Welcome to the Cali Rex Game Corners Pokémon DND campaign
featuring Cindy, a young Vagabond from the Hohen region
with pyromaniac tendencies, Gimli, a stocky Burley miner
from Sino looking for his lost son, Elody, an enthusiastic
foodie and Baker from Carlos, and Schmidt, an enigmatic man
from Johto with a duck. My name is Rich and I'm the game
Master and this is Dunsparse and Grandpa.
Last we left off the party thwarted.
Not necessarily thwarted, but they encountered a silly
situation at New Mauville. Thanks to Schmidt kicking an
electrode down the hallway. They damaged the piece that they
were trying to fix, and they had to go with the backup plan,
which was cutting some wires. Along the way, they encountered
A Rotom who seems to have brought lots and lots of Ghost
type Pokémon from Mount Pyre. Rotom explained that due to some
attacks on the mountain that is defended by someone who may in
fact be Phoebe of the Elite 4, Rotom rescued Ghost types and
brought them to New Marvel for Sanctuary.
Now that you completed the quest, you're welcome to return
to either the Gym Challenge or to Slateport City or whatever
you want. However, you're stuck on the
island in the Bay between Marvel and Slateport.
What are you doing? Can we try to convince him
again? Then we'll try to talk Mime
Junior into. Making a boat.
Oh yeah, the boat situation, yeah.
I mean, I don't think I think he's going to listen most to
Cindy. True.
Do I get to try again or does somebody else need to try
because I tried last time? Oh, did you?
I forgot that. You could try again at
disadvantage. All right, Mime Junior, but
we're getting it together. We need a boat.
Oh, no, I rolled it too. If I get lower than this.
Yeah, yeah, it doesn't matter. It's too late.
Mime Junior, now wearing a hard hat that he lifted from New
Model, looks very professional in it doesn't sit quite right on
his head. He looks at you and yet again,
he just kind of shrugs. He has no idea what you're
talking about. Of course.
I would like to pick up Mime Junior and throw him in the
water. OK.
Let's see if he makes a boat on his own.
OK, make an opposed Dexterity check.
Opposed dex check OK. So like just roll dex and then
yeah. And.
Junior 12 OK, Mime Junior didn't roll A12.
You pick up Mime Junior and you throw him towards the water.
However, you throw him like a foot in front of you and he just
slides down an invisible wall. He doesn't move very far at all,
God damn it. And thanks to his hard hat, he
was protected and he's just staring at you now on the
ground. He still looks kind of clueless.
It's. His vibe.
How buoyant is our wagon? That's not a question for me,
that's a. I'm going to go with not very.
That's a. Question for investigation.
Am I supposed to investigate how buoyant our wagon is?
I. I didn't do no investigation.
Yeah, I'm not doing this, the thing sings.
Not on me. Yeah.
It's not not on me bro. Can solely swim.
Oh no. But solely is big now.
True. And has nine tails to propel win
this. 1. Yeah, how?
How far is this distance? Like I don't remember.
It's like tales from Sonic Tales, just helicopters in the
air. It's it's not close.
I'm leaning towards like it's the length of like 3 Olympic
swimming pools. This is a Bay.
That's a lot. Yeah, it's it's.
I don't think we can swim that that's.
Yeah, there was a tentacles in there too, right?
Yeah, there's like. If we try to swim that, that
might, yeah. This is like where the sea meets
fresh water. So the the water's like an
interesting murky kind of color, and it's a little like the waves
are a little harsher than a lake would be.
Man, we need. Anyone else but to talk to Mime
Junior well? I guess we just die.
I you know what, Mime Junior, please.
We've let you stay with us this far.
Please make a boat. Roll Persuasion or Pokémon
Handling. All right, that's like a 23.
It's a 23, yeah. Mime Junior looks at LED and
like, feels inspired and takes a step forward and hits a wall
right in front of from it. Is there like, is there a wall
there? Like, well, you don't.
I, I can, I like, yeah. Can I put my hand on wherever
the wall is? Sure you do that.
There is a wall. It seems to be this panel of it
is like right in front of MIME Junior and right behind Mime
Junior is Schmidt. Can I like feel around for the
edges of the wall? Sure, you can tell that Mime,
Junior and Schmidt are like in a box the size of a phone booth.
Oh oh. My God.
Oh, OK. So we can put this box with the
two of them in it in the water. The rest of us are right on top
of it. All of you.
This is what we. Say I become the boat.
I. Swear to God, you certainly are
becoming the boat all right. This seems pushable.
Right. I realize this is the ending of
Kingdom Hearts. I'm on board with the plan.
Yeah, I'm cool. We just.
I, I, I, I am going to send Richie to electrocute all of
you. Inside the box.
So is there like a box? Can we like push this in like if
we don't do that? Are you going to try?
I am. Make a try. 15.
OK. Yeah, you push.
Make an imposing check to make them not do the box.
Yeah, absolutely. Just it's opposing strength, OK?
I didn't do it. OK.
It would have been very hard to do it also because like you're
inside of it, like you're. Inside of it, yeah.
So the force doesn't. React the same way.
Yeah. Gimli kind of pushes this
invisible box and it tips over. It's on its side.
Schmidt and Mime slightly tumble, but they're not injured.
But now they're like lying on the ground.
Part of the box is into the shallow water and it's
displacing it slightly. Homeless man, I want you to know
you're dead to me. Can I get Cindy to make a
perception check? 17.
When Gimli pushed the box into the water, it drew your
attention to how these waves are a little bit more intense than
how Lake would normally be, but they're actually a little bit
more intense than this Bay usually is because of your ho in
knowledge. You turn around and you see a
cargo ship. It is sailing past the island
that you're at. If Mauville is to the West, this
cargo ship is to the east and is sailing northeast.
Can we flag it down? You can try.
Hey yo, we need. Is that your attempt?
Maybe you should like signal with some kind of Pokémon or
something. Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Solely. Yeah, like.
That will adjust. Can we Get Me Out of the fucking
water now? Now you're fine.
You're all going to feel my wrath, you.
Know I'll attempt to pull him out of the water.
OK, make a strength check, OK. 16. 16 Yeah, you slightly pull
the box out of the shallow water.
