Amidst the chaos caused by Team Neo Rocket Galactic's attack in
mas Deep City, it appears that the Super ancient watertight
legendary Pokémon Kyogre has been agitated and awoken from a
15 year slumber, once again threatening to drown all of
Hoenn if left unchecked. With the party separated at
greater physical distances than ever before, how will the Quacko
Paco save Hoenn? Or perhaps even the world.
A truly apocalyptic calamity has begun to befall hoen in most
deep city. The Quacko Paco accelerated a
sinister mission derived by Neo Rocket Galactic to to the best
of their knowledge, blow up the moon.
The scientific shuttle stolen from the Mos Deep Space Center
seemingly launched successfully about 1/2 day ahead of schedule,
however sustained heavy Cindy related damage during the
squabble preceding the launch, causing one rocket booster to
explode before delivering its entire fuel load.
Shortly following the launch, an abruptly awoken super ancient
legendary Pokémon said to have created the planet Seas Kyogre,
emerged from within Shoal Cave several miles north of the
island city of Mos Deep. Kyogre's powers, seemingly
stimulated, brought forth an incredible storm that quickly
threatened to drown Mos Deep and eventually all of Hoen and
perhaps the entire planet, causing energies forces to
hastily abandoned their invasion.
Because a similar calamitous event occurred 15 years ago in
Hoen, the psychically proficient Mos Deep Gym Leaders Tate and
Liza initiated a telekine Dome from a new piece of technology
within the safety of the city's gym, a massive pink bubble that
is temporarily protecting the beloved island town from the
effects of Kyogre's rampage. Our heroes Gimli and Cindy took
the oath to protect the twin gym leaders should their focus
become interrupted and the telekine Dome may fail.
Trevor the Giggleth and Lasagna, the psychically inclined Crussel
are holding guard while Cindy and Gimli convene with allies
Maxi, Stephen Stone, Duford Police Delaney and Brandon
Tiberius, Matthias Ferris Heart, Gimli Lodestone and Elodies,
Estranged Iron Valiant, Key Lime Elodies.
Whereabouts are not fully understood to the rest of the
Packo Schmidt and the titular Quacko the Far Fetched have
engaged the Leviathan out in the sea in the heart of the raging
storm it has created. Hurricane like conditions
accompany torrential downpours, rapidly rising sea levels and
nonstop lightning strikes around this arcanely enhanced super
ancient legendary Pokémon. Maxi's partner Archie, the
former leader of a villainous team hell bent on utilizing
Kyogre's powers to expand the sea and control the world, has
also entered the fray with his team of powerful water type
Pokémon. While soaring above and around
the belligerent Kyogre, Schmidt identified two things of note.
That Kyogre was in fact interfacing with a plate at the
base of its tail, protected by a Mystic bubble of water, and that
the telekine Dome surrounding Moss Deep has essentially become
fully submerged, however still visible from above the water.
It is about 2:00 AM and Schmidt is falling into the ocean after
a failed attempt to wrest the plate from Kyogre's tail.
Schmidt to please make a deck save in order to make a safe
landing. Tentacrual is going to be
assisting is going to try and catch you.
Oh cool, that is a 16. OK, Tentacrual rolled similarly
successfully so you'll careen about 30 or 40 feet down into
the raging sea as Tentacrual bounds up from the water and
Schmidt you land comfortably on its Jelly like head.
You bounce a little bit and your clothes at this point are just
like fully soaked. I'm imagine that you're like
either holding Quacko or Quacko descended with you.
Do you had cannon that as well? Yeah, Quacko's just kind of like
flying next to him. OK, this might be a good time as
any just to kind of check in on like the HP status of Schmidt in
the game. How are they doing?
I don't think Quacko has taken any damage.
Schmidt's doing all right. Oh, Quacko's actually really
low. I thought he had taken some
damage, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Quacko's in. I don't think he's quite in red
yet, but he's very close. He's like at the bottom end of
yellow. Yeah, the environmental effects
that Kyogre is creating, not to mention its own attacks, are
just kind of constantly subjecting Schmidt and his team
and Archie and his team just to damage just all the time.
Do who else does Schmidt have out?
It's just me too. Just quacko.
And you too. Great.
OK, Archie is here and he's doing shit, but he's not
necessarily coordinating with Schmidt.
I'd like to give Schmidt just like a full initiative turn to
figure out like what he wants to do, what he's up to, what his
plan is. Schmidt is going to going to
have like a Jimmy Neutron brain blast moment and he's going to
be like, oh, they meant some in right quasa.
So he is going to pull out his keeper, Jim, and he is going to
say through sacred right in thy great sight, my life as well,
Ioffer, I summon thee to aid this fight and save us from
disaster. Realize them upon this world,
for I do summon thee, Rayquaza. Very fun.
I like how you are referencing Canon stuff Schmidt may not have
remembered, but the scroll that actually contains like the the
manual to something Rayquaza actually just has like the last
part of that. It's not, it's not the whole
thing, but it'd be cool if Schmidt said the whole thing.
Yeah, roll me a Charisma check please.
Charisma. Can you rise up Requisa?
Oh shit, Risen. Up Requisa.
Oh no, I got to make it. I got to make it.
Oh my fucking God, I got a natural what?
With Schmidt calls upon the birthright of his ancestors to
summon the beast that no one else has the capability of
summoning, and yet it seems to fall upon deaf ears.
No one seems to particularly notice with this role.
Schmidt gets the sense that even if he had delivered it better,
something is missing from the equation.
And I will refund this action to you because it's simply will not
work. Awesome.
But no detriment, I'm giving you another action so you can keep
doing stuff. I don't know what's missing from
the equation. Can I roll them you?
Can use an action to roll like an intelligence check that's
either history and I'll I'll give you advantage on it
actually oh where's. Where's my boy crowd on Dude?
3025. The dragon ends are very
traditional and ritualistic in many ways throughout their
culture, but particularly in these kind of more divine
rights. It seems that location is
something to bear in mind when conducting this, and that this
not is won't necessarily work just anywhere at any time.
OK, well, I think we're fucked. Maybe.
I think we just die. You have an additional action as
well as bonus actions. Dog I don't know what the fuck
to do. Can I pull the chat?
Sure after you take your turn it's going to go to them so but
you can you can pull above table if you want.
You have to go to the the pointy, the sky, the sky guy.
Leave the party, go to sky guy, go see him.
I'm so sorry, what is it called? The Sky Pillar.
Sky Pillar? Yeah, that's a long fucking ways
away. How far is it?
Ality is the map so you guys will never know how.
Far. It's like the other side of the
continent. Yeah, like halfway.
It's probably about equal distance from here to the Berry
farm. Shit, you can fly fast, right?
Oh wait, you have a teleport I. Don't know if it can teleport
that far. Do I know if it can teleport
that far? I gave you a range.
It was a three digit number of feet.
Oh. Unless.
I didn't save it. Could possibly impose like bouts
of exhaustion ish, I don't know. It has been conducted pretty
recently, the Mewtwo's miracle power.
I'm, I'm willing to, you know, I want you guys to be able to do
the things that you want to do. I won't say no to it, but it
would be quite demanding and may not succeed.
Schmidt, free perception check please.
Free perception check. I like free that is an 8.
OK. Can't roll for shit tonight.
That's fine, based on your eight you can as you're kind of
contemplating like shit, it didn't work, what am I going to
do here? Way off to the West, you
visualize like a strange flicker of red orange light and you
aren't certain on what it is. You for a second think it might
just be the sun starting to rise because it is so late at night.
Who woke up? Crowd on.
