Welcome to the Cali Rex game Corners Pokémon DND campaign
featuring Jacob as Schmidt with his far fetched quacko, Melissa
as Cindy with her Vulpix Soul Eater, Grace as Elodie with her
millsery cabbage, and CJ as Gimli with his rug and Rolla
Trevor. My name is Rich and I'm the game
master and this is done Sparse and Grandpa.
We find ourselves and the aftermath of what was the
Lilikov Summer Festival. The four of you are kind of
still recoiling from what happened.
There was kind of a lot of action all at once.
Seemed to be a spontaneous attack from an unknown evil
team. As you gather your senses you
once again hear a police officer on a megaphone say please remain
calm. All travel by sea and air, by
vehicle or by Pokémon is prohibited until further notice.
A bunch of tourists are rushing around, checking with their
loved ones. You witness you're all pretty
close to Kmart, run by Kay. He also has had a pretty
traumatic day. He lost his friend Pablo de
Picchu. And so they rise out of hiding
from behind their booth with the face of defiance and and solemn
duty. He he declares to the public.
Pablo, we've, we've been through a lot today, but the people in
Pokémon need us more than ever. And he hands Pablo to copper
wires and Pablo makes a cheer and sparks up his cheeks since
current through these wires. And there's a tiny little dinky
neon open sign on the counter that lights up.
It seems like he's open for business and he's he's trying to
help people who need goods from from Kmart.
Other merchants, unlike Kay and Pablo, are beginning to tear
down out of fear and exhaustion. What would you like to do?
I would probably go check on my grandparents.
OK, their booth is a little ways away, so you're going to start
making movement. I will check in with everyone
else's actions first. I think I want to do something
in a similar vein, but they're probably a ways away.
I was going to look for the people from my company to see if
they're around, if everyone's OK.
Sure. Do you go to the hotel where you
last saw a bunch of them, or do you want to go to your company's
booth? Probably the company's booth
because I think the hotel is a bit of a distance.
Yep, OK. So this thing just happened like
there hasn't been any time afterwards.
Yeah, it's been a while for us, but for your characters, it's
basically just ended. The police are just kind of
rounding things up. Schmidt has like a minor panic
attack and then he'll probably call, I don't know, his mom or
something just to be like, hey, I'm stuck here.
Would the hotel have a phone? The hotel would have a computer,
a mail delivery service, but personal communication devices
aren't that common. No zoom on the computer.
No zoom. There might be.
Schmidt's probably at the hotel complaining about how there's no
zoom on the computer. OK, Romney Perception 15.
At this hotel, there's two people now instead of 1, and
there's behind the booth, and there's just so many people at
the desk who are either trying to get rooms because they can't
leave or they're trying to get refunds because they want to go
home and they can get home some other means.
There's a huge line that goes all the way up the door.
The front desk person seems to be accompanied by who might be a
concierge or a manager who was like, pulling out all these
forms like maps and brochures and pamphlets.
And there's people milling about who are trying to figure out
what they're going to do now that, A, they can't experience
the festival and B, they can't go home if they're from far
away. You hear some people discussing,
well, like I heard that there's some pretty cool things that is
in Marvel Who, which is the capital, and you see a trainer
who's accompanied by a little monkey, little monkey with a pig
nose. He's having a chat with someone
who's nearby. He says.
I heard that they're allowing Pokémon trainers with six gym
badges to return to the home region if they have a Pokémon
capable of making the journey. And the the person who's who's
with them will say, well, now that I'm stuck here, I think
Bubs and I may as well take on the Hoe and gyms.
Imagine having Canto and Hoe and Meek badges, and then the Minky
kind of cheers, and then they just kind of walk out of the
area. There seems to be a whole bunch
of minors in there too, and they're murmuring about
something but you can't quite hear them.
I'm probably going to ask Kay if he needs any help with anything.
There's anything I can do to help him?
Kay says, Oh yeah, I, I can't again, I can't thank you enough
for, for saving Pablo. I literally couldn't do this
without him. And he kind of gestures to the
sign and he thinks that it's like super important that he has
Pablo to, to light up the neon open sign.
He he says, I know I gave you some premier balls and I'm
really grateful for your help. But if there's anything else
you'd like, I'd be happy to sell you stuff.
I don't think there's really anything I need to buy right
now. Well, do you think you're going
to be here in Holland for a while?
I suppose probably since there's no travel.
Well, if, if you're not from the area, which it sounds like
you're not, I got a couple different maps you could
consider. I, I got a map here and he holds
one out and it's just like kind of a tan canvas with like line
drawings. He's like and this one's for 15
pokeballs. And then he pulls out a more
detailed one that has terrain, It has city names, it has like
little stars and it it seems like it's divided up in
quadrants around Marvel City. And he's like, and this one's
for 50 pokey dollars if you'd like one or both. 50 is pretty
expensive. I mean, we did save pops.
Yeah, roll A roll a persuasion. I feel bad doing this to this
man. It's the melody.
Like, really? Yeah.
Charismatic. Very charismatic.
Yes, well I I already 18 so that's +5 then.
So that's 23 + 3 cuz I'm provision this vision.
So that's like a 26. Tries to keep his lip firm and
then he just exhales and says you're right, I couldn't.
And again he gestures to the rinky bink neon sign.
He's like, I literally couldn't do this without Pablo.
And he's like, here I'll cut you a deal.
I'll give you either the more detailed map or I'll give you
the simpler map and I will give you 6 of these cookies.
And he pulls out a tray of cookies and they're a little
chocolate chip cookies. And he's like, Pablo made these.
They're so good. Oh heck yeah, I'm taking the the
dinky map and the cookies. All right, Yeah.
You you take the dinky map and the cookies.
And Pablo is delighted that you took some of his cookies that he
made. Cindy, you arrive at the
location of your grandparents Berry selling booth.
Goji and Asai, your grandparents and Poppy the carnivine who is
making smoothies, are gone. They are not at their booth.
The the booth of berries is almost devoid of them.
There's not really any in there and it seems like that their
till where they're keeping all their money is gone.
You find a photograph, a framed photograph.
It was taken on the same day that you got your photograph
that reminded you to come here in the 1st place.
