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Welcome to the Cali Rex Game Corners Pokémon D&D campaign
featuring Cindy, a young Vagabond from the Hohen region
with pyromaniac tendencies, Gimli, a stocky, burly miner
from Sino looking for his lost son, Elodie, 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.
Currently as of right now, the Quacko Packo are in Meteor
Falls. They are at Draken Village,
which is now mostly in ruins. There's a few standing
buildings, There's a few people wandering around, There's some
trainers trying to help out with the elders trying to get
everyone to safety. There's a couple of blankets
that are being draped over 2 individuals who have sadly
perished, and the sun is rising through the holes in the
ceilings. In the walls.
You can hear the faint sound of the ocean beyond the cliffs to
the north and it's about like 5:00 AM.
We are not an initiative and let's see what the Quacko Packo
decides to do. I don't want to do anything for
we just jump straight into it. We healing ourselves and our
Pokémon and. Yeah, that sounds like a good
idea. Maybe taking a nap since it's
5:00 AM and we stayed up all night fighting diox.
That is certainly an option. You may do any of those things.
Note that there is no or there's very limited technology.
There's no conventional healing methods.
A short rest will grant you and your party Pokémon a certain
dice amount of healing. A long rest which would just be
you sleeping until like afternoon.
You could fully restore everyone if that's what you wish.
OK, I. Mean.
Yeah, at least thinking. About it.
Repercussion just. Hard sleep.
Right. Like I feel like we kind of need
it. The repercussion would be any
events that happen while you're sleeping.
Could we do shifts? You could, absolutely.
That's a very common decision. Two of us take a long rest.
Are we? So how are we eating Deoxys back
into space? Yeah, I want to talk to the
dragon is before anything, so if we all want to go take a long
rest, I'm going to go talk to them first.
Watch I guess. Great.
We'll be on Schmidt. Just decide I guess which 2 are
resting first. Cindy's probably in the worst
shape, so she's probably like, yeah, yeah, nap, Nap sounds
great. And like falls asleep standing
up, like just straight up like I'm.
Also in terrible shape. I'm at 18.
I was at one HP so I probably do want to take a rest.
Yeah, for for clarity, like for you guys, for flavor, but also
listeners. You guys are like fucked up.
You, you were up all night. You were fighting for your
lives, You were running around, engaging in combat.
It was messy. Cindy particularly looks like
she's close to death, so that you guys are.
I'm honk shooing for sure. Yeah, you're, you guys can be
out for at least six hours, no problem.
Nice. That leaves Schmidt and Elodie.
What are you guys doing? I'm going straight to the dragon
heads, OK? No, no, no, no BS, no, no,
whatever. Just you're going to walk up.
What are they doing? Like as if I approach them.
Yeah, it seems like they've relocated to their like the main
estate where they all live that the elders home.
It's it's the nicest looking building in the area.
Part of the roof has been caved in.
There's a hole in the top, but otherwise it's is somewhat
structurally sound. It is at the southwest corner of
the village. It seems that Renza's body is
being cared to. It seems like they're they're
draping some some foliage and some flowers around it outside
of the door. Specifically Tomatoma and you
can hear murmurs inside the building as Jinga and Walker are
chatting. OK, Tomatoma is outside and
Jenga and Walker are inside, correct?
OK, I walk up to the building. How?
Do. I want to do this.
I kick it not to like break anything, just to make a loud
noise. OK.
And I'm just going to be like team meeting outside now and
then I'm going to find like a rock or something to sit on.
Sure, Yeah, there's there's plenty of rubble and stuff.
Yeah, and then I'm going to pull out the green rock and be like,
all right, guys, you got some explaining to do.
Great. Your announcement of yourself
is, is a little abrupt and jarring and thankfully doesn't
really startle any of the elders.
The one it may have startled would have been Tomatoma, but
she saw you coming. And so she she saw the action.
And she puts down her basket of flowers and she walks over to
the little circle that you've designated as the meeting area.
And your grandfather and Jenga come outside and they look at
you and they all look very tired and sad, but also look at you
with gratitude. And Walker says, what can we
help you with? Start from the beginning and
everything. Oh, God, Walker says.
Well, if we want to start at the very beginning, eons ago, the
Hoenn region was made. There were primordial forces at
work. These are Legendary Pokémon that
we are very familiar with thanks to our history of keeping lore.
As you as Lore Keeper now know, they are also Legendary Pokémon
that we met just over a decade ago, as they were brought back
from the fools Archie and Maxi, the villainous organizations
that once took place here. Groudon and Kyogre responsible
respectively for the creation of land and the creation of sea.
That was hundreds of thousands of years ago.
They've been around ever since. At some point, humans settled in
this land. Rumor has it that surprisingly
the first place that was settled was the desert on Route 111.
There's rumors that there was a mysterious castle that was there
and a king ruled over many people.
It is said that of that population came the dragon.
It's first They moved out and settled on the western shore,
where Rustboro City now lies, and eventually found their home
in Meteor Falls, where we are today, He says.
Should I make it more modern or do you want to know more about
this ancient past? Fuck.
That's a good question. Let's let's start modern and
then delve into past as needed. He says understood at a certain
point, the original Hoenn settlers who settled in
Draconian Village established a relationship with another
legendary Pokémon, a guardian of the skies named Ray Quasa.
They dedicated their lives and their surroundings in their
homes in the likeness of Ray Quasa.
And he walk her gestures around. And you you know, you have never
seen Ray Quasa before, but you understand that this general
aesthetic that surrounds meteor Falls particularly in Draconate
Village. Again, this geometric kind of
artwork as well as what you assume is the writing system is
somehow based on Ray Quasa. Walker describes Ray Quasa.
He says Ray Quasa is a benevolent green Serpentine
dragon type legendary Pokémon who often in the past, according
to our scriptures, spent much time here.
And whenever there was a cataclysmic event such as Mount
Chimney erupting or a terrible hurricane or things that would
threaten the residents of the Hoenn region, Re Quesa would
intervene. After saving us all, Re Quesa
would come to Meteor Falls specifically to spend time with
us, and eventually that established into a very specific
relationship. Re Quesa at one point selected
one individual to have a certain Walker thinks for a second.
He says, I'm not sure command is the right word.
It's it's almost more of a, of a partnership or or a friendship
or a trust. Walker says he chose an
individual to be somewhat of a liaison or or a communicator or
a person that Raquasa could trust.
And that individual became known as the Lord Keeper, and every
generation one of them would be recognized by Raquasa as being
the one who requires a could trust and interact with more
than any other human. Somehow, and none of us know,
this became a hereditary trait among the Draconians.
There has never been a recorded Lure Keeper who is not of
Draconian descent such as yourself.
This. That's a lot to unpack.
Does Smith have any particular questions?
Not yet. Keep going.
Walker says, all right, And he clearly looks like a little,
what's the word? He just had.
OK, so you know, his emotion right now is he had insane,
crazy night. He met his grandson and he lost
one of his greatest friends and family.
And he, you know, he's just very out of it.
And now he's recalling all this lore.
But he has a sense of like duty, like he knows that you deserve
this knowledge and like a time frame shouldn't have to do
anything with it. But it's his expression is just
funny. And Tomatoma and Jinga also have
similar expressions, Walker says.
Well, I suppose we could get even more modern, I suppose, at
some point about 40 years ago. Can't believe it's been that
long. I had a beautiful wife.
Her name was Shreya. We ended up having one child and
his name was Faulkner. Faulkner was a very headstrong
individual, very stubborn, much like yourself perhaps.
And his cousin Tomatoma's child was Zinnia.
Zinnia before you came along, was the last lore keeper that we
knew of, he says. Faulkner and Zinnia had somewhat
of a, a bad familial relationship.
They they didn't necessarily get along and knowing Faulkner, I'm
sure that he had a lot of pride and he was envious of Zinnias
responsibility that Faulkner had no control to compete over it,
just it, it wasn't fair to him. But that is just simply how it's
been. That is the tradition.
That is how things work. And at a certain point, as I
described to you in a panic, before all of this happened, and
Walker gestures everywhere, he says there was a moment where we
went to go gather supplies, as we usually do in fall Arbor
Town, and a certain milk merchant was there.
And Faulkner could not be stopped.
He ran away and I haven't heard from him since.
OK, and next concern. And then Schmidt turns around
and points to the Deoxys. He's like what the fuck is that
thing? Walker says.
