Welcome to the Cali Rex Game Corners Pokémon DND campaign
featuring Cindy, a young Vagabond from the Hohen region
with pyromaniac tendencies, Gimli, a stocky Burley miner
from Sino looking for his lost son, Elody, an enthusiastic
foodie and Baker from Carlos, and Schmidt, an enigmatic man
from Johto with a duck. My name is Rich and I'm the game
Master and this is Dunsparse and Grandpa.
The last time we got together, the party met the Winstrate
family, made some new friends of Pokémon and people, and ended up
rescuing A battered Mariepe from the clutches of a devious Rolts.
They ended up knocking out the Rolts, the kid gave a reward to
Schmidt and now they're on their way, rushing to Laveridge Town
to get to the Pokémon Center to in hopes who saved this Rolts.
They burst open the doors, the sliding doors of the Pokémon
Center, and what do they do? Go to the nurses at the counter.
OK. Yes.
You approach the nurses at the counter.
It seems like they are busy tending to a vase of flowers
with a large pink Pokémon that has an egg in its belly, and
they're sort of admiring these tulips that are in a vase and
they're smiling and giggling. Yo, this ralt is kind of dying,
yeah. I know the flowers are really
important. It it appears that they didn't
notice you come in. Yeah.
And one of them turns around and says, oh, my gosh, I'm so sorry.
Let me take a look. And she out stretches her hands
to receive the Ralts. Do you let it happen?
Yeah. Yeah, I think Gimme has that.
Oh yes, Gimli is carrying Ralts OK.
Yes, yes I do let it happen. The nurse receives the Ralts and
she takes a good look at the Ralts and she says it looks like
this little friend's going to be fine, just give me one moment.
And she walks quickly into a backroom while this large round
egg creature looks directly in Gimli's eyes and says Chancey.
Hello. It's just staring right at
Gimli. It's just cool.
You how's it going? Is that?
What you say? Yeah.
Roller Roller Pokémon handling. OK, it was all I got 10.
It says chancey and keeps looking at you.
Very good. Right, you're right.
You all have been in a Pokémon Center before, but you notice
two things that are a little bit different.
For one, it's pretty quiet in here.
The nurse was probably distracted because no one's
really coming through. You also notice that on the back
left wall of the Pokémon Center, there is a opening with straw,
like in a straw doorway. It's like not a proper door, and
it leads out to a ramp that goes somewhere outside.
It is not blocked off. It is not contained.
It seems like people can freely walk into that area.
That's what you notice. Do you decide to wait?
Do you decide to do something? What is the party's plan?
Do we feel our Pokémon real quick before we do anything
else? Yeah, you sure can.
It looks like there is no nurse available at the moment, but the
chancey is still at the counter. And the chancey overhears your
discussion about healing Pokémon and walks closer to the counter
and looks at all of you and says chancey.
I had to remove Pokémon without question.
Great Chancey lifts up a tray that has slots in it, and it
seems like you can put your pokey balls in there.
And for a basic heal such as this, Chancey makes a slight
turn to the right and inserts them into a machine.
It flashes some lights and you can all see little silhouettes
of the Pokémon that are inside the balls, and it makes a
pleasant chime. Just after a couple of seconds,
Chancey pulls the tray out, puts the tray back on the counter and
says Chancey. Express this chancey with my
life. You may just have to No, no.
The nurse comes back with a raltz in her hands that is
squirming and healthy and restless and she says, well,
it's all healed up. It seems like it's not
registered to a pokey ball. Does this belong to one of you?
Are you on good terms or is this just a wild raltz?
Not. Yet.
She says. Oh my, I guess I should hand it
back to you then. Sure, yeah, I'll happily take
it. OK, roll a Dexterity and she
will as well, because this little Ralts is squirming. 13.
She rolled slightly worse as she hands the Ralts over to you.
It locks eyes with you and vanishes.
No. No.
Roll a Perception. Teleported.
That's awesome. You get the general sense that
it couldn't have gone that far and it's went not towards the
door you came in. But that's all about all you
know other if you ask for help, perhaps others can help you
investigate if you are truly curious where.
Did he go? Inception.
Also, I don't know if I have your Pokémon have skills that
might be relevant to this. Maybe, maybe not.
I'm. Trying to think.
I'm trying to think. Let me take a gander.
You got a 16. Yeah.
You notice ever so slightly, the straw door that leads to the
outside of the Pokémon Center. In the back is wrestling a
little. I'm going to run over there.
OK, communicate information so. One or two or all of you run
over there. You run through the straw door
and you find yourself on a little wooden path that leads up
some rocks into a little body of water that is surrounded by
mossy cobblestone on your right. Along the way there are
beautiful, vibrant flower bushes.
These bushes are a rich leafy green with red petals.
I would like to note I did not chase after them.
I'm still in the Pokémon Center. OK, are you just vibing?
What are you doing? I'm investigating the the the
pocketful of stuff I have. OK cool.
Are you trying to figure anything specific about it?
You can make a role. The first two things, they're
the things you know, yes. Yes, yes, yes, yeah, yeah.
You can make a role for IT 16. That's not a bad role.
They are what you think they are.
How's that? Oh, like the the good one not.
The the good one. Oh, oh, OK, that changes the
things. OK.
Yeah. No, that changes things.
OK. Yeah, anywho, no particular sign
of your little Rolt's friend, but maybe out there, who knows?
I sniff the flowers. You sniff the flowers, roll A
roll a sniff, check. This.
Is just a sniff. Good old sniff. 19. 19.
A really good sniff. Yeah, you get a really deep
inhale and it they smell really good.
You're not quite sure what species of flower they are, but
these bushes are very fragrant. As you inhale and lift your head
up, your nose bonks against a particularly hard red flower.
Flower is supposed to be hard. You do anything about this?
If I investigate the hard flower.
Yes. What is your means to?
Are you just looking? Are you using your hands?
Poke it. You're gonna poke it, OK?
Yeah. You poke the flower and it lets
out a little. Excuse me, do they see anything
different about this flower that makes noise?
It's really, it doesn't look like a flower, but it's like the
same color. It's it almost looks like the
there's like some green under it that would looks it's like the
same color as the foliage, but it's like a Dome.
And then the flower itself is just like, it's almost, it's
like a 2 dimensional like triangle.
Oh, I think I found our Walt's friend.
Yes, I think so too. I'm going to come over to
because I'm assuming you said, I think we found our waltz went
over like out loud. I'll come over and be like, oh.
There is a part of the bushes that is trembling.
Assuming I have cabbage out because I probably took it out
after we just healed up. Yes.
And be like, hi waltz, do you want to play with my friend
cabbage? And like, push cabbage towards
the direction of Ronz. OK yeah, give me a charisma
check from cabbage and add 5 to it because this is like a very
LED thing to do. 19. Whatever cabbage has the magic
touch, who knows? Rolz gets lured out of the
bushes and you can see from under its helmet shaped head
it's very small. Eyes look delighted and less
scared and now more just entranced with Cabbage's magic.
Gonna ask him. I can, yeah.
I'll ask. I'll.
I'll ask the Ralts. Do you want to continue playing
with Cabbage and come on an adventure with me?
Nice question roll. You could make that charisma.
It's either charisma or Pokémon handling.
But I think what my handling might be a Christmas tab
actually. Actually don't know.
I don't know either. I think Wisdom.
Oh, yeah, it's Wisdom. It's Wisdom for sure.
Yeah. I think this is more of a
charismatic plea than it is like a wrangling kind of thing.
So. OK.
Charismatic wrangling. Yeah, actually with charisma you
have a wrangle with words. That was an 11th.
Ralt is not really paying attention to you, just cabbage.
Not saying like you can't try to catch it, but it didn't listen
to what you said. Try and use a poker ball on it.
OK, what kind of ball? I think I'll just use it for
mirror ball. OK, give it a shot.
Roll it. Do 20.
Let's go the way that that was just a 2.
Oh no, you throw out your ball and it encapsulates raltz for a
brief second and then it explodes open, broken.
You will not be able to use that ball again and Raltz is starting
to come out of a a daze after being so entranced with cabbage.
Raltz fires off a a a little attack at cabbage.
