Twitch Plays Pokemon

With less than half an hour to go before the stream starts, it seems like an appropriate time to link to our shiny new Live Updates! All updates for Gen 2 are going to be posted there as soon as it begins. See you all there! HYPE.

Unfortunately, the stream seems to be on idle at the moment. It's been that way for about an hour now. Here's some epic music to make the waiting a bit better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCl1gwX_CVA

POKEMON ADVENTURE IS UP! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE WORLD'S FIRST DOUBLE HACK!

Pokemon Bag Simulator 2014?????????

Stream is now Offline, for real this time.

[Reader's Corner Red-Pen Edition] Pokémon Diamond is actually a completely bootlegged, unlicensed-translation/hack of Telefang, which is a similar game (in the sense that you have monsters that fight for you) but is developed by an entirely different company.

For those who don't know, Pokémon "Diamond" is a bad English translation of a Japanese game that is unrelated to Pokémon. They decided to call it Pokémon in the US to get more people to buy it. It is now considered a bootleg game.

Now all we need is Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal.

Playing Pokémon "Diamond" now.

We just got a game over to a ledge.

Typical. It's actually "Pokémon Land GB" apparently.

Going through the mushroom Kingdooom!

Super Mario Land 1 time. (Obvs SML2 is the superior game).

Did you guys miss day 15 and the final hours of Pokemon Red?

Poke Talker on Youtube has kindly provided 2 youtube audio recaps found HERE (Day 15) and HERE (Day 16/Finale)

Is that Agatha?

Oh god, that Octorok. Gonna be contraversial here and say the ledge is our best chance of survival here.

In spirit of the game this hack is based off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=AKYn4ACAd7s

Interesting fact while we're talking about Octillery. For a while my housemate and I puzzled over why Remoraid evolved into Octillery. Then we realised. Mantine has 2 Remoraids strapped to it, like a fighter jet with two guns. So Remoraid is comparable to a machine gun, and then it evolves into a tank. #funfacts

Blacked out on the beach

Whoah, what kind of Pokémon is that? MUST BE A SHADOW POKÉMON, ATTACKING TRAINERS.

[Snark] I think you mean Octillery Alex.

[Strat] Avoid Octoroks at all costs until we get dat sword.

ITS A LEDGE, RUN

[Reader's Corner] AnOrange:

fyi this is canon

It's BIRD JESUS.

THAT'S A PIDGEY MAHGULL

NEED SOME MAD STRATS FOR THE FIRST BOSS. Remember, it knocks you off the platform and resets all damage to it.

implying we will reach a dungeon

Beeful, OK?

So, our name is BBVuu, and we just spoke to Tar- Mr. Oak, and he gave us a Kakuna.

Laughing so hard. oh god :D

Wait, WHAT? This is "Pokémon of the Past DX" apparently.

This one has THE best overworld music!

Zelda DX Hype!

...Link's Awakening? Okay.

Now we're on Pokémon Trading Card Game. The GBC spinoffs never end...

I meant to say Pokemon Puzzle Challenge by the way, my bad. Poor Chikorita :(

Pokemon Puzzle League everyone! You wanted Twitch Plays Tetris, instead, you get this!

After that trainwreck, what exciting game will come next!

Pokemon Puzzle Challenge... sigh WHY IS THIS A THING

Pokemon Pinball... goddamn you streamer i love you

We are now playing Pokémon Pinball while waiting for Gen 2 to start.

The stream is offline at the moment, Pokemon Pinball came up for a second and everyone got excited :(

Congrats guys for beating the game while I was asleep! I'm so proud of all of you ;) Now to chronicle all of Pokemon Red before the next stream...

[RECAP] /u/Calabazal wraps up the last two huge days for us: http://youtu.be/okdx3gtIdAg

[Hall Of Fame] Don't Forget: You're Here Forever.

[Sign-off] It's been a long night. My stats-stream-computer bit the dust just before the final battles. So this is me, saying good night. See you when we visit Johto. And...

[Information] My roommate has been digging through the guts of the save file and apparently most of our team had really bottom-of-the-barrel stat IVs, with four zeroes in attack/defense throughout the team, and a host of other really low stats. Explains a lot.

[Information] When loading that save file, you can use GameShark code 011373D1 to replace the first move on the first 'mon with Fly, so you can get around easier.

[Flaming Debris Warning] Other mirrors involve one at mediafire and mega.

[Welp] Linking to that save file seems to have turned TinyUpload into a small pile of flaming debris, so if you're having trouble wait a while or maybe look for a mirror.

[Information] If you were curious, Gastly was level 50. I figured I could at least get one last useful stat out there.

[Information] Save file seems to have been uploaded here. You can import it into VBA by going to File > Load Game > Import Battery File and choosing it.

Does.. does this mean we have free time again? For 26 hours?

What am I going to do tomorrow?

Oh right, yeah, I forgot DROWZEE. How could I forget the Keeper?

Also, uh.. 26 hours? Like, could just be me.. but in that time I'm fairly sure we could go for a full Mewtwo, Articuno, Moltres KO. Missed opportunity!

[CONTINUE/NEW GAME/OPTIONS] A new adventure will begin [in] 26:35:07

[Reader's Corner] /u/amoliski's linked to this great bit of Backstreet Twitch finalé for us to enjoy.

Oh right, I forgot Digrat too. Thanks Digrat. But then again, like.. dude. That wasn't cool at the Game Corner. Or the Safari Zone. Or Rock Tunnel. But we'll still remember you.

Bit of victorious music to enjoy.

Yeah, G/S/C for sure.

What's going on? Do you guys think he's starting up Gold/Silver?

Rivalries and religions were formed, arguments were had, and agreements were made. Plans, and maps, and strats. We overcame the 26 seconds of lag. We showed that humanity can advance, even against people trying to break the game, even when some people have no idea what they're doing, we prevailed. Congrats folks, we fucking did it!

I.. guess.. we just.. wait for the creator then? Well! It was super fun folks! But.. wow. Just wow. We did it. We all did it. Together. What a god damn community, that just sprung from nowhere like this, became the fastest upcoming Subreddit around, became the number 1 game on Twitch and bonded so quickly.

[Music] If you need something to listen to in the empty silence that is the stream right now, I suggest How About A Song? "An Unwavering Heart" from X&Y. Seems very fitting when you think about how far we've come and what happened along the way.

It's probably the stream creator pausing it.

[A] 16d07h50m It.. it froze..

Dodgy romhack?

Also let's NOT OVERWRITE OUR GAME FILE

AND LET US NOT FORGET POOR ABBY, DUX, XCABBAGE, XWING, JAY LENO, RANDOM SAFARIS AND, INDEED, OUR EMISSARY OF DARKNESS FLAREON

16d7h49m: 90k viewers witnessed the final moments of the Elite Four, in case anyone was wondering.

Way to go, everyone. One of the most meaningful and emotional games of Pokemon ever played, and hundreds of thousands helped play it.

BATTERY. ALL TERRAIN VENOMOTH. BIRD JESUS. LORD HELIX. THE FONZ. AIR JORDAN. LET THEIR NAMES GO DOWN IN HISTORY FOREVER.

Throws hat in air

Hall of Fame, indeed. If I could place each and every Twitch participant in it, I would. We should all be happy and proud of ourselves with tonight. Excellent job, everyone.

[A] 16d7h47m: The Hall of Fame plays as players around the world collectively weep. We did it!

LET'S GO KNOCK OUT MEWTWO!

Folks, I'm giggling like a little child. We fucking did it. I'm sorry about the swearing, but.. WE FUCKING DID IT!

[ha] "RED! You understand that your victory was not just your own doing!" Oh, you. You understand us, Oak.

[VICTORY] LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE'VE DONE IT!!!!! 17 days of intense ups and downs, laughing and crying, democracy and anarchy... has all lead up to this! Blue is defeated! And we did it all together! Group hug!

TWITCH IS MOTHERFUCKING VICTORIOUUUS!

[A] 16d 7h 44m: BLUE is defeated. The Elite 4 in shambles. Twitch Plays Pokemon succeeds -- Against all odds, the game is won.

[A] 16d7h4m: Zapdos knocks out Blastoise after a bit of assistance from the All Terrain Dragon Slayer and the Fonz! Blue has been defeated! As of now, we have beaten Pokemon Red! CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE!

[A] 16d7h45m WE JUST BEAT THE WHOLE GOD DAMN FUCKING GAME PEOPLE!

[A] 16d7h45m Battery Jesus is traded in! Riskyyyy! He doesn't sustain damage though! Those sand attacks may have been all we needed! THUNDERSHOCK! YES! AND.. IT WIIIINS!

[A] 16d7h44m We're better to let ATV die than switch out, but.. we switch out Fonzie, that's fine! He gets in a critical surf but doesn't do too much damage. Nooo, don't switch Battery into a Blizzard! Let him die into it!

[A] 16d7h44m We use disable and disable.. HYDRO PUMP! THAT'S DECENT!

[A] 16d7h43m Folks, things couldn't be more tense right now! If ATV can just get in a good paralysis before he dies, it could be our ticket to victory. We really don't want Battery to have to suffer a Blizzard! Consulting the Ticket!

[A] 16d7h42m Leech Life! That was the worst thing we could've done! And another Leech life! Pushing our luck now! Blastoise withdraws, which isn't too bad!

[A] 16d7h41m OUT COMES ATV! He almost disables Blizzard, doesn't quite manage it! One more hit and he's down!

[A] 16d7h41m BLASTOISE IS OUT! IN COMES BIRD JESUS WITH A GODDAMN SAND ATTACK! TWO! BUT GETS BLIZZARDED! THOSE ATTACKS MIGHT SAVE US WITH BATTERY THOUGH!

[A] 16d7h40m EXEGGUTOR! DRILL PECK WOULD BE BEST HERE BUT.. OKAY, BIRD JESUS GOES IN! THAT'LL DO TOO! MIND THE ALLCAPS FOLKS BUT THIS IS EXTREMELY TENSE. SKY ATTACK IS CHARGED UP AND.. YES! SKY ATTACK FINISHES! EXEGGUTOR DOWN!

[A] 16d7h39m OUT AGAINST ARCANINE, WHO USES ROAR TO GET OUT BATTERY. BATTERY USES THUNDER. TAKES DOWN ARCANINE!

A] 16d7h39m FONZIE SURFS AND TAKES DOWN RHYDON! YEEEEES!

[A] 16d7h39m Also luckily, Rhydon has high HP, but.. even more thundering. Luckily, we go into switch mode. Things are super, SUPER tense, and.. OUT GOES THE FONZ!

[A] 16d7h38m NO! RHYDON! Thunder CAN'T WORK! Luckily, Battery Jesus has a LOT of HP, but we can't afford to keep wasting all these thunders!

[A] 16d7h37m PIDGEOT GOES DOOOWN TO A QUICK THUNDER! BUT THUNDER MISSES! LUCKILY ALAKAZAM USES RECOVER AND.. THUNDER BEATS HIIIM!

[A] 16d7h37m DAT MUSIC. BLUUUUE

[A] 16d7h36m GUYS IT'S.. IT'S TIME FOR BLUE.. AND WE STAND A CHANCE THIS TIME.. HOLY...!

[A] 16d7h36m DRAGONITE IS PARALYSED BY THUNDERSHOCK AND THEN BEAT! LANCE DOWN!

[A] 16d7h35m Oh god, Air dies versus Dragonite's Hyper Beam, and out comes Bird Jesus. Really, we HAVE to get ATV out, he can't take damage to Dragonite!

[Strategy] KEEP ATV OUT AGAINST DRAGONITE. HE CAN'T LOSE.

[A] 16d7h33m ATV is out against Dragonite again! We will surely win this! WE MIGHT BE ABOUT TO WIN GUYS!

[A] 16d7h30m: We're fighting Lance again! With luck, we'll make it to Blue himself as well.

[A] 16d7h4m: With only Omastar left, it looks like this run through is a bust as well. If we've got enough money, looking into restorative items would be well worth the effort.

[A] 16d6h39m: After getting poisoned, Lapras goes down to Gengar and we black out again. Once more unto the breach.

[A] 16d06h23m Agatha's up. Battery gets put to sleep and dream eated, and Night Shaded. This is really not good considering he's our hope for Blue. And he's STILL asleep, after about 4-5 turns. He finally wakes up, and defeats himself in confusion. Not counting on this as a winning run anymore.

[A] 16d06h19m Bruno's down, and only the Fonz is down on our side. This could be The Run™.

[I've officially "gone to bed" btw, but I'm an insomniac so if anything big happens expect it to remain updated nonetheless]

[A] 16d06h18m TM05's been tossed.

[A] 16d06h05m B-b-b-black out!

[A] 16d6h5m: And down goes the Fonz. Time to give it another go.

[A] 16d06h03m Lord Helix KOs himself and then.. out comes Fonzie, who brings in the surfing pain.

[A] 16d06h01m Helix just got murked by night shades and confusion, all the time attempting withdraws. Eventually manages a surf but it seems too late as he's confused again. And, yep, hits himself. Still got a bit of health left.

[A] 16d05h58m Umm.. darn? Zapdos got hypnotised and triple night shaded + critical dream eatered to death. The run's over, GG.

[A] 16d05h57m Out comes the painbringer. Thunders Gengar and.. misses. Whoops. Thunder probably wasn't the best option when Thundershock will probably do, as will Drill Peck due to Gengar's low Def. But alas, it's still in the bag.

[A] 16d05h56m Agathaaaa!

[A] 16d05h51m Third Hydro Pump! Machamp isn't quite KO'd but he MISSES with submission! Hydro pump and he's down! Bruno is down!

[A] 16d05h51m Follow up with a second Hydro Pump and Onix is down! Machamp time!

[A] 16d05h51m Instead out comes Helix. This is dangerous stuff because of his Rock typing and Hitmonlee's all offensive fighting moveset. But.. Hydro Pump! This should do it! Yep! Onix time!

[A] 16d05h50m In comes Fonzie, who goes in for a critical posion, but doesn't disable Lee. Lee foolishly uses Focus Energy though. If we can sneak in a surf he's probably a goner due to his low Special.

[A] 16d05h49m Remains to be seen whether that was good or bad! Out comes All Terrain vs Hitmonlee, and.. disables Hi Jump Kick!

[A] 16d05h49m Air is level 31 and trying to learn Confuse ray! Did so in place of.. Body Slam. Hrm.

[A] 16d05h49m Air triple surfs Hitmonchan, only takes an ice punch! Chan down!

[A] 16d05h48m Oh god.. Air Jordan can only use Strength a couple of times and gets rock throwed but.. ONE HIT KO'S ONIX WITH SURF! GET HYPED!

[A] 16d05h45m Out comes the Fresh Prince of Shell Air after Battery takes a slam. Hopefully his surf can do some damage here.

[A] 16d05h45m Bruno time

[Word in the grapevine is that it was Fonz and ATV though, which is fine. Yep! We're all good! Bruno time!]

[I believe we also switched a Pokémon to the top too.. which.. isn't so good]

16d5h43m We're now in Set mode. Boom.

[Unrelated] 16d5h41m: Wow, mind your own freaking business, "someone's voice".

[A] 16d5h39m We just surfed around Lorelei's arena. Don't forget, you can also surf and fish in the trophies!

[A] 16d5h38m Loralei just got completely whalloped by Battery!

[A] 16d5h29m: We blacked out from our battle with Bruno, and about to run back in there for our 19th attempt!

[Reader's Corner] If you like stats, there's also angrydraco's stream as well.

[A] 16d05h17m Bruno's up.

[Reader's Corner] XKeeper's posted his new live stat feed.

[A] 16d04h52m Lorelei's up, and ha, immediately switch out to Fonzie, so.. you know how this is going to go.

[Strategy] Changing to set mode instead of switch would make the Lorelei battle, at least, much easier.

[A] 16d04h42m Poisonpowder, obviously, doesn't work in this case. And.. indeed, ATV is down. Blacked out!

[A] 16d04h41m Ha, Wing Attack was disabled. Probably just means we'll die to confusion to be honest though.

[A] 16d04h40m After much deliberation, All Terrain tries to - nope, he hits himself with confusion again. And.. then.. uses disable. Glorious Suicide?

[A] 16d04h39m Golbat uses Wing Attack and almost takes down ATV in one hit. Its confuse ray is disabled. Does it seriously have Haze, Supersonic, Confuse Ray and Wing Attack? Come on, Agatha, seriously. Senile.

[Cheeky Pokémon Stadium announcer reference there]

[A] 16d04h37m Golbat uses supersonic, and.. "What's it doing? Down it goes!", Helix KOs himself from confusion.

[A] 16d04h37m Why the heck would Agatha teach one of her Pokémon, which mainly rely on putting Pokémon to sleep, Haze? Good lord that's bad planning. Anyway, out comes All Terrain, who could've really done with that Psybeam we passed up. And.. out comes Helix again.

[A] 16d04h36m Lord Helix gets confuse rayed, hits himself in confused and.. gets put to sleep. But instead of Dream eating it, Golbat comes out and.. HAZES? THAT WAS DUMB! HE'S AWAKE AGAIN!

[A] 16d04h34m Also, Fonzie's down. It's all down to ATV (who can't really do anything here) and Lord Helix now.

[A] 16d04h34m Gengar's out. Yeah, Earthquake would've been really useful for this. .. And also Loralei. And Onix. We really missed a trick.

[A] 16d04h34m Agatha time. Dun duh-dun dun!

[Fonz gloriously leveled to level 52 vs Hitmonlee btw. Thanks again /u/Sniffnoy!]

[A] 16d04h30m Man, Fonzie is good when he doesn't get instantly dicked by Lorelei.

[A] 16d04h30m Okay, yeah, Fissure didn't hit. ALL PARTY KO BY FONZIE. WOW. Bruno is down!

[A] 16d04h30m Oh god, oh god, oh god. Machamp tries a Fissure. Twice. Noooooo. Don't do that, Machamp. Please. Please don't do that. Three times. We're strengthing.

[A] 16d04h28m Out comes Raging Harden. And Fonzie jumps the shark, uses surf and hammers him down in one crit! Time for The Machamp!

[I feel a bit sad seeing Hitmonlee doing Hi Jump Kick, thinking of all the fun we could've had with C3KO]

[A] 16d04h28m Somehow despite lots of X-Defends etc, poison sting is actually being effective (thanks to Crits too) and we actually take down Lee.

[A] 16d04h27m Yep, down goes Chan and.. HA! Lee gets poisoned by poison sting. Not that that was the best move, though.

[A] 16d04h26m Christ almighty, these things have low SPECIAL. Surf is just tearing through them. Another hit and Chan should be down. If only we'd got Earthquake for the Fonz, he could be a monster!

[A] 16d04h24m The Fonz MUUURKS Onix with Surf! This is easier! Well.. until the.. hitmons..

[A] 16d04h24m Up comes Bruno. Haha, The Fonz is still alive.

[A] 16d04h21m Looks like Lord Helix might win this one. Lapras got paralysed against Air's body slam before and now, indeed, Helix takes down Lapras. Bruno time, but with water 'mons this time!

[A] 16d04h19m In comes Bird Jesus and takes a nice Blizzard to the face. Critically. Instantly faints. To be honest, I'm glad - rather not have to go through the rest of the Elite 4 without Battery.

[Also nice reminder: You can actually reach an unfixable gamestate if 2 or more of your Pokémon are frozen and you're left having to choose between them. It won't let you switch them out. Apparently.]

[Friendly Reminder] Pokemon that are frozen in gen 1 never naturally thaw out. Fire or status-recover only. Isn't Gen 1 wonderful?

[A] 16d04h17m Battery goes down.. and out comes Jordan.. who gets confused instantly.

[A] 16d04h16m And we don't switch! Lapras takes over half damage with Drill Peck and.. doesn't.. freeze.. NO IT FUCKING FROZE US. GROAOAORQOI£RWROIJEF

[A] 16d04h16m Slowbro gets taken down by a single thundershock and.. Jynx gets murked by a single Drill Peck! Woop! Just Lapras now!

[A] 16d04h14m Battery uses thundershock. It doesn't quite kill Restgong, but Lorelei foolishly uses a thundershock and we finish up with the second thundershock. We really need to use battle mode set.. Battery uses drill peck, gets hit by Cloyster's beam, and follows up with another to take it down.

[A] 16d04h14m Lorelei's up!

[A] 16d04h09m That was due to Battery's Take Down, btw.

[A] 16d04h09m DOUBLE KO FROM RECOIL. BLACK OUT!

[A] 16d04h08m Machamp finally takes down Bird Jesus. It's all down to Alternating Jesus now.

[A] 16d04h06m Machamp's down to less than half health now but this is really dragging on. Bird Jesus is taking his sweet time.

[A] 16d04h04m Machamp keeps focusing energy. Ha, doesn't that noob realise it divides his crit rate by 4 instead of multiplying in gen 1? What a scrub!!1!1

[A] 16d04h01m Raging Harden gets Alternate Jesus down to 12HP before being defeated by Drill Peck. Only Machamp is left now!

[A] 16d03h58m Raging Harden is down, and Bird Jesus follows up with a Rage against Chan. Bruno wisely uses X Defend (though perhaps that would be better given to Raging Harden 2: Electric Boogaloo) and Alternate Jesus is switched in, ending the birdrage and drill pecking Lee to death with an instant KO.

[New name idea for Onix: Raging Harden]

[A] 16d03h54m Should also mention that Onix missed with his original Rage, which means he's locked into missing mode forever. So.. we've definitely beat this Onix at least.

[A] 16d03h53m Bird Jesus is in Rage mode. All we can do now is sit back and watch.

[A] 16d03h52m Out comes Bird Jesus into Hardrage again. Could we end up with another Rage Against The Machamp scenario?

[A] 16d03h50m Bird Jesus gets swapped in against Hardrage, takes a bit of rage before Alternate Jesus comes out.

[BUT LIVE COMMENTATING EVERY ACTION IS FINE, RIGHT?]

[Reader's corner] /u/MrRonGalvan has irresponsibly posted a moderated drinking game. If only I had some booze and enough lack of self respect to sit alone drinking to Pokémon.

[A] 16d03h47m Zapdos hits Hardrage with a take down for barely any damage, and.. gets critically rock throwed down to flashing red! (That's still like 47hp, though; he isn't going down any time soon).

[A] 16d03h47m Hardrage keeps up the Harden front. Hasn't quite switched into Rage mode yet, but that's probably wise given the base damage Drill Peck can do.

[A] 16d03h45m Out comes Rock Throw. It always surprises me how little damage it does, but then again.. level 77 legendary. Battery attempts some thunder moves and HardRage uses his classic combo.

[A] 16d03h44m Bruno's up!

[A] 16d03h41m Loralei is down.

[A] 16d03h41m Lapras finally gets taken down by Zapdos. And, again, it's another rather futile battle against Ragix 1 and Ragix 2.

[A] 16d03h40m Battery uses.. Take Down. Ugh. Gets Blizzarded for some decent HP, but isn't frozen. [If anyone knows if the Elite 4 can't actually Freeze us or whether the chance is just that low we never see it, that'd be nice to know]

[A] 16d03h38m All Terrain Venomoth swoops in first, heading up the squad.

.. Gets body slammed.

.. Gets Hydro pumped. Okay, yeah, it's bird time.

[A] 16d03h37m Helix wastes more Hydro Pump pp, 'cause why not? And then goes down to a Hydro Pump. It's all up to the Aviation Squad now.

[That should've been Helix using Hydro pump earlier, btw, meaning we're on 2PP]

[A] 16d03h36m Lord Helix uses Hydro Pump twice and takes down Jynx, despite cheap Super Potion use. And.. NOW.. it's Lapras time rather. Also, Helix level 51!

[A] 16d03h35m Out comes Helix now as well. And withdraws twice. Come on, we just need ONE HIT. A third withdraw. Hell, at least we're winning at Bingo. Finally Slowbro gets taken down by a surf, but.. it's Lapras time..

[A] 16d03h33m Jesus is out against Slowbro, who has basically no HP, but mirrors growl. And if he uses it again, he'll be mirror- yep, mirrored withdraw. Great.

[A] 16d03h32m Now this is the story all about how Air Jordan misted, got took down.

[A] 16d03h31m The Fresh Prince of Shell Air actually does some damage, and he could win this one on his own! He uses strength and.. Slowbro is down to like 1 hit's worth of HP.

[A] 16d03h30m Finally we manage to switch out.. Air Jordan..

[A] 16d03h28m Fonz just, rather predictably, fainted. But Bird Jesus used Sky Attack which.. didn't even defeat Slowbro. :| . And gratuitous super potion use causes our effort to go to waste, and our NEXT effort too after two quick attacks.

[A] 16d03h27m That is, if we don't throw a Great Ball at him instead. Or.. two.

[A] 16d03h26m And.. yet again.. out comes the Fonz. Seriously, what is with the Fonz and Lorelei? He surfs, as usual. Luckily he's against Slowbro, who's pretty useless. In fact, he might actually defeat a Pokémon.

[A] 16d03h25m Dewgong opens with a weak Aurora beam. Battery uses Drill Peck unfortunately, but levels up to 77 nonetheless! That means next Dewgong should hopefully go down in a single thundershock! Cloyster time, and Cloyster falls to Thundershock too!

[A] 16d03h24m Lorelei's up. Light her up.

[Reader's Corner] /u/coreycubed:

we're calling that last KO "Rage Against the Machamp"

[A] 16d03h19m Sand Attack is used, which is definitely the right way to go if we hope to win with Mirror Move here. Unfortunately Confuse Ray causes Jesus to faint. Blacked out!

[A] 16d03h18m Gengar tries some Dream Eaters and.. we've run out of Sky Attacks :( . Gengar misses with a Toxic, but it doesn't look like there's much scope to win this battle given Gengar's moveset, short of a very lucky.. Night Shade?

[A] 16d03h17m Another Sky Attack and Chaaaarbok is down. We're flashing red though and only Gengar remains. Sand attack though! That's dece!

[A] 16d03h16m Haunter also takes the pure death that is Sky Attack.

[A] 16d03h15m So, Bird Jesus just did something useless, mirror moved, got confused and then killed Gengar with Sky Attack. A thankyou, a thankyou.

We're fighting Agatha! Didn't get a timestamp!

[Going to grab a drink, but I can predict what happens anyway. We spend 4 minutes wandering around Agatha, challenge her, use a bunch of moves that don't work, mirror move something useful and then kill Gengar with a sky attack]

[A] 16d03h07m Bird Jesus also levels up to 68.

[A] 16d03h07m Out goes Machamp and.. indeed! Rage! It tries Fissure. Loldumb. Jesus goes in for a second Rage and.. it uses Focus energy. More dumb. Rage takes it down! BIRD JESUS BEATS BRUNO!

[When you switch -> When they switch I mean]

[A] 16d03h06m Funnily though, Bird Jesus must have stupidly high attack after all this Rage, which could be useful at Machamp. I'm not sure whether it stops when you switch though? Onix is down, either way.

[A] 16d03h05m Bird Jesus manages to mirror Rage, and hilariously starts a Rage War against Onix.

[A] 16d03h03m Finally Battery shakes off his mortal coil, and our next bird is up.

[A] 16d03h02m Hitmonchan, too, goes down to a Take Down, but this is a risky strat. Luckily he changes to a Drill Peck for Hitmonlee. Time for Onix 2, which he's unlikely to survive.

[A] 16d03h01m After a jillion years of back and forths with rages and whatnot, Onix finally goes down to a takedown. Time for the double Hitmon waste.

[Reader's Corner] Some people keep asking which attempt we're up to. Mindez has made a rather nice document that shows all our attempts and how far we made it each time, here.

[A] 16d02h53m Onix manages to Rock Throw and Slam us, but we show him, with a swift Great Ball.

.. Oh wait.

[Lorelei, not Agatha. Derp]

[A] 16d02h51m Bruno is up. Out comes Battery, and Onix luckily misses with Rock Throw, but rather unluckily gets X-Defended, which covers all of the attacks we could feasibly land on him.

[A] 16d02h49m Bird Jesus lands a CRITICAL SKY ATTACK. Take THAT, Lapras. Agatha is down!

[A] 16d02h48m Lapras manages to get in a blizzard against Bird Jesus. This goddamn Lapras, guys. Bird Jesus uses the tried and tested "repeated sand attack" technique. I can't help but feel like that'd be really bad for Lapras. Like, it just doesn't look like it'd cope well with sand.

[A] 16d02h46m ATV is down! Helix is back in, but he keeps getting Hydro Pumped by Lapras and.. yes, he's no down too. It's all down to the Bird team again.

[A] 16d02h43m Air just got into a world of Body Slamming against Lapras and taken down, and ATV was switched back out again. And it was going so well!

[A] 16d02h42m Out goes the Lord. Before immediately being switched out for ATV, who takes a huge amount of damage in one hit. It's looking grim for him!

[A] 16d02h40m Lapras will probably land a Blizzard, unfortunately, which c- okay, no, out comes The Fonz. It just wouldn't be Lorelei if Fonz didn't get KO'd. He gets hit by Blizzard and CLUTCHES ON 1HP! GOOD LORD! Unfortunately, he only gets a second surf in and goes down to a second blizzard.

[A] 16d02h39m Critical, and Slowbro is down! Jynx should be up next, who'll take two hits and probably land an Ice Punch first. Battery uses thunderpunch and, indeed, ice punch hits Battery, before he finishes her off. Now Lapras!

[A] 16d02h38m Cloyster gets thundershocked! One hit KO! Next up is Slowbro! Ready for the OHKO pain?

[A] 16d02h36m Fighting Lorelei btw

[A] 16d02h37m In comes BATTERY JESUS, YEAHBOOOI. RESTGONG GOES DOWN IN ONE THUNDERSHOCK. Or.. no.. it.. actually doesn't. Lol. BUT IT'S DOWN NOW.

[A] 16d02h36m Woop woop, Anarchy comes back. May that be the last time we ever use Democracy!

[Strategy] No way are we fighting the Elite 4 in Democracy. Just sayin'.

[D] 16d02h35m I was about to facetiously post "If anything we're getting too much done", but then realised that we actually successfully switched Zapdos. So hurrah!

[D] 16d02h29m And, hilariously, nothing is really getting done fast. A Zapdos switch before Anarchy comes back is probably feasible.

[D] 16d02h25m Looks like democracy just kicked in!

[A] 16d02h17m Looks like people are trying to get Democracy in to switch Zapdos into first place and teach Mega Kick/Submission!

[Strategy] If Zapdos was at the front of our party, our Lorelei woes would go away, and Nidoking learning Submission/Mega Kick wouldn't be bad either.

[A] 16d02m05m Oh Jesus, oh.. Jesus.. Zapdos uses Take Down, beats Dragonair but.. defeats himself with Recoil. Black out

[A] 16d02m04m Another thundershock, and Dragonair only uses Dragon Rage. One more hit from a Dragon Rage and we're definitely gonners though, thanks to its fixed 40 damage.

[A] 16d02m03m YES! Drill peck! Dragonair is down! WE MIGHT ACTUALLY WIN THIS ONE GUYS.

[Amendment: Forgot to mention, Zapdos levelled up to 76 vs Haunter. Cheers /u/Sniffnoy]

[A] 16d02m02m Dragonair time. Aerodactyl shouldn't be a problem but these Dragonairs and Dragonite could be a real pain if we don't drill peck. Thankfully Dragonair gets paralysed, rendering his agility useless.

[A] 16d02m02m Haha, Gyarados. Good luck, mate. 1 Hit KO!

[A] 16d02m01m It's Lance time. Time to unmute the stream.

[A] 16d01h58 Gengar gets drill pecked and one hit kO'd! Agatha is thoroughly solo'd by Battery!

[A] 16d01h57 Haunter goes down to Drill Pecks, and.. Arbok, too goes down to a Drill Peck. Agatha is getting completely wasted!

[A] 16d01h56 Out comes Golbat! He takes Drill Peck damage, gets super potioned, but gets Drill Pecked again to death! But out comes Haunter!

[A] 16d01h54 Agatha is up! Unfortunately, Zapdos opens with a Take Down, which obviously does nothing, but DRILL PECK 1HKOS GENGAR!

[A] 16d01h52 Machamp goes down to another Drill Peck! Bruno is defeated!

[A] 16d01h52 Chan and Lee go down to Drill Pecks, and.. ONIX TOO, goes down to a Drill Peck, without Battery taking too much damage! We might actually beat Agatha!

[A] 16d01h49m Battery critically Drill Pecks Onix and takes him down! Out comes Chan!

[A] 16d01h46m Bruno time! Out comes Onix, versus Battery. It's going to be a long fight.

[A] 16d01h44m Okay, I made a proper Elite 4 Bingo now. Enjoy.

[A] 16d01h43m But.. Bruno time again.

[A] 16d01h42m The first Drill Peck takes off over half of Lapras's health, and a thunder finishes him off! Lorelei is down!

[A] 16d01h41m And Air is down too to a body slam! But Battery takes down Jynx with a literal Take Down. Only Lapras left!

[A] 16d01h41m And, indeed, ATV is down. It's all down to the Fresh Prince and AA-J now.

[A] 16d01h40m ATV follows through with a Jynx poison! Looks like he might not come out of this alive though!

[A] 16d01h39m Lorelei keeps cheaply using Super Potions. However.. ATV TAKES HIM DOWN! Woop woop!

[A] 16d01h37m ATV manages to poison Slowbro! And manages to leech him a bit. ATV could lose here!

[A] 16d01h36m ATV keeps getting growled again. With only 6HP he's about to go down any minute. ATV comes out again first though.

[A] 16d01h35m Lord Helix is down to a water gun!

[A] 16d01h32m Nope, out comes All Terrain. But, against this level 54 Slowbro it seems pointless. He uses amnesia and has.. withdraw disabled. Ugh.

[A] 16d01h32m Looks like Air Jordan's about to fall again.

[A] 16d01h30m Bird Jesus falls to a well placed Water Gun, and out comes Air Jordan.

[A] 16d01h29m Slowbro is actually doing something for once, consequently Lord Helix has to be switched in, who.. promptly uses Withdraw.

[A] 16d01h27m A second Sky attack, followed by a quick attack take down Cloyster!

[A] 16d01h26m Finally Bird Jesus comes out and Sky Attacks Restgong to fainthood after much deliberating!

[A] 16d01h22m Air comes out and nearly goes down to Restgong.

[A] 16d01h20m Bird Jesus comes out, but gets swapped out pretty quickly. Helix manages to get a critical hit in, but Restgong lives up to his name. Out comes Bird Jesus again.

[A] 16d01h17m The Fonz switches in yet again, and Dewgong sleeps. He's really not doing much damage, and things are going slowly. Eventually he takes off about 66% and goes down, but a Rest is surely in the works.

[A] 16d01h14m It's Lorelei time!

[Elite 4 Drinking Game anyone? Any time Dewgong uses Rest takes a shot. That's it.]

[Information] For those playing our exciting home game, this marks the 13th time we've blacked out and started over. Please keep your bingo cards handy.

[Snark] Great Balls sound like a great idea.

[A] 16d01h06m Great Ball shopping! 'Cause why not, right?

[A] 16d01h04m King Fonz used Strength! We can move boulders now... if there were boulders to move!

[Strategy] Again, switching Zapdos to the front would solve our Restgong troubles.

[Snark] How long, how long must we sing this song?

[A] 16d01h03m Night Shade. Black out

[A] 16d01h02m Out comes Zapdos for the thundershock sw- .. okay.. yeah.. Battery is down.. time to bring out.. paralysed.. 23HP.. Bird Jesus..

[A] 16d01h01m Agatha time. Thunder sweep, yeah?

[A] 16d00h58m Ugh! Used thundershock instead of Drill Peck! Submission! Luckily Flying type helps a lot and we hold on at 6HP. He can only take one more hit from anything that isn't Take Down now, so as long as we don't do that or miss a Thunder, we should win. Yep. Critical thundershock! Bruno down!

[A] 16d00h57m Alright, we actually really, really like using Thunder. Finally though, we get in a take down and Onix is down. 2 Birds, 1 Machamp now.

[A] 16d00h55m Out comes a double Drill Peck, and Ragix turns on Rage mode. Looks like he's screwed himself there unless we keep using these electric moves.. which.. we seem pretty content in doing, actually.

[A] 16d00h54m Out comes Battery Jesus again, to bring the.. ineffective.. pain. See if he can get the double Onix takedown. Except hopefully not literally with Take Down. Okay, no, yeah, he uses Take Down. Several times. Critting in fact. In fact, I take back what I said - this is going well! Except for a few Rock Throws his way.

[A] 16d00h52m Wait, there was a Hitmonlee? Bird Jesus takes it down quicker than the PC took down C3KO. But out comes Onix who.. gets Mirror Move rock throwed. If he can sand attack this could actually go pretty well. Instead he.. mirror moves harden.

[A] 16d00h51m Oh lawd, Bird Jesus just gets completely dicked by Hitmonchan. Thunderpunch paralysis and then double Ice Punch follow up. But.. Bird Jesus somehow mirror moves ice punch and critically defeats Chan! Lee's up!

[A] 16d00h50m BATTERY ACTUALLY TAKES DOWN ONIX AND LEVELS UP TO 75. IT'S BIRD PAIN BRINGING TIME.

[A] 16d00h49m Gosh darn it! Jordan is down, and only the birds remain! This can't end well!

[A] 16d00h48m The Fresh Prince is back in again. He can't quite manage to select surf though, just keeps on misting and body slamming. He doesn't even paralyse Onix either!

[A] 16d00h45m Oh, by the way, we're fighting Bruno. Air goes in, but doesn't use anything useful before.. ugh.. Battery Jesus.. is sent in..

[A] 16d00h41m Helix gets critical hydro pumped and is down! It's interesting to note that the "not very effective" text is broken in Gen 1 for dual type Pokémon, but the actual damage calculation IS done correctly. Out comes Battery with a critical Thundershock and Lorelei is defeated!

[A] 16d00h39m Out comes Helix, who takes down Jynx.

[A] 16d00h38m ATV paralyses Jynx and then paralyses her Thrash. Pure chins. But he goes down. And out comes Bird Jesus for round 2.

[A] 16d00h37m And just in time, in comes Battery. Takes down Cloyster in one fell swoop. (Or.. one fell thundershock, more precisely). Follows up with the old 1-2 to take down Slowbro too. Out comes ATV to fight Jynx.

