NaNoWriMo Day: Friday, November 18th, 2016
Title: Nuzlocke gothic
Words: 741
-You look at the screen. Your Pokemon has full HP. You look away for a minute and when you look back, your Pokemon has fainted. The enemy didn't even attack.
-The first Pokemon you encounter is a Caterpie. They are common. This was expected. You capture it and move on. The second Pokemon you encounter is a Pikachu. You never see another Pikachu ever again.
-The last trainer in a difficult dungeon wipes your party. You realize with horror that it has been several hours and four badges since your last save. Do you sacrifice your party and start anew from your box? Or do you relive hours of your life to save your friends? It seems to you that the only logical response is to turn back time.
-They are only pixels. They are only numbers and pixels. But still you cry when the numbers run down and the pixels turn blank.
-One of your team members is only a handful of exp away from evolving. They die in their next battle, potential forever unfulfilled. You should never have checked how much exp they needed for their next level. It's like looking at a picture of a soldier's girl back home the night before a battle.
-There are better Pokemon of this type, with better stats, better movepools, more interesting designs. But this was your first capture, and they have been with you since the beginning, and you know in their heart that they will be there until the end.
-Your Pokemon hurt itself in its confusion. Your Pokemon hurt itself in its confusion. Your Pokemon hurt itself in its confusion. Your Pokemon hurt itself in its confusion.
-The enemy Pokemon never hurts itself in its confusion.
-Critical hits do more than double damage, but only when your Pokemon has enough HP to survive otherwise.
-The type effectiveness has changed from what you remember. In the next battle it is what you remember again, but a different type effectiveness has changed. You will not know which one until it kills you.
-You own no living Pokemon that can learn Waterfall. The game has placed a waterfall here for precisely this reason.
-You hear the Random Number God's laughter mocking you. You know not what you have done to offend them so. You offer whatever sacrifice you can. Vegetables. Mutton. Your first-born child. Your starter still dies.
-A shiny appears. It is your first encounter on this route. You have never captured this species before. You have no pokeballs. You had pokeballs before this battle, but now you have none. After the battle ends, they reappear.
-The two areas are separated by half of the map, you cannot reach one directly from the other, there are different Pokemon in the grass. Yet according to the map, they are one area, linked by some twist in space that neither you nor the game code can comprehend. You cannot have that Nidoran.
-The new game has a battle that it requires you to lose to progress the plot. The developers' cackles cause lightning to crack outside.
-Enemy Pokemon cannot learn Explosion, not naturally, nor by TM or breeding. Enemy Pokemon uses Explosion.
-It has been three gyms since you lost a Pokemon. Noticing this summons the angel of death upon your game.
-The new villain team are cultists worshipping a god they will not name. Every attack of their is a critical hit. When the team leader goes into their villainous rant and reveal that they are cultists of the Random Number God, every attack of yours is critical. The Lady departs when named.
-Enemy Pokemon used Smokescreen. Your attack missed. Your attack missed. Your attack missed. Your attack missed. Your attack missed. Your attack missed. Your attack missed.
-You do not have the Exp Share yet. You bait-and-switch train your Magikarp. All enemy Pokemon now have Arena Trap.
-You need a new HM to progress. You need fifty Pokemon to receive the HM. You have forty-nine. There are no new areas to hunt. None of your Pokemon can evolve.
-The Pokemon that you have lost scream in your dreams, their digitized cries morphed into more visceral wails of agony. They died for you, for your sport, and the only way to exorcise their ghosts is to inflict the pain on others. You write, you draw, you pass on the curse, and you sleep no better because there's a new game to play.
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But guess who doesn't have the new games yet because they're not out in Europe until the 23rd? What was even the point of Brexit if we still have to wait to get new Pokemon games
This one's also undersized but the format isn't exactly conducive to a large wordcount anyway. But tomorrow's Table Talk one could be a longer one, and anyway if I do start to run low at the end of the month I can always add DD57 and 58 :P