Oh no. Does an 11 hit.
No. Anyways, Raltz channels up a
little psychic blast and fires it towards Cabbage, but Cabbage
nimbly dodges. Raltz is looking a little more
weary now. Wary.
Not weary. Wary is the right word.
Wary. Yes.
Schmidt, I want to kind of check in with you.
Are you doing anything out of curiosity?
I'm investigating the the the stuff OK the the third.
Thing the third thing, yeah. Does that do anything?
It could. OK, You can try and intimidate
with a role, Yeah. Yeah, that's a 12. 12 Yeah.
You're not exactly sure. It has an energy to it, but you
don't quite know what it does. Cool.
Can I have cabbage go for a fake tears on it?
Yes, they rolled a natural 4. Whatever you want to do with
fake tears succeeds Cabbage, noticing that Ralta's upset and
fired enough attack that Mist locks eyes with Raltz and starts
to cry. Just very convincing fake cry
and Raltz starts to feel a little sad.
Or Cabbage like they made might have made a mistake.
Maybe they lost a friend. No, I call your mate.
No, you're, you're making cabbage sad.
Maybe if you were just best friends and you're all right.
True. Yes, I'll do that.
Yes, I'd be like, no, we're making cabbage sad.
Come with us. OK, You can just you can just
roll the ball, I think. Rolling.
What am I rolling here? Just AD 20, I'm doing.
I'm not telling you the secret modifiers.
This was 1 was a 14. OK, you throw the ball at the
Ralts, who is feeling some sympathy, or cabbage who is
crying very convincingly fake crying.
The ball shakes once and twice and three times.
You caught yourself. Where else?
Congratulations, it's time for some dice rolling.
I need you to roll for its gender as well as its nature.
You need to do it in an order, but you can choose that order.
But what is the world's gender ratio?
I It's 50505050. Yeah.
So females odds male's. Evens it's a female.
Congrats. That's what you wanted, right?
Yes. They're.
Both female girl power. Except for blueberry, but that's
fine. Roll Nature.
I rolled a 13. I am looking.
For that is innocent. It.
Is Charisma +2 wisdom -2 perfect?
Perfect. I think it's all right you you
might notice that this Pokémon has a stat that is unusually
high for Pokémon. Wow, is it 'cause it's a psychic
type? Well, I didn't say anything.
What are you talking about? Do you have a nickname?
I'm thinking Key Lime. It's kind of green.
You did. Pretty pie like honestly.
After catching this lovely Key Lime the ralts all of your
pokeballs do the little wiggle, wiggle, wiggle.
What do you? Do for now I'll send grape juice
a PC OK, and then I'll hopefully switch them out later before the
gym if we do the gym. You touch the Grape Juice's
Pokeball, the shiny Marsh Stomp, and it eats itself into
cyberspace, and you get the feeling that you could quickly
access it within the Pokémon Center at the PC.
There, y'all did it, What's next for you?
It's a nurse back. Can we ask them about like we
heard stories about the the springs and like kind of
investigate that a little bit? Sure.
Curious. Yeah.
So you want to go back inside to speak to the nurse?
I think so, yeah. Yeah, I will rejoin the party by
this point. Excellent.
After rummaging in your pockets for a bit in deep thought, you
witness as the party comes back in and the LED has a smile on
your face. Gimley asks this question to the
nurse. She says, yeah, it's been a
problem for a few months now. The summer is usually a really
busy time for tourism here, but basically no one's been coming
through. Everyone's attributing it to the
Hot Springs. What's funny is that the sand in
front of the springs is still plenty warm, but I think that's
because of the sun. But without the geothermal
activity coming from Mount Chimney, well, no one wants to
come here anymore. It's it's quite a shame.
Yeah, has anything been happening on the mountains that
would cause this? Seems weird.
Nurse Troy says, well, not to my knowledge.
There hasn't been a lot of people up there.
There used to be a lot of sightseers who would go up to
the caldera and take a look around because there's a pretty
stable volcano and you could look at the lava.
Fire types love it up there. But now that's cooled down.
I mean, you get some hikers and sometimes they mess around and
it's, it's all cooled on the top, right.
It's just hard Obsidian up there.
And so people will wander around, but it's not nearly as
exciting, I suppose. I'm not sure what it is.
It's still a lovely town here, though.
We enjoy being here. And Chancey says Chancey.
It does seem quaint. We'll be here for a little bit,
so take it in. Anything.
Any sites that you think we should like, check out Brown
Town. She thinks for a bit and she
says, well if you weren't already here, I'd recommend you
go to the Pokémon Center and she lets out a little giggle because
she thinks she is so funny. Of course, of course.
She says, well, if you're trainers, the Love Ridge Gym is
always a hotspot, pun intended, so to speak, in this town.
But we also have some cute little stores that are run by
some retired folks who live around here just wanting to keep
themselves busy. Maybe that's worth checking out.
There's the right of learning as well.
I understand that trainers like to go there.
It's a new establishment. It only opened up shortly after
the volcano went quiet. Yeah, we can check out the right
of learning. Yeah, let's go take a look at
that. Thanks for your info.
Just, of course, have a good time.
We all walk outside, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You walk outside and you look around.
You're at about the center of town and everything that the
nurse said seems to be true. Loveridge Town is a quaint town
that seems like what would be a typical vacation destination and
retirement village. You have walked into and
partially noticed the world famous Loveridge Hot Springs
appended to the Pokémon Center on the West, but as you saw, no
one is bathing at the moment at the foot.
Directly to your right, at the foot of the mossy cobblestone
wall that holds in the pool is monochrome black and white and
sandy brown sands where there are a few folks lying in the
sand sunbathing alongside strange Oval objects that are
buried in the sediment. You see directly in front of you
the right of learning, a majestic scientific looking
building across the street from the Loveridge Pokémon Gym.
The gym of which features a plume of smoke billing out
through a hole in the roof. In the southeast corner, there
is a series of homes and shops, including a Pokémon Mart.
Overall, the town seems pretty quiet, but it's clear that
there's room for a large influx of tourists when necessary.
We got small town shoppies right of learning.
So what do we want? Good with boys through the right
of learning first. There's also as you were going
to the right of learning and leaving the Pokémon Center.
Sam was particularly intrigued at the multi colored sand that
was outside of the Hot Springs. And she turned to you all and
she said, if you don't mind, I'm just going to like poke around
and do some research about the sand.
I think it looks very interesting.
You head straight to the right of learning.
You approach and you see a large sign that says right of learning
Lover Ridge and there are some large very like futuristic
modern looking sliding glass doors you enter.
Yes. You do so around you, you see a
pretty similar to sight to what you saw in Fortree, but just a
little bit different. You are in a wide open expanse
of people doing research. There's lots of PPE, there are
people in lap coats wearing goggles, There's some people
wearing hard hats. They're also Pokémon around, and
they are in PPE as well. The UCA Machop wearing a hard
hat. You see just people in coats
with Pokémon that are carrying things for them, like stacks of
papers and clipboards as they run from corner to corner,
conducting tests and reading books, opening tablets, all of
that jazz. You are approached by a tall
woman who has red hair in a in a side pony and she's being
followed by a little metal floating circle that has a
little face on it. He says welcome trainers, this
is the right of learning. Have you come for some research?
Oh, we have, yes. He says excellent.
My name is Professor Mahogany. The focus of our research
currently involves how Pokémon interact with objects and items
and artifacts. If you would like to volunteer
your Pokémon for research, hand them over and we'll see what we
can do. Yeah, yeah, I'll do that.
That sounds fun, yeah. I'll hand over Richie, OK, And
then I will say I also picked this up along the way.
And then I'll hand him the magnet.
OK, Professor Mahogany receives the magnet from your hands and
Richie sent out and starts kind of hovering with Glee.
Mahogany says. Oh yes, very logical.
Let's give this a shot. Imola come here and Richie
doesn't usually respond to Imulga but understands that this
instruction is for him. So he flips over and she says
here take this and Imulga picks it up.
Roll a strength or decks for Imulga.
OK, that's +5 17. Is that is that sufficient
enough 17 + 5? Yeah, it is.
Imolga grabs the magnet with its little feet and he flits around
joyously. It is adding some weight, she
says. This probably won't do.
