BADGES · Basic
BERRIES · Red x0 · Green x1 · Blue x0
RULES ·
Zombie Dinner
Any Pokémon that can learn any of the following moves must learn it as soon as possible and retain it for the remainder of the run: Bite, Crunch, Any of the Fang attacks (on Pokemon that can learn multiple, only one is required)
Miau wolfs down the lone green berry she finds in her basket, after the picnic she had packed mysteriously disappeared. Still hungry, she eyes the pile of berries, and throws a red berry and a blue berry in her basket, before she wanders off to room 2.
Halloween Treat-or-Treating Challenge
Chapter 3: The Curse
Rules:
-Locke Clause: Any fainted Pokemon for the remainder of the run must be boxed until the completion of the run. You may revive your current party before this rule goes into effect. -Virgins Die First: One NFE Pokemon must be removed from your party, including any single stage Pokémon.
-The Thing: Catch a Ditto, Grimer, Muk, or any of the Goomey line and permanently put it on your team. Plus one Pokémon of your choice is assimilated and must be perma-boxed.
___________________________________________________ Journey Diary:
Spoiler:
Day 3:
In order to find Steven, I headed to Granite Cave again after getting the Knuckle Badge, where a purple slime pokemon took Shroom and assimilated him and stuck to my team.
Granite Cave was dark, and had around two or three more floors; in one of them I found a turtle with a hockey-mask like head, I named her Amelia, sadly she didn't do much. I had no pokemon with Flash at the moment, so I just walked via instinct until I got to another spot of the first floor of the cave. where I found another room where I found Steven. I delivered the letter, and now I had to go to Slateport City to deliver the Devon Goods to Captain Stern.
I salied with Mr. Birney to Slateport City with four pokemon on my team, where I found many trainers lookin for a battle in the beach, I used that opportunity to train Slime who did fairly well. Since many pokemon there were Water Type, Amelia couldn't do much and the one time I tried training her, she was shot to death by a Water Gun Wingull, so I guess I'm cursed to have only three pokemon on my team.
I got to a place named Stern's Shipyard where I thought I could find Captain Stern, but instead I only found a bald guy named Dock who told me Stern was somewhere else in Slateport so I searched in the Oceanic Museum instead. It was infested by Team Aqua members, enough reason for me to think that I was at the right place.
None of the Aqua Grunts in the first floor wanted to battle. In fact, I got a TM from the guy I stopped twice before. In the second floor, I found Captain Stern, and was almost immediately attacked by two team Aqua Grunts, who I stopped without much trouble. I delivered the Devon Goods and made my way to Mauville City.
Outside the museum, Scott (the guy with glasses from Petalburg) asked if I was the one who drove Team Aqua out of the museum, and he was certainly amussed by it, so much that he asked me to register him in my PokéNav.
I found Brendan again at Route 110 in my way to Mauville and he challenged me to yet another battle I won without much effort. I also found Wally in front of Mauville's Gym and challenged me to a shamefully easy battle. After the battle, Scott appeared again and flattered me. I think that guy is following me and is seriously creeping me out.
Wattson's Gym wasn't easy but it wasn't hard either. Houdini took down his first two pokemon. I almost lose Nugget there, though against his Magneton and Manectric, but I was lucky to deliver a critical Ember against the later, making it my third badge. Slime did pretty good as well taking down most of the gym trainers. No pokemon were lost in this gym either.
Slime/Grimer (Male) lvl 25
Ability: Sticky Hold
Moves: Poison Gas, Pound, Minimize, Sludge
___________________________________________________ Lost Pokemon so far:
Schala/Ralts (Female)
Loss cause: Death by health absortion
Cheesecake/Skitty (Female)
Loss cause: Possessed by an ominous force
Shroom/Shroomish (Male)
Loss cause: Assimilated by Slime
Amelia/Aron (Female)
Loss cause: Shot to death
___________________________________________________ Gym Badge Count: 3
Grimer isn't obtainable at this point of the game but at the next segment, so I had to cheat one in. Ditto isn't obtainable until post-game.
