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Day 34
This morning I made good on my promise to the team and retrieved Jasper so they could all play and update him on the current events. I could tell in his expressions that he was extremely surprised by how big Dan and Mickey became since their last play date. I let them all play in the grounds behind the Pokecenter while I explored Fortree and got myself a proper breakfast.
I thought having my secret base be a tree house was a cool idea, but I never figured you could build an entire city that way. The only buildings on the ground were the Pokemon Center, Pokemart (which was also they're grocery store) and the Gym. I suspect they are also the only buildings using electricity in the whole city. Mind you, this is a small city compared to Mauville, more like a town, but for every residence to be in a tree, connected only by suspension bridges and ladders to the ground? They don't even have windows to keep the bugs out. Seriously hardy, natural living folks around here.
I found the secret base guild in a tree house as well and bought a few things for my own tree fort. I also learned from that overly-amiable ranger that I could invite friends and form secret base teams. I declined. What would be the point of a secret base if I told others about it?
Later, I noticed while on the balcony of one tree building that Steven was at the city gates, seemingly in deep thought. He was looking at what I think was a Poke Nav Plus, planning something, and then he left for Route 120. Curious, I returned to the pokemon center with the intention of seeing what he was pursuing.
After retrieving my pokemon I headed onto the route and found some trainers first, including those reporter people. Way too simple a battle. Then I ventured into the tall grass again, though thankfully without any rain. I heard rustling around nearby and carefully zeroed in on it, only to find myself in front of a white-furred feline with a black sickle on its head. My pokedex called it an absol. I called it awesome and sent out Grawl. I could only paralyze it with him though, because absol was Dark type and Grawl was way to strong. Fearing accidental knock out, I swapped for Lucius and tried to carefully weaken the absol. He fought well, and I know he was stronger, but after a few double teams and sword dances, that absol was doing serious damage to Lucius and forcing me to heal often.
For a brief moment I was concerned that absol was trying to kick Lucius out of the team to take his place, after a vicious slash bit Lucius' shoulder and could have hit his throat. I started throwing ultra balls to try and catch the absol before Lucius could be killed. It kept breaking them and I contemplated staling with pokeballs until a timer ball would be viable; by some stroke of mysterious fortune, that first stall pokeball caught the absol. And then I read the pokedex description, and now I am wondering if running into her really was lucky. Because of the prophetic properties of absol, I named her Cassandra, after a story I read in school of a prophet who was never believed. I'm concerned now though that Cassandra is an omen of something terrible coming my way.
Anyway, the rest of the day involved me meeting Steven on the bridge across a large pond, where something invisible apparently blocked the path. He gave me a boxy visor that looked like it came from a low budget sci-fi film, and had me wear it. What was revealed was a once perfectly camouflaged lizard pokemon he called a Kecleon. It lunged at me, revealing itself to normal visual spectrums as it did so. Mickey sensed the danger and immediately popped from his pokeball voluntarily, taking the furious swipes meant for me. I looked to Steven from where I fell on the bridge and he smiled, handing me a small stone and telling me to give it to Mickey. It looked like a mega stone, so I handed it over after Mickey threw the kecleon backwards.
I touched the keystone on my pendant as I did with Latias, and the moment Mickey touched the mega stone it burst with brilliant colors. I felt that adrenaline rush and was in awe when Mickey suddenly towered above my head, arms bulging with muscle till they were thicker than my torso. He was a towering hulk of a pokemon now, and when he used surf he brought a surprising amount of the pond on top of kecleon. It was astoundingly terrifying.
Once the bridge stopped swaying, Mickey reverted back to his normal physique and Steven clapped prodigiously, delighted to see us at our fiercest. I hadn't even known till he handed me that swampertite that Mickey was capable of this! He let me keep the Devon Scope, and we were both surprised when I put the swampertite in my bag to find that meteorite from Mt. Chimney was glowing. We decided to deal with it some other time not in the middle of nowhere, and parted ways.
I ended up using the scope later to defeat another kecleon blocking access to that pond, which had a cavern called the Scorched Slab I wanted to explore. There was nothing there but a few items. I returned to Fortree because Route 120 is a long route and I have a gym to battle. Doing some research on the PokeNav though, I think Dan might really be able to shine with this gym. I'm kind of worried Mickey is getting too much Gym attention, as he and Grawl seem to be the only ones winning me my badges. Dan and I will see if we can spread that commendation to someone else tonight.
And it has to be tonight. I cannot afford to idle, knowing I am close to Mt. Pyre and probably two steps behind Team Aqua, whatever nastiness they are planning now.
