gnorc plays games: Rustboro and Roxanne

Well, we made it to Rustboro! This town has the first gym we'll be tackling and it's a the leader uses rock types. It's too bad I don't have a water types in my team.

I go around all the houses and find a guy giving out the Cut HM. It's only at this point that I realise that I'm going to have to burden one of my precious few pokemon with HM moves in order to progress. Only a couple pokemon can learn it, so with tears streaming down my face, I make Victor the zigzagoon learn move Cut.

snip snip snip!

Then I run into a boy who asks to trade pokemon.

I've put a lot of energy into levelling up Daniel the Slakoth! Plus the way he kind of flops out of the pokemon ball at the start of a fight like he doesn't have a single bone in his flappy lil' body is charming!

But on the other hand, he's still absolutely useless and a fighting type would be very useful for the upcoming rock type gym soooo

Goodbye Daniel! and hello Makit. Not a big fan of Makuhita's design. He looks like someone glued some boxing gloves into a couple of rubbish bin bags and drew a face on it.

The pain of losing Jessica is still fresh in my mind, so I head out north of Rustboro to train some and get new Makit levelled up a bit. On route 116 we catch Dave the Skitty.

For some reason, my beige bin bags doesn't respect me as a trainer. I had forgotten that traded pokemon can get arsey. He had better behave at the gym!

The Rustboro gym double as a pokemon school, so before we can get to Roxanne we have to destroy the dreams of a half-dozen school children. Eventually I am ready for our first gym battle!