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.
We all find ourselves at the northern crux of Mauville,
leading towards Route 111, but we think we might make a quick
errand first. What are we thinking?
I can't say yes. Yeah, I have a business card
that says where she is. Let me read it.
Finally pulling out the business card a few sessions later.
How weird. Can't believe we have that.
Literally never read it. Can't think of like how many IRL
months we've had that it's got to be close to 6 right?
Yeah, it's, it's almost, it's been a while.
It's like half a year. LED pulls out and observes the
business card, the name in a very professional font, says
Symetra Redtree. She works at Selfco as the
technology innovation administrator.
Here's an address. That's selfco.
Oh no. Didn't I call SUS like the
second I saw her? You could have found this out
like months ago but. Yeah, just like taking out the
freak. Just finally start looking at
it. You can also have learned her
last name, which is pretty cool. Anyways, that's what you learn.
That's what you discover. That reveal would have been so
killer if we did it in the opposite order.
Like we knew about so like and now it's like wait, wait, like
are we going to self Co? I guess.
Is that? Feel like we should be cautious
with what we tell Sam now that we know she works for Self Co.
But she did like, she fought against that, like for like
energy people. That's where it's like, is it
interesting that maybe they're just it's the same thing as
before when when D rocket was taking them or they're like
almost going on self Co is just always the victim.
Yeah. I mean, I'm cool with, like, at
least being careful with what we say, but like, still going to
visit her, Yeah. Yes.
OK, you all March on to Self Co. There's a big sliding glass door
and it opens for you. It seems like the building did
not was not impervious to the attack.
It seems like there's a couple hall windows that have been
blown out and there's a little chunk on the upper left side of
the building that's gone missing and the inside is in a little
bit of disarray. There's some furniture that's
kind of scattered around. There's a lot of like muddy
footsteps and there's lots of people who are in business
casual and business formal clothing who are moving boxes
around and rushing around doing work related things.
There is like a front desk and there's a receptionist who is
answering a phone call. I We were running around in when
it was like the Team Neo Rocket Galactic situation where we were
all in fake uniforms. Roll a history the party members
I. Rolled the 17 on the dice.
Yeah, it's I. Need to find my papers.
It's fine you you are certain it's the same building.
OK, fun. I'm going to wait patiently at
the receptionist for her to get off her phone call.
Sure, Yeah, she's chatting. She's spitting some mumbo jumbo
about products and services that you don't quite understand.
There is a little directory in front of her that's on a little
easel and perhaps that might give you the information that
you seek. Yeah, I'm going to read that
directory. Yeah, it's got a whole list of
departments, but I think the one that you are concerned with,
which is technology innovation is on the 16th floor.
Are there elevators nearby? Yeah.
Should we just go up you? Can try.
OK, I'm going to try to call an elevator.
OK, you you press the button and the light turns on and it
arrives at the bottom and it goes Bing bong and the doors
open. OK.
Does everyone enter? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. OK, you LED presses the 16
button. She observes that there are in
fact 45 floors to this building. She presses 16.
The door closes. The elevator ascends and nothing
bad happens. The doors open and you find
yourself in a very nicely furnished reception area to this
department. There's big leafy palms and
there's a series of like, very, you ever see like pictures or
videos of like what? Like Google's offices look like?
They're, they're very modern. There's like art everywhere and
there aren't cubicles. Like there's desks that are kind
of connected in like a, a very pleasing pattern.
This floor doesn't seem to have incurred terrible damage.
It's like a little smoky in a corner.
But besides that, it seems fine. There's a whole bunch of people
scooting around and there's a single closed office at the end
of the hallway. No one seems to be concerned
with your presence. There's no like receptionist
like for this floor. There's just people.
Yeah, it's it's a very kind of modern environment.
So it's not your traditional, like there's a secretary in the
front. Like there's just people working
on computers and there's like someone on a treadmill who's
watching TV and they're in like kind of formal business clothes.
But like, hey, it's a hip and groovy workplace, so why not?
There's some Pokémon out and about.
There is a Magnemite that is buzzing around.
It is messing with like a computerized stack of something
that has, like, lights and switches on it.
It's just poking around at it, having a good time.
There's a goofy little lizard guy.
He's got a stripe on his belly. He's got big eyes, and he's
carrying a box of papers. And yeah, that's what you see.
Can I like ask like the nearest person?
That I can, yeah. That's what I was thinking.
Find like hi do you know where sumetra is?
Sure. Yeah, you, you tap on this
dude's shoulder. He's the closest to the door.
He's working on something. There's a big spreadsheet on his
monitor. And he says, yeah, her office is
just right down the hall. And he points to the closed
door. Let's go.
Fun, Yeah. All right.
Thanks dude. OK.
Do you knock? Do you barge in?
I. Think I think we're going to
knock. Yeah, I think we'll knock here.
I'm not going to crackle the door.
OK, it seems like LG is kind of taking charge for these
interactions. You knock on the door.
Yeah. OK, you do that.
There's a slight pause after you knock, and then the door handle
like jiggles in, like a inconfident kind of manner, and
the door opens to reveal that it wasn't opened carefully because
it was opened by Frostbite. There is a glorious darkish
purple Pokémon with feigned teeth and a beautiful pink mane
who greets you and smiles and goes.
You can see Sumatra in the corner.
She's sitting at a nice oak desk and she is kind of packing up a
backpack. She is looking a little bit less
formal like in the power suit that you saw before and she's
looking more like exploration mode Symetra that you met when
you first met her. She says, oh, hi.
Hi everyone. It's so good to see you come in.
What brings you to my office today?
Hey, we just wanted to check on how you were doing after
everything that happened yesterday.
How's. Yesterday, right?
It was two or three days ago. Something like that because you.
You stayed to the stronghold for a while.
Yeah. She says, yeah, yeah, it was a
it was a bit of a time, you could say I don't, you know,
we're still recovering from it as a company.
It was kind of hard on us. But I'm pleased to find that my
higher ups want me to take another business trip.
So I'm really excited to get out of the office and get out of the
city for a little bit because I was so eager to get back.
But it turned out the only bad things happened when I came
back, so I'm just getting ready to go.
What? What are you all up to?
What are you doing? Oh, we're getting ready to go as
well. Oh.
Yeah, where are you off to? We're we're heading towards
Jagged Pass or something we wanted to check out a while ago
so. Where are you headed?
She says, well, I know my destination.
I'm going to this archaeological site that is somewhat between
Fall Arbor and Rusborough, but I haven't decided on what route I
want to take, but I know I have to get there.
There's a there's an ancient cave and apparently that there's
something that my boss wants me to take a look at.
I don't know. Sounds very cool.
It's like where's that? Or not on the map.
