#I never noticed how cute mudbray is

[pichiicake]

[luimagines]

More flooding your inbox, this time, Pebble the Mudsdale.

Pebble is the solid foundation of the team, she is what Time is to the Chain, and in more ways than one. Along with being the strongest Pokémon on Reader's team, she's also the most responsibl. This is why she's left to supervise the more curious Pokémon like Derby, Komi and Luna. As a gentle giant, she's also least likely to be suspected of crimes of mischief. Yes, you see, as a Mudbray, Pebble was the queen of little gremlin equines. As a runt, she felt that it was her job to make everybody's life miserable since she's so tiny. I mean she bit people, kicked people, did every horse related crime against them and as an adult she's mellowed out. But they'll never know of the crimes Pebble as a Mudsdale commits and manages to pin on the other Link's and Pokémon. Never let her and Time be in the same room, they will cause so much mischief please.

Another fact is that the average Mudsdale is around 8ft tall, but since Pebble was a runt Mudbray, she decided to be a whole foot taller than a normal Mudsdale. It definitely makes travel very easy since she can basically carry the entire team on her back without trouble. She also gets along splendidly with Epona, horse buddies. Epona also helps Pebble commit crimes and Twilight is powerless to stop them.

And then we have Derby the Swablu. How Reader met Derby was an Altaria made a nest in their parents backyard and one of the babies fell out of the nest. And Player, seeing as the mama Altaria wasn't back yet, put him back in the nest. And little Derby decided "Yes, you are my human now" and has been attached to Reader ever since.

Derby likes to pose as the world's fluffiest hat, since in their dex entry they like to sit on their trainers head. See, Chain didn't actually realize Reader had Swablu for about a month. They were sitting around the campfire, exchanging stories and what not as Reader spent a few times readjusting their fluffy white hat. Until they smile and take it off, placing it on their lap and say "Too tired to stay up there bubby?" And to the Chain's absolute surprise, the "hat" lowly chirps in response.

Wind asks if their hat just chirped, and Reader smiles at them. "Oh? Finally noticed did you? Yeah, his name is Derby, he's a Swablu, say hi bubs." Reader gently pokes Derby's side and a little blue face and white beak pop out form the cloud of feathers, tired black eyes blinking up blearily at them. Chain is gobsmacked and amazed at Player's little friend, and think he's the cutest thing ever.

A much more calm Pokémon considering the heart attack Luna gave them.

We don't talk about the crimes Pebble commits.

- Chill

What a threatening last sentence XD

Derby. I love that name. How cute! <3

Also I love Derby. I want to pet.

[the-endless-storm]

Nuzlocke Shield Part Three

Part One

Part Two

Got to Hulbury and figure I can fish here for another encounter. Are there fishing spots in other towns I’ve never noticed? Fished up a Chewtle.

Snapper - Chewtle (f) Shell Armour Careful (SDf up / SAk down) “It loves to eat!”

I'll box Charjabug for the time being, Toxel will take over the electric role for the time being.

I’m going to head back to the Wild Area to do some training before fighting Nessa, and get everyone's levels up to around 24. If there are any Raid's in the three area's I’ve visited I’ll see what TRs I can get my mitts on too.

TRs were all a bust, but Snapper evolved into a Drednaw whilst training so that was a pleasant surprise.

On to fight Nessa and her trainers didn’t put up much of a fight.

Nessa's Goldeen seemed to last out against Toxel for a long time, so I switched to Drednaw to fight Arrocuda (bearing in mind it has Peck so I didn’t send out Thwackey). I forgot how fast Drednaw is for a bulky rock type, so that round didn’t last long at all.

Teackey came,out and Dynamaxed to take on her Gigantamax Drednaw and that lasted even less time.

Water badge get!

“A Power spot detector!? That’s the device that allowed me to detect power spots!” Nothing gets past Chairman Rose. You can tell he got into power on his looks and not his brain.

Thanks Hop, I can read a map buddy I know where to go. Thanks for holding my hand through the entire game. Pokemon games should come with two menu options. “I’ve played this game before” that lets you skip all the dialogue and cut scenes, and “I’ve played Pokemon games before” that skips all the tutorials and hand holding.

Galar Mine Two, and a Croagunk literally appears out of nowhere as I’m walking through. That'll be my encounter then.

Kermit - Croagunk (m) Anticipation Relaxed (Dfc up / Spd down) “It's proud of its power!”

I like Croagunk, but I already have a fighting type and a poison type, so I’ll box it for now.

Oh it's Bede. Hopefully Snapper's Bite should be enough to see him off.

I love the battle music for facing Bede. Total bop.

Bede managed to land one attack out of his entire team. GG.

Fighting Team Yell and this would be going a lot quicker if “future champion” Hop would represent and order his Wooloo to attack instead of wasting everyone's time.

Out side in Motostoke Outskirts, I ran into the grass and found a Salandit. Unfortunately it's a male, so rather than catch a Pokemon that wouldn’t be able to evolve, I knocked it out. I have a pretty good team, spares in my box and several zones of the Wild Area yet to explore so I’m not too worried about this loss.

Speaking of, I’m going to check out the remaining areas of the Wild Area, before I cross the bridge to the stronger side after (hopefully) beating Kabu. First up, Dappled Grove gives me an Oddish. Game won’t let me call it 'weed', I guess that's too naughty.

Swede - Oddish (f) Chlorophyll Hardy (no change) “It's thoroughly cunning!”

Watchtower Ruins gives me a Snorunt

Gnasher - Snorunt (m) Ice Body Docile (no change) “It's alert to sounds!”

