Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia - Information Thread

The Outrage · 12th November 2008, 08:59 PM

Some dialogue seems weird. Does Barlow really say "How long can you go?! " or was it a typo? I thought it was "low" not "long"

System Error · 12th November 2008, 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by Outrage DD

Some dialogue seems weired. Does Barlow really say "How long can you go?! " or was it a typo? I thought it was "low" not "long"

Whoops, my bad. >_> It is "low". The dialogue is still weird at times, though.

Part 38: No Uniforms for Young Men

So Vlad and Keith are now Top Rangers! However, it does not come with a new uniform. Only a new Styler. And if you've been reading this so far, you'll know my feelings on charge moves. This just might work, though...but I still want a new uniform!

Wendy:
Vlad and Keith!

Just as I leave, though, Wendy talks to us! And there's new field music, by the way.

Wendy:
I forgot to tell you something really
important.

Wendy: "Change your underwear every day!"

Wendy:
Top Rangers can fly from place to place
on captured Staraptor.

Yeah...about that...I haven't seen any so far yet.

But then I do! What a coincidence that I never saw any until now!

104. Staraptor

But hey, no reason why I can't go do quests before going to the Highlands, right? First, I find a guy who wants me to get a Shieldon who has a habit of getting stuck on cliffs in Peril Cliffs. Seeing as how it has a history of this, I doubt I had to intervene, but I did anyway.

105. Shieldon

And I got it as a partner too. Never tried Steel Assist before, but if it's anything like Psychic, it will suck. Once I do that...I go all the way back after leaving to get a Cherrim, to see the strangest quest acceptance ever: some girl thinks a Budew is a Cherrim, and you get asked if you disagree. I also found I could ride a Doduo, even if someone (e.g. Keith) is following me!

Also, Rhythmi now calls me when I complete a quest. I prefered the original one.

I also helped Janice the school caretaker burn some leaves, because her back gave out. There are three piles of them, so do I have to get three Burners? No! All I need to do is catch some Charmanders that have taken up residence here and let loose. Burning leaves on grass doesn't set anything else on fire too, just like in real life. And perhaps greatest of all: I return a lost pen to the newspaper guy. It is an epic adventure that takes me from my place in Chicole to The Almia Times, and get this: I HAVE TO GO SOMEWHERE ELSE! I find him at Altru Inc.

- Ghost Defense
- Time Assist
- Psychic Defense

From all that, I get all this. Time Assist ups Pokemon Assist times; that's pretty cool.

Then I fly back to Boyletown, and learn that some Team Dim Sun guy was left behind.

Elder:
He's the disposable Team Dim Trash!

Touche, douche!

The story is he was left behind to guard the harbor, came crawling over to the Elder's house, and begged and cried for food. Which he got. Then he left. I have to go back into the cave to help him. All through the annoying "puzzles" again. I then find a new one: breaking crates, including one bloody one!

Dim Sun Castoff
If you bust crates, they get broken!

People die when they are killed. For my efforts, I get forced to fight a Charmander. I win, of course. But he's just happy I came to see him. I then teleport with him to the Elder's House, and there's one less Team Dim Sun member!

- Recovery

It ups my Styler's HP by 1 every time I capture, which is...not very helpful.

Explorer:
Though my collection is extensive, I lack
the efferverscent aroma of Muk.

FUCK! Not again. I had a feeling it was what I had to get. Stupid fragrance-collecting Explorer faggot.

I also find that Ground assists are pretty useful. At least, what I've seen of them

Explorer:
This stench is overpowering!
I expected no less from a Muk!

Well they CAN smell so bad it even stinks up the Poke Ball you put it in.

Explorer:
Let me collect a sample of this stench in
this jar... Like so.

That's not how smells work.

- Poison Defense

I also find that Mime Jr. from before on this island, currently running around a Bidoof and harassing it. If I stand in its path, it runs right through me!

And that's it for quests I can do.

Part 39: Chrome?

Part 40: Timed Segments Still Suck

So I finally head into the Chroma Highlands, and find...the dark mist isn't pitch black at all! It's more of a translucent dark gray.

Team Dim Sun Minion:
With this much Dark Mist pumped out, no
trespasser will get very far.

Err...this brings up the point of whether this mist is natural to this place or not. Earlier dialogue suggests it is, but this guy suggests it isn't. I have to fight Pokemon "suitable for the dark", namely some Murkrow.

114. Murkrow

I do all the work here. Keith does shit.

Team Dim Sun Minion:
You unseeable trespassers!
You're not getting away with this!

If I'm unseeable, how did he...oh, never mind. Logic was thrown out the window a long time ago. Suddenly, Hastings calls.

Prof. Hastings
We're getting abnormal signals from your
Stylers, Vlad and Keith!

I wonder why that could be...for once, I really do wonder.

Prof. Hastings
What seems to be the matter?

The professor is no help, here.

Keith
A Dark Mist is covering the Chroma
Highlands. We think that's the cause.

If that's the case, then why didn't Sven's Styler freak out too?

Prof. Hastings
I see. It appears your Stylers are having
to seek radio signals in that Dark Mist.

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.

Prof. Hastings
I would imagine your Styler Energy will drain
quickly in the mist.

Oh shit. Looks like we're on a time limit! Again!

A Skarmory should be able to clear this mist!

Great, now I have to find one...

115. Abra

It teleported around a lot, but didn't attack. Luckily, Styler energy isn't drained over time in battles. The game says to "listen for its cries for your chance to catch it", but that was no help. I also saw a Gloom, but couldn't get it. At least until I clear the this mist.

116. Rapidash

Team Dim Sun Minion
Oh, hey. Good work with the mist.

Team Dim Sun Minion is talking to a Gloom. As far as I know, the mist Gloom expels isn't dark. Nor does it make technology go haywire. And it smells.

Team Dim Sun Minion
But, you know, it doesn't matter how thick
we make the mist, right?

I'd imagine the thicker the mist is, the harder it would be to see for any trespassers, and the faster the Stylers would drain.

Team Dim Sun Minion
All it takes is one Pokemon with a move for
clearing mist to blow it away. Is that true?

