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.
At this moment, Schmidt is entering the Pokémon gym.
You do not know that, but that is what's happening as the rest
of you jump into the portal, Cindy unconscious currently.
You immediately slam into concrete and it is fully dark.
I would like you all to roll AD six really quick, except for
Cindy. Oh, neat. 2.
OK. I also got it too.
That is the damage that you took from falling because you jumped
off a bridge and hit concrete. I think that's fair.
You are in a pretty Dang dark space.
To your left, it's like a square room.
To your left, there's a slight crack as if there's like a
double doorway, and there are cube objects kind of scattered
across the place. It's pretty cold.
It's a little, it's weird, it's how do I describe it?
It's kind of noisy, but it doesn't really sound like a
mechanical type of noise. But just like on the other side
of the wall, you can tell that their sounds, but you can't
necessarily make up what the sounds are at this moment.
As you land, Bean starts to squirm a little bit inside of
Emily's overalls. He's a little worked up and you
hear the sound of a hard hat clinking on the concrete.
What do you? Do Mon Junior right?
Mon Junior, are you there Do. You reach out for him, call for
him. I.
Do yeah. It is just the hard hat.
Oh, Oh no, is the person like, still there?
I guess it's dark. It's pretty dark.
We don't know you could. You could see, you could make a
a look. Yes, OK, make a what check?
Just a perception. I will apply the darkness to it
so you don't have to do any negatives or anything.
Well, I rolled A5 so. OK, yeah, it's it's pretty dark.
There's a little slit of light you can see one of the boxes is
brown colored. And to your knowledge, there's
no other people in this room besides you.
Dean is just kind of writhing. He's going making little baby
sounds. Hey, what's up buddy?
Is everything OK? What's wrong?
Yeah, he's just squirming around.
It kind of just looks like being a classic baby, probably.
Yeah, being concerned, yeah. Yeah, but he's never been this
active before. Yeah, it's kind of weird.
He's usually been pretty, pretty chill.
So no matter what's going on, actually it really gets too
worked up. I will remind the party that
Cindy is not conscious. Yeah, we should probably try to.
Yeah, should I try and wake her up again with a a sweet scent or
do you think we should try something else?
Do you have any way to like heal her too?
I don't know. OK, don't think so unless
Pokémon potions work on humans. Yeah, I don't know about.
We do have super potions. This brace any of the Super
potion, do you do that? Such a waste.
I don't know, Jed. We can try to just revive her
for right now. OK, I can go for a sweet scent
then. Yeah, let's see if we can wake
them here. OK, roll a medicine.
Cool. OK, 21.
Oh, that's quite good. Cindy is revitalized with half
her HP. Wait, what happened?
Oh, a lot honey here. Where are we?
Why is it so dark my? Passion.
You remember the big scary dude, right?
Yeah. I think, well, he kind of chased
us towards the bike path. So we ran onto the bike path and
then some weird person dressed all in black was like, hey,
follow me. And then jumped into a portal
and we followed and yeah, now we're here.
Cool, cool, love. It was kind.
Of knocked Out. So that was a oh.
But we got solely is like in a pokey ball, right?
Right. Yeah, OK, cool.
Do the boxes appear to have like openings?
Like if I tried to find an opening on one.
Yeah, it I won't make you roll for it.
Some of them are like slightly taped and some of them are just
kind of flapped open. They're they're all cardboard
boxes. Oh, OK, so.
It wouldn't be like difficult to open, yeah.
Can I open one of them and see what's in it?
Yeah, roll AD 4. OK, 3.
You are drawn to a particular box.
It's a fairly large box. It's got some weight to it.
You open it up and there it is full of sphere objects.
Cool. Including this place.
Like what's happening? I I was just curious what's in
the boxes? I don't know, Should we take
some? I I I don't think we should have
a little. Yeah.
Should we open the door that's cracked slightly?
And maybe we should just leave. I mean it, there's just like,
well, you said there's like a crack in a door or something.
So it's. Yeah.
So there's a double door, you don't know the material and
along the bottom like where it swings open, definitely lit.
There's there's light filtering through just daylight or kind of
like evening light. Yeah, OK.
Let's yeah, let we can just depart that door.
I think that's fine. OK, it is locked.
OK, great. In fact, there's no handle on
the inside. Oh no.
Yeah, OK, this isn't. This thing, we have somebody who
can manhandle. It Yeah, some big strong man
with us. I have I have a concern this is
a it's not very OSHA certified I think.
I think doors should be opening from the inside if possible so
people don't get locked in. OK, we'll file that as.
Soon as we got the door. I think I will want to issue a
formal complete later. Bean is still just kind of
writhing, just not having a good time.
I mean, I kind of want to knock first.
It got. Too long.
Like instead of bashing the door in.
OK. My motif.
But like maybe some nothing stuff got us into a bad
situation and maybe we shouldn't keep smashing.
All right, well, we can knock. It doesn't hurt to knock.
If nothing happens, then we can smash it.
Right. That's the only cause more
trouble considering I already caused enough trouble.
Yeah, I'll, I'll give it a, I'll give it a knock on the door.
OK, you do that role of perception.
