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 into the depths
of the treacherous cave that is Meteor Falls in search of the
Draconid tribe and their hidden village.
After upsetting a massive protective mother Agron, Cindy
took deadly damage and is badly injured.
While she is in stable condition and walking with the help of her
friends, entering another combat could be very dangerous for her.
However, the Quacko Packo have decided they are in too deep and
believe that turning around for medical help may just be more
treacherous than finding the village.
The Cave is dark and mysterious, with strange geometric murals
lining the walls and the sounds of many Pokémon can be heard
echoing through the rocky halls, accompanied by the murmur of a
cavern river with many cascading waterfalls.
Bat Pokémon dangle from the ceiling and several pairs of
eyes cautiously track the party from the other side of the
river. The path forward is dimly lit by
cookies natural glow. The Cave splits in front of the
Quacko Paco in an even three-way fork, one path to the left.
To the right, in the center, Schmidt's Gimli, Elody, Cindy
and Sam. What direction will the party go
next? Good adventures go left.
OK. But before we do that, does the
mural continue down all of these hallways, or just one of them?
It's kind of dim you you got to give me a rule.
Cookies. Yeah, cookies light doesn't
emanate far enough for you to see the in.
Perception. It's a 1515.
The answer to your question is yes, some of the murals seem
like fresher. The the etching is done with
like a Blackstone that leaves a sediment on, and it's a lot
darker on certain paths and it's faded on the others.
But besides that, the walls here are becoming increasingly
increasingly more covered in these geometric murals.
All line art basically. Would we want to go down an
older path or a newer marked path?
I don't know which is better honestly.
Cindy, which path would you take?
He's going to say we're going to take the other one.
And Cindy roll just like. Insight.
Vibe. Check.
Vibe. Check, Vibe.
Check. OK, Insight plus one, that's a
four. Vibe check failed.
Cindy doesn't know. I point at the newer ones.
All right, we're going to the older ones then.
The oldest looking murals are on the right most path.
Does everyone agree to go together?
Yep, yeah, it's fine. Cindy will follow along because
she doesn't really have a choice.
You enter. I need someone, just one of you,
to volunteer a straight 20 year old.
Gotcha 19. 19 Gotcha. You follow down this path and it
seems to narrow for a little bit until it gets to the point where
you have to kind of March in single file and then it expands
into a chamber that has no holes in the ceiling.
It seems that there is dried grasses that are laid around.
It seems that's when you step on them, they kind of just turn to
dust and wither away. And most notably, inside of this
probably 40 foot by 40 foot circular room, there are strange
vertical pale rocks that stick out from the ground and lay in
piles around the place. Can I touch one of the rocks?
Yes. I won't make you roll.
You do that. It doesn't.
It feels. How?
How do I describe this? You get the feeling that it's
hollow. Guys, I think this rock's
hollow. Cool.
Oh, what if it's a geode? That would be cool.
Yeah, see the geode, something's prepared in those.
So I'm gonna, I'm gonna knock on and see if I can tell, then
roll, probably roll an insight on it.
OK, I was gonna say, all right, let's just keep moving.
Yeah, I'll knock on the can I do that?
Yeah, go for it. Yeah, you have Roll, roll
insight. That is a 12.
OK, yeah, you knock on it and you realize it is not stone.
It is made of a lot of calcium. You are in fact standing in a
skeleton of a very large creature.
This is not rock. What I I see why it got narrow.
That was probably its throat. Like.
So. Where?
Where did the skeleton start? I think we walked in the mouth
and we are walking towards being pooped out.
Yeah. Gotta gotta get that vibe, yeah.
OK. For clarity, it is dry and like
dark, you don't have the feeling that you're being consumed
right? Not a lie I want.
To. I want to make that.
Clear. Yeah, We're not in something
that's currently eating us. Yes.
No, no, no I didn't. I gathered that, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This feels like we're in a
corpse for sure. Right, that's fair.
Just a general check, who's who's Pokémon are out.
Cracko. Cookie, obviously.
Just just Trevor at the moment. OK.
I think just cabbage and aubergine in the basket.
OK, larva stars in my bag. OK.
I guess we keep moving, we're in something, but it doesn't feel
alive so. How did something this big get
in here? I mean mountains and caves are
constantly changing so. True, but you know what that
does mean though, is that there's probably other big
things, big Pokémon in here. I mean, we did see one so.
Not this big. True.
Yeah, I think we can keep going. I I agree.
Yeah, let's keep it moving. Yes, chamber that you've entered
from the right path does not seemingly have any exits besides
the one that you came through. Turn it.
Around. Well.
No, there's a secret tunnel. How does he poop secret?
Tunnel. Well, he doesn't poop very much.
He's dead. That's probably how he died.
Constipation. Would you imagine?
That's a rough way to go, dude. My colon, it's filling up, what
do I do? Oh God, and the mineral goes too
far. Oh no, I crave too much mineral.
Mineral. Oh no.
The title of this episode better be a poop.
Joke. He craved that mineral so.
Does yeah, does the party want to like mess around or do they
want to back out and take the a different path?
I do want to kind of smack one of the sediments and confirm
that it's like if there's anything on the inside, just
going to pick exit. Yeah, pick exit and you can do
that. You don't need to roll for that,
but I do want like a just AD 20 after you do that.
Yeah, I gotcha. Roll.
That's a 2. That's a two yeah.
You smack it with your pickaxe and it kind of smacks on the
ground and it breaks open. It is for sure bone or bone.
There are like these tall like ones that are sticking out the
ground like the one that you just broke.
And it seems like there's little piles of bones that are like
kind of around room. It's generally very DRY.
Like smaller Pokémon bones or smaller bones that are part of
this bigger feature? Can I investigate that?
Cool, that was a great role 5. Elodie's not sure.
The bones do appear to be like the same age because like here's
the thing, they're not fossilized, but they also don't
have like flesh on them and they're not rotting.
They're they're hollow of they're marrow.
They're not new, but they're also like, not really old.
What does Sam know? What does Sam know?
What are you asking her? What do you think about these
bones? OK, what do you think about
these bones? About these bones.
She she rolled pretty well actually.
She says you're quite big. I haven't.
I've never seen a Pokémon person that's quite this large.
I would imagine that based on the agron that we saw, the bones
that this creature belonged to was most likely a rock type
Pokémon. She rolled well enough actually.
She could tell. She could tell and she points to
the bones that you guys that Gimli just broke down.
She says, you see these like tall ones that are sticking up.
He says I bet this these are ribs.
Oh hmm, well they don't appear old enough for me not to be
concerned about these, so I think we should go for something
really bad happens. It's clear that there's no other
way to go, so. Sam gives a thumbs up.
I agree. You all backtrack.
Right. Sounds good.
OK, you without trouble, without hesitancy.
You back out of the tunnel to around where you entered and you
can see just like maybe 4050 feet away.
Like not really in the realm of cookies glow.
There's like 6 pairs of variously sized eyes that are
just kind of just kind of looking.
Oh. You're Kitty Kitty.
Don't. No, no, no.
They're not doing that right now.
No. This.
Is not I. Need to I need to know.
If it was audibly said, please tell me.
I. Imagine that Cindy starts to and
Schmidt just like smacks his hand over Cindy's mouth and is
like no. OK, the percussive slap of the
describe situation causes the eyes to back off a little bit.
It seems like they are just spectating.
You notice that they are at different heights, but they're
all kind of wobbling. One of them, one pair of them
are fairly circular. One pair are basically
horizontal slits and another pair are moving spirals.
They could be friends. Moving spirals.
No. Anyways, it seems like they're
not approaching you, they're just watching.
You have two more paths to go down.
Do you want to make some checks? Do you want to pick a path that
is left and center? Were they kind of in order of
like newest to oldest? The paths.
Of like the writing on the walls.
In the paths no, they were alternating.
Right was oldest, left was second oldest, center was new.
OK. We did the oldest, should we do
the newest and then Goldilocks it and then ended up on left.
Sounds good to me. Sure, I vote left, but.
OK, we can go left. I mean, good adventures do go
left. What do you want to say?
That's my. Little check and reasoning.
So I've been literally been saying that the whole time.
Good adventurers split up, actually.
No. Not right now, unfortunately.
Not when one of the party members is at dot store.
Although I would not be opposed to leaving Cindy behind.
Hey. God damn savage.
Yeah, let's go left. Left path selected, the party
marches forwards and I'm assuming that you're kind of
like keeping your eyes on the the three pairs of eyes that
seem to be tracking your movements that you can't quite
see who they are. As you March down the tunnel,
they stop like right at the entrance.
They're just watching. They're watching you walk away.
You are walking through the tunnel.
You can see there's still just etchings everywhere rather than
just being on the left wall that you can see.
It's the tunnel kind of closes. You can walk double file.
You can walk side by side pretty comfortably, but it's on each of
the walls and the ceiling. And furthermore, off to the
right, there is a little Creek much smaller than the river that
you were on before. You are approaching and
approaching down the tunnel and the Creek expands a little bit
and in front of you you see two mysterious shapes.
I want one roll from someone that isn't Garbie, it's a
regular D20. Rolling.
That's a crit. It's a crit.
Schmidt's, with his keen bird eyes, is so in love.
Maybe not in love is the right word.
He is so, I don't want to say, fascinated.
He's so enamored with birds, he knows when he sees one.
There is a bird standing on the floor.
They have like a pretty cylindrical body.
They're not very tall, probably like two or three feet tall.
And they're looking down at a humanoid figure that is sprawled
out face down on the ground. They're about 30 feet in front
of you. The bird does not notice.
You OK? Am I getting like the bird is
hostile towards this person or the bird is friend towards this
person? That would be a different check
but you did credit so I will give you some information.
It seems like you can't see the birds face so you weren't sure,
but they certainly aren't hostile.
They are just looking and standing next to that collapsed
person. I slowly approach.
OK. Are you intending to be selfie
or you just want to walk up? No, I am making my presence
known OK and just being the word I'm looking for.
Here, birdie, birdie. Yeah, except just in a very calm
way. OK, Schmidt, you do that.
You are not being stealthy, but you are walking forward
carefully. This does grab the attention of
the bird, and now that it faces you with cookies light, you can
make out more of its features. It turns around immediately and
looks at Schmidt and spreads its wings and it just stands there.
Let me describe it. It's got a round green head, a
yellow beak, and it has a particularly long red tail
feather. It's wings are white with very
intricate red and black and yellow patterns.
As it opens it's wings it looks like it has a second face on its
chest and it's eyes look incredibly wise and it locks
eyes with Schmidt and just stares at.
