Commiserations and Celebrations

Salutations friends

If you wish to help me commiserate on the year that's past and celebrate the beginning of another trip around then sun then you may wish to join me on the second weekend of august.

At some point further into the future.
Gym party
Josh Hicks is organising this... now to be on the 18th, probably.
$15 per person
1pm after church and stuff.
At some point further into the future.

11th- wonbah winery jazz and shiraz festival

So I finally found something official. So RSVP to me if you like and I can organise a table for ten or just turn up.



More details yet to arrive as they solidify out of the mists of possibility.

and then I got bored partway through the post

So its been a fairly chaotic few weeks. First off nobody wanted to talk to me so I played pokemon by myself for a week, then when I found out Josh couldn’t keep up with me I gave up on that. The school holidays took me by surprise and so when everything I usually do in an evening was in hiatus I had no backup plans. So with Nobody wanting to catchup with me I caught up on Fairy Tale and watched all of the Palmtop Tiger. I really surprised myself at how much I enjoyed a romance/ schoolyard anime.  Aside from enjoying it I could see myself in several places and other people that I know as well, gave me food for thought.
Then Nicole came to visit and broke my facebook. But upon realizing that for nearly a month the only use I had gotten out of facebook was the Technomancers page I really didn’t care. Next week sometime my brothers will arrive for a visit and somebody will have to sleep on the floor.
As for the other third of my days, the crush is mostly under way. Today we will have switched onto NIR payment and that will set the tone for the next five months, though I wont really have a routine until the Juice Analysts have had a go at fibre sampling on shift (will take a fortnight). There have been a few tears, lost jobs and a lot of overtime and mistakes in the lab the last two weeks. Most of us have survived and it shouldne be that messy again until the start of next crush, hopefully we can have a pre-season again. Things run so much smoother when the payment is non-relative and company farmers complain a lot less about missing results.
What else?
Sharing, nope I’ve mostly been a loaner of late
Preparation, I really should sort out my airfairs/ Bodycorp/ Pov-Ray video/ Roraract calendar
Efficiency, cant save any more than I am and I’ve nearly lost patience to buy the car I want
Mental
Physical
Spiritual
Emotional
Recovery
Fun
Shame
Logarithmic multiplications

Frog discovers Teamwork

Kabutops does well out of Surf. Seems any water pokemon can learn the 3 water HM’s
Incidentally, Dragonite: Fly Surf, Strength, Whirlpool, Waterfall. Leaves cut, flash. Dragonite will be a weakling, and force my first 4 to be super strong, but that’s better than going to that waterfall 4 times.

Fly+Flash Hoothoot, Zapdos, togetic, xatu
Fly+Cut: Charizard, farfetch, skarmory
Cut+Flash: entei, raikou, Sunflora, chikorita, Umbreon, Tangela, bellsprout, paras, oddish, Bulbasaur
Well the only non legendary non grass is umbreon. So I’ll pick that for in case I want to actually fight with it.

So I need to get my first 4 to level 50 or thereabouts. Find a Dratini and Umbreon and maybe use ExpShare on Umbreon. But then I’ll have to re-assess my elemental attacks (or lack thereof)

Psychic: True Self, Anoiki Axe
Grass: Anoiki Axe, Mecha Mind
Water: Mecha Mind
Ghost: True Self, Kowai-Sama
Ice: Kowai-Sama
Electric Kowai-Sama
Poison: Flash Cut (will get toxic later)
Dark: ?Flash Cut?

So training isn't to bad, I have some great teamwork going between True Self and Mecha Mind, Almost as though they fight as one.

 We are on Victory road, near the elite four, running in circles till a battle starts.
Mecha Mind uses Surf in slot 1 and Ko's Onyx/Fryhorn/ Graveller. Golbat & Ursaring are a little more difficult. Mecha Mind is equipped with the Lucky egg and True Self picks up the dregs with Exp.Share. Back to the pokecenter with Gigadrain when the PP for surf are gone.

Wow, Mecha Mind surfed all the way through Koga's bugs....

True Self had no trouble putting Brno's fighters to sleep

Karen wiped out Anoiki Axe with one flamethrower

But Mecha Mind's superior Surfing got revenge.

But with Lance Mecha Minds PP are all gone!

Time for some quick sleep talking, wow that's slow.

 So apparently Will was just well built to defeat me.

Lance wasn't so tough, got to my last pokemon but I

could have done much better than that. Winning ;D

Though I'm not quite motivated enough to take a

screenshot of all my champions, so that's it for now.

EDIT: 4 years later

Could not recall my last six and found the save file.

Although it seems most were soely for the purposes of getting places.

