Welcome to the Cali Rex Game Corners Pokémon D&D campaign
featuring Cindy, a young Vagabond from the Hohen region
with pyromaniac tendencies, Gimli, a stocky Burley Meyer
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 we left off, we were in a room of the trick house.
This is the address where the cupcakes are due to be
delivered. And it also turns out to just be
a whimsical House of mystery and pranks and tricks.
A mysterious voice told you that they have something that can
help you with your adventure, which is very strange.
You don't know the person who lives here.
You solved a puzzle and the front door opened backwards and
you went into another room. You solved a puzzle, and now
you're in the second room. And the theme of the second room
seems to be that it's a little dance floor.
There's checkered tiles and they're lighting up colorfully,
and there's a bunch of dancing Pokémon in there, including a
Zig Zagun is one of them. They're just having a great
time. And the very last thing that
happened in our last session was that Schmidt and Jessica hit the
dance floor and they're just grooving.
So upon seeing this information, what do you do?
Continue to groove and schmove. Yeah, I was like, I just sit on
the ground. I can't dance.
Just just sits cross legged. Just arms crossed too.
Just like, oh, don't dance. Yeah, you both do that.
Gimli looks upset. He just sits down.
I've I meant to ask when we entered this place, how is being
situated currently? I'm assuming you kind of got him
like strapped in like as a backpack or maybe like through
your shirt collar like. I would like to think that he's
not, it's not like not like a backpack, but more so like like
the child front pack. You know, I'm saying he's got
like a little like cuz I have like overalls on and stuff with
it. So it's like I could just tuck
him in there and he's just hanging out.
Perfect. This is like the first day of
Bean's life, right? But he like, you know, he's a
baby, but he's not like crying or freaking out.
He's just observing. He's looking at everything and
being like this is what life must be like.
Yeah, this is wild. Along with the four of you, you
also have a wagon contraption that is carrying £300 worth of
cupcakes and I'm assuming that Gimli is pulling.
That in I'm just parked right. I'm parked right by that Now I'm
sitting, I'm like, well, this isn't going anywhere anytime
soon, so. Great, great, great.
Cindy and Ellie, what, what are you doing in this room?
You're on like a little metal platform and if you step off you
will hit the dance floor. Well, does anybody want to go
grooving on the dance floor? As I stated.
Already schmoven. What do you mean?
I don't dance. Let's do it.
Art groove on the dance floor. Yeah, let's go.
OK, I. Mindy and Soli stroll on out.
Oh Soli as well. Yeah, Soli's with me.
Is cabbage groovin too? Oh yeah, cabbage is grooving.
OK. I need performance checks for
everybody, including new ones for Jessica and Schmidt.
So I'd like to think Rock'n'roll is actually bald right now.
And then forced himself out because he wants to break dance.
Oh, OK. Rock'n'roll Yeah, Trevor now
because he he's he's all about the break dancing bowler, so.
Then you can roll for him as well.
A17-O No. So he got a six.
OK. 14 for Boulder. OK, Jessica got a 17.
Very good. Schmidt also got a six.
OK. Cabbage got a 15 and LDA got a
12. As the new friends hit the dance
floor, one of them or someone just somehow happens to distract
Schmidt a little bit and he kind of loses his step.
As he does that he feels like psychically electrocuted,
something from an outside area has just zapped his body and it
just hurts so so bad and he takes 7 points of psychic damage
as his dancing was insufficient. The the.
One who was the other dancer who didn't succeed slowly got a six
and also takes wow coincidence 7 points of psychic damage.
Wow, weird. Dance for your life.
It was a separate role, but it just.
So happy to join this dance floor.
Everyone else is grooving. There's a bunch of Pokémon in
the room. The there's a Zigzagoon that's
just dancing on 2 legs and it looks like so happy.
It looks like like, you know, it's just a Pokémon.
You can't talk to him about it, but like if anyone owned this
dance floor, it's Zigzagoon. They're just they're killing it.
They usher over to a fighting type Pokémon.
It's like really small and it's like very muscular and veiny and
it's holding above its head a big tray and it's full of little
like soda waters and it offers them to all of you.
You may or may not. Take a soda water.
OK, it's a clear drink. It's.
Peculiar situation. I'm good.
I'm being a curbogen right now. This is.
And they'll take one. Perfect.
It seems like it's optional, doesn't seem like it's required.
OK, then I won't take one. OK, You take a sip of it and
it's good. It's good.
It it's funny. It's like bitter in a way that
seems like it's like faux alcohol.
Like it's, it's like fake alcohol, basically.
And it's bubbly and it's kind of citrusy.
You're still dancing. What do you want to do?
Well, I can't stop while dancing.
Can I do like a like a what do the kids call it?
Perception check. Sure, go for it.
Yes, the the kids slang of perception.
Check. That was a crit.
You. Did a crit.
Yeah, that was the 20. Yeah, it seems like the floor is
like illuminating in a pattern perhaps, although like it like
it change, it keeps changing from like gold to purple to
black, all to like all the tiles keep changing.
But it's really consistent is something that you notice with
your current perception. And just a little ways down,
there's like a royally velvet and gold door at the end of this
little dance hall and you see just a bunch of Pokémon.
Derek Groovin, There's a new one that's entered.
He's it's kind of slinged in through the wall.
He's like a purple pile of sludge and he's just moving.
He's great. He's like really talented
dancer. You love a talented muck or
Grimer or big purple piles. Oh, it could be a swallow
actually, right? Could.
Be a swallow. Yeah, or like that.
I wonder if like the the gold door the the floor seems to
light up gold sometimes. Is it like the whole floor
lights up in those specific colors or is it like some tiles
are gold, purple and black? Some tiles are gold, purple and
black. As you are dancing, the tiles
beneath your feet change and it doesn't like seem to matter, but
you do notice that there's a consistent pattern.
And Cindy dance towards the door.
Sure. No checks required.
Actually, just kidding. I'm gonna make you do a check.
One more performance check for Cindy.
Nat 20. Yeah, yeah, you should move
over. What kind of dance move are you
doing? So I would assume Cindy's
dancing in rhythm, of course, on the beat, not stepping on toes
and just she moves her way across the dance floor.
She does that. She's the door.
Does she open it? Attempts, I mean, yeah.
Yeah, no, there, there's no challenge to it.
The door opens and enters into a new dark hallway.
If you'd like to enter, you may. Yeah.
OK, you do that. Cindy's left the room.
I will dance over and follow her.
Performance. Check.
I think we all just kind of follow through by this point.
Performance check for the people.
For the people. I trust the people for.
The people. Is there a way around the dance
floor? The whole thing is the dance
floor. It's it's more than you can
jump. I'm sorry.
It's like a solid 20 feet. That's fine.
I don't think a crit can even get you that jump.
Also, you have the wagon, so that's a little important too.
Yeah. Also I would like to say I crit
again. Yeah, do you want to describe
your movement at all? The most Immaculate movement
you've ever seen. You ever seen the movie Step Up?
Nope, but you can tell me. When they're when they're doing
like the robot thing, like he's doing like a like a robot, but
it's like a hyper realistic robot or he's like wiggling his
shoulders and everything and it looks like a robot and it's
great. Very cool, very cool as you make
that dance. Jessica copies it.
Jessica's like, oh, Schmidt can groove too.
And like, she just inherently loves seeing you dance as well.
I wonder if that had anything to do with the dance or ability.
You get to the door you may open and enter if you'd like.
Yes, please. You do that.
Since it seems clear that I have to dance across the dance floor,
I get up, I start moving the wagon and I start to do like, I
don't know if you're familiar with the Mass Effect games and
the shepherd dance because that's as far as I have like
willing to dance with. So I just kind of like pull the
wagon along and just like kind of snap my fingers, try to bop
to the beat. So I'm at least like presenting
the illusion of dancing while I drag this wagon across.
Because I got to do it. Yeah, you do have to give me a
performance. Of course, I figured even if
it's light, it's still it's still a Thing 19. 19 yeah, yeah,
it's fun, it's successful. In fact, you rolled well enough
that Gimli, like does cool little tricks for like as he's
dancing, he jumps and bounces on the handle of the wagon and does
a little spin in the air and. Extra whenever, it just
continues whenever. Salerina, Gimli and.
He's actually like low key dextrous spot.
Yeah, it's supposed to be his dump stat, but he's just like.
Feeling it. Nah Nah, I'm dumb as a doornail.
Even though this is charisma technically, but you know what?
I'm. Saying oh is this charisma?
Then I got a 21. That's even better.
Yeah, no, this. Is actually have?
Charisma performance is charisma, my guy.
Right, right, right. True.
Yeah, so you nail it. This looks awesome.
It's like somehow it's like that has a presence to it for some
reason, like Trevor. Trevor takes advantage of the
fact that he has three legs. Three legs means You Can Dance
pretty well. Boogie on up to the door.
Do you open it? You go through.
I got a a 15 so I'm canonically the worst human dancer.
Uh huh. Yeah, well, below me.
Yeah, I'm clear. You were with your modifier.
What'd you say? That was your first modifier,
yes. Yeah.
Oh, OK. Ality is feeling drained from
the lack of funds lately. It's just affecting her.
Her. Imagine you're like social
emotional level tied directly to your bank account.
Couldn't be me. Despite that, she still dances
well enough. All the Pokémon in the room give
her like a knowing nod. Like heck yeah, way to go, Bush
movement. Do you open the door and enter?
Yep. Excellent.
So that happens. The door closes and you also get
the feeling that like you started walking through this
house backwards, right? Like you went into the main room
and then you turned around and went out the front door into new
rooms. And at this point,
realistically, you'd be so far out of the house and you'd be
like at the center of the route that you were last on, but
you're still in the house somehow, some way.
The room that you all entered is totally dark and it smells a
little funky. The lights flash on.
Funnily enough, they're not lights.
There's actually a sun in the sky that is covered up by a
little bit of haze. It's it, it admits a bit of a
green light into the room. It's a square shaped room, but
in a perfect square around, like around the perimeter, there is
very, very thick viny foliage as it appears you are in a swamp.
It is a bubbling with acid. It's just like a terribly stinky
acidic swamp. The air is thick.
It's fairly hard to breathe. There are there's a fallen tree,
there's vines all over the place and off in the distance do you
see a light blue figure standing in the swamp.
What do you do? Hello.
The blue figure, it's about 40 feet away from you.