Kyogre, what the fuck you looking at, fish?
This Groudon on this Kendrick and Marsh chip.
Yeah. Kyogre existing Groudon's like
no, I'm not having that shit. Whoa whoa whoa.
That's why it's my favorite conflict.
Oh dog, what the fuck do I do? Well, you saw that flicker of
like, yeah. Yeah, but.
We don't know what to show. What that is, Yeah.
What do you think you could do? Anything about the the stuff in
front of you? I could try to crowbar the plate
out, but I think Quacko might die.
Do you have any any any things? I got some potions I could use,
yeah. If you use a potion as an
action, you get the full benefit.
You don't have to roll. OK, what has a better formula?
Super potion or moo moo milk? Did did we ever notate moo moo
milk? We did not know.
I'm going to say moo moo milk. Just regardless, whatever super
potion is, moo moo milk is better, OK?
Because it's Schmidt's thing, you know, It's like.
Right, it's a good old Milky. Permanently pasteurized and
always fresh and cold. It's just magical.
So crazy. Do 6 D12 + 14 or just take the
full value of that which is 86. You're welcome to heal Quacko
for a full 86 if you decide to do it as an action.
I think I will do that. OK, Schmidt, while sitting on
the the soft surface that is tend to Cruel's head, holds
Quacko tenderly and pours milk into his beak.
Quacko, it feels rejuvenated from it and is delighted to this
Milky flavor. So funny feeding milk to a duck.
I just don't know what to say. Just caressing it like a little
baby. In the midst of like this ocean
God like terrorizing the planet. And now you need just.
You need your strength. Exactly, my bravest bird.
You need your strength. Pretty funny, pretty good.
OK, Schmidt, we're doing like kind of a pseudo initiative.
We'll check in with you in a little bit, OK?
Awesome. Cindy and Gimli, it's been a
while since we played and I want to make sure that you have the
opportunity to kind of interact with this strangely stoic Moss
deep before you have potential plot thrust upon you.
So I will ask the question, is there anything that you like,
want to do or looking forward to do in this moment?
I'm kind of just willing to thrust myself into the plot, OK?
I'm down for plot. OK, great.
Cindy Gimli, Trevor Lasagna, the Kressel are kind of gathered in
the front entrance and at just outside of the Moss Seep City
Gym. There's also Jim Lee, TMF,
Delaney and Brandon are off doing cop things, but they're
checking in every now and then. Just kind of sitting put as the
top of the sea level just barely starts to eclipse the top of
this Dome that is protecting Moss Seep.
The lights are kind of flashing on and off in the buildings.
It makes sense that access to power would be limited or just
running off of generator. Things seem to be inconsistent
while standing around discussing, especially with
Steven and Maxi who seem to be kind of like authorities in the
situation. While Tate and Eliza are
meditating and focusing on the telekine Dome, there is a
reaction from crustal from lasagna.
The crustal he he's making a strange kind of like staticky
sound. His mouth is just hanging open
and it's like, and it's a very peculiar kind of sound.
Gimli, could you roll me an investigation, please?
That's bad 3. Not super high, Gimli.
You don't know what's going on with this crab.
You're not a biologist, but you do it.
It reminds you of when you were spending time in Mount Coronet
and you would use radio or walkie talkies to communicate
with fellow miners. And sometimes you have to like
adjust the antenna to pick up the signal just right to make it
work. Cool.
So I'll grab, I'll grab what's on his hands and adjust it like
it's ATV antenna. OK, you're moving his claws
around. Yeah, see if he moves his claws
around. OK, you fiddle with them for a
bit and you can even making a strange static kind of sound.
And then after a while you hear a voice telepathically into the
room. It sounds hurried and rushed and
it says Tate and Liza. Tate and Liza come in.
Any psychics and Moss deep please get back to me.
Ted 4 good buddy, I receive you. I just shouted across those
mouth. Very good.
His the gem on his back kind of like flickers and glows and the
voice says oh finally this is Champion Red.
I'm transponding through my espion and I'm riding on the
back of my Charizard. It seems that this issue has
befallen Moss Deep much sooner than expected.
Can you tell me what's going on? We're we're in the device.
With some in Kyogre. We're in the device with Tate
Liza. I don't know what else to say
about it because we don't have much knowledge, but they're
meditating currently. It's an emergency device in case
I think Kyogre ground on return. Red on the other end gives kind
of a sound of of recognition and says, yes, myself and and my
league comrade Sabrina were involved in the construction of
that. So I'm glad to hear that it's
working. Cindy, you're there.
I hear that Kyogre has been re summit.
Is that what's happening? Yeah.
Very good with the kind of sorrowful Yeah.
Speaking to Red, you can see that on crustal shell all of a
sudden, like you see like an image through Espion's eyes just
kind of refracted through the shell and funny like awkward
dimensions where things are like squeezed super wide.
And if you move around crustal shell, you can look inside and
see it refracted in different shapes and stuff.
But anyways, you see Red's face and it looks goofy through the
shell and you can see Charizard's wings flapping
behind him and the back of Charizard's tail burning bright.
You also see a lighthouse behind Red and various like well lit
buildings and it's raining, not as heavily as it is where you're
at, but it's raining over there. Red says I'll be there as soon
as possible. I was worried that something
like this might happen. I am afraid that one of the only
ways to disrupt super ancient legendary Pokémon like this
would be using the power of the aspects.
Thankfully I myself have a quite a good match up with the aspect
of lightning in my possession. But I do have a problem.
And Jim Lee, who's in the room kind of like nods in size and
Red, says for safety from NRG, we kept the lightning plate
separate from the aspect of lightning.
So with the telekine Dome, we're going to need a solution.
And Maxi is thinking, and Steven speaks up over it.
And Steven says the telekine Dome is hard to break, but
there's one way to do it to while keeping it intact.
And it's using a great amount of force.
And Maxi asks, like, what do you mean to you?
Are you suggesting that we create a large explosion?
And Steven nods and Red says, all right, Quacko Packo, while
you're in the telekine Dome, I'm going to get to Moss Deep as
soon as I can. And when I get there, I'm going
to need you to launch the plate out of the Dome somehow.
I would. You'll have about 10 minutes to
figure it out. And then if if we don't have the
Aspect of lightning ready to go and I'm on the back of
Charizard, this might be an even worse situation.
I'm going to have SP on focus while I'm on the trip and I wish
you the best of luck. I'll see you in 10 minutes.
And the psychically. Explosions.
So Champion Red has essentially tasked Gimli and Cindy with
making a bomb to launch the plate that belongs to Red and
Gimli out of the Dome in a way that Red can access it.
Maxi will say you know, if you need any help I'm I'm quite
practice and explosives and pyrotechnics.
So just let me know. So are we just going to burst a
hole and then throw the plate out?
Is that the goal or are we launching the plate with the
explosion? Steven will say ideally the
payload is accompanied like through the explosion because
the hole will reseal itself after a short amount of time.
OK, so I will have Lasagna put a barrier on the plate and that
way we can put as much force as we want into it and launch it
through the the entire barrier. Does that make sense?
I think that'll work. Steven and Maxi's are just kind
of like leaving this kind of in your hands.
They are willing to help, but they think that that sounds like
a good idea. Maxi will mention that with the
energy invasion, a large store of jet fuel remain on the island
and that there might be a way to use it, but carefully.
Are we trapped in the Dome though?
You are trapped in the Dome, but so is the Space Center.
Oh yeah, the whole space Center's in the Dome.
The whole island's in the Dome. Oh, true.
OK I forgot how big the Dome was.
