Welcome to the Cali Rex Game Corners Pokémon D&D campaign
featuring Cindy, a hot headed teen with a penchant for arson,
Gimli, an admirable father seeking to reunite his family,
Elodie, a fun loving Baker with a whimsical heart, and Schmidt,
a courageous young man searching for his purpose with a duck.
Together they make the Quacko Packo and this is Dunsparse and
Grandpa. Where last we left the Paco, the
game was concluding a relaxing evening at the island city of
Moss Deep when they noticed an unusual business deal happening
behind the recently visited Rite of Learning.
The Paco deducted that Team Neo Rocket Galactic was obtaining
raw Infinity Energy from the research laboratory, likely for
nefarious purposes. Schmidt was stealthy enough
where he somehow convinced the Adminant Semile that he was in
fact a grunt who had stayed out too late pass break curfew.
Schmidt assumed the role of an energy grunt named Nick and
snuck aboard an energy vessel through a cargo portal where he
met other grunts, Alicia and Ryan, who seemed to be enjoying
some downtime between missions. The Paco San Schmidt engaged
with Semle, resulting in her unlocking a vile new power
within her partner Squid Like Pokémon Malamar.
It massively increased in size and transformed into a grotesque
floating evil abomination with lashing tentacles whipping in
all directions while floating into the sky.
The Paco concluded that this power must be derived from the
research energy has been doing surrounding the mysterious
Plates, the Atlas Stone, and the Aspects this monster, the
corruption of Malice assaulted LED Cindy and Gimli at about the
same time the Malomar transformed a voice rain out in
the vessel that Schmidt was spying in over a loudspeaker.
The voice of previously missing companion Symetra Red Tree
announcing that the Lunar Demolition mission would have to
begin over 12 hours ahead of schedule LED Cindy, Gimli, and
Schmidt. I'm going to have you re roll
initiative just for spice and freshness and this is a new
session. However I will keep the bad guys
at the bottom of the order still.
So please roll those D 20s and add your dex mod. 18.
OK. 13. OK.
Natural one baby. Go to Behavior.
I have given you a map just as a brief rundown.
It's like the northwestern corner of Mos Deep City.
There you can see in the far northwest corner.
Northeast corner. Sorry.
The northeastern corner of Mos Deep City.
In the far northeast, you see the Space Center directly South
of it, Mr. Mimosas. Directly West of it, at a lower
elevation under some cliffs, is the right of learning.
And this area behind it, to the side of it, where you have
encountered the corruption of malice.
Yeah. I've labeled G for Gimli, SEM
for Semily, E for LED, C for Cindy, some other details.
You see some residences, the gym, where the beaches, where
the hotel is at, etcetera. Without further ado, Cindy is up
first. You have been freed from the
mental restraints that the corruption of Malice has imposed
on you. And this monsters also currently
paralyzed things to a dragon breath from Fang.
What will you do on your turn? Your two actions.
And Fang is I believe the only one out currently.
I believe that is correct. Pool and Gimli is grappling
Semily, so attacking Semily while Gimli is grappling her is
probably not ideal. A melee attack against her would
have advantage. Arranged attack would be a
disadvantage and may implicate Gimli as well.
Oh, so we could go for a crunch? Yeah, you could just crunch
semily. Yeah, we'll do that.
We'll do a crunch on Semily. OK, you will have to like loop
around this flying monster and will provoke attack of
opportunity. Do you accept the terms and
conditions? Is it Lupit?
Like, just where was Fang? Using dragon breath at Cindy's
location in front of the monster and suddenly is like behind to
the side. OK then maybe not then.
I don't want that because I think a hit will like knock me
out. You're welcome to also like make
checks if you weren't sure like how to absorb the situation.
You can roll like inside investigation, perception,
etcetera. And if I'm feeling generous, I
will let that be a bonus action as well.
I'm afraid I'm going to mess up. I guess I could just attack the
the Malamar though. You certainly.
Do a flamethrower. Sure all.
Right, so that is ADC 18 dext save.
Cool. This monstrous Malamar will roll
and will in fact get a nine. Cool, that is a fail by 5 or
more, but it's already paralyzed so it can't get burned.
That is correct. Those things, yes.
Those conditions do not stack. OK.
So roll neutral damage please. I got a 10 right?
And I have the if it's fire moves, I get the hell yeah.
You're exploding dice, I call. We call it something change,
combustion, something I forget. Combustion chain reaction, yes
yes. So we buffed it to Pokémon level
13 or higher if it's fire type damage, correct?
I'm not limited correct 32. 32 points of fire type damage.
Pretty good. Fane unleashes a torrent of
flame from its maw. It connects directly with just
like the chest of this giant squid monster, and it seems to
deal some damage. Pretty good.
Cindy, you have one more action that you can spend.
What would you like to do? Maybe we could do a vibe check
on the tentacle monster? Sure.
Are you trying to like understand its nature or like
its intent or just study it? What is your?
What skill do you want to use basically?
I don't know. Information is better than no
information. Sure, I would let you choose
between investigation, insight, arcana or even religion.
Investigation is my highest that's a + 7.
OK, so 13. 1313 or something. You feel like that there is a
someone, something familiar about this form that this
creature has taken. You've seen Malamar in its
default state as a regular squid Pokémon, and you've seen other
Pokémon undergo transformation similar to this, but this is
like on a different level. This reminds you specifically of
when you first encountered a total with a big syringe in its
belly, as well as Diana out in the ocean.
They increased in size a great amount, and there was a similar
sense of fervor. However, there wasn't this like
intense transformation and like acceleration of abilities.
This is new to you. This is like, you know, you
understand with your role that it's the same process, but it's
been elevated somehow. OK, cool.
Any bonus actions? I don't think so.
OK, Gimli, it's you. You're grappling semli.
How do you spend your turn? If Gimli does an action that is
not attacking semily or grappling, then the grapple will
end of course. Yeah, of course.
I want to try to knock her out in a sense, I guess like
unconscious, but I guess that would require me to like just
knock her HP down. But I want to in the grapple.
I just want to like, fucking have butter.
Sure. Yeah, roll the hit.
OK, I'll give you an advantage. Because she's grappled, she
can't really dodge. Just swivel her neck. 23.
Yeah, 23 will in fact, hit damage roll.
Let's say this is kind of something you're good at, but
it's not a Pokémon attack, but it deals full damage, unlike a
Pokémon attack. It's also a head butt.
You rolled high enough to hit where I'm not going to give you
recoil, but I think this attack does have recoil sometimes, so
keep that in mind. I'm going to say what sounds
fun. 22D12 plus proficiency plus, Yeah, just two D12 plus
proficiency. Let's do that. 25.
It's huge. OK, great.
Yeah. You reel back your neck and just
smack it into her forehead. She seems pretty dazed.
She's not as hardly built as you.
She's going. To keep we're going to keep
ramming my head until she just falls unconscious.
Yeah, it's She has an angry look on her face, clearly.
And like she definitely her body is more frail than yours.
We will just say she's she's more of a thinker and less of a
brawler. So significant damage for sure.
You have an additional action. How sweet.
Oh yeah cuz I get my Trevor actions OK.