It's a picture of you as a kid and you're wearing a party hat
and hoisting up in the air. You're holding your beloved
family's bellsprout. I'm going to ask you 2 improv
questions and if you don't have answers to them, that's fine.
What? What is the name of the bell
sprout? The family bell sprout.
Pumpkin. Pumpkin.
Excellent. What in month and day is Cindy's
birthday? September something.
All right, it's September 16th. So as you note with this photo
that you remember Goji taking it and saying smile and you're
holding up the spell sprout on the spell sprout, Pumpkin is
just overjoyed. Written in the corner of this
photograph are the numbers 9/16, which is your birthday.
This photo was taken on your birthday and your grandparents
are gone. Like suspiciously gone.
Like they didn't leave because they packed up, they just are
gone. It seems like if they packed up
they probably would have torn down all of their stuff where it
seems like just like all their stuff is just removed as well as
they are. Great, cool.
I probably panic. Yeah, that's fair.
You've had a terrible day. Do you panic in place or do you
panic to meet up with some new friends slash someone you've
known for kind of a long time? Who is Elodie?
I feel like panic in place for a little bit and then you're like
OK now what do I do and go find friends and be like help?
OK, excellent. We'll do that.
Yimli, role of perception. 16. You unfortunately face a similar
fate. Lead us from OMA is not there,
nor is Macargo, which is strange because Macargo can't move very
fast. There are two of your buddies
from the Orber Mining Association.
You walk up and they kind of they'd like they wave at you,
but they have their heads down and they're having a really
quiet conversation, which you can make out one of them has
like wild red hair and the other one has long brown hair.
And the red haired guy says we, we've been searching the place
up and down. Where could he be?
All of this right after a permit was finally appealed by the
Senate government to start mining the the southern part of
Mount Coronet. I don't think we'll be able to
start hollowing out the hillside without Cletus and they are just
thinking about their predicament.
But now that they're stuck here. I'll probably try to join on
that conversation. Sure, they say.
Oh hey, gamely, have have you seen Cletus?
No, I was just looking for him. Where?
Where is he? They will know.
That's just it. We don't know.
And and they gesture to the booth and they say all like
goods are gone too. All all the geodes that we were
so hard to get, we don't know. There's no way he sold them that
quickly. Right.
Did anyone see him in the commotion?
The red haired one says I was hiding and and the brown haired
one said I was looking around for him but I was on the other
side of town. I I just don't know what to say
I feel so bad. I hope he's OK.
Another person to look for her. Yeah, and then the reader guy
kind of looks at you and he's like, oh man, I forgot you got
two people to look for. Well, I know that we're all in
this together. We're all going to be stuck here
for a while. I was talking with the friends
at the motel and it seems like we all have kind of different
plans. Some of us are just going to
hang out here until the restrictions are lifted.
But I think some of us have other plans, but we're going to
hang out here for a while. You're welcome to hang out and
grab a drink, but if you have other plans and and that is
fine. But I I know that you're on a
bit of a mission, so we don't want to keep you up.
Yeah, at this point I I might have to get moving, but I
appreciate it knowing you're all here's.
Give me some place to be grounded.
So where do you go from here? Do you think you're going to go
meet up with your new adventures or OK?
I think honestly, I'm going to, yeah, try to get in touch with
the cool, the Co Patriots now. Schmidt, I need you to make
another perception check. 8. 8 All right, you just outside the
hotel, you see a police officer and a majestic, beautiful
arcanine that's very similar to the one that you saved from the
the thief. 'S hideout.
We have heard like confirm it was an arcanine.
Well, I described it as such, but it yes, it's an arcanine,
OK. It's a police arcanine standing
around someone and two people. One of them you recognize
because you identified them before.
It's Morty. And he is very visibly upset.
He's a mixture of sadness and rage because one of his poker
was one of the ones that was stolen.
And you recognize him because you're also from Joto.
He is joined by someone who you don't know who it is.
It's a woman who has like explosive huge red hair that
kind of spans out in all directions like a Maple Leaf.
She has like an air about her, like she's a very important and
they're having some sort of quiet conversation and they're
and the police are kind of escorting Morty out of the area.
You see a very stressed out Cindy, a very stressed out Gimli
and Elodie holding a tray of cookies in the map, all kind of
gathering outside the hotel. I'd be chitling.
I'm not freaking out. Yeah.
I'm cooking. I got cookies.
Oh my God. Charisma.
The party reunites. So has anyone noticed that
there's like people missing? Schmidt communicates Jim Bad
challenge. OK.
And he's like, we got to get out of here.
I'm I'm going to take on the the the leak never in my life.
So I think I'd be a Pokémon trainer, but here I am.
Here we are. And as you say that, you see the
two Canto trainers followed by a manky who's going and like
jumping forward like with each step very excitedly.
The Canto trainers in a very typical Canto fashion are just
so spearheaded and simple and they're just like 24 tree, 24
tree, and they're just go marching on to Route 121.
You've all gathered and there's 6 cookies.
I don't know. I'm just saying I know.
You all just went through a lot. Does anyone want a cookie?
Cindy takes a cookie and quietly munches on you with like a pouty
face. Doesn't know what else to.
Do I'm all right, love? Thank you though.
What kind of cookies? They're chocolate chip.
Chocolate is bad for my complexion.
Of course I'll leave. It then.
You know you made me chirp. I'll give you the first
inspiration of the camping. What for that?
Yeah, it's hilarious. OK.
It's role-playing in character and that's what I asked for, so
thank you. Like what kind of those?
And it's also absurd because it's like it's a cookie.
Like come on, dude. Like it's.
A cookie's a path for my complex.
What do we like to do? Yeah, why are we going?
I'm following those kids to four tree pop up.
You come or not. But sorry, not played or.
Lose. Nothing else to do.
Where's the direction of my grandparents house because I
feel like even though they it seems like they got taken I
might still want to check their farm see if they're.
Other side of the mountain, right?
Yeah. So geographically.
Wouldn't know that, but. No, Yeah, but but you're you're
using good logic. Geographically, the farm is very
close physically and considering this terrorist attack, you're
not really sure the logistics of getting there.
You can go by sea and get there in like less than a day easy.
Just be a couple hours trip, right.
At least at the moment, if you went by foot, it would be
probably about a week because you have you have to go Route
121, you have to go through the jungle, go to Four tree, go
South and then you'll be at the crux of between Marvel for tree
and your grandparents farm. OK.