I felt like it was the gym room and that's why.
No, no, it covers the whole city.
OK, OK. OK, OK, OK.
It is quite large. Otherwise all those tourists
would be Sol. Yeah.
Have fun swimming beachfront experience.
How about beach ocean experience?
I'm so sorry. So all right, you guys are
welcome to strategize and come up with a plan.
I think I might bounce it back to Schmidt for a little bit.
Schmidt Mewtwo floats down to you just mostly to check in
because you fell from a great height.
And he will also tell you that he's intercepted a psychic
communication between who he believes is Champion Red of the
Cantor region and Lasagna the Crustle.
And kind of will illustrate a brief idea of of the plane
that's been described is that this creature is defeatable, and
especially will be defeatable with the assistance of Red.
But they're going to have to somehow make that happen through
the Dome, and we'll let you know.
Fuck. Dude, additionally you will
realize that that orange light that you saw way way way in the
distance is the incredibly powerful tail flame of Red
Starzard. OK, so he's coming.
He's coming. He's going to be there pretty
soon. Sometimes the brave thing is to
run or you can, there's, there's what you can do whatever you
want, of course. But I want to make sure you know
that like evasive stancing your whole turn is a reasonable
action if you are worried about longevity or you can on the
offensive or you can reposition etcetera.
How far away is the the Dome fully underwater by this point?
Just barely. Like this surface of the ocean
is like lapping over the top of the bubble, but the rest of the
city like is underwater. It's fairly close.
It's 30 feet or less from your position for sure.
I think the only option I do have is to go on the offensive.
OK, how do you do so? You said there was the plate
that was like launched in one of its like spine fin things,
correct? Yeah, it's like at the tip of
its tail, which is a really unfortunate spot because it
keeps like gyrating in the air. It flaps up and down to propel
Kyogre forward. So it's a little rough.
Additionally, even though I described it, it has been a
while. There are various like vortexes
that are spiraling around Kyogre, which effectively
increases its armor class and its ability to make saves.
And it has like these orbs of pure concentrated water that
just kind of fire off laser beams around its body.
Just every now and then, just just just hardened bolts of
water to shoot out in various directions.
I was just tickling that by the way I was doing finger guns
around my apartment. Just everyone else.
What I wouldn't give to have fucking Cloud 9 on Patricia
right now. You're also welcome to behold if
you want. If you just aren't sure need
more time, I've got. Semblance of a plan.
OK. You said there was like a watery
thing around the plate itself, right?
Yeah, there's some sort of like arcane energy that is also
protecting it in a way. OK.
It seems to be coming from the plate itself too.
Gotcha. How would bind work in the
situation? Would it just happen or would it
just fail? What?
What is the description of that? On hit, the target is grappled.
Which Pokémon is doing that? Like Keckley?
I would suggest that Kyogre is immune to the effects of being
grappled because it's gargantuan, but.
That's fair. That's.
Fair. You could use it to like
restrict. It's one of its appendages,
perhaps. Or just hang on to it.
I think that's a perfectly good flavor.
And it will still do damage, certainly if it hits, but you
will need a gargantuan creature to grapple Kyogre.
I have a plan, but I think it's stupid.
I love stupid plans. You want to share it?
I want to have MU 2 teleport Schmidt above Kyogre.
Above Kyogre. OK.
Yeah, I want to send out Walter the Dunn Sparse.
Yeah. And I want to like AirDrop like
drill missile on the plate to try to dislodge it.
That's so fucking cool. Of course you can try that.
Yeah, that's a MU 2 teleport, which we could say is like Misty
Step. We could say as a bonus action,
Walter using movement and then hyper drilling.
Yeah, well, yeah, we'll just do it.
First, a pretty easy deck save from U2 DC 11 just to get to the
teleportation sites uninhibited. OK, Oh shit, this super
dexterous. Yeah, I got a 19 on the die.
I think that's like a 2086. Yeah, Mewtwo is able to like
using its psychic powers, navigate the hurricane like
storm that you were residing in to get to a good vantage point
above Kyger. How many feet above that you
want to be? Kyger's already 50 feet above
sea level. I guess like maybe 20 feet just
high enough that like the drop itself will have impact.
OK, yeah, 20 feet is a good enough height.
It's. Like 2 stories isn't it?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, well above the ocean
now as you go 70 feet in the air to be above Kyogre again.
You get a pretty good vantage of Massif City while you're up
here, just the tip of the bubble lapping against the risen sea
level. You can see that Shoal cave in
the top part of it all just blown off from where Kyogre
emerged. You can even swear you just way
out past the storm now thanks to the light that Charizard is
making. You can kind of see the lake of
city just many, many miles to the West.
Because you're so far up and to the east.
You also see this beginning, the just slight change in sky to
like a sunrise. One of the things that you could
see, but may not be able to, will require another free
perception check. OK, we do like free.
I got it too on the die. OK, never mind, we're good.
Famously good at perception check.
Famously good, Yeah. Something that you do see
without needing perception check is that Archie's just fucking
going at it. He's got Sharpedo and he's
holding on to Sharpedo, and Sharpedo is launching him out of
the water and he's just trying to grab onto Kyogre.
He's just failing and he's getting blasted and he's getting
like all bruised and beaten up and he keeps landing back in the
sea. Tentacroul doing a pretty good
job of catching him, but like, he's just screaming the whole
time. He's just really having a blast.
Oh, did I? Ever did we ever communicate the
plate to him? I don't think so.
He's been, he's been in such like a rage.
But you're welcome to do so. You will.
Can I do that this turn or next turn?
You will have an additional action because you still have
just moved in bonus action on MU 2, so after Walter attack show.
Walter out. So I think sending Walter out
was the action, right? Yeah, if you want to attempt to
communicate with Archie, I'll give it to you.
OK, I would like to do that. How do you do it?
Oh can I psychically through MU 2?
Sure I guess. Me too.
He's already doing a lot this turn.
He is doing a lot. He's going to make ADC 14
intelligence check. I got 15 on the die.
Nice. Yeah, he can communicate like
about a sentence from you to Archie.
I'm just going to say like it's more than one sentence, but like
there's a plate on the tail. Go for the tail.
You don't hear psychically back
from Archie, but you do just hear a man roaring deep below
you. Just truly in the thick of it,
just being animalistic and wild in his lifelong goal of
wrestling a fish. Awesome.
You understand that roaring to be like message received and in
his next launch off torpedo he will be going in that direction
I think I think it's Walter time.
So you're going to send him out he's going to drop down in hyper
drill right? Yep, OK, sending him out and him
falling are things that can happen without any kind of check
because that is just gravity. It is just working.
He will descend while MU 2 Schmidt and Quacko watch being
suspended by psychic energy thanks to MU 2.
Roll to hit your Hyper drill. OK, this might be asking too
much. Yeah, but if I'm behind Kyogre,
does this technically count as flanking?
I will give you advantage for this role to hit just because
it's sick and cool. I do think Kyogre knows your
presence. I think it has that kind of not
omnipotence, but like it knows what's going on in a general
sense. Gotcha.
Got that sense that advantage did matter.
That is a 3020 even. Yeah, that will in fact get the
armor class for this monster in this location and it, Walter is
welcome to drill away just right at the tail of Kyogre where the
plate is seemingly lodged. Maybe is the wrong word, but
it's like in there, it's connected to Calgary body in
that place. Roll your damage for hyper drill
please. It is 43 points of normal type
damage. Solid, yeah.