I already use mountains call if I'm not mistaken.
I believe that's correct. Encounter, yes, so that is out.
Malmar's too big for a sand too. Probably the only targets are
similarly in Malamar right now, right?
Currently correct. And there was like it it I guess
I should probably have to roll some kind of like perception to
see if if you was there noted there was a syringe in the last
thing. Did we find that or did you know
it was similar in in state? I'll give you a bonus action
just to roll a history. Oh good thing I'm dumb as
bricks. That's a three so.
Yeah, you aren't sure. All that you remember is that
Assembly kind of announced it said like, behold the corruption
of malice, but you don't know if that was the actually the thing
that triggered the transformation.
Right. How far away is the the squid
monster? It's in the sky, right?
It's it's beginning to float higher and higher, but it is
about 20 or 15 feet to your right and it's about 10 feet
high right now, but it's slowly ascending.
It's ascending. Yes.
How much of the moon? No, how much HP would it cost to
like try to box it in with the walls that I can make?
Oh, very good. The earthen ramparts.
I can make 5 foot thick walls from the ground to create a
wall. Can I build it up over him to
stop him? Yes.
So as of current, it would have to be 25 feet tall and then it
would have to cover just, you know, five feet across, 10 feet
wide, and then down on all sides.
So how does that math work? We're looking at a a rectangle
that is 25 feet on one side, 5 on the other, and 10:00 on the
other. What's the area of that?
Area or surface? Area.
Sorry, surface area, surface area or perimeter even?
20 by 5 by 10. That would be the box that you'd
need to make 25 by 5 by 10 math in my number rock game.
Who would have thought? Right, it's a lot of HP.
It's at least like 200 something, right?
No. Oh, OK.
How much does it cost per five feet?
Oh, wait, no, 25, Yeah, that is, Oh no, it's way too much because
it's, if it's cubic feet, because it's a little different
now that it's like cubic. Yeah, you're not making a wall,
you're making a box, right? Yeah, that's a little harder.
Exponentially more stuff. Yeah, yeah, it's too much health
and I only have Trevor out right now because unfortunately I
can't just like, use lasagna to drop Trevor on top of the squid
monster to try to knock it down. You could send out lasagna if
you make a successful dexterity check to maintain the grandpa,
and send out lasagna if you want.
Your action doesn't have to go to Trevor.
If you want Gimli Dev 2, that's fine.
The second headbutt Round 2. I think in the spirit of a skill
challenge, it would be a different action but for.
Sure. Yeah, for sure.
We suplexer. It's fine.
Yeah, great. And I think I want to because of
the size of it. I thought it was actually a lot
bigger than now that we described it, it's a little less
menacing, but I want to attempt to try to like it's rising.
So I want to attempt to knock it down, potentially with the rock
slide if that's possible. Yeah, Trevor can certainly
attempt that again. Do you want to sacrifice damage
in favor of crowd control, or do you just kind of?
Want to roll it and see where it lands?
No, I do want to sacrifice damage for crowd control.
Let's just see what kind of role you get and we'll see how it
pans out or what kind of role I get because it's a deck save,
right? Right, it's a strength save 19.
19 Strength, they got a 14 strength.
So I'll let you, I'll let you bring it back down to the
ground. Yeah, 'cause normally it it
falls prone if it's five or greater, which it is technically
here. Yeah.
So like it just, I guess we just treat it as a hard knockdown.
Yeah, absolutely, you said. No damage but hard knockdown,
yeah. Yeah, I would.
I was going to let you roll half damage too, actually, 'cause
they're fucking, they're rocks you.
Know yeah, like they still do something Yeah, you're right OK,
normally 27 we do half so 13. Right, 13 points of rock type
damage as Trevor summons rocks from the materials in his body
to appear and drop above this monstrous Mallomar.
Seemingly easy, easily forcing it back into the ground.
The the kind of pointed tip at the lower end of its body,
almost like digs a small hole as like a crater and impacts to
where it lands and it wobbles a little bit as it floats and then
it begins to try to ascend more. But of course these are
initiative turns, they are short.
It'll takes a while for it to ascend, but again, it's
tentacles are still whipping and lashing about just all over the
place. Anything else for Gimli?
That would be it. OK.
Schmidt, are you there? I am.
Schmidt, you are aboard some sort of NRG vessel.
You heard an announcement over the loudspeaker that this
mission that was scheduled for tomorrow is starting now, and
people and Pokémon are moving around you quickly, hustling.
There's like kind of sirens going off.
There's a lot of clamor and commotion, and you are about to
step to the portal to join your friends.
I know you're an RPG fan and I've played a few as well, so I
want to present to you like, not like AI don't know how to put
this. This is a turning point moment.
If you would like to go through this portal, the story will turn
out differently than if you elect not to.
So I want you to consider this decision on your turn.
What? What will you do?
There might be either one. Either way you go isn't right or
wrong, but certain options may or may not be granted to
Schmidt, if that makes sense. OK, you're welcome to make roles
to inform your decision as well. Yeah, no pressure.
Yeah, no pressure at all. I was specifically thinking
about Edelgard's path and fireball in Three Houses.
Like you go to that temp, do you go to the palace and it's like
this, there's big text and it flashes and it's like your
decision here will greatly impact the game.
That's kind of what's going on here for Schmidt.
His decision will greatly impact the game.
OK, are we doing Crimson Flower or are we doing Church Gang?
I think Rich is the only one that gets that reference.
I do. Get that is, that is that is
correct. Yeah.
OK. Again, you're always making
roles. I think Schmidt learned his
lesson from trying to raid the Silfco tower by himself and I
think he knows he failed that and he needs to be with his
friends. Understood that decision he's
made. Going to step through the portal
here. OK, as Schmidt steps through the
portal, looking around, sees Alicia and Ryan kind of
scrambling in their stuff. Lots of other people.
Someone is taking all of these recently received Infinity
energy capsules and like moving them on a big cart.
And he steps through. The way that he steps through is
like he steps down into it and then the gravity shifts as he
enters the portal. And then he like steps over
because this portal is on the ground.
They're both on the ground, but he's walking like the gravity
flips basically as he goes through.
So he steps through and stands up immediately, like right as he
leaves the portal he feels a sensation of his last foot to go
through of like a push like kind of sound.
And then as he immediately steps up through the portal, he can
look over towards the east and then push push push. 3 giant
blimps appear in the sky through like a teleportation sequence or
something. These are your classic 3 NRG
vessels. One of them, Schmidt's, may have
just been on, and right after he exits the portal it closes
behind, he is currently standing behind a monstrous Malamar
monster that he didn't know existed.
He didn't see it in this form until just now.
He sees Gimli grappling with an admin on the ground, and he sees
Fane and Cindy and Elodie in whichever Pokémon Elodie has
out. And behind Cindy and Elodie, he
sees a lot of people. All those tourists who came in
yesterday, a lot of them are just kind of watching in awe, it
seems like on their faces. Some of them think like this is
like a festivity or like something to be enjoyed by a
tourist. Some people clearly scared and
they don't think it's right. There's certainly some confusion
within the populace on the other side of the Cliff from where
Tobacco is standing. What will Schmidt do with the
rest of his turn? Schmidt like as he steps through
the portal, he's putting the the lunch tokens in his pocket.