To be honest, none of us here have ever seen this before, but
but we're familiar with it. It's been encountered by
Rayquaza many, many times and us lore keepers were always
present. Deoxys only comes to the planet
during a meteor shower. Deoxys does not arrive at every
meteor shower. But that is the opportunity that
Deoxys finds itself traveling here.
To our best understanding, there is only one.
This is the only Deoxys. However, we could entirely be
incorrect. The reason why we know this is
because historically, Deoxys and Re Quasi have had a terrible
rivalry. Deoxys comes to the planet to
accomplish something. It's never been identified, but
it involves destruction and death and famine.
Re quasi historically, as our great protector has always
protected us and fighted off against Deoxys.
This happening at this Millennium Festival was
certainly something we had considered.
We decided that among us there was nothing that we could
possibly do about it. It was either going to happen or
it wasn't, and that we would do our best to protect the people
who decided to come here if that were to happen.
The reason why we are helpless against this attack is because
we had lost our lower keeper Zinnia at a certain point 15
years ago, went to the Sky Pillar to get to Ray Quasa,
receive its aid to help in the situation that I described
before where Team Magma and Team Aqua called upon Groudon and
Kyogre and the end of Hoen was nigh.
Ray Quasa did end up saving everyone but had agreed to
price. Something happened at the Sky
Pillar. All we know is that Champion May
arrived there and when Champion May descended the tower, Zinnia
was no longer there and May came back to us and returned the
Keeper Gem and returned Astor. And he, Walker just kind of
stares into space for a moment, and he's just thinking about the
situation and how perplexing it is.
OK, it's a lot to unpack. Tomatoma says we know.
Please take your time. So now that we have next
question, I guess this bubble thing around day axis, did your
Altaria die for it or is it just like fainted?
No, it's dead. Tomatoma nods.
She says yes, we Draconids have discovered specifically me and
my mother technique for certain Dragons, particularly those with
fairy affinities known as Sanctuary.
In fact, I described this technique to your friend Ality
and she seems that she has already a basic grasp of how it
works. The technique that my Altaria
committed this morning was known as Divine Sanctuary, which is a
form of sanctuary with enhanced properties, but it is
unfortunately very, very powerful and as a result very
expensive. And it was Altario's choice to
commit to this technique to save our people.
Shit man, I'm sorry. Tomatoma clearly looks very sad
and she looks at you and she says no, it was her choice, no
need to be sorry, Jinga says. This is the first time we've had
a good look at Deoxys. It's always been defeated by Ray
Quasi historically our our drawings.
And he pulls out like a little script, a scroll and it
literally kind of just like looks like an old stick figure.
He's like, this is the best look we've ever had at the Oxus.
So seen it in person is frightening.
However, we've never had it in place for so long.
We didn't know that it could regenerate like this.
We we had no idea what it was even made of.
This is clearly not of this world.
And Walker says yes, it was apparent while battling that we
don't know how to defeat this, if it is even possible.
It was always left to Re Quesa. But Re Quesa is not with us.
And what would be the process of getting re quesa with us?
Toma Toma says the Lore Keeper must travel to the Sky Pillar,
ascend to the top, raise the Keeper gem and recite the
incantation, and Re Quesa supposedly shall defend from the
sky and come to their aid. OK, I know this as a player, but
Schmidt's going to be like, and where's the sky pillar again?
Yeah, that's very fair, Walker says.
Well, it is a secret location, but as the Lorekeeper you are
entitled to know. So he gets up quickly, as
quickly as an old tired man can, enters the Elders home and
returns with a very old looking scroll of parchment that has
like a green tinge to it. And he hands it to you.
Do you open it up? Yeah, you do.
So it is a map. It is a map of what you can only
assume is Hoenn. But to be fair, you don't live
here and you know, you're not super familiar with the area.
And there is a specific spot in around the southeast corner, in
the middle of the ocean, there's, there's a designated X.
And he says that is the location of the Sky Pillar, our secret
sanctuary. Oh that looks real easy to get
to and close by. Are are you making a joke?
The. The just a little sarcasm.
OK, I'm going to see a joke. I'm going to see if they
perceive that no, the big RIP failed.
That's so funny. Jinga looks at you and he's
like. No, it's very.
Difficult he says you're entirely wrong.
The ocean is completely savage. It's there's often typhoons in
the area and there's ferocious water type Pokémon and and in
within the pillar itself and Walker cuts them off and he says
now please, we don't want to scare him off Toma.
Toma looks at Schmidt and she says, after seeing your battle
prowess, I'm sure that you and your friends are able to make
the trek and she puts a loving hand on your shoulder.
Walker says Now that of course we don't, we are not expecting a
situation where it quizzes aid is needed, but as Lore Keeper it
is your responsibility should another disaster occur to summon
Rick quizzes. Aid.
He gestures towards the oxes again and is like, is this not a
fucking disaster? Toma Toma says no, it absolutely
is, but at the moment there is no concern with the properties
of Divine Sanctuary. Deoxys will never escape under
one condition. She pauses for a moment and she
says while Altaria sacrifice is great, it is not foolproof.
Should, and this is incredibly unlikely, should any I'll
intentioned individual or group become aware of Deoxys's current
predicament, they would be capable from the outside to
eventually, after much much time, destroy the barrier that
is keeping its contained. Now, with us remaining dragon,
it's here. Our time here may not be too
long. We are coming very, very aged.
So over the next few weeks, granted, we should have.
Plenty of time. And she thinks for a moment and
she looks over at Renza. She says no, no, we must very
soon find out a plan for when we depart, that there's a way to
make sure that Deoxys is monitored and the other two
elders not. It seems clear that they don't
have a plan. They haven't really thought
about it. But to be fair, they kind of
just wrapped up. So they're.
They're working on it. Yeah.
Their body did in fact die, so they have a lot on their minds.
That's that's fair, that's fair. Can we not just launch him back
where he came from? Jinga says.
How do you propose we do that? That's a good one.
I haven't gotten there yet. And they all kind of shrug and
they all just are breathing heavy kind of looking.
They, they are at your attention.
They, they are here for you, Schmidt.
You are the man of the hour, Walker asks.
Do you have any more questions about our history or or your
position within our society? Still haven't fully processed
that part yet. Toma Toma says, of course, take
your time. It's it's very much a lot to
take in, especially after what happened this past night.
Walker says, oh, I have something for you.
And he reaches into his pocket and he pulls out like a little
plant pod and he says, I see your, your partner Pokémon.
It's it's far fetched, correct? Yeah.
He says, my son or sorry your your father was also fond of far
fetched and for his teenage years as a youngster.
But before he took off, we had a special project, father and son.
And he smiles and it seems like it's a fond memory.
He says we're in our garden in this rocky soil.
We were attempting to grow the best possible leak for a far
fetched and well, I fear that right as we were on the cusp of
creating the perfect leak is when he took off.
But I've been breeding this leak.
I've been breeding it for many years.
They they only have about a two year life and this and he hands
it, he puts it up in your face. It is a little green orb.
He says this is a seed pod of the finest leak that we were
able to grow and I'd like you to take it and grow it and give it
to your far fetched. Do you receive it?
Yes, great. Walker seems like happy that he
like there. He seems satisfied, like there's
of some sort of completion for an arc that he had.
Yeah, it's Schmidt's still kind of eye on him because he's still
saw us on the whole family thing.
Sure, sure, sure. Shit, what do we do now?
Jenga says. Look, we get it.
If there's a lot of questions to ask and your brain can't handle
it right now, we've, we, we've been, we've been there before.
And he looks very, very tired. OK, let's rest up, regroup, and
then we'll figure out a game plan from there.
All the elders nod, and they give you like a little loving
touch on your shoulder, your arm or something before they go back
to what they were doing before anything else.
With that, yeah, I guess Schmidt, she's agreed to take
first watch over everything, so I guess he goes to wherever
Cindy and Gimli are resting. Cool.
And then just kind of wait for them to finish up so he can
rest. Yeah, Schmidt goes over there
and they are out. Gimli is honk shoe in like
nobody's business. And Cindy, if you did not know
that she did not perish last night, you might assume that
she's dead because she is just out and she's she's lying like
on her back, like like a corpse. Elodie, as another awake person,
do you have any intentions, any plans going on for while you
were on this shift, staying awake?
Well, I recently came into the possession of a certain object
that I may now be interested in perusing or interesting tidbits.
Sure. Do you wish to peruse this
object independently or do you wish to share?
