Welcome to the Cali Rex Game Corners Pokémon DND campaign
featuring Cindy, a young Vagabond from the Hohen region
with pyromaniac tendencies, Gimli, a stocky Burley miner
from Sino looking for his lost son, Elody, an enthusiastic
foodie and Baker from Carlos, and Schmidt, an enigmatic man
from Johto with a duck. My name is Rich and I'm the game
Master and this is Dunsparse and Grandpa.
Last we left off, the party began their trek northwards
towards the Fall Arbor town, their next destination, which
will eventually lead them to Meteor Falls.
To do so, they decided to go through the desert where they
encountered a pack of wild scarmory, which led to a long
and strenuous fights. Eventually the Quacko Packo
succeeded and Schmidt managed to capture one for himself.
So now the party stands in the desert, coming to the
realization that they may have lost their sense of direction.
Where are they in this massive desert?
Good question. That is a good question.
The battle certainly scattered. You had you walking around and
you were battling within a circle of scar maries, so there
might be the chance that you may be a little lost.
What is the party going to do about it?
Good thing we have a map. I don't think we have a map of
this specific desert, and even if we did, I don't.
I mean, we don't know where we are.
Can Cindy make a survival check to see if she can at least
determine like cardinal directions based on the location
of the sun or something? He absolutely may.
Does that fall under my advantage?
Bill checks for survivability. Do you?
Have an advantage on that? Because I thought you had
expertise in survival. I guess that makes it advantage.
Right. I do.
But that's my like Pioneer. Oh yeah, your ability thing.
Ability, yeah. Yeah, sure.
Go crazy. It's like your specialty.
It's like digging for goodness. Advantage and A+ 6th grade 18.
18 Cindy, using her outdoorsy skills and her experience
roaming the Hohan region, looks up to the sky, sand pelts her
little goggles and she makes funny little hand gestures.
And she she turns around and she puts splats out the sun with one
hand and she realizes that the direction that she is currently
facing is east. What that means in context to
her position, that's a different story all.
Right, let's look at the map. Or I tell Elodie I'm like this
way is east if that helps with the map situation.
OK, so to my knowledge I believe we should be going north.
Yeah, we ultimately want to go north.
I'm looking looking at my map. Am I correct in assuming that we
are trying to go north here? You would, I think, be correct.
The map that you have is not incredibly detailed, but it is
clear that your destination is in fact N Whether this desert
has a due N route to it may be up to discovery.
Can I send Quacko in the air with his goggles or I trade
Quacko and I give him the new fancy goggles and then he flies
up in the air and can locate a route for us?
Either however you want to do it.
Yes, it is quite windy and stormy so he will have to bite
that, but if he gets up high enough he can in fact try and
make a perception check. OK, I'm going to give him the
fancy ones. OK, he's got the fancy ones, his
vision is uninhibited and he looks like he would belong in a
cool anime. So to Ascend, I think that would
be a strength check. We could we can justify Decks I
think. I think strength index are
pretty interchangeable and I'm. Good with either quacko.
OK, I'll let you decide because strength is going to be him,
just like forcing himself vertically, and Dex is going to
be more. He's feeling the wind currents
and trying to use them to climb appropriately so.
OK, I don't ever make a strength check, so I'm going to do
strength. It's a strength check.
It's a 16. 16 Yeah, Quacko flies in the sky.
He's just forcing himself against the whipping winds.
The sand doesn't feel great on his body, but his eyes are
protected thanks to his very cool goggles.
He flies up and he looks around and he flies back down and he
points facing the party to the left with his wing.
Cool, Doug says. This way.
Let's go. Cindy would confirm that that
since she found East and that would be N so that would make
sense. Great.
Sounds like we've corroborated. Let's go.
Excellent. Sam have any input or Sam like
Yep, you you did it. Sam's just as lost as you guys
are, but she feels like the conclusions that you've made are
pretty accurate, pretty good. You identified cardinal
directions, you found which way was which, and you picked a
direction to go. And so that's always good.
All right, marching through the sand, you all move a little bit
slower. You're all getting whipped
around. It is not entirely pleasant
again that you you have walk past some people that are very
casually like going on jogs. Very strangely, you can see some
people figures way off in the distance that are crowded around
some rocks. I will have a just a straight
D20 from Cindy. That sounds like fun.
This is not 2 sitting on top of the building.
D20. 15. 15, yeah. Yeah, you see just kind of off
in the distance, just a little ways forward and to your right,
so towards the east, you see a whipping in the sand just like a
a pile of wood and it looks like there's like a wooden wheel.
You see small figures that are peering into what looks to be
like a a vehicle or a wagon of some sort.
That is something that you see. I pointed out to the party there
seems to be a wagon and people seem to be interested in it.
Are we particularly? I'm curious about the wagon.
Is it like really far out of the way or is it like a little out
of the way but we can still keep going north after?
You would be diagonally deviating from your path, but
it's technically kind of on the way.
You're going to have to go like 30 feet further east.
I think it's a bait. You're afraid we're going to get
ambushed? Sure.
Could be a trap. Bait to waste your time.
Sam, what do you think? What does Sam think?
Let me, let me roll for that. Sam shrugs and she says, well,
it looks like someone was traveling and they they'd lost
control of their cart or something.
I don't, I don't know. It seems like it's been here for
a while. There's holes in it.
Bring it to call it out in the desert seems questionable.
Well. Can we assess that no one is
injured? Sure, you can do an
investigation from a distance. If you want to get closer,
you'll have an easier check. Trade goggles with the quacko
again so you can see better. Can Quacko make the
investigation? Yeah, Crack.
OK, as far as yeah, he can. You guys have some synergy as
far as duck language, you can kind of interpret it.
I can never remember what. Oh wait, you know what?
Schmidt's proficient investigation.
Let's have Schmidt just make it +2 plus be 18. 18 That's quite
good. She make him see that from the
distance he doesn't seem like there's any people around.
But there are three figures that are not people that are, be it
bipedal and have big old arms. They are kind of small, probably
about 2-3, two or three feet tall, and they're like peering
around, poking at this cart. OK, there's no people.
That's fair. OK, you do in fact move on.
I enjoy having traveling debrief for the most part on solid
routes. However, this is a massive,
enormous desert. This is the largest Biome in the
region. So we're going to get AD 20 roll
from Gimli? 18. 18 Roll me perception 2 OK.
16. In your path, pretty much the
direction that you were walking, you perceive a dark colored
obelisk. It's probably like 1520 feet
tall. Just in the it's a good 40 feet
away. It's got kind of got that mirage
vibe where like it's kind of fading like with the sand, like
it's really hard to to pin down, but there's a tower of some
sort. Why are we in 2001 A Space
odyssey these past two episodes. You guys see that tower over
there? I saw a movie about this once
and the guy turned into a giant space baby so I don't know if
I'm about it. Anyone who wishes to perceive
the tower, anyone who wants to wishes to perceive the tower has
to roll their own check. I'm going to do it.
I would also like to do that. Is it investigation or
perception? Perception.
You have yet to perceive it. Gimli has perceived it.
I rolled a 16 OK. 10. I rolled A7.
OK, Schmidt wants to perceive it.
As a matter of fact, only LED perceives it.
Cindy and Schmidt are like, what are you talking about?
Yeah, That, that, that tower, it's.
Interesting you see it too. I was like, this is a pretty big
tower. There there is a tower.