I'll get the first berry of the list and of course I'm going down the staircase.
EDIT: Sorry for not pinging you, I'm dead but wanted to get this update out and forgot about pings. I also only now noticed Cubism posted update when I was writing my, but I don't think I have more energy to go to the editing again today.
SUMNER CHANGES NAME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EVENT
And is awarded with another curse for it. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
Sumner got to the section with mysterious staircase. Can he make it down there before the ghost of beauty? There isn't much time to pick berries, so here's only few:
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run. You also encountered special event. The map can change based on your action.
WIZARDOFODD ENTERS THE CEMETERY
WizardOfOdd joins the fun. He picks one of the last baskets and runs inside. He forgot his bag outside the cemetery, but can't return now. He'll have to survive with just this Blue Berry. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
He makes it to the section with a huge hole. He looks inside and see bunch of berries:
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run.
POK3PALS FINDS A SECRET!
Pok3pals is optimistic about getting cursed. It's actually good for your skin, he says. Well, let's see how he reacts to this. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
He finds old structure in this section. The sign next to it says: "Entrance to underground. You must be at least THIS tall to enter". He has no idea what THIS means, but he might go inside. There are berries only few steps in the structure after all:
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run. You also encountered special event. The map can change based on your action.
SOMEONE TELL MIAU SHE'S NOT SUPPOSE TO EAT THE BERRIES, PLEASE
But if she likes the curse flavor, then why not? Picking up two more berries, she can smell new curses appearing. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
She finds herself in the pretty interesting section. Why? Because it has user I forgot to write story fluff for. Otherwise it's pretty boring section with just few graves. And few berries:
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run.
EDIT: Sorry for not pinging you, I'm dead but wanted to get this update out and forgot about pings. I also only now noticed Cubism posted update when I was writing my, but I don't think I have more energy to go to the editing again today.
It's okay. :) One thing, sorry for asking! I can't obtain the TM for Toxic until Aether Paradise, I think, so is it ok to not have the Toxic Pokémon until then? Or should I search for a mon that learns Toxic naturally at an early level?
For a starting rule, this wasn't so bad. All it did was force me to play in set battle style which isn't particularly difficult, and it didn't do anything other than make training Burmy slightly more difficult than it would have been without the rule. Other than that, it has been a fairly standard playthrough at this point.
BADGES · Basic · Toxic
BERRIES · Red x1 · Green x1 · Blue x1
RULES ·
Zombie Dinner
Any Pokémon that can learn any of the following moves must learn it as soon as possible and retain it for the remainder of the run: Bite, Crunch, Any of the Fang attacks (on Pokemon that can learn multiple, only one is required)
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Ocean's Curse
Water, Ice, and Dragon types are now banned from your team, unless they also possess the Ghost or Dark types. HM slaves and Pokemon mandated by another curse are exempt from this rule
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Locke Clause
Any fainted Pokemon for the remainder of the run must be boxed until the completion of the run
Unsure if it's the curse's smell - briny, like the ocean? - or the feeling of impending doom from the graves, Miau is feeling a bit nauseated, but can't resist the temptation of picking a berry. Maybe just one this time, one meager red berry... She then presses onward to room 12.
PARTY
Rom ♂ Lv. 16
Bashful, but likes to fight
Eugenia ♀ Lv. 8
Naive, likes to run (away)
Cursed: Zombie Dinner - Patrat cannot forget the move Bite!
Magic ♂ Lv. 16
Naughty and strong willed
Mentosan ♂ Lv. 5
Serious, yet quick tempered
Cursed: Ocean's Curse - Azurill is now banned from the team!
Halloween Trick-or-Treating in Platinum - Gyms 3/8
Rules:
Spoiler:
Curse of curses - Any Pokémon that can learn Curse must know it for the rest of the game. If your team doesn't have a Pokémon with Curse yet, put a Pokémon that can learn it on your team. It must stay there and know Curse for the rest of the game. Fridge Horror - If your Pokémon cannot resist the cold (i.e. is not taught any Fire-type moves or does not resist Ice through typing or ability), it can no longer use STAB moves in battle. No-Slot Hex - Your maximum party size is reduced by 1 Embargo - You may no longer use items in battle. Plaguespreader - Teach your Pokémon as many Poison-type moves as possible. If you can't teach any move, your Pokémon are infected with a plague and must be permanently put in a quarantine - in the box.