Of course, like your party is not with you at the moment, but
while you're doing this perusing, I'm, I'm basically
asking do you want it in your private channel or do you want
it in a group channel You. Can just put it in the group
channel. I'll probably share it with
everybody anyways. What are we talking about?
We are talking about Elodie at the end of the Deoxys combat,
identified Symetra's journal. It's in rough shape.
Not only are the last many pages just covered in blood or like
not covered, but they're just unlegible.
They're just drenched. The first few pages as well in
like the front cover were damaged by either falling rock
or a Pokémon or something. It's like all crumpled up and a
lot of pages are just completely legible.
They're all dirty and dusty, but there's a few that are in
completely legible condition and I'm going to leave it up to
Elodie to provide some description if she wishes, but
probably should maybe up to her read the pages, describe what
she sees. OK, right.
For the listeners. Yeah, that and that might be
important and you can go from it's technically top to bottom.
I do want to note that these are in like a rough order, but
there's many pages in between them that you cannot read or no
longer exist. I see.
So have at it. I thought that this might be a
significant part of our session, so here we go.
Yay. It's so cute.
I love it. You know, except for the whole
blood thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This looks like the first page has some sketches of the swab
Blues. Just an introduction to spam to
read out loud. I can also read it out loud for
you as well as I am a narrator for this.
True, you are the narrator. You do place.
I am I. Also.
Yeah, that's true as well. So it's up to you what kind of
experience you want to curate here.
Well, I don't know. Oh, Oh no.
Basically, do you want it like from the perspective of LED
going through this or do you want it from like an omniscient
perspective an. Omniscient Perspective.
OK, great. The first pages that are
legible, that LED can see, seem to be the first two.
There are sketches of three Swablu, perhaps harkening back
to when Sam first met the Quacko Packo.
This is what the text says. This is the traveling journal of
Symetra Red Tree. I've given myself a work
assignment to the Hoenn region to discover what resources I
require to find my father and acquire them as discreetly and
efficiently as possible. After completing a project in
the Lee Cove city, I embarked N towards Fore Tree to investigate
a unique individual who may have had a connection to a creature I
am tracking who may know the location of an artifact that is
essential to my quest. On my way N from Lily Cove, I
was attacked by three Swablu, seemingly for no reason at all.
Before I was able to defend myself, a group of inexperienced
trainers stepped in and captured 2 of them, causing the 3rd to
flee. These four apparently are
seeking gym badges in efforts to return to their homes due to the
national lockdown. Perhaps they will be able to
help me on my mission. The next two pages that you can
read are quite peculiar. They are embedded in the book
landscape. The first one is clearly a
decorated ornate map of the Hoenn region that has been just
affixed to the page. This was not drawn or made by
Symetra. However, there are some markings
on it. There are distinctly colored
blue circles on certain points of interest.
Allow me to run through them. I suppose for the listeners, for
the, for the areas that the group or I guess Elodie is
looking at this right now, not Cindy.
So I'm going to describe this from Cindy's or from Elodie's
perspective. There is red dots on what is
Lily Cove City, 4 Tree City, an area that is South of Four Tree
that is to the east of the river that was crossed to get to the
Marvel. There's a red dot on Marvel
City, and then there's three red dots in the ocean on varying
islands that Ality is not familiar with.
There are other colored dots. There are light blue dots in the
same area that is South of Four Tree, that's east of the river.
There's a light blue dot on what it has to be Mount Chimney, and
those are the only light blue dots.
There are some dark blue dots. There are.
There's one in the desert in Route 111 and there is one at
Meteor Falls. The other two are in the ocean
and Ality is not familiar with these locations.
There is a black circle drawn on the route that is South of Four
Tree City where the party spent a lot of time.
They stayed with Mel and Key. That's where grape juice was
caught. That's where the Weather
Institute is. Who knows what that circle is
for? There is one final dot on an
island that is far to the east outside of the main continent of
Hoen, and it is yellow colored on the other page.
Shall we? There is a strange diagram.
It's a circle and there's all these little symbols that are on
the ring of the circle with different shapes in them, and
they all connect inwards into a other sphere.
This is kind of hard to describe with words, but there are two
symbols that are similar to all the other symbols that are at
the top pole and the bottom pole of the inner sphere.
Within this kind of circular diagram, there are 16 symbols on
the outside and two symbols on the inside.
There's some notes from Symetra. What do they say?
It says symbols. Are there inferred relationships
between them? Why are there 2 removed from the
others? What does the central sphere
represent? Trace from Hartholme cathedral?
Does anyone have any comments about that page?
I guess Elodie is the only one allowed to speak to this, but
no, you guys can speak out of character, that's fine too.
Magnets. How do they work?
It's. The vibe.
Now, clearly like this is something we can go into a lot
for post show, but also like I feel like maybe we should talk
about the some of a a little bit right now.
Maybe, I don't know. Brief analysis.
Yeah. My first impression.
So I counted and I think there's 15 little dots.
On the map. Yes.
Is that correct or am I bad at counting?
We just. Share it just so like people can
confirm or, or is it or should we just keep it to where we're
only getting? On it's in in game stuffs.
Yeah, so I, I do intend to share it, but the problem is, is that
like most of our listeners are not on Discord.
So like right, I want to do our best to do it for people who
don't want to join Discord. Definitely.
It definitely is easier to describe the visualization.
Yeah, yeah, OK. My first impression is the same
is my last impression when I saw a map that she had with dots on
it, which is that that might be location of plates.
I don't remember how many plates were on the last map that I
found, but they might equal up to all of the types perhaps.
And then maybe the the color coordination is like whether or
not they've been found or something like that.
Like maybe somebody has the ones that are red.
I don't know. I'm trying to remember where we
found each of the plates because how many plates do we have?
Or rock things for the Alice stone?
We only have the two. That's what I thought.
OK, so we have. If there were any in the Alice
Stone prior to that, we don't know about.
So we have the one from the volcano, so that's a light blue
marking. Where did we get the other one?
Why can I not remember? Oh, that was from Master's
house. Yeah.
So that would be, that's where the other light blue dot is.
So that kind of makes sense, at least so far to my knowledge.
Other I mean, my speculation is because like the first page she
mentioned that she needs to collect certain things to find
her father or whatever. Maybe the light blue dots are
the plates, but maybe some of the other things are things that
she either needs to get or has collected already for whatever
she's trying to do. They could.
They could all necessarily plates.
The dots count. If I'm looking at it correctly,
is 15, which does not equal the types.
So it could also be the fact that they marked all the
positions of plates that they don't have in possession
currently. So if they have three of them,
then they all like they could be like, oh, they're known to be
located with certain individuals or they're in this area but an
unknown like that kind of thing. So.
Right. That's my impression.
The yellow one is kind of questionable.
I don't know what that infers. The light blue is definitely
stuff that we've picked up. Right, that's my thought.
Because we literally like, well, we've encountered 2 of them,
right? Right.
And that they're in those locations the the volcano and
the Berry farm. Right, that tracks that it's
like, oh, we're being tracked and like, oh, we're they're in
our possession. The blue I'd again blue, red,
don't know what that implies. Yellow is also questionable what
it implies, but I assume it's possession of individuals with
certain degree or red could be in this area unknown.
But it seems like, because that seems like more generalist, that
if they don't know where all the plates are located, then like
they they're like, Oh well, their last known location is
here or something like that to that extent.
I could see that for sure. It could be referring to
completely different things, like it could just not be plates
because again, there's only 15 dots and there's eighteen types
of Pokémon. So that's why I'm like, oh, did
they just eliminate dots? Or are the blue dots
representative of the ones and like the locations of what they
grabbed like? But thought was that maybe the
two separated types Fairy and Ghost from the rest on the types
disk. Maybe they have something that
that's different than the plates, but that would still
only equal 17, right? That's not every type.
I don't know. Maybe there's maybe normal is
excluded is normal on here? What's?
In there. Yeah, yeah.
Maybe. Like what this is what the Oh,
we should ask the dragon. It's do they know what the fuck
the Atlas stone is? Plates and the Atlas stone,
absolutely. Oh, since they they might have
lore about it. If not, they know OK because
they have lore going back what, 10s of thousands of years
apparently. They might have actual
information about it. Even if it's not like incredibly
specific, they might have like, oh, there were stories of.
Right. It's well beyond what we know.
All we have is like because we know about that prophecy thing,
right? That's about it.