It turns its head. It's clearly a Pokémon.
It is about person sized, but notably wider.
It has a long tail and it seems like it's adorned in armor.
I don't like that at all. Yeah, not a fan.
Cindy waves. Cindy waves roll Pokémon
handling. Oh no, Nat one.
Nat one Oh yes, no the. God.
The I'm. Sorry guys.
The Pokémon looks at you and then just turns away.
Has wants nothing to do with you.
Cindy is sad. So it's not attacking us.
Yeah, I was. I thought that was really it's.
Like, Oh no, we're gonna die. About your knees, if you were to
step off this metal platform you would be in bubbly acidic water
and it is just dense with fallen trees and plants and just swamp
swampyness. Can I check if there's like
fallen trees that we can like jump onto from here?
Sure, I got a dirty 20. Yeah, it's possible.
There are vines that are kind of dangling from the walls that
seem to be like solid, like you wouldn't be able to move past
them and they kind of swing out to the center.
It could happen. It looks very dangerous.
It looks like you would have to be incredibly skilled to do it
safely. OK, so Gimli, you're going to
just go. For one time and mess up.
But how are we going to get the wagon across this?
Right. Yeah, that's an issue.
Is there a way to drain this acidic swamp?
Everybody grab a spoonful. Oh yeah, I'll just I'll just eat
through it with my con. That'll be fine.
Are. You going to roll for that?
No. OK, listen, I know we're about
this content life here, but I ain't doing that.
I'm. Just I just got to check OK.
I know I. Want to drink swamp water?
Yeah, I'm, I'm good. I don't want to drink the swamp
water. Can Cindy like dip her toes in
it to see if it'll like hurt her to walk through?
You can. You could dip something else on
it if it's active. Yeah, you could like lose your
toes if you do that. Yeah, or OK, I don't know the my
shoe that's on my foot. OK.
Yeah, just. Going to sacrifice your shoe.
Do you have nothing else? Can I throw a Gherkin in there?
Yeah, that might be better. I'm.
Going. To have a Gherkin.
I'm going to throw a Gherkin into the swamp.
OK, just give me a really basic Dexterity check.
Just want to make sure you actually do it.
And then? You throw Gherkin into the swamp
and it for such a hydrating and moist and plump vegetable, it
just ignites. It is just gone.
Oh. God, you wanted to dip your foot
in that. I never said sinhuk artist.
I'm trying. To figure out who this Pokémon
is. Maybe you can do a better job
at. Waving, I think.
Hey, how are? You.
Buddy, who are you? Roll a Pokémon handling.
A10 still not a great role, no. OK, it is more interested in you
than it is in Cindy. It hell yeah.
It turns its face to you. It's still really shrouded.
That's super hazy. Like it's basically a swamp fog
that you're looking through right now and you mostly just
see it's silhouette. But as it approaches closer, you
can see that it is light blue colored.
It's got little patterns of tan and it's vaguely feminine.
However, it doesn't approach much further.
It just kind of goes halfway across the swamp.
That's like a 60 foot long swamp.
I feel like like out of character like.
Standing in the water and not dying.
Yeah, it's fine. It's standing in the water.
Could we have our charismatic person?
Back in this. Pokémon to carious cross.
Well, we can try. That's the Spirit.
That's the spirit back in it closer.
Sure, how? How do you do so?
That's a really good question that I have to think about.
Hi Pokémon, this is an awesome swamp you have here.
It can't understand me or can it?
You can. Roll yeah.
You can. It's very charismatic of you.
17. It seems like it comprehended
the compliment and it stands a little bit taller and like, you
know, it pulls its shoulders back.
It looks a little proud. It marches a little bit closer
to you. It is now about 15 feet away.
LED recognizes this as a fairly large needle queen.
What do I know that what I. Thought because you made the
role and there. Was like some other reason I was
like am I like having? An.
There's some secret void about Elodie as a child raised by
Nidoran. Queen, I know you.
No, yeah, you, it's it's a fairly commonplace Pokémon
Schmidt recognizes well, and like any and all y'all have seen
Nituran like is in, you know. Queens recognize Queens, you
know? Yeah.
Seriously, that's what I was going to say.
Us Queens got to stick together. Yeah, yeah, LED probably saw one
on like Route 11 or something in college.
I definitely didn't just Google that to see where Nituran was in
the college region. But Nituran and College region.
So it seems like I mean Nitro Queen is a poison type.
Do any of you have poison types? Izzy's in the box.
Well, that foils that plan. So I don't think Izzy is capable
of carrying any of us. Well, that's true as well.
Izzy is a a wee little lass. She'll be big and strong one
day. Sure, and that day is certainly
not today. I'm still not sure if a Salazzo
can carry Gimli honestly. Yeah, true.
We use vines to make a raft it. Could I mean, we probably should
figure out about this noodle queen, right?
Do we she? Can probably help us hopefully
if we can get her any. Terry, one of us.
I think based on size, yeah. But like, I'm more worried about
the wagon. Well, yeah, but I mean like if
one of us shall. Make lots of trips.
Well, like if at least one of us has a cross, we can check if
there's like something else that can help the rest get across or
something. Because we can't really see that
far, can we right now? What is that?
That tree, that disintegrating tree in the swamp, what you
talked about. Yeah, it's it's basically hollow
like I wouldn't recommend. Staying hollow, OK.
OK, you can't see the end of this room, but you get the
feeling that there is one because all these rooms have
been like rectangle shaped so far right and it just you get
the vibe that that's what it is. Nita Queen is looking at you
guys. Still fairly wary but also
intrigued with Schmidt particularly.
Why me? Oh.
Because you had a good wave. So better than me though, didn't
she? Is she?
Yeah, I got a 17. Oh OK yeah, Needle Queen thinks
LED is the shit. Sick.
We recognize Queens like we just thought.
Queens, yeah, we'd be like yes, Queen I've.
Never been to try and say hi. Yeah, go for it.
Plus 3/14. What?
What do you say to coax this beast?
Hi friend. You know, Queen trudges forward,
splashing acid close to your feet, not touching it, and she
holds out a hand, a big queenly paw.
I take her paw. Take her paw and she throws you
on her back and she starts trudging across the swamp.
Go Cindy. Go woo.
Woo. As you cheer on I'm assuming
solely is like on my person somehow from holding her in a
way or not. You could roll a dex check for
her to see if she made it cuz you know queen did not grab
solely you know queen grab to you or you could have her wait.
Or can I pull out like a pokeball and return her?
Yeah, give me a give me ADC 10 Dexterity save to see if you can
recall solely as you jump on, you know, Queen's back.
Well, I rolled a 15. OK, yeah, you recall, You recall
solely into the Pokeball, As you know, Queen slings you onto her
back and she trudges away as Elodie and Schmidt and Gimli
cheer on Cindy. She and the Needle Queen vanish
from sight. So I'm going to recall my pole
door just to make sure I imagine.
Zero if my Pokémon have an issue flying across this.
You tried. And there was, there was that
haze bro if. They all work together.
Could they carry you? Oh.
All three of my birds I'm. Going to doubt it.
I'm just thinking like three birds is more than one bird.
Three birds, one Schmidt. Yeah.
None of them are particularly strong except Quacko.
Quacko's strong as. Quacko's beefy.
Yeah, 1 and you can do a trial run while you're still over the
metal platform. I'll just wait for the Queen.
Anyone else have anything they want to do or just wait for the
queen? I'll recall Jessica while I'm
waiting for the Queen. OK, Jessica seems relieved that
she's being recalled. OK, Jessica, you're good.
You do good. You all give it some time and
Neo Queen marches back without Cindy.
She well then she extends a paw out to the party.
Who wants to go next? My turn.
And I was like, I'll, I'll figure out the wagon situation.
Great. Quacko is out.
I'm assuming he's he's fly capable, yes.
OK, Neo Queen slings you onto her back.
I need a constitution save from Quacko as he attempts to fly
over the acidic swamp. Can he breathe the funes?
Uh. Oh, uh oh, I.
Didn't mention that. What kind of check is this?
Constitution save. That's a four, guys.
That's a four, yeah. Quacko.
Quacko jumps into the air to follow after you, and the air is
so thick and hazy he falls into the swamp and vanishes.
A poof of smoke and you hear a cackle.
Quacko no. Can I see do I see where Quacko
fell? Yeah.
You know the spot where he fell? There's nothing.
There, I'm jumping in. You're jumping in.
I'm jumping in after him. OK, Quacko.
Everyone witnesses as Schmidt jumps in the acidic swamp after
Quacko and in a flash he ignites and he is no longer here.
Nido Queen looks very confused and kind of concerned, and then
she just marches back over to the platform and extends a hand
once again. Well, before I go on, can I put
Cabbage in her pokeball? Yeah, of course.
OK, the I I you, you good Gimli, I can, I can go next.
I'm all concerned about the wagon at this point.
Like, yeah. Is the some kind of object we
can like put it in to carry? Over, I remember.
That's fine. Well, what are we going to do?
Well, he's I don't, I don't think he's dead.
So like the Cathaling plus the vanishing.
I remember. He mentioned that as long as all
of us don't die, we'll be fine. So I think if this is like a
temporary death situation, perhaps that's just, I don't
know, perhaps. On the way, I don't know if
there's anything we can do about it, as sad as I am about to.
Speak. Well, yeah, we kind of just have
to survive at this point as far as the wagon.
Can I do a perception check on that hollow tree?
I'm like convinced I can like put the wagon inside this and
use it with Nidoqueenicard over. Yeah, give it a rule.
Oh, that one. Yikes.
Yeah, you're not really sure. It's it's really hazy.
It's really hard to tell. Like maybe it could work.
Maybe. If there's anything we can
perceive from Schmidt just kind of disappearing and Quacko just
kind of disappearing because it seemed like it wasn't.
I mean, we observed it, but I mean, do we have to like
perception for that one too? Like this?
Like what we. I would inside it to see if you
get the vibe if like Quacko and Schmidt are like dead.
You know. Like neutral on that so.
I'll plus one. Let me let me try to take a look
at all inside inside on Schmidt. A big die.
Here we go was a 13 you. Understand that the way that
Quacko and Schmidt ignited into the swamp was the same way that
the Gherkin did. However, in the back of your
mind, you remember when you were first invited to this room, the
H trick or whoever the, the, the, the tenants or whoever runs
this place, what whoever or whatever they are mentioned that
death is something that can happen here and that it wouldn't
be permanent. So the back of your you're just
kind of hoping that Schmidt and Quacko are OK.