It seems like he enjoys the item, does he not?
Does he enjoy the item? It looks like he's he likes it.
He's kind of just like floating and looking at it.
He's he's into it. It's neat.
I. Wonder if can I use some rope to
see if I can like make a little backpack for molka for the
weight? Oh my God.
Do you want to volunteer that information?
OK, Professor Mahogany says. I had an idea that was a much
less elegant solution, but by all means fashion that and she
she asked, Do you have any rope or string I.
Do yeah, I have like 30 feet of rope in my bag.
She says, she says great, she says, Bronzer, would you please
help this man? And the little circle makes a
clang sound and slides over and turns its back horizontally up
to Gimli as if to be like a table to work on.
Oh nice, roll a craft check is. That working.
I'm not sure what. What do you think makes sense
for that? I don't know.
I mean like, I'm like fastening a backpack.
It's not anything fancy. Like it's like almost like I, I
have proficiency in survival. So I'm going to try to spin this
in a way that makes sense because it's not like it's like
a complicated thing. I'm just making like, almost
like a sling. Right.
It's tying a knot, right? Yeah.
I'm like, I'm not doing anything.
Like survival. I would say survival.
That's very Boy Scouty. That's very fair.
Yeah. Roll survival.
I see 11. OK, that's is that do we do that
with like wisdom? Is that survival?
Yes. Survival's Wisdom.
OK, yeah, then we'll do that. Yeah, Rabbit.
Roll. Now 20.
OK, yeah, it looks however you think it looks coolest if you
have a way to describe. It you can just tell me what you
want to talk like, like it was a happy idea of like a.
Little backpack with his. Magnet.
I literally took a rope and fastened a backpack for the
magnet. OK, Yeah.
Do you like the shape of the magnet or would you want to be
different? I was, I thought it was just
going to be like string attached to the magnet and the magnet
itself was like just hanging on his back.
Right. But like I'm saying, like you
can change the shape of the magnet if you want.
I can change the shape of the magnet.
Because right now it's like the horseshoe shape, right?
But you could just like, yeah, you do whatever I think.
It's fine as a horseshoe shape. Yeah, OK, yeah.
Gimli uses Bronzo as a little table to fashion a cute backpack
for Richie the Amolga. In the meantime, Professor
Mahogany holds up like a really comedic looking like, it looks
like a gun with like, a satellite on the end of it that
like, shoots a scanning laser. And she is scanning the magnet
as Ginley's working on it. And she says, Yep, as expected,
this should make its electrotype attacks more powerful.
Very exciting. How how much rope is consumed by
making this? You rolled a net 20 so like only
the amount you need like like 6 inches.
OK. Wow.
OK, yeah, I now have 29.5 feet of rope.
Yeah, I wouldn't even record it. Like I I think it's like a
freebie basically, she says. Please instruct Richie to use an
electric attack and a little probe comes out of the ground.
Yeah, Richie used Spark Plus because that is what I have it
listed as in here. OK, Yeah, do that.
I roll it. Just roll it hit.
Rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling.
Oh, plus, Richie's busted. I forget that's a 15-A. 15 yeah,
yeah, the IT Richie charges into the little probe, casts its body
in electricity and it glows kind of like a Tesla coil.
And Professor Mahogany is very impressed.
She says yes, you should notice that your damage is much more
significant now on Electro type attacks.
To be clear, while you are holding the magnet, you can add
a + 4 to your Electro type attacks.
Just flat. Hell yeah, just on the damage
side. Yes.
Yeah imagine it just hits more cuz of the magnet.
She says. Now I want to be clear, you do
not have to provide your own objects or items here, but it
was great that we had a volunteer.
Would any of you other trainers like to test anything while
we're here? Yeah, I have some Pokémon with
some unique properties and I was wondering if we could see if any
anything you have. Maybe they respond to it, and in
a unique way. He says very well, show me.
So I have this little guy Bean. He doesn't look very different
on the surface, but he has some pretty unique properties that we
found over time. And and you just pull him out of
my shirt like this little guy here.
And and I I caught this Dwebble who has a pretty unique looking
shell about it. So I was curious about it.
It's properties. She says, hmm, let me take a
look and she will in fact take a look.
Oh wow, she rolled well for both.
You are quite lucky, she says. I'm familiar with these types.
They are both rock types, correct?
Correct. The Dewebel to me looks like it
has made a home inside of a gemstone, which I while I'm not
entirely sure what the effects are on it right now, I'd be
curious to see how that stone metamorphizes if and when it
evolves. Because it is known that Dewebel
seek their home in a rock of their preference and when they
evolve it becomes fused with their body.
So I'm very curious to see what develops from this.
As it currently stands, I can't tell if the Dwoble has any
extraordinary abilities, but stick with it and we'll see.
As far as this Larvitar great rock type, this one is quite
young. Hatch very recently.
Well, it seems pretty powerful. I noticed that doesn't show a
lot of emotion, which is fairly uncharacteristic for Larvitar,
which are usually pretty rowdy. Have you noticed that as well?
And we've taken notice from times at the doctor that he
doesn't seem to have a heartbeat.
Very interesting, Yeah. Would you mind taking him over
here with me? And she points into like a
little side room. Not at all.
Well, she marches in there, and as you start walking, she says
the rest of you are invited as well.
This doesn't need to be private, so you're welcome to follow them
into this room if you'd like. I will follow, I don't.
Want you to join me? Sure, we'll follow.
Cool. So she has in front of you, it
looks like someone was like excavating a slab of rock.
And there is just it's not, I don't want to say it's a slab.
It's like the size of a very large conference table is laid
flat and there's like brushes and hammers and people are
digging fossils out of like this, this, this slab of stone.
Oh, she says this was retrieved on the summit of Mount Pyre.
We found some interesting specimens from this rock that
date back over 50,000 years. Wow.
We know that rock types have an affinity for these sorts of
geologic items, so why don't you just let your little bean friend
here run around on the fossil and see what happens?
Go ahead, Bean. There's a scientist who is,
like, brushing on it, and he looks Professor Mahogany, like,
what? No, what?
No, I'm working right now. And she kind of looks over to
him like, no, it's fine. That didn't happen.
Bean stands on the fossil and just kind of gazes around for a
little bit. Roll, roll like a roll wisdom.
I don't know what kind of check, but roll wisdom for Bean.
Bean Wow 17. Bean looks into the corner of
this fossil geologic slab and sees something that's poking out
that very much interests Bean. Bean runs over there and points
at it and grunts when he gets excited, which is only basically
happened one other time. And he is he's looking at the
specific piece of rock with with great joy.
Professor Mahogany says, Ethan, could you just carve that out of
the rock? And he says, no, what?
No, I, we were still working on this.
We don't know what this is. And she says, I don't care, just
do it. He says, as you wish.
And he takes the pickaxe and clink, clink, clink.
And a little bit later, you see a strangely shaped bone.
Yeah, it is probably about 6 or 7 inches in length.
And it looks like a regular, like, you know, classic like
Meriwack bone. But at one end of it, instead of
just like the double sided club end, there is a spike and then
like a series of side bolts, if that explains it well at all.
It like it looks like it looks like a Mace, kind of.
Yeah, it was like thinking. It was almost like a spike Mace.
It looks like a Mace that's made out of bone.
Yeah, and Bean enjoys it a lot. Do you let him hold it?
Yeah. Cool bean.
Baby got a Mace. Bean holds the bone, and it
seems like maybe it's a little like too big for him, just a
little bit. And for the first time ever, it
seems like you see a little bit of emotion as a slight smile
appears on his face. Just ever.
So she's like boy, big small. She says.
Let him have this. It seems like he likes it.
OK, she says. I don't know what the effect
will be, but when Pokémon find items that they like, it's a
good idea to let them carry it around.
Especially him, he hasn't really shown much emotion.
Yeah, again, it's very tiny. It's just like the corner of his
mouth, but he is in fact, smiling.
It's the most emotion I've seen him in a while.
He says great I only have so much more time for new trainers.
So would you 2 be interested in anything here?
Send out cookie. Cookie.
My cookie has spicy bubbles. She says spicy bubbles.
