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.
Well, the last that we left you guys, you took refuge at the
stronghold, the stronghold being Cindy's grandparents house.
We are going to start this session fairly nebulously
because we are under the assumption that you spent a day
or two just kind of resting, healing and perhaps doing other
things that are self improvement or party improvement.
So let's all just kind of vibe and get some RP in for our
downtime and see if we can get some stat boosts or new moves or
level UPS or something based on what you've been thinking about.
I think Cindy was going to try and see see if she can find more
information about like Gumi and what Gumi can do because Gumi is
not a fire type. Sure.
You're going to reference your grandfather's study, I'm
guessing, Or do you have other things in the house that you're
trying to like, do? I was thinking the study.
OK sure. Just roll me like a intelligence
and add 6. 16 + 6. You pull out a little, it's like
a it's a very old kind of leather bound book.
The Traveler's Guide to Carlos on it.
And thanks maybe to your own memory or perhaps to Elodie's
knowledge, when you did catch Gumi, I believe Elodie noted
that it was a callous region Pokémon.
You learn a little bit about Gumi's draconic origin.
They you learn that they are a versatile species that learns a
whole variety of moves and they are generally formidable and
bulky. For dragon types.
You see a selection of skills that can be taught to gummies
that are cookies level. Among them are the moves Body
Slam, Dragon Pulse, and Protect. Do you have any interest in any
one of those moves? Dragon Pulse sounds interesting.
OK, so we can say that Cindy takes Yumi outside.
Hopefully she has the smartest enough to do that before trying
to teach this thing. I think after we fix the roof
she might have some sense to take this outside.
OK, cool. It's it's a crisp morning, the
sun is shining. You.
What do you say to Gumi to inspire it to try a new
technique? Assume that like the the book
might have like a picture in it. Yeah.
It totally does and like I would show it to Gumi and be like you
need to be like this. Perfect roll.
Roll something for Gumi. Just roll AD 20 and add add
wisdom because it should be an inherent ability that Gumi has
access to. I rolled A-15 and Gumi has no
wisdom. You know that's a no modifier.
That's sufficient, though. Gumi sees it, and Cookie lets
out a little nod and goes, and it opens its mouth and it
charges up a beam and it blasts into the horizon.
Just a purple bluish kind of yellowy or a shooting from its
mouth. And that sure did look like a
Dragon Pulse. You wish to learn Dragon Pulse.
Yes. OK, I am forcing you to remove
tackle for it. You have no choice.
It's a very simple move. I can describe it and you can
write it. It is 50 feet and the damage is
2 D 6 + 3. Certainly Cookie's strongest
move currently, which they have been sorely lacking.
Is anybody else nervous giving Cindy a big laser?
Any other things that you wanted to do with your friends?
I think I wanted to practice like weird skills like like
solely lighting a fire for like light, not just to burn
everybody. And.
Things like that, like practical, I guess the role
first, then that determines how well it goes.
Kind of, yeah, unless you had like a technique in mind.
But yes, you roll wisdom for your solely.
I rolled a 13. You're looking for like more
practical uses of of fire. You know, you managed to harvest
some wood out in the forest and you're instructing solely to to
do it not as as an attack, but as kind of help solely kind of
grasps it doesn't quite get it perfectly, but she does get a
permanent +22 survival checks. Too.
That's awesome. I will give you Uno mas activity
if you wish, or you can wait to see what the other people are
doing and maybe join them, I don't know.
I'll see what everyone else is doing and see what trouble I can
cause for everyone else. OK, who's next?
I can go next, that's fine. OK.
What are you thinking about doing, Gimli?
I think first thing in the morning is like, I'm going to
make sure like no one's in the study or anything like first
thing and see if I can call my wife.
OK, yeah, it seems like the study's empty.
There's a book, The Traveler's Guide, to call us on the table,
but no one's currently in there. Cindy forgot to put it.
Away. Cindy, of course, forgot to put
it away. So 1st I'm going to be like, I
was like, I think someone left this out and I'm just going to
tuck it back in the shelf where I think it belongs, OK.
And then I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to sit down and dial up
the wife. OK, Gimli, I understand you have
this like pretty rehearsed. You have an idea for what you
want to do here. You call your wife and there's
no response. Oh no.
To the best of your knowledge, she should be available.
This is a time of day instead of that is perfectly fine.
I don't really mean to pull the rug out from under you, but
there has been something in the campaign that's been established
that this could be a possibility.
If you roll a good enough history check, I will point you
in the right direction. Yeah, I'll roll for history.
And that's based off in, right? Yep, which?
Is going to be hard for you, but if you do well enough, I'll.
I'll yeah, I'm big dumb. Yeah, that's not good enough 11.
11 Yeah. You're not sure?
You're a little confused. For all you know, Gemma should
be available. Yeah, I was like, all right, I I
maybe she's out or something. I'll just leave her a message
because, I mean, I don't know. So just leave her message, kind
of like just going over the details of everything, saying
like, I think I'm coming closer to our boy based on the
adventures we're having could drive me in the right direction.
You know, miss her lover. Tell Penelope I said hi.
You know all the gang. Great.
Like just the basic message, yeah.
Awesome. Yeah, I didn't want to like ruin
you when you messaged me saying you had a plan, but that's.
What I was, I was mostly asking for clarity.
Wasn't like, I was like, this is exactly how I want to go.
I was just like, I was like, hey, if this is going to go
through like, OK, so I guess second thing I'm going to like I
I want to patch the roof, but what I'm going to do first is
because I want to establish something else.
I'm going to train with my guys a little bit in a couple
maneuvers. OK, that I wanted to practice.
So I obviously people know about my my little combo attack.
So I do want to practice it both ways where I have Trevor, like
obviously long, like get launched by Toidel.
And then I also want to see if they can pull off the opposite
and practice that where Trevor is like a board for a torkle
like blast off of to turn them into like a fireball.
What kind of style? Flying type of maneuver?
Does Toidel lay on his back to achieve that?
Or. I guess like Bolder's kind of
like Jagged, so maybe not laying on his back, but like.
Yeah, it's mostly this like. Or something, I don't know.
It mostly I would think it would go like kind of like they're
using in place of like can use Trevor in place of a wall since
Trevor like resists fire anyway and they can brace themselves
regardless that it's going to happen.
They can just like use it to like like propel themselves
forward off of that and like kind of get a jet set started.
OK, yeah, give me some rules for them.
This is 2D eights, right? Yes, and this is the default
Toyo launch in Boulder. Yes, so do the 1st, 4:00 and
5:00. That's pretty good.
Yeah, that's very good. I think where am I taking
though? I'm going to take them somewhere
that's like not very high damage and kind of give them a target
like kind of like a like because we're in like not just complete,
like it's just just open fields and woods, right?
OK, so I'm going to give them like a target towards like a
tree and be like, OK guys, we're going to try to aim this up and
like set it up and then total like takes takes pose.
And then Trevor like kind of sets up on top of them like we
would normally. And we just go for the launch
from there and like try to target the tree.
Awesome. Yeah, I think that went pretty
well. I would like to reward Total
with a permanent plus one to Con and I I would like to reward
Trevor immunity to environmental heat and flame effects and
advantage on throws to prevent burn.
OK. I like that.
That's interesting. So you'll have to keep track of
that in his passives and stuff, but.
