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.
Good morning. The party awakens at a new day
at the rest stop that is on the city route that is right before
fall, Arbor Town. They are awoken to the smell of
breakfast. It's great.
There is fresh fruits, there is assorted breakfast meats.
There is a variety of eggs. There is some bread and pastry
products and they are encouraged to eat up to their hearts
content. Lovely.
There are also little little bowls full of Pokémon food
organized by type. Apparently that's important when
you're making Pokémon food. The color coordinated and your
gracious hosts make sure that you know that you are welcome to
everything at this little bed and breakfast.
Yeah, thank you. This is awesome.
Credible. She says my pleasure.
I love having visitors so you can enjoy your little meal.
You can have a discussion if you like.
Symetra still with you? Of course, it's the whole party.
Is solely still suffering from exhaustion.
Are you going to check in with her in the morning?
Yes, Yeah. Do you give me AD 20?
17. Solely is feeling fine, she had
to take a day or so to rest, but she is back to fighting fit.
Terrific. Yeah, writing a lighting a
teammate on fire must be really refreshing.
Cindy. Cindy turns to Schmidt as like.
I am so sorry. Are you?
Yes. Are you very sorry?
Why'd you do it? I use fire to control problems
that I otherwise can't control. And I'm a problem.
You know what don't answer what don't.
Bad answer. Bad answer.
Howlin was being a problem. Howlin was being a problem and I
tried to hit him and it also hit you and I'm sorry.
You know what, I think it's very big of you to apologize.
I will accept it this once. Thanks solely.
Do you want to say sorry? Like push solely?
Yeah. OK, I'm going to look at Sully.
And I'm not saying I know it's not your fault.
Very sweet. Be sure that you mark on Cindy's
sheets. Schmidt's apology counter
checked off. There's no more left.
Will. Do you are exhausted of
Schmidt's apologies? You can't get anymore?
No, I'm kidding. How?
Many Schmidt apologies do we get per long rest?
Apparently one. Yeah, it's a very unique
resource. You have to be really careful
about managing it. So yeah, you enjoy your
breakfast. You have a bit of a
reconciliation between the combat mistakes or decisions
that were made. What is the next step for the
Quacko Packo? But we put on disguises going
into Fall Arbor. I feel like that's a little
extra. OK.
I feel like just our actions have consequences and just buck
it up and take it. Yeah, I would agree.
OK. Great.
Is that the plan? Yep.
Go to Fall Arbor, Yeah. Fall Arbor.
Yeah, you will leave your lodging.
It is a nice refreshing morning. The sun is that high in the sky,
but in front of the sun or in between you and the sunlight is
still just constantly gently falling.
So it seems like this route is just where all of it happens to
fall. Which makes sense based on the
topography, the geography of the landscape, and how the winds in
this part of the region tend to blow N there's only one way to
go that is novel to you. You are still surrounded by
cliffy rocky faces to the north and to the South, so you will be
going West. Give me someone roll AD 20 and
add their wisdom to it. Sure, 13.
OK, yeah, that wisdom was a perception check.
I was just curious about what you'd be seeing off of the
distance. You can see, I want to say the
skyline, but not really a skyline, just like, you know,
you can see in the distance. A town for sure is ahead of you,
probably about like a mile, mile and a half away.
Before you get there, you find yourself at some sort of ranch
or farm. As was noticed before, this
region, that of Hoenn that you're in is unusually lush.
Something to do with the volcanic soil is full of
nutrients and plants seem to do really, really well here.
And it seems like some people who live in this area are doing
their best to make to take advantage of it.
As you're walking towards the town, you stumble across a farm
that stretches along the route. It's pretty impossible to avoid
and you just start end up walking straight through it.
There are plants growing in the soil and they are large and
round, and there's a little farmhouse down the way and
there's a sign in front of it that you cannot yet to read.
OK. Very cool.
Don't have much to add to that.
Yeah, that's, that's fair. As you all continue down the
route, you get close to the farmhouse and there is a
creature that is making a characteristic sound and it
seems delighted and it is running up towards you.
It is small and round and white and fluffy and it is
particularly interested in Cindy.
It loves Cindy. This little white Pokémon with
cute horizontal pupils in their eyes runs up to Cindy's feet and
runs in a circle and makes a constant bleeding sound.
Hi little buddy, I pet it, can I pet it?
Yeah, go for it. Roll Pokémon Handling.
Dirty 21. Yeah, this little creature is
all about it. They're making constant sounds.
And off of the distance you hear a woman's voice say, wait, cup,
slow down, come back. Don't disturb these people.
And you see a woman approach you.
She's in a little straw hat, and she's got some denim overalls
and a Plaid shirt underneath. And she's wearing work boots and
she's holding a pitchfork. And she's rushes up to you all
out of breath. And she says, oh, I'm so sorry,
My little friend. Cup here gets really excited
when she meets new people. You're totally frying.
I pet her, pet her. Somewhere like this is great.
Yeah, Cup is having an excellent time, the farmer says.
My name is Gretel. Well, welcome to my ranch.
I'm assuming that you're all trainers, right?
Right. Yeah.
She says. I didn't intend for this
location to be so strategic with all these trainers come in tune
from this route, but I've been working on this crop and it
there's been a lot of scientific research going on with it and
it's got huge potential for Pokémon trainers.
And if you let me give you a little pitch, I'd like to try
and sell it to you. OK.
Love to hear it. She's all right.
If you see in these little soil fields with cup help helps me
till you see these large orbular fruits.
It's true, they are large and round, and they look kind of
like melons or like squashes or something like that, she says.
Well, for what I've yet to name this variety of subspecies.
I've only started growing it for probably a couple months now,
but it has some profound effects.
Let me tell you what I've seen. So some Pokémon, especially
Yonans, really like to carry this around, and they have a
really good time when they do so.
And trainers have reported that they tend to gain experience
incredibly fast, and they become much more powerful much more
quickly. We were still trying to get to
the bottom of this, but I've written some notes and she pulls
out a notebook and she says this is what the scientists gave to
me. They're from what was it called
the the, the right of learning. Right of learning.
Yeah. I was going to say like
understanding organization or something.
Yeah, right of learning. They're doing lots of research
on these guys and they're calling them XP Gords.
And I think that's a little boring.
And if you trainers can think of better names for them, let me
know. But anyways, I would love to
give you a free sample and if you want to come back and
purchase some more, they're pretty rare at the moment, but
I'd be happy to sell them to you that.
Sounds great. Yeah, she says.
Great, and she holds one out. Who will take it?
I'll take it. OK, You take it.
Schmidt is going to being a business guy himself.
He is going to comment on her sales pitch.
He's just going to say that like, yeah, you could like just
starts giving notes about it. I need to have a little more
confidence in your information that you're giving out.
Makes a bit more eye contact. Yeah, Gretel says.
Oh, you know, I'm, I'm just, I'm just a farmer.
I'm just a rancher. I, I, I'm, I'm not very good at
these business kind of things, but I like to help out trainers
when I see him and cup goes. I let her know that I grew up on
a farm. Oh, I grew up on the Berry farm.
The We haven't named this Berry farm farm.
You should have a name figured out, the.
Only one. Don't worry about it.
It's. The only Berry.
Farm the Berry the Berry. Farm the 1 outside of Morville.
When you say the Berry farm, Gretel's like, oh, I know that
one. That's the Berry Masters farm,
right? Yes, they're my grandparents.
She says yeah, of course. I got a jar of those berries
right inside of my home here. I use them for tea.
They're great. Oh, you ever make a fresh cherry
Berry pie? There's nothing like it.
All the time. It'll leave you stunned.
Good. OK.
Doesn't Cherry take away the? It does.
OK. That's why it leaves the stun,
yeah. Leaves.
You observe that all around where these gourds are popping
out of the ground, there's a little hoof footprints all
around him. It seems like Cup has been very
busy making sure the soil is tilled and that the fresh
volcanic soil that falls from the sky gets mixed in.
