Inventory

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Pokeballs
10x Poke Balls
0x Great Balls
2x Lure Balls
1x Ultra Balls 


TM/HMs
One use TMs
Volt Switch 
Shadow Ball  
Aerial Ace
Ice Fang  
Roost
Rock Slide
Water Pulse
Thunder
Toxic
Giga Drain
Psychic

HMs
Rock Smash 
Surf 
Strength
Fly

Items
Escape Rope
Amulet Coin
Mirror Herb 
Key Stone (placed in his hat)
Hidden Ability Candy
 
Personal items
1 change of clothes
3 changes of undergarments
1 12oz bottle of liquid soap
1 8oz bottle of shampoo
1 8oz bottle of conditioner
1 washcloth, 2 towels, 1 toothbrush, 1 toothpaste bottle
1 clothes line, 6 clothes pins, and rubber gloves
1 bento box from mom (no lunch inside) + trail mix
1 sleeping bag
1 Tent

Cash
Some (See JBKA rank)

Pokemon items
Slowbronite

Key Items
Map
Trainer Handbook
Guide to Pokemon Breeding
Breeder's Notebook and a pen
Egg Scanner
Green apron with a matching headband
Good Rod
Badge Case
Jotaro's Journal

Comments

May 9-18, Year 1

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May 9-18, Year 1

May 9
I found out that Soy and Riegfried must have really pulled some strings to get us all to Area Zero. The public usually isn't allowed down there since it's both dangerous and an active research site. We met in front of the Academy and were taken via Flying Taxi to the large gate in the North West. It's a grassy series of paths that descend down in a corkscrew pattern. The paths are cut by a wide river with rushing waterfalls and the paths occasionally branch off to a number of caves. It's interesting terrain but what's most stunning is the crystal formations. The light reflects off it and the low hanging mist, giving the entire area a glittering appearance.

I first followed the trip to the research station and met with the scientists there. They asked us to help with their research as volunteers. Naturally, I accepted so I took a sensor and headed down to the depths of Area Zero. I was told there are a number of strange, robotic Pokemon but I didn't see any up close. I did see a flash of green though and took a photo of it which turned out to be a robotic Pokemon. What it is though, who can say? I did meet Cecil and his team though. He's been here for literally a decade... Wild.

I think Aggression died. I mean, he evolved into a Annihilape but I also think he just died since he's part Ghost. I have chosen not to think of this too hard.

I returned to the research station and was asked to sort out some of the data they have in the lab. I was surprised to see that the sensors have been picking up both electric and psychic energy from Area Zero. Are the robot Pokemon mostly electric Pokemon? That wouldn't be surprising but the energy suggesting many of the Pokemon are psychic type was surprising. I met Dimitri in person for the first time and saw Harry again and both of them agreed to try look into it. I'll probably join the search effort tomorrow.

The crystal formations around here seem to be condensed Terastral energy, the energy that allows Pokemon to Terastralize. They keep dispersing into light once they're picked up or a Pokemon uses them. I wonder if there's some way to pick them up for study back at the research station. Glimmora are rock Pokemon that feed off the energy in the walls. Maybe there's something about them I can take advantage of.

May 10
Glimmora wasn't the answer but it did point me to a solution. I figured that the best way to collect these crystals was to take a good portion of the rock it's growing out of, like how you keep a plant alive by getting the soil and roots as well as the main body. Today, I managed to retrieve a cluster from the crystaline depths of the area.

It wasn't without its own conflict though. I had Chariot dig into the rock for the crystals but we must have disrupted the flow of energy a nest of Glimmora were feeding on. Between 10-15 attacked us all at once, enraged by our escavation. Ordinarily, Chariot and SP would be able to deal with them since they're both very strong Pokemon. However, the Pokemon I photographed yesterday attacked us, Iron Valiant. It took advantage of the fighting and tried to attack my Pokemon. Chariot had to fight it alone while Kosugi and SP fended it off.

Thankfully, Min-Gi came in the nick of time with his team. Together we took out the Glimmora without them all releasing toxic spikes everywhere and put down the Iron Valiant. I managed to carry it in my only Ultra Ball, since capturing it is probably better than letting it run loose.

I've named it Gallant since it's a cross between a Gardevoir and a Gallade. I haven't let them out of their ball yet. Probably for the best. I may need to train up my team so I have multiple 100s ready to dogpile it should it try anything.

Returned to the lab, healed my Pokemon and gave up the crystals. Then I realised I didn't turn on the fucking camera I set down in the depths and decided to go back down despite the researchers' protests.

It was fortunate I went though. I went down and I saw two of the robotic Pokemon fighting one another near the camera. These were what the others were calling Iron Treads and one of them seemed to be shiny, as it lacked the black accents the other did. The two Iron Treads weakened each other and the shiny one chased the other off. Once weakened, I had Star Platinum attack it. Like a good sumo wrestler, SP caught it when it rushed at him, tossed it aside and slammed it down so I could catch it. Compared to Gallant, it was much easier to catch.

