Pokémon ORIGINAL series Lavender Legends?

[Rois Athyrrei]

Inb4old'd..


Ok, I'm PRETTY damn sure everyone here is clued up on the original Pok?mon Lavender GB game rumors, myths and legends. I actually knew one of the main legends out of the many others which circulate.

I learned from a friend YEARS ago about the 'Music Issue' in Pok?mon, how the original Lavender town music caused deaths and major injuries to young Japanese children due to it's high-pitched notes, going over this is actually a massive falsification and at the time I did think the exact same thing of it being false, It just seemed fake. He was noted as a liar when it came to this stuff as well, except when he told me about Pok?Rus and that turned out to actually be legit. The other one to do with the music is an apparent message in the form of an image hidden into original music which was a little messed up since the GB couldn't read it. It showed the Ghost Pok?mon with unknowns saying LEAVE NOW. Again a lovely falsifacation.

Another lovely Lavender Town myth was the "Buried Alive" battle. Essentially to make it occur (according to legend) you had to have a MissingNo in your party and, before you gained a silph scope, walk back and forth from the Marowak ghost battle. Eventually after running enough you would win and could go upstairs. The upstairs was empty minus the pair of graves at the back where Mr Fuji is supposed to be. When you approached one of the graves a dialogue with "Finally.... Raw Flesh...." would appear and you'd battle a thing called "Buried Alive" which looked like a corpse. It was a trainer with 4 Pok?mon, 2 'White Hands' and a pair of other Pok?mon (constantly changes from source to source), The 'White Hands' were apperent Pok?mon which was a referance to the child outside the tower who taunts you about seeing a White Hand on your shoulder. The Pok?mon had 2 moves, Fist and batter. Anyhow, away from that beaten track. The battle dished you against level 90+ Pok?mon and if you won against the "Buried Alive" the game would crash. Otherwise, if you lost, you were greeted with a "GAME OVER" screen where the corpse is seen holding Red close to take him away. Again this is a massive falsification, it's a lovely myth but we have to look at the basic coding of the Pok?mon games to see this is false. IF you did get past the ghost without beating it you'd still face the trainers above. Plus why would Pok?mon, a game with a generally happy tone, have a sudden Zombie trainer with a Zombie pok?mon? Weird.

Classically there's the "RIP Raticate" story, I like this because it has some basis and could be true. For those who have not heard this is to do with the battle in Pok?mon Tower between you and your rival. As he realises you he questions why you're in Pok?mon tower since none of your Pok?mon are dead. During the battle it is realised that Raticate, a Pok?mon he had in the earlier battle on the S.S. Anne, is now gone entirely. The rumor being that you killed it in battle when he couldn't get to a Pok?center in time.

Now. A final one which I find amazingly funny.

It's not STRICTLY related to Lavender town but it sorta follows the theme.

Once upon a time someone posted about having bought a BootLeg copy of Pok?mon Red from a Flea Market. The game was called "Creepy Black" and, when picking your starter Pok?mon, you were given the ability to chose a Ghost. The ghost had a move called 'Curse' which would 1hit KO any Pok?mon with ease and even get rid of trainers. After you beat the Elite Four (Easy as hell considering), you (the main character) is forced into a battle with the Ghost in which you lose as you use struggle then have the ghost use CURSE to beat you. Afterwhich the game would Delete the save and that would be that.

The funny thing about this tale is that the person who posted it quite famously added "I no longer have the game as I lost it when I moved house".

I am pretty much posting incase people haven't heard or if anyone wants to Pow-Wow about them. Should be fun.

 

[BellGreen]

Scary rumors o.o

 

[Prof Gallows]

The thing about Raticate I sort of believe.
I don't think that you killed it in battle, though. Even since Gen I it's made it pretty clear that pokemon don't really get hurt in battles, it's just like boxing, they lose when they don' have any energy left.

But throughout the series it's mentioned pokemon dying, as it should. I think that Rival's Raticate died of natural causes, and that it is pretty heavily implied that it had died and was Rival's reason for being there. But due to the game being focused on children, obviously the details weren't mentioned.

The rest of it is just nonsense. lol

 

[Rois Athyrrei]

The thing about Raticate I sort of believe.

Although it could be argued that the rival simply used the PC system it's quite funny and intriguing how it goes to that. It's never said HOW Pok?mon die persay. It hints toward the idea they die of old age but logic would dictate that Pok?mon do possibly die if their injuries are far too great. I guess the pure fact your pok?mon NEVER die in anyway shape or form it makes the mystery of how Pok?mon actually die just that, a mystery.

