Tag: Pokemon Silver

Well, here we are again. Back at the beginning… There’s just one last bit of business left before we can close the book on this chapter of our lives…

Previously, on A Series of Terrible Life Choices…

Moments later, inside the Pokemon League… Nice try, Will, but not nice enough. Bartz? Yes, master? Huh. You’re a lot more articulate than your predecessor was. Anywho, finish this loser.

Here we are — locked in with the Elite Four. It would seem that in the world of Pokemon, holding a kid against his will is not frowned upon nearly as much as it is in other civilized societies.

It doesn’t look like any amount of protesting is going to change Clair’s mind; she’s too butthurt to surrender the badge. You’d think top-level gym leaders would have grown out of this kind of pettiness. The townsfolk know about Clair’s defeat, at least, even if she doesn’t.

Back at Mahogany Town, that jerkwad trying to scam us into buying ragecandy is finally gone. What actually caused him to leave? Who knows. All I care about is that he left. And that means we’re on to Route 44, Mahogany to Blackthorn. Where, presumably, the gym is run by a shotgun-wielding biker.

We’re on the scene in less than five. After Elm’s call, all we need is a minute at the PokeCenter, and then Kain flies us to Goldenrod. Rocket is none too pleased to see us. Make me. Have I introduced you to my sea draon here? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Y-yeah, okay. Right. Go on in.

Taking stock on our progress… We have six of the eight badges. The east end of the north road — from Cianwood to Ecruteak — is behind us. Two towns left… and two badges. We find ourselves back at the Lake of Rage, north of Mahogany, where we were thwarted last time.

Every path seems to lead nowhere. I seem to recall a similar point in Pokemon Blue, where the game stops giving you any direction about where you should be going next, and if you happened to miss a critical HM, your only option is to go back and comb the entire game world for it. Which is what we’ve been doing for over a day now, and it hasn’t really gotten us anywhere. Aside from finding Flash (currently useless to us) and a new eevee, we keep coming up empty. Surprisingly, it actually falls within my limited knowledge of Pokemon

We’ve reached an impasse. To my knowledge, we’ve taken every possible road in the earlier areas, barring two: Route 46 and the Dark Cave, both for solid reason. Access at the southern end of Route 46 is blocked by cliffs, and the Dark Cave is — well — dark. We can’t see at all to navigate through it. On the north end of things, we’ve got a branching path — east from Ecruteak stops right at another dark cave (this time, Mt. Mortar) and west goes a little further, but we finally come up against another roadblock after Olivine City,