So I guess I'll go with them if since I would know that that's
how you'd have to get there on foot.
I'm assuming that you would actually look at LD simple map.
Yeah, I do be having this map. OK, so yeah, it it spells out to
you that you take Route 121 and Route 21121 goes to one of the
longest routes, which is 120 leads up to four tree loops
around. And then that is probably the by
land. That's how you get back to your
grandparents. And you're also very close to
model at this point, which as the map indicates, is the
capital of the Hoenn region. Kay notices that you've all
gathered and he says it looks like you're going on an
adventure. Don't forget, if you want to
stock up up on some goods, there's no place better than
Kmart. And Pablo goes back, cookies in
hand. They are tasty and sweet and
sometimes the corners are like a little burnt because Pablo is in
fact a Picchu and not a Baker. But you know what?
They're made with love, and that's what matters.
You. You once again find yourselves
for the third time on the only accessible path out of Lily
Cove, which is Route 121, the Hoppip that you saw in the sky
and remembered. Like not that much time has
passed. So like 30 minutes ago, you saw
a bunch of Hoppip flying around. They're no longer flying around.
There's a bunch of people in Pokémon that are milling about.
It appears to be a bunch of people who were escaping the
chaos, as well as people who are not at the festival who are
coming eastward to determine what was happening.
So you are able to walk through the route without running into
any grass. However, you were given five
premier balls. You are on a journey.
If you'd like, you can always check that out or not.
You can just move past it. There's some areas of interest.
There's a dock that leads South, and then there's a Safari Zone
up at the north. I feel like Cindy would go into
the grass. Sure, Yeah, there's definitely a
little commotion in a nearby patch of grass. 20. 20 There's
some rustling in the grass, and you look at the grass and there
isn't a Pokémon there. What you do see is like a rock
and it's just kind of sliding on the ground and there's a little
goop trail behind it and you're looking at this thing and you're
trying to What is this? What do you do?
Poke it. Poke it, it kind of.
You poke it and it stops moving and it seems like a little extra
goopy and you hear like a little sound and it stops moving.
How do I fight it to catch it like I don't know what it is?
You can do whatever you want. You could try and lift the Rock,
You could try and speak to it, you could just smack it.
Smack. It little buddy.
Is that what you say to it? Yeah.
Roll a Pokémon handling. Ever in my life did I think
diplomacy would be how we would capture Pokémon.
I've seen the entire first season of Pokémon so.
Oh, I guess so, yeah. 14/15/16. You see the rock kind of get set
down on its side away from you, so it tilts up at kind of like a
90° angle and a little purple BLOB with like adorable little
green cheeks looks up at you and goes and it shoots a bubble in
your face. It's not a painful bubble, but
it's just a little watery goopy bubble slides up to your face
and pop like that, and then it falls back under the rock.
I want it, how do I catch it? You could do it several
different ways. You could try and talk to it and
persuade it. You could maybe give it
something that it wants. You could just try and throw a
ball at it. You could do whatever you want
really. OK so I feel like I'd probably
be munching on my cookie really slowly because of the nervous
energy of like don't not know where my grandparents are so
Ioffer some of my cookie. OK.
My goopy friend. Yeah, give me another role for
persuasion. 30/20 for persuasion. 3020 Yeah, this
little pile of of goop is the the cooking goes blah and opens
his mouth and just takes it from your hand in one bite and it
leaves some goop on on your hand and it's using and it looks so
delighted. You want to be friends?
One more Pokémon handling check. 17.
That's one point higher than the full health catch DC.
You hold out your pokey ball. This little pile of sludge is
like, is there more cookies in there?
And bops its face against the center of the premier ball.
And you have caught yourself a gumi goopi you.
Going to name it, yeah. My goodness, Cookie.
It's in the cookie. That's really cute.
Your your new entourage kind of just like witnessed you just
charm a dragon type into being your friend with a cookie.
How do you respond? Do you like proudly share that
like look what I did or did you just kind of keep it a secret or
like do you send it out and say, everyone meet my new friend or
what's your what's your play here?
I probably would walk out and be like, that was easy.
I made a friend. What'd you get?
A cookie. A cookie.
It is likely that Cindy would not know what it is and that LED
would. I'm assuming that LED would
inform Cindy of what? Does he not have a pokedex?
Pokedexes are expensive and yeah, you don't have them, but
you do have regional knowledge. So while this is happening, you
see 2, two young trainers. They look like ace trainers.
They're 22 ladies in their late teens, maybe early 20s.
One has blonde hair, one it's black hair and they have sporty
little trainer hats on and they're they're kind of marching
on. They're like this place was a
bus. Let's go back to fore tree.
And the blonde haired one says, yeah, I I guess we missed all
the fun, huh? I'm going to go to the right of
learning and hopefully teach my buddy.
Here's some new moves and she has a little green and yellow
dog that goes and she's like, hey, that's right, buddy.
I'm thinking about maybe we can teach you fire Fane or
something. And the dog barks and Glee and
they continue marching down the route.
You are now like 1/4 of the way through the route.
You're pretty close to the dock. You're pretty close to the
safari zone. Who wants to do what?
Mitt runs up to the ace trainers and starts hitting on them.
Hitting on them, what you say? Shit, I'm bad at this real life.
It's all good you can take. Yourself look up pick up lines,
it's fine. You know what actually Roll
first. Roll Charisma.
Roll your. Pick up line.
Yeah. Roll for pick up.
Line because that'll help you determine like what you say. 9.
You go up to these 222 girls who admittedly look really cute and
really strong, like they they seem great and you stumble up to
them and you go, hey, ladies. And they kind of turn it into
like buzz off and they keep marching down the road.
Yeah, that sounds about right. Smooth.
Maybe it's the shirt button, I don't know.
Yeah. Ladies love the shirt button
when they can see a little chest, all right?
Is this Jacob or is this Schmidt saying that's, that's Schmidt,
OK. To to the ominous voice in the
sky telling him about the shirt button.
Yes, yes, yes. Listen, ladies love the shirt
button. Mysterious voice dictating the
story. Schmidt like it's a Nosebleed
and looks up to the sky and is like what?
How did you know? Just kidding, retroactive.