I yeah, I got it. I'm putting it under, I guess
under. No, I put it under passives, not
proficiencies. Let's see.
OK. And I guess I'll roll for the
reverse of like trying to be a, like kind of a, a wall.
I guess. That's really nice for the bonus
that he's like, yeah. No.
That's the take hits from the environmental lead effect, so I
roll for that one. Now that other combo.
Yeah, go for it. OK, let's.
See what we do here 24? Who's getting launched?
Your Toidal. Toidal.
Yeah, you can give Toidal 50% temporary HP and that will last
until it gets depleted. Is there anything else you want
to do with your friends? So while we're in this training
session, I kind of want to teach Liz to kind of grab onto my
pickaxe, not on like the sharp side, but sort of like if I turn
it horizontal, like the flat side and like kind of grab on
like shell facing out. So that way I can utilize my
pickaxe as a hammer too. Using their newly body.
Yeah. So they're going to like
basically bind to or like wrap around like the actual like the
actual pickaxe at the top and just kind of cover and then
their shell side is completely out on the other side.
So what is this technique for? Like is it wielding the?
Pickaxe, it's like a utility thing.
So like I can switch my pickaxe to be like also a hammer if we
have to utilize if. Liz is a hammer.
Yeah. Oh, that's sick.
OK. And make you make two different
checks and one of them is going to be a lot harder than the
other. I need you to make a con check
just to like see how into it they are about being smashed,
which they're probably fine with.
So that's going to be easy. But you are also going to have
to make a dexterity check to see how well they can hold on to the
pickaxe. And they do have negative
dexterity. This is something you might be
able to train if it doesn't succeed right away, so.
OK, the con. I got a 16.
OK, the decks. I got an 11.
I would imagine that as you're practicing this maneuver, Liz
hangs on for one strike against whatever you're swinging at and
then just drops off into onto the ground.
And they don't get hurt, they just tuck their noodles in.
But the there's some work to be done with the tenacity of the
maneuver. I pet Liz, tell them good job,
we're going to get better at this.
They go. I'm sure we're on a Berry farm
so I kind of want to give Liz some like berries to hold onto
cause of Berry juice here. Yeah, yeah, very cool.
You could roll a Berry check, I guess.
Or if you want to collaborate with Cindy, you might have
better luck. Actually, yeah, I might talk to
Cindy about that. And then I get like, would that,
would that eat up all my last bits just like if I've talked to
Cindy, because I do want to fix the roof at some point.
Do you have a special flavor for fixing the roof?
Don't I? I might.
I might want to see if the gang will collaborate with me
actually on fixing the roof then.
Then we can save that for. Yeah, we can save that.
If it's not a stat or unit thing, then we can save it for
later. Yeah.
I could get the two of you to roll D 20s and combine your
roll. How's that?
Well, for Barry's stuff, yeah, OK, yeah, I'll roll AD 20 on
mine and then I got a 12. OK, I got a nine.
OK, good thing you got the combo.
Yeah. So 21 is perfectly serviceable.
You managed to find 3 citrus berries.
So I'll take one, you take one, and then I'll give one to Liz.
That seem good. Yeah, that's fine.
OK, cool. How were the berries doing that?
Were fertilized by the dead body.
We found it buried. They seem to be doing fine
because you spent so much time here.
The berries don't look as good as they did when you and your
grandparents and pumpkin are all living there like happily, but
they look good like they're still high quality berries and
the fertilizer is great and the soil is great and like pumpkin
and the grass types are helping raise them very well, but
they're just not quite the same. They're not the, they're not the
same product. They're.
Not getting the same attention as they were when.
Right, they're missing that green thumb.
Green thumb a little bit, but like be damned.
They're probably still the best berries in Holland for sure.
LD Schmidt, But what are you doing in your downtime?
Anxiety attack. Anxiety attack OK over the
mysterious message. Yeah, it's kind of everything.
OK. Does Schmidt express this in any
particular way? How does Schmidt cope, you know?
I don't know, probably just like pacing and talking to himself.
OK. Like he looks like he's having a
bad time. Understandable.
Are his team members involved at all?
Quacko doesn't. He's going to be out.
Probably. So is is Quacko involved in
this? Does Quacko pace as well?
Does Quacko try and comfort Schmidt?
What do you think? My head cannon says he would
just pace as well. Yeah, he would just follow along
with the pacing. Yeah.
Probably yeah, is. There anything else on Smith's
mind besides anxiety? No, not really.
OK. If we're safe, we'll probably
let everyone out. OK, everyone's vibing.
I'm just hanging, yeah. OK, cool.
Get Richie. Kind of familiar with everyone
else because I think that's just we caught them and then
immediate action. Yeah, pretty much.
So how does Elodie want to spend her downtime?
I feel like character wise Elodie would check in on
Schmidt. OK.
Definitely try and make him food or something, OK.
And yeah, just kind of, I don't know, probably just bring him
food and be like, you don't have to talk, but I'm worried about
you and I, I hope you're doing OK.
And then just leave it at that. Did Schmidt react, respond,
etcetera? Yeah, I think, Schmidt tells
her. Oh, oh boy.
It should be in Grace Stevens. Oh no.
Oh gosh, so so Schmidt, just like I can imagine just hands
vestality or something. Yeah, just like.
Have a look. He probably like hands it to her
and then just like starts pacing around the room with like his
hands on his head and was like talking to himself.
I was like, I can't believe this one, this happened.
For clarity for anyone who may be listening, this is the
subpoena that was issued to Schmidt immediately following
his gym challenge from the Yotto police in Goldenrod City.
This seems kind of silly because like, shouldn't they know that
like you can't like, do that? I mean, not necessarily.
Court ordered. Complete six gym badge challenge
please. Court ordered.
Complete. Speed run gym challenge and come
back please. Fair.
Right?
Amazing. Oh wow.
So that's been on Schwartz's mind.
Yeah. I can imagine that is heavy to
deal with. It's.
A bit much. To.
Clarify. Wait, what were you going to
say? I was going to say Quacko was
originally Schmidt's roommate and then Schmidt's roommate
bailed and just laughed Quacko. Right, so to clarify, you didn't
like intentionally steal Quacko? No, I did not burgle the duck,
no. Right burgled the duck.
Did not burgle the duck. Right, You know what, I think
everything is going to be OK. You sound confident.
Yup. Role deception.
No, don't don't good I. Mean.
You could, I think, if you. Insist, I mean.
Yeah, did Elodie ask what she might wanted to eat, or did she
make something? I guess just kind of starting
with like research in the library about maybe singing
moves that Pokémon can learn. Very cool.
OK, roll me like a looking for a book check.
OK, 13. Yeah, you don't find any
necessarily, like, scientific literature, but you find a
children's book titled Nathaniel's Noisy Neighbors, and
it's an illustrated book of like a kid, and he's plugging his
ears and he's in like a cartoon house.
And in the house next door there's these big squarish
purple Pokémon with giant mouths, and they're shouting.
If you flip through it, you may be able to find some information
about noisy stuff. Sure, I will flip through it.
It shows Nathaniel in all sorts of different situations where
he's just trying to do homework or he's just trying to sleep and
his noisy neighbors are making too much noise.
On one page they are using Uproar.
On another page they are using hyper voice.
On another page they invite some friends over little pink round
friend uses Sing. On another page, they invite a
little scaly dragon who does a very fun dance and uses cleaning
scales. Nathaniel this whole time is
like trying to get chores done. He's like trying to like, do
schoolwork and sleep and pork complete a puzzle.