Well, that's quite interesting. Just fire type damage.
She says Oh my, very interesting.
Usually Loveridge is a place where fire type Pokémon seem to
thrive, especially when Mount Chimney is active, but currently
we've been having problems with that.
Regardless, do you ever seen fire type techniques from Gumi
at such a low level? I'd be curious to see where it
comes from here. Do you mind if I and she pulls
out her little satellite laser beam gun thing?
Absolutely. OK, she does it.
She scans Cookie up and down. She doesn't get a super good
reading, unfortunately, but she says it seems like you've been
training well. This gummy is probably fairly
close to evolution if it is so keen on fire type attacks.
I want to take you over to this room.
And she gestures in a way, and she kind of huddles over there.
And do you all follow her? Yeah.
You go in a room and it is very
hot but has very good ventilation.
There are like fans at the top and there are three different
Pokémon that are at like a stack of wood and there is a muscular
looking Pokémon that throws the wood into like a stone walled
hole in the ground. And there is a orange Pokémon
that is just a cute little lizard with a flame on the tip
of its tail and it is just blowing fire at this wood.
And as the fire disintegrates, there's a little pit beneath
that pit that catches little black fragments of the scorched
wood. She says Charmander take a break
and the little lizard turns around and goes and bottles away
in a very cute way. She says Loveridge is famous for
a few things, one being the Hot Springs, another being the
Pokémon gym, and another which you may not be aware of is our
famous charcoal that is usually given to fire type Pokémon or
just used as a great fire starter.
When we get fire types in here I like to offer them to make their
own personal charcoal. However, Goomy is not
traditionally a fire type. Regardless if they are capable
of fire type techniques, I'd like them to try to make their
own charcoal here. Are you willing?
Yeah. OK have gumi use spicy bubbles
on a piece of wood. Oh I was going to ask if I could
have Quacko assist. How so?
Well, wasn't there in Gentoo like that one far fetched that
like you had to chase down and they were helping like them make
the charcoal. In Azalea town, yes, that's
true. Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever that
far fetched did. I think it was it was splitting
wood, right? Was it?
I think so I would like I guess. The woods already split and it
doesn't. You could see if far fetch could
find like the best piece of wood or something.
Maybe it? You know, to scratch it.
Are you sure? OK.
I got a 5 so I need all the help I can get.
Yeah, Gumi shoots out some spicy bubbles and they does that.
With your modifier to hit or. Is that just your role?
OK, your natural was like a 2. Yeah.
OK, yeah, Cookie shoots out some bubbles and they don't seem to
affect the wood very much, unfortunately, Professor
Mahogany says. Do you have other fire types?
Maybe they could lend a hand somehow?
Yeah, I send out solely I. Mean can any of us lend a hand
with it? She says well my ID here
involves fire types. So if you have fire types, then
yes. I do yeah.
We can send a toidel out OK to help.
Great, she says. Now trust me.
Here, have your fire types attack the Gumi all.
Right. I like how little we question
it. This is like have your fire
types attack the gumi so. Far.
Yeah, roll to hit. Don't like roll damage.
And if it's a save based on the attack that you're doing, then
have Gumi roll that save those going.
To do flamethrower. That works.
It should be decks. So roll have gumi roll a deck
save which you kind of want to fail.
I I think they can just fail automatically.
I I think you don't have to roll that save. 22 to hit.
Yeah, OK. Yeah, these connect Great Gumi
as a dragon naturally resists these flame attacks as you see
them coming into its body. And rather than Gumi just kind
of sweating it off, Gumi's purpley skin seems to glow a
slight shade of orange. And Professor Mahogany says now
try it again and you are granted a + 10 on your spicy bubble.
Oh I rolled a 16 so it's a 26 for a more spicy bubble.
Yeah, that's that's incredibly good gummy, as this dragon has
somehow channeled this fiery energy into the log that is
sitting in the pit, and it almost immediately just
incinerates and it parts of it crumble beneath the metal grate.
And it appears that fresh charcoal has been made.
Professor Mahogany lifts up the grate with some tons and pulls
out the finest piece of charcoal.
And she says it looks like it was a success.
You should give this to your gummy.
You do that. I do.
Goomy is like a slug who doesn't have arms, but it's his body is
like kind of amorphis, more or less.
So you hand the you, you hand the the piece of charcoal over
to Cookie and Cookie looks at it with Glee and just kind of like
moves their body into it and it just kind of sinks into the
goop. Where it entered the goop,
Gumi's body is glowing orange. She says Gumi's fire type
technique should be a little bit more powerful now.
And it is true. And on your character sheet,
Gumi is learning Flame Burst. It's a little bit better than
Bubble. OK so flame burst instead of
bubble. Yep, and I'll send that to you
when it's relevant. Yeah, Mahogany says.
That seems pretty exciting. I'd love it if you came back and
checked in with us. If this gumi sees any further
developments, this is very interesting.
Yeah. He says, well I have time for
probably one more test here. Oh, good news, we have one
person left. He says excellent, what will it
be? I'm going to toss out Key Lime.
Key Lime, the new friend. Yeah.
Key Lime hits the field and she looks kind of like confused, but
not in a bad way. Just like, oh, this is a new
environment, I haven't been here before.
This is very interesting. And Mahogany takes a look.
She says, Ah, yes, Ralts. We're very familiar with Ralts
in this region. Did you catch it here?
Yeah, I like literally just caught it.
She says, oh, excellent. How it is not known for its
fairy types. I believe we only have three
species around here. And she kind of like counts on
her fingers and she's like Jigglypuff.
Merrill Ralts yes, I believe only three.
So there's we don't spend a lot of time with fairies.
Have you noticed any inclinations from this?
Ralts. Does it behave in certain ways
that you've noticed? It's kind of aggressive and it
was hiding in flowers earlier. That's all I've really noticed
so far. He.
Says, oh, very interesting. I have a great idea.
If your vault is aggressive, let's go over this way.
And she takes you into the cafeteria, which is a really
weird place to be. There's there's some people in
lab coats who are like eating like at lunch.
It looks pretty good. It smells pretty good.
It's kind of nice in here. It's pretty sterile looking,
like it's like a pretty like Chrome white cafeteria, but
there's nice pieces of art on the walls which give it some
life. She says, OK, take a look at
this. She pulls out a spoon from her
pocket. He says trainers, you know what
this. Is a space food.
He said you'd be correct. Cool.
She she hands it down to Key Lime and she says trainer
instructs your routes to focus. OK, Key Lime focus.
Excellent. Roll.
Roll like an intelligence. OK for me.
Or for Key Lime, are is LED going to focus as well?
Absolutely, LED is also focusing.
OK, you can. You can roll an intelligence
there too. Key Lime got a 13, LED got a 12.
Roltz is just staring at the spoon, and you notice that as
it's staring at it, it seems to bend, but not like in the
classic Magician, like bending it forwards and backwards.
It starts to bend in a spiral. It starts twisting around the
top. It twists about three times.
And she says, excellent, just wait for it.
Wait a little bit longer and it's spinning, spinning.
And she takes it away and she says now and then she throws the
spoon. She throws the spoon into a
stand that has a spinning item on it that you didn't notice
earlier, but it is in fact a stand of cotton candy.
She she flings it into the stand and the spoon, as she throws it
keeps spinning and it settles in the cotton candy for a second.
And she says that should be enough time.
And she pulls it out. And it seems that in the twist
of the spoon, there are twirls of pink that are just.
Built into the spoon. Now it's not sticky like cotton
candy like it is, just has cotton candy inside the spoon,
she says. Because we're familiar with
Ralts, we know that it's a psychic and fairy type.
This item should enhance both of those abilities.
She hands it over to Ralts. Let's go.
The twisted cotton candy spoon. Thank you.
Is of course I must be going. Have a good day, trainers.
And she grabs a tray and she goes to get some lunch.
But there goes your session at the right of learning.
There you are. Do you linger inside?
Do you poke around? Do you go back outside?
What you do? I guess we can go meet back up
with her, check in, see what she's doing, what she learned,
and then shop. Sounds good to me.
Cool. Yeah.
Any complaints? Schmidt?
No, OK, call me out. Because you didn't say anything.