And then he looks up and he sees the giant tentacle monster and
he's like, oh God. And then he dropped some of the
lunch tokens. OK, very good.
Is there any intention to drop in them or is that just flavor?
That's just flavor. Very good.
Fuck, OK, It is just big evil thing in the sky, right?
Do I see my friends? Do I see that they've got the
trainer on lockdown? You do see your friends.
You see that Gimli is grappling assembly and Elodie and Cindy
are standing alongside the Pokémon and apparently fighting.
OK, I think Schmidt's just going to reposition this turn.
OK, how's he going to do that? He gives a little wave to his
friends and he's like, hey, I'm back.
And then he sends out Pride the dragon knight.
OK. And then he's going to fly up
with the intention of like flanking the tentacle monster,
like to get above it. OK, excellent.
Yeah, sending out pride will be one of your actions.
You hop aboard. Pride flies into the sky above
the monster, and it seems that it still is not aware of your
presence. However, your party is aware of
you. You have one more action.
What are you doing? Oh, I still have an action.
OK, How high was the thing in the air?
It was floating, but Gimli has recently pinned it where it is
kind of standing. Question mark.
It doesn't have legs, but it is close to the ground so it is
just a good solid 20 feet up where you are.
Not super high, but pretty high. So I've flanked it already.
Yes. OK, didn't think this part
through. I guess we'll just iron head.
Iron Head, the scary monster. Yeah.
OK. You do have tactical advantage
so you will automatically critical hit or is that just is
that just quacko? Sorry.
It's been that's that's a Schmidt passive, Yeah.
That's all this Pokémon can do that, yeah.
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it'll be a crit.
What was your question? How does that work with iron
head flinches? Great question.
It would normally activate. I'm going to say let's roll for
the effect, OK? I got an 8 on the die.
OK, that will not incorporate that.
Additionally, even if you had gotten a flinch, it still has
some legendary resistances remaining, so it probably would
consume it there. OK, I guess I'm really good
damage now. Yes, so just maximum damage plus
what you roll. Neutral, Neutral damage. 49
points of steel type damage. Not bad at all.
Pride, the recently evolved Dragon Knight strikes the this
monster from behind, dealing significant damage to its neck.
Question mark, its head, whatever is at the top of its
grotesque body and lands a good amount of steel type damage.
Any bonus actions that Schmidt can do?
Oh fuck, I didn't count for choice Band.
That's on Dragonair. Hold on.
Good stuff. You lock into one move and you
get 50% more dice, right? Was it 50% more dice?
Wasn't it because if the boosting items like black
glasses, twisted spoon is like one more dice question mark
because the Super effective is double?
I think that's correct, right? Gamers?
Anyone remember? We're so organized.
I remember it was, I thought it was extra dice, but I didn't
think it was 50. Percent extra dice right?
Why? Wise glasses being one die is
not the equivalent of 50% more dice right though.
Though to be fair, choice items like BE locking into into a
single move is actually way more costly than it is in like normal
circumstances, Totally. So 50% seems fair.
That makes it easy to remember because it is just the game.
You get a it's. Just Choice Band?
Yeah, Yeah. So go for it.
Yeah, why not? OK.
Is it rounded up or down? We truncate pretty much
everything. Then that is 64 points of steel
type damage. Nice.
A sizable hit, a good crit. It seems to, you know, deal.
You can't see the extent of the damage compared to its overall
health pool, but you know that this thing has been hurt.
Now I will ask any additional bonus actions from Schmidt.
Yeah, I would like to evasive stance target the the creature.
OK, Dragonite will simply do that.
That is a ripped off cunning action that Schmidt can do
anything else. Nope.
Elodie, you're up. Hello.
What are you thinking?
You're standing before a pretty scary situation.
I will say that you and everyone else has acknowledged Schmidt's
presence atop of pride above the monster.
What's going on? What are you thinking?
Yeah, so before all of us went down, I was going to go over the
police, but I think they might be aware of the situation by
now. So my idea is thusly there are
people around. I don't want the people to get
hurt or be under the effects of things that have happened to us.
So I was thinking potentially I could miss you terrain so that
like they people around don't suffer any like static
conditions or anything. I don't know if what Balamar did
to us last session counts as a status condition, but I think
that might be some an idea for at least trying to not let
anybody else get hurt. So I think I'll have cabbage go
for a misty terrain. So that is a 60 feet radius and
then I will have her just misty step to wherever to be around
the largest amount of people to have that effect.
Or I guess no, I I would have to do that first because it would
emanate for her on her first, wouldn't it?
Yes, Misty Terrain says centered on her location.
Right. It says self, Yeah, so.
So she can't misty step without the terrain so.
She could. Yeah, exactly right.
Is that what you're saying? Right, well my question is does
it emanate from her or does like she place it down and then can
move around within it? It it's sorry, it gets placed
from her location right and then.
She that's what I. Thought yeah, yeah, yeah.
So she can walk over to the people.
Yeah, that's. Yeah, that's yeah, exactly.
OK. You'll find that about 1520 feet
South of where you are on a lower elevation in in the road
is kind of where all these people are gathered.
So you want her to just kind of hop down the cliffs that'll
consume her full movement to get over towards the group of
people. Mm, hmm, yeah.
And then placed on that misty terrain.
She does it. People are kind of excited.
Some people understand what Elodie's going for, like as a
protective measure. Some people are like, oh, this
is another part of this fantastic show, really cool
effect. And then other people have had,
they've known what's been going on this whole time and they're
like scrambling and trying to get to safety.
LD has, yeah, absolutely. Some of them are getting the
idea. Right.
Elodie has another action. Yes, with my other action, I
will take out Mr. Salt, the carbank.
Mr. Salt, the Carbank, he arrives.
He's just a little guy. He's floating.
He's got his little rocky, strangely kind of Bunny ears.
Question mark. He he's a, he's some sort of
creature. He's like a Bunny.
Yeah, he's like a salt Bunny that floats strangely.
He's here. Thank you so much, Mr. Salt.
Any any bonus actions for Elodie?
Yes, I would like to provide a LED's party time.
I think I will give it to Gimli. It seems like he's got this on
lock, but I can always help out. OK.
And what size is that die? AD 8.
All right, you can add AD 8 to anything.
So if you so choose after it has been rolled, very good.
Anything else for LED? That will be it for me.
OK, let's go into an environmental turn which
includes the bad guys. All of you would have noticed by
now that up towards the Space Center, 3 zeppelins have
appeared. 3 familiar zeppelins. They appear to be the main Neo
rocket Galactic vessels. One of them is larger than the
other two. They've arrived over the Space
Center and at this moment rope ladders spring from their
underbellies and drop in various places.
One directly in front of the Space Center 1 like hovering
near the rocket in like at the launchpad and the other off to
the side at the Cliff that is to everyone's east, just like at a
higher elevation of to where you are all AT.
And people are just spilling out.
They're they're rushing out. There's a lot and a lot of
grunts coming out of here. They're storming the building
essentially additionally for an environmental turn.