Sure. 13. Yeah, you knock on the door.
You can tell immediately by placing your knuckles on it that
this is a door that is made of like a metal alloy, like either
aluminum or titanium or something.
It's resonant and it if you feel like the sound falls away really
quickly. But also as you knock and listen
for a response, you don't hear 1:00 on the other side of the
door, but you hear murmuring below you.
Don't love that Diggy. You didn't quite roll out, roll
high enough to make out words, but they sound kind of like
there's at least two voices and they're chatting a little heated
about something, but not like yelling.
But there, there's some drama, I mean.
We could yell out to them, but they sound a little preoccupied.
Yeah, but we could just yell help to them.
Is there a trap door anywhere to like go down a floor?
You haven't necessarily searched.
All you know is that there's a few boxes and there's a closed
door. Yeah.
I would like to roll what is it perception.
I perceived a 19. As far as you can tell, you're
in like a 15 by 15 foot cube room that is concrete with a
metal door. There are four cardboard boxes
in this room and it doesn't seem like anything else, but because
you rolled so high with a little bit of light in the room, you
notice an Insignia on the boxes. They all on each side of the box
have a black circle with three yellow letters in it that are
NRG. Oh no.
Why are we here? So we.
Can steal the stuff in the boxes and.
Now I feel less bad about it. And I think we also need to get
out of here, so. Can I take one of the spheres
from the box and like hold it up to the light of the door to see
what it looks like? Absolutely.
You don't need to roll. It's a pokey ball.
Nice. OK, well hey guys.
Oh wait, is this a bad idea? Can I try and open it?
Sure you do that. See if there's anything in it.
Yes. OK, you do that.
There's a flash of red light as a creature's form materializes.
It's like a little plant that's got 2 little legs and it looks
up at you and goes oh. Are these the stolen pokey
balls? Probably, I'm guessing.
This little plant is just looking at Ality right now.
Hi. Bean is squirming even more, and
he's actually, he's chirping kind of.
He's like, he's very upset. Bean does not like this place.
Bean, what's happening? He's bean, been here before.
I mean, he's a baby. He's he was an egg.
So that's impossible because he hatched in front of us.
But bean is a little out there as we know so.
True. I say we'd take as many
pokeballs as we can carry. Right.
Take them where? Yeah, to the police so they can
be returned to their owners. Sure.
But we have to like, leave. OK, Yeah.
It is at this point. Stuff as many as I can fit into
my bag. Backpack.
As you're doing that, as you're going for the balls, you hear
the sound from outside the door, potentially far outside the door
that sounds like a voice on a megaphone.
You can't make out the words. It's too far away.
It's too scrambled. Don't think that's a good sign?
Not. At all.
Are you trying your how many of you are pirating re pirating
these pokey balls? I I was going to say, if Cindy's
trying to carry as many as she can, I would have her roll AD 10
plus her strength set Frank Maude see how many she can
carry. Right.
I don't want to be just caught with our pants down though.
So I'm also like, maybe we should take some kind of smaller
evidence rather than and then if we find our way out that we can
go back, you know? OK, well, I'll take the, what is
it, D10 plus my strength. My strength is minus, so I got a
six. OK.
You can carry 6 pokeballs so Cindy stuffs 6 pokey balls about
herself. They are kind of hard for her to
carry because one, she's tiny and scrawny and two, they are in
in my head cannon, if there's a Pokémon in them, they're like a
little bit bigger. Yeah, they're not like.
Shrunk. Yeah, they can still shrink, but
like by not as much. And they're orbs.
Like carrying orbs is kind of tricky with your arms.
Yeah. Do they not fit in my backpack?
Yeah, they do. I thought you were carrying
them. As I was, like I said, I stuffed
as many as I could into my. Oh, what?
What you currently have in there I.
Don't know stuff. Look at your inventory.
A Ford tree ball, super potions, revives, repels, trainer ID and
badge holder some berries. OK, I'll let you double it.
You can have 12 in there, OK, You notice as you're playing
them out the box and put them in, they have all sorts of
different patterns and colors on them and they're all in
different conditions. Some are very worn, some of them
look brand new. Kind of want to go investigate
this hard hat to be honest. OK, curious about it.
I'll walk over to there, pick it up.
Yeah, it's the same hard hat that you picked up in new model
that Mime Junior was wearing. OK, so Mime Junior's not around,
but he jumped with us, didn't he?
He did. I Where did he go?
We can't make noise so. Oh, right.
We can't even if we call him like I did already.
Right. Can't respond but.
He would probably like try and touch us or something.
If he's conscious, yes. Oh right, yes I possibly have
unconscious. Damage.
Yeah, yeah. And junior, do you want to hug?
No response. No hugs, no hugs.
Oh man. In addition to the light
quarreling that is happening from voices beneath you, you
hear the sound of footsteps on metal.
Oh, and that's that's below or outside.
That's below you. That's a concern.
Now we either make a ruckus or and they investigate, we hide.
That's what I'm thinking. We're open.
But then after that, what happens?
I I don't know, but we're trapped in a room right now, so.
I have have HP and don't have solely to do any flamethrower.
