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[Heron TSG]

Spoiler: A bit of foreshadowing (click to show/hide)

Yes, I am taking a long time on this next set of updates. Yes, I am having a blast doing so. Yes, that is a sword.

I'd post the rest of the update but I'm only half way through the actual dialogue part and I need to get some sleep tonight. Or morning, if you want to get technical.

[Heron TSG]

For added Fun^tm, there will be no map of this area. Instead, you get all the suspense!

Spoiler: Jungle Hijinks (click to show/hide)

When we last saw our hero, he was about to plunge into the leafy darkness of Petalburg Woods, a land of fearsome creatures and evil repute. His Pokemon were ready. His body was ready. His enemies were not.

Enter the Nightmare

Upon entering the forest, CONAN noticed that there was a dead end on the right. CONAN figured that there would be a trap set in such a place, so he charged in to slay the cowardly fools who had tried to trick him. He was met with no resistance save for some litter, which helpfully turned out to be a Great Ball. CONAN had forgotten to even get any Pokeballs in Petalburg, so it was a welcome find. Taking the Western path from that intersection led to the real trap; Bug Catcher Lyle.

Close Encounters of the Sixth Goddamn Wurmple

Bug Catcher Lyle was a godless heathen of the worst sort. Not only was he terrible at fighting, he abused his country's free healthcare beyond anything that should be legal. In battle, his strategy is to wear down his enemy by sending out a half-dozen Wurmples that (might) poison the foe and try to survive until their opponent faints. When all of his Pokemon had died, he would just walk back to Petalburg and get them fixed up to do the same thing again. When battle was joined, Meroveg tore asunder four of the putrid worms in quick succession, ignoring the pain of their poisonous stings. When the battle rage left him, though, Meroveg had to retreat before the poison overtook him. Hrothgar replaced him and pecked another Wurmple in half before it could even move. Boudica crushed the last one's mind until it knew that its master had done evil, and it fled into the woods. In an attempt to save his new land's health care system, CONAN used his sword to cleave Lyle himself asunder with one mighty blow.

Battle is joined

North of the battle, CONAN found a Slakoth hiding in the underbrush. While it loafed about, CONAN captured it with his lone great ball. The lazy beast hadn't done much, so CONAN was stumped as to what to name this creature. He eventually decided upon the name Gerald, after a warrior of no particular note.

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Deeper within the labyrinthine confines of the forest, CONAN came upon a fat and chronically confused businessman, the type that would never survive the frozen northlands alone. Before CONAN could drive him out of this land, the land of danger and manliness, a mysterious man clad in red leapt from a tree. Fists raised, he rounded upon the befuddled salesman with madness in his eyes.

Mystery Man: Hey! I saw you come into this forest, and I know who you are! Hand over the GOODS!

Befuddled Businessman: Err... I don't know what you're talking about. I'm just here to find some Shroomish, man!

Mystery Man: I know you have it! Don't make me have my Poochyena tear your face off.

Befuddled Businessman: How much is it worth to you? Worth going to jail for murder? Because there's a witness right behind me.

Both the suit-sporting salesman and the crimson-clad criminal whirl towards the South, where CONAN is standing with sword raised, Boudica at his side.

Mystery Man: I don't know who you are, but you'd best get out of here. You can keep a secret, right? I'll pay you good.

CONAN: What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.

Mystery Man: You're no king. You're just a stupid k-

The Mystery Man falls silent as CONAN approaches him, sword bared and eyes blazing with fury.

CONAN: You are a petty thief and a coward. Flee if you wish to live!

The Befuddled Businessman hides in a tree behind CONAN as the Mystery Man draws out a Pokeball, releasing his Poochyena. It is a powerful foe, stronger than all of CONAN's Pokemon save for Hrothgar.

^VS                              

Boudica was deployed first, her mind ready to blast that of the Poochyena into mush. However, there was one thing terribly, terribly wrong. Confusion had no effect! The Poochyena rushed on unhindered, its jaws snapping shut over Boudica's frail body. Seeing that she was critically wounded, CONAN rushed to pull off the Poochyena and save his friend. Hrothgar was sent forth to provide covering fire for CONAN as he pulled Boudica off to the side to bind some of her wounds.

Mystery Man: Dumb mistake, kid.

