Playthrough Another Nuzlocke - Pokémon Emerald

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Session #11:

Into the Wastes​

Spoiler

Pfft. Water Cycle. What about the Land Cycle? Where land is evaporated and rains from the sky.
I walk out of the gym looking side to side for that TM when I bump into May once again. She congratulates me on the badge collection and hands me the Go-Goggles as a reward. Excited that I can finally enter the hellish wastes of the east I move on down to Route 110.

I hoped to bag a Trapinch when I entered the Mirage Tower but instead I found a Sandshrew. It was caught and to my surprise it was holding a Quick Claw and named _______. Following my good fortune I found a Baltoy in the sandstorm and named it DNA because I want a Claydol in my final party. With the right bike and destroying every trainer's dreams I ascended the Mirage Tower to arrive before two fossils. After some careful deliberation I decided to take the Claw fossil for some hot Armaldo action. As soon as it was stolen from the tower's grasp a large boot on a stick kicked me from the summit and the tower disappeared, along with the other fossil, into the sands. After these events I got the urge that everyone else did when playing this game

"Time to fight my dad!"

I dance back towards where my adventure first started, through the woods and into civilization. Not knowing what to expect I entered the gym, after healing and stocking potions, with bated breath. First of all I entered the left room oblivious to the speed sign on the door. There I meet a trainer with a Swellow and DNA took it down pretty quickly with Rock Tomb. I studied the next signs. "Strength Room" uh-huh...and the other? "O-HKO Room" HAHA NOPE! BACK TO THE STRENGTH ROOM.
There I meet a trainer with a Zangoose and MUSHYMoo , finished the fight with ease. Thirdly the Wigglytuff guarded the Defense room but DNA took down the soon to be fairy type and learned Ancientrock in the process.

Finally I faced my in-game father and 5th gym leader, Norman.

VS

I can't really extend the description of this fight longer than I have.​

MUSHYMoo , Bulk Up x3. MUSHYMoo , Mach Punch x4.
Falling to his knees in utter defeat an anguish, that his own son within a days worth of playtime managed to destroy everything he built up from scratch, he handed me the badge and some kind of stupid tm but while I tried to dig my way out with a spoon Wally's father came in. We walked back to the house and he handed me HM03. I lobbed the disk onto Blimp707's horn thing and swam out the house.

Sparky was close to level 26 so one or two wild battles later we got him to evolve!

 

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Let's play catch up!
Session #11.5

Where am I?​

Spoiler

Pokemon Y is taking up WAY too much of my time. I got a shiny Scraggy though ;D
I wake up with the sun blasting my eyes. It takes a few moments for me to recognize where I am. I'm in the middle of the ocean sitting on Blimp707. My beard is coarse and damp. It has been bleached grey from the salty air. I can pull tiny Remoraid from the side of my trusting Gyarados. I see plots of land on the horizon and people swimming close by. Why they didn't help for the months that I was out is beyond me. I check my trainer card. Still five badges. No new major progress it seems. DNA is now Lv25. Sparky, now a Manectric is Lv27. After reuniting with my friends I pull out my map. Looks like I am in between Dewford and Slateport. Looks like there is nothing to do here so let's shave this rough and head North to the next badge! after grinding

 

[Pineapple X]

Awesome. Thank you for actually continuing this <3

Really looking forward to the next part.

 

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Session #12:

Wattson's Problems​

Spoiler

Mach Punch OP
I break away from the mindless efforts of Masuda Method in Pokemon Y and few fights through the ocean I end up at Mauvile after restocking on goods. I find Wattson in the middle of the town asking for change a young trainer to go into the secret Illuminati-esque sub city basement of New Mauville.

Strange how this secret bunker is in the middle of a small lake under a bicycle path. I doubt that would be good for tourism. Anyhow, the first thing I see is a Voltorb charging right at me so a little Ancient Power to the face from DNA and it's caught. I would have much preferred the Magnemite that came next but that's Nuzlocke. They continue to badger me and I keep killing them hoping to get rid of that tempting Selfdestruction in my bottom right move slot or to evolve as soon as possible. I end up switching the generator off through an uncouth method to say the least and grab the Thunderstone as I am spinning out the building or...city or wherever I am because this is clearly not an underground place like I was promised.

Wattson, still in the middle of the street, thanks me for that minor side quest and with his hobo money buys me the fancy Thunderbolt TM. I teach it to Sparky forgetting that TMs aren't infinite and started making my way to Fortree City.

 

[Pineapple X]

I find Wattson in the middle of the town asking for change a young trainer to go into the secret Illuminati-esque sub city basement of New Mauville.

I laughed at that. Thank you. ^-^ (my friend has an obsession with Illuminati etc. xD)

So glad to see this Nuzlocke back! Really looking forward to the next part.

 

[Delta]

Thanks Pineapple!

Session #13:

Weather Institute​

Spoiler

Gary Married Larry and his Gyarados Parried and Carried 400 Salaries
I step off of the Route 10 to a brawly fisherman lookin' faw eh foight and shortly after I meet Steven. He spouts that general mid game champion meeting stuff at me and I continue to see the first Pokemon of Route 18. A Lv26 Linoone appears from the grass. It tries to Sand-Attack but SmokeyOats' White Smoke laughs it off and I burn its face enough for a Great Ball to add it to my Pokedex. He shall be known as Slinky. I stroll north into Route 119 and dive into the tall grass where I slap an Oddish out of the way.

And there isn't really much to comment on other than an outburst of trainers forced fed my pets experience and stole my Super Potions. But sure enough as I am typing this I see Team Aqua come into view outside a thing. I talk to one of them and he shouts at me for something and tells me not to go into the Weather Institute.