Like it's not anything crazy and we know that they do kind of
kooky stuff to type specific Pokémon that's also have like
other underlying conditions that we don't know like.
So it's just like well, that's about it like we don't really
have much info. So just.
First hand again, Heart Home Cathedral, because that's
apparently where the type chart was.
Sin Sino. Yeah.
Sino heart, home city or tracing?
Sino. Room.
So sorry I we were discussing having two types removed.
Does one of you want to give a brief description of what you
see? Because I had a really hard time
describing this image. Yes.
So we're looking, one of the core aspects we're looking at is
a map of Helen with a series of different colored dots laid out
across all of Helen, some of them red, some of them darkish
blue, some of them lightish blue, and then a yellow symbol.
So all in different locations. Trying to infer what those
symbols actually mean is a little difficult, but because
they they're very vague, but there's plenty of them.
Right below that is a symbol of a type chart.
It's essentially in a ring fashion, labeling 16 of the
types of the outer ring with one on the top right, on the inner
part of the outer ring labeling as a fairy type.
And on the other half, mirror to that is a ghost symbol kind of
separated from the rest of the group, leaving 16 types in the
outer ring of that symbol. So there's some inferred
relationship between them, but it's not really clear what that
is because there's definitely symbols involving the sphere
around the outside and such that it's hard to tell.
This was contained traced from the Hartholme Cathedral in Sino
based on Sam's collection. So it's kind of interesting.
I again don't know what this infers to just yet.
It's not very clear, but hopefully we can get more
information about that. It seems like maybe Sam didn't
quite know either, so. Yeah, it seems like based on
writing the notes and questions, Sam didn't really know what
these referred to either. So, but it's very clear, it's
very deliberate that those symbols are separate from
everything else for something. Not sure what that something is
yet, but pure? We'll put that along the way.
If I had a quick interpretation, the two symbols being fairy on
top and ghost on bottom. If I had to guess, maybe life
and death. Could be.
Oh, I was just thinking flutter Maine.
Oh, that's the answer. True.
End of days Flutter. Maine being in existence.
It could be mimic you come on. True, it's mimic you actually.
Mimic you's on the rise. Mimic you is the key.
I was mimic key you I was trying but like I don't think.
So let me key you. Yeah, do.
You guys have any more initial commentary for this page or do
you want to move? On moving on to.
There's a lovely picture of Kyogre swimming, crowd on with
his hands outgoing. Oh, I dropped my thing and then
my quasa. True.
Or quasa just kind of hanging out in the South.
Yeah, there's, there's nice, there's.
Also a little waylord peeking out and he's just like why or?
Is this map? Looks it's not.
Is this not like a hand drawn thing by Sam?
I don't think is it like is this old?
I described it as like that. Yeah, it's it's, she did not
make it. It's inserted into the book like
maybe with blue or something. Yeah, 'cause that's it looks
like that these this is very like deliberate old timey like
they made this map out for the history books kind of deal.
So especially with the writing too, there's like the written
how in seems to be kind of like deliberately like, I don't wanna
say ancient writings. It's definitely like clearly
just like modern lettering, but looks like a unique sharp font.
It's like calligraphy style like.
Yeah, it's definitely calligraphy, Yes.
Cool. Next pages.
Yeah, OK. Again, we'll have to canonize
LED like showing this to everyone later, so we'll make
sure we include that. But right now this is just LED
looking at this, this is the description is LED flipping
through this. And again, as she's flipping
through, there's a lot of pages that she they're just not
legible. There's no information there.
But this pair is one that there is something I will describe
what is shown. There's another diagram of some
sort. It is a triangle with a sphere
inside of it. And there's like three other
symbols. One in the top it's a what?
It's an isosceles triangle that points downwards.
So the top left has a symbol of some sort, the top right has a
symbol of some sort, and the bottom has a symbol of some
sort, and they all point towards the center.
They seem to be obscured due to damage or, you know, just
weathering because of the situation that this book has
been in, but they're all there. It seems that the bottom symbol
is the most obscured. Let me read the text.
It says tracing from Sinjo ruins portions damaged, symbols hard
to construe. Is this a map, A key?
Bottom symbol, heavily obscured, intentionally damaged inner ring
must represent something specific.
And Symetra has done a tracing of a circle that has more, I
guess more triangles within it. There's one at the, there's one
at the top of the circle. And then kind of equally distant
at like what, like 75 and like 105° angles at the bottom
pointing inwards. So one on the top, 2 on the
bottom. More notes from Sam.
The closer I travel to home, the more of the symbology I
recognize in culture and old artwork.
Everything feels so unfamiliar in Hoen.
On the other page there is a sketch and there's a note that
says best guess reconstruction of bottom symbol.
This is where I will have Elodie make an intelligence check.
It's the first time we've rolled dice today.
Baby, that's a natural 20. A natural 20.
This was a strange role where you kind of wanted to roll less.
Elodie looks at the symbol and she reads the note that's added
to it. Below in slop.
Your handwriting. There's APS.
Sam says. Looking at this after drawing it
gives me a terrible headache. Must have something to do with
his unusual dimensional design and perspective making me go
cross eyed. No method to confirm the
accuracy of my sketch. Elodie looks at the symbol and
she feels terrible. She feels like she's going to
vomit, and in fact, she passes out.
She collapses on the ground and she can no longer prove this
book. Wow, somehow you managed to crit
fail on a crit. That's that's great.
It's really impressive actually. So sorry we can't talk about
this book anymore until something happens so.
OK. That's is she in the area of
Schmidt? Do I like watch her pass out or?
Roll a perception check, 1717. Yeah, Schmidt doesn't see
Elodie, but he hears kind of her gasp and then the sound of
falling to the ground and dropping an object.
Elodie Elodie, He gets up to go look for.
OK, you find her. What do you?
Do. Oh God.
You say, Oh God. Yeah.
OK, as you see her, she is clearly like, not conscious, but
she looks as if she's having a nightmare.
She is sweating a lot and she's kind of whimpering and she's not
doing well. OK, Elodie.
Elodie, I need you to wake up. Are you just saying that?
Yeah, roll maybe like a little like, like like lice light,
like, you know, like face pat, like when you're trying to wake
someone up. OK, roll.
Just roll A roll. Roll AD 20.
Roll on AD 20. That's a four dog.
That's a four. Yeah.
You you kind of tap on Elodie as she's kind of writhing, having a
nightmare, and it only seems like it's getting worse.
OK, that's good. That's good to know.
I'm going to pick up Elodie and then take her to Toba Toma and
be like help. OK, you do that.
Toba Toma looks at Elodie and she says how?
How did this happen? What did you see?
I. Don't.
I don't know. I don't know man.
She says I. Just heard a gasp and she fell
to the ground and then this is it.
Tomatoma assesses her and runs her hand over Elodie's forehead
and says it's, it's as if this looks like a curse and that she
is tending to Elodie And she, she leaves her with you.
And she says, give me just a minute.
And she hobbles into the the elders home and she comes out
with a teapot and it is very, it is very, very steaming.
There's a lot of steam coming out.
And she says, could you? Could you hold her mouth open?
Yeah, Schmidt. Schmidt does that great.
Tomatoma pours scalding hot water into Elodie's throat, and
with it there's you can see as it pours, there's like little
leaves, maybe some sort of plant or herb.
And in a moment Elodie springs awake and she is coughing and
she feels terrible. Elodie.
Oh my God. What?
What happened? To be clear, Elodie knows and
feels that she like had a nightmare.
She does not remember anything about it.
I don't I don't know what happened.
That's does this happen often with you?
That's very concerning. Kind of I guess I I.
You epileptic or something or not?
That I'm aware of. I feel like we would have heard
about this by now. I was I was looking in Sam's
journal. You have Sam's journal.
Yeah, I thought maybe if we look through it, you know, we can
find some information about where she went, but I don't
know, maybe it's cursed or something.
Oh. Boy.
Yeah, Toma. Toma is listening to this and
she says I, I think we should take a look at that book.
Do you show it to her? I don't want the symbol to hurt
anybody else. I'll I'll give it to her, but
I'm going to put my hand over the symbol.
OK, so so you're going to show her the page that you were
looking at, but you're going to cover it up that part?
Right. Yes.
She she takes a look at it and she says, oh, looks like someone
was was taking notes. You, why is your hand there?
What are you doing? I was looking at this when I,
well, I don't know, had a stroke I guess.
She says are are are you covering something up?
What? What seems to be the matter?