Some plague suddenly hit my pokemon, it must have come from that Bronzor I just caught. There was nothing I could have done to help my team, so I put it in the quarantine. Hopefully they get better. Since I had to basically start over, I backtracked a bit and caught myself a Buizel and an Onix, which I evolved soon after with a Metal Coat that I got from that recently caught Bronzor. After some training I continued on with the story and defeated Fantina. I'll be more careful with adding future team members.
Before I start, I'm going to say that my nicknaming theme here will be songs from Arcaea. However, due to the 10 characters limit of Pokemon names, gotta expect tons of in-game abbreviations despite me referring to them by their full names. 🙃
Spoiler: The rules as of now
Dracula's apprentice: Any Pokémon that can learn any of the HP-draining moves must learn it as soon as possible and retain it for the remainder of the run. (btw I have a question for this one: is it allowed to forget a HP-draining move to make room for another one?)
Aile chose a Treecko whom she nicknamed Fracture Ray. She then had a Pound/Scratch-fest with Brendan's Torchic, got a Pokedex from Professor Birch, met Mr. Dad Norman at Petalburg Gym, helped Wally to catch his first Pokemon, and made her way to Rustboro City. The catchathon ensued with her getting Grievous Lady the Zigzagoon, Babaroque the Lotad, Purgatorium the Ralts, Modelista the Wingull, Singularity the Marill, Chronostasis the Shroomish, and Ignotus the Nincada. And Aile closed this part by beating Roxanne with Modelista (vs Roxanne's first Geodude), Fracture Ray (vs Roxanne's second Geodude), and Chronostasis (vs Roxanne's Nosepass) despite being underleveled.
Spoiler: Aile's squad as of now
Fracture Ray
Spoiler:
Grievous Lady
Spoiler:
Purgatorium
Spoiler:
Chronostasis
Spoiler:
Singularity
Spoiler:
Modelista
Spoiler:
Edit: before I forget, lemme grab the lone red berry and move to room 9.
1. Can't use any items outside of the battle other than TMs
Okay, so i guess there isn't enough pain for me that i choose to finish another hack (jeez me, why the heck would you torture yourself once more). Sooo.. Rutile Ruby is just like other hacks more challenging and difficult than the normal one. And boi papi, that rule stiffs the hell out of me, i mean no items? So i locked out from evolutionary stones and ability capsules? Mamma mia.
So basically i just gather a ragtag group (Well except Ralts, i actually hunted one that hold Gardevoirite) while my Combusken sweep Roxanne, it's still easy cause i have Fighting type moves but for the next one if i don't be able to rebound from this issue with items, i'm toasted.
I'm taking one red berry, it shouldn't be worst than the first one (A Big maybe on this one), moving to room 10
CUBISM IS DOWN
Going down the rabbit hole, Cubism ends in weird cave. That must be a curse! New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
The cave he ended up seems pretty huge. It's so dark he can't see numbers of other sections. He has to decide. Will he go down or use teleport? And since he's supposed to pick some berries, I decided to grant him few:
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Red berries manipulate your team
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run. You also encountered special event. The map can change based on your action.
DUNSPARCE DOESN'T MOVE?
But it's probably my fault for forgetting about him. Sorry! New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
But to make it up, I'll give you a lot of berries to choose from:
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run.
MIAU IS SPOOKED
Miau continues deeper when she notices something is watching her from the bushes. A new curse! New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
She finds old structure in this section. The sign next to it says: "Entrance to underground. You must be at least THIS tall to enter". She has no idea what THIS means, but she might go inside. There are berries only few steps in the structure after all:
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run. You also encountered special event. The map can change based on your action.