Fuck not one of these things. OK, continue with the game plan.
Schmidt doesn't have this trauma.
Just be like, hey, we're OK. Is your friend hurt?
Give me a we can help. I wish I was lying.
Crit again. Elliot, this Pokémon, which I
will describe as a Zatu, it locks eyes with Schmidt and it
fully comprehends what it's saying.
And without moving its body, it turns its head and looks at the
person who's collapsed, and it looks at Schmidt's with kind of
like, pleading eyes or like concerned eyes.
And its wings are still open. It's holding them wide open.
OK, I'm going to slowly approach person on ground if the zatu
will let me. As you walk up to the person,
the Zatu shuffles forward rapidly with his wings
stretching even further wide, and it starts shaking its head
no. And it looks.
Up at your eyes. OK, OK, I'm backing off.
Is this friend? This is Foe.
Are you asking Zatu? Yes, Rolla Rolla, No, Zatu's
going. To OK.
Zatu turns its shoulder again and it looks at the person on
the ground and it looks back at Schmidt, and it looks into
Schmidt's eyes and its eyes glow like a pinkish color and it's
focusing Schmidt. You don't really notice anything
happening to you, and the Zatu keeps doing it and keeps doing
it for like 20 seconds, and then it gives up and it looks sad and
it turns back around. It looks at the trainer.
It seems like it's trying to communicate something but it
just can't do it. Can Quacko interpret it for you
since Schmidt has an easier time understanding Quacko?
That that is very like Pokémon anime.
Yeah, but every time you're like Mustang Quacko to do this, you
roll well enough that you understand exactly what he's
saying. Can can Quacko interpret?
Yeah, you can absolutely try. I love that idea.
Any particular method or you just kind of?
No, Schmidt just kind of like looks like Quacko.
It's like, did you pick up any of that?
Quacko will kind of like cautiously March forward and
quack at the Zatu. The Zatu's eyes flash pink
again. Quacko's eyes also glow pink
momentarily, and his it looks like his peoples roll back a
little bit and then. I'm scared.
And then they they return to normal, and he looks up at
Schmidt and he. Quacks, is this a role to
interpret now? Probably.
OK, what kind of role? I'll, I'll just go ahead and say
it's 17 on the dice. OK, yeah.
Based on the information that Quacko received from Zatu,
Schmidt interprets from this single quack that Zatu wants
help. Its trainer has been hurt.
However, approaching it may also result in you being hurt.
Quacko doesn't know how. Got it.
We have, so maybe we can check that.
Doesn't Trevor have tremor scents?
Maybe it's something in the growl to guess.
Could be. I have oh which one of these?
Fuckers, Angie's got berries. Tell me.
Does citrus Berry heal people? Fine by damn it.
Well, Berry's always had like weaker effects for that kind of
stuff. Yeah, but a Berry's better than
or a lum Berry. Doesn't lum heal all like?
Status the the the issue is if we try to approach we are in
danger. Yes, that's why.
No, I was going to hand not to. The if the Zatu approaches, the
Zatu will be in danger is what I'm gathering.
There's something. Around this person, the Zatu.
The Zatu is probably standing like two or three feet away from
the person who's on the ground. So throwing a Berry probably
won't be effective. So 2 to 3 feet from the person
on the ground, how far is it from us?
Like 1015. OK, and we it will be mad if we
try to approach any closer. Yeah, and I mean, it's not a
super huge bird. If you really tried, you could
push past it, I'm sure. But it's posturing in a way that
suggests it wants you to be careful.
Right. OK.
Can we make any checks on the room if we can find anything?
Sure. My guest.
Are you generally looking or are you specific?
Just looking for whatever he thinks could be or whatever the
bird is trying to communicate. Is Danger 14 on the dice?
What's that investigation? Would that be perception?
I if you're just if you don't know what you're looking for,
it'd be perception. OK. 15 total, 15 OK, Yeah, it's
based on how cookies light is. It's very hard to see you.
As far as vision goes, you aren't getting a lot of
information. It gets pretty dark beyond where
the trainer is. You really can't tell.
You do pick up some sounds. You hear what kind of sounds
like off the distance further down, maybe like little chirps
or like squeaks. Maybe it's like really, it
sounds like small Pokémon sounds.
It's like little pattering and squeaks, OK?
What fire moves does cookie know?
Flame burst and fire punch. OK, how big is this room?
It's. Like 15 feet.
Yeah, it's a bit of a hallway. It's about 15 feet wide, but
it's very long. How tall?
I'm going to say also 15. 15 feet OK, would it be possible to
shoot a flame burst up in the air and give us like a flash of
vision for a second? Yeah, absolutely.
Sure, Cindy. Can you tell Cookie to do that?
Cookie. Can you do that?
Cookie nods, and without needing to make a check of any sort,
Cookie fires. A flame burst straight up in the
air. Someone give me another
perception. I don't care who, but just one.
I'll say since Schmidt is on the lookout.
Yeah, so you still don't know what you're looking for, but now
you have a bit more light. 12. 12 OK, You can tell from the
light that the tunnel goes quite a bit further past this person
and deeper. At the end you can see just a
really slight faint of like glimmer or like a shine, but not
from like it seems like a large face.
It almost seems like it's from like a string or something.
From a what? From like a a thin object is
emitting A glimmer deeper into the tunnel.
How thin you were not able to gauge from your precise check.
OK. I couldn't gauge if it's like
like snake size or like spider web size.
You got to have like the corner of your eye.
OK. I'm going to have Zatu make a
check. Oh, Zatu, with its wings wide
open Still, it kind of looks again.
It focuses. Its eyes turn pink, and the eyes
on its stomach, on its chest also begin to glow for a second.
And it could, it thinks, and it thinks it's considering it's
using some sort of psychic ability.
It's turns its attention towards LED and it looks at LED and it
nods. Amazing.
Is it healing? Smoochy smooch time.
That's been the game plan. It's just getting over there.
Apparently. Is an.
Issue. Maybe it's nodding about
something that I said. Are you asking that?
Yes. It shakes its head no to that
response and it kind of like hops closer to you and starts
like pecking at your waist, your hips.
Cool. Kitty cat Something something in
my bag. Zatu looks at you and kind of
cocks its head a little. Hey, open my bag and present it
to Zatu. What's in your bag?
O list. Well, aubergine.
First of all, some lava cookies. Alumios Gillette a castilia cone
I just bought Lumberry CN sense repels super potions robo
cabbage my map. You also keep your your empty
pokeballs there, yes? Where do you keep your your
active ones? They're they're also in there.
First and foremost, Zatu locks eyes with aubergine little Kitty
cat and it backs away terrified and it's very startled.
Bye averaging. But it seems like it's still
keen on something that's in your bag, and it's up to you to
figure out what it is, because Atu's wings are spread open in a
kind of a way that it's trying to block you all from.
Oh OK, I think I get it. If you think that as a character
you can like, I mean, this is a, this is a Riddle, this is a
puzzle. But I understand it with context
of that me as a player is experienced outside of it's just
do I say it or not. It's.
That's how you solve riddles IMO.
All. Right, Zatu are playing
charades. How many words?
Nazi's been good at words so far.
Nazi was clearly having difficulty communicating.
It's very intelligent, but it seems like there's just kind of
like a a missing link, so. Well, Cindy's had her mind taken
over by a pumpkin. Can Cindy try to like be like my
mind is ready. I will receive information.
Yeah, if you can properly empty your mind in like a meditative
sense, you can offer it, Azatu. Empty my mind.
Do you want to? Try to be possessed by Azatu or
a lot. Of time.
So yeah, we'll try. Sure, roll me an intelligence
and roll lowly. That one, chief.
Actually. Yeah.
No, I'm sick. Kidding me right now?
That's. Heads bleed my mind.
All I know is breathing and fine, dying I.
Know you know I was when. That's Kurt Fell I've ever seen.
Whoever, when Richie said they have to get in a meditative
state and empty your mind though, had the thought of like,
well, they won't have to try too hard.
There you go. Correct.
And they did. Yeah.
In fact, we're already empty. That's my secret.
I'm always empty. Always empty, never thinking.
I never thought. It's just the thought is there,
she does it. The thought is there.
She does it. Yeah, there's no containing
anything. The the thoughts, they're always
empty. So I'm being possessed by Zati
momentarily. Zati takes control of Cindy's
mind. Her eyes roll back into her head
and she slumps in Sam's arms. I'm still assuming that Sam is
like, supporting her. Meanwhile, he has a vision of we
should, we should pull aside it. OK, this is going to be bad.
OK, So what you see is a is a flashback from Zatu's
perspective. You are on your stand, you're
walking down this tunnel that you are already in.
And you look down and you look at your little red feet.
You got little bird feet. You look up towards your trainer
and in your mind you have a feeling of adoration as you look
at them and they say something to you in a language that you
just cannot comprehend, but you know that you trust them with
your life. As you're walking forward just
about the place that you are literally actually in, in this
tunnel, they just kind of stop. They like, it's almost like they
ran into something, but there's nothing there in front of them
and they kind of vibrate a little and they fall to the
ground, face planted. And you are standing there just
totally, very concerned. And you walk forward and you
just are worried that if you get too close, you will encounter
whatever they walked into. And then the vision goes away.
We're welcome to rejoin the party.
So I was Zatu, I got to live a flashback.
It was pretty cool. Zatu loves their trader.
Trust them. They're just walking through The
Cave, everything was great, and the trainer seems to stop and
run into something when there's nothing there and vibrates and
falls to the ground. And so they're afraid to get
closer as to avoid having a seizure.
That's what that seems like. OK.
So there's, I guess, a barrier, an unseen.
Barrier. I'm gonna take out Key Lime.
OK. Because Key Lime has true sense.
True. So I'm going to encourage Key
Lime to step a little bit closer and gaze with its special eyes.
Love it as you send out Key Lime Zatu like locks eyes with you
and nods vigorously and hops over to Key Lime and like
immediately does the the pink purple eye thing and looks at
looks a Key Lime and Key Lime kind of like makes an expression
like Oh, and they like lock eyes for a moment and Key Lime feels
like pretty pretty Dane confident about the situation.
Roll me just a true sight. It won't be too difficult to
roll me a perception in true sight for Key Lime.
Do I add anything for Edge being true site or is it just a
perception? Just a perception.
You could add your int modifier instead if you prefer.
