Route 3

Slogan: Enjoy the scenic beauty of this "artificial canyon".

Connections

B. Wayfarer Inn

The stairs to the Wayfarer Inn are blocked by a boulder.

Events

Event 1

When you first arrive in Route 3, your Mom approaches:

• Hey little boy, do you need to borrow this ... Hoverboard?
• You gain the Hoverboard.
• Have fun, son! Hey, that rhymes. I wonder if someone could make a rhyme machine ...

Event 2

When you pass by on the cliffs overhead, the scene plays out below:

Spyder Agent appears from one direction, Shaft Boss from the other.

Spyder Agent

• What happened to the excavation?

Shaft Boss

• We got ... interrupted. By ... a kid.

Spyder Agent

• A kid?!

Shaft Boss

• But we did manage to recover one ...

Spyder Agent

• Hush! You know that's top secret. Alright, hand it over and scram!

Shaft Boss

• Okay, here ... uh!

An egg appears between them. It shakes, cracks, and then a dark flying thing escapes and flies north.

Spyder Agent

• What the?! Come with me, you can explain this to HQ!

Spyder Agent and Shaft Boss leave.

Event 3

When you defeat the Shaft Boss, she drops the Sledgehammer. You can then break the boulder blocking the way.

Encounters

• Elofly (first appearance)
• Shybulb (first appearance)
• Cardiling
• Squabbit

Characters

Trainers

A. Miner Roxby

• Bring that pile driver over here and be quick! Hey ... you don't look like a miner.
• Rockitten level 13, Ignibus level 13
• Scram!
• I hope Boss is not mad - she gets angry so fast... But she is a nice person and has a heart like a diamond.

B. Miner Surat

• They call it the "dark artery" - the fossilized blood and bone of ancient tuxemon beneath the soil. And we get to dig it up!
• Selket level 12, Foofle level 12
• I knew you wouldn't understand.

C. Miner Twig

• Some of the stuff we're digging up belongs in a museum! Wait, you don't work here.
• Aardorn level 11, Foofle level 11
• Don't mention that museum stuff to the boss, okay?
• I will train more and become as strong as our Boss. She worked so hard to become the leader, I wanna be like her someday.

D. Shaft Boss Zoolander

• A boulder is causing problems for travelers? It's "our fault"? Who cares? We've got urgent work to do!
• Eruptibus (level 14), Selket (level 14), Grinflare level 16, B-ver.1 level 16
• Ah, I dropped the keys to my earth-mover!

E. Fisher Wanda

• All I ever seem to catch is boring Nudiflot!
• Nudiflot ♀ level 8, Nudiflot ♀ level 8, Nudiflot ♀ level 8, Nudiflot ♂ level 8, Nudiflot ♂ level 8, Nudiflot ♂ level 8
• The fishing's good in Flower City - but who wants to walk that far? (Protagonist gains Fishing Rod)

F. Tennis Player Connor

• "My Weavifly is fighting fit now - there was a while there where it couldn't fly."
• Weavifly level 12, Cataspike level 8, Cataspike level 8, Cataspike level 8, Cataspike level 8, Cataspike level 8
• Oh well, this will be a learning experience for them.

G. Scientist Curie

• Look at my magnificent invention!
• Propellercat level 13
• Why did you do that?

H. Tennis Player Novak

• My Elofly is a genius! I'm going to collect as many as I can.
• Elofly level 13
• Hmm, not smart enough ...

I. Enforcer Weaver

• Hey, butt out of it! This mine site belongs to Shaft!
• Pythwire level 12, Squabbit level 12
• Go on, get out!

J. Spyder Agent ??? (only appears on your first time exiting the Wayfarer Inn)

• Ah, the Enforcers weren't meant to let anyone out!
• Cardiwing level 16
• I'll reveal nothing about our plot! In fact, forget I said anything about a plot!