[A] 16d00h36m Bird Jesus comes out! This might be our key! He .. STARTS GLOWING! GETS AURORA BEAMED BUT THAT ISN'T TOO BAD. SKY ATTAAAACK. YEAHBISH! RESTGONG IS DOWN! Level up!

[Reader's Corner extract] "That narcoleptic Dewgong" - /u/Hammaria

[A] 16d00h34m ATV comes out and poisons Restgong. Out comes The Fonz again though. More switching.

[A] 16d00h31m More Reddit Switcherooing, but we still haven't managed to get Battery into pole position. Air Jordan's out again. We haven't really wasted any important PP or HP on Restgong yet though.

[A] 16d00h30m Helix goes in again. But then Fonz.. and then Air.. looks like we're trying to get the Exp Share experience here.

[A] 16d00h28m Lorelei time again!

[Strategy] /u/Lunares has made a thread about switching Zapdos to the front of the party. Given he's the way we always end up beating Lorelei, it seems sensible.

[A] 16d00h18m Battery would've fallen to Ragix's massively boosted Attack, but he crits, so his stat boost is gone! TWICE! 1HP CLUTCH! But.. thunder.. Black out.

[A] 16d00h16m Ragix is doing decent damage now, and Battery just keeps using electric moves. It looks like he won't even get to the Hitmons.

[A] 16d00h14m Battery lands a Take Down, which.. does very little damage, and takes recoil. It would help if he'd switch to Drill Peck.

[A] 16d00h13m Battery keeps up the electric "assault" on Ragix. The Rage, as usual, does very little damage.

[A] 16d00h11m Battery uses an ineffective Thundershock. A sign of things to come, perhaps?

[A] 16d00h11m It's Bruno time.

[A] 16d00h05m Bruno time. AKA double Onix time. GG.

[A] 16d00h04m Yep, in comes the fury. Battery messes up Cloyster, Slowbro and Jynx, and barely takes any damage in the process. Finally Lapras, and.. blizzard hits.. does it freeze? Nope. Lapras is wasted. Lorelei is defeated

[A] 16d00h03m Helix manages to hold onto 1HP, but eventually falls. It's all down to Battery now. And.. again.. Bruno is next, though I have no doubt Battery is about to execute all of Lorelei's team individually and painfully.

[A] 16d00h02m Helix is struggling as he's stuck in a clamp. He still can't do substantial damage to Cloyster either. It looks like Red's trying to switch in Zapdos but he's really struggling.

[Welcome to the 17th (and possibly final?) day]

[A] 16d00h00m All Terrain Venomoth proves that he perhaps isn't so suited to the Icy terrain of Lorelei's arena, and almost faints to Cloyster, but not before Stun Sporing. Just.. after it. Only Battery and Helix remain, and out comes Helix, throwing out more Hydro Pumps.

[A] 15d23h58m A couple of Aurora Beams, and The Fonz faints. Out comes.. Helix again. Dewgong has barely any health and.. CRITICAL HYDRO PUMP. RESTGONG IS FINALLY DOWN!

[A] 15d23h57m Restgong Takes Down Lapras. Out comes All Terrain Venomoth, before.. out comes The Fonz. Restgong is asleep again, but his Fury Attack doesn't do huge amounts of damage, nor does strength. ALTHOUGH! He takes off 75% damage eventually, before.. Restgong.. rests..

[A] 15d23h55m Out comes Air, who gets Take Downed, before Body Slamming Dewgong. He doesn't manage to paralyse, before switching to surf, and.. goddamn Restgong uses his standard move again.

[A] 15d23h55m Lord Helix uses a Hydro Pump. Dewgong rests and Omastar uses a CRITICAL hydro pump, followed by a critical surf. Lorelei has to use a second potion before.. Lord.. Helix.. withdraws..

[A] 15d23h54m Alas, Dewgong uses rest. And out comes the Fonz, who critical Poison Stings, but barely does damage. We go back to switch mode. It just wouldn't be Lorelei if Fonz didn't faint!

[A] 15d23h53m UGH.. CRITICAL HORN ATTACK! IT'S SO CLOSE! AND LORELEI USES HORN ATTACK, NOT A SUPER POTION. IT ISN'T OVER YET!

[A] 15d23h53m Bird Jesus mirror moves Dewgong, cutting his attack with Aurora Beam. He takes another hit though and.. HE'S GLOWING FOR A SKY ATTACK.. but gets critical Aurora Beamed. Alas. In comes.. Lord.. Helix.. again.. Rest time if we can't switch.

[A] 15d23h51m And Bird Jesus goes out! He takes an Aurora Beam, but.. whatever, right? Jesus does the classic Sand Attack offense, and makes his pitiful Aurora Beam miss. Showing why he is our Messiah. A SECOND sand attack, and Aurora Beam misses AGAIN! Where's your ice STAB now, Dewgong?

[A] 15d23h50m Lord Helix does NOT waste his Hydro pump pp! Instead he horns attack into a rest and then cleverly critically horn attacks. He follows up with a surf, and Dewgong only has 50% HP! If he can switch out now, Dewgong might not rest!

[A] 15d23h49m .. And immediately after posting that strategy we walk in a perfect path right up to Lorelei and challenge her. It's on!

[5* Strategy] Let's play properly this time guys.

[Information] For those playing our exciting home game, this would be black out #11, I believe.

[Reader's Corner] /u/draconicalvara suggested that teaching Mega Kick or Submission would be a good idea to teach to The Fonz since he keeps getting murked by ice types and fighting>ice. I should point out though: Mega Kick is a normal type move.

[A] 15d23h40m Helxi has no hydro pumps left, and brings up the Withdraw defense himself. Meanwhile Lorelei cheaply uses a super potion, tssk. More Hydro Pumps since Lapras apparently doesn't care about his own PP and then we black out.

[A] 15d23h39m Bird Jesus takes a tonne of damage from Blizzard, mirror moves a critical blizzard but doesn't do anything overly substantial, before being blizzarded into KO. It's all down to Helix now.

[A] 15d23h38m Out comes Air. Lapras vs Lapras here, and.. the enemy Lapras uses Body Slam. Luckily, the Fresh Prince isn't paralysed or taken down, but he only uses mist.. twice.. and is then critical body slammed into Submission. Only our god and Messiahs are left now, and out comes Bird Jesus.

[A] 15d23h37m Lapras gets thundershocked but then completely murks Battery with a blizzard. ATV comes out and disables its body slam, but then kills himself with confusion.

[A] 15d23h35m Battery follows up with the second thunderbolt, defeats Jynx and.. ATV IS TRYING TO LEARN PSYBEAM.. BUT DOESN'T! NO!

[A] 15d23h35m Jynx is too busy thrashing to use ice punch, so this could be in the bag as long as Lapras isn't too much of a pain.

[A] 15d23h34m Jynx doubleslaps the heck out of All Terrain, who disables her body slam. She goes in for the thrash though and absolutely ganks ATV. He redisables Body Slam after it's undisabled and switches back to Battery after having only 5HP. That's still enough to beat Dragonite though!

[A] 15d23h33m Battery absolutely nails Cloyster with a thundershock, and follows up with another one leaving Slowbro with.. a sliver of HP.. before critical thundershocking. Unfortunate order. We manage not to trade out and.. thundershock takes off a bit over half of Jynx's health but.. CRITICAL ICE PUNCH! Battery has less than half HP! And out goes ATV!

[A] 15d23h32m Air manages to do a fair bit of damage, but Dewgong, yet again, rests. Aha! Battery Jesus is finally out and.. THUNDEEEER! GODDAMN DEWGONG GOES DOWN. Exp for EVERYONE.

[A] 15d23h31m In comes Air, and Dewgong with his Rest combo has still barely taken any damage, despite taking out all of Helix's Hydro Pump pp, half of Air's HP and KO'd Fonz. Will Fonz ever survive past Lorelei?

[A] 15d23h29m Out comes ATV though, again, laying on the status conditions, which Dewgong sleeps on again.

[A] 15d23h29m Finally out comes Battery! He takes an Aurora Beam but the tradeoff isn't so bad!

[A] 15d23h28m The Fonz is Aurored to death but.. ATV comes out and stun spores Dewgong, who rather predictably rests again. If only enemy PP was counted in Gen I.

[A] 15d23h27m Again with the Fonz. Really, if Battery Jesus was in that slot we'd have so fewer problems. But out comes Helix again, and wastes his fourth Hydro Pump. Dewgong uses his standard response.

[A] 15d23h25m Out comes All Terrain, and Dewgong rests again.. before.. Helix comes back in and wastes his third Hydro Pump, this time actually missing with it. He horn attacks before Dewgong rests again.

[A] 15d23h24m Lord opens immediately and wastes his first Hydro Pump. Dewgong rests and Helix follows up with his second Hydro Pump. Out comes.. ugh.. Bird.. Jesus..

[A] 15d23h23m After some attempts to teach Submission, we're finally back at Loralei. And it's oooon!

[A] 15d23h07m Battery continues the Thunder assault, while Onix uses his Harden strat. If we so much as touch Take Down we're down. But, alas, Onix uses Slam and we black out!

[A] 15d23h06m Ouch! Critical Thundered! That's gotta hurt Hitmonchan! And Hitmonlee is followed up with another Thunder! Battery Jesus levels up to 74, but it's Onix time again, indeed.

[A] 15d23h06m Battery takes down Onix, and is in Drill Peck mode, which is handy! (Especially since using Take Down now would be a self KO). Hopefully we can get some Drill Peck Exp from the two Hitmons at least before the next Onix comes out and wrecks us.

[A] 15d23h04m .. Unfortunately, Battery Jesus repeatedly thundershocks until he only has 2HP left. At this point Glorious Suicide isn't so much of a bad idea though, given how bad Lorelei went. If only Battery Jesus was at the bottom of the party, Lorelei would've gone so much better the last 3 times.

[A] 15d23h03m Zapdos uses takedown, which is a risky strategy, but leaves Onix on practically no HP. Another hit and then it's down for the Fighting Triple KO hopefully.

[A] 15d23h02m More Drill Pecking action, and more Raging. Rage hits crtiically this time, but it still does barely any damage. Onix is down to about half health, but.. even if we can scrape through this battle, we're sure to lose against Agatha.

[A] 15d23h00m Out comes Onix who.. CRITICALLY ROCK THROWS BATTERY JESUS, WHO CAN ONLY THUNDER IN REPLY. It looks like it's all over now. Onix is only hardening too, which will really ruin our ability to Drill Peck. Indeed, barely a scratch. Onix is only Raging though.

[A] 15d22h59m Bruno is up!

[A] 15d22h56m Though I wouldn't celebrate yet - Battery Jesus is the only one who remains and he has to fight 2 Onixes right now.

[A] 15d22h55m Out comes Battery and takes down Jynx with a well timed Thundershock. He follows up for a thundershock versus Lapras before getting Blizzarded. Luckily, he isn't frozen, follows up again and Lorelei is defeated.

[A] 15d22h53m Air goes down almost instantly as Jynx thrashes around. It's all down to Battery now!

[A] 15d22h53m But Helix gets critically Ice Punched to death, and it's down to Air.

[A] 15d22h52m And finally the dope goes down to a surf, but it's Jynx time. Neither combatant really has the advantage here, as Ice Punch will be normal against Helix, and water moves normal against Jynx.

[A] 15d22h50m Critical Horn Attack again, and Slowbro's left on practically no HP. But yet another Super Potion comes out. Helix goes in with another surf, and Slowbro can't survive another hit (possibly another horn attack), but he does some decent damage to Helix too.

[A] 15d22h48m Ugh.. Helix Horn Attacks Slowbro, leaving it with just a sliver of HP, but he gets Super Potioned, and follows up with a water gun which does a fair bit of damage to Helix.

[A] 15d22h47m Lord Helix goes in with another surf, but Slowbro's holding up pretty well. We still have Battery and Lord though, so things aren't too grim, but Jynx is still up yet. Another Surf and Slowbro is nearly down.

[A] 15d22h43m **We throw an Ultra Ball at Slowbro. Nice try guys.

[A] 15d22h43m Ultra Ball hype! Obviously this move is useless though, and Lord uses his fourth Hydro Pump amidst Withdraws from either side.

[A] 15d22h42m Helix uses his third Hydro Pump! Only two left at this point. He takes down Cloyster, and Slowbro comes out.

[A] 15d22h41m Cloyster Clamps the Helix Incarnate, and keeps him unable to fight back. He uses his second hydro pump, and it actually does a fair bit of damage, but not enough. This run seems doomed.

[A] 15d22h40m Ugh.. Bird Jesus gets switched in. Of all the things. Aurora Beam takes off a fifth of his health and he.. uses mirror move and critically Aurora Beams Cloyster. It does very little damage. He gets Aurora Beamed twice more, gets critted and falls. Out comes Helix.

[A] 15d22h38m The cursor is over Battery Jesus again but.. alas, we overshot and.. Bird Jesus almost got sent out just now (which is about the worst thing we could do). The Fonz uses surf though, and Aurora Beam knocks him out. YES! Battery is out and takes out Dewgong with a single thundershock as per usual!

[A] 15d22h37m Dewgong gets a critical hit [I assume with Aurora Beam, back now], and takes down ATV. Unfortunately, The Fonz is back out.

[A] 15d22h36m Battery brings out the Drill Peck pain but doesn't quite take Dewgong down. His only chance to avoid all the ice moves here is to switch to Thundershock but.. alas, we switch to ATV and Dewgong rests immediately. [Brb, choking on something]

[A] 15d22h35m But we overshoot and out comes ATV. Luckily Dewgong uses Rest again, which gives us another chance and.. YES! OUT COMES BATTERY!

[A] 15d22h34m Helix is switched back in and Dewgong, clasically, uses rest again but.. ugh.. Helix uses some Hydro Pump PP, which immediately gets eaten by Dewgong Resting as The Fonz switches in again and uses another surf. Battery really needs to come out!

[A] 15d22h33m Out comes Helix, and luckily switches to Surf. Wouldn't want to waste those precious Hydro Pumps! Dewgong uses rest and.. YET AGAIN we switch into The Fonz, who uses Surf. What's next: Two Aurora beams again?

[A] 15d22h32m Lorelei is up! Can we keep our.. cool?

[A] 15d22h25m Intermission over! Time for attempt #10!

While you are waiting, why not listen to Helix

[A] 15d22h21m [Stream is down for a bit once again.]

[A] 15d22h20 Battery hits with Thunder! He switches to the more sensible Thundershock for Golbat and criticals, taking him down too! Unfortunately.. he uses Take Down a couple of times against Haunter, and hurts himself in confusion, before.. BEING EXACTLY KILLED BY NIGHT SHADE! BLACK OUT!

[A] 15d22h20m Battery Jesus is finally out. He hits Gengar with a Thundershock, who can only reply with a Dream Eater. Looks like this Gengar's in the bag at least.

[A] 15d22h18m Now out comes Air, who gets immediately confused, and then defeated immediately with a Night Shade. It's all down to Battery Jesus now. Looks like we can't win anymore.

[A] 15d22h18m Air Jordan is OHKOed by Night Shade. :(

[A] 15d22h17m Out comes Gengar, and Lord Helix 2.0. He gets Night shaded, but not before Hydro Pumping which.. doesn't.. actually.. do that much damage (a bit under 50%). He gets put to sleep and then dream eatered twice. He's KO'd and Gengar gets half his health back!

[A] 15d22h17m Eventually Red overcomes his existential crisis and gets on with the task at hand. It's Agatha time!

[Snark] Seriously guys, are we going to spend more time trying to get to Agatha than battling her?

[A] 15d22h13m Drill Peck takes him down and Bruno is defeated!

[A] 15d22h13m Lord Helix switches to the.. somewhat questionable Horn Attack tactic now, which doesn't do masses of damage, and Machamp starts focusing energy. Battery Jesus is switched in though! He doesn't stand a chance! He attempts a FISSURE, WOW that was a good switch!

[A] 15d22h13m Don't even play Onix, you know you don't stand a chance. He goes down in one with another surf. Mass destruction on the battlefield here, and Machamp is up!

[A] 15d22h13m Lord Helix defeats Onix with one Surf!

[A] 15d22h11m Go on Helix! He goes up against Hitmonlee with ANOTHER CRITICAL SURF AND TAKES HIM DOWN IN ONE!

[A] 15d22h11m Helix levels up and is trying to learn Hydro Pump! He learnt it in place of WATER GUN!

[A][A] 15d22h10m Lord Helix levels to 49!

[A] 15d22h10m Hitmonchan seems very fond of Ice Punch, which is odd considering how weak it is versus Air Jordan. Lord Helix goes in to finish the job, gets mega punched critically, but Helix's rock typing protects it to some extent. He follows through with a CRITICAL surf for the KO!

[A] 15d22h09m Hitmonchan gets X-Defended, but also Body Slammed for paralysis! Lapras follows up for the 1-2-3 Body Slam, before getting Ice Punched for.. just 2 damage! Perhaps this wasn't a bad choice after all! A fourth body slam!

[A] 15d22h08m Out comes Hitmonchan, and we send out Air, who.. may not be the wisest of choices for this battle. Much Secret Key consultation occurs.

[A] 15d22h08m Lord Helix comes straight in with the standard Water Gun one hit KO versus Onix.

[A] 15d22h07m Lord Helix defeats Onix with Water Gun.

[A] 15d22h07m Once again, we walk swiftly in for the Bruno battle. Bruno is up

[A] 15d22h06m And thundershock doesn't kill him in one! But.. blizzard does a great deal of damage! Luckily no freezing though! One last thundershock and Lapras is down. Lorelei is defeated!

[A] 15d22h05m Versus Jynx now, who doesn't have a type weakness to thundershock but DOES have a type advantage with Ice Punch! She does some decent damage but a second thundershock takes her down. Lapras is up!

[A] 15d22h05m Battery Jesus is just dealing out the pain now, as he follows up with another thundershock to take down Slowbro. He levels up to 73.

[Update] I meant to say Thundershock, sorry. Minor correction.

[A] 15d22h04m Out comes Battery Jesus to shed some blood. One thundershock and Dewgong is down. He follows up with a second thundershock to take Cloyster down in one too.

[A] 15d22h4m Dewgong knocks out ATV, only to fall to Battery Bird's Thunder. :D

[A] 15d22h04m Dewgong rests again, and All Terrain comes out. ATV attempts a couple of disables to no avail and uses stun spore once again before.. DEWGONG CRITICAL TAKE DOWNS ATV AND HE'S DOWN.

[A] 15d22h01m And, indeed, Dewgong rests again. Air barely scratches Dewgong with a surf, and follows up with a strength which is.. equally as useless. He throws in a second strength for good measure but it looks impossible for him to beat Dewgong.

[A] 15d22h00m Out comes Lord Helix, and.. again.. out comes the Fresh Prince, who.. also paralyses Dewgong with another Body Slam, but, again, it seems a bit futile thanks to Rest.

[A] 15d21h59m All Terrain manages to paralyse Dewgong, before switching out for Air. He rests though, curing the condition. Doesn't look like Air Jordan can fix this mess.

[A] 15d21h59m ATV Paralyzes Dewgong with Stun Spore.

[A] 15d21h59m Bird Jesus critical Aurora Beams Dewgong with Mirror Move twice, but it's extremely weak, and his own type weakness to Aurora Beam looks like it's going to doom him. He clutches at 7hp before charging up a sky attack.. but never gets to deliver it as he's down!

[A] 15d21h57m Abba Jesus is sent in, and waves of sand descend upon Dewgong. Aurora Beam is doing quite a number.

[A] 15d21h58m All Terrain is obsessively disabling Dewgong now. Even if he lands a status move, it's going to get rested away. Bird Jesus is traded into though, and Dewgong critically take downs! Would've been good, but the recoil was actually pathetically small. Bird Jesus uses a bit of sand attacking.

[A] 15d21h56m But just as things were going well, All Terrain Venomoth gets switched in, but DISABLES AURORA BEAM. This could go alright after all!

[A] 15d21h55m Out comes the Fresh Prince and gets Take Down'd. Luckily this means a fair bit of recoil damage, which we follow up with a Body Slam. Unfortunately no paralysis. Battery Jesus gets switched in now and.. takes a bit of damage from Aurora, but nothing too major.

[A] 15d21h54m Yet again, The Fonz is switched out, to be sacrificed to the ice Pokémon. Two Aurora Beams and he's down.

[A] 15d21h53m Lord Helix finally opens with his first move, and, indeed, Dewgong uses Rest and falls asleep to heal up that minimal damage. Helix gets his Withdraw on.

[A] 15d21h51m Out comes Dewgong, and predictably uses Rest again.

[A] 15d21h51m It's Lorelei time again!

[A] 15d21h45m BUYING LOTS OF ULTRA BALLS TO PREPARE OURSELVES FOR THE BATTLE. GO TEAM.

[A] 15d21h42m And we're back.

15d21h4..(something?)m The stream is down for a bit! Time to get snacks.

[Battle] 15d21h38m: Surprise! We actually took out two of Agatha's mons by pure luck, and then proceed to get put to sleep and then put to sleep (by blacking out). EXP gaining is fun!

[A] 15d21h38m Haunter isn't KO'd instantly, but he is paralysed! Battery Jesus is asleep though.. for two turns. Arbok switches in and bites. Black out.

[A] 15d21h37m Holy Hemiola, Bird Jesus comes in and one hit KOs Gengar AND Golbat. It's a bloodbath!

[A] 15d21h37m Checking out the Pokémon graves for rather a while. Perhaps foreshadowing to the coming battle? Eventually Red sums up the courage to have his Pokémon subjected to the torment of 2 Gengars.

[Who are you, LittleKurbioh?]

[Snark] We don't stand a ghost of a chance.

[A] 15d21h33m Goes without saying though, it's a 5HP Battery Jesus versus Agatha, Lance and Blue now. It doesn't look like this could possibly be the winning run, but at least we overcame Bruno!

[A] 15d21h33m He comes in for the Drill Peck and BEATS MACHAMP! BRUNO IS DEFEATED!

[A] 15d21h32m Unfortunately though, it was only a matter of time until Onix 2, who gets critically drill pecked for over half HP, but gets X Defended twice. These attacks aren't doing so much anymore! We get 2 more in, but it's going to take 2 MORE AND.. NO, ROCK THROW, BUT IT DOESN'T WIN! 5HP! AND ONIX HARDENS! BATTERY JESUS ACTUALLY BEATS ONIX!

[A] 15d21h31m And a second drill peck in a row! Hitmonlee is down too!

[A] 15d21h31m Hitmonchan's out, and takes a body slam to the face. He's paralysed too! Could really go with those sweet, sweet STAB surfs though, but alas, Air is down. It's all down to Battery Jesus now, who still has the type advantage for the Hitmons and Champ, and indeed, he takes down Chan!

[A] 15d21h30m But alas, Air uses Body Slam, and it doesn't even par- wait no, it just happened after his rage rose. Onix is paralysed and now.. surfed! Onix is down! Air levels up to 29!

[A] 15d21h29m Finally out comes Air Jordan, but Rage is actually doing a fair bit of damage now it's been going for a while. Air's really going to have to user surf sometime soon or it could be a double wipeout from Onix.

[A] 15d21h28m More rages, more futile thundershocking and more drill pecking until.. HA, we throw a couple of balls at Onix. Pro strategies.

[Reader's Corner] "..or just say thundershock correctly" - Cheers for that.

[A] 15d21h26m It's a good thing Onix is stuck in Rage mode, because he's doing very little damage. He's not doing as laughably poor as Giovanni in the Rocket Game Corner, but at the least he's buying us some time, as we appear to try to switch back to the Fresh Prince.

[A] 15d21h25m And, indeed, Onix does very little damage with Rage. UNfortunately, the Fresh Prince uses mist and then.. NO. BATTERY JESUS IS BACK OUT. Luckily only against Rage, but.. still. Things look bleak!

[A] 15d21h24m The battle's going quickly slowly, as it appears the hivemind is trying its best to try and switch to Shell Air! And we manage it! It remains to be seen whether this will be a fruitful endeavour, but it's better than doing no damage and risking Battery Jesus, surely?

[A] 15d21h21m Much secret key consultation occurs, before we use yet another useless thundershock. Luckily Onix only X-Defends.

[If I ever say thunderbolt, I mean thundershock]

[A] 15d21h20m This really isn't looking good. We have Battery Jesus who can only hit with Take Down, which does recoil damage and isn't effective, or Drill Peck, which has STAB but is still not very effective. And we open with a thunderbolt. Drill peck only does about a 5th damage.

[A] 15d21h19m Straight up to Bruno without even stopping to smell the.. rocks?

[Implying we have strategy in battles]

[Strategy] From /u/didhe, some other ways to take advantage of Gen 1's straightforward AI. Of course, easier said than done.

[A] 15d21h17m Out comes Battery Jesus and takes down Lapras with one swift thundershock! We win!

[A] 15d21h16m Out comes Lord Helix, and takes some Hydro Pumping action down to low health. He keeps up a water gun front, but it's really not doing too much damage until.. Hydro pumping takes him down!

[Reader's Corner] /u/Calabazal has made a recap video for today.

[A] 15d21h14m Lapras is up, gets quick attacked but takes down Bird Jesus with a single blizzard!

[A] 15d21h14m Out comes.. ugh.. Bird Jesus, who uses.. Mirror Move. All bad things. He takes an ice punch for nearly half his health and resorts to a Sky Attack. Luckily Jynx gets super potioned so he's down! He's lost a good chunk of health thanks to that ice effectiveness though!

[A] 15d21h13m CRITICAL thunder shock! But he takes an ice punch! Things aren't looking good for Battery Jesus, but at least he's taken down a good chunk of Lorelei's mon's. He gets switched out for ATV, who gets ice punched.. to death.. critically! In one. Sadface.

[A] 15d21h12m We just lost a whole bunch of recoil damage for nothing, but a Drill Peck almost lays Slowbro to left. He's left with a sliver of health, until Battery finishes him off with another peck and levels up to 72! Jynx out!

[A] 15d21h11m Battery Jesus uses take-down, and we don't really want to be stuck using that thanks to the recoil. Really messed us up versus Lance! Another take down though, and more recoil! And slowbro is healed with a super potion!

[A] 15d21h10m Ugh, critical Aurora beam does some real damage, but thankfully we critical drill peck and follow through with another for a quick takedown. We ideally want to be stuck on a thunder move though! Luckily we approach Slowbro, who's more interested in Amnesia than ice moves.

[A] 15d21h09m The Fonz squeezes in a critical surf, but, alas. He falls to the first 'mon. But out comes Battery Jesus! As long as he can keep thundershocking we're in! And it's a good start - he thundershocks Dewgong, who's down in one! Out comes Cloyster!

[A] 15d21h08m We unfortunately switch into The Fonz, and this can't go well. He uses surf, and gets Aurora beamed for over half his HP. If we don't switch again he's a gonner for usre.

[A] 15d21h07m Out comes Dewgong, versus Lord Helix as usual. Will he use Rest again? Yep! Rest strat never appears to fail him, but likewise, Helix seems intent on using withdraw.

[Snark] I guess Dewgong is already a bit bored of seeing us every few minutes, since he tried to go to sleep right at the start. Have some respect!

[A] 15d21h05m Approaching Lorelei (whose name I can now spell, thanks guys). It's on.

[Strategery] Or we can just blow it all on Ultra Balls, I guess. RIP money. (Also I guess /u/Alex_Rose will continue the live updating and yrs. truly will occasionally interject with fun facts and tidbits at random)

[Sign-off] Unfortunately I have to depart, but as always, thank you for putting up with me! Thank you as well for the supportive PMs and other corrections! /u/Alex_Rose will take over from here! See ya!

[Strategy] I know that buying and using items is something of blind luck, but we do get some cash every time we beat up the E4 members and there's a shop on the way in...

I apologize, I said Dragonair used Aurora beam earlier, when it should've been Hyper beam! Thanks /u/dark494 and /u/malukow for the correction!

[A] 15d20h54m Aerodactyl supersonics, and King fonz is confused. Aerodactyl bites, King fonz hurts itself in confusion, Aerodactyl hyper beams and takes out King Fonz. SO CLOSE! Red blacks out, back to the Poke Center

[A] 15d20h54m Aerodactyl out next for Lance. Secret key consulted for wisdom multiple times' we Drill peck and take Aerodactyl to ~60% health. He bites and AA-j is taken out! King Fonz in next

[A] 15d20h53m Dragonair out next We thundershock but it takes off only 25% HP. AA-j is down to 21hp after an aurorabeam. We thundershock again and take out Dragonair! Another dragonair up next. We drill peck and OHKO the next dragonair!!

[A] 15d20h53m Here we go. We thundershock out of the gate and OHKO Gyrados!!

[A] 15d20h49m AA-j is confused, but we still manage to take out Golbat with a thunder attack! Haunter is out next for Agatha. We thunder immediately, and OHKO Haunter! Arbok up next We use thunder again and OHKO Arbok! Gengar up next! We thunder, but it misses! Gengar night shades and takes a ton of HP off of AA-j. We thunder and take down Gengar! Agatha defeated!! On to Lance!

[A] 15d20h47m AA-j takes down Gengar with consecutive thundershocks! AA-j levels up to 71

[A] 15d20h47m Agatha up next! With most of our pokemon down, however, I can't say we stand a great chance

[A] 15d20h43m King Fonz uses strength to take out Machamp! Bruno down!

[A] 15d20h42m Fury attack is nearly useless on Machamp; we consult our inventory for wisdom before trying posion sting; it misses. We then Surf, before switching in Air Jordan. He's OHKO'd by a submission attack! King Fonz in next

[A] 15d20h39m We use strength a few times to not much effect. We fury attack but it's basically useless! Same for poison sting. We finally surf and finish off onix in 1 hit! Machamp up next

[A] 15d20h36m Hitmonchan up next for Bruno. We take it out in 2 moves with 2 water guns! Hitmonlee next. We horn attack, it's not too effective and takes ~25% hp off. We switch in King Fonz, who misses a fury attack. We surf, and take Hitmonlee down to almost no health. One poison sting is all that's needed to finish him off! King Fonz levels up to 51. Onix up next

[A] 15d20h35m Bruno is next! Onix is out first for him. Omastar uses a water gun to OHKO Onix!

[A] 15d20h32m Jynx is up next for Lorelei and we take it down to barely any HP in 2 consecutive surfs. AA-j comes in to finish it off. Lapras up next for Lorelei! AA-j thundershocks it down to half health; a blizzard by him takes AA-j down to half health, but we manage to finish it off in 1 move. Lorelei defeated!

Omastar levels up to 48

[A] 15d20h30m Slowbro is out next; Omastar surfs 2 times, but it isn't as effective on Slowbro. Luckily we take out Slowbro in 4 consecutive turns with 4 consecutive surfs! We take minimal damage

[A] 15d20h28m Omastar clutches with 3 water guns and a horn attack to bring Cloyster down to barely any HP, but Lorelei uses a super potion. Then a surf to bring Cloyster to the same HP as before, but another super potion is used on him. We finally manage to take out Cloyster with a Surf

[A] 15d20h27m ATV doesn't do much to Cloyster, who is then taken out in 3 moves by Cloyster. Omastar in next

[A] 15d20h25m We sky attack Cloyster to bring him down to half health; He then takes out Bird Jesus. Dragon Slayer is in next

[A] 15d20h25m Omastar took a few HP off of Dewgong, but is switched out for King Fonz. Who is switched out for AA-j. Who is then switched out for Bird Jesus. We sky attack Dewgong and take it out in 1 hit!

[A] 15d20h22m We're back to Lorelei!

[A] 15d20h18m Air doesn't stand a chance against Gengar. He's badly poisoned and hit by a night shade and a confuse ray; he quickly goes down/ Red blacks out, and back to the Poke Center we go

[A] 15d20h17m A swift Night Shade takes off almost all of Air's HP and then he's confused. He still hasn't managed to do any damage yet, hurts himself with confusion, gets hit by strong toxic poison and clutches on 4hp.

[A] 15d20h17m Air Jordan tries.. strength.. a couple of times.. which isn't really helping his cause and.. ugh.. Toxic. Even if we survive now, we probably can't even walk to Lance.

[A] 15d20h15m Dragon slayer is taken down in 2 moves, by 2 night shades

[A] 15d20h15m There is a slight hope in this battle, in the form of this paralysis status condition. Gengar's has Night Shade, but often tries to first use Dream Eater, which requires him to hypnotise us first. Air Jordan could take the win here on a fluke, but Agatha may have potions left.

[A] 15d20h13m Two night shades in a row and Battery is gone! Only Air Jordan and ATV are left now, and ATV comes out. Paralyses Gengar though! But it seems all hope is lost now.

[A] 15d20h12m Yes! AA-j takes down Arbok in 3 moves! Out comes Gengar, but AA-j is fully paralized and takes some damage from Gengar. AA-j goes down! Dragon Slayer is out next!

[A] 15d20h13m Zapdos gets paralysed by a glare from Arbok, but takes it down with a Drill Peck. Finally out comes the final Gengar, versus a paralysed Battery Jesus!

[A] 15d20h11m AA-j takes out Haunter with 2 swift thundershocks! And then takes out Gengar with 2 consecutive thundershocks and a drill peck! Next is Arbok

[A] 15d20h11m Out comes Battery Jesus and takes off half of Haunter's HP in once swift Thundershock and then follows up with a poorly timed critical, and takes him down. Another thundershock to Gengar, who is now paralysed, and another thundershock follow up! He takes a night shade, but finishes Gengar off with a Drill Peck!

[A] 15d20h10m We seem pretty insistent on switching, conserving our mighty Dragon Slayer for the time when he's needed is a good idea, but incredibly unlikely to occur. Instead he goes into the fray with Gengar, who.. gets switched out for Haunter.

[A] 15d20h09m Out comes the mighty Dragon Slayer, but he can't poison anyone in this battle, and with his leech life he's unlikely to do any damage to anyone!

[A] 15d20h8m Omastar goes down to Gengar

[A] 15d20h08m Out comes Gengar again though, who only uses a Dream Eater but.. manages to confuse Lord Helix.. WHO WAKES UP INSTANTLY to another Dream Eater. Unfortunately he only uses withdraw before a Night Shade kills him in one!

[A] 15d20h7m The secret key is consulted a few times. Omastar is taking damage; Omastar becomes confused but manages to knock out Golbat with 2 well-timed Surf moves!

[A] 15d20h07m After much deliberating and slow horn attacking, Lord Helix has very little health left and is left confused by a supersonic. He almost takes himself down, and Golbat is low on health too.. until a super potion is used! LORD HELIX REPLIES WITH SURF AND.. GOLBAT ALMOST KOS UNTIL.. YEP, FOLLOW UP WITH A KO.

[A] 15d20h04m Out comes Gengar, but gets immediately switched for Golbat, who loses half his health almost immediately to a couple of well placed water guns.

[A] 15d20h4m Agatha time.

[Agatha - Derp]

Just broke 100,000 viewers on the stream!

[A] 15d20h01m Omastar levels again. But it's time for Loralei, who could cause major trouble.

[A] 15d20h01m Machamp is so pumped right now. Goes in for another submission but all this withdrawing actually paid off as a strategy! Machamp's having to leer, and he slowly gets horn attacked.. UNTIL THE WIN! BRUNO IS DEFEATED!

[A] 15d19h59m Helix comes in with a surf and takes down another Onix with a second One Hit KO. More withdrawing, which isn't a terrible idea versus this Machamp, and Machamp's submission misses. His second one.. isn't too damaging thanks to the withdrawing!

[A] 15d19h59m Omastar gloriously OHKO's Hitmonlee! And then OHKO's Onix!

[A] 15d19h58m Lord Helix is vehemently withdrawing again. The good old "withdraw a lot and then switcheroo" trick. Hitmonlee can't land a hit though, and falls to a single surf!

[Another correction: I somehow said Jynx thunderpunched rather than ice punched. Dunno how I managed that one]

[A] 15d19h56m Just missed about a minute as my stream keeps cutting out, but I gather that Hitmonchan just got murked and Lee has taken his place.

[A] 15d19h55m Omastar grows to level 46

[A] 15d19h55m Onix comes out, and Lord Helix laughs him off. Water gun and he's down in one. Hitmonchan comes out, fighting moves or a thunderpunch could be disasterous for Lord Helix.

[A] 15d19h53m Here comes Bruno again!

[Typo: said Bolt instead of Shock down there]

[A] 15d19h54m Loralei defeated (again).

[A] 15d19h54m Battery Jesus comes straight in with another Thundershock, instant Slowbro takedown. Follows up with a critical thundershock on Jynx, but gets critically thunderpunched! Jynx is down to a second thundershokc though, and.. Lapras is almost down to thundershock again, Blizzard misses and BATTERY JESUS WINS!

[A] 15d19h52m Air actually manages to get Cloyster down to low HP, before a super potion is used, but succeeds again! Finally, Battery Jesus is switched out and takes it down with a swift Thunderbolt!

[Side-note] Those beautiful battle animations tho. BLUE forced our animations back on! Definitely improving watching the battles.

[A] 15d19h50m The Fonz is down. Out comes the Fresh Prince of Shell Air, who surely can't hope to do much but - manages to paralyse Cloyster with a weak Body Slam at least!

[A] 15d19h49m He uses a surf.. and loses more than half his health to Aurora beam, but this cloyster appears to have rather defense as he brushes off a poison sting. In goes a fury attack and.. indeed, does rather little damage. He's still got over half his health and.. 6hp clutch!

[A] 15d19h47m In comes quick attack and takes down Dewgong, but this whole attempt seems doomed now. Another Aurora beam takes down Bird Jesus. Let's just hope Battery Jesus and ATV aren't selected. And.. ugh.. it's The Fonz.. who also has weakness to ice!

[A] 15d19h46m But out comes Bird Jesus, because, why not, right? He fails to mirror nothing and then gets ready with a Sky Att- AND OH NO AURORA BEAM, but it doesn't do too much damage. Sky attack lands and a SECOND Aurora beam CRITICALLY OH GOD, CLUTCH AT 10HP, THIS IS BAD!

[A] 15d19h45m Lord Helix gets in a critical surf, which.. only takes off about 2/5s of Dewgong's health. Dewgong rests, which allows Lord to withdraw even more! His defense must be stupidly high at this point.