So that would be 8. OK, time for some more psychic
type shenanigans. Eli sees something relatively
clearly. It turns to LED and it wiggles
her her little arms and she goes trying to communicate to you
what what it is. It doesn't seem like she's like
particularly like pressed about it, but she has a solution and
she's trying to communicate it to you.
Roll me an intelligence for Key Lime.
Got you, Natural 20. Natural 20, Let's go.
Augers. Key Lime spend some time like
wiggling his arms and speaking, speaking.
It's like, I just, I can't, I can't communicate what this is.
And Zatu sees that the communication maybe just needs a
little bit of backup, a little bit of support, a little bit of
help. And Zatu's eyes glow pink, and
they kind of surround Key Lime like a pinkish aura.
And right as Key Lime feels like they're about to meet whatever
solution to communicate that they need to tell LD something,
they glow brilliantly white and they stretch slightly taller and
slightly taller, and they expand and their body grows and they
become feminine and pretty and they are a curlia now.
Immediately after, Elodie feels like a pain in her brain, like
there's some sort of new connection established.
And roll one more end one more intelligence for Key Lime, the
curlia. I rolled a 16.
Nice. After that, seems like this
connection has been established. First off, LED feels like a
feeling of warmth and friendliness just coming from
the direct general direction of Curlia.
Like they are glad that they have their powers enhanced and
that they feel like they have a better connection with their
trainer. And then in a moment, Elodie's
vision goes pretty wonky. It becomes like a shade of pink.
And she feels like just for a second, she can see different
spectrum that she normally can't see.
And what she sees in front of her is that pretty far down this
hallway, she can see to the end of it because of her true sight.
It's just a flash true sight. It's normally 10 feet, but this
is like a special, special LED recite moment.
He sees that stretching as far as you can see down the hallway.
There are tiny, very thin strands of like rope or string
and they have little sparks coming off of them and they
stretch down for like 30 or so feet.
Then her vision goes back to normal and Carlia is smiling at
her. Thank you Key Lime.
They booby trapped the hallway. How did they booby trap it?
With little, I'm guessing electrically charged string
tripwire type things like in like spy movies, but like this
is real life. But they're like everywhere in
the hallway, and I'm guessing that's what happened to the
trainer. Is this your explanation out
loud? Are you saying this?
Yes, as you say spy movies. Cabbage steps forward and puts
on sunglasses and starts walking hazardly towards where the
trainer is falling. No.
Cabbage.
No, this is you can no longer
float. This is not good.
Do you actually restrain cabbage?
Yes. OK.
She seems disappointed by understanding.
Can we move forward and give vision on these strings now that
we know exactly where they are? Sure.
Yeah, yeah. Now that you, yeah, now that you
know that they're there, you can probably suss them out.
What's your intention with them? So Quacko has this new cool swag
move called Air Cutter. I'm going to shoot cuts of air
at them. OK, sure.
I'm not gonna make you roll Quacko.
You do that. How does Quacko do it?
Is it a wing thing? Does he swing the lead?
No, it's it's, it's the sword. It's like the sword glows with
like a like a like a magical flying aura and it just shoots
like laser razor winds. Awesome.
Yeah, Quacko does exactly that. And as that happens, it travels
a little ways down the hallway and you can see a bunch of tiny
and almost near invisible strings hanging from the ceiling
and from the walls just kind of slowly drift apart like they've
been snapped, they've been cut by scissors or something, and
they fall to the sides of the walls.
Cool, is that all of them that I can suss out?
It's all the ones in front of you to a depth of 30 feet.
OK. And the trainer's inside that 30
feet. Yes.
All right, we're checking on the guy.
OK, you do that. Someone give me a medicine.
You know what? I would, but I'm not really a
medicine guy. Want me to do it?
Or LED. I can do it.
If Sam does not, I will. I'll do it.
Don't worry. Don't worry guys, 10. 10 This
person is alive for a reason that you cannot determine.
They Their eyes are just like half open, they are breathing
very shallowly and it seems like they are kind of stiff.
Was it paralysis? Paralysis.
We've got berries. I pull a lum Berry out.
Of my berries. OK, what do you do with it?
I hand it to LED, OK. LED what do you?
Do with it. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this. Yeah, yeah, anytime.
I guess take some some pieces of it and put it in their mouth.
OK, give me one more medicine for that.
Got you dirty 20. Nice.
Yeah, you without wasting any Berry, you do kind of put it
into this person's mouth with without trouble.
You can't seem to like get it in their throat though.
They can't swallow. And Zatu use psychic magic to
make it. Yes, Zatu.
Please advise Zatu. Are are you going to ask Zatu to
do that? Yes.
OK, good idea Does. Anyone know the move wake up
slap? Generally on fighting types,
right? Right.
Yeah, no, I do not. Could a could a human perform
it? Sure, if you want it's.
Human performance. OK.
Try to use his wake. Up.
Schmidt's gonna like walk up. He's gonna be like, this is
fine. I saw my mom do this to me all
the time when I was younger. I don't know what I'm rolling.
CPS. I guess strength.
Strength. Yeah, yeah.
Which is a even zero 17 on the die.
Yeah, Schmidt turns this poor person around and holds their
because their head is sliding to the side, because they can't
support it, because they don't have control of the muscles.
And he holds their chin vertically and he slaps them.
And as he does so, all of the Berry that was chunked up in
their mouth gets like flung out from the power of the slap.
And it seems like the slap has had no effect on this person.
OK, I thought it would work. Give me.
It's a lot of rules for Schmidt, but give me a, give me a, give
me a It was a hard slap. Give me a stealth.
Oh God. At O. 17.
Yeah, yeah, that's good. It's a very echoey chamber that
you're in but the slap and managed to not echo this.
I guess this trainer has good cushiony cheeks for slapping and
not making it be too loud. Good.
Cushiony cheeks. That's flavor text, baby.
What's the plan? Zontu is kind of like looking
around like kind of expectantly. It's a little, it's happy that
it can be near its trainer, but it's still just kind of like, I
don't know if you sort this out, how.
How is the trainer's body temperature like?
Are they really cold? Do they need to be warmed up?
Not let me let me emphasize not lit on fire.
I I won't make you roll for that.
It seems like they are about the temperature that someone would
be if they laid on a cold K floor for like 30 minutes.
So they're not warm, but they are like at a sustainable
temperature for now. I have cookie kind of sit next
to them. OK, they look warm up a little
bit. Yeah, it's kind of nice, kind of
pleasant. Should we just carry this guy?
Be dope if we had a wagon. Oh man, if only we didn't leave
that wagon. Not this again I.
Missed the wagon? Wagon.
He's got to build a new one. How true.
Did the Zatu not agree with the plan of psychically helping the
Lumberry along, so to speak? Or did it just not do anything
it? Didn't come up because they got
slapped first and definitely asked to make that.
Happen. Let's put the Berry back in the
ass. Now.
You're going to ask Zatu. Zatu's going to roll an
interpretation of that request. They roll pretty well, but they
nod and you get the sense that they are going to try it.
They see the Berry that was spat out on the ground and they pick
it up with their eyes. Their eyes turn pinkish and they
kind of float the the Berry floats in the air.
It's got a little bit of Pebble on it, but you know, it's fine.
And they just kind of squeeze it between this person's teeth, the
jaws loose, and you can kind of visually see a glob move down
their esophagus from the outside.
Kind of gross. After a couple moments, the
person begins to wiggle their fingers and they look around
with their eyes and they just kind of make groans and like
sounds from their mouth. But it seems like they do not
have full mobility. Are you OK?
Yeah, person makes a startled kind of sound, but it's really
just no words. It's like.
OK, how? How half mobile are they?
They are at the point where they are moving their eyes and can
use their vocal cords and like move their fingers.
That's pretty much it. Would another Lumberry help?
Maybe remember the stipulation that berries are generally less
effective on people. Which is why one didn't do it,
but two might. I don't.
You don't think so? I don't think that's the answer.
Can he walk? No.
OK. Only we had a party member who
could carry him. I can definitely carry him, we
just don't want to touch him because that's like the big
ticket. I think we can touch him.
I mean, Schmidt slapped. It's not like though, yeah, he's
not like, poisonous. That we know of.
Yeah, I mean I can carry him if you want me to strength check
it. No, this guy I.
Think this is another thing you don't just strength check I
think. You can just got the cushiony
cheeks. True.
I'll, I'll describe him a little bit.
He's in like, he's got like messy brown hair.
He's got some stubble. He's dressed like a trainer.
He's got like a satchel on his shoulder.
He is wearing like boots. And he's like, he's used to
adventuring, perhaps, but you're able to scoop him up and throw
him off your shoulder. He's like he's kind of Schmidt
proportions, but a little bit shorter, OK.
I look at him and I tell him that his Zatu loves him.
The corner of his lips give a weak smile.
What now? How is the tunnel looking since
the? Cut, cut, cut.
It's a tunnel. It definitely goes deeper.
Are there still a bunch of stringy strings?
You may not know the answer to that, but LED saw them pretty
far down. Yeah, we should probably keep
cutting. Cut, cut, cut, cut.
Or, or this could be your chance, Cindy, to destroy them
all with fire. I was going to say like Cindy
can use flame burst which has a 40 foot range.
I don't. I don't.
I feel like if it's guaranteed to cut them, we should cut them.
OK, OK. We can cut.
I play Schmidt in charge of that.
So OK, I. Do send cookie up to the front
to help with vision and seeing. Yes, yeah, I'm assuming maybe
Key Lime as well. Yeah, Key Lime.
We'll, we'll keep an eye out. Yeah, I think, OK.
Yeah. You March down this hallway,
there's a there's a bit of a stream still going, still
babbling, a little babbling brook.
You get to a point where Key Lime sends kind of an emotion to
LED, and the emotion seems like it's like, stop moving.
Does LED communicate this? Yes.
Like this is the point to cut it.
I'm assuming it gets cut by Quacko.
Another worthless object I cut true.
Yes. Cortana.
You, you absolutely do that. And it's true.
There was, there were strings there and they have the lot of
like a couple of sparks and they fall to the ground deep forward.
And then you get to a point, the tunnel where you see something
white, strange, a little weird. You see like a a series of like
tiny little holes against a wall to your left, with one
moderately size hole that probably you could squeeze in if
you crawl through it if you wished.
And at your feet, pretty close to the hole, you see just a
generally vaguish object that is completely bound up, wrapped up
in like a paleish yellow white wire.
I love vague objects. It's probably about it's like
two or three feet across. Maybe we should unwrap whatever
this is, but also touching this stuff is a bad idea.
And cookie mag magoo it. We don't want this.
