Vanilla 1636 Fire Red: Rom

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Your rival isn’t a snobby rich kid. Your rival is , a 70-year-old deacon with a walking stick and a Sableye he claims is a “gift from the Lord to sniff out witches.” He beats you in your first battle not with strategy, but by reminding you that you haven’t paid your tithe of smoked eel. You lose two hours of progress because your character collapses from “spiritual despair.” vanilla 1636 fire red rom

I just reached “Cinnabar Island,” which in 1636 is just a tidal mudflat with a single, perpetually burning peat bog. The “Pokémon Mansion” is a collapsing wattle-and-daub hut where a “natural philosopher” named Increase Mather is trying to breed a Porygon out of cornmeal and sermons. He gives you a