People are panicking, they're fleeing, and some people are too
dense to understand what is going on.
There is a familiar person riding atop a Pokémon that
you've all met. Now there is a man who you saw
in Mr. Mimosa is riding aboard a Metagross.
This one is a little bit different than Tate's.
It is a silver color and has a gold cross on its face.
It is floating with its arms tucked in, and it is hovering
over to your location swiftly. It will arrive there in at the
end of the next initiative round, I believe.
Oh yeah, the monsters got to do something right.
It's going to lash out its tentacles in every direction,
smacking everything in its proximity, including Simile,
subjecting everyone to ADC 19 Dexterity save everyone and
their Pokémon, including Schmidt and Pride who are above it as
like an aura of whipping lashes strikeout.
I failed both. OK.
For Trevor and Gimli. Yes, OK.
Cindy got a dirty 20. Nice.
And Fang fangs to oh OK Fang with the decks 15 not not a
passing but still has good decks.
OK. Cabbage succeeded, but Elodie
and Mr. Salt have failed. Sorry, cabbage is out of range.
Cabbage will not. Never mind.
OK, so I will relegate the second dice I rolled to Mr.
Thomas. That would be.
It was a natural 20 so I don't know if that changes anything
that does. A.
A crit will evade all damage. Playfit.
Good job, Mr. Saul. He's awesome.
Yeah, he's the best. How'd Pride and Schmidt do?
Schmidt passed. Pride failed.
OK, I believe that's everyone accounted for.
Oh assembly checking she passed all so we'll go from top to
bottom. Pokémon that failed take 94
points of dark type damage as they are whipped with vicious
tentacles. Humans that failed take 47
points of dark type damage, and Pokémon that passed unless they
crit, take 47 points of dark type damage.
They are undodgeable in this close radius.
And then humans that passed take 23 points of dark type damage.
It seems like this monster, this creature, is something that is
very, very dangerous to be very, very close to.
Elody is down. Elody has been knocked out, she
gets whipped with a tentacle across the face and she loses
consciousness. Shit and.
Not so good. Shit is getting real.
That brings us to the top of initiative.
Cindy, what are you doing? Shit.
OK. Before Elody got knocked out, I
was going to ask what are the ropes made out of?
Are they like I'll? I'll give.
You a bonus action to. Do not ropes the ladders.
Are they rope ladders? Yeah, I'll give you a bonus
action investigation if you want to consume a bonus action to do
that. That's fine, I don't think I
have many other bonus option bonus actions anyway.
What is is the investigation? Or unless you can think of a
better flavor, but I think that's the best flavor.
Plus 7 + 7 is a dirty 20. OK, that's pretty good.
You can see that the like the sides.
Well, you can tell that the in general it's made from some sort
of high tech like polyester maybe or like some sort of
corded rope. It seems very durable, just it's
far away. But like you've seen a lot of
materials, I suppose you made a good role so and you can see
that the hand holds and footholds are made out of like a
reinforced metal. Is it flammable?
I guess there's only one way to find out if your intention of
that rolls detect if it's flammable.
You had a dirty 20. You said you aren't certain if
the materials flammable, but the people descending certainly are.
It's a bad day to be an NRG grunt.
Well 'cause I was like if I could just stop them from fault,
like climbing down safely by burning some rope things, that'd
be a good goal. OK so from if I hop, sorry if I
hop on Fang, how far can I fly? I have 40 foot fly.
You can fly 40 feet. OK.
I mean, OK. So.
And what's the range of flamethrower again?
It's a 40 foot cone. Cone OK, so you are likely only
going to be able to target the ladder that is closest to you in
this turn. That is very fair.
It's kind of triangulating the Space Center.
Like if you look at the map that I've drawn, right at where the
cliffs are is where one of the ladders has dropped.
Right where the rocket is is one of the ladders has dropped.
And then on the Far East side of the Space Center is where one of
the ladders is. So only the closest is where you
can get to. That is fine 'cause I I'm no
hell, I would probably make LED's medical situation worse by
doing a medicine check. So OK, I think this is the best
use of my time. So I guess anyone caught in that
40 foot cone has to make ADC 18 deck save.
Yeah, I'm just going to do them as a group.
I'm treating them as a mob. Yeah, that's fair.
And the rope if, pot if, if, if it's flammable.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Let's I'll I'll roll.
For that out there. Yeah, so the folks, they got a
19, OK. So they still take half damage.
And the rope has no bonuses, so it's going to get an 8.
The rope is burned. OK, rope is burned.
Great. Yeah, please roll fire type
damage. You can just tell me the number
and I'll cut in half because they're people.
I know fire is fire but. 27 fire type damage is the total, so I
think it's quartered because it's half because they passed.
Right. So and then yeah, half because
they're people. And that's appropriate.
That makes sense based on our calculations that we've been
doing in this campaign. Yeah.
Cindy Hops, are you on Fang or do you send?
Fang. I hopped on Fang.
Cindy hopped on Fang and rushed over, flew over to one of the
blimps and singed to the heck out of one of these ladders and
the people descending it. A group of folks, perhaps 15 or
so, experienced significant burns as they try to slide down
the ladder. They're not like knocked out or
something, and they're not fully on fire, but they're smoldering
and they're annoyed and they're having a bad time.
Some of them employed the strategy of just holding onto
the sides and try not to catch their feet on the footholds, so
they just slide down, and others are just kind of flailing about.
One person rushes back up into the blimp and the portions of
the rope appear to be slowly losing their tension, slowly
kind of beginning to ignite. They are clearly fire resistant,
but it is not enough for Fain's flamethrower and after some
time, perhaps 12 or so seconds, this rope will probably burn.
A couple folks at the bottom have fallen and are not doing
very well. They have fallen quite a number
of feet and they are immobile on the ground.
OK, very, very good. Cindy giggle for injuring and
perhaps killing some people. That's very good.
What else? Give another action because I
gave you a bonus action investigation.
I thought my action was jumping on Fang and flying 40 feet.
I would consider that Cindy's movement.
I didn't make you do a check to get on Fang because he's your
Pokémon, so I'll give you one more thing.
Oh, do you want to make a roll or Fang?
Well, Fang already did a thing. Send out another Pokémon.
Those are your two options really.
I don't know who I could send out right now 'cause oh, I do
have another flying fire type. Who is it?
Larva star the Vulcarona. Yeah, Vulcarona does have wings.
You you are welcome to send out Vulcarona into the sky if you
wish. Yeah, let's do that.
OK, do it up. For the first time it is
revealed Larva Star, the beautiful Volcarona, emerges
from Cindy's pokeball and hovers in the sky next to Fame and
Cindy as they are zipping around.
And Larva Star is ready for instruction on the next turn.
Moving on, Gimli, you acknowledge that Schmidt is
here. You saw Elodie get whipped in
the face and get knocked out, and you see that Schmidt is
flying on Dragon Knight above the monster.
You're still grappling Emily. What will you do?
You know, I didn't make her roll to get out of the grapple, but
that's on me, so that's fine. Since I am too dumb to realize
what the monsters power channel is from, Dimly's just going to
assume it's still assembly and we're trying to knock this bitch
out so we're just going to keep head butting her.