CONAN: You're a dumb mistake.

Hrothgar's purging flame quickly incinerated the Poochyena, but when the smoke cleared, the Red-Robed Rascal had already escaped.

Befuddled Businessman: Don't tell my boss I was here, okay? You saw nothing.

CONAN: If you do not leave now, you never will.

The businessman quickly fled to the north, presumably towards the metropolis of Rustboro.

Before CONAN could continue onwards, he made camp and tended to Boudica throughout the night, applying a poultice of crushed berries and solid mangrit to her gruesome injuries. When the sun arose, Boudica did not.

Villainous Scum

To the north, Bug Catcher James searched for easy prey. He found none, as his limbs could attest from where they lay across the clearing from his torso. He was no longer too cool for school.

Bug Catcher James

CONAN spotted the gated exit to the forest to the north, and made his way there quickly.

I spy an exit!

CONAN's journey has only just begun, and already the fury of battle has ended too many lives. With another dawn, he will arrive at the gates of Rustboro, a land of steel and rock. In Rustboro lies the first Gym Leader CONAN will face, Roxanne.

Yes, the GOODS are what you think they are, as long as you think that the GOODS are illegal drugs.

Spoiler: Aside (click to show/hide)

That was a pretty dumb mistake there with the ralts/poochyena fiasco. Also, you may care to note that I counted route 104 as two separate routes, one for the side north of Petalburg Woods and one for the southern side. This was entirely unintentional, but who reads the route numbers anyway? And why plop a forest in the middle of a route?

[KaguroDraven]

The pictures! They don't appear! @.@

[Azzuro]

The pictures! They don't appear! @.@

Really? They're showing up just fine on my side.

@Barbarossa: Keep that Slakoth in your team and evolve it to Vigaroth, it's a good attacker.

[IronyOwl]

So did Boudica just get one-shot, or what?

[Cthulhu]

Spoiler: Aside (click to show/hide)

That was a pretty dumb mistake there with the ralts/poochyena fiasco. Also, you may care to note that I counted route 104 as two separate routes, one for the side north of Petalburg Woods and one for the southern side. This was entirely unintentional, but who reads the route numbers anyway? And why plop a forest in the middle of a route?

The first game does this with Viridian Forest too.  Perhaps there's an alternate path that bypasses the forest and that's why its' one route.

[KaguroDraven]

Wait, the first page says Boudica is still alive. ?

[Heron TSG]

So did Boudica just get one-shot, or what?

That's what you think, but it's not over yet!

All will be explained later today in Update 07: The City of Glass and Steel

EDIT: Oh yeah, and none of the game up to Mauville (The third gym) is actually changeable. I need to catch up to myself in updates before I can take suggestions. Unfortunately, I already traded in Gerald for a Makuhita, thinking that it would help against Roxanne.

[IronyOwl]

Quite sad that this died. I'm sure it was a pain to update, but still.

[Heron TSG]

It is lost, but not forgotten. In the shadows, I work quickly and stealthily to obtain writing time. The only problem is time. I am still interested in completing this thread, it's just that college just started and I have finals in my high school classes. I'm averaging two essays a week in addition to the daily work from both schools.

I'll be back.

[Heron TSG]

I can't come back to this game. I can and will, however, attempt this again with Pokemon Black when I acquire it this coming March. It'll be way more fun when I don't know the story, denizens, or geography of the region. Together we shall triumph over the unknown and slay all who oppose us!

[IronyOwl]

Ah well. That should be fun.

[Heron TSG]

It probably stemmed from starting the Let's Play when I was already pretty far into the game. Without participation, there really wasn't much to it. Good practice for later, though. I have actually been working on beating the game, but I know the story too well to make an AAR interesting.

Unova, though. We will have a mighty quest there.

If anybody cares to know, I'm currently training to fight Wallace at the Sootopolis gym, my team mainly consists of water Pokemon from the various sea routes, and things are getting difficult. So far, here's the account.

ROSTER

Spoiler: The Party (click to show/hide)

Menelaus - Level 40 Machoke Cortez - Level 38 Seaking

Boudica - Level 40 Gardevoir Heimdall - Level 39 Sealeo

Thanatos - Level 39 Duskull Asmodeus - Level 38 Gyarados

Spoiler: Storage (click to show/hide)

About half a dozen crappy water types from all the sea routes. A Walrein, a Corsola, a Luvdisc, a Castform, and a Horsea all dwell in here, but none have proven themselves to be mighty warriors yet, and thus get no picture or name.