It's right there. OK, you.
Got the fancy goggles? You guys have fun with your
tower. Let's keep on moving.
It is in fact on the way. Is the party going to move
towards it like directly even though 2 of?
You can't. Even though I can't see it, I
believe my friends completely. And I'm like, sure, a tower
sounds fun, OK. I don't think it's as much as
Schmidt doubts his friends, it's as much as he doesn't want to
believe. Sure, that makes sense.
So we all agreed to move towards it despite it being questionably
existent our way anyway. OK, You move within pretty clear
vision of it for Gimli and Ality.
It appears that there has been. It looks like it's made out of
like a solid hunk of stone. It's a little pointed at the top
and it's just sitting there in the desert.
It's very, very peculiar. It looks like that there has
been a piece of paper that has been like tacked to it that
doesn't seem to match it, maybe with a note on it.
Let's check out that note. Yeah.
OK. What is that?
Who is all approaching the note? I would like to remind that
Cindy and Schmidt do not see this at all.
Even though we're right up. On it, it's like, that's how you
know. That is correct.
It's me and Nellie. We're just going to stare.
Yeah, we're just. Staring.
At what note? I'm like real close, like what
you looking at. Looks like sand, looks like
desert to me. Schmidt is.
Does Sumetra perceive this? This tower, she does not.
She does not know what you guys are looking at.
She thinks that it's a practical joke with Gimli and LD.
I'm looking at some metro and I'm like what the fuck are they
talking about? Cindy, you are with them.
You're following them towards the tower.
Yeah. OK, make a Cindy, make a
constitution safe this. Is going to be bad.
Oh no, that's a 6A. Six, you don't know what's going
on, you don't see this tower, but what you do know is that you
feel real bad. You feel nervous and you feel
kind of sick to your stomach. Please roll me two D6 88 That's
how much HP you have just lost from feeling really bad.
Really, really awful. Oh no.
Are you looking at the snow, Gimli?
Yes. OK, it's seems old and tattered
so roll me an investigation to read it.
God that's bad. OK.
LD have investigation for this too.
Sure. Yeah.
Can I also check it out? Sure.
I got a 13. OK.
I also or no I got a 12. OK, you can both parse it out a
little bit. The handwriting's pretty sloppy,
but you can more or less make out, it says in a hurried
handwriting. Not all can see this monument.
It is indicative of danger. The pure of hearts do not tread
here. And then there's an ellipse.
But that's not good. I'm getting real bad vibes guys.
Like I I know I can't see it, but like you.
Should back away all. That vibes.
Are we deciding to leave? I mean, I'm kind of curious,
like I'm getting. So is there like a door?
Do you want to like do a further investigation?
Yes. OK.
Yeah, you can investigate around this obelisk.
OK. I don't.
Look at this. Why are we able to see this?
Getting real bad. I got a 17.
Yeah, you look around this tower, it would be odd for there
to be a door because it's pretty thin like I do.
Who knows what would be in there.
It is like a dark blackish stone with bits of like orangish red.
It almost looks like veins around it.
It's it's marbled. It's not like organic, but it is
very strange and curious. I would be here while there is
no door. It seems it is like a little
sunken into the sand where it is, where you can see it.
It seems like the sand like kind of falls a little bit.
That's your investigation. OK.
I say we get far away from this thing.
From once, I agree with Cindy. I may.
Have to breathe well. OK, OK, we can leave.
It's a little dangerous based on the fact that Cindy always threw
up over here it. It hurt, it made my tummy not
feel so good. And that warning saying it's not
for the pure heart, this one getting sick?
Really kind of put some bad vibes but.
We're not faint of heart. We can handle it.
I we, we, we can leave well. The pure of heart, it's a it's a
little bit. Did it say pure of heart or
faint? Of heart it say pure of heart,
yes. As you're discussing, Elodie and
Gimli make a deck save. Oh goodness.
Quick save. Ballerina Gimli kicking in.
I. Back up towards Schmidt and Sam.
Yeah, you do that. Is my athletics factored into
this little? I would say no because you're
it's it doesn't involve your body, but you are being caught
unawares so it's more. 13. 13 Yep, I'll be. 19. 19 OK, where
are you standing as you're discussing?
Should we leave? Should we go?
What's going on? As you're standing still, 2
little whirlpools of sand appear under your feet and try to pull
you beneath, pull you under. You both hardly manage to step
out, but these little swirling bits are getting larger.
It is time to make your decision if you're going to stay or if
you're going to run. We're going to go for.
Sure. We're going to run.
I was going to get out of here. OK, you do that.
You start running. As you do So, those of you who
were able to see this pillar, you watch as it behind you, it
vanishes into the distance. And those of you who weren't
able to see it still don't really know what was happening.
You saw Cindy start to feel really bad.
You saw Elodie and Gimlin fall into quicksand for a moment, and
that's that. You're not really sure what that
was all about. Desert fun.
Deserts are concerning and very wild.
But it's. Dirt.
You like dirt? This is not the dirt I like.
Continue marching forward. There's two of you that have yet
to roll on an encounter tables, so who wants to go next?
I can go next. Ality give me AD 20. 9. 9 OK, as
you're marching towards what you presume to be the exit 'cause
you're going north, you find yourself to a Rockwall.
It's not like it's blocking your path, but you find yourself
that's just where the desert bends and you can continue to
the left to presumably continue going north.
It seems to be the only way forward.
However, you see a group of two people who are standing at the
Rockwall. One of them seems very focused.
It seems like they have a little pickaxe and they're looking at
something very intensely. The other one is a little bit
smaller of a figure. They are completely like bundled
up. They look very like like
impatient and they are holding a a loose piece of fabric that
seems quite large and they are standing and they are watching
this other person chip away at the wall.
Wonder what they're looking for in the wall in this?
Thing not a pickaxe. Do you say this out loud, Cindy?
Yes. Yeah, a male voice pipes up and
says treasure. I know there's treasure around
here. I've heard the legends.
I've heard the stories. I must find it.
And the person that this, you know, that they're accompanied
by says, would you just hurry up?
I'm really trying to find the perfect spot right now and
you're not helping me. Oh, is that a map you got there?
This person with a feminine voice says, who?
Me. No, no, no.
This is. She unfolds it.
This is my hammock. She there's a very intricate,
beautiful teal green hammock. It seems about this perfect size
for about one person. She says, I don't actually know
this person. We just kind of ran into each
other. But I'm, I'm on a mission.
And he said he might be able to help me out, but I think he was
just lonely. I'm not sure.
And the person says, no, be quiet, I'm so close, we will
find it. And the feminine one says, I
don't care. I want to find the perfect spot
to take a nap and you're not helping me.
And she folds her arms and she looks very upset.
And she looks at the party and she says, would any of you know
the best place to take a nap in this region?
The whole region, yeah, not the desert.
She says. I'm sand here.
She says, yeah, it's my mission. I thought the desert might be a
crapshoot, too, but I was thinking like, maybe there's a a
little crevice between the rocks that makes like, a little
protection against the sand. And if it wasn't so windy and
sandy, it'd actually be pretty nice here.
And if I could just put my hammock up, I could just take
the perfect nap. It'd be so good.
No, I have a friend who who's really good at like making holes
and rocks and stuff. I look at Gimli.
Her eyes light up and she says, really?
Would you do that for me? That'd be so amazing.
I. Suppose I could try.
She says just just go into this wall, just smack it.
