Welcome. Hello and welcome to the third
ever Duns Parson Grandpa Talkback.
We're doing episode 3. It's called The Mining the Witch
and the Wardrobe. As of right now, it's just me,
DM Rich. We'll see if other folks join
the call. Either way, I'm happy to provide
Talkback and commentary for this.
And we haven't done it in a while.
We've been busy getting ready for the end of the campaign
itself so and by we I mean I've been doing a lot of prep so we
haven't done this in a while. So I don't know if the volumes
at a good point. I think I'm going to turn down a
little bit but that is to say I think y'all should be watching
instead of listening to this. Anyway.
Even though the captions are auto generated and they don't do
perfect, they do help a lot because we're going to be
talking over it and it's hard to listen to two things at once.
That being said, it's just me, so there might be less talking,
happy talking stalking happening, but we'll see if
anyone joins. But for now, let's just let past
me narrate for a bit. The sky is gradually tinting
orange as the sun begins its descent down the horizon.
Locals and travellers 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 kind of gestures is a classic rich
moment, which is directly pretty much S from where you are.
There's a large a funny stat about this episode.
Obviously the most listened to episode is episode 1.
That's that's just without a doubt, which makes sense.
That's how you'd want it to be. You'd think episode 2 is the
second most, but it's actually this one.
It's actually the third one that is the second most listened to
and I don't really know why. The best guess I have is because
the title is stupid. It's like so goofy that people
have to listen to it. Where the second one is fast
friends. The idea what that was one, they
became friends with Sam pretty quickly.
But two, Sneezel is like a notoriously fast Pokémon, or at
least it was when I was young, So I wanted to name the episode
that this one. I named that because it just
felt good to be true that this episode featured a Mine in a
Witch and a Wardrobe in the sense that the Paco went
clothing shopping. So pretty funny.
Where are we? Over to the southeast corner.
Oh, welcome. We're listening to the start of
episode 3. Just this is just the
exposition. You haven't missed anything like
at all. Wonderful.
I was just discussing the fact that you know episode 1 is the
most listened to episode, which makes sense and I wouldn't have
it any other way, but episode 2 is not the second most listened
to, Episode 3 is. And I was explaining that the
only lead I have on for why that might be is because how dumb the
title is, but I don't know if you have any theories about
that. Maybe I I don't know that that's
a. That is a weird number.
You figured it would like cascade off, but.
Yeah, no, there's a dip on episode 2 and then it jumps back
in episode 3. It's like, oh, it's a study.
Organization. I don't.
Know maybe there'll be some insight all over Hoen they tend
to study Pokémon and their techniques.
I think this is the exposition to the right of learning
happening. Check out absolutely, which was
lifted straight from boarding party to the game and their game
that takes place in the Larus region gargantuan tree.
It's all home brewed stuff is the props to drew the DM for all
that work. Not something I wanted to do
going into this. Just I didn't feel like I had
the time, but that's super cool when you can pull that off.
Not sure if they're taking and yeah, I looked at a lot of
stuff, especially early from boarding party.
And so I thought the idea of an institution where like there are
researchers that are dedicated to like making Pokémon stronger
and cooler was just I don't know, it was just a cool idea.
It felt easy to implement and an easy way to like schedule like
non level up bonuses into the map if you know what I'm saying.
Yeah, I think that's the big ticket with like some of these,
especially like Pokémon oriented RPG style stuff like this.
It's really difficult to like feel like you can draw power
into your character because your character is so like
intrinsically powered by other things that it like makes a lot
more difficult unless you have these like systems, like these
little checkpoints like the right of learning to like help
us bolster and catch things up. Because like, I don't know,
people have played the the regular Pokémon games and you
can definitely feel like, I mean, everyone's first play
through usually is like my starter is way overpowered and
everything falls behind. And it's like it's so easy for
even in this system to have that like happen within your party
itself. And that's kind of obnoxious.
Yeah. But there's a good solution to
the problem. Yeah, I think it worked out.
I think Drew knew what he was doing, and I think it really
elegantly transferred over to our game as well.
Something to consider with combining Pokémon TTRBGS is that
defeated Pokémon don't drop loot, right?
In fact, they drop experience, which we're using milestones
for, so they effectively do nothing.
So you have to really plan rewards for the players that are
not intrinsic to the battles that they've won, right?
Has been established. Schmidt's like this is our.
Yeah, like there's like limited amount of loot like that We
could get like held items and stuff, which was kind of cool,
but like definitely was very limited in terms of like keeping
it true to Pokémon at the same time.
Yeah, you can just like strap your your Pokémon with like gear
and you're like, yeah, let's go. Like it's like that.
You get one thing at a time, like.
Approach right the fortress 80 Postal Service big glass doors
slide. Oh that the Postal Service first
right. I forgot that some letters got
sent out. It was just birds.
This Postal Service was one of the stationary earliest planted
seeds for foreshadowing, which didn't get picked up until
episode 60 or 70 or so I believe.
Oh yeah. Which was the not this episode
itself, but the letter that Gimli or that Gimli got back was
from Gemma was coded. Yeah, it was coded and it was
like, well. It was like basically like help
me and you know, it's not like I LED any hints to that or
anything, but I thought there. Was a chance.
That maybe Gimli would look at it and be like, something's done
right here. So kind of kind of funny.
Kind of funny. It wasn't a required thing to
pick up on, but it's a fun thing that sounds.
Well, no, I will. I will say early I'm like this
reads is like a coded thing, but I was like my character's too
dumb that he wouldn't even pick up on this at all until it was
like pointed out to him, like he adds it to his son.
He's like, this seems really off.
And it's like, oh, really? Like, oh, it's crazy simple.
Guy so my wife wouldn't be surprised if I glizzy.
Something oh, we got the glizzy, oh like glizzy entrance.
And squids. Hello.
Yeah. I did already start, so we're
live. It's all good.
But we're so live, we're not that far in.
I might as well pose the question to the two of you as
well. This might.
We have talked about this briefly before, but the most
listened to episode of the podcast is episode 1.
The second most is not episode 2, it's episode 3, which is this
one. Do you have any theories on why
that is? First, there's a little sign
below that has a listing. I don't know.
In particular, I think the thumbnail is kind of a banger,
how fast the service is, the thumbnail title combo, the mine,
I'm the witch and the wardrobe. Yeah, yeah, that's my, I don't
know why I get like, if you get them like recommended to you,
like episodes, it's always recommending episode 1 then
episode 3. Weird.
Like every time I see it on my Spotify it's like those two
episodes. It might even be the auto play
on YouTube or something. Might be one or three.
YouTube just doesn't know how to count.
Yeah, I. Guess wondering about re listens
and stuff too like how that? Oh yeah.
Does this one have like some lower bits in it that people
would come back to? They re listen to which then
bumps it up which then the increase to the recommended from
like 1 to then 3 instead of 2. Yeah.
I'll be that. I don't know, it could be a lot
of factors, yeah. Yeah, Hello, hello.
That's. What I was thinking.
I was like, let's just so we're at the post office out of this.
I think we talked about going to the right of learning, but we
decided to do the post office first.
I wasn't even sure how to really like handle this with you guys.
I just kind of let it RIP. I was like, we'll see what
happens with these letters. I know you wanted to see if you
could somehow call your mother. I think it worked out pretty
interestingly. Sent anything or any 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 clicking
around or you also let it be known that this is still the
Schmidt pack. The Quacko Packo has not been
established yet. The Schmidt pack.
