PKMN

Cliffey decided a little while ago that we ought to throw a Pokémon Party - he'd heard stories about them and they sounded pretty cool. Everyone had to dress up as a Pokémon*, obviously, but it went deeper than that. Each room (except the ones we wanted to keep the rabble out of) became a gym: Cliffey's room was the electric gym, the garage was the grass gym, and the oven was the fire gym. You get the idea. Each gym had activites relevant to its theme, so electric gym had the N64, grass gym had grass-related activites, and the fire gym was...well, that was just an oven. We were going to make some chips but we forgot about that.

And most of these activities were, inevitably, translated into drinking games. The psychic gym had a higher or lower game, whereby an incorrect guess meant taking a drink, while a correct guess meant choosing someone else to take a drink.
All good fun. But obviously what you're all waiting for is the list of which pokémon were present. Well, I don't remember all of them, and the ones I do remember, I don't necessarily remember the names of the people who were them. Still, here's a partial list; do help to fill in the gaps if you can.

Charmeleon (Not sure who this was)
Charizard  (Again not sure, but they had crazy dragoneye contacts in so that was cool)
Squirtle (Think this was Dave)
Pidgey (Cartwright in a rather underwhelming towel-and-tape attempt)
Jigglypuff (Sarah, complete with marker pen and pinkish hair)
Zubat (Jen)
Psyduck (Ollie)
Poliwhirl (Tom, and possibly someone else?)
Machoke (Think it was Pat, but I'm a bit unsure between him and Dave because they were both painted blue; also Olly C.)
Bellsprout (Padbury, who later evolved into Man with a lampshade on his head)
Tentacool (Me with leggings on my head)
Onix (Meg)
Exeggcute (Luke, who later 'evolved' into Exeggutor simply by losing some of the balloons attached to his head and gaining a leafy thing)
Tangela (Elen, although this is rather dubious as she only decided on her costume after arriving)
Scyther (Mark in a rather impressive effort; his mum has been desperately searching for photos from the night)
Ditto (there had been several jokes in the runup that someone would come as a Ditto who had transformed into them, but I don't think anyone actually tried that in the end)
Snorlax (Cliffey; debate still rages as to whether Snorlax is blue or green but there we are)

Yes, it was limited to the first 151, and fortunately nobody strayed from that boundary. I wouldn't have minded - Gold, Silver and Crystal were arguably better than Red, Blue and Yellow - but Cliffey would.

I was just annoyed at whoever thought Tinie Tempah was a more appropriate choice of music than MIDI files of the game music on endless repeat.

I think it was Liv. Curse you, Liv!
Joel.

*There was some wiggle-room, naturally. We had an Ash, a Team Rocket, an Officer Jenny, a Nurse Joy, and Ed even dressed as an attack, complete with descending HP bar.