Eternity RPC Board
12-21-2019, 04:26 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-21-2019, 04:40 AM by Seperallis.)
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The prayer must have worked, because the opponent suffered from a case of good AI: when an opponent does not have a super-effective move, has quick attack, and you outspeed them, they are inclined to use quick attack. Lil' Ratto withstood the first quick attack and was hurting bad from the second, but two hard-hitting hyper fangs of his own turned the battle into a brutal brawl. Badly bloodied, he resisted the switch-in temptation as a point of pride, and launched a final quick attack into my heart and the Raticate’s face to win the battle.
The rest of the trek into Celadon City passed quietly, adding Big Boss the ekans to our group of intrepid heroes before stomping WHAT’s face. The boy thought an Abra could battle. How is this idiot my rival.
After passing a string of some pretty nice but not unwinnable battles on the Nugget Bridge north of town, BOI gleefully attempted to find an Abra but was cockblocked by Onion the oddish instead; we will love it all the same, just not nearly as much as an Abra.
Passing on our way to Bill’s house, a second attempt at an Abra was made and ended in a failure to locate one, before passing through a battle with a Slowpoke that got far too close to beating Patrick and on to snag a cruise ship ticket from Bill, the region’s most famous furry. After a short stint to get some levels for Trap by depopulating the local wildlife and being taunted by nests of Abra who had come to say hello now that he was bound by law to not catch them, BOI made his way to the Cerulean City gym to get his second badge and move along.
Patrick, of course, handled this gym as well, troubled only by a persistent Goldeen whose critical Peck sent him for an emergency trip to the PokeCenter on very low HP. With a quick trip and recovery, however, he was back in fighting shape to earn the Cascade Badge in an easy no-contest win over Misty. Finally free to head south for Vermillion City, BOI snagged Peanut the mankey from outside the daycare before being reminded that one of Gen. 1’s glaring design flaws exist.
I had forgotten, and relearned at this point, that your item bag could only carry up to 20 different kinds of items...an oddly arbitrary number to be sure, and one that felt impossibly small as that limit includes all items: pokeballs, potions, TMs, even your town map and bicycle et al are counted against this limit. After an annoyed trip back to Cerulean City to sort out his items, BOI blasted through the trainers and duplicate wild pokemon battles to arrive in Vermillion City.
Before facing the electric gym in Vermillion, we have to get HM01 from the cruise ship in port, to learn “Cut.” Before that, however, I felt a trip to the nearby Diglett cave was in order to pick up everyone’s favorite meme. Manfred the diglett said hello to the party, and we proceeded to wander about for a bit before encountering a level 29 Dugtrio. While running would certainly have been the more prudent option, it is a rare trainer who can resist that sweet EXP, and so with judicious switching between Birb and Patrick to play around those dangerous “dig” attacks, a critical scratch nearly finished Patrick (again!) before the beast was finally brought down.
And then BOI ran into a level 31 Dugtrio and decided that was enough excitement for one day.
Back in town and all healed up, our intrepid heroes boarded the S.S. Anne, battling through the pokemon and pocketbooks of the trainers on board. Along the way, Trap revealed his Final Form™ and evolved into Gyarados and proceeded to murder the entire boat like only a vengeful sea dragon can.
The prayer must have worked, because the opponent suffered from a case of good AI: when an opponent does not have a super-effective move, has quick attack, and you outspeed them, they are inclined to use quick attack. Lil' Ratto withstood the first quick attack and was hurting bad from the second, but two hard-hitting hyper fangs of his own turned the battle into a brutal brawl. Badly bloodied, he resisted the switch-in temptation as a point of pride, and launched a final quick attack into my heart and the Raticate’s face to win the battle.
The rest of the trek into Celadon City passed quietly, adding Big Boss the ekans to our group of intrepid heroes before stomping WHAT’s face. The boy thought an Abra could battle. How is this idiot my rival.
After passing a string of some pretty nice but not unwinnable battles on the Nugget Bridge north of town, BOI gleefully attempted to find an Abra but was cockblocked by Onion the oddish instead; we will love it all the same, just not nearly as much as an Abra.
Passing on our way to Bill’s house, a second attempt at an Abra was made and ended in a failure to locate one, before passing through a battle with a Slowpoke that got far too close to beating Patrick and on to snag a cruise ship ticket from Bill, the region’s most famous furry. After a short stint to get some levels for Trap by depopulating the local wildlife and being taunted by nests of Abra who had come to say hello now that he was bound by law to not catch them, BOI made his way to the Cerulean City gym to get his second badge and move along.
Patrick, of course, handled this gym as well, troubled only by a persistent Goldeen whose critical Peck sent him for an emergency trip to the PokeCenter on very low HP. With a quick trip and recovery, however, he was back in fighting shape to earn the Cascade Badge in an easy no-contest win over Misty. Finally free to head south for Vermillion City, BOI snagged Peanut the mankey from outside the daycare before being reminded that one of Gen. 1’s glaring design flaws exist.
I had forgotten, and relearned at this point, that your item bag could only carry up to 20 different kinds of items...an oddly arbitrary number to be sure, and one that felt impossibly small as that limit includes all items: pokeballs, potions, TMs, even your town map and bicycle et al are counted against this limit. After an annoyed trip back to Cerulean City to sort out his items, BOI blasted through the trainers and duplicate wild pokemon battles to arrive in Vermillion City.
Before facing the electric gym in Vermillion, we have to get HM01 from the cruise ship in port, to learn “Cut.” Before that, however, I felt a trip to the nearby Diglett cave was in order to pick up everyone’s favorite meme. Manfred the diglett said hello to the party, and we proceeded to wander about for a bit before encountering a level 29 Dugtrio. While running would certainly have been the more prudent option, it is a rare trainer who can resist that sweet EXP, and so with judicious switching between Birb and Patrick to play around those dangerous “dig” attacks, a critical scratch nearly finished Patrick (again!) before the beast was finally brought down.
And then BOI ran into a level 31 Dugtrio and decided that was enough excitement for one day.
Back in town and all healed up, our intrepid heroes boarded the S.S. Anne, battling through the pokemon and pocketbooks of the trainers on board. Along the way, Trap revealed his Final Form™ and evolved into Gyarados and proceeded to murder the entire boat like only a vengeful sea dragon can.