Two Days of Nuzlocke

Intro

Okay so... I was lazy yesterday. When I say "lazy" know I really meant "stinking tired" because I was babysitting my nephew from 9:30 AM to 11-ish PM. I did, however, get in a little Nuzlocke-ing while he was napping.

However, since I didn't post my stuff last night, I'm going to go ahead and post it today, followed by today's Nuzlocke adventures. These will be formatted like I did them on separate days, just because I can.

Nuzlocke Challenge, Day Fourteen

The Game: Pokemon Fire Red

The Character: Vera

The Pokemon:

Frankie

Ms.Feather

Kors

Grey Lady

Sleepy

Day 14

My team and I pretty handily beat Erica and the other trainers at the Celadon City Gym. We then headed through Saffron City back to Lavender Town. Once there, we went through Pokemon Tower.

In the Pokemon Tower, I caught a Haunter and named her Grey Lady after the Ravenclaw ghost. We beat the four Team Rocket Grunts easily before being dragged back to Mr. Fuji's house. He gave me a PokeFlute.

My team and I then headed down Route 12 until we encountered the Snorlax blocking our path. I caught the Snorlax and named him Sleepy. He took all of my Great Balls and most of my Pokeballs to capture.

After talking to the Fishing Guru's brother, I received a Super Rod. After that, Zatanna, by Kadabra, was killed by a self-destructing Voltorb. God Damn Selfdestruct. It's a super dumb attack and I hate it!

R.I.P. Zatanna

 That concludes Day Fourteen of my Nuzlocke Challenge.

Nuzlocke Challenge, Day Fifteen

The Game: Pokemon Fire Red

The Character: Vera

The Pokemon:

Frankie

Ms.Feather

Grey Lady

Sleepy

Bri

Knight

Day 15

I started out my day on Route 13. I caught another Oddish and named him Terry. Terry was shortly killed on Route 14 by a Birdkeeper's Pidgey. I cannot express how much I loathe Birdkeepers. There are so dang many on Route 13 and Route 14. Gah!

R.I.P Terry

Kors was killed shortly after Terry was by another Birdkeeper's Doduo. I can't say I'm exactly sad to see him go, because his lack of Accuracy was annoying me to no end, but Kors managed to survive his uselessness to become a valued member of my team.

R.I.P. Kors

Of course, Kors' death came just before I reached the only grass patch on Route 14 and he was the only Pokemon I had that could learn Cut. So, on the first time through, I didn't catch a Pokemon for Route 14.

We continued on to Route 15, where Sleepy killed the very first Venonat we saw. Today was turning out not to be my day. However, we soldiered on through the grass to Fuchsia City.

I wasn't sure what exactly the rules were governing the Safari Zone and the Nuzlocke Challenge, so I sort of made up my own. I figured if I just went through one time and caught as many Pokemon as I could on that one time through, I could keep all of them. I also made it through to the guy who gives you Surf... which I'd completely forgotten about. But anyway, the following Pokemon were caught in the Safari Zone:

Knight

Orion

Jordan

Tripoli

Rockslide

I decided to add Orion and Rockslide to my team and left the others in my Box on the PC. My team and I then headed back to Route 14 where I caught another Oddish. I named her Bri. On the way back to Fuchsia City, Rockslide was killed by another Trainer's Hitmonlee. I replaced him on my team with Bri.

To finish out my day, I ventured into the Fuchsia City Gym. This turned out to be a bad plan because Bri was horribly under leveled for the Gym and everyone else was just slightly under leveled. Either way, I ended up losing Orion to the first Trainer's Hypno we battled. Like I said, today was just not my day.

R.I.P. Orion

Orion was replaced by Knight on my team. I thought it was fitting.

Housekeeping

Tombstones for the last two days will be up on deviantART later tonight. I realized I forgot to do Orion's so... I'm off to do that now.

Love ya, Jessie.

Nuzlocke Day 13

The Game: Pokemon Fire Red
The Character: Vera
The Pokemon:

Frankie

Ms.Feather

Kors

Zatanna

Day 13

Today my team and I ventured into Celadon City. We stopped by the Celadon Department Store to stock up on supplies before heading over to the Rocket Game Corner. We played a couple rounds of slots before I decided it was time to venture into the Rocket Hideout.

