As our story begins, a ship cuts through deep blue water.
Welcome aboard the s s Deichi Snatus, it's name inspired by a
once legendary ship in size somewhere between a large yacht
and a small cruise. It's leak steel hole quality
courtesy of the fine girders and Duralodon's at Lapras Mechanical
glides confidently across the surface of the Eastern Sea.
While known more for freighters and cargo haulers than luxury
cruises, Lapras Mechanical has begun to dip its toe into
passenger travel, and this maiden voyage is sure to make a
splash. Finizens and Palafins race
alongside the ship, leaping through the water with sparkling
cerulean grace, their splashes adding playful ambiance to the
small band playing on deck, led by a bow tie wearing cricket
tune. Dancing alongside the band, a
Ludo Kolo leads a crowd of children in a hula hooping
competition. They squeal with laughter, their
hoops spinning like Halos in the bright morning light.
The crisp fall air tastes slightly of salt and discharged
with excitement. And in the distance, just where
the sea kisses the sky, a distant coastline begins to
emerge. Faint at first like mirage, then
clearer with each passing wave. The Crimson ridges of Reversal
Mountain break up the skyline. Their volcanic slopes, veiled in
heat, shimmer as they tower above the inviting pale gold
beaches of Andela Bay. Clouds lazily cling to the
summit like half remembered dreams.
The deck hums with voices, laughter, and anticipation.
Adventurers mill about, some in sleek coats with poker balls on
their belts, others in straw hats with maps and guidebooks in
hand. Everyone aboard is bound for
something, a journey, a vacation, a reunion, or perhaps
the first steps of a new life in the wild frontiers of UNIVA.
A sharply dressed waiter weaves through the sunbathers and
spectators with a tray of citrus water, frosty iced tea, and
roused Berry parfaits. Trailing after him.
A winkle attempts to steal food off of people's plates,
successfully nabbing a small piece of roasted potato.
We follow it as it sails upward past flower draped railings and
flapping linen canopies. The scent of fresh tea leaves
mingles with the salt and sun as the breeze guides us to the
upper front deck. There, seated in the sunlight
with the whole ocean stretched out before her, a young woman
sips her morning tea and enjoys breakfast.
Melissa, will you please describe what we see all?
Right, you see a girl with pink hair, kind of like a Bob, but
with little space buns with ribbons that are kind of like
flowing in the breeze, a little harder than the breeze actually
is. Her outfit matches her Pokémon
perfectly. She's wearing like a chunky
cardigan, a cropped white T-shirt and a skirt, got really,
really cute shoes. She's drinking her morning tea
out of a teacup that she keeps in her bag.
She has like a teacup holder on the front of her bag, which also
has a giant bow on it. And beside her floating is her
new Pokémon sippy sinus tea. Amazing.
What kind of tea is she enjoying for breakfast?
What are breakfast teas? There's like Earl grey.
She could be having a matcha English breakfast, breakfast and
one that says breakfast and I. Don't know when it says
breakfast today, I don't. I don't know.
Does England exist? Gaylor breakfast, Yeah, it's
called. It's called Galerian breakfast,
Yeah. Yeah, Galerian breakfast tea.
Beautiful as you are enjoying your breakfast, the sharply
dressed waiter makes his way to your table and stops by and says
how are you enjoying your stay Mademoiselle?
I am enjoying my stay quite a bit, thank you so much.
I'm glad to hear it. And he sort of stops for a
moment and looks at Sippy and says, my, my, I haven't seen one
of those things in ages. Is that a sinister?
Yeah, she is. Pardon me for asking, but is she
the real deal? I've heard that the more vintage
sinisties have a seal of authenticity.
Beats me. Do you mind if I.
With this net. Do you mind if I take a look?
Sure. He'll kind of scoot up closer to
Sinisti and take out a little monocle from his pocket and kind
of tilt her up for a moment. And then after a moment of
inspection, shock starts to to grow across his face as he says
My word. You have a 100% authentic
Sinister on your hands. Do you understand just what a
rarity this is? I I guess I don't.
She's just my best friend. They say that the authentic
sinisters are over 100 years old.
They'll start to glance around a little and lean in
conspiratorially and lower his voice a little bit.
You know, if you have an eye for antiquing.
I have this in an entire exhibits worth of antiques from
Carlos and route to 1. Doctor Sharona, an archaeologist
in Mandela Town. It's in the hole.
