{"id":158,"date":"2007-07-09T22:00:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T03:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/158"},"modified":"2016-06-16T17:32:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T00:32:35","slug":"pokemon-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/158","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon: Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in a bit of a hurry to get today’s post up, so I’ll be brief. I have already had several acquaintances on the east coast say that I should have picked Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> up again before moving, that they would have been willing to trade with me at that point. Unfortunately, I was saving Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> as something to play during the move — something I could play while my other gaming devices were packed up. But as it turned out, moving occupies enough of one’s attention that I didn’t do any gaming at all until I had the PS2 set up, so that was futile.<\/p>\n

Well, I do intend to come back east once in a while. I have parents out there, and will probably come back sometime around Christmas, if not sooner. Will I still want to trade pok\u00e9mon then? Quite possibly; I’m seeing this as something of a long-term project. Catching ’em all can’t be done all at once. If you try, you’ll be bored to tears.<\/p>\n

Beating the eight Pok\u00e9mon Leaders and completing the plot of the game is another matter. I’ll probably make a run for that soon — I think I have the fighting power to do it, and just need to find the rest of the HMs to get past the obstacles on the way. (HM stands for Hidden Machine; they’re a variant of the TM, or Technical Machine. Both varieties are used to teach special moves, but HMs teach skills that can be used outside of combat, such as cutting through brush or lifting heavy rocks.) I could be wrong about having the power, of course, but my toughest contender, a level 42 alakazam 1<\/sup><\/a> Blenkinsop, as you may remember from the previous post <\/span><\/span>