That didn't happen. I think we keep on keeping on,
right? Sure, I need LED to make a
Dexterity check. I got a six.
You got a six LED you trip. No, no.
And you drop the cookies. The cookies, they're fine, but
they're just on the ground, you know?
And cabbage makes a coup like, no, are you OK?
Mcavage doesn't say that, but it sounds like it's like.
Havage has gained the ability this week.
Yeah, yeah, temporarily to check on you, yeah.
I'm just like, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm good, everybody.
But we lost the cookies. Oh God.
And it just slow us down anyways.
As the cookies slows you down. Yes.
That's excellent. That's hilarious as as your
military floats up to check on you, it gets sucker punched.
Whatever you tripped on is now upset that you tripped on it.
There is sucker punch. It gets sucker punched with a
little claw in the back of the head.
Let me see. Dealing.
That's fine. Just five damage.
Oh. OK.
Is that cut down from resistance?
Is it actually a sucker? It's not actually a sucker
punch, I'm just describing it's. It's a more simple attack, but
and there's a angry little brown bug.
You seem to have disturbed its little hiding hole.
It has long whiskers and it has its wings open.
It's flaring them. It's hissing at you.
Oh, I'm, I'm, I'm sorry, I didn't.
I didn't mean to trip on you. Do you want a cookie?
Just stirring to the cookies on the ground.
Do either Persuasion or Pokémon Handling.
You probably want to do persuasion. 12 + 8 That's a
dirty 20. This, this little bug of the
ground turns around and like looks at a tidy hole that you
tripped on and it looks at the cookies and it stops fluttering
its wings in a menacing way. And we just kind of just kind of
bottles over to the cookies and there's what there's like three
of them on the ground, right because.
Of yeah, there's three were left.
And starts munching on one and it is loving it, just having
such a great time. Yeah.
Can I try and investigate what it is?
Yeah, go for it. Why are my rolls so high today?
That is a 21. With a 21, you don't actually
know what it is. You know, it's a bug type.
But your friend Cindy keeps up and says, oh, I know that's
that's an Ankada, I thought. Cindy wouldn't peep up.
She'd be like hiding behind somebody like that's an Ankada
because she doesn't like bugs. OK, perfect fire.
I think I'm just gonna leave this guy be.
No offense to the Nakeda. Yeah, that's fair.
That's fair. Nakeda's very offended.
So does everyone step around this Nakeda on the ground that's
eating your cookies? Yeah.
OK, I. Think so, yeah.
You see, you find another pair of people.
This one seems to be like a father and son.
And they're they're walking in the same direction that you are.
They're taking a break under some Berry trees.
And the father said, I, I'm sorry, I didn't know you needed
at least one badge to try out the Safari Zone.
And the kid says, yeah, that makes sense.
There's there's some pretty tough Pokémon in there.
And then he says, I don't want to go all the way back to Ford
tree. Dad, Rep 120 is so hot right
now. And the father says, I, I wish I
could explain that it's, it's supposed to be the rainiest
route in the region. And during the summer months,
it's just raining for, for months.
And so they, so the kid says, yeah, let's just sit down here
and hopefully it cools off soon. So we're are we all embarking on
to the next route, new Route 120?
We're going, I'm down. We're going.
We're not. Wasting any time we're momming.
No, we got to. No, we're moving.
Schmidt like in his mind is like focusing on the gym challenge
and he's like, I don't need any other Pokémon.
Literal 10 year olds do this all the time.
Yeah, fair. I'm going to be fine.
Literal 10 year olds. So we embark on route onto Route
20. This is a route that Cindy
recognizes because, you know, she's been here before.
Bit of a Vagabond she recognizes as one of traditionally the most
torrentially rain forest jungle routes out of all of Hohen.
It happens to be in the midst of a dramatic heat wave.
It hasn't rained for weeks, and native Pokémon people are
gathered around the few remaining ponds and rivers to
try and cool down. Pokémon who typically feud over
territory are sat inside their differences to share a seat in
the Creek. As you're walking up, you see a
kind of a split in the path and there's a sign that says Route
120 and appended to the sign, someone has posted a note and
it's laminated and it says wanted any credible research
regarding spontaneous drought on Route 120.
Reward for those with information offering cash
compensation for allowing us to study Pokémon recently captured
on Route 120, Owen Weather Institute Route 119 You pull in
from the east, there's two paths.
There's one to the left. There's like a little ramp that
goes up the hill. Seems like there's some Berry
trees around. There's a bunch of Pokémon that
are like hanging out in what used to be a lake, which is now
a puddle. And then there's a path straight
ahead and it seems really exposed and open.
There is a riverbed that runs alongside of it, but the river
isn't really running. The path on the left that goes
uphill seems to be shrouded with a lot of trees, and the path on
the right seems to be very open. I feel like Cindy would know how
to like properly harvest berries and would want to show it's like
before you touch anything and kind of show them how it's done.
OK, sure. Best way however, that is.
Yeah, I'm not going to make you roll for that because this is
just true. This is just something that you
do. Gimli.
How do you do you pay attention to this?
Yes, Roll intelligence. 19 yeah, actually 18 might as well, but
that's fine. You absorb that information.
You've managed to find 5 delicious berries from this
little Berry tree that is overlooking this pond.
Thankfully if Cindy with you, so Cindy will have no problem
identifying that three of them are orange berries.
One of them is a Rost Berry, one of them is a Pecha Berry.
I feel like as a fire type trainer I'd probably want to see
if there are any fire type Pokémon on the route because if
I can get some money for some tests done on a new friend.
Sure, Yeah, absolutely. Roll me AD 100.
The first one I got a nine and the second one I got a 5.
So that would be interpreted as a 95.
You're just kind of looking around for Pokémon.
You're like, I bet there's a fire type here.
As you kind of like tilt your gaze over the horizon.
You don't notice as you get bonked into, just straight up
stampeded by a a small dark little lizard running across the
ground and it bolts right past you and it jumps right up to
cabbage and it is flicking its tongue out of its mouth and it
is so eager and excited. It seems to have been stimulated
by cabbage's natural sweet scent.
You're face to face with a hungry lizard who wants to eat
cabbage. I'm grabbing cabbage out of the
air and holding the pose to me. The lizard is not a fan of this
and it hisses at you. It seems to be beckoning you for
combat. I'll say that slowly because I
kind of started this. OK, solely enters combat roll AD
20 and anyone else who wants to fight roll AD 20 right now.