And yeah, he's just getting wrecked by this.
He invites some tiger stripe to dog friends over and they use
the move Roar. He invites some Moody, angsty
little puppies to join the other dogs and they use the move
Snarl. Last but not least, he invites a
whole bunch of cows to his house and they all start jumping up
and down using the move heel bell and the story ends in
Nathaniel basically gets no respite and he's like miserable
and that's the whole story. That's awful.
I hope you got something out of that.
Does LD intend to do anything with that information?
She's like, I as a person know that like one of these moves I
can have one of my Pokémon learn, but Ellie wouldn't know
that. So I'm trying to figure out how
she could get to that. You could just like roll and
guess because like you did the the whisk takers had a
performance. So like we.
Did. Think of anything Ality might
just troubleshoot and like ask like kind of like how Cindy did.
I don't know. I don't want RP for you but.
No, I think that would make sense.
Let's take a look at maybe hyperbole.
Is this the one I'm thinking of? Maybe I was actually wrong.
Yeah, maybe like if I could like, I don't know, do research
on like hyper voice, see if there's like a way I could teach
it to my Pokémon. Do like, like could I teach it
to them in like a role-playing way of being like, oh, like
there's this move that we can do.
Maybe we have like a little like band practice, OK or something
like that. Would that work?
Absolutely. A little band practice time.
Are you trying to teach like the whole squad basically?
Yeah. OK, so if we're trying to like
practice hyper voice, how do you think LD would encourage these
these lads to try and get to that point?
Like are you just going to sit down and say band practice?
Are you going to be like give an instruction?
Just want to have them shout basically.
Yes, go high energy, yeah. Super annoy your party members
who are doing other things right now.
Exactly. Make Schmidt's anxiety worse.
Schmidt probably yells too, and he's like, can you keep it down?
I'm having anxiety attack. Great.
Do you have any special goals here, or are you just trying to
see if any or all of them can acquire this move?
I mean, like if we could get in like a bit of like training,
that would be nice. Oh, you mean like training
besides trying to learn a move? Yeah, just like practicing
together, having. Coordination.
OK, let's do one thing at a time.
Right. That makes sense.
Yeah, do. You want to do aforementioned
coordination team mechanics? Or do you want to do move
learning? Let's do move learning.
OK, roll 4D20 not the same time and you need to specify which
ones are which. I will have bubble gum go first.
OK, don't worry about modifiers, I have your stuff pulled up so I
can do that myself. That was a four.
OK, then I guess we'll do cabbage.
That was a 13. OK, Swab blue blueberry.
That's the same. And that was a five, OK.
And that was a 5. OK, I regret to inform you that
none of them are able to learn the move hyper voice however,
however. However.
I would like to increase grape juices charisma to 12 and I want
to give bubble gum another shot at the hyper voice role.
That was a 15. OK bubble gum would like to
learn hyper voice. Which move are you trying to?
Feel like I might get rid of Encore.
It is a normal type move because you've torrent.
The damage is 2 D 8 + 2. Awesome.
Thank you. You notice that after learning
this move that bubble gum is just coursing with energy.
Bubble gum is popping off right now.
He's blowing bubbles incessantly and little torrents of water are
just like spewing in circles around his body.
Every now and then the Aqua rings coming out.
Anything else, Cindy? Since you mentioned that Cindy's
grandparents have a computer or PCI, think I'd want to practice
Izzy's fire jetpack situation. Oh.
Right. Just to get that a little more
solidified, so that way if when I can have more Pokémon in my
party to be able to use that. Roll AD 20 and add 2.
That's a nine. It's not very good.
It kind of scatters, goes wide. Izzy looks determined and wants
you to try Uno mas. That was worse.
OK, that's a 7 total. Yeah, Izzy's.
Izzy's been in the PC for a minute.
He doesn't really he's not familiar with the with the
jetpack, but he's she still looks determined.
He's not ready for another shot, but doing her best.
Any other little downtime activities that the party wants
to do? There could be some group
activities for fixing the roof. That's an option the.
Roof. I feel like because Cindy is bad
at actually fixing the roof, she'd probably be bothering
Schmidt, who's probably too anxious to fix the roof.
OK, what does this look like? You could.
Probably be obnoxious. Just being obnoxious, asking
questions. How are you pacing?
Why do you look uncomfortable? Schmidt probably doesn't handle
that well. OK, he'd probably just go off on
the cheeses. OK.
Cool. She's like why does cheeses look
weird? It's like it's artisanal.
Child wouldn't understand. Nice.
Yeah, that's all I got right now.
That's fine, yeah. Great.
All right, so am I doing this on my own or help me fix the roof
well? You got your Pokémon too.
I do. Yeah, I do.
I'm curious if it's a solo affair or not.
I hate to be all engineer on you, but what's the estimation
on the size of this roof? The hole in the.
Roof in terms of the hole. The hole, yeah, Not not the
hole. That's not a bad question.
I would say if an Onyx's head went through it, it probably
caused a little bit more damage than the size of Onyx's head.
So to me that's like a foot diameter.
I guess we can do. I kind of want to use Turtle and
Trevor to see if I can like rock tomb around the hole to kind of
create a seal and then like sand attack to sort of like fill it
up and like edge out. Like any openings that could be
within the rocks. We probably end up having to
support that while it gets sand attacked to kind of like bind
everything together and then we would just burn it at the end to
like lock it in place. OK.
If I if I were to roll those, I think those are all kind of
precision work. So I would ask for decks for all
of them. Yeah, it's gonna be a little
rough. Let's say those saves.
Are gonna be super high because it's not like the roof is moving
or anything but. Right.
I know it's still still decks rolls like a -, 2 zero we.
Burn sand? Does that make it a glass
sunroof? You could make a window.
Make a window but. You could make a sunroof if you
really. Want just crit and get a
sunroof? I I would have a solely work for
that if that were a possibility with like flamethrower after you
get everything else squared away.
Yeah, I'm trying to see like what I would do because I have
rope too. I have about 30 feet of rope
that I can attempt to. It's a 15, yeah, 15 foot
diameter. I mean, I can only do like a
cross brace. That would be it.
And I have a couple anchors that I can lock it in place because I
want to be able to like hold the rocks in place while this is
like all happening. But it's a little bit too wide.
Have a thank for the rock tomb. Come full dad mode here.
It's like I'm fixing the roof. Yeah.
OK. We'll get Lebowski out here as
well. So we're going to go harvest
some wood, gather that up, and then it's going to be me,
Lebowski and we're probably going to use Trevor and we're
going to like, I guess use like rock blast to create like pseudo
nails 'cause I don't think we have nails, OK.
And sort of like do the construction work by hammering
this into place. So it's like I guess less
precision work now. My logic here is I'm just
looking at their bodies, right? Yeah.
And I think Boldwood is like kind of splintry.
Launched some stones off you, will you like?
OK, Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK.
Yeah, sure, sure. You got it.
OK, so roll in that order of operations I suppose Gathering
gathering wood won't be a problem.
I don't think it's even worth rolling for.
But the everything else I think is for the most part of dex
check. Hammering stuff in is going to
be strength. OK, so Lebowski, placing stuff
in position, placing the wooden position.
OK, Trevor, producing the nails and then hammering stuff.
