I did on every single physical cart run as a kid and I didn't even know you could get away with just giving the mail to some other random mon you catch

which is silly since Spearow isn't hard to find

but I only had one person to trade with back then (and my brother stopped playing Pokemon after gen 3 so now it's none) so hey, one more shot at the lucky number raffle

...I say Spearow isn't hard to find but the funny thing is the one that's never leaving my party (that isn't Kenya) is a fluke.

I almost never get a chance to play before 6PM now and like a moron I set the in-game clock to match the real one when I didn't have to.

so it's always night in-game

except for the one time I got to and I got both my fave for the gen (Hoppip! so cute) and Spearow

I returned kenya once

I didn't even realize you could do that so it was accidental

Returned? To the original trainer?

I've never talked to him after taking Kenya but before completing the delivery, so if so that's totally new to me too!

oh no I don't think you can do that, I guess that's not really returning then haha

so I guess it's more that I only delivered the letter once

Oh lmao sorry, I misunderstood

Yeah on my childhood runs I didn't realize you could remove and reattach mail as long as it went through your PC so I missed the Nightmare TM and a free HP Up until literally now, decades later

little me was just "I'd rather have the Pokemon"

every time

maybe in Crystal I'll finally complete it as intended

did you know you're supposed to return the shuckle and the trainer will get mad if you don't unless you've made it happy

since in-universe it's, uh. dickish

then the original trainer lets you keep it

omg no, I actually never realized there was any further dialogue about the Shuckle!

yeah, since technically you're just keeping it for safekeeping for a while

so THEORETICALLY you should give it back later

Games keeping track of time in real-time was on the new end then so I didn't think to (also I may have just forgotten the dialogue a few times)

yeah I don't even remember why I went back to talk to the guy again since I didn't for ages but one time I was like Oh

it does make so much sense, so it

it'

stupid keyboard

it's kind of funny that this one thing was easy as it was to gloss over

Tackle has a 95% hit chance but you'd never know it from this Magikarp I'm trying to evolve. Should have named her Stormtrooper or something.

(training her on the level 10's that drop from trees, looking for a Pineco that won't immediately self destruct)

...to be fair to my Magikarp the RNG just seems to hate me this run.

like, the amount of times enemy attacks have gone through despite my Quilava putting 2-3 smokescreens on them had me looking up whether the accuracy calculations were different between gen 1 and 2 (they aren't)

so it's probably not her fault. cursed file or something

got Beryl'd. a thing happened while the power was out

hey RNGsus. what the fuck

how?

(Pokerus is more than twice as rare as a shiny. I have still not naturally encountered a single shiny in this file.)

so...if that's where all my "enemy rolls to hit through Smokescreen" was going, can...can I have the RNG back in my favor in battle? please?

I forget if fast balls work as intended...

either way I ran into Raikou and it failed immediately

Kurt had a couple that weren't broken and I don't remember which

okay yeah fast balls are not the ones that escaped bugginess

so they're basically just free normal pokeballs

>checks Pokedex to see if I've stumbled into Raikou again
>I have!
>encounter...Suicune

apparently roamers can overlap!

......okay game I was referring to hit/evasion when I asked for better RNG

Ralph called for a rematch and I ran into Entei on the way

what the fuck

this is the only gen 2 file I've ever owned where I have all three beasts seen

that wasn't Crystal, which gives you one

pokerus, all three beasts. Know what, I'm not going to complain

maybe I'll even catch the two I won't have the master ball for!

Entei has horrendous luck, they're in the yellow now (when my only viable tool currently is chipping away with Quick Attack because my party's too low level to even think of outspeeding them)

"You look so elegant, riding on your Pokemon." ....I'm surfing on a Quagsire but okay

bullied Entei some more. the Pokedex said Raikou was in the second place I found them but then Entei moved there too I guess! They're starting to get pretty low. Might hit the reds soon and then I can try catching!

all three beasts are in the red! ....and they've collectively burned through my ultra balls with no luck.