Finally back! I'm a bit backlogged, though; I'm technically done with Day 8, so here's 6, but expect 7 and 8 to be posted soon.
Day 6: Quantum of Safari
• While grinding for what feels like a very long time, Lehnsherr becomes Magneton; I’m a bit excited, I guess because I’ve never bothered to train one before.
• Wendy’s not offering a whole lot right now, but she may prove useful against the Fighting gym here on Cianwood, so I super over-train her into a Pidgeot and give her the Pluck TM.
• Wendy should now easily be able to take on the Fighting gym… yet, I feel a bit sorry for Ellie, who has gotten to do squat for a while now. I let Ellie start off the fight against the gym leader, and low and behold, she destroys him. Turns out spamming Double Team and Focus Punch doesn’t get you anywhere when your enemy (Ellie) knows Magic Leaf.
• Wendy gets to learn Fly, and I finally return to Olivine to explore that lighthouse; it’s filled with trainers, but my team can handle it.
• I find Jasmine, Olivine’s leader, nursing an Ampharos and asking me to go to… Cianwood. I have the strangest feeling that I was kinda supposed to talk to her BEFORE Cianwood.
• After healing Ampharos, it’s battle time with Jasmine, and… she kills Lehnsherr. After I spent so long training him, Lehnsherr got trapped (stupid Magnet Pull ability or whatever) with a Magnemite his same level, which just happened to be luckier on the SuperSonic and was wielding a ThunderBolt. I caught Lehnsherr right before Olivine and didn’t use him against the gym on Cianwood; he died a few yards from his birthplace without beating a single gym Pokémon. This humiliation will not stand; Orm unleashes his full fury, and Jasmine’s precious Magnemites and Steelix go down before they can even touch him.
• Having received a call for the Safari Zone, I head to Cianwood AGAIN to explore a new route.
• There are some tough trainers on this route… Ms Mowz and Kayo, a Krabby I had JUST captured on that route, fall to an Electabuzz (my team was weak; SOMEONE had to die, and Kayo just happened to be the most expendable). RIP Ms Mowz; you served me well.
• I finally make it into the Safari Zone. Finally, some potentially rare and awesome Pokémon! And just in time, because I’m down two members and don’t want to use my box Pokémon. I pay the fee, step inside, walk into the grass, and… RATTATA. What the heck is Rattata doing in here?! What kind of “safari” is this? I don’t even try catching it.
• Disappointed, I think it’s been a terrible day; two and a half losses total. However, I had purposely avoided the grass on the route right in front of the Safari Zone, and now that I decide to walk into it, I find a Tauros. I’ve never trained a Tauros, but I’ve heard that they were all that and a bag of Poffins back in the day, so I catch it and name it Moosssolini. He quickly proves to be a powerhouse.
• I fly, walk, and surf to the new town, Mahogany; along the way, I catch a male Goldeen and name it Nemo. More for the box.
• The townsfolk are apparently having some trouble with the Lake of Rage, so I head north, and on the route leading to it I find and catch a female Flaafy, and Ampharos’ family is my favorite Electric line of Pokémon! I’ve lost valuable Normal and Electric Pokémon and a useless Water Pokémon, but now they’ve been replace with a way better Normal, a more favorited Electric, and an equally useless Water. Things are looking up.
Party
• Ellie – Lv. 32 female Meganium
• Wendy – Lv. 36 female Pidgeot
• Katreena – Lv. 24 female Sudowoodo
• Orm – Lv. 31 male Gyarados
• Moossolini – Lv. 20 male Tauros
• Rachael – Lv. 17 female Flaafy
PC
• Brain – Lv. 17 male Raticate
• Ujelly – Lv. 17 female Tentacool
• Shuckie – Lv. 20 male Shuckle
• Nemo – Lv. 16 male Goldeen
Obituary
• Lehnsherr – Lv. 30 “male” Magneton
• Ms Mowz – Lv. 25 female Raticate
• Kayo – Lv. 17 male Krabby