Umbra�'s doing that pacing thing again. It's always the same route; she walks into the kitchen, leaves the kitchen, walks to the side for a bit, does a tight loop, and then pauses before taking a few deliberate steps back towards the kitchen and finishing it off by spinning in place. Is she practicing for something?

She only does it when she thinks I'm not looking, too...

I've never seen her doing the same thing over and over like this before. She's... usually so unpredictable. I'm almost tempted to say that that unpredictability is... what makes her "Umbra", you know?

... I'm worried about her.

... I have a question.

When did she start exhibiting this behavior? And does she always return to exactly that spot? Or will she go find another kitchen if you are, say, spending the night at a hotel or somewhere other than your house?

It's only very recently that she's picked it up, the first time I saw her doing it was just after you and Doctor �ana visited. And... I haven't seen her doing anything like this outside of the house, no. Not that we've been spending much time away from the house...

Hm...

Do me a favor with this. Around the time she usually does this, try making sure you're somewhere out of the house. And see if she repeats the steps, or if she tries to go home.

I have... I guess a bit of a theory on this one.

My darling skiddo kiddos, if you haven’t grabbed a copy of your favorite fashion for the lady on the go magazine Masqueraide yet DEFINITELY pick up the April-May issue soon! ✨💖

Shooting this was SUCH an exciting experience, and I’m SO thankful to the good people at Masqueraide for giving me flawless eyeshadow tips AND this opportunity 😭

Well, Mew's tail. I never thought I'd see someone I knew on the cover of a magazine. I don't have a subscription, but I might have to pick one up.

What.. do they write about in fashion magazines anyway? Any articles about pokemon?

Ah well, it's still kind of exciting to have. Congrats Zee!

Umbra�'s doing that pacing thing again. It's always the same route; she walks into the kitchen, leaves the kitchen, walks to the side for a bit, does a tight loop, and then pauses before taking a few deliberate steps back towards the kitchen and finishing it off by spinning in place. Is she practicing for something?

She only does it when she thinks I'm not looking, too...

I've never seen her doing the same thing over and over like this before. She's... usually so unpredictable. I'm almost tempted to say that that unpredictability is... what makes her "Umbra", you know?

... I'm worried about her.

... I have a question.

When did she start exhibiting this behavior? And does she always return to exactly that spot? Or will she go find another kitchen if you are, say, spending the night at a hotel or somewhere other than your house?

Okay! Good luck with it! I really do hope this helps you recover!!

//OOC POST

While I don't like to put the Cart before the Horsea I think this is a good time to mention that we are actually getting close to 200 followers!

This is actually closer than this blog has ever been to this. I've had people join and leave over the years, but honestly it stuns me and really delights me that almost 200 people are invested enough to follow a Blog that is about "What if little Coding errors in a 20 year old game were real creatures."

It's been just so extremely exciting to me not just to see people get excited and enthusiastic about the Glitches of Pokemon Gen 1 and Glitch Pokemon in General, but also to see so many people coming out and wanting to learn more about them! I really hope at least a couple people know more about Pokemon like h POKè and 7g and Q�◣�� than they would have otherwise. You guys have no idea how proud and happy that makes me.

Aaaanyway point of all this Sappy stuff is to say I definitely want to do something Fun for when we hit 200! I've got a couple ideas but I wanted to make a poll to see what interested people most.

I'm totally willing to do more than one of these as well! But I'm interested to see your feedback and what people want to see me do!

Anyway thanks for listening!! And thanks for following along with this glitchy little journey!

// OK I DID NOT ANTICIPATE THE THREE WAY TIE

I need to figure out how to proceed

I pick up my Sneasel and I gently rattle her from side to side.

What secrets are you hiding behind those eyes, you icy rat?

Well she's apparently hiding at least a few anti-fragmentation meds... among other things...

I'm hooooome! Golly, that was SO stressful!

Glad to have you back Zee.

I'm starting to get used to the swaps... but they always worry me.

Your evil alter didn’t feed me, he just gave me an evil lecture. How can you be so cruel, Simon? 😔

Well, he's not ME. That... person exists in an alternate dimension. I've got no control over what he does and vice versa.

... he's not my alter though, that would be Hatter. Who was also... very excitable yesterday.