[A] 15d19h44m Out comes Dewgong, faces our great lord and.. attempts to rest? Interestingly. Although, it can't actually fall asleep with full HP. A second rest is attempted, meanwhile our lord repeatedly withdraws. Not a terrible move, but lots of the attacks here will be special!

[A] 15d19h43m Here we go again! Red straight up to Loralei and challenges her from behind!

[A] 15d19h41m The stream's about to hit 100,000! Basically doubled in the past hour! Not had this many viewers since Giovanni!

15d19h36m Bird Jesus is our light, how can we prevail if the enemy has our tactics?! Outlook is grim.

[Snark] Hey Blue, at least our Pidgeot doesn't know Whirlwind any more! Pfft!

[A] 15d19h35m And just like that, we're dead. BACK TO THE POKECENTRE!

[A] 15d19h34m: Aaaand All Terrain Dragon Slayer gets murdered in the third round against BLUE's Pidgeot.

[A] 15d19h34m Guys, that music. That music is playing. Out comes Blue's own Bird Jesus, and.. wing attacks. Clutch! (If only we'd taught Jesus that one). We fail a disable and.. oh god.. Pidgeot is using Sky Attack. And.. we disabled whirlwind!

[Snark] Moment of irony: Pidgeot, our second strongest Pokemon, obliterating Venomoth.

[A]15d19h33m The entire godcrew, and it's the ATV that mows down the hardest Pokemon. Who knew?

[A] 15d19h34m Time to face Blue! We.. surely can't win? Surely?

[A] 15d 19h 31m: Elite 4 defeated. With only ATV left. I'm seriously surprised, that was an amazing victory.

[A] 15d19h33m: "I can't believe my dragons lost to you" yeah, neither can we.

[When I said STAB before I obviously meant Type Advantage, typo]

[A] 15d19h31m: Neither can we Lance... Neither can we

[A]15d19h31m ATV levels up to 37 btw!

[A]15d19h31m: We actually beat dragonite. I'm absolutely fucking stunned right now...

[A] 15d19h31m DRAGONITE IS DOWN! TIME FOR THE POKÉMON CHAMPION!

[To elaborate, Barrier is Dragonite's Psychic move, which it thinks has STAB against ATV, so he just keeps on using it!]

[Fun Factoids!] Generation 1's AI is programmed to always use super-effective types, even if those aren't exactly damaging. Needless to say this causes hilarious situations as seen here.

[A] 15d19h30m Apparently, Dragonite only uses Barrier and Agility against poison types! It looks like this is actually in the bag!.

[A] 15d19h29m More Leech Lifes! It seems absolutely bizarre, but Dragonite is completely stuck in Barrier mode! He's down to about half health now! We could actually win this.. and.. HYPER BEAM IS DISABLED, HAHA!

[A] 15d19h27m Critical leech life does basically nothing again, but every little counts at this point. It's seemingly increasingly likely that Dragonite's just going to Hyper Beam our faces off.

[A] 15d19h26m YES! Our only hope here was poison power and perhaps a well aimed disable, and stupid move choices from Dragonite! We have the poison powder sorted, and he just keeps using barrier! We could fluke this one, but it'd be really difficult!

[A] 15d19h24m Critical slam takes down Jesus! It's all down to ATV now! It's unlikely we stand a chance against Blue at this point, but can All Terrain save a bit of face and beat this Dragonite? Probably not! He opens with a barrier and leech life does.. absolutely minimal damage.

[A] 15d19h23m SKY ATTACK.. ALMOST DEFEATS DRAGONITE! CLUTCH! BUT LANCE HYPER POTIONS! SKY ATTACK'S USED AGAIN AND DRAGONITE ONLY AGILITIES.. SKY ATTACK.. MISSES!

[A] 15d19h22m Outcomes Aerodactyl! Bad typing here, but Sky Attack takes off 2/3rds of its health, but it crits us! Clutch! But our second Sky Attack takes it down! Dragonite comes out! MISSES WITH SLAM!

[A] 15d19h21m Bird Jesus uses the tried and tested Sand Attack technique. Dragonair's just using agility for now, but Jesus mirrors it. This might help later on, but who can predict? Another critical! This time a quick attack! And dragonair is almost defeated! Follow up with another quick attack and Dragonair is down!

[A] 15d19h21m CRITICAL SKY ATTACK, HOLY SHIT. DRAGONAIR GOES DOWN IN ONE HIT.

[A] 15d19h20m Bird Jesus mirrors Dragon Rage, which's fixed 40 damage is just not enough to beat Gyarados, who clutches, but a second mirrored Dragon Rage takes him down. Out comes Dragonair!

[A] 15d19h20m Zapdos hits with a CRITICAL takedown, defeating himself! It's all down to the original Jesus and ATV now! Bird Jesus goes out, mirror moves nothing and gets Dragon Raged (luckily).

[A] 15d19h19m .. That is, if it can use the right move! He uses Take Down, getting recoil TWICE, and doesn't even defeat Gyarados with them! He takes a Hydro Pump and is really clutching at this point. Finally though he follows with a third take down.. BUT MISSES. AND A HYPER POTION WAS USED. Things aren't looking good!

[A] 15d19h17m Out goes Bird Jesus against Lance's Gyarados. But immediately, pretty foolishly, The Fonz is switched out into a Hydro Pump, and instantly falls with the huge power and STAB. Out comes Battery Jesus, who has a 4x advantage against this opponent!

[A] 15d19h16m Dragon pokemon may be superior, but you haven't seen the likes of Bird and Battery Jesus, Lance.

[A] 15d19h16m Red on autowalk makes the most progress he's ever made in one go since the Underground. And walks straight up to Lance unfazed. It's on!

[A] 15d19h15m Gengar Dream Eaters and falls to Battery Jesus, who levels up to 70! AGATHA IS DEFEATED!

[A] 15d19h15m Battery Jesus follows up with a drill peck and a thundershock! Takes down Arbok too! Out comes the level 60 Gengar, which.. gets critically thundershocked! One more might win us this! And.. no! Gengar clutches and receives a super potion! Twice!

[A] 15d19h14m Out comes Battery Jesus and takes down Golbat with that type advantage, and follows up to take down the first Gengar! Haunter comes out but.. Thunder misses, and Battery's confused, but follows up with a second thunder, CRITICALLY, AND TAKES DOWN HAUNTER!

[A] 15d19h13m Gengar foolishly chooses a night shade and takes yet another surf hit, but Agatha switches in Golbat, which takes down our Fresh Prince.

[A] 15d19h12m Out comes Nike Air. Luckily, Night Shades do fixed 56 damage from this Gengar so he doesn't fall instantly. He does get confused though, but still manages to land a couple of good surfs. Clutches at 6hp and follows up with a third surf!

[A] 15d19h11m Out comes the first Gengar! Lord Helix immediately comes out with a Horn Attack, which obviously can't hit! He's already been confused too, and continues trying the Horn Attacks! Hasn't killed himself yet, but STILL Horn Attacking until.. he falls to a Night Shade!

[A] 15d19h10m After a little wandering, Red's pumped himself up enough to challenge Agatha. Bring on the Gengars.

[A] 15d19h8 Lord Helix gets switched out for The Fonz, who beats him with a swift surf! Bruno is defeated!

[A] 15d19h7 Machamp attempts a one hit kill with Fissure, but falls short. We quickly check Lord Helix's stats. Yep - still alive. He follows up with a surf and almost defeats him! Yes! X-Defend! If we can just land one more Surf Bruno is down!

[A]15d19h5m Helix takes down Hitmonlee with only 21 health left! Another Onix sent out and the Secret Key is vigorously consulted.

[A] 15d19h3m Starting off the Bruno fight with Helix versus Onix. Helix KO's Onix with water gun! Bruno uses some X Defends on a Hitmonchan but Helix takes him down as grows to 45! Hitmonlee sent out.

[A]15d19h2m AA-J OH'KOs Jynx and Slowbro AND Lapras with thunder!! Lorelei defeated with hardly any hits to our party at all!

[A] 15d9h0m AA-J takes a bit of damage fighting Dewgong but KO's Dewgong and grows to 69! Cloyster sent out and Cloyster is OH'kOed as well by AA-j!

[A] 15d 18h 56m: Back to Lorelei and we're fighting Dewgong.

[A] 15d 18h 53m: Stream's back.

[Reader's Corner] Ah, my mistake. I forgot Agatha had two Gengars and assumed I had just gotten confused. Turns out I was right the first time: AA-j did take down the first Gengar. I knew something was fishy there, sorry guys.

[A] 15d 18h 48m: Stream paused.

[A] 15d 18h 47m: Red blacks out! Apparently, Gengar was just withdrawn, not defeated, and Agatha switched the Arbok out for Gengar to finish us off. View numbers as a reader requested: 68,103 right now, having risen from about 48k when we started earlier. We uselessly heal at the Indigo Plateau Pokemon center, but, you know. That's a cheery tune.

[A] 15d 18h 45m: AA-j clears Haunter with a OHKO of Drill Peck! Arbok is out, AA-J uses Thunder, but missed! AA-j goes down. Only sleepy ABBA is left.

[A] 15d 18h 45m: AA-j takes down Golbat with Take Down. Haunter out next.

[A] 15d 18h 43m: Things aren't looking good. AA-j is weak and ABBA sleepy. AAAA goes down. Then AA-j surprises us and flatlines Gengar! Golbat is out next.

[A] 15d 18h 38m: I think Gengar is being controlled by an alternate universe Twitch. He just keeps using Dream Eater, uselessly.

[A] 15d 18h 37m: Gengar's out first. Abba and the spiritual beast exchange a few blows, then we consult the secret key. Why won't you reveal your secrets!

[A] 15d 18h 35m: After all the excitement, we check Bulbasaur's cry a dozen times or so just to make sure it's still the same. Ghost master Agatha is up, and probably ready to rock us.

[A] 15d 18h 33m: AAAAA takes down Hitmonlee! AAAAA grew to level 50! Then OHKO'd Onix with Surf. Bruno's last Poke up, Machamp. A couple surfs from AAAA take him down. RED defeated Bruno, first try!

[A] 15d 18h 32m: ATV, Air taken down by Hitmonlee's speedy kicks.

[Snark] Hey guys, we can afford to get Gastly out now!

[A] 15d 18h 31m: Omastar takes down Hitmonchan. Then falls on the first round to Hitmonlee.

[A] 15d 18h 29m: Bruno's first poke, Onix, down to Omastar's surf. Omastar levels up to 44. Had a chance to learn Spike Cannon, but we refused.

[A] 15d 18h 27m: Lorelei defeated! Onto Bruno, which just started.

[A] 15d 18h 24m: AA-j will not suffer a Dewgong to live. Ain't catching no shut-eye on AA-j's watch, Dewgong. Slowbro's out. And Slowbro's down to AA-j's Thunder. Lapras out, AA-j smashes him.

[A] 15d 18h 23m: Red's up against Lorelei once more. Omastar's ready to fight, but Dewgong would rather take a nap.

[A] 15d 18h 16m: On Lapras and this AAAAAAA is our last Poke. Blizzard from Lapras wipes him out on what looks like about 1 hp left for the enemy. I'm sure they're reposting that gif on their side to /r/loreleidefeatstwitch. We black out again, having taken down 4/5 of Lorelei's pokemon and gained 2 levels.

[Side-note] Wouldn't it be nice if we could put battle animations back on? That'd be cool.

[A] 15d 18h 6m: ABBA, AA-j die to blizzards from Lapras. So close but yet so far.

[A] 15d 18h 4m: AIIIIR grew to level 28 as we took down Dewgong with AA-j! Then AA-j clears Cloyster in one shot! Slowbro is out. Slowbro cleared in one shot with AA-J! AA-J levels up to 68! Jynx is out. Jynx taken down on the 2nd round with Take Down! Lapras is out! AA-j takes a strong Blizzard and dishes out an ineffective Take Down. That was nuts.

[A] 15d 17h 55m: Blacked out again! Lorelei's Lapras too stronk.

[A] 15d 17h 50m: Stream froze for a bit, and when it resumed, we were on Jynx. Jynx goes down to a mirror-moved double-slap which seriously rocked her shit from ABBA. ABBA goes down to Lapras in the first round.

[A] 15d 17h 47m: AA-j takes down the Dewgong, giving hefty XP to AIR and AAA, but no levels.

[A] 15d17h46m: Back to Lorelei. If we just keep this up for a day or two, we should steamroll the E4.

[A] 15d 17h 41m: Red blacked out! Back to Indigo Plateau. Now the grind has truly begun.

[A] 15d 17h 40m: And AA-j goes down to a Slowbro. ABBA was taken down by that Cloyster at around 15d 17h 32m. Omastar is our last, and about to go down.

[A] 15d 17h 37m: AA-j takes down Cloyster with Drill Peck. Slowbro comes out.

[A] 15d17h35m: Venomoth gets taken down by Cloister, but not before poisoning it. Zapdos is back out.

[A] 15d 17h 31m: Lorelei's first poke, Dewgong, dies at the hands of ABBA. ABBA levels up to 66. Cloyster's up next, and it's not looking hot. AAAAAAA, Air both down on our team.

[Politics] Also anarchy mode took over about 5 minutes ago, oops

[Battle] 15d17h27m: Sup Lorelei. Fightin' time.

[Movement] Hello and welcome to Indigo Plateau. Take your shoes off, you'll be here a while.

[Party] 15d17h19m We heal our team at the Indigo Plateau.

[Movement] Smell ya later, Victory Road. (There's a small amount of stuff left before the Pokemon Center and Indigo Plateau proper, but that shouldn't be too much of a problem, hopefully.)

[Location] 15d17h10m VICTORY ROAD IS DEAD AND GONE, HELLO ELITE FOUR!!

[Agreement] I second /u/Xkeeper's statement. This is our finest hour.

[Commentary] I think it's honestly pretty amazing that democracy went from being fairly disorganized and often overshooting everything, to a collaborative effort that utilizes waiting to do more precise maneuvers. Really shows how far things've come.

[Battle] 15d17h6m: Nidoking steamrolls the Juggler with a flurry of Critical Hit Strength moves. You can all resume breathing.

[Party] 15d17h5m: Nidoking levels up to Level 49.

[D] 15d17h4m Oh no. We've encountered a rogue Juggler, with a team of what seems to be four psychic-type pokemon, and Surf is out of PP. Our fate is in the hands of destiny (and Democracy) now...

[Battle] 15d17h2m: Whoops, took a wrong turn and ended up in front of a trainer.

[D] 15d17h0m Still in Victory Road, we've completed the final switch puzzle! This is easily the most impressive use of Democracy ever documented on TPP. King Fonz is going strong, and the end is almost in sight!

[Strategy] Just a reminder that, while the boulders reset, the blocks themselves apparently stay deleted if you wipe. So if you solved the puzzle once, you shouldn't have to do it again. (There's a lot of confusion about this, understandably.)

[D] 15d15h40m: Just in case anyone is lost and doesn't know what to do, here's a map detailing where we need to put the boulders. Thank you to /u/JayCKey for the graphic. http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/2769/y57r.png

[D] 15d15d12m: The chat seems torn about what to do: some are attempting to use strength, others just forced us to exit the menu entirely.

[D] 15d15h2m: With a massive influx of votes, we switch to democracy. Just in time for a battle, too.

[A] 15d14h46m: Lapras goes down to a wild Zubat. Nidoking comes in to clean up the mess, but we run.

[A] 15d14h43m: We used the max revive on Nidoking! Zapdos has also fainted while fighting a wild Machop.

[A]15d14h37m: We've also picked up a max revive. The chat erupts into war over getting back into democracy so they can actually use it.

[A] 15d14h36m: The scale tips and once more we are plunged into anarchy.

[Things We've Missed] Thanks to /u/TitaniumShovel, /u/void165, and /u/anyonethinkingabout for the information: we fought a cooltrainer, leading to Lapras becoming paralyzed, Zapdos growing to level 67, a full heal was used on Lapras but he was then put to sleep, after which we defeated the cool trainer. Zapdos was poisoned by a wild Venomoth, Democracy came into effect as of 15d14h6m, and we went down to level 2 of the cave.

[D] 15d14h14m: TM 17 has just been found, which contains Submission!

[D] 15d14h12m: Sorry for the delay in updates. Twitch has gone into Democracy mode, ostensibly to make some real progress.

[A] 15d13h44m: (before I leave) AIR is now level 27 (thanks /u/void165!).

[Meta] Right, it's 2am here and I'm about to pass out at the keyboard... hopefully another updater is available to take over. For now, see you all later!

[A] 15d13h44m: King Fonz has fainted, leaving us only two remaining Pokemon: AA-j and AIR.

[A] 15d13h39m: Battling another whip-wielding COOLTRAINER. Surely there's some kind of authority Red can contact to report the Pokemon abuse that's going on here.

[A] 15d13h34m: Anarchy is back in and Red takes a relieved look through his Pokedex. Must be like crack to him by now.

[D] 15d13h26m: Bird Jesus has just fainted from a stubborn Miley Cyrus who wouldn't let us use the tried and tested bdownrighta escape :'(

[D] 15d13h21m: We've been on Democracy for over an hour - surely Red must be having Bulbasaur's cry withdrawals by now.

[Strategy] Here's the puzzle map again - we're on number 3!

[D] 15d13h18m: We're on the 3rd floor!

[D] 15d13h11m: Talked to the trainer we just defeated: "You earned the right to be on Victory Road!" Understatement of the century.

[D] 15d13h9m: Picked up Full Heal!

[D] 15d13h7m: Almost reached the ladder for the 3rd level, but overshot on Lefts and are now battling a trainer holding a whip. Surely it's not legal to whip your Pokemon...

[Bad pun] Red is making some serious progress. The only explanation is that the holy Helix must have died for our wins.

[D] 15d12h51m: Just solved the first boulder puzzle on the 2nd floor! The 'wait' command in Democracy is becoming incredibly useful.

[D] 15d12h42m: We've done it! AIR just used Strength! Knew he'd be useful for something ;)

[D] 15d12h27m: I'm not sure when it happened but Helix has fainted :(

[D] 15d12h15m: Democracy has been voted in and the hivemind seems torn between getting into position in front of the boulder or using Strength (reminder: we can use Strength anywhere, it doesn't need to be next to a boulder!)

[A] 15d12h9m: Red is pacing around the second level trying to get Strength selected. Godspeed (or should I say Helixspeed).

[A] 15d12h3m: We're on the second level of Victory Road! Reminder: here's the boulder puzzle map.

[A] 15d12h3m: Just defeated COOLTRAINER, and Bird Jesus just got to use Sky Attack for the first time! It was awesome.

[A] 15d11h36m: We've reached Victory Road cave and although the boulders have reset, the pressure plate from the puzzle we've already solved has gone! So we can go straight through.

[A] 15d11h29m: We've succeeded in Surfing and are now approaching the cave, but appear to have stopped to fight a wild Ditto who has sinned by transforming into Lord Helix.

[Strategy] Here's an updated strategy map for the upcoming Victory Road puzzles!

[A] 15d11h24m: Back to Anarchy and currently trying to Surf up to Victory Road.

[D] 15d11h7m: We've made it past the ledge again and are now heading up towards Victory Road! Huzzah!

[D] 15d10h53m: Democracy comes into power.

[A] 15d10h51m: Red views his badge collection once more, as though to reassure himself that despite how many times he falls off the ledge, he still deserves to be here.

[A] 15d10h46m: Helix and King Fonz just tag-teamed a lvl 3 Rattata and gained a whopping 8XP each. Thought the silliness of it all deserved an update.

[A] 15d10h39m: Trying to get past the Victory Road ledge now.

[A] 15d10h24m: Back in Viridian City... but not before talking to a young lad on Route 1 cruelly reminding us that "ledges are scary". Foreshadowing?

[A] 15d10h12m: Current goal is heading back to Victory Road, but we're having a bit of trouble leaving Pallet Town atm. There's no place like home, eh Red?

[A] 15d10h4m: Scratch that - we still have the Secret Key in our inventory. That's it, though.

[A] 15d10h3m: Just deposited ALL our items! No more accidental jazz flute solos from Mr Red.

[Sign-off] Alright guys, pulling this all-nighter has been fun, but I must get ready to head off to classes now! Thank you for putting up with me for a while xD Also, thank you guys for the kind PMs and strategies you guys have sent me! It's always fun doing this :) /u/thecardigan will take over from here! See ya!

[Strategy] I've gotten a few PM's about the possibility of going back to Red's PC and storing the Poke Flute. Frankly, I agree with this strategy, because it will significantly increase our chance of success later down the line when we get into trainer battles

[A] 15d9h4?m Anarchy has returned

[D] 15d9h36m King Fonz has been taught HM04, Strength! It learns it in place of Focus Energy! ^{thank helix hm moves cant be forgotten!}

[D] 15d9h29m Democracy has returned!

[Reminder] HM04 is Strength, and the goal is to teach it to The Fonz to make it easier to do boulder puzzles in Victory Road.

[D] 15d9h25m: Current goal seems to be to try and teach Strength to King Fonz!

Including the Poke Flute.

[A] 15d9h8m I did make a mistake on that original list; nevertheless, after a 2nd trip to withdraw items from Red's PC, all items are now withdrawn. Taken out the second time are: Poke flute, HM04, potion, super rod

[A] 15d9h3m Potion, moon stone, super rod, secret key, SS ticket, card key, HM03, Silph scope, Town map, HM01, Lift key are all withdrawn. ^{If I made a mistake on this list, please let me know!}

[A] 15d8h59m We heal at our house.

[A] 15d8h51m As Red wanders throughout his house, I can't help but wonder what he must be thinking; perhaps he's reminiscing about his life, before all of this madness started a little over two weeks ago? Before the voices started, before the journey, the sorrow, the loss, the ambitions, the dream of victory...

[A] 15d8h41m We have landed in Pallet Town!

[A] 15d8h32m Anarchy has returned as King Fonz propels us northward!

[D] 15d8h28m Welcome aboard King Fonz cruise lines, Red will be your captain today!

[D] 15d8h18m Democracy has returned, as we stand on the dock of North Cinnabar Island, watching the waves move back and forth

[Poll Results] Given the results of the recent straw poll, I think it's obvious that Bird Jesus is here to stay! Landslide victory!

[A] 15d8h6m Red attempts to re-enter the Cinnabar gym, I bet he wishes he didn't leave the key back in Pallet Town

Apparently I missed it, but King Fonz leveled up to 48 after the Cooltrainer battle. Thanks /u/Sniffnoy for letting me know!

[A] 15d7h58m We respawn back on Cinnabar Island! Chaos ensues!

[A] 15d7h58m King Fonz is taken out by a Graveller's self destruct. Red blacks out!

[A] 15d7h48m We find ourselves battling a cooltrainer! Bird Jesus goes down against a Persian! King Fonz annihilates it in one move with Surf. Next, a Ninetails comes out for Cooltrainer; King Fonz easily takes it down in 2 moves with 2 consecutive surfs! Cooltrainer defeated!

^{I'm sorry about my terrible formatting :(}

[Poll] Which name do you prefer for Pidgeot? Bird Jesus or God Bird? Answer in this Straw Poll!

[A] 15d7h42m God Bird hits level 65! Having 5 PP on Sky Attack feels like Zeus with a limited supply of lighting bolts

[A] 15d7h36m Anarchy has returned

[D] 15d7h31m Bird Jesus has successfully learned Sky Attack in place of Whirlwind!

[Strategy] See all of Operation: Lord of the Skies AKA Sky Attack HERE

[D] 15d7h25m TM43, Sky Attack, acquired!

[STRATEGY] We're 1/6th there! See the full plan HERE

[D] 15d6h52m Hoorray! We've put the boulder in its proper place!

[Terrible joke] The grind is so long, we could make enough flour to last us a lifetime!

[D] 15d6h42m Nothing of note has really happened other than our party being on its last legs. /u/MrDudeMan12 creates the Official Petition to Change TPP to Twitch Plays Tony Hawk Pro Skater since the grind is so long

[D] 15d6h10m So close, but yet so far.... We pushed the boulder against a wall so that it was impossible to push down. Back to square one!

[D] 15d5h47m: Back inside and Strength has been selected again (already!). It's worth noting that the multiple-command system (putting leftrightdown etc) has caught on and has worked really well in solving this puzzle in Democracy.

[D] 15d5h43m: We managed to move the boulder the right amount of spaces... but then overspammed 'downrightup' and ended up back outside, resetting our progress. Sigh.

[D] 15d5h43m View the state of the party HERE!

[D] 15d5h41m: With Democracy in power we've managed to get Strength selected and are making a solid effort at moving the boulder!

If you're looking for entertainment during this hugely exciting grind, the Choir of Helix has released another tune here.

[A] 15d5h18m Democracy is in power. Another chance for democracy to use strength. To get a grasp on your lag, you can look up your time in UTC here and compare it to the UTC on the stream.

[A] 15d4h37m Switched into Anarchy. Still attempting to use strength and/or black out, as we only have Bird Jesus and the Fonz left.

[D] 15d4h33m Heading right back to Anarchy as Democracy is STRUGGLING with these battle menus. You have to compensate for the lag: assume at least 20 seconds.

[D] 15d4h27m Democracy has returned.

[A] 15d3h57m Golbat comes in like a wrecking ball, but Abba says he can't stop, and leaves.

[A] 15d3h55m We leave Victory Road, and all our hard work has been undone nothing has changed.

[A] 15d3h54m Sand-attack has no PP left. Just about sums it up really.

[A] 15d3h48m Our current party status

[A] 15d3h45m We run away from another encounter. Classic grinding.

[A] 15d3h26m Terrified by the rapid speed of progress made by Democracy, TPP has returned to Anarchy.

[D] 15d3h23m Like all great democracies, voting has taken us down a blind alley. Here is the map, in case you're lost.

[D] 15d3h17m Wondered why this battle was taking so long. It's because we're on Democracy

[A] 15d2h59m We've left Victory Road again, oh no! Now all those boulders we moved will be reset! Oh wait...

Top Gear top tip: when Democracy kicks in, refresh your stream to make sure you're as synced as possible.

[A] 15d2h32m Anarchy is back by the way

[D] 15d2h29m When Helix was nearly dead Democracy chose Withdraw rather than an attack or running. I'm not making any insinuations. Draw your own conclusions.

[D] 15d2h20m We suffer a total eclipse of the 'Star, as Tony Manero Helix faints.

[D] 15d2h20m Democracy has taken over. Sneaky.

[A] 15d2h17m Omastar levels up to level 43

[A] 15d2h7m Red checks his items several times. But there are no items anymore! This must be how Gollum felt after Bilbo picked up the Ring.

[A] 15d1h52m: Apologies for not updating, but we managed to get Strength selected, move the boulder twice... before leaving the cave and resetting progress. Ah, well.

[Snark] TPP has flip flopped more between Democracy and Anarchy in the past half hour than a pancake.

[A] 15d1h30m After failed a-start interaction resulting in talking to the rock we wanted to move rather than accessing the menu, Anarchy is back.

[Strategy] Due to an error, here's a link to the updated strategy map to get through the current boulder puzzle.

[Day 14/15 Recap] If you're interested in catching up to what Red's been up to in the last 24 hours, look no further than this audio recap! (Thanks /u/ThePokeMessiah!)

[Strategy] /u/ZSaberLink has made a handy image that shows how to solve the boulder puzzle once we get Strength selected.

[D] 15d1h20m: Democracy again and the first prompt we vote in is 'Start'. Making progress!

[A] 15d1h9m: AIR has fainted to a particularly aggressive wild Miley Cyrus.

[A] 15d1h5m: Red checks the Pokedex entry for Charmeleon in a depressing turn of events.

[A] 15d0h53m: Helix is at lvl 42 now (I missed it woops, thanks /u/Sniffnoy)

[A] 15d0h46m: Anarchy is back and the first thing Red does after a quick battle is consult the Pokedex. Ah, Anarchy.

[D] 15d0h43m: Having a lot of trouble with the Start menu and it looks like Anarchy is about to come back into power after only 5 minutes of Democracy. Will Red ever be able to get through Victory Road?

[D] 15d0h41m: It seems most people want to move back towards the boulder. Reminding you all again, this isn't necessary because we can be anywhere in the room to select Strength.

[D] 15d0h38m: Democracy is back but the hivemind don't seem to want to stick around in the Start menu with lots of B presses...

[A] 15d0h27m: Red is now in the cave part of Victory Road. Hopefully we have more luck selecting Strength than we did yesterday... reminder: we don't need to be facing the boulder to use Strength, we can do it anywhere!

[Information] Casual reminder that Red didn't heal at Viridian, so if Red blacks out, it's back to Cinnabar.

[Movement] 15d0h5m: Well, Red got past the ledge and into Victory Road again. That was a surprise!

[Movement] 14d23h51m: Looks like Red is paying the ledge before Victory Road a visit. Some people still want to withdraw HM04 for Nidoking, though.

[Information] I've heard it come up a few times in chat, so... anybody who thinks we should withdraw Gastly from the Day Care: We currently have about $1000, which is probably not nearly enough to pay the fee. (Besides, we'd have to use the PC again, and you know how well that goes.)

[Shameless Self-Plug] If you remember that "robot says filtered chats from TPP" feed from before that crashed as soon as I linked it here, I'm restreaming it here (with some music and stats). Alternatively, there's also the "every line in chat said at once" version here (it will probably drive you insane).

[Movement] 14d23h43m: Hey, Viridian City. It's been a while.

[Strategy] 14d23h30m: It sounds like the chat is pretty divided between getting Strength back out of the PC, going back to Viridian, and ... grinding on level 3 Pidgeys.

[Movement] 14d23h20m: Heeeeeeey we finally left Red's house! Back to Route 1 with us.

[Politics & Items] 14d23h10m: I was about to make a joke about how Democracy didn't accomplish anything either (like the last 2 times), but this time they successfully deposited every item Red had. And now it's back to anarchy, so!

[Politics] 14d22h57m: Frustrated with Anarchy being unable to do anything, we move into Democracy mode.

[Snark] Red's next gym is in his house. He will be awarded the Stair Badge shortly.

[Items] 12d22h29m Anarchy immediately withdraws the Poke-Flute. Now that's a catchy tune!

[Politics] 12d22h29m: Anarchy mode back on. Democracy seemed to at least have an idea of what they wanted to do this time.

[Politics] Oops, missed it, but somehow we ended up in democracy again.

[Snark] Red is just really, really homesick. Give him a while to get his things in order and I'm sure we'll be back to the action soon enough.

[Reminder] Red's PC only deals with items, so there will be no accidental releases from it.

[Politics] Anarchy is Back-narchy.

[D] 14d21h41m Without a clear goal in mind, Democracy is causing some discontent in the stream. Some people want to go back and deposit the Pokeflute, others want to try and teach King Fonz the newly-acquired Strength, and others still want to just get the hell out of this house.

[Politics] 12d21h37m: Hello, and again, welcome to Democracy mode.

[Inception] If this was being played in Super Game Boy mode, Red would be playing a SNES ostensibly playing Pokemon Red. And for a moment, an infinite number of Reds would be controlling an infinite number of Reds.

[A] 14d21h25m We've returned home again, and are currently messing about on Red's PC - we withdrew everything except the Moon Stone. Good news is we obtained the HM for Strength, bad news is we withdrew the Pokeflute. Swings and roundabouts.

[A] 14d21h18m Red is messing about on Route 1 at the moment. Where is the hivemind trying to take us?

[A] 14d21h8m And we're home to Pallet Town!

[A] 14d21h6m We make landfall of one of the infamous Fat Man Islands.

[A] 14d20h58m A newfound sense of adventure has overtaken our beloved protagonist, and Red has surfed away from Cinnabar island!

[Fun] Welp, we killed the voice synth stream. Sorry about that!

[A] 14d20h47m We've healed up our team. We are now fishing, for reasons entirely uncertain.

[Strategy] Addendum to the epic saga of Victory Road Strategy Updates, sent in by /u/-misla- just now: apparently the Squares reset every time Red goes up or down a ladder. This is troublesome... Last post on that subject for the time being, especially considering that we aren't anywhere near VR at the moment.

If your day is going kinda shitty like mine, seriously, visit the link /u/Xkeeper just linked below. I cannot stop laughing

^help

[Fun] /u/goldfishplus presents: A filtered Twitch Plays Pokemon's Chat as run through a speech synthesizer. beep boop robot noises (live streaming MP3 audio)

[Strategy] While we survived those random battles for a while, it's important to remember that there are actual trainers in Victory Road too (so no running away), and every loss makes us face The Ledge™ again. (And in response to one of the prior posts, there are several one-way exits in Victory Road; getting back in without that HM could be an issue, though.)

[A] 14d20h26m We have left the Mansion and seem to be attempting to heal up at the Pokemon Center. Currently we aren't having any success.

[Strategy] In relation to my last post, /u/picodealion just sent in this: "I literally just finished Red and I'd like to add that once you've been fighting the elite four and you want to go back, you DO have to solve the boulder puzzle again. Not sure if there's even any reason to do that (I wanted to go back to another store for some other powerups) but just fyi." So once we finish Victory Road, getting out of there again could cause us some difficulty.

[Strategy] Thanks to /u/someguy1919 for this comment, and to /u/Spoon_rhythm for bringing it to my attention: "When a boulder is pushed onto a switch, the Square object blocking the path is deleted, I even blacked out purposely to make sure it stays that way; and yes, you only need to do the puzzles a single time, so even with the team we have now, VR is easily do-able in a few attempts, especially as we survived for 2+ hours of random encounters." Useful for when we eventually get to Victory Road.

[RECAP] Another excellent concise video recap of the last 24 hours by /u/Calabazal can be found HERE!

[A] 14d19h42m Still in the Mansion. Still grinding - King Fonz is now level 47. Also, we reportedly tossed TM 27.

[A] 14d17h59m When is a helix not a helix? When it's a star. Omanyte has evolved!

[A] 14d17h58m ALL HAIL HIS FINAL FORM, LORD HELIX HITS 41 AND IS NOW OMASTAR.

[A] 14d17h49m: Nidoking hits level 45. Bolding level ups, since we are grinding theoretically.

[A] 14d17h29m In what is becoming an unfortunately common reoccurence, Air faints.

[A] 14d17h14m Air reached level 26. They grow up so fast...

[A] 14d17h10m Back in Pokemon Mansion!

[A] 14d17h0m We heal our team, though not before fear of the PC sends Red careering into the opposite wall for several clumsy minutes.

[A] 14d16h51m Poisoned by the ravages of time (and, y'know, actual poison), Helix has given up the ghost.

[A] 14d16h41m We exit the Pokemon Mansion for long enough to contemplate Cinnabar's town sign. "The Fiery Town of Burning Desire"... If you say so, Cinnabar.

[A] 14d16h37m Air is down for the count once more. Helix jumps into the fray to seek vengeance.

[A] 14d16h25m "Scientists conduct experiments in the burnt out building", a passerby tells us. Enthused, we enter Pokemon Mansion once more.

[Strategy] The stream seems a little divided at the moment, with some striving to continue to grind in Pokemon Mansion, whilst others are suggesting we abandon Cinnabar in favour of greener pastures. If we end up going with the latter, then Operation Detour will probably be the hivemind's goal. Which will it be? I suppose we'll find out shortly.

[A] 14d16h1m Bird Jesus succumbs to his poisoning, and faints. AJ immediately follows him, and with only the All Terrain Venomoth left to defend us, our fate is sealed. That was one tough Weezing. Red blacked out.

[Politics] 14d15h20m: Anarchy mode on. Nothing of value was accomplished.

[Politics] 14d15h45m: Democracy mode on. Why? What is their goal? Who can be sure.

[A] 14d15h32m Suffering a severe Koffing fit, King Fonz goes down.

[Stream up] Just kidding. TPP has no sponsors. Anyway, stream online again.

[End of Days] Stream is down. Just when things were getting a little too quiet...

[Stream down] And now for a message from our sponsors.

[A] 14d15h13m If anybody's curious, we're still grinding. Helix and Air are down, and King Fonz is currently frontlining the team. Whoever's in charge of caretaking this Mansion must be absolutely sick of us.

[Strategy] Friendly reminder that our best options for grinding are spamming up and left in fights! This keeps us fighting, hopefully, rather than running away and getting no experience.

[Party] 14d13h28m: Air levels up to 25, finally, and learns Body Slam, replacing Sing. The sound of progress.

[A] 14d13h59m It appears the hivemind has declared it training time, and we are back in everybody's favorite abandoned wasteland, the Pokemon Mansion.

[Strategy] We have options other than to go back to Victory Road. Here is a map detailing alternatives like training AIR Jordan and retrieving TMs.

[A] 14d13h45m John the Zaptist finally falls and Red blacks out to Cinnabar Island.

[Plugin] Took some days but finally it's free for distribution again! The chrome plugin which shows our new updates as Notification on the Desktop! You don't have to have this page open as it pulls the info itself from the server!
You can find it here I'm also gonna but this in the sidebar right here so you can find it anytime!

[A] 14d12h48m ATV finally runs out of gas. Only Battery Jesus left, fully charged.

[A] 14d12h47m: Bird Jesus has fainted from a wild Onix!

How does Oak's voice come to Red when he tries, time and time again, to use the SS Ticket or Secret Key during battle? Is he merely a voice in Red's head? Or is he actually following Red everywhere he goes, popping out from behind him whenever he tries to use items? We may never know.

[Strategy] There's been a lot of support for undertaking Operation Ice Quake after blacking out/leaving Victory Road.

[A] 14d12h16m: Yup, we're still wandering around Victory Road, we've battled probably 50+ Pokemon here. Does anyone else think the Gen 1 sprite for Golbat is absolutely terrifying?

[Meta] It's just been confirmed by /u/Femketwitch that we DO NOT need to re-select Strength if we enter a battle. Very sorry for forwarding incorrect information!

[Strategy] If we choose to undertake Operation Cold Spiral to get TM Ice Beam in Celadon, it's worth noting that we could also attempt to get TM Earthquake in the Silph Co. building in Saffron.

[Meta] I'm getting a lot of different opinions about the Strength issue, ie whether in Gen 1 we need to re-select it after a battle or not. Apologies for giving wrong info in advance if I was mistaken.

[A] 14d11h20m: Red consults Bulbasaur a couple of times, probably to ask the pressing question: which is worse, Ledges or Boulders?