I just want to see. I want to see if my theory's
correct. I would love to find a great
napping spot. OK, so strength athletics with
advantage. Yep, into the wall.
Yeah. Oh big die.
Here we go. Diggy hole die one.
Well, that's good. That's roll 1.
No, no, no, no. That was that was my first roll.
That's probably fine. I think I would pass with this
because I got a dirty 26. Dang yeah, it's pretty Dang
good. Gimli cleaves into the rock
facade and per this woman's description, seems to have split
it open pretty pretty perfectly. It also goes pretty deep, with
only a couple swings you can makes a a pretty nice hollowed
out fissure of the ground. This woman, she takes a look.
She. Appears as a head.
She says this looks pretty good, we'll have to give it a try.
And she takes out some steaks that have metal tipped ends that
she's able to to hammer into the wall.
And she's going to give it a shot, going to give her a roll
to see how good it is. She's she hops in and she says,
you know, this is pretty cozy. I can get used to this may not
be the best spot in the region, but it might very well be the
best spot in the desert. Thank you.
What? What was your name, by the way?
Gimli. He says, Gimli, my name's Lucy.
I'm I'm technically a field researcher.
I'm supposed to be going around and like doing research.
Disgusting. I just want to find a really
good napping spot. Tell you what.
And she has a backpack and she takes it off and out pops a
head. It's a green head with a really
cute little face. She says, not now Muncho, get
back. And she pushes the head back
down. You hear a little grumble from a
little monster. She pulls out a sack, a little
pouch. She says in here are Muncho's
favorite treats. He can smell them from a mile
away, miles away. He he can always know where
these treats are. If you ever find a good napping
spot, put one of these treats down and I'll come check it out.
And if you find a really good one, maybe I'll give you
something special. How's that sound?
That sounds like a good idea. Cool.
Keep them on. Shiny Munchlax.
Is it what? Excuse me?
You said green. Yeah, it's green.
I guess regular Munchlax. Yeah, the Munchlax was like
blue. No.
I think you got those for first. Yeah.
Also, who said it was Munchlax? Yeah.
Muncho. How?
Dare you make that assumption that Muncho is Munchlax?
Macho could literally be it. So yeah, please add to your
inventory Muncho's snack pouch. The researcher with the pickaxe
was. He got a little jostled when you
carved out this crack in the facade.
He said no, look now there's sand everywhere and I, I, I lost
track of what I was looking for. I'll never find the treasure at
this rate. Does Gimli want to dig for
treasure? Maybe this Schmidt got
something. I was just going to say for
flavor. Schmidt is impatiently with his
arms folded, tapping his foot. Tapping his foot in the sand, so
like it's buried a little bit as he taps it.
Very good. It's.
Like enough to make like a small little cloud around his foot.
Yeah, the sand is whipping in your clothes.
You feel dirty. You want to you want to get it
taken care of. Yeah, he says, oh, this, this
desert here on Route 111, there's, there's all sorts of
stories about all sorts of treasures here.
There's one story that I thought was particularly interesting.
I was just visiting Rustboro and they had a research team that
brought back all these artifacts from from a tower that's
supposed to be here, a giant castle, but I can't find it.
I don't know where it is. I was hoping to follow it up.
I also heard that there's rumors of a very powerful Titanus
Pokémon, Titanic Pokémon that lives in this desert that is
guarding a sacred treasure. And, and I, I, I want to find
clues. But the, the problem with, with
a Titan in the desert is that if there's any footprints, they get
washed away in the sand. It's so frustrating.
I've also heard of traveling parties who are looking for
these treasures and then they get stranded and lost and then
they all all the supplies that they're carrying end up becoming
artifacts and in the desert. You can.
You know, there's lots of research to be done.
I need to find it. I need to find all of it.
Beyond that, I hear that there's the sand, the erosion that's
called that's constantly being created by the by the sandstorm
is pulling up ancient fossils out of the rocks.
So if I could find any one of those things, I would be so
delighted. Oh, you're looking around this
Rockwall. Let me see if I can examine it a
little bit for you. Kind of professional minor so.
He says, oh that would be wonderful.
Give him, give him a little dig. OK, I'm going to dig.
Yeah, give him a dig. Oh.
I crit. Yeah, Gimli strikes the Rockwall
with the perfect pickaxe smash, and as he does so, a crack just
builds and builds along the wall, and then a whole probably
15 foot Shard of the facade of the wall collapses into the
sand, and beneath it are dozens of prehistoric Pokémon fossils
just all revealed all at once. He just hit the perfect spot,
just chipping away at the sedimentary layer.
And this researcher's eyes get huge.
And he says, oh, look at this. All of the science, all of this
history, this is amazing. The crit also simultaneously
knocked down Lucy's hammock and she's a little upset.
And she says, and then you hear Muncho going and they they, they
decide they have to go look somewhere else.
They had a good spot, but now it's ruined.
He says, look at all these fossils.
There's so many different kinds. I don't even know where all
these are. It's true.
There are several different kinds, at least six different
kinds of fossils that are present.
He says that I have to be really careful.
I don't know how many of these I can excavate without losing the
rest of the facade. Sure would take a delicate
touch. He says absolutely and he's
eyeing them over. He says which one looks like the
best one to you do. I have descriptions of them or
can I? Yeah, you can.
You can gather descriptions of them.
Yeah. Give me a little investigation.
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo. I only got a six for that.
OK, they all look pretty similar to you.
However you do get an adequate number.
There are 15 distinct shapes and types of fossils, but as far as
like identifying key elements to them and which ones are which
are kind of in the dark, you don't don't really know.
Yeah. He says, well are you going to,
are you going to excavate 1? Yeah, I'll give.
I'll give it a try to see if I can be gentle enough for it.
How do you does your dice roller let you do AD 15th?
Oh, do you want me to do D15? Kinda.
I mean or or or you can just kind of pick one.
You can pick a number between 1 and 15.
I don't know the different way to do it really.
Schmidt kind of half jokingly looks at Sam.
And it's like, so you come here often.
Sam says I've, I've only been here for a second, but not this
deep in the desert. She took it very literally.
You got 11. I'll go with the 11th.
OK, yeah, there's a like D15 thing.
I'm all real dice right now, so. OK, very cool.
You identify a fossil that seems like you could pry it out pretty
easily and you do. So chip, chip, chip, and you
pull it out. It looks like a fossil.
It seems very old. It has like a greenish hue to it
and it seems like whatever this part of it is serves kind of
like a maybe it's a fin or some kind of body part that is raised
or something. Who knows?
You're, you're not a proper archaeologist, you're a minor,
but you, you retrieve that. The man who you helped
identifies a fossil he wants to go for, and he goes for it.
Let's see if he gets it. He does.
He chips away at it and boom, in his lap he has a fossil that
looks very clearly plants like it looks like a root.
After he retrieves that, the whole wall collapses into the
sand. Everything you chipped away,
it's gone to the sands of time. Literally, literally, and
figuratively. He says.
No, I could have gotten so much more.
I'll just have to keep excavating.
I'll look for treasure next. Thanks for your help.
Of course. He reaches into his pocket and
he pulls out a pretty ordinary looking Black Rock and he says,
I this probably isn't worth much, but I found it while I was
out here. It's just so incredibly polished
and I tested it with my most scale against the hardness of
diamonds and it seems incredibly hard, but it's not a diamond.