Yeah, because everyone said yeah.
Just making sure it's a short walk over to the Hot Springs and
the sand that's in front of it. It looks like, you know, there
really shouldn't be a beach here, but it looks kind of like
a beach. But it, it could be legitimate
because they're like the, the surroundings of Loveridge are
very mountainy and rocky. So maybe probably someone just
ground out the Cliff that's next to the Hot Springs and just like
made a beach because all the beaches is just sand from, you
know, eroded rocks, right? What's cool about this beach is
that it has the same brownish pale color that the rocky cliffs
are that surround Lava Ridge. But it also has specks of a deep
black and white sand as well. So it's a very pretty sand.
You see sand poking around. She's got a notebook.
She's just kind of looking at stuff.
And there's an old couple who are sitting upright in the sand
and they have their their legs up to their waist, are covered
in it. And it looks like they're just
having a great time. They're wearing sunglasses.
Even though it's about 5:00 PM. The sun is starting to set.
They're trying to get the last of the sunlight as they can get.
And they notice you approach, but they don't say anything
because they are straight up vibing.
There are curious mounds that are around them at their feet.
Sam says, oh, hey, how'd it go, guys?
This. Is pretty interesting actually.
I got a spoon. She says wow, very cool, Almost
as cool as the sand around here. What was that?
We gave the baby a Mace. Yes my my little friend has a a
big Mace now. She takes a look and she says,
my goodness, is that a bone? What Pokémon is that from?
We don't really know about this, he says.
But Bean really likes it so. He says, huh, OK.
What are the mystery for him? Frostbite peers at the bone
basin, looks a little scared of it, like just not not super fond
of it, Sam says. So this is really cool.
So all these little black pieces in the sand.
She holds up her hand full of sand.
She says this is all Obsidian glass.
Apparently back in the day, everyone used it as a way to
keep their rooms, their houses cool during the hot summers.
However, now that we have air conditioned and Obsidian is a
very bad, you know, material for glass since it's not
transparent, everyone switched over to standard sand glass.
But I just thought that was very interesting.
That's cool, she says. Cindy, correct me if I'm wrong,
but didn't you once say that your family had something to do
with Pokémon breeding at some point?
I said my grandparents had a really good relationship with
the Pokémon breeders. He says.
Interesting. OK, I thought so.
So apparently this particular spot in Loveridge is very
popular in Hoen for people who train competitive Pokémon.
Apparently by resting your Pokémon eggs in the sand here,
they hatch faster. I just thought that was so
interesting. I carry these incubators on me
and I just feel silly now that I could just have brought my eggs
to leverage. Who would have thought?
There is an old couple and they are, they're overhearing this
conversation. They're listening in and they
say, well, it's true all the competitive trainers bring their
eggs here to hatch. But what's sad is that once they
get the Pokémon specimen they're looking for, they just leave
their other eggs here. So we have a bit of an excess,
and we're waiting for them to hatch.
And they she kind of like, gestures down to three eggs that
are hanging out in the sand. Oh.
What do you think they might be? She says, well, I'm not sure,
we're not trainers, but do you want to take a look?
Yes, OK, you. Want a baby?
There are three eggs. I don't think it makes sense for
me to rule like a perception because you have all the time
that you need to take a look at them to to gander at them.
One of them is like a pale but very pleasant purple.
It is a heavier and slightly larger eggs from the others and
there are hints of brown on it. It has some stripes, really
faint stripes. So it's like purple, brown, very
thin, faint black stripes towards the bottom.
One of the eggs is really truly beautiful.
It from the thicker part of the egg on the bottom there it's a
fully white egg. Sorry, I should clarify.
It's fully white. And then on the bottom there is
it looks like a flower or flames of red at the bottom.
And then towards the top of there are specks of a brilliant
light blue and brown, and there's black as well.
The third egg, 3rd and final egg is just yellow.
It is a yellow egg. That is all that you get from
it. It's just yellow.
There you go. She said.
I don't remember which trainers were were here recently and what
Pokémon they were looking for, but these three eggs were left
behind. We would love it if at least one
of them were given into a home. A few trainers were interested.
Yes. I mean.
The old man who's next to her speaks up and he says I still
want 1, so you got to leave 1 for me.
Very rough. So the old woman says go ahead,
pick 2GO for it. Some metro pipes up and says I
have more egg incubators if you need them.
Gimli, do you still have my old one?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. He says awesome.
Well, you might as well, you know, she says.
You might as well hold on to it if you're going to pick up an
egg here. So the party has a choice of two
Pokémon eggs here leftover from trainers we're breeding for
competitive purposes. There could be some very potent
Pokémon in these eggs. Which two do they choose?
And how do you decide who takes what eggs and who takes no eggs
because you only get 2 of them? Well I as a party member already
got an egg once so I will forfeit that right to anyone
else who wants it so you all can fight amongst.
Yourselves, the white one with the red on the bottom and the
specks of black and light blue and brown.
Yes. Is anyone going to fight you for
it? I.
Think that's fair? OK, great.
Cindy chooses the baby. Look at that.
Yanley, do you offer your egg incubator?
I do. OK, you put the egg in the
incubator and Cindy, you got a baby with you.
You can probably fit in your backpack, you can carry it
around, you can do whatever you want.
Sounds like a plan they're. Going to be back Solely's flash
fire ability will let it hatch slightly faster, which is very
exciting for you. No, you got this egg.
It's all you, girl, all. Right, well, you all know me
and. We do, yeah.
Probably going to go for the purple.
Do we though? Yeah, I think the purple one is
definitely. Are you sure you don't want the
the straight up yellow egg? Yeah, no, we're going purple.
OK, you take the yellow egg, you receive an incubator from Sam.
I'm sorry, purple, I said. Yellow.
I. Was like you take the plain.
Yellow one you the yellow egg. You take the purple egg that has
hints of tan and and black stripes and you receive an
incubator from Sam and you also have an egg on you.
Very exciting. When will it hatch?
We will only know when we make daily D100 checks the.
Classic. The classic.
The The old lady says I'm glad that these will find homes with
trainers because otherwise we were just going to have them
work around the village and help out inside the right of learning
or something. So I'm glad that you're taking
them. The old man scoops up the yellow
egg and embraces it and he says it'll be like a new grandson and
he holds it tight to his chest. Sam says the speech is pretty
cool, but I think I'm I'm done with it.
Are you guys going to do a little bit more looking around
town? What's your plan right now?
I. Think we're going to check out
the little shops, right? I have to go shopping.
She says. OK, that sounds like fun.
I'm going to go check out Jagged Pass a little bit.
I just want to take a look at it.
It's been a while since I've been here, so I know where to
find you in a little bit. I'm assuming that when night
falls, we're probably going to crash at the Pokémon Center,
right? Yeah.
Yes, yes. OK, If you need me, you know
where to find me. Just shop my name at the summit
or at the foot of the mountain and I'll come get you.
Got you. And she scurries off and
frostbite close behind. Apparently it's shopping time.
There is your traditional classic Pokémon Mart.
There is a shop that says Loveridge Fine Herbs.
There there's a shop that says Hot Springs Toys and Trinkets,
and then it seems like there is a child who is selling things at
a makeshift stand and then there's a bunch of homes if.
We could. We could shop at the homes.
I mean, you knock on the door and see what's going on, like.
It's like in the games. What are you paddling?
I'm invading your house. People just walk it like, why
are you here? Like what do you mean?
Just start digging into their trash.
Be like looking at. The library reading books.
I would love to investigate this little stand that's going on
here. Yeah.
What's? The child selling.
OK, there is a small child. They look like they they must
have just learned to talk like this is insane that they're
doing this. They must be like 4 years old.
There is a jug of lemonade that is about the size of them.
And there is a plate of many, many brown cookies.
Nice. And they say, hi, customers, I'm
selling food. Do you want some?
Please. Yes, please.
The little kid says, OK, OK, what do you want?
How? How much other things do you
have? The kid that looks at the
cookies and points and says $500 and points at the lemonade and
says $6 million. I feel like your prices might be
a little high. No, no, no.
Give him $500. Come on.
I don't, I don't have $500. I don't think any of us have
$500, Yeah. No.
