Pitch-Black Abyss

Pitch-Black Abyss, often called PBA by players, was a dungeon located in the northern part of Exbel by Mt. Skylift. It was the only dungeon that sets your team of one temporarily to level 100. Pokémon here could only be "recruited" by gathering and hatching eggs. No experience will be gained, due to the fact that you are already level 100. Weather is always clear but can be sunny due to enemy Ninetales' Drought.

Pitch-Black Abyss was considered too buggy of a dungeon by the staff team, and closed on October 15th 2018 until further notice.

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Pitch-Black Abyss is a unique dungeon that only has one floor, but the player goes through seemingly random rooms. There is a room with forks for every direction and number, along with a large room that always has a random maze, making there a total of 16 different randomized rooms a player can encounter in Pitch-Black Abyss. Rooms always look different, even if you went the direction you came, unless you enter a maze room or the center room. The player traverses this maze-like dungeon until they find the "center" of Pitch-Black Abyss, a room with 4 warps that lead to the boss. Pitch-Black Abyss includes darkness that changes with every room (excluding the starting room and center, which have no darkness), which can go to even the deepest possible darkness.

In Pitch-Black Abyss, the player can enter a room that has doors on all exits. This is called room trapping and it prevents escape. The only way to unlock the doors is to defeat all the Pokémon in the room or use a Pitch-Black Key, which is found in the dungeon randomly. Additionally, there's an exclusive Orb found here called the Pathfinder Orb. When the player uses it, it tells you the direction of the center.

Boss
When the player enters the Pitch-Black Pit, Darkrai appears and congratulates them. It finds the player weak and so it tests their strength by putting them against a battle with three Pokémon: Xatu, Ninetales, and Drapion.

Pokémon
The Pokémon in Pitch-Black Abyss all spawn at levels 50-80, besides Beedrill who spawns at level 10. The species here always have the same moves, excluding Beedrill and Noctowl.


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Items
The items that can be found here can range from being the very common Pecha Berry to TMs like Sludge Bomb. Since this dungeon is not a normal randomized dungeon, there are no items invisible on the ground or walls. Sinister Boxes can also be found on the ground. They can contain: Soothe Bell, Razor Claw, Reaper Cloth, Revive, Max Revive, Revival Herb, Reviver Seed, Heart Scale.


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Mystery Eggs
Pitch-Black Abyss has rare Mystery Eggs that take a very long time to hatch unlike most Mystery Eggs.


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Dungeon Objective
The objective of this dungeon is to get to find the center and exit with all your items intact. To get to the middle of the dungeon you are forced to go through maps that may look exactly that same as the one before. Though there is an item that can help you called Pathfinder orb that will locate the location of the middle of the dungeon and tell in you cardinal direction (ex: Northwest). Once you get to the middle you will have 4 warps to choose from but they all lead to the same place.

Restrictions

 * The level of the team is set to 100.
 * The player can only bring in their leader Pokémon.
 * Your inventory must be empty.
 * No experience is gained.

Tips

 * Watch out for Beedrill if it has Endeavor. It can bring you down to near death in one move.
 * Watch out for Trip Traps while holding a valuable item, like X-Ray Specs. You may not notice you dropped an item and run to the next screen.
 * Bring a Pokémon with Rest, or a move like Refresh as well.
 * When finding a Pathfinder Orb, use it as soon as possible if you're trying to reach the end quickly.
 * Avoid fighting enemies unless necessary, to save PP for when you really need it.

Trivia

 * Pitch-Black Abyss was created by DarkMazer.
 * Darkrai is supposed to represent him.
 * Previously, Pitch-Black Abyss was the only year-round dungeon to have any obtainable starters (Natu) until July 2014, when Tanren Mines came out with Hippopotas.
 * Pitch-Black Abyss may be considered one of the hardest dungeons due to the gimmicks in it.
 * It is the only dungeon that can actually take a random amount of time to finish, as there are many random rooms, no set amount of floors/rooms, and there will most likely be no wind to kick players out due to them not staying in one area long enough. The time to complete this dungeon may range from a few minutes to many hours.
 * Pitch-Black Abyss is special for not being made through the dungeon editor and instead mainly through scripting.
 * Even if there's weather, it's not shown visually because Pitch-Black Abyss rooms are inside maps.