It's got a little bit of mud on it and it you can see kind of
the shape of it a little bit. My to be clear, my junior and
Schmidt are not wet. They are not affected.
Yeah, you. You guys are fine.
I have solely used flamethrower just to try to like alert the
cargo ship to our presence. Sure.
Yeah, Roll, roll the thing I. Rolled.
That will the box go away. I don't know.
Don't hurt MIME Junior. I do.
I would like to encourage you to the last time to remember the
last time you fought Mime Junior.
I do remember the last time I fought Mime Junior, which is why
I'm itching for a rematch. What was your?
I don't know whatever check I had to roll to fight it but I
just rolled the Nat 1 so. OK.
Let's just abandoned that plan for now.
OK. Would you like to describe that
Nat one? Kerfeld.
I I, I, I, I, I eyed mine junior and I like got my fist into a
ball ready to fight him and then I got really nervous and then I,
I had some gas. He's.
He's this little dude. It was like a no what's.
Even worse because you're in a box.
Yeah, it was like an anger fart. Yeah, that's pretty bad.
Your own fumes. Oh God, Mime Junior fails a con
check and takes 2 points of poison damage.
What the fuck? OK.
He points a fart damage. Let's go.
Always say and mine junior's like, he's like pulled his hard
hat over his face a little bit. He's like, not.
This entire campaign, I'm so done.
What was the flamethrower check? Well I rolled A5.
Oh OK but flamethrow as a move is just like to make ADC save
like ADC. That's true.
But you're just kind of like saving against like the sky,
like you're not really going to make a save.
So I think the D20 roll works slowly, lets out a breath of
flame, and it's not terrible, but the sun is just kind of too
bright and it just kind of distorts.
It doesn't really accomplish anything.
All right, looks like we're riding box to shore.
Yep. All right, the cargo ship is
like pretty out of range now. It moves pretty quickly.
However, because of it, there is a wake.
It's it's a little rocky. It's not impossible, but it's
it's more challenging than your arrival.
However, the waves are generally going in the direction of the
land, so that might even help. Ride the waves, baby.
I guess we have to do this. All right, push the box back in.
I hate all of you. OK.
I don't. You made a boat.
You made us a boat, Schmidt. You made us a boat.
I'm going to kill you when I get out.
I'm not going to require a Strength check for that, but it
does work. It's rocky.
There's like no seats. You guys have to balance on it
for each one of you and each Pokémon that is standing on it
has to make a Dexterity save. I'm going to return solely so
that way all my Pokémon are away and.
For sure. So can I?
Cabbage is floating, so she's good, right?
Yeah, cabbage is fine. Can I thrash about inside the
box to make a disadvantage on their checks?
If you give me a strength, it's high enough, yes.
Also, to be clear, you cannot see or hear your party.
You just see the water. It's actually kind of cool, like
it's scary. I can't see my party.
You can see there, like not even on the top of me.
I can. See them above you, but it's
like distorted with the water, you know, it's like foggy
fisheye kind of. And if you if you wish to
perceive into the Bay, you are welcome to.
Sure. Why not?
OK, so if you're still going to thrash, you should roll that for
me. But maybe that's after your
perception, I don't know. Plus 1/18.
You notice that this part of the Bay is about as deep as a lake.
It goes down. You can see the bottom.
It's not so deep that it's like dark, but it must be like 30 or
40 feet deep at the current spot that you are at.
You see a school of Carvada and oh, you see that they are
chasing something. Do I see what they're chasing?
You can see that it is a bipedal Pokémon and it looks like it has
external gills. Bipedal external pills.
OK, OK, OK. You wish to thrash them.
Yeah, yeah, fuck these people. Make a swing, strike crit.
Oh no, no. OK.
Yeah. So.
The birdie dies. You don't die.
You guys are going to have to make Dex saves.
I'm just going to increase the DC and you don't get any
bonuses. It's just a RAW D20.
I got a four. I got a 16.
OK. Yeah, 17. 17 It's still not good
enough. You are all thrown off the boat
or boat as in you thrown off the invisible box.
It's not hard for you to grab onto the side of it, but none of
you are dry. We like try and get back on it
now that we're all in the water anyway.
Yeah, you can try. It's a little slippery.
Is it? Would that be like a dex?
Check it's the same one, but you can add your modifier OK, you
only need to try it once. Yeah, try to get back home.
Why not? I got a 22.
I got an 8. OK, everyone except for Cindy
manages to make it back on the boat.
One of you can help Cindy and she can just get up or she can
stay in the water and just kick. That's up to you.
Yeah, I'll, I'll. OK, you're all back on the boat.
You're all soaked, you're all uncomfy.
Thankfully, the sun's out and so like you're like, it's a little
comforting, but like this is great.
I'm just so uncomfortable conditions it's fine.
Yeah. So you're just kind of like
rocking in place. The wake is kind of pushing you
forward. Paddle with our hands, friends.
Probably try to paddle with my axe.
OK, yeah, that works. Dig into the water.
Yeah, just dig in. More digging.
Schmidt, you're you're in the fart box with Mime Junior.
You doing anything? I'll punch Mime Junior.
OK, make an attack for roll. You can use your strength or
your decks. I'll use my decks because that's
a plus and not a minus, OK? 1919 yeah, you're.
Pretty good right? Too right now.
You managed to smack them like right under the chin.
You dodge the hard hat and Lime Junior just gets flown into the
fire side of the box and he looks at you very sadly.
His eyes are watering and his hard hat is like tilted back.
Oh. He's not fighting back, at least
currently. God damn it.
Please don't fight him. We're trying to get ashore so
that way you don't get wet. And roll AD 4 and add your
modifier too. That's your damage. 6 damage.
Damn. Yeah.
You hurt him. He's hurting Good.
He feels betrayed. Fuck you.
Man. Give me some strengths from the
three of the people on top to see how far you go.
How does he feel betrayed? I've done nothing but be shitty
to him. But he still had hope.
Yeah, he's, he's sold that. Up 10 strength we got a 14.
Nat 20. OK.
Yeah, you. All It's a big die.
I drilled the big die. You all are fine.