The child says I'm really. Poor after solely's evolution.
The child says, well, I'm poor too, I'm just a kid.
But if you if you think there's a better price, what do you
think? I'm no salesman or a Baker, but
we do have a Baker do what do you think the price of those
cookies are? Right.
Make an evaluation of this antique Rd.
Share but for. Cookies.
I don't want to short sell him. I mean, you're this child like
they seem like this child they need.
Money talking. This is also a baby.
Yes, you. Made these cookies.
I I don't, I know you don't want.
To short, do you think of the? Quality of these cookies put.
On your put on your your Baker Gordon Ramsay pants.
I was like, I know. There's children about the
quality of their cookies. Right.
You don't want to short sell them.
They want $6 million for their lemonade.
You are discussing this and out of the corner of your eye you
notice just like there is just snot coming out of their nose.
Oh good Lord. They are just just.
Taking everything inside of me not to bully this.
Child, Oh my God, stop. Pay $5 for the cookies.
Roll a Kurzba. OK, Gordon Ramsay, this child.
They got a 15, a 15. Gordon Ramsay.
Yeah, 15. The child stares at the cookies
very intensely and furrows their brow.
They think and they think in there looks like they might
start to cry. And then they look up Ellie and
they say OK, money please. I will give them $5.
OK, you give the kid the $5.00 bill and the kid goes yippee and
just leaves. They they, they just turn around
and they walk into a house. That's awesome.
I guess we try the go. Do we buy all the cookies?
The plate of cookies is there. I mean if.
We just buy health is there. Anything special about these
cookies? They look like the kid did not
make them. They don't look like they're
like commercial industrial cookies, but like they look
homemade. But the kid did not make them.
If the kid made them, there is a box.
Like they're just like regular cookies.
They might be a lot of cookies. There's a chance.
I'm just, I'm just going to take one because I paid for it.
OK? The rest of you are free to do
whatever you want. The the left.
Oh, you want to come back? You want to sell lemonade?
Maybe. I think we just leave them be.
The kid that comes right out of a house but does not engage with
your question and is just running into a different
building in the center the the shopping center that you were
in. Guess I'm all going to drink
here. We can.
We can probably go. We.
Can probably leave. Yeah, that's fine.
How how's the cookie? Did you did you try it?
Are you? Going to try it.
Sure. Yeah, I'll try it.
OK, I'll give a little nibble to cabbage as well.
OK, you both try the cookie. It is very good.
You are a Baker and you've had your fair share of cookies, and
you make them very well. You would think that this is
something that, like your manager Antoine, would make if
he was trying to like, impress someone, like impress a new
client or something, like for an event.
It's quite good. Dare you say it's almost worth
the $5? Yeah, this cookie is worth $5
and a weird experience with the kid.
Yeah. I mean, that part's priceless,
am I right? Yeah, we're children together.
Yeah, this thought about the cry.
So you were here at the unattended kid food stand.
What's next for you? I.
Think we're ready to move on? Probably take out the Pokémon.
Yeah, the Pokémon and see if we can finagle a discount.
The classic Quacko Paco move, of course.
We save Pablo. Quacko Paco deal hunters.
You go to the Pokémon Mart. There's no one else in here.
Music is quietly playing in the background.
There's a shopkeeper. The the shopkeep is chilling.
They're in a spinny chair and they're like, as you enter the
door, they are going in circles and they see you come in and
they put their feet on the ground to quickly stabilize and
say, oh, welcome, welcome in. Welcome to Welcome to Gray Mart.
And on the counter there is a what looks to be just like a
metal orb just sitting on the counter.
Character for the a metal orb? Oh nevermind.
It is in character, Nevermind. Shopkeep Gray says please take
your time. Let me know when I can get you.
Are you looking at anything for particular?
Are you looking for This is me, not Gray.
What are you looking for? It's general shopping.
I have one more Premier ball left.
Yeah, I like more pokey balls. OK, do.
You have any balls for sale? Gray says absolutely.
And there's a case in the front where they are sitting.
You can peer inside. There are in fact pokey balls,
great balls, ultra balls. There are more as well.
There is one ball that is mostly green, has little specks of
color around the center where the button is there there is a
ball that is a deep silver with little blue lumps on it towards
the front. One of those.
There is a ball that is a pale blue black and has a little
Crescent on the front. There is a ball that is blue on
the top, a rocky red on the bottom and there is a single
flame that surrounds the button. They say we got a whole bunch of
the Pokey balls, great balls and ultra balls.
I have one each of the Friend ball, heavy ball, Moon ball and
Loveridge ball. The pokey balls cost 20, the
great balls cost 35, the ultra balls cost 45.
And if you catch, if you catch, if you buy more than five of
those tiered balls, you get a premier ball thrown in and then
each of the special balls cost 50.
Like name drop Pablo. You know.
Here we go, I hate. This.
Parted up. Parted up.
You know Pablo. Are are you saying?
This belonging to K of Kmart. Yeah.
Are you are you related to K of Kmart?
Gray says, OK, of course I know Kay.
He's like a brother to me. And he pulls out a framed photo
of just, like 30 people that all look pretty much the same.
And there's a whole bunch of little electric rats on, on this
like, group photo. They're out on the field.
They're like sitting chairs. And they're all like.
A lot of y'all and it's it's crazy how y'all have the
different shops that y'all related.
It's really cool. Gray says thanks.
You could say it runs in the family.
Boy, So I don't know if you've heard what happened to Pablo.
Once you say what happened to Pablo, Gray just immediately
starts sobbing. Just tears just come out
immediately. And he says, what'd they do to
Pablo? The little metal orb unfurls and
it reveals the hedgehog and the hedgehog, it looks very angry
and starts sparking a lot. In fact, I kind of want who's on
the left. Schmidt make a make a Dexterity
save. Motherfucker, I'm not even a
part of this. OK, Dex plus.
OK, OK. I got a six.
OK, you. Get zapped on this you get.
Pieces of shit you get zapped and you take yeah take 4
electric damage as you straight up just got attacked by Toga
tomorrow because of how much of how distressed it was by the
fact that Pablo might have gotten hurt.
Pablo's fine now. Oh no, Pablo's fine.
We actually had to rescue Pablo, that's why.
I came. Up fine.
Pablo was kidnapped and we saved him.
The the sobbing Gray is frowned, turns into a smile, but he
continues to SOB. He says.
I can't believe trainers like you would do something so brave
for Pablo and the little hedgehog beans to cry as well.
There. There's a small puddle of tears
for me on the counter. I will still need a Kersma
check, probably from Cindy, because Cindy's been doing most
of the talking. Can I get some kind of discount
for the the pain and suffering that I've endured?
15 He's pretty convinced, Gray says.
I would do anything for a group of trainers who would save
Pablo's life. You.
And he points directly at Schmidt, almost in like an
insulting way, but he points at you.
Piece of shit, He says. You can pick any of the $50
balls you want. I'll give it to you on the
House. OK all.
Right, I'm sorry for my little togie here.
Sometimes he gets a little out of control.
I'm going to show you out of control one of these days.
Yeah, I'll take the friend ball. He says perfect.
He grabs it. He puts it in like a fancy
little box that says Gray Mart Friend Ball, and he hands it to
you. He says, I'm very sorry, won't
happen again. No problem, he says.
For the rest of you, let me know what you want and we can work
something out. I'm actually looking at the
heavy ball he. Says OK, I'll give that to you
for half off 25. Sounds good, I'll take it.
He does, so he puts it a little box that says great, mark, heavy
ball hands it to you. It's actually kind of heavy.
Yeah, I have one already, so. Yeah, nice.
Definitely that wait. He says you don't have don't
just have to buy pokey balls. You know, we have clothing, we
have battle items, we have food rations, whatever you want to
call it. We have travel gear, whatever
you're looking for. True.
Can. I import, I will take one pokey
ball please. He says absolutely and you know
what on the House and he gives you Premier Ball as well.
You still have to pay for the pokey ball.
It's 5. Pay, pay him.
Pay him 5. Yep, we'll pay.
It's 5 pay him. Yeah, it's on the House, but
it's actually $5 the pair. Ball is on the House pair.
Ball is on the House. And I get the moon.
