>>24838562Whirl Islands is a fucking Flash cave maze, similar to its GSC counterpart in the sense that there are four different islands and you have to make sure you don't accidentally head to the other. By miracle I got through it to the bottom with almost no dead ends. Lugia isn't there and we have to leave, like a Rescue Rangers mission. We talk to Jayson and say we're heading to Ilex Forest where Ho-Oh (who's a gril) sleeps, which was a plot point in Rescue Rangers. Jagold really shouldn't have taken so much Rescue Rangers influence.
Ilex Forest looks nothing like it should. In RR you have to go there and it kind of looks like it should if you squint, here it's just a generic forest. Ho-Oh isn't there and neither is Celebi, we head back to the tower. Nothing happened during these treks.