There's a you're, you're paddling it.
It, it takes like, you know, probably like 10-15 minutes, but
you make it back to the short. The box is still a box.
Schmidt and Mime Junior are still in there.
If there are any checks that you want to make on the journey,
you're welcome to let me know what they are now.
But otherwise, you guys make it totally fine.
I'm not going to make a travel super difficult.
Yeah, yeah. I'm not going to.
I don't did it check anything on the water so.
OK. Aside from pulling the Schmidt
box out, yeah, I'll. Pull the Schmidt box out, but.
As it comes the shore, yeah, that's fine.
That's not a big deal. It's still a box.
There's still in it. Schmidt, you have full clarity
of the party now and like again, there's like a just a little bit
of mud on the bottom of the box. I would like Gimli to make a
perception. Yeah, 15.
Just outside the city limits of Marvel, which you are much
closer to than you are to Slate Port, you see a group of three
people, and they are messing with some sort of device, some
sort of apparatus. To the best of your knowledge,
it looks like a like a weather instrument or something, but
these don't really like look like scientists or trained
professionals. You overhear some murmuring from
them as well, but you can't quite make out what words
they're saying. Hey guys, I know we just got
back, but some way is going on over there.
I was going to. Say, I think Schmidt is still in
this box. It's true, we'll put the box in
the wagon and deal with it later.
I swear to God I would like to continue to hit mine junior and
hoping that it will faint and the box will disappear.
OK. Just yeah, we should just
actually try to get him out of the like, just tell him I'm
junior. I swear, I swear, I swear, I
swear, I swear. I'm not making this up.
All right, I. Give me a row, whoever's doing
something. I am punching Mime junior and
this is my role. OK.
Crit Yeah. Oh, you got a crit?
Yeah. Oh, man, Yeah.
You go to punch poor Mime Junior, and he knows it's coming
this time because you've already abused him.
And he throws up a wall, which might be like a light screen to
reflect, but your fist just smashes through it and you sock
him right in the chest. What's What's your damage?
What? What's your D4 plus modifier?
Yeah, so the you'll wrote you automatically get what's what's
your mod modifier? For Dex it's +2.
OK, so you automatically get 6 damage and then you do another
role. Oh, and then another role.
Jesus. OK, do I add my dex mod to that?
Yeah. Other role as well or?
OK, so 3. OK, so 9 damage, yeah, mine
junior is basically unconscious, pretty close, really just the
box still there. The box is still present.
God damn it. He's he's kind of, he's like
pressing on the box like he wants to leave and he is crying
but not making any sound. Then make the box go away.
Wait, I'm. Weird.
I reach out to try to give Mime Junior a hug, hoping he gets rid
of the box to give me a hug. OK, roll.
I want you to roll like a love check but that doesn't exist.
Give me like a just a charisma check.
Oh yeah. I was like, I could be like,
like maybe. Oh no, I got a new one.
Oh my God. Hi.
Junior, I'm sorry. You reached down to hugmind
Junior but you can't get him and he looks at you and he's sad.
Oh, Oh my God. I'm sad.
Oh my God, so the box is open. Can I attempt to like the box
open? Like you are going to like try
and find like purchase, see if there's a door or something.
Yeah, I guess. Or just brute force on.
Yeah, you can try. OK, like, yeah, that's
important. Do you like hit it or are you
like investigating? Oh yeah, I'm, I'm going to hit
it. OK, are you using your pickaxe
or your hands or what? I think I was going to pickaxe
it, Yeah, if I can burst it open.
So, I mean, I can't tell what the materials in a Schmidt can
punch through a barrier. I think I can pickaxe through
the same bait. Don't.
Don't take me. Please dig dig die, dig die 15.
Yeah, you smash your pickaxe down and it reaches the box and
Mime Junior crawls out of the hole that you made.
Cool, pick up Mime Junior and hold him.
OK, he's feeling a little bit better.
Can I like kick around the hole to open the hole more?
Yeah, you definitely can. Yeah, you can.
You can crawl out for sure. OK.
The three of you noticed that It's still like a little stinky.
What is that? What happened?
Shut up. All right.
Well, now that you're out, I guess I don't know.
Gimli, did you want to go investigate that?
I mean, we can all. Check it out now, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah it. Seems weird though.
Yeah, it seems seems suspicious. Yeah, yeah.
Do you how do you approach? Do you say anything?
Are you just sneaking more or are you what are you doing?
They won't want. To sneak or do you want me to
just yell at them? I was just gonna have solely
just like, flamethrower at Oh my God.
It's so impressive. And we don't know what they're
doing. They could.
Yeah, they could actually. Be evil.
Like. Maybe they'll survive the.
I just don't want them to mess something up that we just
finished accomplishing. Fixing the the power plant
something stupid. I mean, we could just like walk
over and be like, hi, what you doing?
What's? Going on here.
Hi. OK.
Yeah, if you're. Carrying my junior in my arms,
you're. More than welcome to do that.
I'm, I'm gonna, yeah, I'm, I'm good to gently ask them what
they're doing. Big scout girl Bosset.
LED role of perception. OK, I got a Nat one.
Yeah, Nat one. OK.
Yeah. You as, as you approach, you can
tell that they're like talking amongst themselves, but you
just, you would have no idea. You are so distracted by a flock
of bird Pokémon that fly just above you and they're honking
super loud and it's very disorienting and you have no
idea what's going on. This draws the attention of the
three people who are fiddling with this device, and they kind
of turn around and they're like, oh, that's weird.
I, I don't know what Swan are doing here and they turn back
around and they're fiddling with this device.
Am I close enough to be like hi, what are you guys doing?
Yeah, You do that and one of them turns around.
He has a look like he's got dyed red hair that's really like,
long in the front and then like short on the sides.
He looks super edgy. And he's like, this is none of
your business. OK, I don't know what to say to
that. Oh no.
Girl boss, Girl boss. No, you got.
Come on, come. On roll charisma and then decide
what you say based on your charisma roll.
OK, can I do that? Yeah, absolutely.
OK, if I roll well, I'm going to have to come up with something.
Right. It's fine.
I got a 13. Oh, that's with the total.
OK, yeah, that's fine. There's another guy.