That's so funny that we were the Schmidt pack for a while.
Yeah, I don't know how long it might even be this episode that
it gets overhauled, but we did open up where it was the Schmidt
pack. So genius.
For. Sure, absolute.
So all of you write your letters.
You see a quick team name turn around kind.
Of stuff except yeah yeah, I think the decentralization of
power in the name I guess it's not decentralization just
assigned from the non human from the human to the non human Yeah,
I think it was more favorable for everyone for gambling.
It says there's a world where it could have just been absolutely
the swim pack the whole time. Could you imagine pokey dollars
be sure to mark it off the sheet and Merco 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 mail slides down. You know I think this post
office idea is also something that I stole from boarding
party. Not like post offices are
exclusive to boarding party, but one of the trainers is like his
goal is to like be the best mailman.
So I think there was a lot of post office type stuff going on.
And so there was probably fresh in my mind when we did this
episode. I was like, I have to make sure
there's a post office so they can send messages.
Drop 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.
They get a little too loose with the word stealing in its little.
It's like it's inspired, like you don't have to think it like
directly from. Yeah, no, I mean, yeah.
Maybe you do make it your own ideas after like even it's like,
oh, this this concept is like that's fired by somebody else,
but. That's true.
I think what I'm trying to get at is more what I hope is just a
sentiment in the TTRPG community in general, which is just using
stealing just brazenly as a as a way to like encourage it.
Because I feel like too many new DMS are like, oh, I have to do
like my whole new thing that is totally originally unique to my
brain. And I think experienced DMS will
say, dude, just like if you like something from D20, just like do
it. Matt Mercer, like blew your
brain. Just do that, you know, like
that's really encouraged. So I think that might be what
I'm doing that with my vocabulary choice there like a.
Watch. Maybe not fair.
I I just think like the word stealing can also be like take
the connotation of like, it's that it's a bad thing
technically to do it like I'm doing it anyway.
Yeah, fair enough. Yeah, that's probably good to
clarify. Some people might not understand
that that is what it's meant, yeah.
You're free to like, I, I mean like as a teacher of
engineering, I try to encourage people all the time to like,
take ideas that already exist and apply them to the thing that
you're doing it for because the idea already exists.
Like, why are you trying to like reinvent the wheel, right?
Like if like someone came up with a cool concept and it fits
what you're trying to do, then like make use of it like you
should. And it's like especially TCRPGS.
Like your, your players probably don't know.
And if they do, they'll be like, oh, it's that thing from that
thing that's cool, you know, so like worst case scenario that.
We fitted in ours. Yeah, you.
Guys, and he seems to be very happy and as he's walking, he's
like punching the air in his little poker.
Oh, is this Vince again? Yeah.
Man, man, they're just cheering. I didn't know.
I forgot that he showed up again.
So you. Wouldn't even say.
Hi, He was a pretty important character.
Yeah, I'm a little bit. Way one of the more established
NPCS for sure at the beginning. Role to perceive me yeah he
just. Doesn't even 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 like, seems like he's just
walking like. Straight power success 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 gym.
Where was he going, truly? It's a mystery sort of uniform
that looks kind of seeking more power kind of formal.
You assume it's kind of like the the Hoenn looking uniform or for
gym personnel and he waves over to you and he says we're closed
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?
Halt it. I will.
OK. That's the leader.
Hell yeah, that's the leader. Very.
Well, I can imagine it happens exactly like that, yeah.
Yeah, oh, this is my role for our photos.
Oh yeah, I don't. Remember doing that?
That's so funny. You're right.
Because I remember Elodie's like, wait, that 20 or
something, She's like. Yeah.
Head over the shoulder like post.
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, what region are
you from? Shit, what?
Region am I from Joto? Hell yeah, he says all.
Right, Schmidt, I forget. Crown, where am I from?
OK, great. Out of nowhere, there's a big
old flag. Something that's fun about the
Pokémon world. Capture to your face is a you
know, we just spent time at the post office.
Anything to send messages this guy has like a hologram keyboard
you know a little funny juxtapositions you get from this
world credentials on it comes he slides it in tech but.
Where we want it, yeah. We don't want to put Boo Boots
out of business. Yeah.
Exactly. Yeah, They care about the labor
and 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.
Yeah, I did do this. That's funny.
Can. I roll to see how good or bad
mind 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 we all.
Rolled pretty high. Yeah, for sure.
Model posing. I guess I didn't have Schmidt
roll because I forgot. That sucks.
Are 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.
Did it get? Cut maybe.
Maybe. Well, also like Melissa brought
it up, she's like, can I roll? So I think I might just.
Maybe. I might just deprived you the
opportunity. Awesome.
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 it's like it's looks like it's supposed to be candid, but
like she definitely like knew what she was doing.
Excellent. Yeah, it looks great.
Even the guy taking the picture is like, oh, wow, pretty
impressive. Everyone gets their photos
taken. They all could you imagine if
you're at the DMV and someone said that to you, they're like,
oh, great photo Tori, and it's got.
Your sessions crazy, they tell. Me stop smiling really singing
in. Town overnight.
That's so sad. Like that's just.
My face. You're not allowed to.
I mean, at least in New Jersey, you're not allowed to smile in
your photo. That's.
Crazy. I always.
Smile, but they never tell me not to, and you hear a lot.
I don't think you're supposed to.
Smile just because I'm depressed.
I do like the neutral, like little bit of it, like lips
turned up in the corner, but it's not like a smile.
It's like as neutral as I can get.
You're in. The non full cheesen so you're
pretty. You're in a great place to go
wherever you go, all chattered up 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.
You, you stay and.
Get supplies and we'll go see is this.
The start of Schmidt Superstition.
A hotel. Room I, I, I I.
Supposed to even use mine? We're lefting a.
New leader. This is something I just decided
in the moment that I'm like, we're.
Lefting a new leader? It's pretty.
Doesn't like witches. Yeah, it's pretty.
Formative. I feel like he has similar
moments in the future where it's there's something spooky and
he's like Nope, Nope, Nope. You know, I think it works
leader and put it to him. So no, no way.
We already. Won the vote, yeah.
But you you forgot to account for my 3/4 vote.
All of you collectively have 116th vote.
So it's so fun it. Works in a democracy.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
That's awesome. That is kind of true though,
yeah. Yeah, yeah.
No, no, they do. It in choke do I don't know how
democracy. Works in Jodo, but so we're
going to. Go Jodo is probably not
democratic. Honestly, it's so traditional, I
just can't imagine. Yeah.
Maybe it is. Yeah, I don't.
Necessarily think they're like autocratic, but I think it's
it's a little bit more of a kind of conservative traditional form
of government. I'm not a poli sci enough guy to
make that asertation, but that's my vibe check here in the home
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.
Amazing. Great.
I'll feel it in the. Pokémon Center.
Great with 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.
The just put him. On the.
Back. He needs it.
What's the the Sailor Moon quote?
So we're going to, oh, the tuxedo moon.
You didn't do anything. Yeah, yeah.
Tuxedo Mask that says, Dave, 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 is like like always behind
it's. Like.
OK, I'll. Protect you.
He's like lumbering. Along in the echoing.
Is crazy. Yeah, you guys.
Are in the same room. Yeah.
Crazy. Are we still?
In the same room at that point, Yeah, great.
You as a leader. It's only episode 3 so all
entered the residential. We're not like.