I have to say, I think that cabbage is implied unless you
want to return her to her. Poke.
Yeah, that that's cool. We'll, we'll, OK, we'll deal
with that. Great, up first is this little
dark lizard. It is clawing to get a cabbage
because it just smells so tasty. It goes for a claw looking
attack. There's a 13 cabbage.
No. Yeah, as this thing jumps up in
the iron, tries to scratch a cabbage, you manage to pull
cabbage out of the range and it gets back on the ground.
It stands up on its hind legs and goes at you because it
really wants to eat LED and cabbage.
Be like, dude, why you keep trying to eat my cabbage?
We're going to sweet scent it. So I think it has to make a
charisma say. It gets a six the next Pokémon
to attack it has advantage to hit or disadvantage or the this
Pokémon unidentified has disadvantage to make saves and
that is your action. I think it's a slanted or
whatever. I know that like it we're I'm
presuming so if I hit it with a fire move I might not kill it.
So I'm going to ember OK? Or solely is going to Ember?
You have an advantage, so you can roll twice and take the
higher number. Does the current weather
condition affect that as well? I don't know does it?
I don't know. It's our sunlight, right?
OK. Well, I got a six.
I'm a nerd figured out for yourself.
I'm just asking a question for Congress.
Strength or decks? I ain't even here.
Nope. All right, so I got a I.
Got a six a six to hit with advantage.
Yes, I got a six and a 2. No, that's terrible.
Yeah. So let's have a little a little
gout of Ember. It seems to burn brighter than
usual. It seems to be, you know, a a a
little more potent than it typically is.
But this little lizard, presumed salanded, dodges out of the way
and looks out of hiss. And it realizes now it has two
targets, but one of them doesn't look quite as tasty.
It is going to aggro the one who recently attacked it, and it's
going to exude a purple smoke out of its flank.
It's going to request that solely make a constitution safe.
I got a 2. You got a 2 solely.
You're poisoned. No or no?
So you have disadvantage on all of your stuff.
So at the end of each of its turns, it will take two damage.
That was excellent for our Salanded friend Elodie.
What do you do? It's getting personal now.
We're going to have to move on to the tackle now, bringing out
the big guns. There we go for it 18.
Yeah, that hits. Yeah, the salandit takes big hit
from the very sweet, sweet smelling ality.
Not ality cabbage. I just punch it.
Yeah, just kidding, I don't. OK, OK, OK.
Yeah, Cabbage looks at this thing that's trying to eat it,
catches it a little bit by surprise, gives it a big old
smack with his body and takes a little bit of damage.
Looks like it's getting a little annoyed.
It is back to Soli's term, who's now poison.
I guess we'll try an Ember again 16.
Despite the poison, Soli manages to pull through what's out A
nice little gout of flame. It seems like this landed
doesn't necessarily mind this type of damage that it's taking.
However all this heat kind of makes it feel a little bit
worse. The slanted is starting to
realize that perhaps if this meal isn't worth the trouble,
Soli takes 2 points of poison damage and sland it turns tail
starts to run. That is its action.
It's. Gone.
So then it goes to LED. I mean, it's not gone, but it's
it's trying to. Lead so it like didn't like
succeed in weaving you're just trying to.
It has a certain move speed and it's not out of your range.
Trainers who are also not in the battle, you're welcome to
interject and like. Say something say like would is
this to land it? Which direction is it running?
It's running N is it? Like running away from us or?
Yeah. So you came over from the West
and you're starting to head north and this thing came from
the north and is running back north.
I will try to bowl Rock and Rolla in front of its escape
path. All right, that's going to be a
Dexterity from Gimli. It is in my lore that we do
bowl. Yeah, you can add your
proficiency bonus. Actually, you're bowling do
advantage real twice I. Love that lore.
Let's go bowl. I got a 12. 12 That is
sufficient to distract the slander.
It's still trying to get away. Doesn't stop in its tracks, but
the little startles like why did this rock just roll in front of
me? It's still mobbing.
The next time it has its turn, it will be gone.
I'll jump in this initiative. Yeah, we're just going to roll
because we're not going to roll because if it gets back to its
turn, it's gone. So you can just do whatever you
want. I'm going to smack them with an
aerial lace, all right? Oh, that doesn't miss.
Yeah, OK. Yeah, roll, roll the damage.
That's a four. Great.
Yeah, this thing is bloody, so to speak.
It's actually bleeding, but it is oozing like a little purple
liquid, and it's got fumes coming out of it.
They smell oddly sweet. Having some trouble?
It's still trying to get away. It seems like it might be able
to. We got one more action.
No Pokémon. OK, throw it. 9.
You throw the ball, deanimizing laser catches this little slant.
He's trying to make a getaway. The the aerial lace from Quackos
seem to stop it a little bit. The laser pulls in the slander
and the pokey ball drops to the ground.
It shakes once, it shakes twice, and it Dings close.
You caught yourself a slander. You met the DC.
Exactly. It has four HP and I need you to
flip a coin. I go up to Quacko 5 and I'm like
Quacko MVP. Do you go for I-5?
Yeah. You can roll for decks if you
want, but you don't have to. Sick sick.
I want to roll for a high 5. OK, you can roll both of your
characters. Cindy, your Salandit is female.
Woohoo OK what does that have an effect?
Shows you how much I know about Pokémon.
It does. Males cannot evolve.
Oh. What'd you get for your high 5
check? Well, Quacko, Crit and Schmidt
get a 14th. Cool, yeah.
Create high 5. Let's go greatest.
High 5 He's ever delivered. Do you have an idea?
Like $3 from it like Mario party.
No. Did you have an idea of how to
like? Do you want to describe it?
Just like jumping high five, I think webbed feet is funny while
he's flying like just high 5 the feet, yeah.
You do that and it is awesome. Quacko's webbed feet have a
they're designed for like paddling in a pond, right?
So when they connect with your hand, they let out a really
resonant snap and it kind of echoes throughout the route.
It's pretty epic. The snap seems to turn since you
all just got this huge auditory information you seem to notice
in return. Maybe it's been happening this
whole time, maybe you just noticed it cause of the snap.
