Rijon Drawing Board

The third gym leader has only really appeared in the latest rijonAdventures beta, and his backstory isn't really all that large. Scott is an eleven year old Pokémon trainer. Actually, no, he's a Gym Leader of Jaeru City. And, despite his age, he's more than just a Gym Leader.

Scott is an electrician, and works at all sorts of places. Though he's seen with his retired father who tries to constantly tries to advise him how to work, he doesn't need it. He's that smart. And because he's often doing small electrical jobs, you may not actually be able to get to his Gym (in the final version, of course).

Oh, and, as his trade is electric work, his favorite kinds of Pokémon are also of the electric-type.

To those new to the Rijon Trilogy, you probably don't know what the region of Rijon is.

Rijon first appears in Pokémon Brown. It consists of numerous cities. First, you probably should know where you start—Seashore City. Seashore is one of the cities in the southwest area of Rijon, known for many mountains and caves. Many cities and forests the west to the east areas of Rijon. The eastern area is particularly known for Castro Valley, which is a harbor town. The southern area of Rijon consists of the sea and nothing more.

Geographically in the Rijon Trilogy canon, Rijon is located south of Johto; there is a small island in Johto which connects to the region. West of Rijon is the Naljo region, which is featured in Pokémon Prism. And new to rijonAdventures is South Rijon, which is south of the Rijon region, accessible from Merson City.

There are a lot of things in Rijon that I'll detail in later entries. Stay tuned!

A trainer always goes from every town to get items. However, what if you backtrack to a town and their items are not really what you're looking for? Actually, it happens all the time.



So, what's funny is, that I thought of this idea before I saw it actually happening in Diamond and Pearl (honest!) but I never actually went into implementing it. That is, the marts are expanding their stock for every Gym you beat!



That's basically it. As you get a badge, you're valued more as a Trainer, so of course, you're going to have access to more items.

But wait, is that another guy at the counter there? Now, this is an idea I borrowed from Diamond and Pearl.



Basically, most towns will also sell local specialties (mostly mail). There's also one town that sells an imported good from a town somewhere in Hoenn…

Let's face it; no Japanese-style hotel (in Merson City!) is complete without hot springs! And there's one way to get into them; through the Hotel! This area is not available in the public beta. There's a small oversight that may allow you to access the exterior suites and the spas, but this may lead to a game-ending glitch. It has been corrected in a small beta rerelease which you can download in the Downloads section.


You may accidentally smash into the women's spa by a not-so-obvious means (or if you're a girl player, vice versa). If you're a boy, you're invading the privacy of numerous women, so your appearance is not so welcome.



That's just morally wrong, but oh so comedic.

From March 13 to March 26 at the PokéCommunity, I was looking for six beta testers to look for errors in rijonAdventures. Needless to say, that program is now closed.

A second round will open close to the game's final release.

This area is accessible in the beta already. I'm sure you all know that. But, there might be a few things you don't know about the town.

Seashore is the down you start out at. There are all sorts of places worth visiting here, though there are more outside, of course!


I won't go into too much detail about the places you can already visit in the beta, though. Soon, I'll be talking about the new areas!

But first, there's one more thing I should talk about for the day.

So, the story's quite… normal, I guess. It's not going to be so simple as the game goes by, (because you won't be collecting just eight badges). But, that's all to be detailed later!