He's a little scrawny and he's wearing glasses, but he's has
like a scar on his face and he's behind the guy with the red hair
and he looks, he's like we're working right now.
I'd rather not be bothered. And he is inputting on a numpad.
There's a panel. This device is like a tripod and
it's got a big like satellite dish on it and it's pointing
northwards. Hey can I do an insight check?
Absolutely. See how shady these people are?
Please do. I would just like to note that
I'm giving my junior death stare right now.
That's fine. His eyes are still watery.
I I rolled an 11. You're an 11.
You're not familiar with science stuff like you don't really
know, like, what could be going on here.
But you do know that like if they are working, they don't
really look like professionals? I asked my junior what he
thinks. Oh, my junior gets to roll an
insight. Junior's been pretty good so
far. My junior, No, no he hasn't.
My junior rolled A4. He's a little distracted by his
abuse and he doesn't really notice what's going on here.
Attracted by abuse, Seth? Yep.
I hug him tighter. OK, he appreciates it.
Oh. He trapped me in a box, Schmidt.
Behavior side really justified some of SO, so it's fine.
I mean, I don't know how I mean how worth it it is.
I mean, like I was we we could mention that like, oh, like we
know the gym leader. I think I think I, I think I am
it's. Like if we know well, you're
like, hey, we know the gym leader.
We just want to make sure that nothing's.
Happening. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
You all can carry on. Yeah, I'll say that.
I'll be like, all right. Well, we, we, we did some work
for the gym leader. We know him.
So just wanted to make sure you know what you guys are doing is
not. Here with the area because we
don't want the power plant to get shut down again.
Exactly. Exactly.
There's the third guy who is like fiddling with the satellite
dish and he's wearing a hood and he has green hair under the
hood. You don't know what this style
is necessarily, but he looks a little rough around the edges,
too. And he says we don't care.
What? Buddy, we do care.
So. You can either tell us what
you're doing or I'm going to break your device.
The red haired guy clutches at his belt and he says are you
looking for a fight right now? I'm looking for a scrap, not a
Pokémon battle. I will beat you down.
Ha roll intimidation. 15. OK, yeah, the the red haired guy
is just like a little taken aback.
He's like, oh shit, this guy wants to like fight.
And then he looks around him and he realizes that he has his
friends on his side. He's like, you can't take all of
us. Buddy, I've taken on more than
you. 3 scrawny little blokes all right.
They go into a combative posture and they say, well, bring it.
Fine. OK, are you going to fist fight
them? Absolutely.
OK, Roll initiative. 15. 15 OK, they got 14 so you do get to
make the first swing all. Right, coming right for the face
of the Ted kid. The red haired guy.
Yep, 16. Yeah, that connects.
Roll your damage. I'm going to give you a, I'm
going to give you D6. It's still just your fist, but.
You get a little and then is it strength bonus or?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, 9 damage. OK, yeah, that's a yeah.
You punch this kid right in the kisser and he goes and he like
stumbles down a little bit and then he gets up and he charges
you in the gut and 16 probably breaks your armor class, right?
Sure does. OK, and he deals a whopping 5
damage as he tackles you. The other two guys, one of them
goes up and kicks you in the shin.
He rolls A5. He does not connect.
He just kind of whiffs because he tried to kick you right as
you were being tackled. And then the other guy, instead
of fighting, he reaches into his pocket and he turns around and
he's speaking. It is now again your turn.
Or other people can do other things.
I let out Soli discreetly. OK.
And. You'll have to roll a stealth
for that because Soli is not particularly discreet.
Soli is beautiful and bright. I'm so sneaky.
We got a six. OK, yeah, they definitely see
that Nine Tails is out. They fully recognize, oh, that's
a Nine Tails OK. And the blue haired guy who
missed his kick in as as a reaction sends out a Pokémon of
his own, a little purple bipedal frog.
And it is has thorns on it and it looks particularly malicious.
It doesn't do anything. It just stands there like stands
in front of solely because. The guy who tackled me attempt
to throw him into the lake. OK, yeah, we're going to do a
post strength for that. You'll probably get it.
But yeah, he yeah, he. Oh yeah, this is mine.
He he got a 10. I don't know what you got.
Oh, I got a 19 without modifiers like.
OK, yeah, you pick up this dude. Do you do you want to like
describe this throw? I'm just.
Like Lariat, swing him and release him.
I figured as much. Yeah.
He's like maybe in his late
teens, early 20s. And he's not, like, particularly
heavy. So you do with ease.
You're shorter than him, which is really funny.
Yeah. It's like a dwarf flick tossing.
Yeah, but he he goes into the Bay and he's like, all right,
that's enough. And he is not having it.
The green haired guy who was turned around is communicating
into a walkie-talkie. Can I listen in on him?
You can't. I got an 18.
Perfect, he says. Rada, someone's interfering.
We need backup. That's right here.
Rada. Rada, that's what you hear.
Rada, rada, rada. Can I like, can I be like, hey,
who are you talking to? To him.
Yeah, you can all about. Oh yeah, you do that.
I don't know why I was expecting to roll out of that I'm.
Going to do it. He says you'll find out soon
enough and he just kind of like starts to jog away a little bit,
leave his other two friends behind.
He's a bit of a. Kid, do I need to rule
initiative to be involved in this fight?
It would make sense if you did. OK, 19. 19 OK, yeah.
So you can just move right now. A flamethrower.
OK, into who most? The it's a cone.
The device? Yeah.
Do you target the device? You target the Pokémon.
It is a cone, that's true. But like who?
Who's at the crux of the cone? The guy on the walkie-talkie.
OK, this will not connect with the the device because he's like
away from it, but so Lee is able to move and then attack that
guy. What's the save?
14. Yeah, he fails.
He rolls A10. Roll your damage. 6 + 511.
OK yeah, you burned this guy. He's in bad shape, he's
screaming, he's like and he stopped running towards Monville
and he is on fire. Sold these.
Fire is hot. The Pokey X entry reads that
those who are burned by 9 tails heat will be burned forever.
Oh my God. Not necessary.
