Welcome to the Cali Rex game Corners Pokémon DND campaign
featuring Jacob as Schmidt with his far fetched quacko, Melissa
as Cindy with her Vulpix Soul Eater, Grace as Elodie with her
millsery cabbage, and CJ as Gimli with his rug and Rolla
Trevor. My name is Rich and I'm the game
master and this is Dunsparce and Grandpa.
Where last we left the party, you finally made your way
through with the scorching heat wave to the blustery northern
treetop city of Fore Tree. Thanks to the help of a new
friend, Sam, you've brought your weekend allies and duly acquired
party members of the Pokémon Center for Healing.
And now we have some time amongst ourselves.
It's early evening in Fortress City.
It's about 5:00 PM. It's still the same day as when
we started the adventure. Kind of crazy to think about.
You've only been around for a few hours.
The sky is gradually tinting orange as the sun begins its
descent down the horizon. Locals and travelers are
scooting about to wrapping up their errands and checking in
with friends and family. So as you arrived, or I suppose
as you're exiting the Pokémon Center, Sam kind of gestures.
She's like, well, we got some time on our hands and she she
points to the southwest, which is directly pretty much S from
where you are. There's a large tree house with
an open round ceiling and there's looks like dozens and
dozens of bird Pokémon that are re seen in it.
And there's a big sign. It says FCES same gestures for
that. And she says, well, that's the
four tree city Postal Service. If you feel like you got to send
any messages to your friends back home, let them know what
happened today. Might be a good place to stop
by. She gestures in a different
direction. Over to the north, there's a
residential area. There's one tree house that
stands out among the rest. It has a large round door made
of a darker wood compared to the rest of the trees.
She says. Those kids in the Pokémon
Center, we're talking about the witch.
Some people seem to think that she knows what's going on with
the heat wave, and other people are saying that's just a bunch
of nonsense. I believe she lives over there.
If you want to pop in, ask some questions.
She gestures over to the southeast corner of town.
It's the busiest part of town at this time of day.
There's a large building that appears to be a market that's
propped up by 4 of the largest trees in town.
Sam says if you want to do some shopping, now is a great time.
Pick up some supplies that we might have lost on our journey
up on the route. She gestures to the northeast
corner. There's a large metal modern
building compared to the rest of Fore tree, with wild foliage
growing up through the walls and through the ceiling.
It has large glass windows and people appear to be million
about at work. Inside.
There's a wooden sign above the door that reads Rite of passage
Fore tree. Sam gestures over there and she
says it seems like they do a bunch of research there.
It seems like it's it's a study organization and a bunch of
chains have started popping up all over Hoenn.
They tend to study Pokémon and their techniques and how they
evolve. So if you have any questions,
I'm sure that'd be a great place to check out.
Absolutely. Only a couple more things Sam
identifies to the game. In the center of town, within a
single gargantuan tree, this ancient old growth, is the Four
Tree City Gym. There's these big giant wind
turbines that spin above the thick canopy.
Sam gestures over there and she says that's the gym.
Not sure if they're taking challenges right now, but if you
haven't already done so, that might be a good time to pick up
your ho and region trainer's license.
And then right outside from where you're standing, if you
just turn to the right, there's a sign that reads Route 119 with
an arrow and it says Weather Institute ahead.
With all that information, what would the game like to do?
Well, we haven't gotten registered, did we?
Did we get registered completely?
I don't. Not for the.
The gym challenges. Gym Challenges.
We could go to the post office and send letters to our family
Police. Yeah, I'm good with doing that
first. Yeah.
We can do that first and then go get our licenses, yeah.
I feel like even though Cindy hopes to get to her grandparents
farm at some point, she wants to send a letter anyway just in
case it takes her longer to get there then however long a letter
takes to send. So.
Schmidt is playing the You know what I'm trying to say.
I don't theme song. Does the shit pack have a theme
song now? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, the the Mötley Crüe, is that what?
Yeah, yeah. Mötley Crüe can can we?
Can Schmidt give us a little? Radiation drop the same day as.
Yeah, give us a little. Give us a little beat.
OK, Hold on, Hold on. Hold on.
Hold on, Hold on. Yeah, yeah.
Mötley Crüe.
Yeah, yeah. I love the idea that like now
that the Schmidt pack has been established, Schmidt's like,
this is our theme song. And like without the context of
the Earth Band, he's thinking like, we're at Mötley Crüe.
You know, Sam says, yeah, that sounds like a really good idea.
I'm you've only been gone for a day, but I'm sure your family
would like to know what's going on.
Maybe they've heard on the news that there's been some sort of
event in the Liko. So you all approach the Fortress
City Postal Service. Big glass doors slide open, and
it seems like there's no people around.
There's just birds, just a whole bunch of birds.
There's some shelving with envelopes and stationary and
packages. And at the front desk there is a
single Mercro wearing a little hat.
Mercro's already wearing a hat, of course, but it has like an
extra hat on it's hat. It's a little like white and a
Red Hat. Looks very official as you come
in it just squats at you and what do you?
Do OK. Two hats.
OK, There we go. Just writing down notes.
Sorry. Yeah.
I just got to say this note real quick.
Let. Me make a note of that.
Two hats. Very important, yes.
I'm going to start writing a private letter to my my wife
back home, so excuse me while I type a bunch of words in my DM
chat. Sure.
So to do so, you're going to have to select some stationary.
There's all sorts of varieties. Is there anything in particular
that you're looking for? I mean, I'm a pretty simple guy,
so my wife wouldn't be surprised if I just sent her home
something like just like, wow, he found a piece of paper.
That's impressive. He wrote a letter.
Amazing, right? Cindy would probably pick out
like the brightest colored, funnest patterned paper and
envelope she can find and write a ridiculous letter that's like,
I hope you're doing well. I really hope everything's fine.
Trying not to freak out while freaking out basically.
OK, great. Does it cost anything to send a
letter? It does.
You can see that where this Mirko is perched, there's a
little sign below that has a listing of all the prices.
And it seems to be dependent on where you're sending it, how
fast the service is and what kind of like stationary envelope
you pick up. The flat fee for like the most
basic domestic mail is 5 pokey dollars.
And then it just kind of goes up from there depending on like
what you're doing. So like basic to pilos?
Sure. Yeah, you'll see.
If if you just wanted international delivery on just a
basic parcel basic speed, it is just 12 pokey dollars.
OK, that's fine. You do that.
And who are you writing to? I'm.
Trying to figure out if it's more important to send a note to
my family to my boss that I might not be back for a while.
You could send both. Because I cost more money, you
know. Yeah, yeah, tell your family to
tell your boss. That's what I was thinking.
I was like, let's just make the most mileage out of this and
just tell my family to tell my boss.
I think that's what we'll do. I'll send, I'll send a, I'll
send a letter to my family. All right, that leaves it just
just for Schmidt. Are you going to be writing any
letters? I know you wanted to see if you
could somehow call your mother. Well, if you want to write or
send anything or any you know could be a character we haven't
met yet. Even if you want to write a
letter to someone or just hold off.
Just hold off for now. Is are you doing anything while
your new friends are writing their letters?
Are you just kind of looking around?
Are you just interacting with something?
Coming up with catch phrases for everyone in the Schmidt back.
Cool. Any progress so far?
No. Schmidt cat phrase is it's
Schmidt time. That's.
All I got so far. OK, good, good genius.
Creative genius for. Sure.
So all of you write your letters, you seal them up.
You you've all selected the basic kind of stuff except for
Cindy and you notice that under the Mercro by the sign for the
pricing, there is like a single like mail drop.
It's like a little shoot 1 by 1 your letter to Mercro and Mercro
looks at it and goes and a little sign above it lights up
for Gimli. It says 12 pokey dollars.
Will you pay this Mercro the 12 pokey dollars?
Absolutely. Right, Mercro receives A12 pokey
dollars. Be sure to mark it off the sheet
and Mercro drops into the slot and for some reason the the slot
just like knows what region it's destined to and there's like 8
different paths on the shoot where the male slides down and
it goes into a particular one that leads to a bunch of Starley
and a couple Staravia and like 2 Staraptor.
They all kind of peek at the envelope and a Starley picks it
up and flies out of the building.
A very similar process happens with LED.
Mercker looks at it and goes and a sign lights up that says 12
pokey dollars. Do you pay this?
Yeah, I'm going to pay the money.
Merckro drops your letter in the shoot.
It goes into a section that is populated by little red birds
and a couple medium sized red birds and a big red bird.
You recognize this to be the talent flame line.
It is picked up by a Fletchling who puts it in its little
mailbag and flies through the roof.
Last but not least, it's Cindy. You got some special stationary
summer crow squats and then 15 pokey dollars on the sign above.
Do you pay this? It's 15 even though it's local.
It's local, but you got some fancy stationary.
Yep, Yep, I. Was just making checks.
Yeah, I paid. Excellent.
And I'm assuming you aren't going to expedite because it's
kind of no point because it should probably get there in a
day. It's right around the corner.
Yeah, right around the corner For a bird, not for.
Me A bird can get there really quickly.
So there's a couple various sized little little Bluebirds,
but you recognize as a tailor picks up your envelope not even
in a bag. It just kind of picks it up in
its talons and it flies off. Sam was just sitting on a bench
just kind of like fiddling with her gadgets.
It looks like she had a screwdriver to some sort of like
a watch maybe or maybe it's a communication device she was
fiddling with. It didn't seem to make any
progress and she says great, y'all are done here.
I believe so. Great.
Where would you like to go next? Got to go re registered.
Yeah, let's get some trainer licenses.
OK, so you walk over to this gym and right as you're about to
enter the Forgery City gym, the doors open, probably like too
soon for them to have been triggered by you, and out steps
a man in khaki shorts who is shirtless.
He's got blue gelled hair and he's accompanied by two little
blue serpent Pokémon and he says power yes, success, we win, we
did it feather badge ours, let's go.
And he just kind of like pushes past you guys and he seems to be
very happy and as he's walking he's like punching the air and
his little Pokémon friends are going meh meh, meh.
They're just cheering in rhythm with his shouts.
So you. Say hi.
Do you say hi to him? Yeah, I'm going to wave for
sure. Let me see something real quick.
Yeah. He just doesn't even notice.
He doesn't even care about you guys.
Like who knows if he even recognized you from before.
He's just power success onwards and he's just mobbing.
He doesn't. It seems like he's just walking
like straight into the growth, which is funny because you have
to step down a ladder to get to this building because all the
walkways are elevated in the treetops and he's just like
walking under the walkways, like into the jungle.
Like, who knows where this guy's going?
