1) Yeah… If City of Heroes was still around it wouldn’t matter what level either of us were. That was a great hang-out game.
To be honest, it might be easier for you to keep going until you hit around 40 or so and I just switch to my Warrior. If you can, that is. I can still try to catch up, but I’m sort of dividing my time right now.
2) Bon-Bon: Ah-ha. I find that a little hard to swallow.
Bon-Bon: But yes, busy season is over. Just about finished cleaning up the leftover Hearts and Hooves stock. It’s so unpredictable. You stock up heavy on one thing because it sold out early last year, and you wind up with more left over than if you’d got the same amount as before. Meanwhile something that almost never sells explodes and I’m struggling to keep up before February even starts!
1) I’ve heard nothing but good things, but…
I’m just a po~or ma~re! I ain’t got no money!
2) So… what you’re saying is… Fluttershy sent the top one and you sent the bottom one.
3) You do realize I’m publishing these as revenge for Thanksgiving, right? Just want to make sure you know why.
4) Not to spoil anything, but “that one guy and his group are traitors” doesn’t really mean much in that game.
I think I know where you are. Not sure how fast I can catch up, though. Don’t wait for me if you can manage without. Don’t want to slow you down.
5) The reason Golurk can fly is probably because it’s a ghost. That’d be another cool Eevee; ghost-type.
I’ve seen the still artwork of each Mega Evolution, but I’ve only seen a hoofful in motion.
Oh! Speaking of, thanks to the help of Grey, I’ve restarted my file with some carry over items and my new team is ready! This time I’ve got Protean Froakie, Iron Fist Chimchar, Golett, Inkay, Cleffa, and Mareep.
Still need to EV train them all first, though.
1) So is this, like, our special inside joke?
Hey! How’s it going?! Haven’t heard from you in a while.
2) This is clearly Sexxi Bbz.
3) And this is clearly Fluttershy.
Another inside joke.
4) Well, if you say so.
Oh! But I finished! I got the three legendaries (Mewtwo was as much of a pain as I remember from Gen 1) and have all my items I want to keep held by a few Pokemon. Came out to eleven total, if that’s still alright with you. That would be eleven trades to and eleven trades back. Plenty of other stuff I’d like to have, but these are the things I’ll need on a second cycle if I want a shot at getting all the Mega Stones/Legendaries.
Edit: Oh! Big thing! That means you’ll need eleven pokemon that you don’t mind losing when my file gets restarted to trade me.
1) Hmm. I’ll have to check. I’m not sure where you are either. Level thirty-five? Wow! Eventually you’ll catch up to my warrior! Still some ten or so levels away but you keep up a pretty good pace!
I’ll see what I can do about catching up myself.
2) As a social experiment, it’s playing out about like you’d expect. Terribly, but given enough time even a wall will crumble.
I wish everybody would stop talking about the bird. Everypony already knows the bird is the word.
3) I saw the one where [I’ve been told I should have marked this as spoilers]. I kinda don’t like Pearl’s voice. Love her attitude and demeanor, but that voice sort of throws me off.
4) I had to reverse these three in my inbox. Everypony needed to see this in order.
5) [Omitted]-talking mushrooms. Wow.
Although I am sort of touched that you show some concern for swearing in an ask to me when you know I have to censer it.
1) Oh! I didn’t know you were still playing! How much further have you got? I loved playing with you and would like to do it again. Of course, if I got on your nerves by killing everything I’d understand if you’d rather go without.
And yeah, the slot increases are pretty steep. I think after the 80 Gold one it goes up to like 300, and then 1,600 or something ridiculous. Still, huge inventory for what you can just carry around with you. Speaking of which, since we’re on my main server, I have some gold. I could toss you 80 if you want. I know you only have one bank slot.
2) According to this, that’s a human country. Never heard of it before. Don’t know why. Seems pretty big. Looks like things aren’t going so well over there right now. Evidently revolutionaries just chased the former president of the country out of office. Lots of riots.
3) Well. Love might be a strong word. I certainly have noticed that I don’t get very many anymore.
4) Ponies would get completely buried in snow that deep!
Well, there’s always been other Lyras in the same dimension as me, so Lyras in other dimensions isn’t such a big deal.
I’ve thought about the Eevee thing before. Just seems a little too specific for me. Plus none of them can learn Fly. There should really be a flying-type Eeveelution. That’d be wicked awesome.
5) You’re already going to be helping me plenty by letting me trade Pokemon with items to you and trade back!
6) And thanks for the Froakie! Not only do I have it, I got lucky and already managed to get a female with Protean! Evidently Ditto/Male Hidden breeding yields much higher chances of passing the ability than just the 20% I read about.
With my full team now ready for the next cycle, I just need to get all the version exclusives for Grey, set up the pokemon I’m temporarily trading with the proper items, and grab the three legendaries I’m missing from this playthrough.
You’re kidding! Gray has one too!
A new feature in X and Y is that male parents have a 20% chance of passing their hidden ability to a child. But because the offspring is always the same species as the female, the two pokemon have to be the same thing. In short, you’d have to have a second Froakie/Frogadier/Greninja that’s female (themselves having a low chance of being born, which is supposed to play into Pokemon canon of why the starters live on a nature preserve and not in the wild) and after that play against a 20% chance of the hidden being passed on.