I'm wondering if this is like a piece of coal that almost had
enough pressure and heat to become a diamond, but it didn't.
Regardless, I don't know. I don't have to do with it.
I think you as a trainer might like it and I'll give it to you.
How's that? Oh, that's great.
Thank you. He says, of course, and you are
now in possession of a peculiar Blackstone that is very
polished. It seems that Lucy has all but
vanished. She couldn't get a nap, so she's
looking for her next nap and this guy's just slowly moving
down the wall trying to find more stuff to dig up.
Good luck my friend. Is Gimli keeping the one fossil
that he dugout? Yes.
Is he? Yeah, I'm sure they're still
coming in handy at some point. Very cool.
All right. The party continues trekking to
the desert. It kind of sucks.
It's not the best, but they're making progress.
They're almost on their way out, but I do need LED to roll in the
encounter table. I did the last 1 I think.
Oh, Schmidt, it's Schmidt's turn.
Just kidding. Oh, I haven't.
Yes. OK, 77, OK.
A ways ahead of you, probably about 100 feet, you can see a
part of the land where the wind is no longer blowing and the
sand is settling. You're almost on your way out
and you're walking up. And then roll me a perception
check. 1111 caught on a wares. The party becomes surrounded by
many small children in ninja costumes.
Oh God. And they say you fall right into
a trap and they throw a large black cloth over all 5 of you.
They attempt to. Anyone who does not want to be
trapped under the cloth has to make a dexterity check.
I'll just do people don't worry about your Pokémon.
Hi, Crit. Nice, I.
Got an 8. I got a dirty 20.
OK. Nine, OK, OK.
I like that narrative. Symetra got a three, so it
appears that all the ladies end up being captured by the Child
Ninjas as Schmidt. Schmidt rolled well, right,
Yeah, yeah. Dodged out of the way.
And the children quickly rushed forwards to, to to trap them
under this tarp. And one child ninja looks up at
Gimli and he says, my name is Yosef.
And if you don't give us the toll, you can't pass this path.
What's the toll? He tell him what the toll is.
Hold on a sandwich. Hold on, hold on, I'll.
Crack my knuckles in a very. Intimidating way?
Do you want intimidation? Yeah, I'll hold on Intimidation.
Here, do it. Roll it.
Intimidation, space stuff,
charisma which there's no modifier so just a straight 10.
Straight 10. Yep.
Yeah, this. He's a little bothered by it
because you're taller than him, but he's also, as a skilled
ninja, has No Fear about adults who make remarks like that.
And he, Yosef looks around to his friends.
And he says it's going to cost you 50 pokey dollars each to get
past us without any danger. And then all the other ninjas
are like, yeah, you heard them. You pay up.
Cindy shouts from under the tarp.
I vote danger, all right? It's it's twice in one day.
Schmidt agrees with Cindy. Wow.
So what is this danger? You all don't seem that scary to
me. Yosef says the real danger here
is US. And then all of the ninjas draw
out like little wooden swords and they also clasp at pokeballs
on their belts and it seems like they are ready to fight you.
I'm going to shout at them, sit down and bathe.
Bad voice. Awesome, let let's see that
chick. 14. 14 Three out of the eight run away crying and one of
them peed their pants and he's very embarrassed about it and he
says no scary man. And three of them leave, but the
rest of them are saying, oh, you're really asking for it.
You're separating our ranks. We can't have that.
We're the true ninja clan of Halloween, and we'll make sure
that you never enter our territory ever again.
I believe. The remaining five of them
release their pokey balls. In front of one of the five is a
little brown, little like termite looking guy.
He's got a big mouth and he's like, bang.
It's like very funny and intimidating.
Yosef, the guy in front of you, he sends out a bug and it's a
very, very fast looking bug and it it in fact itself looks like
a ninja. The third one sends out none
other than a little Zigzagoon. You've seen them before, they're
nothing crazy. The 4th one sends out a Pokémon
that is looks like it's just mostly entirely a mouth.
It has ears that look like they're speakers and it's ready
to scream at you. The fifth one belonging to a
little timid, quiet ninja in the back who wasn't scared.
They wear a little shawl over their head and that covers their
eyes. They send out a Pokémon that is
also a bug, but it looks like it's dead.
It looks like it's not really there, but it is just floating
there menacingly. And if, unless you want to make
skill checks and avoid them or convince them otherwise, they
are going to force you into initiative.
And just the two of you, actually just Schmitz and Gimli.
I'm bound to fight this if you are.
Oh yeah, let's do it. All righty.
OK, roll it. The people under the tarp can't
speak. They can try and force their way
out, but that costs an action of course.
Or the two men who are outside can offer their assistance.
So give me your numbers all. Right.
Add your decks. 4. OK.
If we're trying to escape, should we still like
relationship with that or is that just going to be like?
Yeah, we might as well. We might as well get everyone
in. OK, she.
Might be able to like Deuce. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think that's fair because you guys aren't equally as capable
of helping ourselves. Out.
Yeah. Just sit under the net and
watch. No, no, no.
Well, we can't watch because we're stunned out of that dark.
Yeah, I think my logic that I was trying to go for was that
it's going to take you one more turn to actually enter and like
be productive. That's what I mean.
So yes. OK, Cindy, you got a 16/6 for
Ality. Oh, and Schmidt killing it with
that dex. OK, you can start thinking about
your plans here. Well.
We're going to have Trevor Lasagna out.
Oh, true, yeah, start considering that as well.
Think about what your party's. Tacos already out.
OK. Jessica could probably be pretty
dope. Yeah.
OK.
So there's that one bug that's like a ghost.
Yeah, I'm. Just.
Going to kill that immediately. OK, you will.
You can definitely try. And just for clarity, I will.
I will announce the Pokémon though.
I'm sure you know what they are. There's a Trapinch, there's a
Shedinja, there's a Ninja ask, there is a Zig Zagun, and
there's a Loudred. Did I already say Loudred?
Yeah. Trapinch ninja?
Ask Zig Zagun, Loudred Shedinja. That's five.
Very cool. I I can count.
OK, Schmidt is up first. Cool, so there's that one dead
bug, right? Yeah, the the dead bug.
I'm gonna hit him with a good old fashioned aerial.
Ice. Oh God, yeah, OK, that's
correct. I kind of forgot you had that
move. Dead bug is gone.
Absolutely body shit in jail just.
Gets. Kyogre now, bud.
Yeah, it gets it gets destroyed, and the kid who is the trainer
is like, shocked. They're like, how did you do
that? Like they're very impressed and
also scared. They don't really know what to
make of it. OK, my dead little guy.
Yeah, they were not expecting that at all.
Is it just Quacko out? Is Schmick going to?
Do anything? It's Quacko and Jessica out OK.
Hell yeah, Giles thing. Yeah, I will hurricane down the
other bug. OK, the ninja ask.
Let's see if it hits. Is that's a save or does it?
It's that is a. Save DC-15 or what's that?
Must make a strength. Save strength.
Strength. They get an 8.
Hell yeah. All right, That will be super
effective damage. Oh super effective and full
damage. Jesus.
OK I forgot about this part where I have to roll dice.
Super effective. We double the dice, correct?
That's correct every time. OK, 33 + 740 forty.
Yeah, because it's I double the dice, right?
So that's 48. Yeah, Jessica precisely whips up
the tornado and deals the perfect amount of damage to one
shot Ninjasque. That is so stupid.
