BUG: SecretPotion

[Viomi]

PRO Username: Viomi

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Your knowledge about PRO: Basic Knowledge

 

What have you done before the problem was there?

Nothing unusual.

 

What have you already tried to solve the problem?

This is a scripting / coding issue, so I wouldn't be able to fix it.

 

Description and Message

On the SS Anne, the pharmacist sends his Blissey to give you the item "SecretPotion" to use on the Captain to cure his sickness. If you cure his sickness and then go back to the pharmacist, he thinks you "lost" the SecretPotion and will give you a second one. I believe he shouldn't give any more after you complete the objective of curing the captain.

 

On IRC, Saitaeia said that in Johto, there's a place where you need an item with an identical name. Since the pharmacist is giving a second SecretPotion, it could be used to skip past an objective in Johto. This has yet to be confirmed as I'm not in Johto yet, but once I get there I'm willing to try and see if it works.

[Naero]

Hello.

 

Thank you for your concern, but I can confirm that the SecretPotion won't be able to serve as any such plot device to skip Johto—simply by virtue of the fact that the SecretPotion is removed from one's inventory before they complete the S.S. Anne quest; before then, they are occluded from advancing beyond Vermilion City in the successional line of gyms and thus would not have reached Johto with it retainingly.

 

Moreover, when any key items—items created primarily as quest-essential data flags—are added, we add in item-checks in NPCs to ascertain whether or not it's in their possession before giving a new, potentially duplicative key item; this is the case with the SecretPotion script in Johto, too, and any additional potions end up precluded to begin with.

 

Topic locked, as it is a user-end misunderstanding. :)