But a little ways off down the route you hear what sounds like
someone's shouting in rhythm and after they shout there's a
little clap. They're like.
Oh dude, we gotta check that out.
Are you running up there? Oh yeah, I'm going.
Keel for a second. OK.
You can, I mean, yeah. I I would ask very sweetly for
the the Berry that heals the poisoning for solely.
And usually I'd make you roll, but this is the kind of thing
where it's like your thief making a self check.
It's like, all right, like, whatever.
So yeah, you find the Pecha Berry, and Gimli can remove it
from his inventory and feed solely, and Solely's cured of
poison. Still has all of its damage,
though. You have three Pokémon.
Cindy. That's pretty cool.
You're pretty strong ANYWAYS. So what you see is a guy, he's
probably in his late teens, early 20s, like a lot of these
trainers are. He's not wearing a shirt, kind
of slim, kind of muscular. He's got like blue-green hair
and it's spiked up. It's almost like it's gelled up,
but it's probably just a sweat. And he's standing like a power
pose. His legs are spread apart.
He's wearing shorts. And he's he's got his fists out
and he punches one of them out and then he retracts and he
punches the other one out. And as he's doing that, he's
saying like power, go hey, win, power, power.
He's saying power a lot, but he's saying a lot of words of
affirmation. He's like pride, success, power,
victory. And he's like, and he's like
punching the air in front of him.
And as he's doing that, there's two Serpentine creatures.
They're blue and they have cute little horns on their heads and
they're smacking their tails against trees.
There's like these two trees in front of him.
And it's almost like this guy is punching in the direction of the
trees and his little blue snakes are smacking their tails against
the trees. And in between, when he says,
like power fight the snake, he was like, man, man.
And they're doing it. And it's like a call and
response. It's almost musical.
You could dance to it. And it seems like they're
undergoing some sort of training.
I'm gonna just be like, hello, what are you doing?
Okay, I'm going to grab Elodie and be like, he looks very busy,
let's keep going. Soli's probably next to Cindy
like dancing cause Soli's still out five and.
So he notices the commotion, but he turns his head, but he's
still like he's pumping his fists out, but he isn't, he's
just looking at you. But he just stops saying power,
force, feel it, power. Yes, nice.
And then he turns to you and he says, can I help you with
something? And he keeps punching and then
his his little blue snake's like.
He says, does one dare to challenge me, the infallible
Vince, in Pokémon combat? And he could.
No, no, no, no. We're just passing through you,
you, you keep doing what you're doing, bud.
You're doing a great job all. Right.
You doing great, sweetie. Infallible, Vince.
And he he he turns to said and he is now looking back forwards
to his blue snakes. But he says, I I assume you are
heading up to the to four tree City gym.
Yeah. All the way up.
And then he, he turns back at you and he gives you a wink
directed at Schmidt and he says, I'll see you there.
And then he, and then he turns back towards his, his blue
snakes and he says power, fight, force, pride.
And then the, the snakes are like, and they're like just
destroying trees, like just just deforestation.
They're they're covered in sweat and they're just, they're just
doing that. Are you taking the the shadow to
Junglee path or are you taking the exposed riverbank path like?
Cramped is the foresty path. It's.
A little cramped it the the trees aren't quite as full of
life because it hasn't rained in months so they're kind of draped
over. You'd walk like 2 by two down a
path that is just lush jungle. You could just enter the jungle
to walk, but you would have reduced movement and it would
take a while and there's a bunch of brambles and stuff.
OK, would Quacko have a hard time flying around?
Yeah, it's it's wooded and there's a bunch of stuff that's
dangling and falling because all the trees are dying.
Ifo we take the River Fang path because I don't want to get
jumped again. Right.
But do you think the heat will affect us?
I don't want to get jumped again on a person.
You see, if everyone just buttons their shirt one button
like it'll cool you off and we'll be.
I'm used to the heat, it's fine. I'm just worried about the
ladies. One of them's a fire trainer, so
I think she's fine. All right, we can take fires.
She makes like a face at him, takes her tongue out because
she's very immature. So I guess the river path that
it is. Decision making via
role-playing. I love it.
Good job guys. So again, the riverbank, the
river is mostly dried up. It's just a little Creek and you
see all sorts of Pokémon that are have want nothing to do with
you. They're just trying to sit in or
drink the little bit of remaining water that's left.
As you walk down the path, you're greeted by a big wooden
bridge. It's a sturdy bridge.
It's not like a threatening bridge.
But right before it there's a woman, another woman who's in
her early 20s. She's a long pink hair.
It's tied back in a ponytail and it's tucked into a black sports
cap. And she is dressed for, like,
adventuring, like, she looks very comfortable.
She's got like a tank top. She's got cargo shorts.
And she's being pestered by what looks like just floating clouds.
She is just like, no, stop, no, get away.
What are you doing? And there's just three little
floating clouds that are chirping and going and they're
pecking at her. What do you do?
A. Damn soul in distress.
Can we help you, ma'am? She says yes, do something.
Please help. Schmidt immediately takes the
abstention. He doesn't.
He doesn't even stop to like ask if she's OK.
Well, what did Schmidt do? I'm gonna schmack it with an
aerial lace, but the one that's closest to her?
That's like bothering her. Sure.
Yeah, there's three of them, but you chose, you choose the one
that is currently like poking at her face and you go for an
aerial lace roll your damage. Could I like as a non combat
thing use like aromatic mistress?
Sweet scent is a like way to like lure them away or
something. Absolutely.
I'm we're gonna treat this as like a skill challenge.
So roll like a performance, that's how.
We're so good at performance. Unit 7 damage, Yeah, OK, cool.
And 11. It seems to draw the attention
of of 1 of of these cloud birds. And yeah, and the one that was
swatted by Quacko's leak seems to be trying to fly away.
Mysterious trainer still being pestered by 1 bird.
She's saying stop, get out. Why are you doing this?
To be clear, there is one bird that is fleeing.
There is one bird that who has its attention drawn to cabbage.
And then there's one bird that is still bothering this trainer.
Schmidt wanting to make a good impression on the lady.
He's just going to Yolo a pokey ball at it, OK, Like I'm going
to catch this first try. OK, yeah, go for it.
Early D20. That's an 8.
