Brain Full of Games

Yes, I had big gaming plans for the weekend, but I have severely deficient in Vitamin D and needed to spend as much time as I could outside. So I played some Pokemon Go. And the rest of the week got away from me as it always does, but at least I did some billable hours and got a lot done on my Star Wars cosplays…

After going back through the Ice Path to grab some ice types and training them (well, not really), I was able to smash Clair and enter the Dragon Den. The Dragon Den itself was simple enough and after answering a personality quiz I finally got my final badge and TM24 DragonBreath. Now I just needed a little dragon to teach it to… and what do you know, the old Dragon Master actually gives you a Dratini if you talk to him again! I only have memories of hooking Dratini on a line, so i think this might be the first time I ever did this. As I learned from a play through guide, apparently if you answer the questions ‘correctly’ (it is extremely straight forward- you will hopefully know without checking that saying you only love Strong Pokemon is wrong) the Dratini he gives you will know the move ExtremeSpeed. I think normally this move is only available through breeding, so that is pretty neat.

Once I held that little baby Dratini in my arms, I knew I had to make some changes to my Elite Four party. I’ve decided to remove Butterfree from my line up, which i’m sure seems like a normal choice, but Butterfree is almost always in my final line up. I think since FireRed. Speaking of- I didn’t want my next play through to be Pokemon again, but with everyone talking about FireRed I feel serious pressure to jump back into that rather than PureRed, which is what I had planned to casually pick up after this. Anyway, I have a lot of grinding ahead of me, especially with this lvl 15 addition to my party. I named him TinyFeet, which is from a long story, but I’m going to tell it:

When I was a kid, my little cousin Andrew caused me unbelievable emotional damage by pulling the trading link out of his Game Boy whenever we had to trade to evolve something or just fill up our Pokédexes (fool me once, shame on him… fool me four times? I think I might have thought it was funny, too). But one time, to make it up to me when he killed my beloved Alakazam, he offered to trade me his Dragonair, SrTinyFeet. Señor Tiny Feet was more trouble than he was worth; Andrew had been training that damn thing in the Elite Four time and no matter how much he leveled, he wasn’t evolving. Grinding used to really suck in Gen 1 and I don’t really blame a seven year old for giving up, and honestly I wanted a little Dragonair more than everything. So I became the loser child grinding experience in the Elite Four to get that stupid little dragon to level up. For some reason I distinctly remember getting to level 33. I think I was expecting it to evolve at 33, after only having and training it for 2 levels. It felt like it took forever, but I liked Dragonair and I thought it was funny that his feet were so so tiny, you couldn’t even see them! Señor became a fixture of my party and I took training him very seriously. Neither Andrew nor I had ever had a Dragonite and I felt like achieving this was very important for the family. And it took months, but he finally evolved and got those big ol’ feet he had only dreamed of. I traded the Dragonite up to my Gold version and he was with me until my save battery died in 2014.

Just want to be clear that my cousin did really name his Dratini Señor Tiny Feet because he thought ‘it only looks like he has no feet because they are very, very small.’

Hopefully my next update will include a big Pokedex update. Like Espeon and Umbreon, for instance (i am really starting to get frustrated…. it used to seem so easy? And I don’t remember having to buy to many Calciums and shit to get them to love me? Perhaps they know I’m an old hag and not a sweet little kid).