You all enter the Fortress City gym.
There's a gentleman. He's got a funky mustache.
He's in some sort of uniform that looks kind of sporty but
also kind of formal. You assume it's kind of like the
the ho in looking uniform for for gym personnel.
And he waves over to you. He says we're close for the day.
We had our last entrance just now.
Can I help you? We.
Would like to get registered for the gym challenge please.
He looks at all of you and says, oh sure, yeah, I can get you
registered now. We're just not going to take any
more challengers until tomorrow. Who wants to come up first?
I'll do it. Right, I will.
OK as. The leader.
As the leader, this gentleman looks up and down.
He says very well. I can imagine it happens exactly
like that, yeah. Like.
He always. Started to say something and
then Schmidt just like cut in. I will like right in the middle
of it. Perfect asks.
All right, what's your what's your name?
Are you talking to me or the homeless man?
I'm talking to to you who's right in front of me who said
they were the leader? I'm.
Schmidt, the leader of the pack. And you see him like typing away
at some sort of keyboard that's seems to be projected onto the
table that he's standing at. And he says, OK, in what region
are you from? Oh shit.
What region am I from Johto? He says, all right, Schmidt, get
ready. Yeah, I'm just ready just
automatically. OK, great.
Out of nowhere there's a big old flash of light.
It seems like he's he's captured your face and you seem to be
very prepared as you are prepared for anything because
you were the leader outcomes a little laminated strip that
seems to have your face and your basic credentials on it comes.
He slides it in to a little box, a little black box and it seems
to have eight slots in it. Very cushy foam padding hands it
to you and he says welcome to Hoenn, good luck on your
challenge. He repeats this process with
each of you for the sake of brevity.
Now that you know that photos are coming, you do anything fun
with your photos. Can I roll to see how good or
bad mud comes out? I might have actually just had
you do that anyways, depending. So absolutely, just roll me AD
20 and we'll see What? Happens.
I'll just see what happens. Yeah, we got a 16.
Yeah, it's a pretty good picture.
You got you. You aren't smiling with your
mouth open, but you got a nice little little corner smile there
and your hair looks really good. So yeah.
Like brush my beard a bit and get an 18.
OK, yeah, excellent. A great photo.
Your beard looks awesome. Yeah, definitely.
Just for sure. Model posing, everything.
Yeah, you, you going for a fancy like a very dramatic pose, LED.
Oh, for sure, yeah. OK, Do you want to roll that?
I'll give you your performance bonus since you're so dramatic.
Oh my God, I guess 22? Yeah, you, it's awesome.
You do a very dramatic pose. Do you want to describe what
that pose is? Probably like looking, you know,
backwards over the shoulder kind of moment.
Oh, like almost candid. Yeah, like like it's like it's
looks like it's supposed to be can, but like she definitely
like knew what she was doing. Excellent.
Yeah, it looks great. Even the guy taking the pictures
like, oh wow, Pretty impressive. Everyone gets their photos
taken. They all, you all get this
little black box. It's a batch case.
You might want to put that in your inventory and it's got your
trainer's license laminated and kind of stuck in a slot to it.
I don't know if you'll all be staying in town overnight, but
we'll be open and back up for battles at 8:00.
Awesome. We, we, we'll be back.
And he says, all right, we, we really got to close down.
We got some repairs to do. And he kind of just ushers you
all outside and the doors close and you hear a locking shrink
and you're staying outside the gym and you got a new trainer's
license for the Hohen region and you got your badge case.
It's the hanging out in town and running errands sessioned.
What is up next? What would you like to do?
You're in the center of town, so you're pretty.
You're in a great place to go wherever you want, basically.
You see the witch? Yeah, I was going to say, unless
somebody wants to go get supplies, I'm good with just
going to see the witch. Nope.
Nope.
If you you stay and get
supplies, I will go see the witch.
Why don't? You share a hotel room.
I, I, I I use my we're. Electing a new leader.
To vote to not go see the witch. Yes, Democratic.
We already saw the witch. There's a mark Mark row with
another hat. That's the witch.
Are you all going to listen to your fearless leader and put it
to a vote? No.
No way. We already won the vote.
But you, you forgot to account for my 3/4 vote, like all of you
collectively have won 16th vote. So that's how it works in
democracy, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no.
No, no. So I don't know how they do it
in Joto. Yeah, I don't know.
How democracy works in Jodo But so we're going to go and you, if
you don't want to, that's fine, but if you want to come, you're
more than welcome to. Cindy again suggests he should
get a hotel room while we go see the witch so we have somewhere
to stay. Yeah, if you want to book us a
hotel room where we can stay like you're more than welcome
to. Say some shopping.
Yeah, Sam will interrupt at that statement and say, here in the
Hohen region, I've noticed that all the Pokémon centers seem to
have trainer hostels where you can stay for free.
However, if you want to get something a little bit more
luxury, a little more comfortable without a bunch of
other trainers, then there's absolutely a hotel down in the
commercial district. Free is good, all right.
I've procured a hotel room where we will be staying in the
Pokémon Son. Great all the other homeless
people since Schmidt seems to love them so much.
Sam's kind of like, well, you didn't do anything, but OK,
that's fine. Just pat him on the back, he
needs it. OK, so we're going to send the
game up to this mysterious house.
Schmidt, do you accompany? What is your plan?
What do you want to do? Because you don't have to join
them you but you do have to have a plan of some sort.
No, I think, I think the gang needs to stay together.
OK, he. He he is like, like he.
Falls behind. It's like.
Oh, OK, I'll protect you. He's like lumbering along in the
back. He's.
Like all right. He's like, I want to do this, I
want to go to see noise, but you.
Just feel obligated to come anyway.
Yeah. Great you.
As a leader, I guess that is my responsibility.
I'll enter the residential area. It's really neat.
It's at the northernmost part of town, which is this is the one
of the highest points that isn't a mountain that's in the Hohen
region. So there's just these tall trees
everywhere. The sun is starting to set and
you're on this walkway that started as a narrow path that's
kind of expanded to like a street almost of wooden planks
that lead to houses. There's one house that stands
out among the rest, and you understand that this is what
they call the witch. This is her house, as you
understand. You all walk up.
What do you do? I mean, there's a door, right?
Knock politely. Cindy's going to knock.
Yeah, OK. Immediately take up a defensive
position in the rear. Cindy goes and knocks on the
door. You hear some shuffling, what
sounds like a dish being set down, and then the door creaks
open very slightly. It's hard to make out a figure
as they're just kind of peeking through the door and and you
hear a voice say who is it? Some people you don't know.
Is is is this what Elodie says? No, no.
OK. Oh, what?
What? What do we say, guys?
So I feel like Cindy being like from the area, it's like, hi,
I'm Cindy. My grandparents own a Berry farm
or own the Berry farm. This old woman, you can see a
little bit more of her face in the darkness and she appears out
and she says what? What Berry farm are you?
Are you parents of? Of course, Cindy knows the name
of the Berry farm. Sure.
Yeah. You, you, you know that they
call themselves the Barry Masters, which is like a little,
you know, it's a little overconfident, but it's kind of
true. You can see some narrow old eyes
widen very slightly. And she says, oh, my goodness, I
love having visitors. Please come in.
Come in. And the door swings open before
you. You see an old woman, she's
hunched over. She's in a like a house gown.
It looks very comfortable. She's very wrinkly.
Her face is that like pleasant old lady face that's all wrinkly
and it's kind of in a permanent smile.
And her eyes are kind of wrinkled.
But you can tell that she's a very smiley individual.
She has really long hair, really long white hair that's kept back
and a loose ponytail. And there's, there's some color
at the very end of it, just a little bit of red.
She she beckons you in. Do you all enter?
Yeah, yes. Great.
So we all. Have I have Quacko with me and
I'm like, Quacko, draw your sword and then Quacko pulls out
his leak. Excellent.
I'm going to take it that it's Canon that Schmidt refers to
Quacko's leak as his sword. Yes.
OK, Very good. You all entered.
What's a pretty cool house? Pretty modest dwelling.
Seems like it's appropriate for one person.
Right as you enter, it's like a combination foyer slash dining
room. To your left there's a little
kitchenette, there's some stairs up front that go up to what is
presumably a bedroom. And then in the living room
there's like a little little sofa, There's a coffee table and
a cabinet with a whole bunch of items on it.
There's some candles on the top. And then to your right there's a
bookshelf. She says, please come in, have a
seat. I I love having guests.
And you can see that she is boiling some water, so.
What? What are you making?
She says, oh, of course. Whenever I have guests, I make
tea. Would all of you like some tea?
Oh, of course. How did she know she was gonna
have guests? Didn't she?
I just picked up. She was gonna have guests.
She just put the kettle on. She could.
Have been making tea for herself.
She said there was something already boiling.
Water for tea. She overhears this murmur and
she says, OK, I'll get tea for 1234 and five.
And she pulls out five little tea cups from a dusty cabinet
and you can see that she has a very large jar under this
cabinet that is just full of green leaves and it looks like a
bunch of mixed in berries as well.
Sam takes a seat. She's feeling comfortable.
And this old woman says, well, I've.
I've met you, Cindy. My name is Zoe.
Welcome to my humble abode. What are all of your names?
Wanted to give my pleasure. I'm Melody.
Sam pipes up and. Says sorry for he's so rude.
Schmidt just like bugging out, like looking at every single
shelf. Every.
Are you investigating? Like, are you looking for
something in particular? Probably not.
No. OK, just freaking out.
Just bugging. And Sam pipes up and says, hi,
I'm Sam. I just met all these these
folks, but they seem really cool.
Zoe says, oh excellent, excellent.
Let me prepare these and she pulls down her coasters for her
tea cups. It seems like the water is
almost done. She has this giant jar that's
full of tea and she has these little homemade tea bags and she
slips them in, pours the water in, grabs a little tray that's
the tea in front of each of you. And she has a seat at the head
of the table. And she says, what brings you to
my house today? Well, if you've noticed, some of
the Pokémon in the area have been acting a little different,
and we're just, you know, checking around, seeing if
anybody knows anything about what might be causing that.
Zoe says Oh yes, of course, and she sips her tea and she says,
you know, a lot of the locals seem to be blaming me for this
heat wave and for the behavior of the Pokémon.
It's been quite strange lately. I, I, I've been a target of
persecution here for a while, but I'm just trying to do my
best to live a quiet life. Do I know what's causing it?
Not directly, but I have my own theories.
She takes a sip of tea. Also take a sip of tea.
Excellent. I'm taking a sip of this tea,
yeah. It's really good.