Something about these antiques seems special.
Maybe once we're ashore, Dr. Sharona can give you a peek eye.
I'm not sure, but Someone Like You certainly hasn't an eye for
discernment. I can just tell.
OK, I'll have to take a look. Now, is there anything else I
can get you for breakfast, darling?
No, I'm good. Thank you so much all.
Right, Well, just give me a holler if you need anything.
Will do. Thank you.
He'll start to flutter away to other tables as you finish up
your breakfast on the upper deck here.
Is there anything you would like to do aboard the ship in
particular? Not particularly.
Am I at like the front of the ship?
Yes. Oh definitely do the whole
Titanic pose thing just by myself.
Amazing, Beautiful. As you make your way back and
from the front of the ship doing your Titanic pose, you see a
small stand with an old woman, her hair and a great chignon at
the base of her neck. And she's wearing, like, a
homemade crochet vest. And she's got an array of
different adorable little items in front of her with a brown
Pokémon. And it's got a little beige
Tufts atop its ears, like pom poms.
And it's wearing a cute little pink bow on its ear.
And she looks up at you and says, excuse me, would you like
to make an accessory for your Pokémon?
What kind of accessories do you have?
Or what? What kind of accessories can be
made? I've got all kinds of things
that you could make. And she points to various
objects as she describes them. I've got lace and satin and
different scraps of fabric and tulle.
I've got gemstones and little charms and we've got some
feathers and different beads and tropical flowers and you could
put them together into a little clip or a ribbon to tie around
your your Pokémon here. I kind of look at Cinesti and
I'm like, what do you think, Sippy?
Sippy will look absolutely delighted at this possibility
all. Right.
What are we making? A bow?
A clip? What what?
What are we feeling? I think she will make her way
towards some of the ribbons and flowers.
You would like to to start there.
OK, guess it's ribbons or bows. It is.
Oh, I should make her a bow that matches my bows.
Amazing. Would you roll a perception for
me while you're doing this? Is she shady?
First role of the campaign. How exciting.
Exception. What is that a modifier?
Wisdom. Oh well.
So my wisdom's -2 But I rolled a 17, so that's a 15.
Not bad. As you say this that you might
be able to make her a matching bow to yours, you realize, maybe
trying to to look at one of yours for inspiration, that one
of your bows is actually missing.
Uh oh, where's my bow? Sippy will also look back at you
in confusion and do like a shrug with her one arm, and the old
lady will kind of glance around her stand like, oh, like, oh, me
did. Did you drop it somewhere?
I I I can't seem to find it. Come on Sippy, we got to find my
bow. Time to retrace our steps back
to the front of the ship. And as you make your way across
the deck there, you notice that a small gathering of passengers
has started to form, some of them kind of covertly glancing
in a direction, peeking around lounge chairs under the bottom
of sun hats. Because at the edge of the lower
deck, a man stretches alongside his Pokémon, taking advantage of
the balmy early fall air and sparkling ocean views.
He's off duty right now but was hired as onboard security for
the cruise in exchange for discounted travel.
CJ, would you please describe for us what we see?
Since he's in proper uniform it's a rare sight, but he is
actually fully clothed in a security outfit but still
wearing his cowl. You see a massive wrestling like
character 6, two 270 lbs, all muscle, big flexing and while
he's on guard he's just doing push ups, doing full burpees
next to his hallucha. Just 1212 Power Vision victory.
Even even on guard, never off, always on.
This is Red Robin. And and what Pokémon is with Red
Robin? Hallucha.
As Red Robin is doing his little push ups, there's a sudden
shadow over him as somebody is kind of started to to walk a
little closer. And as you look up, there's a
man wearing an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt with star shaped
sunglasses on his nose and white sun black and the same star on
his nose. And he looks at you and he says,
yo name's Chad. Seems to have started to gather
a little crowd here. And he'll gesture over to a
group of of young ladies who are fanning themselves with their
little pokey Star Studios magazines and looking at you all
from over their sunglasses. Oh, what of it?
I'm training. We need to get powerful.
We're ready to go at all times. Yeah, that's awesome.
How about we have a little friendly pose competition?
You win, I'll buy you drinks. Yeah.
Always ready for the pose and then I flex and my entire outfit
rips off and I'm just in my wrestling garments that I always
keep underneath. Amazing, that's awesome, seems
to be his catch phrase as I've just decided.