Deep in, this is only like a couple weeks in.
We definitely played quite a few sessions in the same room.
One of the highest points. That isn't a mountain, that's in
the Hohen region, because I do remember.
Moving to like the bedroom or like starting to other places
and pretty early walkway that. Started as a narrow area, 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 sound effects, 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 you hear a voice say who is?
It some people. You don't know?
No, no. Yeah, this is.
A pretty central junior are people you don't.
Know yeah, like. That's a pretty classic.
Classic. Pokémon, at least early Pokémon
vibe, is that you just go to people's homes, you know, you
just do it. So I think that's cool that we,
yeah, we're just walking. In like, all right, yeah, she
figures out when she. Says pretty fun.
What Berry farmers 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 Berry Masters, which is like a little, you
know, it's 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 shut.
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. Great.
So we all even have. I have, I have Quacko with me
and I'm like, Quacko, draw your sword.
And then Quacko pulls out his leak.
Excellent. I'm gonna take it that's already
in. Is that the first?
Time I called it a sword. It might have been.
Yeah, sword. You just commented on it.
OK, you all entered. What's a pretty?
I like how house pretty modest. Dwelling like somehow so many
things have changed and also like nothing has changed.
Yeah. Yeah, that's really sweet, isn't
it? That's cuz.
We're having. The same reactions to things to
what is presumably in the listen back that we had in the call.
That's true. Yeah, it's easy sofa.
There's a coffee table and a 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?
I'd love some of course. How?
Did she know she was going? To have guests.
She just put the kettle on, making tea.
For. Herself, the immediate.
SUS. I love it.
I mean Schmidt. Was kind of right to be SUS.
I mean, she was nice, but there was something amiss.
No, she something's not right. But I don't know if it was the
tea. No, it's.
Not the tea, it. Was definitely.
Just like we're trying to progress the moment and it's
like, oh, the tea gets to a boil.
Like, how did she do that so fast?
It's like, yeah, the passage of time is not real.
This pretty awesome. 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? My name's gave my pleasure.
I'm. Melody.
That's. Something I should have had you
guys do more often later in the campaign is introduce yourself.
My name is. Giveaway, which looks like the
subtitles go crazy. Oh yeah, yeah.
Oh yeah, my name's Giveaway I. Mean, I guess I could manually
type all the subtitles for every episode, but no.
I I love YouTube subtitles. They're just like Jack it up all
the time. Yeah, hi, I'm same.
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's 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
not 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.
I also take a potato. It's it's of.
Course, yeah, you gotta take a potato.
Yeah, I take one of her potatoes for a veil.
I want a potato deed. 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 that
flavor? Was supposed to be a reference
how she's a ice type trainer, she says.
Been. Around for.
That's the foreshadowing goes crazy.
I mean she has a. Sneezel but yeah yeah situation
such as this, the weird weather and she also.
Gets a spiel right that's also iced that.
Wasn't planned. That was on the table and I was
like, you know what, let's give her there's feel.
So that's what we did. You know, it's an ice type, you
know, and there's truly canonically, there's like no ice
type to no one. There's feel and snow running
and that's it. They're just in one corner of
the map. So yeah.
They're in this little ice cave area and it's like, OK, like
everything's fine. Don't.
Be suspicious. Don't be suspicious.
Don't be. Suspicious.
Don't be suspicious. Don't.
Be. Suspicious.
Don't be. Suspicious 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. Profound.
I wonder what she. Was talking about.
Yes, most definitely her. Sam.
And Sam was in the room too. Yeah, and.
Then she looks at Sam. Directly.
She definitely was like her. Little cabinet where there seems
to be we were a sense. Of the wrong fucking person,
there seems to be something. That's got 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 I
could have probably flavored up this encounter more if this was
after Legends Archaeus came out, but I'm pretty happy with that
from that anyway. But it would have been cool to
have been able to have pulled from all that despite the fact I
pulled from his suing Zorro anyway without meaning to.
That's not to say that yeah, like you.
Describe. It's like hair's white with a
little bit of red on the edge. Yeah, with.
Goods pretty crazy and like. Isn't that like exactly Hasui
and Zur arc pretty? Much.
It's not tied up like when you're like, it's a ghost.
So you're just like, this is like old Zur arc.
So the hair will be white, like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's kind of what's going for you.
She looks at all of you and she says, I would say canonically,
retroactively, she is like Hasui and for sure, and she's very old
and the young ones, yeah, she would be from Hasui and she
knows all this stuff. Power or she would have been a
great resource and ally for the quest.
Tobacco went on for the Archaeus plates, but unfortunately she
had to be killed so. RIP it is what?
It is plot devices. But yeah, she she could have
been like a loremaster kind of character back to the table and
enjoys her. But she's trying to be subtle
here, obviously, like an eclectic bunch.
Where are you all from, really? All over the place.
I'm from SIDO. Her eyes kind of brighten a
little bit and she says, Oh, Sino, I've spent much of my time
there with my I'll have. You.
What brings you here 2000? And the.
Minds. That's crazy.
Which one? Yeah.
Isn't it? Yeah, that's crazy.
We we really invented Legends RC as we did.
Yeah, like. Everybody was like listening to
it later was like, oh, it's obviously his suet.
And we're like, we didn't know that existed, that.
Happened before, I think even before the game was announced,
right? Correct.
Yeah, did. You did you?
You perhaps find any artifacts while you're reminding.
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. They're muscle, she says.
Very well. Very well.
Suspicion. Intensifies.
She she gestures. It was on to something.
Tell me a little bit about yourselves.
I don't have guests and learn nothing about them.
I'm from Kylos. He says, oh, Kellogg's.
I've only been there. I think I.
Pronounce it differently every time I say it.
That's part of the fun. Time here at home that's just
this is one of LD's quirks just. Keeps you spicy.
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 Hoenn 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? Did we?
Know, did we remember that Sam is from Sino?
Because I didn't remember that. Probably not, but she's not.
But it's like, it's really important.
Yeah. Yeah, Sam, you think I remember
anything about what happens ever.
She's. Like I.
Just came. At the the wrong time or you
know, maybe it's the right time. That's why we have.
Group notes. I remember nothing.
Zoe says Oh yes, anyone ever. Listens to the recaps of every
episode ever where he's like. What happened last night?
I wasn't. There.
I wasn't there been. Trying to get my gym badges but
I haven't learned any battles yet.
But here we are trying again. We won.
That battle with the secret base, Yeah.
But no gym bad. No gym bad.
Creditors do, Zoe. Looks so.
No gym, bad guys 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.
Lexarcus didn't have any precursor to gems right of a
person they're they're like. A fox poke.
Smiling the there's some unlock candles.
There's. What were they?
Called the total like. Noble.
Noble, noble, yeah. So they.
Were like. There's more like Titan vibes
like from Scarlet Violet like that, yeah.
Quite a bit of Pokémon. So maybe he had lower
inconsistency there if I had known that Archaeus was going to
not have gyms, which makes sense.
But maybe Casey's from like late Hisui.
I don't know 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 hole 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, 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, basically, she alluded to.
OK. If we talked about everything
then that's it I guess Schmidt is does not like witches but
also respects their space so he would like to get out of here
and leave everything alone. Awesome Schmidt lore.
Just like get up back, pedal out.
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 let's get out of here, guys.
Great time. Good tea.
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 T.