Read the Bad. Not necessarily true in this
case, but the this person you can see that under his hood he
had like a green Mohawk but the hair is gone and he jumps to the
back to join his friend. So now you're just face to face
with the guy with the frog. And y'all call me abusive.
We shall do. It Schmidt, do you want to do
anything? No, this is their problem.
OK, so you just stand and watch. Yeah, I'll head back towards
Marvel too. OK, that'll be you.
Is that all you're doing is just 30 feet of movement?
Yeah, great. The toxic croak.
I just revealed what it was. But toxic croak is going to go
for a poison jab into holy. And so we're going to baby doll
eyes. OK.
So is does that reduce the chance to hit or does that
reduce the incoming damage? Impose disadvantage on an enemy
creature after they target yourself for an ally and before
they roll to hit or save or a save is rolled.
Perfect use of baby doll eyes. You can deduct 1PP from that.
And it worked. It looked like this poison like
toxicoric was charging up a punch to just sock right into
solely and then solely all of a sudden turned its face and
looked super cute and then toxicoric felt distracted and
the punch goes wide and it does not connect.
Very good Schmidt as you approach the gate to Marvel,
it's it's like a little mini building like you know how it
goes in like Pokémon like there's a little like
checkpoint. It's like either for security or
just like they have information like this one is particularly
catered towards tourism like there's little maps and guides
and like there's someone working who can help people out.
The doors open up and outcomes a big man, just a very large
person. He is very wide, he's looks like
Andre the Giant but like maybe wider and stronger and he has
like crazy black hair that goes in all directions and a goatee.
He is followed by a stomping dinosaur looking Pokémon.
It is also very large. It is probably twice the size as
as he is and he is in a Gray and black uniform.
I need Cindy to roll a history check.
Can I see him from where we are? No, but you can hear the
footsteps of the dinosaur, and that's important.
History is based on intelligence.
Yeah, it's a six. The six, OK, you hear the
stomping of the earth and you don't really think much of it
besides, huh, that's weird. There is a very big person and a
dinosaur heading towards the party, but they don't quite know
it yet. If you're not doing anything
with that Schmidt, then it's skin lead strength.
I'm going to smash the device with my pickaxe.
OK, roll a pickaxe. Smash 22.
You drive your pickaxe into this tripod satellite looking thing
and you smash it. You carve it down the center so
all the legs implode and it just falls to the ground smoking.
Nicely done question mark. There we go.
It turns out they were actual scientists.
No, just kidding. The guy with the frog is like,
oh, you're asking for it now and he's going to use an attack of
opportunity because you've attacked something within his
radius too. You know what Cards on the Table
solely burned a dude? Toxic Croak got to punch a dude
and misses? That's fine.
Toxic Croak goes in for the punch and Gimli just nimbly
manages to dodge out of the way. Valerie just.
Yeah, behind you, the red haired kid from the lake says it's on
now. Just wait till Rada gets here
and he throws out a pokey ball and outcomes a little bipedal
looking like like a shark, but it has feet.
It's kind of weirdly awkward looking.
A shark with feet. And it goes where?
And it's standing on the beach, and it looks like it would be
ready for combat at a certain point.
You were all aware of the sound of heavy footsteps.
Schmidt. Are you just like walking to
Marvel? Yeah.
Where you had. To go get like a change of
clothes. Change of clothes?
Yeah. Do you intend to go to like a
like Like what's the word? How would you describe like a
gap or like AJC, not JC Penney, like like our?
I'm assuming like I had a change of clothes with my stuff.
Oh, you're just kind of buying anything new.
You're just. Changing No, no, no, no, no.
No, OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're on your way to do that. All of my clothes are stinky
right now. That's.
True, you did sit in a fart box. Yeah, that's fine.
Roll, roll a Perception for Marvel. 5. 5 Some of these
lights seem kind of brighter, cool.
It seems like the town has more power, that's all.
That's all you get from it. Mime Junior can tell that
something bad might be happening and grows up a reflect around
the party, particularly solely. I don't think Gimli's behind the
reflect, and Schmidt obviously isn't, but everyone else is
behind the reflect on that side. So where the little landshark is
and the two dudes in the lake, they are not impacted by this
reflect necessarily. So this giant man approaches the
party and behind him is a dinosaur that is like twice as
big as this giant man is. And it's like entirely made of
metal. And he sees the carnage that has
been dealt to this machine. And he says, who do you think
you are doing this to? My product?
He's actually asking a question. What it was about, Yeah.
I was like, trying to find out what it's about.
Your men weren't telling us. We're not letting you interfere
with this power plant. He says you have no idea who
you're messing with, we're gonna get that taken care of right
now. And he throws out his hand and
without any communication, his big metal Dino charges towards
Gimli. You take any sort of reaction
before his horns connects with you, Gimli.
I I attempt to wrangle the horns, sort of like a bull
charging me, and I try to catch. OK, it's.
Gonna be very hard. It's gonna be, yeah.
It's gonna be incredibly hard. OK, Of course.
I dismant dinosaur. Absolutely.
OK, yeah, tell me your roll. OK.
Big boy dice. Big Boy Dice 15.
OK. Is that total?
Yeah, that's total. OK, this dyno did not roll
particularly well. They got a 22.
OK, wow. This dyno charges you, you grab
onto its horn so you're not necessarily impaled, but it
flings you backwards and you are thrown into the air.
I need you to roll 3D6. OK.
I don't know. 9 total. OK, as you fall, you land on the
ground, you take 9 damage. It hurts.
It's bad. I'm bad at types, but if it's a
metal dragon, fire should make sense, right?
Potentially you you're allowed to metagame this like because I
haven't revealed what the Pokémon is though.
All right, flamethrower it up at the dinosaur.
OK, Is dex safe? Yeah, Dex save a 14.
OK, with the modifier this Dino got a 15.
I'm so sorry. That still does damage.
That's still half damage. Yeah, cool.
So I'm still going to roll the two D 10 + 5, but it's half of
that. OK, 1717.
So half of that? OK, round down is 8, right?
Is it? Round up.
It's always round down for everything.
Yeah, it's. Round down, I don't.
I know. Yeah, this metal Dino takes a
little bit of damage. It doesn't seem like it was
particularly effective, but also not not effective, if that helps
you out a little bit. It did damage.