It's, it's of course pretty bitter, but it's got some
flavoring in it that are like from the berries.
It's just the way I like it. Yeah, it's it's simultaneously
relaxing and energizing. It's it's really good.
It's the perfect tea. Sam is like blowing on her cup.
It's a little too hot for her. What?
What are your theories? Zoe takes another sip of her
tea. He says.
Oh, young one, I've been around for a very, very long time and
I've I've seen the world. Situations such as this, with
the weird weather and the Pokémon acting up have happened
a couple times here in the Hohen region.
In fact, pretty recently, just a mere couple decades ago, there
was a situation with who who was it?
Team Magma and Team Aqua and interfering with with with
Pokémon and history that they had no business dealing with.
Cindy kind of darts her eyes at the mention of Team Aqua.
Like. Everything's fine.
Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious.
This, this perk Sam's attention
too. She's like, Oh yeah, I, she
doesn't say this, but she, she's curious.
She's very curious about what Zoe has to say.
Zoe says things always go awry when people with big ideas
meddle in ways that they shouldn't be.
Right. Yeah, I agree.
I agree too, yeah. Would you like to hear a story?
Most definitely. So she sits up.
She pulls out her chair. She moves pretty slowly, but
like, pretty spry for an old woman.
She walks past her little cabinet where there seems to be
candles and like a photograph. There seems to be something
that's like on an altar. And she goes over to her
bookshelf. She thumbs around, pulls out a
dusty little book. She she wipes the dust off of it
and she opens it up. And she says to you, do you all
know the story about why wild Pokémon appear in tall grass?
I never really thought about it. She She gestures to her bookcase
and she says, I'm very proud of my collection.
I've collected most of my books from the Sino region.
She she flips it open. Let me read you an excerpt from
Sino Regents myth. Long ago, when Sino had just
been made, Pokémon and humans LED separate lives.
That's not to say they did not help each other.
No, indeed they did. They supplied each other with
goods and supported each other. A Pokémon proposed to the others
to always be ready to help humans if asked.
That Pokémon be ready to appear before humans, always.
Thus, to this day, Pokémon appear to us if we venture into
the tall grass. She looks at all of you and she
says there's, there's so much history to this world that seems
to be have forgotten by the young ones.
And the young ones get this, these ideas for power or
ambition and, and they go to extreme lengths to achieve them.
And they they interrupt the balance that has been here since
the beginning of time. And she just kind of closes her
book and closes her eyes and looks upwards for a bit.
And then she goes back to the table and enjoys her tea and she
says, you seem like an eclectic bunch.
Where are you all from? Really all over the place.
I'm from Sino. Her, her eyes kind of brighten a
little bit and she says, oh, Sino, I've spent much of my time
there with my my old partner. What brings you here?
In the mines. Oh, the mines.
Which ones? Mostly caught a lot, but then we
moved to Orbroke. You you say, you say the Connell
of mines. And her eyes widen a little bit
and she says, oh, those mines have great artifacts in them.
I've heard so. They're treacherous, too.
Did you did you perhaps find any artifacts while you're mining?
Not at the time. I was always collected by the
money company, so. She says you you know you can
tell me. I always keep my best kept
secrets over tea. And she gives you a wink as she
says that. I trust that, ma'am, very much
so. She says very well, very well.
Suspicion intensifies. She she gestures the rest of you
and she says, well, tell me a little bit about yourselves.
I don't have guests and learn nothing about them.
I'm from Calos. She says, Oh, very fun.
I've only been there very briefly with my partner.
Are you enjoying your time here in Hohen?
Yeah, it's definitely different. I'm excited to try all of the
different foods. Zoe gives you a nod and she says
I think you'll find some very high quality cuisine here.
Yes, yes, I chose to settle here in the Hoen region after my
partner and I had our adventures because it's just such a
comfortable place to live with so much diversity.
I think you'll you'll have a really good time while you're
here. Sam chips in and says hey I'm,
I'm from Sino too, I had a really great time living there
and Zoe says oh interesting, what brings you to Hoen?
Sam responds. It's so strange, like
role-playing with yourself, but sometimes it's, it's like it's
really important. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sam responds, Well I came here for work.
I've always wanted to visit though, and I, it seems like I
just came at the, the wrong time or you know, maybe it's the
right time and she, she looks at all of you and she smiles.
Zoe says. Oh yes, yes, you'll.
You'll surely enjoy yourself here.
We may be stuck here, but it's definitely going to be an
adventure. Cindy says Born and raised,
Helen. Been trying to get my gym badges
but I haven't won any battles yet.
But here we are trying again, no?
We won that battle with the secret base.
Yeah, but no gym bad. Got to give yourself credit
though. What credit is due?
Zoe looks over at Cindy and she says oh you'll do just fine.
A time honored tradition between people in Pokémon.
Did you ever participate in the Gym challenge?
She looks fondly over towards the back wall by the bookcase
and she says, no, I, I'm not much of A battler myself or I
guess I'm not great at giving commands, but my partner Casey,
always an excellent battler, had many badges.
I think they ended up with a total of 28 badges between the
regions. Incredible, very talented and I
miss them dearly. You can all observe at the back
wall it what this shelf seems to be is some sort of shrine.
There's like a little black and white photograph of a person.
They're, they're holding like a fox Pokémon up in the sky and
they're smiling and this fox Pokémon looks very happy.
There's some unlit candles. There's behind the glass case.
There's a black and gold pokey ball, and there's just binders
of, of photos and just general memorabilia.
What you call it scrapbook there.
There's scrapbooks within this little display.
And she looks over at it adoringly.
Zoe is vibing, sipping her tea. He says if you've come for
ancient knowledge, you've come to the right place.
I know a great deal, many things about not just the Hoenn region,
but the world has a whole. In my travels, I have learned a
great deal and thanks to these books.
And she gestures over to the wall.
He says. I've learned a great deal from
these as well. Some people take suspicion in my
teachings and the knowledge that I have, and thus they've called
me the Witch as such. And maybe because I have so much
tea. And she gestures over to her
giant tea jar. It is really quite enormous.
It's, it's like if it held liquid, it would be like
several, several gallons. It's takes up the whole counter
basically. I'm always happy to have
visitors. So please come by anytime just
for tea. You asking questions I don't
mind at all. Wasn't the whole purpose to ask
about the weather? We did, but she didn't really
know anything. She just.
Told she said she suspected it had like similar yeah, Groudon
basically, she alluded to. OK, if we talked about
everything then that's it I guess Schmidt Schmidt is is does
not like witches but also respects their space, so he
would like to get out of here and leave everything alone.
Do you just like get up and back?
Pedal out? Do you say anything?
He actually like literally walks backwards and it's like, Oh
well, I guess we don't have anything else to say or let's
go, let's get out of here guys. Great time, good team.
Let's go. Yeah, Mom, we appreciate you
welcome being us into your home, but I think we have all the
questions we need. She OK?
Yeah, she she waves at you and she says, well, it's very, very
nice meeting you once again. If you have any more questions
about the world or me or anything at all, please, please
feel free to come by. And don't forget my best kept
secrets are always kept over tea.
And she gives you another wink. Of course.
Does does everyone depart? Yes, yes.
OK, great. You walk off into the the
planked walkway in the residential area.
Sam looks at a gadget on her wrist and she says, well, I know
that you all have some more things you'd like to do, but now
that it's cooling down, I think I want to go back onto the route
and see if I can make any more headway on this mystery.
It's unfortunate that I don't think Zoe's been able to help us
out very much, but she gave me kind of an idea of what might be
happening. Would you all be OK if I went
and did that while you continued your your errands?
Yeah, sure. Go ahead.
Sounds good. Yeah, Good luck.
Sam gives you Wave, She says I'll meet up with you back at
the Pokémon Center. Sounds good.
And she runs off to the route where you came from.
There's a couple more places you can visit in for Tree City.
What would you like to do? Can you list up a couple places
for us? Again, sure, as a reminder.
There's a building with a bunch of people knowing about that
you're pretty close to it would just be a left turn out from the
residential area. There's a big sign that says
rite of passage for Tree City. And then there's it.
This seems like a guy in a lab coat and he's like shouting at
the roof for some reason, like he's facing the sign and he
looks very upset. And then just further South of
there past the gym is a commercial area.
As you understand, it's what Sam described as a commercial area
where you can buy things. I'm.
I'm a little now, Steve yelling. Let's put that I.
Mean we're still trying to investigate.
Do you all want to check out this this guy with the lab coat?
Yeah, yeah, I'm a for it. That's all we know is yelling at
sign. Does the sign say anything or?
The sign says Rite of passage for Tree City.
Oh, that's right. Those were the they said that
that was the research facility. Right.
Guy probably just got fired or something in his mad.
But we should, we should probably still if we're looking
to investigate, we should. Be like why did they fire him?
But like also what if he's upset and wants to hurt people?
I have 3 Perkins, it's fine right?
Yeah, but what if he wants to hurt us?
It'll be fine. I mean, but you're fearless.
What do you care? I have never said that in my
life. You're all fearless later.
Never. Have I said fearless fear is
what keeps you alive? Then.
He strolls on over and says hi anyway.
OK. Great, just walks past everyone.
What you doing? There's a guy in a lab coat and
he looks clearly upset. And he was just like shouting
something at you can tell that there was someone in a window
that's towards the roof and they have their hands on the sign.
And he says, no, no, no, they got it wrong.
It's it's a translation error. It's not rite of passage.
It's rite of learning. We're here to learn.
There's nothing about passing. Please, we need a new sign.
And he just is so upset. And he's just ranting a rave,
talking about like how they got it wrong.
And he turns around and says, oh, hello, would you happen to
be a trainer? Yeah.
He gets very excited and he grabs your hand and he shakes it
vigorously. He says yes, yes, welcome,
welcome. My name is Professor Hemlock and
welcome to the Four Tree City right of learning.
And he jeers up at the employee who's trying to, like, unfit
this sign. He looks at all of you and he
says, well, I hope that you're all trainers.
This is a new facility we've opened here.
If you haven't heard of it, there's a organization in the
Lerus region. It's called The Rights of
Learning. And there they've taken young
trainers and they can answer questions about their Pokémon,
teach them new moves. It's a really delightful place.
Why don't you come in? You can be out.
You can be our first experiments, so to speak.
And he lets out a giggle. He ushers you to the big sliding
glass doors and does everyone enter.
Absolutely. Right.
I enter, but I tell Quacko to draw a sword.
Quacko draws a sword. He, he may have, you know, let
Zoe get by, but he's not going to let Professor Hemlock get by,
that's for sure. That actually thinks the leak is
a sword. He genuinely thinks it's a
sword. You all walk in this large Dome
like building. It's clearly a new facility.