And she gives you another wink. I forgot what I was getting at
there. I think that was there was it
was supposed to be a hint for something, but I don't remember
what it was. It sounds like you're.
Leading into something, but it never came off, yeah.
That's probably what it was 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?
Yes, Sir. 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 of passage chatting 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 guy yelling, let me 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 up 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 mat, but we
should. We should probably still if
we're looking to investigate, we should.
But like, why did they? Fire him.
But like also what if he's upset and wants to hurt people?
I have three persons. It's fine.
Hell yeah. 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.
If I said fearless, here's what keeps you alive.
That's a. Great quote.
Holy shit. OK, great.
I didn't remember that. Yeah.
We just. Go that.
Is a good quote. I mean it's.
True. There's a guy in a lab coat and
he looks clearly upset. He looks 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, 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. Oh, that makes.
A lot of sense now and he turns around.
He says 0. Hello, what does happen to be a
trainer you're like? Write a pass like even you're
like write a passage. Yeah, yeah.
And. Then he shakes it vigorously.
Write a. Learning.
Welcome by 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 Laris region.
It's called the Rights of Learning.
And there they take in 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 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 great.
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.
But actually thinks the leak is a sword.
He genuinely thinks it's a sword.
You all. Walk in.
That's funny, I like it. Dome like building.
It's clearly a new facility. There's still that kind of scent
of like, also the idea of Farfetch drawing a sword is
funny because he doesn't have a hilt.
Like he's always carrying it. So I guess drawing a sword is
just kind of pointed to that word, right?
And 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.
I have a little old man gripe about Spotify and YouTube
comments, which is a fair amount of people fairly assume that
Quacko is just Gallerian. They're just like, Oh yeah,
that's a Gallerian. Far fetched.
Probably because they're younger than we are.
They don't really understand that.
There's an older don't understand that.
There's a real far fetched. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, pretty funny. Yeah.
It's come up a few times. I think there was this fight
like halfway like 50 ish or something where Quacko got 3
crits and they're like, why didn't he evolve?
I was like, he's not glary. I don't know what to tell you.
It's just kind of funny. Professor Hemlock definitely
ages me a bit, 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. Farfetched.
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 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.
Bobs. Bobs wasn't.
It we haven't eaten since. Professor Hemlock says.
Oh, kabobs. Incredible.
And then he stands up and he's
just got, 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? 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, who would like to
go first? Be in trouble.
I'll do it. You step forward.
And Professor Hemlock says, oh, 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. I do like it in the anime when
the cast will like visit just a family or some people, whatever,
etcetera, and they'll be some older trainers and they'll have
just like a really tiny little baby guy, like maybe a mag beer
sun current or something. And Ash or the cast will ask
like, how long have you been like Pokémon partners?
And they'll be like, oh, you know, like 70 years and it's
just a little guy. I just love the the implication
that applies to the DND world that like, you can have a
Pokémon partner and like, not really like Train, but you can
still be friends, you know? I think that's just a cool vibe.
Yeah. Speaking of Gimli being friends
with Trevor for a long time and not having evolved just because
they didn't, maybe they just didn't need to have combat, you
know, they just. Yeah, just didn't need it.
He was a. Utility that was kind.
Of the idea it's like, yeah, just about utility there that
it's like it just makes sense, yeah.
And. Then an aide is like, Oh yeah, I
got Albert right here and the besties.
Are worth not easy, you know. Me and my. 70 year old Badoo,
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Stuff like that. I can.
Imagine about you being a. Little old man though I.
Think they are old looking badoos in the anime right?
These are walting like they yeah they're all Brinkley and stuff.
Punches rock and. Roll.
They look like the lettuce on a Big Mac 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 rocket 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 a little bit more Hardy. It just threw.
Rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll in a rock Tumblr,
Yeah. Basically institution or his AC
the basic. Holy.
Shit, that's a strong buff so early, What the hell?
So basically Rock'n'roll I just got, I said the same thing he
looks at. His at his clipboard, he says,
oh, we've got some. Really, really, really great.
That's funny how how we don't change.
We are the. Same people.
Crazy. Can't believe it?
And I'm. Still into rock?
That's not 3. All three of them.
All three of them great like these are my friends.
Professor Hemlock, did I really give you an AC or con boost?
Like right away? Just land it probably.
That's fucked up. I shouldn't have done that this.
Is. That's fucked up and I.
Don't. Did I give that to anyone else,
though? Like, did anyone else's starters
get up off? We'll see it.
Maybe it's bad a move. Yeah, OK, maybe it's fair.
Maybe it's fair. Asking you questions and
pestering you and pestering you. Plus one AC on the third session
is a little bit crazy. 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 one.
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. 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 Goomy's cheeks and
he pinches them and shakes them around.
And Goomy'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 the Scumi? The Scumi He right here.
But. Like we're outside of America.
He writes this down and he says you are you from here?
Do do you understand that gumi aren't particularly common in
the Hoen 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. Eggs.
Oh genius. Smallest.
Logic. Honestly, yeah.
You are what you eat it eat cookie.
It eat cookie. So a cookie now like Nope that
Nope here it's like. It's DNA is different from the
other goomies that we have on file.
I would, yeah. It's because he ate the cookie.
If you would. Please.
Yeah. Phrase.
This goomie? Well, DNA.
Different because of cookie. Take it back here.
To our research facility I would love.
Oh, I guess Cookie never came back.
Oh, we never did. That did we.
I think by this point Schmidt is like, didn't we find out that
the I was like, oh wow, research this whole organization was like
working for energy or something. Oh yeah.
I think. It was all of them, or was it
just that location you didn't get the?
Specific politics of it, but gosh it seemed like at least the
most deep one was kind of being strong armed into providing
stuff and they couldn't say no to the money.
Imagine science being underfunded and having to rely
on other resources like something is there.
Sorry to make it real, 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 of Patricia.
Incredible man. Man was the.
Gumi. Having a unique form, I didn't
realize I was that clear about it.
I thought it was more subtle. Did you pick up on that one?
Raise it up. Well, I didn't realize that it
would be like a cross beat. I was just like cool, I got a
special one. OK, cool.
I'm glad it was still kind of a surprise then of Patricia's
wings, Like, they're super floofy, 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, think about. It Swablu was technically
Schmidt starter, nice and pointed.
Yeah, in a way. Yeah, looks at it.
His. First OT Pokémon because I don't
think. Any of us picked up on the fact
that like you keep saying, like this is the first Pokémon I've
ever caught, like you have questions the party?
Took a while to. I don't think they ever really
did catch on to that until the subpoena hit.
What does? Patricia, do well Swallow.
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 we hadn't really developed like our like like our
like our friend over there. Maybe y'all had in your head,
but I don't think I've caught on to wait to get.
Started and like the. Role of the team of like Schmidt
being like the assassin character if his hands were.
Outstretched and 1 was like underhand, 1 was yeah no.
No thoughts had empty on a good day I wasn't thinking about.
I styled your like, feats and bonuses around that kind of
stuff, but I think you guys also naturally kind of fell into it
just by being gamers, I think. I think if you play an RPG, you
know, you're going to have those roles pretty clearly defined,
and we're all gamers. Yeah, this is how.
I build my characters in general in most games I play.
Not even just like tabletop RPGs.
Yeah. 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 was the wind tunnel described before, but it
just appeared there's a turbine on the top.
I think it just. Appeared.
That's awesome. It just.