Yeah, there's like a symbol drawn it looks like.
I guess that actually makes sense kind of.
But this, the symbol on the left, I'm guessing this is a
reconstruction of that bottom symbol.
And if it did this to me, then I guess that makes sense as to why
it would be intentionally damaged.
Toma Toma takes a look at it. She not, not the symbol you're
covering, but the one that is obscured.
And she analyzes it and she says, well, she's going to roll,
actually. Yeah.
She says, I can't say I'm familiar with this drawing or,
or what it's supposed to be depicting, but I do know this
very much reminds me of Sino writing, in fact, very old Sino
writing. She studies it some more and she
says, I think they had a different name for for their
land. What was it?
Hisui? Yes, it reminds me of Hisui
Toma. Toma says if you had that
reaction to whatever you're covering up, I think it's best
that I do not gaze upon it. And she kind of gives the book
back to you. It seems like she thinks it's
like a kind of like a cute kind of journal.
She read over the text and she's like, oh, this is interesting,
but she doesn't think it's particularly important.
OK, do we want to show her the the map and the pipe symbols?
Do you want to? Yeah, I think I will ask her if
she knows what the importance of those things are.
Great. She looks upon the landscape
pages that feature the Hoen map and the interesting circular
type symbol chart. She makes a roll.
Not super good. She says well clearly this is
the land of Hoen. And she looks around.
She says this is very pleasantly articulated.
And she looks at the Hoen text and she says this is somewhat
reminiscent of the original Hoen settlers language.
She says the shapes of these letters, particularly the last
ones, and she seems kind of tickled by it.
She seems it's a really interesting map.
She looks at the markings and she looks at Elodie, and she
says, I have no idea what these circles mean.
And then she looks down at the bottom and she says, oh, my,
this looks complex, almost scientific.
And she looks at it and she says, sorry, I really have no
clue. OK.
Well, thank you for looking. She says of course, Elodie.
I'll probably go back to looking through the book.
OK, do you start on the pages after the one that causes you to
pass out and have nightmares and make you feel really bad?
Yes, OK. Great, this one's interesting.
There is a sketch that Elodie recognizes is her arm and there
is a sketch of the bracelets that she is wearing that she got
from Hoopa. A little concerning that this
happened without Elodie's knowledge.
Sam wrote a note, she says. When I went back to Sylph after
staying in the house with a terribly loud wingle, the next
time I saw Elodie she was wearing this.
There is absolutely something unusual about this bracelet.
What could they have possibly gotten up to in Slate Port?
On the next page there is a disturbing sketch of a creature
that was faced within the magma hideout.
It is like a zombie mud Kip. It is very scary to look at, the
text says. There were certainly things I
expected to see in Maxi's old base, but ghoulish apparitions
of the test subjects was not something I expected.
The further I dive into finding my father, the more harrowing
threats I find myself encountering.
I treat each of these challenges as a test of my will.
Thankfully, the party I travel with are decently capable and
grow more powerful every day, which is exactly what I need.
I would be lying if I said I wouldn't be upset if one of them
got seriously hurt. Thankfully, they appear to be
incredibly lucky, Schmidt particularly sending his newly
captured Fletchinger to retrieve a plate from the failed
experiment without hesitation. It has been said doing so is
impossible without incapacitating the creature.
The group may be bumbling at times, but I have legitimate
faith in Schmidt. Maybe more and maybe more is
crossed out. Any any comments about this?
Nope. Elodie, who has the book?
Wait, are you reading this with Schmidt?
At this point, I feel like you might be.
Are you? Yeah, I think Schmidt's kind of
looking over his shoulder. OK.
Yeah, yeah. I feel like, I feel like I just
kind of look at him and like. Schmidt just has like a deep
guilt on his face. Got it.
Do we have any commentary about these pages or do you want to
move on? Yeah, I mean, I don't have any
comments. Cool next pages.
He is. Great Elodie finds the next
legible pages. The first thing she sees on the
left page is has has to be an impression.
Like when you take an object and you put paper over it and you
sketch with a pencil to like fill it in.
It has to be an impression of the Atlas Stone.
It has the same coarseness. It has the same roughness.
It's very, very clearly what that is.
And there's comments. It says Atlas Stone sketch had
to borrow from Cindy's bag while she was sleeping.
I don't think this group realizes what this does or how
important this is. To be fair, I don't know
everything about it either. There is more commentary on the
next page. I had heard descriptions about
this artifact, but I don't believe they accurately
described how simple this tablet feels.
It doesn't feel particularly enchanted.
Heavy, dusty, rough. Clearly the sides have been
damaged, unsurprising for something 20,000 years old.
Despite how it looks and feels, there's no doubt this is the
authentic Atlas Stone. With its activation, allowing
this group to carry this is truly the best strategic
decision. Though they are reckless and
often foolish, they are undeniably charming and come off
as completely harmless. As long as I can continue to
travel with them, I believe I can obtain enough information
where I may not even need the Atlas Stone.
This is the safest option for myself and my associates.
Despite the protesting to date, I've discerned the location of
14 plates by handling this artifact without the travel
group noticing. Frostbite has been indispensable
in this regard. These past few months have been
a blessing. These loud, lovable idiots have
changed everything for me and my dreams.
I am more grateful than they'll ever be permitted to know.
And she drew a sketch of solely of Quacko, a frostbite, of
cabbage, and of Trevor. Hey.
We're not that. Though she really hates us, huh?
But also loves us, OK. That's a lot.
Is is this the page that I saw before when I took a peek that I
saw like that was like with the markings on the Alice Stone
thing? Make a history check OK?
Bro, I'm rolling off the goop today is.
That a Is that a thing? Do people say that?
Yeah, you haven't heard. We're making that a thing off
the goop. I got a new merch idea for you.
Off the goop. Wait, but it makes sense because
like military is kind of goopy. Yeah, fair, fair, fair.
Anyways, it was the 19. It was the 19.
Elodie knows for sure that this is very similar to what she saw
Sam sketching the one time that she peeked over Sam's shoulder.
Make investigation check real quick.
I rolled another flat 19. Wow, one of these rolls.
Jeez. OK, it is clear that a page
nearby to this one has been torn.
Like out. Not damaged, but removed.
Interesting. OK so I'm supposing it was
probably she like made a map based off of the impression the
knowledge of that she found fourteen of the plates
locations. How did Frostbite help with that
question mark? Probably sneaking it out of
Cindy's bag while she was sleeping.
Yeah, very. Likely.
I feel like Frostbite's very yeah.
I don't think Cindy should have the stone anymore.
Just I don't. I don't think it would have
stopped it if any of us had it though.
Possibly, but. I'm a deep I honk shoe.
I'm a I'm a deep sleeper. And he was bestowed the Atlas
Stone. I believe this is the time to
reveal that there have been several occasions where I ask
one of you to make a random perception check and all of
those rules have been low. And those were all moments where
you could have noticed. This.
God damn, sometimes it wasn't even while you were sleeping, it
was while you're doing something else.
That's so funny. OK.
Anything else about this page? Just a lot to unpack about this
page. Yeah.
Like 1 Sam thinks we're idiots. We are.
Two, she actually have you been? Playing the same game I have
like. He likes us.
My, it's like 10. I'm not that smart.
I want to know who her associates are I.
Think she means us. That was my interpretation.
My first interpretation was who are the associations I think.
She's, yeah, the associates talking about the associates
don't agree that we should have the Atlas stone.
Oh. OK, I see.
Never mind. Big flying metal bird man comes
to mind. Yeah, she would be more so with
him than I think than the actual.
Evil. Looking at the Atlastania.
Yeah, right. But was.
Was she ever with us when we encountered him?
No. I guess not, right?
No. OK.
Even still, like even. Big bird, man.
That would be wild but but I I would learn more towards that
effort than I would her being just the energy baddie people.
But I mean, could go either way to be honest just based on the
lower dump we're getting, but do.
You feel like. Energy have more of AI don't
know political agenda. Yeah, more of a political
grandiose kind of. And this is like kind of under
the radar. It could be associated with each
other and Sam's also using them. That could be a possibility that
comes out. But I would like to believe that
they're separate entities and we'll probably as a player
operate under that assumption. This definitely reveals like a
depth to Sam of like she has an agenda herself.
Yeah. I mean, we kind of low key knew
that. Right.
But this, this confirms these things.
Hashtag Schmidt was right. The next page though are.
We going to look at that. I'm ready.