This Dino doesn't seem to care. Caught in the cone is this big
imposing man who you assume is Radha, who is like the manager
of these people, so to speak, and he gets slightly impacted by
the cone of the flames. It appears that his clothing is
somewhat fire repellent. It does not catch fire and he
does not even flinch. He is currently inspecting the
remains of the device. Now we haven't done anything
with LED in a bit LED, this is getting more serious.
You intend to. Do it.
Certainly getting more serious. Yeah.
And I'm getting very nervous. Run away.
Well, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna run away, but I would
prefer not to engage in fighting.
So I'm trying to think of the way to dissuade them from
continuing this fighting, if I can think of anything that would
do that. Calm everybody down.
That's. What I was thinking, I think
like if I could have cabbage use a sort of, you know, calming
lavender sweet scent, I think that'd be great.
Thank you for identifying the scent, that's very important.
You're welcome. Yeah.
Very relevant. Of course, yes, it is.
It always is. So I'm not really using sweet
scent as a move because I think that's a, that's a a save.
If I'm using it as a move, would I?
Would I roll for that? Yeah, we'll do both.
We'll have you roll for the efficacy and that'll determine
the DC for everyone who's involved.
The roll was a 5. Landshark, Toxic Croak and Red
Haired Boy all rolled A4. So they yeah, so they're just
like, duh, this smells really nice and like they're just kind
of vibing and it's kind of funny.
Blue haired Boy is not affected. Big man is not affected.
Big Metal Dyno is not affected. Schmidt, what kind of clothes
did you change into? Important.
Because I was wearing like the the V-neck, right?
I think I'm just going to go back to like my default like
button up with like a button undone too much.
One. Yeah.
One more undone. Too much, yeah.
OK, yeah, awesome. Do you change your pants or
anything? Yeah, I'll change out of the
jeans back to like the the like khaki slacks that I have.
Nice. Maybe like she knows or
something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
OK, cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're doing great. Your your party's doing great.
Did you leave someone at the Battle Institute?
I don't remember if you did or not dude.
I don't know if that's you don't have to do that.
I was just, I was thinking about who you had on.
You. Oh, not Jessica.
Patricia. Yeah.
Yeah, I love Patricia. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Once I get my clothes changed I'll head that way and pick him
up. OK, sounds good.
That'll take like a turn of movement to get over there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool.
Rada sees what LD is doing and is going to make a check.
It was not very high. He kind of squints that LD for a
second, but nothing much comes of it.
He says, Agron, we need to get rid of these people.
And Agron lets out a terrifying metallic shriek and he turns
sideways, like incredibly fast for being something so big, and
swings his tail towards the lot of you, including Toxic Rook and
one of the other people. So everyone who's involved,
which is going to be, well, all of you except for Landshark and
the two dudes who are still getting out of the water, have
to make a Dexterity safe. Who dudes getting out of the
water? Yeah, there's two.
One of them jumped in because he caught on fire, and one of them
jumped in because. Oh, OK. 17.
OK. You said deck save.
Yes, deck save. 6. OK, and what about solely?
Oh yeah, solely. Let's get an advantage save for
cabbage. Sounds good.
Like cabbage is kind of already floating.
Yeah, it should be solely got 8. OK.
Cabbage got a 13. Oh no, Stoli's HP is no bueno.
OK, yeah, so every person who got less than 15 just gets the
breath knocked out of them just completely and they get forced
all into the side because the tail kind of grabs everyone and
pushes them towards the gate of Bauville.
More or less. It pushes you actually towards
the entrance of the cycling Rd. and it is a big tail that's like
made out of stone and metal and it hurts.
So if you're a person and you got hit by it, you are taking
eight points of damage. If you're a Pokémon and you got
hit by it, you are taking 16 points of damage.
Solely is fainted. Solely is not.
Yes. That's steel type damage.
It's this is just a, it's not Iron Tail.
This is just. OK, so it's just it's just
something. OK, cool.
Cabbage is not knocked out, pig. It is just pain.
It is just pain and not good. Toxic crook is also knocked out,
as is Toxico's trainer. Actually, they are all
unconscious and. Cindy might be unconscious too.
How much did did I take? 8. 17 is but I have a 2 written
because I think I took some damage at the.
Passed out and then when you were revived.
Yeah, so I'm knocked out again. OK, you also don't get the
chance to recall solely either. So Rada seems smug about this
move, and he instructs Agron to say contain the rest.
And Agron stands in front of Gimli and Elodie, seeming to
just kind of like, block you necessarily.
You do anything about this? August from like, are we opposed
to the gate still? Like can we just leave?
You could try and make a break for the door to the cycling Rd.
It is about 20 feet to your right.
You are closer to it than Agron is, but it's there.
I'm confused that Agron's positioning is the problem.
OK, So what? Is he blocking 'cause you said
he knocked us towards the gate to Malville?
Yeah. So you're, you're kind of
cornered, like to behind you is the Bay, to your right is the
gate to Cycling Rd. in front of you is Agron and to the left is
like just the chaos. There's like the the Landshark
and yeah. 'Cause I'm just confused that
you said you hit it. He hit us towards the gate.
Yeah, but now he's in front of us for that.
Like how does that positioning work?
Yeah. So he tail swiped you?
Yeah, into towards the gate, right.
And then he, he's not blocking the gate.
Sorry, I'm I'm saying two different gates.
He swiped you towards the gate of Cycling Rd.
He's standing in front of like the gate to Mahville, if that
makes sense. OK.
Yeah, that makes more sense because I was like, how does he,
how does he hit us towards something and then block?
Us. I was not being clear.
Yeah. OK.
I was just making sure that I understood the situation because
I was like that. That's hard to manage there.
Yeah, OK. He is very big and imposing and
he's surprisingly fast, but he's not like doing anything.
Particularly he's still Agron. Like, yeah, yeah, that's like,
holy crap, he's a demon. Like he's just speeding, OK.
I was like, I was imagine like Bowser and like melee with like
the little. He's just like, chugging along
there, yeah. So, OK, so.
We clearly need to get out of this situation and I have to
pick up Cindy and. And solely.