OK, you may do that. Roll to hit. 21.
Fantastic, roll 2D12 plus your proficiency.
This time, 20 damage. Yeah, Jeez, Gimli.
Yeah, he's. Just he's.
Just fucking going for it. Just not get knocked out dude.
Yeah, Gimli pulls away from striking suddenly with his big
bald head, and she has a bit of a gash across her skull.
Her hair is getting all dirty and bloody.
She's not looking good, and she's kind of like growling a
little bit. She's kind of snarling, but she
has no choice but to take these head butts.
She's looking hurt. What else for Gimli?
I mean, I it's lame, but I got to keep this tentacle creature
grounded. So we're just going to try for
that. That rock slide again.
Will, will it affect Schmidt? Is he directly above it?
He you can angle it enough where I'll give you a pass.
I'll say that Schmidt isn't like right on top.
I think he's slightly behind it. OK, then we're going to go for
that DC19 strength just to keep the tentacle monster from
rising. Oh, I'm rolling, sorry.
Yes, DC19. Of course.
I was waiting for the pause. I'm like, I don't want to.
Yeah. No, no, no.
That's good. That's good. 1717 is the same
thing. OK, So just a normal, yeah, it
does technically not fall prone, but we we rolled it.
So it's like it does push it down a bit I guess.
Yeah, we can say that it perhaps leans in a direction.
We will say, do you want to lean forwards or backwards?
What? What is the implication of
those? Flavors mean flavor.
Flavor. I say it leans.
It leans forward. It's like now its back is
exposed with Smith being above him.
It leans forward. I guess that counts as that,
huh? It's like a backstab.
It it's already flanking, so just, yeah, just for flavor.
Yeah, the rocks pummel and it kind of like it can't be driven
any further into the ground, but it kind of leans towards Cindy
or towards LED a little bit. So the damage is 14.
OK, sizable again, not really showing any signs of like
beating or anything. When it is struck at like an
emergence point of one of its tentacle limbs, like the the
limb will kind of like a limp for a second and then it should
just start whipping again. But you know, if you're doing
damage, it's good stuff. Yeah.
Anything else for Gimli? That is it.
OK, moving on, Schmidt, what are you doing?
You're a bored pride and you are above and behind this monster.
OK, I have a plan. I'm willing to use whatever,
like all of my action economy, to do it.
OK. And even if I have to do it next
turn, that's also fine. OK, let's hear it.
I want to send out Walter, OK? I want Schmidt to pick up Walter
and throw him in the direction of LED, and I want Walter to
kind of grab LED and Burrow underground her a little bit so
she's safe. OK, you can send out Walter and
do a throw, but it will have to. That's two actions there, so
anything else will have to be in the next turn.
OK, OK, all right, I accept. So you're going to send out
Walter from where you are in the sky, correct?
Yeah. OK.
Do you just kind of like catch this big ass snake creature in
your hands? Yeah, just kind of like both
arms just kind of overhead. Just yeah, throw it down.
But like tail first with Walter so he can like kind of drill and
like stick in the ground and break his landing a little.
Bit I will give you the notice that this provokes an attack of
opportunity from the monster to Walter specifically who's
exiting the radius. OK, rolling to hit with a
tentacle lash. 23 hits. No it doesn't, because Walter
has runaway that can never be targeted by a tax of
opportunity. That's fucking sick.
I forgot about that. That's so cool.
Yeah, that's so awesome. Yeah.
The den Sparse is nimble enough where the tentacles lash out
towards somebody while soaring through the sky.
Uses his little wings to navigate where he is flying as
he's flying backwards so he can kind of see the threat from
above. Have him make a Dexterity to see
like how close to LED he can get.
Dirty 24. OK, excellent.
He can land like right beside LED.
He isn't necessarily drill all the way underground, but he
lands firmly and smoothly and does not take any damage, which
is fantastic. Any bonus actions for Schmidt?
I'm guessing it's just with Pride himself since Schmidt is
riding it but have Pride evasive stance the technical monster.
Fantastic, he may do that. Just in case, yeah.
OK, thank you, Schmidt. Elody, what is cabbage going to
do anything in this moment? OK, well.
We'll so I was thinking cabbage could misty step to Elody and
heal her with healing kiss. That is correct.
That's totally something she can do.
Have her roll the heal amount OK?
7 plus nines that's. 18 back up to 18.
OK, pretty good LD you are back up cabbage.
Use an action. How does it work?
I need to review my DND rules. Have we ever ruled it this way
where the turn you are UPS do you get an action?
I want to say no. I don't know if we've ever done
that. OK, I know in Baldur's Gate they
don't let you, but that's just my source of reference.
I don't know does LD thinking about doing anything this turn
We could maybe live reason something out.
I think like a whole long thing is maybe a little much, but.
You're right, the only thing I was thinking of doing was
sending out Key Lime. OK, Rolodex 30 check 'cause you
just arose from unconsciousness and you have a few seconds to do
this, so look in for DC-15. Cool. 17 on the dice.
Perfect. That will do.
Yeah. LD and her stupor, she wasn't
knocked out for super long. She comes to, stands up and
sends out Key Lime, the Iron Valiant.
Iron Valiant kind of pulls out swords from its limbs and forms
like a double bladed, almost Darth Maul type like scimitar
type weapon and it looks like that they are ready for combat.
You haven't seen Iron Valiant in combat before, so this is pretty
exciting. They're about to fuck shit up.
They sure are very good and I think that's a reality.
Yes, can I free action Pet Walter on the head?
Yeah, you get perfect roll a Charisma. 11. 11 yeah.
Walter gives a little excited to done sparse coup and is happy
that you're all right. All right, very sweet
environmental turn Here we are People are have a number of
energy grunts have fully descended the ladders.
There's a bunch gathering out in the launchpad and there is a
group beginning to break down a door with Pokémon that they have
released. You see clearly.
I'll name Pokémon that you've seen before in the campaign if I
can remember them all. There is a Machamp that you know
for sure is just punching at the doors trying to break them down.
There are mysterious Pokémon that you don't fully recognize
that are like shoving shooting projectiles and rocks into
windows of the upper levels. There's a Pokémon that looks
like a large dragonfly that rushes into one of the recently
open windows. And on the Cliff nearest to you
all, there are lots of people in there sending out various
Pokémon of all different shapes and sizes, and it looks like
they are eyeing at the lot of you with intention.
All of these trainers are coming from your east.
Additionally, Stephen Stone and his shiny Metagross have
arrived. Steven will hop off of Metagross
and immediately issue a command for a Meteor Mash into the
monster. Rolling to hit does, in fact
hit. I'll get this damage once I end
this, but I'm A sizable punch from Metagross's arm connects
into the Corruption of Malice, dealing significant damage.
The rope that Cindy lit a flame is seriously losing its tension.
There's a dozen or so people still descending it, and then
you see that there's or Cindy can hear some shouting and
clamoring, and it appears that after this person, well, no role
of perception, Cindy, actually. Perception.
We're canonically bad at those 10. 10, Yeah, she's not entirely
sure what's going on. She knows that people have
stopped descending from that ladder.
