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Here we are: Eterna City.  There are several things we have to do here before moving on.  To leave southward, we have to travel on Cycling Road, which requires a bicycle.  To the east is Mount Coronet, the towering spine of the Sinnoh region.  There are tunnels through the mountain to Celestic Town and Snowpoint City, but I need out-of-battle access to Strength to use them, which we won’t have for a while.  To move on, we have to defeat both Eterna City’s gym leader, Gardenia, and the commander in charge of Team Galactic’s base here, Jupiter.

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When we last left off, I was taking a quick training break.  The team now stands thus:

I wanted to train the boys a little bit higher, but with limited Pokémon Centre visits, there’s only so much potions can do; they don’t restore PP (and I’m even running out of money for potions).

The last card I drew was the Ten of Cups, meaning someone else gets to make a new rule for me, and today’s lucky winner is Matt, who offers the following:

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When we left off, I had just drawn the 10 of Swords, necessitating a pause so a commenter could give their own suggestions for changing the rules of this game.  The first commenter on the scene was Pedro Luiz Cunha Marchi, who made these requests:

So, the simple consequence first: the Six of Cups is off the board; I can use male Pokémon again.  The boys, as they say, are back in town.

A little bit more complicated: my Geodude, Andi Site, will no longer face the Knight’s Challenge on route 207, but on the next route with trainers.  The next place we’re going is the Ravaged Path, the small cave area that divides the southern and northern parts of route 204, but there are no trainers there.  After that, there’s the upland half of route 204, which leads north to Floaroma Town.  We’ve already drawn a card when we entered the lowland half of route 204, and fought the trainers there, but the northern part has more trainers and higher-level wild Pokémon, and they’re divided by story progression.  I think there’s a reasonable argument for treating it as a new area, same as the lower level of Oreburgh Gate.

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Now, where were we?

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We’ve drawn several cards now – a 5, a 2, a Page and a 6 – but the 2 and the Page both tell you to do things immediately, so we don’t have to keep thinking about them after drawing them.  The 5 applies an ongoing restriction, but it’s the opposite of the restriction applied by the 6, which overwrites it.  That means the 6 is the only card we have to keep track of at the moment.

I think Tippi’s ready for her big solo debut.

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