So Nudiqueen seems to have an understanding of us.
If I like gesture to the wagon and be like, do you think we
could do something about this? Yeah, Like, yeah.
Another Pokémon handling. Oh my God.
And that one again. That one.
You know Queen has no idea what you're talking about it.
Was like, what are you waving your arms for?
She does not get it. She does not understand.
Can I try and like explain and like point at it like mine
picking it up? Yeah, make that a performance
then. Oh, OK, yeah, perfect.
I love performance and it was a not super awesome role, but that
is and 11. OK.
Which might be 20. Now, so sorry for your roles
today. Jeez.
It's a money thing, isn't it? It's it's really a money.
Problem. Yeah, I'm also pretty broke so I
said I'm going to blame it. I'm I'm $17.00.
I think that's why my doubt ones are coming.
Yeah, Gimli and I are broke. It's fine.
Yeah, it's totally fine. Noodle Queen observes Elodie's
performance of My Marie and she just kind of quizzically looks
at Elodie and very slowly turns her outstretched hand into a
thumbs up. Whatever that means.
Sure. I mean, do we?
Can we hand Nodoqueen the wagon now?
You can do whatever you want. Push it towards her, I.
Guess yeah, but I'll I'll push the wagon towards towards
Nodoqueen for the like, out to the outstretched hand and see if
they take it along with them. OK, yeah, She picks it up.
She turns her back to you, and she wanders into the thick haze
of the swamp. Well, that's nice.
She Mission college. She vanishes for like a solid
like 40 seconds. OK, then off in the distance you
see her silhouette reappear without the wagon.
You want to go next. Sure, I can go next.
Yeah, OK. So I'm assuming Cindy has no
idea what happened to Schmidt real quick.
Oh God. Oh no.
You could. You could roll perception.
System 11. Yeah, you.
You didn't. You, for all your notion is
fine, you didn't see anything. Little Queen marches back to
Elodie and Emily and extends it paw once again.
I will take her paw. Great.
She's blames you onto her back. It's very like not gentle, but
it's also dude, it's fine like you, you do it.
It's it's all right. Queens recognize Queens.
It's all right. It's all right, Queen.
Yeah, she marches off into the haze and she's gone for like,
you know, 40 seconds. And then she returns with no
Elody. And then she looks at Gimli,
stretches out of paw. Absolutely take the paw.
OK, you take the paw, she slings you on her back in the same way,
and as you walk to the end of the swamp, there's another metal
platform where you see Elody, Cindy and the box of cupcakes on
a wagon. He sets you down there, he gives
a little wave, and then she vanishes off into the swamp.
Thank you. Thank.
You, yeah. Where's Schmidt?
Well. That's a funny thing.
We're we're not sure how death works in this house, but yeah,
what? Excuse me?
So Quacko was not flying very well and fell into the swamp,
and Schmidt jumped into the swamp after Quacko.
OK, I see it. I see it.
So and it it I'm I'm just not sure if he died.
I'm I want to be beat up about it but I'm really confused.
You think at this point we would be familiar with the concept of
death, but we have no body to bury so nothing is guaranteed if
there. Was a body to bury.
I'd be like well that sucks but I'm not.
I'm not sure what happened and really I'm not sure if I should
be sad or not. I think in his honour, I think
we should keep going. Is there like a cupcakes one?
Way or another. I'll just quickly take my
because I definitely have my hat.
So I'm just going to take my my weird bucket hat off their son
out of his honour. But he was a good lad, a little
little interesting, but a good lad.
Hopefully we see him again soon. Yeah, definitely.
Yeah. We'll see him again soon as.
Long as he didn't actually die, I don't want to see him again
soon. But if he didn't die, I hope we
see him again soon. There is a velvety purple door
with a gold border on this metal platform.
The classic. Well, I think we should open the
door. You do that and you all enter.
As you enter, this door was velvety and purple on your way
in. The backside of it is made of
stone, stone as the last of you enters violently slams shut.
This room is much smaller. The previous rooms you were in
it's it's probably about 10 feet by 10 feet.
Small little square, can barely fit the three of you.
You're kind of part of you is glad that Schmidt isn't here.
I mean you hope he's OK, but if you were here, you'd be very
crowded. The wagon just like can barely
fit it has to like lean diagonally up against the wall.
You notice as right after the door shuts the bottom of the
floor it feels a little moist. Dangling from the ceiling is a
wire, and on that wire is a Pokémon that is circular and
made of metal, and it has lots and lots of little objects
dangling from its body. Hi friend.
Roy, Pokémon Handling. A dirty 20.
OK, yeah, You do that to this ring that's angling from the
ceiling and it goes and it like kind of dances and it clings,
clings, clings, and there's all these little metal objects
dangling from it. Is up the only way to go?
There's a door on the far wall. Far wall doesn't seem very far.
It's not far at all. It's like basically an arm's
length. Yeah, can we?
Can we try the door? Yeah, it is locked and there's a
keyhole. Yeah.
There's a keyhole. Yeah, I bet, I bet that Pokémon,
it has a key. Something maybe could happen.
Seems like with a bunch of dangling pieces of metal.
Yeah, it's very it's. A very.
Yeah, there might be a Pokémon that does something like that.
I don't know. I don't know an.
Expert LED definitely an expert on this Pokémon don't This is a
fairy type from the Kalos region.
His name is Clef key and there are a whole bunch of keys on it.
As you observe, as you notice that this Clef key is here in
this room, the damp floor becomes a puddle.
I am setting a timer for 15 minutes that should.
Be plenty of time. No, no, no, no, no.
I ram the door. OK, roll a body, roll a
strength. Yeah, how much do I get for this
athletics? Yeah, athletics.
Yeah. 17. You slam the door with all your
force. It does not budget.
Yeah, figured. OK.
I'm going to take cabbage out. OK.
What scent do you think Clef keys would like?
Metal. Metal.
Oh, like the oil you put in locks to make them open better?
WD40. Can I have cabbage juice sweet
scent with the scent of WD40? Absolutely roll that
performance. That's wild.
That's a dirty 20. Oh, my gosh.
Yeah. You all inhale as the small
stone room that you're in with the dank air, the dank moist air
all now just smells like oil, smells like WD4.
It's awful. Clef keys like gives a nod to
cabbage. That's like, all right, yeah,
OK. But doesn't seem like
particularly delighted by it. It's just like, OK, I see what
you're doing. More or less.
Now it's just stinky. Yeah, now it's really stinky and
nothing that much has changed except the room is filling up a
little bit more with water. You can feel it on your ankles.
The answer was not It's in fact a living being.
Not a machine. Oh like so the Clef keys on a
wire, right? Is it like like the wire is not
long enough for it to be able to reach down to us?
It's like, how high up is it? It's like it's, you have to
reach up to grab it, but it's, it's a pretty like skimpy wire.
It's, you know, but yeah, it's attached.
You can do with that what you will.
I'm worried that if we broke up, that would happen.
Come here. Do you want to roll a Pokémon
handling for that? Yes.
Do it. Another dirty 20.
It doesn't come to you 'cause it's on the wire, but it looks
at you very happily and it goes and it goes Ding, Ding, Ding,
and the keys rattle on its body so.
How high would you say it's up? You can.
Reach up and grab it, yeah. Yeah, I was like, could I boost
Cindy up just real quick to grab cleft key because it seems like
it would actually come. Cindy can grab it.
It's not very. High Cindy can just grab it,
okay? OK, I reach up and grab my my
new geeky friend. OK, yeah, no checks necessary.
You do that. You gently pull on Clef key and
they break free from the wire and they are in your hand.
They look at you and they go and they're like super happy.
It's very cute. So can we try some of the keys
in the door? Sure, go for it.
Yeah. Can we, can we do that?
Yeah. Which one do you pick?
OK, can can we describe the keys like?
There's several of them, More than a dozen.
They're all different. There's a bronze one, there's a
silver one, there's a gold one, there's a copper one.
There's one that's like in the shape of a skull.
There's one that looks like it's made of plant.
They are very diverse, this one in the shape of a teardrop.
Their aesthetics are wild. Did you say there was a gold
one? Yes, and the doors have been
trimmed in like golden stuff. I would try that one first.
OK, you take it off of Clefke do.
You have to take it off to do it.
Not necessarily, but the clefke does open.
Oh OK, whichever way is the fastest to try to get it in the
the hole to see if it works. OK, I've as you grab the gold
key, cleft key is just like and like feels itself open the way
that cleft key does. And you are able to remove the
key from its body. You put it in the door.
Yeah. Roller D20.
A9. 9 doesn't fit. It hardly even goes in.
What? What does this door look like?
It looks like all the other doors.
It is velvety purple, kind of like a felt, and it has a gold
trim. Hey guys, it's not the gold key.
Thank you. That's.
Is there a velvet key? No, but there's a purple key.
There's a purple key. Try.
The purple key, yeah. Let's get the purple key.
We're LLD 20 and it's fine. 1616 does not open the door.
It goes in a little bit, but not quite.
Not quite. Do you hang on to these keys or
do you return them to Clef key? Probably give them back to Clef
key, but like in a way that like we know that we tried them.
OK, sure. Yeah, Clef key holds them closer
up to its mouth, and then the other ones dangle from its arms.
I guess. Have you want to describe it?
You have a little less than 10 minutes left.
The water's up to. Your knees teardrop key.
Teardrop key? Yeah, roll AD 20.
It's a 15. 15 does not open the door.
Very, very sorry. Speed run of the next keys one
after the other, sure. OK, there are 16 keys that you
haven't tried. Did you just go from left to
right? Yeah.
OK, key #16 Roller D20. 19. OK, it goes in like all the way
but it doesn't quite turn or 15 keys left.
OK. The next one, it's 11. 11 This
is a fiery red key. It does not go in all the way
unfortunately. And the next.
One OK, this is key #14 it is yellow and sparkly.
Roll your I. Got a nine again.
OK, it does not turn the lock next one. 4.
OK, this one like is in the shape of a spider.
You put it in the lock does not work.
You got 13 keys left. 5. Five.
It does not go into the hole. Try either.
It's 12th key. A10.
OK, not going to work. Get the 11th key. 5.
Unfortunately, this little orange key does not do the job
A. 17. The 10th key does not fit.
I'm so sorry. And that's funny.
