Scavenger hunt #2 | Video

[logical_lioness]

[She beat The Monk on her second try, but it had been a close one, despite the enormous amount of prep she did for it. Then, after having to spend almost a week in Azalea trying to cajole locals into telling her where Grampa Slowpoke was, Hermione had finally had to sign a breeding contract to get locals to tell her what she needed to know...and of course that had resulted in her now having a Slowpoke breeding pair on loan. Sigh.

[A least the Gold Woman had been a piece of cake - Maneki had been able to take Hermione straight to her, having been a stray Meowth in Goldenrod before Hermione adopted him. Bottle flip kid had been relatively easy too - he'd been showing off in a popular tourist strip in Ecruteak, although Hermione had to ask what exactly a bottle flip was before she'd been able to look for him in any of the major tourist cities. It was starting to become clear to her that there was probably only one, two at most, scavenger hunt people per main town or city.

[But that's where her luck ended and she's stuck again.

[The video clicks on to her looking a little frustrated, but with a really pretty shell house....mound...thing....behind her. ]

Well, I think I have a pretty good idea where this 'swell shell' person is, given I've found six of these abandoned shell houses so far around the beaches of Cianwood but I can't for the life of me actually find the home(?) owner. I've been at Cianwood for five days now and I'm certain they're here somewhere.

Also, I asked all the sailors at both Olivine and Cianwood ports about the inky sailor and I have a pretty solid description of him, but all they could tell me about his location was 'oh he's around here somewhere', plus a bunch of crazy sea tales about him, which I very much doubt are true.

Has anyone actually found the inky sailor yet? Or have an idea where he hangs out? It's pretty unfair if he's actually at sea and whoever organised this expects us to still find him.

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[schachmeister]

I managed to find him. It wasn't easy. It seems like he hangs out in a lot of different bars.

I heard that he usually hangs out at The Rusty Dhelmise on Tuesday's though. That's where I found him.

[logical_lioness]

Really? Thank you so much Armin! That will really save me a lot of time.

...although, I'm not quite old enough to walk into a bar. I'll probably have to wait for him outside...

I'd really like to find this shell guy before heading back to Olivine though. I'm positive he's around here somewhere.

[schachmeister]

[Armin hums thoughtfully.]

Do you have any flying pokemon with you? You could use them to scout out the area. From the air, they might be able to catch a glimpse of him much more quickly than you can on foot.

[logical_lioness]

That's a brilliant idea, thank you!

[She's a little annoyed at herself for not thinking of that sooner...]

I have a few at home. I can send Cyto to Nurse Joy to go get them and transfer them back while I keep searching.

I hope he's not out diving or something. None of my pokemon know Surf, and while I'm a good swimmer, I'm not familiar with the waters here.

[Something this trip has definitely made her determined to remedy when she gets a chance.]

[schachmeister]

[Sometimes you just need someone else to spot an obvious solution. It has happened to Armin before too. You end up so trapped trying to tackle a problem from one end, that you need someone else to point out that you could take a different approach too.]

It's no problem.

And if you want, I could lend you HM03 so you can teach your Pokemon Surf. You are a breeder, right? If that is the case, you shouldn't need any gym badges to use the move outside of battle.

[logical_lioness]

Really? That would be wonderful! I know that you can obtain it from a gym battle however I haven't really been interested or had the time to challenge the gyms.

Isn't it a one-off use though? Won't you need it for your pokemon?

[schachmeister]

The HMs can be used multiple times, unlike most TMs which are single use. I also ended up a copy of that HM because I beat both the gyms in Kanto and Johto, so there really isn't any trouble in lending it to you.