There's still that kind of scent of like new building smell.
You know what I'm talking about? Like like freshly laid linoleum
and whatnot. There's all these like glass
chambers. There's lots of little offices.
There's lots of people in lab coats running around, and
there's lots of little Pokémon that are that are carrying
things. You see there's some sort of
turbine spinning in the center of the room.
There's all these little poles that look like they conduct
electricity. There's like a swimming pool
back in the far right corner and Professor Hemlock says welcome,
welcome everyone. Yes, this is the this is the
right of learning in Four Tree City.
Did you bring your Pokémon with you of?
Course, yeah, we got them. Please show me your specimens.
I'm visibly uncomfortable at the term specimens.
Yeah, I don't know if I want to do this anymore.
Wacko's sword intensifies. I do pull out Trevor, but I'm
like. OK, Professor Hemlock Eyes
Quacko, who is behaving in a very intimidating manner or a
very wary manner, one or the other.
And he says, oh, incredible, fascinating, I can't tell, far
fetched. And he kneels down and he has a
clipboard and he starts writing something very, very fast.
And he says. I I I I I I move my body in a
position in between him and my my far fetched.
Professor Hemlock says, incredible, this looks like a
very, very fierce specimen, and he seems to be taking notes on
it. And he says what was the last
thing that ate? And he's still scribbling and
scribbling. Bob, wasn't it.
We haven't eaten since. Professor Hemlock says oh,
kebabs. Incredible.
And then he stands up and he's
just got he's, you can kind of peek on his paper and it's
literally scribbles like you really cannot tell what he was
writing down. I don't know how long you've
been together, but I assume that you're here for the gym
challenge, correct? Actually.
Yeah, excellent. If you have any questions about
your partners, about moves, they may learn about making them
stronger, perhaps making them more defensive, more evasive,
perhaps to prepare you for the gym battle.
Please let me and my aides know. In exchange for research and
notes, we can help you become better battlers.
And an aide walks by and kind of eyes far fetches like Oh yeah
that's a cool far fetched dude. He like melt some of his
defensiveness a little bit and he's like, yeah, this is a cool
far fetched. Professor Hemlock gestures and
he says, well, we would like to go first.
Be in trouble, I'll do it you. Step forward and Professor
Hemlock says, oh, a rock'n'roll. And he turns his notebook and,
and he he starts scribbling notes.
He says what, what do you think about your partner?
Is he effective in combat? Very much so.
We have very good synergy. We've been partners for a long
time. Excellent, excellent.
And he's still he's still drawing.
Looks like he's he's doing a doodle now because his pen
clearly moved in a really big circle.
He says a rock type should be well equipped to fight the four
tree city gym. But are there any techniques or
any questions you want to have answered about your friend here?
I want to know how best effectively to use him in
combat. I'm not very experienced so I
would really like to know how to use him in combat more so.
Professor Heimlock says yes, Yes.
Would you like him to be stronger, more defensive, more
evasive? Probably more defensive.
Excellent. Professor Heimlock, it's very
excited. He says come with me, come with
me. And he just walks like a few
steps forward, but isolates Trevor and Gimli.
These little panels slide up from the ground and it it seems
to have introduced like a sandy terrain in the middle of this
laboratory there. It's all walled off.
And he says if you would mind setting down your friend Trevor
here in the sand of. Course.
Great. You plop Trevor down in the sand
and he says Albert. And then an aide is like, Oh
yeah, I got Albert right here and he has a machop and he plops
down the machop down in the sand.
Instruct Trevor to use Harden. Alright, use Harden.
Trevor tightens up as a rock type would using Harden, and
Professor Hemlock says Albert's go and then Albert just punches
rock'n'roll right in the face. Just boom super.
It like leaves like a shockwave in the sand and it's like very
loud. Professor Hemlock says oh
excellent, truly, truly incredible.
And he has Albert give him a couple more smacks.
It seems like Trevor is not like in any pain at all.
Albert is like hitting in a very, very deliberate way.
The sand is kind of flying around.
There's like a small sandstorm that's forming around Trevor as
he's getting smacked several times by this little little
machop. And he says, OK, perfect, that's
enough, very good. Professor Hemlock gestures to
you and says, if you wouldn't mind inspecting Trevor
currently. So you pick him up and you take
a look at him, and his rocky exterior is a lot more smooth
than it used to be. It seems like all the sand has
kind of eroded some of his rougher edges and he seems a
little little bit more Hardy. You are welcome to add 1 point
to his constitution or his AC SO.
Basically Rock and Roller just got put into a rock Tumblr.
Pretty much. Made shiny.
Yeah. Yep.
He looks at his at his clipboard.
He says, oh, we've got some really, really great research.
We don't get too many Unovan Pokémon in here.
So this is, yes, this is wonderful.
This is wonderful, he says. Would anyone like to go next?
That's amazing. Cindy let's out her menagerie.
All three of them. All three of them great like
these are my friends. Professor Hemlock looks over at
Cindy and Cookie the Gumi, Izzy the Slandit and Soul Eater AKA
solely the Vulpix, and he says 0.
Oh my, this is incredible AIDS. And then like a couple AIDS in
lab coats rush over and he's like, I can't take notes for all
these Pokémon at once. I will need your help.
And they just are scribbling descriptions and asking you
questions and pestering you and pestering you about these
Pokémon. After a little bit, Professor
Hemlock says, well, we'd love to hang out with all of your
friends, but if we're going to go through each trainer, we'll
have to have you pick 1. So if you would like to have us
conduct some research on one of these Pokémon, you'll have to
choose. He looks at you and he says
sometimes the greatest weapon is information and he points to his
head. You don't have to.
Cindy, in her infinite wisdom, so goo, so cookie's not actually
a cookie. He he gestures and he and he
says this go me, this is Cookie. Yes.
It's a cookie. He, he kneels down and he puts
his hands like just outside of Cookie's face.
And he looks at you and he says, may I?
Yeah, OK. He, he grabs Goomi's cheeks and
he pinches them and shakes them around.
And Goomi's just like Cookie's just like getting all gooey.
And he says absolutely incredible.
And then he gestures and he says, may I hold this specimen
for a moment? Yeah, sure.
So he picks up Cookie and he goes over to the little table a
little a little altar and he plops Cookie down on there and
he says this won't take a moment.
And he presses some buttons and some like grid looking lasers
scan over Cookie over and over again.
And he says, oh, interesting, fascinating.
Oh, very good. And then there's a little Ding
and he looks at a monitor and he says, oh, wow, something.
He's made a big discovery, clearly.
He very gingerly picks up Cookie and hands Cookie back to you.
And he asks where? Where did you find this Goomi?
On the way here, but like right outside of Lily Cove.
He writes this down and he says you are you from here?
Do do you understand that Goomi aren't particularly common in
the Hohen region? I've never seen one before.
I genuinely thought it was a cookie because it ate some of my
cookie. He lets out a chuckle and says,
oh genius, we love keen observers here.
He says I've detected something very unusual about this gumi.
It appears like it's DNA is different from the other gumis
that we have on file. I would trust if you would
please raise this gumi well and one day take it back here to our
research facility. I would love to study this gumi
more. You got it, dude.
I think by this point Schmidt has like shed all suspicion
under this guy and he's like oh wow research this is awesome.
I bet he thinks Quacko is strong enough so he's going to send out
Patricia and be like I got this Pokémon today.
Like super excited. But before we do, Patricia, I
wanted to mention I know I did. It doesn't seem like I gave you
a bonus for cookie if you want just like for flavor on cookie
stat page. If you go into like the ability
section, you can fill one in with question marks if you if
you want to have that little gamey sensation of like
something is there. So I sent out Patricia and I'm
like, I caught this Pokémon today.
Her name is Patricia and I love her.
It seems like Professor Hemlock is delighted every time he sees
a new Pokémon and he says oh, incredible.
May I? May I, may I?
And he like gestures towards her wings.
Yes, yes. Yes, yes.
He. Gradually starting to like mimic
the the gestures of the professor and he's like getting
as excited about the Pokémon as the professor is.
He reaches out and he like, grabs the tips of Patricia's
wings like they're super fluffy and he's just kind of dangling
her in the air. And he says, oh, incredible.
So light, so fluffy. And then he just kind of drops.
And then Patricia starts flapping in place and he pulls
out his clipboard and he says, this is this is quite the
specimen. You probably caught this one
right on Route 20. I'm guessing yes.
Yes, yes, yes, I caught it today.
This is the first Pokémon I've ever caught.
Oh, incredible, you must be so, so proud.
Unlike Gumi, Swablu are quite common in this area.
But this one, this one is quite, quite unique.
Is there anything you would like to know about it?
Is there anything you'd like to teach it?
How would you? How would?
You like to teach, he says. Well, this one, this one seems
quite energetic, does it not? And it's beak, it's beak is nice
and pointed, and he, he looks at it really closely.
He he examines Patricia's beak. He hasn't given it like a
complete scan or anything but. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
Beak is a little more pointy. Taking notes, Taking notes.
I guess I don't know. What does Patricia do?
Well, Swabloo tend to be very versatile battlers.
They can, they can do many great things.
They can be damage dealers, they can be disruptive, cause status
ailments. It seems like this one is better
suited for close quarters combat.
I would be happy to help you teach it a new move or perhaps
work on its strength. Up to you.
Those quarters combat, yeah, maybe make it a little a little
more defensive like like our like our friend over there.
He says, oh excellent, I cannot wait to get started.
And he picks up Patricia out of the air just kind of like if his
hands were outstretched and 1 was like underhand one's
overhand. He just blopped just like
pinched Patricia's body like vertically up and down, carries
her over to this wind turbine that's placed in the ground.
And he says he looks at Patricia in the eyes and he says, Are you
ready, Patricia? How does Patricia respond to
this? I like to imagine Schmidt's like
right behind him being like, all right, Patricia, let's go.
And then Patricia gets like determination and in in her eyes
and she's just like, and then like, let's have a let's have a
squawk and like flaps her wings like she's ready to go.
Professor Hemlock says, Patricia, now is your time.
And like, you don't know exactly what's going to happen, but he
just chucks her into this wind tunnel that is vertically
arranged in the center of this research facility.
And the wind is blowing in like really unpredictable ways.
Like there's a turbine on the bottom, there's a turbine on the
top, but there's these slots. And like in the mechanism that
spins the blades that redirect where the wind goes, and
Patricia seems to be going like up into the right and then like
it's thrown into to the side and she's doing her best to maintain
her mobility. Would you roll a Constitution
check? For her.
