Another night, another attempt at the Nuzlocke!
“Our night started out with 20 minutes of training before we both went to fight in the Pewter City Gym. Training went well, Gladiolus learned Vine Whip and got up to level 13. The timer went off, we walked into the gym. The trainer named Liam was first, with a Geodude and a Sandshrew. Geodude went down in a single hit from Gladiolus, and the Sandshrew was down in two. After a quick healing from a Potion it was time for Brock. Like with Liam, Gladiolus and I made quick work of his Geodude and Onix, defeating each of them with a single Vine Whip. A badge and the Rock Tomb TM in hand, we dropped off Maus and Ricardo in the PC for safe keeping as I didn’t think they fit the team very well, and we headed for Route 3. Here Gladiolus and Gale fought valiantly against the many trainers and it was eventually time for the Route 3 encounter. A wild Spearow appeared! Unfortunately for me, a single tackle from the now evolved Gladiolus took it out and that makes a second Route that we failed (but maybe not 😏). Gale also evolved after a bit of training, and the three of us headed into the Pokemon Center on Route 3 right before Mt. Moon. I had forgot! There is a man who would sell us a very expensive Magikarp, but buying Pokemon is allowed in our rules as long as we hadn’t caught anything in that location, so I added Angela the Magikarp to the team! (She’s a nightmare to train). With confidence I next headed into Mt. Moon, excited to catch a Geodude and… it was a Zubat… Now listen, Crobat is a favorite of mine but for this run I was really hoping for that Rock type Pokemon. Oh well, welcome Willem, you’re also hard to train. The five of us cleared the ground floor of Mt. Moon together before we set up camp to wait for Katana. That’s it for tonight!” - Sikká
“Today’s adventure was packed full of surprises, excitement, and unfortunately, sadness, as we bid one of our battling friends goodbye…
Starting out in Pewter town, Sikká and I decided we would give ourselves a set amount of time to train up our pokémon before facing our first gym leader, Brock of the rock type gym! Thankfully, Hamhock fearlessly leading the team with a grassy advantage, Brock was the one between a rock and a hard place. The team got our first badge, and headed out to face a veritable army of bug-catching, shorts-wearing elementary school trainers.
Though the team was not quite ready level-wise for most of these trainer battles, we made sure to take time to heal in-between when we could. Unfortunately, this did not stop tragedy from striking, as the last trainer we faced had a Spearow just 1 level higher than Spacob. He wanted to accept the challenge, but in the end, the enemy Spearow was too fast and we lost our good feathered friend…
But Spacob would want us to carry on.
With a light under our tushies and a fowl-shaped hole in our hearts, we moved on to route 3 to meet a new friend, a Nidoran by the name of Bagel bite, and let me tell you, that bagel can bite. He was a quick train, eagerly taking the lead to train up to his friends’ level and really making a space for himself on the team. Taking a rest at the Poké center to do some journaling with a jelly donut snack, we eventually moved on into our first caves, the eerie Mt. Moon.
For the final catch of the day, we made contact with a local Geodude named Dishwasher, a dandy fellow with a charming smile. Eager to waste no time, Dishwasher showed us to a local spot in the cave no one would find us, and we rested for the night.” - Katana