members (Madelis, Nastasia, Neved) join "our gang" and break off Madame X - and on Renegade, it is us/MC defecting to Team Xen. Which might impact the outcome of the Xenpurgis: with MC, Team Xen wins - and with major key players of Team Xen, "our side" wins. This seems logical to me, because Renegade route has weakened several GDC players (Florin and Talon are dead, Flora has lost support due to the GDC ball bomb, Rhodea has not had Gloria returned to her). On Paragon route, all of them are much stronger (Florin, Talon both alive, the former even a candidate to become mayor; Rhodea is much more positive). If we're talking silly little hopes: man, I wish there was an option to save Rune. I knowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, her body was destroyed, but how about an artificial body where they "download" her consciousness? Which would also bring a lot of moral issues (suddenly having "limits" again, being cut off from the perpetual flow of data, being "a human"). Dunno, I just bawled out my eyes during that part of the game and I wanna save her so bad.

Ah, I don't remember the exact words she said, but basically something along the lines of how Thomas Jr. is adopted and how she briefly considered adopting Thomas Jr. herself. And also something along the lines of how she and Thomas Jr.'s step mom don't really see face to face.

It's important to add the dot after "Thomas Jr", tho, because if not, she won't have to say anything about him

Hello everyone! How does one complete the PokeDex while on Renegade Route?? Certain Pokemon are tied to Side Quests (Mareep, Froakie, etc), which will net you Karma if you complete them? Asking bc I've just done the Lighthouse Side Quest without cashing in rewards so I won't get Karma and instead stay on the Renegade Route. But now Zumi wants to see a Mareep, which, iirc, is only available after cashing in the rewards at the counter, right? So...yeah, no way to get a Mareep, is there? If the issue with the Mareep is true for other Pokemon (like Froakie), how many Pokemon will be available while on Renegade Route?

She's still in exactly the same place as before, I found her with the "old" walkthrough just fine.

I worringly question the whole "Karma lets the Core dissolve" - because what if it doesn't? The AI has been playing (re-)creation of worlds for who-knows-how-long. Variya has programmed certain rules, powers, limitations for Karma to work by - but iirc in Erin's files it does not outright say that one of these rules is "Karma must give humanity free will". Just that it ought to. What if Karma has developed a will of its own and aims to keep its power, basically turning selfish? Can it even turn againt Variya? And, if it comes down to it: MC and Melia have basically kicked the epitome of Space and Time in the butt, but really, will they also need to kick the artificial God of the universe (= Karma) in the butt, too? What if they do that, successfully, and afterwards Arceus is like "'sup, so you've passed my trials, thanks for reviving me, now that All Is Well Again(tm) I'll just pop in and create the free will world you've created, don't mind me :D" ...man, I have SO many questions, for real. I just worry that this won't have a happy end - idk, watched/played too much stuff where the creators basically went "your battles were huge but ultimately absolutely useless and everything is miserable and sad!". Like, I care about the characters in Rejuv, and even though I know they're just a bunch of pixels, I want them to have a happy end.

You'll get a King's Rock at Evergreen Island if you catch "the Emporer" (an Empoleon) at the Spring of Preservation and show it to the grandma living in the house at the island.

Seconded. Mom's Sylveon was an absolute BEAST in both battles. Mine had Moon Blast, Hyper Voice, Calm Mind, Psychic Terrain. Plus the Ability Pixilate.

Having just played thru the game on Paragon Route, I gotta say I'm...well, kinda worried? What I've taken from Erin's files is that basically Karma is an AI that's basically playing in a sandbox and all characters are just toys that can be discarded at will, seeing as Karma can just restart if it does not like things. It cannot control the Interceptor, but it can manipulate them, thus bending them to its will. Point being, I am super ultra worried right now. Because this spells out two ways things can go (imo): 1) Paragon Route Karma has controlled MC to do its bidding, creating its perfect world. There is no free will, because Karma has decided it all. Karma refuses to release this world, as to not ruin the perfect blooming world it has created. All characters are alive - but in a fake world without free will. 2) Renegade Route MC has successfully toppled Karma and fought for Free Will. The perpetual cycle of re-creation of worlds is broken, and for once, a world is allowed to live to its fullest, in all its flaws. Characters died and were used as toys to maintain the old status quo, but those that did surve have free will. And like, maybe I'm just viewing this too damn negative, but either feels like there is no way to win this, as in: having a happy end. Either predetermined yet happy lives - or real yet horrifying lives. Either just feels bad. I'm really kinda worried that things might go this way, because call me childish, but I genuinely do want the Interceptor to have a happy end and to cause a happy end for everyone (...or at least most of them??). I do trust the dev team to continue the story as well-written as it has been so far, don't get me wrong. I just worry that it will be a tragedy (read: sad ends no matter how things go or what we do). Maybe I'm just viewing this too negative or something. But with the stakes being as high as they'd been already (Xen Raid on Terajuma, the Puppet Master, battling Spacea and Tiempa, the looming Xen Raid/Xenpurgis), I'm kinda tense...some optimistic input would be appreciated.

Just keep going with the Main Quest for now - the next part of the main storyline is called ".karma files" and during that, you'll be able to pick up this Side Quest. I literally had the same issue, you can check out my thread regarding that:

Is this after the cook-off at Teila Resort?

Does anyone have an idea what to do when having collected all the kids? The Quest List tells me to collect all five kids, and I did manage to find them - thing is, I'm walking around blindly because even on highest illumination turned tf ON on my laptop, I cannot see ANYTHING, so basically this side quest consists of stumbling around and getting zapped. My current guess is that the lone robot to the right is supposed to do anything and/or respectively blocking the exit. But HOW do I get the thing to move??? I fought it already, no dice, it was standing there afterwards anyways. I reallyreallyreally wanna do the quest tho, because the art is just SO dang cute!

I'm facing the same issue, I think. The darchlight crystals I've interacted with so far are: - at the double bridges, with the crystal being on the left bridge (Vivian attacks the guardians because they want to keep her until she's 20) - the room with the leftover figures (Vivian wonders why these seemingly "useless" figures are kept, she is told that the Admin may see them useful again) - the room where Regirock and two Claydols observe her training (Vivian wonders why she has to train with Pokemon) - the little room with the bonfire and the blue beamer pad and figures of an apple, a Seviper and a Togekiss (Claydol and Regirock discuss how Vivian is showing promise) - the room on the down-left of the bonfire room - consisting of a puzzle - on the right side, there is the display on how the figures need to be placed (Vivian notes she needs to use her Earth Sense to get the placement right) - on the down left of this room, there is another puzzle consisting of a Togekiss, a Seviper, a Greninja (Claydol and Regirock notice that Vivian is beginning to master her Earth Sense) Those six are all I could find. No idea how to proceed.