Yeah. 3 rounds, 3 poses. We'll decide the winner by crowd
applause. What do you think ladies?
And I'm like, I'll throw a wink over to the the crowd and
they'll all cheer and giggle a little bit.
He will look at you and say I'll let you go first all.
Right. So we're going to go with Mr.
Universe poses. So the first one's that big old
like outward chest pump that just like flexes the shoulders
down just. Power.
Amazing. I'll describe Chad's pose as
well here. He's got a Pokémon alongside him
as well. It appears to be a red
crustacean with star atop its head.
Perhaps he's wearing his sunglasses that are star shaped
to match his crustaceous friend crowd aunt, who seems to be
waxed so he can lean in the sun a little bit brighter.
And the both of them spread their arms and legs wide in a
power stance mimicking a sea star.
And they're like the star pose. And I will have you and Chad
both roll a performance track. 14 for me.
OK, important question. Tia noticed this crowd forming
as she made her way across the deck.
Has she stayed to watch the post competition?
Maybe at least the beginning of it, because she's still looking
for her bow. OK, who is she decided to cheer
for from these first two poses? What does Chad look like?
He looks the way that a Chad would describe.
He's like tan, he's got muscles, he's got like blonde hair.
He's. Look like Jeff from Total Drama
Island. I don't know who that is.
Let me look that up, probably. Oh, I would say yes.
That's a very accurate descriptor for Chad.
You started describing him and I'm like, this is a even though
his name's Jeff, this is a Chad. That is, yeah, that's a Chad.
Would I recognize Red Robin? I don't know if Tia watches
wrestling, but I don't know if he's part of like outside of
wrestling. People recognize like, you know
how people like, don't need to know wrestling to recognize,
like the rocker, John Cena. No, I'm not that big.
You can roll a history if you want.
But yeah, I was going to say you can roll a history if you want.
Maybe. Maybe you've seen him in
passing. Be based.
On intelligence, that's 13. OK, I mean, I guess yeah, given
C JS description that he's probably not super big out of
wrestling. Like you may have seen him his
face before but you don't recognize the name or anything.
So what? What is?
What is Tia's type? We have to establish this.
Is it Jeff from Total Drama Island or this cowl wearing
wrestler you? Didn't put this on your
character sheet. Yeah, I'm honestly kind of
surprised that this didn't go into your character creation.
The only mental notes I had on preferences was both swinging
both ways. That was a lot.
She's she's bisexual. I didn't know that maybe.
She'll be here kind of the same for both.
Just like woo. This is fun.
OK, gotcha. It appears during this first
round that the crowd of mostly young ladies is cheering more
for Red Robin. Congratulations, you've run, won
the first round. Chad will look at you and be
like, nice job, let's see if you can keep it up.
Next pose. Yes.
Like a what is, what's the, the the, Oh my God, the game, the
game where you dress up and do do the poses.
Just to impress. Like yes.
Which dress to impress? What do you mean those?
Those poses go so hard. Pose 28 Does Red Robin have like
a signature wrestling pose? I was going to say.
That for round 3. Oh, true.
True. True.
Sticking with the Mr. Universe poses, go with the the legend.
The Mr. Universe. The legend stick stick it your
arms up in the air to show off the physique.
Just arm stretched out. Amazing.
Got to show off all the goods. OK, beautiful.
Chad's posed that he will pick Will for the listeners who are
familiar with dressed to impress be Pose 28.
He will grab his hands together and with a wide stance lean back
showing off his beautiful outfit which consists of once again
just an open Hawaiian shirt and probably swim trunks.
Beautiful. A fashion pose coming from Chad.
Maybe he used to be a model. We will once again rule for
performance. And if Tia is still here, who is
she cheering for this time? Looked up pose 28 and I was like
Oh well, all right, I rolled an 11.
Maybe she'll think Pose 28 is a little too safe and cheer for
Red. Racing OK, so we'll we'll add a
+ 1 to Red Robin's final score there coming from from Tia's
extra cheering. So I think that brings your
score to a 12, which is unfortunately not enough.
The ladies love Bose 28. They're going crazy for it.
They just they're they're so happy He he rolled really well
on that one. They just love Bose 28.