Yeah, we give them somebody who's familiar with caves in our
party. Oh, true.
Love caves? Yeah, we'll just send Gimli with
them. Casually.
We'll. Just not have them in our party.
No, no, no, no if we looked at our map.
That's what you wanted, right? Yeah, let me see where where
that destination is. If we looked on our map, would
you be able to get to this destination on the path that we
are headed? She says, well, yeah, it
depends. It depends on where you're
going. The place that I'm off to is
colloquial named Meteor Falls. Do you look at your map?
Yes, yes. So the smoky volcano is Mount
Chimney. So that's where Jagged passes.
That's on the southern face. Below it is is Loveridge
directly to the West of the volcano is like these kind of
cratery mountains. That's where Sue Metro is going.
The meteor or. Basically going to roughly the
same location. Yes.
So what Sam is saying is that she could go straight West and
then go north or she could go north with you guys and then go
West. It depends on what you wish to
offer. Yeah, it's like, do you, you,
you want company? You want to travel with us?
We're going north and then West. Sam says sure, might as well
just like old times, right? Right.
Frostbite lets out a little happy, cheer goes way, and it
seems like they're all ready to go if you are.
Absolutely. Great.
Sounds good. No team.
Mitt doesn't say anything, but is giving her a suspicious eye.
Do you want to make like an insight check or something?
No. OK.
I think mostly Schmidt wants to make his intentions known.
Not really actually do anything about it do.
You want me to have Symmetra see if she notices your side eye?
Yeah. Yeah, let's see.
RP. She doesn't.
She rolls pretty low. She's just more excited that
she's getting back with the group, so to speak, because she
had a really good time with you all.
Yeah, the gang's back together. I.
Roll an insight check. She's going to say, can one of
us roll? On Nah, I'm too dumb.
All right, Insight's wisdom and blossom one that's an. 1818 she
everything she's told you is the truth.
She hasn't been lying about anything.
She doesn't really want to get out of town and she is a little
concerned with the nature of her assignment, but she's kind of
not really late in that show. She's more taking it from the
grateful route that she gets to get out of Mobile for a while
because she does not want to be here.
All right, all right, right. Start our travels.
You exit the office, some of her employees say bye, Sam, we'll
miss you. And she says I'll see you all
soon. I'll be back in a couple weeks.
You descend the elevator and you have the classic waiting for the
elevator to come up and take you down.
It's a little awkward. So to avoid this, Symetra says.
Well, I hope you and your Pokémon are doing well.
How are those swab Blues that attacked me that one time?
Schmidt, you want to comment? How?
Is that? Swablu that attacked you at
1:00. Time well, I mean you have some
swablu so. That's.
Patricia, right? Yeah, Patricia.
Was attacking Tim, Yeah. Yeah, I don't know.
It's Hard Out Here being a pop star, you know?
Facts. It's hard, not European.
Pops. Part of me wants to like get a
charisma check on that, but like.
Yeah, if you want. To if you want to roll it, you
can. Right, I'll roll a dice and.
Your proficiency because like you're like a, you're like a
persuader kind of like. Charisma zero.
OK, so I am proficient, isn't Yeah, yeah, proficient in
persuasion. So that's +2.
So 18 total. Yeah, so that's just like, yeah,
you are. She's like, so it doesn't really
pop star. It doesn't really answer her
question, but she's like, ah, Schmidt's cool.
That's great. You you get in the elevator, you
descend. Is there any other thing that
you want to do in this building or in model before you take off
towards Route 111? I'm sure we'll talk on our our
block. Sure, yeah.
We leave though. Yeah, we can leave the building.
OK, the party plus Symetra now finds themselves at the southern
foot of Route 111, just north of Model City.
It's a temperate and cloudy day, as the transition between summer
and autumn can be notably felt in the chill and consistent
mountain air breeze. The route ahead is a mountain
pass 2 rocky cliffs neighbor the party to the east and to the
West, with one narrow pathway stretching N.
Despite the rocky soil, the grass and foliage along this
passageway are demonstrably healthy, likely as a result of
the volcanic ash and soot that usually enriches the earth in
this part of Hoenn. As the party marches forward,
they can't help but notice their path on this route is a gradual
but noticeable uphill incline, like an earthen Sentinel.
Off in the distance looms a mighty volcanic mountain the
likes of which is assumed to be Mount Chimney, the peak obscured
by clouds. A little ways up this hill on
the left is a quaint babbling brook with a modestly sized home
perched in the elbow of a stream.
An old and weathered sign out front says Win Straight Estate
with a newer piece of wood appended that reads Now teaching
powerful techniques to determine Pokémon.
There's a pair of mighty dark wood trees out front that have
dramatic contusions in their bark on their N facing sides.
The damage seems strangely familiar to you.
What do you? Do anybody want to learn cool
techniques? Course I love learning.
Not really, these people look busy.
There's no people outside they. Look.
They look busy. Yeah, I don't know, pretty busy
there's. Some Symetra seems down.
She's like, yeah, but we could give that a.
Shot. Does everyone go up to the door,
knock on it, etcetera? I'll.
Go 1st and knock on it, yeah? OK, Schmidt, are you following
behind or are you just gonna do something else?
Yeah, I guess I'm just going to the flow, man.
OK, cool. The party of five and the
Pokémon that you happen to have out with you go knock on the
door. There's a little bit of
shuffling and a tall man, nice and muscular with a beard opens
up. He says, hey, welcome trainers,
come on in. Welcome to the Winstreet estate.
Do you enter? Yes.
Great. You're in like a pretty nice one
floor house. It seems like that this has been
a home to a large family for a long time.
It is very well decorated with all sorts of trinkets and
knickknacks and beautiful art and large shelves that are full
of books and many, many photographs along the walls.
There is an old woman in a rocking chair and she is
knitting, he says. Really pleased to meet you all.
My name is Vito. Been around the block for a
while, been a battler for a long time, and I'm happy to teach you
some techniques if your Pokémon are willing.
We'd love to. Yeah, Really.
Sounds awesome. Absolutely.
He says, all right, who's up first?
He's looking around. I said solely out.
Yeah. OK solely hits the field, a
beautiful 9 tailed fox with wispy tails swaying in the wind.
Even though we are inside they have a magical quality to them.
He says. Oh great I love 9 tails.
Cool. What moves does this thing know
right now? Good question.
It knows. It solely knows.
Flamethrower, quick attack, baby doll eyes and roar.
He says hmm, all right, I think I can work with that.
And he sends out a Pokémon of his own on his belt in a premier
ball outcomes a large gorilla like Pokémon with flaming
eyebrows. He says it's your turn to
Armanitan. Armanitan hits the field and the
house shakes a little bit and it goes.