 

 

Frog used Struggle, it wasnt verry effective

Well I nearly bought full revives before tackling the 4 But my inventory was full, after I emptied the junk I then forgot. So this is the result of the first bossfight, its a bit different when all the pokemon are the same level. I may need an actual strategy.

My True Self fell to the first attack that hit. Mecha Mind bailed out when faced with the plant type Executor. Kowai-Sama has absolutely no damage output, only health. The last two were knocked over by a stiff breeze. Anoik Axe eventually finished the last 2.5 herself using Confusion and leach seed (mostly the confusion)

Do I really have to grind and level up now? Would it be easier to get a Fire/electric to level 40 or maybe 2 of the ones I have past level 50?

Frog not very happy with HMs

Third trip to this waterfall, first I thought I had the wrong pokemon.
Then I realised I had forgot to collect HM7
Then I went all the way here assuming Kabuto could learn waterfall on account of
him being half water and knowing how to surf. Back to the pokecenter I suppose.

Should be that:
HM01 Cut: Available to everything with claws, edges that can remove shrubs.
HM02 Fly: All flying pkmn can fly, otherwise they are Emus, penguins or velociraptors
HM04 Strength: all normal or large pokemon
HM03 Surf: All water pokemon
HM05 Waterfall: All water pokemon
HM06 Dive: All water pokemon, pokemon that don't breath (or hold air/swallow trainers)
HM06 Whirlpool: All water pokemon
HM05 Flash: All fire pokemon, or ones with lights
Should be automatically applied when relevant.

Or these should actually be remotely usefull battle abilities.


At any rate the 6th pokemon I checked was Gyarados, who should be able to learn fly, being flying and all.

And the fourth trip to the waterfall I find that I need another Gym badge first :( Back to hunting for a datini I suppose.

Satisfying win, I almost fainted but was able to recover with dream eat. some inconvenient paralysis but mostly I played very cautiously and slept each dragon as it came at me. Pretty much got a level out of every encounter as well :D

Finally, yes I want Red the Rival to use waterfall, Go Gyrados!

And without much ado I'm on my way to the elite four. Though the trainers along the way are a bit tough and leave me wanting a fire/electric pokemon or something with an ice move. but it seems I still need an extra fish for the 4 water HMs and a bird to fly, and neither of these are helpful in a fight.

Frogs Shinys

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So lots of not much happened for a while.

Then Ten saw me playing and revelations were had.

Apparently Anoki Axe is OP and broken,

Thats why her confusion is so effective

Mostly Anoiki has been my last rezort in trainer battles,

switching in and out to use heal bell 

to cure poison,paralasis and sleep.

Then in the long grass confusion 

is a quick was to beat lvl3's

Had been using the Space-Bar in 

all pokecenters and many fights

I know whats happening and dont really 

need to read everything. But now I've 

found the Turbo mode, and at 200% 

speed I'm moving as fast as the 

newer games default speed.

Then while I had noted my Mecha Mind Transormation

I was too distracted by my Minds new legs

and newfound ability to surf to notice

the odd mossy tinge my mind had developed

He kind of blended in with the other odd colours.

Now I just have to keep the Absorb ability

With a little research I could have as well as a

red garadose, Gold magicarp a scary black soul

 Definatly cooler

Though 200% speed is a lot slower

than the battles I'd gotten used to.

Nobody else has an interesting 

Shiny color

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O'h also yesterday immediately after

My mind meld morphed, Kowai-Sama

Also grew up, happiness threshold exceeded.

Had I mentioned finding her? I "found"

three scary cute pink puffballs

before one decided to join my cause.

My current obstacle is the dragon Gym

Cant get in unless I'm a dragon user

I thought Garadose was a dragon,

but flying is his specialty. Though

he cant actually learn to fly :(

So it seems fishing on route 45

is what I must do to survive.

As for play, thats not what I've done today.

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Frogs toung twisted

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In an underground bunker I

was assaulted by a tongue.

It came from the darkness

a twisting and a stretching.

Was there anything I could do,

but twist my tongue too?

 

Unfortunately it was an unsuccessful

licking of the likitounge tongue

So I had to resort to my tried and

true psychic sleep and dream eat.

KO!

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Over an invisible walkway I faced myself

again and again I was defeated

and yet my True Self remains.

It was Super Effective

Is this really what I may become?

Legged?

No, I think not

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Thus I was saved from my future by Anoiki the Axe.

As part of the reward for the conquest I received TM30

Apparently the coolest move in stadium.

Who could I give it to but Kowai-Sama?

Accidentally her only attack, pound, was replaced by

Softboiled. Full support is surprisingly ineffective.

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Leader Jasmine actually had me on

the back foot the whole time. So for 

take two I used my speed to sleep and eat

Great strategy, rinse and repeat.

Seems Nobody has been this way.

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