Generated. Yeah, Oh my God, there's a wind
tunnel that's fucking. Sick wind tunnel and Patricia.
Seems to be going like secret. Went on 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 lot of fire.
Good. Sound OK?
Oh yeah. 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. Patricia is all confident.
The win. Patricia's pretty sick.
I'm a Patricia fan. Any other Patricia fans in the
chat? It's.
I'm a big Patricia fan. It's not nice.
Pretty pretty. Pretty big anyone?
Else Patricia just flying in. OK, just the three of us Satyrs.
Yeah, the satyrs. Yeah, slides.
Into the last panel and it's crazy.
I forgot that she kind of like failed this, but I think that
means she doesn't get any bonus question mark I'd.
Imagine you gave me like a move that had like no name and no
description. Oh, did I?
Yeah. And then like we had to like
train it to do it later and figured.
Out it was Dragon. Dance, I think, yes, that's what
it was. OK, so this still kind of works.
Yeah. I think my intention was to give
Dragon dance on the success, but it was not successful.
So 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 her to battles whenever you can.
OK, I think she. Definitely did that.
I think Patricia came to many a battle.
Use it in battle. If I 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. OK, I stand by that.
I think that's kind of cool, actually.
He says, well, that last but not least.
And he gestures over to Elodie and he says, is there any?
Do you have any partners? I think Patricia.
Came to all of the gym challenges except Watson push
cabin the. First Watson.
She came to though, right? Excellent.
Did she come? To the first Watson, seems like
every. Time whenever.
Oratorio whenever I had to bring Barfest you didn't have.
Buford, that's his name, right? I believe it's a real life.
Yeah, that Peps. Scar Marie and he kind of.
Like pokes her did I have. Anything else by that point or?
Corea I mean if. Only has the three, yeah.
Pretty sure she just. Kind of, you know, grimaces.
We haven't gotten there yet, but God do I love Schmidt's second
gym challenge. Dude, it's so good, 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. Guess I'm curious as to her
biology. She seems like she's made of
milk. Awesome.
She does seem that way, doesn't she?
Yeah. That's pretty she.
Might be made of milk. That's so fucking sick.
I always say that about my best friend, you know?
Yeah, I. Think she might be?
Made of milk, he. Presses the.
Button and. That's.
Fucking great. That's a way funnier than it's
any right to be. It's awesome, yeah.
You guys don't even try to be funny, you just fucking do it.
It's all phenomenal. Just say shit.
My whole life, everything I say I have to ask each other.
Like why are you laughing at me? All the time and it's like, what
do you mean all? The time it was fucking.
Hilarious. It was cabbage in.
The blender and he turns it on. Oh God I forgot she got blended.
Cabbage spins around. That's so fucked.
Takes your best friend and puts them in the yeah.
Oh made. Of milk, you say?
Let's put that to the test made to.
Do. That's it.
You're going in the blender and. 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?
I wanted to make him walk a little quirky and I think he did
a little. Don't eat my best quirky it's.
Quirky. Don't say?
Well, it's. Milk.
What would you do? No, it's sentient.
Milk can't wait. For other food items I think it
worked. Curious.
About your milk. Service biology.
I would consider giving it a gift and I'm giving it a spin.
You're concerned about biology? Well, I know they're made of
milk. So are.
We literally about to just stick most are in a blender every time
we run into one. Every time we run into a
blender. Because we ran into so many.
So many. Blenders.
So many of your milsari. Well, I think we need to length
of the campaign, another 50 or so episodes.
At this point we need more blenders.
I mean, we never found out. 5 out of 10 Not enough blunders
telling. About.
What you give it might the effects of the things to give
it. That was so eloquent.
Yeah. Hell yeah.
How to? Evolve it.
No, I I recognize that. Throw in a.
Blunder. Like spinning it.
I don't think it needs to be a blender.
Hopefully I got a 21. Yeah, 21.
Great. Despite the gibberish 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.
Says he's so right.
It is certainly. Common I only.
Know our. Research.
Suggests based on the Lamas region institutes, that you may
not necessarily need candy, or perhaps you may not even need
anything edible that have doted to your milsari.
Please keep this in mind. I'm going to.
Give Milsari 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 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, 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 Hoenn region and it seems like
you're taking the gym challenge, I understand that there are
other locations that are opening new rite of learnings.
The closest one I believe is in. And then he kind of like looks
at his clipboard. He says, ah 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 right 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.
Very. Sweet you.
Love this I. Googled.
That, yeah, it's, it's in the decks, that's in the.
Decks, yeah, it's. Interesting, there's like one
big building with a name. Was this?
The same session. Wow, this is.
Did we end up like splitting this up or it seems like all
the? Buildings are connected
regarding what wooden hallway from.
Like this episode on the last episode that lead.
Into these different areas there's no they were not the
same session. It just kind of I think above
the double door. I think there's only one or two
pairs of episodes that we split up entered this building and it
is truly like an important one of them is 19 to 20 and a couple
of these for sure around the block that was the Marvel city
combat was split right in front of you.
And then there's another one. I don't remember where it was
though. I think it was Cookie like
Moody, maybe kind of tired. It's hard to.
The beginning of the desert. This car might fight.
Yeah, we did split. That up yes, thank you and on
top of the desk there is a mouse Pokémon that has tints of blue
and it's holding onto 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 I put in some shop music here.
This does not look like Kay. 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 I wanted.
The awkward silence there, that's pretty good.
What up? G What's the word on the street?
Schmidt, what the fuck? He looks at you and he says
that's awesome. That's really who the fuck?
Knows man, I. Don't know what's going on
anymore man. 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, right? Roll that I accidentally throw
the wrong hand sign up. Oh.
God, if she ate combat, No, we have.
To do that, we have to 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 smoke when you make eye contact with somebody as you're
walking that like little smile, but it doesn't really say
anything. This.
Is the white. Person smile.
Yeah, more seriously. You've been to like it's it's
like the it's the indoor equivalent of the festival you
were at basically. But was this not like one of the
a Marts? I guess it wasn't.
They have a mine in that was just.
A regular Mart? Weird.
Weird, weird. It's gonna be here.
I don't know what I was thinking with that.
Just let me know maybe. I thought Kmart would be like a
one off thing. Potentially Potentially might
not have everything and then you just.
Decide to roll with it later. That's pretty interesting.
Yeah, I, I don't. Understand.
Yeah, I mean I knew I wanted the Pico clone thing battles.
What do you have? Until you know, we went to do
for it and there was Mudbray. I'd like, you know, I wanted to
do that to get back to. You OK Mudbray's?
An honorary Pico clone, honestly.
Right? Yeah.
Mudbray's basically a Pico clone.
Yeah, thank. You kitchen section.
Yeah, I think for quite a while this was the longest episode.
I remember after we finished I was like, oh, this is like a you
know, it's like a almost 2 hour recording after the edit.
But now that's not quite as weird our average like RP.
And lore though, yeah. Yeah, definitely no, our average
nowadays. I oh, I forgot that we found
those shoes. What the fuck did we make that?
I think I sent. That to you?
That's so. Funny.
Yeah, I. Used to put because I definitely
like googled something and I found like a reference so.
Funny. That's so funny that there's a
there's even a picture on the YouTube video and somebody still
commented that they wish that the thing that happened actually
happened. But like.
It didn't happen. What was the?
Comment. Really.
Really awesome. Oh, I have to find it
unfortunately. They aren't black and gold.
Let me. Look green the the.