They they play those 28. They play the Pokémon version of
Roblox, which I'm sure has a Pokémon fun name that I can't
come up with right now. This. 28 is just so descriptive
for the listeners. I love that.
It's rock and Roblox. Rock and Roblox Rock and Roblox
the. Listeners are going to Google it
as great. Yeah, you can just Google it
like I did when I was like, so it's fine.
Like dead drop pose. There's one that's like you do
like a fucking backflip, right? Sorry, that's.
I I don't know, I actually don't play dressed in breasts.
I just like am culturally kind of advanced Chad had in in
response to his victory. Chad will will flex a little bit
and he's just like yeah. And that's what I thought.
All right final poses. We each have one win.
It all comes down to this. And he will he.
For this and. Then I start to Rev up like a
helicopter. I'm going.
To do my signature pose. And I spin around really fast
and then the wind starts to pick up.
It's so insane. And then I end on a giant just
massive flex. Amazing.
Oh, I rolled a 22. Amazing.
Let's freaking go. OK, Chad.
Will Was that a Was that a natural bat in my opinion?
OK, understood. That's still pretty sick though.
That's pretty sick. That's that's the sickest pose.
Chad will, for the big finale, do a backflip and land in the
splits. Because I think that's pretty
cool and definitely not and definitely not inspired by that
conversation we just had. However, since this is such an
advanced technique, he will have to roll in acrobatics first.
He could fuck it up, he could fuck it up, but he managed to
stick the landing and now he will roll his performance.
He can fuck it up or he can fuck it.
Up, that's what. That's what somebody in the
audience is saying. They're like faggot, but
unfortunately it's not enough as the crowd cheers loudly for Red
Robin's signature wrestling at Pose and you will triumph in
this competition. Chad will will look towards
this. Fans then I'm just doing the
number one chance the whole time just.
Chad's like, all right, I'll have to get you that drink at
some point. Nice job.
There's no way I could compete with an amazing dude like you.
As the crowd is cheering, they're all super excited.
They're like, yeah, we love Red Robin, he's so cool, amazing
wrestler guy. We got to check out his
wrestling. They will start to die down a
bit as a bit of confusion starts to settle over the crowd at
because the ship which had been quickly approaching the shores
of Unova has started to slow down considerably.
And there's there's some some confusion over why this might be
happening, as on the other side of the deck, a weathered
fisherman has taken advantage of the slowing of the ship and is
setting up his fishing rod. He's squinting at the water,
adjusting his stance like he's been waiting for this little all
morning. Beside him stands a mysterious
figure who's staring out at the sea as well.
During the ship's voyage, a couple of crew members spotted a
man floating adrift on the sea. In a raft, they brought him
aboard and let him enjoy safe travel to the Univer region.
Jacob, will you please describe for us this man?
So he stands at about four foot 9, dark skin, kind of tanned and
leathered from the many years he has spent a drift out at sea.
His face is covered in a long Gray beard that is filled with
various little shells and barnacles and tied together at
the end with a piece of seaweed, wearing a long tattered blue
cloak just over his body. No other accessories, no
nothing, just barely covering his like kind of mangled feet.
And that is Triton. And what Pokémon does Triton
have with him? Triton is keeping his Pokémon
inside a Pokeball because he understands it is a demon from
the depths of hell and he does not wish to unleash it on these
kind folks that just rescued him.
So fair, and I would make the same choice.
The fisherman beside Triton, who is wearing a faded red vest and
a khaki bucket hat with those like cool sports sunglasses that
dads wear, will look over at Triton and say you like you got
good sea legs son, not like some of these cruise layabouts.
You fish I. Feel like it's more than just
like a yes or no question with Triton.
That's totally fair. I just don't know what is the
moment is. It to be a fish or to catch a
fish? He'll respond with like a like a
if you've been out at sea as long as I have fish and men are
all the same. We're all cut from the same
cloth. The man will, brother.
Yeah, He'll kind of consider this for a moment, and then
slowly. Not some wildest words, huh?
Yeah, I think. I think you're right about that.
Anyways, would you like to join my cult where we worship Lord
Helix? What's the Lord Helix?
It's this thing right here. And then he gives like a knock
to like the shell on his head. It looks like a rock.
I assure you it is the crustaded form of a demon deep from
beneath the waves, ready to unleash his whatever.
It wasn't real clear on that, but he's real bad.
It means. That's so sick.