Pretty good, Walter. That's he's like, yeah, he
descends from the sky, drills spinning and then connects with
the tail. And while it's not that much
time in the grand scheme of things, he's probably only
connected for five seconds. He drills very vigorously until
he is thrown off by the flopping of the tail.
It seems that like this has somewhat agitated this barrier
that is around the plate. And from what you can tell from
what you can see, it seems that it has been lessened to some
degree. However, was still going to be
very difficult to remove anything else for sure.
I think that's all the actions I can't take.
OK, yeah, I'm out of economy. After Walter gets thrown off,
he's like soaring kind of to the north over towards Moss Deep.
He's moving pretty fast. You can either deal with that at
the start of your next turn, or you can have Mew to try ADC 15
Intelligence to try and grab them psychically.
That's up to you. Can't Walter fly?
Does he have a flying speed? He does.
It has a flying speed of five, so he can basically just kind of
hover in the air. He.
Can hover, yeah, so he'll be thrown and he can fight against
it with his wings. Give him a strength check
actually to see how hard he can push being thrown by Kyogre. 15.
15 is solid. He's going to soar over towards
the front of Kyogre. He like, it's going to be hard
to like withstand that much power, but he's not going to
necessarily descend. He's going to be able to hover
in place for a little bit. Awesome.
Pretty good stuff, Yeah, excellent maneuver by Walter.
And after the drill can, like, finish.
And once he got thrown off the tail, Kyogre did let out a
behemoth roar as if it actually took some significant damage and
felt some pain. So nicely done, Schmidt.
Anything else? I lay down one face down and end
my turn. OK.
Let's return. Let's go to Gimli and Cindy.
What is their plan? What are they doing?
So we had two concepts of a plan.
And because the the the very, very tippy top of the bubble is
not quite under the bubble, I think my plan is the superior
plan. Let's hear I I said.
We can go with it first and if there's too many checks then
we'll do my version of it. So go ahead on all.
Right. We're going to take the jet
fuel, we're going to take the protected plate.
I'm going to throw them up in the up.
What do you mean you're going to throw the jet fuel and the
plate? I'm going to fly on Salomon's up
to like the very tippy top of the bubble, OK, where it's not
quite underwater. I'm going to throw them up or
have Jack possibly throw them for me because Jack is stronger
than I am. OK, throw them, ignite the jet
fuel and have it go the top and then red can like be there and
catch it. When you say throw them, you're
saying the jet fuel and the plate.
Yes. OK.
The jet fuel, there's a pretty large quantity and it's in
pretty heavy containers. Mind you, it's designed to like
go on a rocket. It's not designed to be like
carried by one person. So we're going to say that for
an easy description. We're looking at like oil
barrels that is just filled with highly explosive fuel.
Can we put it in something smaller like a little gas can?
You can transfer the fuel if that makes your bomb easier.
Certainly, that is definitely something you can do.
So my proposal was instead of eating it into the air, because
as you said, they're in big containers, that it's probably
going to be hard to do, I was like, can we just line them up
like near a wall, like a Cliff side or a wall that's near the
edge of the barrier rather than the top, and then eat it out?
So rather than going through the top, going through the side or
something. Yeah.
OK, that is. And then get flooded.
It it is certainly these are both options and they both
present their challenges right. Cindy's strategy is probably
going to have some harder checks and be harder to pull off, but
the likelihood of Red immediately finding success if
it works is very high. Launching it out the side is
going to be easier to construct, but Red's going to have to take
more time to like get blast hoist to go into the sea and
also risks just it like sinking in him not making that check.
It's it's riskier in that sense, but you're a lot more likely to
evict the plate from the bubble. There is a chance of things go
really, really wrong that the bubble can start to flood as
well. Regardless.
Yeah, just either way that you guys are doing it, it could just
go poorly. And there's more solutions to
the problem too, but. How long?
How long will the bubble be open once it is blasted through?
This is the first time the bubble has really been used.
So Steven is like, not totally sure the accuracy of the blast
is going to make a big difference cuz that'll determine
the size of the hole and then that will like determine how
long it takes for it to reform itself.
Where the hole is made and how big the hole is both contribute
to that. What if I take the plate and I
go through the hole at the tippy top?
Oh, since it's. Covered in water.
Not the tippy top. The tippy top has a little bit
of like, Richie said. It was like lapping at the top
of the It's. Shallow at the.
Top bubble. It is less than shallow.
At the top. At the top, yeah.
It's like a little sprinkle. It's like rain, a little bit of
rain and a lot of bit of rain once you go outside.
I'm telling you that that's not how physics works, though.
Like it's not going to be like, oh, you take a little swimmy,
like the water's coming down at you if you're pushed through.
OK, a little bit of waterfall. Have you ever taken like a
little shower under a waterfall? A little bit of waterfall, it's
a lot of pressure. The pressure at the top will be
less than the pressure at the side, but there will be pressure
regardless. Waterfall.
Neither of your options are bad or wrong, I just you there's
something to consider. So you can carry it through, but
we still have to punch the hole in the barrier.
Yeah, there's still got to be an.
Explosion just to ignite something at the top.
It's a little easier to do if I'm not also juggling a plate as
far as like causing it. We don't.
We don't have to ignite anything.
You could just laser it through. Like, it doesn't have to be an
ignition, it doesn't have to be an explosion either.
Do you think a solar beam could hole punch this bubble?
You always just test it too. Just want to like see what
happens. Just want to fire a laser at the
barrier. I'd want to do it closer to the
tippy top, but I don't want to do that until red is closer.
For anything like less than like a full Draco Meteor or like
using jet fuel, you're welcome to like test things and see like
how effective they are. Because your Pokémon can hold
back. Jet fuel cannot.
Yeah. Additionally, you have access to
Stevens, Metagross and our and Maxi's camera UPS if you want to
use either of them for anything. How long does drought last?
Drought is an effect that lasts I think 5 rounds.
I think if you left the bubble it would simply be overwritten.
Yeah, you cannot do drought with Kyogre out.
No, but that's outside the bubble.
Inside the bubble I can to use solar Beam without having to
like charge it. Yeah, but I guess this isn't
like real, real initiative. So it doesn't matter as you
would you. Would have time to charge it and
shoot it. But either way, when Soli gets
let out that's that's happening. You're trading 6 seconds for 12
seconds, you know, like it's not, it's not going to make a
difference in the grand scheme of things.
OK, I guess I'll say like, I'm going to check something and I'm
going to run outside and take. So ascend solely out and like,
try to head as close to I, as close as I can to one of the
barriers, one of the like whatever side's closest.
Sure. Yeah, you're at the north, like
western part of the island, so you're pretty close to the rocky
cliffs that just barely cascade against the telekine Dome at the
northern side. So you can test right there if
you want. Sick solely use solar beam but
like. Gently.
Not 100% like like see how hard you can push it without breaking
the barrier, just to see if it's something you could do.
Sure. Yeah, Solely's making like an
evaluation of her power and the power of the Dome.
So I would let's get a wisdom roll.
Let's do like a it's not nature, just like roll of wisdom or
Solely. She's going to hit the solar
beam, that's fine. And it's going to be gentle and
she can gradually ramp up the power.
And I can always put a barrier around you plus the the plate.
My wisdom role is. 12 OK, that is above 10, which is the
important part to not lead to disaster.
Solely fires off a solar beam and just kind of focuses a point
of light energy just on the northern part of the Dome.
On the other side of it, of this pink kind of facade, it's just
dark, deep abyss. You just know that there's
water. You see fish Pokémon every now
and then scurrying to the South trying to get away from this
calamity so he's able to focus until it just barely begins to
break the Dome and a significant stream of water, a very narrow
one but a very powerful one, erupts from the Solar Beam and
forces back into solely have solely make a deck save please.