Yeah, great. This is the last legible pages,
and they're only partially legible because they are
splattered with Sam's blood when she was struck by a supersonic
meteorites Shard. Yeah, there are two drawings.
One seems to be some weird, like runic symbol kind of thing, and
it has a seemingly a sun and a moon on opposite sides of it.
It's very perplexing. Who knows?
On the opposite page there's a full scale drawing.
That is the drawing that she was about to show Schmidt before she
took potentially mortal damage. There's a note we can read
through the blood. I did it on purpose, it's
slightly transparent. There's on one blood sync page
under the weird runic drawing it says just woke up from a
terrible dream. This is what I saw when I woke
up. I'm not sure what it means.
My sleep has been getting worse lately and I feel like I've been
seeing things that aren't there. I know the dragon, it's have
information that I need. If they can answer my questions
I may be able to realize my plan sooner than I expected.
Strangely, I feel like I'm running out of time.
It'll be hard to part ways with the group.
They've been indispensable despite me feigning inability.
Or maybe it's worth asking if one of them would join me.
Surely he wouldn't. Man, I wish, I wish we knew what
her questions for the dragon it's were.
Yeah. Ask them about like the runic
symbol. I was going to ask the dragon.
It's about that symbol. I didn't know Sam was tortured
by visions. Someone else have like a vision?
Yo that's so crazy. Like very early on.
Cindy got visions from Pumpkin and from the Zaatu because it's
like, I got this. I can empty my head real good.
Yeah. No problem.
I mean, I just kind of had a nightmare that, but I can't
remember it. Does the runix.
Everyone remember when we went to the fortune teller what she
had to say about like our friends in our party or
whatever? Did she mention a curse then?
Just don't remember that conversation.
Me neither. I cannot remember.
Yeah. I can't remember either.
That was that was girls night, right?
Yeah, because Schmidt refused. Right.
I feel like. I feel like she told me
something about like be careful or something like that.
I don't know. I don't remember but.
Yeah, I just can't remember. I don't think I don't think
there was a curse though. I don't think there was ever
like a curse. I.
Remember there was like some kind of warning where we're
like, Yep, we'll, we'll deal with it when we get there.
But I wonder if, like Sam, being in the party was a part of that.
But also, wasn't that like before the volcano erupted or
was that after? I think that was the first thing
we were exploring. Yes.
OK. The runic symbols remind me a
little bit of like the RCS kind of.
Right. Thing, obviously there's more to
it, but that's like the core of it.
Let's just take the whole book to the dragon heads.
Right, that was what I was going to do and ask them about the if
they recognize the outlet stone too.
Yeah, we're going to have a whole long conversation we'll
talk about. That OK, Cindy will definitely
talk to. Them do we want to do that?
Is the honk shooting party still honk shooting or?
Yeah, it's probably been like 30 minutes, but you're welcome to
wait for them. Lady, how do you want to do with
it? I don't have anything in my body
to process anything. Yeah, this has been awful for
Schmidt. Dude, he can't even sleep.
This is like, really terrible. Yeah, maybe, maybe a little bit
of of sleep before before we hear whatever the dragon is
having to say about this. Yeah, do.
You do we sleep. OK.
And then maybe we wait. I mean, if Schmidt wants to
sleep. I mean, I obviously just had a
horrible attack, so I have no guarantee that I will stay up
alone. But if you want to sleep I can
try and be the solo watch with the dragon heads.
Oh, I'll stay up, just slap me if I fall asleep.
So you guys are just going to wait for the other two to wake
up? Yeah.
OK, keep up the shifts. Both of you make contacts
constitution. Flat 18.
I don't have the sheet pulled. Up 18 and six OK Schmidt, based
on everything that happens, he is so tired, but his brain will
not stop. He has so many thoughts and
feelings and it is incredibly clear that no matter what
happens with him, with or without the Quacko Packo, from
here on out, he will never be the same.
Elodie wants to sleep, but she cannot at the moment.
She also doesn't really want to. She wants to wait for her party,
but she is. She's got the sleepies, but her
brain won't let her do it. I know you guys have very
different roles, but I have different reasons for that.
So assuming nothing else you want to happen, you're going to
wait for the other two to wake up?
Yep, great you do. So you let them rest a good
solid 6 hours. They don't feel perfect, but for
the purposes of the game, they have full hit points and their
party has full hit points and you know, they, they have been
worse. We will say they're doing OK.
They, they're, they're in a mood, so they awake.
What is your plan of action? Also, to be clear, neither of
them know what you guys know, and in fact Schmidt might not
know about the first couple pages unless you shared them.
I'll say I probably did share them.
OK, yeah, we have like a whole 6 hour powwow with.
It did you let Schmidt look at the strange symbol.
No, I was gonna ask about that real quick.
Yeah. Are there any like blank pages
in the notebook? Why are you asking?
I wanna like tear one off and put it over it.
You can do that, absolutely. OK.
You find enough of 1 blank page to do so that isn't like blood
stained. Yeah, that would be kind of
macabre. Yep.
Yeah, you, you can do that. OK, cool.
Yeah. I, I, I will not.
I will keep that page covered, but show him the rest of it.
And then now upon their awakening, give it to them and
tell them that we plan to, I mean, we can talk to the dragon
is now before we go to sleep or I guess we kind of agreed to do
it after we slept. Totally up to you.
After sleep, just tell them look through it on your own,
formulate opinions. We'll ask the dragon is when we
wake up. Thoughts.
Already sleeping? He's already sleeping.
Fair. Yeah, I'll probably ask them
about the Atlas Stone while you guys sleep just that way, like
we can get some stuff. No.
So this half of the party wants to leave the other half out,
huh? No, I'm kidding.
Kidding. That's fine.
Well, that's relay everything to them.
It's not like. What's your plan?
I'm sleepy. Nine eyes.
OK, sleepy Nine eyes for LD Schmidt.
Awake and doing OK for Gimli Cindy.
And what are they doing when they wake?
Oh. The Draconids.
Directly, directly to the Draconids, with Atlas Stone in
hand and no other errands. That's just what we're doing.
Yes, Atlas stone and necklace might as well OK, they seem to
know about ancient stuff. As Cindy field that she's had
this necklace to the rest of the party yet.
Has she? I don't believe she.
Has, I think, I think it came up when we were in the church in
Marvel, because I think part of it was related.
Yeah. I asked about it.
I'm like, what are you guys doing this?
And you were like, where did you get this?
I found it. I.
Got it. From a friend, yeah.
Yeah, Elodie knows about it. I don't think anyone else does.
OK. The two of Gimli and Cindy
approach the dragon. It's how do they what do they
say? What what do they do?
For clarity, Walker is sleeping, Jenga and Tomatoma are awake,
and they're just fiddling about. Listen, I know a lot has
happened. I know you lost your friend, but
my condolences to that. I'm so sorry.
But there's a lot of mystery going on and we have questions
to see if you guys know about like this tablet and stuff we
have here that is that Cindy has in her possession.
Just just to see if we can get an idea of what's going on
because there's there's just a lot of information that we have
to kind of come to terms with that we're trying to figure
things out. Tomatoma and Jinga.
They approach you quizzically as you approach them.
It's clear that Tomatoma has been crying, as has Jinga.
That's been rough, but they are happy to help you and they are
very curious. They say, oh sure, absolutely.
What do you have? I pull out the Atlas stone.
OK. Do you give it to Toma?
Toma or jingo? Probably toma toma.
OK, she seems wise. She seems trustworthy.
She takes a look at it and she holds it and her arms kind of
slump a bit and she says, oh, this is a little heavy and jingo
like helps hold it for her. And she takes a look at it.
She says, well certainly this is this is very old.
Where did you find this? A friend gave it to me.
She says, and she's looking at it and she says this, this looks
like a map of some sort, but if this is supposed to be us and
she points at a certain area of it, she says, and that's
supposed to be Sino, and she points to it.
She says, well, this is inaccurate.
This is not a good map. She's judging the cartography of
it. Apparently it is not precise,
she says. Iconic plates, sorry.
I was like role history and understanding of how rocks work.
Toma Toma may not know that, but Gimli would.