Last but not least, North Lake Miloch has a Mudbray.

Bullseye - Mudbray (m) Stamina Jolly (Spd up / SAk down) “It's alert to sounds!”

Back to the Budew Inn and it's a fight with Marnie and I did not heal up first so I hope this goes ok.

Fuck fuck fuck it did not go ok. HaagenDazs got knocked out in one shot by her Croagunk's revenge. Rest in peace little ice cream dude, we had good times. My team is disproportionately weak to either poison or fighting, my only saving grace is Jett the Toxel.

Stop using Sucker Punch on a baby!

Ok Marnie is down but that was more annoying that it should have been, my team is very badly balanced type wise.

Vanillite is KO'd

Taking out Snorunt would be pointless considering I wouldn’t use him against Kabu, so I’ll use Bullseye. He's only level 15 so needs to be at least 28 to be on par with everyone else. So it's back to training, unless I have enough XP candies to give him.

I have an assortment of candies and Rare Candies to get Bullseye up a few levels, then train the rest. It's snowing in so many areas that it's easy for FossilFuel and Chappy to plow through ice types for easy exp.

I also teach Snappy Waterfall; which should do him a lot better than Water Gun; and Bulldoze. On the off chance I check with the Move Relearner, and I give him Crunch over Bite too. None of the others have any hidden moves to relearn.

I best stock up on some Super Potions too.

Oh I forgot you could catch Pokémon inside the gym! That's got to count as an encounter for the area right? I fished inside Hulbury City so this should count for Motostoke City. It's a Sizzlepede!

Mushu - Sizzlepede (m) Flash Fire Modest (SAk up / Atk down) “It likes to thrash about!”

Mushu will have to go in a box for now. Aww, I wish I’d got Litwik first I could have done with a ghost type. Pants. Anyway this challenge is easy.

Bullseye knocks out Ninetales, dodging a will-o-wisp then slowing it with a Bulldoze and knocking it out first in the next turn. Arcanine is next and I’m worried about Bullseye lasting against it, so I’m swapping to Snapper who will hopefully carry on the rest of the battle.

Snapper dodges a Will-o-wisp too and lands a good hit with Waterfall. The Wisp hits the second time which causes the Waterfall to leave Arcanine with a sliver of HP. I think there's going to be a Potion next so I’m going to risk a Burn Heal.

There was no Potion, but there was only a Bite attack. Got wisp'd again but that shouldn’t impact the final round too much.

Dynamaxing Dreadnaw for a Max Rockfall, should knock out Gigantamax Centiskorch in one turn. If I’m lucky.

I am not lucky. It takes two turns, with a smidge of Sandstorm damage in the middle.

Hey Chappy is evolving too, hello Machoke sorry but you're never going to be a Machamp.

Fire Badge get!

I love the way the badges fit into a ring in this game. Best badges since the ones you could polish in Diamond and Pearl.

Hop is going to have terrible arthritis in his elbows and knees if he keeps spazzing out every time he tries to talk.

One last spot in the Wild Area on this side of the bridge that I missed earlier, the Giant's Seat. I know the Pokemon here are higher than elsewhere so I should be about right to catch something there now. God I hope it's not snowing there too.

Nope it's raining and my first encounter is a Quagsire! Let me swap out Bullseye before anything bad happens...

Oops, knocked it out. Oh well, Snapper is doing well enough as my water type at the moment so hopefully I can keep him going for a while longer. I can always catch another water type later on if I must.

On to Motostoke Riverbank and oh goodie it's snowing here too. Please not another ice type, please please please... oh a Corvisquire. But I’ve already had a Rookidee so this is a duplicate and I can look for another pokemon.

Oh shit oh shit there are Sneasel's chasing me fuck they're fast! Get away!

My second encounter is a fucking Vanillite, which is also a duplicate, but my rules stop me from searching for a third time. Stupid snow.

Bridge Field is snowing too! Goddamit. It's a fucking Sneasel. Double dammit. Too many ice types filling up my encounter slots.

Salem - Sneasel (m) Keen Eye Hasty (Spd up / Dfc down) “It has a sturdy body!”

In the box you go.

Let's see what the Digging Duo can find for me.

Stamina Bro - Normal Gem, Ice Stone, Damp Rock, Fossilized Fish, Sticky Barb, Leaf Stone, Sun Stone, Heat Rock, Heat Rock.

Skill Bro - Rare Bone, Fossilized Fish, Bottle Cap, Rare Bone, Dawn Stone.

I have three more zones to go through to get to Hammerlocke, so I’ll stop down by the Nursery where it's safe and save, and leave it at that for today.

Current Team

Drumroll - Thwackey (lv 29)

Bullseye - Mudsdale (lv 28)

Snapper - Drednaw (lv 29)

FossilFuel - Carkoal (lv 29)

Chappy - Machoke (lv 18)

Jett - Toxel (lv 19)

Boxed

Joltik

Slowpoke

Charjabug

Croagunk

Oddish

Snorunt

Sizzlepede

Sneasel

Losses

Bandit the Nickit - Knocked out by a fat squirrel

Gumball the Tympole - Devoured by a centipede with a moustache

Castlevania the Rookidee - Torn apart by a cute mole

HaagenDazs the Vanillite - Murdered in an act of revenge by a smelly frog

Wild Area Tracker

Rolling Fields

West Lake Axewell

East Lake Axewell

South Lake Miloch

Dappled Grove

Watchtower Ruins

North Lake Miloch

Giant’s Seat

Motostoke Riverbank

Bridge Field