That's not the correct order. Sure, I like it.
A3. He's holding it in place and it
he like doesn't get the proper grip and his hand slips a little
bit, but he's very determined. He's pressing as hard as he can
make another roll. 15 So the -2 is 13.
Yeah, he holds it in place. That is sufficient to hold it in
place. He he picked it up.
He's got it. What?
What comes next? So now Trevor has to produce
nails via Rock blast, basically. OK, let's see it.
So 4 -, 2 is 2. Oh, Yikes.
Yeah. It doesn't even make it to the
roof. It goes wide and it bounces off
the side of the house. He wasn't going for four, so it
doesn't really damage. There's like a little dent.
But yeah, that was a bit of a Yikes.
Cindy checks the the tool shed. Yeah, he checks the tool shed
for me. I was like OK our our makeshift
1 isn't working. Do we have any tools?
Around what tools are you looking for?
Like a hammer and stuff. Nails.
Yeah, just like hammer nails, Yeah.
There's a basic toolbox in the shed, you can totally make use
of that. Yeah, let's get those up.
Cindy, roll A roll a perception. 12. 12 OK, you feel like when
you pull the toolbox out, there's like a strange rolling
in the shed, but you don't pay much minding to it.
Love that open up and then proceed to continue to annoy
Schmidt. Cool.
Is your hair turning Gray? You look worried.
OK, so I guess the next is just like, now that we iron that out,
I just have the tools and I'm gonna do like the strength check
I guess for OK hammering. Yep.
OK, are you or is this one of your Pokémon hammering?
I am doing that. OK, well not like you shouldn't
need to strength check that. That should just work.
If you have the tools, you don't need to.
You don't need to roll for that. Yeah, I mean pretty much
guaranteed, like. Yeah.
OK. So yeah, you do that.
You plank up the roof. OK.
Are you gonna do anything with that Sandy were talking about?
I got to see about, well, there's still a giant hole in
the actual house, so that's the next project.
OK. But that's probably a venture
for a different time. I think I spent all night, like
fixing the roof. Yeah.
I think the time is running out. Excellent.
Thanks guys. Great downtime.
Now it is the next day, everyone is rested and fed, and some
people's Pokémon feel a little bit more on top of it.
What is your plan of action? All right, gang.
So got options. Yeah.
Where do we want to go? We got so many things.
Like there's so much more. Do we feel ready for Jacket
Pass? We could go to Mount Pyre and
help the ghosties get their home back.
I mean, that's the thing. How ready do we think we need to
be for Jagged Pass? It's just the old team hive out.
We don't know what's there. You said that there might be
like current team activity there.
Their HQ is a mall while though, or Mallville mall Marvel.
It's not like they're just also vibing like their home bases and
Dragon Pass like it was for like Team Magma, you know?
And they're like big blimp thing with all their like whatever
people in it and the big Gundam guy went east so they wouldn't
be there. Right, might be a safe bet.
I've been itching to go to Jagged Pass since we, like,
started this whole campaign because we've been, we were
edged off with that one for a while ago, right?
Like I just, I feel like that's like our next priority is
because, like, that was our only lead on Cindy's grandparents.
Yeah. Does Schmidt have any input on
this? Yeah, Schmidt, what are we?
What was muted again? I was like, Oh no.
Let's Well, now that we know about this stuff, So what?
What do we need to do for Schmidt first?
Yeah, I'm. I'm worried about that.
Like as much I want to go to Jag and pass, I don't.
Know what's wrong with Schmidt? OK.
Do we tell Cindy? I think we have to by this
point. If you want to, I can send it to
make it easier. Yeah, that'd be fun.
OK. Yeah, You.
You're convenient. You want Cindy to know?
Yeah. OK.
She has it. He sees.
The message. Oh, no, it's pretty much really
like the gut reaction. I mean, but what can we do about
this? I think are a lawyer.
Could we sent, I don't know, a letter to the judge asking for,
I don't know, something? Well, don't they know that
hoen's under like? Yeah, we're detained.
Lockdown. That's what I said.
I feel like I feel like a lawyer would be able to like solve this
better than just us writing a letter to a judge.
Yeah, I guess so. We should probably find.
It on our way to jagged pass. If we go through any cities, we
can look for a lawyer. Yeah, I'm sure there's one in
Marvel. That just got half destroyed,
but yeah, sure. Well.
How much like time do we have? A week.
And it's. Been.
Wait where did you get this? It's been 2.
Days I want to say. Yeah. 5 days.
Lawyer would probably have a phone also to call to do it
faster so it wouldn't be like. Phone book in the house.
Yellow. Pages you could search.
For it the Pikachu pages. Yeah, the Pikachu.
Pages. The Pika pages.
Yeah, you could try and look for one with intelligence check. +2
That's a dirty 20. Yeah, there is one.
It doesn't have a whole lot of international numbers, but it
does have a whole bunch of hoen numbers.
We definitely need some hoen numbers because we can't leave
so. What are you looking for?
Some kind of attorney we can call for consultation.
You find a few names, you see nautical insurance and injury
safety. His name is Luca Rooney in state
port city. He is he's a lawyer there, a
criminal allegations lawyer in in Maville.
Their name is Clementine Sawyer. You see a Pokémon related injury
lawyer who is in Fall Arbor town.
Their name is Patricia Ryan. There's lots of like business
corporate lawyers of all sorts of names in Restboro.
That's basically it for the most part.
So I mean. The Criminal 1 is in Malvo.
I don't think of the criminal allegation. 1 might be pretty
good. Yeah, it sounds like it.
And in Volvo too, like that's a. Yeah, that's serendipity give.
Them give. Them a call.
You're going to call up Clementine Sawyer.
Yeah. Hey, the phone rings.
You've reached the office of Clementine Sawyer.
How can I help you? Oh fuck, I got to repeat this.
Yep. You don't have to, but like, say
what Schmidt would say or you can say it Ashwin, either one.
Hi, I'm looking for consultation on some allegations.
I would send a subpoena and I was looking to get some
consultation on that. I feel like Gimli is like
coaching. Yeah, I was going to say, is, is
Gimli like saying this over shoulder?
Basically I'm like we've, we've been through this in the mines
before. There's plenty of times people
get sued. Hell yeah.
Have you been issued A subpoena and if so, what's the date?
So you were issued A subpoena from the Jodo region a few days
ago? They say the office of
Clementine Sawyer is rather backed up with requests for
quotes and consultations. But we can get you in either in
two weeks or 200 pokey dollars, or we can see you tomorrow or
1000. And it seems like the
secretary's just kind of making this up.
That would be beyond the the date.
Are you sure there isn't any way we can try to get in there?
They said we can get in tomorrow for 1000.
Right, but that does seem pretty steep for consultation.
You sure it's 1000? For a consultation roll.
A. Roll a Perception or insight.
No persuasion. Roll a persuasion.
Like I'm not looking to hire a lawyer here, I'm looking for a
consultation. Oh shit, I forgot.
I'm officiative persuasion. Yeah, I need to be on that.
So it's +2. It's a dirty 21.
Dirty. 21 yeah, yeah, he says. Well, you just got to understand
that Clementine Sawyer is, is very busy with all this chaos
that happened in, in Marville a couple days ago.
But you know, they've been looking for something and maybe
if you have it, I can get you to cut in line a little bit sooner.