Cup seems like a very, very hard worker and Gretel is currently
attempting to pull her off of Cindy.
Will it be? Successful.
It will not, Gretel says. Come on, Cup, this is enough
time and we got to leave these trainers alone.
They're on a very important mission and Cup goes and doesn't
want to leave Cindy alone. I I was.
Going to say, can I pull a reverse maneuver and try to pull
Cindy off a cup? Sure, yeah.
Roll me either strength or. Dex you tell me strength or dex
do strength? Strength is funnier.
Yeah, that's a 13 with strength. OK, combined with Gretel's
fairly not great role, that will be enough to separate the two.
And there's an audible pop as their their connection, their
their shared love is torn, torn asunder as compass is is
bleeding and staring at Cindy and just just really wants more
affection. But, you know, Gretel and
Schmidt both realize that these are be busy people with busy
things to do. Can I buy a gourd before we go?
She's absolutely. Now it's as I said, they're
pretty rare so I'm selling them for 50 a pop.
That is fine, I hand her 50 pokey money.
Great, you get one. Does any?
I'd also like to buy one. She's absolutely and you make
the transaction. I hand it immediately to Larva
Star in my backpack. Perfect Larva Star holds on to
it and enjoys it very much. You can see that it's just this
little spherical fruit doesn't particularly look edible.
It has a kind of a hard carapace, but it has energy to
it and it just seems like a little Larva star is just all
about it. Allow me to be clear, Gretzel
doesn't necessarily know all the implications of this item, but I
as the DM wants you all to be aware.
I will copy and paste this into the server, but I will read it
to you for now. These are Exp Gourds.
They are a held item. If your Pokémon is holding this,
they cannot hold any other items.
What held by a Pokémon that is of lower level than the
trainer's most powerful. They rapidly gain experience
while in combat or completing skill based tasks until they
have met the level of the trainer strongest.
A Pokémon holding an XP Gourd will not have the opportunity to
learn moves as they rapidly level up, but will have access
to them upon leveling up without the XP Gourd for the first time.
There are two scenarios where Pokémon holding an Exp Gord will
stop a gaining experience. The 1st is if the Pokémon has
met the highest level in the party.
The second is if the Pokémon is at the cusp of a level based
evolution. The Pokémon will not enjoy
holding it until they are either A allowed to evolve to normal
means or B are given an Everestone.
Does that make enough sense? Yes.
So basically the if they don't enjoy holding it, that's an
indicator. Yeah, yeah.
More or less that's how it works, as long as everyone's
aware. That's neat.
OK. And this is this fruit Go.
Does it go bad? Does it expire?
It's just a gourd. It's just a gourd.
It's like, it's like a pumpkin, kind of.
Yeah, but it's like, sorry, like it doesn't like, so you can
exchange this between like to other Pokémon and stuff.
Yeah, absolutely. It doesn't have to be assigned
to 1. OK, like a a held item
essentially? It is a held item and we will
just. It would be lame if it went bad,
so I want to say it works. They keep really well.
Yeah, they're good. They're they're not for eating
really. They they're, they're for their.
Say that again. They're just for holding.
Yeah, they're for holding. Exactly.
Good old holding gourd they're. So snuggly.
Gretel said. Ever.
Want to just, like, snuggle A gourd?
Sorry. Sometimes, sometimes they're
very cuddleable, Gretel says. Since I'm selling these, a few
trainers enjoy them and can't think of any better names for
them. Let me know.
And then before they hit the mass market, we'll make sure
that we we put your name on it. All right.
Intent gotcha. Gretel picks up Cup and they
both wave earnestly at the party.
And they say good luck on your travels, we hope to see you
again soon. And Cup goes back and you're
welcome to be on your way. Do we do that?
Yeah. Yeah.
OK. You are on the outskirts of Fall
Arbor Town, on the other side of this farm.
It stretches for about half a mile or so.
You're approaching the city, or I should say town.
It's not quite a city. It's not particularly developed.
There are basic cobblestone roads.
There are some lamp posts and what not, but it doesn't seem
like there's a whole lot of people who live here
necessarily. As you're approaching, it says
welcome to Fall Arbor Town. And there is a little poster
that is appended to the sign and it shows a little symbol.
It's it's like a circle that has a sharp shape in the middle and
there's red text and it says watch out for the ninja.
Kids look at the sign and I say no shit.
Never would have known that without the sign.
So they vandalized their own town sign.
So welcome to Fall Arbor. Hearing the commotion of Schmidt
acknowledging the sign, a resident, a middle-aged man,
runs up to the party. And they say, travelers, did you
encounter the ninja children? Did we ever?
Oh boy. They say.
Schmidt still has like some visible like leftovers of the
burn on him. Sure.
Do you show him? Yeah.
The old man gasps. He says.
Did the ninja kids do that to you?
That's the worst injury I've ever seen from them.
Cindy hides behind Gimli. They were involved.
They didn't. They were involved.
This was just kind of a crossfire between a couple of
other things happening, yeah. The middle-aged man says
trainers I'm so sorry, please accept this as my apology.
And he hands each of you a a Revive a little Diamond Crystal
thing that you can add to your inventory that will help you
revive a fallen Pokémon. Schmidt is going to say, oh,
this is so nice, you don't have to do this, but he's actively
going to take it out of his handsome.
Yes. Thank you so much.
Yes, we were appreciated. Thank you.
The the old man says, you're so welcome.
I we have lots of trainers coming through here, especially
since the Marvel gym temporarily is here and they they keep it in
ambush by these kids and they're just uncontrollable.
There's nothing we can do about them.
Apparently they found a new leader and and now they're
causing all sorts of mischief, laying traps and ambushing
people and mugging them. So we're so sorry you had to go
through that. May I recommend that when you're
done with your business here, you can travel down through
Meteor Falls towards the rest borough perhaps?
That is the plan. Thank you.
He says very well, I'll leave you alone.
I'm I'm sorry about your injuries and I hope you enjoy
your stay in fall Arbor Town. I'm.
Sure, we will. Thank you.
You've entered the town. It's a little bit larger than
Lava Ridge. He points that you can see are
the iconic Pokémon Center and Pokémon Mart.
They are in every town in Hoenn, and they are here as well.
There's a rather large building in the center of town and it
says the Fall Arbor Town Performance Center.
It is very regal and there's like red ribbons around it, or I
shouldn't say ribbons are like curtains.
It looks like a very fancy place with events that happened there.
There's a poster on the wall that is a little out of the way,
but if you wanted to go up and approach it, you could read it.
There is a residential area. There are lots of little homes,
very kind of rustic. They all have slanted roofs.
Having a flat roof would kind of be a bad call in this town.
There is one house that is particularly interesting.
It has a really unique color pattern.
It is diagonally red and blue striped, a very precious large
door. There's a little pool in the
front and there's a garden as well.
It seems like a very good homestead and there's a little
sign in front of that house as well.
Towards the end of town, you can start to see their little
contusions in the ground. There are little circle lead
shaped, what you call it growths is the wrong word.
But the topography here, yeah, craters, we'll just call them.
Yeah, mounds. I think crater is definitely the
right word. I want to be more ambiguous, but
there are lots of craters around here.
Who who knows what's created them, but there are little
pockets, little holes in the earth around this town towards
the more the more western parts. One last key building that you
see. Seems like something that'd be
very interesting to Gimli. It looks quite like a mine
shaft, but it seems like it has had a lot of commercial use.
Perhaps there is a big sign on the top of it that says the
Fallville Crawl Way, and there are trainers that are gathered
outside of it. That is, that is more or less
what's happening in Fall Arbor Town.
Does anything particularly interests the quack of Packer?
Not a rush, but I want to see the big hole.
Excellent. Did you say the big hole was on
the far end of town? Yes.
Because I want to read the signs on like the fancy crazy house
and the place with the the curtains.
Like I said, not a rush, but the.