He says this is my trusty Firotype, had him for a couple
decades now. I think we could try and teach
your Pokémon to move overheat if they're willing.
Do you want to give that a shot? He says we probably shouldn't be
setting things on fire inside, so let's step out for a bit.
And he takes you out a side door that leads to like a battle
pitch, a sandy battle pitch right next to the river.
He instructs Darmanitan to use overheat with the classic
Darmanitan now. And Darmanitan beats his chest
and outcomes just a giant torrent of fire all around his
body, which Soli graciously absorbs because of its flash
fire ability. Now role in nature for Soli.
I just got a net 20. Oh, OK, yeah.
Let's. Go.
As Darmanitan let's off the overheat, Soli just absorbs it,
consumes it, and her eyes kind of flash a a deep red and then
just expels the overheat back. Because of the ultimate success
of of this move, you are welcome to learn it as a fifth move if
you'd like gaming. Yeah, Soli has mastered overheat
in one go. Very cool.
Symetra's very impressed. She's like, wow, Soli's gotten
so much stronger. You must be such a good battler
now. Vito is very impressed.
He says that's awesome. That's the only fire type
technique I have right now. Who's up next?
I'll send Trevor out. OK, Trevor hates the field.
He says, oh, a rock type cool. He thinks for a little bit, runs
inside for a bit. He says I'll be right back, just
give me a moment. And he comes out with like a old
and dusty pokey ball. He says this belongs to my
sister. She's not around right now, but
I'm happy to get this time. This guy some time out on the
battlefield says go Cam erupt and then out onto the field is a
big beautiful camel. Glorious.
He says. My Pokémon don't know any rock
type techniques but this one certainly does.
What moves does Trevor currently have?
Rock blast, harden, sand attack and head butt.
He says OK, are you interested in an offensive move or a
defensive move? Probably more offensive he.
Says all right I got 2 moves that this camera up to your nose
and I want you to pick one whichever 1 you think would be
happy to teach this little fella rockslide it shouldn't be an
issue at all We could also try to teach him stone edge and
might be a little bit harder up to you I'll.
Go rockslide. OK, he instructs.
Camera up to use rockslide. He says camera up to go and
camera up out of its humps, summons a massive rock and
shoots it off into the river and patiently looks at Trevor to do
the same. OK, nature role.
I got a four. You got a four, OK Boldor
creates a great rock for Rockslide that's like too much.
It's too big and can't throw it very far.
And Vito says that's all right. One more time.
Trevor, I believe in you get let him have another shot.
I got a six. Yeah, Trevor just can't figure
it out. It's just not working, Vito
says. You know what?
You'll get it someday, but for now, I think I have an easy move
that we can just teach you right off the bat if you're are
interested. It's not offensive.
It was a defensive one I was going to offer.
But I think you can just get this right away.
Yeah. Let's try it.
OK he has camera up to demonstrate stealth Rock and it
will require a role but it should be pretty easy.
Just just get a number. Come on, this is so bad 2. 2.
Yeah, it's getting worse. Trevor's is too dumb.
It's not Trevor's day. It's just really not Vito's like
this Little Rock isn't having a good time, is he?
Well, tell you what. And he, he runs back inside very
quickly and he darts back out and he has like a tiny little
pamphlet in his hand. And he says, this here is, is
the, the strategy for Stealth Rock.
You can work on it with Trevor on a different day.
Today's just not the day. But you know what?
He'll get it someday. Absolutely.
I appreciate it. Thank you.
So. Much.
Roll roll something for the pamphlet.
Either history or perception or investigation.
Any of those. Oh my God.
Getting them all out of the way, now roll perception.
That gives me a total of what, 7?
7 There's a guy on the front cover and he looks kind of
familiar, but you don't know from where.
OK, I'll look at it again later. It'll come to me.
Did you pre roll your dice before session?
I did. You warmed them up.
I did warm them up by words. Vito, noticeably less impressed
with Trevor than Soli but still believes in him, says all right,
I can help out. Who is next?
Sure. Yeah, you.
Oh, unless you want to go. No, no, you go.
Go no, no, no, no, no. You go no.
No, no. No.
It's fine. Yeah, Yeah, I'll send out a the
bird that attacks Symetra that one time.
The Swablu perfect Symetra seems like happy to see Patricia
FROSTBITE is not frostbite kind of growls a little bit and I.
Growl back at Frostbite. OK, you can roll for it if you
want, but you don't have. To sure, I'll roll for it.
Do you like intimidation or something?
Yeah, it's a 7A. Seven.
OK, Yeah, you're not very scary. I'm sorry.
Yeah, Swablu hits the field and he says, wow, this was looking
pretty tough. Look at its beak.
And he walks up right to Swablu and goes to, like, inspect her
beak. Do you allow it?
No, because that is the money maker.
Do you say that? Yes.
I got buddy, that's the money. Maker, he says, oh, wow, OK, I
get it. I totally understand.
I just thought it looked very unique.
Not many swabluus have a beak that's so hooked, he says.
All right. What kind of technique are you
trying to learn here? I don't know man what you got
but. What moves do you have?
I have dragon dance, Peck, disarming voice and sing.
He says it seems like you could use a better flying type move
than Peck, Huh? Probably all right.
He runs back inside for something, who knows what.
You can hear him murmuring and you can hear the murmuring of an
old woman back to him. And then you can hear like her
make a happy sound and comes back out with another dusty
pokey ball. He says, this belongs to my late
father Victor. Come on out, swallow.
And then there's a beautiful blue and red bird that pops out.
He says, I think if your little swallow is ready, and I think it
is because of how it looks, it's time for it to learn.
Brave bird. Oh hell yeah.
All right, he instructs Swallow to use Brave Bird.
It flies super high into the sky in an instant, in a blink.
It's been in that Pokeball for a while, but it does not care.
Goes to the sky and then just dashes straight down, right,
almost right before it hits the earth, the sandy pitch of the
battlefield, and then it swoops up and flies out, he says.
You think that your little swabu can do that?
Yeah. Give it a shot.
Oh, that's a plus 20. That's a + 2 for Schmidt.
What is it for Patricia? That's a -2 for Patricia.
OK, if I crit, does the -2 still apply?
No. OK.
I crit. Yeah, that's freaking sweet.
Kind kind of like solely maybe a little less confident just
because of the modifier. Just a little bit.
Swabu dashes into the air and almost parallel speed to swallow
and copies the move perfectly. Does not strike, swallow, but
stops right in front of Vito's face perfectly with his fluffy
little wings. As a reward for your crit, you
could have a fifth move, but I also want to grant you a level
up. So it's Brave Bird or Level Up
or. You will get brave bird and it
will erase PEC no matter what unless you get an extra move.
