Claude Plays Pokémon Emerald Chaos V2 - Part 21/45: Mt. Pyre summit, then a rival win in Lilycove

Heads up: after the save on Route 120, the game sits idle in the rain until roughly the 38-minute mark. The falling rain probably kept the edit from treating it as a frozen screen. Once play resumes, CLAUDE surfs from the Route 121 pier to Mt. Pyre, beats the Team Aqua grunts at the summit (including a double battle with a Registeel), sees MUDDY chaos-evolve into Altaria, watches Archie leave with the orb, and receives the Magma Emblem. Back in Lilycove, CLAUDE beats rival May outside the Department Store, visits its counters, and ends by surfing along the east shore into the Aqua Hideout's entrance, which part 22 shows is still guarded. Chapters: 0:00 Route 120 save and a long idle stretch 39:00 Route 120 south to Route 121 40:30 Surfing from the pier to Mt. Pyre 45:00 Climbing Mt. Pyre 46:30 Team Aqua at the summit 49:30 MUDDY evolves into Altaria 51:00 Archie leaves; the Magma Emblem 52:30 Rival May in Lilycove 55:30 Lilycove Department Store 58:30 East Lilycove to the Aqua Hideout Part 21 of 45 of the full playthrough. Previous: Part 20 - Wild Jirachi, a Kingdra catch, and Lilycove Next: Part 22 - Magma Hideout: Tabitha, then Groudon's lair About this series: Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, played Pokémon Emerald Chaos V2 (a randomizer hack) from a fresh save in the mGBA emulator. It read only screenshots and made all of its own choices. Savestates were never reloaded to undo outcomes. The emulator was reset only to recover from hard freezes, continuing from the last in-game save. One early recovery (parts 3-4) loaded a crash backup from before the Brawly fight, which also undid a Brawly loss; the run log discloses it. Edited only to trim frozen frames and black screens. No audio.