Object I cut we. Don't want to destroy whatever
it is like. Be careful.
Yeah, magma kind of destroys things there, Hun.
Yeah, it'll destroy the wrapping around.
And the after the. Inside.
Cookie has some control over. What if it's like a child in
there? The child.
I mean, could Clacko very carefully cut it, do you think?
With a Dexterity check it could happen, yes.
He cuts. He cuts a worthless object.
He. Cut, he cut.
He cut. He cut.
That's a 10. That's a 10.
Yep, Quacko slices through pretty, pretty cleanly.
This casing on this object and what's is revealed from
underneath is a yellow and blue, fairly like Serpentine creature.
You see, like the side of its body looks like it has like a
tiny little wing on its side. And it seems like that it's got
a bit of a gash in it. It seems like a series of
gashes, one that looks pretty clearly that that was made from
Quacko from slicing. And then it has a number of
little of, of pairs of holes on all over the side of its body.
And it's like starts wiggling and squirming and it's kind of
squeaking. It's going in like kind of a
frenzied way. And it's trying to rule out of
the rest of the casing, but it cannot do it.
It seems in distress. And it seems like, yeah, it
seems like it's in distress. That's all I'll say.
First off, sorry for the cut, my B got a little lost in the
sauce. Second off, can we help you?
Got A? Little lost in the sauce.
Iconic Schmidt quote. Yeah, honestly, this, this touch
just got a little lost in the sauce, you know?
This funny little creature is like writhing around and it
starts chirping louder. It's like it's like really
frustrated and upset and it's seems like it has an appendage
that is stuck inside of the zappy string trying to free
itself. You assisted or do you leave it?
Cut the air. Cut the air.
Yes. Like around it above it would.
Like a like a air cutter. Oh, are you?
What? What are you targeting?
The string on it, is it like just wrapped around it or is it
like wrapped around it and attached to a wall?
It's. Strictly wrapped around it, but
it's thick. There's like a lot of it.
These strings are tiny, and there's just like a whole bunch
on this little creature. Whole bunch.
This is getting into like some kind of semantics or BS
territory. Is your intention to free the
creature from the box OK? Just give me the next check for
Quacko to do that then. It is precision, which is why
I'm requesting. Right, but it's but you didn't
want to get into the weeds of exactly how the slicey, dicey.
Next plus it's a 13. 13 A good role but not a great role.
Quacko fully freeze this little creature.
It flies into the air. It like has considerable pops It
goes pretty high and you can see that it has 2 little appendages
on its back that are basically rudimentary wings, but it
doesn't look like it can fly very far.
It looks quite stupid. It is fairly Serpentine and has
a tail that looks like a drill it writhes around it flops on
the ground and it seems kind of heavy.
It's there's a bit of a thud as it does, it's like, and it
continues to scream goes it's like very upset and it tries to
charge under your legs and back in the direction that it came.
Do you attempt to stop it or just kind of let it go?
Just realized what this Pokémon is.
Yeah, it's like what? The heck?
What is it? Because you said like yellow and
blue Serpentine creature, and then I was like, oh, that's
electros for sure. I thought so too, but now I
don't. No.
It is. It has salute links and.
If you look at the the the icon on this discord.
You will. Find this Pokémon.
I didn't expect it to go meet me too, but I also like that
tracks. Like.
It's. A boy.
Your boy is terrified and being very noisy and is trying to run
past you. Do you do anything about it?
I don't like him being noisy running into The Cave.
Can we attempt to soothe him? Yes.
Or is he on a rampage? Each of you gets one action to
do something about this little lad before he takes off.
Hey buddy, you want a Gerkin? I was about to say I'm getting
material Gorrel vibes. So any items we have.
Ioffer him a pickle. Do all these drive have good
ideas right now? Because I feel like you do
confirm if you do or not. I have an idea.
Can we do a skill check initiative?
Rolling. Initiative because this is also
a timer. Kind of like everyone's on a
timer for before this little lad escapes. 8.
Are we adding our initiative? Sure yeah, add your decks cuz
that's like. Fuck, I always forget that we do
that. It is how quickly you respond to
the situation you. Know.
What? No, this is a skill challenge.
I'm declaring it now. This is A1 turn skill challenge.
I'm going to set ADC. And if you intend to soothe or
lure or do something with the stunts parts, you each get one
chance to do it. And based on the rules that you
make, how good they are will determine on if the group
succeeds or fails. What are the implications on if
you succeed or fail? Who knows?
What's happening? What LED first?
I'm going first. Yes, LED is first.
Sorry, I didn't appreciate it, rolls a dirty funny.
Am I? I'm.
Not. OK, little old me going first.
Me no. Me, you can only use Pokémon
that you already have out if you wish to use a Pokémon.
'S Assistant I would like to use a Pokémon's Assistants.
I would like to have Key Lime use a very calming heel pulse.
Looking at the character sheet, huh?
Yeah. Yeah.
You may roll it, it just the sheet says it just happens
right? Yes.
This done sparse is behaving erratically and I will need a
dex check to see if it can actually connect.
Sure. Usually allies you will always
hit for sure, but this isn't an ally, this is a neutral done
sparse. In fact, it might be slightly
hostile because you've heard it. We've gotten A10.
OK, I will suggest that the heel pulse partially activates.
I have that formula. I won't make you roll it unless
you want to, but I will calculates that HP for done
sparse. Sure.
OK great. That is your action Done Sparse
has been healed a little bit. It is still keen on it.
Getting TFO. Schmidt is next.
OK. I only get one action.
Yep. Damn.
Because I have two ideas. Flip a die.
Flip a die.
Flip a climb. Yeah, Flip.
A die bud. Yep, I'm rolling AD 6.
Flip or die you. Either.
Flip or you die. Yeah.
Evens fuck. I didn't assign which one's
going to be which. OK.
Love it. Ideal ones is evens.
Idea 2 was odds. It's odds.
OK, I'm throwing a poker ball at it.
Do it. Chuck it.
Have a great ball, I'm going to throw a great ball.
A great ball. OK, give me your add your
Pokémon handling to AD twenty rule.
Oh shit, that was a good roll. Wisdom, 1/16/16.
You said you're using a great ball.
Yep. OK, the Dunsparse is
encapsulated by the great ball. It clings to the ground and it
does a little wiggle and it does a little wiggle and it does a
little wiggle and clicks. You caught it.
Congrats, you got it on Sparse. Hey, hey, keeping.
The trend we get things. Let's go.
I can't believe right before the session we were talking about
Schmidt be catching more normal type Pokémon.
That's. True.
Imagine the world. The opportunity came up.
Is there is there any sort of celebration amongst the party?
Are they? Are they that this cadifer has
been caught? I will clap for you.
Yeah, I would like clap little. Golf clap.
Yeah, way to showdown. I don't know how to feel about
the actual catch, but very good. Good luck.
Yeah, on speed, Fred, Speed. OK, Hey.
Guys, it's a it's a home brew. You don't know what this thing
can do. I mean, come on.
Cindy asked. A poignant question.
Cindy asked. Does Schmidt's pokeballs go
wiggle, wiggle. And they do.
They do. He has to.
Make a little. Later.
OK. Boo Boo, Boo Boo Boo.
Wait, do they wiggle? Do they?
They. Should your team should be full?
I mean you, you have one. More 123 I will wait.
What's my Max? Sorry, I'm thinking Max was 6
your Max. Is 4 right now.
Four OK, yeah, no, they they hella wiggle.
OK, call the Pokémon I have with.
You so. Good.
This is gone, I mean. You could send Dunspars to this
the box. Is literally the the avatar of
RCS and you're going to throw them into a box?
Can I request a character sheet before I make my decision?
I know it would take a long time.
We have the, we have the thing that you can just switch at any
point anyway. Yes.
We don't know if it works in The Cave though.
I mean, it's true, but like, I mean even still like.
But you can test it. Schmidt kind of new Pokémon and
sent Euford back to the PC. There's a moment of like,
acknowledgement, and there's some golf claps and quiet golf
claps. But even in this moment you can
hear off in the distance behind you, the sound of Walter the
Duns sparses. Little squeaks just like echoing
down the hall, and after a moment there is a rumbling to
your left from the part of the wall that's got a bunch of
little holes in it. Rather than the giant
mountainous steps of Mother Agron, it feels and sounds like
many, many, many, many small steps of many little feet.
And they are becoming louder, rushing to your location.
That's not good. I guess the little things that
were were whatever it is that did all this rope stuff.
Out of character, I have a feeling I know what they are
but. Is it Joltek?
I'm guessing. Yeah, it's all they're.
Really cute. Though, But electrical app would
make sense, yeah. We're still carrying the guy.
We're yeah, we do have cargo and.
And Cindy is in. And Cindy, amazing shape cargo.
Are they? Surrounding.
As I would say, are they surrounding on all sides or?
You found yourself at basically the dead end of a tunnel and to
your left on the wall there are a bunch of little holes, and it
seems like the tremors are coming from there.
The holes are not very high off the ground.
There's tons of small holes. There's tons of small ones.
They're like a couple inches wide.
And then there's like one or two, like pretty sizable ones
that are like a foot or two across.
We should get out of here. For the daddies.
Trevor Roth blast to cover. Holes.
Sorry. Can Trevor Rothblast to start
covering up holes? Sure, Trevor can do whatever
they want. That's I mean, true.
That's a pretty cool idea, granted that the small holes are
like Pebble sized. So is your intent to fill them
or do you want to like barricade them?
Barricade. OK, make like a slab of rock or
something, or just one big rock to plug it up.
Yeah, we'll do that. One big rock.
OK, give me just a strength
check. This won't be too hard, but I
think this will determine how successful the plan is.
A dirty 21. Awesome.
Trevor just kind of uses his mysterious earthen power to form
a rock, and from his face and all these little pebbles kind of
conjolate together, and they just pile up and pile up, and
then it just pushes itself against the wall.
It seems pretty absolutely sized.
It seems pretty Dang good. After a couple moments, lots and
lots and lots of very small little yellow bugs come pouring
out. They are kind of fearless.
It seems. They are kind of far away from
you. They're like 15 feet away from
you. And they are very small.
As I said again, they are tiny, but they are charging towards
the party. Oh God.
For clarity, sorry, I'm using fireball.
I need to clarify. You had a good role, Garby, but
because of how small these guys are, they can just kind of
squeeze through. I want to make that clear.
To barricade. No more work, but better to
fill. I got you.
Well, who knows? I won't go into detail.