Judging by the question mark that has been over Vlad's head the entire time, yes.

Team Dim Sun Minion
...Are you going to answer?

You'd think he was talking to a friend here who he thought was there, but I assure you, that is not the case. He was looking at a goddamned wall that was closer than we were, and somehow didn't realize his friend wasn't there. Yet when he looked towards us, he did see us!

Team Dim Sun Minion
I can't see you to tell, so let me confirm it
this way.

Indeed, weird-ass dialogue.

Team Dim Sun Minion
If you're one of our guys...
Sorry!

Yeah, it's not like they could just speak up and say they're not.

117. Koffing

I was attacked by three, and again, Keith did no work. I had to get them all individually because...well, I just did. I continue on and find one path blocked by very dark patches of fog that I can't go through for some reason, so I just move on to another Dim Sun Minion and more mistaken identity.

Team Dim Sun Minion
Were those the last of the Pokemon that
can use Area Move Demist?

You tell me; I haven't seen any. Then again, neither have you, most likely.

Team Dim Sun Minion
...Wha--? Why, you...
You're not on our side!

Oh gee, how could you tell?

Team Dim Sun Minion
Not being able to see each other's faces
is inconvenient as all get-out!

If he couldn't see my face, how did he...forget it. This place is too fucked up. Two Murkrows and two Koffing attack. I don't know what it is, but they just didn't want to cooperate.

Team Dim Sun Minion
We've hidden all the Pokemon with Demist!
Heheh, what do you think of that?

I think you hid them all behind that conspiciously placed wooden fence in front of that cave, Team Dim Sun Minion.

And I was right! All two of them are behind there! And some Vileplume, too! But I can't get those yet; I don't have Tackle 3.

118. Skarmory
119. Bastiodon

And now I do! That Bastiodon, behind those dark patches I couldn't get by earlier, has Tackle 3.

Huge Flower
This flower has the world's biggest petals.

Apparantly, Vileplume have the largest petals in the whole world.

120. Vileplume

And Vileplume happens to have Cut 3. Great! I've been looking for that! I take the Vileplume all the way back to Vien Forest to cut up a fallen tree. Behind it, I find a Weedle and...a Moving Tree. aka a Torterra that somehow ended up in the ground. However, I don't have Tackle 4, so... :(

I fly back to the Highlands. I should've mentioned it earlier, but there are Carnvines everywhere here, all of which want to kill you. I then go to Chroma Ruins, which looks more Stonehedge with different rock formations.

Explorer:
The lower levels of the Chroma Ruins form
a giant maze, apparantly.

What else is new?

I need Tackle 3 to get into the ruins, which I happen to have in Bastiodon. This again brings up the question of how the entrance was blocked after Sven got in, but hey, it had to happen somehow...right? Then again, the Gateway vanishes altogether once it gets moved, so maybe not.

Part 41: Teleporation Sucks, Too.

-Mission-
Support Sven at the Ruins!

Keith:
There's light shining through from the
ceiling.

We open with a brillian deduction by the Keithster, which makes perfect sense! It is a cave and all.

Keith:
I think there's another level up there...

Yeah, it's called overground.

Keith:
Hey, over there!
There's a Drifblim!

Oh god, please, no...

Keith:
...That means we can go up to a different
floor from here!

It is! It's the Volcano, mk-ii!

121. Drifblim

You know, I take back what I said about Power Charge or whatever. It's actually pretty useful.

122. Duskull
123. Hypno

They both loved to teleport on the map. Only reason why I got Hypno was because it brilliantly teleported onto me.

124. Sableye
125. Sandshrew

The latter had a mud attack, ick. I used a Muk I had to break a rock to get to an Electabuzz to light up a dark room so I could tunnel through it with a Sandshrew. Phew!

126. Pupitar

For a spiky cocoon, this thing sure moves fast. It was in that place where that Drifblim could get me and was the "proper" way to solve that puzzle. Oh well, I don't care.

Drop down, get by some more Twilight Doors, and find I need another Electabuzz so I can break some rocks. I hate Flash.

In the room after that one, I find some wild Koffings who expel poison gas...and somehow turn the whole screen purple. It doesn't do anything except make it look like I'm tripping for a bit, unless I hit the darker patches that expel only from them. But I burrow through nonetheless.

127. Kirlia

This was a weird one. It teleported around a lot, but the animation was long and slow, so I could be circling it when it suddenly stops for no reason, because it's teleporting. And the bar starts draining while this happens, so...

There's a weird purple crystal cavern on the floor below this one. I find another one of those Twlight Princess Doors after a trip through there, and Keith says something stinks.

(not exact)

Keith:
Eeugh! What is that putrid stench!?

He who smelt it, dealt it!

128. Skuntank

Oh wait, it's just one of these. I've been seeing a lot of area moves, recently. Kirlia with Teleport, Sandshrew with Tunnel, and now this with...Stink!

129. Umbreon

Found this near an unopenable door. Anyway, shit happened after that. I learned Bastiodons can damage like motherfuckers. I ran like the wind from it. Then I found out I had to get one, and got even more annoyed from Teleporting Pokemon teleporting onto me.

So I am FINALLY able to advance through and find some guy in a hat with a Luxray. That's Sven, apparantly.

Sven:
Sssh! Keep your voices down.

Neither of us were talking.

Sven:
I'll explain later.

I like to know what I'm going before I get into it...last time that happened, I ended up...well...let's not talk about it. We introduce ourselves, and he quickly asks for my help.

Sven:
Sssh. Hear those voices?
I want to hear what they're discussing.

No.

Sven:
Too many Team Dim Sun goons around for
my liking.

So you want me to blast them? Can do!

Team Dim Sun Minion:
They told us to dig up all the Dark Shards
we can, but they're running out.

We listen in, and hear some banter about Dark Shards, whatever those are.

Team Dim Sun Minion:
There are only light-colored ones left.
You can see right through those.

Do I see a plot device there!?

Team Dim Sun Minion:
Yeah, I'm noticing that too.
But keep those clear ones anyway.

Looks like it!