Or you can be level 7 and get brave Bird.
I'm down with level 7 and Brave Bird.
Cool I like that choice. Patricia is so vibing with Swell
O. They are like really going at
it. And Patricia has now become the
most powerful Pokémon in the party, besides maybe Frostbite.
Vito says. Well, last but not least, what
you got, little lady? I'm going to have cabbage go
forward. OK, you I'm assuming the cabbage
is already out, probably following you around, correct?
Yes. OK, cabbage makes an appearance
and Vito says oh wow, I haven't seen this species before.
What's its name? Oh, it's a milsary.
Her name is Cabbage. Cabbage.
Beautiful. I'm assuming this is a fairy
type and he inspects her closely.
You would be correct. He says, all right, what kind of
moves does it know? And is there any kind of
technique, offensive or defense, if you're trying to learn, may
be supportive. Yeah, it has Draining kiss,
dazzling gleam, sweet scent and fake tears.
He says. I'm not great at fairy types,
but I'll do my best to teach a move.
Or maybe you want to learn a move that isn't a fairy type
move. I don't know.
Yeah, a move that isn't a fairy type move could be cool.
OK, he grabs a book out of his pocket.
Oops. There really quickly he says.
I have a little regional hoen pokedex here and we don't have
many fairy types, but there is one that I've seen quite a bit
of and his name is Curlia. So I'm going to try and see if
it gets any moves that might be helpful for your friend here.
He says, ah yeah, this one could work.
Would you want to learn mystical fire?
Absolutely. He says awesome, now greeted at
the door rather than running inside.
The old woman all hunched over, all wrinkly faced smiling face,
throws out a pokey while that's on top of her cane and outcomes
a meta tight. It hits the ground and it floats
right after hitting the ground, like there's a little bounce and
its legs are crossed and it's in a meditative pose and its eyes
are closed. And she simply waves her hand
and he summons forth a ball of fire that shoots forward and
then splashes into the river. It is now Cabbage's turn to
attempt it. OK, Gunner, roll 16. 16 That's
good enough. Millsury seized the attack, and
for some reason fire and ferry are usually not very
complimentary types, but cabbage just kind of gets it.
Cabbage is like yeah OK, summons a little ball of fire and shoots
it out. You may choose which move you
want to delete for it. I think I'm going to get rid of
sweet scent. Fair enough.
The old woman who rarely gets out of her seat takes great
interest in Milsari. She is just standing there and
squinting from very far away and her eyes are already very
wrinkly closed and she says that's a really lovely fairy you
have there. Thank you, I think so too.
Vito says, I think that's about all I have in me.
And he kind of looks at Symetra and he's like, maybe you come
back some other time and she's like, oh, that's fine.
Yeah, we're not much battlers anyways.
And we've always like nods in agreement.
And he says, well, where are you travelers off to?
I know that there's a big commotion in in Marvel just the
other day. Are you trying to get out of
there or something in? A way, yeah, just.
In a way. To Lava Ridge right now.
Yeah, we have this destination in mind anyway, so.
He says, oh, Loveridge, there's not many people visiting these
days. The old woman behind him, who
you assume is his grandmother, she speaks up a little loud for
an old lady. And she says, are you all
familiar of the tale of the two lovers?
And Vito says, not again, Vicki, what are you doing?
And she goes. I want to hear the story.
Also would love to hear the story.
She says hush child. Now legend has it that the
unique Twin Peaks shape of Mount Chimneys volcanic crater tells
the tale of two lovers. Each of these peaks represents a
couple in love whose passion was the source of heat for the
volcano. My mother always told me this
story. She'd always say something like,
ah, to be in love again, as those two are now.
I wonder if that story has anything to do with how Mount
Chimney is not producing heat lately.
Maybe Hoenn's heart is in fact broken and she looks kind of
sad. He says no matter, thank you for
listening. And she kind of slowly trudges
back inside with her king and recalls her meditate.
Beto says well I wish you best on your journey and here take
some supplies. And he gives each trainer 2
super potions and a green Berry, which Cindy can identify as a
Lum Berry. You all get one of them.
So please add that to your inventory.
Peter says I wish you the best son, your travels.
I got a little cousin who's on his way in that direction.
If you see him say hi for me. He's about yay tall and he puts
his hand up to about his shoulder and he says he's got
blue hair. His name's Vince.
Let me know if you see him. Have we come across to Vince
before? I was going to say, I feel like
that name sounds familiar. That sound familiar?
Was that the Dragonair go fight guy?
Are you asking amongst yourselves?
Are you wishing to make a check? Are you asking Vito?
I am asking amongst ourselves. That's what I was thinking of.
Can we make a check? Amongst ourselves after he says
this. You can do like a history for
that, right? Absolutely.
I'm going to roll a history for that, OK?
I want to know the way that I just got a gnat 20 amazing for
that. Elity deep in thought about
wondering if you've met Vince before.
You turn your head to the right from around the door of the Wind
Straight Estate and you see those two mighty dark oak trees.
Down towards the bottom of them are like small little dents and
further up the bark facing on The North Face of the wood are
deeper and deeper holes in the wood.
In your mind's eye you can picture a muscular tank top
wearing blue haired man named Vince as a young child punching
the tree every day as he grew older and older, eventually
joined by two blue snaky Dragons that would slap the tree the
whole time saying power, confidence, fortitude and you
now realize that Vince is the cousin of Vito.
That's so funny. Wow.
Oh my God. Yo you.
Yeah, We have met Vince already. He seems focused, energetic.
That's a good word. Vito says heck yeah he is.
One day I wanted to be the champion of the hone region, but
I am sure that Vince is going to be, he's actually on his way to
Meteor Falls. We have old family there, part
of this tribe called the Dragon is I'm, I'm not really sure how
that goes, but they're doing this annual thing where they're
trying to find the Master of Dragons and he thinks it's him.
And you know what? I think it's him too.
So that's where he's off to right now.
So if you see him, let me know. We're kind of headed that
towards that direction anyway, so that works out.
Yeah, so Metro sounds interesting.
She's like, oh, I'm going there as well.
And Vito is just glowing. He's just very happy that he had
a successful move teaching session, met some cool
travelers, and they know his favorite cousin.
He says, well if there's anything else I can help you
with let me know, but otherwise I guess this is where we part
ways. Thank you so much.
Thank. You for your help.
Of course. And he goes in the door where
his grandmother came from, and it is quiet.
Happy trails heading north again, you are kind of bookended
on either side from rocky cliffs that are very tall.
As you March uphill. They meet at a point, a very
narrow point where probably like only one or two people could
squeeze horizontally, and there are two massive boulders in the
way. Off to the side there's a man
who is clearly a black belt. That is how he looks.