We could probably see you today. They they've been going on and
on about a strange Pokémon that looks like spaghetti and he's
been wanting to see it all of his life.
So if you bring the spaghetti Pokémon then you can you we can
get you in sooner. Just got to bring it to the
front desk. No, nothing.
Yeah. Spaghetti.
Yeah. We got one of those lying
around. We can.
We can totally. Yeah.
We'll bring it by. We'll swing it by tomorrow.
The secretary says, well, if you haven't, we'd love to see it
today, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
We'll swing it by today. OK, great.
And she gives you the address. It's pretty close to the police
station. OK, cool.
All right. So.
So where is this spaghetti Pokémon?
I have a shuckle. Yeah, that's it.
Oh. I was like, it's either Shuckle
or Tangla so. My.
Reasoning was Tangla 1 I think and.
I was like, where are we going to find a Tangla?
Where? Tangla.
Did we note what Pokémon came out of those pokeballs that he
had? Was there a tangle amongst the
group? I don't.
Believe Oh I did not write those down.
OK. That's another reason to go to
that part of town. Right, we, we are.
Well, we can coin toss on the Shuckle here and bring Liz
along. Oh true, and we do need to
return those Pokémon. Or do you?
Yeah, we can bring them to the police station on the way
anyway. Yeah, let's.
After breaking out after solving Schmidt's issue with stealing
Pokémon, we'll just steal more. It'll be fine.
We're stealing if they were already stolen.
I I did write down what I think the Pokémon were or what some of
them were. That's good.
With a toga tick, a dragonfly which I think is like a yanma.
Neat arena Oregon some moth looking one groupie Mantine jump
puff, syndiquel, Lillipuff blade hand Onyx.
That's the list. Blade.
Hand see you didn't write the Onyx down.
No. Onyx was after blade.
Hand. OK, OK, OK.
I don't know what blind hands was.
Wait. That's awesome.
OK, yeah. We'll get those pokeballs back.
We'll go see the lawyer I got. I got Liz on deck.
We're good. We'll show them the spaghetti
Mon. All right.
Cool. Is that the plan of action?
Is that what? You do?
Yeah. Go Team.
Go Team.
You all leave your refuge, the straw and hold as you're walking
out. It's a nice sunny afternoon.
And sitting down, leaning up against the fence that separates
the street from Cindy's grandparents house, is a very
lanky, skinny dude who's wearing all black, wearing a visor, and
he's just taking his snooze right outside the house.
Wear an advisor. Does he have like anyone want to
perceive this boy? Yikers.
An all black I don't like. I don't like people wearing all
black. He's a sleep though.
That's sneaky enough for this.
This is the whole situation. What?
Do we want to do about this boy? Can't we, like, catch a break?
Why can't we like, make a plan and then do it?
Do you want to ignore this guy? He went out a bit.
It's it's he's like at our house, right?
He's like at our yeah, we can't ignore that.
Yeah, 'cause he could steal something or.
Whatever, he knows where we live.
Yeah. Oh, true.
OK, Do we? Though he gets flame thrown
while he's asleep, can he make a saving throw?
Jesus Christ, can we just wake him up?
We just killed him. I.
Do need a consensus but. I don't know.
We don't want to burn this. I don't.
We don't know who this person
is. The last time we were in some
hot water. When I kick something, I'm cool.
Just try to wake this dude up. Right now.
We're four people and there's one dude.
True. Yeah, I, I just we can handle.
That there are no other people. Like it's not like it's not like
a 8 foot tall monolith of a man is sleeping outside our house.
It's some skinny dude. Some twink, some some twink.
Just. Full black garb, just like
hanging out. Yeah, let's wake him up.
What is your means of waking him up?
Who wants to poke him? I'm not touching him.
I'll poke him. That's fine.
I'll poke him. Poke him.
Oy. Roll A Roll a poke check.
Actually, no, I'll just, I'll just intimidate, yell at him.
Then I even poke him. I'm gonna yell at him.
Do you want to roll for that or not?
Yeah, I'll roll intimidation, OK.
Oh. God Dirty 21.
OK. Yeah.
Oh, no, Dirty 23. Sorry.
OK, he is shocked because he like he's asleep so he's even
more effective. This dude springs up and like
literally like a spring because he's so tall and skinny.
He goes and he kind of runs backwards a little bit.
Roll up perception. 5. The sun's kind of in your eyes,
but it seems like the the the way that the sun is hitting him
is making a weird shadow. He springs up and he says, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm not here for trouble.
Listen, what are you here for? I.
I just came to talk to you. I just came to talk.
OK, who are you? My name is Yuri.
My boss sent me here because I understand that you've
encountered a lot of my admin cohorts.
And let me make this clear. My boss sent me here.
Not starting trouble. I was given instructions not to
go in the house, just came here to talk.
I don't want any trouble here, but I came here to ask why?
Why are you doing these things? If you keep it up, you're going
to get hurt. We're going to have no option
but to take action. You know this one from not being
threatening to being a threat, bud.
He said listen, He says, listen, I don't want to fight, and he
clutches at a Pokémon on his belt.
I don't want to fight either, but you came to our place
starting stuff, so we're not interfering with anything.
You guys just keep making trouble and we just happen to be
there and we don't like when trouble is happening.
So this dude says, look, we have a grand ambition and we're not
going to stop just for the likes of use, all right?
Why'd you have to talk to that creature and take the Atlas
stone? I mean, this could all be over
if you just hand it over. Why'd you have to go to the
Weather Institute and stop Callisto from what she was
doing? That was really important for
us. What were you doing in Marvel?
What were we doing in Marvel, one of the biggest cities in the
country? That's a dumb question bud.
It seems like really appropriate timing for you to mess with our
equipment. I just want to know what you're
after and maybe we can give it to you and you can leave us
alone. Grandparents.
Yeah, or after some of the people that you kidnapped,
people have disappeared because of you guys, people that we care
about. Kind of looks up in like
pretending to think sort of way. He's like, well, we've kidnapped
a lot of people. I, I, I can't keep track of all
of them. I.
You're kind of leaving a trail and making a lot of enemies
along your grand ambition. I'm gonna level with you.
You're not making a lot of friends along the way.
Here, Gary says. Do you think we care about
making friends? You clearly do if you're coming
to talk to us and you're worried about us interfering.
Other people might do the same thing if you keep doing what
you're doing. He says, listen, they put me on
diplomacy and espionage for a reason.
I'm here to check, Why not just give us the Atlas stone like we
want? I was given direct orders to not
hand over the Atlas stone. Who gave you those orders?
That foul creature. Foul.
What did she ever do to you? Oh, you don't know about her?
And he just kind of Snickers. We sure know about you.
You just met me, you don't know anything about me.
I could just tell based on how you're talking to us, what
you're all about. But diplomacy, You're awful at
your job there. There's nothing but threaten us
and then that's it. And question our motives when we
answered your question first of all, so.
You have not answered why. Why do you have the Atlas stone?
Why? Why not?
Why don't you have it and good enough?
That's funny roll AI want to roll like.
That feels intimidation. Yeah, just just do that.
Just do that. He's taking emotional damage,
yeah. You seriously?
I was. I was good. 16 yeah, he he takes
a little bit of mental damage. He's he's revealed that he has
like some insecurities. You're not served the source,
but he just like didn't really like how that went.
He says you will not talk to one of the admins of Team Neo Rocket
Galactic that way. Don't really value like your
organization as a whole to respect that type of position.