Performing art poster. Well.
I'm for contest, huh? Maybe.
Where does the party go? What does the party do?
What's interesting? So what are you thinking?
Performing Arts Center 1st. You can also go to the Mart and
try to haggle. Follow along with whatever, but
he's milking his injuries so much so every time he moves he's
just like. Oh yeah.
Schmidt is anyway you want to go first.
No, no, no, I'm fine. I'm fine.
So performing arts.
Sure, sounds good. Yeah.
Great. You approach the big building in
the center of town. You walk past the Pokémon Center
because you don't really need it.
You had a good night's rest. It'll be there when you do need
it. But as of right now, you're more
curious about the attractions that Fall Arbor has to offer.
There's a big sign on the top that has those kind of classic
Broadway lights and it says Fall Arbor Performing Arts Center.
And there's a poster in the window in the front that is next
to like a little box office booth that has the classic glass
panels and like little hole that you'd like slide the tickets
through. It says now presenting the do
for dancers. And there's a poster that shows
a ballerina. And apparently that is the
events that is in house tonight as.
We'll see a dance show I. Think one of us has a Pokémon
that likes dancing? That could be fun.
Yeah, probably. It is true that they have a
performance tonight. It seems to be the last one.
There's a little schedule that shows that tomorrow will be the
Moss Deep Ice skaters, the Figure skaters.
They'll be in tomorrow and then the next day is going to be the
normal rink Pokémon contests. That is the schedule for this
weekend at Fall Harbor Town. The building's currently closed
because it's morning, but I'm sure if you checked back in
maybe we'll get tickets if you wanted.
Very cool, I want to see the sign on the crazy looking house.
We can check that out. Well, it has like the diagonal
stripes or whatever. Crazy House.
Yeah, just to see like what what the sign says, see if it's worth
visiting. The party approaches the very
vibrant house. It is definitely the most stand
out in this neighborhood. All the other ones seem pretty
plain, pretty residential. But this one, whoever is living
here is taking great pride in how they present it.
Again, it is painted with diagonal red and blue stripes.
In front, there's a pool and a little garden and there's a
chain link fence. And you notice that there is a
something, there is a creature of some sort that has it part of
its body stuck in the fence. The sign in the front says
welcome to the home of Archibald and Maximilian.
Who's stuck in the fence? Do you check it out?
Yes. Romi romi investigation. 13. 13
There's a Quadra pedal Pokémon. It looks oddly familiar, but
you've never seen it exactly before.
It has a tannish kind of pattern to it and has a lump on its back
that's got a little bit of green and this there's a hole at the
top of its back. Who knows what that's used for?
It has a very charming, humble and innocent face, and it is
sticking out of the fence looking up at you.
And it goes. And it seems like it has gotten
itself in a situation that doesn't want to be in.
I first pet him to try to let him know that like I'm going to
help him out. OK, give me a Pokémon handling
for that. Dirty 21, let's go.
Nice. Yeah, As your hand reaches out,
there is a jet of steam that erupts from its back.
But it seems like that as you make contact and stroke it, it
starts to relax a little bit. It's put its head through the
fence and it doesn't know how to get it back out.
What is your method here? What are you thinking?
For clarity, you are outside of the fence.
On the inside of the fence there's a garden and the access
to the home and it's head is poking out towards you, it's
bodies on the other side. OK, well I'm assuming he lives
here if his head is stuck in the fence coming this way.
So I try to like not like strength it, but like maneuver
it. Like maybe he's trying to pull
it back out in an angle that's not going to work.
Yeah, yeah, You can give me, give me a dex for that, I
suppose, if you want to. Try.
Oh no. Well, it's pretty.
That's a five, Yeah. Cindy pushes her hands into the
chain link fence a little bit and tries to nudge this
Pokémon's head back out, but that is not how this Pokémon's
neck works. It gets, it just does, doesn't
want to move, and it starts to get frustrated again.
It goes and there is smoke slowly starting to billow out of
it the hole and it's back and it is starting to draw some
attention. Oh, buddy, no.
Is his name Maximilian? The Archibald Maximilian were
the names. On the sign, yes, that is
correct. I I say the names until it
either responds to one of them or doesn't.
OK. Are you Archibald?
Are you Maximilian? As Cindy asks what this little
creature's name is, the door to this estate opens up and there
is a very tall, dark skinned, muscular man and he steps out.
He's wearing a full uniform of like a blue sailor's outfit.
And he says that little fellas, neither.
That's our boy Edward getting stuck in the fence again.
What are you doing? And there's a this big man comes
up and he says he does this every day and he always messes
with the garden. And then another man exits from
the house. He is a small, thin man with
fair skin and glasses. He's a little wrinkly.
Looks like he's kind of been through a lot and he says,
Archie, don't be so rude to Edward.
He just doesn't know. He doesn't have very good
vision. Archie says come here on your
Rascal. Come here.
Edward in his big, he got these huge biceps in his arms.
He just starts yanking on Edward and Edward goes and he's like
not it's not working. He needs help.
I don't know how to help. OK, yeah, the five of you stand
around watching Edward scream as a large, muscular sailor man is
pulling him through a fence, and it's just not working.
Dude help. Is there any way we can help
you? We heat up the fence so it is
more malleable. You need to be heating up
anything. Well, it's clearly a new Mel who
is a fire type, so. Stop it.
I think I know what I'm feeling. Next to it.
We need to have a very serious sit down with Cindy.
Yes. We do.
Oh. Oh oh, I know who can heat it up
safely. I send out Cookie.
You're. Eating stuff off and have Cookie
touch the fence near Nummel so he can come out.
OK give me like a a nature with plus 10 for cookie.
It's a not one, Chief. Oh, really?
OK, yeah, Cookie reaches out a goopy hand and places it on the
chain link fence where nummel is stuck.
You've correctly identified that it is a nummel, and it heats up
the fence, but it's not quite enough to let Edward slip
through. However, Edward kind of like,
digs it. Edward's like, all right, off
fence. Yeah, let's go.
But is not, not excited by it. Someone else is excited by this
commotion. The small, thin man who is
standing in the doorway, who's wearing a red outfit, walks
forward and his eyes are big. He adjusts his glasses and he
looks at Cookie and he says, my goodness, what is this thing?
And he runs up towards it and he's inspecting Cookie very,
very closely. Says I've never seen a creature
like this before. It's Sligu.
He looks at Cindy quizzically. Says Sligu.
I've seen Sligu. They're they're from the Callus
region. They look nothing like this.
He inspects very carefully. This is 1 from this region.
This man says you must tell me where did you find it?
Well, I found it a while ago as a gumi and then we went into
this hot cave and it became a sligu.
By the way, while this conversation is happening,
Archie is still pulling on Edward.
Edward's going just nonstop. It's a little distracting.
At this moment, the man with the glasses turns to the strong
sailing man and says, I think you need some help here, let me
help you. And and Archibald says no, I got
it, don't worry about it. Me and Edward were besties and
he just keeps yanking Edward and it's just a mess.
Maximilian turns back to Cindy and he says, well, that is
incredibly fascinating. If I I knew that Gumi sometimes
appeared in this region, but I've never seen a Sligo that
looks like this. This is amazing.
This is incredible. And he he reaches out his hand
over the fence. He says you mind if if if I
touch it. She is warm, but of course.
OK, he will reach out and go for Pokémon Handling.
He's reaching around Edward and Archie, who are just having a
really tough time making this happen.
Yeah, he, he he rolls sufficiently well where Cookie
will not scold him. And he says this is this is
incredible. I I must say, once, once we get
this situation with Edward figured out, we must have you
inside. We must have a visit.
Of course. So what can we do to help?
Archie is just tugging on Edward and Edward is just screaming.
And Archie says, not that I've got this, I've done this a
million times, don't worry about me.
And Maxi says, no, no, this, this will not do.
This is not OK Chompers come here.