While going through the Rocket Hideout, we made many trips between it and the Pokemon Center. On one of these trips I ran out to the house with the Tea Lady, except up the back way. I picked up an Eevee, named him Denny, and then used my Thunderstone to evolve him into Jolteon.

Ivy was killed a few battles later by a very annoying Koffing and its very annoying Selfdestruct. I am extremely pissed that that stupid attack killed my favorite Pokemon!

R.I.P. Ivy

We made our way to Giovanni's lair and pretty handily defeated both his Onix and his Rhyhorn with Frankie's Water Gun. However, while we were battling Giovanni's Kangaskhan, both Denny the Jolteon and Salazar the Arbok were killed by it. We defeated Giovanni and received the Silph Scope before heading back upstairs.

R.I.P. Salazar

R.I.P. Denny

I'm not sure if it's against the rules or not, considering I'd already grabbed an Eevee in Celadon City, but I went ahead and used some of my winnings to buy an Abra. Her name is Zatanna. I just felt weird about going up against Erika later with only three Pokemon... Hell, I might just up and decide to play slots for a while until I earn enough coins to buy a Dratini and whatever else is in the prize shop. Call them rule exceptions or something, since they aren't traded. *shrug* I just don't know.

Love ya, Jessie.

Nuzlocke Challenge - Day 12

The Game: Pokemon Fire Red
The Character: Vera
The Rival: Master
The Pokemon:

Frankie

Ms.Feather

Kors

Salazar

Ivy

Day 12

Instead of heading straight for Pokemon Tower, my team and I headed back up to the Rock Tunnel. The plan was to battle a couple trainers we avoided while running for the Pokemon Center and pick up a few items we skipped in the Rock Tunnel itself. Some of those trainers were Hikers. I hate Hikers. They exclusively have Geodudes, Gravellers, and/or Onix. Do these Hikers not know that I'm trying to train Pokemon other than Frankie?! Yes, I could totally defeat them with my other Pokemon, but it's just quicker to do with Frankie.

Of course once I actually got into the Rock Tunnel, I remembered I'd taught Flash to my deceased Voltorb, Tinman. I decided not to teach Flash to Rimmer, my Gloom, because he's much to useful to be saddled with Flash. So... there went the plan to collect a couple more items from the Rock Tunnel.

Ah, well. To Lavender Town and Pokemon Tower!

You would think, given the nature of the Nuzlocke Challenge and all the Pokemon tombstones I've been drawing, that Pokemon Tower would be more significant. Yeah... not so much. It's another building I can't get through quickly because Running Shoes don't work in there.

Master showed up as we reached the second floor of Pokemon Tower. He had a God Damned Gyarados! I'm incredibly jealous! A liberal application of Poison Powder and Gyarados' confusion thanks to Thrash too care of it quicker than I thought it would. Ms.Feather and Kors did most of the heavy lifting with the rest of Master's team. True to form, Master's Raticate was nowhere to be found and therefore assumed dead.

On the third level of Pokemon Tower, my team and I ran into Channeler Hope. He Ghastly went a murdered Rimmer! OOOOOOOHHHHH! I'm so mad about that! I went ahead and left Pokemon Tower and Lavender Town after that. I decided we'd try Route 8 instead. We need a Silph Scope to complete the Pokemon Tower thing anyway so... off to Celadon City we went.

R.I.P. Rimmer

On Route 8, we added a level 17 Ekans to the team. I named him Salazar. I was slightly disappointed because I'd been hoping to run into a Growlithe.

Kors has become increasingly annoying with his lack of Accuracy. Even when he doesn't have any hits to his Accuracy level, he misses. Make the damn hits already!

Salazar has so far survived to evolve into an Arbok, so that's heartening. Also, once we reached Route 7, we caught a Growlithe! Her name is Ivy and she's just the fluffiest little thing! I'm so excited!

Love ya, Jessie.

Nuzlocke Day Eleven

The Game: Pokemon Fire Red
The Character: Vera
The Pokemon:

Frankie

Ms.Feather

Kors

Rimmer

Day Eleven

Back in the Rock Tunnel, my team and I set out to find the exit. Pretty much right off the bat, both Selene and Tinman were killed. One hit from a Geodude and Mankey respectively. I am extremely disappointed.

R.I.P. Tinman

R.I.P. Selene

We finally made it to Lavender Town after that. Not much else to report this time around. Selene and Tinman's tombstones will be up on my deviantART tomorrow.