So you're just a guy to me. Here's some skinny dude on our
property making vague threats to nothing so you can just back up,
go run off to your bosses and go do your thing.
We'll just be in the wings doing our thing and if we cross paths
again, maybe something bad will happen 'cause you make me quite
mad here, bud. You're not really doing your
diplomacy job that you came out here to talk to.
You wanted us to stop and then just threaten us.
That's a good idea. He says, all right, well, here's
the deal. Oh, here's the deal.
OK. You want diplomacy?
Here's the deal. You give me the Atlas Stone or
we're going to blow up the moon. The moon What the?
OK. We got some Intel from from one
of your friends and we have reason to believe that what
we're looking for might be up there.
OK, I don't. I'd like trying to blow up the
moon. The.
Fuck is happening right now He. He looks really embarrassed
because he realized the how outrageous that claim seems, but
he also. Feels like really impressed,
honestly. Like, I don't want to say this
another timidish role. I actually just laugh in his
face. Yeah, go for it.
Oh yeah. I'm good, I'm just 15. 15 Yeah,
he's, he's hurt. His lip is kind of quivering and
he's like very upset. And at this moment he's planning
a retort. And then he gets a little a
chime from a tool on his wrist. And you hear a somewhat familiar
voice say, Hey, Uranus, where you at?
Uranus. Stop it, buddy.
Your name, Your code name's Uranus.
He he puts his wrist to his face and turns around.
For me, guys, he's like I told you to say, you're reading.
My name is you're shouting over. Is it a cop?
Are you kidding me, bud? Your leader in diplomacy's name
is Uranus. He is very ashamed right now and
he says just be wait, you're going to be sorry and.
He I'm already sorry. I'm sorry.
I don't waste that time with you.
Let's go. He he starts to run off towards
the east. I'm disgusted.
Nice, nicely done. Good encounter.
Glad that happened. Or we like leave.
Leave. I think Cindy would want to just
let Pumpkin know that like there are Team Neuroactic Galactic Neo
Rocket galactic guns grunts around.
Words are hard just to be like hey, like if you see people that
shouldn't be here here when we're not here, you should not
let them nearby or like do what you can to keep the house and
stuff safe. Pumpkin is understanding and you
know they've been doing it for a while and he feels very on top
of it. Do you do anything about this
twink who's running away before he escapes?
They know where we are though, so we should probably think
about that in the meantime. But.
Can I burn him? You can try you can.
Do. Whatever.
You want. Well, he's going to flamethrower
because it's a 40 foot cone. Yeah, that, that should.
Reach He needs a 14 DC deck save.
OK, he meets it exactly, and in fact what happens is the strange
shadow that Gimli saw near him sprouts out of the ground and
you see a big long blue and red fish and it shoots out a blast
of water towards the flame that is about to hit Yuri.
And then the fish goes back into the ground and they continue to
run. I'm still dying.
All right, let's let's just go, Yeah.
That's your encounter for the route, so you can make it to
model no problem if that's what you wish to do right now.
Yeah, that's sick. OK, cool.
It's like 2:00 PM. You haven't been to model since
you ran away, and it's in a state of disrepair that's a lot
worse than you remember. There's a lot of collapsed
buildings. There's a lot of people with
their belongings just kind of like sitting out in the street.
There's, you know, big skyscrapers that just have been
like sliced in half basically. There's a big cartoonish sign
over the Marvel City gym with a big red text that says
temporarily relocated to fall Arbor Town.
It's it's a strange kind of Despite how sunny and nice out
it is, it's pretty dismal and sad.
Well, they really did a number on this place, huh?
I guess we're off to the police station.
Lawyer's office and the police station.
We can probably do police station first, right?
I mean, they probably just depend like, well, I guess it
doesn't matter. They're really close to each
other. Yeah, we can just go drop off
the the balls, Yeah. Probably be faster.
OK like I re recovered these from team neo galactic.
They had, they stole a bunch of Pokémon.
We're just a turning them in in hopes of finding their owners,
you know? Yeah, yeah.
I think I'm going to spend the rest of the campaign just every
time I encounter one, just make fun of them like.
Emotional damage. Everyone but Rada.
Rada scares me. Rada's twice my height like I'm
good. Isn't Schmidt kind of toy
skinless height too? No, I think you got like a foot
on me. 50% of Rada's like straight up like 7 and a half 8
feet tall like like he's a monster he he shouldn't exist
like he's just a mythological being.
Not that I'm trying to split the party, but like maybe me and
Elodie could go to the police station to drop off the pokey
balls and then Mitten Gimli could do the spaghetti lawyer
thing. Spaghetti Look, I guess I can be
the adult in the room. Because if they're right near
each other, it wouldn't be party splitting splitting the party.
Party, let's go. Split up gang.
Always a great decision. Yeah, always good.
It always good. Things near each other.
It always goes well. OK, how do we want to do this?
The police station's closer, so I'd probably start with that
group first. I don't know if you want to
remove yourselves or if you just want to listen to because it
probably doesn't matter that much because we'll see what
develops. I don't know.
Elodie and Cindy arrived at the police station.
It is very busy. This is the one of the busier
places besides the Pokémon Center right now in downtown
Mallville. There's like a line out the door
with people who either are like they're, they're with their
families or like they're alone and they're like calling, they
are on like communication devices.
They're looking for people. It might take a while to get
inside unless you just kind of rush past them, which is
something you could do. Is there like a clear line or is
it just kind of like chaos? It's a line until the door and
then if you peek inside the door to the police station, it's
chaos. You can hear the sounds of
phones ringing. Cops are going all over the
place. You see big Arcanine police dogs
running around. It's a lot.
Well, I usually am full, yet I would say wait in line.
OK. And what did Elodie say?
I was asking if there's like a lost and found.
Maybe you could do a perception check?
13. Not to your knowledge.
It does seem that the inside is kind of split into like 2
separate areas. People are hugging the left wall
and people hugging the right wall to speak to different
people behind glass. But you aren't sure what's going
on necessarily. Spaghetti lawyer gain.
You get to the office building. They're on the 1st floor so you
don't have to really go anywhere.
This office building doesn't look very destroyed.
It has some like rubble on it and stuff but it's not like the
worst. It's it says office of lawyer
Clementine Sawyer. Do you enter?
Yes. OK, You do that.
You see a secretary. It is true that the lobby is
pretty full, but people are just kind of like chilling in the
chairs that they're just like waiting for whatever.
They're waiting for their meeting with with with Sawyer,
the honorable. And she welcomes you and she
says hello. Do you have an appointment?
I say yes. I also have a.
It's a subtle way to say this. Certain spaghetti like Pokémon.
Yeah, exactly that. OK.
Oh, did you bring it present Chuckle.
You present it. Yeah, just like yeah, yeah,
yeah. Is this the one you were
looking? For she takes a look at it and
her eyes go wide and she says, we'll get you in right away.
And she picks up the phone, execute order 15.
And, and there's like, there's like a little flash above the
door that is locked that leads to the office.
And you can hear, like, the sound of footsteps, like madly
rushing. And she, she says you can go in
now. And the whole room gives you
death glares because they don't understand why the fact that you
have this stupid bug, it will let you get a consultation
first. It makes no sense.
Do you enter? Yeah.
OK. Samples.
I'm sorry. Yeah.