[Possible Strategy] /u/thequibblyone has suggested to me that we try obtaining Ice Beam from Celadon City to teach Omastar. It will greatly increase Helix's coverage, and unlike Spike Cannon, has little risk in replacing a more useful move. http://imgur.com/7gRELFG

[A] 14d10h53m: Still struggling to get Strength selected. Friendly reminder that once we finally get it working, if we encounter a wild Pokemon or engage in a battle we'll need to select it again. Helix help us.

[Strategy] /u/esKFab has suggested that in order to combat the issues we're having with Strength, we could teach it to King Fonz to double our chances of using it. We could withdraw it from the PC when we next travel through Pallet Town after respawning in Cinnabar. Definitely something to keep in mind!

[Strategy] Again, if we'd like to progress, here is the stratmap.

[A] 14d10h18m Red stares down the first boulder. 'What am I supposed to do with this? I wish leg day would help me here.'

[A] 14d10h17m: Haven't yet managed to use Strength to start the boulder puzzle. And regarding the Cinnabar respawning - I'm being told that the general consensus is that this is a good thing since it gives us a chance to grind some more. So there you have it!

It has just been brought to my attention that if we black out in Victory Road, we will respawn at Cinnabar Island because we never healed in Viridian City... Oh no.

[A] 14d10h5m Red is still basically at the entrance, and Fonzie just went down hard to a Graveler. Half the party is down. Things not looking too positive for our first visit to Victory Road.

[A] 14d9h51m AIR Jordan and Lord Helix are not the best dancers. Both have been taken down by a level 42 wild Machoke.

[A] 14d9h50m Red has waltzed his way into Victory Road. Time to tango with some Machokes.

[A] 14d9h46m We found a full restore. When do we throw it away?

[Strategy] As we approach Victory Road, here is a map for getting through it as quickly as possible. Thanks to /u/Baffan for the submission.

[A] 14d9h40m For a location of this gravitas, this is not a dignified entrance.

[A] 14d9h37m Sorry, I think it only took us 7-8 tries, and less than 15 minutes to beat the Ledge to Indigo Plateau. Helix be praised!

[A] 14d9h35 Holy hell. Was that on the first try? The legendary Ledge is defeated. Entering Indigo Plateau.

[A] 14d9h22m: Approaching the Viridian ledge... dun dun dunnn

[A] 14d9h1m: We're in Viridian City!

[A] 14d8h50m: Also, we've reached Pallet Town as of ~10 minutes ago (sorry for the lack of updates) and are working our way up to Viridian City.

[A] 14d8h50m: Encountered a wild Pidgey that has started using Struggle. Weird.

[A] 14d8h10m Oh boy. We are back on the little island/land patch below Pallet. Everybody start blaming bots. (Correction: the last update should read 14d8h3m)

[A] 13d8h3m All aboard the Helix hype train boat! We're surfing.

[Recap] Total results of our mad grind: AIR Jordan cast off number level 23 to go play baseball to level up to 24, the Fonz is up to 42, ATV is still topped out at 36 MPH, Bird Jesus is 64, AA-j has shocked its way to #1 at 65, and Lord Helix refused his evolution at level 40.

[A] 14d7h45m: Sick of the grinding, Red is now attempting to Surf up to Pallet Town.

[A] 14d7h38m Here is the current state of our team.

[A] 14d7h33m Having traversed the island, after popping into the Pokemon Centre, we are fully healed. Talk is being to turn towards Victory Road once again.

[A] 14d7h19m: We've left the Pokemon Mansion!

[STRATEGY] Since the current strategy seems to be trying to get Zapdos to faint, /u/ZSaberLink has suggested two tactics: using Take Down as much as possible for recoil damage, or heading upstairs to try and get him poisoned.

[A] 13d6h38m: The current plan seems to be to try and black out but AA-j simply refuses to faint. Oh, the irony.

[A] 13d6h27m: Currently grinding with our only not-fainted Pokemon: Zapdos, at about 40% health.

[A] 13d6h24m: Back in the Pokemon Mansion even though we still haven't healed.

[A] 14d6h5m: Red is currently wandering around the Pokemon Lab, possibly to pay his respects at the location of the resurrection of Omanyte.

[A] 13d5h48m Sorry for the confusion, we didn't black out. We just said deuces to the Mansion for a little. Currently trying to get into the Pokemon Center I think.

[A] 14d4h11m The Grind continues! For those interested in seeing TPP through a whole new lens, check THIS out, it's an ACSII live version of the stream!

[A] 14d4h25m We're back in the Pokemon Mansion! (I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride)

[A] 14d4h16m Zapdos hits lvl 65! RED Blacks out! (Thanks Generic_comments!)

[A] 14d4h10m Air is now level 24! All but the birds have now fainted. Both Abba & AAJ are poisoned. (Thanks /u/zsaberlink)

[A] 14d4h0m Air was switched to be before Zapdos in the party! (Thanks /u/zsaberlink)

Helix went from 36 to 40, AAJ went from 61 to 64, Fonz went from 39 to 42, ATV hit lvl 36 on our way down here, and is still at 36, AIR has stayed at 23, Bird Jesus has stayed at 63 Credit to /u/retrokid for putting in the leg work

[A] 14d3h8m Progress on the grind: Omanyte Lvl 40, King Fonz Lvl 42, Zapdos Lvl 64, AIR Lvl 23, Bird Jesus Lvl 63, ATV *Lvl 36*

[A] 14d2h15m The grind continues to a length that even Tony Hawk would be impressed with. Wild Pokemon around the Mansion begin sliding a Max repel closer and closer to RED

[Snark] I think that was deserving of a gold Oma-you-tried-star.

[Party] Omanyte tried to evolve, but nope. Maybe next time.

[A] 14d1h20m Red tried to lift a bit too much and blacked out. Zapdos totally missed spotting him with Thunder 3 times in a row. Heading back to the Mansion now.

Signing off for today guys, others will take over shortly. See you folks tomorrow afternoon!

[A] 14d00h57m We are still grinding in the Pokemon Mansion. If we don't report that we're heading off to Victory Road, just assume we're still grinding.

[Strategy] Here's a little button-mashing strategy for grinding in the Pokemon Mansion. Thanks to /u/don25491 for the info! http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/1yzpuc/it_might_be_worth_going_back_to_cinnabar_island/cfpayn5

[Day 13/14 Recap] GET YOUR FREE AUDIO SYNOPSIS TODAY! http://youtu.be/ts26CqNUd4w Thanks to /u/ThePokeMessiah for providing the link!

[Update for the below update] It may be best to head back to the Poke Center to heal, since we need to evolve Omanyte to an Omastar.

[Update] As of 14d0h8m, all of our Pokemon except for Zapdos have fainted.

[Information] 14d00h00m: Happy 2 week anniversary!

[[A] 13d23h??m King Fonz is now Level 41!

[A] 13d23h44m We're still grinding in the Pokemon Mansion! We have 139/202 hitpoints left on Zapdos and we still have AIR fully healed in the tank!

[Information] Just in case anybody still thought this was a "151" version of Pokemon Red with all 151 available, let Sanquii just dispel that thought. It's just vanilla Red with a title screen change. Sorry!

[POKeMON graphs!] Look at that huge spike in Left inputs when Red approached the PC. People know.

[Snarkception] Fortunately, the dark future has been averted, as the time to learn Leer has passed. Omastar cannot learn until Level 39, and that ship has sailed.

[A] 13d23h00m: I don't know what you guys are doing, but you are getting awfully close to that PC in Cinnabar's Pokemon Center.

[Snark] Future-Helix: I am from the distant future, or one possible future... There is another possible future: A dark future, the Leer Future

[Update for the update for the update below]: Instead of spamming B like crazy, try and balance out the spam. The majority of the chat needs to spam B, but we'll definitely need a few people spamming A so that in the best timeline, A is hit when the emulator asks if we're sure that we don't want our Pokemon to learn the newest move.

[Update for update below]: By the way, Helix didn't learn Leer! Hoorah! Also, I take back what I said earlier; don't spam B when you don't want a Pokemon to learn a move, it will send us in a loop (because we'll keep hitting B when the emulator asks us if we're sure that we don't want the Pokemon to learn the move).

[A] 13d22h??m Helix has leveled up to 39!

[Strategy] As mentioned by /u/Nevermore60, the Pokemon on the 2nd and 3rd floor of the Pokemon Mansion are stronger. Try grinding on those levels in order to level up more quickly! Also, the previous comment's info was mentioned to me by /u/MahBoiiii. Thanks for the messages guys!

[Warning] When Helix levels up to 39, he will try to learn Leer. SPAM B WHEN THIS HAPPENS. His moveset is already quite excellent, and Leer does not accomplish much for our team as of now.

[Pun] Courtesy of /u/Zadokk - "We're currently grinding in the Pokémon Mansion, turning it into Ash."

[A] 13d22h??m Helix has leveled up to 38!

[A] 13d21h??m: AAAAAAAAAAA grew to Level 40 (The Fonz) (Nidoking) (That big thing with the spikes on his back)

[A] 13d21h38m: We only have 28 pokemon caught, Well at least it's more than Ash ever catches in the anime...

[A] 13d21h20m: Zapdos has fallen ;_;

[Fluff] These puns are Onixceptable >:(

[Fluff] What have you done /u/AttackTheMoon. you've doomed us all... or should i say... you've DOMED us all!

[Fluff] Made an official pun thread so we can contain all of this nonsense

[Fluff] "The puns have been ledge-ndary!" Oh /r/TPP, your puns are so much better than anything i could come up with...

[A] 13d20h56m: Muk keeps shrinking himself, soon enough he'll be as smaller than an atom! Easy to run from i guess...

[Fluff] Because we'll be grinding for the next several hours, we'll be hearing this songfor a long time. Here is a link to the composer's Wikipedia page, and here is his Twitter. He has done a lot for Pokemon games!

[Bot Funfest 2014] When you remove the automated spam, the input graphs look a lot more interesting. (The red numbers and bars are automated spam scripts/bots.) Interesting that this far from the ledge, there's still a great amount of "down" spam... and there's actually a surprisingly small amount of "real" political bickering, compared to what you see in chat.

[A] 13d20h51m: And joining you for the next couple of hours is me (/u/MyNameIsNavy) and /u/AttackTheMoon

Prepare for puns. important updates will be BOLDED

[A] 13d20h45m For those of you who are only just joining us, we're currently grinding up our Pokes in the Pokemon Mansion. I'm off for now, but I leave you in capable hands. Have fun!

[RECAP] Another great Video Recap of the last 24 hours from /u/Calabazel He's posted concise recaps of the past few days if you're looking to catch up on RED's erratic adventures!

[Strategy] Another new plan which seems to be popping up on the stream is Operation Shatter the Earth, which aims to grab the Earthquake TM so we can teach it to King Fonz. You can read the details here.

[META] Just added a bunch more flair to the subreddit. Reminder that you can request flair here

[A] 13d20h30m For every victory we must suffer a loss. Helix and ATV have been KO'd.

[A] 13d20h25m AJ reached level 62. If I were a Koffing on the ground floor of the Mansion, I'd be feeling pretty terrified right about now.

[Strategy] In response to the Save Rick Gastly campaign that's gaining a bit of traction in the stream, /u/NameAlreadyTaken2 points out that Gastly and Haunter can only learn five potential moves through levelling up in first gen games: Lick, Confuse Ray, Nightshade, Hypnosis and Dream Eater. Everybody keep that in mind when deciding on whether or not rescuing Gastly is a good idea, especially as we have very few TMs (and pretty much lack the ability to use them).

[A] 13d20h8m The grind-a-thon begins anew. We're back in Pokemon Mansion, and Helix just reached level 37!

[Strategy] If the plan is to carry on grinding, it would be smart to switch the teams around so that AJ and Bird Jesus are near the back of the roster, so we can spend more time training up the weaker team members. Of course, the hivemind doesn't quite have the precision required for such a feat. In other strategy news, there's a growing desire in the stream to rescue Rick Gastly from the Daycare.

[A] 13d19h54m We heal up our team, perhaps in preparation for Round Two of the grind-a-thon. Then we do it again, just to be safe. Also, did a strange man in a black hat just ask Red if he has any friends? That was a little weird.

[A] 13d19h46m For motives unknown, Red has left the Mansion.

[A] 13d19h31m Realising that Air is the team member in most need of gaining a few levels, we send him out against an errant Ponyta. Air faints immediately.

[Reader's Corner] /u/LukasGrove reports asking the creator of TPP whether or not he will make the game's save file available for download after the stream finishes, and recieved an "I will" in response. So if any of you are looking to mess around with this oddball team we've constructed, that FarFetch'd dream (ba-dum tish) may shortly become a reality!

[A] 13d19h12m Helix attempts to Withdraw his troubles away, but to no avail. He's fainted, and AJ is out for revenge.

[Strategy] /u/spoon_rhythm, the creator of the Project Cinnabar thread, is now urging everybody to spam UP and LEFT, for the betterment of our grinding. There's also a lot of level-based chatter on the stream - people warning that Helix will try to learn Leer at level 39, and noting that ATV will learn the potentially-useful Psybeam at level 38.

[Recap] If you missed the last episode of Twitch Plays Pokemon and are wondering why we're here, we beat Giovanni and defeated Blue afterwards. We've gone back to Cinnabar to grind up in preparation for Victory Road.

[A] 13d18h54m It takes a special kind of bad luck to take a critical hit from a Pokemon using Struggle, but that's what just happened to poor ATV, who's been KO'd.

[A] 13d18h51m We've finally entered the Pokemon Mansion, after much circling of the entrance.

[A] 13d18h45m Perhaps taking my strategy reminder to heart (or perhaps just acting on common sense), we heal our team at the Cinnabar Pokemon Center.

[Strategy] Now that we've arrived, here's the thread explaining what seems to be the hivemind's current MO. If this is the plan, a reminder: we haven't healed up at Cinnabar yet, so if we start grinding now and black out we'll end up back in Pallet Town quite a distance away.

[A] 13d18h29m We've set down anchor at the lovely little isle of Cinnabar!

[A] 13d18h27m We defeat another trainer, a Swimmer who possesses the most gormless Seadra I've ever seen.

[A] 13d18h22m Another Fisherman down. Hearty congratulations to AJ.

[A] 13d18h19m: We've been in this battle with a Cloyster for a while and it's giving us a shell of a time. Case in point, down goes ATV.

[Meta] Hey guys, would just like to point you to our Live Updater feedback thread Here where you can leave feedback on the content of the updates, Thanks!

[A] 13d18h10m: Ended up defeating a Fisherman on the way to Cinnabar. "That burned some time" indeed.

[Strategy] Given Red's current heading, this post featuring a few reasons to go back to Cinnabar might be worth a read, if you're wondering why Red isn't going right back to The Ledge

[A] 13d18h5m That tentacool didn't know what hit it. ATV reached level 36.

[A] 13d18h2m We're surfing south, in the direction of Cinnabar. The plot thickens...

[Strategy] Keep this map handy for whenever we get back to the ledge before Victory Road. But more importantly, remember to anticipate where Red will be 30 seconds from now instead of relying on where he is now.

[A] 13d17h36m Probably worth mentioning that Red's mons are healed and where people head next is anybody's guess. Victory Road is obviously the next real stop, but people seem kind of divided.

[A]13d17h29m Back to where it all started, it appears Red is trying to check out his family bookcase. "Hey, mum, do you have any books on ledge-jumping?" "Why, honey?" "...Personal matters." Coming up empty-handed, he instead heads upstairs and makes straight for the games console.

[A]13d17h24m We're back in Pallet Town! Where next is anybody's guess. Perhaps we're just enjoying the monochrome scenery.

[Strategy] Not sure what we're attempting to achieve by heading towards Pallet Town - it's possible we're aiming for Cinnabar, for reasons explained in this thread, but we could just be heading home to heal (as, after all, there are no progress-halting ledges surrounding our home sweet home, so it'll be much easier to heal the team up from there).

[A]13d17h12m And we've descended to Route 1. Excellent.

[A]13d17h8m Red is currently ambling about in Viridian City. Progress on Route 22 has been essentially non-existent.

[A] 13d17h9m We're back in Viridian City, next to the Poke Center. Let's see if we can conquer this ledge in a reasonable amount of time....

[Bot Funfest Addendum] Okay, so it's two down inputs to move off a ledge. But if you honestly think that the troll inputs won't ramp up when we get close, then...

[Strategy] Pallet Town is always an option, too.

[Strategy] I've gotten quite a few PMs about the current state of our Pokemon. Since our PP is becoming depleted, and only 2 Pokemon are left standing, it seems like conquering the Viridian ledge at the Poke Center over there will take significantly less time than conquering the Route 22 ledge, dying, and then respawning with full health again

[Bot Funfest 2014] If you thought this ledge was possible in anarchy, think again. Those gray bars on the Down graph? Those are people who are basically doing nothing but spamming down. Good luck making it across that ledge when a single down input registering sends you back to the start.

[A] 13d16h30m For anyone just joining us right now, we're currently battling another ledge. This time, it's at this location on route 22. I'll occasionally post updates if anything exciting happens, but don't expect to see much when we're falling off ledges and battling level 2-4 wild pokemon

The ledge jokes/puns/etc just keep on coming! This one was sent in by /u/hoboken_parch! Thanks!

[A] 13d16h5m This is where I leave you. Thanks for following along, sorry about the puns, it's a problem. For your homework, I expect you all to have entered Victory Road at least once by the time I return in 8 hours. "The dog ate it" will not be an acceptable excuse.
Cheerio!

[A] 13d15h53m Red still battling wild Pokemon at the bottom of an embankment. Shame he can't leveetate.

Also: irritating, frustrating, hilarious, mind-boggling, never-ending, gruelling, glorious. The epithets are endless.

Correct!

Annoying

Hey /u/onemanandhishat, what do you call a schizophrenic Pokemon trainer who keeps falling off ledges?

[A] 13d15h34m If you need a distraction from the travails of our travels, this thread has posed the suggestion of returning to Cinnabar as a better plan for levelling up.
Opinions? Pop over and share them. Be nice.

[A] 13d15h33m So close! Red makes it right to the end of the fence, but instead of walking up, he turns and jumps straight off the ledge. That was cold-blooded defiance.

What do you say when someone falls off a ledge?
Ha-ha
^{A little landscape gardening joke for you there.}

[A] 13d15h13m People want to keep track many times we've fallen off ledges. I know just the book to use...

[A] 13d15h5m We have just jumped the Route 22 ledge for the first time. But definitely not the last. Time to look up some more puns.

Fun fact: 23 is, of course, the shirt number worn by Michael Jordan at the Chicago Bulls, which was retired from use after he stopped wearing it. Thanks to /u/ActuallyEd for pointing that little nugget of NBA trivia.

[A] 13d15h0m Apparently Air grew to level 23. And much good did it do him.

[A] 13d14h59m I wouldn't normally comment on random encounters, but I'd just like to highlight the fact that Abba actually used Whirlwind in a relevant context in that last one.

[A] 13d14h57m The victory has come at a cost though, only Abba and Zapdos are still conscious. It looks unlikely we'll get through Victory Road on our first shot.

[A] 13d14h56m Last up is the hulking figure of Blue's level 53 Blastoise. Zapdos has the type and level advantage here, and he exploits it. He brings the Thunder, and Blue is defeated

[A] 13d14h55m Psybeam has little effect on Zapdos, and his Thunder destorys Alakazam, and Zapdos grows to level 61

[A] 13d14h54m Another burst of Psychic clobbers Omanyte in one shot. This is brutal. A well-placed Thundershock from AAij drops his health, but Alakazam recovers.

[A] 13d14h53m Alakazam pops up and unleashes Psyhic on Air, followed by Psybeam on the Fonz. They both faint.

[A] 13d14h52m Abba swaps in against Exeggcute, and hits with an eggstremely good quick attack. For his next trick he mirrors Exeggcute's solar beam and flips Exeggcute out of the frying pan and into the fire.

[A] 13d14h51m In an uncharacteristic show of tactical nous, the Fonz uses two Surfs on a Growlithe, who faints despite a Potion, and he grows to level 39

[A] 13d14h49m Fonzie poisons Rhyhorn, but takes damage. A weak Fury Attack follows, but Rhyhorn is making poor move choices. The poison continues to work, as the Fonz cracks out the Surf. Rhyhorn faints, his confidence eroded.

[A] 13d14h46m The Fonz is taking damage, but has poisoned Pidgeot. Two critical surfs leave Pidgeot thoroughly bedraggled, and the Fonz grows to level 38. Rhyhorn next.

[A] 13d14h44m ATV vs Pidgeot is over quickly in a flurry of wings, so the Fonz steps in.

[A] 13d14h43m I've got the strangest feeling of Deja-Blue

[A] 13d14h40m Some suggestions in the chat that we should retrieve Rick Gastly from Daycare and sub him into the team. A million voices cried out in terror...

[A] 13d14h31m A quick attack from Pidgeot drops Air to 5HP. And another finishes him off. Well that was short. Red blacks out

[A] 13d14h29m Blue sends out a scrawny Pidgeot, who nevertheless knocks out Abba. Only Air remains, our other Pokemon have already shuffled off their mortal coils.

[A] 13d14h29m Oh hey Blue, fancy meeting you here.

[STRATEGY] So, a couple of points: 1) We have to navigate the caves of Victory Road before we can heal, there's no Pokecenter til the other end
2) We have to face pre-champion blue, who may kill us.
Things to consider if we want to heal first - or navigate the ledge first...

Amendment: apparently we haven't faced Blue here yet, so on our current course we'll lose badly. Still, I suppose it would get us into a Pokemon Centre more easily.

[A] 13d14h16m Now on our way to the Pokemon League entrance. With no enemies en route, all our Pokemon what 'ave kicked the bucket can heal on arrival. Now we just have to navigate the Ledge. We've already gone the wrong way.

[A] 13d14h10m Apparently we already used the revive on Air. It tell you what, things just happen too fast in this game.

[A] 13d14h2m Red picks up a Revive, and in his delirium misses the door.

[A] 13d13h59m Did you see that? He must have a wing like a traction engine!

[A] 13d13h57m Bird Jesus went out there after half with it all to do, and somehow came home with 3 points. A Premier League classic in the making, folks.^{Oops wrong sport}

BIRD JESUS IS TRULY A GOD

PRAISE HELIX, WE CONQUERED THE LEDGES, WE CONQUERED THE VIRIDIAN GYM, WE CONQUERED GIOVANNI! ONTO VICTORY ROAD!

[A] 12d13h55m Back of the net!

[A] 13d13h53m We sand attack, but it fails! Rhydon tail whips. TM38 consulted again. And again. And a few more times. We just need one quick attack! We whirlwind..... but Rhydon's next attack misses! Bird Jesus is hanging on for dear life, one more stomp and we're down. WE QUICK ATTACK! But rhydon is at 1HP basically! WE QUICK ATTACK AND FINISH HIM OFF! RHYDON DOWN! WE BEAT GIOVANNI!!!!!!!!!

[A] 13d13h51m Bird Jesus quick attacks, Rhydon is at 50% health. Luckily Rhydon's stomp misses. Another bird jesus quick attack! 25% HP left on Rhydon! We quick attack ONE MORE TIME! Rhydon 20% health! Sand attack from bird jesus! fails! stomp from rhydon fails! We consult TM38 a few times.

[A] 13d13h50m Bird Jesus quick attacks, but it's not very effective! We keep on quick attacking, slowly bringing down Rhydon's health. Next, Sand Attack! Doesn't prevent a stomp, however. We sand attack again, and again, and again, and Rhydon's attacks keep failing! We mirror move and Tail Whip Rhydon, but it fails! He stomps, and takes Bird Jesus to 29hp. He stomps us, but the attack misses! It's getting down to the wire!

[A] 13d13h48m This is it! Jesus take the wheel! Our first attack is a Mirror Move, which obviously fails. Next, we quick attack! Nidoking is down to half health. We quick attack again! Nidoking has 1% HP left, BUT WE QUICK ATTACK AGAIN AND TAKE DOWN NIDOKING! Rhydon up next!

[A] 13d13h46m AA-j is down to 1HP! We have one chance to seriously damage Nidoking before (presumably) he takes out AA-j. What's it going to be.....? We don't have a chance. AA-j is knocked out. Air Jordan comes in and immediately takes damage. Ouch, he's knocked out too! Bird Jesus is our last chance!

[A] 13d13h44m More HP is taken off of AA-j, while his thunder attacks are useless! We become fully paralyzed. More HP taken off of AA-j. But We come back with a take-down move and take Nidoqueen down to 20% HP! AA-j goes down to 18HP before TAKING OUT NIDOQUEEN!

[A] 13d13h43m Nidoqueen is up next for Giovanni. AA-j's thunder attacks are ineffective against Nidoqueen! Our next 2 attacks miss, while Nidoqueen keeps taking HP off of AA-j, before Nidoqueen paralyzes us

[A] 13d13h41m AA-j lays waste to the Dugtrio with one Drill Peck move!

[A] 13d13h40m BIRD JESUS IS UP NEXT! Dugtrio takes 28HP off of bird jesus; We switch him out for AA-j!

[A] 13d13h41m Egads! Giovanni has us figured out. His Guard Spec. is preventing Bird Jesus' best attempts at Sand-Attack.

[A] 13d13h40m ATV goes down in 2 turns to the Dugtrio

[A] 13d13h39m Air Jordan comes out next! We consult the SS ticket a few times, and the super rod, before switching him out for ATV!

[A] 13d13h38m Omanyte OHKOs Rhyhorn! But unfortunately get's OHKO'd by a Dugtrio :( AAAAAAAA is up next, and nearly gets OHKO'd by the same dugtrio! Second turn, Dugtrio digs and knocks out King Fonz!

[A] 13d13h34m We have reached Giovanni once more, with our whole team ready to go! It's on!

[A] 13d13h35m After checking the wisdom of Bulbasaur no fewer than 10 times, Giovanni re-engaged. #believe

[Strategy] Seeing as this is taking a bit, here is the path we should need to take to get to Giovanni. Unless, of course, we want to become great tornado, in which case need more of spin.

[A] 13d13h30 Red: 10/10 would spin again

[A] 13d13h14m Anarchy has quickly returned.

[D] 13d13h10m The Dome has guided us back into the Gym! Rematch coming soon^tm .

[D] 13d13h10m Back into the gym we go! You're going down this time, Giovanni!

[D] 13d13h0m Democracy fails us, and we go tumbling over the ledge in front of the Gym.

[Strategy Repost] Remember, moving in units of 9 is extremely inefficient, as we will almost always overshoot, especially near the ledge. Perhaps move in units of 3? up3, down3, etc. It's much more efficient and we won't overshoot as much. Also, don't forget to think 2 moves ahead! Combat the lag!

[D] 13d12h53m Apparently Bird Jesus hit lv. 63 in the last fight.

[D] 13d12h50m Democracy mode activated. It seems we're in a hurry to get back in the Gym and get some revenge. Dome does not approve of our defeat.

[Correction] My apologies, Giovanni still had a Rhydon after the Nidoking. Thought I saw only 2 pokeballs remaining for some reason when he sent out Nidoqueen.

[A] 13d12h43m Giovanni has bested us. AA-j bows out to a critical hit from Nidoking's Thrash. That was close: Nidoking had probably 1/3 of his health remaining.

[A] 13d12h41m Odin's Raven! Bird Jesus falls to Nidoqueen after one too many Whirlwinds, but AA-j Drills the Queen to death! AA-j with 40 hp left vs. Nidoking! This is it, people!

[A] 13d12h38m Lord Helix has fallen to Nidoqueen's mighty scratch. Up to Bird Jesus and AA-j (each with less than 1/3 health) to finish off 2 of Giovanni's pokemon. Believe!

[A] 13d12h37m AA-j finally uses a non-electric move and deletes the digging menace.

[Side quip] How in Helix's name can Dugtrio learn slash? What does it slash with? Its noses? Giovanni stop hax pls

[A] 13d12h32m Gio's Dugtrio Dig's the Fonz and AIR Jordan to death. Bird Jesus is back out and getting a taste of its own sand-attack medicine.

[A] 13d12h30 The Fonz crits the Rhyhorn for what appears to be a whopping 1-5 hp. Lord Helix switches in and one shots the Rhyhorn. Rekt.

[A] 13d12h29m Giovanni engaged. Bird Jesus is out first against a Rhyhorn. Bad matchup.

[A] 13d12h21m After appearances by Bird Jesus and Lord Helix, AA-j gets smacked to half health by this Rhyhorn. The Fonz gets rock-slapped before Helix washes Rhyhorn away with holy water. Helix has 1hp left. ^{Predicting Helix to surf all of Giovanni's pokes in one hit with 1 hp.}

[A] 13d12h21m ATV has been knocked out against a 'stylish' Cooltrainer. Apparently wheeled bugs aren't too popular these days. :c

[A] 13d12h15m Now battling the self-proclaimed 'Karate King'. Lord Helix is surfing through him. Maybe the Karate King wishes he was the Duke of Surf.

[A] 13d12h12m Switched back into Anarchy. It's up to Helix now.

[D] 13d12h11 Prepare your hula skirts/fedoras bodies, we're making progress towards Giovanni. Anarchy's almost back.

[D] 13d12h9m By Dome, we've done it. Viridian Gym entered.

[D] 13d12h7m We are 5 moves away from entering the Gym. twitch pls

I still feel like Red should try and become a professional parkourist after this madness is over, with all of the ledges he's jumping.... Anyone else agree?

[D] 13d11h53m Democracy enacted in Viridian again. Who are we trying to defeat again? Giovanni or the Ledge?

[A] 13d11h17m: screw leg day, it's ledge day!

[A] 3d11h15m: Just witnessed the Old Man catch possibly his 2,475th Weedle.

[A] 13d10h51m: Red consults Bulbasaur's cry for guidance before facing the ledge once more.

[A] 13d10h45m: If anyone's wondering... no, nothing's happened in the last half hour except a whole lotta ledge jumping.

[A] 13d10h13m: Got to Viridian, made a beeline for the Gym and entered first try - and then exited and jumped down. gg ledge

[STRATEGY] Since we're back on the ledge, here's a decent strategy for overcoming it. which /u/cofactor sent in.

[A] 13d10h7m: On the bright side, we're back in Viridian City!

[A] 13d10h6m: Just tossed TM14 Blizzard.

[A] 13d9d48m Hopefully that's the last jazz flute we hear from Mr. Burgundy Red.

[A] 13d9d48m: With our second attempt at the PC we stored HM03, HM01, Silph Scope, HM04, Potion, Town Map, Moon Stone... but more importantly, we stored the Pokeflute! So we can safely head back to the Gym (and face the Ledge).

[A] 13d9d44m: And the Super Rod!

[A] 13d9d43m: Accessed the PC, withdrew Secret Key and SS Ticket.

[A] 13d9h35m: Red's back in his room and trying to access the PC (which we can store items on - we didn't need to go to Oak's. My apologies.) Surprised he isn't trying to take a nap, seeing as though he's been on his feet for 2 weeks straight.

[STRATEGY] Actually, some people have suggested going to Oak's PC to deposit the Pokeflute and THEN heading back to the Gym. Seems like a solid plan.

[A] 13d9h29m: And we've just healed up with Mum! Back to the Gym!

[A] 13d9h28m: Red has run home to his Mummy and is currently in her house. Probably to cry about the mean ledges.

[A] 13d9h18m: Red just reached Pallet Town!

[A] 13d9h12m: Seem to be heading South to Pallet Town now. Ended up in the long grass and we're having a few battles with Rattatas and Pidgeys and such. Fun.

[A] 13d9h0m: Current objective seems to be to try and heal up, but the ledge near the Viridian Pokemon Center has proven pretty tough... Ledges, ledges everywhere.

[A]13d8h37m Just went from one corner of the gym to the opposite, walked outside, and jumped the ledge again. GG

[A]13d8h37m Just jumped the ledge again. GG

[A] 13d8h29m Omanyte fainted in the battle with cooltrainer. Afterwards, King Fonz levels up to 38!

[A] 13d8h28m: Boom! That same Nidorino takes out Helix! But both Pokemon were quickly avenged by The Fonz, who has just won the battle for us!

[A] 13d8h26m: AIR just fainted from a Nidorino! The Fresh Prince has fallen...

[A] 13d8h23m AIR is out in action versus a Cooltrainer. Let's see if we can cool him down.

[Strategy] Remember, Giovanni is in the top left of the gym. See map here.

[A] 12d8h21m Anarchy mode quickly comes back on

[D] 13d8h20m With Red inside the Gym, votes are piling in for Anarchy.

[D] 13d8h19m Only took 1 try on democracy, and we are back in Viridian Gym!

[Strategy] Remember, moving in units of 9 is extremely inefficient, as we will almost always overshoot, especially near the ledge. Perhaps move in units of 3? up3, down3, etc. It's much more efficient and we won't overshoot as much. Also, don't forget to think 2 moves ahead! Combat the lag!

[D] 13d8h8m Democracy is in control. Can the Dome guide us to defeat the ledge?

[A] 13d8h3m Democracy is about to take control. The stream downtime may have cleared some bots out?

[A] 13d7h57m Stream is back.

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Stream is down. ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ RIOTヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ

[A] 13d7h54m: The stream has gone down temporarily!

[A] 13d7h42m For anyone who is wondering, we have been attempting this episode of Ledge for almost 15 hours now.

[A] 13d7h20m: We just made it to the square right in front of the door... but jumped off. Still the most exciting thing that's happened for a while.

[A] 13d7h7m Bonnie Tyler held out for a hero til the end of the night. She'd have to hold out a bit longer for us.

[TPP Sing-Along] LE-LE-LE-LEDGES (turn and face the straaaaain) LE-LE-LEDGES

[Sign-Off] Heading to sleep. God help us if Red makes it into the gym by morning. It's probably going to be a quiet night, so I'm sure someone else will be around to carry you there. Have a good evening, and try not to fall off any ledges.

[Terrible Joke] I'm surprised Red hasn't been diagnosed as suicidal, with all of the ledges he's jumping off of lately.....

[TPP Sing-Along] Hello Ledges, my old friends, I've come to leap 'cross you again. Because a spammer softly creeping, left its "down" while I was sleeping...

[TPP Sing-Along] Giooooooooooooooooooooooovani, You don't have to fight that Red tonight, he's out there jumping ledges and there's no end in sight (we jumped off the ledge another five times. EXCITING)

[TPP Sing-Along] I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend....

[TPP Sing-Along] Take me down to Viridian City where the grass is long and the ledge is shitty (we've jumped off the ledge another 5 times, making for a total of about 120 or so)

[Bot Funfest 2014] It's probably worth noting that my stats are showing that probably 90-95% of the last 800 'anarchy' votes have come from automated spammers, so if you were hoping democracy would kick in and at least get us back in the gym, I have some bad news.

[STRATEGY] A number of people have suggested to me that we should head back to Pallet Town to heal and deposit the PokeFlute, as it's much easier to navigate.
Or alternatively we could find somewhere to die...

[STRATEGY] Just to review: we are currently aiming to heal our Pokemon, as Abba and ATV have fainted, and Omanyte is low. Before returning to fight Giovanni. Ledges are making both of these things a challenge.

[Snark] Now accepting subscriptions to LEDGE Magazine! Hottest massive-multiplayer-single-player-game news you've ever seen. (It's hot because it comes from Flareon Press, you see.)

Fun fact: Given Pidgeot's high speed, mirroring a move like Slash practically guarantees a critical hit. Slash is 8x more likely to critical than a regular move. Thanks to /u/Meem0 for that one.

[A] 13d3h18m Aaaaaaand we parkoured it back over the ledge. Back to the drawing board

[Snark] "Relax, said the old man; you aren't programmed to proceed. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave." (Lyrics from the unreleased single Hotel Viridian)

[A] 13d3h18m: And we head outside and jump down the ledge again.

[A] 13d3h16m Red in some conflict as to direction, he almost left the gym, but is now trying to take on a fighter he missed. Remember pressing a initiates a fight even if he's not looking.

[A] 13d3h13m In a stroke of tactical brilliance, Air uses sing to put Rhyhorn to sleep. Several times. He then surfs, hard, and OHKOs Rhyhorn. Air levels up to 22. Tamer defeated. Stellar performance from Air.

[A] 13d3d12m Red comes up against a Tamer with a single lvl43 Rhyhorn. Air comes out, all 21 levels of him. It's a mismatch this.

[A] 13d3h12m Machoke leers menacingly at Omanyte, but Omanyte coolly surfs it into oblivion. Blackbelt defeated

[A] 13d3h11m Another critical hit, this time with Surf on a lvl40 Machoke, who is on the edge.

[A] 13d3h9m Omanyte comes out and lands a critical Water Gun on Machop to drop it to <50% HP. After some obsessive kit-checking, he finishes it off with a Surf.

[A] 13d3h8m Up next is Blackbelt. His Machop is taking on our weakend and paralyzed Abba, who is finished off with a low kick.

[A] 13d3h7m Abba nails Sandslash rather quickly, then mirros moves a Dugtrio and OHKOs it. Cooltrainer was defeated.

[A] 13d3h5m Back in the gym. With anarchy no less! Here's a possible route to minimize our combat

[A] 13d2h6m Is this real life? We're in the gym!

[A] 13d2h32m seems the hive is divided on going back in or healing up at the Pokémon Center, which has its own little ledge challenge, albeit an easier one.

[A] 13d2h31m I'm afraid I missed it earlier, but ATV fainted in that first Tamer battle.

[READER'S CORNER] angrydraco has put together an interesting hivemind input monitor.

[Snark] WHOOPSIE DAISY! Giovanni must really regret not installing more ledges in more places.

[EDIT] Re: Strategy 9 minutes ago. that trainer will only see us when we're right in front, so it's kinda moot. Thanks team.

[A] 13d2h18m Back to square one.

[A] 13d2h18m: And anarchy walks out of the Gym and hops off the ledge.

[A] 13d2h18m Another tamer down, this time Abba does the work.

[A] 13d2h13m: Omanyte's Surf really paid off there. Looking like Operation Surfboard was a good idea.

[A]13d2h13m Omanyte levels up to 34, learns Horn Attack. Tamer is defeated

[STRATEGY] This is worth bearing in mind, as leaving the gym could be problematic.

[Snark] (Battle music starts after hours and hours of Viridian's music) Now, that's a catchy tune!