I enter the Weather Institute and naturally, I think nap time. Interesting how these buildings have accommodation right next to where they work. Moving on I saw this as a good opportunity to turn Sparky into the next legendary Pokemon and let him have most of the experience. It's not as though there was much to be had however. A few water types and a Zubat and that was my lot. Thunderbolt took care of everything. It would be nice to get everything to Lv30 by the time I left but Blimp707 seems to be pulling as much weight and sucking up as much experience as it did back when it was a brainless shell of organs. Nevertheless Sparky and DNA were holding the fort down fine and making great use out of their battle time.

Eventually I approach the final thug of the place and brush her aside as easily as I did with the rest. I haven't used sprites in a while because this game isn't very good at pacing itself. Teams that have a lot of weaknesses to a lot of things isn't the best choice of type to pick when you intend to change the entire world's geography against its will. Ah well. Some more ridiculous commotion outside and we nab our Castform. I named it WeathRep in reference to two things* and set off outside.

*10 Points to whoever guesses the obscure one.

What really intrigues me is that the scientist said they have a lot more of them. Yeah thanks I got a weather balloon for my troubles. Grand.

 

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Session #14:

Something About a Forest​

Spoiler

You'd think since I stopped playing Y that I would be able to do more but I just started a new game on Hard in Fire Emblem and it's kickng my ass.
I exit the building and before I could even start making notes May rides up to me and challenges me to a battle. Luckily I just healed and she only has three Pokemon.

VS

Sparky took care of the Slugma and Lombre just fine and SmokeyOats mopped up the Grovyle. That was a lot less tense than the-oh my god HM02.

Scott came up to me but I was too distracted by the blue disk. Though I did catch his description of May after the fight. I liked it when Pokemon games slipped in some subtlety here and then. It's about now I realise that Blimp707 really needs some levels. He is currently seven levels behind Breloom. However sure enough I finnd Fortree City before he even gets to fight and I take a moment to stroll around town.

Have I been to the big shopping place in Hoenn yet? I can't remember. I don't even remember if there is one. After wondering around incredibly poorly designed city, strcuturally and digitally, I find absolutely nothing interesting so I head straight to the Gym. I...can't imagine this being hard.

 

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Session #15:

Athena you're not getting first likes anymore, pick up the pace.​

Spoiler

After finishing the last update I did obtain TM10 from some random person. So this place isn't so bad. Oh wait it's Hidden Power nevermind this town sucks.
I walk down to the gym and oddly I find an invisible barrier. Unable to find a way past it I dive straight into Route 120. I see a Pokeball and stroll to it but another invisible presence is blocking me. Before I knew it I was staring at another damn Oddish. I incinerate its soul (after it poisons me) and continue my investigation.
Further on while running across a bridge I notice Steven so I nope backwards to heal my Pokes before talking to him. He tells me of the invisible objects and shows me the Devon Scope. However I do notice Devon was crudely written over something but I couldn't make it out before a rampaging naked Kecleon ran towards me with a spoon.

As the silhouette passes me I could have sworn it was a shiny but this was not the case. It critted me and turned itself into a fire type at the same time. I switched to Blimp707 for an easy capture. Nicknamed 6IVProtean the Kecleon makes her home in the Glorious PC. I head onwards to see that it's raining and I'm all like "rly gurl?" and moonwalk back through the grass only to see:

Instead of an Absol I got an Oddish.​

In my fury I exploded the invisible Kecleon without the need for the "Devon" Scope. And crushed the Pokeball...that contained a...Nest Ball and Halo jumped into the Fortree City gym screaming "WINONA!" as I broke through the roof.

 

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Session #16:

Crikey I Thought I Already Wrote This Update​

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Turns out I deleted the text document. That was a real heated battle worthy of the build up and I can't remember a single turn.
After beating Winona...I guess...I head to the swamp to fight the next. The first Pokemon I find amongst the strangely arranged trainers is another Oddish. This is a new route if I recall correctly but SR is more than good enough for me. May he turn into a beautiful Vielplume some day. Moving on I set the thing ablaze and approach the next set of trainers.

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This guy. This...guy. Good lord. I thought DNA would be fine up front but apparently this Lombre is the king of Lombre. He does a good amount of damage with Nature Power and seems to have an unlimited supply of Full Restores. MUSHymoo , had to step in and take execute control. I almost lost DNA to a normie. Nuzleaf of course proved no problem to the towering...armless Breloom.

Continuing on with no real challenge or excitement I rest up at Lilycove.

...yeah this would have been way better with the Winona fight. Instead you get Baltoy and Breloom vs Lombre. Sorry about that.

 

[Athena]

Oh good, I was afraid you'd forgotten us! I was back to first Like this time, too. I've not yet done a Nuzlocke (debating whether I should do one or some other kind of Playthrough when I get my copy of Platinum for winning the SCC), but I can imagine almost losing a Pokémon to a regular trainer when you're not even expecting a tough battle must be a kind of heart-in-your-throat moment.

 

[Scorched Feathers]

YOU HAVENT FORGOTTEN THIS <3333
The Nuzlockes are returning!

 

[Delta]

Well I suppose it's finally time to put this to rest. It was a good 3-4 months but losing my save file twice really takes it out of me and I'm afraid I'm going to have to stop. Let's just say I fell at the Lombre and Gold fell to the Steelix.

I like writing these so maybe I can pull off another Nuzlocke without some technical issues arising. I'll have to try it some time.

 

[Athena]

Awww, sorry to hear that. :< I can understand how losing your save file would hurt, though. That happened to me the first time I was playing through Chrono Trigger and I ragequit the game for a few years after that. >_> (I did end up going back to it and beating it and it's one of my favourite games, but I still have memories of that save file >:|)