Everyone is just glaring. They're so mad at you as you
enter the office. It's a very regal office and
there's like large gemstones that are in frames all over the
place. And there's like little
sculptures. And there is one of the
sculpture sticks out to you as a sculpture of a shuckle.
But the sculpture part is, is like is made of marble.
And then the like the noodly bits are like floppy.
So it's just kind of like a rock that has holes in it.
And then there's like yarn sticking out and it's like
pretty silly looking. As you enter, you walk past
someone who's being shooed out of the office by a very wide
person wearing a cowboy hat. He's kind of Gimli sized, but
like a little bit taller and a little bit stouter.
And he's like, no, get on, get on out of here, shoo, shoo.
And the, the person who was waiting to be consulted, she
says, but we weren't done. I, I have more questions.
He says, no, it's time to go. And he closes the door behind
him and he says. Can I ask how tall his hat is?
Oh, it's like half of his height.
It's just very tall. So he's like Doug Dimedome Dome?
Clementine Sawyer is kind of like Doug Dimedome in a way, but
a lawyer. He turns around and says, please
tell me you brought my shucky boy.
We have a a. Shucky friend, he says.
Please, please show me. Please show me right now.
I can't wait any longer. I present Liz too.
He goes to take Liz out of your hands.
Do you let him? I'll, I'll, I'll look at Liz
first, see if Liz consents, because this is important to
Liz. Liz looks overall startled and
confused. Oh, she's a little startled.
Do you want to take it a little slow?
I'm sorry. He says do you want to meet now
or not? We can reschedule this for
later. I got to see this shucky.
Liz, I'm sorry. You OK?
Liz gives you like, a sad nod. I'm sorry and and over Liz.
Thank you, Liz. He, he just kind of picks up Liz
and they start to retreat a little bit.
The noodles kind of tucked in. He's like.
Shucky. And he holds it up above his
head, above his hat. And in fact, he pushes his hat
over like a little bit, and he just kind of spins in a circle
and he says shucky, shucky, shucky, shucky, shucky.
And he's just so delighted to have a Shuckle in his office
right now. This is wild, yeah.
It's almost like you 2 aren't even there.
He's just prancing around with Liz right now.
Let's check in with the friends at the police station for now.
More interesting party I think. So yeah, you managed to get
inside the building and it's pretty chaotic there.
The left lying, you can't really see what window they're going
to, but people are being handed paperwork and they're moving
over to like, there's no table space left because like people
are sitting and stuff and like the cops are running around, but
they're going over to walls with a pen and they're like writing
on forms. And then on the other side,
there are people who are not completing forms and they're
just talking to someone behind a window.
So basically, are you going right or left?
Do you? Remember where I went to before?
Yes. You went to the left window.
You recognize, or Cindy especially recognizes that
there's like a bulletin board there and there's pictures of
missing people in Pokémon, and one of them looks to be Poppy.
You do that and you wait in line for a minute and you're getting
kind of frustrated with how long it's taking, and you're
wondering how long this consultation is going to be for
the other fellows who are overdoing that.
And they come up and they say what you have to report.
So we recovered I. Was on the counter as she's
talking. We've recovered some.
Yes. OK, Yeah, roll it.
Roll the decks. 14. OK, cool.
None of them open, which is great.
Go on, LED. Yeah, so we recovered these
Pokémon that appear to have been stolen by Team Energy, and we
would like to return them to their owners.
They get excited, they say, Oh my, that's wonderful.
How did you get a hold of them? They were in a box.
They're going to make a check. Yeah, that was so big.
They say you said Team Energy had these.
That is correct. I'm going to ask you again,
where did you find them this? Is going to sound crazy.
Yeah, this is going to this is going to sound a little crazy.
We ended up in one of their storage closets by accident, and
I grabbed as many pokeballs as I could carry to try to return
them to the people they belong to.
One of them's an Onyx. Be careful.
The the person who is a tribute in forms and is talking to you,
looks at you very quizzically and she says, I'm gonna be
honest, how do we know you didn't steal these?
And she, like, reaches for a radio.
Pretty much those things. It's like we wanted to return
them here so that way they could get back to their owners.
Like if we took them, why would we bring them here?
And make a role. That seems pretty dumb.
They they're starting, they trust Cindy more than LED for
some reason, He says, Would you be able to give me a listing of
which Pokémon are in here? And she pulls out a binder and
she like, flips through it. You can just say that you do.
You don't have to do it yourself.
I read her my list. OK.
Oh. Blade hands.
Yeah, she crossed her references and she says OK, Actually a few
of these mess the descriptions of what we're looking for, about
5 of them do, but the rest we had no idea about.
We'll hold on to them for now. So I guess just sign this form
here to show that you've dropped these off and these do not
belong to you and you should be fine.
Thank you so much. I just want to make sure they
get back to who they belong to. And we think that they were
stolen from the Lily Cove Festival, so some of them might
not have been reported here or reported yet.
And I signed the form. Cool.
And she makes a little scribble, making you know what you just
said And she said so one more time.
Where did you get these? A box?
Where was the box? We'd love to do a follow up if
we could. Building close by that we ended
up in. It kind of looks at you and
she's like, this is model, there's a lot of buildings.
The team energy building, it was on the roof.
There's like a. Is it on the roof?
It was on the roof, yeah. He says Team Energy doesn't have
a building, at least not to our knowledge.
We tell which building it was. You enroll history to see if you
can describe it. Oh no, that's a 5.
Is that can I? Yeah, go for it.
Yeah. While she's rolling, Cindy's
like, yeah, it was this like super tall building.
We had to climb down the fire escape.
There were people in offices. It was a whole thing A.
Natural. 20A Natural 20 as you were descending the building.
However, many sessions ago Elodie had noticed as she was
descending a a logo that was on the north facing side of the
building and it was a big old S and ALDI remembers that this is
in fact the Holland branch of Silfco.
Holy crap it was in Silfco? I'm assuming ALDI explains this
too. Yes, I will explain that it was
the Silfco. Group notes OK.
I was like, why is she so quiet? OK.
Yeah. Yeah, she says.
Oh, that's very interesting. Well, thank you very much.
And she calls away. Yes, on the roof.
Yes, don't forget roof. He says OK, Roof got it.
And then she ushers in the next person in line, and now you're
just standing in the police station.
Should we go over to the lawyer building and maybe wait there?
Yeah, we can. Oh boy.
Cool. You over to you start to head
over towards the office of Clementine Sawyer, the lawyer.
Clementine Sawyer has been spinning around with Liz for
like a good 3 minutes and their noodles are just kind of
twirling and he's just going Chucky Chucky Chucky Chucky
Chucky. He is obsessed.
Yep, so I don't mean to interrupt but.
And I appreciate that you love my chuckle so much.
I can't tell you enough, but we do need a little bit of
assistance as well, if you don't mind.
He he looks at you and his eyes are like watering with joy, and
he says, oh, pardon me, where are my manners?
And he takes Liz and tucks her shell under his hat, and he
reaches out his hand to shake it with you.
And he says, I'm Clementine's Sawyer, the lawyer.
Nice to meet you. Do you shake his hand?
Pleasure to meet you Sir. Return handshake.
OK. And he goes for Schmidt as well.
Yeah, OK, Schmidt, the entire time feels like Quacko, like
tucked under his arm and he's been like holding him with both
hands. OK, great.