And from inside the house comes a blue and red fish with yellow
fins. And he points at the fence and
he says, Chompers, we're going to need your help with this.
And Chompers goes back, back, back like a angry, bitey fish
would. And it goes directly to the
fence and makes a check for biting through the chain links
and succeeds. Edward is freed.
And with all of the power that Archie was using to pull him
backwards, he flies in the air for a little bit.
And then Archie realizes what he's done and he turns around.
He quickly tries to catch it and he fails.
Edward is Edward is falling from about 15 feet in the sky.
Someone who is brave is may be able to take to take every
action to catch Edward. Athletics.
Go. Sure, anyone.
You can rule either Athletics or acrobatics to try and receive
Edward before he falls to the ground. 18 And then we all
collide 19. Yeah, 19 but Schmidt also like,
reopens an injury. I mean, if if you want that to
happen, I suppose you can. Schmidt and Gimli are both eager
to save this poor little Numel who is falling right now.
They arrive at the same time, and Schmidt kind of feels a
little twinge, as part of his burnt skin feels like it was
pulled in an unfortunate way. However, they arrive at Edward
and catch him just beforehand in the ground, each of them with
one hand. They are both holding on to
Edward with Schmidt is using his right hand and Gimli's using his
left. And the two men who you've just
met, Archibald and Maximilian, turn around and they look at the
the lean man and they look at the stout man who's also very
muscular. And they look at each other and
they say, they kind of remind me of us, don't they?
And Maximilian says, yeah, you know what they do?
I think they'd be great together.
And they just kind of are admiring you guys as as you hold
on to Edward. It is at this moment that we'll
just call him Archie for short because apparently that is his
pet name that is used by his partner here.
Maxi, he says. Well, stop standing around and
gawking. Let's go inside.
I got to talk with talk with you all.
You help save Edward. We love that.
Sounds good. Do you put Edward down?
Yes, all right. Do you know who they are yet?
Did you figure it out yet? Yeah.
Am I supposed to? Yeah.
I'm just having a great. Time.
It's fine. It's fine.
That's funny. Right.
Don't tell her, don't tell her, don't tell her.
Yeah, don't tell her. No, I have no idea what's going
on. OK, my God.
As Schmidt and Gimli simultaneously put down Edward,
the Carvana that was sent out to help rushes over to the side and
starts tending to New Mole's neck and like, licking its
wounds. It seems like they are good
friends. Archibald and Maximilian take
you inside their homestead. They have a glorious foyer.
They have a very lovely chandelier hanging from the
ceiling. It's got elements of blue and
red throughout it. It is very, very nice.
They have some very fine artwork.
There are some sculptures. There are some paintings on the
wall. It seems like there is some
trends here. There is kind of an arboreal
kind of earthy take to a lot of the decoration.
It seems like someone who lives in this house is very fond of
gardening and tending to soil and the plants and things of the
like and sunshine. There's a lot of bright colors
happening. And someone else who is in this
house is very nautical. They there are, there's a ship
in a bottle that is on a mantle above a fireplace.
There is just a portrait of Wingles standing on a dock and
together their aesthetics combined very, very nicely.
Archie wanders into the kitchen, which is connected to the foyer,
and he says, please, everyone, take a seat.
Take a seat in the grand room. We'd love to have a chat with
you. And there is, in fact, a grand
room with very large couches. There is a television and a
large, like, coffee table with some some books on it.
Do you all follow his instruction?
Take a seat. Yeah.
Absolutely. Are they the baddies?
I'm the I'm the gay. Yeah.
That means Archie probably knows my bits.
Oh. He might, huh?
Any who Archie's in the kitchen assembling something, you hear
dishes clatter and he actually drops 1 and it smashes.
He says, oh, Oh my goodness, I need to get the broom.
And heavy footsteps walk out of the room as as he wanders out
the the slender older man sits down with you all.
He sits next to Cindy and he just kind of looks at Cindy.
He's just still amazed. There's a look of of amazement
on his face and he says is is Cookie still out?
I guess so I didn't have any like particular reason to return
her. Sure.
Yeah, she's vibing and he he just loves her.
He thinks that she is so cool and interesting.
There is a very unique little centerpiece on top of this
coffee table. Let's get let's get someone,
whoever wants to, to roll either a history or religion check on
it. Yo I got this because for some
reason has a Joe Tony and I am proficient in history.
Very cool. Of this particular region's
history. Yep, that is a good old
fashioned 16. Yeah, that's certainly good
enough. It's true.
The people of the Johto culture tried to stay in tune with world
affairs. They've always had to as
neighboring residents to Canto. It's just diplomacy is part of
their nature. Schmidt observes this sculpture
centerpiece on this coffee table and it's brilliant.
It is made of a both blue and red gemstone.
There is a leviathan lizard like creature that is menacing and
roaring and is staring up at a fishy whale like creature that
looks very serene but also focused and angry.
And it seems to be depicting something that happened in the
Hohan region. 15 years. OK, Can I get a perception from
LED specifically just because I want LED to do something?
That one that. One LED doesn't see shit.
OK, great. LED goes blind temporarily,
yeah. LED is not really paying
attention to anything, so you can hear the sounds of a broom
sweeping up. And Maxi turns to you all.
And he says, well, welcome to our home.
My name is Maxie. My partner over here is Archie.
We've lived in Fall Harbor now for a good over 10 years, right?
And Archie in the kitchen is like, yeah, it's been 13.
Maxie says he has 13 years we've been here together.
We've been having a great time. I'm assuming you're all
trainers. You have powerful Pokémon among
you. And he looks a cookie.
And he says, what are all of your names?
Please introduce yourself. On Gimli.
Hello. He says hello Gimli.
Welcome. I'm Schmidt, sorry, had some
injuries the other day. Maxi observes Schmidt.
And he's gonna make a roll, he says.
My goodness boy, are you burnt? Just a little bit, you know, not
a huge deal. He says.
Here it's a little set on fire the other day.
He says, I have plenty of experience of being caught on
fire, let let me get you something.
And he gets up very quickly and he rushes over to a small little
half bathroom and it files through like a little medicine
cabinet. And he brings out a A3 leafed
little plant and he hands it to you.
And he says here, just just crush this on top of where it
hurts and you'll feel better in no time.
OK. Thank you are.
You going to do that right now? Are you going to wait?
Yeah, I'll start doing it right now.
Rolling medicine. Rolling the medicine?
Based off of wisdom which is a 2, it was a one on the die and
it's a + 1 to wisdom so it's a two check.
Yeah, the instruction was to crush the plant to where it
hurts. And Schmidt might have taken it
like done the crushing part more into the body rather than like,
you know, softening up the plant 1st.
And he just kind of smacks it into his burn and it just
stings. It makes it worse.
It doesn't make it worse. After a few moments, there's a
bit, there's a sense of like relief, but it was not applied
properly and it definitely hurt for quite a bit.
He's going to need to keep it there for a while to to really
get it healed. But Maxie thinks this is a
little funny. This is a little funny.
But he says, and the two of you, would you please introduce
yourselves? Oh, I'm Elody.
I'm Cindy. He says, well met to all of you.
We're very happy to have guests. We don't have guests here very
often. So very pleased.
Were you around for the eruption that happened the other day?
Yeah. Actually in the middle of it.
We didn't 'cause it at all though.
No. We stopped.
It not our fault. We stopped it.
You might have seen us on the news.
It's a natural volcano. Maxi says I'm not one for
watching the news, but I did see in the paper and he pulls out a
little newspaper. It says the fall over times and
there's a photograph of lava Ridge from above.
And there was a crowd that is gathered outside of the Pokémon
Center and there are like rock walls that are constructed
everywhere. And there are four people that
are standing in front of some microphones, but it's quite
zoomed out. He he pervades the the head, the
the caption to the photograph. And he says, Quacko, Paco,
you're telling me that you four were involved in this?
We are the quacko Paco. Maxi dramatically takes off his
glasses. He says, my goodness, Archie, we
have heroes in our home. And Archie is very rushed.