And yeah, with the 10, you don't get any other information from
there. Assembly will finally attempt a
grapple escape. It's going to be contested, so I
need a strength check from Gimli.
I crit. OK, she got a 14, which for her
is a pretty good role but is not a crit.
She will remain grappled. And what else?
Yeah, the grunts are breaking into the Space Center.
There's many of them descending from blimps.
They're all starting to send out their Pokémon.
And more people are starting to realize, like, this isn't a
normal or good thing. People who have flying and
swimming Pokémon are starting to board them and leave.
There's a few people who like, maybe debating if they want to,
like, help out or participate. And among them, among those two
coming up behind Elodie, is none other than Archie and Maxi.
They see what's going on and they refuse to let another
calamity befall Holland. And they will not take any
actions, but they will in fact send out to their trusty shark
pedo and camera up and prepare to engage in battle.
A small floating shark with a vicious maw and A2 humped camel
that you recognize from when you were at Mount Chimney.
And I think I'm not forgetting anything for the environmental
turn out. OK, of course the big monster.
It will not do a general full lash attack.
In fact it will produce 2 tentacle lashes that will whip
out specifically to LED and Cabbage.
They both need to make DC-22 Dexterity saves.
OK, I'm going to can I light screen the one on to myself with
Carbink? Yes, you may.
Before that happens, OK, So that will just have the damage.
I don't know if it's going to matter because this is a lot
what I'm making. Again, sorry.
DC-22 deck save. Oh God, yeah.
I don't think this is gonna matter.
Yeah, we both failed. OK, how much did you fail by?
I LED got a 14 or sorry wait I didn't add the numbers at LED
got an 18, cabbage got a six. Oh shit, Oh no, Oh no, this is
not a good one for you. The tentacles will whip out
towards these two Pokémon in particular, and while that
happens, I will give an opportunity tack to Key Lime
just to give a slice just to see.
Oh oh baby, so can I? I would do a fairy type spirit
blade. Sure, in Missy terrain.
So Pixie Dr. activates. Yep.
So that's six DDD 10 + 18. Yeah.
So that's exciting. That's some serious damage.
That's a little bit of damage, yeah.
Let me get my D 10s. That'll do 52 damage.
Oh very nice. You said that Carbon Collide
screened the one heading towards LED, correct?
Yes. OK, yeah, Iron Valiant gives a
cleave with their futuristic Saber and actually slices.
One of the tentacles just completely severs and it lashes
around about on the ground. It seems that this Malamar
monster takes like a significant reaction from this.
For the first time. It says like it's definitely
taking damage. It would be saying ow if it had
said anything. The other tentacle, heading
towards Cabbage is not intended for damage.
Cabbage's actually significantly failed a grapple.
The tentacle wraps around Cabbage's body, rolls her up,
and pulls It pulls her back with incredible speed into the body
of this Malamar monster, and Cabbage disappears from
everyone's vision as it has been absorbed into Malamar.
Oh, no, no, no, no, I was. Literally thinking about that, I
was like, I shouldn't have cabbage out, I should put it.
Away it is Cindy's turn. Well fuck.
OK, how close am I to other ladders?
You are within fly distance of any of the three ladders.
OK, so Larva Star has a family of 30 feet.
OK. Which is not as far as Sal Fangs
40 feet. OK.
Can they still get into range of?
Larvastar can only get to the one that you're closest to right
now and the one that's over by the cliffs, not the one that's
in the launchpad. OK so can I have both of my
Pokémon move and do moves? Yeah, movement and attack.
Yep. OK, cool.
So that's fine. I'm going to have Larvastar get
as close to the one not immediately where we are the one
that it can get to. It needs to be within 15 ish
feet of it to use fiery dance. OK, yeah, Lagerstar can in fact
do that. Is that a roll to hit or is that
a save? It's ADC 14 decks save.
OK, the people as a unit and the ladder will both make that save.
The people get a 19, the ladder gets a 22.
Pretty good rolls. Oh.
The ladder is a bonus. It doesn't.
I gave them the person bonus, the ladder.
The ladder gets a 20. OK, so the ladder takes no
damage. It's a crit.
I'm going to say it gets singed but.
OK, so they still pass. Yes. 22 damage.
OK. So it would be half quartered.
Yeah, because they passed and. Yeah, checks out.
Enough fire to definitely disturb, kind of rush some
people. A couple of the ones towards the
bottom will fall. Get some owies.
They've been descending for a little bit longer, so no one's
going to get like, seriously hurt.
But Volcarona performs a beautiful dance and little
powdery spores of flame appear and flit about and pound into
the people and the ladder, and the ladder gets a little singed.
It doesn't look like it's particularly burning at this
moment, but it may after a few turns.
And this slows the descent of some people.
And then fame as well. I'm assuming a flamethrower.
So we're going to fly to the other ladder because this ladder
is cooked. Right.
So we're flying to the other ladder and doing a flamethrower
that is ADC 18 dex save. OK, that's a 7.
Very, very. Powerful, so the the people are
burned. OK.
And the ladder gets a 13. So pretty pretty.
Successful so it's the ladder is not burned, but it's on a 3D pen
17. OK, very good.
So it's half for the people because they failed.
Yeah, absolutely. You, yeah, you ignite the
ladders. This, the folks who are
descending this ladder that's at the launchpad may have different
duties, may have different responsibilities compared to the
other folks. And when Fang goes to ignite
this ladder, there's some grunts that are like carrying some
materials. And one of the grunts who gets
it particularly bad, gets the flamethrower pretty bad, was
actually carrying a canister of some sort of fuel, perhaps
rocket fuel. And in fact, it ignites and
explodes. I will have Cindy roll 12D12 for
a big fireball that you just made.
Can I reroll the 112 I got for the extra?
It's not Sam's Pokémon doing it, unfortunately.
I figured I'd ask 75. 70 yeah, boom.
Everyone's eyes turn as there's a big explosion over by the
launchpad as there's some serious damage.
So there's definitely some deceased people for sure.
The ladder fully emulates and the blimp itself also seems to
careen a bit and rock. It is at this moment where I
asked Cindy to roll a perception check.
Sorry, Matt. 20. Matt 20 Yeah, a couple things.
Cindy can peer like directly, like into the port where these
folks are descending from. She's like really clear vision.
She can see all. She can see people freaking out
and panicking and someone even grabs a fire extinguisher.
She also sees that when this explosion like clouds up towards
the blip itself, there's somewhat some sort of like
energy barrier that stabilizes the ship from like a completely
turning over. But that barrier itself seems to
have like been impacted by this explosion.
The people down at the ground are like screaming.
And then there's someone down there who is ordering them like,
we have something to do. Let's get this taken care of.
Don't worry about it. And they're trying to not be
distracted from the bomb that Cindy has created out of rocket
fuel. Anything.
Anything else for? Cindy.
Sorry, what was that LD? They may have an Eldridge
monster, but we have a Cindy so. A Cindy on a fire breathing
dragon. Yeah, who's the real Eldridge
monster? I'm so sorry.
Not to apologize. Yeah, that's great.
Thank you, Cindy. A very Cindy turn, if I may say
so. Yeah, very good.