That's fair. They're coming out, they're
cute, but they also seem angry. Perhaps like maybe you've taken?
Why are they angry? Oh, they were going to eat this.
Oh man, they. Were going to.
They were going to eat waltzer. Or were you going to eat?
This guy. Oh, yeah, they were probably
going to try to eat this guy. Oh.
True, and the dude too. Wait, what if they ate the big
thing from the other room? Are you kidding?
Are they like the scarabs from
The Mummy? I'm so scared right now.
I'm just trying to think of what would be the negative
repercussions if we just cut Cindy loose, Elaine.
We won't meet Cindy upon the. Yeah, forget the guy who's like
a paralyzed corpse. I'm just saying like if we we
bail and then Cindy bringing up the rear, just blasting through
with them all. I'm down.
Larva star have larva star has amber or string shot.
String shot could be good. Could we just like, scare?
Them away with fire like are they?
Freaking is like, can we scare them?
Probably like. It could use this flame burst at
the whole wall. OK, you do that.
They need to make a deck safe. Oh God, there's like.
Almost a lot of them. Do you see 15 decks?
Safe. I'm gonna, I'm gonna treat it as
like as a unit. No, it's fine.
Swarm. The This swarm of Joltek fail
cookie fires off a goopy little flame burst of lava and you as a
group hear tiny little squeals as hundreds of souls are
immediately laid to rest as. They just emulate in the.
Flames why did. You praise it like that.
Because this is. What?
We did. They died.
They have like 1 H. They are tiny little spiders and
they are now gone. OK guys, let's go.
They are still. Coming, they are marching into
the lava as it is still hot and then they immediately emulate
and then as it looks like as the lava's starting to cool, they
pile around it and above it and you hear larger spidery
footsteps coming up. A knock in on the rock that
Gimli placed. Can't budget quite yet, but it's
clear that it is trying. The number of Joltek that you
killed there are now twice as many charging towards.
Can we please get out of here? Yeah, we got to go.
We got.
To go. Out, please, please, as we're
like walking out, I kind of hold larva start up over my head.
I'm like you string shot as we're like walking away.
OK, yeah, as you're running away, Larva start fires off some
string shots just to hopefully barricade.
Thankfully Doltek and Galvantula, who are just very
fond of spider webs and bug webs and they actually move a little
bit faster when they climb on the strings.
That's. What I was afraid of.
You absolute buffoon is the string.
Shot string flammable. It is, but you it's this is
happening very rapid fire. You haven't had time to ignite
it yet. OK.
Do you want to? Use fire moves.
Can I Can I reaction air cutter the string shot that was just
made? Sure, sure, sure, sure.
I think Quackos should be able to do that without issue.
A bunch of dual tech fall out of the air from the stranger and
back on the ground and they are still charging.
I'm going to roll a strength check for an unseen Pokémon.
Yes, Gimli's boulder that he placed against the larger hole
against the wall flies into the opposite wall wall and smashes,
and you can see two large spiders several feet across now
charging. They're not as fast as the tiny
babies, but they are chasing you down this hallway.
I need some actions from Elodie and Gimley.
Gimley's carrying a guy, but like, maybe, maybe he has a
thought here that can help the party make this escape.
What do we have? Let me say.
Mean fire seemed to do OK. Fire was great, that's why I'm
surprised you. Just it's just a temporary
solution. Well, I mean, yeah, but we only
need temporary solutions to get the hell out of this section of
The Cave. Fair as hell.
Because I can like I can definitely seal off The Cave, at
least temporarily. But.
I can have cabbage give off a mystical fire.
I don't know how much. A dragon breath could be pretty
good. Can we blind them in any way
like? To I have dazzling gleam, but I
mean they live in a cave so. Yeah, that will be even worse
for them. Cool, you're right, I forgot
about that. Yeah, it's like the opposite of
what you thought it would be. They never, they don't see
light. Ever.
That's true. You're like that.
Wait, what's the problem? They live in a cave.
Yeah, they're like bats. Like.
Well, I thought that like, you know, they don't like don't use
their eyes. So like they.
Right. They never even love.
So what they do, they're. Just.
Completely shook. Cabbage is dazzling, gleaming.
I'm going to make 3 saves, one
for the mob of now hundreds creeping on thousands of Joltek,
and one for each of the Galvantula.
Let's see what happens. The Joltic fail.
What's the DC? 16 they.
Definitely fail Gavangelo, One fails Gavangelo 2.
The seats the Joltic for a few seconds, which is a good amount
of time. They all just scatter.
Some of them just coincidentally keep charging forward, but it's
not many. It's like maybe 50 or so.
And the other hundreds just kind of go up along the wall, up down
to the river and like float away.
They just kind of immediately go all over the place.
One of the Gavangelas in the back just kind of stands in
place for a second and recoils and doesn't move.
The other one charges forward. It is catching up to you guys
pretty quickly. What is Gimli going to do?
Let's say what's a cool thing I can do here?
Also, Schmidt's thing was a reaction I will consider, so if
Schmidt wants to do one more thing, that's fine.
Maybe dumps price wants to get back at the bug.
You would bringing out a Pokémon be in action or could I bring
out a Pokémon and do a move? It depends on what you want to
do. I'm definitely leaning towards
sending someone out as an action.
I would recommend you use someone who's already out.
OK, I don't it doesn't. Have to be an attack.
You can think of other thing, a creative thing if you wish.
Yeah, kind of with Trevor to like use rocks to like try to
trip up the the Galvantula rather than it be like something
that's like a physical damaging attack.
Sure you wanna. Yeah.
Your focus is stopping it rather than dealing damage, right?
OK, yeah, give me You can roll strength for that.
Add your Rock Blast attack bonus.
That's a 18. 18 yeah that's pretty good.
Just for flavor, roll your how many hits you have. 3, three.
Nice. Trevor launches 3 boulders with
the attempt of slowing down the Galvantula that is ahead of the
party. As the boulders landed at the
ground, you hear it's like splish splish as hundreds of
Dulcic are squashed by each rock that comes out and more hundreds
more just charge forward to take their place.
Galvantula approaches the rocks and Galvantula is going to make
a dexterity check here and it fails.
Galvantula has eight legs, so it it does trip.
It doesn't trip for long, but it certainly has been impeded.
It is not scarily close to you guys at the moment.
Got to keep moving. Yep.
I'm assuming that I'm not asking for movement cuz I'm assuming
everyone's running. Out right, yeah, that's all
that's on escape thing. Yeah, how far you walked, it
will take a total of 2 rounds of initiative in quotes.
I'm just going to do spiders, I'm going to do party, and it
doesn't matter what you do, you just all get one action.
Gotcha. So I think we just need action
from. How big is this tunnel?
It's 15 feet wide, 15 feet tall and blank.
Same 1515 OK have an idea sure if y'all can cover me for a turn
communicate. It let's.
Hear it Hurricane 30 foot cone. Sure.
That's all of them. That would be all of them, Yep.
Yep, that's the that's the plan. Are you saying?
Dragon breath ready, ready to dragon for.
One turn. Into the hurricane.
Oh, right, right, right. You can do that next turn if
you'd like to send. Yeah, that's what I was.
Saying so. The hurricane will be next turn,
too. That would be this turn.
We treated the slash as a reaction to.
To no bringing out Jessica would be.
This turn yes to bring out Jessica.
Yes. So Hurricane would be next turn,
right. OK, that's the game plan right
now. That's.
The game plan Schmidt's while running someone's Jessica she
immediately as someone who's very in tune with movements she
she comes out of the ball and she immediately knows that she
needs to run so she's running along with the party keeping
clip everyone took an action it is now the spider's turn.
All of the little joltics going to charge forward, they're just
going to see if they can catch up to you guys.
Let me see if they can. They cannot.
They are creeping very close to you, though they are
figuratively dipping at your heels.
They're very close. The Galvantula that was blinded
has now caught up but cannot do anything.
It used a dash for its turn. The gun into that was tripped is
within like not melee range of you guys and it is like kind of
far away. So it will use an attack on
Electro web at disadvantage. Therefore your advantage.
All people need to make an advantage.
Dexterity safe versus this Electro web.
Gimli has a high strength so I'm not going to dock him for
carrying someone. You said advantage.
Yes, you know, I'm going to dock Sam.
If she's helping Cindy run, it's a 2. 19.
I got an 11. I'm going to have Sam not roll
with advantage because in my head she's helping Cindy.
Sam gets a 16, she's fine. It looks like everyone saved
except for Schmidt his his great deck step.
That's crazy. Thank you for showing the proof.
The electrical web launches out and it tangles around Schmidt's
legs like one of those things in the spy movies that's like, make
you trip Schmidt. Tripwires, yeah.
Tripwires. Did somebody say spy?
Movies Schmidt falls, he is essentially prone but he can
still take actions. And that's the spiders turn.
They are coming quickly. The party better do something
before they start melee attacking the group.
Also, if the party continues to run either at the end of this
turn or at the end of the spiders next turn, they should
be through the threshold of the tunnel.
We're going to treat this as an open initiative.
Whoever has thoughts you. Do like hurricane and dragon
breath at the same time? I'm the only one that's prone,
right? Yes.
OK, if someone can free me I think hurricane will just be
enough. Yeah, I can use my action to
help you. Yeah, that is fair.
Do we, are we committing to that?
Yes. I'll hold my action in case it's
not enough and can do something after the fact.
OK, LED does that. LED sees that Schmidt has been
tripped and helps him get up. It technically took damage, but
I don't feel like tracking it, so we're fine.
OK, It's not much. It's not enough to be worth
considering. OK, Hurricane Tom.
OK, this is a save for them, correct?
Yep, DC-17 strength. Wow, that's pretty.
Significant. Wow.
Holy crap, so it is a hurricane. Yeah, once again I will treat
the mob of now thousands of Joltek and each individual
Galvantula to save so the Joltek get a 2.
The They're obliterated. First, Galvantula, it's a 5, and
the one that's been doing the best, it's a four.
OK, that is all failing by 10 or more, correct?
Correct. They are all prone.
Fantastic. The hurricane launches off from
Jessica. She performs a dance and all of
a sudden just a huge gust of wind bounces down the Chamber of
the tunnel. All the Joltic fly around the
room. They stand no chance.
They are tiny. Many of them splat against the
wall on the ceiling. Some of them are splatting
towards your direction, like pelting you in the face.
It doesn't hurt. You're not taking damage.
But they're just like it's going.
They're they're all over the place and there's like bug guts.
It's ridiculous. There's so much of that.