Oh, I guess I could revive her do.
You have a revive. According to my inventory, I
have two. Oh.
I mean, you can. I don't think I've used any yet.
OK. How much soul or how much soul?
How much HP does Soli have? Soli has 40.
OK so you can either take 20 or you can roll 4D6 plus her con
mod. I I think I'm going to take the
20. OK, that's safer.
Yeah, Soli is revived with half of her HP.
She's just doing all right. Good.
You can tell as these voices are making footsteps that it sounds
like they're getting closer. They're not super close, but
they all their voices are also a little bit more clear.
You can tell it is two people, a masculine voice and a feminine
voice. Do we recognize the feminine
voice as the? Because haven't we encountered
some team Energy people before? You have you can roll a
perception to see what you can get out of these voices.
No, they're 19. Let's go.
The quality of these voices you do not particularly recognize.
They do kind of like remind you of like classic like ruffians,
more or less. But they're having a
conversation of about something that does kind of ring a bell to
you. As they're walking, you can hear
the woman say they sent Rada. What, why?
Why would they do that? The person says, I don't know.
Apparently there's some commotion.
They're trying to get the triangulation all set up and
then apparently someone interfered and now we're running
late, he says. That's ridiculous.
You can't just rata with that kind of thing.
Rata is NRG. We had a feeling, I mean.
Yeah. Well, that's good though,
because. Shocked.
Yeah. Well, yeah, because then it
makes our our actions a little more justified.
A little A. Little bit in.
Retrospect, like I know it's after the facts of really
reflecting on it. It was still very rash for me.
But yeah, it ended up being a little bit more justified.
I'm just concerned that if they are energy, then that like we're
in a pretty vulnerable spot here.
Oh, Oh yes, we are. Very especially.
Because we're we're kind of battered at the moment and then
having to deal with them in addition to that.
And if if they sent Rada and rot like did Radha come in on like a
some fucking helicopter like or did he just walk out he.
Just walked in. Yeah, because the issue there is
that we're kind of local. Like there's nothing stopping
Radha from coming back, recognizing us, and beating the
car out of us. True.
I guess pretending to be a part of energy is our possibility.
OK, well we have to dig through some more boxes then.
There might be uniforms. Right, True.
Can we keep digging through boxes?
Yeah, roll, roll AD 4. Or I mean, like you just open
all the boxes. I don't know.
Yeah. Yeah.
OK, yeah. So one of them, the largest, is
just full of pokey balls. One of them is full of like
binders and like all sorts of paperwork.
One of them is seemingly empty and the other one is full of
clothing. Yo.
Clothing. Someone investigate the binders
too. If you guys want to take the
clothing, I'll take the binders and look at.
Them I I have a investigation like like proficiency so.
I. Can't investigate binders?
Yeah, you go for it. Hopefully.
OK, well mean mean I. Would oh Oh no I rolled A6 OK
but modifier no +2 plus so 9 I forgot how to read it's fine.
There's it's definitely just like a bunch of paperwork.
There's a lot of like big words that like Cindy might not
necessarily recognize. The one that you pull out seems
to be kind of investigatory in nature.
It seems to be tracking something and there's a bunch of
photographs and on the front and on the spine it says Artefact
005 all. Right, let's check out these
uniforms. Yeah, you your hunch was
correct. There are, in fact, uniforms.
If you intend to smuggle them, you'll have to roll AD 20 to see
how well they fit. OK.
Well, they'll definitely do that.
Yes, got a. 17 It's either comedy gold or or perfection.
OK, 17 is good. It's it fits perfectly fine.
Oh, sick. Also got a 17, yeah.
You guys are basically at our G grunts right now.
Let's. Go.
So funny. Great.
As you changing clothes, Bean is freaking out.
Oh oh. I'm sorry, Bea.
Are you all right? You do anything with him?
Yeah, I pick him up. So he was like tucked in your
shirt. Will you like hold him in your
hands? OK, Yeah.
OK, he goes to bite you on your hand.
He deals with one damage. Make a Dexterity safe. 10.
Yeah, his nibble caught you by surprise.
He definitely like didn't want to hurt you, but he was just
like hey like stop. So you drop him.
He lands on the floor and as he makes impact, his body just
vanishes into the ground. Oh my God.
That's what happened to mine. Oh my God, like right in that
spot. A couple of seconds later you
can hear the door like jingling. All right, guys in uniform,
let's act like we got locked in here by accident because we were
sorting things. For sure.
Oh yeah, yeah. Pretend you're sorting, guys,
Yeah? Just sorting through stuff.
The door swings open and it's very, very, very bright.
It seems like you were very high up in the sky and there was no
one standing in front of the door except for Bean.
What's going on? What is happening?
It's not actually that bright, but just because you're in so
much darkness, it was a little intense for you.
It appears you are on the top of a tall building.
You're in. You're on like a rooftop storage
area. OK, and Bean, open the door for
us. Someone open the door for you.
We said you said it was Bean at the door, right?
Bean's at the door, yeah. Bean mime.
Bean, you OK? Bean just looks like gimbling
and let's off a smile. My boy.