OK, she also has a weakness policy.
That's funny. That's a Nat 20.
Oh shit. OK, so Sola's able to totally
dodge it As for about 3 seconds a stream of like of water about
the diameter of a nickel blast through the Dome in like a
straight line, like it's not losing any momentum.
And then it gradually gets resealed over the matter of
about 10 seconds. OK, so if we do math and we do a
big hole, we got this. Hear me out, Alpha solely Solar
beam, and then we go through. What could you feel like you
need a bigger hole? Because then I can, I mean, I
guess at that point I could just toss the well, I.
Mean if you want to go, if you well, if you want to go through,
I can barrier you or. To protect me from.
Yeah, from like the flood and stuff.
At least until I get like out of the water.
Right. Well, until I can't see you
anymore, which would break concentration.
I can't focus on you if I can't see you so.
That we need a really big umbrella for the hole when the
hole opens well. That's what I'm saying.
But we could also use the apply the barrier to make it a big
umbrella. Like who says we can't?
It's a psychic barrier. I think I have a plan.
OK. We're looking at the side angle
or the top angle. The top because then I can ride
Salomons, Fang, the Salomons, Uppies and Audis with solely on
the back. OK, please strategize as I'm
about to assign you a skill challenge.
Haven't done one of these in a while.
I'm going to be asking each trainer optionally and each
Pokémon optionally to make unique checks to determine the
success of this action. You are also welcome to utilize
Metagross and utilize Camera Wrapped if they are of use to
you. I'm at least going to need
Gimli, Trevor solely, and Cindy, and I'm assuming Fain's going to
be in there too. Basically, each creature making
a distinct skill check to succeed on this challenge.
OK, in the meantime and check in with Schmidt while you guys
think about that. If you want Schmidt, do you have
any new plans? Are you strategizing?
You want to run it back or are you still kind of contemplating
like, what do I even do? Still just trying to contemplate
man because it's like, I don't know, the other option would be
stalling but I don't think I can stall this giant fish.
OK. Yeah, that is fair.
It is letting out a roar following the hyper drill and it
is going to be just kind of doing a general attack.
Schmidt, MU 2, Quacko and Walter, please make a Dexterity
save. And that's a lot of rolling.
Oh, Schmidt got dirty 22, Quacko got a 16.
You said MU 2 and Walter all four.
Yes, all four. Also, Archie is also subject to
this. And Walter got a 15.
Excellent. So anyone who saved with over a
20 is taking 15 points of water type damage.
Not bad at all. Schmidt can have that to seven
and then just escalating from there.
Less than 20 is going to be 30, and Walter will be taking 60
points of water type damage as the orbs that circle Kyogre's
body just just shoot water jets in every direction and they
collide with everyone as Kyogre lets out another roar.
Additionally, we're kind of skewing initiative turns here a
little bit and like time frames, but Red has flown close enough
where you can see probably about 100 feet away, you can
distinctly make out the shape of a Charizard.
He's pretty close. And despite the pouring rain,
Charizard's tail is glowing like a lighthouse.
It is incredibly bright. What else?
What for your turn now that Kyogre kind of took its
legendary action? You said that the the barrier
around the plate had kind of been affected by the last hit.
Yes. Could I I strike the plate
remotely to see if that would help with anything?
Sure. Yeah.
Worst case scenario just kind of hits with Kyogre.
So OK, you're attacking with the goal to like, loosen the plating
quotes, right? Yeah, OK.
Yeah, I would like to subject them to a deck save.
OK. Because I can choose to do that
with size strike. That is a 28.
Yeah, they passed. OK is that is that a nullify
save if it if it's a pass? I did not have flavor for that.
It said you just may choose to roll to hit or subject them to
ADC 16 set deck save. We can say we can do have ZS, we
can do half damage, that's fine. Have ZS OK.
You're not not going to have an effect with this attack.
It's a legendary versus legendary.
So just roll half damage 26. OK, yeah.
MU 2 extends A3 fingered hand and his eyes glow and they
subject Kyogre, Kyogre's tail to like a barrage of psychic force.
And you can visually see like shards of like energies like
just like hammering into this part of Kyogre's tail.
Kyogre let's out another scream, albeit not as loud as when they
got hyper drilled by Walter. And there's a flash around the
plates, like there's some some sort of impact.
It still seems to be surrounded, like in a bubble.
But you're you're dealing damage.
You're having an effect. I don't know how else to
describe it necessarily. What else for Schmidt?
That's really all I can do. OK, Very good.
Can I have Walter? How far away is Walter?
Walter's on the front side of Kyogre, so we're going to say
he's 40 feet from you and he's hovering.
OK, how long did we say the Pokeball laser was?
It's pretty long, 30 feet without obstructions, can do a
recall at this distance. You have to make a check.
It's going to be decks, which is good for Schmidt, I'm going to
say, or he can move, but at 40 feet it's going to be like ADC
12 decks. Yeah, this.
Have Walter come a little bit closer?
He can only fly for five. Yeah.
So he's still going to be a little out of range and I can
knock that down to DC-10, which should be guaranteed unless you
roll A1, I think. Yeah, OK, so roll that dice.
We got a 14 on the die. That'll do it.
You're able to recall Walter. Awesome.
Anything else? That'll be it.
OK, by the next time that we check in with you, Red will be
there and it is up to you if you want to go like check in with
him. He's below you.
You're 70 feet in the air and he's more like 30 above sea
level. He's like at Kyogre's level, but
he will be at the sight of battle pretty soon.
Gimli, Cindy, what have you decided for your skill
challenge? So ultimately what we decided is
we're going, Cindy's going to fly up, burst a hole through the
top of it with solar beam, and then I'm going to barrier around
Cindy and then she's going to climb through that hole that she
makes. That's like the end.
However, before before we we do be doing skills according to the
things that we received from saving the ship from the Diana
situation. I have 4 Max potions in my
inventory. Yeah, that's true.
Can I give some of them right? No OK not that I recall.
Can I give Fang a Max potion before we like get kick that
off? Sure, that will restore his HP
fully. No PowerPoints but all HP.
Fantastic because I was at 30 HP on Fang and that is a little
spicy dicey, especially entering the ocean.
Yeah, yeah, let's get the let's get the plan described.
Let's see the skill challenge. Let's see if you succeed or
fail. Order does matter, so I'll let
you Recon if you need to. But you know, each order that
each character does a thing will matter.
I'm going to be writing what everyone gets to all.
Right, so I guess I'll get the barrier around you before you go
up. So I think you need to make a
check. I need to make a check and our
pokemons involved need to make a check.
Yeah, everyone has to make one. And if we're failing, we can
call upon the metagross and the camera.
I do want solely to go alpha. OK, that it will not be a skill
challenge thing. You can just subject her to the
Atlas Stone and she will receive the power of the of the flame
plate, and you will bear witness to a transformation that you've
seen a handful of other times. For a moment, all of the oxygen
will be sucked out of your lungs as it goes to power Solely's
flame. Quickly it returns, but she gets
her similar kind of blue Sheen and blue wisps begin to hover
around her body. Her tails are undulating in a
powerful and arcane Mystic way, and she has become powered up.
You have alpha Solely. Congratulations.
I feel like we need to establish like what things we want to do
and then like order them. Does that make sense?
Yeah, I mean, you guys can chat it out.
You don't have to like lock in. I'm going to be like, oh, you
said it, you're doing it. Yeah, that's why I'm saying like
we should play through like at least list the thing, the checks
we want to make and then we can drag and drop them in the order
that we want them to happen. Yeah.