Love ya, Jessie.

Annabelle Nuzlocke

Intro

Instead of going for my usual episodes of Batman Beyond last night, I decided to watch Loving Annabelle. I figured I'd review it for you today, in addition to my Nuzlocke Challenge update. Also, please forgive any rambling, I've had a tough evening babysitting my nephew.

Spoiler Warning

If you have not seen Loving Annabelle, please leave the blog and return later. Though I try to keep my reviews as spoiler free as possible, I mostly fail at this task. Be assured that I won't tell you exactly what happened, but I will more than likely spoil a few bits and bobs here and there.

Loving Annabelle - Review

Loving Annabelle is one of those infamous lesbian movies that gets bandied about whenever one goes to look for a lesbian movie. I personally found out about it approximately six years ago. I refrained from watching it, however, because I'd heard it was also one of those lesbian movies where there's not a happy ending. I'm here to report that Loving Annabelle does not, indeed, have a happy ending. However, since I'm a sucker for these boarding school lesbian romances, I liked it.

Annabelle Tillman is the daughter of a senator who is sent to a Catholic boarding school because she caused too much trouble out on her own and got kicked out of two other schools. Simone Bradley is Annabelle's repressed English teacher and dorm-mother. The pair have a torrid, takes the entire film to actually get anywhere, romance. We are also introduced to Kat, Christen, and Collins, who share a room with Annabelle.

Annabelle is your typical rebel student. She has rather 90's streaked hair, a tattoo, tons of necklaces and bracelets, and a special string of Buddhist prayer beads. It's obvious from the outset that Annabelle has a thing for Ms. Bradley. It's also obvious that Annabelle is persistent and will end up getting what she wants.

Ms. Bradley is one of those boarding school teachers who went to school where they teach and just never left. Except that, it's later revealed, Ms. Bradley did leave the school for a while. She had a partner who was decidedly not male. Also, in the movie, she's attempting to date a male teacher from a different school. Something ended up happening with Ms. Bradley's partner that sent her back to the school. I won't say what, as that would spoil it, but that bit doesn't remain a mystery.

A few random things stood out to me in Loving Annabelle. First, Annabelle's prayer beads. At first glance, they looked to me like a rosary. It's later revealed that they're not and she's punished for wearing them. I didn't really understand why that was. They look exactly like a rosary, in fact, Annabelle is made to wear some giant hideous rosaries as punishment. It bugged me.

The second thing that caught my attention was the ending. I've watched several lesbian boarding school movies and not a one seems to have a happy ending. It's like the writers just can conceive of a lesbian couple having a relationship that lasts out side of the narrative... or something. Like lesbians aren't allowed to have happy endings or something. Mind you, this one is slightly different given the teacher/student relationship, but still.

That's essentially all I have to say about Loving Annabelle. Let me know what you think about it in the comments below.

Nuzlocke Challenge

The Game: Pokemon Fire Red

The Character: Vera

The Pokemon:

Frankie

Ms.Feather

Kors

Rimmer

Tinman

Selene

Day Ten

My team and I finished battling the trainers on Route 11 before finding Route 12 blocked by a mysterious sleeping Pokemon. *cough* Snorlax *cough* Though our way was blocked, we journeyed back up to Cerulean City in order to take the detour along Route 9 and 10 and through the Rock Tunnel.

On Route 9 we added an Ekans named Severus to our team. Due to the way I try to keep my Pokemon at the same level and therefore feel the need to build up the levels of any team Pokemon, Severus was killed by a Rattata during training. I honestly didn't want Severus to die this way, it just happened.

R.I.P. Severus

After Severus's death, my team and I battled out way to Route 10. There we met a Voltorb and added it to our team. I've decided that Tinman is a male, though Voltorb are actually genderless. He will be the first to hopefully benefit from a revised training program.

The Rock Tunnel proved to be filled with more Onix that you could shake a stick at. However, the first Pokemon we ran into was a Zubat. Her name is Selene. I only hope she fares better than Tanya did. We ended today's journey just outside the Rock Tunnel, rather than inside it, due to my propensity for Pokemon Centers.

Housekeeping

Due to the current state of a baby sleeping in my bedroom, Severus will not be getting a tombstone posted until tomorrow.

Love ya, Jessie.