Oh, with a modifier? No, that's a four.
It's a four. Yeah, OK, Patricia is getting
buffeted by these winds and it's really, really intense.
And, and she she slams into a glass panel that's on the side
and she and she gets carried away by the wind for a second.
And then they the the turbines cool down a little bit and they
become a little less predictive. Professor Hemlock says,
Patricia, are you doing OK? And in my head, Patricia, so
let's have a a confident squawk and is ready for another go.
If you'd like to rule another Constitution check.
You, you can't. You can't make this up.
Yeah. Oh God.
This one is A5. This one's A5 Excellent.
Professor Hemlock boots up the spinning turbines again and he
says there are Patricia. Round two, it's now or never,
and Patricia is all confident. The winds start up again and
Patricia having a hard time keeping up.
It's a, it's a little nasty. It's it's not not a comfortable
breeze. It's not something that Patricia
is just flying in the winds Buff it around and they buff it
around and she once again slides into the last panel and
Professor Hemlock says, OK, that's enough.
Shut it down. Shut it down and the blade stops
spinning. And imagine Schmidt like runs to
Patricia immediately. Like as soon as it's safe.
Absolutely. Is it sure?
Sure. You OK?
Schmidt goes over to Patricia. It seems like she's all right.
She isn't in the battle. It's like she didn't encounter
incredible pain or anything, but she's just a little battered.
She's a little upset, Professor Hemlock says.
You know, she did better than it might seem.
I, I think that she might have gotten a little something out of
that. Patricia is young and you caught
her, what, just hours ago, perhaps.
But she has a great power dwelling within her.
If you train, I believe you'll come across a very powerful
attack, but it needs more work. So remember, in your downtime,
train with her and bring him to battles whenever you can.
OK. This is a move, and you don't
know what it is. You can use it in battle.
You might want to write this in your notes.
You can use it in battle. You'll have to make a nature
check. If you pass the nature check,
the effect will happen, and if you do it enough, you might
learn it. You might know what the effect
is, but you have a new secret move.
Professor Hemlock writes a few more notes and he says, well,
not last but not least. And he gestures over to Elody
and he says, is there any? Do you have any partners you
would like to have researched? Yes, please.
And then I push cabbage forward. Cabbage is very excited.
Excellent. Professor Hemlock, it seems like
every time he's met one of your partners, he's been equally
excited. He says, Oh my goodness, I can't
believe it, a real life Melcerie.
And he walks over and he kind of like, pokes her.
How does cabbage respond to the being poked?
Cabbage is not a huge fan of it. She just kind of, you know,
grimaces. He says absolutely fascinating.
I cannot believe I'd see one of these in my days, Professor
Hemlock says. Are there any particular battle
skills you would like to train Cabbage in?
Or perhaps you'd like to learn more about her biology?
And he just kind of trails off with his clipboard.
I I guess I'm curious as to her biology.
She seems like she's made of milk.
He says, Oh yes indeed, Fairy types are very peculiar
sometimes they're very food oriented.
What's the deal with that? I don't know.
We may never know. He's, he says, may I?
And he kind of cups his hands under Melcerie.
Sure, go ahead. He.
Says it's wonderful, wonderful. And he goes over to the same
altar where Cookie was scanned and he presses the button and
down from the button is basically what it looks like a
kitchen blender. And he's like, all right, now is
your chance. What are you?
What are you doing? Are are you going to stop him
from doing this? You're not going.
To stop him, I'm just going to be like, what are you doing?
He says, oh, don't worry, we've done this plenty of times,
despite the fact he's just told you that he's never interacted
with the military. He throws cabbage in the blender
and he turns it on and cabbage spins around like milk in a
blender. And like, she keeps her form, of
course, but she's spinning. She's having a great time.
She's, you know, it's what milk was made to do.
He says, oh, fascinating, incredible.
This is amazing. And you can tell that her body
is becoming like gradually slightly more whipped.
It's like a, it's like a thicker consistency as this is
happening. And he says, yes, yes, of
course, yes. Great, great, great.
And then he turns off the blender and pulls her out and
she looks a little dizzy, but she looks pretty good.
Just maybe a little like a little toughened up.
I've always heard that military love being spun around, perhaps
in the right situation under the right circumstances.
I understand that in the gallery region, they tend to dote upon
their milseries by giving them candies or other food items.
If you're curious about your milseries biology, I would
consider giving it a gift and then giving it a spin.
OK. Are we literally about to stick
Milser in a blender every time we run into one?
Now millsur are quite rare and so the research is still very
limited, but I understand that the quality of your millsuri may
change upon evolution depending on what it holds.
So please, when you make this decision, be very intentional
about it. OK.
And you don't know anything about what you give.
It might the effects of the things to give it.
He can't phrase this. Roll me like an intelligence
check. Thank you.
How to evolve it? No, I I recognize that just.
Throw it in a blunder. I like spinning it.
I don't think it needs to be a blender.
Hopefully I got a 21. Yeah, 21, great.
Despite the gibbers that you just spouted, it seems like
Professor Hemlock, like totally understands.
Like, yes, I know that this is all can be very confusing, but
you're very smart. You're very eloquent.
He he says eloquent. He says it is certainly common
to give your military candy. Our research suggests, based on
the Lyric Region Institute's, that you may not necessarily
need candy or perhaps you may not even need anything edible to
have doted to your military. Please keep this in mind.
I'm going to give military my whisk and just kind of like turn
her a little bit. OK.
Just see what that does. Cabbage just kind of spins with
the whisk. It's really cute.
It is really, really cute, but nothing really happens.
Interesting. OK.
From this process, you are welcome to grant one point to
either Constitution or Wisdom or Intelligence for cabbage.
Professor Hemlock says, wow, we've gotten such a great deal
of information from you all today.
Please, I would love it if you came back at some other point on
your adventure. I you, I'm so sorry that we are
just getting set up here, but I promise this is a very exciting
adventure for us here in Ford tree.
If if you are traveling the Holland region and it seems like
you're taking the gym challenge, I understand that there are
other locations that are opening new right of learnings.
The closest one I believe is in. And then he kind of like looks
at his clipboard. He says, Oh yes, I love a Ridge
town. If you find yourself there,
please please stop by. My associates would love to see
your Pokémon. OK.
Thank you. Yeah.
This was interesting. Very insightful.
He says no, of course, thank you, thank you.
I have much to notate so please, please run along.
And he just like turns around and completely ignores you and
runs into an office and the aides are just scurrying about.
It seems like there's a Pokémon that's carrying like a little
beam somewhere, like a steel beam, taking it to a different
wall, and people are just doing their job.
You exit the Rite of Learning and you can see that leaning up
against the wall. There's a sign that says Rite of
Passage, and they took it down because it's a typo, because
from a translation error, The sun is starting to set, but it's
still really hot. You're on the eastern edge of
the town, and there's still a lot of heat coming from Route
120. It seems like it hasn't cooled
down at all despite the sun setting.
And then directly in front of you is the commercial district.
Would you like to check that out?
Absolutely. Is there a Kmart in town?
Schmidt is like, oh man, it's hot and the sun's getting in my
eyes. I sure wish I had a hat.
And then Patricia, just like, kind of floats onto Schmidt's
head and then sits on like a hat.
Excellent. You'd love to see it.
Well, yeah. You approach the commercial
districts. There's it's interesting.
There's like one big building with a main entrance.
It's like a wooden door. And while this is a district in
quotes, it seems like all the buildings are connected by like
little wooden hallways and there's other multiple little
doors that lead into these different areas.
There's no distinct signage. It just kind of says.
Or Tree City Mall above the double door.
Yeah, let's go shopping. You enter this building and it
is truly like an emporium, like it's one big contained stores,
but there's hallways that like loop around the block and it's
all just one giant building. It's crazy.
Right in front of you there's a large wooden desk and there's a
man who looks kind of like Moody, maybe kind of tired.
It's hard to tell. He's got ruffled black hair.
He's kind of staring at the desk.
And on top of the desk there is a mouse Pokémon that has tints
of blue, and it's holding on to a wire that is connected to a
little box that has a record in it, and it's playing some music
and they're just hanging out. They're just having a time they.
Recognize this as K. This does not look like K This
doesn't look like any shopkeep you've seen before.
He looks up to you and he's just kind of says welcome in.
Hello. Give him like a yo what up G?
What's the word on the street? He looks at you and he says I
don't know. You all right, fam?
Keep it funny and then he like pounds his chest and like does a
hand sign. Are you trying to evoke
something out of him? No.
OK, this is just for flavor. Yeah, OK.
I was like, should I make you roll for this?
Because that could be fun. Roll to impress him.
Roll there, I accidentally throw the wrong hand.
Sign up. No, we're not doing shit combat.
No, we have to do that. We don't do that.
Does that kind of just gives you look He's like?
Let me know if you need help finding anything.
Cindy just does that. Like you, you smell when you
make eye contact with somebody as you're walking.
That like little smile but like doesn't really say anything.
This is like the one of the biggest shops you've been to.
Like it's, it's like the, it's the indoor equivalent of the
festival you were at basically. But just like without the food,
like there is clothing, there is trainers goods, there's like
adventuring goods, whatever you're looking for is going to
be here for the most part. So just let me know what it is
and we can work on getting it potentially, potentially might
not have everything. Mitt needs new battle shoes if
he's going to battle them. New shoes.
Battles. What do you have in mind for the
first shoes? Like what?
What's what style are you thinking of?
Let me do some research to get back to you.
OK. Is there like a Is there a food
section? There's a like kitchen section
they have, yes, yes, they have. They have stuff that's designed
for trainers. They have like, I don't know
what you call them, like portable burners with like solar
panels. They have kitchenware, they have
spices, they have jerky. They have all sorts of stuff
like that. OK, Schmidt has found the shoes.
OK, what? Well, perhaps what are you
looking for? They literally just say the word
battle on them is. That oh man.
OK, Roman D20. That is a six.
That's a six. Great.
Yeah, you have you have these dream shoes in mind and you
think you found them and they look really, really awesome.
Unfortunately, they aren't black and gold.
They are pink and green. The the shoes are pink and the
text is green and it's the font is like very similar to Comic
Sans, but they're there and there's a price tag on them.
Comic Sans. Battle shoes I had in mind.
No, I don't think. These can help people with
dyslexia distinguish the letters better.
It's good for something. You you said you wanted to ask
for something. Yeah, I was going to ask if they
have the better shoes in the back.
Sure. Yeah.
So do you describe to him what you're looking for?