Ball. Gray looks directly into the
LD's eyes and says yes anything for the hero is to say Pablo and
he again gets little box that says Moon ball from Granbark and
hands it over to LD for 25. Gray says.
I hope your heroes didn't just come in just for the pokey balls
can get you. I'm actually curious My, my
little friend Bean here. I, I don't know if you've seen
him because he's outside his ball.
He has this club. What if there's anything in the
shop that like we can like put for him to like give him
something to carry the club with because he's very attached to
it? Says oh I see.
Are you like holding bean or did you just gesture to him in your
overalls or what? What?
How did you place bean? Well, right now it's like, I
mean, I have to hold the club for him because he stole my
overalls. Yeah, he just, he's vibed in
there. But right, I don't think it's
the club in my overalls, so be kind of unreasonable.
Gray says, Well, I don't usually do a tire for small dinosaurs,
but we can probably work something out.
Are you looking for like a case or a bag or like you know?
I think not even as much of a bag.
Like he can still be exposed Gray.
Thinks back and he says have you all ever been to been to the
gallery region? I haven't, but can't speak for
everybody else. He says there's a Pokémon over
there called Rapidash, but it's different from a Rapidash that
we sometimes see in ho in it's a it's apparently it's a white
color. It's got purple and pink on.
It's very majestic and beautiful.
Back in the day, I don't know how long ago, hundreds of years,
thousands of years. I'm, I'm not a historian who
knows? Back in the day there was a
competition called jousting where men would ride these
horses holding poles and just ram into each other.
It was, it was a gory, disgusting sport, But that's not
the point of the story. The point of the story is that
while they were riding these horses, they wore like braces on
their arms that had slots that could let them grip what they
were jousting with without danger of it falling out of
their hands. Oh.
Now I obviously as I said, I don't carry the stuff for tiny
dinosaurs, but like maybe we can make something out of what we
have. I have kit sized mittens so like
maybe? That would be interesting.
Cool, he says. Well, if you want to try these
with these mittens, what color do you want?
Yeah. What color do you want?
What color do you guys have? He's he's pulled out a box and
he's like, yeah, it's pretty hot and lover.
So no one ever buys mittens. So we have all the colors that
you could ever want. It's interesting I stocked
these. I mean, I guess you would just
in case, but let's see if we can find something to Matt Bean's
little Tommy color here. Some black bins.
Yeah. Yeah, Gray says, yeah, that's
not a problem. Pulls out some black bins and he
says, OK, so I feel like if we just took a little bit of rope
and a little bit of, of genius. And he goes and he finds like in
the, in the like trainer travel area, there's like clips and
screws and all sorts of like kind of almost hardware tools.
And he finds like a, a like a pretty wide socket.
It's like a, a metal, it can like slide into things more or
less. You know what I'm describing.
And he says we can, we can fashion this into the mitten.
And he puts the little mittens on being really quick.
And he says those look like they fit.
They look very cute. Nice.
Says do these look good? You want to go with them.
I think so. How much?
He says oh, the men's like no one's going to buy them.
I can give them 2 bucks, who cares?
Yeah. That's fine.
And then he says, OK, do you want me to try to put this
together with what I have here, or would you rather take it and
do it yourself? I mean, we could try here, might
as well. He does great and he gets all of
his materials. He, he's got some like, some
thin, like cable, like some like bungee cable, but it's like a
rope and the socket and the mitten.
And he's going to attempt to put them all together into, like, a
wearable tool mounting item for Bean.
And he gets a natural A-Team pretty good.
Damn. He fashions it all together.
He says, OK, try this out. Do you let Bean put on the
mittens? Oh, yeah.
OK Bean puts on the mittens, and there's a little clamp where it
seems like you can. It opens up because the bottom
of the bone is thick that is thicker than the center.
So you can, like, clamp it in. Do you do that?
Yeah. OK, you do that.
Bean gets happy again, just very slightly.
He also looks very stupid and cute wearing the mittens, of
course. Here's how the mittens are going
to go when the when Bean is wearing them.
His Dexterity is -5 and index check is -5.
It's very bad. However, his his damage is going
to be +6, so write that somewhere.
OK? Damage dealt is going to be +6
like no matter what it is. So, OK, so I'll just do mittens.
That's like a held item almost, yeah.
For sure you can't hold anything else.
Yeah, because I've held items a lot so.
Gray wipes a bead of sweats from his brow and says, oof, that
took more out of me than I thought.
Can I get you trained with anything else that you're
looking for? Are you heading out?
I think so. I'm definitely good.
OK, you walk outside the Mart. As you do, you notice that in
front of the Pokémon Center there is a tall dashing and some
young man. He is standing there and he has
an air of authority about him, and he is talking to a group of
excited young trainers. Next to this man is what can
only be described. You know, I know you've seen it
before. It's a fighting chicken.
It is in fact, Blaziken. It is similar to the blazing
that you saw during the siege on Model City, is not the same one,
but it catches your attention because there is like a group of
four or five people who are talking to this man who just
looks like he's smiling and chatting, and they're just
having a grand old time. They're outside the Pokémon
setting. You don't necessarily have to
engage, but I'm letting you know that's what's happening.
Yeah, we headed that way. Are we going to the herb store?
I'm down to go to the herb store.
Shopping, shopping sessions are like where we go in herb store,
Herb store. Like it's just so funny.
Just like, well, you guys have had conversations like, oh, like
which? Who do we target?
Who's threatening our lives right now?
And then now it's like herb store.
Yeah, that sounds good. It's just funny.
Yeah, it's like, it's such a weird, probably episodes like
man, did we do something dangerous like last session?
It's like, Nah, it's just like herb store.
Yeah, cool. You do that.
You go to Love Ridge's Fine Herbs.
You walk inside and you are immediately bombarded with just
like smells. It's a lot of smells and they're
not necessarily like great. It kind of reminds you of the
incense shop that was in in Marvel City, but just more
natural and less kind of synthetic kind of stuff.
Not all incense is synthetic, but everything here is herbs,
tons of herbs. There is a old man behind the
counter, kind of reminds you of the guy who was out sunbathing,
but not. And he says welcome in young
trainers. May I interest you in some fine
medicinal herbs? I'm just here for the.
What do they do? The old man says, great question
young lady, let me tell you. And he points at the shelves and
the counters and he says, here we sell energy powder which
heals your Pokémon a slight amount.
We have an energy root and he points to like a it looks like a
hairy plant root. And he says this will heal your
Pokémon's HPA good amount. It's also great for making
soups. He points to a different powder
that's in like a a jar. He says this is the heel powder.
It will cure your Pokémon from any status conditions.
They are useful. And then he points at a seal
behind a glass case, a stack of leafy plant herbs.
He says this here is a revival herb.
It's very fancy, very precious. It will revive A fainted Pokémon
if you waft in front of their face.
Anyone interested in some fine herbs?
You can find medicinal herbs. Yeah.
As you asked that question, you notice that to your left, a
small child appears behind you. No, it's not the same small
child. It's a different small child.
And he is looking at the shopkeeper and he says, are any
of you interested in finding medicinal herbs?
I looked at the shopkeeper and said that yes, such a weird
question. I'll just make fun.
Of you. The shopkeeper just ignores the
child, just didn't make eye contact and not looking at him
at all and he just kind of gesturing at the at the herbs
and the plants, he says. Are you interested?
You well you only have the municipal ones.
Do you have any non municipal like type of herbs per SE?
The old man starts to speak and he says yes and then the small
kid says do you have any non medicinal ones perchance and the
old man just continues to ignore the child and.
Says yeah, the DM really wants me to want the child today.
The old man says, yeah, we have plenty of herbs that are very
useful for cooking. And he shows you the classic
assortment of real life useful herbs, as well as ones that are,
you know, native to the Pokémon world that you'd be familiar
with, such as Buddu root. There's thyme, there's Rosemary,
there's sage, there's Chikorita shed, as it's called, because
they don't want to be too, too mean about it.
But it is in fact just a big leaf off of a chikorita.
But they grow back quickly, so they they usually don't mind.
In fact, some of them enjoy it. Well, our resident professional
Baker. Are you interested in any
cooking herbs? How much are the cooking herbs?