 

[BellGreen]

Although it could be argued that the rival simply used the PC system it's quite funny and intriguing how it goes to that. It's never said HOW Pok?mon die persay. It hints toward the idea they die of old age but logic would dictate that Pok?mon do possibly die if their injuries are far too great. I guess the pure fact your pok?mon NEVER die in anyway shape or form it makes the mystery of how Pok?mon actually die just that, a mystery.

True, everytime we rush to the center, we rush so they wont be dead too long.

 

[Jake]

Although it could be argued that the rival simply used the PC system it's quite funny and intriguing how it goes to that. It's never said HOW Pok?mon die persay. It hints toward the idea they die of old age but logic would dictate that Pok?mon do possibly die if their injuries are far too great. I guess the pure fact your pok?mon NEVER die in anyway shape or form it makes the mystery of how Pok?mon actually die just that, a mystery.

they do die from old age because wartortles pokedex entry says they can live up to 10,000 years

 

[Rois Athyrrei]

they do die from old age because wartortles pokedex entry says they can live up to 10,000 years

Ok, Blow your mind time:

If a Wartortle can live for 10k years how come they're so extremely rare? Surely they would be common if that was the case.

 

[Jake]

don't know, don't care

also they do die because how else would we get fossil pokemon, and in Black and White, Ghetsis mentions Alder's starter/partner Pokemon died due to illness

 

[Rois Athyrrei]

don't know, don't care

also they do die because how else would we get fossil pokemon, and in Black and White, Ghetsis mentions Alder's starter/partner Pokemon died due to illness

I'm more or less skating around the issue of the player's Pok?mon and how we never get greeted with death as an issue. I can understand the whole "If you add death to the game it'll ruin it / have to make it higher age range" but it just seems weird to have it mentioned but never seen y'know?

Also it is funny how they mention REAL life places in some Pok?dex entries and dialogue, But the Pok?mon world is meant to be ENTIRELY different...

 

[Prof Gallows]

The older games were based on the real world. Then they realized that wouldn't work, so they came up with the Pokemon world. But it was already too late to go back and change stuff where the games had been released already.

It's just mistakes of early planning in a series they had no idea would expand as much as it did.

Also, death is mentioned quite a lot in the Pokemon games. Team Rocket killed a Marowak, three pokemon were killed in the burning tower and later brought back to life by Ho-oh, in a reverse sense Yamask used to be a human, but died and turned into a pokemon.
It's present, and though it doesn't flat out say it, it's pretty easy to see that pokemon can die just as easily as humans can. The Pokemon Adventures manga has pokemon dying pretty often in it, but that's retcon.

 

[SockHead]

I'm more or less skating around the issue of the player's Pok?mon and how we never get greeted with death as an issue.

Because it's a kids game.

 

[Juicebox]

I always figured that Pokemon attacks weren't lethal. Sure, they hurt, but nobody can actually die from them. Theoretically, using Surf on a Charmander should kill it, but it doens't. This could just be chalked up to gameplay/story segregation, but I've always assumed that Pokemon attacks were only for battling, nothing more. However, their "animal" abilities can kill. A Swellow can eat a Wurmple, a Snorlax can sit on you.

 

[Garrett x50 cal]

Ok, Blow your mind time:

If a Wartortle can live for 10k years how come they're so extremely rare? Surely they would be common if that was the case.

Because nobody wants a wartortle, Blastoise is where its at.

 

[Bacon Boy]

Pok?mon: Strangled Red anyone?

 

[Iced_Holly]

Oh Lavender Town, the source of so many Pokemon creepypastas~

That said, I do like Pokemon Glitchy Red, if only for it having Lavender Town as a haven from the creepyness as opposed to the place where the creepyness comes from.

 

[Rois Athyrrei]

Pokemon Glitchy Red

A glitchy wut now?

 

[Bacon Boy]

Sounds like a poorly done mod. :s

 

[Rois Athyrrei]

Naw, I just checked. It's a creepy Pasta named 'Glitchy Red'. It's good at first but becomes MAJORLY TL;DR at the end-

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Glitchy_Red

 

[Bacon Boy]

It's not that creepy.
It sounds pretty lame actually and it's extremely hard to believe... Unless someone really went insane. I doubt the pixels in the game became sentient . It would have been more believable had the entire story been IN the game, instead of jumping around in the real world. That killed it for me.

 

[Rois Athyrrei]

When he talked about him 'dreaming' and having the illness (etc) it became bull****ty. Tbh you can hack that sort of thing into the game without any difficulty what so ever. But yea it goes from relatively good to plain bull****. Too much cream on the cake so to speak.