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I just spent hours shutting down the secret base controlling the radio signal and this huge guy still won't let me pass. He's gotten even more insistent, actually. What have I missed? Am I just stuck here forever? I decide to backtrack a smidge to Ekruteak to see if there's anything I've overlooked.
Oh, there's a whole route to the west. I totally knew that.
The level of enemies here tells me I should have gone this way quite some time ago.
Ah! Death incarnate, we meet again! You're quite a bit weaker than the cow Whitney had in her possession. You should make an easy trophy.
Not a single sweat was broken this day.
Oh ew. I don't think I can even stomach the thought of drinking the milk from one of these after that scene back in the Goldenrod gym.
A more fitting nickname has never been given.
[Boxed! And a note from real-life Frez: I realize it's spelled "Lilith" and not "Lillith" as I have it here. I kinda got too lazy to Google it at the time, and now I'm too lazy to rename it.]
Ok, Knabbs, this is ridiculous. The next time you ambush me only to give me a condescending speech and then walk away, I'm going to tackle your stupid beautiful face to the ground and bludgeon it with a rock. You don't want me to do that, right, Knabbs? I don't want me to do it. But you're really giving me no other option. I'm so sorry.
Said condescending speech included the information that the gym leader's in the lighthouse looking after a sick Pokémon and isn't accepting challengers. Ugh. Another problem I'll inevitably have to help out with.
Why me? Why does no one else in this world have a clue of how to fix their own problems? All I see them doing is panicking and blocking the road until yours truly comes along to save the day. I'm so angry, I could smash these rocks. In fact, I will. That'll teach them to just lie on the beach and mock me.
Out of the rubble that my anger has reduced the rocks to crawls a shelled creature with the appearance of yellow Play-Doh. It eyes us silently and without blinking. It doesn't seem to move at all, really. I order Garrison to attack it, but it barely reacts to his powerful barrage of leaves. It latches a tentacle to his face as he goes to inspect it, but he just shakes his head and it slides right off.
This was even easier than it sounds.
Mold? I was fighting a living fungus? No wonder it did barely a thing...
Um, wow. Either the Dex is malfunctioning, or those are the most ridiculous stats I've ever seen. This creature is like a solid diamond in terms of defense. If I can teach it to bring down opponents by way of poison or some other ailment, it'd be an invaluable member of the team. We'll see how this goes.
A man in a seafood restaurant takes one look at me and chucks a disc at my face. He tells me to come back once I've buffed up enough to take him on. Let alone the fact that I'm a kid. There's no reason for me to stay anyway, since there don't appear to be any restaurant staff around.
Also known as my next annoying task to clear just so I can maybe get past a fat man.
My opposition in here is fairly standard - just a lot of sailors and huffy gentlemen that are appalled at the very sight of me. For some reason, every floor has a giant gaping hole in it that a person could easily fall through. Lawsuits? Yes.
Lo and true to Knabbs' word, the gym leader is here taking care of a yellow striped lizard with flippers. It's really pathetic that as a leader, she has no one to look after the creature while she goes and gets the medicine for it herself. If the sight of it struggling to breathe did not evoke pity in me, I'd have just left her here for her insolence.
Of course, I have to trek all the way to an island across the sea. I can already feel the jellyfish swarming me.
Well, it's not like this is disorienting or anything.
What's this? A manta ray with some kind of fish attached to it? That effectively means two Pokémon in one...
Behold, for I am the master of capture!
Ignore the apparent gender change! Do you really think I, Frez, would try to con you by showing the capture of a different Mantine from the first? Do you honestly believe I might have accidentally killed it and then went searching for another? Ha! No chance!
That's a Remoraid attached to it, I guess, but I can't seem to pry it off no matter how I try.
Caught at the brink of death.
Save your applause, folks. You'd have no hands left if you gave me all the applause I deserve.
[Boxed!]
Land! Ah, the glorious smell of sand and civilization. And... sweat? What is this place? I fear it's nothing good...
NEXT TIME: Frez fights an overweight shirtless man! Lord save us all!
Muahahaha, you have an evil-incarnate death-cow! Your team is really growing :P The mold is rather entertaining o,O Those defensive stats are amazing o.o Knabbs is oblibvious to the danger he is in concerning you, otherwise he would make you his bestestester friend forever!
ReplyDeleteI am constantly annoyed by the fact that people simply can't solve their own problems o.o especially when they are really simple things >.< it's like your job is just to help people with EVERYTHING. Kinda makes things less "epic" if you think about it... "Hey, we need you to fix our power-source" "Hey, find my spoon" "Hey, while you're at it, fix the world, cuz it's broken!" you know?