[I WOULD SAY YES, BUT I DOUBT IT'D ACTUALLY WORK. I MEAN-]

[IMAGE CORRUPTED, SENDING ID...: It's a full-body picture of Glitchy, standing with his arms out so his corruptiin is fully and properly visible; Being stuck to a color palette of Red, having a pixelated and slightly bugged appearence, like he's going through visual glitching and corruption, with stray pixels or chunks of his 'sprite' being in the wrong places in his body, seemingly even shifting around despite the fact that it's an image. Polar is also sitting in a chair in the background, with Garlic sitting on her lap asleep and her Iron Valient and Mawile standing with her, curious about the big ZZAZZsaur.]

[LOOK AT HOW FUCKED I AM, AND TELL ME IT WOULD HELP.]

He did do it to himself, as well.

Alright, well... it could certainly help with some of the fragmentation you're experiencing. I can say this case appears to be rather extreme though. Normally fragmentation occurs when visual data is corrupted, and most of the time it is a temporary thing. But if you're experiencing this level of visual corruption consistently, it's likely that more data than just your sprite data has been impacted. And is causing this...

Defragmentation meds can help, of course. They will lessen the amount of visual fragmentation you're experiencing and, if you're having hitbox trouble, help you stabilize that as well. I'm not sure they'll be enough to fix everything I'm seeing though.

If you don't mind me asking... what Happened here?

Dumbass tried to do what I did, did it poorly and for nowhere near the reasons I did what I did when contacting Ketsuban, and got punished for it. But he learned to not piss the big blocky bastard off because of it.

[LESS THAN ELOQUENT OF A WAY TO PUT IT, BUT YEAH, BASICALLY THAT. KETSUBAN DOESN'T EXACTLY SHOW MERCY IF YOU PISS HIM OFF.]

So it was that Missingno that did this to you? Do you have any idea exactly what he did? It looks to me like there was an acute corruption of your code, particularly sprite data. I can't tell from the image if you're having any hitbox issues, clipping errors, that kind of thing...

But what you're telling me is that this was done to you deliberately??

[OH YES. VERY DELIBERATELY AND AGAINST MY WILL. I DON'T HAVE HITBOX ISSUES AS FAR AS I KNOW, BUT I AM IN PAIN. CONSTANT PAIN. MAYBE A FEW CLIPPING ISSUES TOO. IT ALSO GETS WORSE WITH MY EMOTIONS, USUALLY WHEN I'M MAD OR PANICKING.]

We also can suspect Ketsuban can just. Make it worse whenever he wants, but he hasn't done it in awhile.

[IT ALSO HAPPENS WHEN KETSUBAN GETS HURT. WE FIGURED THAT OUT WHEN HE HAD TRIED TO SWIM FROM ONE ISLAND TO ANOTHER IN ALOLA. WHEN HE DROWNED BUT DIDN'T ACTUALLY DIE BECAUSE HE DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT.]

...well, at least that explains why you were vomitting up seawater.

Huh.. well that does track Missingno here don't really swim well either.

Excess stress does have a way of making Fragmentation worse. Anything that causes strain to the body or mental strain can result in worsening of the condition. Meds, again, do help with that...

But what is worrying me is the pain. Usually corruption isn't painful, in fact most of what I experienced resulted in numbness... but if this is being done on purpose to you, maybe that Missingno is doing something else as well to make the process.. well... painful.

That's.. incredibly cruel actually.

Well. I will send over some meds. At the very least we can see if that helps you any.

[I WOULD SAY YES, BUT I DOUBT IT'D ACTUALLY WORK. I MEAN-]

[IMAGE CORRUPTED, SENDING ID...: It's a full-body picture of Glitchy, standing with his arms out so his corruptiin is fully and properly visible; Being stuck to a color palette of Red, having a pixelated and slightly bugged appearence, like he's going through visual glitching and corruption, with stray pixels or chunks of his 'sprite' being in the wrong places in his body, seemingly even shifting around despite the fact that it's an image. Polar is also sitting in a chair in the background, with Garlic sitting on her lap asleep and her Iron Valient and Mawile standing with her, curious about the big ZZAZZsaur.]

[LOOK AT HOW FUCKED I AM, AND TELL ME IT WOULD HELP.]

