Chapter 4: The Lavender Town Mystery

After a quick jaunt through the underground tunnel we find ourselves in Celadon City! Alas, something seems to be amiss... Team Rocket members are walking around and issuing thinly veiled threats to any who dare oppose them. Something tells us their presence here is tied in someway to the disturbance at Lavender town. Seeking answers, we go to the man who knows everything at the top of the GameFreak building. For seeking him out, he gives us an Eevee, who we dub Goateon.


Goateon - lvl 25

As we need an electric type to replace Freddie (R.I.P.) we give Goateon a thunderstone and a TM given to us by Lt. Surge, placing Quasimodo in the box instead.

What's this? Goateon is evolving?


With our newest team member in tow, we start questioning people around the city about the Rockets' presence. Quite a few mention seedy activities happening in the Game Corner, and it's there we find a grunt guarding a poster with a switch behind it. One battle later and we enter the secret basement. We battle plenty of Team Rocket members as we make our way to the heart of the building where we find the man behind it all - Giovanni.


Giovanni - Leader of Team Rocket

Impressed by our progress, he challenges us to a battle and we easily defeat him. He tells us that due to the love and compassion between our team members we could never understand his ambitions. Thinking back on all the pokémon who died because I pushed them too hard, I feel guilty but a shiny new Silph Scope takes my mind away from it easily enough.


Silph Scope get!

Heading west from Celadon we find another Snorlax blocking the way. Vimesy cuts a tree above us and in the patch of grass there we find a Doduo!


BERTnERNIE - lvl 24

We then have a nice little chat with a woman in her hidden house. In exchange for keeping her secret safe, she grants Lollipop the ability to fly. With everyone now on level 29 and 2 on level 30, we need to challenge Erika and get a new badge so that they will continue to behave in battle. Vimesy heads up the team this time round again, and a few minutes and several grass trainers later we face Erika herself.


Erika - florist and occasional battler

Reveur puts everything on her team to sleep and eats their dreams. This seems to work very well as the rainbow badge is now ours!


Rainbowbadge Get!

With a new badge allowing our pokémon to grow to level 50, we head back to Lavender town and head for the Pokémon Tower. It is here that memorials to all our fallen comrades are found, as well as Jackass who taunts us about their deaths. We beat up his pokémon for his insolence and make our way through the tower. We encounter a wild Gastly who we capture and name Caspar.


Casper - lvl 21

We defeat all the possessed channelers in the tower which seems to bring them back to their senses. Eventually we come face to face with the spirit of the deceased Marowak, who after a quick pokémon battle seems to calm down. We go up the stairs to find Jesse and James hassling Mr Fiji. We get rid of them and talk to the old man who tells us to join him at his home in the town. There, he gives us a pokéflute.


Pokéflute get!

With this flute we can wake sleeping pokémon, so we decide to head south to Fuschia City from Lavender town. We run out of pokéballs and great balls during the battle with the Snorlax so we defeat him instead and continue south. On the way we run into the fishing guru's brother who gives us a super rod. We go back to Celadon City to try it out, where we catch a Goldeen.


Jake - lvl 20

We then head back to Route 12 and continue our journey to Fuschia.

The TL;DR version:

Pokémon caught:
Goateon the Eevee
BERTnERNIE the Doduo
Casper the Friendly Ghost Gastly
Jake the Goldeen

Pokémon who died
None! =3

Current team: