Climb to the Shrine, Right What Is Wrong

For those interested in the details, it happens exactly one day a month, worsens in the evening, and often tires me out unusually early. And then I feel like crud warmed over for the morning after, but I'm fine after that. I honestly don't know if the tiredness is part of the [headache] or just that I have a low pain/frustration tolerance and get tired out by the stress of having it.

It's not even a headache so much as a stabbing pain around the back of my left eye. I am certain it's not a PHYSICAL issue because it only occurs ONE DAY a month, it doesn't affect vision at all, and the pain level varies depends upon light levels and such. And one-sided severe eyestrain would be awfully strange. (In context, I USED to have much better vision in my right eye than my left, but now I'm nearsighted to the same degree in both.)

I SUSPECT it's a mild, mild, mild migraine due to the eye-watering and nose-clogging side effects, plus the unilateral nature of the headache. And the monthly occurrence points towards a hormonal trigger.
(Also, if I can convince the nerves to stop being in pain for a short time, the sensation in that area is... weird. I don't know how to describe it. Like... it FEELS like I'm holding my left eye open wider than normal, even though, when I check it in the mirror or a quick selfie, my left eyelid is in fact slightly drooping.

This strange sensation is common to every instance of the monthly headache, and is in fact a precursor to the actual pain. I don't get it. If I have to physically pinpoint what's going on, I suppose it's that, when I raise my eyebrow with emphasis on the part to the side of the face, it's usually hooked up to the eyelid - you know, you raise your eyebrow and your eye gets wider? But on the left side, during these headaches, it's detached. If I want to widen the left eye, I have to use the muscles more towards the middle of the face. And, before you ask, the muscle that would ORDINARILY be involved in raising the eyelid when raising the eyebrow... is one of the ones that's hurting, yes. So it reeks of a neurological glitch fueled by a hormonal surge/drop rather than any intramuscular cause.

To articulate, I suppose THAT annoys me as badly as the actual pain, and doubly so when that area IS in pain. It just doesn't FEEL right, and it continues to monopolize some mental attention all through the duration of the irritating thing. Probably what tires me out, in the long-term...)

Anyway, I'm just complaining about it because it annoys me. Sympathies unneeded. Just trying to explain, in part, why I might be absent from my normal internet-addiction tonight. *grumbles and slouches off to do something productive while some mercifully small part of my neurology is malfunctioning on me*

I'm doing pretty well. Sorry if I haven't been active much, but Tumblr has been eating my brain. And only my mortal soul, fortunately - I have a couple of these buggers for safety reasons. ;) *points to immortal soul stashed away in a corner and quickly throws a tarp over it again*

Anyway, I have a reasonable amount on my plate. Research project, another research project (which I need to finish up), an in-class talk I need to give by the end of the semester...

On the fandom side, I've essentially abandoned my other Nuzlocke runs while constantly updating STOP! THIEF! I... just haven't had the energy for everything else. Ditto for sporkings and other projects. Mostly, on the creative side, I've been trying to unscrew my own head. (Which is going really well, actually! I'm feeling so much better than I have for a long time. It's just rough going while it's going on, and I'm too busy trying to adjust to it to really have the brains to do anything working out from it. :D;;)

Anyway, when things are more together, I should be more active. Hope you're all doing well!

Dragons don't have that horde just for shits and giggles.

It's to pay off any knights who might come wandering around.

'All right, then, I know what the king's promised you, but I'm SURE you'll take a discount in light of the quite-likely possibility that I would reduce you to a smoldering pile of cooked meat inside your half-melted armor if we DID battle... come on, my good fellow, let's settle down to haggling...'

...of stimulus.

So I deaden myself because... I'm resigned to the world already being deadened, and so I choose not to disappoint myself.

It's also because I just couldn't take negative stimulus when I was younger. I'm getting more of an actual tolerance as I get older, as opposed to just blocking it out or having my emotions shut down, so I no longer need the coping mechanisms to the same extent... but I do need to remember they're there in order to switch them off.

(Also, now that I actually know the difference between true tolerance for pain and a faked "tolerance"? I am doubly convinced that "taking things in stride" is:
A) a learned skill;
B) a skill taking a surprising amount of time and directed effort to learn;
C) a skill that cannot be learned while one is in acute pain;
D) a skill that must derive from one's inner values and one's personal goals, motivations, and efforts;
E) not something one can spontaneously acquire just because a sanctimonious authority figure is lecturing one about it while one is sobbing one's guts out.
Not that I would know anything about E, now would I?
I'm sorry if I've gotten annoyingly petty about certain issues recently, and I know I have [on Tumblr, at least], but my self-righteousness increases as my amount of spine increases. Sorry, still not sure how to moderate that, guardians_song.exe is still in the debugging process.