An 8. Yeah, are there any modifiers
on? That you're I have a hidden 1
based on HP, but also your Pokémon handling, which you
should be proficient in naturally.
So you got to press 2. Yeah, you throw.
The ball so 11. You throw your one of your
premier balls, but sure, you erase it off your sheet it the
deanomizing laser catches the cloud that you had injured with
Quacko with aerial lace. It falls to the ground, shakes
once, takes twice and a clink shut.
You've got yourself a swab blue, OK, And then there's just still
one more little cloud bird. Yeah, I will say I'm going to
sand attack that one to try to like knock it away a little bit.
The little bird got a 19 so is not affected and it starts, it
looks like it's trying to take off this woman's hat.
Her her pink hair is all frazzled now because all these
little bird pecks and it's trying to like hold the hat off
and she say no, stop. This is a skill challenge.
So we have one more person who hasn't done anything.
So Cindy, this one's kind of on you.
Yeah, I guess we're going to Ember.
All right, you're going to ember the target that's in front of
her face. Yes.
OK, roll me decks. I got a four.
You singed this kind of young lady's cheek a little bit of
fun. She's why did you do that?
And she just kind of flails and and she as she goes to like kind
of give pressure to her cheek. She she swats the last swablu
and it flies off and she's saying ow and she's petting her
cheek. I.
Was just going to say, is the swablu still like thigh cabbage
in me? I'm sorry.
Yeah. So one is captured, 1 is trying
to fly away, and one of them is just entranced with cabbage.
If I used like sweet scent on it like as an actual move, would
that give me like advantage on like a like a catch roll?
Totally. OK, then I'm going to do that.
OK, what's the save? Charisma and it's 12.
All right, it works. This little bird got a 7.
It is. So it's almost high on the sense
that what scent did cabbage pick for the sweet scent?
What's it smell like? That's a good question.
Blueberry. Blueberry, yeah, let's go with
that. Because they're blue.
They probably like. That's how things work, right?
No, it totally is how things work.
Yeah, so everyone notices this delightful little blueberry
scent emanating from this floating ball of milk, but this
particular Swablu is totally entranced by it.
If you intend to throw a Pokeball, you can.
Cool, so I roll AD 20 for that roll.
Two D 20s because you have an advantage.
Because you sweet said it. Oh, right.
OK, well I rolled the 17 on the 1st, 1:00 and 1:00 on the other
one. That you throw your pokey ball
and it gets caught in the deanimizing laser and doesn't
even shake it just clinks shut. And you also have caught
yourself a swablu. Very nice.
Now that the thread is all gone, the last swablu has has flown
off, you all get to kind of reassess.
This person just helped she she has a look of gratitude on her
face, but she's also kind of like, I'm burned.
This kind of sucks. As you get a good look at her
face, you see that she has freckles that frame her
intensely blue eyes. Expedition outfits.
Her cargo shorts have all sorts of like, they must be full of
stuff because she's you know, there's like a water bottle
sticking out of the back pocket. Looks like she's got 2 pokey
balls on her belt. 1 is a dust ball and 1 is a ball that you've
never seen before. And she says, well, thanks.
I guess I don't know why they were acting up, but I'm really
grateful you came around. I I have a Pokémon on me, but
he's not one for the heat. It's just like holding the
Pokémon. He's like, I caught a Pokémon.
I've never got a Pokémon before. In my life, she says.
Well, well, thanks for your help.
My name is My name is Symetra, but my friends call me Sam.
What? What are you all doing here?
We're on our way to the Ford Tree City gym.
What are you? What are you doing out here?
Oh yeah, I just came from there. I'm, I'm out here trying to
figure out what's, what's going on with this heat wave.
I, I describe myself as a, as a bit of a problem solver and I
can't really say no to adventures like this.
So I came down here and I, I guess I got too close to the
swab's nest or something. I, I think all these, all these
Pokémon are aggravated from the heat.
And she takes out a notebook and she, she starts scribbling some
notes. She says, have you noticed
anything strange besides in the heat?
And have the Pokémon been acting strange?
My Pokémon was attacked by a Slanded, so that was
unfortunate. He says, Oh no, I didn't even
know slander were in this, in this region.
The diversity here blows me away.
And then she she looks up from her notebook and she says, I'm,
I'm from Sino, but I moved to model for work and now I'm just
kind of exploring the region. She she reaches into her pocket
and she pulls out some, some sort of blue ointment and she
puts it on her cheek, slaps it on, She says.
So you're on your way to challenge the gym.
Are you going to the right of learning?
Are you going to go to that old witch's Hut?
What's your plan? There's a witch's Hut.
Nope, Nope. Nope.
Nope.
Nope, Nope, Nope.
She laughs and she says she's obviously not a witch, but the
locals like to make rumors about her.
They say that she's the reason why there's this drought.
But I haven't met her. I've seen her house.
It's it's not like the other house is in for tree.
But I'm sure she's a good lady. I kind of want to talk to her
actually. He's like, well, maybe she knows
something about the the problem here.
Sam says, yeah, you know, maybe she does.
I just thought I'd check it out for myself.
And I'm, I, I, I found some, some cool things.
I've taken some good notes. I have some theories, but I'm
not quite sure with exactly what's going on quite yet, she
says. So I, I take it you're all
trainers? I I see you all Pokémon with
you. I guess.
He says let me introduce you to. You an excited child is like I
just caught a swab loop. She she says, if you if you all
like Pokémon, let me introduce you to my friend.
And she grabs her dusk ball and she sends out to this little
bipedal weasel. It has a little pink hairdo on
its ear that is the same color as her pink hair.
And she says, this here's Frostbite, and Frostbite looks
at you and goes, and it seems like a pretty happy little
Pokémon. And then it realizes how
freaking hot it is and that it starts to soak.
And then she says, yeah, that's why I didn't have you battle the
swab blue. And she says, come back, buddy.
She gestures to her belt, and she has another Pokeball.
You've never seen that design before.
And she says, I have another Pokémon, too, but he's a bit
ornery and doesn't always help me out if he doesn't think it's
a good challenge. So most of the time he just
stays in his ball and meditates. She says, if you're on on your
way to Fortree, this route's kind of dangerous.
I'd be happy to accompany you there.
Well, I I would be happy with that.