Hey dude, he's so bad and why do you worship him?
I'm just kind of lonely, yeah. Hell, yeah.
That's awesome. True.
Yeah.
Sometimes the division in the sea, they keep me company too.
And I'll tell you what, some of them I think are demons.
I think your Lord Helix say. I think he knows what he's
talking about. Cause some of these fishes, they
be demonic. They're evil.
That being said, I could use your help if you'd like to help
me with the vision. The big ones from closer to the
ship when it's slow like this. That's what the old salt say.
So you're just trying to get the fish?
Yeah, it's a nice pastime and. He just jumps overboard.
His intention is to grab a fish with his bare hands.
I don't know what you want me to roll for it, but.
Yeah, definitely for grabbing a fish with your bare hands in the
water. What would we roll over that?
That feels like athletics. I'd argue it's animal handling
or animal. Handling.
You know what? That's a good.
Point crudely handling Pokémon. He is handling the Pokémon.
Actually handling Pokémon, Yeah. Yeah, let's go with Pokémon
handling. And that's based off wisdom,
which is, yeah, you fucked up, Yeah.
You're you're a wisdom guy. You got it.
You're not. As fucked, not as fucked up.
That's four and that's A7. Okay, God.
The sea is a cool mistress. The sea, the, the old fisherman
will look over at you and be like, Oh my God, I didn't expect
you to do that. Can we use some help over here?
Can we get some help? And he'll start to to wave his
arms for some of the crew to come over and a nearby crew
member will come running over and be like, what seems to be
the situation, Oh my God, what is that man doing in the water?
And then take the nearby I'm what?
A life preserver. That's what they're called.
I was like, what are they called?
Life preserver And toss it out to you.
He'll just make a grab for it. This isn't the first time he was
rescued, right? So he's familiar with.
This Yeah. He, he knows the drill.
Yeah, Yeah, he's got it. OK, Yeah.
Like, oh, what are these again? Giant candy.
Giant. I like how he doesn't know what
life preservers are, but he knows what Candy is.
Specifically Lifesavers candy to be like, Oh yes, that's the big
thing of this this one particular candy.
Listen, he knew lifesavers candy as a kid, but no one ever used
the term life preserver. Yeah.
Amazing. OK, they are going to start to
pull you up. I will have you make an
acrobatic or athletics to hold on to the life preserver as they
are doing this. We are high rolling today baby.
That's a 5. OK, as they start to tug you up,
they're like really like struggling because there's
there's an old man and you know, they're not used to doing this
so much. They're really trying to pull
you up. But unfortunately, as you get
halfway up, you slip through the life preserver and go back into
the ocean. In which case they immediately
like, oh man, when we didn't need to.
Grab on again over. The sea I come to the sea I
return. We need help.
Over here there's a passenger overboard.
Is there anybody strong around? They will.
They will shout. Somebody needs my help?
Amazing. I just dive off at. 1st This is
it, this is the, this is the guys.
Please stop jumping overboard. No.
Hold the man I am here. You know, jump into.
Honestly, that's fine. Yeah, not even introduced.
Yet not even. Yeah, you're not even here yet.
Just go ahead and jump in. Yeah, OK.
So I'll grab, I'll grab, I'm in the sea, I'll grab onto Triton
and I'll I'll just start scaling back up the ship with.
All right. Yeah, I think that's a.
First first date there. That sounds like an athletics.
You old man, I'm here to save you.
It sounds like athletics, yeah. 17 + 6 and is, yeah 23.
Amazing. As Red Robin heroically jumps
into the water with a splash, grabs hold of Triton, and scales
the ship, bringing them both back to safety, you both get a
sense that the Pokémon in the water that perhaps this
fisherman was trying to catch are getting a little disturbed
by this double jump in. And there there's something
large brewing beneath the water that seems to be turning the
waters a bit and getting antsy. But before we get to that,
another passenger is passing by with Risk Purpose, a toolbox in
hand because she was given free travel aboard this ship in
exchange for performing routine checks on the engine.
And with the ships loving right now, she's figuring that there
must be something wrong. Richie, would you please
describe what we see for us? Yes, you see a young woman in
her early 20s from the Canto region.
She has large circular steel Gray glasses that partially
obscure the features of her face.
As a messy and disheveled head of blonde hair falls to her
shoulders, with her bangs settling in a disorderly fashion
around her spectacles, she bears the complexion of someone who
spends A minimal amount of time outside.