To TL;DR the reason behind this proportionate increase in self-righteousness, I believe certain kinds of ignorance are malicious. Viewed objectively, I cannot forgive unrepentant, proud malice. And the more spine I get, the less I make excuses for myself and others.

I can be less tetchy about it, but I think that probably won't happen until I get through the first round of venting - at which point my discomfort with outright redundancy and going around in circles will take over. That may take a while. Sorry for being pissy in the meantime, guys. D:)

Anyway - yippee, it's a magical world out there, Hobbes, let's go exploring. Just need to figure out the correct way in which to phrase it.

And to figure out how I'll get my brain to shut off at night so I don't start up my computer because I can't sleep for hours on end after midnight. :P D| Well, that's how life goes...

(No, it's not electronic lighting. I have the occasional so-tired-but-can't-sleep fit even in the absence of electronics. Probable bad brain wiring. Just have to learn to circumvent it.)

Tumblr is useful for encouraging me to do something.

Anyway, it's fun enough once you stop expecting it to have features it simply doesn't have. Anyone want to date Abel the Overleveled Cavalier? Good prospects for promotion!

More seriously, it's fun enough. Nobody has personalities, but some of them do have good stats. :P (Also, I'm playing the easy difficulty, so I'm using the occasional terrible unit with no regrets. It's nice to play an FE without stats on your mind.)

Lena is awesome, Barst is awesome, Caeda is awesome, Merric and Julian are... eeeeeehhhh, Marth is... Eliwoodish, Knights are always good, and Abel is Highly Able. *dodges rotten tomatoes*

Actually, it's good that they have no personalities. I've been craving Dragon Warrior III, and went to the point of downloading the ROM, but this nicely satisfies my gaming-with-units-with-faces-but-no-brains-to-speak-of needs. :P

(I wish the units had more personality, though. Caeda/Marth or Caeda/Roger would be nice.
I also wish I had some talent at filling FE Kink prompts. So much potential, but... gah, writing's too hard...)

Hm. Should probably figure out how to write fluff, given the amount of it that I read.

S'pose the issue is that I prefer to write fics motivated by Teh Dramaz, and fluff usually isn't very... dramatic.

Nonetheless, wrote a Kjelle/Severa S Support. ...Writing quality, what writing quality. >_> *insert tsunning noises in the distance* Might as well limber up the fic-writing muscles...

('S just that I've begun to notice that everyone and their electric rodent can write fluff and I have essentially... zero experience there. So! Time to widen my repertoire!)

Had a weird dream, which goes somewhat as follows:

( ...So apparently this one (fictional) game's plot was that Peter Parker's powers as Spiderman would awaken after he was beaten up by a giant mutant caterpillar-monster... )

They're dumb, structured activities based around relatively simple graphics that keep my brain working. Logic puzzles... just seem more mind-numbing than mind-activating, sad to say. Dunno why. :\

Wrote a bunch of silly Legend of Dragoon AU character-studies. They were something to do while I was running experiments in SAGE. Actually weren't that silly, since they were introspective angst with various characters stuffed into the role of the Black Monster (Shirley, Belzac, and a forcibly-humanized Michael), but the premises were just WTF. (If I ever posted them on AO3 or whatever, I'd have to fill them out with Zieg, Damia, and Syuveil also navel-gazing. Kanzas would enjoy the job too much, it would be redundant.)

Hm... Legend of Dragoon really has a lot of moving parts, doesn't it? It's hard to see, because the plot is wired so that it all seems to jangle along together, but there's many things that could be switched around while leaving the overall structure intact. Pity the damn thing essentially has no fandom, because it's a horribly underappreciated game. Horribly-translated too, which probably doesn't help, but horribly underappreciated.

If I ever get famous in anything resembling a creative capacity, remind me to obnoxiously advertise it on my homepage. That and Magi-Nation.

<would have posted this earlier, but had to take a nap; more on this in a moment>

Remoillent the Kabutops continues to be impressive. I'm never going to underestimate the Kabuto line again.