Shoes are pink and the text is green and.
We'd be far away from the microphone laughing.
Very. Similar to Comic Sans, but
they're there and there's a price tag on them.
Comics. I wish that when he rolled A6
instead of the shoes being a different color that it would be
the shoes at a typo. Like instead of battle it says
paddle. Didn't it?
Say bottle or something, I thought.
They were bottle shoes. Yeah, they.
Say bottle. That's fun.
God, I wish that happened. That would have been so funny.
Yeah, that. Would have that I man.
Missed opportunity for sure. They should have really thought
about that. And he says I'll yeah, like
everyone always says like, oh, like, go check in the back where
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.
Oh, his name tag says Shay. Oh, it is Shay Martin walks
towards the back. Sorry, I got excited.
I. Definitely want Whoa.
Oh. OK, so I did do it.
It is shame art. I think I'm just.
Perusing. So I definitely want to just
like scope out 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.
Yeah, I'm quite bald. Bucket helmet, Yeah, is it?
Like a bucket hat or straw hat or like a baseball cap, like
what you're looking for? I guess you just described it.
I guess it's. Like a bucket?
I did. Yep, it's pretty.
Funny, I did not internalize that at all.
I think I was like preparing to improv.
What hats would be there? And so I was buying for time, I
think. Makes sense.
Makes sense? 11 You find 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 and. Fun fact for the listeners, I
own that hat now. It's pretty small.
It's the. Green Paisley, though, it's just
like a khaki hat that says that. Yeah, it's.
Like a trucker hat. But I do have the hat.
It's a pretty. Sick hat, yeah.
That's a bucket. It's not a trucker.
That's a bucket hat. Oh, is it?
Nice, yeah. 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, bottle. I'd wear those at all, 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 gyms start
getting hard, we're going to get the shoes and it's going to be a
level up better trainer. Oh yeah.
What the? Fuck am I talking about?
I like it. Let's make.
It the man dude like the playing in a second?
Close. Imagine he's like saying it
quietly to himself, but it's like, that's awesome.
Flavor. OK, I feel like Quacko's like
nodding along. Like, yeah.
If Patricia. 'S just on his head, just fiving
good. Shay says all right man,
whatever. And he just like literally
throws the shoes behind him. Right man, Whatever.
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 gonna be 30.
Two, I love the. Fact that he just doesn't care.
Yeah, Shay takes your money. Shay is definitely like.
Pathetic retail where? Yeah, he's the.
Least animated of the cousins for sure.
That's not a little squeaky. Sure man and then he closes his
eyes takes it goes back to napping, powering whatever this
music player is enhances 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 something right?
What the fuck? I didn't.
That was awesome. I think I got.
That I don't, I don't think I, I don't think I wrote that down.
That's. Crazy dude.
Yeah, OK. He's my cousin and.
Then he like. Jumpers over to the wall and.
There's a family photograph of like, I think all of the
shopkeep should have done that song.
I think the fucking yeah. Yeah, just like having the song
in my. Head like made me do the
framework while he like has he like painted like a leg lock in
the ring? Yeah.
Yeah, that that should be at the new Canon for sure.
So that they all do that we know.
Kay. No, sorry.
We do know Kay. Oh yeah.
This is the first time the exploitation happened.
You know you. Do 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
it's 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 so we saved him.
We we returned him to to K. He lets 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, they
come in different colors. Potions is.
This grace or ocean? Ocean, yes.
Yes, I mean like he's like, 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. Model's pretty cool.
I might get those shoes myself. Actually, in response to LED
slash grace saying 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. Great.
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.
This didn't come up as often as I thought it would, but I like
the idea of it. Just so you know, specialty
pokey balls just seems neat. Next week they're going to have
to start selling these four tree balls.
I don't know what they do, but they look pretty cool.
I think the intention is that they worked better for certain
types. 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. Did anyone catch anything in a
city specific ball? I don't remember or 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 where?
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 forgery ball. Nice.
I'll take one as well. Great.
Mark that off. Takes. 1.
OK. Yeah, I'll take one too.
Great, you say? That.
That's steep out loud. Yeah, he says.
Hey. Man, this is over half off.
Half off, still steep. He.
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. Yeah, the first of many bad
croco packo. Amazing if.
You want if you want a classic. Yeah.
I don't think this one was particularly impactful, but when
we're listening, I'll try and point out perceptions that were
big deals we. Stink of perception.
We're just so oblivious. It's so.
Funny because other roles you guys are either great or like
pretty consistently average at, but whenever I ask for a
perception check it's always a disaster coughing up smoke and
so. Many of them are not like it's
not even just they're low. The amount of Nat one perception
checks we got is like a ridiculous amount, Yeah.
And like on top of that too, like it's just so funny, like
really basic TTRPGD and D guides and stuff will just be like, you
know, you can invest in whatever kind of character you want, but
never make Wisdom your dump step because you're going to need to
make a lot of perception checks and that's important.
Then like he just always botching these is just it's just
silly, pretty goofy. I don't think it's significantly
Hanford the story in any way besides the fact you might have
been able to catch on to Sam's treachery quite a bit sooner.
But I guess that's pretty significant.
But I think it was fun. I think it worked.
I think the fact that you guys missed it is kind of fun for the
story anyway. So Schmidt is.
Lying on the ground. Coughing.
Oh man. It.
Took a lot. Of if I had.
Time and a dream, which I do not.
I would go through and do like the statistics of like how what
percentage of perception checks are specifically net ones.
Yeah, I would. Love to see that for sure.
It's got to be like a ridiculous amount, sorry.
No, you're. Fine this.
Is such. A long episode.
I can't believe I put that interstitial transition there,
but it might be the source of the smoke.
But it's pretty obscured. I guess this maybe could have
been split into two I. Cannot hear you through the mic.
As you were walking. You to myself, I was blowing my
nose fish Pokémon were still. Flopping around in the IT is
gone. Oh, but.
Now I just lost my thought there.
Are just problems and columns. Sorry, I heard.
You talking? But I was like, you're
definitely not talking in the mic.
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 and 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
can't believe the. Toido fight is like right now,
yeah. Same.
Yeah, that really is not the whole.
Is it the whole combat? Go see, yeah.
I don't know, we'll find out. This smoke is probably I think
it is in front of Sam is is the next episode the gym challenge
on a rock. She's bleeding a little bit and
I don't know I. Don't know.
Either I could check, but I don't want to screw up the
thing. It was not the time.
Let me see. I'll check on my phone.
You don't recognize it's not Frostbite's ball?
She's trying to. Oh, yeah.
The mysterious ball. Did everyone have any particular
thoughts about that? What are you going to do here?
We investigate. It Yeah.
Roll me an investigation. Hard to have any without any
leads but. Yeah, Oh.
Baby like that, really. I'm on.
We're just like. Oh, mysterious.
Or at least I was like, oh, mysterious, whatever.
Like whoa. So yeah, the next episode is
Cindy's gym challenge. So this is the whole toil fight.
That's crazy that we stuck that in here.
This is the long one, the. One that caused damage, I get a
nap 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
torquel, but it looks not like anything a torquel.
Thank you. Subtitles.
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 Lily Clove thing and got Pokémon stolen or
something. I feel like I remember that, but
I could be you're misremembering.
I think Flanery was there, right?
No. Yeah, I just read flattery.
Yeah, I did this Torkle. Looks angry.
All right, we sure. Are sure that's a torkle?
