Running in the Tall Grass 3

Welcome back to Running in the Tall Grass. It’s been a few days since I last posted, and I’m sorry for that, stuff came up.  At any rate, I traveled far and wide over the three days I was gone and encountered a total of 160 Pokémon of 30 different species across all areas I ventured:

30 Wingull- 18.75%

13 Hawlucha- 8.125%

12 Golett- 7.5%

11 Drifloon- 6.875%

10 Nosepass- 6.25%

10 Zangoose -6.25%

9 Spoink- 5.625%

6 Eevee- 3.75%

5 Absol- 3.125%

5 Chingling- 3.125%

5 Whismur- 3.125%

5 Meinfoo- 3.125%

4 Houndour- 2.5%

4 Sigilyph- 2.5%

4 Woobat- 2.5%

3 Carbink- 1.875%

3 Mr. Mime- 1.875%

3 Snubbull- 1.875%

3 Solosis- 1.875%

2 Bagon- 1.25%

2 Emolga- 1.25%

2 Inkay- 1.25%

2 Seviper- 1.25%

1 Chatot- .625%

1 Ferroseed- .625%

1 Miltank- .625%

1 Sawk- .625%

1 Tauros- .625%

1 Tentacool- .625%

1 Zubat- .625%

Again, I elected to not separate them by location for the sake of simplicity.  I also didn't want to try and calculate the percentages for each area, 160 Pokémon is a lot. As always, my Connecting Cave encounters happened just passing through to see the scientist in there to heal my party.  I had 1 Whismur horde encounter and I found a Zubat.  

Some of the encounters on Route 8 changed up on me from what I had discovered previously.  The Drifloon were out in force, as were the Wingull hordes, Spoink kept up its average encounter rate.  I had my usual rare encounters, and even found a couple Bagon along the way.  The Zangoose/Seviper horde encounters numbered 2 this time, so 10 Zangoose was actually 8 found with the 2 Seviper, so 2 single encounters.  Aside from that, pretty much stat quo as the other two posts.

I actually got away from Route 8 and moved forward to Route 10 and beyond, exploring Routes 10, 11, 12, and the Reflection Cave.  But first, Route 10, or as I was gonna start calling it, the New Route 8.  I found 54 Pokémon on Route 10, second only to Route 8.  The average encounters of Golett and Hawlucha meant that they were the one I ran into the most, hit 2 Nosepass hordes makes up the 10 I found here, I wouldn’t have believed that Eevee was a very rare encounter if I hadn’t seen the encounter table, the numbers certainly seem to prove otherwise.  Emolga, on the other hand, was as rare as the table says it is.  Houndour, Snubbull, and Sigilyph keep it rare on Route 10. 

Route 11 was really nothing more than a precursor to Reflection Cave finding only a single Sawk, which is an average encounter on Route 11.  Almost not even worth mentioning here.

Reflection Cave was a doozy, all those mirror surfaces was kinda trippy, not to mention that it was an appropriate place for me to do a little reflecting while I was in there, as one on my Pokémon suffered a lethal injury due to my stupidity.  But this isn’t the place for that, perhaps I’ll outline that in a new post.  At any rate, the pickings were oddly slim in here, maybe because of the mirrors, I’m actually surprised I didn’t find any Roggenrola, they are average in here, along with Mr. Mime and Solosis.  I found a good number of Chinglings despite its rarity in here, Carbink on the other hand is par for the course.  Though I don’t have it on the encounter table, Woobat and Ferroseed were found by them dropping on top of me from the ceiling, common and average respectively.

Now we move on to my current route, Route 12.  Not much seen here, don’t really plan on hanging around long here as my Pokémon are pretty stout at this point.  Only found one of each of the Pokémon I found, Tentacool is common, Chatot is average, and Tauros and Miltank are rare.

I think that’s all for now, I hope you enjoyed reading this and I hope you come back again to read what other bit of randomness comes out of my head.  I got my list of ways you can contact me in case you have any questions or comments.  Until next time, Toodles ^^

List of Encounter tables:

Connecting Cave

Route 8

Route 10

Reflection Cave

Route 12

Contact info:

quilton52186@gmail.com

https://twitter.com/Quilton86

https://www.facebook.com/Deestin

https://www.facebook.com/Quilton1

https://www.facebook.com/thebloggers2014

Google Ramble

Hello,  and welcome to another idea i had called Google Ramble.  The premise is that I Google a random subject and write about it.

Today's subject is Wanton

wan·ton

ˈwäntn/

adjective

1. 1.