KOSTUCHA CAN'T LISTEN TO MUSIC ANYMORE
Why? Because I said so! And get a bird. Why? Because... New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
Anyway, there are few berries. Go get them, tiger. And you also find old structure in this section. The sign next to it says: "Entrance to underground. You must be at least THIS tall to enter". You have no idea what THIS means, but you might go inside.:
Green berries manipulate your movesets
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Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run. You also encountered special event. The map can change based on your action.
SANICHAN IS DROWNING
I'm just kidding, there is no more water for her... New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
But, there are some berries inside :
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run.
WIZARDOFODD GOES DARK
No, not the skin of color. I mean there is new curse for him! New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
But, there are also 3 berries. One of them really special:
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Who knows what will these berries do
Red berries manipulate your team
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run.
Just letting you know my character isn't visible on the map in room 12, though I found my new rule (Spooky Ball). And here I was thinking I shouldn't use Purrloin this time, since I always have one in my team whenever I play gen 5 games.
[edit] Just noticed my character is in room 15, and I don't think I'm supposed to be there, since I was just in room 2.
Halloween Trick-or-Treating in Platinum - Gyms 4/8
Rules:
Spoiler:
Curse of curses - Any Pokémon that can learn Curse must know it for the rest of the game. If your team doesn't have a Pokémon with Curse yet, put a Pokémon that can learn it on your team. It must stay there and know Curse for the rest of the game. Fridge Horror - If your Pokémon cannot resist the cold (i.e. is not taught any Fire-type moves or does not resist Ice through typing or ability), it can no longer use STAB moves in battle. No-Slot Hex - Your maximum party size is reduced by 1 Embargo - You may no longer use items in battle. Plaguespreader - Teach your Pokémon as many Poison-type moves as possible. If you can't teach any move, your Pokémon are infected with a plague and must be permanently put in a quarantine - in the box. BIRDS!!!! - Put a Regional Bird on your team. It doesn't have to be regional bird of your region (Example: Pidgeot can be used outside Kanto). It can only learn Physical and Status Moves. Reversed Record Player - TMs are now banned.
Welp the birds rule means I have to put either Staraptor ot Noctowl on my team, however neither of them learns a fire type move without using a TM, so I'm just picking whatever would a less dead slot. And so I chose Noctowl as it learns Zen Headbutt later and some sweet status moves. I'm just gonna wait a bit until I can switch-train it more easily up to those levels.
Other than that it's going great. I re-caught Ponyta, hopefully that one fares better than the last one. It helped greatly against Maylene but still it wasn't an easy fight. I should probably remake my team, but future rules will probably force me to do it anyway.
Halloween Trick-or-Treating Challenge
Chapter 4: Heat of the Battle
Rules:
-Locke Clause: Any fainted Pokemon for the remainder of the run must be boxed until the completion of the run. You may revive your current party before this rule goes into effect.
-Virgins Die First: One NFE Pokemon must be removed from your party, including any single stage Pokémon.
-The Thing: Catch a Ditto, Grimer, Muk, or any of the Goomey line and permanently put it on your team. Plus one Pokémon of your choice is assimilated and must be perma-boxed.
-You’re a wizard, Harry: You have to put one of the following Pokémon on your team and it must stay there for the rest of the game: Haunter/Gengar, Dusclops/Dusknoir, Banette, Gardevoir, Gallade, Kadabra/Alakazam, Sableye, Grumpig, Solrock, Lunatone, Misdreavus/Mismagius, Gulpin, Relicanth, Dustox, Medicham, Jynx, Chandelure, Reuniclus, Trevenant, Gourgeist, Chimecho.
___________________________________________________ Journey Diary:
Spoiler:
After beating Watson, I took the Rock Smash HM and followed my way to Lavaridge Town, but the entrance to the Cable Car to Mt. Chimney was blocked by some guys in red hoodies who called themselves Team Magma, so I had no choice but go to Fallabour Town, a town covered in volcano ashes. Professor Cozmo lives there, but apparently we was with Team Magma in Meteorite Falls. Weird. I decided to check what was going on with Team Magma, since I, for one, had no idea who they were until now, but something didn't seem right.