Team Dim Sun Minion:
You can make jewelry out of them and sell
them to the gullible.

Uh, I think that a clear stone would be a fine piece of jewelry. Especially if it has mystical powers.

Team Dim Sun Minion:
How else are we supposed to get by on our
rotten salaries?

Get another job?

Sven summarizes the situation, and asks how I'll run them out.

Sven
How do you propose to run them out of the
Ruins?

We'll play really loud music and parade tanks around, that'll show'em! Keith suggests that we just take them all one, but Sven overrules this and opts for the less violent stinking them out with a Skuntank. Yeah, cause just capturing the Pokemon they send at us with our Stylers is way better than nearly suffocating them.

I talk to a Dim Sun Minion and they start surrounding me. Perfect.

Team Dim Sun Minion
What's your problem?
There's nothing illegal going on here.

...he's right, you know. But hey, we're Top Rangers. We do whatever the fuck we want.

Team Dim Sun Minion
If we had to say, we'd be on the good end
of Team Dim Sun

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU SAY!

The stench of a Skuntank's gas should
flush out anyone with a nose!

But I have a nose. So does Keith. And Sven. Plugging them isn't going to help. Trust me, I know from personal experience.

Boooooo!

I use the move, and it looks more like Skuntank is trying to scare them. Cranidos runs like a little bitch, but all my other Pokemon just walk into me, and for whatever reason, Keith and I hang around too. Vlad just dances around like a maniac, but everyone else (including Keith) runs around in pain and flee the cave.

Sven
Ha-ha-ha!
Couldn't have gone better, I say.

Could so! That was something I'm sure Vlad and Keith hope they never have to experience again!

Sven
...Whoa.
Keep your noses pinched.

Keith then comes back, coughing like he has bronchitis.

Keith
Sven, you could've told me earlier...

HE DID! YOU JUST DIDN'T LISTEN!

Sven:
Forget the goons that ran off.
What we're after is deeper in the Ruins.

Great, and now I still have something to find.

Part 42: The Answer to Life, the Universe, and What We're After

I drop down into the pit that the Dim Sun Minions were guarding. I find a Save Point and...a Spiritomb!

Sven:
It's sure not about to let us pass without
a challenge.

Not it!

The wild Spiritomb attacked!

Damn it! Why does it have to be me!?

130. Spiritomb

Spiritomb had the same boss music as Drapion did, but no fancy intro. And is it ever annoying! It teleports around, and even though it has only five set locations, its attacks are long and annoying. Worse, if you circle a keystone without Spiritomb, your Styler's line breaks for no apparant reason! Like, say...if you're trying to circle long to avoid the Spiritomb's attacks.

I had to reset the first time I tried this. The second time, I came in with a couple of Drifloons (one I had and another from the room). I got lucky with the first one - a lot of the ghosts hit and knocked off like a third of its lifebar right there. I wasn't so lucky with the second one. I then switched to Cranidos and threw some rocks for a while. All I had left was a Hypno. But its assist worked suprisingly well here. The stopping effect of the psychic ring put a temporary stop to all the attacking and teleporting nonsense. Even after that, it still had a little HP left, so I just went all-out, not minding getting hit a bunch of times.

After that, Cranidos started singing AGAIN. This apparantly boosts the rate at which its assist meter increases. This time, though, it was glowing musical notes. Its status showed it was "Very Happy". That's all cool, but I still don't know what the trigger is.

Sven:
There's a chill in the air.
Feels like there's something back there.

Yeah, it's only what we came for. If you'd tell us already, god damn!

I go through some more ruins, and find a Steel Statue, which is really just a long crystal monument with a strange power. I enter into another room to find...a huge monument of some kind!

Sven:
We were too late!

I swear, if he goes one more statement without telling me what it is we were looking for, I'm going to shove my Styler so far up his ass he won't be sitting down for a month.

Sven:
I've been on the trail of this thing for
quite a long while.

That's it. Bend over.

Sven:
You see that hole there?

Yeah, now spread it apart a little.

Sven:
They must've pried out something pretty
big from a hole that size.

Well get it out, first. I don't want any shit on my Styler.

Sven:
I reckon it was a giant Dark Shard...
The Shadow Crystal, as it were.

Yeah, that's nice. And sometimes, those shards can be green and/or liquidy. Shut up and take it like the little bitch you are.

Part 43: This Just Goes On and On

So the Dim Sun guys have taken away The Shadow Crystal.

Sven:
Worse, I reckon it it to be the color of pure
darkness with no hint of light.

What's that look like, anyway?

Sven:
That Shadow Crystal's been carried away,
I'm afraid.

Wow. Carried? It took four Dim Sun Minions to lift their mechanical dildos, I wonder how many it took to lift that bad boy. Keith says that Spiritomb failed to guard it...

Sven:
Don't think that's right.
I'd say that the Shadow Crystal was
guarded by a Darkrai, most likely.

It just occured to me that Pokemon names are being spelled WITHOUT BEING IN ALL CAPS in this game. That's a good thing, because it looks like they're being shouted, otherwise.

Sven:
A Pokemon that prefers darkness.
That's Darkrai.

Sweet, all we need to find is a Pokemon that prefers light and we'll be in business! That's...uhh...fuck.

Sven:
It makes no sense, though...

And everything else does?

Sven:
Why couldn't the Darkrai protect the
Shadow Crystal?

Because they captured it, silly. With that top secret project I'm sure they're working on!

Sven:
Darkrai's a tough challenge to capture...
How'd it allow this?

Well, Mr. I-Just-Said-I-Caught-A-Darkrai-In-The-Past-But-Wouldn't-Go-Catch-A-Skuntank-To-Stink-Some-Guys-Out-And-Instead-Asked-Some-Young-Top-Rangers-Do-It, I'm sure they found a way.

Sven:
You have any idea what the size of this
here hole means?

Another tunnel to explore!

Sven:
Imagine breaking up a crystal of this size.

It'd make quite a mess.

Sven:
How many Gigaremo and Miniremo units do
you think they could make?