All right, you have this blue key.
It's in the shape of a snowflake.
As the water is up to your waist, you insert into the
keyhole. You turn it and it clinks open.
Wonderful. All the water drains out through
a hole in the bottom of the floor, and Clefkey lets out a
little cheer. Yeah.
Are the cupcakes soggy because the water?
The wagon would have been underneath and would have rise
like rose up. It's the water.
Believe it or not, your clothing is not wet, despite the fact it
definitely was earlier. Well, I mean, weirder things
have happened. True, it literally died.
OK, do we all went to the next room of the Turk house?
Absolutely. Yeah, great.
You get the feeling that you've walked so far in the single
direction. You would probably be in
Slateport by now if you were outside of Turk House.
Yeah, we were outside, yeah. Great.
Before you entered the room, while you stand in this Chamber
of temporary darkness, you can smell and hear quite clearly
that something is alive up ahead.
No. Don't like that?
It is fairly dark. It you the walls around you
change to like a cobblestone with Moss.
You find yourself in a room that is similar to what's it going to
describe. I don't think this exists in
Pokémon. I want to say it's like a Mayan
temple. Like it the the room is a vague
pyramid shape. It's it's like triangular and
conical but kind of segmented and it is quite dark.
There's a little filtering of light up through a crack in some
of the stone. Good thing I can let solely out
who has 30 feet of dark vision. Sure.
What do you want to do with solely?
Have solely try to communicate how to get to the other side of
the room as best as she can. Have solely do a perception
first. Well, she will.
He got a four. She had a four.
She is big though. Solely with her night vision,
she peers around the corner from this threshold that you're
standing in and she her eyes lock onto something and she puts
her head down on the ground and puts her paws over her eyes
immediately. No.
So whatever it is, she's. Scared of it?
Yes, she is. Doesn't like being here.
Great. Well, that makes how many of us
are there now I was going to suggest solely make a little
light for us, but I'm assuming we don't want to see.
I mean, I could ask, or I could let Jack out and Jack could
something. It's up to you.
Yeah. It does seem like Silly doesn't
want to be here, so I'll pull slowly back and I'll let Jack
out. The serious thing is the thing
we don't know about. OK.
True what? Do you do with Jack?
Jack's only fire move is a fire Fang, so could you just like, I
guess, flaming teeth? Yeah, he can.
Kind of. He can just kind of like project
it in a spurt, or if you wanted to be like a torch, he can do
that too. More.
More of a torch, hopefully. OK, Jack, come on.
We're counting on you. This is just bird box.
That's a good point. Let's say 9.
His fire fame is in fact in his mouth, so it's not quite as good
as a flashlight. It's a little bit worse than
that. But is he just on the ground?
Are you like, holding him? I'm trying to picture this.
I was assuming he's just like vibing on the ground OK.
Yeah, he's vibing on the ground and he's he made it in a weak
light. It's about as powerful as the
light that's filtering through the ceiling and it casts onto a
figure. It seems like a statue.
It is directly in front of you guys, a little waste the left
and it is a sculpture it appears of a person and a Pokémon.
I would like Cindy to roll a history.
Oh, 16 + 117. Has nothing to do with history
class. It has everything to do with
something that happened three days ago.
You see cast in stone the face of youngster Calvin and no a
venonette. No.
And a what? And a venonette.
And they look terrified. Oh, no.
Oh, he went into the church house.
Oh, Calvin, no. We did see him again.
Oh God, is there Medusa in here? The heck Roller perception.
Oh no, Oh no, I don't want Medusa.
It's a dirty 20. You can hear what sounds like a
a sizzling sound, and from behind the statue of Calvin you
see a single looks like a tentacle with a blade on it.
Oh. God, oh God, oh God, oh God.
I mean it does like the like the idea of Medusa exist in the
Pokémon world that like Elodie would know that that is a thing
that exists. You could roll inside.
I don't want to say it's definitely not arcana.
I will give you history or religion.
They're both intelligence, OK. They're probably going to be the
same then 8. Yeah, you are not familiar with
any stories about Pokémon and people trained to stone.
You have no idea. Yucky, yucky, yucky, yucky.
We just like close our eyes and like fumble through the room is.
That what you do that's. What I'm thinking, I'm just not
sure if like our characters would make that leap, but maybe
they would. I don't like it.
I mean like they are turned to stone and they do seem pretty
scared. What was the whatever that
popped out behind it? You saw a dark colored looked
like a tentacle, but at the top of it was a sharp blade.
I don't know what it could be. Yeah.
Can I roll insight to see how evil the room feels?
Sure, go for it. Oh no, that's a four.
Yeah, you. Yeah, you you get no vibes from
this room at all. You just, it's a room.
There's a statue of Calvin here. Isn't that interesting?
Screaming Oaks or Calvin solid bun?
It's normal. Oh, OK.
Yeah, guys, I don't think it's not bad.
I think we're good. Thanks.
Thanks, Cindy. VOD Chuck seems OK, yeah.
It's just straight UPS slip bro. So.
There's a sound of like constant like sizzling or hissing
non-stop in his room. I don't.
Like snakes? Yeah.
Doesn't glare. What is it?
Does a Viper have like a a blade on the end of its tail?
Does yeah. Oh, and this was probably
paralyzed due to glare, but. Oh.
Can I say here Kitty Kitty? I'm just trying to attract this,
whatever it. Is why would you think it's a
Kitty? That's too.
Attractive roll up Pokémon handling.
Oh God. What if we if we make friends
with it? That's a dirty 20.
Cindy, you were spot on. There is not one but a pair of
sub Vipers in this room. You say here Kitty Kitty and the
Slytherin gets louder and they slide right up to you.
I need you to make a con save. This is a very high save.
I'm like hiding behind Gimli. Oh no, like con's -1.
So here, kidding. He's like, I'm kidding.
The six. Oh, God.
Oh, no. We're gonna lose Cindy.
Gimli and LED observe as Cindy waves down to the these pairs of
snakes and her body solidifies and becomes stone.
Jack did not meet eyes with these snakes and just is meowing
sadly at Cindy, frozen in like a a a kneeling position.
I'm going to cover my eyes and be like, Oh my gosh, Jack, come
here, baby. Like Beckett and Jack over.
Yeah, yeah, Jack. Over my eyes.
Jack is just meowing and is just very confused and scared and sad
and leaps and terrible. Well.
Oh God. Well, we are you yet I've seen
everyone cry right now. Well, we did watch her die.
Oh God. Oh.
God. We got to get out of here.
I don't want to die. OK, well it's very clear.
Wait to shut our eyes. Yeah, my eyes are closed.
I'm going to put one of my hands over my eyes and one of my hands
over Jack's eyes, and I'm going to recall cabbage.
OK? Should we try and feel our way
out of here? Oh wait, tremor, tremor sense
Trevor. We can be able to.
He can. Yeah, I'll bring Trevor out and
then see if I can tremor sense to see the way out.
And then we can use Trevor as like a guide to the darkness.
OK, have Trevor roll a Perception.
Yeah, oof. That is a as in fact A4.
This mossy cobblestone is all cracked and there's like small
plants growing through it and Trevor just, it's like a jigsaw
that's all unscrambled. He can't really feel it out.
The only thing we can do because I guess we we didn't really see
much of the map layout of the room.
It's rectangular. Like most of these.
Rooms. There's like a small pillar in
the middle where the Viper were hiding behind it, and they've
returned to that spot since they petrified Cindy.
Well then I think the obvious play, since these are all
rectangular rooms, is to go towards the wall.
Yeah. And blindly walk it until we hit
the door. Yeah, kind of like leaning along
the wall. You do the left wall, the right
wall, right wall. OK.
And are you playing the wagon as well?
Yes. OK, when you were ready to do
so, you may roll me a Dexterity safe.
Oh, my favorite. Both of you.
Yes, Oh yes, 22. Oh my God I got like a 13.
You both hug the right wall. You walk along.
Calvin and his friend Tim were petrified to the left so you do
not cross paths with them. As you reverse this room.
It's about 30 feet down the the Slytherin hissing sounds get
louder and louder. You walk past them and they
start to go quieter and quieter. Gimli feels a sneaky tail
briefly wrap around his ankle. The bladed part of it leaves a
very small cut in his pants. However.
You both make it to the door with your eyes closed.
It is unlocked. Do you enter?
Yes, yes. OK, you do that.
The door closes, you're on a metal platform and you have
survived for now. There's only two of you left.
It's not worth the money. The trick house.
It's. Not worth the money at all.
The. Trick House is not over, guys.
Oh God, it's. Definitely not worth the money.
LED Gimli and a big wagon. A goodies.
You enter yet another rectangular room.
It's about 30 feet deep. The walls are more or less like
25 feet, so either side of you on the left and right in the
center of it. This one's fairly well lit.
It looks like a temple or like a cathedral or something.
There are 4 pedestals with bowls on the top of these pedestals.
They are empty and each of them have text written on it in a
language that you speak. On the left most pillar says I
have a head but no arms, a tail yet no legs.
On the second it says every morning a nog and I shed every
evening I regain my head. On the 3rd is a little round, a
little straight. The picture is clear but we love
to obfuscate. On the 4th it says flip me by
night, flip me by day. Will it help?
Who can say? On the back wall by the entrance
is a table with three items on it, a coin, a pillow and a
puzzle piece. On that same wall, there's a
velvety door with a gold trim. I guess we do.
We can we get this in? No, Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I'm. Because the flip one is the
coin. The coin.
The head well, so I guess the coin could be one or. 4 right,
but there might be one that aligns better with that.
So like. Maybe the pillow is 4?
The pillow could be 4 because the cold side of the pillow,
yeah. Right, that's what I'm thinking.
Yeah, a little round, a little straight.
This picture is clear, but we love to obfuscate.
A little round, a little straight.
Oh, that's, that's a puzzle piece.
A little round, a little straight.
Because you have. Like some edges are curved.
Right. The picture is clear, but we
love to obfuscate because like, like it's unclear until you add
the pieces. Yeah, I have a head and but no
arms, a tail yet no legs also could be a coin.
That's what I'm thinking, yeah. Yeah, and then the pillow could
also be two, because every morning a noggin I shed you
remove your head from the pillow.
Every evening I regain my head. And right back on the pillow.