And he's like, I'm, I'm sorry, I'm just cleaning up this mess.
I'll, I'll come out with drinks in just a minute.
And you can hear the sound of a broom sweeping up some
porcelain. And he steps on something and
there's a crash. He says, oh, no, not again.
And it's it's a mess in there. What a gate is that?
You need like help in there or yeah.
You're right. Maxi intercepts his response and
says he'll figure it out. It's fine, Maxi says.
I used to spend quite a bit of time in Lava Ridge.
I had an organization back in the day, and we found that Mount
Chimney was an excellent place to conduct research.
Did you get to explore Mount Chimney at all before it
erupted? We did a.
Little bit, you know as as one does.
I feel like just stepping out of the game for a second, as a
party, we need to react appropriately to this because I
know we as people understand this is the guy that was in the
party. I just don't feel like we're
reacting appropriately to this guy just told us he conducted
research on Mount Chimney and there's a research lab in Mount
Chimney. That bad thing?
Yeah. If we act suspicious, he'll get
suspicious. Do we care?
But they've been so nice. But they weren't like the people
that did it. They've been in just in Fall
Arbor for 13 years. The reason?
But I'm just saying the party at the time doesn't know that.
No, we do that. They will.
They've been there for a long time and the research was
conducted. We have time stamp dates on
those videos. Oh, yeah.
Like do we know about? Yeah, I think, I don't know.
Would we make that connection? Can Cindy roll history?
Anyone can roll history, Cindy. Cindy gets.
Banned. OK, yes.
Oh, you said advantage. Yes.
OK, let's give that another roll.
That's a six. Oh, OK.
You need to warm those dice up man.
Yeah, there's I rolled so good. Got a couple pre rolls so you.
Wait, history? Yeah.
No, that's no, that's that is a six.
I thought it could have been higher.
It's a six. OK.
Anyone else want a role history? I did and I got a six also so.
And he knows nothing, even though her parents.
Profession history is going to make a role an 11 not great, but
better than. Everyone else, I guess.
OK, yeah, it's the recollections just not happening.
If Cindy can't do it, then maybe it'll come up in conversation.
Who knows? Who knows what will happen?
You know what I'm going to say? Schmidt is suspicious of his 11.
He doesn't know why nobody just is.
Give me a perception, Schmidt. Rolling perception due to That's
a 12. OK, behind you there are two
tapestries on the wall. One is red and one is blue, and
the red 1 looks strangely familiar to something that
you've seen just a couple days ago.
The blue one look familiar too because we saw a sticker in my
parents locker. Well.
I may or may not have been similar.
Yeah, it might. We can.
Oh, OK. Cindy, the role on that and I
will give you another plus 10 to that.
Is what is it history or perception I'm.
Going to say perception because you haven't actually actually
like, seen it yet. It's an at 20.
That's an at 20. Yeah.
Cindy turns her head around and she sees a big old like flag on
the wall and it is the Team Aqua logo.
Maxie hasn't observed that. You guys are, you know, a lot of
this discussion was above table in character, but he doesn't
think that your brains are running a mile a minute at the
moment. He is just listening to your
story. And he's like looking at the
paper. He's like, oh, so that's, that's
you. That's all.
That's very incredible. You were right there.
You, you saved the town. I understand.
And he's, he's just very curious.
He's asking more questions. Archie finally gets his act
together and he walks in with a big old platter.
There is a tea kettle and lots of cups, and there are lots of
little treats. There are some that look like
little. What do they call the, What do
they call the cookies with the impression?
And then you put like, either like chocolate or like a jam in
it or something. Thumbprint cookies.
Yeah, he comes forward with a bunch of thumbprint cookies, but
they're like kind of tall and the hole in them is very deep.
And they are filled with, like, a candy jam.
And he also comes through with some, like, triangular, vaguely
triangular shards of like, a dried fruit.
And it looks like very appetizing little tea snacks.
And he sets it down on the coffee table with the sculpture
on it. He says, would anyone like some
treats? Absolutely.
Fantastic. Thank you.
He says, My pleasure, Maxi baked these last night.
And Maxi says, yes, my, my specialty are these camera up
humps. And that's what he refers to the
thumbprint cookies as. And Archie says I worked really
hard on the on the Sharpedo fins, which I just let sit out
in a jar in the sun yesterday all day.
They, they turned out great. Anyways, they're all sitting
down. They're all kind of looking at
you. And Maxi is just, he just isn't
understanding. He says.
So the four of you were in Lava Ridge for the Mount Chimney
eruption, and you helped to put a stop to it?
Yeah. I built all this place.
I fought fire with fire. Which kind of interjections
like, well that's enough about us, tell me about you.
I'm super curious. How did you 2 meet?
Maxi kind of like chokes on his tea a little bit and you can see
and he looks over at Archie in a in a very iconic kind of way.
And Archie is just drinking a water bottle and he looks at
Maxi and he misinterprets the look and he says, what?
I don't want tea, you know, I'm a water guy.
And Maxi says, well, it's a bit of a long story.
We, we didn't always get along so well.
We in fact, we used to be rivals, but something, something
very big happened in our lives and we found out that we get
along very well together. And and once we left those
occupations that we had, we found out that we could have a
very pleasant domestic life making treats and gardening in
the garden. And I had saved up enough for
retirements. My business when I had it was
quite lucrative. And here we are just sharing out
the rest of our days together. And Archie like downs the bottle
of water in like 3 chugs. And he says that's right, me and
Maxie made for each other. And he gives him a loving look.
That's so sweet. What occupations?
Well, that he's going to make shit and like, kind of like slap
him a little bit. Just say that again.
She's. Like, not like.
A hard like a nudge. She's I think she thinks he's
being rude. Oh, OK, Schmidt is going to
react way more violently because he's milking his burns.
Yeah. So she like gives him a little
like push and he's like. Yeah, Maxie says.
Well, it's funny. We were both, shall we say,
businessmen, and we were very concerned with the ecology and
the environment. And Maxi says, Archie says,
yeah, absolutely 100%. And that's how we met is because
we had very different ideas about what should be done with
the environment. And Maxi says, indeed, indeed.
And we perhaps were trifling with Pokémon powers that we
perhaps shouldn't have been. And Archie says, oh, absolutely,
yeah. We were messing around with
stuff that we should absolutely not have been messing around
with. But I think it's those
incredible forces of nature that brought us together.
And Maxi says, oh, yes, I think that is entirely true.
I think if we weren't such stubborn rivals, we never would
have had this life. And Archie says, exactly.
And they he he raises up his empty water bottle for, like, a
toast. And Maxi shakes his head because
it's so uncivilized. And he lifts up his tea cup, and
he takes a sip in. Archie puts the ball to his
mouth despite the fact that it's empty.
And it's all like crumpled up. It's their juxtaposition is very
funny. Archie is very large and very
muscular, and he's like hardly wearing any clothing.
Maxi's very reserved and very slender.
And he is just cautiously looking at the tea and looking
at the newspaper and enjoying his conversation so far.
But it seems like they're being cagey.
It seems like they are not revealing all of their details.
Members of this of the Quacko Paco are welcome to make checks
or ask them questions or do other things, but they've kind
of reached a low in their conversation when they're
looking at each other very cutely.
But they don't really want to say anything else.
But who knows what the Quacko Paco can pull up?
Someone people had some pretty good perception checks they
could ask about. I'll point to the flags to be
like those really cool flags. Maxie says indeed they are and
Archie looks at Cindy right in the eyes and he says, which
one's your favorite? I've.
Definitely seen the blue one before.
He says, ha, I knew it. Are you, are you from the Hoenn
region? Are you from around here?
Yeah. He says ah, one of us, and he
like reaches out a giant veiny muscular hand to shake your
hand. I shake his hand.
Great, he's going to make. One of us.
Like a Hawenian, I'm a Hawennian.
OK. Not like.