There's not much to say about Meteor Falls, it was infested by Solrock and Zubat only and the pokemon one the Route before weren't that great either. I caught a Swablu called Sky, but she fainted later while I was training her. Apparently, Team Magma stole the Professor's Meteorite to awaken something I was going to battle them, but Team Aqua intervened and they escaped to Mt. Chimney.
I rushed with Team Aqua to stop Team Magma, I battled two grunts and Magma Admin Tabitha without any trouble, then the battle with Team Magma Leader Maxie began. Nugget failed a decisive blow and fainted because of that same turn, leaving me with only two pokemon who took care of Maxie without trouble. With Team Magma stopped, Team Aqua fled and I returned the Meteorite to Professor Cozmo, then I caught a Torkoal in Fiery Path to replace Nugget's Fire Power, of course it wouldn't be the same, but the pokemon did pretty good still. After some long grinding, it was time to take on my fourth gym against Passion Burn Flannery. Not much to say about Flannery's gym, it was easy, the only problem was her Torkoal.
Ignoke/Torkoal (Male) lvl. 30
Ability: White Smoke
Moves: Flame Thrower, Protect, Rock Smash, Body Slam I miss-clicked and deleted Curse accidentaly, does that mean I won the challenge?
Slime/Grimer (Male) lvl 30
Ability: Sticky Hold
Moves: Poison Gas, Pound, Screech, Sludge
___________________________________________________ Lost Pokemon so far:
I'm hidding this part in a spoiler bc I don't know how to play and I'm killing more pokemon than I should
Spoiler:
Schala/Ralts (Female)
Loss cause: Death by health absortion
Cheesecake/Skitty (Female)
Loss cause: Possessed by an ominous force
Shroom/Shroomish (Male)
Loss cause: Assimilated by Slime
Amelia/Aron (Female)
Loss cause: Shot to death
Nugget/Combusken (Male)
Loss cause: Died against Maxie
Sky/Swablu (Female)
Loss cause: Unexpected critical hit
Dracula's apprentice: Any Pokémon that can learn any of the HP-draining moves must learn it as soon as possible and retain it for the remainder of the run.
Ocean's Curse: Water, Ice, and Dragon types are now banned from your team, unless they also possess the Ghost or Dark types. HM slaves and Pokemon mandated by another curse are exempt from this rule.
Bidding a goodbye to Singularity, Modelista and Babaroque, Aile decided to take Ignotus out from the PC and do more catchathon while hunting down a random Aqua grunt who stole some stuffs and on her way to Dewford Town, resulting in her getting Nhelv the Taillow, Viyella the Aron, Flyburg the Zubat, and Endroll the Makuhita. At Granite Cave near Dewford Town, she delivered Mr. Stone's mail to Steven while grinding the squad, evolving Fracture Ray into Grovyle in process. And as for the gym, she took Brawly out with the help of Purgatorium (vs Brawly's Machop), Nhelv (vs Brawly's Meditite), and Flyburg (vs Brawly's Makuhita).
Spoiler: Aile's squad as of now
Fracture Ray
Spoiler:
Grievous Lady
Spoiler:
Purgatorium
Spoiler:
Nhelv
Spoiler:
Flyburg
Spoiler:
Ignotus
Spoiler:
Spoiler: The cursed ones
Singularity the Marill (caused by the Ocean's Curse)
Modelista the Wingull (caused by the Ocean's Curse)
Babaroque the Lotad (caused by the Ocean's Curse)
Since I'd like to have one for everything, lemme grab the lone blue berry and move on to room 19.
Sorry, my bad. You're in the right room now. For the berries selection and section description, please see Crunch's part of this post, since he's in the room 12 as well.
KOSTUCHA GOES DOWN
Jumping head first to the structure, he ends up in the weird cave. It's a good way he got all those berries. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
The cave he ended up seems pretty huge. It's so dark he can't see numbers of other sections. He has to decide. Will he go down or use teleport? It looks like someone was already here, so there is only one last berry left:
Red berries manipulate your team
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run. You also encountered special event. The map can change based on your action.