OK. I feel like coin to one, pillow
to two, and puzzle piece to three makes the most sense to
me. Right, Because I think the flip
by night, flip by day, will it help?
Who can say means that it might be like it might not be the
option, but it sounds like it could be any of them.
Because technically, like when you're moving a puzzle piece
around, that's the same logic too.
So that could be all three meaning each other.
One is like very specific to each piece and then the last one
could be any of them, meaning that maybe we should toss it
aside. I'm down with putting.
Yeah, I just want to, I want to sit on it a little more, but I
think I'm liking that as well. The problem with it is, is that
we're presented with them in order and I don't like that.
Like you see how it's like, it's literally one.
Yeah, 1 is coin pillows too. And it kind of fits almost too
well that I'm like, I don't want to, but then might be over just
just. Overthinking it.
Completely. Insane option.
Put all three in the fourth one. The insanity.
The insanity option just flip the ball over on the 4th 1.
The only thing about like the pillow fitting with the last one
is flip me by day and like you don't really use a pillow.
During the day, but OK, so like that's.
The only thing that's. Throwing me What if we just flip
the ball over? Yes.
Wait, actually. So we go 123, flip the ball
over. Yeah, that sounds like a good
idea. Answer, but like I'm kind of
interested. OK.
Is that what you do? Yeah, yes.
OK, you do that. Is there a door in here?
Yeah, yeah, it's right by the table where all the items are.
Can we try the door? You open it, it's unlocked.
Awesome and give me a high 5. Yeah, I was like, I don't even
solve it, but I guess we can move on, right?
You enter the next room. This place does not end.
Instead of a rectangle, this is like a straight line.
It's just a hallway. It goes like 40 feet down.
You descend the hallway. It's fairly well lit.
It's just like stone walls it seems.
Not very. Suspicious, but you say that,
but I'm suspicious. You can roll Insight or you can
proceed. Yes, there's all sorts of stuff
you can do. I'm gonna insight OK 09.
Nine Yeah. You don't really know what's
going on. You don't really trust anything
you've seen in the trick house. True, I'm good to I guess walk
down if you are. The two of you walk down this
hallway. Your feet echo in this space.
The ceilings are like high and like slightly curved, but the
walls are very narrow. You pull the wagon behind and it
kind of goes in the hallway. You go 40 feet down and before
you are two doors, each of them with little cat faces on the
top. They have no door knobs.
The cat's eyes are closed. Wait, describe that to me again.
I don't know why that's in process.
There are two doors to the left and to the right.
They are your same classic purpley doors with gold trim,
and there are faces of cats, well, specifically cat Pokémon
on each of them. They both have their eyes
closed. They look, they're asleep.
Can I say here Kitty Kitty? Sure, yeah, roll a Pokémon
handling. 9 I should have Jack still in my arms so.
Yeah, Jack. Jack is funny.
Does Jack help you? Sure, he can meow with me.
Sure, Yeah, he meows with you. Great the two cats on the doors
open their eyes. They go, yeah, welcome, welcome
to the trick house He he, he, he, he and they giggle and they
speak in unison is very. Smooth.
They say, what if these doors will lead you to the exit?
The other one will lead to certain doom.
One of us lies. One of us always tells the
truth. He, he, he.
So the solution to this right is that you ask what the other one
would say, and then you do the opposite, right?
One the left door, let me specify.
The left door is a purplish blue looking cat and the right door
is a Gray cat with like little horns and a beard.
Yeah. So you, you.
Yeah, yeah, somewhat. The other one, the same.
Will this door, will this door, will the other one tell me that
that door will lead us to certain doom or something to
that extent? Which one are you asking?
Let's just say, OK, there's a Lolan Meowth and a Galerian
Meowth. Which one are you asking?
OK, I guess let's ask a lolan meow.
And can I get that question one more time?
So would the other cat say that your door will open?
That would lead us to a certain doom and lead.
Us or it will lead us to a certain doom.
Sorry. The cat thinks and says no.
And then ask the other the same question.
What can I get? What?
You asked the gallery. Meowth.
Will the other cat say that this door will lead to certain doom?
The gallery, Meow says confidently.
Yes. OK so I believe it would be the
a lolan Meowth door right? Because Lolan Meowth door is the
truth and the Gallerian Meowth is the liar.
Because the Lolan Meowth said that the other Meowth would lie
about this door and then wait because the other ones in the Oh
no my trick didn't work you. Can ask more questions you can
ask whatever you want we. Just got to make sure we frame
the question correctly because I've definitely heard this like
1000 times and then forget the Oh no it did.
It it did work right because I'm like trying to picture.
This we asked. We asked always if the opposite
door. What the cat would say about the
the other cat would say about the door that they are under.
So a lolan cat tells truth then Galerian lies and so if the
Galerian meow would lie about the door that the a lolan cat is
on then he would say and it was the right door to to go to
certain death are. We supposed to ask me there?
No idea. To to process.
Because we asked about it's. Opposite, let me say I encourage
you ask as many questions as you'd like.
You don't have to base it all off this one about analysis.
But that's this should be all the answer.
We need this. One I was.
Saying if we framed, if we framed it correctly.
And that's what happened in Labyrinth.
And she fell down the door to certain death.
So I'm. Have either of us?
Seen Pokémon lab? Yeah.
That was out of context. This is not in context of the
Pokémon world. OK.
Well, yeah, I guess, I guess that's true, but.
So we asked the one if the opposite door would it lead us
to certain death, the opposite door, he said no.
And then we asked the other one if on the other door would it
lead us to certain death. He said it confidently yes.
So one of them is lying, the others telling the truth.
But we didn't ask about the same door, right Which we would get
an answer. So it wouldn't really.
OK, so I guess should we ask? OK so to the Ellolin Meowth,
what would Elyrian Meowth say? That the door that he is on
leads to certain doom. Ellolin Meowth says no.
And that was the same 1 you said yes to the opposite door.
Meow meow Gallerian meow. What would a lolan meowth say
about the door that a lolan meowth is above?
A lolan meowth would say that his door is the safe door.
Ola Meowth would you say your door is the safe door A.
Lolan, Meowth says. Of course, my door is the safe
door. So I don't think that's the safe
door, because whether or not one is telling the truth and the
other's lying, it would be the opposite answer regardless.
Because yeah, because if they're both saying that it's that door,
then one of them's telling the truth about what he said, while
the other one did say that. So either.
How are we overcomplicating this?
It's also a 5050. I mean, you could.
Just open the truth. OK, one of us goes through one
door or the other goes through the other.
Then one of you has to do. The rest of the trick house by
yourself. Yeah, because it might not be
over here. Oh, right, sorry.
Yeah, I guess I kind of assumed. It also we got to take the wagon
with us and we have to get it to the definition.
So we can't really we have, we would have to both coin toss it
if we're going to take that route or figure out the puzzle.
No, I think we have to figure out the puzzle.
I think we, I think, I think we have it.
So when we asked that, which me out was it that we asked the ask
about the opposite door and then ask the same door?
Let me write the write them all out.
Yeah, because that's the only thing that's bothering me is
like, we're asking, like trying to visualize it with the Galarn
and Alon Meow, this little jarring Galar Meow.
Would Alola Meow say that his door is the safe door?
Yes. Now Alola meow would you say
your door is the safe door? Of course.
OK, Alola Meow was Galar Meow lying?
Yes, so, so that definitely wait, no, no, Ron, because
they're both going to say that each other is lying.
Not necessarily. So why I wanted to ask that was
because if the ilomia said yes and then the other one, this is
like would he say this yes. Then he asked would would you
say your door is safe? He would say yes.
Then I asked him if the other one was lying and he could be
lying or telling the truth and then he said yes.
But the Alola Meow said the exact same thing.
So therefore the one in front of us is lying.
The Galar Meow is lying, therefore the Alola Meow is the
safe 1. Does that make sense?
Yeah, I think my logic makes sense.
I don't know but. Me you using yes and no doesn't
actually keep track of whether they said it was safe or not
because I don't remember what we asked for the first few ones.
Because I might have confused myself in my mind with this.
Riddle exactly. I confused myself for sure.
I know the answer to it but like I'm I'm just confused like I've
confused myself. I complicated it too much.
Clear your mouth. Is your door safe?
Yeah, it's true. Clear me up as a beard and beers
never lie. Glarian meow Glarian meow would
a lolan meow is it or glaring meow is a lolan meow store safe?
No. So I mean, I guess we can ask
like a simple question like Glarian Meowth.
Are you a Glarian Meowth? How would I know I live at a
door? All right.
Yeah, that's a fair. What's like a question that is
like, unequivocally there is one answer to what?
Were the colors of the doors. They're the same.
They're that velvety purple and they have gold trim.
Clear me off. What's the color of your door?
I've never seen it. I can't turn my neck.
OK, that's fair. Right.
OK. Has he ever seen colors?
Like, can they describe colors? Clear me off.
Do you know what a color is? What's a color?
What color? Color.
What's a color?
You can't ask something like objective, yeah.
Yeah, I guess. Yeah, I guess we can.
Really. I guess all they know is doors.
Yeah, I mean, Gloria Meowth, are you a door?
I think I'm in a door. OK.
And the lower meowth are you a door?
How would I know? Oh.
My God. Yeah, say you can't ask them
objective. Yeah, yeah.
Because they're like, I don't know what, what is the thing?
Yeah, I don't know. I so silly thing I want to try
this just because glare Meowth. My name is Gimli.
Hello. What's my name?
I don't remember. Cool.
OK, see no objective truth. I'm sorry to confirm that.
I I'm going to start from the beginning of my thought process
again because I was not taking good notes the first time but
sure a Lola Meowth. Hello, What would Gallerian
Meowth say about your door? They would say that my door is a
trap. We don't even know if that's.
True. Honestly, honestly, like just
from that, I think it's the Glarion door and I, I think
that's what you said earlier. Yeah, I did.
Then I'm happy to go through the glarion door.
OK, Yeah, we can do that. OK, you lock in your answer and
the mouth say yeah, and then the Alolan mouth door vanishes and
the Glarion mouth door swings open.
You've solved the Riddle. Yeah.
Nice job, OK. I.
Was like I had it earlier question.
It was all we needed and we spent way too long on that.
Although the very first question didn't really frame it for us
until we got further into it. It's like what he would say it
he would say by door. It's a trap.
You went to the next room and as far as you can tell it is
identical to the previous room. You're in a lawn hallway.