[D] 13d2h5m Just starting the first trainer battle. Anarchy has taken charge

[D] 13d 2h 5m: Here's the map of Giovanni's Gym.. What an ugly gym.

[D] 13d2h4m That was good timing, I had a couple more puns lined up, so I'll save them for later (that's something to look forward to isn't it). I'm not going to pretend I'm not a little bit proud of them.

[D] 13d2h3m: We're in Giovanni's Gym.

[D] 13d1h48m The people have decided, it's time for some ledgislation.

[D] 13d1h47m: Democracy engaged.

[A] 13d1h37m This would be much easier if we could all read each others' minds. If only ledgilimency was real.
^{shoutout to all you Harry Potter fans out there...}

[A] 13d1h36m: There's been a huge recent shift toward Democracy in the chat so it looks like we'll be getting it pretty soon.

If you're just waking up and missed the events of yesterday, this audio summary covers the key points, if you don't want to scroll down the updates.

[A] 13d1h2m Ok, that's enough puns for today, aledgedly there should be a end to this madness.

[A] 13d1h0m If only our ledgendary bird could give us a lift.

[A] 13d0h58m It'll certainly require significant ledgerity.

[A] 12d0h55m If we get past this obstacle, it really will be a feat of ledgerdemain.

[A] 12d0h52m Some people want democracy because this is taking a long term. This is a ledgitimate concern, but patience is a virtue.

[Snark] (overheard in the gym) Giovanni: "That spinning puzzle? That was lame. We should've just put in a one-tile-tall ledge -- they'd never have passed that."

[A] 13d0h9m It's now been 7 hours since we first set foot in Viridian City. So far, all we've done is healed our Pokemon. It's gonna be a looooong next couple of hours.

[A] 13d0h7m: In case anyone was wondering: yes, we're still trying to get past the Viridian Ledge.

[Snark] Literally jumped off right in front of the door this time. Progress!

Updates may be few and far between for the next hour and a half or so. i'm heading to sleep and will be back at 6PM GMT!

[Snark] You didn't even jump off the right side! At least put some effort into it.

[IDontEvenKnow] What did Red say to the old man? Nothing, everybody talks to Red and assumes he wants their services before he even gets chance to speak and because Red is such a nice guy he goes along with it all. Have you seen Red talk all game? no you have not!

[A] 12d23h4m I hate to be a downer, but it looks like no amount of ups can save you now. Remember, it takes 30 seconds for your input to reach the game, so plan ahead and mash accordingly.

[Ledge] Red realised as he was about to enter the Gym. "Oh shit, it's leg day and i've skipped it so far." He looked at the ledge. "Time to skip some more... OVER THIS LEDGE!

[Bots] It's Kotaku, yes, but there's an article about the " down" botting going on earlier today with a nice graph. Apparently Twitch took the hammer to the lot of them earlier, too, so it's just the anarchy spam for now.

[Ledge Joke] If i had £1 for ever time we jumped over a ledge over these last 13 days... hold on let me get my ledger

[A] 12d22h48m Enjoy this experience: it could be our last time really 'adventuring' within a city. It's not about the destination; it's the journey, right?
¯\(ツ)/¯

[Ledges] You guys think this tiny ledge is bad? Just wait until we get here :D

[A] 12d22h42m Excitement! We picked up a potion.

[Snark] If you thought we were getting into the gym today, now would be a good time to start ledging your bets.

[MadStratz] /u/MahBoiiii suggests using this strategy to get into the gym.

[Snark] They sold us the whole gym, but we only needed the ledge.

[A] 12d22h23m For anyone out there looking for a serious update, this one's for you: We're still in Viridian City; still wandering around; still trying to get into the gym; and still falling off this ledge

[A] 12d22h18m I agree /u/guilka; I thought I was gonna see some Giovanni beatdown today! Unfortunately, it seems the only entertainment I'll get in the next few hours is Red practicing parkour and some crazy old man catching Weedles

[A] 12d22h14m See, when I sat down to watch the stream, I was hoping I'd tune into something good. Instead, I got The Ledge 4: The Revenge of Heath Ledger.

[A] 12d22h10m I think Red is secretly training to become a world-class parkourist, with all of this ledge jumping. But that's just my opinion....

[A] 12d22h7m The olympics are over, guys. Flying off that ledge isn't going to get any medals. But I guess if you want to start training for 2018, don't let me stop you.

[A] 12d22h0m If you need something to keep your faith in Anarchy and Lord Helix through this trying time of ledges, I've got a song for you.

[A] 12d21h42m I haven't been keeping track of how many times we've jumped that ledge, but it just went up again. Good effort, team.

[A]12d21h23m Anarchy has returned!

[Strategy]: Current Goal: Go to the Viridian Gym and perform a massive beatdown on Giovanni and his henchmen!

[D] 12d21h19m Our precious team has been healed. Where will the hivemind take us now? The PC? The Gym? TO OUR DEMISE? Stay tuned!

[D] 12d 21h 20m: Healed at Viridian City Pokemon Center.

[D] 12d21h16m Dome prevails! We enter the Viridian Pokemon Center with the banner of democracy unfurled~

[D] 12d21h10m 8bit jinxes it. Red goes barreling into the wall beneath Viridian after double down9's. Double lines toward anarchy now.

[D]12d21h8m It looks like the start9 filibuster won't happen at the moment! Remember, you need to think 2 moves ahead to counter the lag! Moving in units of 9 will almost always cause us to overshoot, since that move will more than likely be used twice in a row!

[Strategy] Remember... think 20-30 seconds ahead, the democracy vote lasts 20 seconds and there's a 20-30 second delay. THINK 1 OR 2 MOVES IN FRONT

[D] 12d21h6m: WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN DEMOCRACYMANIA RUNS WILD ON YOU! (Switched to Democracy)

[A] 12d21h6m Democracy is in power. Praise the Dome.

[A] 12d21h4m Strong push for Democracy as twitch becomes angry with Viridian's ledges.

[A] 12d20h55m: One step away from the pokecenter door aaand... over the ledge!

[Strategy] Current goal: Heal at the Poke Center first. Then..... Go to the Viridian Gym and fuck some shit up!

[A] 12d20h48m - We're still wandering around Viridian City. The city of only 5 buildings. How in the hell did they get a "City" title!

[A] 12d 20h 39m: Stream is back up.

[Reader's Corner] /u/MahBoiiii makes a great point: In the time we've spent trying to get into the Pokemon Center again, we could have probably just dealt with the consequences of not having a checkpoint.

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[A] 12d 20h 33m: Stream is down again.

[A] 12d 19h 58m: You have to actually heal at the center to checkpoint it. So we're still not checkpointed. What a shame, took a long time to get into that Pokemon Center.

[A] 12d19h54m: Left the Pokemon Center. Without healing. Great.

[A] 12d19h52m: We've entered the Pokemon Center! Still haven't healed, though.

[A] 12d 19h 12m: Current location is Viridian City, the primary focus of the stream seems to be either hitting up the PokeCenter so we respond there or hitting up the Gym. Both seem stymied at the moment by the ledges immediately under either. Next update will be when we manage to get into one of the buildings or if we leave the city.

[Summary] Here's a good summary video sent in by /u/Calabazal about the last day.

[A] 12d 19h 3m: Stream back up! Doesn't look like much has changed, but we'll see.

[A] 12d 18h 51m: Stream down for the moment.

[A] 12d 18h 43m: Still no progress toward the Center or the Gym. We keep popping off the ledge when we get close to either building. Got some messages that say the Misty messages come from an automated spam javascript. So, that's a weird thing that is going on.

[Fun Facts] I've been adjusting my stat stream, and it looks like the majority of the only-spams-one-thing bots/people are actually spamming anarchy, of all things (the gray parts of the bars): https://twitter.com/xkeepah/status/438403774306975744Very interesting. Everything else looks fairly normal for now, so I guess it's just Red bumbling about as usual.

[A] 12d18h14m Old man showing Red the tutorial for catching pokemon. Obviously needed a refresher course.

[A] 12d17h48m: We were next to the poke center... and we just walked into the mart. WRONG BUILDING RED

[Strategy] According to some messages i've gotten. We haven't deposited the Poke Flute.

[Strategy] Warning by /u/Vanguard-Raven Every time we black out on Victory Road, we have to deal with this nightmare of ledges again...

[A] 12d17h31m: The anarchy bar is racing back towards the middle. Democracy and the Dome supporters fail again.

[Random] 12d17h27m: An administrator command prompt has appeared out of nowhere, Whatchu messing with TPP Streamer?

[A] 12d17h25m: Democracy is edging ever closer to takeover

[A] 12d 17h 23m: Red's nemesis, a ledge, keeps us from the Gym entrance. Reminder: We haven't healed at the Pokecenter here, so that's a trip back to Pallet Town if we black out.

[A] 12d 17h 21m: We're close to the Gym. Democracy is very close to taking over.

[A] 12d 17h 15m: We're right by the Pokecenter in Viridian now. The ledge is giving us some grief. Here's the map., sorry about the messed up tiemstamp on the previous post.

[A] 12d17h5m: We're wandering around Viridian City.

[A] 12d 17h 4m: We're in Viridian City! Finally out of the Pallet Town snag.

[A] 12d 16h 49m: Back to fighting Pidgeys just north of Pallet Town. One streamer on the scene in the chat: "This is the stupidest crisis we've ever had"

[A] 12d 16h 30m: Healed up after a nice chat with Mom.

[A] 12d 16h 22m: Back in our house! Will red ever leave the comfort and safety of home? Apparently, as he just marched back outside. And back in. And out again. I'm reading they're going for the PC, but it doesn't really look like it. Out to the right of the house now.

[A] 12d 16h 16m: Back down in Pallet Town. Red reconnects with his roots? More just stuck here. Every once and a while we hit the grass right north of it, but mostly we seem to be stuck.

Adding onto /u/armrha's point about Red growing up: He's also developed a severe case of Paranoid Schizophrenia =/

[A] 12d 15h 59m: We run from a Pidgey. Just like old times.

[A] 12d 15h 55m: Strolling around Pallet town. Thinking about how far we've come, and all we accomplished. When we left town, we were collectively a child. Now RED's all grown up. These streets and fence posts don't seem as big as they use to.

[A]12d15h17m I've been brought up to speed by some helpful people, and it seems like the 2 goals---whether they're primary or secondary is totally up in the air---is to deposit the Poke Flute in Red's PC (only deals with items, so no blood will be shed) and then go to the Viridian Gym. However, as I've already said, we seem to be stuck in the tall grass just north of Pallet Town

[Spam] 12d15h16m If you were wondering what the spam situation is like (and why we keep moving between Pallet and Route 1), this is a good indicator: http://i.imgur.com/jxfXjBP.png All that gray on the "down" graph is bots. Surprise.

[A] 12d15h0m For anyone that's unable to click the map link for any reason, we're basically cycling between Pallet Town and the tall grass immediately north of Pallet Town; this seems to be on repeat, as we've been doing it for a little while

[A] 12d14h50m Sorry for the lack of updates guys; I just woke up, and after referring to the stream and the map, it seems like we've been right around here for a little while encountering level 3/4 pidgeys/rattatas/other low level pokemon. I've got class soon but hopefully another updater will come on and take over =/

Sorry I've got to get off this crazy train. Someone will be along soon I'm sure.

[A] 12d13h55m Whoops, looks like I blinked and missed us withdrawing HM04 and Pokeflute and depositing Secret Key and TM38

[A] 12d13h53m Red stares intently at a potted plant. Nothing like a bit of telekinetic horticulture to get the endorphins flowing.

[A] 12d13h24m It's almost like there's an invisible force pulling him downwards. cough cough

[A] 12d13h21m The current plan seems to be an attempt to recover Strength from Red's home. This is the safest way to do it, but the confusion seems to originate from not everyone being behind the idea.

[A] 12d13h12m Red still strangely reluctant to leave home.

[A] 12d13h4m Although for Abba this is probably the classic fantasy homecoming, when the pathetic hero returns as a noble warrior. I'm thinking the hobbits returning to the Shire at the end of Return of the King. Where Giovanni is Saruman I guess.

[A] 12d13h2m You know when a cat brings in live mouse and plays with it before it eats it? Yeah, that's what's happening here.

[A] 12d12h51m We have now left Pallet Town, and are taking out the last couple of hours' frustration Lvl 3 Pidgeys. I missed it, but it seems clear we did heal.

[A] 12d12h30m While we're waiting, here's a sneak preview of where we're aiming for.

[A] 12d12h29m Red still bumbling around Pallet Town. Poor old Red, he always was a few sandwiches short of a picnic.

[A] 12d12h18m Just tried to teach Cut. No one can learn Cut.

Turns out we also deposited the lift key and town map earlier

[A] 12d12h13m Red seems torn between trying to retrieve HM04, healing with Mother, and leaving town altogether. Currently in Red's bedroom. It's like the last 12 days never happened.

[SUMMARY] After all that, we deposited: HM04, a moon stone, poke flute, escape rope

Apparently we recovered HM01

Sorry I think we also deposited the a moonstone and HM04

[A] 12d11h49m "Be careful out there, it's not safe to go alone". Don't worry, there's 41000 of us.

[A] 12d11h49m Sorry, turns out we succeeded in our purpose after all: we deposited the Poke Flute, and are now leaving Pallet Town.

[STRATEGY] Don't forget that Red's mother heals Pokemon

[A] 12d11h44m Deposited Silph Scope, HM01 and Escape Rope

[A] 12d11h36m We made it to Pallet Town. At long last our exile on the spit of land outside the town is over. To the PC!

[STRATEGY] The inclination in the chat is to deposit the Pokeflute in Red's PC. It's a safe plan with no Pokemon capabilities, and we won't lose turns in battle.

[A] 12d11h25m It's one thing 'grinding' in Pokemon Mansion. We'll have as much success grinding here as a nerd will in a nightclub.

[STRATEGY] If we ever want to leave this sorry place, one suggestion is to work with the down bots - use them to get to the water's edge and start surfing, then go left and up.

[A] 12d11h15m Alright ladies and gents/hivemind, it's 4:30 AM here and time for me to get some sleep. It's been a blast and I'm looking forward to updating again! I hope you all were entertained! Feel free to pm me comments about anything. We are at a bit of a lull in the game, so hopefully the other updaters can stay on top of it without me. Adios, treat Red well~

[A] 12d11h3m As frustration to get off this simple island rises, democracy votes pile in.

[Strategy] Due to some force pushing Red down, it has been suggested that in order to Surf up to Pallet town, we attempt to spam left rather than up as Red can still access the waterway to Pallet that way.

[STRATEGY] It has been suggested that we consider teaching Fonzie Strength (as we once planned to do), given that he lost Horn Attack learning Surf.

[A] 12d10h50m "Now that's a catchy tune" says the game. "Don't patronise me" says Red.

[A] 12d10h42m "We'll teach three Pokemon surf", they said, "It'll be easy to surf", they said...

[A] 12d10h33m "Teach it to Charmeleon..." Blaine's words echo through Red's head as he repeatedly listens to Charmander's cry.

[Strategy] As we are kinda trapped on this little place, here is a strategy for getting us actually into Pallet Town.

[A] 12d10h14m AA-j leveled up to 60 versus wild pokemon in the grass south of Pallet Town. The will of twitch rules that it does not learn light screen!

[A] 12d9h56m The Fonz goes down to a rat. Shame. Side note: running low on energy, already through 2 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Do I go get food/coffee? Pls advise

[A] 12d9h45m We have landed below Pallet Town. Pretty sure we need to continue surfing to get into town though.

[META] We back.

[Reminder] We do not want Zapdos to learn Light Screen. If AA-j levels up to 60, spam b.

[A] 12d9h33m We are surfing again! But for now have aggro'd a swimmer. Probably not the best idea for him to challenge a psychotic robot with Zapdos.

[A] 12d9h31m The ATV just got a little faster. Carbos used on ATV.

[A] 12d9h27m I think we just tossed Solarbeam. Well, that's an end to Project Sunshine.

[A] 12d9h24m Red decided to join his platform compatriots and go fishing. Brought up a Horsea, but Bird Jesus blows it away with a whirlwind from its mighty wings.

[META] Apparently Reddit is going down in about 17-18 minutes, but it should only be down for about 5 minutes. Don't panic, people!

[A] 12d9h16m Given the rotund nature of these gentlemen, we may improve our survival chances by naming one of them Wilson.

[A] 12d9h13 We have made landfall! Unfortunately, it is on what twitch has dubbed 'Fat Man Island.' We're on a platform in the middle of nowhere between Pallet and Cinnabar.

[A] 12d9h10m Red stopping every so often to check his trainer card. "Man, do I look edgy in that picture, or what?"

[A] 12d9h7m We board Helix Surflines! Farewell Cinnabar!

[A] 12d9h3m Re the chat: Presumably someone thinks we have either Moses or King Canute in the party.

[A] 12d8h47m Suggestion from twitch chat: 'JUST USE STRENGTH AND PUSH THE OCEAN BACK"

[A] 12d8h43m And so the surf struggle begins. Red is currently patrolling the island, opening and closing the start menu. The people of Cinnabar look on, wondering "what who got into that kid?"

[Strategy] I'm seeing a lot of suggestions that we stop in Pallet at the PC in Red's room to deposit the PokeFlute so we can avoid wasting turns during the Elite Four. Also, it should be easier to surf now, as 3 of our party pokemon know the move! (Fonz, Helix, AIR)

[A] 12d8h36m Fully healed, we are free to proceed at the whim of the chat!

[A] 12d8h32m It appears we are attempting to heal before proceeding. Correction: I got a little excited. It took a whopping 6 turns to defeat Blaine.

[Strategy] Alright folks, the next step in the story is the Viridian City Gym. The quickest way to get there is to head north from Cinnabar. Here's some tuneage suggested by /u/ShinakoX2 if you need something to listen to on the road!

[A] 12d8h27 Zapdos brings down Blaine without a sweat. 4 turns?! TM38, Fire Blast, obtained.

[A] 12d8h24m Blaine engaged. Well, Blaine, too bad your pokemon "incinerated" your hair too. (Got a burn heal, bro?)

[A] 12d8h22m Red is caught between returning to heal and just taking down Blaine with AA-j and Bird Jesus. REMINDER: If we engage Blaine and AA-j levels up, we should spam b to prevent Light Screen from being learned.

[A] 12d8h19 The Super Nerd who knows what TM28 contains immediately regrets attempting to correct Red when AA-j Thunder's him into silence. Red takes the knowledge and gives the machine the correct answer twice, just for dem dominant feels.

[A] 12d8h18m Red seems to think TM28 is 'TOMBSTONER'. Wat a nub.

[A] 12d8h13m Red actually attempts to answer the machine to pass rather than battling, but fails the question. Burglar tries to capitalize on his weakness to take his lunch money. AA-j ensures this fails horribly.

[A] 12d8h12m A god falls to a Rapidash stomp. AA-j proceeds to vengefully drill the horse to its demise. With that, AA-j has reached level 59!

[A] 12d8h8m Sorry, apparently I missed it: Helix has reached level 33. Thanks to /u/Sniffoy

[Strategy] /u/PhreaksChinstrap just pointed out that Zapdos learns Light Screen, a non-damaging move at level 60, so we should probably spam b at that point to make sure it isn't learned!

[A] 12d8h6m As we begin battle with the next trainer, Burglar, Lapras throws itself in front of its Lord Helix to prevent His demise. Bird Jesus is out now. Expect a sweep.

[A] 12d8h4m Another Super Nerd just bowed to the might of Helix. Red serenaded Helix with the PokeFlute at the end of the battle to express his love and devotion.

[Strategy] What we're up to right now, in picture format. Thanks to /u/Rognik ! Side note: formatting pls

[A] 12d7h56m Lapras almost brings down the rest of the Super Nerd's pokes, but Zapdos switches in to finish him off. Surf's Up, Nerd!

[A] 12d7h52m Tossling with the 2nd trainer, Super Nerd. The Fonz takes himself out in confusion so he and ATV are out. Lapras just misted all over a Vulpix it just sang to sleep. Take that as you please.

[Strategy] Here is the map to the gym. Apparently trainers can be avoided by answering questions at the machines, though I seriously doubt twitch wants that/could pull that off. Plus, who doesn't like some action? Thanks to /u/JayCKey for the map.

[A] 12d7h48m Burglar, trainer 1 defeated! Fonz and Helix make a strong showing with Surf!

[Strategy] At the moment, we are challenging Blaine's gym, the 7th Gym. If anyone would like to send in strategies/maps for this gym, now is the time.

[A] 12d7h44m Engaged with the first trainer in Blaine's Gym. The Fonz is sweeping through with its newfound Surfing ability!

[A] 12d7h42m Armed with the Secret Key, Red enters Blaine's Gym!

[A] 12d7h41m Bird Jesus falls to the strong club foot of a wild Ponyta. Back to the Cinnabar Pokemon Center for the 8th^? time, but we got what we needed this time.

[A] 12d7h35m The Fonz is burned, while Bird Jesus is poisoned. Both under 20 health. Return to base imminent. Some scientist in the basement "likes it here." Yeah, you and nobody else, buddy.

[A] 12d7h32m Stream came back online at 12d7h28m, sorry about that typo in an earlier update! Fonz' health is around 40% while Bird Jesus has just over 25 hp left. We are still in the basement. Things not looking good for hopes of a non-whiteout escape. note: Stream has now recovered to about 40k viewers

[Strategy] My apologies, we already picked up TM14, Blizzard. It was originally in the basement by the southern button.

[A] 12d8h28m Stream is back! Down to just under 6k viewers though. Wow.

Stream is actually offline. [RIOT INTENSIFIES]

Stream is down. ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ RIOTヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ

[Strategy] If Helix we wish to leave the mansion as quickly as possible, we can look at this map submitted by /u/PhreaksChinstrap . Others saying we should stay to pick up Blizzard here in the Mansion.

Gonna head off to bed now, almost 4am my time =X /u/guilka will keep you guys covered for a while longer! I'll exit by saying that I think Surf has the coolest battle animation out of any in the entire game :D Cheers everyone, I'll be back later today!

[A] 12d7h20m The Fonz testing out his new surf. That's one sexy surfing dinosaur poison monster thing.

[Strategy] We must reactivate the northern button in the basement in order to leave the basement.

[A] 12d7h13m Bird Jesus is wading through the seas of poison balloons, doges, and ponies. He is now poisoned, but WE JUST USED A MAX REVIVE ON THE FONZ

[Strategy] I've gotten a few messages from Redditors, and I think it's worth noting that Air Jordan can also learn Solar Beam. However, after watching the chat for a few minutes, it seems like the majority is in favor of teaching the move to ATV

[Strategy] PROJECT SUNSHINE: Teach TM22 (Solar Beam) to ATV!

Thanks /u/G30therm for the name!

[Strategy] I (and quite a few people in the chat on the stream) think it would be beneficial to us if we taught Solar Beam to ATV. But of course, realistically, that could be a challenge to do lol. Since, after all, it took a hell of a long time to complete Project Surfboard xD

[A] 12d6h48m TM22 Solarbeam obtained. Yet to be seen if we'll actually find our way out of the mansion, or just fight to our death. Bird Jesus will show us the way.

[Strategy] In contradiction to my prior post, TM22, Solarbeam, is in the room above where the key was. It could be worthwhile to grab it while we're here!

Blaine doesn't even know what's coming for him.

[A] 12d6h38m Secret Key obtained. Let's get the hell out of this land of poison and fire.

[A] 12d6h33m AA-j has succumbed to dysentery poison. It's all on the strong shoulders/wings of Bird Jesus.

[A] 12d6h24m Unfortunately, AA-j has come down with a case of the poison. Positives are that that we still have an almost pristine Bird Jesus and we're closing fast on the Secret Key.

[A] 12d6h20m The button in the basement has been pressed. Cries of 'Hail Helix!' abound in the chat!

[A] 12d6h17m The Fonz forgot Horn Attack and learned Surf!

[A] 12d6h15m Red is in the basement! Half our party is knocked out, but AA-j has been a champ and Bird Jesus is almost at full health.

[A] 12d6h5m The 3rd floor button has been pressed! Progress, and it feels so good~

[Strategy] As we seem to be a bit torn between the 2nd and 3rd floors, here is the map again. We need to hit the switch on the 3rd floor, then fall down (steps 4-5).

[A] 12d5h44m The Fonz takes a critical from a poison balloon and faints with style.

[A] 12d5h44m Our Lord Omanyte goes down :(

[A] 12d5h40m For those of you who are wondering, there really isn't much to update at the minute; we are still fighting our way back through the mansion. The only notable event, is that Omanyte has been poisoned.

Alright, with Red continuing to crawl through the second floor of the Mansion, I have to take my leave of you wonderful people. I leave the stream to the others, and hopefully will be back this time tomorrow. Good luck, and happy coordination! :) EllyNeko out.

[A] 12d5h17m Red is now re-pressing the switches. Come and see the violence inherent in the system!

[A]12d5h14m Red makes a surprisingly straight beeline back to the mansion, heading inside and smacking aside the Koffings in his way. Nidoking's up front which means we can have an easier time avoiding poison for awhile.

Alright, just so the other mods/Live-streamers know I'll be bowing out in about five minutes. Hopefully there's a few waiting in the wings to take over.

[Strategy] It's been mentioned to me several times that in the basement of the Mansion, TM22 lies on the table just north of the Key. TM22 is SolarBeam, a move both ATV and Air could learn. It's also been brought to my attention that we still have a Max Revive and Full Restore in our inventory, although attempts to retrieve them through anarchy might just distract the group.

[A] 12d5h6m For those of you playing our exciting home game, that would be party wipe number 7.

[A]12d5h6m It's all over folks. Red blacks out again after another harrowing attempt through the Mansion. With little to show for it, we're back to enjoying the lovely Cinnabar music.

[A] 12d5h2m: RED Death Watch: 180 steps to go. RIP

[A] 12d5h0m: RED Death Watch: Just a reminder that every turn in battle costs about 50 steps on the out-of-battle poison death timer.

[A]12d5h0m Votes for democracy are pouring in as the group demands precision to avoid another black out. Abba Jesus dwindles to 20% health.

[A] 12d4h59m It seems as though Democracy is getting closer to being the status quo. Will it arrive in time, before Bird Jesus succumbs to poison? Only time will tell...

[A]12d4h55m We're close to the last button-statue on the north side of the room. If we press that we have a clear shot to the key all the way to the west.

[A] 12d4h54m RED Death Watch: Under 500 steps to go! Remember the Safari Zone?

[Strategy] We have to head up and right now towards the next button-statue, gang. The item to the far left, if it's still there, isn't worth another go-around!

And if you find you're stressing out too much on a daily basis from Twitch Plays Pokemon, here's a foolproof method to lowering your stress level ;)

[A] 12d4h47m Just for those keeping track, assuming Pidgeot doesn't take more damage in battle, we can bumble about for about 600 more steps before it's game over.

[Meta]: For those of you who this is stressing out a whole lot, here is a Web MD guide for keeping stress levels down :)

[A] 12d4h44m: The switch is pressed! Finally.

[A]12d4h43m AA-J levels up to 57! Still no switch progress.

[MetA]12d4h41m: Just a reminder that we have been stuck in Cinnabar Mansion for over 15 hours.

[A]12d4h38m And both birds are poisoned! It's now a race against time to try and get to both statues before making our way to the key, and our past track record isn't making this look hopeful.

[A]12d4h31m AA-J is poisoned, giving him a countdown until we only have one Pokemon keeping us from restarting aaaaall over again.

[A] 12d4h28m The switch! Didn't press it. Didn't press it. Didn't press it. Didn't press it. Didn't press it. Didn't press it. Pressed it! Then pressed it again! D'oh.

[A]12d4h21m We've made it to the button-statue for seven but keep circling it, perhaps in an attempt to intimidate it. We hit it twice, then go back to circling. Red likes to keep it on its toes, I suppose...

[Strategy] For those just joining, here is the map we are currently following. We're down to six, trying to get to seven.

[A]12d4h5m Still passing over the gap we need to get through, running from encounter after encounter. Our Birdly Duo is hanging on for the time being, but all we need is one poison to repeat the attempt of a few hours ago. Can the group consolidate their efforts in time?

[A]12d3h51m And The Fonz goes down to a Koffing, leaving only the heavenly birds alive in our party. We're on the basement floor but overshooting and missing the button-statues.

[Strategy] It's worth noting that we're losing a lot of pokemon to poison. The Fonz is immune to poison (but not to burns), so if we can keep it alive, it's a safer bet for 'run'ning through the Mansion.

[A] 12d3h42m "All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem" - MLK Jr. I think that just about sums up this game.

[A]12d3h39m Acquired a Carbos!

[A]12d3h36m Made it past the first gate and fallen back down to the first floor. Slowly making our way southeast towards the basement.

[A]12d3h29m Continually walking past the statue we need to activate in order to move on and wild encounters keep KO'ing our party. 3/6 Pokemon alive. C'mon guys, we were so close before!

[A] 12d3h18m AA-j levels up to 56!

[A] 12d3h14m Our lord Omanyte goes down due to poison, but not before OHKO'ing a Ponyta!

[Service Announcement] : Updaters, please remember that BOLDING IS FOR EXTREME IMPORTANCE. A Pokemon dying / getting poisoned is NOT subject to bolding. Bolding is the reason we are allowed to have longer and more "personality"-based updates, since it universalizes the understanding that Importance = Bold. BOLDING INCLUDES BUT NOT LIMITED TO: Item Pick / BLACK OUT / Serious Location Changes / Move-Learning / Trainer Wins/Battles. Thank you.

[A]12d3h8m Air succumbs to poison from a Koffing. Down to 4 Pokemon!

[A]12d3h1m Omanyte levels up to 32!

[A]12d2h54m Our lord and savior Omanyte OBLITERATES a wild Ponyta in one hit with his newly-learned Surf move!

[A]12d2h53m ATV goes down against a wild Koffing

[A]12d2h52m Making our way towards the 3rd floor stairs. We have to head for the Pokemon statue once we get to the 3rd floor, but we're doing fairly well in avoiding wild encounters!

[A]12d2h44m As if by accident, Red stumbles back into the Pokemon Mansion. Let's get this train wreck a'rollin'!

And occasionally, they would hear the strains of a tune played on a Pokeflute. The same few notes, over and over and over, because they shut out the voices for a while. Then the muttering, "that's a catchy tune".

Adding onto /u/onemanandhishat's point, the locals will tell legends about how Red worshiped an ancient fossil, and that he had tens of thousands of voices in his head, controlling his every move and action.....

[A] 12d2h36m Blaine has apparently lived here for decades. It's not implausible that we'll end up doing the same.

[A]12d2h33m We meander about, stopping by the Mart and trying to teach ATV Cut. The locals seem unfazed. We stop by north and manage to use the Super Rod, fishing up a Horsea! ATV is sent out and the Poke Flute immediately played.

[A] 12d2h19m "Blaine is an odd man". Wait til he meets us, we make the Joker look mundane.

[A]12d2h17m Hoorah! Our Lord and savior Helix has learned surf!

[A] 12d2h17m Currently trying to teach surf to the two birds. Thank goodness that's not possible so we can be spared the Surfin Bird jokes.

[A]12d2h17m Omanyte has learned Surf

[A] 12d2h16m After all the trouble it took to get here, it would seem a shame if we completed Cinnabar too fast. Think of it as savouring the experience.

[A]12d2h9m Red strolls about the quaint town, enjoying the lovely music and scenery. The start screen is brought up every few seconds but is quickly exited. The userbase seems split between going back for another try at the Mansion and trying for Project Surfboard. The game is saved once or twice for good measure.

[A] 12d1h59m Now that we're out of the mansion, does this mean we will attempt to go forward with Project Surfboard? Only time will tell...

[Strategy] I have been informed by several users that the beds in the Mansion do NOT heal us, and that we NEED to reflip all the switches in the Mansion if we leave or black out. Follow this map to victory and Key-dom!

[A]12d1h56m We consult everything in our inventory during this dark time, but not even the S.S. Ticket can guide us through this. Fonz goes down to a burn and we black out, again. Back to the Pokecenter we go!

[A]12d1h50m We play the song of the flute to a Koffing and escape, but it's too late for our birds. AA-J and Abba Jesus are down from poison! We're left with only a burned, burned-out Fonz.

[A]12d1h47m Oh no! AA-j is poisoned too! We're still trying to decide between hitting the switch and continuing towards the next floor. And with all three members of our party at under 25% health it looks like we're about to find ourselves in the Pokecenter again.

[Strategy] Does anyone know if we need to press the switches again in order to get the Key? Or can we make a beeline(ish) right for it now?

[A] 12d1h33m Why would you not press the secret switch? This is no time to be coy!

[Strategy] Just as a reminder, here's the path we need to take in order to obtain the Secret Key!

[A]12d1h28m Acquired an Iron! Equal chances for it being tossed or used in the next half hour.

[A]12d1h24m AA-J levels up to 55 after taking down a Growlithe. Tried to learn Agility but abandoned it, whew!

[A]12d1h20m Abba Jesus's health is slowly sapped by poison as we play the song of our people to a wild Koffing. Still trying to make it to the third floor.

[A]12d1h14mAir Jordan has fallen in combat from bad stomach aches from poisoning.

[A] 12d1h12m Party here looking pretty bruised and battered.

[A]12d1h11m And Lord Helix succumbs to his burn! King Fonz is sent out to face another Ponyta before running, but he's also low on health. Only Double A-Jay remains untouched in our party.

[A]12d1h9m Abba Jesus has also been poisoned thanks to the roaming gas bags! Two party members poisoned and two burned, and we're still trying to make it to the 3rd floor. We need to start running from more of these encounters.

[A]12d1h8m Bird Jesus is now poisoned from a Koffing's Smog.

[A]12d1h6m AIIIIIIRRR has been poisoned by a Koffing encounter, and with Lord Helix and Nidoking burned our party situation isn't looking good. An apology for the lack of correct bolding, I'm too excited by the heat of the moment!

[A]12d0h57m ATV goes down to a wild Koffing before AA-J promptly takes him out. We're still on the first floor of the Mansion, making our way to the second floor. Our Lord Helix is now at the front of the party!

Ah, the cavalry has arrived! I'll be signing off now - my very eyes are aching - but I'll leave you in the capable hands of /u/EllyNeko. Have a fun, friendly, and not-stuck-in-one-corner-for-an-hour-and-a-half adventure in my absence, everybody!

[STRATEGY] /u/seodoth just sent me a very useful link to the TPP Strategy tumblr. It doesn't get much more strategic than that! A lot of the resources I've been mentioning can be found there.

Hello crew, new updater EllyNeko here! I'll be jumping in in place of u/Kingorokos. I'll be helping with updates 'til I pass out at my keyboard in a few hours.

[A]12d00h50m King Fonz has been burned, perhaps as a punishment for his tenacity in the recent incident.

Incidentally, if any other commentators or moderators are watching the stream at the moment; I'm looking to head out in the next fifteen minutes or thereabouts, so we'll need somebody to take over by then. It's been fun, guys, but I am exhausted. Mentally and emotionally.

[A]12d00h43m We're back in the Pokemon Mansion. Honestly, where else would we be? In case any of you have forgotten (I know I have) what we're even doing here, this map should refresh your memory.

[A]12d00h38m Total time trapped: 1 hour, 32 minutes. We made it, folks. We really made it. That Pokemon centre music has never sounded so good.

[A]12d00h36m /u/WiiLovePeace suggests we dub this incident 'Grindhog Day'. It has a certain flair which 'the Great Burglar And Table In Our Way Crisis' lacked, I'll readily admit. And speaking of which - could it be? Are we free?! King Fonz has fainted! Hurrah! Hurray! Praise the day!

FINALLY

[A]12d00h34m Speak of the devil, King Fonz grew to level 35.

[A] 12d0h33m Face it mate, if your partner's been anywhere near us, he's probably been released by now. You'll never see him again.

[A]12d00h32m Of course, the problem with having King Fonz as our last team member is that he'll never get poisoned, so we're having to do this the long way... Cue EVEN MORE grinding.

[A] 12d00h24m Bird Jesus has fainted. It took many trials and tribulations to slay him, but now this purgatory is almost over.

[A] 12d0h24m Where's Macauley Culkin when you need him?

[A]12d00h21m Progress? What does that even mean? I'm blaming all of my typos and other errors on this shambling nightmare. We've been here for more than an hour now...

[A] 12d0h20m Oh man, this is like 127 dresses Hours all over again.

(ANOTHER correction - I know, I'm sorry, kill me now) Obviously, Operation Blizzard can only teach TM14 to one of the three Pokemon mentioned because, you know, single use TMs. Sorry for the confusion. This whole event has left me a shambling husk of my forner self.

[STRATEGY] A lot of people are also suggesting potential training strategies for our grind-filled future, ala this one. Also, another correction - the counter measures days passed, not number of days. Twelve days have passed since day 1 so it's day 13. Apologies!

[STRATEGY] In the absence of actual progress, several Operations have sprung up. Amongst them is the still ever-popular Operation Surfboard, Operation Blizzard (which proposes we teach TM14 to Helix, King Fonz and possibly AIR, to aid us against Lance in the future) and the simplistic Operation Blackout (which just wants us to faint our team, very very quickly).

[A]12d00h01m An exciting new development in the form of Bird Jesus being poisoned. Is this a good thing or not? I can't really tell any more.

[A]12d00h00m Happy day twelve! To recap; Red is stuck in Pokemon Mansion on Cinnabar Island, trapped between a burglar (note the spelling) and the table. We are currently attempting to escape, though how exactly is a matter of contention in the stream. Our real goal, to obtain the key to Cinnabar gym, looks very distant at this point.

[A] 12d0h0m This guy would make our lives a whole lot easier if he would stop being a lazy fuck and actually go look for his partner >___>

(Many people are questioning my spelling of 'burgular'. Probably because I'm spelling it wrong. It's burglar. I'm a damn fool.)

[STRATEGY] For a more eloquent explanation, here are the words of /u/Sanquii - "In red, there are trainers who have no sight range and walk around. This burglar is one of them. So we actually had to walk in this spot, wait until he got over the entrance, and initiate battles. Trainers cease all movement patterns after a battle, so we're stuck." Hope that helps!

[A]11d23h46m It was only a matter of time - AJ has fainted. Sleep well, our electric prince, and dream not of small corridors guarded by burgulars.