So I have a good feeling Fang's going to be making either an
athletics or acrobatics check to get us either in position or
through the hole. Once it's made, that's later.
Are we both going? Yeah.
I thought we were just holding the plate and going through.
I am, but you still need to make some sort of skill check for the
skill challenge. For sure.
Me probably decks to not fall off Cindy not die decks check
totally. Yeah, assume some.
Kind of barrier. Will be an in check.
So. Totally some kind of hot heat in
check. And you're not hot heat you're
you're solar beaming. Still hot?
Have you felt the sun fucking? Hurt.
Yeah. Never actually never touched it.
The sun burns my skin on a regular basis.
Yeah, but you didn't touch it. Yeah, you don't know.
I've been kissed by the sun. Just kissed by the sun.
I'm so sorry. OK, So what is is it lasagna
that's going to make like a barrier check?
That should be the only check for me I think realistically.
Yes, but you as a person needs to make some kind of check.
Maybe you make like a directional check, like a.
I'm going to give you good advice because I'm a dad and I
don't. Think fatherly wisdom.
Gibbly, Father, check. Of course, father.
Check. I think you need to make your
father check first to be like, OK, here's the plan, here's what
we're doing, Dooby dooby Doo. Then we got lasagna.
Then we got solely doing the blast and Cindy not dying and
Fang doing the maneuver to get us out of here.
And for the record, the more things that you like, what we're
going for here is like a DC threshold.
It's an invisible number. I'm not telling you.
The more that you preemptively assign Pokémon to do, even if
they fail, even if they get a one, well, maybe not a one, even
if they get a 2, they will be contributing to reaching that
threshold. So even if you'd like, don't
necessarily think they need to be involved, if you can just
come up with a flavor for a skill that hasn't been used,
like if you can just throw religion in there somehow and
they roll, well, that'll help towards, you know what I'm
saying? So even if even if they don't
seem essential, it will help the challenge.
Oh, Stephen Stone, can you pray? Just make a religion check.
Just pray for us. So I should probably be the one
to go through the barrier, not you, just because I have I'm
stronger. So like any athletics thing to
push through, we. Need to be able to punch red in
the face if circumstances should call for it.
OK, I still think I have a way higher chance of surviving this
than you do do. You want to go with me?
No, you should. Someone needs to stay.
Who one of us we need to do. We have to be here to protect
someone. One of us has to be.
Here to protect you have a stone not capable of protection.
Isn't he like, good at this stuff we got?
The harder no. It no, it's it's harder if one
if two people go through 1 hole they're considering how quickly
it close it's. Gonna be a big.
Hole. It needs to be one person.
I'm fitting a whole Salomon through this hole.
You you were getting the whole Salomon through the hole.
That was my goal, yes. What?
I'm riding Fang through this hole.
Oh, that's obnoxious. I mean, OK, that's fine then.
I thought you were just jumping through the hole.
That's what we talked about. Oh, I guess I was not clear.
I am riding my dragon through the hole.
OK, then that would be harder for me to do then.
Then never mind. I'll bear I have to barrier
protect you. The whole salomons.
I thought I was putting a barrier around you.
That makes it harder, by the way.
But it it's, it's a skill check we have to meet.
AI know but it makes the skill check harder.
Is it? Oh it.
Makes it makes that part of it. I would assume you're trying to
get because you have to. Make a paper hole.
OK, So what Richie just said was Richie, Richie.
Richie just said that there is a number, an invisible number.
We don't know what the number is.
We need to hit it. Even if we get like somebody
gets a one, we need enough people doing enough things to
hit this invisible number. I know, but putting a dragon
through a hole and a a teenage girl through a hole does make it
harder. It will adjust the DC by a
single digit. Not like not one, but like
between 1:00 and 9:00. Yeah.
OK, so who is anybody in the vicinity particularly religious?
You're just adding prayers to contribute to the.
Thing Religion checks? Check.
Maybe not necessarily religious to like a God, but just
religious in like how the world in nature and physics works is
Maxi. He is quite he cares deeply
about things that are quite existential.
OK, I put my hand on Maxi's shoulder and I say, can you
bless this mess? On a fucking sign in your
kitchen or something. Yeah, that's awesome.
That's so funny. He will, he will give kind of a
solemn nod and he'll say absolutely, I will keep you in
in my thoughts and I wish you the best for your success.
Is that the first thing you want?
I mean, that in itself doesn't actively put a hole in the
bubble, so I do think that's not a bad place to start.
OK. Jay, are you in agreement?
Yeah, he is fairly intelligent and he rolled a 16 on the die,
so that's going to get you a 19 to start things off. 19
religion. No more religion for the rest of
the skill challenge. No, OK, no more prayers.
That's pretty good though, great start.
All right, Sydney, I know I can't fly, so you're going to do
this, but I just need to. Just one simple thing.
Just keep going forward. Don't hesitate, don't stop.
Always go forward. Do you understand?
Are you telling me to keep moving forward?
Keep moving forward. Another sign for your kitchen,
except that goes in your car or something.
It goes in your I. Remember to live, to laugh and
to love. Don't forget that when you're on
the other side, you live, you laugh, and you love.
Is this, is this like a charisma?
I would let you flavor it as intimidation because it's like
dad Wisdom. If you want to do that.
I don't know how else you can squeeze intimidation into the
skill challenge. Also don't you get like a bonus
to intimidation? He does.
That should be an 18, yeah. OK, great. 18 intimidation.
We have two checks. OK, All right, Lasagna.
We have to get a barrier around Sydney.
And who is a Fang? Yeah.
Fang. This album, Yeah.
Wait, I need the plate. Gimli can give it to you if you
if you want Gimli to toss it to you with the Dexterity check.
If bonus 4 points if it. Fails.
It might hinder you. That's the thing with these
checks. My plan My plan was to use a dex
check to not fall off the the salamat situation.
So we can do dex check all right.
He can just hand it to you, that's fine.
My Dex. Is shit son, we need the
electric plate. Jim Lee will nod and rush over
to Cindy and say good luck and and Cindy the ZAP plate I
believe it's called OK. Actually I don't want to make a
dex check, I want to make a survival check.
So. I'm trying not to die.
I know we're not quite there yet, but that's.
My flavor for that is, granted that the hole succeeds, I think
for the first time survival is applicable as you face the water
and not drown. That is in fact survival.
So if you want to survive that, you're welcome to.
You're not going to survive going through the hole.
That will be different, and that'll probably be Fame doing
acrobatics or something. Yes, because my survival is a +
10 because I'm like really good at it.
Yeah. OK, somehow OK.
So we have to apply the barrier barrier application.
Yes. I'm int.
Probably some sort of int. If he's proficient in our Connor
or something, you can probably loop that in.
What can Camera up do? Camera up can explode like a
volcano and that's pretty much it.
You're not going to get a whole lot else.
Cameron could do. Something too.
He's like fairly formidable. He could push something.
But I don't feel like that's applicable.
Here, those are kind of the two things he does.
And Metagross. Metagross can fly around, he's
pretty strong, and he can subject stuff to psychic blasts.
Maybe he can fly up with us and just kind of like help maintain
the, the the psychic whole opening He could try to open,
Yeah, to like help just just long enough to get Salomons all
the way through because Salomons is kind of big.
Yeah, he could do that. OK, or?
Attempt to barrier check was a 22.
Excellent Lasagna Arcana 22. It's adding up.
OK, so Metagross, that's gonna happen.
So we have the father check the barrier.