It is stone like and at the end there are two doors.
I hate it here. Right, right, right, right,
right, right, right, right. It's like 40 feet down.
Do you walk down the hallway? Sure.
Yeah, OK. You walk down the hallway and at
the end of the hallway there are the 2 doors.
They are purple with gold trim. There are no cat faces.
In between the two doors, close to the ceiling, there's a sign.
It says TRICK in all caps with an exclamation point.
It's not. Bad.
Door that just says trick. Can I trigger on?
See if there's anything else around here.
Sure. 12. There's it's pretty nondescript.
It's just a stone hallway with two doors at the end and a sign
that says trick I forgot to specify.
It's like a neon sign and all of the lights are changing colors.
It is like very cartoony clowny looking.
Yeah, and they're just two. Doors, right?
Yeah, 2 doors. They have door knobs.
They have door knobs, yeah. I'm sure.
It's funny because like, I can imagine that we got to the end
of it and we're trying to make this tough decision and both
doors just lead to the exit anyway and they're on the same
side and it's just to make you think that there isn't 1.
Trick though, so it just. Says trick.
It's a trick like in between the doors, right?
They're not pointing at anything.
It's like nondescript. It just says trick and like the
neon clown sign. That's what you're saying,
right? But is it like in between the
doors? Like it's not above one in
particular. No, it's.
It's directly symmetrically in the middle.
Right. OK.
That's what I was making sure. You said it was like changing
colors. Yeah, it's just like flashing.
Yeah, it's like a cool like. Open.
Sign. Yeah, it's like alternating like
like the colors of the rainbow, right?
Right, the whole thing. It's like a flat, it's like a
flashing, like open sign, you would say like kind of a style.
That's exactly. It's it's super tacky.
Yeah, good adventures. Go left.
We're going left. OK, right do.
You want to see that grace, so you go with that.
There's no puzzle here. Sure.
Like it's there's. Yeah, I'm, I'm down.
I'm like convinced that this is just an actual trick that
they're trying to make us sit here so.
OK. I'm just walk through left you,
you go first. Yep.
You open the left door, it is totally dark.
Cool. You continue walking.
Yes, great LD you follow. I'm going to wait a beat.
OK, you wait with the door open as Gimli pulls the wagon into
the darkness. You lose sight of him because of
how dark it is, but you can hear.
You can hear the wagon. You good, Gimli?
I'm gonna need a lot to him. Seems all right.
Yeah, it's true. I think we're fine.
I will call before something else happens.
All right, I'll come. OK.
Is it too late to roll an inside
check? For what?
For just like the vibe of the room.
Sure. I mean for the previous room or
this room you're about to enter that I haven't described.
Yet this room that I'm about to enter.
Sure. Yeah, you can do that.
OK, 14. Yeah, it's, it feels like
whoever designed this place is just loves pranks and mischief
and tricks and that's pretty much all get from it.
That's kind of done. It's just like I'm just taking
the left door. I'll, I'll, yeah, I'll keep
going. I'm.
Sick of tricks like it's just left door.
Yeah, so the corridor that you're in starts to gradually
brighten up, and once again you find yourself in what looks like
a a temple or a ruins, but instead of like mossy
cobblestone, it looks like sandstone.
And it's a very narrow 5 foot hallway that like descends down
on a ramp and then there's a pool of water.
The ceiling is very low. Gimli can just would be able to
just walk through it this this channel of water and not hit his
head on the ceiling. LED would have to tilt her head
down a little bit to get through it.
It's full of water. And there is a sign on the
ceiling where like if the ramp starts to go down the slanted
ceiling, there's a sign. And it says the bravest of
Pancham survived without the pack.
Does that mean we have to go? Along.
Yeah. So rock purpose, scissor fulfill
goes first. We can't see each other, so it's
not going to work. Yeah, you just roll AD 6.
Whoever does that wins. Yeah, I got a six.
I got a three. OK, I will go first.
So I'll take the wagon with me because I'm the only person who
can lift it anyway. So me and the wagoner I was like
can can I? How?
How far is the like? Can we tell how far away, like
how through the water is? Roller perception. 18.
Yeah, there's a parent and it's got, it's like a long way to
touch the water, but you can probably do it.
It's. The only thing I'm concerned
about is that if I take the wagon with me, I'm treating the
wagon as a character too often. If I take the wagon with me,
would it trigger something because I have to go alone?
Quote UN quote? I don't think that the wagon is
a character. I keep, I've been so tight knit
with it. I feel like it's I'm going to
OK, I'll try the wagon with me and go through.
OK, You do that. As you enter the water like
you're forcing to, it's like a it's like you're spelunking in a
very narrow corridor that's full of water.
As you enter, the water displaces to just above your
neck. And as you pull the wagon in, it
doesn't displace anymore and you walk down the corridor.
You walk all the way to the end. Yes.
Good, you do that. You pull the wagon out and the
you and the wagon are now dry. All right, seems fine.
All right, I will walk through, holding Jack on my shoulders.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh.
Wait, Jack. Brave as a pet jam.
Have to go alone. But how is he going to get
across? Jack looks at LD and goes.
Well, was it like a little? Jack like on the Jack?
Yeah. It's like, can Jack?
Like can Jack swim? Danny.
He's a fire type. You know what?
No, I was going to say I pull up Papio and Papio can help, but
you have to go alone. Go alone.
Yeah. And we can't just leave Jack so.
I'm going to ask Jack if he can swim.
OK, roll up Pokémon handling. It was a fire type but like I
sat in rivers with my Pokémon and they didn't like it but like
it's not like they died. 10. Jack doesn't really understand
what you said at all, but looks at you and goes well, like very
courageously as he is brave natured he.
Is brave natured, Yeah. Right, OK.
He is the bravest of Pencham, as it were.
OK. I'm going to send Jack first.
OK. Through so there's somebody on
each end. Can you describe how you like
encourage him to like? Do you just like?
I'm going to get it from the other side, too.
Come on, Jack, you got to go alone.
Gently place Jack and it'd be like come on Jack, you can swim
through to the other side and like motion swimming.
Jack understands this and he starts paddling.
As he enters the water, it fills up to where his head is bonking
on the ceiling, but it does not suffocate him and he swims to
the end of the corridor. I only came out quickly so he
can get out of the water. He's got to be out of the water
and then he shakes himself like he's wet, but no water comes
off. Yeah.
All right, I'll go through. Great.
You do exactly that. You make it to the other end and
you reunite with Jack Gimbley and the Wagon of Cupcakes.
A third party member. Yeah.
There is. You're welcome.
Entered if you'd like. OK.
Yeah, let's go. Let's keep going.
The trick house continues. You find yourself in a perfectly
square room and it is entirely white.
The floors are white, the ceiling is white, the walls are
white and it's like soft and cushiony.
It's like the oracles room I hate.
It there's a door at the end. It's purple and gold, and there
is an elegant black calligraphy above the door.
The word overthinking in cursive.
In in front of you, there are several items.
There is one apple, there are three Chesto berries, there is a
physical screwdriver, and there is a real living, breathing
Pokémon. It is fairly Serpentine.
It's yellow and has tiny little wings on it.
It looks at you and it goes. Oh, Pokémon.
Yeah. Then I was like.
Yeah, I was like, yeah. I was like, what is that?
Oh yeah. Like literally our logo.
I'm going to approach the door and try to open it.
Great, it opens. Cool, let's go.
Cool. I was like, I'm sick of this.
I don't. It's not even.
I'm thinking. I'm like, I don't care about
this. Like I'm going.
You pull the wagon through and done Sparse looks behind him and
goes. As you leave, the door closes
shut and you find yourself in another room.
It is the same texture, the same lighting.
However, it is entirely green. There is a big door.
It is much larger than the other ones, but it's still purple.
It's still got a gold trim. It's still circular.
And say in front of it, there is a little bird whose head looks
like a music note. It looks at you and goes oh.
My God. Yeah, it's.
It goes. Hello, have you seen Scrub's
funky hat? I can't find Scrub's funky hat.
Can you describe Scrub's funky hat?
Chat Talk takes a moment and thinks and goes.
Scrub has a very funky hat. It's got feathers and a fun
print, and lots of Pokémon can wear it, but some Pokémon can't
wear it. Scrub loves to wear his funky
hat. I wish I could find it.
Who do you think might have it? Not this again.
There's. Nothing else in this room that
represents the funky hat. So we can't physically get the
funky hat, but. There's nothing else in the
room, like at all. Nope, Tat Tot says.
Would you like to see the funky hat?
Yeah, well, yeah. Tat Tot goes and then a pillar
of light descends from the ceiling and there forms a very,
very funky hat. Well, we found the funky hat.
Yeah, we found it, dude. That's what.
You're looking for. There's the funky hat, so that's
incredible. But that still doesn't answer my
question. Who last had it?
You. Yeah, you.
You nearly gave it to us. You.
I didn't do that. That wasn't me.
What? But we asked about it.
And who did that? Yeah, you said who you did that.
Would you like to see it? I can see that I understand.
I still need to know the answer. But you pulled it out like what
you mean? Why don't you put it on?
Let me see it on you. Wait, is this a trick?
Are you trying to kill us? No, why would I want to kill
you? I just want to see this hat.
Just want to see the hat. Well, if I grab it then I'm the
last one who had it, so I'll pick up the hat and put it on my
head. OK, you do that.
It's a very funky hat. It is like it's super funky.
It's not congruent, like it's completely asymmetrical.
It has lots of like gold and purple, as most things themed
around here are, but it also has like feathers coming out of it.
It has like a little propeller on it.
It is incredibly funky. I don't like how it looks on
you. Looks bad.
Take it off. Take it off.
OK, OK, OK, OK. Rude.
Well, I was the last one who had it.
I'm sorry, but we have her funky hat.
It didn't look good on you though.
I need to know who had it, who it looks good on.
OK, well, you should have started with, I think, but yeah,
we should put it on Jack. Put it on Jack.
Jack.
There you go, buddy. You put the hat on Jack.
It's way too big for him. It just like covers, right?
That's what it says. No, no, no, no.
I hate it. I hate it.
All right. Should we take out all our
Pokémon? Yeah, well you should put it on
1st and then. Oh, right, yeah, I'll put it on.
OK, LED puts it on. It is incredibly funky, not well
fitting. It is very weird.
It feels like lumpy on your head.
Chatat says no. No sense of fashion.