On the other hoof-! If the Froakie you got is already female (with X and Y marking the first time that female starters can have their hidden due to previous limited distribution), then you’d just need to breed that a few times to get a Protean Froakie, since females have a much larger 60% chance of passing on their hidden! And if both male and female have their hidden the chance jumps to like 80% or higher!
… I probably know too much about this stuff.
Anyway, if you don’t already have a female, it would probably be easier for Fuse to trade. But I can still get you both an Iron Fist Chimchar with Thunder Punch! Very powerful counter against water-types!
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1) Thanks! And I love my background! It was made by a filly named Applebloom quite a while ago! She was gone for a while but lately there’s been some suspicious numbers popping up on her tumblr page!
2) Oh it’s a huge game changer! I managed to beat the regular singles battle sequence in the Battle Mansion in one try and almost using only one Pokemon! I like a lot of different Pokemon too. That’s why I wanted to play through the game three times! So I can use different teams!
Yep. Pretty much gone now. I can’t even imagine two feet of snow! I’ve never seen that much!
3) Bon-Bon: Nah. Forcing your eye to stay open while you shove a piece of plastic in there isn’t so bad. It’s when something else gets in there that you want to tear your eyes out. But hey! Glasses that tint in sunlight sound pretty snazzy!
4) Thanks! That’d be great! Bearing in mind we’d probably have to trade like ten times, and then trade back. But I can search around X and find all the version exclusives for you to keep if you want!
Also, if no one told you yet, your Pokemon Safari is Ghost-type. You’ve got Phantump and Shuppet. I can’t tell what your third is because we haven’t been on at the same time.
Edit: Oh, one big thing. Before I start over I want to get my hooves on a Protean Froakie/Frogadier. And that might take a while.
Maybe a little. But you do have to remember I started with a full team of six. Plus Skarmory and Miltank both have much higher base stats than normal for that point of the game. And while I turned the EXP Share off at around level 30 (the Champion’s Pokemon were all higher level than mine), I used the same team throughout the entire game, so all exp earned was centralized on them and I only had to Super Train six Pokemon. I also didn’t spend much time in the Battle Chateau.
Not like I’m done yet either. Presently I’m leveling a Dratini I caught to turn it into Dragonite and teach it HMs to free up move slots on my team. I still need to catch the three post-game legendaries and at least unlock all the TMs and stat boosting items in the Battle Mansion.
Although… I’m still throwing around the idea of restarting. After looking some stuff up, the berries aren’t such a huge deal. I can’t seem to find much use for money so buying all the TMs over again shouldn’t matter. So I’d really just need to find somepony to trade Pokemon holding mega evolution stones to, and then trade back. Possibly a few expensive BP items like Life Orb too.
Golly, that does sound pretty involving. Glad you and your family are feeling better.
Oh! You don’t know about super training? It’s a minigame that lets you build up the specific EVs that you want. It’s pretty time consuming (one to two hours per pokemon) but for early game (before you can get the proper supplies) it’s unbeatable in convenience. Speaking of which, I beat the game last night! Haven’t started the post game stuff yet, but I clocked in at around fifty hours. I was going to play through it three times, but I found out you can’t trade items through the Pokebank so I’d have to start all over again with finding all the hidden items and berry types if I reset. So forget that.
And a job! That’s great! Sorry that you don’t like it. Hope you at least get a chance to make some money! Heaven knows I could use some…
I’ve never seen Game Grumps either, despite the picture. But I don’t watch let’s plays.
Oh, and my apologies to Twilight regarding the last post about the weather. Though she did totally miscalculate, making the blizzard necessary, she helped plan for it to be during a warmer period so the snow is mostly gone now.
Thanks for the well-wishes, though!
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No. I’m pretty sure mine looks like an oval with tubes sticking out of it.
Not at all like a fanny.
It says “choo choo” and it has a picture of a train on it!
Aw! Thank you! I think this is the first time I’ve gotten a Hearts and Hooves day card since I was in primary school.
Wasn’t this from The Simpsons?
Well, it’s actually a difficult subject to touch upon. I don’t have any hard evidence one way or another.
You know the theories regarding parallel dimensions? Well, I don’t think they’re parallel. I think they curve into one another and ponies and events get mixed together! There’s the Scootaloo that left of course, but Sweetie Belle is another good example. Some days she recognizes me; other days she genuinely has no idea who I am.
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You may recall me mentioning that Twilight did some work for the weather team. Well, the whole story is that she grossly miscalculated and now the weather team is having to pull a friggin’ blizzard!
Ponyville gets its power from Canterlot, so what I’m basically saying is, I might lose power. Might not too, just in case.
1) Yeah… Scootaloo almost dying from alcohol poisoning at a party I threw isn’t exactly one of my fondest memories.
I do miss that Scootaloo, though. But the current one is pretty cool too! Ah… multiple tenuously intersecting dimensions are weird.
But hey! Thanks for the message! You’ve clearly been around for a while! (Sorry if I should recognize you.)
2) No. I mean, some ponies might not mind getting a little dirty, but I don’t know any that love being covered in mud.
Did I say love? I meant like. That’s what you said anyway.