CUBISM HITS THE DEAD END
Cubism continues exploring the cave, but quickly hits dead end. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
There are only 3 teleports, each with a sign saying literally nothing. But! Each of them has berry sticked to them.:
Red berries manipulate your team
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run. You also encountered special event. The map can change based on your action.
11WILDY JOINS THE FUN
But there are no more baskets. Sad, he sits down and cries. Then a mysterious white hand materializes in front of him and gives him white basket. Yes! It even has a Red Berry inside. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
He's inside small section with few graves, urns and berries:
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run.
SANICHAN MUST THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE NOW
Something sinister can happened every moment. Be prepared! New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
There is a grave and a post box in this section. Sanichan looks inside a post box and finds... only one Green Berry. But she also notices weird berry sticked to the grave:
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Who knows what will these berries do
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run.
CRUNCH LOST HIS BACKPACK
But he still has a basket with his berries. He adds another on in and continues. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
Next section is pretty boring to be honest. Just 3 graves and a ghost of another player. And berries:
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run.
W-what? I’m not s-scared... ninjas aren’t afraid of anything! (So excited to do another one of these!)
Name: Superjolt
Trainer Class: Ninja Boy (Gen 4)
Your favourite type of candy: Tatranka (I can’t seem to be able to hover over it, but based on what others posted in their signups it sounds absolutely delicious)
Game: Heart Gold (*subject to change)
Where you want to start (Rooms 1-8): 4
Halloween Trick-or-Treating in Platinum - Gyms 5/8
Rules:
Spoiler:
Curse of curses - Any Pokémon that can learn Curse must know it for the rest of the game. If your team doesn't have a Pokémon with Curse yet, put a Pokémon that can learn it on your team. It must stay there and know Curse for the rest of the game. Fridge Horror - If your Pokémon cannot resist the cold (i.e. is not taught any Fire-type moves or does not resist Ice through typing or ability), it can no longer use STAB moves in battle. No-Slot Hex - Your maximum party size is reduced by 1 Embargo - You may no longer use items in battle. Plaguespreader - Teach your Pokémon as many Poison-type moves as possible. If you can't teach any move, your Pokémon are infected with a plague and must be permanently put in a quarantine - in the box. BIRDS!!!! - Put a Regional Bird on your team. It doesn't have to be regional bird of your region (Example: Pidgeot can be used outside Kanto). It can only learn Physical and Status Moves. Reversed Record Player - TMs are now banned. You’re a wizard, Harry - You have to put one of the following Pokémon on your team and it must stay there for the rest of the game: Haunter/Gengar, Dusclops/Dusknoir, Banette, Gardevoir, Gallade, Kadabra/Alakazam, Sableye, Grumpig, Solrock, Lunatone, Misdreavus/Mismagius, Gulpin, Relicanth, Dustox, Medicham, Jynx, Chandelure, Reuniclus, Trevenant, Gourgeist, Chimecho. Ocean’s Curse - Water, Ice, and Dragon types are now banned from your team, unless they also possess the Ghost or Dark types. HM slaves and Pokemon mandated by another curse are exempt from this rule.
So with the new rules I boxed Floatzel and caught Meditite. The problem is it doesn't really learn non stab moves by level up, (and especially fire type moves) so I backtracked to Wayward Cave to Mira to train it up freely. Once it evolved into Medicham, I continued on to Pastoria City where I could finally free up its moveset with move relearner (I picked up a few Heart Scales in the underground in the meantime). With that Medicham was at pretty high level, so Crasher Wake fell with relative ease.
Well, here we go again. Let's see how many random curses I end up with that throw me to the ghost wolves this time.
Name: BlissyMKW
Trainer Class: Kimono Girl (Gen 2 if possible, but otherwise I'll go for the Gen 4 one)
Your favorite type of candy: Tatranka. From the description, it sounds like I'd like it.