He moves out of the doorway and goes over to behind a very
large, wide mahogany desk and there's a couple seats and he
goes over to his big, big leather chair and he says
please, fellas, take a seat. What brings you in today?
My friend here actually was issued A subpoena and we were
wondering if we could get some like consultation on what our
approaches are, especially given the the current circumstance of
our own environment. Well, do you hand it to him?
It's just like slack jot and like the the the the eloquence
in which Gimli is speaking. I've been in the situations
before, we've talked to a lot of noise.
Gimli is a criminal. It doesn't think to do mining's
dangerous. Mining's dangerous.
Do you hand him the Yeah. Yeah.
Clementine Sawyer, the lawyer, takes a look at it.
He scans over. He says, all right, I know the
fellows in Goldenrod. Let me see here.
GTP first degree. This one's serious.
We've seen a far fetched. Wait, is that the far fetched
that you got there kiddo? Yes.
So here's the situation I had. I was rooming with this guy when
I was living in Goldenrod and then he just disappeared one day
and he, he, he was just gone. And so I, I was left to take
care of the far fetched. And so I took the far fetched
with me on vacation here and I've been stuck here for quite
some time now. He takes it out of this, he
says. I see, so you're saying this far
fetched was recklessly abandoned and you took care of him for the
time being, correct? Yes.
Is he registered to train his license or do you have his pokey
ball on you? No Sir.
OK, interesting. So this this Nick fella still in
possession of those things? I believe so, yes.
He kind of frowns. He's looking out with his
subpoena, he says. I could probably take this case,
but this is going to be a hard one to win.
I'm going to need to do a lot of digging.
You got any information on this Nick character?
He was always kind of sloppy. I don't know.
He came to because my mom works at the, the, the, the the Golden
Rod gym and he came to as a, as a gym hand there.
But yeah, he just disappeared one day.
I don't have any information after that.
He says all right, and I see you've been summoned for what?
In five days, correct? Yes, Sir.
He takes off his hat and Liz is like fully tucked in, but he
takes the shell and puts on his desk and like strokes it like as
if he was stroking his beard that he doesn't have because he
is thinking is deep in thought. Now this is a really big case,
but if I were to win it, that would probably net me a lot of
money. So I'm need some time to think
about this. Do you have any means that I can
contact you? Do we have any means of which he
can contact us? Do we have anything portable?
And letter. He says no worries, I deal with
clients all the time who don't have anything.
So he goes into his desk and he pulls out like a pretty cheap
looking flip phone kind of pokey NAV.
He says you can use this for now.
I got a lot of clients I got to visit today.
I'll give you a call right away. For now, we can just assume I'll
take this case, but I'm going to need you to dig up all that you
know about this Nick character. All right?
Yes, Sir. Thank you so much.
We appreciate it. Because of course, now I know.
Another take in the case might be another visit from Liz.
He he gets kind of excited and he says, Oh my God, son, you're
so right. And he holds up Shucky.
Not Shucky, but he holds up Liz. He's like, I'm gonna see you
again soon, Shucky. OK.
And he goes to, to kiss the shell.
And Liz is just like, not out at all.
It's just the red shell. And he gingerly hands the shell
back to you. Thanks, Liz.
Here's a Here's a lava cookie. Perfect.
She she, she takes a nibble. She enjoys it.
That's. I guess that's the end of your
appointment. Do you exit the office?
Yeah. OK, as you exit, who do you see?
It's Elodie and Cindy. They weren't allowed in because
they weren't They didn't come in with the shackle, so they had to
wait with everyone else. You're already united.
Congrats. Party separation worked out that
time. Let's go.
It was pretty low risk tasks to be fair, but yes.
It did work man. That's why I suggested we split
the party because it was low risk and near each other.
Yeah, I know, but like. So how did it go?
They can just say that it how it went.
Yeah. Just wanted to ask that, yeah.
It. Was very indolent, very into
Liz. We got a phone and he's going to
give us a call maybe at some point.
Is there anything that we need to do?
Just wait. That's all we can do for right
now. Besides, there's a little bit of
information we might need to get, but that is largely up to
Schmidt so. Is there any way we can help?
We use APC to dig up dirt on a nick.
Yeah. Any way you can think of for for
us to help there, Schmidt? The pokey Facebook.
Do some research. Yeah, you think you mentioned,
you mentioned in there your mom hired her.
Do you think your mom isn't though?
Yeah, probably. Maybe.
Might maybe we can give her a ring at some point.
What's the plan for the party now?
It's a jagged pad, just. Going to head northwards.
I think so, like we don't really do we want to supply or anything
before we go like that's the only thing I could think of.
It's the next gym. Might be no, but it moved, yeah.
Yeah, it moved to Fall Arbor, which I should write down, which
I have a map. You do have a map.
Yeah. So I think, do I know where Fall
Arbor is? If you have the map, yes you do.
It's it's. That's on the other side of
Jagged Pass. Yeah, yeah, it's.
Some things. Yeah, and Sidney knows too.
Actually, it is the city that is north of Lava Ridge.
It is the second northernmost city next to Four Tree.
It has a high elevation because it's kind of in the volcanic
mountains and there's a route next to it that is always
covered in soot when Mount Chimneys active.
It's not right now. That's true.
Wasn't that a thing? Yeah, that is a thing.
I don't know if like geographically that's the
closest, but that is an option. We still do.
We have to loop around to get to like places like Lava.
Well, we have to get there. Like we go to Jagged Pass and
then Lava Ridge after, right? Jagged Pass is adjacent to both
of those cities, right? Well that's the problem is my
head cannon because of the Pokémon games has distorted my
ability to get to lava Ridge. Oh right, because you have to go
through matchami to get there. Yeah, so I'm like, I know for a
fact that's not how that works. So that would be the worst city
ever. Yeah, it would.
But like, because it's like, how do I get here?
Well, you see, you got to traverse this huge mountain down
from the mountain. Like, are you serious?
Like, yes, But the Hot Springs, let me tell you, like, like, OK,
you don't think you built a road?
Like it's been 20 years since that game.
You know, like roughly for the scandal.
They're like those those ridges, like right off the like those
jumping hills, you know, like to the side of the city.
Yeah. Yeah.
Connected to the path, imagine. If it's like over the time,
you're like. Some stairs there or something?
It was like we could smooth this out like like which side do you
want to head to 1st 'cause we have to go through one of them
so. Right, so we go.
OK, so the path is Laveridge. I could pass Mount Chimney Fall
Arbor. Yes.
Ideally. Ideally.
Nothing goes wrong which. Yeah, if nothing has.
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again on next Tuesday. So to get to Loveridge, you're
going to have to go north and then go West.
All Arbor is on the other side of Mount Chimney.
It shows Mount Chimney is active here, right?
So you could get to Loveridge without going in the desert.
You can just go there. To get to fall Arbor you'd
either have to scale mount chimney or go through the desert
or go through I think it's called the hot pass or something
or the hot cave. What what's it called?
There's a stupid hot cave that So basically.
Yeah, that's such a terrible name I forgot about.
It's not a hot cave. I shit.
What's it called? It's where.
It's where you. Fiery.
Path. Fiery path.
That's way better than a hot cave.
They. Should rename it in the hot
cave. Yeah, we got to go.
They've renamed it. They're like, oh, Fiery Path,
just saying it. We're going to call it Hot Cave.