Let's see...the size of an ordinary dark crystal is like 5 pixels...crystals are two pyramids stacked on each other...ehh...let's say approxamitely 167,493. Random estimate. Of course, this doesn't account for production time or other resources used in said units, such as the plastic and metal used in the devices, and the computer chips in the Miniremos.

Sven:
Just imagining it makes me ill.

Not like they could enslave the whole Earth with them.

Sven:
Team Dim Sun's boss must be laughing.

All the way to the bank! Production ain't free, you know.

Keith:
Would that boss be Kincaid?

A valid question, and certainly more intelligent than this pseudo-redneck's ramblings.

Sven:
Could be.
Could be not.

Non-definite answers are teh lame. Kincaid just doesn't seem like he has the class.

After that, the conversation...abruptly ends. And much to my surprise, it turns out I was right: there is another tunnel where that crystal used to be! It was just a joke that I wrote way before seeing what I had to do, but what the hell. Even when I'm joking, this game is still predictable.

Part 44: Cabin Fever

So there's even more cave to explore! And an evil crystal of pure darkness, too! What better way to progress than to go through where it was!? It's not like there will be any Grues waiting for me in there! ...uhh, and i-if there are, I'll just get an Electabuzz! So there!

I head in through the tunnel, find a save point, use it, and move on. I end up jumping off a small cliff. Now I have no way to get back! There is a ladder I can climb, though. So I do it and find light near the top! I emerge near a shack that's randomly in the middle of the Chroma Highlands.

Sven:
It's ancient, this shack.

Sven: Ace Cabin Inspector. He also finds a sign saying this belongs to...oh, get the fuck out of here...

I have seriously had enough of this shit.

"Altru Oil".

Could they-, oh, who am I kidding. It seems they do have a part in this! It's where Altru Oil started.

Keith:
This barren, beat-up place was Altru in the
olden days?

In the olden days, the standards of living were even lower. But at least they kept Pokemon out of their homes!

Sven:
These papers are dated seventy years
ago.

With the X month, XX day crap we're about to see, I question how he knew that.

It's the door to the toilet.

Just as it says! I always wondered if they had washrooms in the Pokemon World. Unfortunately, this is the first and only one I've seen, and I can't even enter it. Wonder if the people who used it back then had the same problem. More importantly, I find a "badly burned diary."

X month, XX day
Th- res--ves o- oil --- plungi-g.

I understood that. What is this game, a climate change/peak oil advertisement?

T-e de--ine is cl-ar to th-e eye.

N-w oilfie-ds need to be s-ruck, but t--re
--e no funds avail--le.

Altru couldn't demolish oilfields, but Team Dim Sun can somehow produce millions of those hypnobobbers without any cost barriers?

X month, XX day
An--her o- our c--leag-es gre-
d-sgear--ned a-d lef- us.

In a failing company like that, I don't blame him!

P-----e in---ently tr-- to che-r me, -ut
it o-ly mak-s me feel wo-se...

Whoever wrote this is a masochist. I can tell that much.

X month, XX day
--e oil res--ve is do-n to half ---- of
la-t -ear.

- fear for --e fut-re of Al-ia.

Hey, they got by fine in the dark ages, with those kings and princes who made all the darkness. It'd be rough, but they'd manage!

To-ay, sev-ral mys---iou- black sto-es
we-e unear---d from the dri--ing -ite.

So these ruins were just an old drilling oil drilling site? Then why didn't I see any old equipment down there?

They ---e unlike a-ythin- I had ev-- seen.
They sh-ne wi-- a dark, al--ring light.

Temptation!

I felt som--hing stir in my h-art in
resp--se to its --scina-ing darkn--s...

"Give in to your dark side. It will bring you power. It is your destiny."

X month, XX day
--e sh-d-w Cry---- is --- ans--- to o--
e-erg- -----

-- po--r is t-e ---r that c-- f--l us
fo--ver in all per--tuity.

Things just don't make sense anymore.

We --- -- l---er b--nd by --- ------tions
------- -- -- ----

I'd like to buy a vowel: "A".

--- dr--m -- ----...

After this, the diary is too damaged by
fire to read.

Well, it does make sense that the bottom of the book would burn sooner than the top of it, but still, once that book was engulfed, it wouldn't matter.

...say, who put that fire out, anyway? Sven and Keith come over, and we take the book back. But right after lifting it...

Ka-chunk...

Oh shit! A mechanical deathtrap! Should've done it Indiana Jones style, Sven. SHOULD'VE DONE IT INDIANA JONES STYLE!

Well, not quite. That was just the sound of the toilet flushing. It still works after that highly destructive fire and all those years of not being used! And I thought water would've been shut off by now! Unless that was the sound of...AWWWWWWWW!!! Now that is just sick! I love it.

Some blue haired guy who's presumably from Dim Sun comes out. Who is he?

???:
Uh, well, I'm...
Who are you people?

That's the correct response you give to someone who you just met who asked who you are. Asking them who they are.

Keith:
That voice! That face!

Keith recognizes this dude.

Keith:
Is that really you, Ponte?!

Well, I did not see this one coming. Or...did I? I think there was something mentioned about it earlier.

Keith:
The Ranger School's conflicted marshmallow
boy!

Oh, well then it's okay. He's conflicted, he just joined in a state of what's-it-called.

Ponte is quite shocked to see us, and somehow is surprised we're Top Rangers, despite the news reports about it. He also sees that we're Top Rangers through our still wearing the uniforms of Area Rangers. He also says he's no longer a Dim Sun member.

Ponte:
But I didn't agree with their policies, so I
quit the day I joined.

And yet, he still wears the uniform...

Ponte:
I made this shack my home...

Conflicted marshmallow boy? Try hobo!

Ponte:
They're clueless about what they stand
for, or even about what they're doing.

Ponte calls Team Dim Sun "a joke". He also implies they're either idiots, or he somehow held a position of power in the one day he joined.

Ponte:
They claim to be good with their slogan,
"A bright future for Almia!"

But that's Altru's slogan. Or close to it. Again, more implications they're causing all this! Or at least are accomplices.

Ponte:
...And yet, they have that Dim Sun name.
I can't figure them out at all.

Holy shit! Again, a character in the game makes a statement I completely agree with!