I I call I call for MIME junior and hold the hard hat.
OK, there is no response. I hold the hard hat anyway, I'm.
Just gonna. I'm gonna.
Approach I put it on. And go see if I can pick up bean
again. Yeah, you can pick up Bean.
He's fine. OK.
Hey buddy, did you open the door?
So the doors are open, you can see very clearly where the room
that you were in. And yeah, again, just looks like
some random storage on the top of a building.
You can look outside. You don't need to make any
checks. You work fairly in Maville.
You're on the top of a large building in Maville.
You did not end up going too far.
You can see the Champion May statue.
You're it's just slightly to the northwest of you.
And there is another big storage thing and just straight,
straight, like on the other side of the roof to your left,
there's a small little room with a window on it.
It looks like it's a staircase for the inside of the building
and off to the side there is like a fire escape.
I say we take the fire escape down because going through the
building probably not a good look.
I could agree we are in uniform. But we are in uniform though.
I I don't think we could keep the deception up long enough.
You're right. You're right, we're very.
You're right. Well, we still have these
though. Like we can come back later,
yes. Do we already?
Now, as we descend the fire escape or.
I think as a fail safe, that's good, just in case somebody does
run into US, yeah. 'Cause we could say that the
door to the stairs was locked and like.
Yeah, we had to take. The fire escape, whether it was
or not, yeah. That's true.
All right, OK, Attempt to head down the fire escape.
You do that. It's just one of those really
long spirally staircases you're on top of, like probably one of
the tallest buildings in Mahville.
This is at least 30 stories. I The people on the ground look
like ants. The megaphone sound is a lot
more clear to you. You recognize it as the voice of
Ellen or the politician. He sounds a little more riled up
than usual. She's giving some.
You can't make out the words right now because it's windy,
but she she's sounding very passionate.
Yeah. Sounds about right.
Let's get down. So you are just saying the fire
escape? Yeah, OK, I do need stealth
checks from all of you. I know you're in uniform, but
you need stealth checks. OK.
Yeah. At this point, Schmidt is
walking out of the gym, heading towards the Pokémon Center.
That's probably where we're going to go next.
I think that's a good idea anyway.
I rolled a 18 for Steph. OK.
I got a 7 OK. A 15.
OK, as you're descending down this narrow fire escape LED
gives a little slight trip and there's some people in an office
wearing kind of formal looking clothes and they look outside
and see the three of you and they're like, what's going on?
You can't tell for sure what they're saying because it's
behind glass, but they look a little confused and concerned.
They're seeing some people in uniform descending the fire
escape for no reason when they could just be going in the
inside of the building. Very weird.
I mean, yeah, you see them reach for a desk phone, but you can't
hear what they're saying. Oh no.
Well, I guess. We keep going.
We're already. Here, Yeah, we, we, we got to
kind of. We change back into normal
outfits now that we see that there's not team energy people
also inside the building I. Just see people in formal
clothing. They could be like
administrative energy members. Yeah, you just think every
energy person just wears a uniform.
We didn't even know Rado was NRG.
He just had black. He might have been like
contracted by energy because it seemed like he's not officially
part of it, but it's like, why'd they send him like?
Just to make. A look I have a hoodie, I could
put my hoodie over the NRG uniform and not.
This doesn't seem like a smart move to just change out of
clothes for no reason. Just keep going.
Yeah, we'll be fine. We'll be fine.
You keep descending again.
If this is like a 30 story skyscraper, you're probably
about on the 20th floor. So as you're descending and now
you can hear the voice of Eleanor much more clearly.
I also would like someone to make a perception check. 18.
Cool. There's a lot more people in
Eleanor's audience, and she has someone on stage with her, but
not a someone. They're a little too tall, a
little too slender, and they move very strangely to be a
person. You can hear what she's saying.
She's saying the time has come. Enough is enough.
We are going to take a stand for our great country of Holland.
And all the people in line is like, yeah, yeah, woo.
She says in just a couple of moments, I'll show you what a
real leader looks like. And everyone's like, yeah, Woo.
Yeah, They're, they're loving it.
They're eating it up. I don't think I like this.
At the bottom of the building. But you came from the route
South of Mahville, right? It's pretty clear that you're on
the southern side of Mahville. Below your feet.
You see lots of people in the same uniform as you running back
and forth between the opening of this building and the route
you're just on. There's, like, dozens of them.
Oh, my God. Keep going, OK?
Yeah, I mean, we got to keep going.
You continue to descend. It is at this point that Schmidt
is greeted by a messenger and he receives a special note.
You continue to descend and you've made it onto the ground
without anyone else noticing that you don't belong.
However, because of where this placed you, you're kind of like
on the side of the building in like kind of an alley.
Now's a good time to get changed into normal clothes to go to the
Pokémon Center. There are people running past
the alley. Yeah, there are literally people
running around. Right now you could pull it off,
but I'm just saying like you can do whatever you want, but like
you're in an alley between two buildings because you were
designing the fire escape, you had a good advantage and you
could see in town, you could see Ellen or speech and everything.
But now it's like kind of dark and sheltered.