He did do it to himself, as well.

Alright, well... it could certainly help with some of the fragmentation you're experiencing. I can say this case appears to be rather extreme though. Normally fragmentation occurs when visual data is corrupted, and most of the time it is a temporary thing. But if you're experiencing this level of visual corruption consistently, it's likely that more data than just your sprite data has been impacted. And is causing this...

Defragmentation meds can help, of course. They will lessen the amount of visual fragmentation you're experiencing and, if you're having hitbox trouble, help you stabilize that as well. I'm not sure they'll be enough to fix everything I'm seeing though.

If you don't mind me asking... what Happened here?

Dumbass tried to do what I did, did it poorly and for nowhere near the reasons I did what I did when contacting Ketsuban, and got punished for it. But he learned to not piss the big blocky bastard off because of it.

[LESS THAN ELOQUENT OF A WAY TO PUT IT, BUT YEAH, BASICALLY THAT. KETSUBAN DOESN'T EXACTLY SHOW MERCY IF YOU PISS HIM OFF.]

So it was that Missingno that did this to you? Do you have any idea exactly what he did? It looks to me like there was an acute corruption of your code, particularly sprite data. I can't tell from the image if you're having any hitbox issues, clipping errors, that kind of thing...

But what you're telling me is that this was done to you deliberately??

[I WOULD SAY YES, BUT I DOUBT IT'D ACTUALLY WORK. I MEAN-]

[IMAGE CORRUPTED, SENDING ID...: It's a full-body picture of Glitchy, standing with his arms out so his corruptiin is fully and properly visible; Being stuck to a color palette of Red, having a pixelated and slightly bugged appearence, like he's going through visual glitching and corruption, with stray pixels or chunks of his 'sprite' being in the wrong places in his body, seemingly even shifting around despite the fact that it's an image. Polar is also sitting in a chair in the background, with Garlic sitting on her lap asleep and her Iron Valient and Mawile standing with her, curious about the big ZZAZZsaur.]

[LOOK AT HOW FUCKED I AM, AND TELL ME IT WOULD HELP.]

He did do it to himself, as well.

Alright, well... it could certainly help with some of the fragmentation you're experiencing. I can say this case appears to be rather extreme though. Normally fragmentation occurs when visual data is corrupted, and most of the time it is a temporary thing. But if you're experiencing this level of visual corruption consistently, it's likely that more data than just your sprite data has been impacted. And is causing this...

Defragmentation meds can help, of course. They will lessen the amount of visual fragmentation you're experiencing and, if you're having hitbox trouble, help you stabilize that as well. I'm not sure they'll be enough to fix everything I'm seeing though.

If you don't mind me asking... what Happened here?

I'm hooooome! Golly, that was SO stressful!

Glad to have you back Zee.

I'm starting to get used to the swaps... but they always worry me.

Okay, so, I was going to log on to complain about not being able to find my Pokégear, how I've been looking all over the house for it all day, but...

Well, seeing all these new posts on my own blog, I think it's pretty clear where I need to look, haha...

She even changed my profile picture. How thorough of her.

The Pokégear was right where I expected it to be, under my bed in the spot where Umbra� likes to sleep. But… there was something else in that spot under my bed, too.

Specifically, a stash of pills. The reseeding medication that Simon's doctor prescribed for me to give to my Pokémon, to help them recover from the corruption. The pills had dried-out bits of food on them, like they'd been plucked out of the food bowl after being mixed in.

Umbra's been sneaking the medicine out of her food. She hasn't been taking it.

What??? She's been hiding her medication??

But her name's been decorrupting at a steady rate... it seemed like she was getting better.

How in the world?

I don't understand it either. I don't think she'd normally go behind my back on something like this! Normally she'd either go along with it, or she would make _sure_ I know how unhappy she is about whatever it is.

I... don't know what to do about this. Clearly she's getting better anyway, even _without_ the medicine... somehow. Is that... normally possible?

Not at the rate she's been recovering at. Pokemon do recover over time from corruption like that, but the time it normally takes is much longer without medication.

Your Sneasel's name is already uncorrupted...

Which either means it's been healing the corruption some other way or that it's figured out a way to mimic the reseeding process itself.

I can't imagine why it would want to do that...