Ponte:
Fortunately, there's a big stock of canned
food here and a working toilet.

Food that was not damaged in the fire. Ponte testifies that the Shadow Crystal was taken away by helicopter, which still does change the fact that they had to haul it quite a ways away to get it within its reach. Not like you can fly a helicopter underground, you know! Well, you can, but you'd die horribly.

Ponte:
Not sure if they went to the mountains or
the sea, though.

And you're sure they didn't take it into space?

Ponte:
Besides the giant coal, they also took off
with a big shipping container.

Drugs.

Ponte:
I don't know what was inside, but I heard
some cries coming from it.

Oh, so it's children?

Sven:
I'm going to chase a few leads.

What leads? You just heard this information! You have just as many leads as us: none. Then, after the Mission Clear pose, he runs off. And so does Keith.

Keith:
We'll look bad as Top Rangers if we're always
together, right?

I'm more worried about what else we'd look like if we're always together.

Part 45: Small Segment

~~Maxim Posthumus~~ · 13th November 2008, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by Commander_Saturn

The "Hell Trio" are now called the "Sinis Trio" and another of their members is named Heath.

Heath is the pink-haired girl, right?

I'm asking because the name Heath can be either gender. But I assume it's the girl because she uses fire Pokemon and "Heath" is similar to "Heat".

~~Nando~~ · 13th November 2008, 12:19 PM

Originally Posted by Maxim Gwanjangnim

Heath is the pink-haired girl, right?

I'm asking because the name Heath can be either gender. But I assume it's the girl because she uses fire Pokemon and "Heath" is similar to "Heat".

Heath is the big muscular guy. The girl is "Lavana."

~~Maxim Posthumus~~ · 13th November 2008, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by Commander_Saturn

Heath is the big muscular guy. The girl is "Lavana."

Lavana? Oh no! What an ugly name!

If the translator wanted a name similar to lava, why didn't he use Lavinia? It's a nice and REAL name. Just as I said before, the new translator has NO IDEA about naming!

***$aturn¥oshi*** · 13th November 2008, 01:06 PM

I kinda like the name "Lavana".

Rappak · 13th November 2008, 01:20 PM

hm... I'm not as far as Saturn, but just as far, if not a bit farther than System Error. I'll play a bit more tonight when I get the chance. Yay for questing!

System Error · 13th November 2008, 05:07 PM

Originally Posted by Rappak

hm... I'm not as far as Saturn, but just as far, if not a bit farther than System Error. I'll play a bit more tonight when I get the chance. Yay for questing!

Oh, I could be farther ahead. If I wasn't stopping every now and then to update my progress or copy a sentence out. >_> But I'm having fun with it, and others are enjoying it, so...

Part 46: RAT PATROL 01

Yeah, yeah, next day. I'm told to go patrol, because the diary will be deciphered slowly. Again, Keith joins me, completely ignoring his "look bad" statement yesterday.

Linda:
Did you know?
Sven is the seventh Top Ranger

Oh me, oh my, what a coincidence that the seventh top ranger have a name close to "seven"! Lemme guess: Wendy is the tenth? Or maybe the first?

There are only three quests to do: save a Chimchar, stop a Vespiquen, and help a woman get a pair of shady characters back.

I start with the second one, first. Jam-maker has a problem!

Jam-maker
A Vespiquen and her sidekicks are buzzing
around out of control.

Because he walked in on their nest. Nice one.

131. Vespiquen

It was accompanied by two Combee. I caught them, then went for it.

- Energy Plus

This gives the Styler more maximum energy.

Paul:
We moved to Pueltown from Chicole Village.

Paul and Paula moved from the village to Pueltown.

Paula:
The Go-Rock Quads without Clyde
But we moved here to be closer to them!

Yeah. Moving to a town with no available homes in the first place just to be closer to a band that won't even be there forever. Figure that one out. Oh, and some band dispute.

Billy:
Clyde has some soul-searching to do.

He's pulling his hair over the lyrics
for the song we're doing at the event.

Clyde: "I can't do this, man. It's offensive to black people!"

Billy:
He flipped out when he saw the lyrics Altru
sent for the song.

He went off ranting and raging that he
couldn't sing this stuff.

Soul-searching? I'd give him a freaking medal for refusing to sell out to Altru. They're probably fucking evil, anyway! I find him in Brook's house while searching for the next quest, but can't do anything. I then find that lady.

Lady:
It's about my team, Dim and Sun.

Team of what? Basketball players? D&D nerds? Monkies?

Lady:
My Dim and Sun, two squat, dark, and
handsome darlings, have run away.

Ahh! Your team of slaves! Waitaminute, WHAT?

Lady:
Pardon? Team Dim Sun?

No, no, no, Dim and Sun!
Not Team Dim Sun!

Yes, I believe you made that clear.

Lady:
Dim and Sun are my Murkrow.
They're totally adorable!

OH! Team of Murkrow! Thanks for making that clear.

Lady's Brother:
Sorry, Ranger.
My sister never explains things well.

Lady's Brother apologizes for her. But I accept anyway, because hey.

Lady:
Please, reel them both back in to Mama!

Hmm...that Eevee ran away because of hate...and these may have run away because of too much love. Bueltown's citizens just don't know how to think in shades of grey...

One of the Murkrow I find in a garden near a Bibarel in the east part. The other I find on top of the Altru Times building (I was wondering when that was going to be used!). As I went in to get it, I had to get off the Doduo I was on manually. The nearby Voltorb exploded as I did so, and the explosion happened while the text box was up, rendering it useless. I bring them back, and they glare at her. Gee, I wonder why.

Lady's Brother:
I think the Murkrow don't like the names
you've given them.

Good thing her brother is a Pokemon behavioral expert and clears things up quickly and easily!

Lady's Brother:
You make them sound as if they're Team
Dim Sun's twin mascots.

Nobody ever said anything about these Murkrows being twins. WHAT ELSE HAVEN'T YOU TOLD ME!?

- Ice Defense

Finally, the Chimchar one.

Explorer:
Near the ruins, I sometimes see a Chimchar
being chased around by some Beedrill.

