Back to Lavender Town

Back to Lavender Town

Solving the Tower Haunting Mystery

-- Leaving Celadon City --

After defeating the Team Rocket Boss, and hitting the Pokecenter to heal and save, you should stop by the Department Store to re-stock your kit, and pick up any items you think you will be wanting.   You should have a decent amount of money now, but bear in mind that there are some deals to be had there that you should not overlook.

The vending machines on the roof offer healing items that are, point for point, cheaper than the potions you can buy at the Poke Marts, so grabbing a supply of those would be an idea.  I mean consider this: a Super Potion costs $700 and heals 50 points of damage, right?  Well, a Fresh Water heals 50 points of damage but only costs $200, and a Soda heals 60 points of damage and only costs $300.  Lemonade heals 80 points of damage and it only costs $350!  It seems to me that it would be worth spending a big chunk of our current bankroll to stock up on cheaper healing liquids now than to stick with the way that we have been doing it.  That's all I am saying...

Also, we have a Pikachu, and unless you are really attached to that form, we could pick up a Thunder Stone there to do the job...   Once you have stocked up on everything that you need, we have one minor chore that we need to do before we head back to Lavender Town.

-- Route 16 --

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- Area Pokemon -

(Key: Pokedex # - Name / Acquisition Method)

084 - Doduo / Normal
022 - Fearow / Normal
020 - Raticate / Normal
019 - Rattata / Normal
021 - Spearow / Normal

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After you exit the Department Store head west to Route 16, and you will see that the entrance to the gatehouse is blocked by a Snorlax.  Bummer -- or not really -- because that is not where we actually need to go anyway!  See that tree you can cut in the fence line?  Cut it!

There is one Pokemon that we want to capture while we are here and the tall grass is convenient: Doduo.  We have the other three already, and the fourth, Fearow, is the evolved form of Spearow, so technically we do not have to catch one, as we already have a Spearow, and we can evolve it.

Go ahead and capture Doduo now.  If you want to you can pull and capture a Fearow here as well, I suppose, but wouldn't that be masochistic?  I mean consider this: Doduo is the more common of the Pokemon on this Route so you will see a lot of them, and I would not be surprised if they were the first one you saw -- and you captured them right off the bat!

The thing is, Fearow is the least common -- there is only around a 2% chance of pulling one, so this will take some serious time and effort on our part if we actually decide to go for one that way...  But hey, there is a much easier way to handle getting one!   Just catch a Level 20 Spearow, put it in your party, and come back here and level it one level, and it will evolve into a Fearow!  Dead simple!

Well, I thought so, so I chose to do it that way...  You do what you like here -- I will wait for you.  Done?  Excellent!  Now you see that pair of trainers there?  Yeah, let's battle!

Young Couple Lea & Jed have a Level 29 Rapidash and Level 29 Ninetales worth 1190 XP and 1104 XP respectively, and $1624.

Now that they are no longer preventing you from passing, go through the smaller private gatehouse and out the other side to a restricted -- meaning private -- area with a house in it.  Inside that house you will find Bill Gates and his...  OK, it really is not Bill Gates.  But it could have been!  I believe it! 

It is actually a girl and, out of fear of you revealing her secret hiding place -- even though we do not actually know who she is -- she gives us HM02, which is Fly for those of you who were not paying attention in HM Class!  This is a very useful and valuable HM, mate.  It will allow us to Fly pretty much wherever we want to!

Even better, it is an HM move that is not lame, so you do not have to have a mule for it because it is worth having in the move set of your flying team member!  What is even cooler is that we can acutally use it!  So go ahead and teach it to your Pidge -- or whatever your Flying team member is -- then use it to fly back to Lavender Town now!

-- Lavender Town & The Pokemon Tower --

The Pokemon Tower

Right, so now that we have the Silph Scope, it is time to head back into the Tower!  Head up the stairs, and then up another flight to the smoke-filled room, and south and then east to battle some possessed trainers!  You will probably want to use your Electric Pokemon in here, as it will make dealing with the Ghost Types easier.

Channeler Carly has a Level 24 Gastly worth 487 XP and $768.  We are now able to identify the ghosts - they are Gastly!  Go out of your way to be sure that you catch one now.  Got one?  Good! Now head up the stairs to the next level.