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 here we.
Are you're running the torque goal or so it seems?
What's that a growth? Torque goal, Yeah.
And it can't move that fast I. Would torque itself.
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? But if this thing.
Gets into town. That's.
True 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.
That was, in fact the point ality of the combat being
threatening, yeah. Yeah, thank you for.
Landing on it, it was 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. That would have set a way
different tone for the campaign if this combat failed and
forgery burned down like. It could have happened.
But no, you guys, Cindy, you guys managed.
Probably go fight it too because my solely has flash fire so it
doesn't take damage from fire moves so solely's already out
ready to go trying. To get.
Sam to safety and I'll be back, all right.
Elody, I'll. Stay and fight, OK?
It's initiative time. Cool.
So Schmidt gets to go first to deal with this.
Oh, I just cut those out entirely.
Does Carrie cut those out entirely?
I honestly don't know, Patricia. 'S mystery move there's.
No initiative rules all the nature. 13th, 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 getting a defensive position.
Quacko will be the back line. I'm going to start like
attacking with Patricia, and then I'll be like Quacko, draw
your sword and then Quacko's like ready on the sideline.
Great. So the fourth draw your sword in
this episode, Cindy. Yeah, he never actually put it
away. Yeah, so.
I'll probably send solely in with a a quick attack unless
normal is not so good. Well.
There's. Only one way to.
Find out. OK, roll the.
Hit. There's that type chart
confidence I expect from Melissa I got.
A6 A six None. Still none?
Yes. 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 solely seems to be very
confident and not too perturbed by these conditions.
Elody, So how much you got? Gosh, having one Pokémon and one
action feels so different. It made sense for the beginning,
but like, imagine how combat would feel now.
Like Schmidt's turn was crazy using dragon dance and.
That's. It, you know, that's crazy,
yeah. It's not too shocking though,
'cause you get higher levels, you know.
Yeah. And we were still figuring it
out. And yeah, yeah, we're still.
Learning the system no it. Makes sense at the time, but in
compared to where we're at now with the, yeah.
Now it's like whoa whoa. So little to do, historical
eyes, the competition in front of it, and, well, it's just.
Like the start of every venture, use tackle.
Yeah, it's yeah 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. 20 so.
Formal 3020. Yeah.
Please would you give me a constitution save?
Could you? Give me a Constitution save.
Pokémon that rolled higher than a 14.
Takes. Three damage, three poison
damage, 14 Con saves. A little demanding for 14 so
early in the campaign. Yeah, 14.
Cons pretty high this early but I guess the intention was like
it's going to happen bro. Yeah, you have.
Disadvantage on pretty much everything and you're going to
take two damage to the end of your turn.
OK, we're going to check in with Sam and gambling.
Sam is. Gambling he's.
Like I can't use with Sam and gambling there for me, but it's
just too hot. I have cause with me but he
won't listen. He won't cause name drop.
You have a. Yeah, Oh.
So early. That's crazy.
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.
Yeah. Ladder.
The 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 fully surcharge through or you can take the ladder.
But OK, 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 Peck. OK, go for it. 13 to hit OK.
That is not quite enough for Torquel's steady shell.
Damn. Swabu flies in and again, the
smoke is just really over there. This is a hard encounter
actually. Sit well.
Yeah, the AC on Turkle. Actually crazy.
Yeah. I mean, it makes sense, he's
eternal, but it should have been easier 'cause he's like big or
something. Like there's a way to justify it
being easier, but what the heck dude?
Well, we. Also weren't creative enough to
like target certain parts and like talk about that type of
stuff because we were new to the system.
So it's like if we're not making more sound combat decisions,
it's fine. It worked.
Out you ended up winning it. Worked out right, but listening.
Now, like this is and like an AOE that poisons everything, if
you fail a 14 con, that's screwed.
Up, dude, Yeah, that, that is pretty aggressive, yeah.
That's not a session three boss. That's like pretty crazy.
I, I was, I was going a little hard.
I think I would not mind you doing this.
I think this is appropriate in this high stakes situation,
especially because I had decided early on that I wanted to remove
or not remove, but like unify bonuses for saves to be the same
as checks just to keep things simpler because there's so much
complication coming from everywhere else.
And my logic was like, oh, I'll just decrease the DC's for like
a tax saves and stuff to make it more balanced.
And then I gave you ADC 14 call. It's like what the fuck?
Should have been 9 I think. I think if I was running this
now it would have been 9 is. That a bonus.
Can I use Yeah 9? 10 seems pretty.
Reasonable. Yeah, just for where we're at in
the game. 14 Yikes, right? If we were to use like Elodie,
it's on YouTube to. Kind of clear the smoke, but I
just it is, it's true. I can't.
Believe it. Thank you.
Captions 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 forgot about.
That move waiting through. For one minute.
Up next, it's the baddie. He leans back, takes a big Is
that the first drop of baddie? Is that the first time I said
baddie? Some of it tucks back into
Torkle. 'S body.
Oh, Torkle's a baddie. That's true, Torkle.
'S a. Baddie.
I mean 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
net 20. What is the what save is this
again? Yes.
Patricia has a dirty 22. OK, Quacko has a 13.
Anyone got 12 or higher you're going to take?
9 damage, 9 fire damage for a pass save.
I'm crazy. I don't like listening to this
so we can. Like what is wrong with me?
Yeah, what was I? Thinking I mean.
These. Moms are still level 1, right?
So they have like 15 HP or something, right?
Are you going to charge through this jungle?
Are you? That's that's crazy.
Take 9 on a I'm like. Kill these fools, yeah.
Dude this, this really could have ended with four tree
burning down. What's going on?
TBK Yeah. My insolence Imagine the.
Campaign ended here, Yeah. What the hell, you guys?
You're going to. Have to get back, hopefully I
gave this boss like down 10 HP or something guys remember?
That time that Rich felt guilty about PvP and then he actually
like did this fucking encounter. I know what's going.
On down on its belly, man all kind.
Of all's coming together. Yeah, I was trying to shit out.
That's all right. Yeah, no.
That's totally reasonable. I didn't at the time, too.
I didn't think it was on. The things that were happening
were unreasonable. Like none of us knew any better.
Yeah. Like you're very much taking the
responsibility of them. But it must be like that seems
aggressive. Like it's like, we'll just go.
For. Sounds good.
My. Damage.
Yikes. All right, moving.
On yeah. Thank you guys.
For being so patient with that, yeah.
Holy moly charisma that's. Patricia's charisma.
It's -1 no, no, yeah. So seven, I guess.
Yep. We'll see, for what's worth.
Swablu generally does some good charisma, but I think the nature
that was rolled was minus charisma.
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 it if you
attack it with a saving throws a disadvantage when it is torkel's
turn there's a chance that he will break out of sleep all
right Cindy you got a sleeping behemoth in front of you it's
still spewing I guess we didn't implement the on damage chance
to wake up also we're. Going to bubble.
Again which? Mechanically might be for the
best that we didn't, but also flavor wise it makes sense that
if you take damage you have a chance to wake up first row.
Was an 18 and I have a + 2 so 3020 you connect.
We'll see. I got an 18 again, so OK, we're
only the. Damage.
I got a. One you got a.
One, it goes without saying, but I'm still going to say these
combats are so much more interesting to track when you're
not in them because you can actually follow everything where
like when you're in them or you're running the enemies,
you're like thinking ahead always, you know, And now that
we're just listening, I'm like, oh, like this is like telling a
story, no. Wait, does it?
