madf0x

I like Hm items because it means my team doesnt have to bite it on move slots. As is youre basically required to have a water type on your team to at minimum be an hm slave for 3 moves. At least surf is a decent special move and waterfall is a good physical move but then you have hms like cut that are basically useless other than designated pokemon now only has three moves.

I wasnt surprised at all, seemed a bit of an obvious april fools. It was just a small amount of time to figure out how to continue to the real site. It was pretty amusing though.

I doubt that. With the way Essentialls and RMXP is structured to do so would mean either tons of events to complicate the maps and risk even further lag, or to have large cloned maps which may be possible but would likely require a lot of extra work, if only to provide a seamless transition.

I cant find it, Jan said Akuwa town should be after route 4 but it isnt and I havnt found any other locations from looking through the maps.

To be fair anna is psychic and picks up on a lot of things no one else does. So its very well possible she does know Gardevoir from somewhere else but doesnt know why.

Yeah. If you quick save after beating it and send me the save file, I can unstuck you and youll have your litwick.

Need surf, explore Amethyst Cave. The area is a bit buggy though, so you may need to get unstuck after you beat the hidden boss.

The greatest april fools, the status thread is a lie and ep 15 is already done and being released tomorrow.

YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT

It felt pretty good to be on my feet again. The new team overall seemed pretty eager to stretch as well so I figured it was time to explore the local city and dig up some clues. That and the team needed to get stronger. It will take some time before they gain the same caliber as their predecessors. I started with the local Opal Bridge. Some of the trainers there were pretty cocky and taking them down a peg or two was amusing. Not everyone would accept a challenge though. Id just have to come back later and teach them a little respect. Funny thing though, in the corner of the bridge were a couple of hoodlums ready to dump a pachirisu into a toxic lake. Like really? Ive done some things Im not proud of, and Ive done some things Im proud of that I probably shouldn't be but this was just senseless. Justin certainly didnt stand for it and wiped them out. These guys didnt even have a whole team and they wanted to kill a pokemon? Talk about counter productivity. I let the pachirisu go as I had no need of it before I proceeded off to the slums, Peridot Ward. Ah now this place smelled like home. Thugs and the homeless abound. Muggings seemed to be a common occurrence around here but despite that no one had anything of real value. Had to pity them slightly, one guy was so deranged he thought he could shove me inside a sack. You should probably be able to back up your threats if youre going to kidnap strangers but hey what do I know of the business? No one seemed to have the drop on what happened at the train station. Im not entirely sure they even cared. Things were starting to get a bit boring. I heard this place was supposed to be full of super strong trainers but I dont think anyone here would have survived on my streets for long. I was starting to think that I should call it a day when it came to the investigation and scope out the gym when I spotted some green haired weirdo. I destroyed everyone else in the area and this guy exuded cockiness. Normally Id laugh that off but in this area everyone seemed more sad or deranged, so cockiness stood out. He didnt pay much attention to me first, mumbling about getting stood up. When he did notice me he freaked out, not one for paying attention apparently. I told him he needed to practice his unagi more and he told me hes a furry. Thats cool and all if thats your thing but I dont think you should introduce yourself with that line. I caught his name, Herb or some silly plant and we fought. I had to say, at least this guys pokemon werent complete trash. A bit more experienced than my fine friends but sometimes experience cant beat raw talent. Beat the lotad into submission with Verity and then Glados made piecemeal out of the snivy and budew with Icy Wind. Annoyed he resorted to an ad hominem about my lack of badges. Dude, I dont see you flaunting any bling either. Man doesnt know how to take a loss apparently. He ran off and I could have sworn I saw some tears. I chuckled and decided to fix my lack of a badge problem. The Peridot Ward gym was really a power station. It was a bit odd but at least it was functional. As I went to walk inside the preppy bouncy chick from earlier rushed out. I couldnt even get a word in as she rambled off about factories and explosions. She insisted I come with her and ran off. Thats when it dawned on me that she had said it was a Team Meteor that blew up the station and that she found their hideout at a factory. This...was good. Do a little of the B and E, get some sweet cathartic release and pick up some clues as to the exact structure of this team. Seemed like a sound idea to me. I rushed over to the Mosswater Factory where miss bouncy bounce was trying to get in. I was just gunna suggest disabling the lock but she insisted on a more high impact solution. Once the door was down Lettuce Boy strolls up with a