It was exactly the amount you needed.
Ninjasque is out of combat. OK.
Did you clean this up? Try.
Those were super effective hitters, Yeah.
What else is left? The trap pinch.
Is the trap pinch is very good, and the ladrid, the two coolest
bugs, are just gone. That's so sad.
These kids are kind of idiots, though, so it's fine.
Yeah. We will move on from Schmidt.
Looks to me like it's Cindy. Cindy, you're under the tarp.
You're down there with Elodie and Sam and you're always kind
of like struggling. Can I roll something to get out
from underneath? Your attempt to get out from
underneath. Yeah, what's your method?
What are you thinking? Maybe like decks like Wiggle My
Way Out? You want to squirm under where
it's pinned. I guess, Yeah, sure.
Yeah, give me, give me ADC 16 Dexterity check.
That's a 19 on the dice. Yeah, that'll do it.
Yeah. Cindy, while Elodie and Sam are
still struggling, just slithers out, just kind of wriggles and
she finds somebody outside the tarp.
Or Toon snakes your way out. Yep, exactly.
She is the hell. She is the smallest.
Canonically. She is smaller than same in LED
so it makes sense. Hi, guys.
Hey. Oh, hello.
You want to help us one shot these kids.
Yeah, you may make a check or send out Pokémon, but you can't
do things with them. Yeah, that's what I thought.
I will send out. Who do I want to send out?
What's up, Jack? Jack Jack the Torka hits the
field. He goes and he looks at these
ninja kids and one of the ninja kids thinks he's kind of cute,
but they don't. They they make that face and
then they shake their head. They express that they are way
too cool to pets cute cats. They would never.
That will be Cindy Stern. Yes.
OK, now it's the baddies turn. I always write baddies, but if
you want to describe these guys at baddies, I'm not really sure
that's the most accurate, but we're going to call them baddies
for now. Ninja kid number one with the
cool trappings wearing the mask identifies the true threat as
Gimli. What Pokémon did you send out?
Lasagna and Trevor. OK, He eyes Trevor and he roars
with a little trap and roar he's like and a little torrent of
sand appears under Trevor in a sand tomb.
Trevor must make a strength save.
OK, Trevor is proficient in survival and athletics.
Does that affect this check? Normally, no, I'm going to say
athletics does because Trapinch is little baby.
OK. So you can add your proficiency
bonus to escaping the. On the die.
You said 18 on the die. Yeah, and then proficiency gives
it a 25, so he's fine. OK, yeah, with a roll like that,
Trevor completely avoids damage and hops out of the sand Tomb.
The little kid who is wearing the mask, who's the Trappings
trainer says we'll get him next time Pinchy and Pinchy goes
claims its jaws. Up next is the little raccoon.
The zigzagoon identifies Quacko as the one who one shot the poor
little Shedinja and just go Rams his body right into him.
Let's see if this hits. I believe an 18 should hit
correct? Yeah.
OK, as Zigzagoon charges its body into Quacko, Quacko,
slightly unawares, takes a total of 14 points of of body slam
damage. That's a pretty good hit.
Yeah. Pretty sizable hit from a little
raccoon. Pretty good.
The trainer is proud. The trainer who has the big
square Pokémon that has a giant mouth, equips some earmuffs, and
he just kind of points at Loudrid, and Loudrid begins to
scream. Loudrid is very, very loud.
And I'm going to have all the Pokémon make Just kidding.
This is a role to hit. Actually, how many can I hit?
I wrote my own rules. It's fine.
I don't forget these things. It's OK.
I'm going to say it hits Quacko and Jessica.
False wide guard. Oh no, as loud.
Absolutely. Bodied.
Yeah, as lasagna as loud screams.
Super loud lasagna Lasagna's mystical little hermit crab
shell made of gemstone glows and summons A translucent gemmy wall
out of nothingness to block the sound coming out of Louder's
mouth, dealing 0 damage. That's that's the baddies turn.
Lasagna is poggers. I like Lasagna, Schmidt and I
was. Like, yeah, this shit's pretty
sick. Time for crab rave.
Crab rave. Everyone's crab Raven.
And Jessica is automatically crab raving with Dancer.
That is how it works. We have now LED under the tarp.
Awesome, I am going to bring out aubergine from my basket.
Tell her to scratch the tarp. Awesome, does she have a move
for that or are you going to make this a skill check?
What's the move? She does have scratch, doesn't
move OK, doesn't have any flavor text.
Probably because it's scratch. Yes.
Yeah, just D20 and add either strength or decks.
Got it. Let's go.
I got a 19. 19 That's great. I was depending on your rollout
might have made you roll damage to see how big of a hole you can
get. But Aubergine first attack out
of the egg sees the opportunity to scratch something and takes
it. She claws and she claws, and
then there's a nice little flap that appears in the middle of
the tarp that it seems like you could fit an LED through.
Awesome, I will return aubergine to my basket and exit tarp.
You do. So you see a silly situation in
front of you. You've been overhearing it, but
you see that about, you know, three of the children are
running away and two of them have been defeated, and the
remaining ones are just not having a good time.
They bit off more than they could choose, so to speak.
However, you're welcome to like, send out a Pokémon if you want
to help, or you can make some sort of check.
You could do something. Yes, I will send out Key Lime.
Key Lime. Key Lime hits the field, makes a
classic little RALT sound. Whatever sound RALT does make, I
do not know what that is and just looks up at you and is
ready to take a command the next time that the time comes around.
Now, Key Lime does have Trace. I don't know if the battle is
going to be over by the time we get to my turn next turn, so
maybe we'll just wait until next.
I think it'd be fun to do so now.
So roll A roll AD 4 -, 1. I got a one.
You got a one? OK, You end up tracing.
Oh, geez, this is kind of interesting, huh?
OK, Key Lime traces Trap Inches. Arena Trap, which is going to
have some some interesting. You thought you captured us, now
you're stuck in here with. Us so grounded creatures and
people within 50 feet of Key Lime may not flee.
That's very interesting. OK that's that has implications.
Cool. We'll move on to Sam.
Sam is going to climb out of the tarp and she's going to stay on
a watch because she thinks that's funny.
She is going to make, she's going to make a check.
Actually, she's not going to tell you what it is, but she's
making a check. It was successful.
She pulls out her notebook and write something down.
It's Gimli's term. All right, we are ready to throw
some rocks, baby. Well, considering this this
louder. Just going for some big
screaming attacks. I'm going to have Trevor and
Lasagna throw rocks at it with rock.
Blast. OK, let's see it.
So first will be Trevor. OK. 21.
At who? All of them.
No, it's at. It's at the Loudard.
Oh my bad. Yes, 21 will connect.
OK, how many rocks? Just two.
OK. And then so Trevor does times
26713 damage to the Loudard. Not bad, OK?
And then now we'll do lasagna does a 12 hit.
Does precisely hit louder. That is correct.
Nice. OK.
How many hits 5? Wow.
OK. And.
Then 31 damage. 31 Yeah, Lasagna, you're nasty.
Yeah. Every party member witnesses
because everyone's out of the tarp at this point.
As Gimli's two Pokémon, Phil Laudred's mouth with rocks,
Seven of them to be exact. One after another, boom, boom,
boom, boom, seven rocks. And Laudred looks a little
dissuade and then he will not be knocked out.
But however, he is not feeling well.
He's going to make a check right now.