I had an interesting dream last night about zombies, but there's not much to say about that. The main unusual things were that the zombies could conspire, that they didn't look undead, and that there was a cult dedicated to worshiping the zombies and viewing their takeover as a good thing. The leader of said cult was a vampiric energy ball that could be drowned out by enough scorn and rejection, which was probably metaphorical. I read a lot of anti-Scientology stuff these days...

Anyway... yeah. Nothing much. It's been a 'productive' weekend, in that I've actually run some code (on the real-life side) and updated my Nuzlocke runs (on the online-life side), but I wish I'd gotten more done.

Sorry that I haven't been active much on the fandom side, but I've just had... no inspiration for fanfiction, pretty much. Zip. Nada. Zero. Wrote a bit of badfic, but not enough to post. Hormones have been hitting me over the head with alternate wangstbucketry and horniness, and I've been feeling tired due to a 72-hour bug or so, so my brain's just not feeling particularly productive. :P
(That, or I've been doing more thinking due to said wangstbucketry and horniness than the level to which my brain is accustomed. Entirely possible.)

At any rate, HabitRPG is useful for reminding me of things which I should be doing. So I have that to help me go about my daily tasks, at least.

...Oh, yeah, at some point I wanted to become ambidextrous. Hm. Even I don't remember half of what I schedule for myself on this thing. *perennially absent-minded*

You learn something new every day.

Doesn't stop me from using it as one...

(In all seriousness - I strongly dislike the post-an-entry layout and am exceedingly grateful I can base myself out of Dreamwidth and just check for LJ comments... but it's quite convenient for Nuzlocke runs. >_> *whistles innocently*)

I feel old.

______

Beginning to do checklists! I have a mental... glitch regarding completing things or doing things past a certain point, so I'm writing stuff out so as not to be such a coward any more.

( Rambling about life and such. )

Doublepost issues, y'know.

Anyway, I managed to defeat her despite her carrying literally the worst Pokemon possible for my team as her ace. Thank heavens for screwed-up AI.

After her, it's the Elite Four, and then I can opt into Kanto or opt out of it as I please.

I should probably do Mono-Poison. It's not that the run itself is hard, it's that typing up all the dialogue wears on my nerves. Meh...

At least I beat Clair. After these two runs, if I do ANYTHING in Gens I+II, it will be a Yellow Rocketlocke (with Pikachu allowed) -> a Gold Rocketlocke [-> an Emerald Rocketlocke?], a MonoPoison Silver [->MonoPoison Sapphire], and a Vietnamese Crystal run. (For the Rocketlockes, I'll be playing with Absolute Promotion Clause on, so no Meowths for me in Gen II - so I lose nothing by playing in Gold.)

For the Rocketlockes, I'll be catching whatever comes up first on the route and using whatever's allowed, so I don't need to check locations. I know I'll get loads of Rattatas (/Poochyenas for Emerald), so I'll at least be able to start the game. (And heaven help me if I end up doing a Rattata (/Poochyena)-only run...)

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to compile Poison-type locations from these two FAQs.

( Of glitches and dummied-out areas... )

*laughing my head off* It is like Babelfish gone horribly wrong. I think I read something about catching Bella's rear end with her hair.

...Oh, that was "hidden behind an easel", according to Google Translate. See, that is all you need to know about my French vocabulary.

There is also a lot of face-touching, so Twilight is really the same in every language.

This is really quite educational, but oh dear. Now I'm feeling very sympathetic towards people who don't have English as their first language. :D;;

(Seriously, it... does take a lot of mental energy. The clearest sentence I can make out with my minimal knowledge is "Ah," responded simply the vampire. That, and -

Summary: Alice paints Bella. Bella is not with Edward and Alice is not with Jasper.
NDA 1: Nothing is mine about the characters of Twilight... What a pity about Alice. ^_^
NDA 2: To my beautiful lover who seduced me by not drawing me (???). This is for you.)

I mean, WITHOUT looking at Google Translate, I look at the following sentence and see:
Le premier jour, Alice avait été frappée par l'odeur de Bella.
The first day, Alice was being a frappé for the odor of Bella.
Google says... The first day, Alice was struck by Bella's scent.
That's it, I REALLY need to work on my French vocabulary.

( Rambling. )

Also, jiggle up a random number and check out these get-a-prompt memes!
HC Meme
Angst Meme
Three Types of Love Meme

Hope you're all doing well!