stunning green chick. She was cold as ice but I had to dig the monotone vibe. Pulling off the automaton routine wasnt easy. Flo was Cabbage Heads sister apparently but they couldnt be more different. She deduced the situation fairly quickly and we went in as a group. The initial hallway branched off in two directions and Flo suggested we split off into two teams. I liked the tactical approach but unfortunately the girl with a boom fetish called dibs on Flo and I was left with the dweeb brother. Guess sometimes you have to take one for the team, even if you are a team of one. The factory was guarded by teams of two but no one was any good. They relied on door locks for each level, but the computer locks didnt even have a password, talk about dated security. On the second level we ran into second squad staring down a fairly impressive gate. Seemed like whoever ran this joint was holed up inside. This lock actually had some security to it, I figured itd be pretty trivial to bypass it though. Flo however beat me to the chase and got dibs on taking the first crack at it. Hot and a hacker? My kind of lady. The other chick was impatient however and wanted to blow the door down. It was an unnecessary plan but if they kept explosives around here there was a chance I could link it back to a distributor that might know something about Team Meteor. Sure enough they had a crate of the stuff guarded by grunts who went down in a blink of an eye. We returned to the gate and Flo managed to get the door opened. Some weirdo was apparently running this place. Apparently all the weak security was just to slow us down while they wiped any critical data. That seemed silly cause if you had used real security it would have bought even more time to clear the systems properly. Sounded a lot like he was just trying to save some face. I wanted to smash his face in and make him talk but he sicked the goon squad on me. Cauliflower was useless in the fight, the type chart was simply not his friend against a magby. I MAY have also focused down the elekid for the giggles but its not like his help was really needed. I was about to turn on the weirdo when he decided to beat a hasty retreat. I wanted to go after him but some no brains chick thought it was a brilliant idea to rig the explosives mid battle. We had to get the hell out of there and fast, I already blew up once this week and that more than enough for me. We escaped the factory and Flo announced she was going to make her report to Ame. That signaled the time for the group to split up and about time too. One can only take so much Green Beans in one day. After trotting down to the gym and smoking through the plebian trainers there it was time for my gym match. Apparently miss brilliant plans was the gym leader all along, who knew? Finally a tough fight. Sonic boom spam is an absolutely evil idea at low levels and I loved it. We pretty much went toe to toe the whole match until finally it came down to her electrode and Nikolai. Glados already slowed him down with some Icy Winds and so it only took two confusions to take it out. The team took a tougher beating than I thought but I guess thats what happens when you dont feel like practicing before a gym match. To be fair its not like anyone else was remotely a challenge, but it was a good reminder to not get cocky before the next gym match or else getting the badge on the first try again might be a hassle. I left the gym and planned on getting a good nights rest before continuing the investigation but Vicky was waiting for me. Some shady stuff was going down over in the Obsidia Ward and it was likely Team Meteors work. This was very good news for me. Taking out the goons at the factory was fun and all but it was also a dead end. Id check out the Obsidia Ward tomorrow, tonight I needed some rest and needed to take some time to plan some things outs.

Huh, yeah I checked, theres actually another step between route 4 and Akuwa town, but Jan said Akuwa town should be after Route 4 Hmmm :/

No, you chase the box around and theres a room with a gate blocking the way to some stairs. you need the Dull Key to open the gate. The item is located in the Railnet which is much further into the game than you are right now.

Its a pokemon and you wont be able to get it till you get to the Railnet around lvl 30-40 (I cant quite remember what the level cap at that point in the story is). You need an item called a Dull Key.

Im guessing the extrasensory is just because having the two STAB moves is enough, and there just wasnt any better options to increase type coverage.

Thanks for the support so far. Been slightly worried about the protagonist coming off as an angsty gary stu, kinda going for a haughty semi-unreliable narrator. Ill probably have a lot of updates tomorrow simply cause I have the time to do so. Im glad people have liked the backstory because I intend for every update to be like this(might cut back on the team detail update save major changes do to the tediousness of writing up details for all nine pokemon) as I have a story worked out for the rest of the game. Expect it to be sort of an alternate universe story with a less silent protagonist. Some standard characters may be pushed to the background or pulled forward despite their actual actions due to the nature of the narrator. I guess you could almost call this a fanfic based off how my play-through goes.