Yeah. He's a little upset that you're
bothering him. And he says I'll yeah, like
everyone always says like, oh, like go check in the back.
But we like literally have nothing different in the back.
But just to make you happy, I'll go look for you.
He stands up and as his shoulders lean back for him to
stand up, you see that he has a name tag.
His name tag says Shay. He stands up, walks towards the
back. I definitely wanted to check
like the survivalist slash camping section.
Cool. Are you looking at anything in
particular? I think I'm just perusing so I
definitely want to just like go about what they may or may not
have. Sure.
Yeah, they have tents, they have flashlights, they have bungee
cords, they have chains, they have thermoses, all sorts of
stuff. What's the pricing on both the
tent and the bungee cord? The tent is a flat 100 and the
bungee cord comes in a four pack.
They are 12 feet long and that is going to be 20.
My boots are fine. Is there any like sun hats in
this area? Not in the camping area, but if
you turn around, there's like a hat rack, all sorts of hats and.
Definitely looking for like classic like dad sun hat with
the little like drape thing in the back since we're walking
around the sunny area and I'm quite bald.
Yeah. Is it like a bucket hat or straw
hat or like a baseball cap? Like what are you looking for?
Yeah, I guess more like a bucket, like safari vacation dad
hat with a little Shaw on the back.
Kind of like he's going on his first like Safari.
Yeah, give me a roll. 11. 11 You find a a bucket hat and it has
like a green and white Paisley pattern on it and it's a little
garish. And then on the front of it
someone, it looks like someone just like stitched a white
patch. And on the white patch, there's
red text and it says women want me, Carvana, fear me.
My wife would love this if I buy it.
It is very ugly, but it has a 12 pokey dollar price tag on it.
We're taking it OK. My wife would love that.
She would find that hysterical. Are you shopping for anything
else, Gimli? No, that's all I need.
OK, cool. You walk up to the counter and
Shay is returning and he has a shoe box and he says, well, I
found these ones, but I'm not sure if that's exactly what
you're looking for. He opens the box to show to
Schmidt and he finds black and gold sneakers.
They have text on the side and they say bottle.
Oh. He said I could sell you some
gold paint if you just kind of want to patch that up if you're
looking for for for the battle text.
I don't think Schmidt is especially crafty himself, so I
don't, Dang, I think he'll wait. I, I think he'll, he'll, he'll,
he'll, he'll buy the shoes at a later time.
All right, because they have to be the perfect shoes.
That'll be his level up, right? Like in his mind, he's like, OK,
we're going to go in. We're going to do this first gym
easy. And then whenever Jim start
getting hard, we're going to get the shoes and it's going to be a
level up. We're going to be a better
trainer. Does he say this out loud?
It's. Like the plan in his head.
I imagine he's like saying it quietly to himself, but it's
like audible enough for everyone to hear.
I feel like Quacko's like nodding along.
If Patricia's just on his head, just.
Fibbing good, Shay says. All right, man, whatever.
And he just like literally throws the shoes behind him.
Oh yeah, I'd like to take these please.
Great. He he looks at the hat that says
women want me, Carvana fear me and they look like you.
And he's just like, sure, man, that's going to be 32.
Gotcha. Do you pay it?
Absolutely. Cool, Shay takes your money.
Little mouse that's on his desk, It's got tensions of blue on it.
Looks at the body. Let's add a little squeak and
then he closes his eyes, takes goes back to napping, powering
whatever this music player is and handles you the items he
says thank you. Anyone else looking for anything
for their journey be. Like, excuse me, your your name
is Shay, right? He says, Yep, don't make me do
the thing. And then he reaches back and he
puts on a hat and it says welcome to Shay Mart.
And he's like, here we are in Shay Mart.
This is my store. My family runs the businesses
all over Holland. And then he takes off the hat
and he's like that. Didn't that didn't rhyme?
I feel like that should have rhymed.
He's like, I didn't write the song, lady, can I get something
for you? Are you perhaps familiar with
Kay of Kmart? He's like, yeah, Kay's my
cousin. And then he like, gestures over
to the wall and there's a family photograph of like 30 dudes.
They all look pretty similar. They all have similarities.
As you're close, you can tell that Shay's face is similar to
Kay's face, but he's just like Moody and has long hair.
So it's not quite Officer Jenny vibes, but it's like they're all
different but similar. Yep, I like it.
We know, Kay. No, sorry.
We do know Kay. We happen to save, you know.
You know Pablo, right? He kind of raises an eyebrow.
He's like I love Pablo and like like his eyes kind of water a
little bit. He's so neighbor everyone knows
and he's like you met Pablo and his little blue mouse friend is
fully awake. It's so you had attention and is
like looking directly at LED. Yeah, he got kidnapped,
unfortunately, but you know, we were able to save Pablo and
return him to Kay, But it was, it was really tough.
Oh my goodness. They're the people in around the
Lily Cove area really know how to battle and steal things.
As you say, kidnapped. Shay's like jaw drops and he's
like please tell me Pablo's OK, please.
Yeah, he, he's, we saved him. We we returned him to to Kay.
He let's out a sigh of relief and he says you have no idea how
grateful I am for you. I have all sorts of goods for
traders that we just got a shipment in and I'm probably not
supposed to do this, but I can get you them at clearance prices
if that helps. I'm not very good at these kind
of bartering things. That does help.
What do you have? He's got all sorts of stuff.
It's true that he has a fresh shipment.
And he gestures. He's like anything, anything in
the glass cabinet. Let me know and I'll I'll see
what I can do for you. What are you looking for?
Maybe just like a potion? Yeah, he's got plenty of potions
that come in different colors. Potions.
Is this grace or is this ality? Yes.
Yes, so I'm. Looking for these shoes that are
like black and gold and have the word battle on them.
Are you saying this to Shay? Yeah.
He's like, yeah, man, it's the best I got.
Bottle's pretty cool. I might get those shoes myself.
Actually. In response to LED slash grace,
same potion. He's like, yeah, yeah, I'll.
I can get you. I can get you 3 for the price of
1. Great, I'll do that.
Well, he asks you for $10. $10 is great.
Here you go. Right, and you get 3 potions.
Add that to your inventory. Tell you what, I like you guys.
You give me good business. I'll let you down a little
secret. He reaches under the desk where
he's got the cabinet of trainer's goods and he pulls out
a special looking pokey ball. It is light blue and has little
like white features on the front of it.
He says they're starting this thing.
I don't know where they got this idea, but next week they're
going to have a start selling these four tree balls.
I don't know what they do, but they look pretty cool.
I'll get you guys one for the price of and he looks at his
list and he says for a great ball price.
How's that? I'm interested.
Yeah, I'm interested. Sounds good.
OK. Even though Cindy's poor, she
can manage one for a tree ball. He says, all right, I got to
have two dozen for the display next week.
And he like is thinking about it.
He says, all right, yeah, I can. I can definitely part with four.
And if I'm letting them go a great ball price, which is about
half off, that's going to be 45. For the total.
Oh no, for each do. We know what they do.
Does he have any knowledge of the wear?
Yeah, he has an idea. He's like, I'm not exactly sure
how they work, but apparently they work better on certain
kinds of Pokémon. I.
Guess I'll take one. All right, transaction complete.
You have a four tree ball. Nice.
I'll take one as well. Great.
Mark that off. Takes. 1.
OK. Yeah, I'll take one too.
Great. Do you say that that's steep out
loud? Yeah, he says.
Hey man, this is over half off. Half off, still steep.
He gives you a look and he, like, doesn't even know how to
respond to that. He's like, all right, man.
Yeah, you do. You.
As you go to exit you smell smoke and you look over towards
the sunset and the sun, which was like laying off an orange
hue, is now a red haze. Roll someone.
Roll me. Perception.
I rolled a gnat 1. I rolled A3.
Rolls are garbage tonight. Yeah, all of you can roll if you
want, if you want to, like just. I got a 3 + 1 so 4.
OK no idea what gets I got. That's a cool sunset.
Look at that. 17. OK, what did Gimli get?
Schmidt is too depressed about not being able to get the shoes
that he doesn't notice anyone else.
OK, Schmidt. Notices that something's up and
he takes a big inhale and just starts coughing up smoke.
Take a Take AD 4 damage. What's?
Not one bro. That's the least in your.
Word. Oh come on.
And I get a four. Welcome to critical failures.
I'm so sorry. Cindy can't tell what's going
on. She's like, why does it smell
weird? Gimley Bible.
Instincts kicking him. Gimley.
Can tell us that? Like something's, something's
not quite right. Something's something's amiss
here. Elodie can hear the voice of a
woman screaming over on Route 120.
Oh y'all, somebody's screaming. Oh, let's go.
Everyone mobs. It'll help this person, yeah.
OK, Schmidt is lying on the ground coughing.
Oh man. It is passed down.
So much pain. It took a lot of damage, guys.
So. Come on, we got to go.
You you run down onto Route 20 and you see the source of the
smoke, or what might be the source of the smoke, but it's
pretty obscured where there should be a river that flows
downstream. It is just completely a dry
Creek bed. As you're walking up Route 120,
there were Pokémon that were like fish, Pokémon that were
still flopping around in Little Creek.
It is gone. It is dried up.
There are just columns and columns of smoke coming from the
riverbed, and you see a familiar figure who is lying on the
ground holding her knee and she's screaming.
Sam is down there and appears to be injured.
She's confronted with some figure that is completely
covered in smoke. I'm.
Going to yell out Sam are you OK?
She turns around. She says, oh, I'm so glad you're
here. I, I really need your help.
Please, please come down here right now.
There's a growl that comes from the smoke.
It is very, very scary. I I think we should, yeah, we
should go see. As you approach, this spoke is
probably like 40 feet in front of Sam.
She's clutching her knee. It looks like she tripped on a
rock. She's bleeding a little bit, and
she's grasping at a pokey ball at her belt.
And she's like, come on, come on.
That's now is not the time. It's.
It's the strange ball that you don't recognize.
It's not Frostbite's ball. She's trying to encourage
whatever's in there to come out, but they're not having it.
What are you going to do here? We investigate it.
Yeah. Roll me an investigation.
Oh, oh really? I'm on fire tonight.
Nat 20. Nice.
Yeah. So both of you were.
Why on the OK don't worry about the like pointless roles on my
crittering and then like the one that causes me damage I get a
Nat failure? Both of you remember that on
your cruise over to Lily Cove on your vacation, you were flipping
through like a travel guide and because you were paying like
that much attention. But you remember looking at a
list of powerful trainers, right?
And they were featured with their Ace Pokémon.
One of them said recently promoted Elite 4 trainer
Flannery and accompanied by her Ace Torkel.