It failed. He thought like, oh, I'm a big
tough guy, I can just munch these down and he tromps and he
breaks a tooth and he spits the rocks out.
Not going well for the ninjas. Anything else for Gimli?
I think that will be all. Let me check something as a
bonus action. Trevor's going to harden.
OK, so let me roll that. That's one D 8, so I reduce the
next incoming damage by 6 until next turn.
Great. That's fantastic.
Yeah. Great turn for Gimlees.
I believe that's it. Yep.
Should be time. Time.
So the louder is already not feeling good, right?
That is correct. We're going to hit him with a
good old slash. OK.
I just want to know 4 Canon Giles name is still going in my
head. Of course, Yeah, that is that is
just crit failed. Who went for the slash?
Yeah, I did. Yeah, that's too.
But Quacko, I don't know how to describe it, but Quacko really
whiffs. Quacko goes for the the slash
with the leak and just just doesn't.
Just just really doesn't hit. All righty.
I guess we just hurricane then. OK, So we didn't do this earlier
because I didn't ask, but hurricanes a 30 foot cone,
that's true. Does that affect multiple
targets? It can.
OK. We're going to add this
proximity, we're going to say that's all three Pokémon that
are out. OK, then I'm going to hurricane
all of them. Great, so they all have to make
it safe. Yep.
OK, DC-15 trap inch fails. You.
Know passes louder fails. That's the key target.
Yeah. How much is that?
24 for fail, 12 for save. OK, Louder gets a blown away as
Louder is flying with XS in his eyes.
He flies for about 45 feet and then smacks into something
invisible. There's a little pink ripple
that that surrounds its body as it falls vertically down to the
ground and it is knocked out. Yes, that is what happened the.
Arena Trap. The other two Pokémon take
significant damage, however they're still up and kicking.
They they, they got blown in the face and they're like Zizzoon's
like coughing because it got its breathing all messed up.
But besides that, they are here, still in the bow.
Anything else for Schmidt? I think that's all I can do.
OK. Unless you let Schmidt bicycle
kick one of the kids. Yes, on one condition.
OK, if if Schmidt fails, he falls on his ass and it's very
embarrassing. You know what?
I'll take it. OK, these guys are kind of
small. You had a two.
Yeah. Schmidt.
Schmidt goes to kick Yosef and just Yosef just hops slightly
out of the way. And Schmidt does like, he had so
much momentum in that kick, and he loves kicking children.
Apparently. Schmidt kicks so hard, he like,
it's like Looney Tunes. He flips with his whole body and
he falls flat on his back and it's like Charlie Brown.
That's what it is. There's some.
Pictures like a little slide whistle.
It's like a. Yes, exactly.
That does in fact happen and everyone points and laughs and
it's really embarrassing. Roll AD 4.
Help me. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. This is embarrassment damage,
Yes, also one. Also fall damage, yeah, that's
appropriate. So you you are bruised both
physically and egoly is. That did more damage to the ego
than it did to. Yes, little damage.
Exactly. Great Sandy.
There's a little pinchy termite and there's a raccoon.
How close are they? Like could they be in melee
range? Yeah, they are within 30 feet
melee range. They're like 2520 feet.
Perfect. OK, I'm going to have Jack go
for a fire Fang on the trap inch.
OK, hope it hits flaming Trump. Yeah, big old Munch.
So 15 on the dice plus 5 S dirty, 20 to hit.
Yeah, that'll do it. It's 2 D 8 + 4 damage 12 + 416.
OK. 16 damage. Yeah, Trapinch got chomped.
It was kind of cute and scary. He got chomped on his mouth, so
his mouth was like forced shut. And as Jack bit him, the
Trapinch made a squeal a little bit like, I can't chomp.
Didn't say that, but you know, that was the vibe.
Significant damage. No flinch or burn with that
roll, correct? Yeah.
And yeah. And then Jack backs off and
prepares for trappings to attack it back, which it just may will.
Anything else from Cindy? All right, so I'm going to pull
Larva Star out of my bag, Larva Star, and kind of throw it
towards the Zigzagoon into a Zen headbutt.
Oh wow, OK. It says just get the baby in
there. OK, we are.
We are going to need the yeet check from Cindy first.
Are you, I guess the real question is are you Kobe ING or
are you yeating? What's what's the distinction
here? I'm just trying to give like
lever star like a running start what's more.
Important to Cindy here, Is it strength, is it force or is it
accuracy? Probably accuracy.
OK. Then I'm going to make it a dex
check, all right, for Cindy. That is a 16.
OK, that's perfectly suitable. The role for Zen Headbutt.
No OK 7 + 5 is at 12. Does 12 hit?
12 does exactly meets the armor class of Zigzaguna does hit.
Let's go so it's two D 6 + 3. Pretty powerful, baby may say.
So 9 + 3 is 12. The.
Same amount of damage as as Jack.
Jack did, yeah. Very impressive Zigzagoon, not
looking thrilled, looking a little dizzy.
It usually paces around in zigzags 'cause that's how it
walks, but seems like it zigzags are a little more exaggerated.
It's going to slow down. Larvastar bounces off of
Zigzagoon and hits the field with its little cute little
legs, a little fluffy body. That's great.
And for clarity, we're not in the sandstorm, we're like on the
way out. So there's no sand damage if
anyone was wondering. Great.
OK, cool. Anything else for Cindy?
Cindy kind of like does a little like yes, like kind of have not
happy dance per SE, but like just a little like yes, I'm so
glad that worked. Little celebration, you'll have
to see it. It's the baddie's turns.
Trapinch is just going to chomp on Jack.
Just just give, just bite him right back back right in the
face around the kisser gets a natural 7.
I don't think that will connect at it will not no goes for the
Trump. Jack jumps out of the way.
Trapinch's little beady eyes look like he might be about to
cry. Zig Zagoo sees the little larva
star on the ground as they are known and goes for the slam of
bodies. The body slam gets a 17 to hit.
Well, that hits. It should.
All right. Little Little Buggy is about to
experience combat for the first time.
How's it going to handle it? We will see.
I mean, he kind of attacked a scarmory.
That's true. What he got taken, so that's.
Going to be 14 points of zig zagoon, raccoon stomp and damage
as he leaps on the Larvesta and just kind of claws out him real
quick. Zig Zagoon from the top ropes.
Yeah, exactly. Just like that, what is things
are going to plan to you just here?
Watch out, watch out, watch out. OK, older.
Nowhere. OK, O.
So was larva star hit with a melee attack that.
Is correct. I was just about to.
Ask about that. So roll AD 10.
Do I roll AD 10? It's.
More fun if you roll it I think. So you should roll AD 10.
OK 8 so it's not burned. Not burned, but it felt the
heat. This was really out there.
Nicely done. That's it for the baddies there.
Yosef and his friend are starting to look concerned.
Well, you know Yosef's Pokémon was knocked out.
Just kidding. You witness as the three ninjas,
trainers who aren't battling are trying to run away and they
there's an invisible force that is stopping them.
And as they touch it, there's a little ripples of pink and they
seem very confused and scared. They're just kind of screaming
at each other. Just little kids that are like,
like they think that they've definitely gotten themselves
into something they don't want to be in.
But the remaining 2 are still battling.
They hardly even know that they're trapped.
It is now LED string. OK, I almost feel bad for these
children, but they did trap us so.
It's true. All right, I am going to have
Eli go for a confusion on to the zig zag.
