>Ready your Master Ball. If there's a very strong Eldritch Pokemon here, you can catch and use it. Even if itisn't the all-powerful Quilava that's been chasing you. And by using it, I mean by simply unleashing it on your foes. Chances are that this thing is the only ball around that can permanently contain any sort of powerful Eldritch Pokemon.
The Narrator takes the opportunity for a quick
double-entendre, and would like to inform you that your remaining Ball is indeed ready.
>(A tunnel that leads to route 47!?Does that mean Quilava can find you!?
I haven't played the new games in Johto - only crystal)
OH! I almost posted this without 'use the scanner' DO THAT FIRST!! Then-
I guess read the signpost. Examine it even. Then go north to the ruined cottage to see if anything is salvageable and to make sure the coast is clear. If there's nothing up there that can get you then North is one direction you don't need to worry about.
(the coast is clear right now but I don't like having a tunnel on the west and an ocean on the east. I swear there's danger everywhere screaming "I'M LURKING!")
Route 47, you recall, doesn't lead to the mainland. It leads west to the new Safari Zone – though it isn't exactly new these days, you remember. You might be able to find some very powerful Eldrich Pokémon there; however, to get there, you'd have to pass through Routes 47 and 48, which wind through caves and along narrow one-man paths projecting from clifftops, making them insanely dangerous even without the threat of eldritch attack.
You press the button for the scanner.
Results:
Seventeen (17) Pokémon found!
Six (6) Eldritch Magikarp found!
Four (4) Eldritch Krabby found!
Four (4) Eldritch Kingler found!
Two (2) Eldritch Staryu found!
One (1) Eldritch Corsola found!
The signpost reads:
CIANWOOD CITY
A PORT OF CRASHING WAVES
The only ominous thing about is that someone or something has split it vertically in half with one immensely powerful blow.
You exchange glances with Elm. He shrugs.
"There are a lot of dangerous things out here now," he says – a statement with which you are forced to agree.
"We'd better check the area up north first," you say, taking charge. "Just in case something's waiting there to come down at us after we go into the city and block off our escape to the chopper."
Elm nods approvingly.
"Good thinking."
Othodox is good at thinking, says Vesta helpfully – which, given the number of voices you hear echoing in your head, might not be totally accurate. Oh well; you've never bothered yourself unduly about the voices.
Among the rocks you find a single thing that might be an Eldritch Geodude, massive and craggy, its arms folded tight around its body and its eyes firmly shut. It doesn't respond to you in any way, and Elm comes to the considered opinion that it is probably dead.
"Maybe some water got into it," he said. "It's quite common among those Pokémon that are mostly made of stone – if they don't keep filling the cracks in their bodies, water seeps in and then freezes during winter. Sometimes it bursts them completely, but usually it just fractures an organ and kills them quietly."
You nod wisely, as if you knew this already, and lead Elm across to the ruined cottage.
Here there really is nothing of value to take. It looks like part of the cliff face collapsed at one point, dropping a cascade of boulders down onto the building beneath – something the owners must have known was going to happen at some point, since the cliff is so exposed to rain and wind. You aren't even sure that the Deep Ones got the chance to tear this place apart.
> After exploring the area to the north, carefully head towards Cianwood, making sure to stay away from the Route 47 entrance and the ocean.
> 1) Read signpost
2) Explore ruined cottage
3) Head towards Cianwood
> So we are in Cianwood !!! Firstly check out that signpost. ( i bet the narrator would have left a snakewood-style cryptic message ) Then try to loot whatever is left from that cottage. Lastly try getting to route 47.
You're in two minds about going to Route 47. Some of your voices oppose the idea; some espouse it. Others don't even have an opinion. At any rate, you resolve to explore Cianwood City first. You did come a hell of a long way and through some serious obstacles to get here, after all.
With that in mind, you head south and into the heart of Cianwood. The buildings, by and large, are wrecks, but wrecks that are, impossibly, still standing; whatever (possibly Unown-related) forces is holding time still on the mainland is working here as well, and they are frozen, in some cases, with only one or two crumbling walls still supporting the upper stories.
To the north is the helicopter, the Ruined Cottage and the rocks.
To the east are several ruined houses and the scattered remains of the fish-drying racks.
To the west is the shell of the Gym.
To the south are the wrecks of a house, the pharmacy, and the Pokémon Centre.