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Starting with a map.
Player starts in Grauzone all non-English names are puns/words borrowed from Eastern Bloc nations (otherwise known as the USSR and her puppets a newly constructed town based around the newly constructed pokemon lab (after the last one in Blusk collapsed). The current champion is currently serving as the professor, and as such the lab is closed on Saturdays. The town is not yet finished and there's still a lot of construction going on.
From there the player can head South to Zilston, where they can receive the Old Rod. They can go nowhere but back to Grauzone from here since crossing Lake Gloomy requires surf and the road through Mt. Kelvin to Schwarzville only goes one way because of a recent avalanche.
From there the player can go to Zitronen which is a "large" city. Heading through Zitronen to Zitronen Woods. Which is a small forest filled with mostly shitmons, and some decent bug types. From there to Krasnygrad, another large city with a gym (technically Gym 1) and the Safari Zone. The gym badge gives the player the ability to use fly outside of battle. The player receives both the surf HM and cold weather gear (needed for crossing Mt. Kelvin) in this town, the same person supplies both and only gives 1 before the player has the badge. The gym is closed Saturday (because of League Day) through Wednesday (because the gym leader is a busy person, they all are). Trying to get to Schwarzville the player bumps into the first few grunts of the local evil team.
In Schwarzville is Gym 3 (currently blocked by grunts waiting to challenge the gym, they move after the player has two badges). But not much else. The player can traverse across Mt. Kelvin and catch a few ice types as well as run into league employees, which is how the player learns the backstory of the region.