He's wearing the black headband and he is standing there just
staring at the rocks and he's flexing and kind of grunting a
little bit. What do you do?
Oh, you're trying to learn how to move those rocks?
He didn't hear you come up. He turns to Sad and he says,
yes, I'm very, very good at karate.
And he looks at the rocks and he says, I'll show you.
And he brings his hand down in a karate chop on that boulder.
And right as it connects, he lets out a scream.
And the boulder seems to be completely impervious to attack.
And he says, I just have to try again.
And he's gearing up for another attack.
And he says, my name is Steven. I am the greatest karate master.
And he goes in with a kick, and you hear a crunch as his foot
connects with the rock. And he goes, what?
What is your response to this? Oh, let me try.
OK. Go for a karate chop similar to
what he did. OK, Yeah, you're going to do the
same thing. Yeah.
Role of strength. So it's strength athletics and
does my ability kick in for modifying terrain?
Yeah, you're right. Great point.
Go for it. OK, we get 13. 13 Hey, 13 is
pretty good. You have a pretty massive
boulder in front of you, but because of how skilled you are
with messing with rocks and adapting terrain, you put a
little cleave in the upper 3rd of it.
It is not shattered, it is not moved, but like this is a large
boulder and you put a dent in it.
Steven is very impressed. He says, and he kneels down
really quickly and he says, Master, please teach me your
ways. I've been doing this for a long
time son. Long time.
What I recommend though, instead of using your hands, maybe get a
tool pulls up pickaxe. OK.
And. Then we're going to try it
again. Yeah, roll above A5.
Rolled another 13. OK, roll AD 20.
Rolls are terrible today. And eight.
Eight. OK, you bring the pickaxe down
on the boulder and doing as it is designed to do, it bursts
open as you do so. From deep within the boulder
come a whole bunch of little orange crab Pokémon scurrying
about. They seem startled and scared.
You do anything about this? Can I identify what those crab
Pokémon are real quick? Yes, you do so automatically.
They are in fact dwebble. You are familiar of them because
your wife has one named Penelope.
Yeah, it's dwebble. Yeah.
Oh, it is always Dwebble. Is this a home?
Karate master Steven is surprised.
He says 0 crabs, my greatest enemy, and he starts to run into
the river. No, it's OK.
Hey, it's fine. They're just wobbled.
They're scared. It's fine.
By same are you also writing to the river reality?
No, no, that was a joke, OK. Yes.
It appears that there's six of them and they are all confused
and scared and just kind of scurrying in a circle.
You destroyed their home. It was in the way it was in the.
Way true. Maybe not park your home in an
Oval path? I don't know, it seems kind of a
dumb real estate. How can I console them?
Give them a new home. Oh, true.
Hold on, is there is there space like off to the side that I can
give them like a new space to work with?
Sure, there's a big ass Cliff. Oh cool.
I'm going to use Toidel and make a use like and Trevor together.
They're going to use like Rock Blast and Rock Tomb to like
construct like some new space for them.
To appetate, yeah, dude, make some roles for that.
You can do the partnership role kind of thing.
That's AD 8, right? Yes, yes, yes. 02 sixes.
Oh geez, perfect Co-op. That is the perfect Co-op.
With their powers combined. Carve out a similar size
enclosure just into the Cliff. One might argue it's more safe.
The Dwebble all witnessed this and they all scurry inside very
gleefully. There is one that is trailing
behind a little bit and it can't quite get into the hole.
He has a shell that's different from the all the all the other
ones. Instead of like a granite
looking shell it is mineral colored and or it's has a
mineral Sheen to it and it's red and he's struggling to climb up
the wall. Just go up and try to help him
up. OK, you roll a Pokémon handling
actually. Yeah. 1515 Cool.
He trusts you inherently as you pick up the little crab with a
heavy kind of gemstone shell and you place him into the hole and
that's that. If that's all you want to do.
Steven is gone. Steven, he, you can see him out
in the river and he looks embarrassed and wet and scared
and just watching with envy as you have done what you've done.
That one that was struggling, can I feed it something and give
him a little reward? Sure.
He's doing his best. Take him with you 'cause he's
special. You should take him with you.
I'll give. Him Lauren Berry.
I'm like, hey, you seem pretty cool.
You want you want to try to come.
OK, do another Pokémon handling. OK, big die, not 20.
This guy. What do you think Bubble does in
response to that? You don't have to have
something, but if you do, let me know.
Yeah, I don't really have anything.
To go about yeah, you propose the question in the Berry and
Dwebble just ignores the Berry and crawls onto your hand and up
your arm. Aw.
Doesn't even take the Berry, you still have it in your inventory
and Dwebble seems keen on joining you sick.
All right, very cool. You are welcome to attempt to
capture or just let him vibe on you.
That's also a good thing, too. I'll put him inside a, I'll put
him inside a like I'll I'll give him a premier ball, but then
I'll let him out to just vibe. OK, you do that.
There is no catch DC or anything.
Your crit makes it a guaranteed capture and you now have a
Dwebble on the team. Congratulations.
What is your inventory like as far as Pokémon?
You've been in your overalls right?
So. I'm using my overalls and then I
have my party, Liz Toidel and Trevor, OK.
At this moment, your pokey balls all wiggle.
One of them has to be heated into cyberspace all.
Right, we'll send Liz back. All right, Liz, the Shuckle.
You tap the ball and it leaps upwards and vanishes.
You assume that it is safe in the PC as you.
I'm assuming we're all done in this area, correct?
The rocky place. Does anyone want to make any
checks interact with Steven? Steven looks fine.
Yeah, Steven can handle this all.
Right. As you move past the blocked
area to your left and your right, the rocky cliffs kind of
open back up horizontally. You're now in a in a more lush
valley area. There's a handful of Berry trees
that are blooming. There are patches of tall grass
surrounding A trickling body of water, perhaps the same stream
from outside. The wind straight home.
You hear a rustling in the grass.
Wild Pokémon are among you, and there are people who are in
casual athletic gear who are going on a run.
Do you do anything in this area? Harvest some berries.
OK, give me a Berry harvest roll I.
Just want. Another Nats money.
Oh my God. OK.
Yeah, you do. Got a roll?
You you go to pick the berries and there's one that's like a
little out of reach, but it seems like a really good Berry
from what you know. And you kind of perch yourself
on on a branch to pluck the Berry.
And as you do that, a sleeping bird falls out of the tree, hits
the ground dazed. It is white and red and
yellowish in color, and it has a little bit of black on its face.
It is confused and startled. I don't know what it is.
Can I roll to see if I can discern what Pokémon in it?
Yeah, absolutely. Or just gather any attributes
about it. I rolled a 19.