He says we sell them a la carte based on their weight or you can
get to the variety pack for 40 pokey dollars and then the small
child says variety pack for 40 pokey dollars.
I don't see using these a lot. Fair enough.
He says that's understandable. Adventurers like to often spice
up their bland meals with it. But I don't know what you
usually eat on your travels. And the small kid says eat on
your travels. I mean, I'm, I'm good you.
Guys, you know, hey, what do I have as a collective for healing
eyes? How much are the either energy
route or powder? He says the energy powder is 15,
the energy route is 18. Yeah, I'll take an energy route.
Very well, he says. You may pick it out if you like
and they all just kind of look like like they are roots to
plants, but they look like flexing muscles.
It's very funny that you can choose which one you want.
Yeah. Can we describe what kind of how
how they're flexing? Yeah.
So they all look like flexing biceps, more or less.
There is one that has a large fist, there is one that has a
particularly curved elbow, and there is one that is extra hairy
with roots. I'll take the one with a large
fist. OK, you do that.
And he puts in a little bag for you.
He says there you are, Sir. And then the small child says
there you are Sir. And the old man says, son, this
is the last time I need you to leave me alone.
And then the kid says, I need you to leave me alone.
And the old man just turns back and looks at the group.
He says. Is there anything else I can get
you? Can I look at the kid?
Yeah, you can. I go up to the kid and I say
like, hey kid, have you ever heard of a Pokémon called
Slugma? The kid says Have you ever heard
of a Pokémon called Slugma? Slugma nuts and then I thump
them on the head. What, do you thump them on the
head with my finger? OK, Do you want to roll damage?
Yeah, sure. Nuts.
Make actually make this a Wisdom check and he'll take emotional
damage. It's 6.
OK, that was off AD 20. I didn't know if you wanted me
to. Roll something else that will
not connect. But when you thump him on the
head, he it his looks like his like eyes spin a little bit and
he kind of shakes his head and he says, I've been spending too
much time with my chat tot. And I'll say outside the door,
you see a chat tot that is behind the glass and you can
hear it say, I'll say from behind the glass, my chat talk's
only really good for one thing. And it's the move mimic.
He says, I would love it if if chat talk could teach mimic to a
different Pokémon and hopefully he'd be able to forget about it.
Would you would any of you be willing to exchange moves?
I don't think any of my mods could really learn mimic so.
Does OK, I guess I'll just go back and be hypnotized tomorrow
and start mimicking everyone all over again and wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait. And then he he, he he looks at
the old man. He says, I'm sorry shopkeeper, I
won't do it again. I'll try not to at least.
Sorry, shopkeeper father, I think he said son as like an old
man be like now, now bull. Not like my child's son, his
dad. A shopkeeper, yeah.
He's like, sorry, shopkeeper, is that a?
Is that a family name or? And the the boy starts to to
leave sad. No, I'm gonna, I'm gonna catch
up to him and I'll say OK, OK, here, you can try and have it
teach mimic to my rolts here and I'm gonna pull out Key Lime.
OK, Key Lime hits the field and shares that Chat Tot.
Key Lime sees a Pokémon that's never seen before and backs away
a little bit startled. And then Chat Tot immediately
does the same thing, mimicking the movements of Key Lime.
Little boy says oh, Ralts, I love these little guys.
OK Ralts, you just got to do exactly what Chat dot does.
You think Key Lime has what's has the skill to do that?
Key Lime can do it. I will leave in Key Lime.
Leave in Key Lime. OK, the little kid says chat tot
use air slash and chat tot fires off an air slash just in a
direction, not a Key Lime and then have Key Lime make AD 20
roll. Key Lime focuses and holds out
her little cotton candy spoon and nothing quite comes of it.
And the little kid says, OK, this will be better.
He says make Roltz use an attack.
I'll have Roltz go for a growl. OK, Roltz makes a growl and
chat. Todd imitates the growl
perfectly, amazingly, and this kind of inspires Roltz a little
bit. The little kid says OK, we're
going to do the Air Slash one more time.
Fires off Air Slash in the air. Then we're going to have Roltz
attempt to use Mimic Roll AD 20. Oh, that was a natural 20.
Let's go. Somehow, miraculously, Roltz's
eyes glow a mystical psychic blue, and then from its little
outstretched hand fires off blades of air into the sky.
And the little kid cheers. He says, yay, you did it, Roltz.
And then chat Tot let's off a little triumphant.
And the little kid says, finally, maybe I can get some
sleep tonight. Oh my God.
And then he says thank you trainers, oh wait, hold on.
And he reaches into his pocket. Oh boy, he rolled A1.
He years into his pocket and he finds it's.
Just a turd. He finds a piece of he finds a
piece of chewing gum that's like in a wrapper and he's like, you
can have this little lady and hands it over to you.
I'm going to grab like 2 fingers like pinching it.
Yeah, it's it's definitely ABC gum for sure.
Yeah, just dirty cute gum. Phases by everyone and he runs
towards a house and as. Soon as he leaves, I'm going to
throw out the gum. That's fair.
Roll the stealth. OK, so in case you see throw
away gift. OK all.
Right. That's so funny.
I got a 14. OK, that's good enough.
He doesn't notice Keylam can learn mimic.
You have to replace a move for it.
Just letting. You know I will in fact be
replacing Growl. OK, that's what I thought.
Cool it it does what you think, but I'll probably send it to you
anyways. As an action, you can, for the
rest of the encounter, use the move that was last moved by a
different Pokémon. Got it.
Cool. Cool, it's goes like can you
mimic legendary actions or? Maybe.
Oh yeah. Who knows?
Does Key Lime have what it takes?
Yeah. Oh, it's probably.
Like a save? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. It's all like, oh, Key Lime used
Roar of Time, like, oh that. Classic yoga encounter that
we're always having. Yeah.
You never it comes up, yeah. In the wrong region.
No, this this D&D is definitely like a just a randomizer.
Yeah, so you exit the herb shop, you got an Angie root.
That's something. Yep.
You notice that handsome, charming, popular tall trainer
with the Blazer can walk into the average Pokémon gym.
It is probably about 6:30 PM. The sun is starting to set
because you're kind of high up, so the mountains make it set
earlier, if that makes sense. Your horizon is further up you.
Guys want to go scoop up Sam and then start to settle in for
today. Yeah.
Plan to go to the gym tomorrow, sounds.
Good. So you're going to head to
Jacket Pass, Scoop up Sam. Yeah, I think so.
OK, you do that. Nothing too crazy is happening.
You see, there are a lot of Pokémon about.
There are one that you saw earlier at the Win Street House,
which you know, to be meditate just kind of carefully and
watching Sam as she has her notebook out.
And she's just looking, she's sitting on a rock and just
looking up the mountain and it looks like she's sketching.
Looks like she's sketching up the hill.
She sees you come up and she says, oh hey, great to see you.
Are you all done in town? Yeah.
Are we going to go turn in for that or what?
Yeah. Nothing, Cindy, roll a
perception. OK.
That's like roll a charisma for that, yeah.
Charisma Sam's like, no, we're not turning.
Really convinced by her? Yeah.
Exception is wisdom. That's a 17, OK.
You screw up Sam and everything seems to be fine.
The Pokémon that we're carefully inspecting Sam turn around go
back on the grass. They it was clear that she was
not a threat, but they were just keeping an eye on her.
Regardless, as you will turn around to head back into town,
Cindy is the last one to do so. She notices that towards the top
of the rocky, jagged pass, she sees a quadrupedal Pokémon that
is mostly white and it has dark skin on its feet and face and a
scythe on its head. It makes eye contact with Cindy
and runs away. Oh.
My God. Oh no.
And that's where we end the session tonight.
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Which of your Pokémon are gatekeep guest like Girlboss and
Gifsub? Oh, gosh, yes.
Well, clearly, based on that last encounter, I would say
Savage Gas Light, yeah. For sure, and grape juice is.
Keep OK. Else can be gift sub.
OK perfect. Are you naming them gift sub?
No, OK. Good.
Yeah, you probably shouldn't. Maybe you put that in quotes in
your sheet? Name them Tier 3. 2/3.
It's 2-3 gifts. Have you?