Both of the Galvantula are they're they're pretty heavy,
right? They're they're way more sizable
than these little guys, but they get thrown around a little bit,
they bump into the ceiling, they take a bit of damage and it
seems like they're fully disoriented.
The only creatures that are not confused, so to speak, are the
ones that are outside of your line of sight.
You can hear them, I'll say, but there's more jewel tick that are
charging out of the tunnel, but it's going to take a while for
them to get to you. So a successful hurricane.
Very nice, very good, nice. OK with that GTFO.
Yeah. Yes, I will pause it that any
actions taken here, assuming that Gimli wants to do the
barricade strategy are purely for flavor for the rest of this
action because at this rate they will not be catching up to you
this term and that is enough time for you to escape so I'm.
I'm going to ask Cindy as well where when I put this boulder
up, use cookie to seal it please with.
Like lava seal. Yes.
That ass. OK, that's that's way better.
That's way better than like a flavor thing without issue.
The party charges out of the chamber with an extra friend on
Gimli's shoulder. Gimli gives the command for
Trevor. I'm assuming Trevor.
Yeah. Ever to create a wall, sort of
barricade. Give me a roll for that.
Give me a strength. The DC is low because this is
kind of like Gimli's thing. But I just want to I credit.
Oh, fantastic. Trevor summons an earthen
barricade from the ground that is pretty much the perfect size
to go into this slot. Trevor kind of has like a little
ping. Gimli knows.
It's like, oh, wow, Trevor. Like it's something Trevor.
Trevor's picking something up, and Gimli gets the sense that
like, Trevor might be getting pretty good at something.
The wall is slid into the slot perfectly a couple moments
later, cobbled Joltic Squeeze through, but it's not many, just
a handful. Cindy, are you going to do the
thing? Yeah, Cookie's going to fucking
Weld that shit. I mean decks for that.
Part part of my language. Oh no, cookie, it's an 8.
OK, Cookie. Kind of let's have a stream of
lava to kind of seal up the the wall that's been made.
It's pretty crooked. You know that Mario Party game
where you have the jackhammer and you're carving out the
shape. It kind of, it feels like that
and it feels like cookies. Not very good at it, but you
know parts of it get covered. At the end of the day the wall
is there, it is more or less glued in.
There are tiny little cracks that like 1 Joltek every second
squeezes through. But they don't do much.
They kind of just charge for it and they realize their friends
aren't there and then they look scared and confused.
Congrats, you have completed this challenge.
Nice. And you saved a Walter and a
weird mystery guy. Also a big plus.
Let's go What if his name was also Walter?
Imagine. Holy shit.
So now we're going down the middle tunnel.
That's the plan. Do we just assess our situation,
assess the should we go down the middle tunnel?
What's? The other What's the other?
Option. Well, we made it.
We leave, but I don't think we're going to do that.
No, OK. We made it this far.
Come on. Can.
We get currently have to do like a future whatever a site down
this one before we get all the way down.
Oh, like an insight type deal? I'm just saying we have.
Like really can do that. Six people we're walking with
and like, three of them are injured.
I can, I can have like Key Lime like kind of lead the way for us
if we want to try do that and. I also have a psychic Pokémon
that can use future site so. True.
Oh, you have future site? Yeah, that'll probably be better
than just my true site. True lasagna.
Lasagna is big brain dude. See what?
Lasagna has to say. Yeah, roaming, roaming int for
Lasagna and then there might be another int for like
communicating it. Lasagna is very cyclically
powerful, but it doesn't share the species characteristics that
the Ralts line does of being very connected.
Yes, so. So do it twice you build.
A house, so yes. Yeah, 'cause I got an 18 on the
actual feature site that's green, and then I got a 22 on
the on the communication. Russell, he's smart, Russell's
eyes rolling back of in the back of his head and his gem glows a
little bit. As the gem glimmers, you can see
behind you that those 3 floating figures are still there, still
kind of skittish, still not doing anything, but they're just
watching you. The glow reveals their forms a
little bit. You might each of you might want
to roll more to know for sure, but it seems like all three of
them are 1 floating to have like rocky carapaces.
Anyways, at the end, at the end of the future site, Lasagna
turns around and looks at Gimli and he like does like a little
shuffle and like a little shrug and then he looks like him be
confidently and gives like a thumbs up with a claw.
All right. Nice.
So there's only things. It's probably pretty safe.
Seems all right. To look at the the the friends
who've been watching us. A9 do.
It can I add a modifier to it? Yeah, it'd be your wisdom.
Well, you're investigating, so I bet that might also be wisdom.
I forget. That's a + 3.
That's a + 3, so it's. Like a 12/12.
Yeah, you you haven't. Well, Cindy, Cindy might have
seen this Pokémon before, but she doesn't really recognize
them. Two of them look like they might
be familial and like one of them looks kind of out of place, but
like it looks in place in this environment, but it doesn't
think it's like related to the other two.
And again, one has circular eyes, one has horizontal eyes
and the other one has swirling eyes.
Those two could be brothers, but the other one it could be
friends. Which are two the two that look
related like which which eyes are are related?
The round ones and the horizontal 1, not the swirly
ones. OK, but again, they look kind
of. They don't look aggressive at
all. They don't look hostile, they
look curious. That's the main take away here.
Also, the one with the swirly eyes don't you can't really
tell. Like the swirly eyes were when
Lasagna's gym lit up. The swirly eyes were harder to
see, which is kind of weird. It almost felt like this little
floating creature was wearing sunglasses or something.
Something was obscuring your ability to see this.
Really eyes. I'm going to ask cabbage to wave
at them. OK, and have cabbage roll a
chrisma. Cool 13.
OK, they kind of just float around.
They don't float away, they don't float towards you, but
they just are kind of vibing. You could get a better look at
them now if you wish. I would.
Like to yes. I think that Christmas enough to
not play any games and to just reveal what we're looking at
here. One of the Pokémon, the first
one with the round eyes, is in the shape of a moon.
It looks like it's entirely made of rock and it has a mouth that
kind of looks like a beak. The second one looks like it is
in the shape of a sun. It has jagged little parts that
stick out of its body, and it has horizontal eyes, and its
eyes around its eyes also look like little sun shapes.
The third one kind of looks like a star.
It's in a * shape, but it's like chunky it's it's like a chubby
star and it has 5 little appendages that stick out of
small holes on the outside of its body.
Oh, OK, they're. So cute, so cute.
They're just vibing, they're just checking you out.
You don't have to do anything with them if you don't want, but
they are there. They're friend shaped.
They are so friend shaped. Can I hear Kitty Kitty them?
You ask the party quietly. Oh, you're asking the party?
I give my full consent, sure. Yeah, they seem fun.
Here, Kitty, Kitty. Roll Charisma.
Hello, Cindy does this and he's like no charisma.
Oh hello, it's a 19. Yeah, these little Rocky friends
have seen the four of you enough and know that you're not going
to attack them. They feel pretty confident.
They all float over and they're all just checking you out.
They're vibing. They're a little weird.
All of them have like really weird, kind of disturbing faces,
but they clearly mean no harm. They just float around.
They look at all of your eyes, they look at your Pokémon, they
get up really close to cabbage and they're like they're
sculpting you out. They feel comfortable.
What color is the swirly eyed boy?
Can't tell because their body is covered in a rocky shell.
They it seems like there is a rock film or like a filament
that is in front of where their eyes are.
And if you look really closely you can see they're swirling
spiral eyes. It's just too well lit around
Cookie. In the darkness you could see
them very clearly. I see.
The moon and sun shaped 1, lunatone and soul rock just kind
of very elegantly float around the star shaped one mini org
kind of bounces as it floats. Seems like they might just
follow you for now. They've, I mean, they've clearly
already been following you, but they're going to follow you
closer. OK, just got another Pokémon.
OK. You're like, I don't want to
catch another one. I mean, you can.
Oh wait, you. Also don't have.
Fiery or no? Sir Rock is literally a sun.
Yeah, I mean it for well, OK, above table, Sir Rock is not a
fire type. Right, It's not a fire type,
it's rock psychic. It has fire affinities, we'll
say. OK, that's what I thought.
Some fire moves. Yeah, I guess in a similar vein,
if you have to pick a third type for Lunatone, it might be Fairy,
because it gets like moon blasts and stuff, right?
Are we? Are we dividing up this forum on
the party? Right now, technically they're
all good for Gimli, so you guys better back off.
Yeah, they're all rocks, so. That's what I'm thinking.
Does Gimli want all of them? No, Gimli gets a brand new party
you. You guys can just let them
follow you and you can suss it out.
You don't have. To, yeah, I think that's
probably, I mean. I wasn't planning on thinking.
Of all of us, yeah, right. We'll see.
Congrats. Congrats on your generally
increasing gradual Christmas checks was important in their
trust middle hallway time. Middle hallway time.
This one ramps into like an
upwards direction for a little bit.
It's like a little bit of a hike.
That being said, it's fairly easy to walk.
It's not like a steep slope. It seems like this path that you
were walking slightly more tread than the other two that you were
taking. As you go up, you find yourself
and yet again, another long hallway, but it gradually begins
to widen. Rather than like 15 feet, it's
probably like 20 or 30. You can hear the sound of water
flowing beneath you, the murals all around you.
They pick up in the description and intensity, and their color
is more distinct. Again, it's all line art.
It's all very geometric. Lots of circles, triangles, and
squares that are connected with lines.
There's no other color. There's, as far as you can tell,
no language or shape, But you find yourself with threshold
that's off in the distance. You can see light, Not bright
light, but like maybe moonlight or something.
Standing in front of that threshold is a creature.
Admittedly, it looks quite menacing.
From what you can see, its entire body is basically a
mouth. It's pinkish purple and it seems
like it has strange holes all over its body and it is just
breathing and watching as it breathes in here, whistling
throughout its body and there's just kind of a really deep bassy
rumble as you approach. Is it X loud loud friend?
No, no, no. No get city away from this guy.
You are with an eyesight of each other at the end of the hallway.
Where else to go? It's not attacking.
You he's not hostile, he's just kind of vibing and.
He's probably chill, right? As far as you can tell, just
vibing. Has he ever been chill?
Has an explode ever been described?
As like like I've ever I've never looked at explob.
They're like that guy, just vibes.
I don't know. Have you seen him with his mouth
closed? He.
Looks pretty silly. I want to see it.
Someone asked Explob to close his mouth.
Hey, close your mouth. Can.
Catch a family. Can I politely ask our loud
friend to or if the Draconi what's the tribe's name?