Such chart to move it up. You're already #1 How do you get
any higher than that? Zero baby.
As tearsus as tearsus. He's going to make a check of
some sort. As he grasps into his hand, he
kind of looks it in the eyes and there's like a spark of like
he's thinking something. But then his eyes kind of
returned to like, you know, if, if you could read his thoughts,
you would be thinking that he's like, Oh no, I'm not that crazy.
No, there's no way. And then he's goes back to his
seat and he continues the the pleasant conversation.
Symetra is here and she is, she knows what's going on.
She's aware of where she is and she is definitely exhibiting
some nervous energy. So she knows who they are, Yeah.
She is. She passed her check.
She knows for sure. OK, now be a bad time to pull
out the picture of my parents. No, for no reason.
Or no reason? Well, I mentioned I've seen the
Bluefield Blue Flag before. That's that's your conversation,
how you want to live your life. I feel like because Archie was
like kind of being like, no, there's no way.
I saw the Super because my. Parents had it before.
Can I do? Can I like show him the the
picture of my parents discreetly?
You can try. OK, I guess I didn't explain
this necessarily. There's this big table.
There's a mantle. The table's in the middle of the
room. The mantle's to the north.
I'm picturing there are two large chairs to the left and the
right of the table. Maxi's on the left, Archie's on
the right. There's a big couch, and the
five of you are on the couch that's South of the table,
that's below the table. That's my mental map right now.
Regardless of your position, you can definitely do something
discreetly, but it's going to require a stealth check.
I don't really care where you're seated.
You're going to have to stealth it.
Because I figured I just shook his hand, so I'm close enough.
Do you want to like, slip it into his hand retroactively?
I don't think she would have done that, yeah.
I don't think she would have done.
Might be too much. She's not that clever.
Stealth plus 1/15. 15 sure maxi continues looking over at the
newspaper and he kind of is talking to the group and he
looks at the photograph and he says, well I, I see four of you
here but you know there's there's five of you with us
enjoying these snacks. Who's missing this aerial shot
isn't very close and he like puts his glasses back on and he
gets his face really, really close to it.
In the meantime, Cindy somehow without drawing the attention of
really anyone else. Perhaps a couple of the quacko
Paco see the other corner of their eye slips a photograph to
Archie and he will begin to inspect it.
But Maxie's expecting a response to his question first.
He. Said there's only four of us in
the picture. Well, like situated in how the
caption describes the quacko Paco.
Not an official member of the Quacko Paco, but she's a good
friend of ours. As you say that he Maxi makes
eye contact with Symetra and she is like holding on to a little
camera up hump, but she's like only taking a nipple out of it
and she says hello. Yeah, this group was kind enough
to let me on on their journeys. They're actually escorting me to
Meteor falls right now. There's something big happening
and Maxi says, Oh, yes, yeah. It's it's the what?
What is their, their clan called?
I, I met one of their members once.
What was her name? Zinnia.
Yes, yes, yes, yes. There was a they had a leader
and, and he kind of goes off and he's trailing into a story about
something. He gets very excited because it
involves legends and mythology. And as he's speaking, Archie
goes, what? And he looks at the photo and he
looks back at Cindy and he says, where did you get this photo?
They're my parents. If he was consuming any liquid
he would do his spit take and he says River and Beckett are your
parents and Maxi feels like quiet trying to trying to tell a
story here but Archie is looking directly at Cindy and he is like
freaking out. Yeah, they're my parents.
He let out a hearty chuckle. He says and he is just cackling
and Maxi just kind of murmuring to himself and he's like, yes,
the the dragon tribe in Meteor Falls.
And he just keeps rambling and he's like, basically he's
talking to himself right now. And he is actually looking over
at a bookshelf and he starts to stand up and walk over there
because there's a book that he wants to pick out.
Archie says that is so silly. I can't believe the child of
Reverend Beckett is in our home right now.
That's incredible. I always thought they had a kid,
but they they never talked about it, but they were just so in
love and there were rumors in the ranks.
And and then he kind of realizes that maybe he said too much.
Yeah. Well, I mean, the party knows
that my parents are Team Aqua, so like they're, if they didn't
know, they now know. Oh yeah, it's pretty clear at at
this rate, I I think everyone should probably be aware by now.
So your business was team don't call.
Them out, they're living their best gay life.
Like I don't think Ellen even cares.
Like she's just happy for them. Yeah, that's so great.
Yeah, Cynthia's happy for them, even though she, like, hates the
fact that her parents were involved in a crime
organization. Maxie's still off in his own
world. He's talking about mythology.
It's his favorite subject. And Archie says, yeah, you got
to sort it out. I guess the the the big old
flags we have behind you wasn't enough of a giveaway, was it?
Yes, it's true. I suppose if not all of you are
from home and you may not know, but me and Archibald here or
sorry, he is Archibald. Me and Maximilian here are are
doing our best to live a quiet life after we've, you know, pay
our debt back to society after we might have ruffled some
feathers about 15 years ago. It was really, really not a huge
deal. And Maxi in the corner is like
Archibald, you know, it was an enormous deal.
You know what we've done. And Archie says, no, no, no.
It was just it was a, it was just a little thing, just a
little little party in, in Pseudopolis.
It really wasn't a big deal. No, it's it's fine.
It's fine. I think I saw you guys on the
news a long time ago. Already answered topless what
they're gonna do. Archie said.
You know, it's really funny because I feel like now that the
truth is out there, just let me explain this a little bit.
And Max, he's like, oh, he's going off on one of the stories
again, Archie says. I always knew that River and
Beckett had some sort of mystery.
And they, they were, they always pretended like they were so
interested in our mission and our ambitions.
And they, they were always talking about the ocean and
Kyogre and they wanted all of these things.
And I, I just, it's just amazing that they have a child and they
just never mentioned it. It's so interesting.
Schmidt is like visibly uncomfortable in the situation.
And then I think Schmidt also recognizes Sam as visibly
uncomfortable in the situation, so he just kind of like casually
like gets up and walks up Sam. It's like, hey, you want to get
out of here? How does Cindy say that she
wasn't born 15 years ago? And that's up to Cindy first.
Before Cindy does that, Sumetra says.
Yeah, sure. And do you get up to, like, try
and leave? Yeah.
All right. As you do so, you're intercepted
by Maxi. And Maxi says, oh, come take a
look at this. I even forgot I had this book.
You 2 would love this. And he wants to ushered you over
to the bookshelf. Right.
Yeah, I guess. OK, great.
So he distracts you for a little bit longer.
But Cindy, what were you doing? I kind of whisper like I'm only
14, so that might be why you didn't know.
Roll roll a stealth for that if you were trying to whisper it.
If you're not, then that's fine. I'm.
Trying to keep it from the rest of the party.
Yeah, yeah. Because they think I'm an adult.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
That's 15 again. Totally by you're an adult.
OK, I didn't think she was 14. The truth has been revealed.
She's visibly a child. She's behaviorally a child.
Yeah, she had a gun. What?
OK, she has hands. What do you mean?
Like anyone can pick up a gun. She's setting people on fire,
left, right. Yeah, she's still reckless,
abandoned. Oh my God.
It is a child. She's a demon child, but she's
still a child. Demon child who'd had bad
parents. I mean, what do you expect?
Yeah, like she had prime parents.
Of course, she's all eat energy. Anyways, Archie's eyes kind of
get wide. He says.
Oh, OK, yeah, that that checks out.
So wow, they. They must have consummated right
after they met Kyogre and he like is like thinking about
that's. Really inspired it I think.
Cindy looks. No, it's been lovely.
We're gonna get out of. Here.
Cindy looks visibly uncomfortable.
They must have consummated after they met Kyogre.
Oh, Archie. Yeah, Maxie.
Yeah, Maxie gives a little to Archie, like Persian form.
Maxie gives trying to add the ears.
Oh yeah, and Maxie looks at Archie like like gives give
stabbing daggers of a look like that was an inappropriate thing
to say, but Archie doesn't really pick up on it.