And solely and we probably need to escape to Cycling Rd.
That would be good. This Rada was inspecting the
remains of this device and it didn't seem to identify
anything. So he stomps on it.
He's very big and it seems like he just has kind of if there, if
it wasn't fully destroyed, it is fully destroyed now it's fully.
Destroyed now, yeah. Can I get a perception from LED?
I got an 8. OK, yeah, you're scared.
This is kind of absurd. You don't know why this has
happened. Clearly, you shouldn't have
bothered these people, but they're also up to no good,
obviously. You also notice that the
landshark and one of the guys in the water are just, like,
distracted. They are sweet, scented out of
their minds. They're having a good time.
Well. That's good.
He's a little off in the distance, but Rada is walking
towards you. OK, I mean.
What's your plan of action? Yeah, the plan of action was to
probably try to escape the cycling road, right?
Like what? What comes after that?
Like he can probably follow us on the cycling Rd.
I. Don't know if the people there
might be able to help us or get some medical assistance for me
and solely. OK, I mean, I'm willing to try
it. Tell me your plan.
The northern gate to Cycling Rd. That corner is where you are
pinned. Agron has like swept you towards
the gate and he is blocking your access north.
Does that make sense? Yes.
So he's like in that pathway basically.
He's in the the the dirt pathway and all of you are just kind of
like brushed up against the side close to this gate.
I understand. OK, Because so we're.
Yeah. So we're closer to the cycling
Rd., which we obviously can't enter because it's a cycling
Rd., but we can like enter the area.
Because in the games they're like, hey, you don't have a
bike. Yeah, no, they they don't care
about like criminals and all that.
We don't have a bike and no entry.
Yeah, I. Don't know if the logic holds
water the same way. It's like you figured there
would be like a taxi service on the cycling road or something.
I mean, we haven't tried it yet, so maybe they would let us, but
I might have doubt it. Hey, can we go on the path?
Because we're trying to escape like a giant villain guy.
He's right outside, you can probably see him.
You do that. I mean, yeah, I would enter the
bike path like, hey, we're trying to get out of here and
this is the only way out because this is a Giant Agron in the
way. You swing up, open the door,
Rada is confidently. Me on the floor.
No, I picked you up already. OK.
And solely. Yeah.
OK, sorry. The big bad guy is not like
running towards you, he's walking slowly.
So you open the door and you're like ready to explain your
shtick and you can see that the door to the cycling Rd. is wide
open and the attendant is not there.
Awesome, cool, amazing. I'm so happy with the situation
that we found ourselves in. I guess that's true.
Like we can go and like there's nobody gonna stop us, world.
Of perception Gimley. Yeah, who am I perceiving?
Just do it. Just trust.
Trust, trust. 17. 19 Sorry. There you go.
Up until like a few seconds ago, there was an attendant here and
they ran away. No.
Well. That well gang, we weren't happy
with the scenario either. Let's gang.
I mean just elodie 'cause they suddenly.
Just. Consciously, the unconscious
still hugging Mime Junior. Who is, is, or isn't conscious?
I don't know, Wagon. Get knocked with us.
Can is the wagon here. Yeah, I was gonna say, can we
would just like put one of like Cindy or solely in the wagon?
Where is the wagon? We didn't really.
We didn't really decide. That I think it is left behind
on the route. I I would.
Suggest. That I don't.
Think you guys would agree? Yeah.
OK, pick up the wagon. No.
True, true, true. That's fine.
Yeah, that that makes sense. Time is running out.
The strange man is approaching you all.
You don't know what his attempt is, Cindy.
And Solely are unconscious. Yep.
What are you doing? We're escaping to the bike path.
Cycling Yeah. Cycling Rd.
Without Cindy. No, we're.
Carrying them. OK, Just make a quick strength,
yeah. Of course 12.
We're going to say that's good enough.
You can't carry solely, but you can carry Cindy.
You can carry one but not the other.
Can I try and carry solely? Yeah, you can try.
Right, Firefox. I got a free.
So they can recall solely. Oh, true, true, true.
I did get a three on that roll just for that.
As far as I mean the really the only that's not like I'd have
like medicine on me, but I could try and do the smelling salts
thing. Yeah, you can try.
With cabbage to. Recall solely, yeah.
So that was a 5 on that roll or sweet scent.
Yeah, that does not work. I'm sorry.
Yeah. I don't really know how else I
would revise. Somebody could somebody take my
pokey balls and return solely? Is that allowed?
Can we do that? You can try.
You're gonna have like one more action before Radha does what he
wants here, so. One more action and we can't
run, or one more action and we one.
More action and then you run. OK.
So in the one action, I don't know if you want to try or.
Well, I mean, I, I was just going to like try to like, I
know what the ball looks like, so I was going to try to get to
it and see if I can recall solely.
OK, it's either Pokémon hand in there.
I thought it was just the. Perception to find the.
Ball I I think you know where the ball is.
I think you spent enough time with Cindy where that's not
going to be a problem. You saw her release solely as
well. So like that's not a problem.
I think the question is if like you're able to do it quickly,
which is like decks related, and if like poke my handling isn't
necessary, you just have to make a dex check.
OK. I mean, would Grace, would you
be better at that or? Well, you're the dex God.
But like objectively probably neutral.
No, I get it. I I can roll for that though
the. DC's 10.
I got an 11. OK, that does it.
That barely does it. Let's go.
OK. OK, let's go on the path.
Let's. Always in the other.
Path I got solely back, we're fine, Go go.
OK, yeah, Radha is not chasing you.
He in fact looks like not disturbed at all that you're
leaving. And he brings his wrist to his
face and he says something. Schmidt, you're in Marvel,
you're heading towards the Battle Institute.
Whereas you get to the doors, there's a man who has a funny
mustache and he's in top hat, has a suit.
And he looks at you, says isn't it a lovely day we're having
today? Sure, why not?
He gives you a little nod and he holds the door open for you.
Thank you. He says you're.
Nice, anyone's been to me all day.
You're in the Battle Institute. Yeah, I would.
I'll go up to like a front desk or whatever.
Yeah, just say hello. I'd like to pick up my Pokémon.