Spoiler: Graveyard (click to show/hide)

These brave heroes lie here forevermore, slain in glorious battle.

Herakles - Level 12 Wingull Alaric - Level 17 Whismur Perseus - Level 14 Electrike	Krusk - Level 17 Taillow Thorondor - Level 7 Makuhita Beornigar - Level 15 Beautifly	Meroveg - Level 14 Zigzagoon Wulfgar - Level 8 Poochyena Felix - Level 17 Illumise
Thorin - Level 15 Torkoal Vesuvius - Level 18 Numel The Kraken - Level 18 Tentacool	Theodore - Level 18 Spinda Atahualpa - Level 19 Solrock Hrothgar - Level 29 Combusken	Vladimir - Level 15 Wobbuffet Scylla - Level 26 Trapinch Hardrada - Level 26 Manectric
Magnum PI - Level 32 Magneton Mayday - Level 26 Oddish Thorn - Level 22 Lileep	Thor - Level 25 Raichu Starscream - Level 35 Absol Maelrigar - Level 35 Kadabra	Gary - Level 20 Magikarp Earendil - Level 30 Pelipper Okoto - Level 34 Grumpig

So many have fallen, and the hardest path has yet to be tread.

[IronyOwl]

What was that deal with Boudica kind of passing out or something that would be revealed later, anyway?

Also, what killed your Alakhazam and Tentacool?

Finally, why do you have a Magikarp named Gary, why do you have both a Magikarp and a Gyrados, and did you really name a Magikarp Asmodeus.

...

Also, Magnum PI. That's less of a pun than I thought when I first saw it, but I'm still curious what happened there too.

[Heron TSG]

What was that deal with Boudica kind of passing out or something that would be revealed later, anyway?

Also, what killed your Alakhazam and Tentacool?

Finally, why do you have a Magikarp named Gary, why do you have both a Magikarp and a Gyrados, and did you really name a Magikarp Asmodeus.

...

Also, Magnum PI. That's less of a pun than I thought when I first saw it, but I'm still curious what happened there too.

Boudica was at 1 HP and asleep, so it was more of a coma. They were healed in Rustboro.

Tentacool - I forget. It was something stupid, I'm sure. Probably a fight with a grass type.

Kadabra - This was really unfortunate. Maelrigar died during the epic battle between myself and Maxie. He was stuck in battle with Maxie's (dark type) Mightyena, and while he held out for a long while, eventually he fell before Menelaus used Revenge to get revenge.

I caught the Magikarp in Petalburg when I returned to face my father, but it died right before I could evolve it into a GARYdos. The Gyarados has actually saved my ass as of late. I had just beaten Maxie, and most of my good pokemon were dead. I was basically just letting Boudica and Menelaus carry the fights, because none of my other pokemon could do shit. I started fishing in Sootopolis to see if I could get a shiny magikarp, because I had a lot of waiting to do in an airport terminal. I didn't count the magikarp as pokemon, either. It'd ruin the point of fishing. After a couple hundred magikarp, all levels 15-30, I'm attacked by a level 38 shiny Gyarados. Sure, everyone has one from the lake of rage in Johto. But now I have myself a legitimate one. I used my master ball on it, so Groudon was kind of hard to catch. Anyway, it slew Okoto the grumpig before I remembered my master ball, but I had at least put it to sleep.

Magnum PI was the Magnemite I found in New Mauville, and he was kicking ass all the way to Fortree. Flying pokemon and water pokemon died in droves before him. I figured that once I got to the ocean it'd be smooth sailing. He shot from level 18 to 32 in under an hour, and I thought I was prepared for the battle with Winona. Round one, he Thunderbolts their Swellow out of the sky. Round three, their Pelipper chokes on Thunder. Round three, and Winona sends out her Altaria. Unbeknownst to me, Altaria had Earthquake, which was 4x effective against Magnum. It was also faster. Why must the good die young?

If you want to know about any of the others, I'll probably remember. It's been a memorable journey.