An excellent Pokemon fic. The author captured the 'format', as it were, of
an episode of Pokemon, while at the same time keeping the tone nice and
spooky. This was an excellent read.
By the way, I have something to add to the author's afterword, based on my
own Web research....
A bit of spoiler space, I should think. Yeeesss.
This should be enough, yeeeeeeesss.
Oh, and a very important note about Missingno: IT ISN'T A REAL
POKEMON! MissingNo in the game is one notch away from being a regular bug.
Based on what I know about it by now, MissingNo's appearance is the result
of
an "emergency" error-handling routine; the most common location to trigger
that routine is around Cinnabar Island, by Surfing along the coast (the
chain
of half-land, half-water squares that run around most of the island).
Basically, if the game comes up with a random encounter trigger, it tries
to
look up a Pokemon to throw at you; if the most recent land-based Pokemon
"encounter" or event isn't valid, then MissingNo turns up.
And as mentioned, MissingNo is listed as Pokemon #000. It seems that
because of a certain trick which many players seem to do without even
realizing it, MissingNo sometimes shows up around Cinnabar Island if you do
as described above. (Supposedly, it also appears in the Safari Zone
sometimes...)
But what the author forgot to mention is what happens should you *catch*
MissingNo. Trust me, you don't want to find out. Go to www.pokemon.com if
you want to know specifically what will happen. The short of it is,
catching MissingNo is the fastest way to bring your Pokemon training to an
abrupt halt--you'll have to erase your save data to undo the damage it does
to your game.
(This has been a public service announcement, in the event anyone is too
curious about MissingNo for their own good...)
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"Come to think of it, you haven't named your
Pokemon yet, have you?"
"I have too! Meet Jean Luc Pikachu!"
"Pii!"
"How 'engaging'."
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