Author: scwiba

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,

It wasn’t really relevant to the last episode, but Porom and Edward have evolved. Porom goes from nidoran to nidorina and Edward has blasted through all three stages of his development — and ended up a beautiful butterfree.

Payback time. Team B, are you ready? I am ready. Uughhuh. Ugh’m reaby too. AAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Well, here I am.

So, that radio tower in town?

Having cleared out the Team Rocket goons from Azalea Town and easily dispatched poor Garland for the second time, we’re free now to take a look around. Aside from some fresh gear and a few pointers from the townspeople, though, the city’s only got one thing to offer us:

Next stop: Union Cave. On the way, though, there’s something of a development:

The battle begins — and Falkner opens with a pidgey.

Turns out the last leg of our journey, short as it is, is a separate route. After a bend in the road at the cave entrance, the map claims we’ve switched over from Route 30 to Route 31. And you know what that means: another chance at catching a new Pokemon.

When last we left our hero, he/I was being accosted by a lame bully for no reason whatsoever.