Yeah, that'd be great. Great, let's go.
And you you walk across the bridge and you can see off in
the distance a sign that says for Tree City, you have to
navigate through some tall dry grasses.
And whoever is leading is going to have to roll AD 20. 6.
You aren't ambushed by any Pokémon, thankfully.
You know, there's a lot of activity in a on a decayed tree
branch off to the side, you do see a little green bird who's
taking a nap. Sam, AKA Symetra, but prefers to
go by. Sam looks over and says, oh,
isn't that cute? And she draws.
She pulls out her notebook and starts drawing a little picture
really quick. Just a quick little sketch.
What? Was the description of that.
Again, a little round green bird taking a nap.
Right, right, right. Which is your favorite Pokémon?
Yeah. And someone named Sam with a
notebook who's drawing things OK.
Wait, what? Is that supposed to be a thing?
Well, it's just like, I don't know, Professor Oak, Like young
Professor Oak in the Selby movie The Sam.
Yeah, everything. I was.
Definitely has pink hair. I was definitely thinking about
that. I didn't even realize that
that's that's smart. I guess his name's Samuel, huh?
Yeah, That's how Samuel Oak. This this character.
She says. Yeah.
So my my birth name is Simetra. SIMETRA.
But it's a bit of a mouthful. So most of my friends just
called me Sam. But if you can call me that,
that's fine. Any interactions with this bird?
We just going to move on. He's he's just chilling.
Yeah, I'm good. He's.
Just chilling. OK, great.
Sam navigates you out of the tall grass and you enter or Tree
City. Welcome.
This is a really neat place. It is.
It's still very hot, but it seems cooled off a little bit
because there's just so much shade here.
There's all sorts of conifers sticking out of the ground.
You see a host of buildings. You see a Pokémon Center, you
see a Pokémon Mart, you see a bunch of houses, and you see a
big building in the center of town which you can only assume
is a gym. Interestingly, all these
buildings I just described are in trees.
There seems to be like the whole city is on an elevated walkway,
like in the treetops. You climb up a ladder and then
everything is in the sky. One of the residential houses is
made of a darker wood. From all the other houses, it
seems like there's people milling about, running errands,
doing their business. It's about, you know, 2:00 And
Sam gestures and she's like, welcome.
I'm assuming this is most of your first time here, she says.
Cindy. Everywhere.
So Cindy's like, yeah, now I know all about this.
She says, yeah, if you if any of you are going to take on the the
Ho and League challenge, you'll have to stop in the gym and pick
up your trainer's license first. Just be aware that they have a
really strict policy that if one of you takes the challenge that
you can't tell any other trainers about what you saw in
the gym until after they've done the challenge.
I'm not really sure exactly how it works.
I just have my my Sino badges and she pulls out a little case
and she has four badges from the center region.
And she says, I haven't tried the hone challenge yet, but I
know they're pretty strict on it.
So just keep that in mind when when you take the challenge.
Can we stop at like the Pokémon Center first?
Real quick, I did take some damage.
Absolutely. And Sam says, all right, First
things first, let's get going. And she guides you over to the
Pokémon you enter. And notably, really awesome
sliding glass doors. They're automatic.
They're unlike all the doors on these tree houses.
And you enter, and there's a few trainers milling about, and
there's a nurse at a stand. And she says, welcome to the
Fortune Pokémon Center. How may we help you?
Can I get my my my military healed please?
Absolutely, and she takes her pokeball and she says anyone
else like their Pokémon heal? I give her all of mine.
I hand her Quacko because Quacko doesn't sit in a Pokeball, OK?
And then I also hand her the Pokeball.
I'm like I just caught this Pokémon today.
And she says that's very great. All right, so you all turn on
your Pokémon to the nurse. And she says, all right, it
looks like we're all here as a group.
What is your group name? Guys, what is our group name?
Obviously, the Schmidt pack, right?
No, I don't know, I. Don't.
I don't like that enough. Not a fan.
Well, does anyone else have a better idea?
Schmidt Pack it is. We are the Schmidt pack.
The nurse says, very well, I'll write that down.
And she writes on Schmidt pack on the on the little collection
table that you got all your Pokémon on.
She says it'll just be a few minutes.
Feel free to wait in the Pokémon Center, walk about the town, and
we will call out the Schmidt pack when we're all healed.
God damn it. You have a little bit of time to
go check something out until your Pokémon RO healed.
We can talk to the witch. Nope.
Nope.
They don't. The Witch.
Nope, no witch gym challenge. We should check out the Witch.
We wait for a Pokémon then gym challenge time.
There's a couple trainers who are in the Pokémon Center.
They're a bit younger than you are.
They seem like they're like, they're teens, but they're like
13 and they they hear Schmidt murmuring the witch.
No, no, no, no. And one of the kids is like, I
know, right? She's so spooky.
And then the other kid speaks over.
It's like, come on, have you seen her?
She's just an old lady. People are mean to her for no
reason. Right, Right, Schmidt.
No reason at all. You got to let some little kid
like, be braver than you. I mean, she's a witch for a
reason. Like she's got to be scary.
I don't, I don't, I don't. I don't mess with Nope, Nope,
Nope, no witch. The the more confident kid looks
at you and. Go see the witch.
The confident kid looks at looks at Schmidt and says, are you
Schmidt? Schmidt terrified.
I I was like, how do you know my name?
I I heard you spouting some nonsense to the nurse when you
returning your Pokémon, are you? You're the Schmidt of the
Schmidt pack. Yes, yes I am.
And he just laughs and he just turns around to his friend.
Those children are laughing at you.
You're going to. Really let that kid laugh at you
later on the morning shy. Unlike children don't have an
ego, so I. Don't care.
Like. Like like like like far fetched
as feathers because far fetched cannot get wet.
Because water, like how ducks work is like water just rolls
off them. So like like like the far
fetched. I am just going to let the
insult roll off me and then I walk away dramatically even
though I have nowhere to go. That's awesome behind.
And go to the witch's house. That is awesome.
I I think that's where we'll call it.
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you should definitely go check them out as well.
We'll see you next Tuesday. You have a Little Mermaid towel.
You asking this to what? The like IRL.
OK, I was like very confused. I was like, I don't think Kay
knows what Little Mermaid. Is.
He's just like, excuse me?