OK. I have a quick question on candy
spoon. I just wrote on +2 on psychic
inferior moves. Is that to hit or on the damage?
I feel like to hit makes more sense because +2 is not an
incredible modifier. Are your attacks even to hit?
Is confusion a role to hit? Yes.
OK, then. Yeah, that makes sense.
I like that. We'll keep it.
Sounds good, I got an 11. On to Zigzagun.
Yes. Is that with the twisted spoon
cotton candy? Yes.
Are you sure? Yes.
OK, does not hit. Well, it does hit.
It connects with Zigzagun's body, and Zigzagun is just so
silly and naive that it just doesn't feel the confusion.
Key Lime outstretches its hand and it shoots out little psychic
beams, and Zigzagum doesn't care.
That's fair. Anything else?
No, I think that's all that I'm going to do.
Well done. It's Sam's turn.
She's kind of interested in what's going on with this traced
arena trap. So she's just going to walk over
to the proximity where the kids are.
She's going to ignore the battle pretty much.
And she's just going to like poke it and examine it and be
like, oh, this is cool. And she's going to play with the
the psychic force field for a little bit.
Gimli. Right.
Zig Zagun is taking a beating but also doing some work, so
that boy needs to be shut down. Damn.
Proud of this guy. Yeah, he's doing really well
actually. But can he handle the turret of
rocks? It's.
The real question. Perhaps.
Well, let's see, Trevor goes first fire in the rock blast and
the Zigzagoon does a 21 hit. Yes, it.
Does. OK.
What's your minimum damage? Let's say big rocks.
So since I got three rocks, my minimum damage is 10.
OK, roll it. OK, so 19 damage. 19 damage.
Boom boom boom. Three rocks connecting to
Zigzagoon. Zigzagoon keels over, knocked
out, recalled into the Ninja Trainers pokeball.
One threat remains. It's a sad, crying little
trappage. Oh well, lasagna, time for your
rock turret. Let's go. 2323 What was the
natural? Rule 16. 16 OK, yeah, 23 does
hit. OK, for the amount, whoops 4,
three rocks, 421 damage and then it's resisted, right?
That is correct. Yes, so 21 on the dice for
damage. Oh, right there.
That's how we're doing multi hit moves.
Yeah. Even though it resisted, it is
enough to land a knockout into the trap Inch.
And the combat ends. Nicely done.
All the children are very concerned and scared.
They're used to just their dodge tactics.
They they ambush people and and then they take their money or
they they take their possessions and they failed at both.
And now they can't run away. They are very terrified.
And they're just kind of screaming and they're saying,
what are you? What have you done?
What is this magic? And they're just very frantic.
What does the party do? I imagine Schmidt is just now
getting up from failing the bicycle.
Kick up the kid. Yeah, most likely.
He gets up and he like, he brushes off his pants and then
he's like, well, I hope you learned your lesson.
Yeah. I'm just going to dad lecture
them about stealing and ambushing people.
OK. Do you have anything you want to
say or do you want to make a roll?
I will roll intimidation because I think that's still correct.
I like nothing more intimidating than a stern father, Rick.
Well, yeah, you ambush random people, you play stupid games,
you win stupid prizes. Other phrases that dads would
say when you get into trouble. And my intimidation will give me
17. OK, yeah, they're very
threatened and some of them are like trying to reconcile with
the crimes that they've committed, but it's not going
super well. And they're, they're crying and
they're scared and. And one of them says, big man,
stop yelling at us, please. I'll, I'll, I'll give you this.
And he gives you 6 little homemade smoke bombs if you will
receive them. Oh.
Yeah, I'll take them. Cool.
Ginley's in possession of those, and he says please, I, I, I
won't be a ninja anymore. I promise.
I'll, I'll go home. I'll, I'll stop.
I don't. Know how to do the dishes.
Go home and be take out the train.
And where are your parents We're.
All your parents. They say we're off in Fall
Harbor. We all live in Fall Harbor Town.
And we, we just want to have a good time.
And they're like trying to run, but there's a wall and they they
can't leave. And they're like, please let us
go. Stop.
You dropped us. No, we should we walk with them
there. Walk them home to their parents.
You're the one trapping them with the with.
The I know, but like. I think that's your decision to
make. I think we should take both
parents. We'll go with them anyway.
Store them home. Right.
Exactly. All right.
I'll be like, I will let you guys walk back with us to the
children. OK, they are concerned and
worried and they look at each other and they say, well, if we
don't really have a choice, do we?
No, not really. No, you don't.
Great. So yeah, you, you, you do that.
You're out of the desert. You're now walking towards route
to 113. It's pretty scenic, pretty,
pretty. It's a really nice little area.
You're still in a like a cliffy, mountainous kind of region and
you're going to it seems like the distance you're going to get
to a little more lush. It's still like rocky and
whatnot, but where you're heading to, there's some very
rich foliage in the distance. You can tell.
But before you get there, it seems like the cliffs are
narrowing into a single point. And while everyone is following
key Limes arena trap, they have to stop in front of a very funny
looking tree that is in the middle of the path.
And they say we we can't get past this tree.
It's it's blocking our way and it's true.
They they can't really can't really move past it.
You light the tree on fire. One one of the kids.
No. One of the kids pokes it.
He's like, this tree's weird. Cindy, do you want to light on?
Fire. Oh, is it a pseudo wudo?
It is. Yeah, let's light it on fire.
But it it's resistant too. It's also just a guy just
hanging out. He's just, he's just a guy.
He's just wiggling. He's.
Literally just a dude. Funny little guy.
I'll have larva star use ember since like.
Why? Why are we leave that tree
alone? We can just go around.
It. You look at him and he freezes
up. We just said.
Everybody look away. We're all making a lot of
assumptions about this tree right now.
I just want to say that. All right, Larva Star.
Larva Star is using Ember. Larva Star does that rolled
ahead. I'm just saying that's.
What happens? It's an 18 on the die. 18 on the
die connects, does that burn? No it doesn't.
A 19 or 20 wood cool one D 6 + 4.
Yes, it is resisted question mark.
Yes. Yes, it is. 5 + 4 is 9 so
however that maths out. OK, yes, Larva * shoots out a
little little flame spark towards this funny looking tree.
It does not catch fire and there's a little singe mark on
it, but there is no reaction. Well, fire didn't work.
What do you guys suggest? Just walk around it.
The kids that was blocking. The problem?
We can't. We can't walk around it.
It seems like you may be able to climb over it, but how it's
positioned in this rocky cliffy area can't really get around it.
OK, I'm going to try diplomacy. OK.
What do I have in my bag? You know what I'm going to offer
the pseudo Voodoo in Ulteria plushie.
OK? And then I'm going to say, hey,
bud, if I give you this, will you move out of the way?
Sure. Two questions.
Where do you, how do you offer it?
Do you like place it somewhere? I was just going to like hold it
out with my hands. OK then roll Charisma.
Rolling charisma, Would you say this is a persuasion check?
Oh yeah, you can add that you are convincing.
That's a good old fashioned 9 Good old fashioned.
Nine you hold your hand and the tree offers no response.
At this point, one of the kids is like dangling from from one
of the branches and trying to squeeze through.
It's like it's so tough and the the tree is so hard.
I feel like the Quacko Packo struggles most with stationary
objects. There's a.
Very simple solution to get giant.
Bosses flying around, we got it. You can gimli move it.