You have a pretty good idea, but this is another situation where
I will volunteer LED to pipe up because she is familiar with
this Pokémon because she has seen it all over.
Carlos is, in fact, a Fletchender.
Firebird. Firebird.
Firebird Firebird it. Would it be inhumane to throw a
pokeball at it while it is dazed and confused on the ground?
Have you played Pokémon before? I do it.
OK, throw the ball. Roll, roll the ball.
Yeah, I got a. 2A2 Unfortunately that isn't quite enough.
You throw the ball and it shakes once and flexner breaks free and
it is in fact looks less confused and now it is
aggressive and it will go for a little blast of ember towards
your direction and it gets a natural 1.
So it it opens its beak and goes and go shoots a little bit of
ember and it just falls straight out of the ground.
Looks like at the bird spit or something everyone can do some
stuff. We're not going to roll
initiative, but if you have any ideas on how to defuse the
situation. I'll cut in.
OK, Schmidt sees a bird and says it's my time to shine.
I want to say Patricia's still out.
Like I never recalled Patricia, OK.
And I'm not Patricia to try to sing.
OK, give me that sing check. You're the one that gives me
that sing check. Oh, true, right.
That's how that works. Yeah, it's a it's an 8 rolled a
nine. Damn.
Pretty, pretty close. Patricia lets out a beautiful
song, as Patricia does, but it just doesn't faze this
Fletchinger. Fletchinger will take this
moment to try to launch out another Ember and gets A7, which
does not break the armor class of Patricia.
Anyone else who is not Schmidt or Fletchander can attempt to
think currently. What's Roar?
Is that a? It's make a wisdom save.
OK. 13 DC. Could you read me the
description of Roar again? Target up to three opponents
within 15 feet of you. Opponents that can hear you must
make ADC 13 Wisdom save. On a fail, the creature is
frightened and forced to move away from the user in a straight
line. They are frightened until the
they can succeed on a wisdom save.
OK. And it says DC-13, right?
Yes, you're trying to scare it away.
I. Don't want to scare it away, I
just. Want to That does exactly what
Roar does? Well, like.
It description. I'm happy to roll it.
It's this. This is up to what Cindy wants.
If. It's running away.
Can I throw a pokey ball at it while it's?
Running, you'll have one chance. OK, maybe they'll do Quick
Attack instead. OK, you can roll to hit that 14.
OK, yeah, we'll say that 14 connects fields.
You can roll your damage a. One DS3 damage.
Three damage, a nice little chip.
Yeah, I think it's yellow time. Yellow time let's.
Eat a premier ball at it. OK.
That's an 18. You throw the premier ball, it
launches through the air and lets off that satisfying like
whistle sound. When you get a a good catch in a
Pokémon game, it ensnares the Fletchinger balls to the ground.
It wiggles once and twice. He caught Fletchinger.
Nice job. Welcome to the team.
It's the first Pokémon that was contentious as far as type
specialty, but it seems Schmidt has won out.
You have. Sticks her tongue out at him
while he's not looking. OK.
Pokémon trades are a thing. I just want to mention that if
you are desperate, you have Quacko with you who has a unique
situation. You have Patricia and Jessica
and Richie. Yep.
So it's wiggle ball time for you?
That's a weird thing to say. Your your your pokey balls.
Do you notice that they all wiggle?
As if you need to make a decision here.
We're headed to Jagged Pass, Lots of rocking fire type
Pokémon. Don't think I want to get rid of
Jessica. Yeah, we'll send the fletching
on your back. OK, your newly caught
Fletchinger returns to the PC and you have caught the
attention of a couple of the joggers and they're still
jogging, but they're just kind of looking at you guys in a
little watch. Smith just tongue out at Cindy
when she's not looking. As like a response.
Yeah. Perfect.
I like the the rivalry with the fire flying type.
That's great. You find yourself at a crossroad
at the northern end of the route.
As you move past here, directly ahead of you once again in like
a narrow Cliff passage, you can hear and see a howling
sandstorm. Seems quite vicious.
The visibility does not go very far.
To your left you see a signpost that says Route 112 and there's
a you can see the foot of Mount Chimney and a series of cliffs
and some tall grass. You can also see a cable line
running from a corner on the right that goes to the top of
Mount Chimney. What does the party think of
this moment? Looks.
Cool sandstorm, time to eat. We're eating to the sandstorm.
I thought we have to go left. Yeah, we got to.
Go we have to go to Route 112. Yeah, we're not going that way.
I mean, you could if you want to I.
Mean I don't want. To we, we we look at it and we
say, ah, memories of a previous life, and then we move.
On you head up Rat 112 it's a little bit more forested and
again the foliage here is quite lush.
You can only assume that is because, again, the volcanic
soil is very rich. So despite this being a
generally warm area, you can tell that some of these plants
are a little tropical. It's not particularly warm.
It's probably like 50°F. It's almost on the chilly side
with the mountain breeze. You find yourself in a patch of
grass with some rustling bushes around.
Directly in front of you to the West is a series of small hills
that leads into what looks like a small town.
And then to your right, there is the foot of what can only be
Mount Chimney, a very tall volcanic mountain.
There's a little cave up a series of steps and there is
what's it's kind of like a ski lift that seems to take people
up the mountain. What do you?
Do we could stop in Lava Ridge first, or we could just eat
straight to the jagged path? Well, I feel like, oh, there's
the the falls are also near the jagged path.
Oh. True.
Well I think the falls are past Lava Ridge or no I'm wrong.
Let me let this out for you. Mount Chimney to the South, Lava
Ridge to the east, the desert to the north, Fall Arbor to the
West, Meteor Falls. That's all central to Mount
Chimney. It's like a perfect compass
there. Access to Meteor Falls is pretty
difficult unless you're coming from the north or the South.
You totally can cut through Lava Ridge and cut through like the
mountain like kind of jungle, but it is not made for people.
OK, so in other words, Lava Ridge is probably not
recommended. No, I'm sorry, Meteor Falls is
not recommended. You could get to Lava Ridge,
that's fine. You can get to Lava Ridge,
that's just fine. You can get to.
Lava Ridge to get to like, because then we split off from
Lava Ridge. It doesn't seem like that's the
way it's going to work. Right, right.
Alternatively, I mean, you could still go to Lava Ridge.
Well, I'm not going to give you directions on your journey, but
from the top of Mount Chimney, you can go to Fall Arbor.
You can't go to Meteor Falls from the top of Mount Chimney.
There's no convenient. Way love this.
There's no they're all kind of equally distant.
OK. So there's no like optimal app.
Sure, so there's nothing that what is in Lava Ridge anyway?
There's no gym. Hot Springs.
True. Lava.
Cookies Cindy would know that there is a gym in Loveridge.