Yeah, it's like, well then it's very old because the Earth over
time shifts around, so the land masses would be in different
locations. Toma, Toma says, oh wow, I
suppose that may be correct. Groudon behaves mysteriously,
and she kind of chuckles. She continues to survey it, and
she seems, well, just other than being an outdated map, what,
what purpose does this serve? And she's just like looking all
around it and she's really curious about it, but she
doesn't really get it. I yeah, I was going to send out
larva Star because it should glow in a couple places when
larva Star touches it, not with the intent of becoming an alpha
firebug, with the intent of like seeing the like lights pop up on
it, making it glow OK. To be clear, Cindy hasn't had
another fire type interact with it, and she may not know the
result of this. I'm just letting you know.
Do you still want to do it? Who else do I have that we
probably don't have the stone for?
Pretty sure I sent Fang to the box.
So we are we are only fire types.
OK. So larva star is as good as any
cool. Cindy picks up Larva Star and
positions his delightful little body close to the Atlas Stone,
and Larva Star puts one of his little little buggy legs on it
and Larva Star does not transform.
Larva Star does however trigger an effect.
The there is a glow from the Atlas stone and then one section
of the Atlas stone has a little red glow to it and it's all the
way on the northeastern side. It seems like it's actually
emitting a glow from the side of the stone and not on top.
Tome Tome looks at and she says oh wow that's interesting and it
seems to be even more defective than I thought.
It doesn't even display on the surface and she tilts her head
around to the side and she sees a little glow on the side of the
rock. She says, does it?
Does it do anything else? I don't know if you saw solely
in her alpha form whether the form that we've been calling
like her super powerful form that happens because of the
Atlas stone because it absorbs, I think they're called plates.
So she gets like extra boostie powers.
Tomatomo was like not really listening when you said alpha
form like she was. She noticed that solely became
powered but she's just not super familiar with the species so she
wasn't concerned. You say plates and her
expression becomes very serious and she says what do you mean?
We went into a volcano, the Mount Chimney Volcano, and we
got a fire charge plate. We also have a grass plate.
This information causes her demeanor just to change
drastically and she says where are they?
In the Atlas town. She is now holding it without
the aid of Jenga, she says. How do you remove them?
The only way that we were able to remove it is like when solely
goes into her alpha form. When she no longer is in her
alpha form because she becomes like incapacitated or exhausted.
It just kind of like is on the ground.
Toma Toma looks frustrated and she says, I, I would really like
to confirm what I think what you're talking about.
But you said that these plates have a property to them.
Yes. She ushers you to enter the
elders little house. Do you do so Gimli as well?
She says if she says listen, I do not understand what exactly
this stone is besides a bad map. But what you may be describing
is something very very serious and very very secret.
Do you understand? Yeah, we we've been having to
play keep away with some people with this stone for a while.
So we assume it's obviously very important.
She says I, I don't know anything about the stone but
you. For your safety, you must not
let anyone know that you possess any place.
Do you understand? OK.
She says you said that you believe that you are in
possession of two and they are somehow stored inside of this
and they are what properties? Fire and grass.
She says understood, Jhinga kind of steps in and he says to our
understanding kept within the lore keepers dragon in
scriptures, there is a greater history that goes beyond our own
within the horn region and it has to do with the entire planet
and Toma. Toma nods and she says and she
says in Sino they worship this creator as a deity, the one who
created everything and Jinga says yes and their name is
Archaeus Toma. Toma takes a turn to speak and
she says it is said in Sino or properly Hisui that Archaeus
created everything including people and Pokémon.
Jinga says in the past it is storied that people in Pokémon
used to not be so different, although we do not know entirely
what that means, Toma. Toma nods and she says these
plates are the embodiment of what gives Pokémon their unique
powers. It is said that Archaeus created
them originally as a gift not to Pokémon, but to people.
Jinga agrees, and he says we aren't fully fluent in archaeism
as the dominant religion in Hisui in Sino.
Excuse me, but it is believed that the humans did something to
upset Archaeus a long, long time ago.
And Toma Toma says yes, and that is when the powers of the plates
were distributed to the creatures that we call Pokémon.
Jenga says. I personally don't know much
else about this, but if you truly possess these plates of
Archaeus, you may possess a power that no one on the planet
can compete with. And they seem just like very
stoic and honestly a little surprised that these random
people who are traveling with the last surviving law keeper
have so much just such a ridiculously valuable artifacts.
Despite the fact that they don't see it, they are taking your
word as truth. I also pull out my necklace and
say my friend who gave me this stone who said it was the Alice
stone, she also gave me this necklace.
Jinga looks at it and he says immediately, yes, that is the
symbol of Archaeus Toma. Toma says.
May I see that for a moment? Yeah, absolutely.
I take it off. Cool.
She This is the first time Gimli seeing it as.
Well, true, true. Gimli may be slightly more
familiar with what they're talking about just culturally,
by the way, you can flavor that however much you want.
But Tomma? Tomma is going to investigate
the necklace. Thankfully, she rolls well.
Very good for you, she says. Incredible.
I am personally a fan of jewelry myself, but this is no ordinary
ornament, she says. Not only is this extremely fine
gold and legitimate emeralds in lead, she says this appears to
be a blessed artifact with a blessing.
I do not know, but along with what you describe as the Atlas
stone, you should also keep this personal and private.
And she ends it back to you. I have been.
This is the first time Gimli's even seen it.
Yeah, I put it back on, take it back at my shirt.
Oh, you say it's lucky. That makes sense based on your
track record. I have no idea what you're
talking about. Of course you don't.
You better call just most of the time.
Tomatoma and Jenga don't necessarily have much to help
you with unless you have more questions, which is fine, but
they do in part to Cindy specifically as the possessor of
these items to be very, very careful.
Will do thank you. Do any of your like since you
seem to have a lot of lore related things or history?
Does anything in your history talk about any of these things
or not really, or aside from what you've told us?
Tomatoma and Jinga look at each other and they look at you, and
they say we may know about one thing specifically, but we
insist that Schmidt be present, fair.
Enough. That's fair.
He's he's just take a little nappy nap.
They say very well, we will wait for him to awake.
Sounds good. Is there anything else that the
two of you would like to do while you wait for your friends
to awaken? Are any of our other friends
awake like anybody else who stuck around to fight?
Yeah, role of perception. That's a three.
That's a three great. There are people about.
You don't necessarily recognize them.
You would see the two most obvious things.
This may be the first time. Well, no, never mind.
You don't notice this one, but I will describe it.
Gimli Gimme perception. 18. That's great.
Use your actual eyes, yeah. Gimli notices that perhaps part
of why they hear the pleasant ocean waves crashing against the
Cliff so nicely is that the part of the decorated northern wall
that turned out to be the mountain is just not there.
There's just a hole in the wall where there used to be a
gargantuan Tyranitar, which just exposes more of the brilliant
ocean. But where did the mountain go?
Who knows? What Cindy notices can't really
be unnoticed as she is approached by Scarlett.
Scarlett has a wrapping on her leg and she is wearing a
backpack and her APSOL is next to her and she says well that
was pretty crazy wasn't it? And she seems very chipper and
excited. Yeah, that was awesome.
She says hey, it was cool meeting you and she holds out
her hand for a handshake. Yeah.
I shake her hand. Cool you do that roll.
Just roll AD 20. 7. Cool good.
She breaks the handshake and she waves at Cindy specifically but
also kind of at like a Gimli and she says hope you 2 stay out of
trouble I'm going to hit the road and she turns around with
Absal and Absal gives like a little nod as she is far enough
away to no longer interact with unless you want to say something
I'd. Say bye, OK, Have fun, be safe.
Thank you for your help. Yeah, as you exchange goodbyes,
Cindy notices that she has been slipped an item into the
handshake. She has been given a dice that
is made out of bone. It is AD 6.
It is kind of creepy, but also kind of cool.
I took it so that way bean doesn't eat it.
True. Yeah, yeah.
Put that in your inventory, please.
Please write it down. E6 bone dice.
Yep, I guess it's die. It is die.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. How embarrassing to me for me to
say that on recording. It's fine.
Gimli rolled high enough that I also want to describe that Gimli
sees a bunch of local resident Pokémon which he assumes are
wild that are migrating into town from The Cave depths and it
seems like they are helping. It seems like they are helping
to put the destroyed stage back together around the Oxus.
They are looking warily at the Deoxys that is just in a bubble
in the middle of town, but they are kind of working around it
and Deoxys eyes track them but it is an unmoving.
They are helping to put buildings back together and they
are tending to the garden and some of them are carrying water
over to it. And they are generally like
walking around and checking in with the elders.
And it seems like they're helping.