So there is a meaning to that 'Gym Badges increase stats' stuff in the earlier generations. Who knew?

Interesting tips on drawing.
How Does It Feel to Be in Flow?

Completely involved in what we are doing – focused, concentrated.
A sense of ecstasy – of being outside everyday reality.
Great inner clarity – knowing what needs to be done, and how well we are doing.
Knowing that the activity is doable – that skills are adequate to the task.
A sense of serenity – no worries about oneself, and a feeling of growing beyond the boundaries of the ego.
Timelessness – thoroughly focused on the present, our sin to pass by in minutes.
Intrinsic motivation – whatever produces flow becomes its own reward.

( And now for whining. Slight TMI warning. )

And... uuuuuh. Um. Soooo, this is a famous Christian poem, and...

On a dark night,
Kindled in love with yearnings—oh, happy chance!—
I went forth without being observed,
My house being now at rest.

In darkness and secure,
By the secret ladder, disguised—oh, happy chance!—
In darkness and in concealment,
My house being now at rest.

In the happy night,
In secret, when none saw me,
Nor I beheld aught,
Without light or guide, save that which burned in my heart.

This light guided me
More surely than the light of noonday
To the place where he (well I knew who!) was awaiting me—
A place where none appeared.

Oh, night that guided me,
Oh, night more lovely than the dawn,
Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover,
Lover transformed in the Beloved!

Upon my flowery breast,
Kept wholly for himself alone,
There he stayed sleeping, and I caressed him,
And the fanning of the cedars made a breeze.

The breeze blew from the turret
As I parted his locks;
With his gentle hand he wounded my neck
And caused all my senses to be suspended.

I remained, lost in oblivion;
My face I reclined on the Beloved.
All ceased and I abandoned myself,
Leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies.

-St. John of the Cross

...no one noticed it was a gay love poem?

People were really rather... denser back in the 16th century, weren't they?

(Yes, yes, symbolism and spiritualism and so on and so forth... but no one ever spoke up and said 'Uh, the Captain Obvious interpretation is St. John of the Cross/Unknown Male'? Really? Dang...)

I've just been on the Nuzlocke Forums for a bit. I'm doing a Nuzlocke of a randomization of Pokemon Silver and a Nuzlocke of a type-effectiveness-reversal hack of Pokemon Red.

Emotionally, I'm mildly erratic but shaping up. Priorities, priorities. Priorities include... not writing right now, figuring out what's going on in this bloody paper, running the code, and squeezing in the Nuzlockes when I have time. I've begun to think that strategic gaming boosts my brain temporarily, if only because I'm engaging in an analytical task with a guaranteed reward loop.

Oh well. Off to continue working.


( Oneword.com:  )

Character Interests Generator
Random Outfit Creator
First Name Generator / Surname Generator
Teen Generator - Anime Edition
Town Generator

( Cut for results. )

Interesting results, eh?

Start here...

( And here we go! )

So, I'd say we have quite the story here!

A reasonably average young woman with strained familial relationships gets a fortune foretelling love, then meets up with a spoony transgender vampire who looks like badfic!Harry Potter. As strange noises come from a minor protagonist's basement, the two of them liberate a giant laser to get a valuable business contract. Sparks fly as their wildly differing personalities clash; can they ever be together, or will they be doomed to become enemies?

...I swear those are the results I got...

Screw the high-powered medicine, this stuff works.

Also, anyone want these results from the Really Random Plot-O-Tron?

A geeky artist shrinks the planet and finds an ancient tome.
A mysterious vampire must aid the village with a snowmobile.
A talkative singer liberates another world with the help of a lost city.
A mighty queen decides to destroy a city with a map.
A talkative gelatinous life-form takes over the castle by finding an old friend.
A mad dentist kidnaps a monster and gets a technological breakthrough.
An ambitious elf sets fire to the king with a gaming system.
A spooky singer accidentally saves computer literacy with the kingdom.
A bumbling fairy steals an assortment of old computer parts and finds the ideal significant other.
A disgruntled monster from under the bed steals a set of mystical objects and gets a primitive country.
An untamed zombie decides to destroy the world by creating a magical weapon.
An angry troll decides to help the world under the bed with the help of an army of monsters.
A talkative Internet game critic accidentally discovers computer literacy and gets a mysterious power.
A punctual bard kidnaps a village with a time machine.

If you're not going to use them, I'm going to.