Channeler Laurel has a pair of Level 23 Gastly worth 468 XP each, and $736.

Channeler Jody has a Level 22 Gastly worth 447 XP and $704.

Now the nearby treasure ball has an Elixir in it -- so grab that -- then head down and west to the next treasure ball, where you find a Great Ball.  The middle treasure ball has an Awakening in it.

Channeler Paula has a Level 24 Gastly worth 487 XP and $768.  Head up the nearby stairs to the next level, then north and east to work your way through the trainers here!

Channeler Ruth has a Level 22 Gastly worth 447 XP and $704.

There is a glowing square in the center of the area that one of the non-possessed Channelers has set up.  It is basically a safe zone where we can rest and heal our Pokemon.  There is also a treasure ball in it which you should grab,  which contains a Cleanse Tag (a held item). 

Channeler Karina has a Level 24 Gastly worth 487 XP and $768, and Channeler Janae has a Level 22 Gastly worth 447 XP and $704.  Near her is a treasure ball with a Nugget in it, so grab that and then continue through the room!

Channeler Tammy is the last trainer in the room we need to battle, and she has a Level 23 Haunter (for a change) worth 621 XP and $736.  Head up the stairs to the next level for some more trainers!

Channeler Angelica has a trio of Level 22 Gastly worth 447 XP each, and $704.  The treasure ball south of her has an X Accuracy in it, so grab that then head north.

Channeler Jennifer has a Level 24 Gastly worth 487 XP and $768.  Channeler Emilia has a Level 24 Gastly as well, worth 487 XP and $768.  Continue west and south to the treasure ball, which has a Rare Candy -- pretty cool --  then head to the stairs where you get a spooky message!

"Be gone intruders!"

A Ghost shows up -- not, not a Gastly -- a GHOST!  Spoookkkyyy.  Don't say it like that Scoob!  Ruh?  Roh Kay!  Spookeee!  Spokiespookie?  Spooky spooky spookey!

Your trusty Scope reveals the ghost to be... A Marowak.  Wait a second... Wasn't that orphan Cubone's mom one of those??   Hmm, electric moves do not work but physical ones do... Can we actually capture this thing?  Maybe!  If it does not wipe our team that is!

This thing is tough!  It took out my first two team members like they were nothing!  It's boomerang attack is deadly!  Thankfully that attack does not work on Pidge, so there is a that.  I got it down to a sliver of red and tried to catch it, but no, it is not catch-able, so it looks like it is time to KO it!

It is worth 531 XP, and it seems that knocking it around was what it needed to see the light, and leave this earthly plane for the next world!  Yay!  We preformed a public service!  I don't know about you, but I needed to go rest up in the glowing square to recover half of my team before heading up the next set of stairs!

- The Top Floor Battles -

I used a standard Repel to go back, heal, and return to where I was, my team now happily not unconscious!  Upstairs -- which is the final level of the Tower it seems -- I encountered some Grunts from Team Rocket!

What the heck, I am alway up for smacking around some Team Rocket Grunts!

Team Rocket Grunt has a pair of Level 25 Zubat worth 288 XP each, and a Level 25 Golbat worth 915 XP and $800.  After tuning up on the guy he got angry and stormed off, vowing to get even.  Ruh Roh!

Team Rocket Grunt has a Level 26 Koffing 634 XP.  His Level 26 Drowzee is worth 567 XP though, and $832.  He also got huffy and stormed off after the battle...

Team Rocket Grunt has a pair of Level 23 Zubat worth 265 XP each, a Level 23 Rattata worth 260 XP, and a Level 23 Raticate worth 571 XP and $736.  Again with the angry foot stomping pout words and storming off!  What is it with Team Rocket these days!

The old man turned out to be the missing Mr. Fuji!  He thanks you for freeing Cubone's mother, and then you follow him home, where he rewards us with a Poke Flute!  Awesome!  Now we have what we need to take care of those sleeping giants!  A very spiffy reward indeed -- consider this: with this flute you no longer need to keep Awakenings in your kit!  In fact we may as well sell these when we visit the Department Store -- which we are about to do momentarily!