Intermission: City Restoration Quests

If you return to the Grand Hall and talk to the middle NPC of the three behind the counter, you will be asked to fund a City Restoration project. There's three available: one can be paid for now, one can be paid for after the 15th badge, and the final one can be paid for after the 16th badge. You can freely choose which one you want to fund each time, and each one comes with a different set of available events. If you want a list of what to get, I recommend funding the Railnet first, then Affordable Living, and then finally the Nature Centre. Here's a high level overview of what every project gets you:

• The Railnet gets you the Steelixite, the Aggronite, Togepi, and anything you missed in the Railnet itself.
• The Slums Restoration gets you one of two starter Pokémon, the Scraftinite, and Goomy/
• Neo Azurine Island gets you a bunch of TMs, Bulbasaur, and Heracross/ Pinsir available to catch in the wild.

Additionally, if you fund any of the projects fully, then you'll get access to the developer area at the back rear stairs that has been taunting you for the entire game. There's not much to see here except in the middle door to the left of the room; talk to the NPC inside to get the starter quest, where you need to breed starter Pokémon and return here to get quest rewards. Unfortunately you need to get your 16th Badge (for one of Torchic, Snivy, or Froakie) to finish this quest fully, if you didn't pick one of those as your starters already. If you have the shared box mod you can cheese this quest fairly quickly.

I recommend getting this specific quest done as quickly as possible as the rewards are extremely useful for some of the next parts of the game.

Railnet Restoration

Restoring the Railnet will block off access to the Railnet area. If you follow the train tracks in Peridot Ward back to where it used to exist, you can find this small area where might be some items for you to take. These are any of the items that used to exist in the railnet but got collected up for you to take.

Aside from that, this will add a fully functional metro-based rapid transport network to Reborn City. This is... not useful for the player. If you go back into the Devon Corp building, you'll find that the previous entrance to the Railnet is now blocked off, and you can finally collect the Steelixite that was previously sealed.

If you collect the Corrupted Pokéball from the Lost & Found (or you might've found it already), you can go talk to this guy in Critical Capture twice to try and recover the Pokéball data. Return again with some Magnet Powder to obtain a Ralts.

Finally, in the back of Shantyport Station (in the Coral Ward), there's an NPC who will trade a Probopass for a Togepi egg.

Affordable Living in Obsidia

See the starter appendices for information about how to get the Litten or Oshawott in this chapter.

Additionally, see the pseudo-legendary appendices for information about how to get Goomy.

Neo Azurine Island

After funding the Azurine Island restoration, you can surf there from the bottom of Apophyll Beach to find the island has been cleaned up and a new building is in place. There's an NPC outside who asks for a Carnivine and will trade you an Chimchar egg in return.

There's not much here on the island. Here's some things you can get here:

• The hatted NPC inside the Azurine Centre sells some really good TMs.
• If you missed the Chikorita earlier, you can talk to the scientist on the roof to get it now.
• You can now find Heracross and Pinsir in the wild if you missed (or refused to do) the Route 1 quest.
• The Poisonium-Z is on a rock climb clifftop area.