Now standing before you is hardly what you would call a
Torkle, but it looks not like anything else.
Torkles are generally pretty small in size.
This thing stands like 15 feet. What normally lets off like
white smoke is dark black and sooty.
What is generally a calm face with closed eyes is rage and
open eyes that look very angry and very focused on Sam.
It seems incredibly hot. Was winery at the Lilco thing
and got Pokémon stolen or something?
I feel like I remember that, but I could be your misremembering
and it. Was a minor.
Flattery now? No.
OK. Never mind then, y'all this
Torkel looks angry. All right, we sure are sure
that's a Torkel. Schmidt in between coughs is
like I recommend we grab Sam and Bale.
Yeah, I'll pick her up. Yeah, I don't know if we can
face this, if I'm being honest. I'm going to scoop her up and
then try to get out. OK.
Yeah, strike check. 16, OK, Yeah, that's sufficient to pick
up Sam and you're starting to run OK.
Yeah, we out of here. OK, you're running the torkle,
or so it seems. What's out of groan?
It goes and it can't move that fast.
I would torkle South. But but as it does it, the
jungle foliage that is on either side of the riverbank ignites
and it feels a lot, a lot hotter now.
Oh my God. Oh God.
And he very slowly chases after you, but it's not very fast, is
it? Your attention, Scooby.
Doocy. Is it what?
What's your plan right now with Sam in Gimli's arms?
I mean, I think we're just trying to head back to town,
right? Let the forest burn.
I mean what? I mean what?
If this thing gets into town. And.
Other people in town can help. Us, I mean, we have to get
people in town to help us stop the thing.
Right, yes, but what if they're this thing reaches the people
that are already in town the. Town is made out of trees,
friends. Yeah.
But I mean, yeah, but what are we going to do, Guide it away?
Like y'all want to run distraction while I get the
injured person out? Like what you want to do?
Schmidt says I'll serve as a distraction and then he runs out
with Patricia and Quacko. 2. Initiate battle.
He just said that like, he needs to be battling with Patricia, so
he's like, now's the time. What's the plan for the rest of
you? You're going to battle, you're
not going to run away or like run to distract.
No, no, no no, I'm straight up like run, run at him.
OK so y'all can get away. Cindy, you say whatever.
Cindy will probably go fight it too because MY solely has flash
fire so it doesn't take damage from fire moves, so Soli's
already out ready to go trying. To get Sam to safety and I'll be
back all. Right, Elodie?
I'll stay and fight. OK, it's initiative time.
Cool. So Schmidt gets to go first to
deal with this behemoth Torkel. I'm going to use Patricia and
I'm going to have Patricia use Patricia's mystery move.
Oh. OK, yeah, roll the Nature 13.
Patricia starts. Like flapping very intensely.
Seems like it has something on the mind, something that is
within her primal memory. Not perfectly, it seems like the
smoke is a little distracting. Patricia focuses her energy a
little, distracted by the smoke, but she manages to get a bonus.
Her next attack has advantage. Am I like in front of this thing
already or? Yeah, you're within 30 feet of
it. I just have Quacko get in a
defensive position. Quacko will be the back line.
I'm going to start like attacking with Patricia and
then, you know, I'll be like Quacko, draw your sword and then
Quacko's like ready to the sidelines.
Great, excellent, Cindy. All right, so I'll probably send
Solian with a a quick attack unless normal is not so good.
OK, well, there's only one way to find out.
OK. Roll the hit.
Oh no, I got a six. A6, Yeah.
Does not hit. Sully dashes forward, goes to
give this giant Torkle a big old smack.
Seems to just kind of glance off a torkle's shell.
It's really smoky, it's really hot.
But Sully seems to be very confident and not too perturbed
by these conditions. LED so much you got.
Yeah, I'm going to have cabbage used sweet scent, so it has to
make Charisma safe. Behemoth Torkel manages to pass.
It's a 17. Yucky.
Yeah, very gross. It seems like.
It seems like all the smoke just negates the scent.
Torkel just can't smell it because it's already covered in.
Smoke probably should have thought about that.
Now we're on to Behemoth Torkel. This Torkel eyes the competition
in front of it and it ain't scared.
It's got some trees on fire. It's out for blood, apparently.
It lowers its head, and out of its back comes plumes and plumes
and plumes of more dense smoke than has been generally been
coming out of its shell. It's going to request a
Constitution save from all the Pokémon. 2. 3020 Quacko got a
19. Patricia rolled the six.
Patricia, I'm so sorry. Every Pokémon that rolled higher
than a 14 takes three damage, three poison damage.
Everyone who rolled lower than a 14 takes 7 poison damage.
And if you saved by less than five, you're poisoned.
You have disadvantage on pretty much everything, and you're
going to take two damage at the end of your turn.
OK, we're going to check in with Sam and Gambling.
Sam is gently crying. She's really upset.
She's like, I can't use frostbite.
Frostbite's always there for me, but it's just too hot.
I have cause with me. But he won't listen.
He won't listen. You have a ladder to climb to
get on the walkway, or you can charge through the foliage, the
thick jungle foliage, to get to the Pokémon Center.
I'm assuming that's where you're going for medical attention.
Ladder ladder seems more like a dex we're charging through the
foliage is probably more my style so.
OK, yeah, give me a strength chart. 18.
Yeah, that's enough. You charge your way through the
foliage. You manage to get just like
about where the gym is. It looks like there's one more.
You're in a clearing in front of the gym.
There's going to be another patch of foliage to charge
through, or you can take the ladder.
But since these are rounds of like 6 seconds or so, we're
going to check in with Schmidt. OK.
I think I'm just going to pick. OK, go for it. 13 to hit.
OK, that is not quite enough for Charcoal's steady shell.
Swabu flies in and again, the smoke is just really
overbearing. Especially this poisonous smoke
just didn't seem to sit well. Patricia goes for the PEC, just
misses, just hits its cloudiness and flies back towards Schmidt.
This thing is 25 feet away instead of 30.
Is he still like, steadily moving?
Yeah, he's like always walking, Basically.
Cindy, it's on you. Since Solely's kind of poisoned,
I'll let her kind of chill off to the side a little bit so she
doesn't get, I mean, she'll get more hurt, but like, not get
more and more hurt. Yeah.
I mean, I could like, pull her back in and send out cookie and
use can I? Is that my move sending out
cookie and pulling in solely or can I also use bubble?
Switching as an action generally in like trainer battles, I would
not mind you doing this. I think this is appropriate in
this high stakes situation. So like as cookies like leaving
the pokeball, it's like use bubble.
Oh. No, I got a 4 + 2.
I got a six. Yeah, Cookie very confidently
shoots out some bubbles, and before they reach Torkle they
just evaporate in the heat. Any other things you'd like to
do? No.
OK, Cry. Is that a bonus?
Can I use cry as a bonus action? Yes.
Crying is a bonus action. You are more than welcome to
LED, it's on you. Right.
If it were to use like a Roman Mr. Sweet scent to try and clear
the smoke, but I just, I feel like that wouldn't really work.
You can always like, it's a Pokémon battle, right?
But it's always D&D too. So if there's something that you
want to do that's outside of the constraints of your moves, you
can, you can try it, you know, just let me know what it is.
Use Aromatic Mist for our allies here, so that will add one D4 to
any saving throw for one minute. Up next, it's the baddie.
He leans back, takes a big inhale.
The smoke seems to kind of like some of it tucks back into
Torkle's body. And then, all at once, he expels
a huge blast in the target. All the Pokémon the humans are
going to get a little hot too, but you're not going to take
damage from this. Everyone needs to make a
dexterity save. You have AD 4 from aromatic.
Mist the D4. Yes.
Oh my goodness, I got another neck 20.
What is the what save is this again?
Yes. Patricia has a dirty 22.
OK. Quacko has a 13.
And we got 12 or higher, we're going to take 9 damage, 9 fire
damage. Cookie is resistant.
Yes, so we can have that. Anyone who failed got less than
or 11 or lower takes 18 fire damage.
Sam and Gimli, are you going to charge through this jungle?
Are you going to try and run over the top?
Jungle. OK, roll me strength. 17.
Yeah, you managed to do it again.
As you're charging through the thick foliage, Sam looks at you
and she says, I know what it is. I I know what's doing it.
I know how we can help this. Torkel.
You're going to have to get back there.
Down. Hold on.
Actually, let's go on the polo side.
You want to meet me there in a second?
Absolutely. OK, Sam says.
I know what's going on down on its belly.
There's something there. It's a device.
It's like a syringe. It's causing Torkel to act up.
You have to go there and get that syringe out of its belly.
Absolutely. OK, so yeah, you're running
towards the Pokémon Center. Next turn you will arrive.
OK. So it's back at the top of the
round. It is Schmidt.
I guess I'll just go for sing anyways.
OK, I'll put this thing to sleep.
That's a check for me, right? What's that?
Move DC-8 plus charisma. Oh it's pretty low.
Charisma is -1. No, no.
Yeah. So.
Seven, I guess. Yep, we'll see.
And that's a four. Torkle is asleep now.
Patricia, You Beautiful songstress.
I think this is our first time that we've encountered sleep, so
let me just explain for the next three turns, 3, next three
rounds of combat, Torkle is going to be asleep.
Can't do anything if he, if you attack it with a saving throws,
a disadvantage. When it is Charcoal's turn,
there's a chance that he will break out of sleep.
All right, Cindy, you had a sleeping behemoth in front of
you. It's still spewing smoke and
it's still very hot, but it is. It was lulled to sleep.
We're going to bubble again. OK, you have or Yeah, you have
an advantage on this to hit. OK, well my first role was an 18
and I have a + 2, so 3020. We'll see.
I got an 18 again so. OK, we're only the damage.
I got a one. You got a one.
Oh, but it's a water move. It is a water move.
You are also in drought, so it is negated a whole. 1.
Day of it. Hey, its damage is damaged.
You've dealt some damage. Let's see if Torko wants to wake
up. Answer is no LED.
Wait, does it? So does it try to make an
attempt to wake up with every hit?
Yes, every time it takes damage and at the end of each of its
turns. I feel like that's way like
that's actually more balanced than the sleep mechanic in
Pokémon. So it just makes more sense,
yeah. Yeah, it's a it's a combination
of Pokémon in D&D. Yeah, exactly.
If you hit something that's sleeping, it's probably going to
wake up, you know? Can I use tackle this time 11?
Unfortunately it's just so hazy and so hot as is this.
Is this cabbage or is this? This cabbage.
Yes, cabbage rolls forward or rolls floats forward, goes for
the tackle just like can't do it.
