When we last left our honey of a heroine, she was dozing off during Flo’s description of a very important job she had to do. Which, truth be told, I don’t even completely remember myself.

But sometimes daydreaming and wandering around a hydro-electric dam pays off:

Sometime while she’s wandering around, the Stream goes down:

As it happens, this occurs twice within the hydro-electric dam. I’m not sure if chat ever found out why, but it might have to do with the loss of power inside the power plant.

See? Technical difficulties up the wazoo.

It takes her a while to do so, thanks to those darned voices inside her head.

The blue-haired guy explains to Honey that the generator over here is just a replica so that tourists can see what they look like. Unless we got turned around somewhere (which is possible), it’s really weird that we just had to go by a security guard to reach the fake generator.

Honey heads outside, briefly toys with picking up that item, then runs into a bug catcher. He accuses her of not liking Bug-types, despite her Venipede in the party.

Granted, Hugbug is currently fainted, but still.

Sapping Turtle manages to beat Antonio’s first Pokemon (Whirlipede), but his Beedrill takes down Sap and Battery both, sending Honey back to Seaspray Town.

She heads down to the docks and talks to… a ship. An honest-to-goodness ship. Unless there’s someone inside the ship she’s talking to, which makes the most sense given that we don’t think she’s talking to someone from that other dimension where there aren’t any Pokemon at all.

She talks to the hydro-electric dam admirer again. Say, this guy could be a relative of the guy in AshGray’s Pewter City that gave TrAsh all those Rare Candies.

Yeah, that’s a specific hack in the TPP-edited version of the game, done because we didn’t have time to grind against Brock. Sorry, gamers, you don’t get those kinds of hax.

I’m not sure I’m comfortable with this NPC.

We head back to Antoino and kick his butt, but not without casualties:

The guy on the bridge informs us that we can’t cross that bridge while the hydro-electric plant is running. Honey considers doing back inside the plant, but instead travels deeper into the tall grass.

As it turns out, a Dark-type, a Grass-type, and a Bug-type (even a Bug/Poison type) aren’t all that great against a Fairy/Flying type:

It has Yawn, Drain Kiss, Encore, and Metronome, which amount to a thoroughly troll moveset. While BBC is able to lower its attack (Intimidate) and sp. attack (Snarl), she dies to Drain Kiss. Aiden’s Magical Leaf does barely anything on Togetic, and Hugbug’s Screeching does nothing because Togetic just Yawns her into being unable to use Rollout.

Back to Seaspray Town again.

The next attempt with a full team ends in everyone else on Honey’s team fainting and Torterra finally sapping the last of Togetic’s health with Leech Seed. (For reference, Torterra has already used Leech Seed at the time of this screenshot.) Togetic leaves a parting gift with Yawn, though, which leads to trouble when the foe’s Tangela comes out.

Tangela knows Growth, Poison Powder, Absorb, and Vine Whip. It also knows how to survive.

Back to the Seaspray Town Pokemon Center we go.

“…tough!”



Honey captures a Marill, who responds by screaming loudly.

We stop by the gym, but Flo’s kid says she’s busy at the Seaspray Dam.

“…in. I must say I agree!”



Did you know there’s a town in another dimension where Uxie look like Poochyena?

Honey starts fumbling around in total strangers’ houses. Disembodied Dad Voice, meanwhile, has been continuing to function this entire time:

As it turns out, there’s a method to this madness: she’s looking for a Democracy House, where she can use Democracy.

This, as a matter of fact, is not just any Democracy House:

…money, as it turns out. No futzing around for Heart Scales for this guy.

We almost team MGM Fury Cutter, but instead we teach him Water Pulse over Water Sport. Also, this is the first time some people in chat realize that in Blazed Glazed, Cut is Bug-type.

(whistles innocently)



With that done, Honey leaves and goes back to her irregularly scheduled wandering.

And then…

Honey heads back to Serenity Island and prepares to enter another Democracy House: the Poke Mart from before.

As it happens, she leaves before Democracy can take effect:

She then checkpoints at the local Pokemon Center.

Someone on the subreddit did an image of this woman shoving her Pokemon off a cliff. Scandalous.

Honey heads back into the demo house, where the Voices are ready to reorder some moves by taking advantage of a loophole in Democracy ‘puzzle house’ rules.

See, ‘puzzle houses,’ or areas where democracy is enabled for puzzles, aren’t intended for menu usage such as assigning items or reordering the party. Because of this, the Start button is disabled when democracy is enabled in puzzle houses, keeping the Voices from opening the menu.

However, if the Start button has already been pressed before Democracy activates, leaving the Voices within the menu already, it doesn’t really matter, now, does it?



Helixdomeit.

To be continued…