You can roll wisdom if you like want your character to intuit
something. If it's not likely, it'll be a
high check, but they could possibly figure it out.
It is not likely. Yeah, even.
See, the word is not from the region that Gimli is.
Yeah, well, yes, Bonsley is. Yeah.
There's Bonsley, that's true. It's not unlikely that he would
have seen one, yeah. I'd actually.
Say totally likely, yeah. I got a 12 on wisdom so.
OK, yeah, Gimli's not sure He realizes that this is not, in
fact, a tree. There's a Pokémon but he doesn't
really have any more details on it besides that.
I still think diplomacy is the answer.
Yeah, sure. Do you think it likes a certain
sense? Maybe.
Possibly. Or maybe give it a try?
Charisma. We'll let Ellie run it because
Ellie hasn't done something yet. So get Ellie on them.
It's like. Right, I'm going to bring out
cabbage. OK.
Hi Cabbage. Cabbage is here.
I mean, I we could go for like a, like a tree scent, maybe like
some other trees, you know? OK, Yeah, sure.
Maybe. Emit that from cabbage.
OK. Yeah, sure.
It's like one of those car like tags you hang in the window
right on the the rearview mirror.
Yes, perfect. Yeah, roll it as a Kerisma
check. Got it.
Would that be like a a performance maybe?
Sure. That's for all intents and
purposes, yeah. Yeah, it's more or less that
kind of. OK, that is a 17.
OK, yeah, it does elicit a reaction from the strange tree
and it moves closer towards the party, closer towards cabbage,
and just kind of shuffles very quickly, just just pushes all
the kids back into you and it's now very, very close to you all.
OK, is the path unblocked? No.
No, it's just closer to us. God damn it, I'm.
Going to be like, hey buddy, you mind moving a little bit more
this way so we can get past here?
Give me a charisma on that. Got it.
Let's go 23. 23 Out of nowhere on its trunk, 2 little eyes open
up, and they look directly at you, and the little frown
appears, and this tree shakes its head very vigorously and
closes his eyes in a sad but focused manner.
Remains stationary. I would be like, is there
something wrong as to why? Why we you can't get out of the
way here? The strange tree adjust its
limbs. The one on the left that was
higher is now lower, and the one that on the right to that was
lower is now higher. Like a little dance.
Guys, he wants to dance. We'll play him a song, then you
got a whole band. Was that he?
Just going to sing because that's kind of rad too.
Yeah, no, I'm gonna bring out the whole gang.
So bubble gum and and grape juice coming out here as well.
What's their band name? And we're the called the whisk
takers. Does Aubergine have any
involvement here? You, I, I don't, I don't know
that we've practiced at all with aubergine.
Aubergine's the band manager. Yeah, she's the manager.
I mean she could always like use copycat to just, you know, also
sing along. That's.
True. OK.
OK, Schmidt's going to find a corner and he's going to sit in
the fetal position. OK, Schmidt, roll me perception
while you do that. OK, 6.
Six. OK, yeah, the when you curl up
on the ground, you are granted a unique perspective, but you are
kind of looking and you don't really gather anything.
Elodie, let's let's let's get the show unless anyone else has
any other ideas. Yeah, go for the show.
Yeah. I'm here for it.
Yeah, everybody's going to start singing and then flashing
lights. Is there something I should
roll? Yeah, there definitely is.
Last time we did something like this, it was like an attack.
We called it cacophony. I think this is a little bit
more focused and more for pleasure.
So can I think just AD 100 would be cool?
Cool, I know. Yeah, there are five Pokémon
involved, so it's like 5 D 20s kinda. 13.
Total. Oh, right.
Yeah, it's AD one. 100 yeah, the 10 and a three Oh yes.
Oh, did you want me to roll 5 D 20s?
Well, the truth is that you could have potentially gotten
that same result with five D 20s so.
That's true. Yeah, the band makes a nice
little tune and Pseudo, I've announced what it is.
Pseudo does adjust his arms again.
It seems like he kind of enjoyed it, but real inside LED.
OK, I got a three. OK, you have no idea why pseudo
is not vibing with this right now.
You got no clue. Dude, our beats are so fire.
I. Don't understand?
You could try changing genre and I'd let you roll for it one more
time. Yes, we will change genre.
OK, what's this genre going to be?
Is. This our punishment for one
shouting this Shin and Joe. Guys, the genre should be rock.
Shut up. Shut up.
I I think it's a great idea. Yeah, rock music this time.
For the rock tree. Is is Grape juice like the main
vocalist? Are they doing like the melody
part are? Because I'm picturing Grape
Juice basically being like Steven Tyler at this point.
Yeah, for rock, definitely. OK, cool.
Yeah, give me, give me the 5G20/D100 just to see what
happens this time. Got you.
That's 86. 86 Incredible rock music.
Definitely a favorite of Sudo. They are shmoving and grooving,
and their eyes pop back out and you see a little smile and
they're shaking their little limbs and it sounds like they're
kind of rattling, like they're kind of like maracas or
something. And they're just dancing.
And it seems like they're moving their feet around and you could
kind of gently nudge them and they would probably move out of
the way. They're having a really good
time. Clearly the Quacko Packo doesn't
want to. I think they just want to stay
here trapped by the Sudo. Obviously, I do love his energy,
yeah. Just yeah, I'll just nudge him
out of the way. Cool.
As you nudge him, you like he's still smiling and dancing.
You hear like a little food kind of sound come from his mouth and
he's still dancing. Is your band still performing
well while they follow you? Do you recall them?
I mean, if we're moving past the tree, then I'll I'll recall
them. OK, you recall them, the tree.
He's he's still kind of dancing, a little quieter, a little
sadder. One of us ninja kids was a
little disappointed that the music went away, but now you've
entered I'm. Going to ask pseudo Wudo if he
if he wants more opportunity for rock music and if he wants to
come with us and show him the heavy ball.
Oh wow, interesting. Yeah, roll A roll, roll a thing,
Pokémon. Yeah, probably.
Yeah. Say. 14. 14 Yeah, Pseudo is
dancing, and as he's dancing, he smacks his branches into the
heavy ball. And because of the enjoyment of
the music and everything that's you've done together, the ball
wiggles once and it clinks shut and you've captured A pseudo
wudo. Congratulations.
Nice. Very cool.
We will get that sheet and everything taken care of.
However, your balls also wiggle, as they tend to do.
Yes they do. What's your plan?
Someone's got to go home. Someone does have to go home.
I will send sudo wuto actually to the box.
OK, he does that. Eat it into cyberspace.
Hey, you want to join us for an adventure and get more
opportunity to listen to music? All right in the box.
Not later. Yeah, it's fine.
You'll figure it out. You've made it.
Ask the the rocky cliffs into Route 113.
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OK, what? They're breaking the 4th wall.
One of them's just Deadpool. True.
I like to think it's the Trapinch kid.
Yeah, definitely. Yeah, his, his ninja uniform is
like got like red and he's wearing a mask.
Looks like it's like a leather mask.
Even in the sky mask. Yes, true Trapinch is also, you
know, Canon Trapinch is wearing a red mask.
He's got like a bandana looking mask over.
Yeah, it looks very cool. In fact, that's kind of, you
know what? Yeah, he gets combat bonuses for
that because you're creaming these guys.
So this guy's going to be a little bit tougher because he's
got a cool mask. Cool mask.