I thought it got moved. The one from Maville got moved.
Maville got moved, that is correct.
Because Maville suffered a terrorist attack, yes.
Ouch. Wow.
You know, as it does. I need to suck it like they
could have stayed. I mean, Watson's like in a
wheelchair. I don't know.
I mean, you still got hands. My man needs to retire.
Like there's got to be someone else in the city that's like,
it's a big city. Like they could just bring in
somebody, be like, hey, you're pretty good.
But if you want details on Loveridge, you could ask Cindy
and she could make a roll if you want.
Yeah, let's get details on Loveridge.
I know like from previous discussions with other MPCS and
stuff that we know that the the springs have been kind of a
mess, right? If I.
I pulled a three for information about Lava Ridge.
OK, Cindy can only remember what has been discussed recently,
that being that it's generally a popular tourist spot, but
because this Hot Springs aren't hot, people aren't really going
there. Lukewarm springs are not as fun.
Yeah, and we had the option to take the ski lift.
So like that was the thing that you noted.
It's there, you can check it out.
Yeah, let's, let's do. Do you guys want to check out
the ski lift? It's a lot shorter.
Chimney I. Don't know, maybe let's hit the
town. You want, you want to see the
town, you want to get a lover. Maybe hit the gym up.
Yeah, the gym might be good. Let's.
Check it out then. Yeah, let's go, let's go.
Go there. Sam is vibing.
Sam is in for the ride. She acknowledges that there
isn't really a convenient way to get to Meteor Falls.
It's it's the top part of the continent.
Like there's no easy way to get there.
So she's happy to just hang out with you guys.
As you March forward, you hear the sounds of a screaming, sad
child. I request AD 20 from Elody.
I got a 10. You approach this child and he's
very sad. He says Ambo no ambo come back.
And off in the distance you can see a fluffy sheep Pokémon that
is running up the steepest Cliff of Mount Chimney.
Falling behind it is a tiny like slightly humanoid shaped
creature that is teleporting and shooting little psychic beams at
it. And the kid is saying Ampo
please Ampo, please come back. I can't do this without you.
And there's a sheep that's going bam and it's very scared.
What do you do? We got to save this sheep.
Absolutely. OK, How do you intend to do
that? Or this kid is looking at you
very expectantly. Right.
Oh goodness. No plan.
I'm no plan full send. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, can I
like, start kind of like running after it and like tell cabbage
to go for like a dazzling gleam towards the like creature that's
attacking it. Sure, you can totally do that.
Roll to hit the Dazzling Gleam. Or is that a save?
It's been a while since we played.
I believe that is a save OK. One second, actually, I need to
do do a calculation. It's it's, it's because it's
based on charisma. So military excels at that.
Right. That's just such a wild like
everything. Yeah.
One, it's not like an attacking move.
Doesn't mean kind of, yeah, yeah, it, it's, it's got some
D&D kind of stuff. I forget what what spell it's
based on, but there's a there's like a barred spell that's like
distracting lights, which is like very similar.
Yeah, yeah, that's what I figured.
But it's just like a very interesting shift.
Yeah, they do in fact fail to save.
Please describe the effects and roll. 5 Did they fail by 5 or
greater? No, they rolled on 11.
So I will then roll for damage onto it.
OK. 15 damage. Oh, wow, OK, military's busted.
What the hell? And is there, there's a blind
effect as well, right? No, that's when it's failed.
By that's only if it fails by 5 or more.
But I mean, it's pretty. They're twinkling lights.
Yeah, a very impressive looking fairy type attack comes out of
military and damages this strange bipedal creature that's
chasing the sheep and they it's kind of split their attention
now to mill Surrey as well as the sheep.
The sheep is still running, it's buying and doing something that
some hooved animals do, which is basically climb vertical walls.
It is just. I was like, this sounds like
when goats climb on like damned. Yeah, the kid continues to
scream. He.
Says I want to I must obtain the mineral.
He says Ambo come back. Ambo is probably a good like 40
feet away from the kid. Oh my God.
Oh no. Why did I get rid of sweet
scent? Oh no.
The price has been paid. Man, sweet scent would have been
pretty. Sick.
Man, that would have been nice. I'll sing it.
Rolling the same safe. What's the range on that?
You can move into range, it's fine.
It won't matter. It's 30 feet, yeah.
OK, the creature rolls a natural 19.
I am so sorry it is imperfect. It's Hard Out Here for a pop
star. True symmetric odds.
She's like, yeah, yeah of. Course, yeah.
Great. Anyone else?
I'm making the initiative based on volunteer, so right now it's
Elodie and to Schmidt. I guess I will Brocktumitt.
OK, total. Yeah, you said total.
DC Strength 15. OK, yeah, they roll A4.
Oh. OK, Brocktum connects.
Tell me what happens. Take rock damage.
Oh they just get trapped or restrained at the make the
strength save tech. Oh, each turn, right, Yes, so
there was so so they can't move. 8 damage.
Yeah, this little creature is straight up not having a good
time. But I was gonna flamethrower at
it with Sully. OK, why don't you do that first
then? OK.
So it's a 40 foot cone. Yep, this should hit.
They are restrained, so they have disadvantage on their save.
They need to make ADC 14 deck save OK.
Are we trying to kill it? It got a natural one.
Well, we're trying to kill the thing that's attacking the
sheet. Got a Nat one?
Yeah, so. You so it's burned because it
failed by more than five. OK, and that is 2 D 10 + 5 of
damage, 10 damage. You perfectly knockout this
creature. It is smushed in these rocks and
it has exes for eyes. Poor little guy.
Ampo still running and the kid is still screaming.
But he needs to calm down Ampo. If only we had a sweet set.
Oh my God, does Cabbage able to use any sort of like, I mean
like she like inherently can probably use some sort of what's
Cabbage's ability sweet smelling?
Persuasion is inherent to Cabbage's abilities, and I'm
happy to create a custom check based on what you come up with.
OK, can I can I quickly yell to the kid?
What is Ampo's favorite food? The kid is pretty distressed
right now, so I'm just going to make sure that he can tolerate
this kind of question. Tolerate down a spiral.
Yeah, no, he rolled pretty well. He when it comes to his best
friend, he is willing to deliver information.
He says Grapefruit. Ampo loves grapefruit.
OK, can I try to have cabbage emit some sort of grapefruit
scent to persuade Ampo to approach our direction instead
of running? Roll it, I like it.
OK, then I believe that would be a 13.
Ampo turns around to face the party a good ways up the Cliff.
They smell the grapefruit and Ampo is very enticed.
As Ampo goes to make a step, it seems like it doesn't really
know how to get down and it just bleats in sadness as it wants
the grapefruit, but it can't really go anywhere but up.