I've named him Gyro, since it reminds me of a gyrosphere. I must be really lucky to catch two robot Pokemon in one day... or unlucky if I keep getting such troublesome Pokemon.

Flying Taxis picked us up at 10PM. I'm heading to Medali town and going to get some sleep. Hopefully, the rest of the trip is going to be far less stressful.

Note: buy a Mystic Water for Star Platinum. Min-Gi loaned SP his for a short time and it was really helpful.

May 11
I decided to have some downtime in Medali town. My injuries have healed up but my Pokemon needed the rest. I ended up just taking a small walk and eating out. Medali town's is known for its restaurants and I understand why the food here is so popular, it's very very good.

Resting at the Pokemon Center and doing inventory now. I want to rank up in the JKBA so I spent most of the day making a list of what Pokemon I want to train up so they can learn new moves. I have 14 Pokemon on the brink of evolving by training according to the Dex. I may prioritise them. I'll deposit SP for now and pick him up at Porto Marinada. I'm sure I can deal a few days without SP's help, especially without baby Pokemon.

May 12
SP was fine with being temporarily taken out of the main party but I found it weird to be without him. It's like my first day in Johto when I realised I no longer had my Stand. My partner is missing. But the world keeps turning.

We headed out to the West Province, Area 3. It's a grassy region with lots of cliffs further West. We encountered a lot of normal Pokemon and ended up fighting a fair few. We ended up fighting a lot of Dunsparces for some reason, which was fine since I wanted to train my Pokemon. It was just weird: no swarm and yet I fought five of the bastards. Of those five, three of them evolved my Pokemon.

The Pokegear wasn't joking. I had a lot of Pokemon teetering on the edge of evolution. Mari evolved into a Toedscruel, Kris evolved into a Glimmora and Cirrata evolved into a Grapploct. A very productive day 1.

Camping with a new team was nice. I got to watch them all interact with one another. Mari is deceptively fast for someone who is essentially a giant mushroom and she runs even faster as a Toedscruel. She runs laps around Cirrata who does his best to keep up with her. He's not nearly as fast running on his tentacles but he seems to be having a good time.

Kris and Bearbarian are the opposite to those two. They've taken to snuggling up with me, propping my arms up while I write. I have to be careful not to dislodge Kris' toxic spikes whenever I move.

Beru is still my problem child. I thought it would be good to have one of my older members of my party around but he's still weak and immature. Today, I caught him eating Pause's share of food and making an attempt on Bearbarian's. Thankfully, Cirrata pinned him down before he could steal Bearbarian's share, preventing an incident. I'll need to try get him to listen more on this trip.

I also need to figure out how to get Pause moving. Dinner was an hour ago but I think she's just realising her food was stolen. Hopefully, she'll realise I replaced her food and she already ate it before we go to bed.

May 13
We made some more progress today. After a long walk, we ended up in West Province, Area 2. It's similar to Area 3 but there's a hot, dry breeze that comes from the South, probably the Asado Desert.

There were a lot of Pokemon in the area, including Eevee. I would have caught it if I didn't think of Jota in my box (I've got to start training him again. He still hates me).

Bearbarian showed she was more than happy to battle, not just sleep. She threw Eevees around like she had been shotputting small creatures all her life and basically tore up every and any Pokemon she swore. I think she was inspired by everyone else evolving yesterday because she evolved too. I have to admit, seeing her almost quadruple in size through evolution was terrifying. It must have been obvious because she laughed loudly when she saw my expression. Damn sadist.

After Bearbarian evolved, I tried to train Beru. Surprisingly, he was focused and didn't even need bribery to follow my orders. However, throughout the whole day he seemed nervous especially when we were fighting other Normal type Pokemon. It's not like he didn't want to battle or train but he kept glancing back at me after every attack he made, as if he wanted my approval.

I think he's still nervous about being replaced. That was the feeling I was getting. After we made camp, I took him aside to talk to him about controlling his appetite and how he couldn't just eat the others' food. Not sure if he knew what I was saying but he seemed to understand I wasn't going to just give him away because he hadn't evolved or because he was eating everyone else's portions. Gave him some of my food to cheer him up after the talk to show there was no hard feelings but hopefully, he realises how serious I'm being and try improve his behaviour.

May 15
Today we ran into a swarm of Paldean Tauros. They're big, burly, black bulls with flecks of red in their manes. I didn't intend on getting in their way but when the hoarde of them saw us they went out of their way to battle us. The bastards tried to use Flame Charge on us so I sent out Pause. Pause tanked the hit and used Surf to push the stampede away. That scared some of them off so we weren't fighting all of them at once. Two of them stubbornly stayed to fight us so we had a double battle. I used Beru since he needed training.