It seems that you know that the the while there are many, many
grunts on the ground now, the descent of them have certainly
slowed ever since Cindy started this mission of igniting the
ladders. The first ladder that she
ignited has like, fully detached from the blimp.
However, a brand new one is rolled out and people just begin
to descend it. And they will.
Some will in fact, descend it at when their turn arrives.
Gimli, you're still holding down Semily.
What are you going to do? You know the drill, Chief.
All right, head button this time 24.
Yeah, I will. I will need damage.
Please roll your damage. Of course, this time 19 damage.
OK, Simile is looking kind of beat up.
You might have chipped one of her teeth with your big bald
head. She is still has consciousness.
She's hanging in there just a little bit and she kind of spits
some blood, not necessarily at you, but just kind of like, you
know, she turns her head just because she's got to get it out
of there. She is pretty beat up and you
can feel that her resistance against you is starting to wane
a little bit. What else for Gimling?
Again got got a rinse in her peat.
OK so I got a couple rock slides so I will go for the rockslide
fall again to keep this this tentacle monster from rising.
OK, you do that making the save, they get a crit.
They will in fact negate all damage there.
Lucky crit. OK anything else for Gimli?
I know that is a little disappointing.
I'd like to give you a bonus ability check if you wish.
I. Don't know, I think I'm doing my
job just fine. I I really want to know if this
monster has some vulnerabilities because I'm just, I'm so damn
convinced that like it's so similar to what I've seen
before. I definitely want to see if
there's like some source of its power.
Oh yeah, you want to know like what is causing this
transformation? Yeah, yeah.
Is there a place I can? Yeah.
Investigation maybe? Nature Arcana I think are your
best bets here. OK.
Is any of them like they're all int?
Right. Yeah, I think they're all int.
I just I'm curious if you have any bonuses on the?
I don't. OK.
So with that, that sets us in in check.
I got a 14. OK, you, you're old enough to
know that whatever it is, it's not like there's no, there's
nothing visible. There's no unlike before,
there's no syringe, there's no patch.
There certainly is some sort of mechanism, but whatever it is,
it is not like present as Elodie or Cindy, whoever may do a role
on it before this transformation is akin to the the same things
that energy has been doing, but it's like on a new level, on
like a profound level where it feels like there is like a
divine element to it, if that makes sense.
Like this is a a sort of ascension rather than just like
a purely scientific transformation, if that makes
sense. Does that, does that work?
Yeah. Anything else for Gimli?
No, that is it. OK, doing his job, holding down
the bad guy. Yes, Sir.
And for those who want to know, the Metagross meteor match did
50 points of damage to the Cthulhu creature.
OK. Schmidt, it's you.
OK. We are on Operation Rescue
Cabbage right now. OK.
Can I see cabbage? Can I make any sort of like
perception or investigation check to see if I know what the
fuck happened where it is? So it's a little tricky because
you're like, well you were above it.
From what you can tell, cabbage has been absorbed in those
creatures body and like is gone. You do not know where cabbage
is. OK.
You could try and get in there and find out, but as far as like
if, if it is at all possible to detect cabbage, it is.
I'm not going to make you do it because I'm not sure what kind
of role you could do to find out where cabbage is.
I've done stupider shit. Yeah, Schmidt is going to jump
off Pride and just jump in there.
And just get in the darkness. Yeah, sure.
Yeah. Schmidt is going to jump off of
Pride's back and just fall into, like, the murky black body that
is this monster. I will request an intelligence
save from Schmidt. Is Schmidt smart?
He's, he's OK Dirty 20 actually. Dirty 20 interesting.
So OK, I should have prefaced this differently.
We will treat this as a good rule.
I intended to be the better you did it on intelligence save the
worst outcome. But I didn't tell you that so
that's not fair. Schmidt will descend and as he
kind of connects like his head fully drops into this general
kind of body like it seems like this creatures emanating the
darkness that Schmidt has fallen inside of.
He feels his body like slow, like slow motion and he's like
is in a shadowy darkness and he hears like voices and sounds and
murmurs and screams and roars just coming from all directions
around his head. And it is quite disorienting and
he is simply feels like he is floating within a void.
And you are now looking for cabbage, correct?
Yes. OK.
I will now give you perception or investigation.
OK, I'll do a perception. OK, that was a six.
Six. OK, you get the feeling that
it's cabbage might be in here, you're not sure, but there's
just a swirly blackness, a little bit of purple, and it's
incredibly disorienting in the space and you are not entirely
sure what is going on or how long you even been here.
Your brain is kind of feeling like if you did not make that
safe so well, you might be feeling a little scrambled.
Well, disoriented. Perhaps cabbage is in this void,
but you are not sure. OK.
That will probably be it now. You moved, you jumped.
So yeah, I'll give you some actions.
Is it possible? I don't think we've done this
before, except for at the gym. Is it possible I could let
Elodie take control of Walter since he's right there?
Sure. Yeah, that's fine.
OK. If you want to donate that
action to Elodie, that's fine. Yeah, oh, I just meant like in
general, like Walter moves as a part of Elodie's unit.
Yeah, and that will say that doesn't necessarily cost her
anything either. OK cool, I will DM you Walter's
sheet. Rozzy.
For defund, certain bonuses that are exclusive to Schmidt won't
happen with Walter if Schmidt's not giving instructions.
Just so that's clear. Yeah, OK.
Cool. I think that's all I got to go
on right now. OK.
Anything else? Could pride take an action if
Schmidt's not there? Yes, it's made thresholds will
be slightly harder but can definitely do it.
Or it's just going to Iron Head since we're still locked.
OK. What is your bonus to hit on
that? Plus oh bonus to hit 10. 10 it's
just going to be 9 at this moment.
Just 9 OK. Not a huge nerf for right now.
OK, that's still a dirty 24. Yeah, that does it.
That's good. This is not a crit because
Schmidt is not here giving this instruction.
Just regular, just regular choice bands.
Iron Head. Is pride still flanking?
Yes, but it's it's without Schmidt, right?
Right, but with flanking you still get advantage.
Oh, you do. You do.
You're right. Apologies.
Yeah, Yeah, yeah. I just thought I'd roll it just
in case, just to see. I rolled the worst just to see
if we. Got it.
No, that's totally valid 30. Even steel type damage.
OK, yeah, a sizable hit. It seems like this thing is
finally like starting to recognizably take some damage
after all of this onslaught, that it's had pretty significant
stuff going on. Anything else?
Nope. OK, Elodie, it's back to you
Iron Valens here your beloved starter is absorbed is cabbage
is gone and Mr. Salt is here as well as well as Walter.
So what are your thoughts? Hello, Walter.
OK, things are scary.
So obviously I don't know, like what is going on with cabbage.
I don't know if cabbage knows what's going on with cabbage.
That's true. I'm just saying it would be
really funny if an ancestral Fay magic was pracked.
I'm just saying it could be. It could be really bad, it could
be really good. Yeah.
We don't know. So here's a thing.
It is not possible. That's.
I was going to have Cabbage make a wisdom save at the end of her
turn but you could make it now and then.