I can imagine the Chimchar poking fun at
the Beedrill to get them enraged.

Uhh...the quest briefing said it was being bullied, not it was being a pompous jackass and getting what was coming to it.

Explorer:
Still, I feel sorry for it.

This is exactly the behavior that caused

I find something interesting when wandering around the highlands: Carnivine usually start off as "Strange Plant"s, which you can see if you tap them before getting too close. It says you need Tackle 2 to wake them up, but of course, you don't have to. They'll do so on their own if you get close enough. By which I mean within ten feet.

132. Chimchar

It's another one of those Partners, it seems. It ran over to me as soon as I got close, and the Beedrills attacked. As did it. But it never attacked in the fight, despite the game saying it can spread embers to attack.

I decided to fly back to Chicole at this point, and found a new section of farm opened, as Vlad's dad felt he was going to get more partners. But it was open from the start; just not inhabited. Out of boredom, I took Shieldon as a partner instead. It was happy for no reason (even before switching) Oh, and Paul/Paula's house? Empty. But all their possesions are still in it. Where did their Cherubi go, too?

Talking to people seems to get general agreement that something is wrong with the world. As soon as I leave Chicole, I get told to report back when I'm done patrolling. When you get a message like that, it means you can go back and trigger the next plot even. So I do.

It turns out the book is harder to dechipher than they thought! So I go to the Research Room because I'm told, and just as I do, "BRIGHTON" appears on the cover. But Brighton is the second Altru president, and it was where Altru started...what could this mean? First, I have to go to Altru to get proof of this. Memory of goldfish and whatnot. As I leave, music starts playing.

It's...the Go-Rock Trio! Uh....triplets...three...fuck it. Clyde's still not back. They've gone from criminal rock stars to just rock stars. Uhh...okay.

Garret
We're the Go-Rock Quads.
Not Go-Rock Squat!

Self-burn!

Tiffany
The quadruplet family band, Go-Rock Quads!
Four is the magic number for any band!

I thought it was five. At least in the case of boy bands. It must apply to other things too!

Billy:
Four instead of three!

They still pretend Clyde is there. Right down to the music still having drums, despite no drummer playing. Sadly, the crowd doesn't buy it, which the squad eventually realize. I just head back to HQ at this point.

Part 47: Please Shut Up Already.

Nage:
While we're deciphering the diary, we're also
developing a new Styler.

I hope it has the "overkill" captures or whatever from Ranger 1! But judging what I've seen so far ("Charge Level 1" in Capture Completed screens), I'm going to guess it just is a Finer Styler with more levels of charge.

Prof. Hastings
President Brighton Hall was a rather plain
and undistinguished man in appearance.

Looked like some crazy clown to me.

Prof. Hastings
I've no idea where he may live now, or
indeed, if he is even alive.

This is all the details I get, unfortunately. No details on when, why, or how he vanished all those years ago.

After that, Nage has a presentation!

Nage:
President Brighton's diary, we estimate,
dates back some thirty years.

Then why was it in a shack dating back some seventy years?

Nage:
At the time, it's apparent that the oil
field of the Chroma Highlands was running out.

Brighton was very concerned about this.

But then, Brighton made a huge discovery
while drilling a shaft in the oil field.

Yes, that's all clear.

Nage:
A mysterious, gigantic black stone was
found mounted atop a ceremonial dias.

How could he even tell it was ceremonial? Who even used it?

Nage:
This, I believe, was what Sven mentioned in
his report as the "Shadow Crystal."

Brighton wrrites that something in his heart
responded to the Shadow Crystal

It's magnetic and is pulling on the iron in the blood cells. Duh.

Nage:
He sensed that the crystal embodied an
immeasurably vast amount of energy.

Brighton: "Now, it's power is MINE!"

Nage:
The diary also toucheed upon his only
child, Blake Hall.

Any mention of the present-day Altru
president is only in passing, however.

Who needs a son when you have DIM SUN????

Nage:
Brighton apparantly left care of his only
son mostly to his wife.

Yeah, that's a nice way to keep your marriage going. Never talking or interacting with your wife.

Nage:
He focused all his attention on studying the
Shadow Crystal.

Too bad it wasn't a diamond. His life would've loved it.

Nage:
He believed the power of darkness would
finally solve Almia's energy problem.

To be fair, it's better than thinking the power of love would solve it.\

Nage:
...And that's all we have so far,
unfortunately

Okay..Murph then goes and touches a dark shard and starts glowing blue.

Prof. Hastings:
Your chest...It's shining!
What on earth is happening to you?!

But the light is coming from his head!

Keith:
Murph...
Looks pretty.

Leave it to Keith to make a gay joke at a time light this.

Prof. Hastings:
What's shining isn't Murph after all, it
seems...

The professor, who said it was Murph's chest not one dialogue box ago, suddenly changes his stances.

Prof. Hastings:
Murph!
What are you hiding in your chest?!

BUT IT'S COMING FROM HIS NECK!

Murph:
Now hold on, Professor.
I've got nothing to hide.

Murph: "i am not a crook"

Murph:
Oh!
What's shining is my pendant!

But I thought the pendant that can save the world is usually with the cute if tomboyish/rebellious princess, not with the clusmy lowly oaf. And it was coming from his neck...kinda? The lower part of it at least? ...I have nothing more to say. I am speechless.

Prof. Hastings
The power of the Dark Shard has dropped
sharply!

Let this be a lesson to everyone! If you have a crystal filled with the power of darkness, just get some guy's pendant and they will cancel each other out and produce blue light.

Prof. Hastings
Murph, tell us.
What exactly is that blue pendant?

Oh, so the pendant itself it blue?

Murph:
My pops gave it to me as a gif.
It's a souvenir from Hia Valley.

What kind of a souvenir has the power to disturb dark energy?

Murph:
My pa is the leader of a Pokemon
research team in Hia Valley.

His father must be really proud of him for all the goofing o-err, relaxing he does.

Murph:
He said this pendant was made by an old
lady who lives in Hia Valley.

Murph:
It's made from a blue stone named "Tears
of Princes."

