>>49134883ALRIGHT MADE A HUGE AMOUNT OF PROGRESS TONIGHT
>Finish the Lavender Tower and am told how cool it'd be if I came back and fought Daisy as the Gym Leader of Viridian City>Do that and sweep her with Cactus between Rain Dance and Water Pulse spam>Head toward Koga>Murdersweep him with Alakazam as per expectations>Fail the Safari game for the first time in 800 years exploring>do it again and get Surf/Strength etc>get told to go to Saffron and Oak gives me Tea to bribe the guards (drugged for sure)>Head into Saffron>Green is like "DUDE IM SUPPOSED TO BE IN PEWTER DEFENDING THE PURPLE ROCK BUT LET'S BATTLE IN FRONT OF SILPH TO SHOW TEAM ROCKET HOW TOUGH WE ARE" like the completely brainless NPC she is>Trash her team which accomplishes nothing before she runs off to Pewter to do her fucking job>handle Silph fairly easily up until the very end where it's both Ariana and Archer before Giovanni>Giovanni and his executives blow up Silph Co.'s front office floor and escape by helicopter >get given the Amulet Coin for it because Giovanni stole the Master Balls>Already had the Luck Incense because they were selling it in Fuchsia>Find my first Revive in ages so I even have a backup life for someone in my party>Go to Saffron Gym and figure I'll lead with Crobat due to having X-Scissor >it doesn't kill a Slowbro and it one-shots with Psychic>Easy come easy go on that extra life>Defeat Saffron Gym with relative ease due to Mundy and Pasta both having Crunch and being fast as fuck so I was an idiot all along>Green was waiting for me and tells me how she is an idiot and the rock got stolen anyway despite her wasting time being here both before and after>Turns out the rock is Deoxys' brain and we have to go to Birth Island to defeat it or whatever>Path says we have to go through Seafoam to get to Cinnabar but I go by Pallet anyway>go to Seafoam for levels just in case>Kill Articuno in 1 Thunderbolt>come back>go to Birth IslandCont.