Take it off. Take it off.
Rude. You don't have a sense of
fashion anyways, any but yeah, like we should take out a do you
want to take out our Pokémon? Let's put the funky out on
Boldor. It's lumpy.
Boldor's lumpy. Yeah, it's just too lumpy.
It just doesn't look right. Chatat is like no no no no no
no. Oh I swear.
OK. One time I saw it on a meow.
It went like this mirror. It looks incredible.
It was very very pleasant to see.
One time I took a trip to a Lola and I put it on top of a crab
brawler. Breathtaking 1 might say.
It matched his gloves perfectly. I took a trip to Galar.
There I found a Wooloo. The Wooloo wore the hat.
Blew me away. The fluffiness of the wool
combined with the pattern of the hat.
Perfection. Now help me find another Pokémon
that could look good in this hat.
Right. Could it be 1 of yours?
What? Could it be 1 of yours?
Sure. Could we put it on cabbage?
You do you put it on cabbage. Yes.
When you put it on cabbage, it changes in size, it shrinks to
like fit just exquisitely. It looks incredible.
That dot says. Oh yes, yes, yes, it looks
great, amazing. Your emilsary is beautiful.
That still doesn't answer who can wear the hat and who can.
Can we try? And you wear that?
Did we try it on chat dot? Can chat dot wear the hat?
You'd go to put it on chat dot Yeah, that that says Oh no, no,
not me. I could never wear it.
I just observe it and enjoy it. It's aesthetic appearance.
It pleases me. So square.
I have seen many Pokémon wear this hat successfully.
If you wish to ask, I can tell you if I've seen them wearing
the hat. So like we can just name
Pokémon? Absolutely I'm.
Going to name every single Pokémon great.
Start Go Bulbasaur. That's pokey wrap it.
These were different regions too, right?
Where you mentioned the Meowth crab brawler, Wulu.
Yeah. So Wulu was Galar crab brawler
was. Where did they see the crab
brawler? Alola.
Alola yeah, I mean, that makes sense.
But I'm also like I don't. Think.
He. Mentioned a region for Meow.
Was there? Where did you see the meow with
the hat? I've seen all types of meows
wearing hats. All of them.
OK all.
Of them. All of the meows wear hats.
All of the meows wearing hats and that's I was thinking it had
to do with the name. My first thought he would.
Also use the same. But none of them use the same
letter. The only letter is L, and that's
not a meow. That's the only common letter I
think of ever. Like the most common letter.
Yeah, they all had O&W until cabbage.
Dang cabbage. Why'd we have to put it on you?
Chat Todd is just murmuring. Oh, scrubs, funky hat.
It's such a pleasant hat. I wish to see it.
I wish to think of more Pokémon who could wear it.
Probably right? Scrub too.
I mean scrub. Where is this hat?
Right. Yeah.
Absolutely. It's Scrub's hat.
Of course Scrub wears it, what are you talking about?
And chat's like mad at you. Should we run through like the
Pokémon that we have at least to get those?
So like would would Paplio wear it?
Paplio does not wear the hat successfully, does not fit.
His nose is too big. What about Mudkip?
Mudkip does not successfully wear the hat.
The gills just get in the way. Would Dragolge wear the hat?
Dragolge. Dragolge would never wear the
hat. This is Scrub's hat, not
Dragolge's hat of. Course, of course.
Right, Yeah, that definitely makes sense They.
All are two stage evolutions and the first stage of those.
They're the first stage of a two stage evolution Mon.
So we can double check that theory with like, can Atkins
wear the hat? That's not, says 0.
Atkins would look great in this hat.
And that's why it didn't work on our three stage Pokémon.
And it did. Work.
Nursery. OK.
Well, I mean, I think we can say that, right?
Sure. Well did we mention like hey,
any two stage evolution Pokémon that's first stage can wear the
hat? Like can coughing wear the hat?
Does does Ginley propose this? Yeah, does coughing wear the
hat? Yes, Coughing wears the hat.
Then I think yeah, it's two stage evolution Pokémon.
Their first stage can wear the hat is.
This what you propose to chat tot?
I do, yeah. Chat tot says my goodness that's
it you figured it out. So scrubs funky hat only looks
good on first stage Pokémon that belong to one evolution and and
then he just like pops. He was like, oh.
It's like. Feathers fly everywhere and then
the. Door locks I've.
Seen enough death today? The hat is still there.
Oh, let's take the hat with us. Great.
Come on, Millser, you put the hat on.
Yeah. You does Millser.
You put it on. Do you allow it, Melody?
Yes, I allow cabbage to wear the hat.
Gosh, don't be so defensive about it.
I didn't, sorry. I didn't become opposite.
I was just really confused. Yeah, I was confused.
I would I not want him to wear the hat.
Cabbage. Cabbage puts it on and looks
great. It looks very funky and cabbage
is like all right. Got the coolest?
Bust out the sunglasses time. OK, you enter a room, and this
is by far the largest room. It feels like you're outside.
It's like twilight and you are atop the steps of a ziggurat.
The sun is setting and you are in a giant, giant cab.
Like, not cavern, A carved out hole at the top of the ziggurat
around you. It just stretches out like 80
feet. It's enormous.
There's a very sense, there's a grand sense of majesty about
this place. At the far end there's a
massive, magnificent, circular, velvety purple and gold door.
You get the impression that this is like an ultimate room.
Perhaps there's a sense of finality to this.
Unlike the walls of the top of the ziggurat, which are rough
stone, the floor is flattened and polished to a glimmering
Sheen. Into the floor are carved 5
massive murals of legendary beasts.
On the back wall, there are five large vessels in five different
colors. There are five containers on
pedestals, and they are empty. They are colored red, blue,
light blue, orange, and yellow. And then on the ground in front
of you are symbols of legendary Pokémon, and they have bowls in
front of them with material. The first one, which is red, is
full of sand. The second one, which is blue,
is full of water. The third one is light blue,
it's full of snow. The 4th 1 is orange and it's
full of lava. The fifth one looks empty, but
it's constantly sparkling with lightning.
Right. Groudon, Kyogre, Articuno,
Mulcher, Zapdos or the dogs? No, no, it would be those.
That would be the birds, yeah. I think it's yeah, I, I, I like
birds. Yeah, the birds fit.
But I miss Schmidt. So, but what are we doing with
these because. We.
Yeah. What are we?
What do?
We do. There are vessels on pedestals
and in front of you there are bowls that are full of
materials. OK.
So I think we correspond those colors to those like sets
because like the orange is going to be lava, the lightning's
going to be yellow, unless we're looking for encounters I'm not
sure about. That So the bulls are on the
murals or the vessels are? On they're on the murals, on the
ground, they're together. The bulls?
Yep. Is there anything by the
vessels? Nope, they're just on pedestals
and they're colored OK. So the murals they correspond to
these like like for example the like what is the mural look like
for next to the sand? The mural next to the sand looks
like a leviathan looking Pokémon.
If only someone in your party could help you identify what
the. Legend is if only they weren't
turned. To if somebody was here and not
turned into stone, that'd be so cool.
And neither one of us are from Kanto either, right?
No, our Kanto member is also quite dead it.
Isn't well, sure it's Johto, but.
Oh, JoJo. They're they used to be the same
country, let's be honest. That that's true, yeah.
They're kind of right next to each other.
Well, I just like it's because the bulls are the colors, like
the sand bowl is red, the water bowl is blue.
So it can't be that. Simple.
Well, I mean simple has, you know, worked for us in the past.
I just I'm confused about what the puzzle is.
Yeah, because it just seems like Phil's stuff.
The only thing that I'm thinking is going to be difficult is the
lava and the lightning to move it into the that we want to move
it into. See, Like if I'm overthinking
it, which I sometimes do, each one of these has a weakness to a
different one. I honestly, that was a thought
that I'm so you're saying like. Go to which one beats the other
instead of just filling them. But then I'm also like, what if
we just fill them? Like for example, what's the
consequence? If we like, I don't know if
something's going to trigger, but we can do the sand into the
red vessel and just do it because the sand will come back
easy. Same with the water, same with
the snow. Like the only hard ones are
realistically to transport, which I can do because I have
two Pokémon that can do that. I have a Torquel and I have
Lebowski for lightning that I can just transfer like those
over, but I think we want to see if something happens if we like
just dump the sand in. I really try it right 'cause.
Then we can confirm if it's like, if it's not weaknesses,
'cause there's nothing else here, right?
It's just the just the murals, the the vessels then it like
it's simple, but. Yeah.
OK, so let's just let's just take the first vessel as sand.
Let's try to put it into the red container, the red vessel.
OK, make a Dexterity check. Well, you're Gimli, so you'll be
fine. Yeah, I got a 16.
Yeah, you're fine. You distribute the sand from the
bowl into the red vessel and you do it and it happens.
So nothing right again, but it's just like the the lava
commitment and the lightning commitment is something that I'm
like, OK, like if we can trigger this, let's just trigger it in
order and take it like Fifth Element style and just put in
the right spots because that's what this feels like right now.
It's just the Fifth Element puzzle.
Yeah, we can pour the water in. You want to try to pour the
water into its vessel? Yeah.
I can pour the water in. Dexterity check. 17.
Yeah, pour the water in. It works.
OK, I guess next is the snow. Yeah, Dexterity.
Check. Yeah, I got a 5.
Oh. Oh no, as you pour the snow, a
lot of it spills out onto the ground and it slowly starts to
melt. Well, that's really not ideal.
Attempt to scoop that back up. Is that what you do?
Yeah. OK, you do that.
And that's back in the bowl, yeah.
Yeah, it's always in the Yeah, it's in the bowl, not the
vessel. Cool, try again.
OK, this time I got a 14. Yeah, you're fine.
It goes in Cool. OK, you're not done.
There's. 2 pretty. Volatile substances that remain.
Like how big are the vessels? They're bowls.
The vessels are like, let's see, they're on short pedestals that
go up to about your waist. And the vessels are like just
regular. They look like urns or bases and
they're like 2 feet tall. OK.
The bowls on the ground are fairly wide, they're probably
like about a foot across and like half a foot deep.
Right. Because the only thing I'm
concerned about Lebowski could pick it up the Lightning.
But Lebowski has no decks. So actually what I want to do is
I want Lebowski to, I don't know if it could, it could.
I want Lebowski to put his hand into the urn and just charge.