You mean just like the princes in that old folk tale?

Prof. Hastings
Vlad! Don't just stand tthere!
Hop to it at once, chop-chop!

I heard. What I didn't hear, is the magic word.

Prof. Hastings
Keith, I need you to stay here to assist me.

Good, now he'll be gone for a while forcibly.

Hia Valley is passed a river south of the HQ. There are Floatzel that I can ride the rivers on this time of year, which makes perfect sense, considering no Pokemon have ever disappeared.

Nage:
They say Hia Valley's so cold, you'll grow
icicles if you have a runny nose.

On the west: temperate, even semi-tropical climate
On the east, just through a cave: cold as fuck

I'm sorry, I'm not following.

133. Floatzel

Nekusagi · 13th November 2008, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Maxim Gwanjangnim

Lavana? Oh no! What an ugly name!

If the translator wanted a name similar to lava, why didn't he use Lavinia? It's a nice and REAL name. Just as I said before, the new translator has NO IDEA about naming!

...Um.

Because the translator isn't you, maybe?

~~Nando~~ · 13th November 2008, 06:21 PM

Originally Posted by Rappak

hm... I'm not as far as Saturn, but just as far, if not a bit farther than System Error. I'll play a bit more tonight when I get the chance. Yay for questing!

Oh, trust me, you're farther... all my info's from the book :p

Dim Sun's brainwashing device is called the Incredible Machine.

The Go-Rock Quads are advertised in the Almia Times as performing at Altru Tower's opening. Unsure if they actually are seen.

There is a 'special' Almia Times after you capture Darkrai.

Regigigas is also shadowed out.

Dim Sun ranks: minion, admin, Sinis Trio, President. Kincaid's rank is Executive and Isaac's is Genius Researcher.

pikachu200 · 13th November 2008, 06:57 PM

Yeah I liked the Go Rock Quads they were awesome even if they were bad guys

The Outrage · 13th November 2008, 08:05 PM

Incredible Machine? Its like the Leader of Team Dim Sun names these things out what he thinks of first.

Naming his Team

Hmmmmmm, I wonder what I should call my new evil organization.

Oh this Dim Sum is wonderful. My organization is wonderful isn't it? That's it! I'll call it Dim Sum!

No wait, I may get sued for using that name. I know, I'll change the "m" to an "n"

I r genias.

Naming Brain washing machine

Wow this brainwashing machine is incredible! What should I name it....

The Brainwasher! No that's too obvious of a choice. I know: The Incredible Machine! No one will ever suspect that it washes brains....

So as a serious post, has anyone done the special missions yet?

System Error · 13th November 2008, 08:12 PM

Nice unmarked spoilers, CS. Although I kind of expected it.

No special missions for me yet, because I haven't gotten far enough. But I will do them. And I will cover my progress through them.

Part 48: Down by the River

Part 49: Yet Another Cave Story

The south path on the river south of the Union is blocked by sticks for some reason, so I have no choice but to go west. There's no quests. either. Along the way, I find another fisherman.

Angler:
This is a secret fishing spot that's known
only to me.

Not anymore it ain't! And how the FUCK did you get here, anyway? You're just standing on a random patch of land!

Angler:
It's fantastic, other than the fact that
there's nothing to catch here.

Uh, doesn't it defeat the point of a fishing spot if there's nothing to catch? Not even Magikarp? Maybe the fact that no one but he and I know about it is part of the problem: the fish don't know either!

Explorer:
This is Crysta Cave.

Just north of him is an Explorer, who somehow doesn't know about the spot despite being right there to see him.

Crysta Cave is a water dungeon of sorts; with dark blue water and shit. However, no enemy Pokemon appear on the water's surface, defeating the point. At least it frees me from "WILD TENTACOOL APPEARED! WILD TENTACOOL APPEARED! WILD TENTACOOL APPEARED! WILD TENTACOOL APPEARED! WILD TENTACOOL APPEARED! WILD TENTACOOL APPEARED! WILD TENTACOOL APPEARED! WILD TENTACOOL APPEARED! WILD TENTACOOL APPEARED! WILD TENTACOOL APPEARED! WILD TENTACOOL APPEARED! WILD TENTACOOL APPEARED! WILD TENTACOOL APPEARED! WILD TENTACOOL APPEARED!"

137. Golbat

Of course, there's no escaping these...

138. Jigglypuff

It had an annoying Sing attack where it looks SE and sends out notes, looks SW and sends out notes, looks NW and sends out notes, and looks NE and sends out notes. It's painfully slow.

140. Swinub
141. Spheal
142. Sealeo

I accidently find the exit at this point, and have to find a Dim Sun Admin who somehow moved an Ice Block "impervious to force" in front of said exit, and attacks with three Golbats; those went down easily enough.

143. Chingling
144. Camerupt

I find my answer in the latter, in a side-tunnel I thought had the exit before. Surprisingly, when I burn the Solid Ice, it really does burn. It burns "unit nothing [remains]!" Doesn't ice...ya know...usually melt when heated, not sublime?

Part 50: Cold Reception

Immediately after exiting the cave, the status bar on the top screen that shows me where I am still says Crysta Cave. Who ever heard of an outdoor cave?

145. Piloswine

I got hit like an idiot a lot here. I had a flu shot that I couldn't exactly reschedule before this, so maybe that was it? And it seems Team Dim Sun's here! They must have a mole in the Ranger Organization...

Team Dim Sun Admin
Come on, don't make me repeat myself you
warmly bundled fellow you!

Team Dim Sun needs to work on their taunts.

Team Dim Sun Admin
Hand over that Empoleon and make no fuss
about it!

Yeah, like that's worked in the past.

Team Dim Sun Admin
I need that Empoleon for getting out to
Almia Castle!

Hey, I'm sure your friends are out there without one. You can get there yourself. :)

Research Team Member:
I said I won't, and I meant it!

Research Team Member is dead serious here!

Team Dim Sun Admin
You thinnly-dressed Ranger! Can your frozen
hands handle your Styler?

Well, they are cold in real life right now. But hey, I've managed with them like that in the past.

145. Houndoom

He sicced it on me and failed.

