New Bark Town. Almost has a mental breakdown over Mom and immediately books it out of town, sleeps out in the woods overnight on Route 29.
aug. 19
Belatedly meets their starter... (by finally fiddling with the Pokeball). Also remembers that like. Eating food and drinking water is important.
aug. 21
Cherrygrove City. Sneaks in early in the morning to buy some food (carbs and jerky) and moves right along to Route 30.
aug. ??
TDM threads, after which Loop actually starts doing Pokemon battles. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and also Dell.
aug. 26
Route 31.
aug. 28
Violet City.
aug. 29
Route 32, where they catch a Buizel and then circle back partway through when they're told the only way to continue is Union Cave... nope, not ready to be stuck inside a cave for 2+ days.
+ september 2024
throughout
September log (Beetlejuice, Doppio, Envy, Heather, JW, Min-Gi, Scar)
sep. 1
Back in Violet City (Dell), but they quickly head onward to Route 36.
sep. 9
Still on Route 36 and Route 37. Their team is a bit under-leveled here, so they're really slogging through and are traveling slower than usual.
sep. 10
Staggers into Ecruteak City in the morning. Their team is worn out and they finally have to admit that they also are and don't... actually have a good reason to be in a rush to go anywhere. They'll be staying here for a bit.
Warps to Goldenrod City, intending to resume traveling from there, but...
dec. 14-16
SNOMSTORM (Doppio, Jotaro, Envy, Heather, Wrath; pending: some of Scar, Lust, Henry??) also (BJ)
dec. 17-24
Odd jobs around Goldenrod City. At various points the Delibird swarm gifts Loop the following: 3 metal spoons (completely normal spoons, not Twisted Spoons) and a one-way Magnet Train ticket.
dec. 25-31
Gifts. Gets a shiny Minior egg from Arceus, placed delicately in between Alfinse's paws while the Buizel is asleep. (Harry)
+ january 2025
jan. 4
Uses that one-way Magnet Train ticket to head to Saffron City. (BJ)
jan. 6
Uh oh, Snorunts. Signs up to help and gets sent to courier supplies from Saffron City to Cerulean City. Route 5.
Somewhere here, some of their Pokemon do catch the Snorunt Pokerus, so they end up staying in one place and helping with odd jobs around the Pokemon Center.
Mahogany Town... where Meeple hears about the Swinub Scurry and insists they have to get to Blackthorn City and participate, so they only stay one night.
feb. 11
Route 44.
feb. 13-20
Ice Path. The only reason this isn't particularly miserable is this is basically the conditions they've been traveling in already! (Cecil)
feb. 20
Blackthorn City. Only one day to rest, but Meeple is still determined!
Warps to Cherrygrove City and heads off toward New Bark Town.
mar. 7
At New Bark Town to peek at the Petal Gym! (Emporio)
mar. 8-20
Works at the Petal Gym for a couple of weeks, doing arena maintenance and Pokemon care. (Joseph)
mar. 22
Stays overnight at Cherrygrove City.
mar. 23
Warps to Violet City to finally head toward Azalea and collect their final Johto warp... or at least the last one that doesn't require ocean travel. Route 32.