It's too hot, it's too smoky. That poison damage is really
scary for cabbage, unfortunately.
Can we just check around, see if maybe our friends, our friend
Gimli is on his way back yet? Does it like you want to look
around the corner? Yeah.
You can roll for that. 11. You see Gimli shaped holes in
the jungle like he just charged through the foliage in Fortress
City. You see no sign of him or Sam.
OK, but at least they're probably safe.
I'm going to relay this fact to our friends.
OK, we're going down to Torkelster.
He's going to try and wake up and he gets a crit.
He's awake. He gets no action, but he spends
his action standing up and he looks at you and he goes and he
spews out smoke and heat and he is stepping forward another 5
feet. He is 60 feet from 4 Tree City.
Gimli, you arrive at the Pokémon Center.
What do you say? She's treatment now, but I have
to rush back. There's something dangerous
happening in the woods, OK? So you're just going to drop her
off there and see what happens? Yeah.
OK. Yeah, Sam is totally on board
with this. Sam is like, thank you, I'll.
I'll be fine. The nurse rushes forward.
This is not like a human center, but like they have bandages so
it'll be fine. They can put her in a sling,
whatever she needs and you're going to run on back.
OK, you've carved out carved out a path for yourself, so you
don't really like need to make any rules to get through the
foliage. However, you can roll AD 20 and
see if you can dash since you are unburdened.
So just roll A roll a athletics. 25.
Yeah, OK. So you clear the ground that you
did, carrying Sam twice as fast. Next round you will be in
combat. Nice.
Schmidt, what are you doing? He's within 30 feet, right?
You said like 25 of me. Well, 20 now because he just
walked forward. I'm going to have Quacko take up
a defensive position, and by that I mean just hold his sword
at him or at the torkel. And I'm going to have Patricia
sing again. OK, that seven DC, will it work
twice in a row? Will it work?
Come on, Patricia, You Beautiful songstress.
Oh, he got a one once. Yes.
That's insane. Let's go, Patricia.
That's so dumb. OK, Yeah.
We're broken. What is there?
What does the song sound like? Can you describe it?
It's the most beautiful melody you've ever heard in your life.
Actually, no. Patricia's singing Mötley Crüe.
Let's go. Let's go.
Yeah, Patricia sings. Patricia the song.
Patricia sings the swab blue version of Mötley Crüe.
When Torkel falls asleep again the the smoke and heat seems to
quiet down a little bit, but still blazing hot.
Nicely done, Sandy, what are you doing?
Let's go for another bubble. Oh no, but we got 6.
Yeah, it's so hot it's crazy. Even when Torkel's sleeping,
Cookie shoot out some bubbles, very confidently this time, but
they just evaporate before they make contact.
Gimli, panting, runs up to the party.
Guys, there's something really important.
This John Torkel, it's got a little thing on its belly.
We got to get it off. It's making it big.
Flip it like a turtle. Flip it like a turtle so I I
can't see it. I guess I could roll a
perception to see if I could see it, but like to see what's
protruding because I was like, let's go for the bowl.
I'm like, I don't even know what I'm aiming it for to try to pull
it off. So I guess I'll have to try to
go for a perception to see if we could see underneath the torkle.
Roll it. 5. Five, the way the Torkle is
sleeping, it's like its legs, like it was standing and then it
just, its legs splayed out, so it's just on its belly.
You can't see anything down there.
OK, Elody. OK.
All right, how the Frick are we going to flip this thing over?
Everybody lift. It's super hot though.
I got Baker arms. I'm ready to go.
Baker. Arms.
That's the new ability introduced in Five East.
Yeah, exactly. Obviously Baker arms.
See, I don't know. There's things like I'm like, I
don't know if I should try if this is like a stretch, but I
was thinking of like trying to use like sweet scent or
something to like lit in its sleep.
Is that like? A I'm going to send you
something. OK.
It's a it's a treat. Let's say it's a result of your
time at the right of learning. How's that?
Oh, my gosh. Oh, this is great.
All right, well, we're definitely using this.
OK, so this is a bonus action. So we're gonna do some some
senspiration, inspiration, senspiration.
I think we're gonna give this to Trevor the Rock'n'roll off,
since he's like a rock type. OK, to make this clear, this is
AD 6 of inspiration that you can use within the next 10 minutes.
You can add AD 6 to any of your rules.
After the roll. Right.
It could be after the roll, but it has to be before it's
declared. So you could say the number,
then really quickly say I want inspiration.
And with the bulk of my turn, we're gonna go for is the minute
up on the aromatic mist? I doubt it, right?
No, it's no seconds. Yeah, these are 6 second rounds.
I guess we'll just go for like a a tackle towards one of its like
legs I guess. OK.
Is this like an attack or is this like you're trying to move
it? Yeah, trying to like move its
its leg out of the way. OK, I guess you don't have to
roll a tackle. You can roll me based on how you
want to describe it, a Strength or Dexterity.
Probably more of a Dexterity. OK.
OK, that was a 10. Unfortunately, the the Torkle
leg is just too big, too heavy, too hot to be reckoned with at
this moment. And Torkle's going to see if it
wakes up. And it does.
Torkle stands up. Let's add a groan has had enough
with the shenanigans and steps. 5 feet closer, 55 feet until 4
Tree City. So the thing on its belly needs
to be destroyed. Or like a button.
There's something. If I investigate this, would
that be my action for the turn? Nope.
That's a dirty 22. So you can see in the center
Torkoal's belly, there is some sort of like black tube sticking
out. It's coming out like a diagonal
angle. It seems like it might have like
gotten squished that way when it's slept on its belly and it
seems to have some sort of Insignia or marking on it.
OK, have I winged that this is like a like a switch or
something or? Not quite.
You can tell that part of it is sticking out and then part of it
is inside of Torco's belly. What if I had quacko?
Like try to slide under there and then hit the thing out of
its belly. With a sword.
That sounds epic, you should try it.
OK oh oh quacko, your monster that's also a dirty 22.
Dirty 22 What's the natural rule?
19. You know with your leak that
means it's a crit, right? Oh that is a crit yo.
You want to describe this epic maneuver to remove this device
from Traco's belly. Quacko does like a like a like
a, like a Mega Man slide, you know, like he gets like a
running start and then he like slides on his, his, his feet
down there and he has like the leak in hand and then he just
like smacks the, the belly of the torpo and then whatever
thing that just pops out. All right, Yeah, You, you all
witness something super cool that you would expect to see
from, like, the leader of a team.
It is awesome. You swear that you still hear
bits of the song that Patricia was sitting just earlier as like
a little anthem. I imagine Patricia's like, still
humming it a little. Bit.
Yeah, absolutely. So as Farfet slides out on from
the other side of the Torkle, this black device is removed
from its belly. It's eyes kind of roll into the
back of its head and it collapses onto its size.
As it does that, it seems like a bunch of energy is just
streaming out into the air from Torkle's body, from its face,
from the holes on its shell, and it decreases in size.
It shrinks and it shrinks and it becomes more or less the size of
a normal Torkle. It is conked, it's knocked out,
the heat in the surrounding area dissipates, the smoke blows away
in the wind. It's still hot, it's still
parched, but there's no longer a source of heat as the sun has
set even more during this battle.
About another hour later, it's actually starting to feel kind
of chilly and you can see clouds rolling in from the north can.
We take it to the Pokémon Center to make it feel better.
Pick it up and bring it to the Pokie Center.
You can do whatever you want. Let me know if you want to.
You know what we want? I'm gonna scoop it.
You're gonna scoop. Bring him back.
Yeah, it's still very warm. Roll to you.
Can mind though, you probably bring it to the Weather
Institute and make bank. Right, but he he looks like.
Nice. Well, right now we're getting it
to the I'm. Just saying.
I'm just saying. Yeah, of course, of course.
Is that device still on the ground or did it?
It's on the ground, it's there. I.
Would like to investigate that device.
Roll me investigation. That's that one.
No, no, you have no. Idea it's like yeah, dealing
himself of like like like Quacko's like really cool and
he's yes, yes. Schmidt pack best team great.
He's just like feeling himself. I I rolled the strength to pick
up the torkle to carry it and I got 24 so.
Yeah, you're fine. You you can honestly carry it on
your shoulder. Yeah.
So with the with the tad hat holding the torkle like a ball.
That's right. Cindy's just like I thought.
We tame our team, the Quacko. Pack quacko packo.
And the Quacko Packo. Instead of the Schmidt pack
because Quacko is just insane. The Quacko Packo.
You all March back there carrying the toracle.
The knight is feeling much colder than it was before.
You notice that Quacko is holding a leak, as well as the
strange device that was on the ground.
He walked in the Pocono Center. You see, Sam, she's got a little
brace on her legs. She's wearing like a boot, and
she's been given a crutch. And she walks and she says
you're OK, You're OK. How did it go?
Well we stopped him points that thing over my shoulder and this
guy needs a good fixer up. Let me know when he wakes up.
I think we all need a little fixer.
Up, yeah. Patricia is bloodied.
All right, Yeah. Patricia was such a trooper that
Gabe. Nurse Joy says, oh great, I will
take your Pokémon and she collects all your Pokémon.
Farfetch hands you the device because it shouldn't be healed.
It shouldn't take that in with it.
Would you like to roll again on it or offer it to someone else
to look at and be like, can you tell what this thing is?
Yeah, I'll. Take a look at it.
Oh I just rolled to the 16 so. Let's get LED's roll too, just
cuz. OK, OK.
No, it's OK. No, I don't want that one.
OK. Glitz and I are connected
tonight I guess. Do you want to describe your Nat
one like before Schmidt takes a look at it?
Like what? Oh, for sure, yeah.
I'm definitely gonna look at it and be like, wow, that's that's
a thing for sure. That's definitely it for sure.
But that thing it is, Yeah. Neat.
That's wow. A dirty 20 total, Yeah, by the
way. You take you take a look at this
thing. It is.
It's an interesting device. It there's a big thick like
needle on one side, it's clearly a syringe.
And then at the part where there would be a vial or something is
like an Obsidian black container.
There are three letters in yellow text printed on the side.
They are NRG Sam looks at the group and she says it's been a
big day. We should probably get some
rest. And unless there's anything you
want to say or check, that's where we'll call the session.
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We'll see you next Tuesday. What kind of battle skills would
you like? This Elody?
Not Elody. What kind of battle skills would
you? Like I get the battle.
Skills. Yeah, no, I mean, maybe he's
like, would you like to train any gestures over to like a a
deadlift bench? He's like, please, no, he
doesn't do that.