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Some stuff actually happened today! I continued clearing out the various Surf routes in the game. Not including small one-off patches of water (of which there are way too goddamn many), I hit up Fuego Ironworks, where I picked up a level 29 Luxio (named Reynold) to replace Cecilia's bullshit Destiny Bond death many hours ago. He soon evolved into Luxray, and it feels good to have one of my favorite Pokemon around again (seriously, the only other Pokemon I have that's even in my top 50 is Chase, and I JUST evolved him). Route 208 brought unexpected surprises, since I've never fought any of the trainers there, somehow. I whalloped them and continued on to Route 213, where Jennifer evolved into Lumineon. I also thought I found Pierre's evolutionary stone...but it was Dawn, not Shiny. That sucks.

Anyway, side content cleared, I hit up Route 218. I'd never even picked up the Old Rod before! I used a repel because I didn't want to waste my only catch of the route on ANOTHER Tentacool (when that's literally the only Pokemon I can catch in Canalave City). So I got to some grass and hopped around in hopes of getting to try out a Glameow. Nope. A level 28 Shellos (named Larry) replaces Sally, since I guess that's the theme of these two catches. At least he leveled up to 30 soon enough to become Gastrodon, and therefore KINDA useful.

Hitting Canalave City, I was trying to go for Tentacool and forgot that Brennus spazzes his way into you on the bridge. I have my D or F-team with me and I'm unprepared...but the good thing about that is that their deaths are largely meaningless to me because they are SO MANY Water-types. Everything went smoothly enough, except for him starting with pointless Double Team spam to prolong the battle. But then he whipped out his Heracross, and I had only Lucas with Psychic to KINDA do super effective damage. But Lucas is weak as fuck, and he failed to 2HKO Heracross with Psychic, while Heracross (btw, way to rub it in, Brennus. I've only found ONE in Diamond despite checking a fuckton of trees) just kept lowering my defense with Leer. One Aerial Ace later, and Lucas was dead. Oh well, in the words of Stephen King, "Not great loss".

I finished out the battle with a bit more reckless abandon at that point, since again, this was my F-team. RIP Lucas (Level 15 to 38). And then I went for the Canalave City Tentacool, only to accidentally OHKO it with a critical hit. Oh well. Time to hunt for Metal Coats on Magnemites so I can finally evolve Jemma and not feel guilty if I run into a Steelix before I get my Riolu egg (which is currently the only Pokemon I can get from Iron Island).