   (of a cruel or violent action) deliberate and unprovoked.

   "sheer wanton vandalism"

   synonyms:

   deliberate, willful, malicious, spiteful, wicked, cruel; More
2. 2.

   (esp. of a woman) sexually immodest or promiscuous.

   synonyms:

   promiscuous, immoral, immodest, indecent, shameless, unchaste,fast, loose, impure, abandoned, lustful, lecherous, lascivious,libidinous, licentious, dissolute, debauched, degenerate, corrupt,whorish, disreputable More

noun

archaic

1. 1.

   a sexually immodest or promiscuous woman.

verb

archaicliterary

1. 1.

   play; frolic.
2. 2.

   behave in a sexually immodest or promiscuous way.

Naturally, most of the results I found were the definition of the word, however, I found a single Wikipedia article for the Chinese dumpling Wonton, which can also be spelled Wanton.

A wonton (also spelled wantan, wanton, or wuntun in transcription from Cantonese; Mandarin: húntun [xwə̌n.dwə̌n]) is a type of dumpling commonly found in a number ofChinese cuisines.

In Mandarin, the name of the food is written as 馄饨 (pinyin: húntun; roughly meaning "slowly boiled dumpling"). However, the English name derives from the Cantonese wan⁴tan¹.

In Cantonese, 雲吞 or 云吞 (pinyin: yúntūn; Cantonese: [wɐ̏ntʰɐ́n]), is a popular variant written form that literally means "swallowing clouds".

Alright, I'll be honest here, Most of this was copy/pasted, but I still find this to be pretty much in line with what i was attempting. I also don't own any of the material i copy/pasted, that stuff belongs to the people who actually wrote the stuff.  I think that’s all for now, I hope you enjoyed reading this and I hope you come back again to read what other bit of randomness comes out of my head.  I'll start putting a list of ways you can contact me in case yu have any questions or comments.  Until next time, Toodles ^^

Contact info:

quilton52186@gmail.com

https://twitter.com/Quilton86

https://www.facebook.com/Deestin

https://www.facebook.com/Quilton1

https://www.facebook.com/thebloggers2014

Running in the Tall Grass 2

Welcome back to Running in the Tall Grass.  I’m back on Route 8, had a short stint inside the Connecting Cave, rode a Rhyhorn across Route 9, and navigated the Glittering Cave.  I had encountered a total of 100 Pokémon of 20 different species across all areas I ventured:

21 Zangoose -21%

20 Wingull- 20%

15 Drifloon- 15%

11 Spoink- 11%

4 Inkay- 4%

4 Seviper- 4%

3 Sandile- 3%

3 Absol- 3%

3 Meinfoo- 3%

2 Whismur- 2%

2 Medatite- 2%

2 Cubone- 2%

2 Lunatone- 2%

2 Rhyhorn-2 %

1 Zubat-1 %

1 Hippopotas- 1%

1 Kangaskhan-1 %

1 Solrock- 1%

1 Machop- 1%

1 Mawile- 1%

I elected to not separate them by location for the sake of simplicity.  I also didn't want to try and calculate the percentages for each area.  and having 100 Pokemon found meant that i could just put the number of each species as the percentage. Anyway, my Connecting Cave encounters happened just like last time, passing through to see the scientist in there to heal my party.  I had no rare encounters, but did have a wider variety of Pokemon found.  

You all recall what the Route 8 encounters looked like, and it almost completely matches what i found, except that i had 4 Zangoose/Seviper horde encounters.  What this means is that I found 5 solo Zangoose in the grass. The Wingull hordes, although common, were kinda unexpected, at least after the third one.  Drifloon and Spoink maintain their common encounter rate.  Inkay was a bit more frequent than last time, Seviper was with the Zangoose assault squads.  Absol proved that it is rare, and Meinfoo actually stepped back from last time.  

Route 9, as i mentioned above, had me riding a rental Rhyhorn, so all my encounters were done by the Rhyhorn stepping on the Pokemon in question.  On the way to Glittering Cave, i only encountered 2 pokemon, the Hippopotas and a Sandile.  I found the other 2 Sandile on the way back. The Glittering Cave actually gave me more rare encounters than common ones, seeing that rather surprised me.  Especially finding both Kangaskhan and Mawile in the same run of the cave.  

