Nuzlocke challange

Since I am at somewhat of a pause in many of my games, I decided to restart my Pokemon Sapphire game and try a Nuzlocke run.  If you have never heard of Nuzlocke, you can google it and look at some of the comics that people have made for it.  but if you don't want to even do that... a Nuzlocke challange is just playing through a pokemon with some extra self-imposed rules to make the game more difficult.  the extra rules are:

1. I can only catch the first pokemon that I meet in any area
2. If any pokemon faints, it cannot ever be used again (I will put them in a box marked as 'dead' and won't use them again)
3. Every Pokemon I capture must be named

those are the 3 strict rules, a few things are left to interpretation, so as extra rules
iv. the only items allowed to be purchased are pokeballs, or quest essential items
v. only found items may be used (items found on the ground) but never revives
vi. berries are allowed
vii. not allowed to skip any trainer battles by fancy walking (no avoiding trainer battles)


so with this going on, I'll post a little about what happens, since I do play each day. I'll try to update on my lunch breaks.

BTW: the original Nuzlocke was just 'hard mode' but got named by the first guy to make a comic about  them that was littered with 'Lost' references. you can find his comics if you search for them.

I'll report on my first disasterous day later