Especially to a child. Yeah.
So, yeah, so we can have Schmidt and Sumatra are going kind of
like trying to waddle past Maxie.
And they can, they can do, they can do a dex check for that.
Not like a dangerous Dex check, but Maxi's a little distracted
with Archie being rude right now.
Like a stealth check. Yeah, it's kind of stealth.
It's. It's social stealth check.
Social stealth? Yeah.
Irish. Goodbye kind of thing.
I got it. Yeah.
Irish. What'd you get?
I got a gnat one on the die. Yeah, you.
Hoggers, you'll listen to this story.
Bunch, Yeah. You trip on the carpet a little
bit and maxi like catches you a little while.
While his arms are slender, he has some stripe.
He he managed to and you're, you're quite tall and you're,
you're impressed that he managed to get you, but you're not
escaping at this point. I feel like visibly grabbed me.
He he gently, he's a he's a gentleman.
Just any sort of grab, I'm just going to like wince from pain.
OK, understood. I want LED to do a thing LED
perception me. Got you 15.
That's good enough. Elodie, being a woman of fashion
and glamour, looks at certain things in a certain way, and she
admires good jewelry. She observes that as Maxi's hand
reaches out to catch Schmidt, she sees in the corner of his
eye that he is wearing a beautiful, illustrious blue band
on his ring finger, and she turns over and looks at Archie
and sees that he has a glowing, shining red band on his ring
finger. So cute.
They're. Married.
Yeah. Archie says OK, so we, we all
know about Team Aqua and all the Ray Quasar.
We we know all the stuff that happened on that day.
But but I just want to say that River and Beckett, they could
never drop the shtick after I said I was dissolving and then
that other company, whatever Team GRN came in and they said
that they wanted to recruit all of our guys.
They just wouldn't give up. It's like, it's like they met.
They met Kyogre and it actually. And he thinks back, he's like,
they came through here just two weeks ago, didn't they, Maxi?
And he says, yes, I remember them well, what does have to do
with anything? He says, yeah, yeah, they're
coming through and they wanted to say something to me and
they're just so silly. I didn't want to give them the
time of day. It's it's nothing.
Well, because of their choices, I was actually raised by my
grandparents, but yeah. Archie looks at Sandy and says,
well, they must be wonderful people because you turned out
great. Thanks.
Maxi, who is a little more socially aware, acknowledges
that it seems like everyone's feeling kind of tense.
And he says, Archie, I, I, I think you might want to change
the subject or, you know, if, if I've enjoyed having all of you
guests and you may grab some treats, but I feel like maybe
you're in a hurry to get somewhere.
I. Mean Cindy's thrilled.
She is. She is not worried about
anything at all. She's like, yeah, this is great.
Thanks. This has been awesome.
Archie doesn't believe it. He's like, they just got here.
They they love spending time with us.
We have a great place. We need guests more often.
Just trying to decide how to react to this.
Take your time. So what about this book Maxi
found? How would I care about this
book? He's not.
Yeah, I still we haven't. I still crit failed the stealth
check so I guess I have to. Yeah, yeah, Maxi at the moment
is not holding a book cuz he caught Schmidt, but we may go
resume to looking at it depending on where the
discourse, the social discourse goes.
I just want to point out maybe metagaming too much, but like
they just said, yeah, Cindy's parents came through a couple
weeks ago to talk to him and did not react at all.
Well, we knew that they'd been through about two weeks ago
because we asked at the the house the where we stayed the
rest house. We could still ask about it.
So they they came and they visited you guys.
Archie thinks back, he says, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They came through and they wanted to talk to me about
something. They, they wanted some
information and they, they kept saying, oh, this is way better
than the red orb. We know it, we know it.
And I, I looked at them and I said, yeah, obviously the red
orb was a total failure. You were there, you know what
happened? And and they said, no, we, we
know it for sure this time. We're, we're going to make it
happen this time. And I just thought they were
being incredibly just ridiculous, like they always,
always have been. They're just so silly.
And Archie's rambling on about how this couple is so absurd.
And Maxi was like, yeah, the the uniforms that they were wearing
were not very fashionable. Were they black with an NRG logo
on them? Archie was said, yeah, of
course. Well, we sold out all of our
recruits to, to, to, to GRN when they came through.
And after that, that Pseudopolis party happened, right, Right.
Maxi and Maxi's like it wasn't a party.
It was an incredible cataclysm. And and Are you sure it was?
GRN. Archie's like, yeah, that sounds
about right, and Maxi's just shaking his head no.
What was better than the blue ore?
He's thinking back, he says, well, no, no, no.
So funny story actually. And he raises his hand and he
kind of like looks at his ring finger and he says there's kind
of a reason why we decided to get these rings in the way that
we did. And you know, I'm more of a blue
guy, but you know, I just love Maxi so much.
I added, we did, we did a little color swap.
It's very cute. Regardless, part part of how all
this happened with Team Aqua and Team Magma and all these
incredible strong Pokémon and Maxi's like their legendary
Pokémon. Archie says, well, there was
this Once Upon a time. I'll make it brief, as brief as
I can. And Maxi says these are never
brief. Archie says, we went to Mount
Pyre and we knew that there were these magical orbs up there and
they would control the legendary Pokémon that lived in Holland.
And we just, we were there at the same time.
And I went to go grab the one that was closest to me and it
was the red orb and Team Aqua. I guess I was team Aqua.
I was the leader of the time. I was like, obviously this will
control Kyogre, it'll be great. We will achieve our dreams.
And Maxie just went with the only one that was left, which
was the blue orb. And it turned out that we had
made a big mistake. Maxie thinks and he says, well
it might have been a bigger mistake if we got the correct
ones. And Archie says, what do you
mean? And then he thinks for a minute
and he says, well, you know what?
Maybe you're right. Maybe you wouldn't have ended up
like this if we had chosen the proper ones.
Archie says regardless, Yeah, So they were talking about how the
red orb did was obviously not successful.
And they said that they are found a way and they're going to
meet Kyogre again. It's been their biggest
ambition. And I'm not.
I just don't remember. They were just being hysterical,
honestly. Do you know where they want to?
Archie thinks and he says, well, I, I don't keep up with with the
team GR NS prerogative or anything.
I'm I'm not sure what their goals are, what their missions
are. We just wanted to get away from
the life as soon as we could and settle down here, which was a, a
great decision. But so they said that they
wanted to check in with me and that they were going to go to
Moss deep. Yes, yes, they're going to go to
Moss deep. I'm, I don't know what's over
there, but that's where they decided they were going to go.
And I, I honestly, frankly, knowing River and Beckett for so
long, I don't think they're going to succeed at whatever
they're they're trying to do. And I definitely don't think
that's part of team RNG's goals, But they'll, they'll, they'll
figure it out. I'm sure you'll figure it.
Good. Good to know.
Archie says when, when we handed off our recruits to Team GRN,
we, we, they explicitly stated that they had no interest in, in
meddling with our, these, these super cool Pokémon that we
summoned. And Maxi says they are legendary
Pokémon. They are the creators.
And he like, kind of like rambles on.
And Archie says, yeah, yeah, all that stuff.
They promised that they wouldn't meddle with them again and that
they'd let them have their, their rest.
And so I'm just, I'm curious that Reverend Beckett are still
so obsessed with Kyogre. And the way that Archie says
Kyogre, he says it very loud. And Maxi's like, like, don't,
don't say it so loud, Archie says.
I just have a hard time believing that when, you know,
when we met up with, with an NGR, that they would still be
interested in Kyogre. It's just very surprising to me.
He's so close. Yeah, yeah.
That is interesting. That's some fun information.
Yeah, some good info. So, Max, you haven't finished
telling us about the the event that's happening in a Meteor
Falls. He looks a little bit.
He looks over at Cindy and he says, oh, well, I, I don't know
much about it to be quite honest.