Also, this result from the Creepypasta Generator sounds badass.
One night, a boy and a girl create an eldritch abomination after listening to a cursed record.

Dear DJ Egg,

Forgive me not being able to find the "list of sites" you mention for uploading the file: I have an IQ of 147, and apparently it's inadequate. Now I can remux, recode and sync video; build websites; edit html headers; use DOS switches; flash firmware; write command lines for batch; even PGC; but I can't follow your directions. Sorry. 
[...]

Context.

I can understand the user's irritation, but gad that's funny. :D

(Note: the MIDI issue, as I recall, is caused by Winamp having TWO plugins attempting to run MIDI at once (!). For the life of me, though, I can't remember which one is the defective one. Ah, it's in_adlib, apparently. Yeah, in_midi is the MIDI player. ANYTHING else in WinAmp that wants to handle MIDI files is smoking dope and should be KOed. Just so you know. :P)

*You misread "Lensman Arms Race" as "Lesbian Arms Race"
*You are very disappointed when you scroll back up to check
*You wonder what that would look like

Also, this Markov-chain gibberish-generator produces some amusing results with Shutdown.

Richard explained that Asher gives up at her skin contact;
Oh, come on. Even I wouldn't say Anita is THAT repulsive. :P

I did we don’t know what to her, but I don’t know you to take a look empty.
Even Anita isn't sure what Shutdown was about.

I was too neutral as if they understand that story.
Anita is smugly confident that the readers don't know, either.

I was eight, and neither did force this was wearing.
Anita is unusually honest about her mental age.

“You abuse me, placing his whole life,” she said, and wouldn’t meet anyone’s eyes.
Ellen gives a very curt summary of the "e-special".

Bonus from a second reload:
It is submissive to blush at her.
Anita's neuroses about dominance reach a whole new level.

I'll never have to stop using my computer during a headache again

More seriously, this is nice. Bright light starts turning me into a hyperactive, unable-to-focus twit late at night, so this will do wonders for my concentration and ability to sleep.

Also, I never realized how bright keyboard LED lights are. Thank goodness for creative use of bottlecaps.

Fellow techno-insomniacs, download this application. Here, I'll even link you to the official site for download. I have no idea if its effects are real or just psychosomatic, but they're certainly pleasant.

The only problem is that you'll have to memorize where your less-frequently-used keys are on your keyboard. >_>

Or, in short, NaNoWriMo.

I will be gleefully working my ass off to save said ass, oh gad D: watching on with a glass of cranberry juice chardonnay, decadently braying like a donkey cackling at your anguish and frantic wordcount-padding maneuvers, reflecting on the fragility of all human endeavor.

Just remember, if you find yourself typing nothing but "ithurtsithurtsithurts" for long stretches at a time, that's your cue to take a break and try again next month. :) Short stretches are just useful word-paddiit hurts it hurts it hurts

(Alternatively, if your writing starts to make as little sense as 7 days a skeptic, you should seriously take a break. Though if you really only needed half a dozen words to go over your 50,000 goal at one minute to midnight, I suppose "I JUST WANTED TO GO INTO SPACE!!!" is as good a finishing sentence as any.

Have fun, guys!)

Free logic-puzzles site. Good for a brief distraction.

Also, I haven't given you guys MedicalXpress links for a while... let's fix that.

Staph infections and eczema: What's the connection?
(*sourly* This is now relevant to my interests.)
Mind over gray matter: Placebo improves both pleasure and pain
How video gaming can be beneficial for the brain
(i.e. the one everyone will want to throw in the faces of family members XD)
THE POPE IS CATHOLIC AND BEARS DEFECATE IN THE WOODS - er, "Manipulative and empathetic people both adept at reading emotions"
(In all seriousness. Yes, if one of your interest areas is, to be euphemistic about it, "win friends and influence people", OF COURSE YOU'RE GOING TO CULTIVATE UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL SIGNALS AND THUS LEARN TO "READ" THEM MORE ACCURATELY. Did this really need to be STUDIED?)
What makes creativity tick?
Study explores the cost of creativity
[opinion: the reason why the creative students had more trouble recalling details/big picture is that their brains were more prone to fabricate plausible-seeming alternatives from shifty data, whereas the non-creative students had more stable recollections.
Not that it was a significant difference in the study - 9% error versus 2% error, seriously? - but similar phenomena are sometimes a %$@^! for me, so I'm guessing that's why.]