But at the opening of the alley, there are energy uniformed
people running around and they're just kind of shouting
each other. And they're, they're trying to,
they're trying to put out a fire, so to speak, it seems
like. We could ask them what they're
doing. Should we 'cause if we don't
look informed, I think we're gonna.
Yeah, yeah, I see. We can go to the Pokémon
yourself. Like, everyone's like shuffling
about, like in the chaos. Can't we just, like, get
through? Yeah, we'd probably like slip
through that's. What I'm saying like we can find
out what's going on, but also like we need to get out of this
general area and then kind of from the outside in kind of see,
I guess unless we want to be like in the fray of this, but
we're not in good shape. Yeah, I agree.
Maybe just stay on the fringes. OK.
Do you attempt to cross this path of all of these energy
grunts running around doing stuff?
I think we were along with them just like kind of shouting
directions and see what we can do.
And oh, you're going to blend in with them.
I think so. OK so travel like is did anyone
agree with that? Is that what we're saying?
Yeah, I'm. Good with that.
OK. Maybe not shout directions, just
kind of like run kind of with. They're like shouting.
Towards the side, out of the way.
Look busy? Yeah, while we're.
We're getting out of the alley, so that way, like, it's fine.
Yeah, I'll give Everyone will have to make a pretty generous
deception check. Stealth or deception.
I don't know what's more appropriate.
You're not really sneaking, you're trying to blend in.
I would say deception. Well.
OK, yeah, I also got a 12. I got an 8.
OK, Yeah. You all run into the path of all
these energy grunts running around and they're again,
they're running to the entrance of the building and back down to
the route. The three of you don't seem to
have as much gusto or you're just not really acting like the
rest of them. It's just not clear that you're
blending and everyone's saying let's go, let's move, let's
move. We're running out of time.
And you're noticed by someone who is in uniform and has a
black eye patch. And she says get moving.
What are the three of you doing? Come on.
She points towards the route where you came from.
I guess we go towards. Yeah, I guess we go that way.
OK, you just turn and run. Because I feel like once we get
on the route, we could find like a place to get out of the way,
put normal people clothes on and come back.
Yeah. And also I do remember, I think
that the the the leader lady that we did run into had an eye
patch, so this could be her. So I think we should try and
like just follow her directions and get out of her way.
Yeah. Before she recognizes us.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, let's go.
OK, You run down, you follow the other energy grunts.
As you're running, you hear the eye patch woman say next time I
expect a yes ma'am, he doesn't chase you down, but he's a
little upset that you didn't address her in a.
Way. Yes, ma'am.
Sorry, ma'am. As you're running, you can see
that there is a familiar black dog who was barking at these
grunts and I'd like at the crux of where they turn left to head
to the route. So you're at that point, you're
at the southernmost part of model.
You can head down to the southern route and there is a my
Tiana who is barking literally at all these grunts who are
running to go take care of something where you just were.
You are running out of time to make a decision so I'm going to
put on a 30 second timer and you guys got to figure this out
because you're on the way. So starting now the.
Way. Is there any?
Space where we can like, duck into like.
Sure you can. You can attempt to like a
stealth. So far your stealth's haven't
been that great, but you'll have to do that without being
noticed. I'm.
Just trying to like I can't remember what like.
Think about that. We got to make a decision
because we have like that, like at this point, like 10 seconds.
Yeah, 15. Do we just run into the route
and then try to lose the crowd from the air?
Is the route wooded? What do we know about the route?
There's some woods, there's some berries and that's 30 seconds.
So we're. Going on the route.
Running on the right. So you run towards the mighty
Anna, who's barking kind of like encouraging me to all these
grunts and you turn left as the mighty Anna is is doing.
As you are on the ground, you can see just how many freaking
people are out in the center of Marvel.
There's people who are like climbing up May statue and
everything. This is quite the moment.
Something, something is being planned for right now.
It is also this moment that Schmidt has chosen to walk in a
direction that he chose in our last session.
He's moving in a certain direction.
You make it onto the route and you see a little pile of
crumpled up electronics. It seems to be whatever device
that you interrupted the establishment of that Radha then
destroyed. There's about 6:00 or so people
who are grunts, who are in the standard uniforms that you are,
and they're trying, they're to hurriedly construct a similar
looking device. And then the majority of the
grunts are heading to the entrance of the cycling road and
they're creating a barricade on top of Cycling Rd.
You can see that there is no cyclist, no enthusiasts, but
there is in fact Rada standing there with Agron looking around,
confused. So.
He did go after us. Yeah.
Well, I'm glad we jumped then, yeah.
This point can we like kind of veer off into like a wooded
area. Yeah, you can try.
I'm just giving it like notice. You're in a big group, so it's
going to be tricky for you to not get noticed, but it's
possible you can definitely. Do it, but like, also, where
would we go from there? Like we change back into normal
clothes and then we come out of the woods and then someone's
like, hey, look, there's normal pee pee here.
And then Rata recognizes us, and then we die.
Yeah, kind of in a bad spot. Do we go sneak into the woods
and then keep on going to what's at Slateport?
Is that the city below us? It is the city below you.
Like that's where the route leads to, yeah, I think.