I was always more intrigued with with things that were more down
to earth, so to speak. But after the event in
Tsutopolis, I grew a little bit of interest in more of Hoen's
legends, especially because we met three of them in the same
place. And I understand that the the,
the people who live in Meteor Falls are, are many things, but
one of the things that they are is that they're the oldest
living native residents of the Hoen region before all of the
Pokémon made it accessible to travel and relocate here, which
many people do because this is such a wonderful place to live.
So not only that, but I also understand that they sincerely
Revere the, the legendary Pokémon that we didn't even know
was frankly still still existed in the Hohan region back on that
day 15 years ago. And the they have a festival
every 1000 years or so, or a ceremony, so to speak, where
they they have their strongest dragon trainers get together and
they, they have a grand tournament of some sort.
And at the end, they they pray fervently that their wishes will
be granted. And whoever the champion of the
tournament is often is supposed to it's all legend.
But every 1000 years they have their wish granted.
And that is coming up. And I understand that there's a
quite a bit of interest, but I also know that they're very
exclusive as to who they let into their borders.
So that's, that's about what I know about the Draconic tribe.
He says of course. And Archie is like looking at
Maxi and he's like trying not to snore.
He thinks it's very boring, but those sound really cool.
Maxi says that's. Where we're going.
Maxi says yes, it should be very interesting.
I, I, I hope there is no trouble that befalls you on your way
there. I imagine that there wouldn't
be. You seem like a very Hardy group
of trainers, Archie says. If one of them's from River and
Beckett, I'm not so sure about that one.
And he laughs to himself. I am nothing like them.
Nice little defiance. Archie's like, oh OK, we got a
spicy one. Excellent.
Think Schmidt's going to try to make a stealth check to leave
again? Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep. 1818 on the
die, yeah. Yeah.
Profession stealth. I could fail the last time, so I
didn't add it. Yeah, it's like a dirty 21.
Yeah, you. Observed a great timing as Maxi
talks about the Draconid tribe. He kind of turns around and you
are able to sneak out the door if you wish.
Cool, I believe the plan was to grab some metro.
Yeah, she's she's with you. Let me see herself.
Check 6 SEC. Yeah, she succeeds.
So you 2 are able to slip out without being noticed, at least
by Maxine. Archie, if the party wants to
make perception checks to witness it, they have to meet, I
guess, a dirty 20 or greater. Well, to get Symetra, they have
to get an 18 or greater. But they want to.
They may. They will notice.
After I got a 19. OK, Cindy knows you guys leave.
OK, Gimli knows you guys leave. LED does not.
That's fine. All right.
I think we're pretty much wrapping up anyway.
Thank you so much for your hospitality.
These treats are lovely. Maxi says please take some with
you, we're not going to have all of these to ourselves.
Archie then says I, I had a belly once.
I'm not going back to that. And he's just like hands off.
He's he's just drinking water. Does everyone decide that they
are on their way out? I think so.
Yeah, Maxi will be hospitable
and open the grand double door for you.
And he says thank you for visiting and thank you for your
help with Edward. Archie from the back of the room
says come back anytime. I'd love to chat with you.
You guys are great. And you all notice as in front
of you already out the door and almost on the other side of the
fence is Schmitz and Symetra. And they're like kind of
stealthily, like tiptoeing, which is a kind of a funny sight
to see because you're all just about to be helped out and
they're just sneaking out. It's great.
Awesome. OK, you depart.
They wave goodbye. You see Nubal and Carvana in the
yard. They're looking at you
affectionately and you are able to leave without trouble.
Cool. That was fun.
It was interesting. That was a lot nice.
What's What's next for the party?
Big hole. Big hole.
Big. Hole, OK.
I returned a cookie now that we're like out of the house.
Oh, sure, sure, sure. Yeah, cookies returned.
What's the time frame? Because I mean, there's a show
tonight, right? For the the Performing arts
place. Yeah.
So you got up, let's say around like 8:00 AM, you trekked to
Fall Arbor, which you got a little distracted at the farm.
So you probably arrived at like 10 or 10:30.
You kind of spent some time around town.
Let's say it's around noon, it's the afternoon.
OK. And what was the Showtime?
Did anyone remember? Like 7 or something.
I don't think I supposed to be said, but yeah, it's the
evening. It's.
The evening. OK, big hole.
Big hole? Yes, we approach the area that
is designated as the Fallville Crawl Way rather than like a
vertical hole in the ground. It is kind of just like a mine
shaft and it points to the South there.
It is definitely in the ground and it definitely was carved out
by miners and or Pokémon or what not.
And it seems like there's a vehicle of some sort that's like
parked outside. It's it's got a strange design.
It's not like a car or anything. It seems like it's built to go
on some sort of rail or tread or something.
And there are trainers that are gathered outside.
You can tell that they're trainers because they seem like
they're dressed for adventure. And some of them have the
Pokémon by their sides, and they're kind of standing in a
line to enter the Fallville Crawl way.
Should ask them like hey what's this lawn for?
A trainer turns around. He's joined by a Pokémon that
doesn't really look real. It is red and blue and resembles
a duck, and it is floating, and it seems like it shouldn't
belong in this world. It seems like cybernetic in some
way turns around and says, ah, this is where they put the
Marvel City gym. I'm under the gym challenge a
few days ago, but something happened.
They had to move the gym and apparently there's a big tunnel
that connects Fall Arbor to Marvel.
So that's why they called this tunnel Fallville.
And I guess it's where the gym is right now.
I don't know. I just want to get my next
badge. And his little round duck
Pokémon goes and makes a sound like that can.
You make the noise again, please.
Yeah, what was that sound? It was.
Pretty accurate. Perfect.
That was. That was good, this trainer
says. We've been in this line for like
an hour. I don't know how long it's going
to take. I guess there's a lot of
challengers around here. I'm glad they have a backup spot
for the gym, but it's kind of hard to get here.
You need to have to either go through the volcano or you had
to go through the desert. It was a mess.
Oh yeah, we know. And we did both.
Technically. He says wow, you must be pretty
good trainers. Sure.
Yeah, they are all right. Yeah.
He says, yeah, at this rate, I don't know how many more
trainers they're going to fit in.
And it's true, in front of him, there's probably like 30 or 40
people that are waiting to enter this place.
Well, I guess we got to hold off on the Gym Challenge gang
because they seem a little occupied.
Yeah, we'd probably wait until tomorrow ish.
The trainer says, before you go, I'll tell you what I heard
through the Grapevine or through the the lawn line, that this
gym, I heard that the the the gym leader uses electrotype
Pokémon and he uses some sort of field effects where you have to
be ready to switch your Pokémon all of the time.
So when you come to challenge tomorrow, that's the rumor.
She could be prepared for that. Yeah, don't forget.
About that. Good to know.
Thanks. He says appreciate trainers
helping trainers. It's what we do.
And the duck goes. Can we get that one again?
Yep, Yep, all that again. So yes, the Fallville crawl way
seems very occupied. There is in fact a little sign
that's very hard to make out, but it's dangling from the the
top of the entrance and it says Mahville gym temporarily here
and all these trainers really want their batch.
I see. Who's Who's Pokémon are out
right now. Quacko.
I think that's the only one from Schmidt.
Just Quacko, yeah. OK, what?
Quacko doesn't have any sin who bean.
Barba Star's in my bag. Bean is in your overalls.
I mean Bean has a pokey ball now, but yeah I keep beating my
overall still. Does he have any senses?
Let me say he has tremor sense. Ever since.
OK, yeah, roll a perception for him.
Sure. Oh no.
Oh God. Oh no, someone's going to get
bashed. That's what's happening right
now, being rolled A10. OK, he is staring into the mind,
just down, and he seems very curious, that's all.
OK. He's not very like, he's not
full of expression, as you know. But yeah, he's right.
He is. He wants to be in there.
OK. And.
We'll get a Netbean. I'll pat us out a little bit.
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