There's a large variety of them. Some of them you recognize from
being in the depths when you were exploring earlier,
including a significant trio that we will call the, the
stellar rock types baby or the, the, you know, the three, the
Lunatone, the soul rock and the Mini.
Or they're kind of like, they seem to be buddies and they are
assisting the elders with things that they need within the
village. Anything else for you too?
Is a homeboy we rescued OK? Tsavo.
Yes. To your knowledge, you do not
see him, you don't know where he is.
OK. But you do not see him get badly
hurt, so who knows? Neat.
Guess I could kind of go back and vibe near where Schmidt and
LED are sleeping. OK, you do that.
Anything for Gimli? No, I think think just
backtracking is good. Cool.
You wait for them to wake you do.
So at this point it's it's kind of evening.
We'll just say that you guys like fiddled with your Pokémon,
maybe like, you know, cleaned them up or help the elders with
my new tasks. You were doing stuff.
If you have any flavor, please interject.
But that's just what I'm assuming you guys were doing.
Maybe took a nap or something, who knows.
OK. Maybe what?
Took another nap or. Something.
Yeah, any who the party is all I was going to say.
Sentient. They're all awake.
They're all present sentient. Yeah, we we have Sam and I as
the DM, have doubts if they're all sentient, but that is
different. It's kind of evening again.
It's like late already, but again, it's like very calm.
All of you are strangely glad to not be seeing a meteor shower.
It's a clear night sky. And again, you clearly hear the
ocean waves crashing against the rocky cliffs to the north.
What is your plan of action? Relay the information that we
got to Elodie and Schmidt great. And say they wanted to give us
more information, but they wanted Schmidt involved.
You do that? Oh.
Good. You know, of course that's
that's exactly yeah, what I thought would happen.
Yep, just more shit for Schmidt. Like, on the verge of a mental
breakdown. Yeah, even though he just woke
up. That's totally reasonable.
Yes, that is very reasonable. Anything flavor wise or do just
go straight there? Straight there I guess.
I'm gonna admit have cabbage admit a little calming lavender
scent. Love it.
Roll a Chrisma for cabbage 1313. It's pretty nice.
It's pretty good. It does kind of help ease
everyone a little bit, yeah. That is what it's for, yes.
You all March over to the dragon.
It's and this time it is Tomatoma and Walker who are
present. Jinga is snoozing.
Tomatoma looks very tired. It seems like this whole time,
this whole day has passed, she hasn't slept at all.
Walker appropriately says. Hello everyone, What?
What can we do for you? We need your ancient texts, no?
Hell yeah, Walker says. All right, here you go.
Have them all. He pulls out a bunch of scrolls.
Where's everything? Yeah, now what?
What do you say? I guess I kind of relate like
what we were talking about before.
With the Atlas stone. Yeah.
OK, Walker says. Yes Toma.
Toma filled me in. I'd be happy to discuss what
they I think she wanted to just discuss with you all here and
Toma. Toma tiredly kind of looks at
Walker and nods. Walker says We as a people do
not know very much about the lore or the history about
Archaeus and the plates, as it is not part of our culture.
We are aware of its existence and we are aware it's very
serious, but it is not part of anything culturally or
religiously that we practice. However, whatever the scriptures
may say about archaeism, we may have some belief that there is
some confirmation about this history or this religion.
And he summons forth one of the random Pokémon that seemed to be
helping the village. And it is a cute little baby
snake looking Pokémon. It's a serpent, has like tiny
little wings on its head. It's got a big old nose.
It's very cute. It kind of slithers up and it
looks at you guys and it smiles. Walker says.
May you produce the artifact? Am I producing my artifact or is
Cindy producing her? He's speaking to Cindy.
Sorry. OK.
Yeah, it was very clear. Yeah, pull out my my rock.
Great, he says. Please let this Trotini interact
with it. Yeah, I hold it towards Trotini.
Great. As everyone can see, something
that Cindy saw privately earlier before Deoxys arrived, there are
little red lights that light up the Atlas Stone in all sorts of
places. It's all over the place, Walker
says. We I was told that you may in
fact be in possession of Archaeus plates, which is
something that I can't even begin to comprehend or explain
to you how important that is. But as the dragon is, we've been
very in tune with the Pokémon of our people, the dragon types.
And thanks to our lore, keepers of history, we are aware of a
legend, a story, a rumor that the power of the Dragon Plate
was so unstable that it's shattered into hundreds of
pieces. And some of those pieces were
located by certain very lucky Dragons at the time of the
shattering, and they enhance their powers in specific and
unique ways. We the dragon is believe that
the Dragon plate that belong to Archaeus at one point, then
belong to the humans, and now belongs to the Pokémon, does not
actually exist as one piece. We don't know for the purposes
of your adventure how important that information is.
Who knows how it all works, but the the arcane power of the
dragon plates could not be held together.
That is what we know, and we wanted to make sure that the
Lord Keeper was present for that dissemination of information.
Well, that's interesting. And why is?
It important that I was here. Walker says for all matters of
the history and the culture of the dragon, the tribe our Lord
Keeper should be involved as this is secret information.
OK. Walker and Tomatoma Express
Tomatoma specifically says We cannot begin to describe how
grateful we are for all of you for for many reasons.
For for introducing us to Schmidt, our new and only lore
keeper, for helping us defend against Deoxys, our ancient
enemy. We quite literally, probably all
of us, would have perished without your help.
So you have our endless gratitude.
They say we know that you are a group of adventurers and that
you probably have things that you need to have done.
However, let it be known that you may stay in Directed Village
as long as you like and return whenever you like.
And Walker makes a joke and he says yeah.
Just be sure to ignore the evil alien that lives in the center
of town when you come visit and it will be great.
They ask if they may do anything for the four of you.
I did have one more question, if any of them recognized the
symbol on the last page of the journal.
Sure, the one with the blood stain on it.
Yes. Walker will take a look this
time because Toma Toma doesn't feel like looking at anything,
especially not blood at the moment.
She's been doing some healing. Walker examines it.
He looks at Elodie and he says, well, I recognize part of it,
but and he kind of traces around the the darkest lines, the outer
circle with the points that intersect in the middle.
He says, this reminds me of what we were just talking about
actually involving archaism. But besides that and shakes the
said, he says I do not recognize this.
OK. I have a question for the party.
What are they doing next? That's you know what I'm trying
to think of. Fine, Sam.
Yeah, that's kind of my priority, but we really don't
have any leads. And this might be a stretch but
can Key Lime like psychic mentally try and reach out to
cause and be like Ayo? Yeah, I mean, I can try.
There's no hurt in that. Sure.
Do you send out Key Lime? Yes.
You do so Key Lime hits the field.
She is very relaxed. She's very in touch with ALDI
and the last time she was out with ALDI, she was very
stressed. Key Lime right now is a little
like concerned, maybe just in touch with that LED, knowing
that she had a strange experience after viewing an
image, but in general immediately turns to LED and
makes eye contact and they're very in tune.
LED. What is your command?
I'm going to ask her if she can reach out her little psychic
feelers to try to reach a very powerful psychic entity known as
the E Alakazam Kaz. See if she can, I don't know,
identify some of his energy. OK, yeah, roll AD 20.
OK, 13. Great.
Key Lime puts her little hands to her horns and she closes her
eyes and she kind of glows a bit and she is focusing and she's
focusing. And then she kind of cringes and
she falls to her knee and she receives 16 points of psychic
type damage as she opens her eyes and she turns around and
she glares at the center of town.
Yeah, I had a feeling the Oxys would probably get in the way of
this. I'm going to thank her for
trying and put her back in her ball.
You do that. Maybe we can try again
elsewhere, but. Does the party have any or I
guess, sorry, I guess the players?
Do you guys have any thoughts about where you want to go next
or no? It's fine if you don't, but I do
want to check. I think the game plan before was
head South and go to the next gym badge, but do we care about
gym badges anymore? As the Quacko Paco stands in the
currently being rebuilt ruins of Draconid Village with the
disturbing alien entity trapped in the heart of it, they gather
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They all kind of shrug and they all just are breathing heavy,
kind of looking expectantly. No, Anything else?
You want to romp around? You want to do anything crazy?
You want to shoot your gun in the air?
I don't know. Your gun in there?
Yeah, I'm just going to walk around the town.
Just. Fire it all.
My God, I thought you thought it was chaotic before.
I'm the real final boss. I think he says woo Hoo, we did
it like some gunshots into the sky.
Well, you know, 4th of July in America.
Yeah, true, true.