Game: Gold
Where you want to start (Rooms 1-8): 1
So after using a random number generator, I got 2, so we're going blue.
I've started the game with Cyndaquil, named Wisp, which was originally my plan anyway. The forest's curse means i cannot use Bug/Grass/Flying/Poison types, with the exception of the Gastle line because it is a ghost. That takes away the majority of early route pokemon already, but not the one I wanted most! I caught Kappa the Poliwag to help with the first gym. I trained my team up a bit and walked into the gym, struggling with the first gym trainer already.
Then Kappa decided to be awesome and make Falkner's Pidgey and Pidgeotto sleep for the majority of the fight, leading to an easy win.
After the win, I greedily take all the berries as my reward, being unaware of the complications
Rules:
Forest's curse: No Bug/Grass/Flying/Poison types allowed
Team:
Cyndaquil
-Tackle
-Leer
-Smokescreen
Poliwag
-Bubble
-Hypnosis
Question:
If I were to take all berries every time, would that lead to problems with the set-up or in-game? Because I do like a crazy challenge but I do not want to ruin your set-up for this :)
You might end up with no healing or items at all, literal Nuzlocke and probably Ghost Monotype at the same. But I'm fine with you picking everything up.
SUPERJOLT JOINS THE FUN
But he kinda forgets something. Basket and his Pokémon. Well, that's a good start. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
He's in the section with few graves. There are berries all over the ground:
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run.
KOSTUCHA HITS THE DEAD END
Kostucha continues exploring the cave, but quickly hits dead end. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
There are only 3 teleports, each with a sign saying literally nothing. But! Each of them has berry stuck to them.:
Red berries manipulate your team
Blue berries manipulate your gameplay
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run. You also encountered special event. The map can change based on your action.
BLISSYMKW JOINS THE FUN
And brings her ;) own basket. What a weird guy. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
He starts in pretty normal section. It has a special statue with a lever though. Maybe he could push it. But berries are more important:
Red berries manipulate your team
Red berries manipulate your team
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run. You also encountered special event. The map can change based on your action.
WILDY11 STAY ON THE SAME SPOT FOR SOME REASON
Maybe it's because all the curses literally paralyzed him. But who knows. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.
But since he already took all the berries, a generous white hand appeared again and offered him few:
Who knows what will these berries do
Red berries manipulate your team
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Green berries manipulate your movesets
Pick one or more berries to continue. One berry will add one rule to your run.
The Ocean's curse takes Kappa's soul back to the ocean, her body turning into water, only a small puddle remained of poor Kappa... You shall not be forgotten buddy!
Just Wisp and me were left, in need for a new team member we went into the wilds, finding Ghost the Gastly and then Golem the Geodude in the Dark Cave.
We adventured through the union cave without much troubles, but then there was Azalea, completely dark with only some Jack-O-Lanterns lighting the path. We went into the cave, where some people were funnily dressed up and had some fun battles before challenging the gym leader Bugsy. Strangely enough, Cyndaquil did not evolve into Quilava, something strange was going on...
Three Rock Throws later Bugsy was defeated. We also defeated the stranger from before, who seemed to be an actual challenge, but luckily Ghost could sleep his Croconaw for long enough and weaken it for Wisp to finish it off.
Then he vanished and the hand presents 4 more berries, I take all 4, putting the red and green ones in my pocket, but staring at the strange one for longer, trying to figure out what's so special about it. Then I hear a noise behind me and run of scared, into the forest, as much to the north as I can (that'd be room 10 right? Making sure to move now!)
Rules:
Forest's curse: No Bug/Grass/Flying/Poison types allowed
No-slot hex: Max team size of 5
Ocean's curse: No Water/Ice/Dragon types allowed
The curse of eternal youth: No evolutions
Zombie Dinner: Must have a biting move
A quiet place: No sound based moves
Team:
Ghost the Gastly
-Lick
-Hypnosis
-Mean Look
-Spite
Golem the Geodude
-Magnitude
-Rock Throw
-Defense Curl
-Tackle
Wisp the Cyndaquil
-Ember
-Tackle
-Mud-Slap
-Leer
The cursed....