The Walking path is currently obstructed by just a line of
team energy grunts, kind of like how it is in Pokémon games.
Like they're like he can't go through here and cycling Rd. the
doors like busted in an agron shaped hole and rod is up on
cycling road. Not saying it's impossible, I'm
just saying that's what it looks.
Like, yeah, that's, this is not the way we go.
Well, everyone's scrambling like back and forth, right?
Like it wasn't just we ran one way.
Like, what are we gonna do? Scramble and go help the the six
energy crunts the people. That are coming forth towards
you all are all carrying things and the people who are running
back are empty handed. So we just run and grab
something and then go ahead and. Carry things, yeah.
OK, they're gonna run back. Yeah, OK.
Well, like we, we probably need to go and grab something, right?
We can't just run back. I'm sorry.
It's what are they? I'm sorry, it's a bit of a mix.
I'm sorry. Some of them are empty handed.
When they're coming to and from, everyone seems to be either
carrying like nondescript containers or they're carrying
like mechanical parts, like little satellite dishes or like
little like tripod legs and stuff like that.
Because they're trying to reconstruct whatever was being
set up here, but they're using it with really shoddy, like
incomplete parts. What if we go to where The thing
is being contracted, we start taking stuff that looks
important and we just take it away.
Just, you know, a little disruption.
Is that is that advised? Ron is like right there.
OK, no, you're right. That's not advised.
He's he's. Not in earshot, but he's around,
sure. Right.
But he, he can move like he's a big dude, but that man can move
all right. I'm concerned.
I don't want to mess with that guy again.
And we just are inching closer to where he is.
So we could bring back like broken pieces.
I'm saying just like look for something broken and we can
collectively carry it and walk it back and look like we're
doing something and get back into the city in the right
direction. OK, sure, that works.
Yeah. Can we like look around for
parts to that look like they're disheveled that people are
grabbing because it looks like they're grabbing like scrap
stuff, right? And bringing it back?
There's a there's a pile of electronics that Rodda had
destroyed that isn't fully cleared up yet.
There's also a group of like 6 or so grunts that are huddled
around their little makeshift contraption that has a satellite
dish on it and it's pointing northwards.
So we're going to grab like some of the scrap from what Rodda's
had and work our way back, I think.
OK, you do that. You aren't going to make a check
for that because it's a scrambled mess and everyone
seems to be doing stuff like that.
There's a lot of people. They're just doing a lot of
stuff. And as you're running back
towards Maville, you can hear Eleanor say, that's right, the
time is now. Our revolution, it's come.
It's happening. Everyone's like they're like so
excited. And you run past the boss with
the eye patch. She is kind of like watching
this and she's speaking to her wrist and she's like, no, we
can't commit yet. We can't do this yet.
Stop. We need to pause and she's
looking very frustrated and confused and concerned and
people are rushing. Everyone's rushing something.
Whatever their plan is, is not ready apparently.
Right. That also means Eleanor is
involved with energy, or possibly.
Yeah, something like that, like there's that's also.
I did the right thing and destroyed the thing and that's
why they're taking. They're delayed.
Got it. Oh.
Right. That's why they're not ready.
It's because the device is. Set up, yeah.
OK. OK, so you're like at the door
of this big building. You enter.
The energy building. Yeah, or the where you came
from. Your hands are full of broken
pieces of metal. And that's where all the grounds
are going. None of them have have gone any
other direction. The doors are wide open and
yeah, they're like ants. OK.
This is. Safer than what we.
Were doing but how did those sort?
Of like identification, yeah. And also, yeah, how do we get
out of this loop? Yeah, I don't know how to break
this. It's.
Just we now work for Team Energy.
This is a pyramid scheme. Oh yes, the the good guys are
now intentionally the bad guy. You broke it, you buy it with
your labor. As is foretold of the squirrels.
Oh, we the baddies now. So there's like no other path,
like we're following them like ants, but there's no, there's no
break point to be your way. Like, can we perceive anything
around while we're carrying this stuff?
Yeah, you could. You could rule a perception,
yeah. Sure, it's Lamal.
Oh yeah? Well, I roll the one so I'm not
perceiving anything. OK, Yeah, you don't see it.
I think you can get something valuable about this.
I will let someone follow up if they.
Oh no, I rolled A gnat one for a perception.
As well. Oh my God.
Worthless, you guys.
Are we're just ants? You just.
I'm also an Ant, Oh my God. Yeah, you're just kind of.
You're standing at the door being indecisive and looking
around, and the energy boss is there and she's not really
occupied with you. But you hear one final phrase
that sends a shiver down all of your spines.
He says if we're not ready with this, a lot of people could get
hurt. Oh no.
God, oh, maybe we did do a bad thing.
I am going to start a different timer because I love timers
because they had a lot of suspense.
I'm going to start a timer for an amount of time that I'm not
telling you. That is between I perceive. 2
and 8 minutes and when that timer ends, something is going
to happen. Oh God.
Can I? Can I roll a perception?
I know. I think you.
Said go for it. Why not?
