Day One

Hey, im dante! Dante who? oh.. I'm Just a linguistics student goofin around, always lookin for something creative to put my mind to.. Anyway, I picked up the project of playing through the Pokémon games from stop to finish! A rather lengthy task, but I'm skipping all of the directors cut versions (yellow, crystal, emirald, etc). Anyway, I'll spare the boring details (or save them for later). I thought It would be fun to yabber about my daily adventures in the land of Pokémon. I got a bit of a late start in blogging this junk but I'll try my best to keep things up to date.

I'm on the fifth gym in pokémon red version, mostly rolling with my Pidgeotto, Hitmonlee, Gyarados, and Graveler. The ultimate goal of my project is to build up a fully loaded Pokédex and pass it on to the future games as I play through them.

I'll post my daily load-out of Pokémon along with what I do just to keep myself entertained.

So today was a rather long haul as I had quite a few hours to burn in the car. But sadly I gained little ground with the gyms... I started out doing work in the saffari zone and managed to pick up a few keepers for the long run. Its a tough place if you don't know how to deal with rocks 'n bait, but if you can peg the wild monster with a rock AND bait it, then you've got it in the bag. The new additions were Dratini, Ryhorn, and the ever famous Exeggcute! So in a rush of excitement I took off training my Dratini! It becomes a chore because this game has no exp. share but I've managed to bump him up to lvl 23! (he was 15 in the safari zone) So I'm wandering around to different towns getting in my daily walking in and I find myself blocked off by a sleeping blob of fat! Its a wonder of nature that 1: this thing sleeps in the middle of the road.. and 2: how all the trainers got to the other side of this monster and I can't get around it. So I pulled out my flute and played a song! (I knew I'd need it so I've been faithfully practicing it daily) But I must SUCK at flute because Snorlax wakes up and ATTACKS ME! So much for Symphony tryouts.. anyway, 20 minutes and 20 ultraballs later I found myself buying a lot of diet products for my obese new friend. Other than a few other trainer battles, that about sums up my day..

Here is my loadout!

Dratini :L23 HP/58

Gyarados :L31 HP/108

Graveler :L29 HP/83

Pidgeotto :L32 HP/91

Hitmonlee :L30 HP/70

Snorlax :L30 HP/136

Take some, make some, and give some.