Team Dim Sun Admin
I want to peg you with a snowball. Hard.
That's how I feel about this.

DO IT FAGGOT. It'll be much more effective than trying to attack me with mind-controlled Pokemon. Make it a yellow one if you have to!

But of course, he's to stupid to do so, and just runs off.

The guy I just saved is the leader of that team. His name...is Pamur.

Pamur:
You see, the name "Pamur" is just a
nickname.

Nicknames are for lamers.

Pamur:
My only son is named Murph, and since I'm
his dad, they arrived at Pamur...

Pamur = Pa (of) Murph, yes. But isn't it usually the SON who's named after the father, not the other way around?

Pamur:
I don't know who named it, but this is it,
our aptly named Shiver Camp.

Why does no one know who named anything or what to name something around here? Pamur invites me to his home, where I see The Almia Times, Vol 10. It shows, in red, that Team Dim Sun has crime in almost all of Almia, and some island to the east. And, some photographer somehow got a picture of the volcano incident. How are they even getting these?

Pamur:
The pendant was handmade by Mrs. Winter,
who lives nearby.

This monitor shows a burning fireplace.

Hey! The Yule Log only shows up at Christmas! Maybe other times too, but mostly Christmas! And this is not Christmas!

Research Team Member:
We found this old, cylindrical stove buried
in the snow.

I also find a group of people gathered around one of those rocket engines, using it as a fireplace instead. Yes, it is somehow able to do that. Without being turned on, too! And...somehow, it ended up buried under the snow, implying it's always snowing here. Which it is, but that would imply the snow only gets deeper, and deeper, and deeper...

It's the Pokemon-research team's
weather-data-measuring device.

Today: snow. Tommorow: snow. Friday: snow with a chance of more snow.

It's packed with snowballs.
Are they for an indoor snowball fight?

It's already cold enough in this hellhole from what I've been hearing. I would think making it colder (and wetter) would be a very bad idea.

It's quite amusing survey data on the
sneezes of Pokemon.

That's exactly the kind of work they should be doing here! Researching sneezes and having indoor snowball fights. What a fucked up place.

Part 51: Ice, Ice, Baby

~~Nando~~ · 13th November 2008, 08:16 PM

I only put the thing about Kincaid because you'd already said it, otherwise I'd have called him "the guy I thought was the boss."

System Error · 13th November 2008, 08:19 PM

Yeah, but I was more referring to

Plus, I put my stuff in spoiler tags, too, so people wouldn't accidently see it without wanting to do so. :P They can't accidently see my spoiler if they're just reading through, but they might run smack into yours by mistake.

Part 52: Something Not Cool

We open this part today with our special guest waiting for our hero...an Empoleon? It runs around a little before running off.

Research Team Member:
That Empoleon waited for you to wake you.
It must have wanted to thank you.

The RT claims I helped the Empoleon get better, but all I did was save it from Dim Sun. And nothing more.

Pamur:
That's the right call.

About the Empoleon's behavior, or the Research Team Guy's claim about it's behavior?

Pamur:
The Empoleon ran circles around us, hoping
to make its feelings known to us.

Usually, feelings of gratitude are expressed with a hug. Or a smile and/or a "thank you". Not running around like a maniac.

Research Team Member:
Isn't that the same as how Rangers do
that looping thing with their Stylers?

Yes, except we use whatever we loop. And we throw stuff at them. And we get fucking assaulted as we do so.

They leave me after this, and I get a call from Hastings.

Prof. Hastings
Vlad, good morning!
We received your report last night!

I sent a report? That's news to me!

Prof. Hastings
Using your information, we managed to get
further into deciphering that diary.

So I tell them about a blue stone nowhere near the oil fields and not once covered in the diary, and this somehow allows them to decipher it further. Might as well ride this fucked-up train as long as I can.

Prof. Hastings
We were able to identify the words
"Blue Gem"!

This blue gem is what they think the large blue one Mrs. Winters was talking about.

Prof. Hastings
So, you must get it! The Blue Gem!
If it exists at all, you must get it!

Yeah, kind of a problem there, doc. Even if I do find it, I have no way to move it.

Pamur:
To reach Almia Castle, travel west (<),
then turn north (^).

You'll have to somehow cross Ice Lake to
get to the castle.

With the Empoleon. The Empoleon that wants to help me. It's probably wishful thinking that it would become my partner, though.

The place I need to go to is an old castle that is encased in ice. Sweet.

Research Team Member:
You can see the castle on the other
side of the lake.

No I can't. Also, I might mention Altru's Tower got a cutscene, but this did not.

Research Team Member:
I think that castle's something to see but
not to visit.

Well that's too bad, cause I'm going no matter what you say!

Research Team Member:
There are things that make it tough to
even get close to that castle.

I can imagine this would be the case in the olden days, but in modern times? Nope, it should be fairly easy to get there.

Research Team Member:
First, there are big blocks of ice floating
in the lake.

So I'll just go around them. La-di-da.

Research Team Member:
Even a strong Empoleon has to ram the ice
blocks at full speed to shatter them.

Judging by this though, it looks like this is going to be Catch Sharpedo, Part 2. Just what I needed. Another psuedo-minigame.

Research Team Member:
Complicating things are whirlpools that dot
the lake.

Uhh...to my knowledge, whirlpools only form in rivers, particularly fast flowing ones. They don't just pop up in a lake all "sup?" and shit.

Research Team Member:
If you get caught in one, it will suck you
back to the start. Watch out for them.

Research Team Member: "And there are snipers that will shoot you. If you get hit, you'll be knocked out. And there are electric eels, they'll zap you and make you lose control. And there's acid. Hit it and you're done for. And the eels have acid-retardant wet suits, so they don't have to worry about it."

Seriously though, are these whirlpools or Wallmasters? I don't know of any whirlpools that do that. Most just make you drown. Or in this case, freeze to death.

148. Empoleon

Convientienly chilling out nearby. With all two of those major annoyances, I would personally just fly there. But seeing as how that's unavailable, I guess it's time to do this, Xtreme-sports style.

Part 53: Icing on the Lake

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