OK, that is an 18. OK, yeah, I'm going to send a
picture. It's not a very like the shape I
like a lot, but the just ignore the aesthetics of it in the
voice text channel. This kind of like take this into
your mind. What's going on here.
So you're more or less the southern brick path is where you
came from right to the right where those shrubs are.
That's like the energy buildings.
You're in this corner, right? And you can tell with your
perception and like in the center, that's the May statue
and then the other paths lead to the rest of the city.
At each of those crossroads in the in the plus sign where it
meets up with the courtyard, there is a similar device that
gamely slash Rada ended up destroying and it's fully
constructed and ready to go and they all point towards the
center of town. OK, so we've got two options.
Help the construction of the one that's here in the case that
people get hurt or destroy the other ones.
Or I guess third option is something else entirely.
I think we're in knee deep into this though.
We got to see it through this morning.
Yeah, we have to do something on the.
Timer. Yeah, there's no option there.
Could do. Nothing, but that's true.
Ask the ask the question again. Actually an option is there.
Like, I mean, we brought back old pieces.
They were hobbling something together, right?
So are there like new pieces that are getting distributed out
or everything's already built? There most likely is because
people are running out with fresh material, but it's inside
the building. Do we want to enter this
building or is it, do you feel like it's too risky because we
don't have identification? I don't think identification is
their worry right now. True.
No, you're right. They seem to.
How? Far into the building, do we
need to go? Because it could just be like
right inside the lobby where they're just like accepting
parts and giving out new parts to run.
Yeah, like. OK, so let's maybe just enter
the building real quick. At at this point, like we're
already, there's no way we're getting to that top section
where the new one is to like quote, UN quote, escape.
Like there's like no reason for anyone will notice us moving out
of position to do that at this. Point, right, right.
OK. There's like no way for us to go
outside of like basically into the building.
Alternatively, making a scene could pause whatever is going on
here, just as an aside, but maybe let's just try that plan
first. Sure, let's just let's just go
inside with the broken part and see if we can get a new thing.
OK, you do that. There's very clearly like an
area where people are dropping off destroyed parts, and then
there's an area where certain people are handing out new parts
that need to be used for constructing this satellite
triangulation thing. Cool, so let's drop off the old
part. OK.
Let's go to the Let's go to the desk to see if they have a new
partner destination for us to go to you.
Were able to do it without problem because of the hurried
nature of everything. So all of you end up with the
new parts in your hands. So they're funky little metal
tubes. It looks like that like Cindy
has a base of a platform and Gimli's carrying like a dish of
some sort. Can Cindy roll a perception to
see if she recognizes any of the grunts as her parents?
Yeah, totally. Parent check.
My. Parent check they are.
Are you my dad? You are my dad.
My dad, are you my dad? We got a 15.
No, I'm here, my dad and I'm singing.
Even if they were, it's like pretty mess.
It'd be hard to sort anyone out from the chaos, but.
Imagine a RIA night like moment right now of God.
Dad, is that you? Schmidt is walking in his
direction and he surely passed by one of these devices, but
that's probably what he's doing. There's not much left time on
left on your timer. What are you doing?
Making the new. Parts.
When we took the new parts, did they tell us where to put them?
Nope. Do we just go to the zone 3
where one's already built? Like.
Why? What would we do?
Well, I mean, it's a less crowded area because they're
scrambling in this zone. Like we could probably break
away I guess like they seem. Too puzzled.
We could build a satellite. Is that what we have all the
parts like, right? Like is that?
What is it us? Do you want, do we want to like
build the satellite because we're scared of things getting
destroyed or are we going to try to escape with like the new
stuff because I have a dish, you have a, a platform.
We have some tubes like like what do what do we want to do?
Because we're running out of time.
So we either commit to being energy grunts temporarily and
building this thing because we're afraid of the
ramifications of the device not being built.
Or we attempt to use this chaos to just like end the fact we're
carrying stuff to certain locations and we look busy to
like get out basically, or get into a different zone that's
less in the middle of chaos. I'm slightly in favor of option
2, but I would. Have said try to yeah.
So I like the idea of option 2 or we try to.
So the way this was described in the garden, and correct me if
I'm wrong, we are in the bottom right corner basically, and
that's our building effectively, yeah.
So you want to go to the northern end, Yes, you will pass
by the eastern end on the way, but I'm just saying you can
totally do that. Oh well, we're oh, so the South
end is where the entrance is correctly to the the route.
That's what you're saying. I think we're.
Trying to go to the eastern. One, I was saying we're going
north to the eastern. Oh, yes, yes, yes.
That's the closest one. Yeah.
And that's the side of town that leads towards like your
stronghold and Vampire in Forgery City, right?
Exactly. Yep, Yeah, you head over in that
direction. You're kind of running away from
the commotion of Eleanor's speech, and no one seems to be
concerned with your movement in that direction because you're in
uniform and you have stuff that seems important.
Yep. And that's pretty much when the
timer ends. Eleanor gives one last great
like the time is now. Witness our fearless new leader.
And there is like a deep sci-fi ish like rumble from all over
the town and everyone kind of gasps and goes quiet.
It kind of feels like an earthquake all of a sudden.