...It's an MS-DOS game, we'll just put it that way. On the bright side, I actually learned some Command Prompt commands!

So far, the world has had two amphibian civilizations, one reptile civilization, one (euthanized) human civilization, and one... carnifern civilization.

"Carnifern" is the game's term for carnivorous plants.

...That's right, the world is currently ruled by sentient venus flytraps.

Ah, crack. What would virtual worlds do without it?

Wintour told Fawkes of their plan to "doe some whatt in Ingland if the pece with Spaine healped us nott",^[3]
[...]
On the evening of 26 October, Lord Monteagle received an anonymous letter warning him to stay away, and to "retyre youre self into yowre contee whence yow maye expect the event in safti for ... they shall receyve a terrible blowe this parleament".^[33]

The more I see of writing From Olden Times, the more I grow more kindly in my mind to the misspelling-plagued authors from fanfiction.net. Perhaps we are the perverse deviants, not they.

*grimaces* Also, if you need quick text for any passwords, just grab any bunch of Scots text from the Casket Letters. No one will recognize it.
This is deplorable. Any fool with Google at hand can find half a dozen plaintext copies of bestsellers on blogs of dubious repute within five minutes and half as many search pages, but the only copies of the Casket Letters are in Google Books and Archive.org?

Honestly, one will find nothing more like a tabloid-trashy epic in Renaissance times than the story of Mary Queen of Scots, princess of a savage realm raised amongst the grandest court in the land, ( ...who then proceeded to make an epic mess of the rest of her life, as only a Tudor-blooded royal could... )

...Okay, mother of all run-on sentences, but you know something? I did not make any of that shit up.
Did I mention that she managed all those shenanigans in Scotland before she was twenty-six?

Historical epics only work so well because the underlying material is so ridiculous and over-dramatic. Historical-fiction writers are really the same as movie-novelizers, or the video-game-novelizers that abound on fanfiction.net. It's just a dang sight harder to get hold of the original canon for that "fandom" than it is for a movie or game in current distribution.

I must admit, I don't like history for the more reasoned and humanistic undercurrents. I like it for the completely trashy and tabloid-like aspects, which are really central to a good deal of historical works which have survived from antiquity (hullo, Tacitus, hullo, Suetonius, hullo, Dio, hullo, Plutarch, hullo, Thucydides...), presumably because the scribes copying them out by hand didn't fall asleep drooling on their copies... and which always seem to be downplayed by the Great Intellectuals reporting on them, rather possibly because the Great Intellectuals dislike admitting to the hoi polloi that they could possibly enjoy anything so common as trashy melodrama writ large. :P

(Incidentally, check out the Song of Roland sometime. A noble and dignified song of war, as written by those infinitely cultured people, the French.
( Cut for gore. )
Yes, tell me again how our desensitized, depraved media is the first to EVER popularize and glorify unrealistic levels of gore! *rolls eyes*)

[Also - look! A non-Pokemon-related post! On this journal? Surely it's the End of the World as We Know It! (And I feel fine.) :P]

Considering that the next-highest Special on my team, on Reservoir, is 77. And he's three levels higher than Yulong.

Gyarados, you big ball of murderous fluff! C'mere, darling~

Will do Fighting Dojo first to level Monarch and Yulong if Monarch gets overly weakened, then move on to beat Sabrina's Gym.

I've also found out that, for a sufficiently strong Dugtrio and/or a sufficiently bulky Blastoise, using Dig is a viable method to pass/survive Selfdestructers. This makes Koga's Gym possible, and I plan to snipe any Venonat/Venomoth-line Pokemon with LEERSPEAR.

Huh. The game may be survivable after all.

(My HUGE difficulty hump will come at Elite Four, as I have nothing specifically dedicated to killing Water-types/Ice-types. At best guess, I'm going to making Yulong a Thunderbolter (since Gen 1 allows him to use his massive stat for BOTH attack and defense~), then bulldozing Lorelei's Pokemon with OHKOs/Bolt+Bite for THKOs. I need to OHKO two more Pokemon [the double Gyarados on Lance and Champion], so... 15 PP should be enough. The only trick will be keeping Yulong alive, which... shouldn't be TOO hard, since he's got decent defenses. Given the lack of Electric-type attacks, his only weakness will be Rock, and I have Reservoir to cover Rock-types.)

Image post coming pretty darn soon!