Draconid if the Draconian tribe is in this direction.
Here you have roll a crisma. OK, 14.
He looks distraught. He looks like they ran out of
like they ran out of something at the buffet and he's really
upset about it. Cindy moves towards this
creature and asks, is the Draconian village passed here?
The Explode takes a deep inhale, starts to close his mouth and it
pulls its head back. And then from behind the explode
comes a person. There is a man.
He comes forward and he says, oh, Aster looks like he made a
new friend. And Explode releases his breath
and looks up at this man. This man is probably like 6 foot
36 foot four. He's pretty tall.
He's a bit of a silver fox. He's pretty muscular.
He's wearing a robe of sorts that is like a really deep V
into his chest and you can see his defined pecs.
He's got pretty powerful muscles and he's got Gray hair, but he
just he looks old. He does look old, but he looks
very fit for however old he might be.
He's wearing pants of some sort of material.
They're dark colored. He's wearing sandals and he has
a Cape. Behind him is a Pokémon that
looks familiar, but you have never seen quite like this.
You all had an encounter in the desert, so you know for sure
that this is a scarmory, but it looks quite a bit different.
It has two curved horns on the top of its head and it's metal
has like a bluish Sheen to it. It's talons look especially
sharp. The man walks forward and he
kind of nudges the explode aside that.
Sorry about that. That's Aster.
He's our little guardian. I'm assuming you're trainers who
are here for the Millennium Festival.
Yeah, we sure are. Did we find it?
He says I welcome you to Dracon and Village and he kind of and
he cheats his shoulder out and you can see past him a really
incredible sight. I will describe it in more
detail in a moment. I kind of want someone to give
me an insight check. I can do it OK.
Mr. Sauce. Yeah, true.
That make the tracks. The the tracks OK stuff Wisdom.
That's at 12:12. Schmidt, who's generally
suspicious of people, really likes this guy.
He obviously doesn't trust him or anything, but he has this
kind of energy that makes Schmidt feels like he's known
him for a long time. It's the deep video.
It's like I respect that look. It's like the look.
He's got the look, he's got the look.
He he kind. Of shit is this.
Are you my dad? Are you my dad?
Father Check. Are you are you asking this?
Do you want to? Roll fatherhood No.
Can I dad check him to see if from one dad to another?
Yeah, yeah, You want to. You got Dad, Check him.
Do it. Sure, if you want to.
What is that check based off of? Who's doing that?
Is it Schmidt or? Is that wisdom?
It's. Me Schmidt checking right.
Now I'm checking the vibes and see if there's a resemblance.
Roll it. Roll it off of strength.
Oh it's off of bro it's a dead. You got a 23.
You got a 23? What?
What are you seeing? Just I'm like basically looking
at their like, I'm like, is it like this man?
They I think he's a father. And then I'm looking at like the
deep V be like, is it Schmidt's father?
With your 23, you think it's kind of silly how like you you
look between them and you're like, huh, They kind of present
themselves really similarly. Oh my God, this this one guy,
He's like, they're about the same height, but this man has
he's old for sure. He's really old.
You would assume he's too old to be Schmidt's literal father.
OK, you get dad vibes from him. You feel like he is a father,
but he's he's maybe a little too old for that.
He looks like a super fit 75 year old basically.
Yeah, he's on the. Floor just to make that Canon.
You're on the floor right now. Yeah, OK.
There's a similar. There's a similar like
assuredness, there's a similar confidence.
There's weirdly, he's wearing like kind of like a a, you know,
a cultural clothing for sure, but like the, the deep V on the
robe and the Cape, kind of like it gives you Schmidt energy.
Yeah, just like a feel of the same vibe right now.
Yeah, you're, you're there's a, there's a certain similarity to
it, but yeah, it's it's funny. It's more than anything that's
funny. Anything else?
Any other checks you want to do before he escorts you into the
village? I'm good.
He has a friendly smile and he says welcome everyone.
My name is Walker. I will introduce you to Draconid
Village. And he kind of marches forwards
and there's his metal bird turns behind him and he kind of ushers
you to follow. Do you follow him?
Yeah. What's your bird's name?
Yeah, he looks pretty unique. What's his name?
He. Says, Oh my scar Marie.
Her name's Titania. Titania.
Right. Titania means Fairy queen,
right? It could mean a lot of things
anyways. Walker and Titania guide the
party down the Dracon village. You descend down a staircase.
It seems like you were sloping up through the tunnel, and now
you're going down from the tunnel threshold.
It expands to reveal a truly massive sunken crater hundreds
of feet across the center of this cave, with a small town
residing in the center. Strangely, this chamber that
you've entered has a ceiling, so to speak.
It's about 100 feet in the air. It there is, in fact, there's
rock covering, but there's tons of variously sized circular
holes that you can see moonlight and Starlight filtering through.
In the center of the village is a stage of some sort, about 60
feet across and very ornately decorated.
It's reminiscent in aesthetic of the etchings you found on the
walls on your way here. In fact, The Cave floor, the
walls and the ceiling, every part of this village, every
rocky surface, is completely covered in stylized geometric
etchings. Some of them are crisp and dark
and legible, and others are kind of almost entirely faded away.
There are banners that fly from The Cave wall around the central
stage, and there are small homes, gardens, and businesses
forming a circle around the platform at the center of the
Depression. There's even a small lake to the
northeast. There are a little more than a
dozen people off in the distance with Pokémon just kind of
milling about. You March down a steep, steep
staircase, and Walker takes some small talk along the way.
He notices a Gimli is carrying a person who cannot move, and
Cindy seems to be limping. Limping.
And he asks. It must have been a treacherous
journey for you. I'm assuming you would like to
see our our healer. Pull up an agron.
Yeah, what's with the whole, like, very treacherous journey,
no signs telling us where to go, Type beat.
Walker looks a little sad and he says I must apologize.
For millennia, Astrack and it's have tried to keep our location
secret, to preserve our culture. And due to unforeseen
circumstances, we've decided that like to do the all that we
can to bring as many visitors as we can here for this particular
Millennium Festival only happens once every thousand years.
We assigned our friend Esther to welcome people in, but it seems
like it's not going particularly well.
That being said, there's about a dozen trainers that have found
their way here to enjoy our culture and our experience, and
we'd like to show them a really great time.
And you are among them. So as such, I intend to give you
the greatest of hospitality. As soon as we descend these
stairs, I will introduce you to our healer, Toma.
Toma. Thank you.
We appreciate it. Yeah, we don't know this guy.
We found him. Yeah, he's been paralyzed.
We don't even know his name yet, but hopefully we can figure that
out for. But the Zatu loves him so much.
Walker peeks at him with wrinkled eyes, and he says
Galvantula, probably. Definitely, definitely.
We can confirm. Yeah, can confirm.
He says that's fine, we can take care of him.
I fell off an agron. Indeed, we don't want to scare
them yet with your antics. Walker lets out a chuckle.
He says, Ha Agron writing I'm, I don't have the bravery for that.
But our friend Ajinga, who you'll meet soon, he's tried
that many a times. He's succeeded as well.
That sounds it's sick. We'll have to have a trainer
like you among our ranks. Not allow them to meet, no.
And the same energy. Now is your opportunity for
small talk before he takes you all the way down.
So what do these like patterns and lines and shapes mean?
He says these are cultural dracon and tribe drawings.
Our eldest ancestors depicted them here.
If you're asking about what they mean, their symbolism, they they
mean quite a number of things. They tell stories.
They are pictograms speak that tell the story of our culture
and our history. Yeah, we know.
Some of them seemed newer than some of the older ones.
Obviously you've been telling stories over time, but you guys
keep doing it. He says absolutely, it's a
continuous project. We do our best to to refresh the
older ones as well when we're able to.
But however we I haven't had much of the opportunity to go
deep into the caves and clean them all up.
So. So what made this Millennia
Festival so different for you guys?
He says it's it's a bit of a story and we will certainly get
into that. More or less.
We just really wish to share our culture with the people of
Hoenn. This particular time we are
we're very interested. Gimli, you may roll an insight.
14. He is not lying.
There is a secret sadness to what he is saying.
Yeah, he's holding back stuff. OK.
Yeah, you. Require human sacrifice.
Oh my God. Well, good thing with the
paralyzed guy. We don't know what the.
Fuck, what the? Fuck, this is a very steep
staircase so I'm going to keep asking if you want to ask him
questions before you arrive. I do.
I do have a question. Yes.
Have two people come through here, or at least arrived here.
And then I describe River and Beckett.
OK, he's going to make a rule, going to think and he says we
have a, we have a couple of couples who showed up, but no
one that matches your description.
I haven't heard of them. OK.
Well, have you heard of, have you, you know, everything that's
going on, you know, outside with NRG?
He raises an eyebrow and he says, I'm not particularly
familiar with certain names or people or Pokémon or whatever it
is that you're referencing, but we are keenly aware the troubles
that have been plaguing the Hoen region as of late.
Any other stuff while he walks you down?
Did symmetry get to ask questions?
She didn't. I'm not sure she has any to ask.
She's kind of just taking it in, OK.
She is helping Cindy down the stairs, but her eyes look
fascinated. It seems like she's really glad
that she's here. OK, I like, not sure.
I'm like, you want to ask him something?
Her mind seems a little occupied.
And then she kind of turns to you and she says, oh, no, we, we
we can talk later. I'm just enjoying the view right
now. OK?
The view is spectacular. It's there's just a incredibly
enormous crater, larger than anything you've seen.
And there's just a town in it and a lake.
And if you look up hundreds of feet up, there's a roof made of
stone that has little holes in it where you can see the moon
and the stars. It is honestly quite beautiful.
Did Lunatone Soul rock and mini or follow us in?
Role of perception. That's a 7.
You see as you look up at the ceiling, there are from the
holes that are in the ceiling, you can see very, very, very far
in the distance, tiny little dark figures moving in and out
of the holes, like going back outside, going back inside.
There's seems to be a sort of transit, not transit.
There's a there are creatures that are moving about between
inside dragon and village and outside.
OK, just going to make sure that it's for everyone.
You'll have another opportunity to chat and ask questions and
whatever you need. But as far as?
I think the healer, the healer is a big one.
That is at the forefront of Walker's mind.
He says quickly, I'll take you to our healer.
And you arrive at the bottom of the stairs and he enters a
house. I, I don't want to describe it
as a Hut because it's really not.
So it's made of stone. It has a a a pointed triangular
roof and he moves back a hide of some sort or a leather to open
you in through the door and you all enter.