I think that’s all for now, I hope you enjoyed reading this and I hope you come back again to read what other bit of randomness comes out of my head.  I'll start putting a list of ways you can contact me in case yu have any questions or comments.  Until next time, Toodles ^^

List of Encounter tables:
Connecting Cave
Route 8
Route 9
Glittering Cave

Contact info:

quilton52186@gmail.com
https://twitter.com/Quilton86
https://www.facebook.com/Deestin
https://www.facebook.com/Quilton1
https://www.facebook.com/thebloggers2014

Running in the Tall Grass

Here is a new series I wanna try called Running in the Tall Grass.  It’s a simple idea sprouted from boredom while doing a Nuzlocke Run of Pokémon X.  The basic premise is that for a period of time, in this case about 45 minutes, I count up the Pokémon I encountered during that time, figure up the percentages, and compare to what Bulbapedia says.  So for this first installment I was running along Route 8, otherwise known as Muraille Coast.  I also had an encounter in the Connectiong Cave, a.k.a The Zubat Roost, but I’ll get to that afterwards.  I had encountered a total of 40 Pokémon of 9 different species on Route 8:

9 Zangoose-22.5%

7 Meinfoo- 17.5%

6 Drifloon- 15%

5 Wingull- 12.5%

4 Spoink- 10%

3 Inkay- 7.5%

2 Bagon- 5%

2 Seviper- 5%

2 Absol- 5%

Now, we compare this to what Bulbapedia says:  Route 8 encounter table

We find Zangoose was the most encountered Pokémon.  Now ordinarily this would mean that the table provided would be wrong, but only 1 of the 9 was encountered by itself, the other 8 and the 2 seviper were encountered in two separate horde encounters.  The same is true with the Wingulls, all found within one horde encounter.  It must have been my lucky day with Meinfoo, I found a lot of them despite its rare encounter rate, Drifloon keeps with its encounter rate, I was actually surprised that I even found one Bagon, let alone two.  Absol and Inkay pretty much support their encounter rate.

I mentioned at the beginning of this post Connecting Cave, I didn’t want to include this because it’s not a grassy area, but not all my findings will be in the grass, so this is a perfect opportunity to kinda get off the main road so to speak.  I had one encounter while passing through the cave, a single horde of Whismurs.  

Connecting Cave Horde encounter table

Seeing the provided table above , such an encounter is average, but it’s the first time I ever had one, given that the horde encounters themselves are kinda rare so just for the fun of it, here’s the list of Connecting Cave Encounter Pokémon: 

5 Whismur – 100%

I think that’s all for now, I hope you enjoyed reading this and I hope you come back again to read what other bit of randomness comes out of my head.  Until next time, Toodles ^^

Story Time

I decided to make my first post on this blog a story.  I may or may not have more of these, but this is definitely a "whatever strikes my fancy" type of blog. Anyways, time to tell my story, a true story i might add

Back when I was eleven I lived out in the middle of nowhere out in the country of Montgomery County, Indiana, i had to get creative with entertainment,  so I took up amateur botany in our weed choked garden.  With my North American Wildlife book, multi-colored zipties in hand, and the afternoon sun at my back, I began my task, tagging each and every plant i could find in the book.  After a while my eye itched, so i did what anyone else would do, i rubbed it, and then continued where i left off.  Pretty soon, i began to realize that i couldn't see too well out of my eye, not to mention that i was really feeling good.  So i had a seat on the porch swing and began really swinging hard. Mom came out to see how i was doing and noticed that there was something wrong with my right eye, which i had rubbed earlier when i was out in the garden.  I ran into the bathroom to look in the mirror and see that the pupil of my right eye had dilated so much that my iris had disappeared. Mom freaked out and rushed me to the hospital because i had a migraine headache the day before and she thought that it might have been something serious.  After a CAT scan, the local medical staff not only didn't alleviate my mother's fears, but amplified them.  They couldn't find anything on the scan, so they told Mom that it might be a brain aneurysm, so they strapped me in an ambulance and took me to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis for an MRI.  That too came up clean, so i find myself sitting on a bed surrounded by clueless doctors trying to figure out what the problem is, when the intern decided that 20 Questions was in order.  I don't recall the questions, but he got out of me that i had gotten in some Jimson Weed that was growing in the garden, i had gotten some of the oil from it in my eye when i rubbed it and that dilated my pupil.  It wasn't until years later that i realized that i was high as i kite, and therefore the only time that I have gotten high, a high that lasted 9 hours.  It was this experience that caused me to not really trust the medical profession, not saying they're all quacks, just most of them.

I hope you enjoyed reading this, and stay tuned for the next random thought that enters my head.  Until next time, Toodles ^^

and for those who are curious, here is the wikipedia link for Jimson weed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_stramonium