In the center of town, above the statue of May, there's a big
blackish purple vortex. That period just opens just for
a split second and then it closes and then it reopens and
it's full of fire, just like explosions and smoke.
And then emerging from it is a big old Zeppelin.
And next to the Zeppelin there is what may look to some of you
entertainment fans as like a Gundam.
It's not truly a Gundam, but there is a person shaped looking
robot with parts of flesh exposed that kind of doesn't
really look like a person, but it kind of does look like a
person. Holy crap on this.
On the metal thing. We are now a mecha anime.
Yeah, we're from Pokémon to a mecha anime, and I'm kind of
here for it. On this blimp there's a big old
black and yellow symbol that says NRG and again floating
alongside it, which is like dwarfed in comparison to the
blimp is like a human looking thing that's covered in metal
armaments. And Eleanor says now witness
Team Neo Rocket Galactic as the the figure who's floating around
by the blimp descends towards the statue of May and people
turn around and face it. The the thing that you ran to
the the component, the triangulation device, it caught
fire. It's it's smoking.
It is not doing well. Oh, no.
And you can see that in the other corners are also little
fires. And everyone in Marvel has their
attention turned towards the center of town where the nay
statue is. As the portal of fire closes,
you get a bad feeling that something did not properly
happen here. And like who knows where this
fire is, but it's not great. The the figure that's humanoid
looking and floating next to the blimp stretches out the hand.
As he outstretches the hand, he slices it in a direction and
through nothing, almost as if he was holding like a giant sword.
He cuts down the statue of May in half and marble crashes onto
the ground in the courtyard. Oh my God.
The Eleanor has she's done a very stupid anime Pokémon iconic
thing where she's let her hair down and all of a sudden it
looks like she's like wearing eyeshadow and like she like took
off her like formal looking jacket and now like pretty much
this was like an energy outfit. Like she looks like an admin.
Yeah. And she runs up to the center
and she says our new organization, we'll use our
great power and our great technology to bring peace to the
region of Hoenn and all regions across the world.
And this gets mixed reviews from the audience.
A lot of people are still hyped up.
They're like, whoa, I can't believe what I just saw.
This is so cool. And others are just like, hold
on. Like, this is like too much like
I was upset. This is.
The same group that caused the terrorist attack that Mesa had
nothing about. It seems like they're preparing
to say a bunch of words to the citizens of the capital city in
Hoenn. What is your plan here?
I before I dive too into their actions I want to know what you
guys want to do because this is kind of important.
We slip away and go to the Pokémon Center like please.
Like I want to know what happens.
Like what's this seems kind of pressing.
This is, yeah, this is kind of important right now, like.
You know, but like Pokémon Center though, I'm like but.
However. There's a lot of plot happening,
right? Now all the grunts who are
running around trying to get this thing set up, they've
stopped. They're all like watching the
spectacle. A lot of them are cheering and
applauding because they do that. This was coming for a while.
And the two, so the boss who was like ordering the grunts to go
fix the machine. She walks forward towards the
center of the courtyard, as does Eleanor the politician.
And she reveals herself as not Eleanor, the loyal figure
representative for Phoebe, but her name is in fact Enyo, and
she is joined alongside her pale flowing humanoid looking Pokémon
that looks very serene. Wait, so like she she was not
actually in Phoebe's cabinet? Or she was and now she's like a.
Perhaps a double agent business. She definitely she was.
She's a politician, but she might have her interests
elsewhere as well. Yeah.
OK. Just clarifying that.
Also from the South comes another individual, one who
you're very familiar with. Someone decides to stop looking
for you and join their boss. It's Radha and Agron, they're
running up towards the courtyard.
Enyo says. With our great power and
technology, we will bring unity. All you citizens, we make one
simple request. You comply or be destroyed.
What? OK.
And, and a lot of, and at this point a lot, there isn't like,
Oh no, no, no, no. Like they're freaking out a a
couple of people, like they're just mixed amongst the crowd.
You see people are opening pokeballs and they're trying to
make a stand. You see someone jump on the back
of a large buggish looking dragon and it starts flapping
its wings and a sandstorm begins to whip up and you hear the
voice. You can't hear them very well
because they're not amplified, but they're like, it sounds like
they're saying like we, we won't have this, this is evil,
something like that. There's someone who has like a
big martial arts looking chicken and they just start charging
towards the center of the courtyard.
People are revolution. Any actions from you guys?
I don't know what. To do.
Where the police? Schmidt definitely sees this.
I think Schmidt's going to jump in on the action.
OK Yeah, we'll just make it. If he sees the, like, Pokémon
coming out and like from the fight he's going to, he's going
to jump in. OK?
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next release on Tuesday. Galactic.
Holy crap. Yeah, they needed to workshop.
That'll name a little bit more. It's like.
Did they sit around a board and like, we feel like we're going
to be Team Rocket and Galactic put together?
But Naomi knew. I doubt.
Yeah, like they're obviously. Rocket Galactic and like how?
This is what we're focusing on you.
Heard a Tex mex? How about rocket galactic?
This is so sick. Oh.
My God. I would watch the show isn't.
It ready for this this. Is so dark.
We're recording the show right now.