i removed my last update because, like a genius, i did not save my game. i am... moderately distressed by this since i made a pretty good chunk of progress, but it's okay! i will persevere.
when last i saved, i had caught a marill behind the flower shop who i named beeboo, and i had gotten everyone up to at least level 10. rotund evolved into a beautiful dustox, and beeboo learned water gun. now it was time to grind everyone up for the gym again.
my first route 106 encounter was a nincada. i was very determined not to kill it this time. and i didn't! jamiroquai was added to the party. it took a while, but i did eventually get everyone up to 15. i didn't grind jamiroquai just because i've already got a bug, and i think rotund has him beat. with 11 potions in my bag and a freshly leveled party, it was time once again for the beeboo sweep.
the gym trainers were all one-hit ko's, so it was just time for roxanne. after defeating her two geodudes, he had gotten up to 17, so i was pretty confident. my nerves were rattled by a critical hit with rock tomb, but beeboo made it out okay and saved the day. :)
now to recover the stolen devon GOODS. nothing worse than having your GOODS stolen.
on the way to the cave, crunchwrap leveled up, learned peck, evolved into combusken, and then learned double kick! my little chicken nugget is growing up. :')
i accidentally triggered a double battle with a hiker and a youngster, but crunchwrap and beeboo cleared them out quickly.
Wrrrooooooaaaar! PEEKO!
of course, the first pokemon i ran into was a whismur. welcome to the team, screm.
crunchwrap one hit ko'd the aqua grunt's poochyena, and we retrieved the GOODS and reunited mr. briney and peeko!
we returned the GOODS and made our way to the president of devon corp's office. perpetual errand boy tinyboy has been tasked with delivering a package to the shipyard in slateport, as well as delivering a letter to steven in dewford. in return, we were given the pokenav, so now we have a map! upon leaving the building, i was stopped by a devon corp engineer who installed the match call function onto the pokenav, which allows you to chat with trainers that have been registered. it's not a feature i imagine i'll be using much, but it's still neat.
i was ready to go to mr. briney's place to catch a ride, but i was stopped by may who, of course, wanted a battle. beeboo took care of her torkoal, which allowed crunchwrap to get to level 17 and beeboo to level up to 18. for her mudkip, i sent out killian, who came away completely unscathed. right after the battle, beeboo evolved into azumarill! i love azumarill's design so much, it's such a cutie.
after battling may, i met up with mr. briney, who was more than happy to deliver me to dewford. on the way there, i got a pokenav call from my dad, who was promptly registered as DAD NORMAN, a very normal way to put your dad in your contacts.
after landing safely in dewford, i decided this would be a good place to end the session for today. no deaths so far! yippee!
like the legend of the penis, from the ashes of tinyboy rises tinyboy 2.
like last time, i used a random number generator to determine my starter and ended up with torchic again, so say hello to crunchwrap:
leveled up in route 101, got our obligatory potion in oldale town, then set out to battle may. after successfully defeating her because i overleveled, we headed out to our first real route.
leveled up twice in route 103, learned focus energy.
i tried to catch a level 2 wurmple in route 101 but i accidentally hit run... devastating. could have been an incredible addition to the team.
beat a youngster and then caught a level 4 poochyena who i named killian. would have loved to have run into a ralts, but i'm perfectly happy with a poochyena. :)
got killian up to level 9 to match crunchwrap, then made it to petalburg, home of my favorite interaction:
stocked up on potions, healed up, then sped up my emulator and mashed a until wally's scene ended. dad said i had to go to rustboro, so off i went. i was stopped on my way out by some guy i'd never seen before bc this is my first time through emerald, was very startled lmao.
fought the beach trainers and leveled crunchwrap up to 10. my first encounter in route 104 was a poochyena, so i envoked the duplicate clause and and would have caught my next encounter, which was, unfortunately, a wurmple. more unfortunately, killian ate it for breakfast, so no new pokemon for me. disappointed but not disheartened, i picked a couple of berries and headed into petalburg woods.
my first encounter was another poochyena because apparently i attract them. my second was a cascoon. i wasn't thrilled about it but i'm grateful it wasn't a wurmple. for some reason, i named her rotund.
unfortunately, rotund's only move is harden and she's only level 5, and the prospect of level-grinding her up to 10 was extremely unappealing at the time, so that's where i decided to end the session. shocked that i made it further than the first one, honestly.
so my emulator ate shit and i lost my data;;; i haven't had the heart to start a new save, but i'm going to maybe tonight or tomorrow. i'll miss lil stirfry. :(
so begins tinyboy's big adventure.:⟩ i decided to run the 3rd gen (sapphire specifically) because it's easy to emulate, it's nice to look at, and i know it pretty well. i've never actually completed a nuzlocke because i get too attached and then i decide to just play it as normal. but not this time, because now i'm holding myself publicly accountable online, lmao.
sped through the intro pretty quickly (eternally grateful for the ffwd feature in gba emulators,) talked to may, and went into the tall grass to save prof. elm. i used an rng to determine which starter i'd take, numbering them 1-3 from left to right. i ended up with torchic!
i named him stirfry, after my favorite/least favorite little guy.
grinded up to lv. 8, then made my way to oldale town. got my free potion, got stirfry up to lv. 10, then did the battle with may.
after speeding back to littleroot town, i got through the dialogue with prof. elm to get the pokedex, collected my free pokeballs, snagged the running shoes, and made my way back out to route 102.
my first encounter there was a ralts! of the three pokemon available in that route, i feel like ralts is probably the best option. i caught her and named her bibo. :3
for this session, i pretty much just wanted to get through the introductory parts of the game so i could get my game established and have enough stuff to publish here, so this is where i left off. next, i'm probably going to get bibo up to lv. 10 and then head to petalburg to meet my absent father. fingers crossed i don't goof up and lose anyone before i get to the first gym,,,
i'm going to be using the standard nuzlocke rules as outlined by nick franco, with additional clauses. this list was copied from nuzlocke university.
killian - lvl. 12eaten by data loss:
stirfry - lvl. 10
bibo: lvl. 4