I think it's is it time to fly up there and blast it with alpha
solely. Yeah.
Is alpha solely? It doesn't really matter but
just for flavor. Is alpha solely standing on the
ground or like on a building? Or is she going up with Fang?
She's riding Fang with me. OK, great.
OK. So I think it is going to be a
blast from solely whatever that check's going to be, followed by
Metagross holding it open psychically.
I'd like to you to roll your attack whatever you're choosing,
if it's still solar beam or if it is a fire.
Type so solar beam is ADC. OK, that's the issue.
Yeah, we can just repurpose it, Make it.
It's going to be based on wisdom is what the move is.
So just make a wisdom specific solar beam roll.
Just roll AD 20 and add your wisdom.
OK, and Alpha Soli has +5 wisdom.
Actually. Is it plus more than that now
it? Should be.
I'm going to throw this in rules and sheets.
The the generic usual boost for aspects is you get plus 5 in
your main stats, which for Soli is Dex and wisdom.
So is it +5 on top of like my plus?
2 So it increases the score, so that means we don't have to do
the math. So what's Soli's wisdom?
14. Oh OK, that is actually easy.
So it brings up to 19, which gives you +4.
OK. And then you have your level
times three extra HP. That's the.
That's the general alpha formula.
Sometimes there's deviations, but that's mostly what it is.
OK, 'cause I just had additional 27 HP written.
Down. That was when you were like
level 4 or something. All right, I'll do that.
Additional HP later and my AC goes up to 20 is what I have
written down as well. Probably because your dex
increases, so yes. Because my dex becomes your dex.
Increases by 5, so we. Which is at 18.
Yeah, it's it's either 20 or 21 is what your armor class
becomes, so it's fine. OK, cool, Cool, cool, cool,
cool. So I'm rolling plus wisdom.
Yep. So my wisdom is +4.
Yes, 16 it is certainly not a failure.
Solely from the back of fame uses her arcane powers as the
Aspect of flame to launch a solar beam powered by her own
kind of artificial sun that she's created through her new
drought powers from the ability patch to begin blasting a hole,
a concentrated hole at the top of the telekine Dome.
Thank you Solely. What's next?
Metagross is making a hold open check.
OK, he's proficient at athletics, so I'd recommend
that. Let me see what Fang's higher
higher one is. Acrobatics is Fang's higher one,
but Athletics is also plus 9. Which one did you say Metagross
was? Athletics.
He's not acrobatic, athletic. OK, so athletics makes sense.
Yes, that is good. Stephen will instruct Metagross
to assist in, like, broadening the hole as Fane is about to,
like, eclipse it. Water's slowly beginning to
drizzle out, but it's not quite fully open yet.
It's not fun. If I roll it, can we get, like,
either LED or Schmidt just to roll for Metagross or Gimli?
I got you. Yeah.
What am I rolling? Strength plus 1116.
Great. So Athletics for Metagross 16.
OK, Yeah. Metagross places his iron fists
as he hovers in the air. Like, you know, 70 feet or 60
feet in the air at the top of the Dome and like, on either
side of the solar beam, just begins to gradually pull it
open. What's next?
Is this Fang making the acrobatics to fly through this
hole? If that's what it's time for.
I think so because I think Fang will fly through and then I make
my survival check to not die. Yep.
So, acrobatics. 1818 Let's go, Fane.
Fane as he's charging forward through the air, flapping his
wings vigorously right as he eclipses, like just to the top
of the Dome where the hole is being formed, He tucks in his
wings and becomes narrow like an arrow.
And using all that momentum from launching off the ground to
charge through the solar beam, through the hole that Metagross
is opening to try and get Cindy and the plate and Fane outside
of the Dome. 16 acrobatics, great job, fame, maybe one or
two left well. Cindy's making her not die.
Check survival, right? Survival if you so you're going
to be subject to like a torn of water right as Fane eclipses
like right at the top here. And I think survival is pretty
appropriate for Cindy to not be either knocked off or not drown,
so. Dirty 21.
Fantastic, Now I. Think that's all we had?
That's all we had planned. OK, very good.
Right as Cindy Fane in the ZAP Plate broach the the temporary
hole being created at the top of the Talachine Dome.
Thanks to the efforts of Soli and Metagross, and even Maxi
praying and Gimli giving a dad's speech right as soon he's about
to pass that threshold, that is where we will end.
However, we're not quite done. Elodie spoilers for people not
following Elodie's adventure. Are you ready Elodie?
I am OK Elodie. You have been hurtling through
space on the back of an enormous sugary creamy Al Creamy who has
been influenced by both the ambient power of the moon as
well as the Pixie plate for what you presume to be about 20
minutes. Soaring through silent space,
the planet begins to fill your vision as you unsuccessfully
direct Cabbage's trajectory towards Moss Deep City, moving
at incredible speeds, making the journey from the moon to the
planets in only about 20 minutes.
I need LED to make a con save. You got it 13.
OK, Elodie. Consciousness begins to fade out
of her vision, and then right as this AL creamy shooting star
missile breaches the atmosphere and things begin to get very hot
and it begins to smell like a baking cake.
LD comes back too. She almost passed out.
Just the intensity of the experience and the trip and all
of that. It was just becoming a lot for
her brain, but she's present. As she breaches the atmosphere,
sound begins to return. There's a roar coming from the
front of this giant Al Krebi towered cake that she is riding
on the back of as decoration and icing and cream is being flung
all over the sky. She can see the continent of
Hoenn pretty clearly now. It is still night time, but over
to the east she can see the sun rising around the other corner
of the world. She tries to steal out creamy
towards Moss deep. She can see a calamitous
thunderstorm all the way to the northeast of the continent, but
that is unfortunately not where Cabbage is heading.
As more and more cake is flown off from Cabbage's body, her
size begins to decrease and Eli is hurtling towards the ground.
She is finding herself moving towards the center of the Hohen
Region continent, in a forested kind of.
The hilly wooden area seems to be where she's about to crash
land. And as a matter of fact, I'm
going to want Cabbage to make an advantage Dexterity save as she
collides with the planet. You've got this cabbage, another
13. OK, not ideal but also not
terrible. Cabbage will take 94 points of
basically fall damage as she creates a crater in a small
little residential village. Cake explodes and is fun
everywhere. And all these houses and small
buildings that occupy this town that probably houses like maybe
40 people at most. Elodie is going to also get
thrown off and hopefully land in some cake.
She needs to make an advantage deck safe as well.
That's a nine. OK, Elodie is going to launch
off of cabbage, and she's going to tumble into the ground, and
she's going to take a whopping 140 points.
She gets knocked out. She lands in some cake and still
gets like, you know, she could easily be dead, dead.
And instead she hits her head on a Bush and she sees her vision
slowly fading. She comes too, and she is in an
unfamiliar bedroom. It is quaint.
It is plain. And at the foot of the bed is
cabbage just fully conked out, just completely out of it.
There's a night stand next to her that has a cup of tea, and
it is still dark out as she comes to.
What does she do? Hello, where am I?
You hear the sound of like someone stirring like in a
different room seemingly below you.
And then you hear footsteps marching up the door.
You hear a knock and then the sound of perhaps a middle-aged
woman says, can I come in? Yes.
The door opens and you see a a middle-aged woman, probably like
in her 50s or 60s, with fair skin, brunette hair and like
really lovely blue, almost purple eyes.
She looks very tired and she has some really distinct, like,
laugh and smile lines, like she's had a good, happy, joyous
life. It seems that there's no one
else in the house. She comes in and she says, I
don't know where you came from, but you took quite the spill and
the town is covered in cake. Are you OK?