Yes. Absolutely.
There you see three people. They are sitting around.
Allow me to describe them to you.
They have Pokémon among them as well.
It seems like this is kind of like a common area, conference
hall kind of. Also, there's like a bed that
could be a place where people are healed.
Who knows? Allow me to describe Sitting at
the table drinking a tankard of something that's presumably
alcoholic is a very large man. He has rusty orange features
with tinges of grey through them, and he's exceptionally
hairy. He's about the same height as
Walker, but he is impressively strong.
He is sitting and reading a parchment of some sort, drinking
the ale, and sitting next to him on the ground taking a nap is
what is simply just AT Rex. It is a large dinosaur Pokémon.
It seems particularly rocky. It has a Crest of some sort
around his head and it is snoring quite loudly.
It is very impressive looking. Walker introduces you.
He says Jinga say hello and he Jinga is this man with the rusty
hair in the Tyrantrum and he just kind of raises his glass
and goes to the trainers. He introduces you to another man
once again looks a little old. He is kind of portly.
He has black hair that is pretty much a bowl cut that surrounds
his head. And it's got tinges of Gray and
silver in it. And he is joined by a Pokémon
that looks a lot like Sligo, but it is strictly purple and it's
quite a bit bigger and it's kind of chunky.
And he's just kind of reclining in a stone chair that has a very
comfortable looking plushy cushion to it.
And Walker says, everyone, this is Renza.
Say hello to Renza. Renza raises.
He raises his hand and he waves to everyone, but you can't
really see his eyes because his bangs are like covering his
face. He seems like he's kind of
quiet. Then he takes everyone's
attention to Tomatoma. There's an old woman.
She is wearing a very elegant dress with very ordinate shapes
inscribed on it that are the same as the murals that surround
the place. Her eyes are very friendly and
they're the kind of grandmother like eyes that are like
completely shut all of the time. But she has a very warm smile
and her head moves up to look up towards Cindy as well as the
paralyzed man that you've picked up, and she immediately springs
to action. She has a Pokémon with her.
It is very distinctly an Altaria.
However it seems a lot less fierce than Patricia.
It seems very, very fluffy and it is just a beaming smile on
its face all the time. And as Toma Toma steps up, so
does Altario. Toma Toma says, oh, honey, oh,
sweetie, please, please sit down.
And she's talking to Cindy and she says to give me please put
him on the bed. Yeah, no problem.
She evaluates the man first because it seems like he's in
like a more critical condition. She grabs some herbs.
She gets some water and she finds some sort of solve and she
applies. It's all really quickly.
She's very efficient, and in a matter of like 45 seconds, she
turns around, her eyes permanently closed just because
of her grandmother wrinkles. She says he'll be fine in the
morning. She turns over to Cindy and
says, all right, what's wrong? What happened?
I fell off an agron, it hurt. She giggles and she says we've
all been there. And she does something
particularly interesting. She hovers her hands around
Cindy and she says, Where do you hurt?
Everywhere. Toma.
Toma says very well and she kind of just gently rubs Cindy over
her body and a green light emanates from her hands.
White, magically, literally. And in the moment Cindy begins
to feel better and better. She feels kind of uncomfortable
as she notices her ribs re solidifying together and after
just a matter of seconds he feels fully rejuvenated.
How did he do that? Are you asking this?
Yes. She smiles and she says it's
Draken and healing magic. LD should learn some of that.
I yeah. Can I learn Draken and healing
magic? Are you asking or is it like
yes? Roll Krisma.
Yes. Please.
I got a 13. She says I'll ladley try to
teach you. Let's.
Go. Is there other magics?
Or are there other? Draken and Magics we can.
Learn. And rocks with my mind.
Are you actually asking these things or No, No, no.
OK, Walker kind of turns a gesture and he says, travelers,
I'd like to introduce you to the Draconite tribe.
And there are four very old looking people standing in this
room and a variety of expressions.
And they have some pretty fierce, awesome looking Pokémon.
They say you came just in time for the start of the ceremony.
Please let us know if you need anything, but otherwise we'd ask
you to go wait out around the central platform and we'll meet
you there in a few moments. All right there.
Anything you want to do to suss them out?
You want to make some checks? You want to do anything while
you're in here? Trust them implicitly.
Yeah, I'm kind of on the trust them implicitly vibe.
OK, as you are about to exit, there's a friend standing at the
door. It is Zatu.
Zatu did not forget about you all.
Zatu is holding a little pouch in its beak.
It wants to give it to someone. I'll put my hand up to receive
them, yeah. He's just kind of standing in
front of all of you. He doesn't really care.
Yeah, man. Yeah.
Man out there at least taking it, Yeah.
You want to open the bags in front of everyone?
Or do you want to do it secretly?
No, I'll open it in front of everybody, OK.
There is an equivalent currency of 300 pokey dollars.
Oh, but I guess this is for saving them, huh?
Perhaps, perhaps it's who knows knows you did a good job and
there is 4 mysterious little blue candies.
Do I recognize this? Candy.
Are they rare candy? Yes, both of those questions.
OK, nice. Gimli.
Is a position of everything right now, just for clarity.
Well, I mean, there's enough for everybody, so we can definitely
split this here amongst the Packo.
So everybody gets a candy. Except Sam.
Sam. Sam doesn't need one.
She doesn't. She doesn't care.
She's just happy to. You're doing her a favor.
She doesn't need the spoils from something that she couldn't have
done herself. Yep, and then we each get 75
bucks. 75 bucks. You could offer her if you want.
You could see what she says. So do you want to?
Do you want to split this evenly because you were with us too?
You helped carry me. He says don't don't give me 75
but like I did use a pokey while I could use a little bit of
money if that's OK. Well, I mean, we'll, we'll split
it even we need to get 60, that's fine.
You don't have to, I mean. Oh well, oh, you're with us so.
It's fine, I don't. Feel like doing math?
60 is good. It's yeah, 60 each, Yeah.
You do that, great, everyone's got a little bit more money.
Do you follow Walker's instructions and go wait at this
area that's around the stage that has flags and etchings on
it? OK, you do that.
You look around you and you notice that the only people who
are around here are people who seem to be trainers.
They all are, like, dressed appropriately for adventuring.
No one seems out of place. There's really no young people.
There's an eclectic variety of people in Pokémon.
There's some Pokémon you've seen before.
There's some that you've ever seen before.
And they all seem to have a combination of like, confusion
and excitement and like, intrigue.
They're all like, are glad they're here, but they're still
not really sure why they're here, But they're like, stoked
to be here. And apparently the the the
people who live in this village are really kind.
You spend some time chatting around.
You're welcome to make any sorts of checks, but otherwise I will
probably just start this thing. Got to start the thing.
OK, let's just do it. You all sit down.
And then a moment of time passes, and then all of the
elders, Walker and his Skarmory Dinga and his Tyrantrum Renza
and his Gudra Omatoma TER Altaria, step on the stage.
Walker steps forward. He says welcome everyone, we're
so glad you decided to to come tonight.
Allow me to give you some perspective.
You've come to the Millennium Festival.
This takes place every 1000 years on the night of the
infamous Draconid meteor shower, which are the namesake of our
people. Every 1000 years the Dragon Lord
would appear in the night sky and dance with the falling
meteors and create a beautiful spectacle in the night sky.
At the end of the spectacle, the Dragon Lord would descend into
Meteor Falls into Draconid Village.
The people living here would throw a magnificent feast and
celebrate it, battle Pokémon and for the entire night, for two
nights in a row, all while the Dragon Lord staying and watching
and join the revelry of their people, us Dragon is would dance
and drink until everyone would collapse from the joyous
exhaustion. And in the morning after the
second night, the Great Dragon Lord would be gone.
This tradition occurs every 1000 years, and tonight we eagerly
await the greeting of our great protector, the Dragon Lord.
Once again, there's like a moment of applause and people
are cheering and people are like confused, kind of cool, kind of
interesting. Walker takes a breath.
He says in light of some events, we will be celebrating a little
differently than our ancestors have in the past.
We are short of a key personnel, a representative of our tribe
that we've always had. Their role is the Lore Keeper.
The Lore Keeper is a unique individual whose duties are
integral to the Dragon and tribe as well as the Millennium
Festival. Apart from being the individual
of the village tasked with the maintenance, translation and
updating of our Lore scriptures, the Lore Keeper is the sole
individual with the ability to call upon the Dragon Lord in
Hoenn's time of need from our Secret Sanctum.
Any individual may go to our Holy Sanctum and call upon the
Dragon Lord, but if the individual does not possess the
properties of the Lore Keeper, is not for sight the
incantation, and most importantly, is not recognized
as a Lord Keeper by birthright. The Dragon Lord will not descend
to give aid. This is why we are glad that you
are all here today. Because we are short of this
critical role, we are not certain how many more Millennium
Festivals will take place. He gestures behind him.
He says. Among those of us who remain,
most of us are too old to have children of our own anymore.
So we hope to share this last fantastic Millennium Festival
with you all. Now enough sadness, let's have a
festival for the ages. Hope that the Great Dragon Lord
will bless us once again with their presence.
And let's begin the Millennium Festival.
And there's cheering and applause and it seems like
there's some sort of like pyrotechnics.
It's, it's really just some Pokémon on around the stage and
they are blowing fire out and about.
Everyone's getting real excited because something is about to
happen. Each of the four elders of the
Draconian Tribe take each corner of the stage, and they stand
poised alongside their Pokémon. It seems like they are about to
conduct some sort of traditional thing, some sort of ceremonious
event, and that's where we'll end the session.
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OK, I'm sorry. OK.
He said. He said he was Walker.
And this is my scarbery Texas rage.
Oh my God, the bird's name yet? That's so.
Funny. It is now the bird's name do.
You want to hear the bird? Holy shit.
Maybe it's God done Sparse. It's the mascot.
It is the mascot. It is the mascot.
It's doobie mascotting. OC, Don.
Sparse evolution Real. Thank you for racing your
trainers. I he turns into RCS.
It's like all along I have been the one.
Thank you for showing me true kindness.
Everyone else left me to death, but you came and rescued me
because of 1. It it it eats Samsung game
sentience. Imagine we encounter like Calkia
and it's like, it's like, oh God, our Lord Father, it's you.
You've been lost for so long. And he goes he.
Goes beep, beep beep beep beep. Beep, beep, beep, beep.
All right, so the campaign isn't over now until we catch Grandpa.
That's what I'm saying. Right.
True. No, but.
I do have a grandpa. In the beginning, actually.