So does it try to make an attempt to wake up with every
hit? Yes, every.
Time it takes OK, so we did do that OK 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 and poke on so it just.
Makes more sense. Yeah, crazy.
It's a combination of actually have the same thought.
I'm like, bad. If only they did this in the
actual game, huh? Yeah.
It would still be powerful effects, but it'd just be a lot
more balanced right tackle. This time 11.
Unfortunately it's just so hazy and so hot as is this.
Is this cabbage or is this this? Is cabbage yes cabbage?
Rolls forward or rolls floats forward goes for the tackle.
Cabbage rolling on the ground for a tackle?
Too smoky? Hell yeah.
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 Gimli.
Shaped holes in the jungle? That's pretty sick.
Or. Same.
OK, but it's really good. They're probably safe.
I'm gonna relay this fact to our friends, OK?
Everyone out to torkoster, he's gonna try and wake up and he
gets a crit. He's awake.
Oh my God. But he spends his.
This is my first. This might come up again in the
future, but this is my first. Listen back where I'm like, this
is fucked up. He is stepping forward another 5
feet. The sleep did nothing.
Like literally nothing. That's wow.
I did 1. Damage you.
That's it 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 north. 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
OH. 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 Torkle. 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 songs.
Just. Oh, you got a one?
What? Yes, that's.
Insane. Let's go.
Patricia, that's so. Dumb.
OK, Yeah. In hindsight, no.
I think the players need all the help they can get here.
What does the song sound? Like like, oh, I can't believe
any murder. All of you.
That'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 sings
the swab blue version of Mötley Crüe.
When Torquel falls asleep again the the smoke and heat seems to
quiet down a little bit, but it's still blazing hot.
Nicely done, Sandy, what are you doing?
Let's go for another bubble. Oh, no.
But we got six. Yeah.
It's so hot it's crazy. Even when Torkel's sleeping,
Cookie shoots out some bubbles, very confidently this time, but
they just evaporate before they make contact.
For the record, all of these attacks should have advantage.
I don't think I was doing panting.
I did the first. Time, yeah.
But with being asleep and stuff I think I said just moves or
saves but no ever any move should.
Be damaged I am on get it off it's making.
It big if I 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 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 it's 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, Ality. 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 5 E, yeah. Exactly obvious Baker arms.
See, I don't. Know there's things like I'm
like I don't know if I should try it.
This is like a stretch but I was thinking of like trying to use
like sweet scent or something to like low lit and it's sleep.
I'm going to. Send you something.
OK, it's. A It's a treat.
What did I send? It's a result of your time at
the right of learning. I guess we'll find out.
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 sensepiration.
Great. Yeah.
Yo before it was called. Elodie's party time give this
to. But I think we wanted to like
divine it away from just being smell.
But either way, it's it's still good.
I don't know. OK.
I love inspiration That's so good.
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 new 5. East doesn't do that and I think
new 5. E is better for it, so 4.
Is the minute up on the aromatic miss?
I doubt it, right? No, it's not with New 5.
East you like get your inspiration charge.
I guess we'll just and then when you fail to save, you can choose
to use your inspiration, which is just so much cleaner and
better. Is this like but here we are?
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 ton. 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 without 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 it's 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
torquel's belly, there is some sort of like black tube sticking
out. It's coming at 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 this sword that sounds.
Epic, you should try it. OK oh oh quacko, your monster.
That's also a dirty 22. Dirty 20.
Two, 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
Torquil's belly. Cracko 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 torquil and then whatever thing but 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 far Fitz slides out on from the other side of the
torkoal, 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
Torkel's body. OK, I suppose with the Mac
guffin to auto end the combat and it becomes maybe it was fine
to have it that hard, but that was, I don't know.
It's not, I don't know, the heat in the surrounding.
Area I said rich we had no complaints everything was fine
I'm. Dodging myself here.
Too critical. No, I appreciate it, I
appreciate it. 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 what you want to do you know?
Whatever you want, I'm gonna. Scoop it, you know everyone.
Bring him back. It's true, yeah.
It's still very warm. Roll to.
Even mine. Though you probably bring it to
the Weather Institute and make bank, right?
But. He.
Looks like nice.
Well, right. Now we're getting it to the
Pokie Center. 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. We should.
Bring down y'all. Almost didn't pick it up.
Crazy, that's. Nat One.
Nat 10. No, you know.
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. That's.
Great, I rolled. The strength foot to pick up the
torkel to carry it and I got 24, so yeah, you're fine.
You you can honestly carry it on your shoulder, Yeah.
With. The tat hat holding the torkle
like a ball. That's right.
Cindy's just like I put we tame our team, the Quacko pack.
Quacko Packo. Quacko Packo.
Instead of the. Schmidt pack because Quacko,
that's. Crazy.
There it is. The first was the Quacko Packo.
Yeah. I forgot that's what it was
carrying the torkle, but. I didn't know which battle, but
I knew it was one of them. Where like Quacko was amazing.
It was like, well, why? Why are we the Schmidt pack?
We should be the Quack Go Pack and then Quacko Packo.
Yeah, Quacko. Ended like an impossible combat,
which is pretty good. 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 them.
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 gave. Nurse Joyce says, oh great, I
will take your Pokémon and she collects all your Pokémon.
Far Fetch hands you the device because it shouldn't be healed.
It shouldn't take that in with it.
Would you like to work 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 a 16, so let's get. LED's roll too, just cuz.
OK, OK. No, it's.
OK, no, I got a roll. On that one.
OK, Glitz and I are. Connected tonight I guess.
Do you want to? Describe your net one like
before Schmidt takes a look at it.
Like what? Oh, for.
Sure, yeah, I'm definitely going to look at it and be like, wow,
that's that's a thing for sure. That's definitely it for sure.
Look at that. Thing it is.
Check that thing out. That's.
Wow, that's awesome. 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 YO. 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.
Wow, thanks for tuning into this week's episode.
So much plot in that one if you're enjoying the series.
Holy moly, that was pretty. Heavy episode, yeah.
I realized the the early episodes are are really plot
heavy. Yeah, they're dead.
Now we. Now we spend 2 hours fucking
around. Yeah, early on we were getting
shit done about it. But it's like while playing it,
it feels like that was like several episodes like at once.
So it's like, wow, we just like lured up like crazy.
Yeah. That it's.
Fine when you're playing. Playing it for sure.
I'm curious. How that way we.
Spent 20 episodes at sea. It's like these.
Ones are so dense and then like. We'll see you next time.
Wow, is there a blooper on this one?
What? Kind of battle skills.
Would you like this? Elody.
Not Elody. Oh yeah.
Yeah, no, I. Mean maybe he's like, would you
like to train any gestures over to like a a deadlift bench?
Classic Hell yeah. Wow that was really enlightening
honestly. Like of course the 1st 2
episodes were good too, but this one was like you guys probably
played for like 4 hours, which I guess for other DND tables is
pretty normal, but for us that's pretty long and there's a lot of
shit in there that's crazy, a lot of exposition.
Maybe that's why it's the most listened to is because people
know that a bunch of stuff was revealed and they go back and
check it out. Yeah, they go.
Back and check everything. Yeah, that that's very possible.
It could be. Anyhow, thank you for listening
and hopefully, I don't know what schedule we're going to release
these at, I have no clue, but we will see you for the next one.
Goodbye.