They say, oh, you're the trainer with a little bird, aren't you?
Yes, yes, that is me. All right, Yeah, she's all ready
for you. And they walk over and they can
see, you know, like the, the thing in the gym, I don't know
what it's called, 'cause I don't work out where it like there's
weights and like you pull it and it's like for your shoulders.
Yes, I know exactly the machine you're talking.
About yeah, they're doing that in a bird way, somehow they're
like. Bird way somewhere.
Yeah, they're like. Working on the flapping muscles,
yeah. Exactly, exactly like, like
there's not much weight on there, like at all.
But they are training their flapping.
It's it's kind of neat. They hand them over to you and
they say, well, thanks for your business.
OK. Thank you.
What's your plan now? I guess, Jim, you're.
Just going to head straight to the gym.
Yeah. Cool.
Yeah, you do that. You are starting to walk towards
the gym, the cycling path. You all breakthrough the gate
and you get to the road, it starts to elevate a bit.
I'm assuming you're just all just going to keep running on
the path. Or do you duck into the cover
under the bridge where the trees are?
We could. I kind of want to hide and see
if I can hear what he's saying, although I doubt I can.
You can roll a perception. Yeah, I'm not.
I'm going to do that. Doing that.
My roles Today I got a six. Yeah, Six.
Yeah, You're not sure. He, he's just kind of like
looking up at the path and he's just standing there.
He's scooping up his like, injured grunts, so to speak,
just like propping them against the wall and like, slapping them
gently, trying to get them to wake up.
And the two guys in the water are out of the water and they're
approaching this guy and his dinosaur.
The dinosaur is just watching the bridge carefully.
I do want to just hide out. Like on the bridge.
I mean, well, we can either, oh, you're trying to hear them, but
they can either follow the path or we can hide out and wait for
them to eventually leave it. Seems like they're watching for
like if we're going to go on the path or something or if
something's going to come on the path, which is why I'm like, I'm
nervous to go on the path, but also like if we stay here then
then. They know that we didn't leave
and go on the. Path.
Yeah, exactly. We should probably just venture
downward then onto the path and like just like try to create
some distance. Yeah, no, that's.
That's like on cycling road, yeah, yeah, you do that.
You go up the ramp a little bit, you're on your feet and there's
a sign that's like, you must be on a bike.
But like, clearly no one's like, watching out for that, right?
And way down at the end, you can see one cyclist who's standing
kind of like at the crux over the water.
And they've just kind of been like watching.
And they're like jaws dropped, but you're on the path.
Yes, we're looking to just head along the path and try to make
it back to Slayport at this point.
You're heading down towards Slayport.
Yeah, I mean, that's our only option.
OK, Yeah, you do that, Schmidt. Yeah.
You have made it to the gym. Do you enter?
Yes, yeah, this it's it seemed like a pretty drab kind of
building before, but now it's all like set up.
It's all like zappy. And there's like, I'm not sure
what you call them. There's there's like those poles
that conduct electricity between them and it looks fun.
It like little beams of plasma are going.
This is like all over the walls and you're not even in the gym
yet. You're just like in the front
door where the reception is. And there's a guy who's staying
there and he's like wearing a nice bun up shirt.
And he asked to see your trainer ID.
Yeah, I give it to him. Cool.
Yeah, he does that, and he puts a little scribble on it and he
hands it back to you. All of you on the bridge,
unconscious. Cindy Mime Junior, you're
running down the path. It's kind of empty.
Maybe people saw something crazy going on and they started to run
away. You're running down the path and
there is someone who's not running.
There's someone who is completely head to toe covered
in fabric. It's like a black fabric.
You cannot make out anything. They have like a mesh thing in
front of their face but it's not transparent and they are like
running towards you. Oh.
Great, amazing. Love it.
What do? You do attempt to run past them,
I guess. OK.
Be pleasant. I'm going to just be pleasant.
And a smile, you know? Wait.
Yeah. OK, yeah.
You run towards each other pretty quickly and they slow
their jog as you approach and they speak to you in like a
robotic sounding voice. I'm not going to, I don't have a
voice changer, so I'm not going to like attempt to do it.
But they, you can't really necessarily tell who they are.
They say you need to go this way, come this way, you follow
them. Which way are they going?
They don't say. I'm kind of intrigued.
Yeah, actually. I kind of want to follow I'm.
Interested. I'm in this adventure.
Let's go. OK.
Nothing better to do. And you get to, like the big
square part in the cycling Rd. where people just, like, bike in
circles. And you're high above the water.
You're probably like, you know, 30 or 40 feet above the water in
like the middle of the lake. And they look at the railing and
they point and they say jump. Why?
They say you have to trust me. Just do it I.
Don't even know who you are. Yeah, you know what?
Adventure. Oh.
My God, I can't wait. I do you jump.
Oh, we're in the big square part.
Is that what you said? Yeah, and you're jumping off the
side of the railing. Yeah, let's do it.
OK. We we've.
Already followed them like yeah roll a basic dex check I'm.
So good at dex 17. Yeah, that's great.
You jump exactly where they're pointing and they haven't moved
like their hand. They're gesturing in this
direction. You jump off the bridge and
about right before you hit the water, LED notices as just a
quick crackle of pink lightning covers your body and you
disappear. Oh.
I'm jumping with me, right, because I was carrying.
It yes, that happens as well. Now it's just you on the bridge
LED. I'm going to follow.
Yeah, this person in the robot voice says.
Come on, you have to go. And you do.
You jump off, make a deck, check.
Yeah, I will make a deck check. Cool. 15 or 16, sorry. 16 yeah,
that's certainly good enough. You fall and then immediately,
at the same point of where you would just about hit the water,
you go, there's a pink sparkle of electricity and you were
gone. I think this is a very good
climactic point to end this session.
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We'll see you all on Tuesday. Oh yeah, we came, we came from
this fight with like this massive server Rodem, and we
just roll up and just fight these dudes like.
Yeah, why did you do this? I was interested in
investigating, but the the whole fighting thing, I was like, Oh
no. I don't really know why Gimli
just punched him like I gave. Me an attitude.
I wasn't taking that disrespect. That's fair.