[STRATEGY] As some people are confused as to how we got into this mess, a rough explanation - the guy in front of us is a trainer who spins on the spot. He caught us whilst we were down in this little corridor between the rocks and the table, and walked over to battle. After the battle ended, he stayed in his new position, still spinning on the spot. And his new position, very inconveniently, is our only exit. So we're trapped.

[A]11d23h36m AJ is poisoned. I'm honestly not sure how long ago that happened - time has slowed to a dull trickle, here at the epicentre of the great Burgular And Table In Our Way Crisis, and events are beginning to merge together in my mind...

(Add a +30m to that last update's timestamp. Time seems to be outsmarting me this evening.)

[A]11d23h "I wonder where my partner went?" Perhaps your partner slowly starved to death, trapped in a corner by your colossal bulk, intense apathy, and unfortunate proximity to nearby tables and rocks. You monster.

[A]11d23h26m Anarchy is back. What a thoroughly unhelpful democracy that turned out to be.

[STRATEGY] Incidentally, with democracy in play, hardcore fans of Operation Surfboard might try to use this opportunity to their advantage. I'd advise against it, though; we're already muddled up enough as it is.

[A]11d23h14m Democracy is in session, brought on by panic from the great Burgular And Table In Our Way Crisis (coined that one myself).

[STRATEGY] Alternatively, some people think we should be using up our escape rope. That would be quicker, and much less boring - but then we'd miss out on all of this lovely EXP. I suppose the decision lies with democracy, now.

[STRATEGY] Grinding might be the best way to go at this point, guys. Spamming A and left would speed up both exp and black-out, which are our two goals here I reckon. Thanks to /u/B1ack0mega for the tips

(comment) Revive girl 2.0

[A]11d23h06m Red, our majestic hero, Pokemon master to be, the protagonist of one of the most iconic games of all time... is stuck. I wish I was joking. He's trapped behind a trainer who won't move, a table, and some rocks. Our options at this point are pretty much either deliberately die, or grind for a while.

[STRATEGY] A lot of people have been urging me to tell you that we need to watch out for AJ levelling up any more. His next two moves are Agility (LVL 55) and Light Screen (LVL 60), neither of which are popular choices in the stream. So, when the time comes, be safe. We don't want to lose any vital moves.

(Correction to an earlier post: AIR fainting did not, as I said, occur half an hour in the past. That would just be silly. The correct time was 11d22h44m)

[A]11d22h54m It's not all bad; AJ gained a level and is now level 54.

[STRATEGY] Remember, folks, all this meandering about the mansion is getting us nowhere. The map most people seem to be following guides us to the staircase on the North-West corner of the second floor - heading thataway might be a smart move.

[A]11d22h04m AIR has fainted. Ponyta's wrath cannot be quenched. They are out to burn the blood of our heroic team.

[A]11d22h37m I'm told that Helix not only avenge ATV in an earlier Ponyta battle, but also gained a level! Thanks to /u/shundread

[A]11d22h36m Helix has fainted. These flaming horses are getting out of hand. Fortunately AJ is at hand to avenge our fallen hero.

[A] 11d22h35m Lord Helix has fallen in combat. MAY WE CRUSADE TO AVENGE HIS DEATH,

[A]11d22h31m Much like a real life heretic, Ponyta attempts to burn the envoy of our new religion. Omanyte has been burned.

[A] 11d22h29m Lord Helix avenges ATV's sacrifice by spraying water on the flaming horse.

[A] 11d22h29m ATV has fainted. Felled by a flaming horse. A noble death.

[A] 11d22h26m We're roaming around the Pokemon Mansion, fighting off gas bags (also known as Koffing). Not too much happening yet.

[STRATEGY] Judging by the amount of time spent in the items menu during this series of random encounters, Operation Surfboard hasn't given up yet.

[A] 11d22h22m And we run away from the Growlithe.

[A] 11d22h22m Lord Helix strikes the enemy Growlithe hard with Water Gun. Nevertheless, the Twitchnauts seem to be unsure of themselves, consistently consulting the SS Ticket and the Super Rod.

[STRATEGY] Does this mean that Operation Surfboard has been abandoned? Is it simply waiting, lying in wait? Who knows. All I can say is - let's get that damn key already.

[A] 11d22h19m The mansion! We've entered the Mansion!

[A] We just attempted to teach Strength to Bird Jesus (Pidgeot), ATV (Venomoth) and AIR (Lapras) in rapid succession. Fortunately, the first two can't learn it and the third already knows it. Not much of a victory, but compared to our recent progress I'd call it a sign that things are improving. Other notable events include listening to the cries of Wartortle and Pidgey alternatively, saving repeatedly, and an odd whistling on the ol' Pokeflute.

Hey guys, KingOrokos here, hopefully going to help out with the updates for the next hour or so! Though I'm sure most of you know this already, we're currently attempting to teach Helix and King Fonz to Surf - as explained here. After which, our goal is to grab that Gym Key from the Mansion; here's a map of that. Wish me luck, I'm new round these parts.

Thanks to everyone who's been messaging me offering to help out with Live Updates during this time! If you're interested in helping out during the night hours/ early morning hours, please message one of the TPP mods.

[Strategy] The map for retrieving the Secret Key can be found here: http://i.imgur.com/rD5Up87.jpg

[A] 11d21h55m We are still meandering about on Cinnabar Island. Our current goal is to retrieve the Secret Key from the Pokemon Mansion in order to open up the Cinnabar Gym. https://sites.google.com/site/twitchplayspokemonstatus/

Hey folks! I'll be infrequently updating and taking over for 8bitremixguy for now. We're not making much progress, so expect updates about every 5 min. I'll be updating until around 9:30, with perhaps a few 10 min breaks inbetween to eat a quick dinner and shower. If any other live updaters are on right now and would like to help out, please message me. Thanks!

Well guys, it's been fun! My first time updating for TPP has been a great one! Unfortunately, I need to head off to dinner. Thank you to anyone who's sent me kind words or strategy to my inbox, I really appreciate it! Hopefully another updater will take over soon. No idea when I'll be on here again, but hopefully it's soon! :D

[A] 11d21h29m We heal a second time for good measure xD Now, judging by the chat, there's a majority in favor of teaching Surf to Omanyte and Nidoking

[A]11d21h28m We enter the Poke Center again. We heal our Pokemon.

[A] 11d21h16m We just nearly tossed a moonstone. Props to whoever pressed 'b' at the right time

[STRATEGY] So just to remind everyone, it seems (judging by the chat on the stream) that our immediate goal is not to heal, but to initiate Project Surf/Surfboard and teach surf to Omanyte and Nidoking

[Strategy] It's been brought to my attention by /u/Spoon_rhythm and /u/SKdawg that Surf being taught to Omanyte and Nidoking could possibly will be a good choice in the long run. Here's a link that explains what I mean

[A] 11d20h57m We exited without doing anything. Now we're wandering around Cinnabar island. The residents here must think we're absolutely insane... But then again, everyone that comes across Red must think that

[A] 11d20h50m Into the Poke Center we go! Let's make this quick; heal, and promptly exit without screwing anything up....

[A] 11d20h46m We're still trying to get into the Poke Center. Red wanders into the Poke Mart. He browses the shelves for a while, but apparently he's on a tight budget, so we walk out without buying anything

[A] 11d20h38m At least we can look on the bright side, the music in Cinnabar Island is much, much better than when we were stuck in Lavender Town :D

[A] 11d20h30m Red stumbles into Pokemon Labs to have a look around for a minute or two; we're still trying to enter the Pokemon Center to heal our wounded Pokemon

[A] 11d20h23m Let's see if we can just go in, heal, and come straight out. But alas, every trip to the Poke Center in the past ~12 days has been interesting....

[A] 11d20h21m Abba Jesus also faints due to the poison. We have left the mansion; perhaps we're going back to the Poke Center to heal?

[A] 11d20h17m No, Red! You're going the wrong way! We backtrack down to the first floor of the mansion, and Omanyte is sent out against a wild Koffing. We run. Shortly after, Omanyte (at 1hp) is switched out for Air Jordan. AIIIIIIR is poisoned. After, our god, clinging on to life at 1hp, succumbs to the poison, and faints

[A] 11d20h15m Correction, ATV fainted earlier. We get attacked by a wild Growlithe, and Bird Jesus goes up. We run away.

[A] 11d20h13m We made it to the 2nd floor of the mansion, but immediately get attacked by a wild Ponyta. Poisoned Omanyte goes up, but we quickly run

[A] 11d20h12m Just to remind everyone, all our Pokemon are up, but Omanyte and Bird Jesus are poisoned. We send Air Jordan up against Koffing but we run before anything happens

[A] 11d20h11m Omanyte is poisoned against a wild Koffing.

[A] 11d20h9m Another Ponyta, Omanyte takes some damage. We play the PokeFlute, but to no avail. We run.

[A] 11d20h8m Omanyte up against another Koffing. We run. If there's one thing 63,000 people are collectively good at on this game, it's running from wild Pokemon xD

[A] 11d20h6m Red consults Bulbasaur for advice before running into, yep, you guessed it, another wild Koffing. We run.

[A] 11d20h5m More wild Koffings; really starting to get sick of them! The Card Key is consulted, and then Omanyte uses water gun multiple times to take it down. Praise Helix!

[A] 11d20h2m Our God Helix goes out against a wild Koffing, but we run away

[A] 11d20h1m ATV faints to a wild Ponyta. We promptly run right after

[A]11d20h0m Just as a reminder, here's the map of where we need to go. Thanks /u/SKdawg!

[A] 11d19h59m Another wild Koffing, but we quickly run

[A] 11d19h57m Wild Ponyta attacks, ATV goes out. Card Key is consulted a few times, but unfortunately it doesn't provide any usable wisdom. We promptly run away

[A] 11d19h53m If anyone wants a map of our current location, we're right here.

[A] 11d19h52m Wild Koffing attacks, but we run without taking any damage at all

[A] 11d19h51m We slowly are making our way through the mansion. With each passing step, poor Bird Jesus takes more and more poison damage :(

[A] 11d19h49m We run against a Ponyta after ATV takes some damage; next, ATV's out against a Growlithe. We run after taking some damage

[A] 11d19h47m Come on Red, now's not the time to play the PokeFlute multiple times in a row! Bird Jesus comes back in at half health (poisoned), AAAAAAAA comes out, and we run away

[A] 11d 19h 45m Bird Jesus is poisoned while fighting a Koffing!

[A] 11d19h42m: Rare Candy used on ATVenomoth, now level 35

As Red wanders around Cinnabar Island, it may be a good time to look to Helix for strength and wisdom. We're gonna need it...

[Extra] here's an image of what happened, for you people who can't access the stream

[A] 11d19h34m: Red is contemplating suicide, he's listening to all his Pokemon's cries before he jumps into the ocean, never to be seen again

[Extra] And we fainted as we were stood in front of the key BTW. we were literally one A click away from picking up the key.

[Extra] /u/Sniffnoy tells me we picked up a rare candy. So we have that.

[A] 11d19h28m: aaabaaajss has fainted, We are out of usable pokemon, we black out... again

[A] 11d19h25m: Bird Jesus is on low health, we could lose him pretty soon

[RECAP] User /u/Calabazal made a video to recap the last 24 hours: http://youtu.be/CIgrooqHwjQ

[A] 11d19h9m: The Asthma Pokemon, Weezing, jumps out at us, defeating The Fonz, we quickly run

[A] The party pokemon, Grimer, shows up to give us a hard time. Omanyte is sent out to deal with this ruffian

[A] 11d19h1m: Bird Jesus consults a few items, tries to run a few times, consults a few more items, then throws a Quick Attack at the Magnemite, killing it. The Scientist sends out an Electrode, which is quickly dealt with

[A] 11d18h53m: For those of you dying for updates, we have just in fact saved the game.

[A] 11d18h40: Still wandering around Cinnibar Mansion, running away from random Pokemon battles and "grinding"

[Strategy] Some people seem to be pushing for this strategy. It seems very reasonable, not a bad idea at all

[A] 11d18h26m: For those of you just joining us, we have been doing nothing but running away from wild Pokemon for the past few minutes

[A] 11d18h20m: Down the steps!

[A] 11d18h15m: We have fallen down the Mansion's balcony, into another room

[A] 11d18h13,: Nidoking defeats a Ponyta

[A] 11d18h10m: ATV and AIR are both down right now, our Zapdos is in the head of the team, and Nidoking is fighting a Ponyta.

[A] 11d18h5m God himself has shown up for this battle. Praise be to him!

[A] 11d18h5m: Omanyte comes out against a Koffing, ATV is still alive.

[A] 11d18h4m: ATV vs Koffing, and surprise we ran

[A] 11d18h3m: ATV vs Growlithe, another run

[A] 11d18h1m: ATV vs Koffing, Zapdos takes the field and Drill Pecks the Koffing to "death"

[A] 11d17h58m: ATV vs Koffing, this time with special guest appearance from Bird Jesus, who sands up the area

[A] 11d17h57m: ATV vs Koffing, once again we have fled

[A] 11d17h54m: ATV vs Koffing, Zapdos gets sent out, and then AATTVVV again to take a hit

[A] 11d17h53m: Checking the Pokedex, making sure everyone sounds the same

[Meta] Plugging in my second screen just for you guys...

[A] 11d17h44m After looking into everyone's windows and doors we arrive at our destination and a Koffing stares us down. Air Jordan is playing the hero but he faints after a devastating sludge attack, Bird Jesus is here to mop up. After a consultation with the S.S Ticket

[Whoops] Apparently we don't need cut. Damnit guys stop giving me false information. I'm too lazy to look it up myself

[A] 11d17h37m: One attack and we black out and return to the Poke Cent- I type too slow

[Strategy] "In addition to Nidoking not being able to learn cut, NONE of our current pokemon or their evolutions can learn cut.

At some point, we will HAVE to brave the PC again. We won't need it until after the last Giovanni battle, but it is needed to get to the Elite 4."

/u/Blixinator

[A] 11d17h35m Praise the button, for he is a messenger of Helix

[A] 11d17h34m: We run out of a battle... and straight into another one, good job guys!

[Whoops] Wrong info back there, Nidoking can infact NOT learn cut. i was looking at the gen 6 move list on Bulbapedia. SORRY!

[A] 11d17h31m: The Fonz is pumping himself full of steroids... or something like that

[Strategy] Plan Z: Teach everyone surf, EVEN THE BIRDS

[Strategy] Nidoking can learn Cut. Maybe we can try teaching it to him sometime?

(Thanks /u/abdiyohan for bringing this to my attention

[A] 11d17h25m: ATVenomoth faints against a Ponyta, only The Fonz is left and he runs away.

[A] 11d17h23m: We try to Surf on Air Jordan, it fails. Miserably

[Meta] I've been asked to tone down the updates a little. Sorry if i've been going a little fast!

[A] 11d17h16m: our NPC impression does not impress the Burglar.

[A] 11d17h15m: And then swiftly away

[A] 11d17h14m: After some OCD Button Pushing, Red drives ATVenomoth into a Koffing

[A] 11d17h12m: ATV is basically guaranteed to run away from anything that moves - VI: I obviously don't know my star wars movies

[A] 11d17h9m: ATV is basically guaranteed to run away from anything that moves - V: Return of the Fossils

[A] 11d17h9m: ATV is basically guaranteed to run away from anything that moves - IV: A New Hope

[Meta] Just got this message from /u/Kingkaor: No wonder he runs from everything moving. He thinks it's a race.

[A] 11d17h8m: ATV is basically guaranteed to run away from anything that moves, again with a koffing

[Meta] Legit crying at /u/MyNameIsNavy 's transportation update

[A] 11d17h7m: It's the battle of the modes of transportation, ATVenomoth vs Ponyta

[A] 11d17h6m: ATV is basically guaranteed to run away from anything that moves, electric boogaloo

[A] 11d17h4m: ATV is basically guaranteed to run away from anything that moves

[A] 11d17h2m: DONT WORRY GUYS, THE GAME HAS BEEN SAVED

[A] 11d17h2m: Koffing is paralyzed, leading to an easy escape

[A] 11d17h1m: Another Growlithe, Another run

[A] 11d17h0m: ATV runs away from a Growlithe. Get hyped

[A] 11d17h00m: We run into a wild Growlithe, and quickly run

[A] 11d16h58m: AATTVV ran away

[A] 11d16h58m: Apparently I have been putting my time stamps in the unoptimal spot

AATTVV vs Koffing!

[A] Level up! IIRC, it was to level 34

[A] Ponyta falls in a similar manner after a great early crit hit 11d16h57

[A] The Fonz makes short work of the Ponyta

[A] The Fonz takes care of Growlithe 11d16h56m

[A] The Growlithe is defeated by Nidoking, and the Burglar sends out Ponyta

[A] A lot of debate on what move to use leads to clicking on the Card Key 11d16h55m

[A] We're consulting the Ticket 11d16h55m

[A] ATV is switched out for Nidoking, gets leered 11d16h54m

[A] Red fights a Burglar! Growlithe comes out against our ATV 11d16h54m

[A] Again, but with a Grimer 11d16h53m

[A] A repeat of my last update just happened at 11d16h53m

[A] And another.... and then a Grimer appeared

[A] ATV ran from a Koffing, super exciting 11d16h50m

[A] The Fonz has bested the Ponyta 11d16h50m

[Meta] Hey guys, new updater here, i'll be helping out from 6PM to 12AM most nights!

[A] Red has pressed the secret switch, and then not pressed it, and then pressed it, and then not pressed it, and then pressed it, and then not pressed it, and has encountered a Ponyta 11d16h49m

[A] Nidoking has ran from the battle against the Wheezing 11d16h49m

[Meta] That other Pokemon being AATTVVV

[Meta] I hate to speculate, but it looks like we might black out at this point. We have Nidoking and another Pokemon remaining.

[A] AAJ, our Zapdos, IS DOWN

[A] AAJ still stands to fight a Weezing, at all of 3 health and poisoned 11d16h46m

[A] Red found TM 14!

[A] Another battle with a Koffing, Zapdos scores a crit hit and its down 11d16h43m

[A] Growlithe has been killed 11d16h42m

[A] AAJ is nearly dead, but remains standing to fight a growlithe 11d16h41m

[A] AAJ has been poisioned, not looking good for them 11d16h39m

[A] The stairs have been used, the game has been saved 11d16h38m

[A] In a wild battle, AATTVVV is sent out, disables Koffings Tackle 11d16h36m

[A] AAJ shocks a Koffing to unconsciousness

[A] Red enjoying the potted plants as he wanders the mansion

[A] Scientist down! 11d16h31m

[A] Wheezing down

[A] Electrode is taken care of 11d16h31m

[A] Who are you? There shouldnt be anyone here! Second Scientist battle!

[A] And with that, scientist is down!

[A] AAJ finishes off the voltorb 11d16h29m

[A] The Pokeflute is played

[A] Zapdos sweeps Magneton with Drill peck 11d16h28m

AAJ kills a Magnimite

My mentor once lived here: TIME TO FIGHT A SCIENTIST

The statue was examined

Red is still in the Mansion of misery, with poisoned Pokemon

We're back!

ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ RIOT ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ

Stream is down :(

[A] 11d15h59m Bird Jesus and AIR are both down. Lord Omanyte is poisoned. Progress is slow through the mansion, but at least we're headed in roughly the right direction.

[A] 11d15h47m Bird Jesus is poisoned!

[strategy] A reminder of the plan as we progress through Pokemon Mansion

[strategy] It would be really helpful to try and move our lower level Pokemon up to the top and get Bird Jesus+AJ away from the top. We really need the leveling! [credit to /u/chaoticcookie39]

[A] 11d15h26m Red's just bouncing around Cinnabar Island at the moment

[A] 11d15h19m We're at the Mart at the moment

[A] 11d15h15m RED Blacked out!

[Important Information] Streamer has confirmed there WILL be another TPP after this and it will be Gen2. Not decided which one yet. Source @AlexHern is to find right HERE

[A] 11d15h11m Most of our party has gone down. All that's left is a Poisoned Zapdos and the Fonz

[A] 11d14h57m Zapdos is poisoned!

[A] 11d14h46m Omanyte is sent to fight his battles. Omantye is poisoned, albeit with most of his health!

[A] 11d14h32m AIR has fainted!

[A] 11d14h32m AIR Leveled up! Bird Jesus is poisoned, but with most of his health!

[A] 11d14h14m We're on the third floor (technically). We took the wrong staircase to get up though so we're just trapped in here.

[A] 11d14h03m We're on the second floor! View the plan HERE

[A] 11d13h55m We're back in the Pokemon mansion!

[A] 11d13h47m AIR goes down. RED Blacks out!

[A] 11d13h43m /u/Silversora comments that now may be a great time to use that escape rope after all.

[A] 11d13h39m Omanyte faints! We have only one pokemon remaining!

[A] 11d13h38m Omanyte is poisoned!

[A] 11d13h33m Bird Jesus Faints due to poison damage!

[A] 11d13h29m Bird Jesus defeats the enemy Koffing, however Bird Jesus is Poisoned!

[A] 11d13h29m We're all the way back to the first floor in what appears to be a desperate attempt to reduce all the progress we've made

[A] 11d13h14m After a brief moment of the 2nd floor, we return to the 3rd immediately!

[A] 11d12h52m Bird Jesus continues on his rampage through Koffings!

[Bye!] With DancesWithLupus and a ton of other work, I hope you all enjoyed the commentary! Thanks for the nice messages! I'll be letting /u/DancesWithLupus take over from here, good luck in the Mansion and in Cinnabar Gym! Go get 'em, guys! MrSymphony out~

[A] 11d12h40m We encounter a Grimer but successfully run away before taking any real losses!

[A] 11d12h37m: For reference, this is a map to exit the building. While it is unimportant now, hopefully another updater may re-post this map once after we get the Key! (I'm heading off soon!)

[A] 11d12h37m: Do NOT forget about the Switch! (Step #4)

[A] 11d12h36m: :) Fonz defeats the Ponyta!

[A] 11d12h35m: Nidoking, The Fonz, is now our front-lining Pokemon! He's at 60% health now during this encounter with a wild Ponyta. Hang in there, Fonz!

[A] 11d12h32m: After paralyzing a wild Growlithe, Zapdos, AA-J, has fainted due to poison. Helix bless him.

[A] 11d12h32m: This is heart-wrenching.. With only 4 hp left, Zapdos encounters a Growlithe--only to immediately use Thundershock and OHKO it! He's holding on strong... Not letting go without a fight. sniff

[A] 11d12h31m: We're on the third floor! Here's the map!

[A] 11d12h30m: :( Zapdos has 9 hp.

[A] 11d12h29m: Zapdos has ~30 health left. We're still on the 2nd floor, although very close to the stairs leading to the third!

[MAPS] /u/jimdomino has presented me with this map that holds all the information for the Mansion, in case we want to pick up other items. /u/Baffan's map holds the objective solely. Feel free to use either! Please note that Step #7 for Baffan's map is Blizzard.

[A] 11d12h21m: Oh lordy... Now whenever we move, we are hearing Anarchy Jesus slowly die... This is depressing.

[A] 11d12h21m: ZAPDOS IS POISONED by Muk.

[A] MAP 11d12h15m: As Zapdos OHKO's a wild Growlithe, I can't help but notice how cute it is.

[A]11d12h13m: We've reached the second floor! Here's the map!

(I will hold off on commentating on every wild encounter, as I want this map to be on the most recent update. If a pokemon faints / we get an item etc., I'll update! Good luck, Twitch!)

[A] 11d12h4m: Zapdos is making easy work of these wild encounters with Drill Peck/Thundershock. Goooo AA-j!

Again, HERE is the official MAP. Don't touch any other switch along the way, or else we'll be stuck! Step #4 is the only time to touch a switch until we get to the basement.

[A] 11d12h0m: In the meantime, Zapdos OHKOs a Ponyta with Take Down.

[A] 11d12h0m: Marking the half point of the 11th day, our God Omanyte has defeated another Ponyta with Water Gun! You go, God!

[OFFICIAL MAP] HERE IS THE OFFICIAL MAP. Yes, I have just checked, it is correct. Please note Step #4. Activating the statue is a switch-activator, thus allowing us to follow through for the rest of the map. Thank you /u/Baffan! Great work.

[A] 11d11h56m: We have acquired an Escape Rope!

[NOTE] The map you all are sending me are great.. However, please note the SWITCHES. I am unsure if this map is 100% correct because there are DOORS THAT UNLOCK AND DOORS THAT LOCK.

[A] 11d11h54m: ATV HAS FAINTED to a wild Ponyta!

[A] 11d11h50m: Courtesy of /u/Baffan, HERE is a labelled map!

[A] 11d11h48m: ATV is facing a wild Ponyta. Can we please talk about how cute it looks.

[A] 11d11h43m: WITH GOD BY OUR SIDE, BIRD JESUS HAS LEVELED TO LEVEL 61!

[HELP] Somebody give me a nicely detailed and drawn-on map of how to activate the switches! We want: 1) Blizzard [in the basement] and 2) The key [in the basement]. Feel free to post any other item that's important in your map, and how to get it.

[STRATEGY] THE KEY IS IN THE BASEMENT. HOWEVER, as you can see by this map, there are switches that must be unlocked.

[A] 11d11h40m: OMANYTE DEFEATS THE KOFFING! GOD PRAISE US! LORD HELIX.

[A] 11d11h40m: OMANYTE'S FIRST BATTLE! His moves are Water Gun + Withdraw.

[A] 11d11h38m: Facing a wild Koffing. Cough cough~

[A] 11d11h38m: Acquired Moon Stone!

[A] 11d11h37m: Here's the map of the Mansion!

[A] 11d11h36m: Facing a wild Ponyta! It's so cute omfg

[A] 11d11h35m: Entered Pokemon Mansion! What the eff is this scary music.

[A] 11d11h34m: Here's the interactive Mansion map! A non-interactive yet full-seeing map would be great! Especially one that details exactly where the key is.

[A] 11d11h32m This is probably the point where we start accepting submissions for Mansion maps...

[A] 11d11h31m: The key is in the Mansion!

[A] 11d11h31m: We have e-- oh. The door is locked for the Gym.

[A] 11d11h29m: Onwards to the Gym!

[A] 11d11h29m: Wow lol. We just walked back into the Poke Center and made a straight bee-line towards the nurse. We have healed our Pokemon!

[ROSTER] After all of that, our party contains: Abba, Helix, the Fonz, ATV, AIR, and Zapdos.

[A] 11d11h29m: We have left the Poke Center!

[A] 11d11h26m: ANARCHY IS BACK! WE HAVE GOD, BUT NO KEEPER. Keeper's time has been used, he has kept the False Prophet away--and now he is no longer needed as his God has come to save us from our sins and deeds. God is with us all, Helix Bless.

[D] 11d11h26m: Hilariously, left9 has been inputted to run away from the PC as quickly as possible.

[D] 11d11h24m: We have left the PC!

[D] 11d11h24m: To summarize... We have swapped Drowzee for God.

[D] 11d11h22m: WE HAVE WITHDRAWN AIR. DROWZEE IS STILL IN BOX 1. WE HAVE A FULL PARTY.

[D] 11d11h22m: OH THE SUSPENSE!

[D] 11d11h22m: Here's the moment of truth! We're hovering over AIR!!

[D] 11d11h18m: We still have room for one more Pokemon!! We're inside the Withdraw Pokemon page... Who's it gonna be!? Drowzee or AIR!

[D] 11d11h17m: WE HAVE WITHDRAWN BIRD JESUS!!!! Hallelujah!

[D] 11d11h16m: And downwards we go! Towards BIRD JESUS! Please don't overshoot down, though!

[D] 11d11h15m: There are so many votes going in!

[D] 11d11h15m: We keep overshooting! Remember to predict!

[D] 11d11h13m: We're on the Withdraw Pkmn Page!

[D] 11d11h10m: DEMOCRACY IS HERE

[A] 11d11h7m As the great philosopher Garfield said: "I hate Mondays"

[Update] Pokemon "a" was Nidorino, FYI!

[A] 11d11h6m: MONDAY MASSACRE

[A] 11d11h5m: WE HAVE RELEASED ZUBAT AND "a"

[A] 11d11h5m: WE HAVE WITHDRAWN GOD (OMANYTE).

[A] 11d11h5m: WE HAVE DEPOSITED DROWZEE

[A] 11d11h4m: WE HAVE DEPOSITED AIR

[A] 11d11h4m: Yay! We got our Pokemon Rated! :) Our rating is: "You still need more Pokemon!" :C

[A] 11d11h3m: Red is heading back towards the PC as we now no longer have God (Helix) NOR Jesus (Abba). Is the Atheist period dawning upon us?

ENSUE MONDAY MASSACRE.

[A] 11d11h2m: BIRD JESUS HAS BEEN DEPOSITED.

[A] 11d11h1m: WE'VE ENTERD THE PC.

[A] 11d10h58m: It's been brought to my attention that, if we were to have what happened Sunday happen today, it wouldn't be Bloody Monday... It'd be Monday Massacre. Good luck.

[A] 11d10h51m: We're still inside the Poke Center--haven't healed or anything. No casualties.. yet.

[A] 11d10h47m: We've just entered the PC in the Poke Center.. Oh god.

[A] 11d10h44m: We've entered the Poke Center.

[A] 11d10h43m: We have left the laboratory completely! We are back on the island now! No Helix nor God with us.

[A] 11d10h41m: Twitch is currently split between three options: 1) Deposit ATV. 2) Deposit AIR (having 2 water types may hinder our party, and The Fonz can learn surf/strength). 3) Leave. Run, run and never come back!

[A] 11d10h38m: Please note that, with Omanyte actually in a box, it's possible to... Oh God I can't even say it... It's possible to release our God.

[A] 11d10h37m: Again, we have talked to the Scientist and he has placed Omanyte in Pokemon Box 1. Good luck.

[A] 1d10h37m: OMANYTE WAS SENT TO POKEMON BOX 1, NO NAME WAS CHANGED FOR OMANYTE.

[A] 11d10h34m: With Twitch split between PC or No PC, not much is being accomplished as many users are spamming "b" to stop the PC onslaught. Good luck, and may Helix--- OH WE DON'T EVEN HAVE HELIX ANYMORE, DO WE? RIOT!!!

[STRATEGY] People seem torn at the moment between depositing ATV because, well, Venomoth, and depositing AIR, because of type duplication and the King's ability to learn Surf and Strength. If democracy comes in I don't even know what will happen.

[A] 11d10h33m: PC activated! ATV seems to be in the spotlight.

[A] 11d10h31m: Twitch is still traumatized from bloody Sunday, so they can't decide whether to PC or not. Democracy is almost here!

[A] 11d10h29m: PC ACTIVATED AGAIN OH LORDY.

[A] 11d10h28m Red accessing the wrong PC

[A] 11d10h27m: Democracy votes are piling in as we want Omanyte, but must deposit!

[A] 11d10h26m This is dangerous ground, we could deposit anyone, as we haven't rearranged the roster.

[A] 11d10h26m: bloodymondaynopls

[A] 11d10h22m: AEWWWWVV WAS RELEASED. RHYHORN'S GONE YA'LL

[A] 11d10h22m: Oh god we've entered the PC.

[A] 11d10h22m: We're in the testing room now!!!

[A] 11d10h19m: We're right outside the Pokemon Lab Testing Room! Which is where we can get that Omanyte!

[A] 11d10h15m: We're back in the Pokemon Lab! after not buying anything in the Poke Mart!

[STRATEGY] I'm not sure the plan re Omanyte, but if we want him in the party it would be wise to access the PC first, to remove any possibility of releasing him by having to fetch him later.
Conversely we could save it for later.

[A] 11d10h9m I think we have to recognise that we will soon discover Lord Helix's original plan: will he journey with us on our road? Or are we simply the agents by which he returns to life in the present time?

[A] 11h10h9m: We've entered the Poke Mart! Yay for shopping!

[A] 11d10h7m This raises so many questions. I don't feel safe anymore.

[A] 11d10h6m: We've left the room and are ready to go back in to get our Omanyte! Only problem is.. Full party. PC anyone?

[A] 11d10h6m: We are here for those wondering!

[A] 11d10h5m: It should be noted that we must leave and re-enter the building to give this anonymous scientist some time.

[A] 11d10h4m Checking the inventory. Where do we go for advice now?

[A] 11d10h3m: We have handed the Helix Fossil, our Lord and Savior, over to this scientist! He now tells us to "go take a walk!"

[A] 11d10h3m: SCREAMING

[A] 11d10h2m: Oh my god! It seems that we're going to revive Lord Helix!

[A] 11d10h2m: Apologies, to clarify--we are in the Fossil Revival Building.

[A] 11d10h1m: WE HAVE ENTERED THE PC (although not in the Poke Center!). Surprise! We were in the lab and-- oh god we're back near the PCs.

[Strategy] For the love of everything good please go to the Poke Center so we can heal AND CHECKPOINT

[A] 11d9h53m: Krrrrr Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for swimming AIR Cruise Lines. We have now landed in Cinnabar! HELLO NEW MUSIC AND NEW PEOPLE!

[A] 11d9h52m: And Zapdos takes down the Swimmer! We can simply say that over-kill is everywhere here.

[A] 11d9h51m: Zapdos takes down the Staryu and OUT COMES WARTORTLE! OH DO WE KNOW THAT CRY! :)

[A] 11d9h50m: Watergun does 10 damage to Bird Jesus. Jesus laughs.

[A} 11d9h49m: Facing trainer SWIMMER! He sends out a Staryu!

[A] 11d9h49m: Facing a wild tentacool.

[A] 11d9h49m: Again, the teamwork here is hilarious!

[A] 11d9h48m: We're surfing again!!

[A] 11d9h45m: 10 minutes later, we're still stuck on this raft! S.O.S.!

[A] 11d9h35m: Lapras used strength while facing the "Fat Man" as Twitch calls him! It didn't do anything, don't get your hopes up.

[A] 11d9h29m: While on the little raft thingy, please take note that these fisherman have families. No, we may not devour them for food. We'll be able to surf soon enough, patience!

[A] 11d9h24m: We have defeated the Fisherman! Next goal: SURF.

[A] 11d9h24m: And The Fonz takes it down with two Fury Attacks!

[A] 11d9h23m: Nidoking's cry is disturbing... Anyways, Nidoking is out now versus this Seaking!

[A] 11d9h22m: And down Drowzee goes!! To a fish. :( DROWZEE HAS FAINTED.

[A] 11d9h22m: Drowzee's out facing this last Seaking and the doodoo siren of a low-hp pokemon is flipping me out! He only has 5 hp!

[A] 11d9h16m: Lapras is out now and sung to Seaking! Aw <3

[A] 11d9h16m: Bird Jesus is destroying these guppies! Goldeen and 1 Seaking have been destroyed with a quick attack--and as I type this, Bird Jesus 1-shots ANOTHER Seaking!

[A] 11d9h14m: We are facing another Fisherman! Here he is! He has 3 Seakings and 1 Goldeen!

[A] 11d9h13m: Red is now asking the fisherman for advice on how to surf as, again, we'll have to enter our menu and get AIR to surf for us.

[A] 11d9h12m: Defeated Fisherman and his 6 Magikarp!

[A] 11d9h10m: While Drowzee faces Magikarp, it's been brought to my attention that being on the platforms is bad because.. Well.. Guess who has to surf again?

[A] 11d9h9m: ZAPDOS IS OUT AND USED THUNDERSHOCK ON MAGIKARP. If that isn't Overkill, I don't know what is.

[A] 11d9h8m: Another Magikarp is out, and this time Bird Jesus is facing it! Enemy tackle does -1hp. Twitch is losing their minds.

[A] 11d9h7m: The Fonz is out right now and his poison sting is doing work! Magikarp does have tackle, which is doing -2hp damage but it's safe to assume we'll be okay.

[A] 11d9h6m: WOW, ANOTHER MAGIKARP IS OUT! tense.

[A] 11d9h4m: He... He has 6 Magikarps. :/

[A] 11d9h4m: We are now facing Fisherman!. First battle on the seas here for us!

[A] 11d9h3m: Krrr Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking! We are now on our way towards Cinnabar Gym! Thank you for your teamwork!

[A] 11d9h3m: DOWN DOWN DOWN!

[A] 11d9h3m: WE'RE ON WATER!

[A] 11d9h0m: Oh! Unlucky! We got AIR to surf however we AREN'T FACING THE WATER! Tears were shed.

[READERS' CORNER] Thanks to those writing in, yes, the 255 clock limit is down to the Gameboy being an 8-bit device and that's the highest integer you can store in 8 bits. It was a bit of whimsy, please excuse the selective technical view. :)

This means that TPP has officially taken longer than Nintendo thought possible. We are in uncharted waters here. Or at least we would be if we could work out how to surf.

[Note] As an interesting note, the "in game timer" for this game has froze at 255:00 hours. =(! (I meant hours, just typo'd! Trust me! :C)

[Note] Please be aware that it's been brought to my attention about botters spamming "UP". This is dangerous as, 1) If we face the lake and actually do surf, we have the possibility of going upwards and thus, stop surf as we hit land again. While I may not name names due to Witch-Hunting, please note this.

[A] 11d8h35m: We are beside the water, yet are travelling the depths of the menu to find the correct Pokemon and attack. With that being said, Blastoise's and Arbok's cry were heard! What refreshment!

[Strategy] As it has come to my attention, a golden strategy is to teach Nidoking Surf AND Strength--and then at Cinnabar, we are able to teach him Blizzard and Fire Blast with no trouble or fear of deleting those two strong moves. It'd be a beauty and it'd be perfection at its best, although no doubt difficult! Just an idea =)

[Note] As an interesting note, the "in game timer" for this game has froze at 255:00 minutes. =(!

[A] 11d8h20m: Wow we've left Mom's House! We're going places, guys!

[A] 11d8h18m: Laughter ensues as Red is still in his home and people begin to shout, "Guys we have to beat Misty!" / "Did we win!?" Again, the goal is Cinnabar Gym! We need to surf downwards from Pallet Town to get there. :]

[A] 11d8h11m: "Hi mom!" Red says as he fails to surf and is back at home.

[A] 11d8h3m: AAAAAAAAAA almost learned Strength!! Almost

[Strategy] 11d7d55h: It has been brought to my attention that Nidoking has a few possibilities of nice moves to be learned, which include but are not limited to: Earthquake (10F of Silph Co) and Blizzard+FireBlast (Cinnabar Island!).