OK. Instead of using the lightning.
Make a very easy Dexterity check for Lebowski so that he doesn't
like break the urn or something. Right 16.
OK, yeah, he does that. He puts his hand in and goes
dirt and no, no, no, no, no. He just charges up and he's
forcing with electricity. His armor class is also boosted,
but that doesn't matter. Because I would, I would prefer
to, probably. Torkel's not going to have an
easy time picking up that bowl, despite the fact that it's like
so hot. And I know Trevor can't really
hold things either. An insane idea and we probably
shouldn't do it because I don't think it would go well.
But Papio has bubble beam. We could put the lava in a
bubble and float it over. I don't think that would work.
Just spitballing. I mean, I was considering just
like, I know it's lava and we probably want to hold it, but
like maybe we just need to heat it.
But I don't want to break the urn, so I'm not going to ember
the urn. Oh, I suppose.
Do we know Jack's move set? I mean, Cindy would, but we
can't really. Get I guess technically, yeah,
yeah, I guess we couldn't answer the only one that.
We do know is Jack's not going to be able to make lava, Yeah.
Yeah, he's, I don't think that's the functionality of Jack.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know. It's about Torkel doesn't know
Lava Bloom or something. That would be neato.
I mean, I can probably just grab it and do it and go with the
consequences stuff. Whatever happens.
Yeah, but I have pretty high con so probably be fine.
Can I have Do you have? Like oven mitts or something.
I know you're a Baker. That seems very stereotypical,
but I'm like, do you just have oven mitts on you?
I mean, I haven't had the forethought to think that, but I
don't think it would be too entirely out of character.
Roll AD 20. 18. Yeah, you have oven mitts in
your apron. You didn't know that they were
there, but they're there. I left my oven mitts in here.
Yeah, I'll I can pick up, try to pick up the lava thing with the
oven bits on. OK, Roll me is a Dexterity with
disadvantage. Well I got a Nat 1 so that
doesn't matter OK. Yeah.
You go to pick up the bowl with the oven mitts that you were
just granted, and as you touch the bits to the bowl, they just
ignite. They're just gone.
Just they just burn up in ash. Just throw them, OK?
The other thought that I had is that I have two water types on
standby. OK.
Who can put water on your hands when you are done?
I wouldn't want to put water on them while you're doing it
because that seems like it would be bad for carrying it, but.
Yeah, I will certainly hurt myself considering I just
ignited oven mitts. Yeah.
I mean, if you don't want to do it at all, I mean, that's
understandable. But like what is this?
We we have to figure, well, do you want to try the bubble thing
containing the lava? The bubble the up, the down?
The downside is that the lava instantly cools and turns into a
rock. That's what I'm thinking is if
it's. Also, does it need to be hot to
be in the urn? It's still hot.
It's I mean rock when it I mean lava when it hardens is still
lava, right? Like it's just.
We don't even know what the puzzle really is so like.
True, we don't even know if we've solved it.
Like we're just putting stuff in things.
I mean, if it doesn't work, I could just ember.
So like if we do this and the bubble doesn't carry the lava
over for some miraculous reason, and then like we're we're good
there and like we drop the rock and it still doesn't work
because it's not lava. I could just ember it afterwards
because like at that point we don't have lava anyway.
Like what's the risk? I'm going to have Paplio make a
a bubble around the bowl of lava.
OK, roll AD 20. One, yeah, I was like, yeah,
let's see what happens actually, because maybe I could.
Just like that was a 5. OK.
As the bubble approaches the bowl, it just pops from the
heat. Can't even handle it.
Well, that was that plan. This is a very hot bowl.
That is true. I want to create a rock tune
that like kind of formulates around the bowl so it's not too
hot for me to touch. Does that make sense?
OK, sure. Yeah.
Roller roller B20A rock tune. Is this toidal using it?
Is this toidal? Yeah, 19. 19, yeah.
Like kind of rock tune. I mean the case in the sense.
Sure. Do you just S toil to kind of
make the rocks make a case or do you kind of like assist with
placing the rocks down? Yeah, I'll just have them assist
like placing the rocks down with them.
OK, give. Me, give me a Dexterity check
for Gimli. 13. OK, as total sets of rock, tomb
needs a little bit of finesse to get it around the bowl as Gimli
presses like the rocks like into the bowl to make a cover for it.
The rocks, just like as Gimli helps press the rocks into the
bowl, the rocks just disintegrate and Gimli's hand
slips and touches the bowl. And the bowl is not hot to
Gimli's hands. Oh.
Brah that's fun that have just been holding the bowl.
Yeah, we'll pick up the bowl. OK, yeah, you pick up the bowl,
give me a dex check to pour it into the vessel.
Sure, sure, sure. 1818 You do it, the circular giant door at
the end of the wall. It begins spinning and spinning
and spinning, and then it's creaks open.
You enter. Cool.
OK, yes, let's go. The two of you, the 2 of you
enter with the wagon. It's an entirely dark room and
you take a few steps onto the metal platform and then you
fall. All of you begin falling and
falling and falling. You feels like you reach
terminal velocity. You're just falling down, down,
down into the ziggurat, into the ziggurat, and then you arrive at
the bottom. You don't take any damage as you
smack into the ground. It's a solid ground, but you
just don't feel any pain currently.
You turn to your left and you see a puddle of acid.
It bubbles and it bubbles and it bubbles, and out of the puddle
of acid comes a leak. Wait, it's Quacko.
Wait, it's Schmidt and Quacko. They reverse acid themselves
into the room that you're in. You turn to your right you see a
statue of rock crumble all all of it starts to shatter and
bursting outcomes Cindy and a statue of Rock of Calvin appears
by your side that also bursts out and you hear an iconic as
Tim the Ventinette is now free from his stone chamber.
You guys are alone, Calvin. I had faith.
I knew it. Calvin is terrified.
He's like what? You guys get away from me and
he's having such a hard time. But Tim seems fairly happy to
see you. Can I give like everybody a
group hug? Yeah, go for it.
So I was like comatose that entire time.
Yep or no. To you and Cindy, it was like
you were comatose, but actually you felt no passage of time.
For all you knew, Schmidt, you fell into a pot of acid and you
ended up here. Cindy, you returned.
To storms. Yeah.
Perfect. Yeah, we did it, Wacko.
'S still startled too. He's still, like, trying to fly,
like he thought he didn't fall in the acid.
Yeah. We're my snaky friends.
They were not your friends. You're.
Not I'm gonna hand. Kittens.
I'm gonna hand Cindy Jack. Jack did so well.
Yeah, Jack was brave. Oh.
Jack was so good job, Jack. I don't know what you're brave
about, but that's awesome. As you're all collecting
yourselves, you find yourself in the heart of an ancient ziggurat
shapes building. The sunset light is filtering in
from the inside and you're in a big 80 foot cavern.
It is massive and there seems to be nothing in here but just
pillars of stone. As you look about yourselves you
hear an iconic coming from the walls.
You hear a familiar voice. Does Schmidt say that?
Do you want these cupcakes or no?
The voice says of course I would like the cupcakes, but your
trials are not done here. Come join me and let's have
some. Fun and this.
Is not good fun. I.
Am not. Having fun.
Before you walks up, an old man, well, looks like an old man.
Schmidt recognizes this figure to be exactly the same as the
jack-in-the-box that surprised him when he he uncovered it at
the very first trial when you tried to find who was watching
you. He is very, very weird looking.
He is. His skin is very dark, but it's
like a Gray color. It's like ashy colored and he's
wearing big gold earrings and he has pink hair.
He walks up to you guys. Do you punch him?
Yeah. Rolodex.
I'm sorry. Roll a strength.
That's a 15. OK, you swing your fists at him,
right in his face. It phases right through his body
and he vanishes and he goes and then you look up and you see his
disembodied head is floating and he's just grinning at you.
Coward. There's some Wizard of Oz stuff.
Right here he reaches, oh, he sprouts little tiny hands from
beneath his head and he pulls out one of his giant earrings
and he unhooks it from his ear and a new one just just grows
back and he throws it right at Schmidt.
Schmidt make a Dexterity saving throw.
Fuck off. Is he?
This is like a boss fight. We haven't rolled the initiative
yet. God damn it, that's a six.
He throws this ring at you and instead of going straight to
your body, it diverts to under your feet and it opens and it
creates a portal. You fall into the portal.
You in a flash of bright light, you're standing outside of your
work. You're in Goldenrod City.
It's like 7:00 PM. Do you do anything?
I guess I'm off work now so I'm going home.
Also, I'm freaking out. Yeah, that's fine.
You turn about, gather your senses and start walking back
towards your house and the portal opens up below you and
everyone witnesses as a portal took Schmidt away and then just
brought him right back. That's annoying.
The laugh goes. What do you do?
We need you to sign for these cupcakes.
You want to You want to sign for these?
You want these cupcakes? The voice goes, I don't think
our business is done quite yet. And it.
Could be though. If you just signed the the
paperwork it could be done. You're not doing that.
You've psychologically tortured us enough, dude.
He takes off another one of his earrings.
His disembodied head is starting to form like a more cohesive
shape. It's starting to look like like
a a body. He throws another golden earring
over towards Gimli. 15. The spinning ring just barely
slides under your feet. It catches you into the portal
and then pulls you up about 10 feet in the air and you fall.
Roll AD 6 3. You take 3 points of damage as
the portal pulls out from under you.
Spits you out 10 feet above the ground.
I need Gimli to make a history check.
Not 20. When you challenge the Four Tree
City gym, you battled A Togatek that used Metro.
There was one point where you had rock tuned the Togatek and
it had summoned a move that was a move that was only
recognizable as. Hyperspace hole, Yeah.
As hyperspace hole. Yeah, the portal that you just
went through was a hyperspace hole.
Was also hyperspace hole, yes. So it is Hoopa, yeah.
What the heck is Hoopa doing like on Route 110?
Hoopa can suck it. Hoopa can do whatever it wants,
and it can suck it. It appears like Hoopa's intent
is to continue throwing rings at you.
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Swallow it's pre evolution name. Gold.
No. No.
Yeah, I'm just a forgetful guy, Gabe.
Scale for it, dude. I was like, I'll I'll write it
out. I'm a team player.
That's fine. That's fine.
It's not. It's fun.
I wonder. Just a forgetful guy I didn't
remember. Right.
Yeah, that's definitely all that was going on.
Totally fun.