Kappa the Poliwag
Question: There is a rule that requires me to have a biting move on all pokemon that learn one, but this isn't that many in Crystal. Does this rule force me to catch a pokemon with a biting move or should I just go without?
Halloween Trick-or-Treating in Platinum - Gyms 6/8
Rules:
Spoiler:
Curse of curses - Any Pokémon that can learn Curse must know it for the rest of the game. If your team doesn't have a Pokémon with Curse yet, put a Pokémon that can learn it on your team. It must stay there and know Curse for the rest of the game. Fridge Horror - If your Pokémon cannot resist the cold (i.e. is not taught any Fire-type moves or does not resist Ice through typing or ability), it can no longer use STAB moves in battle. No-Slot Hex - Your maximum party size is reduced by 1 Embargo - You may no longer use items in battle. Plaguespreader - Teach your Pokémon as many Poison-type moves as possible. If you can't teach any move, your Pokémon are infected with a plague and must be permanently put in a quarantine - in the box. BIRDS!!!! - Put a Regional Bird on your team. It doesn't have to be regional bird of your region (Example: Pidgeot can be used outside Kanto). It can only learn Physical and Status Moves. Reversed Record Player - TMs are now banned. You’re a wizard, Harry - You have to put one of the following Pokémon on your team and it must stay there for the rest of the game: Haunter/Gengar, Dusclops/Dusknoir, Banette, Gardevoir, Gallade, Kadabra/Alakazam, Sableye, Grumpig, Solrock, Lunatone, Misdreavus/Mismagius, Gulpin, Relicanth, Dustox, Medicham, Jynx, Chandelure, Reuniclus, Trevenant, Gourgeist, Chimecho. Ocean’s Curse - Water, Ice, and Dragon types are now banned from your team, unless they also possess the Ghost or Dark types. HM slaves and Pokemon mandated by another curse are exempt from this rule. Spooky Ball - if there are any Ghost or Dark-type obtainable by this point in your game, catch one now, even if you already have one on your team. This Pokemon cannot be removed from your team, even by the effects of another curse.
WIth the new rule I caught myself a Houndour and boxed Ponyta as I still want to have one free team spot. As usual I trained my new team member and then proceeded to defeat the next gym leader - Byron
I'll take all three berries and go through the green berry teleport (unless it doesn't work like that, then I'll just go with a green berry and its teleport)
Halloween Treat-or-Treating Challenge
Chapter 5: Family Matters
Rules:
-Locke Clause: Any fainted Pokemon for the remainder of the run must be boxed until the completion of the run. You may revive your current party before this rule goes into effect.
-Virgins Die First: One NFE Pokemon must be removed from your party, including any single stage Pokémon.
-The Thing: Catch a Ditto, Grimer, Muk, or any of the Goomey line and permanently put it on your team. Plus one Pokémon of your choice is assimilated and must be perma-boxed.
-You’re a wizard, Harry: You have to put one of the following Pokémon on your team and it must stay there for the rest of the game: Haunter/Gengar, Dusclops/Dusknoir, Banette, Gardevoir, Gallade, Kadabra/Alakazam, Sableye, Grumpig, Solrock, Lunatone, Misdreavus/Mismagius, Gulpin, Relicanth, Dustox, Medicham, Jynx, Chandelure, Reuniclus, Trevenant, Gourgeist, Chimecho.
-Eternal Nightmare: Any Pokemon that becomes Asleep must be boxed for the remainder of the run.
___________________________________________________ Journey Diary:
Spoiler:
After exiting Lavaridge's Gym, Brendan came out from the herb shop and gave me the Go-Goggles to get through the desert. I didn't do much there, just battle some trainers and pick up some items.
I thought that maybe I could battle my dad at this point, so I headed to Petalburg and took his gym's challenge.
The gym was easy but long, since there are a lot of trainers there. The battle against my dad wasn't hard at all except for his Linoone with Belly Drum that almost takes down Ignoke, the Slaking was taken down easily with Ignoke's Protect.