[A] 11d7d55hm: Still in Pallet Town. (Q.Q)

[A] 11d7h19m: If you're wondering where we are, we're currently here! in Pallet Town attempting to surf downwards onwards towards Cinnabar Gym! Good luck!

[A] 11d7h14m: (Hi all! Don't forget to use the [A] / [D]!) :]

11d7h5m: The chat decides to check on poor ol' Mom and see how she's doing; she heals us and our pokemon. Everyone simultaneously sheds a single tear.

11d6h57m: After Bird Jesus brutally murders several of his own species, we arrive back in Pallet Town.

11d6h44m: WE USED THE MOONSTONE! ALL HAIL KING FONZ!

11d6h36m: As I live and breathe; we're now in Viridian City.

11d6h35m: No luck with the moonstone, although several close attempts have been made. Several are calling for a brief visit with Democracy in order to make it happen. We've also passed Viridian Forest, and are heading quickly to Viridian City.

11d6h11m: We've officially entered Viridian Forest.

11d6h1m: The chat has erupted into war: on one side, people are attempting to use the moon stone to evolve Fonz into Nidoking. The other half, in fear of dropping the moon stone, are attempting to deny them the opportunity at every press of "start". We have also left Pewter City and are heading towards Viridian Forest.

11d5h30m: We finally made it out! Onwards to Pallet Town!

11d5h28m: Just so everyone is clear, we do in fact have the moonstone. We can exit the cave at any time, really.

Please. It's terrible in there.

11d5h18m: In case anyone was wondering, we're still wandering around in Mt. Moon. Our harrowing journey is nearly at an end, however, we're on the entry floor. [Current position] http://pokeworld.herokuapp.com/rb/59#28,7

Like a 70s rock band that doesn't know when to finish a song, two last bits: [META] Zapdos flair now available, thanks /u/coniform

[STRATEGY] this map has been offered me by /u/SgvSth as guidance through Mt Moon

Anyway, good luck in Mt Moon

As Dickens said: "Life is made of ever so many partings welded together".
As MSN said: "g2g".
Having left you safely surfed I gotta stop gathering moss. Hopefully someone will travel Mt Moon with y'all. Laterz!

[A] 11d3h54m Oh blessed relief! We made it! I totally was not worried.

[A] 11d3h53m Yoohoo! Red! Mt Moon is to the left!

[A] 11d3h52m Apparently getting off is just as hard as getting on.

[STRATEGY] Remember, when we land, it's a straight line left

[A] 11d3h50m Goodness me, we're surfing!

[A] 11d3h13m Air tries to use Strength, realises he's not Moses, and thus cannot part the waves.

[A] 11d3h3m We continue to fail to surf. Or 'grinding' as we call when we can't get where we want to go.

[STRATEGY] Due to the cyclical nature of Pokemon menus, we can navigate just by pressing down, which reduces the risk of walking away from the water. Just something to think about.

[STRATEGY] turns out there's also a moonstone we apparently missed in Mt Moon, hidden in the wall here

[STRATEGY] So that we're forewarned, after we navigate Surfing, our perennial nemesis, ledges are coming up. See this map.

[READERS' CORNER] Thanks for the many replies, the conclusion is that, if nothing else, there is one in Pokemon Mansion on Cinnabar Island, so Nidoking is a possibility.

[STRATEGY] Btw, does anyone know if there are any available moonstones left? Some people want to evolve the Fonz into Nidoking. Is that still possible?

[A] 11d2h42m Leaving Cerulean northwards, aiming for Mt Moon. Feeling surprisingly good about how this is going now, this morning's successes are a soothing balm after yesterday's catastrophes.

[STRATEGY] With the Daycare and Pokecenter navigated, we are continuing on this route towards Cinnabar Island.

[A] 11d2h29m anarchy reigns

[ROSTER] After a surprisingly successful trip, the current roster (in no particular order) is: Zapdos, Abba, The Keeper, AIR, ATV, and The Fonz

[D] 11d2h25m Now trying to sit on someone's lap. Down boy!

[D] 11d2h22m Some suggestions we should clear another space for Omanyte to save another PC trip later, but the hivemind appears to be already decided. We're making like a tree and getting outta here.

[D] 11d2h20m Blistering Barnacles! We actually did it! Withdrew AA=j

[D] 11d2h10m Dashbat has been stored in Box 1.

[STRATEGY] Our party is full, due to withdrawing Fonzie, to get Zapdos, the have to deposit someone. This is getting a wee bit dangerous.

[EDIT (AGAIN)] apparently we didn't deposit Abba, just withdrew the Fonz. Sorry for the confusion.

[D] 11d2h3m Democracy attempting to get us to the PC. Just be wary once we're in there, as nefarious elements are about. We want Abba and Zapdos. (And to deposit the Fonz)

[EDIT] Sorry, retrieved the Fonz

[D] 11d2h1m Apparently in the last throes of anarchy we managed to deposit The Fonz and Abba. Democracy is now in control

[A] 11d1h53m In the finest tech support tradition, we are turning the PC off and on again repeatedly.

[A] 11d1h51m Withdrew all items from PC.

[A] 11d1h49m Bar goes doublespeed toward Democracy as we approach the PC to withdraw Zapdos.

[A] 11d1h47m Pokémon healed at Cerulean.

[A] 11d1h42m Now trying to reach the Cerulean PokeCenter

[A] 11d1h37m Anarchy has resumed. So to summarize: Gastly left in Daycarea, Abba and Keeper moved down the list.

[STRATEGY] It's been explained to me, that this is actually good, as it means that Zubat will be now at the top of the party, so when we go to the PC, we won't risk releasing Drowzee or Abba when we try to withdraw Zapdos.

[D] 11d1h31m Deposited Gastly.

[D] 11d1h28m We just retrieved Drowzee. This guy is making a killing off us. (remember in Democracy the lag means you have to think two moves ahead, spamming A won't work, you need to use Down to choose the No option)

[STRATEGY] If you've just joined us and want to know the long-term plan, we're trying to get to Cinnabar Island without passing Seafoam Islands, after we finish in the Daycare. Here's the route to Cinnabar.

[D] 11d1h24m We have deposited the Keeper now. This may take some time. Still, took six months to deposit the One Ring in Mordor, so you know, perspective and all that.

[D] 11d1h21m In Democracy's infinite wisdom, we retrieve Abba and pay $100 for the privilege. Easiest 100 quid that bloke's ever made.

[D] 11d1h16m Talking to Mr Daycare Man. We give the man Abba.

[D] 11d1h15m We have entered the daycare

[UPDATE] I'll chip in as I can, but will probably only post infrequently, so if someone has more time, I yield.

[Update] I'll be signing off in about 5 min, so I'll need someone to take over for me. Tomorrow's back to school for me, I'll be back around 5:00.

[A] 11d:1h:4m We just switched to Democracy.

[Strategy Tiem!] This isn't a progress update, but it's important nonetheless. This is our route to get to Mt Moon in order to get to Pallet Town and surf to Cinnabar Island. We won't need Cut for any single leg of this journey. Thanks to /u/MahBoiiii for providing me with the link for the image! http://i.imgur.com/AjIGOYf.png

[A] 11d:0h:19m We are still trying to get into the Daycare. I will make another Progress update as soon as we enter the Daycare (or if we switch plans).

[Strategy] Here's an image on how to get to the Daycare Center. Thanks to /u/PhreaksChinstrap for providing the image. http://i.imgur.com/mEsoxzd.gif

[A] 11d:0h:1m We just overshot the Daycare Center.

[A] 10d:23h55m We're now on Route 5, right below Cerulean City.

[Strategy] Also, we don't have any balls on us at the moment, I was simply mentioning the possibility of catching Oddish for Cut. For now, we should be ok without Cut, as we just need to get to Cinnabar Island through the Rock Tunnel (and eventually through Mt. Moon).

Correction; for the update below, it's actually Route 6. My bad. Thanks to /u/IntelligentTrees

[A] 10d:23h:41m We're still in Route 5, the Route right above Vermillion City. Catching an Oddish on this route would be ideal, as we could teach it Cut.

[Update] I'd love to continue to post right now, but I seriously need a break. Hopefully another person will continue to cover this.

[A] 10d:23h:22m Red takes the underground path, appearing on Route 5. He wanders through the grass for a bit, encountering level 15 pidgeys.

[Strategy] A simple but useful method of reaching the daycare would be to spam start as it is approached. This allows for others to catch up to the location and then move as needed. Courtesy of /u/NameAlreadyTaken2

[A] 10d:23h Red continues to try and reach the daycare door, but with little room for error each attempt ends in a ledge jump.

[A] 10d:22h:43m Red is currently attempting to enter the Daycare. Unfortunately he overshoots.

[Strategy] There is a new possibility for getting Zapdos that requires using the daycare to avoid casualties. The post can be seen here.

[A] 10d:22h:30m Red enters Saffron City. From here on out, it's one long trek back to Pallet Town.

[A] 10d:22h:15m Red heads outside. The current route we plan on taking is here.

[A] 10d:22h:4m Anarchy resumes.

[D] 10d:22h With everything mostly back to normal, attempts are being re-made to recover Zapdos.

[D] 10d:21h:46m With democracy back in place, a struggle ensues between standard chat and some random trolls trying to deposit Pokemon. They aren't winning however, and "B" is constantly being selected as an option while Anarchy is slowly voted on.

[Update] It appears that some random live-streamer (I'm not using names) is using his audience to mess with the TPP stream. The democracy votes coming in appear to be from them. Not cool, and not allowed by Twitch rules.

[Strategy] For PC navigation in democracy, /u/tpp_strat has come up with easy to use commands. The thread can be viewed here.

[Strategy] Before attempting any PC mischief for any reason, /u/PhreaksChinstrap has a simple but hard to execute plan: We can switch the places of our party members. The specific placement can be seen here.

[A] 10d:21h:10m Red heals at the Pokecenter.

[A] 10d:20h:59m Red enters Lavender Town. A reminder: This is the way to get to Mt. Moon. The current plan seems to be to reach Cinnabar.

[A] 10d:20h:55m Red finally makes it out of Rock Tunnel! A lot of time was spent at the end moving back and forth from the exit due to delay and wild encounters.

[A] 10d:20h:43m Red approaches the end of Rock Tunnel. Only AIR remains with 31 hp.

[A] 10d:20h:42m Abba faints due to struggle, but takes down a Machop as well.

[A] 10d:20h:21m Abba has no PP on any moves now, and any attempt to attack will result in a struggle. Too many times, and he'll faint from self-damage.

[A] 10d20h7m Abba Jesus has no PP left on any moves except Quick Attack, but still manages to OHKO all of Hiker's pokemon with just that.

[A] 10d:20h:6m Impossibly, Red didn't run into every trainer the first time he went there. A Hiker challenges Red. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't expecting a level 60 Pidgeot. Abba cruises through the battle.

[A] 10d:19h:32m ATV goes down in an encounter with a Machop.

[A] 10d:19h:25m Yes, Red is still fumbling around the Tunnels. The next progress update will be when he clears this place.

[A] 10d:19:1m The Keeper, sent in at 5 health, goes down to a Zubat.

[Map] For those of you confused about the layout, here's the original used to navigate the Rock Tunnels for the first time.

[A] 10d:18h:34m Abba levels up to 60! Red takes a quick listen at Bulbasaur's cry. Revitalized, he moves on.

[A] 10d18h:32m Red navigates his way along the last leg of the Rock Tunnel. The wild encounters have been brief, with either a Whirlwind or Run.

[A] 10d:18h:12m Red continues along the First floor. Two ladders remain before he can escape.

[Map] Here is a great map from /u/aseanman27 for getting to Mt. Moon. It works.

[Strategy] /u/SgvSth says that there are ledges that prevent players from returning on the Cerulean side of Mt Moon. Thus, Pewter City is the only way to acces Mt. Moon. Any confirmation on this?

[A] 10d:17h55m Red continues to stumble around the Rock Tunnels. With so many wild Zubats about, Abba's Whirlwind has become useful.

A method of getting to Cinnabar without Cut, from /u/murdock129: we go through the rock tunnel. Come out in Lavender Town Then we go from Lavender Town to Saffron and then to Cerulean, surf past the unknown dungeon and through mount moon, then down through viridian forest, no need to use cut anywhere.

[Strategy] With the current objective being to get to Cinnabar, it should be noted that Cinnabar can be reached by heading South of Pallet Town. The team also lacks a cutter (or space for one).

[A] 10d:17h:27m The Keeper levels up to 30, and is prevented from evolving, reason being that the stream wants him to learn Psychic much sooner.

[A] 10d:17h:20 Rick Gastly goes down in a wild Zubat encounter.

[A] 10d:17h:16m Eager to avoid the PC, Red heads outside and into the rock tunnel. Two steps later, a Zubat appears. Rick Gastly takes it down.

[A] 10d:17h:10m Anarchy resumes.

[Roster] Our current team is: Current Team: Pidgeot, Gastly, Zubat, Lapras, Venomoth, Drowzee

[Update] Apparently the last Pokemon in the party is ATV. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[D] 10d:17h:00 Democracy steers into the release menu! Fortunately no blood is drawn for now, but chat cries out against Destiny (whether or not he may be active at the moment)

[Update] The current team is Abba, AIR, The Keeper, Dashbat, Rick Gastly, and one more that I can't quite recall...

[D] 10d:16h:52 With a vote for "A9, Dashbat, AIR, and The Keeper are withdrawn!!! The chat still wants to retrieve AJ, and a slot is needed for a CUT user.

[D] 10d:15h:44m The Holy One has returned. Abba is withdrawn from the PC!!!

A message from /u/VasherStampede: Problem now is that we're running into the limits of Twitch's r9k mode, it thinks our long commands are spam when they're repeated too often. For shorter ones to have any effect, we'll need text speed to be on FAST.

[D] 10d:15h:42m Nidoran is deposited.

[D] 10d:16h:39m Dashbat is deposited.

[D] 10d:16:38m AJ is deposited.

Request: /u/VasherStampede has asked for people to send him screenshots of the boxes and Poke-team. He, along with /u/SrPeixinho are trying to create Perfect commands to get everyone in and out.

[D] 10d:16h:32m Proving that it's no specific side's fault, Democracy also comes close to releasing Abba. A simple "B" vote fixes it.

[Strategy] With few people accounting for delay, many people have suggested using "wait9" to get everyone up to speed. It is simple to input and makes the withdrawal/depositing process much easier.

[D] 10d16h:22m Democracy come to power.

[A] 10d:16h:17m Abba Jesus gets one "A" press from being released, but a miracle sends the option to cancel. With that close-call, Democracy is surging through.

[A] 10d:16h:16m Rick Gastly is withdrawn.

[A] 10d:16h:14m Ryhorn is deposited. The bar for Democracy is close to the turning point.

[A] 10d:16h:14m Ryhorn is deposited. The bar for Democracy is close to the turning point.

[A] 10d:16h:4m Pokeflute, Surf, and Strength are deposited.

[Personal Note] I'll be occupied from 12:30 until an TBD time, so Inert Berger will handle updates for now.

[A] 10d:16h Venonat is withdrawn and BigDig is released. This is truly a Red Massacre.

[Strategy Update]: Long commands may be difficult (if not impossible) to execute because the system will be forced to speed up the commands to fit each 20 second time period. As such, we'll need to break up the commands and type them in accounting for the 20 second lag. Thanks to /u/AlucPanda for the update.

[A] 10d:16h The Fonz is deposited.*

[A] 10d:15h:47m Anarchy resumes.

[Strategy Tiem!] /u/eriochroming's strategy may work, but there need to be 2 conditions. 1. The text speed should be set to fast. 2. We need to input wait2 between each command. Now, since another Pokemon has since been deposited, we may need slightly altered commands. If someone can get a screenshot of our current team, and a list of the Pokemon in the box (in the correct order) to /u/eriochroming or /u/VasherStampede, they should be able to make new commands to be instituted in Democracy.

[D] 10d:15h:37m With Red back at the PC, the quest to recover the Team continues. Of course, nothing has been learned from last time, and the chat inputs commands that would've been relevant 26 seconds ago.

[D] 10d:15h:26m Democracy takes over. Red is back in the Pokecenter.

[A] 10d15h19m We have left the pokemon centre! Chat scrambles to get back. Democracy looms closer!

[A] 10d:15h:13m Nidoran is withdrawn.

[Strategy Tiem!] Dummie's guide to Democracy: http://imgur.com/G54xMik Thanks to /u/danpetman for making it.

[A] 10d:15h:8m The Keeper is deposited.

[Strategy Update] According to /u/crashdummy001, we keep overshooting the downs, so we need to spam Downa instead of just plain old down. My bad.

[Strategy Tiem!] Strategy below was recommended to me by /u/crashdummy001.

[Strategy Tiem!] When democracy is instituted, there's still a 20 sec lag. Predict your movements correctly and use "down" when we're about to enter the PC before the lag causes "down" to force us to release/deposit Pokemon.

[A] 10d:14h:53m Red exits the Pokecenter. A push is immediately made to head back.

[A] 10d:14h:49m ATV is deposited.

[A] 10d14h45m We have returned to anarchy! Still at the PC though.

[A] 10d:14h:45m Anarchy is resumed.

[Strategy Tiem!] Here's a little strategy on how to retrieve the best team from the PC: http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/1ypkif/this_is_a_plan_that_can_lead_us_to_a_perfect_team/

Thanks to /u/Eriochroming.

[D] 10d:14h:35m Red manages to access the PC but the chat does what they do best, and overshoot the deposit option. Cue another attempt.

[D] 10d:14h:25m Democracy is put into place.

[A] 10d:14h:21m The bar lurches ever closer to Democracy. Red still wanders around the Pokecenter. The PC is accessed a few times but never fully opens.

[Strategy] I hate to admit this, but we need to dive back into the PC. We're not getting to Cinnabar without Air Jordan.

[A] 10d:14h:5m DashBat is withdrawn. A push for Democracy is being made as people still want to recover Abba.

[A] 10d:14h:5m Anarxhy is back on.

[D] 10d:13h:57m Red still attempts to use the PC. As a result of the majority of chat still unable to account for delay, AIR is deposited.

[D] 10d:13h:46m Understanding priorities, Red withdraws the Helix Fossil and S.S. Ticket. Hell, he takes everything out of the item storage. Now a call is made to recover Abba Jesus.

[D] 10d:13h:43m After minutes of errors, Ryhorn is withdrawn. But who cares, because Zapdos is withdrawn!!

[D] 10d:13h:30m Twice, Red attempts to recover Zapdos but stream delay sends him past the objective. Thus, The Fonz (a Nidoran) is withdrawn.

[Strategy] Our best bet is to either capture another Oddish, go to the Safari Zone and capture a Paras, or capture a Scyther in the Safari Zone. Either way, Safari Zone seems like our best bet.

An important notice from /u/SushiKitteh: With dux and xcabbage gone we have no cutter. We need a cutter to get back west to cerulean otherwise we need to go through rock tunnel.

[D] 10d:13h:21m Democracy is now in session.

[A] 10d:13h:17m Currently in our party: ATV, AIR, and The Keeper. A rescue mission is on to retrieve Abba Jesus and Zapdos.

[A] 10d:13h:12m Abba Jesus is deposited.

[A] 10d:13h:12M Also Geodude got released, but no one really cares about him.

[A] 10d:13h:11m RIP DUX :(

[A] 10d:13h:9m Rick Gastly is deposited.

[A] 10d:13h:9m The Keeper is withdrawn!!!

[A] 10d:13h:9m Digrat has been stored.

[A] 10d:13h:8m All Terrain Venomoth is now on the team.

[A] 10d:13h:5m Venonat was deposited.

[A] 10d:12h:59m For those of you wondering: The current party is AIR, Abba Jesus, BigDig, Rick Gastly, Venonat, and Dashbat. Attempts are current being made to rescue Zapdos from the PC.

[A] 10d:12h:43m Cabbage was released.

[Onwards] Here is the link for the new updater. Please use the toggle effectively to satisfy your needs! There is a "META" toggle that is permanently on, which displays quintessential and super important posts! Please enjoy, and take a few minutes to get used to it! Thank you again for your time.

[Onwards] Feel free to PM me your thoughts--I was slightly against the new updater, but the maker has vastly improved it and has listened to all of your ideas. Thank you so much for the great experience here, and remember: ONWARDS!

[Onwards] Alex_Rose can still use employ his wondrous battle commentating (and if you don't want to read it, you may simply toggle the "Commentary" option!) while I'll still retain 'personality' over updates. There is little lost, and I believe much gained! From now on, I hope we can all settle in with the new updater! I'll still update this very slightly for the time-being, but by tomorrow you'll see less of this.

[Onwards] Hi all! It's MrSymphony and I'd just like to point out something about the new updater. While at first, we had a bit of trouble releasing it correctly, I want to inform you all that the new updater was in beta. Now, it's vastly improved--we added bolding, goals, and starting from now I hope we can all slowly ease into it!

[A} 10d7d0m : (I am updating on the new live updater as well!) AIR has fainted and has learned Mist in place of Growl!

[Gotta split, hopefully another live updater can pick up from here? Sorry everyone!]

[A] 10d6h48m: We just entered the Power Plant!

[A] 10d6h46m: We successfully started Surfing! To the Power Plant!

[UPDATE] There is currently a HUGE influx of Democracy votes because of Destiny! Everyone go type in Anarchy to combat it!

[A] 105h39m: Red has consulted the Helix Fossil as well as numerous other false idols for guidance but has still not managed to start Surfing.

[UPDATE] Destiny, who is attempting to rally his viewers to deposit Bird Jesus, has appeared to have paused his attempts and is currently doing a radio show on his stream if anyone's interested.

[A] 10d5h24m: Please be careful not to drop the master ball while in the menu!!

[A] 10d5h24m: Red has just made it to the correct position to Surf down to the Power Plant, and is trying to do so now.

[A] 10d5h13m: After running from two Spearows Red has fallen off his old arch nemesis: the Ledge. Currently working our way back up there.

[A] 10d6h12m: Remember, we must SURF to get to the Power Planet! Here's where to surf!

[A] 10d5h10m: We've left the Poke Center and gone up into the grass, only to encounter a wild Spearow!

[A] 10d5h7m: Red finally gathered up enough courage to approach Nurse Joy and heal his Pokemon! We're all healed up, finally!

[A] 10d5h3m: Everyone being torn between going to the PC and healing has resulted in us circling around the Poke Center for 10 minutes now. Will Red ever leave?

[A] 10d5h59m I'd like to think this is like that bit where Agent Coulson dies in the Avengers, bringing TPP together. Anyway, must dash, ledges to climb.

[A] 10d5h53m: We're still attempting to heal at the Poke Center! We have not healed yet.

Btw, if any other live updaters are on, I'm having internet problems.

[EDIT] Sorry, we didn't heal after. But we escaped the center without drama as well. Just be wary of sabotage attempt in the Pokecenter, nefarious elements are about.

[A] 10d5h37m Healed up, currently in the PokeCenter. Guy says he sold a nugget for $5000. That's nothing, we chucked ours.

[STRATEGY] If you're not familiar with this area, we have to walk up past the PokeCenter through the grass to the water, and then surf down the right hand side. That's the only way to access the Power Plant.

The Power Plant is here (marked by green square. We are at the Pokecentre just above it.

[STRATEGY] Just a reminder, to get to the Power Plant, we have to walk up and surf round the side, you can't get there past the PokeCenter.

[A] 10d5h28m Red briefly enters Rock Tunnel. What a joker.

[A] 10d5h26m We near the PokeCenter. Nervous times, if we go in, just heal and leave. Don't go near the PC or the Master Ball.

[A] 10d5h26m: Twitch is beginning to shout "HEAL" as they noticed that they need to 1) Heal (obviously) and 2) get the checkpoint there so they won't have to Route 9 all over again.

[A] 10d5h23m This is too much, WE MADE IT!

[A] 10d5h20m Through all those shenanigans, Red has managed to sneak under the radar and navigate the ledge. Only a few more sets of stairs to go...

[ALERT] According to a number of messages this Twitch account is attempting to get his several thousand followers to introduce Democracy and release Abba at a Poke Center. Something to be aware of, and if you are so inclined, you can report it as sabotage is against Twitch rules. Thank for everyone who messaged me.

[A] 10d5h7m In case you've lost track, we're Attempting to reach the power plant, marked by a green square on this map. Currently many fights between control methods due to the ledge system just above it.

[A] 10d5h4m Reportedly some Twitch guy who calls himself Destiny is trying to get his followers to combine to release Abba. If this is true, I think he overestimates the level of control anyone has over what goes on here.

[A] 10d4h59m A battle with an Ekans is won by AIR and Anarchy seizes its chance to take power

[D] 10d4h52m Like George Washington, I cannot lie - I'm confused. Is this sabotage or a play by democracy to get us away from the ledge altogether? We're going in the opposite direction. Is Democracy saving us from ourselves?

[STRATEGY] In case Democracy fails, this post summarizes the method used to beat the ledge last time. Pay it heed.

[D] 10d4h48m Democracy has taken over

[A] 10d4h38m Beginning to understand how Frodo and Sam felt navigating the Emyn Muil.

[A] 10d4h31m Nervous moments in the grass as we escape a Spearow. But excessive Downwards movement means we're back to square one.

[A] 10d4h29m Caramba! We've walked up one ledge. That's actual real life progress right there. But now we've walked into the grass.

[A] 10d4h25m Red still trying to fit through a gap not designed to accommodate him

[A] 10d4h17m If it takes us 10 years, we'll still have reached our destination faster than Odysseus.

[A] 10d4h16m: We're still on the ledge grabs gun

[A] 10d3h57m Don't think of this as taking a long time. Think of it as a nostalgia trip, and a chance to experience the early days if you were a latecomer.

[A] 10d3h33m: Guess where we are!? :) ... Still on Route 9. .. :c

[A] 10d3h25m Still on our way to catch a ledgendary bird.

[A] 10d3h17m Now in cinemas: Man on/off/adjacent to a Ledge.

[A] 10d2h57m: Here's a poll to ask where you guys want to go! Through the ledge or through the Rock Tunnel?

[A] 10d2h47m: For those joining us now, our goal is to get to the Power Plant and we are currently taking Route 9 to get past that! It's going to be a while! So updates may be short and rare!

[A] 10d 2h 36m: Just a note of the time, but yeah, still Anarchy, still ledging.

Sorry about the drama surrounding the new updater. We have made a comment about it here, and will reply to any questions you have about the updater.

[NOT SO IMPORTANT ONLY UPDATER NOTE] We're still at the ledge with Anarchy ruling. No progress in sight. We're all having fun though, right?

[MEGA ULTRA MOD NOTE] That ledge yo. Sick

[SUPER IMPORTANT SIDE NOTE] Just to clarify, we are NOT looking for new updaters for the reddit updater as one of the primary reasons we want to use the new updater is because the reddit updater gives no permissions to moderators to change the reporter roster. This is obviously massively inconvenient for us

[Side-note] With the Mods looking for new Updaters, there may be lulls in Updates if no-one is available. For moments like that, you can use the new live updater until someone comes back online. The new updater can be found here.

[A] 10d2h13m: We're currently in Anarchy mode while on Route 9! Good luck with the ledge!

[Side-Note] The Reddit Live Updater will remain (based on the new thread created). New Updaters are being requested.

We are officially switching to a new website for Live Updates designed by SirCmpwn. Here it is: http://tpp.aninext.tv/ Be sure to switch to Light Version in the topright corner if you don't want to see the stream video.

[A] 9d23h52m We're back at the route with Daycare and ledges.

[A] 9d23h29m Still wandering about aimlessly in Saffron.

[A] 9d23h10m Went back to Saffron City.

[A] 9d22h59m We exited the daycare and jumped the ledge again.

[A] 9d22h57m Back to Anarchy. Good luck with that.

[D] 9d22h55m Chat starting to use a4 instead single a's to talk to the Daycare man. It's working, kind of.

[D] 9d22h47m Trying to put a pokémon in the Daycare, lag is is messing us up.

[D] 9d22h44m Entered the Daycare Center!

[D] 9d22h38m Stream has switched to Democracy mode!

[Reminder: Daycare does not take Pokémon with HM moves.]

[A] 9d22h0m 3rd try, many users still valiantly trying to enact Democracy.

[A] 9d21h54m Aaand we jumped off the ledge again.

[A] 9d21h53m We're back on the ledge with the Day Care, will we enter successfully?

Chat slowly inching toward Democracy because LEDGE.

We tried to go to the daycare, but we failed and went over the ledge.

[Strategy] While we're still roaming around the right-side of Saffron City, note that the Rock Tunnel (although dark) is also a viable option to get to the Power Plant. That along with Route 9 are both options.

[A] 9d20h53m: We've made it across the underground tunnel! Here we are now!

[A] 9d20h48m: We're currently in the underground tunnel that heads towards Lavender Town.

[STRATEGY] Hey all! For whichever route you choose, whether Cinnabar or Zapdos, here are maps for both! Cinnabar Route Map and Zapdos Route Map

[A] 9d20h26m: Anarchy is back!

[D] 9d20h22m: We've reached Celadon City!

[D] 9d20hu8m: Start9 is occuring.

[D] 9d20h6m: With Democracy here, I want to point out THIS helpful link.

[D] 9d20h5m: Democracy has taken place

[D] 9d20h02m: Tensions are high, we are making no progress as Democracy is just a few votes away from winning. We're still here, making no progress.

[A] 9d19h51m: As an update, we're in this building right now for those of you who can't watch. Democracy votes are also piling in, hard.

[Apologies, the Democratic option is available and it may help us do the Daycare Option. Alex is correct--DayCare/PC are viable with Democracy.]

[Note for that: The Daycare Center would probably require democracy, if one were to go for a democratic solution, a PC would be significantly less hassle].

[Strategy] Things of consideration: 1) We have a full party team. 2) DayCare is not an option due to the ledge right below it. We've tried it for hours, didn't work the first time.

[A] 9d19h38m: With 61% of ~2k votes picking to catch Zapdos, we are currently in the Underground Path to Lavender Town!, guess we're going to catch Zapdos!

[A] 9d19h34m: While the masses decide on where to go, we're currently facing a wild Mankey. Yay.

[The poll didn't mention "Deposit the master ball", which is actually a close runner up to Zapdos, unless that's implied by "cinnabar", but regardless, we'll just see what the hive does]

[A] 9d19h26m: While we wander Saffron City aimlessly, here is an updated Poll regarding where next. The options are catching Snorlax / Continuing with the Game (Cinnabar Gym) / Zapdos.

[Indeed, people are trying to fill the slot for the Master Ball 'Mon so it doesn't end up at the bottom of the Safari box]

[A] 9d19h13m: No casualties wee made. We're still in the Poke Center, however.

[A] 9d9h13m: WE'VE JUST ACTIVATED THE PC. (???)

NOTE: MEW TWO CAN ONLY BE OBTAINED AFTER WE BEAT THE ELITER FOUR. Thank you for messaging me to clear this up.

[A] 9d19h6m: We've left the Poke Center.

[A] 9d19h6m: We've entered the Poke Center in Saffron City once again.

[A] 9d19h5m: At the moment, we're still in Saffron City with no goal in mind. Twitch is undecided which legendary to catch.

[MewTwo VS Zapdos] Here's where the Cave for MewTwo is located! And here's where the PowerPlant for Zapdos is located!

[A] 9d18h57m: We have healed our Pokemon!

[A] 9d18h52m: We have entered the Poke Center.

[A] 9d18h51m: According to the poll Alex put up, it's a close battle between Zapdos and Mewtwo! Zap has 8.9k votes, while MewTwo currently has 8.2k!

[A] 9d18h47m: We're on our way to the Poke Center to heal up!

[RECAP] Now that we've done Sabrina, now's the best time to do something with the Master Ball:

• Here's all the one of a kind Pokémon we could catch with our Master Ball: http://i.imgur.com/INxcyad.png

• Here's a strawpoll on which one you guys want to go for: http://strawpoll.me/1196047

[A] [A] 9d18h44m: We're back in Saffron City!

[A] 9d18h42m: Congratulations! We've escaped Sabrina's Gym! We're on the Entrance Room now.

[A] 9d18h39m: While the lag may ruin the purpose of this picture, here's a map for those who want to see what her Gym looks like but can't watch!

[A] 918h34m: We are still trying to escape Sabrina's Gym.

[Ah, of course, my bad! Still a great move, although dependent on level and won't really experience type advantages in the same way Psychic does!]

[A] 9d18h26m: We received TM Psywave, not Psybeam.

[A] 9d18h26m Psybeam received. C'mon Keeper!

[A] 9d18h26m WE'VE GOT HIM ON THE ROPES! AS LONG AS HE CAN'T GET A RECOVER IN HERE AND WE CAN JUST LAND ONE BLOW WE'VE GOT THIS VICTORY! BUT.. YES, IT'S DONE, ALAKAZAM IS DOWN! WE WIN!

[a] 9d18h25m: Bird Jesus QUADRA'D SABRINA! Congratulations :)! We Beat Sabrina!

[A] 9d18h24m Here.. it all comes down to this.. the final Alakazam. This guy is extremely powerful, and he's perfectly happy to go crazy with recovery. All we can hope is his physical defense is low.. AND IT'S REALLY LOW! ONE MORE HIT! HE DOES REFLECT BUT IT SEEMS FUTILE FOR HIM AT THIS POINT!

[A] 9d 18h 23m: We mirror move'd a barrier for ABBA before Mr. Mime went down, so that was great. And the enemy Venomouth is down in 2 quick attacks!

[A] 9d18h24m Another light screen's attempted, but that isn't too big a deal for us apart from if we Mirror Move. We swiftly finish off Mime and out comes a Venomoth! Let's hope it can't poison! Quick attack takes off nearly all its health in one go and it DOES try poison but misses! We take it down too with a crit!

[A] 9d18h23m A third sand attack means that Mime can't really do anything to us now, but as I said before, Mime is really only a defensive player in this team. He's there to reinforce the team, and he's just added a lightscreen and two more barriers! A quick attack comes in and.. it's going to take 2-3 more of them to take him down!

[A] 9d18h22m Barrier's effectiveness shows itself here as we don't even take half of Mime's health off, and in comes Double Slap which does almost no damage. We go for another sand attack onslaught and.. NO, ANOTHER Barrier!

[A] 9d18h21m: Double slap did 4 damage. lol

[A] 9d18h21m Here's that Mr. Mime I warned about Barrier and Lightscreening, and, indeed, he opens with a Barrier. That's a nightmare - it's going to be up a few turns and really absorb damage from our best move in this scenario! Mirror move is STILL disabled too, so there's not even that!

[A] 9d18h21m: As a summary, the only Pokemon we have left is Bird Jesus! Sabrina now only has 3 out of her 4 Pokemon. GOOD LUCK.

[A] 9d18h20m One good thing is that we can retain Mirror Move PP, which means we could get lucky and mirror a Light Screen or even a Recover later on! For now though we're just wearing down our Whirlwind PP, which is absolutely fine as Kadabra continues to heal for no reason.. AND ONE SINGLE QUICK ATTACK FELLS HIM! WE COULD WIN!

[A] 9d18h19m It's just a pity that whirlwind keeps getting in effect, and Kadabra even fails to disable it thanks to sand attack. Here comes psychic and it ISN'T TOO BAD. We reply with our OWN psychic and.. Mirror Move was disabled! Which, again, isn't terrible, but at the same time, we could've hoped for a whirldwind disable!

[A] 9d18h18m Bird Jesus still hasn't been hit yet, and with its Level 59 advantage, we don't know the severity of the situation yet. Plus Kadabra's using recover on full HP, which is all good. Another missed Psybeam! Looks like this Kadabra, at least, is going down, as we follow with yet another sand attack!

[A] 9d18h17m It seems all but futile! We get in a couple of sand attacks, is this all we can hope for? If we can't get some on point quick attacks and some well timed criticals, this seems like an insurmountable challenge at this point, but.. YES, PSYBEAM MISSES AND WE CONTINUE THE SAND ONSLAUGHT!

[A] 9d18h16m Bird Jesus tried Mirror Move, but to no avail and.. it's disabled. No biggy, the type would've been bad and the high special would make it a bad choices anyway but.. NO, GRATITUOUS RECOVER USE IS IN EFFECT, AND ALL WE CAN DO IS WHIRLDWIND. ANOTHER RECOVER AND IT'S LIKE WE NEVER HIT HIM AT ALL!

[A] 9d18h15m Dux is next up, and instantly gets psybeamed. CRITICALLY. HE'S DOWN TOO! ONLY BIRD JESUS REMAINS!

[A] 9d18h15m Out comes the King of Terrain, but with his poison type he's about to get annihilated - indeed, one hit poison destruction! Out comes xCabbage, who's even more susceptible! This is a bloodbath! He's out too!

[A] 9d18h14m Ugh! Headbutt is disabled but.. ANOTHER critical pound! Nice one Keeper! A second Psychic comes in, and as ineffective as it is, one more will take us down! We sneak in one last pound and then, inevitably, Drowzee is down!

[A] 9d18h13m Sabrina sends out Kadabra, but not before brandishing her whip. Straight in with a Psychic and takes down the Fresh Prince in one hit! We switch out Drowzee who ALSO gets psychiced (for less than half hp) and critical pounds!

[A] 9d18h12m We already made it to Sabrina! It's on like Donkey Kong! (Except more like Pokémon)

[A] 9d18h08m We're back again!

[A] 9d17h52m But down goes Gloom in an act of Glorious Suicide. Back at the Pokémon Center. Time to get pumped for our next time, when we have our first true attempt.

[A] 9d17h51m On top of this, Sabrina's Pokémon tend to have great special stats, so it's best to take them down with heavily physical attacks. One of the main problems next time is going to be Sabrina's Alakazam, who is not only extremely powerful, but equipped with Recover that he is happy to use gratutiously since he has no PP limit!

[A] 9d17h50m Having said that, we get CRITICALLY PSYCHICED FOLLOWED BY A PSYBEAM so it doesn't like that's even going to be a problem! Down to xCabbage who has a weakness to psychic now!

[A] 9d17h50m Now, it's vital to take down Mr. Mime quickly once he comes out because he tends to put up barriers and lightscreens!