See if that a lot if depending if it's let's say 16 or higher
and aroma veil does not apply here.
Have cabbage make ADC 16 Wisdom safe.
No dice. You have dice, OK.
I do. That's an 11.
OK, yeah, just without too much meta gaming.
Cabbage is suspended in some sort of void and her thoughts
and vision are entirely foggy and she doesn't know what's
going on and it feels like time is in slow motion.
Cannot get a grasp of her brain. What else will I let you do?
Understandable. So I was thinking, so we can
have like the same Pokémon move twice if it's taking up both of
our actions, right? What do you mean move?
Like use attacks. Use Yes no, no.
OK, so it's unless they have a. Feature that's like multi attack
or something they get. I was going to Calm Mind and
then Spirit Blade with Karen Valiant, but those are both
actions. Correct, so trainers are built a
little different. As long as the actions are
different, trainers can do them. But Pokémon in your action
economy can do 1 action. Makes sense to me.
Having coal mined would be really good up against this guy.
Yeah, 'cause I lost one minute. So getting multiple calm minded
spirit blades would be epic poggers.
I will go ahead and call mind. Let me look at Walter real
quick. Oh, I forgot about sticky Barb.
I see it on there. I don't know what it does.
It takes damage at the end of every turn.
I understand. Would you like me to do
something about that? It synergizes with rage because
rage you have to take damage at the end of every turn to keep it
up. Deal or take?
Is it deal or take?
It's deal or take. Yeah, it's dealer take.
Yes, which sometimes you don't always do damage.
So it's like security, you know? Right.
Yeah, like that's, that's still good, right, Because even if
you're not dealing damage, like if you're doing something.
And sticky bark gets transferred if someone makes contact with
Walter. Gotcha.
OK, I think I think it would be really cool if Walter did enter
a fit of rage. OK.
So we're we're taking this turn to set up.
Do you just because this is a funny flavour situation, how is
there? Do you have any flavour for how
you instruct that? I just imagine Elodie just
yelling Walter rage. Yeah, that's what I was looking
for. That's awesome.
Yeah, Walter gets real angry and goes and wiggles its body around
and it's it's got a fervor in its eyes now.
Very good. Awesome.
All I have left is bonus action. I was going to send my party
time to Schmidt. I don't think that's possible
anymore, so I will send it to Cindy instead.
OK, so that's AV 8. You may use how you plead.
Very good, use it for anything you like.
Excellent. Anything else around here?
OK, that will be all. Is rage you party time?
I feel like you have more right? Because rage is a bonus action,
right? Oh, is it?
Yeah, I'm. Oh, I didn't know that.
Right Squids, No. It's not.
It's just. It doesn't say does.
It deal damage. No, it's just a stance I think.
We got to change that. Rage is, like always, a bonus
action. Oh.
I'm sorry. That's on me.
It should be a bonus action. I'm sorry.
OK. Gotcha.
Just going to add bonus action at the end of the last month.
Yeah, please fix that. So I can have Walter attack this
term then? Go for it.
I am. OK, so it's got a hurricane and
hyper drill. Hurricane is AOE, so that's
probably. There's Pokémon people around
Melmar right? Yes.
Or it's pretty. Classic thing, yeah.
OK, then that's a hyper drill then.
So that's +9 to hit. OK. 23. 23 does infect it.
You may have rolled damage. OK, that'll do 41 damage.
OK, a huge hit. Really good stuff.
Yeah. Walter drills his tail drill
into the body of this monster, dealing a pretty good amount of
damage as it, like, twirls in there.
Just black Iker just kind of like spills out just and like,
goes in every direction to the tail.
And Walter bet drops back down to the ground.
And it seems like this creature is finally visibly taking some
damage. Schmidt in the void, roll a
perception check. OK.
Also, how much do I take from Sticky Barb just so I can keep
track of it for Walter? Oh.
I don't think we wrote that down ever.
I think it should be equal to your proficiency bonus.
Thank you. That is A10 OK you.
Famously bad at these perception.
Checks. It's just how it goes with the
packo. There's like a disturbance in
this body. There's like a weird rumbling
and you aren't sure what's going on, but it is somehow metagame
sense related to this hyper drill.
Very odd, very good. Anything else?
Reality. OK, very good environmental turn
plus bad guys, plus good guys. Metagross going to go for a
punch, going to whiff. We'll say that it swings a
meteor mash and then one of the tentacles kind of grabs the arm
and throws it to the ground and the shiny Metagross will not get
an attack off. Steven is going to kind of like
stand next to Elodie because she looks clearly injured and is
going to be like ready to protect her potentially.
Assembly is going to attempt to break out of the grapple,
probably her last chance to do so based on her HP.
So contested to grapple check please.
She got a 18 that's pretty good. I get a dirty 20.
OK, once again Gimli keeping her pin down.
So it goes. At this point the new ladder
unfurls from the blimp that is closest to you.
All grunt Pokémon are beating to rush down the Cliff.
Among them, a large bipedal horned rock monster is charging
with its horn spinning towards the lot of you.
There is a large bug Pokémon that flies like a mantis that
has side this for arms that is slashing trees down to get
towards you. There are various lion and wolf
Pokémon also charging in your direction, some of them by
Tiana, some of them ones you don't recognize.
One of them a manactric that you recognize from Watson's gym.
Just a horde, just a whole group coming towards this combat.
Additionally, over at the Space Center, the break in has clearly
succeeded. The lights have been turned on,
there's just general commotion and loudness and chaos, and you
hear a whir of machinery over towards the launchpad.
Just a steady just kind of coming to life as all the lights
flash on and it becomes super bright in this area.
Clearly something is beginning to go underway at the Space
Center. I will have camera up and
Sharpedo roll some attacks. I need to get my dive real
quick. Hammer Opt unleashes a torrent
of flame with a flamethrower. And it does.
In fact it will be dealing just 33 points of damage.
Still pretty good though. Sharpedo is going to go for a
liquidation, try and smack it around with a a series of water
type attacks. Does not hit, will in fact be
repulsed by protective field around Malinar's body, and
Malomar, the corruption of Malice will spend its turn
actually committing its entire turn to movement.
It's going to start hovering directly to the east, moving
swiftly towards the Space Center, More specifically over
the fences that lead into the launchpad area where the
explosion recently detonated. Malomar is going to take
opportunity attacks from like freaking everything.
Metagross, Trevor, Iron Valley, and Mr. Saul, Walter, and Pride
all get to attack for free. All of these poker will prepare
to attack as a new wall of Pokémon of these guns Pokémon
are rushing towards the Packers position.
Finally and lastly for the session, as all of this chaos is
being happening and this monster is using all of its energy to
move towards the space shuttle, there's a deep rumbling kind of
far from the north and you see maybe twenty, 30-40 miles out,
you hear an out of nowhere a a lightning clap just off in the
distance with not any clouds in the sky.
And that is where we will end the session.
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they usually have tentacles. But and you know what Ritchie?
Sometimes you call the bad guys baddies and they can have two.
Like there's just like a classic name TTRPG nomenclature.
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A little OK. I don't know.
I've had a few DMS. You're the only one who's called
them baddies. Is that true?
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