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Day 34
This morning I made good on my promise to the team and retrieved Jasper so they could all play and update him on the current events. I could tell in his expressions that he was extremely surprised by how big Dan and Mickey became since their last play date. I let them all play in the grounds behind the Pokecenter while I explored Fortree and got myself a proper breakfast.
I thought having my secret base be a tree house was a cool idea, but I never figured you could build an entire city that way. The only buildings on the ground were the Pokemon Center, Pokemart (which was also they're grocery store) and the Gym. I suspect they are also the only buildings using electricity in the whole city. Mind you, this is a small city compared to Mauville, more like a town, but for every residence to be in a tree, connected only by suspension bridges and ladders to the ground? They don't even have windows to keep the bugs out. Seriously hardy, natural living folks around here.
I found the secret base guild in a tree house as well and bought a few things for my own tree fort. I also learned from that overly-amiable ranger that I could invite friends and form secret base teams. I declined. What would be the point of a secret base if I told others about it?
Later, I noticed while on the balcony of one tree building that Steven was at the city gates, seemingly in deep thought. He was looking at what I think was a Poke Nav Plus, planning something, and then he left for Route 120. Curious, I returned to the pokemon center with the intention of seeing what he was pursuing.
After retrieving my pokemon I headed onto the route and found some trainers first, including those reporter people. Way too simple a battle. Then I ventured into the tall grass again, though thankfully without any rain. I heard rustling around nearby and carefully zeroed in on it, only to find myself in front of a white-furred feline with a black sickle on its head. My pokedex called it an absol. I called it awesome and sent out Grawl. I could only paralyze it with him though, because absol was Dark type and Grawl was way to strong. Fearing accidental knock out, I swapped for Lucius and tried to carefully weaken the absol. He fought well, and I know he was stronger, but after a few double teams and sword dances, that absol was doing serious damage to Lucius and forcing me to heal often.
For a brief moment I was concerned that absol was trying to kick Lucius out of the team to take his place, after a vicious slash bit Lucius' shoulder and could have hit his throat. I started throwing ultra balls to try and catch the absol before Lucius could be killed. It kept breaking them and I contemplated staling with pokeballs until a timer ball would be viable; by some stroke of mysterious fortune, that first stall pokeball caught the absol. And then I read the pokedex description, and now I am wondering if running into her really was lucky. Because of the prophetic properties of absol, I named her Cassandra, after a story I read in school of a prophet who was never believed. I'm concerned now though that Cassandra is an omen of something terrible coming my way.
Anyway, the rest of the day involved me meeting Steven on the bridge across a large pond, where something invisible apparently blocked the path. He gave me a boxy visor that looked like it came from a low budget sci-fi film, and had me wear it. What was revealed was a once perfectly camouflaged lizard pokemon he called a Kecleon. It lunged at me, revealing itself to normal visual spectrums as it did so. Mickey sensed the danger and immediately popped from his pokeball voluntarily, taking the furious swipes meant for me. I looked to Steven from where I fell on the bridge and he smiled, handing me a small stone and telling me to give it to Mickey. It looked like a mega stone, so I handed it over after Mickey threw the kecleon backwards.
I touched the keystone on my pendant as I did with Latias, and the moment Mickey touched the mega stone it burst with brilliant colors. I felt that adrenaline rush and was in awe when Mickey suddenly towered above my head, arms bulging with muscle till they were thicker than my torso. He was a towering hulk of a pokemon now, and when he used surf he brought a surprising amount of the pond on top of kecleon. It was astoundingly terrifying.
Once the bridge stopped swaying, Mickey reverted back to his normal physique and Steven clapped prodigiously, delighted to see us at our fiercest. I hadn't even known till he handed me that swampertite that Mickey was capable of this! He let me keep the Devon Scope, and we were both surprised when I put the swampertite in my bag to find that meteorite from Mt. Chimney was glowing. We decided to deal with it some other time not in the middle of nowhere, and parted ways.
I ended up using the scope later to defeat another kecleon blocking access to that pond, which had a cavern called the Scorched Slab I wanted to explore. There was nothing there but a few items. I returned to Fortree because Route 120 is a long route and I have a gym to battle. Doing some research on the PokeNav though, I think Dan might really be able to shine with this gym. I'm kind of worried Mickey is getting too much Gym attention, as he and Grawl seem to be the only ones winning me my badges. Dan and I will see if we can spread that commendation to someone else tonight.
And it has to be tonight. I cannot afford to idle, knowing I am close to Mt. Pyre and probably two steps behind Team Aqua, whatever nastiness they are planning now.
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