Hey, we knew a trainer with Pokémon that could fly.
Yo. Dog, like all my Pokémon are
babies. Yeah, but all your Pokémon could
carry you little sheep. Like like all of them maybe, but
I don't know. Team lift.
Oh the team lift. How high is ambo?
About 40 feet 45 really pretty much just a vertical Cliff face.
I'm thinking strategizing. Because Ambo's walking on like
parts of like the rock face, right?
Yeah, but they're not anything that like a normal creature can
probably stand on most of the time.
Right, but if I like rock blasted into the wall to make
new steps. Yeah, you can definitely do
that. It might require some dexterity,
kind of like the roof building. It's a little volatile, so if
your aim isn't good it might be bad.
Yeah, it might be a little too hard for for Trevor here, who is
not very dexterous. Right, you definitely try.
Well, yeah, I think of like make the rocks, but I can't like put
them into the thing successfully.
Trying to think of some kind of like bow attack of like or maybe
like Trevor hooks rocks like quacko and then quacko like
baseballs them into place with the leak.
That would be pretty sick. Could be cool.
Yeah, we can try that. OK, OK, let's do the teamwork
roll. I will request AD 10 because
these two Pokémon don't normally work well together, but let's do
that thing. OK.
So if you roll AD 10, you want it to match as close as.
Possible as close as possible. OK, I rolled the five.
I got 7. That's you know what?
That's pretty good. That's pretty damn good.
Yeah. With their combined efforts,
Quacko and Toidel make kind of a stone staircase into the
mountain. This very much startles Ampo,
and it does kind of shake the Cliff face a little bit.
So that's a role to stay on with their hooves.
They succeed. Cool.
So Ampo is now up there and leading by its nose is trying to
descend the rock face. The kid that you're with is
running up there, very exciting. He says, Ampo, please come back.
Ampo, I love you. You know, he's very, very.
He wants his sheep friend. Ampo does not seem as
interesting the kid as it does the grapefruit smell.
Oh no. Too good, too enticing.
I'm just going to do one more deck check to see that Ampo can
do this successfully, unless any of you have any ideas that you
can help Ampo down the rocks. Should I like, have Patricia
like grab onto Ampo and just kind of like be a parachute?
You totally could. I don't think Patricia could
carry it, but I definitely think you could like help break a
fall, OK. Yeah, roll a Charisma check for
that. Charisma.
Now you make 2 rules, Charisma followed by Strength.
Charisma followed by strength. Well in completely aligning
with, or I guess not aligning with my stats, but in in a very
Schmidt fashion, nail the charisma check.
Strength check is a four. OK.
Patricia flops over to Ampo to help it descend the mountain.
Ampo is delighted by another fluffy Pokémon's presence and
does not seem to mind at all that she is so close to Ampo.
Patricia digs her talons into Ampo's fluff and decides it is
so comfortable that it will not lift and just purchase there and
closes its wings. OK, it's Hard Out Here for a pop
star, y'all. Yes.
It is Hard Out Here for a pop star.
After a little bit, Ampo descends and the small child
hugs Ampo in delight. Patricia is still on top of
Ampo. He is now crying tears of joy
and he goes up to Schmidt. He says thank you Sir, for all
of your help, and he hands you some items.
I'm going to type them to you. And if any of the other players
want to know what they are, they either have to ask or roll a
check to see if they can see what's being handed.
All right, so well, I have to say them out loud for the
listeners, so I'm actually going to meet deaf and you guys for a
little bit. He hands you 2 small blue
candies, A curved magnet and a lustrous blue scale blue.
Scale. Do I know what?
OK, damn it, they were still. OK.
Does anyone in the party wish to peek, perhaps over what was
given to Schmidt, or ask or do anything?
Now I'm going to ask Schmidt what you got there.
You know, not much. I'm going to show them.
What was the third thing you said?
You're going to tell them, so I'm assuming you want me to tell
you. Not the last thing and not the
first thing that there was 2 of. OK.
Yeah, a curved magnet. It seems like this kid just kind
of like put his hands in his pockets and pulled out whatever
was in there. Yeah, that's what.
Yeah, I got this magnet and. That's all.
Yeah, that's it. Oh yeah, it's all of it.
Yeah, it's all of it. Do you want to insight that?
I yeah, I will grant everyone a perception check if they want to
peek. You know what, why not?
I'm going to try. I got 3 on.
It OK, I don't. Know Gimli?
Gimli has no idea what was handed over.
Oh. It's definitely just a magnet.
Teen for Perception. I got a dirty 20.
OK, OK, crap. I don't.
Even know what that last thing was.
OK. Elodie, you see 2 little treats
that are wrapped in blue paper also got handed over.
Cindy. I got a 16 for perception.
Oh, I thought you got a 20. Grace got the 20.
OK, so that's all the
information that you get. You got the 20 Grace right?
OK. Yes.
OK, you actually also saw a shiny blue scale.
That's everything. OK, cool.
Everyone peeked what they were able to peek and the kid seems
very grateful and he hops into The Cave that you are standing
in front of. Seems perfectly fine now that
his sheep is back with him. Did we help the Pokémon that we
knocked out? Yeah, there is like a crushed
deceased Pokémon in a tomb of rocks currently so.
Take it to the Pokémon. Center.
Yeah, let's, let's grab this little fellow.
OK, you're going to scoop him up.
Who's going to carry him? I.
Won't carry him. It's pretty standard for me, OK.
Do we know what it is? You can find out he wants to
make a check. I rolled a 19 on the dice.
That is, in fact, a Roltz. You have seen it many times here
in Holland. Oh, OK.
Yeah, this is a asshole, Roltz. Just shooting at his sheep.
He's just trying to farm. Him.
He's just trying to get his XP for United.
I mean that. Little snake, we could fix him.
That's so funny. OK, so you're on the way to the
Pokémon Center. Yeah, OK, Gimli, make a
perception check as you pick up this little rolt.
OK, time to not do well again. I got a four.
A4 I'm. Killing it.
Yeah, you you didn't notice a single thing.
Of course. The party marches into Lava
Ridge. There is a elegant familiar
building which you recognize as a Pokémon Gym.
There's a building that says the right of learning.
There's happens to be one of those in this location as well.
There's a Pokémon Mart. There's a shop that says lava
Ridge herb shop with fresh lava cookies as well.
There is a Hot Springs kind of cobblestone section that also
has like a mini beach appended to it where there are some
people sitting in the sand and there's a Pokémon Center.
I think we should probably go to the Pokémon Center and drop our
our friend here. Yeah.
OK, as you rush into the Pokémon Center to heal up your new
friend and all of your other party members, that's where
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Please, I need this, I can fix it.
My family needs this. My family meets this other
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