Despite having Pause basically controlling the battle, this battle was a little bit of a struggle. I didn't realise those damn bulls were fighting type and Beru took a super-effective double kick at every opportunity, nearly knocking him out each time. Thankfully, Beru's always well-stocked so he spent the battle stuffing his cheeks and healing up while Pause's Water Pulse took care of the oncoming Tauros.

After the first pair, Pause evolved into Slowbro. She seemed to startle awake and looked around at Beru and then me. I explained to her the situation and... And I think she finally had some activity between her neurons. She worked through the rest of the swarm was easily. Normally, I'd have to yell an instruction to her at least twice but now she can now focus. Pause is still docile and gets lost in thought but she's not outright slow anymore which is nice.

As icing on the cake, Beru evolved in Greedent after all that battling. He's changed considerably less than Pause but it seems our talk yesterday has helped. He's learned not to eat the others' share of food. However, he still is eating my food and celebrated his evolution by eating all the rations I had put aside for today. Good fucking grief.

May 16
Today was considerably more relaxing than the last few days. Today, we got Porto Marinada and the whole team and I had a very hearty breakfast at the market place. Then we decided to take a walk and replenish our supplies. I made sure I had more enough for everyone, even though Beru won't be on the team for the next week. With the cash from the Amulet Coin and what we earned from the Research Facilities in the Great Crater, we could afford it.

After that we had a casual stroll along the beach. We didn't do much but we did watch Cirrata swim. He swims distinctly like a fighting Pokemon instead of a water Pokemon (His freestyle has perfect form) which isn't a problem but just something I noted.

It was a quiet day of relaxing and after all of that we returned to the Pokemon Center. I want to go North to the lakes so I switched my team around. The Pokemon there are apparently stronger so I made sure both SP and Chariot were on the team. SP is happy to be back. It's only been three days but he keeps nuzzling me excitedly, happy that we're going to be adventuring again. Admittedly, I'm glad to have him back too.

I think I'll be also taking Soprano the Popplio, Q the Pancham and Sombre the Sobble to evolve, since they're also fairly strong. Since I was feeling nostalgic (for six months ago, unbelievable), I traded Beru out for Orquesta. A mix of old and new members. SP's strength should make up for Orquesta's lack of strength so we should be fine.

The West Paldean Sea is beautiful. Tomorrow, before we head, North I think I'll do some fishing at the same beach we visited today. May catch something interesting.

May 17
The West Paldean Sea is lovely but not ideal for fishing. It's incredibly rough, with fast waves. I spent a few hours catching nothing but Shellder, all of which would scream at me and scamper off in the ocean. I did try to catch one using Soprano but Soprano is surprisingly strong. A single Moonblast would knock out the Shellder, no matter how much Soprano tried to pull back. It wasn't for nothing though. The experience helped Soprano evolve into a Brionne. He seems pleased by this, especially since his voice is now all the sweeter, and he spent the morning serenading me while I fished. Alto's going to enjoy this when I bring him out.

Since fishing wasn't that great, I decided to go surfing. Thankfully SP was more that happily to let me ride him. We saw a few scuba divers looking for treasure but the swim was mostly uneventful until we ran into a Qwilfish. This is apparently the standard form of Qwilfish; it looks like a smaller version of Landmine. The PokeGear says that Non-Paldean Qwilfish don't evolve into Overqwil and they usually spend their whole lives in that form. I wanted to study it so I decided to battle it with Sombre. Both were Water types but Sombre was more than happy to bind it with her tail and sucker punch it whenever it didn't go into the Pokeball.

After that, she evolved into a Drizzile. I'm not sure if it's just a trait of evolution or if that battle tuckered her out but immediately after evolving she crawled onto my back and fell asleep. Whatever, better than her crying and making everyone else around her cry too.

Had SP take us back to shore and headed back to Port Marinada. I was going to swap Sombre and Soprano out but it looks like they're still close to evolving. I only used them today so I figured I could keep them on the team for a little longer.

May 18
We finally left Port Marinada. Since it's a bit difficult to travel North directly from the town, we headed East. Unfortunately, I must have missed the weather report and there was a massive storm that made it hard to see my hand in front of my face, let alone the road.

We managed to find shelter in a place the locals call Colonnade Hollow. It's a large rock formation with lots of structures organised in perfect columns. While looking for a warm place to make camp, I saw a fat little shark (with legs!) waddling through the cavern. It looked so small and proud I couldn't help but want to catch it (also because it's a shark with legs). Not wanting a repeat of Soprano just knocking the wild Pokemon out, I sent Orquesta out to do try and catch it. It wasn't a bad decision, considering the little thing couldn't hit Orquesta with any of its Mud-Slaps and Orquesta could just peck at it before darting away.

I caught the Gible and Orquesta evolved into a Pidgeotto. The battle and aftermath went so perfectly I was wondering if there would be some catch afterwards.

Going to stay here and warm up. Once the storm passes, we'll head North to Casseroysa lake.