[A] 9d17h49m Oh good lord, we're actually facing Sabrina in this state! Ah well, Glorious Suicide shortcut to the Pokémon Center?

[A] 9d17h48m Bird Jesus goes in for the double quick attack takedown! No trainers left other than Sabrina now!

[A] 9d17h47m Bird Jesus has been growled at so often now that he's doing very little damage, and added to Slowbro's repeated withdraws, it's looking like it'll take a while. Plus we keep mirroring growls, withdraws and water guns, none of which are particularly useful in this battle!

[A] 9d17h45m Oh dear, looks like we forgot about another trainer! And he has only one Pokémon.. a level 38 Slowbro! I was about to suggest this might be Glorious Suicide, but looks like Pidgeot's got things in order. Goes in with a quick attack and does a good chunk of damage, while barely getting damaged itself.

[A] 9d17h33m Bird Jesus uses sand attack a couple of times! This might be our best shot actually and we SUCCESSFULLY NIGHT SHADE WITH MIRROR MOVE! WE ONLY NEED TWO TO WIN TOO! AND WE FOLLOW WITH THE SECOND! WE WIN!

[A] 9d17h32m Jesus gets confused, proceeds to hurt himself, and takes a nasty Night Shade. Our only hope here is to mirror 2-3 Night Shades or mirror a confusion and get lucky!

[A] 9d17h32m Dux stays in the fray, but Haunter is paralysed. Unfortunately, Dux is fully asleep. Haunter takes down Dux with a dream eater and regains ALL his health! It's down to Jesus now, who uses Mirror Move twice, but thanks to paralysis there's nothing to mirror move, followed by just a dream eater!

[A] 9d17h30m Alas, out comes Dux, a pointless casualty caught in this cross fire. All we can hope for is that he might leave a sand attack in his wake, but instead he tries some normal physical attacks, which promptly miss. He's put to sleep, and continues to sleep.

[A] 9d17h28m xCabbage is swapped out, but Drowzee is then also swapped in place of the swapee. He wakes up, deals with his confusion and leaves a good confusion! Unfortunately he takes another hypnosis and a double dream eater. Haunter gets back most of his health! Jesus is our only hope now!

[26m not 256]

[A] 9d17h256m xCabbage wakes up, overcomes his confusion, but ends up using Cut. Followed by a poison powder, which can't affect Haunter due to its typing. BUT HE MANAGES A STUN SPORE! GO GO GLOOM! And AGAIN he manages not to succumb to confusion!

[A] 9d17h25m All Terrain is confused in his sleep, to add insult to injury, before being finished off with a Night Shade. Out comes xCabbage, who's about to stun Haunter, but gets put to sleep instantly! And confused!

[A] 9d17h24m Out comes All Terrain. Looks like this could be a full team fight. He takes a night shade and disables dream eater, at quite a lucky moment too because he's just put to sleep with hypnotise! Unfortunately he takes a second Night Shade, and he really can't afford to take another!

[A] 9d17h23m Keeper also gets put to sleep! Also confused! Luckily because of the typing mixup in Gen I we don't have to worry about dream eater, but 3 night shades will take us down. We switch to Dux anyway, and Dux gets confused straight off the bat!

[A] 9d17h22m Apparently not! Out goes Air against our double KOer. He puts Air to sleep, Night shades him and finishes him with a swift Dream Eater. Out goes the Keeper!

[A] 9d17h18m We finally got back into the right gym! Let's see if we can't avoid that Haunter!

[A] 9d17h08m Entered the wrong gym! So that's something.

[A] 9d16h57m But no, it isn't in our favour today and the Haunter takes us down again with a single nightshade. Black out.

[A] 9d16h56m I sense doom! We're back against that level 38 haunter! All we can hope for is a mirror move lick spree!

[A] 9d16h55m Also, Bird Jesus Level 59!

[A] 9d16h55m Phew, Haunter uses lick and WE USE LICK TOO! BIRD JESUS WINS! ONE OPTIONAL TRAINER LEFT AND SABRINA!

[A] 9d16h54m Indeed, straight from the realms of predictability comes the Haunter. We open with a mirror move, but it's obviously useless. THIS TIME THOUGH WE MIRROR MOVE LICK! HAUNTER'S GOT BARELY ANY HEALTH LEFT. But he'll get us in TWO night shades! If we can just mirror move he's gone, but.. no, whirldwind, and we got night shaded. It's one hit from both sides!

[A] 9d16h53m Gastly sets up a Night Shade. At least if we mirror now we get a decent hit in, but it'll take two to take it down if we can't get a lick. Here comes mirror move, and the night shade. Indeed, it doesn't take him down but he DID lick! AND WE FOLLOW UP WITH THE MIRROR MOVE AND GASTLY IS DOWN! What's next? A haunter?

[A] 9d16h52m Luckily Gastly is up pretty quickly, and uses a lick. If we can just mirror this, we're bound to take him down. We used a badly placed whirlwind before. After much deliberation, we use quick attack a couple of times, and gastly tries to hypnotise us to no avail thanks to our sand attacks!

[A] 9d16h50m Back out comes Pidgeot, and at least manages a sand attack! But he's lost more than half his health now! He follows up with another sand attack, and another! This could be a great combo if it's - YES, FOLLOWED UP BY MIRROR MOVE.. but we HYPNOTISE him. That's the worst move we could've hoped for.

[A] 9d16h48m Gastly confuses Jesus, who hurts himself with confusion! He was only trying whirlwind anyway, but he's confused no more after a night shade. But STILL he whirlwinds! He must use Mirror Move to stand a chance here, but any of Lick, Nightshade or Confuse Ray would be a decent mirror! Unfortunately we switch out to Air who goes straight down to a night shade!

[A] 9d16h45m Gastly comes straight in putting Air to sleep before he can even use his sing song, and follows through with a night shade, before putting him to sleep AGAIN. He's really turning Air's own tried and tested strategy against him! He's asleep and can only take one more hit!

[A] 9d16h44m Oh god, out comes another channeller. We switch straight to Lapras. He absolutely nails Drowzee with a confuse ray, and Drowzee takes himself down! It's all down to the Fresh Prince of Shell Air and Bird Jesus now!

[A] 9d16h43m Bird Jesus swoops in with a quick attack and nails Kadabra. That's what you get. Only two trainers and Sabrina left alive now!

[A] 9d16h42m Bring on the Dux. Kadabra uses psybeam, but.. NO, CRITICAL. YOU DON'T FUX WITH DUX, KADABRA. BIRD JESUS COMES OUT TO AVENGE.

[A] 9d16h42m Out comes Kadabra, and likewise xCabbage. Cabbage leads with a poisonpowder! Unfortunately a SINGLE CONFUSION takes him down!

[A] 9d16h39m More slow attacks and MIME CLUTCHES! Drowzee's on 13HP! But down goes the juggalo! How did that work?

[A] 9d16h38m Mime's undisabled and gets a quadruple doubleslap and a quintuple doubleslap, but they barely do any damage! It's down to low damage physical attacks now.

[A] 9d16h36m Out comes Drowzee to finish off what Air started. Psychic on psychic, if only we can land a headbutt again! Thanks to that light screen and barrier though, nothing's going to hit hard. Sure enough, we use confusion, and add that to the bad typing and it barely does any damage! We disable doubleslap nonetheless.

[A] 9d16h33m We fight a trainer! First up is another Mr. Mime and out comes Air Jordan. Mime puts up his light screen and barrier, like a massive pain, but Jordan sings.. Mime wakes up.. AND JORDAN SINGS AGAIN! SUCCESS!

[A] 9d16h30m Back in the gym!

[A] 9d16h21m Oh sweet Jesus Bird we're using the PC!

[A] 9d16h17m Drowzee kills himself in confusion and we're blacked out again!

[A] 9d16h16m YES! Night shade is disabled! Haunter can't actually hit us now but we ARE confused! AND WE'RE CONFUSED NO MORE! WE JUST HAVE TO CONFUSE HERE TO STAND A CHANCE! BUT WE'RE CONFUSED AGAIN!

[A] 9d16h15m Oh no! Bird Jesus is asleep, and.. Haunter doesn't go for the dream eater, but uses Night Shade. Follows up with a Dream Eater, and just about anything will beat Night Shade now - and, yep, he's down! It's all down to a 7HP Keeper now!

[A] 9d16h14m Dux is down. Drowzee's got 7HP but he could do some serious damage with Confusion. Bird Jesus comes out again though, and uses mirror move, which fails. He gets confused! Things aren't looking too good here! We really have to mirror move a confuse ray or a couple of Night Shades! Instead we use quick attack and GET night shaded! Less than half HP now and ANOTHER quick attack!

[A] 9d16h13m Out comes Bird Jesus to bring the pain. Mirror move goes out, and we dream eat just about nothing. Haunter's not disabled anymore though so he can use his hypnosis -> dream eater combo! Instead, though he simply goes for a night shade and gives a good hit to Jesus. Dux switches in and also takes a night shade! Clutch on 2hp!

[A] 9d16h11m Haunter uses Dream Eater twice when we're not even asleep. It's almost as if he's being controlled by Twitch.

[A] 9d16h10m Air goes down almost instantly, and out comes The Keeper! He gets nightshaded fairly quickly, and in for a second nightshade. Clutch, and we disable hypnosis!

[A] 9d16h08m Another battle, this time against a Channellor. The one with one level 38 Haunter!

[A] 9d16h04m Out comes Dux and gets his cut disabled! Things are looking grim for him as he loses more than half his health in one psybeam hit but.. FURY ATTACK TAKES KADABRA DOWN IN ONE AND WE WIN!

[A] 9d16h04m All Terrain takes a huge blow from Psybeam! Another one of those and he's down! And Kadabra uses recover twice in a row, negating all of ATV's damage! Looks like this fight's going to be a pain unless we can land some lasting damage like.. yes! We land a poison powder before ATV goes down to psybeam.

[A] 9d16h01m All Terrain's still messing up psychics with leech life, lands three on the newly brought out Mr. Mike, including a crit, and then finishes him off without even receiving a hit, and all his health's back! Just Kadabra's left now!

[A] 9d15h58m 2 more leech lifes and.. nope, Slowpoke manages to drop a confusion in there, but ATV is unfazed! A headbutt from Slowpoke does as much damage but we're not getting anywhere! ATV finally brings down Slowpoke with a final leech life and levels up to 34!

[A] 9d15h56m Out comes leech life, but it doesn't actually do too much damage! A second leech life gets in, and Slowpoke's paralysed! His headbutt gets disabled too and disables our poison powder. It's a disable off!

[A] 9d15h54m xCabbage gets taken down by confusion, and.. ATV MANAGES TO DISABLE CONFUSION! WHAT A CHAMPION! CAN IT FOLLOW UP WITH LEECH LIFE?

[A] 9d15h52m Slowpoke's out and we switch to xCabbage! Slowpoke can onoly growl as xC puts him to sleep! It's a pity his attack roster isn't so good, because of his grass type, but for once this Slowpoke uses confusion, abusing our poison type. It doesn't do too much damage, but a couple of our cuts do very little damage.

[A] 9d15h51m The keeper gets switched in, and CRITICALLY pounds Kadabra! It's only going to take 3 more pounds and it's asleep! This is a great start, except.. All Terrain Venomoth goes out instead! With its poison typing, it has the opportunity to get roya- NO, LEECH LIFE COMES OUT AND IT TAKES DOWN KADABRA!

[A] 9d15h49m We're fighting a psychic with 4 Pokémon and.. he isn't holding anything back! He comes straight out with a Kadabra, who spybeam's Air right down to 20% HP. Luckily the Fresh Prince manages to Sing Kadabra to sleep!

[A] 9d15h47m We roll up back into the gym.

[A] 9d15h31 Oh god! Here comes an amazingly tense battle! It's ANOTHER channeller and we have 2HP! Surely we can't win? BUT WE LEAD WITH A MIRROR MOVE.. which fails.. and night shade. Blacked out!

[A] 9d15h28 Now the real fun story is.. can we actually make it to the entrance without meeting another trainer, even if we wanted to? Or would Glorious Suicide be quicker in this case anyway? We don't really need money so much now Safari Zone's over!

[A] 9d15h27m Mirror move FAILS? AND A 2HP CLUTCH. NIGHTSHADE TAKES HAUNTER DOWN TO 25% HEALTH AND THEN.. IT USES LICK? AND WE MIRROR MOVE LICK AND.. WE ACTUALLY WON! 2HP!

[A] 9d15h26m We pull off a mirror move though and reflect.. CONFUSE RAY! This is actually our best case scenario of winning! Lick has no effect thanks to the normal typing and.. WE LICK GASTLY, SUPER EFFECTIVELY AND TAKE IT DOWN! OUT COMES, YEP, A HAUNTER!

[A] 9d15h25m These nightshades are really taking their toll! Lump that on top of a second confusion and a whirlwind loop, and things are pretty bad. We can only take 2 more hits from Night Shade, so it's pretty unfeasible that we could win anymore. Now hurting ourselves with confusion, we're going to end up with an extremely risky clutch. Blackout is imminent.

[A] 9d15h24m Bird Jesus is put to sleep, but wakes up, USES MIRROR MOVE ON CONFUSE RAY, CONFUSES GASTLY AND GASTLY KOS ITSELF WITH CONFUSION! AMAZING! Out comes Gastly 2 though.

[A] 9d15h21m It's all up to Bird Jesus now! This could be bad! 3 useless moves, 3 Pokémon to beat, and only by mirror moving 5 more Night Shades can we hope to win here! Add that to a high chance of lick paralysis and confuse ray, and this is going to be an extremely close battle!

[A] 9d15h19m xCabbage is down! And unless Air can pull out something miraculous now, it's all down to Jesus. Both our mons are paralysed so there is a chance we could pull through with a surf and finish this, but anything more than one attack is unli.. nope, strength it is, rebutted with a nightshade and the Fresh Prince is down.

[A] 9d15h17m Finally Bird Jesus comes in and brings about the Night Shade Mirror Move glory. Gastly can only do 33 damage a pop but Pidgeot'll do 58! Unfortunately our Lord and Saviour gets confused and hits himself, and we swap xCabbage back in for round 2.

[A] 9d15h15m Our cabbage can't really do much except get paralysed at this point, and gastly uses Night Shade. Another Night Shade and Cabbage is down. Things are looking grim, especially as this is just one of three Pokémon this channeller owns, and we may even be seeing a Haunter in the works.

[A] 9d15h12m ATV is in, and disables confuse ray! It's a status condition off here, and everyone's missing. Ah, ATV pulls off a stun spore, but goes down! It's up to xCabbage now!

[A] 9d15h10m Straight in with a lick and Gastly's already paralysed Air. Following through with a nightshade.. this battle's looking pretty grim! Keeping in mind that Venomoth's going to be ineffective, perhaps Bird Jesus's.. Bird Jesus has Mirror Move! This could be a great catharsis!

[A] 9d15h09m Oh god, second trainer's up, and it's a goddamn Gastly. Thought we'd seen the last of these? Nope.

[A] 9d15h08m Almost /unfortunately/ Bird Jesus comes out to finish the job, mirror moves a water gun and then a headbutt and wins. :( . No chance for Air, but we won nonetheless!

[A] 9d15h07m Air breaks out the double strength, but no! Thanks to the growl off and the lack of STAB, barely any damage is being done. Air doesn't care though - straight in more of his greatest hits and Slowbro's back asleep again. Slowbro's up pretty quick, but we still whittled down his health a little! It's going to be long but Air COULD WIN this! And headbutt misses!

[A] 9d15h06m But no! Slowbro wakes up and uses water gun.. BUT IT BARELY TOUCHES AIR! Even surf does about an equal percent to Slowbro! And we have ourselves a growl off now! Still quite interesting that we haven't seen any psychics or confusions slung about yet. They surely have them in their moveset given the gym, and those could be instant demolishers.

[A] 9d15h04m Fresh Prince follows through with a surf, and despite the awful typing and the clear level difference, the damage dealt isn't too terrible. Could really do with using surf though! Switching to the growl approach a couple of times, and Slowbro has been asleep for 4 turns now! Air's really pushing his luck here! He needs to pull out a strength if he wants that sweet, sweet exp.

[A] 9d15h03m Out goes the whirlwind though and.. no! Fresh Prince comes out! Luckily Slowbro misses and! HA! THE FRESH PRINCE SINGS SLOWBRO TO SLEEP!

[A] 9d15h02m Mirror move's been disabled! It doesn't look like we can really lose this battle at this point, short of a whirlwind lock. He's been thoroughly sand attacked already, too. Mass Helix consultation occurs.

[A] 9d15h00m Bird Jesus simply toys with Slowpoke, kicking up a bit of sand before following through with a one hit quick attack KO. Slowbro's out now though, and quick attack comes in again for less than half damage! Out comes the sand attack fury once again!

[Correction: Air levelled to 18, not 19, btw]

[A] 9d14h58m More attacks and Dux clutches, but.. no! Dux is down! This slowpoke's really giving us trouble! But out comes Bird Jesus to save the day.

[A] 9d14h57m ATV keeps trying status moves, but obviously these fail. Luckily Slowpoke's paralysis is really waning on it. Out comes Dux in place of ATV, and he uses his strusty cut. Unfortunately it's doing minimal damage, and already Slowpoke's already taken off half his health with a couple of headbutts. I could've sworn this was the psychic gym.

[A] 9d14h55m It's lucky that leech life has the type advantage here, because it's really low in damage, but luckily All Terrain Venomoth uses its status conditions to its advantage, paralysing Slowpoke. Unluckily, however, we whip out a quick rendition of Greensleeves on the Pokéflute. Now isn't the time, Red!

[A] 9d14h53m Air Jordan levels up to 19!

[A] 9d14h53m Out goes our king of Terrain, ATV. He leads for a swift paralyse, and shrugs off a critical water gun. He's still trying to stun but luckily at this point his leech should take down Slowpoke and.. yes! Slowpoke's down!

[A] 9d14h52m And he pulls it out! He headbutts! He's disabled no more too, and Slowpoke fails to disable it! A second headbutt follows through and.. NO! Drowzee falls to water gun!

[A] 9d14h51m Confusion's looking like the better option to pound now, but it gets disabled! And we disable GROWL! Things are looking grim! Fortunately Slowpoke's attack fails. We really need a headbutt at this point or the Keeper's going down!

[A] 9d14h50m Unfortunately slowpoke gets the idea first and headbutts us! Even against a critical pound, ANOTHER HEADBUTT'S IN AND WE ALREADY CLUTCH BUT.. SLOWPOKE GROWLS!

[A] 9d14h49m After we get the all good from the Helix, and our lesser idols, Drowzee continues the pound onslaught. Not a bad move considering the Psychic typing and high special of slowpoke would lead confusion to be a bad choice, but we can hope for a headbutt soon!

[A] 9d14h47m Out comes The Fresh Prince of Shell-Air, against a level 33 Slowpoke. We rather sensibly switch to Drowzee. Both our 'mon are doing quite little damage to each other, with Drowzee's high special abosrbing most of that water gun damage and Drowzee only pounding.

[A] 9d14h47m: Solid start to the battle with Red trying to flee 3 times before changing from AIR to the Keeper.

[A] 9d14h47m In comes our first trainer battle from Saffron Gym. Now we see how badly Psychics own in Gen I.

[STRATEGY] If you always go for the bottom left transporter pad, you will end up in Sabrina's room regardless of which room you start from.

[I'll grab the reigns for a bit /u/onemanandhishat. Just for this gym. It's battle time.]

[A] 9d14h42m: Red just entered Saffron Gym... and then exited again... and then entered. Sabrina must be shaking in her boots.

[A] 9d14h35m: Just healed our Pokemon! Where to next? The hivemind seems pretty scattered.

[A] 9d14h27m The time has come, the walrus said, for me to hand over the chat. It's been fun, and we finally got the Master Ball. I'm sure someone else will pick it up, and oversee our future adventures.

[A] 9d14h20m At long last, we have left Silph Co, another milestone passed for TPP, well done. Next stop: PokeCenter, and then? Who knows?

[Considering you'd need the majority of inputters to want to throw away the master ball for that to work, sounds like 100% pure plain bs to me. Even if "trolls" wanted to do that, they couldn't]

[A] 9d14h16m The possibility of Democracy has motivated the anarchists, and democracy looks a way off now. Also, we reached Floor 1

[A] 9d14h14m In other news, we made it to Floor 2, how about that!

[A] 9d14h7m Scuttlebut has it that some people are attempting to introduce Democracy to chuck the Master Ball. Given how previous attempts to navigate the menu in Democracy went, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. ^{I hope this doesn't come back to bite me}

[Guys, we've had a split in Freenode and lost control of the IRC room. We've moved to #TppTemp for the time being until I can get in touch with SirCmpwn and Culex]

[A] 9d14h2m Having said that, we're having some difficulties leaving. If only we had a Pokemon who knew Dig.

[A] 9d13h58m I'm not sure if we're getting more competent at movement, but that anarchic navigation of the tower seemed a lot quicker than previous efforts at similar things.

[RECAP] Now we've got the Master Ball, let's check our options again:

• Here's all the rare Pokémon we could catch with our Master Ball: http://i.imgur.com/INxcyad.png

• Here's a strawpoll on which one you guys want to go for: http://strawpoll.me/1196047

[A] 9d13h52m The chat is already exploding with calls to toss it.

[A] 9d13h52m We received the Master Ball

[A] 9d13h51m Giovanni defeated

[A] 9d13h46m Out comes Nidoqueen to the wrath of Bird Jesus's quick attack. A quick mirror move in and scratch is used right back at her. She crits Bird Jesus but does nowhere near the damage. Another mirror move and Nidoqueen is down! We win!

[A] 9d13h50m Rhyhown's Horn Attack does damage, but Abba Quick Attacks to finish it.

[A] 9d13h49m A mirrored Horn Attack bring Rhyhorn down to half, before a mirrored Stomp gets him down to 20%. Repeated Whirlwinds are attempted.

[A] 9d13h48m Rhyhorn is next in line, and Abba deploys Whirlwind! A blast from the past there.

[A] 9d13h47m Quick atack brings Kangaskhan down to half health. Another one finishes her off. Abba is caning this!

[A] 9d13h48m This is pretty much all on Abba. First up Nidorino who is OHKO'd by a mirrored horn attack.

[A] 9d13h46m Here we go, it's Giovanni

[STRATEGY] Just to clarify, we are currently attempting to fight Giovanni. We are on his floor, but only have two healthy Pokemon.

[A] 9d13h34m Drowzee doesn't learn Poison Gas

[A] 9d13h32m Drowzee prevented from evolving

[A] 0d13h31m Weezing criticals ATV with sludge, and ATV faints. Drowzee finishes it and Drowzee grows to level 29.

[A] 9d13h30m Dux faints from poison.

[A] 9d13h29m Poison nearly does for Dux, but two Fury Attacks and the enemy Koffing faints.

[A] 9d:13h:28m Abba also levels up to 58!

[A] 9d13h28m Dux doesn't learn agility, because he couldn't forget Cut. It's in his soul.

[A] 9d13h26m Dux is up next, and cuts him almost into submission but gets poisoned. After a quick swap with Abba, he finishes off Weezing with another cut, and Dux grows to level 31

[A] 9d13h24m Air is knocked out, so xCabbage comes in against a Weezing and gets knocked out. Too much pollution.

[A] 9d13h22m Air deploys surf against Grimer and almost drops him. So he uses it again and Grimer faints.

[A] 9d13h22m Another Scientist wants a fight.

[A] 9d13h19m Currently on Floor 3, this is a good floor. Having trouble getting to the right teleport pad.

[EDIT] My update of 9d12h57m was erroneous in that the clock has always displayed seconds. Apparently I never noticed, thanks /u/CptTinko

[A] 9d13h10m Grimer gets knocked out, and the Keeper takes over to fight a Machop. A fight he wins, meaning we beat Rocket Grunt.

[A] 9d13h6m After much tooing and froing, ATV defeats Drowzee and has a bash at a Grimer.

[A] 9d1h3m Fully healed, we run into another Rocket Grunt. It's a Drowzee on Drowzee fight, until ATV takes over an falls asleep. That's tactics.

[A] 9d13h0m Numerous naps later, we're ready to face the rest of Silph Co.

[A] 9d12h57m: Two major changes: the time played includes seconds, and the UTC timer. This timer shows the time past the hour on the streamer's computer, so compare it with your own time to establish the amount of lag, and duly compensate. Many thanks to the numerous replies explaining :)

[A] 9d12h55m And it's back up Anyone care to explain the deal with that counter?

[A] 9d12h54m Stream is live the layout was changed a bit, but it's paused again

Stream is back but still paused

Stream Offline

[A] 9d12h47m Stream paused

[A] 9d:12h:47m Red finds a Max Potion.

[A] 9d12h44m Another quick attack drops a Drowzee in one. With two more flattening a Hypno. Rocket Grunt defeated. That was the epitome of a mismatch.

[A] 9d12h43m Abba comes out against an Rocket Grunt's Golbat, and despite its confusion, two quick attacks do the job.

[A] 9d12h39m Abba swaps in, mirrors Magenton's tackle and takes him out. Scientist defeated

[A] 9d12h36m Dux's cut is swapped for xCabbage's cut on Magneton. Magneton gets paralyzed, but is gaining the upper hand as xCabbage insists on attempting poison.

[A] 9d12h34m Dux defeats the scientist's Koffing by cutting him. Cutting him real bad.

[A] 9d12h33m A fight with a scientist's Electrode self-destructing means that Air has fainted

[A] 9d12h29m Now Floor 9 by this map. Which also suggests we need to get back to 3 to get to Giovanni.

[A] 9d12h27m Quick progress report, we're currently on Floor 5 of Silph Co.

[A] 9d12h19m AIR is back out, she hurts Zubat real bad. And finishes him with Surf. What a good job we taught that! Rocket Grunt is defeated

[A] 9d12h17m ATV is knocked out by Zubat, his attacks were just no use against that.

[A] 9d12h16m Drowzee goes back without doing anything, and ATV disables Zubat's Bite. Then it hurts itself in its confusion.

[A] 9d12h15m Abba mirrors Zubat and ocnfuses him. Then does it twice more. So Drowzee steps in.

[A] 9d12h14m Zubat gives ATV a nasty bite, before confusing ATV. ATV is in trouble here as his attacks aren't working. Abba swaps in. This won't take long.

[A] 9d12h13m Poisonpowder ensure a slow death, and Cubone is finished. Zubat's up next

[A] 9d12h12m Dux cuts Cubone to the point of extinction, but he's clinging on. ATV swaps in to finish the job.

[A] 9d12h12m There's a lot of leering and growling doing on at the moment.

[A] 9d12h10m More cuts and Cubone's down to 25% health, whilst his bone club has no effect on Dux.

[A] 9d12h10m Dux cuts Cubone and he bleeds cublood.

[A] 9d12h9m Air singing like it's karaoke night at Silph Co, but then comes over all embarrassed and tries to run before hiding in his ball.

[A] 9d12h7m ATV's Leech Life critical, before dodging a Bone Club, AIR is back out, bit of a challenge for him - but he sings Cubone to sleep!

[A] 9d12h6m Strewth! It's a Rocket Grunt! AIR swaps out for ATV against a lvl 29 Cubone.

[A] 9d11h59m Red investigates a potted plant.

[A] 9d 11h 43m: Twitch is hitting Silph Co with gusto, even following roughly along the right path so far. Unfortunately, I've got to call it a night here. One of the other updaters will be along shortly, so don't fret! And keep an oral history prepared of the Giovanni battle just in case...

[A] 9d 11h 39m: We're back in Silph Co! Here's the best map again. Just follow the line right to Giovanni.

[Strategy] Fly is a confirmed non-starter. We don't want that. Fly will greatly set us back, as it'll make our only option be releasing every 'mon we teach it to.

[A] 9d 11h 36m: We bought 4 Great Balls in the Pokemart. Winding our way toward Silph Co. Let's hope we don't toss them all.

[A] 9d 11h 29m: Cooler heads, and b spam prevailed. We're on our way out again. Twitch quickly pushed Red back down to the entrance to Route 6 for some reason. Here's the path to Silph Co from the Pokecenter we were just at: http://imgur.com/wrYR17m

[A] 9d 11h 27m: PC accessed! DEFCON 2

[A] 9d 11h 24m: We're healed, by the way! Time for Giovanni? http://i.imgur.com/SJsnv5U.jpg

[A] 9d 11h 24m: Obligatory push toward PC to screw everything up forever. Crowd seems to be fighting it mostly.

[A] 9d 11h 23m: Saffron City Pokecenter! I've never been so happy about entering a Pokemon Center! Here's hoping we avoid the PC and heal rapidly.

[A] 9d 11h 14m: Since there is some confusion, here's the route to the Pokecenter from our current location.

[A] 9d 11h 10m: Having a quick stop by in the Poke Mart to see Red's old flame, Revive Girl, to work up the strength to heal our Pokemon and then face Silph Co again.

[A] 9d 11h 4m: We still need to heal though. Let's not forget that.

[A] 9d 11h 2m: And we're back in Saffron. Silph is the huge building in the center of the city. Here's the fastest route to get to Giovanni once we get inside.

[A] 9d 11h 0m: Back to the game! We're still on Route 6, the thrill of utterly destroying Oddishes somehow winning out over the potential of beating Giovanni in Saffron. We have to enter that building on the right to enter Saffron again, just in case anyone forgot.

[A] 9d 10h 53m: Tinyurl, redbubble, strawpolls that just market stuff and various porn links are spamming chat extremely hard. Most use some kind of multi-level marketing scam rewarding users for re-pasting them into chat, so they're exploding out of control now. An additional javascript that could filter everything except imgur (and reddit, maybe?) links out might be useful if anyone wants to work on that!

[Strategy] MANY people have messaged saying that it functions just like a menu, D-pad directions jumping to any city in the path. That means we could easily path around to any given city on any activation. Fly is still definitely too dangerous -- it'd be like having a Dig we could trigger anywhere in the Overworld, and then we'd have enormous difficulty using it to get back anywhere. Thanks, everyone!

[A] 9d 10h 48m: We're right by the entrance to Saffron. Looks like Operation RoboRed's Revenge is a go and we're heading to Giovanni.

[Question] Anyone remember the exact way the UI for Fly worked in Pokemon Red? Was it the move-your-cursor-over-cities format, or did the D-pad just jump to the next nearest city in the grid? I had thought it was D-pad-jump-to-select-city. If so, Fly is a major risk. If not, maybe not so much.

[A] 9d 10h 42m: Route 6! Mankeys, Pidgeys, and Oddishs. Oh my. Looks like we're on our way back toward Saffron. /u/lozomwijgdn suggested West Fuschia gate for grinding AIR, and he also thinks Fly is a good idea for the damage and to give Pidgeot some more oompf, and doesn't think the UI is as big of a threat as we think.

[A] 9d 10h 36m: Smell that fresh salt air! Out of the cave and back by Vermillion. The world of full of opportunities for our poor little Red.

[A] 9d 10h 36m: Smell that fresh salt air! Our of the cave and back by Vermillion. The world of full of opportunities for our poor little Red.

[A] 9d 10h 32m: We're at the south ladder of the Diglett Cave! Not far to heal up Air in Saffron or Vermillion. Next we'll possibly head to Silph Co for a Giovanni rematch, but the direction is anybody's guess at this point.

[Question] Do we need to change our party at all to finish the game? Is there any game-breaking problems to win? I've been told AVT isn't ideal, but we all know the risks involved in changing our party. Seems like the current group could win it, after a sufficient amount of leveling.

[A] 9d 10h 22m: There's an amusing number of calls, all throughout the Diglett tunnel the first time and now again, to catch the Digletts or Dugtrios. Just a reminder: We have no Poké Balls. We threw them all away.

[A] 9d 10h 19m: We're back in the Diglett Tunnel, though! Looks like we're heading back south. Once we heal up in Vermillion, it still looks like chat is divided on either continuing to grind or just facing Giovanni and aiming for hitting him without a poisoned, near-dead ABBA.

[Reader's Corner] /u/DimlightHero, /u/mechanicalswede, /u/shadow_gov, and /u/Poketoa all informed me of a third, new plan: Pick up the Amber fossil / go for Omanyte was another option in the area. That might explain why the pull was so strong up there.

[A] 9d 10h 15m: And we're back in the Diglett Cave! Head south to get back to Vermillion City and heal. From there, it seems the stream is still divided on either going back to Silph Co in Saffron or grinding -- Oh. We just left again. Back to the outside on the wrong side of the Diglett Cave.

[A] 9d 10 15m: And we're back in the Diglett Cave! Head south to get back to Vermillion City and heal. From there, it seems the stream is still divided on either going back to Silph Co in Saffron or grinding -- Oh. We just left again. Back to the outside on the wrong side of the Diglett Cave.

[A] 9d 10h 5m: It seems as if Operation Big Air was a massive failure. We didn't really train Air, and we sidetracked the stream enormously. It seems like the stream's memory is mostly based on whatever is on the screen: If we're in Silph Co, beat that. Right now they see a tree and think we need to cut it, but we're not even in the right region of Kanto for our goals.

[A] 9d 9h 54m: Still puttering about at the tree right next to the north entrance to the Diglett Tunnel.

[Strategy] Instead of puttering around up here, let's just go back south through the tunnel and head back to where we came from? That's where all our activities and such were... we didn't go through this tunnel to travel, we went to it to grind. Unsuccessfully.

[A] 9d 9h 38m: Out on the North End of Route 2 now, by the exit of the Viridian Forest. I imagine a lot of Twitch is very lost right now, here's the map for the area about halfway down.

[A] 9d 9h 30m: We were almost out up by Route 2 after passing through the cave, but Twitch decided to head back down into the cave instead of heal, no doubt for one last big score. As of press time, they encountered a Diglett and ran away, then went back toward the ladder.

[A] 9d 9h 22m: The stream is back up. No noticeable change on the front. ATV faces off against a Diglett, our Lapras is still fainted. Exciting times we live in.

[A] 9d 9h 20m: Stream goes down! Twitch Plays Pokemon will resume shortly. The crowd goes rioty.

9d 9h 10m: Air down to a Diglett crit, chat calls for heal, but the main commands coming in seem to be pushing Red left away from the entrance. Air got in two diglett kills and leveled up once to L17 before fainting. That's grinding!

[A] 9d 9h 5m: Hey, we made it into the Diglett Cave! Time to grind! Or run away repeatedly. Air is up in the first slot and we have our first encounter. With Diglett. Air takes him down in one hit with Strength! Off to a good start.

[A] 9d 9h 0m: Still no real progress. Made our way to Vermillion City, but the collective short-term memory loss of the stream can't seem to get us to the cave they wanted to 'grind' at.

[A] 9d 8h 32m: Fighting Oddishes, Mankeys and Pidgeys again on Route 6, supposedly on our way to the Cave or possibly back to Gio. Indecision reigns at the moment more than anything.

[Readers Corner] /u/Magnesium38 sent in this suggestion: http://imgur.com/LHOFXkQ

[A] 9d 8h 17m: Our last action was playing the Pokeflute. It was a catchy tune, but did nothing to relent the attacks of Kangaskhan.

[A] 9d08h16m Bird Jesus takes poison damage before he can do anything! Blacked out!

[A] 9d08h16m The only way Bird Jesus can hope to win now is by critical hitting! This poison means he's going to die if he doesn't do something!

[A] 9d08h16m No! Tail whip was disabled and.. comet punch! 5HP and.. The Keeper is down! It's all down to Bird Jesus now!

[A] 9d08h15m More status conditions and.. ugh, xCabbage faints! Drowzee's back in, and Bird Jesus only has 5HP. Drowzee only uses pound again! Things are super tense!

[A] 9d08h14m xCabbage is swapped out in place of the Keeper, but luckily doesn't take any damage. UNfortunately he has very few attack moves, and only manages a quick cut. Comet punch MISSES though! Only 7hp left!

[A] 9d08h14m Things are looking pretty grim as ATV continues to use status moves and, yep, he's down! Out comes the Keeper for revenge! Luckily the paralysis shou - nope, 60% health is gone thanks to a bite, and we only used pound!

[A] 9d08h12m Stun spore's tried again and misses, but luckily Kangaskhan didn't try for an attack move. We do some last minute consultation with the SS ticket before ATV sucks back a bit more health. Kangaskhan is paralysed TWICE as ATV tries a poison sting - to no avail!

[xCabbage levelled up by the way!]

[A] 9d08h11m All Terrain Venomoth comes out and paralyses Kangaskhan, but not before losing half its health to Comet Punch! He leeches a bit back before being bitten down and clutching!

[A] 9d08h10m Out comes Kangaskhan the old rager, and bites Dux to death!

[A] 9d08h10m Dux uses cut and takes down Nidorino!

[A] 9d 8h 8m: Nido's paralyzed by our Cabbage! Then cut. Nido's almost down.

[Strategy] The channel seems to want to try to use the Hyper Potion in our inventory to heal ABBA. Good luck with that.

[A] 9d 8h 6m: Switched out for ATV then Dux against Gio's L37 Nidorino. Dux takes him down about halfway, then is switched back out for Cabbage.

[A] 9d 8h 4m: We're on Floor 9, in Gio's room! But ABBA is still poisoned. The Fight with Giovanni begins!

[A] 9d 7h 58m: Scientist down. Drowzee levels and is evolving. Evolution interrupted.

[A] 9d 7h 57m: Bird Jesus takes down the Electrode finally with a quick attack, and a Weezing is sent out. He gets Quick Attacked for most of his health, then Sand Attacked. And ABBA was poisoned!

[A] 9d 7h 55m: We get into a fight with Scientist on Floor 3, by the teleporter we need (we walked past it). He sent out a L29 Electrode, and ABBA comes out to meet him. And is then switched out with Drowzee.

[A] 9d 7h 51m: Down to floor 2. It's looking like we're going to try to get there just by randomly wandering around for now.

[Strategy] We just popped up to Floor 9, then back to Floor 5. Now back to 9 again, and back to 5. In case people are confused, here's the detailed map of Silph Co and our potential path, including all the teleporters, sent in to /u/forthereddits.

[A] 9d 7h 36m: We're on FLOOR 5 of the Silph co, and will try to keep updated when the floors change, though the teleporters changing it rapidly can make it challenging. Great gif of the self-destruct miss 'takedown' from the last battle sent in by /u/ssbmang.