Nuzlocke Challenge - Day Twenty-Three

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

Frankie - 40

Ms.Feather - 40

Bri - 40

Jordan - 40

Rogan - 40

Bo - 35

Day 23

It's Friday the frigging 13th!

My team and I ventured into the Seafoam Islands cave system today. There was much running about, shoving boulders down holes, battling Zubats, Psyducks, and Seels. The first Pokemon we ran into was a Golbat. I caught her and named her Fala after a character from Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' Demon In My View.

We discovered the Legendary Bird Pokemon Articuno down in the caves, but decided we would leave it alone for the time being. I needed more Ultra Balls while the team needed a bit more training so we flew up to Saffron City. From there we ran through Lavender Town and back down to Fuchsia City, battling other trainers along the way. I did not in the least enjoy trouncing all the bird Pokemon from those damned Birdkeepers this time around.

Restocked and trained up, my team and I hopped on Frankie's back and headed back to the Seafoam Islands. We returned to Articuno's hiding place and poked it with a stick. This prompted a long, drawn out battle with the beautiful creature, during which Knight was brutally cut down by an Ice Beam. At long last and after many Sleep Powder applications and Ultra Balls, I caught Articuno. Because it is a Legendary, I did not nickname it.

R.I.P. Knight

My team and I then flew back to Fuchsia City in order to lay Knight to rest and pick up his replacement, my Snorlax, Bo.

We took a quick little detour up to Celadon City to pick up an Amulet Coin from one of Professor Oak's Aides before heading back to the Seafoam Islands and on to Cinnabar Island. Bo, despite being ten levels beneath Frankie, Ms.Feather, Bri, Jordan, and Rogan, proved that he was well worth the catch by One Hit KOing most of the Pokemon we battled along the way.

Once on Cinnabar Island, my team and I visited the lab there. I met a scientist who took my Helix Fossil in order to reanimate it into an Omastar. I have yet to return for the Pokemon as we headed over to the Pokemon Mansion after a quick fishing break off the Cinnabar Island coast. I caught a Shellder who I named Sarah.

The Pokemon Mansion has so far turned out to be a disappointing annoyance. The first Pokemon we ran into was a Rattata. A Rattata! She could have been a Koffing or a Weezing or even a Growlithe, but no, she had to be a frigging Rattata. I don't really have anything against Rattata, but at this point, I'd have been much happier with a less common Pokemon. Regardless, I did not let Bo kill her and instead caught her. Her name is Teri.

Hopefully, tomorrow's adventures will make the Pokemon Mansion less annoying.

Love ya, Jessie.

Nuzlocke Challenge - Day Twenty-Two

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

Frankie - 39

Ms.Feather - 40

Bri - 39

Knight - 39

Jordan - 39

Rogan - 39

Day 22

Today my team and I took on the rest of the Silph Co. Office Building. We fought a grand total of 11 Team Rocket Grunts, 5 Scientists, and 1 Juggler. Bri, Knight, Jordan, and Rogan finally caught up to Frankie and Ms.Feather's Level 35, which I was really excited about at the time.

Frankie evolved to Blastoise at Level 36. I went ahead and used by Leaf Stone and Moon Stones to evolved Bri, Knight, and Jordan to Vileplume, Nidoking, and Nidoqueen. Ms.Feather evolved to Pidgeot shortly after I'd already evolved the others.

We fought Master, slaughtering his team pretty easily, though his damned Venasaur almost killed us! After that I gained a Lapras from a grateful Silph Co. Scientist. I named her Claire after Claire Bennet from Heroes. It's what I was watching at the time. I also read what the guy said about Team Rocket's Boss completely wrong. I thought he said: "TEAM ROCKET's BOSS went to the bedroom!" What he actually said was "TEAM ROCKET's BOSS went to the boardroom!"

Anyway... my team and I headed into said boardroom and were challenged by Giovanni. We beat him handily enough. Gotta love Surf! And then Silph Co.'s President gave me the Master Ball. Funny story, my first time playing Pokemon, I used the Master Ball on Snorlax.

On to the Saffron City Gym! Yeah... that was amazingly easy. I only took one trip out to the Pokemon Center vs. my usual Gym battles in which I take a trip out after each individual battle. I do have to say though, I hate Sabrina's Alakazam. That thing nearly killed both Bri and Rogan!

After beating the crap out of Sabrina's team, I headed back to Fuchsia City to challenge Koga. The only problem I had there was that stupid, annoying, ridiculous, dumb move: Selfdestruct. I honestly want to strangle anyone who actually uses that move!

So anyway... on to Route 19 and 20 and the Seafoam Islands. I caught a level 5 Tentacool. Named her Gillyweed at the request of my sister. I later ran into a level 34 Tentacool and wanted to bang my head against a wall... and cheat. Which I didn't. Gillyweed was not replaced by a stronger Pokemon. Route 20 yielded a Gyarados! I named him Spike.

I'm essentially treating the outside of the Seafoam Islands as a different section than the caves, just FYI. I went fishing off the coast and ended up with a Horsea. I named her Sea Mist after a G1 Seapony. I thought it was appropriate. If you have no idea what that means, here's a link to the My Little Wiki so you can look it up.

I'm incredibly happy to be growing my batch of Pokemon in my Boxes rather than killing off a few Pokemon every day.

Love ya, Jessie