Yes, I'm OK. Did you did you bring me here?
She gives a nod and she says, well, when you arrived, you woke
the whole town up, went to go check in on you and you were
unconscious and I thought, well, I better take care of this
myself. I scooped you and your outcome
me up and talked you into this guest bedroom.
No one's here right now and just thought I'd hope to rehabilitate
you. I didn't think you'd wake up
until the morning. It's only been an hour and a
half. She apologizes and she says I'm
sorry I didn't introduce myself. My name is Caroline and you've
arrived in Little Little Root Town.
Oh. Oh, wow.
OK. Thank you, Caroline.
I'm Elodie. Is everybody else OK?
The cake didn't like harm Anybody else, did it?
Caroline, let's have a laugh and she says, I don't know if anyone
got hurt, but we certainly are looking at some remodeling for
some of these houses as far as a new paint job.
But that's besides the point. I'm just glad that you are
somehow OK. It seems like you had quit the
journey and also. And she turns around to pull
something out of a robe pocket. She says I found this next to
y'all creamy and she's holding a pink rectangle that you know to
be the Pixie plate. Oh, I'm going to need that,
sorry. I'll try and get up and take it
from her. She says it's no problem at all,
you're welcome to stay here as long as you like.
I have a daughter, but she's a busy working woman, so she's not
here right now. I'm just kind of by myself.
And if you need some time to cool down after that, I
understand. But also if you need to get
going, I understand that as well.
Yeah, I think, I think I'm going to need to get going.
Do you know the fastest way to get to Moss Deep?
Caroline can't help but let out a little chuckle, and she says.
Well, Boss Team's probably the other side of the country.
It's kind of the middle of the night.
There's no transit around. You have any flying Pokémon with
you? I do.
I do have that. She says, well, how fast?
Altaria. She says, oh, Altaria.
OK, roll an insight, Ellie. Natural one.
Nice. You had no vibe check coming
from this woman, she says. Well, if I had to guess, based
on your landing and that permanent dent that you've made
in our little town, you might be in a bit of a hurry to get over
there. Tell you what, my husband was a
skilled trainer. I can loan you his Pidgeot.
I think they're naturally quite a bit faster than Altario, if
that'll help you to get to where you're going.
It seems like you're in a hurry. That would be amazing.
You've you've really done a lot for me here.
I really appreciate it. She says, oh, it's no problem.
It's just it's just nice to have a talented young woman in this
bedroom again. It makes me happy here.
And she hands you a Pokeball that's a regular ordinary
looking Pokeball, perhaps a little dusty, a little unloved.
And she says, well, whenever you finish whatever mission that is
so important that you're on, be sure to check back in on a
little route town. We'd love to see you again.
Absolutely. Do I know cuz Schmidt has a
phone right? For the court case?
Yes. Do I know the number for it?
You do not and it's like a one way phone.
Fair, not back as well. OK, never mind then.
I was like this woman, my phone number.
I feel bad that I'm like, this is the second time I've caused
damage to it down. I'll come back.
It's fine. I'll just remember.
Yeah, I I'll, I'll definitely come back.
I I'm so sorry to have caused you any trouble, but I really
appreciate your help and I'll be back for sure.
She says very well, well, I'll walk you to the door and she
will start walking you to the door if you accept.
Yes, I will. I will recall cabbage as I go.
OK, yeah, cabbage is still conked.
There will be a perception as you are navigated through this
quaint house. 16. Pretty good.
It's evident that you are in a quaint family home, really kind
of furnished to house at least a couple and a child, if not more.
And you see, there's some corners of it as you're walking
through the hallways that seem just kind of like unutilized,
unloved. You see photos on the walls of a
small family. This woman, clearly Caroline, a
husband with a a formal attire. He seems like he might be a
professional in a field that involves some sort of physical
activity accompanied by some strange sloth looking Pokémon.
And they're also photos of a daughter, a young girl.
You can see her get older throughout the years.
There's a photo of a toddler that has brownish red hair
holding like a mud Kip and looking very excited to be
interacting with it. This is not a shiny mud Kip, but
this is in fact a mud Kip. You see her growing up and
becoming like a more throughout the photos on the walls, just
like a more established looking trainer, more and more
successful, surrounded by more powerful looking Pokémon.
And then there's one photo that particularly catches your eye
where there's a person of importance who you've met before
named Stephen Stone, who's handing some sort of like a ward
or certificate to her while she's dressed in a very formal
gown on a stage surrounded by lots and lots and lots of
people. And you can see that the girl
that lived in this room seems to be a very important person and
surely her mother misses her dearly.
Your daughter is she champion May.
Caroline will turn to you and let out a smile as she continues
guiding you. She says.
Oh, what gave you that idea? Well, the pictures on the wall,
I mean, previous champion Steven giving her some sort of award.
Caroline nods and she says you would be right.
She hasn't been home in quite a while, but I understand that
she's very busy and she's currently on an important
assignments looking out for her father.
Oh. Oh, OK, that's nice.
Yeah, that's crazy serendipity. I'm actually the champion from
Carlos's daughter. Caroline will let out a surprise
look and she says, oh, which one, Serena?
Yes, Serena. She says, oh, it's such a small
world. I actually, not that I met your
mom, but I ran into her at the champion coronation.
That's such a surprise. Small world indeed.
Roll one more insight. Goodness, my role is today.
Not great. That's a 5.
OK, there is something in the story that she told you about
what Mae is currently up to. You detect just a twinge of
worry and concern, but she doesn't feel like getting deeper
into it. She will escort you through the
living room, a quaint little living room.
It's got a couch, it's got a nice TVA dinner table that it
seems that only one seat has been sat in in quite some time.
And she will guide you to the door.
And she says, well, ALDI, it was a pleasure meeting you and I
wish you the best on your journey.
Thank you. Yeah, it was really nice to meet
you too. And hopefully I'll be back soon
and hopefully your daughter maybe we'll be back soon as
well. Caroline says that would
certainly be lovely. Have a good night.
You find yourself with full HP ALDI, at least cabbage.
You know what? You had the mother's treatment,
of course. You went to moms house.
You got fully healed, of course, and you find yourself just in
the center of a quaint residential town.
There's hardly any businesses. There's a dozen or so homes and
then just woods. Seems like a really kind of
sweet place to grow up. Certainly.
You also see like a pretty significant, maybe arrow shaped
crater where cabbage impact is just right in the middle of
town. There's like a deep skid and
then like a big hole right in the middle.
And then there's cake just freaking everywhere.
One person is up outside their home and they've got a shovel
and there's scooping cake like into a bag.
They don't seem to notice you exit.
What is your next course of action?
Yeah, I think, I think priority is just getting back to the
gang. Yeah, I really would have no
frame of reference for anything that's been going on back on on
Home World. So yeah, I think I'm just going
to take out the Piggotto and fly off.
OK sure, you release this Pokémon, it is one that you are
vaguely familiar with. They aren't in Carlos, but it's
just such an iconic normal flying type Pokémon.
You've seen them plenty. Beautiful maid on this Piggiot.
Big, broad wings. While Blueberry is charming in a
lovely Pokémon, it certainly is not faster than this Pokémon,
and it invites you to fly on its back, and you are welcome to
direct it if that is what you'd like to do.
Yes, I will do that. OK, the Giacht with a leap will
start flapping its wings and will soar off into the sky and
LED will begin flying at incredible speeds back towards
where she took off many hours earlier over to Masu City to
reunite with the Kwakow Paco. And that is where we will end
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