Not to mention that she's well protected from the sun by a very
oversized dark colored hoodie that falls well below her waist,
obscuring her possibly delicate frame.
She carries a heavy looking metallic toolbox adorned with a
variety of stickers featuring logos from various technological
and engineering companies, including Lapras Mechanical.
She is closely followed by a hovering Magnemite, an inorganic
Pokémon made of metal featuring screws, a pair of horseshoe
magnets, and a singular inquisitive eye.
Under the thick lenses of her glasses, she bears a focused
expression, seemingly not giving way to any emotion in particular
besides focus as she hurries down to the engine.
Amazing. As she is walking with purpose,
she is cut off as a small child kind of butts in in front of her
seeing her two blocks and says wait, wait Miss, Miss, can you
help me? Excuse me, I have somewhere to
be. But my my toy is broken and I
won't sing anymore and I need you to help fix it.
And she's waving around this little toy stick with a
interesting looking pokey ball on top of it.
I I don't have much time, but I'll I'll take a look.
Thank you. And as you take a look at this
little light stick toy, I'd like you to roll a history real
quick. Becoming familiar with my
skills. I am proficient in history which
is good, so I get a OK 16. OK, as you are inspecting this
little light stick, I will say you probably will have heard of
something similar before. The pop stars in universe.
Sometimes their fans have little light sticks that they wave
during their performances. And this particular light stick
is for a popular performer called Dirge and it is his
signature pokey ball on top of it that it is modeled after,
which is like a black pokey ball with a eighth note in the shape
of AD. Like the like stick side of it
is the straight part of the D and then the like tail of the
eighth note is the curve of the D and it's got like sparkles all
over it. Normally you think this sort of
thing would light up and it being the toy version of the
light stick would sing. But right now if you press the
little button on the Pokeball, it just kind of does that like
stacky thing when a toy can't make noise anymore.
And it's like. Does it seem like something that
I would know to fix? Probably I would say to inspect
it and to see if you can fix it. That would probably be like, I'd
say like Sleight of hand is working with your tools, or if
you want to roll just like an intelligence check with your
proficiency bonus as you're proficient with your tinkerer's
tools. Sure, a little bit lower this
time. That's 13.
OK. Yeah, you're able to kind of
unscrew it with a little screwdriver that you have and
take a look at the mechanics of it.
And it's pretty similar to some of the machines that you've
worked with in the past and is kind of similar to a Pokeball as
well. So you're familiar with the
schematics and are able to quickly fix it up and hand it
back to her. And she immediately presses the
little button and it starts to sing some song about traveling
with your Pokémon and taking the long way and you got to take
left turns and stuff like that. And she starts dancing along to
it. And it's like, thank you.
Thank you so much. Yeah, don't.
Don't mention it. And she will dance away happily,
waving her little light stick as it strobes.
My character will say, well, come on Gizmo, we got to get to
the engine. As you are making your way
across the deck, you are crossing a bit of activity as
another young woman searches for her lost ribbon and two men are
climbing the deck after having gone overboard.
Back on from the water emerges a Pokémon.
I would like. Let's have Triton roll AD 4 for
me. AD 4 you say?
He is. OK, it's a 2.
Amazing. OK, as a rather large blue and
white Pokémon jumps from the water onto the deck, slashing
and spraying water everywhere people are are liked, this
Pokémon opens its mouth wide and grabs the was just talking to
into its mouth. It's white whiskers branching
off from the sides of its face. It's got tiny little white fins
in comparison to its body and a crown of dorsal fins atop its
head, Darker blue markings all over its body, and people are
immediately rushing away from the deck as it flaps around and
begins to attack you all. We will all roll for initiative.
That's crazy. I got 11, I got an 8.
I got an AT20. I got a two.
I am just fucking high rolling tonight.
Actually I got a crit failed. Does that matter?
It was a natural. One, No, not for initiative.
This Pokémon is large and has a very big mouth and squidy eyes
and whiskers and is flopping around on the deck with a small
child in its mouth as it turns to Tia Tia, it is your turn.
All right, we're going to use Astonish on the the Beast, which
is make a range to attack against a creature doing ghost
damage on a hit on a natural attack roll with 15 or more of
the target. Let's see what we got.
Does a 12 hit. Yes, a 12 will hit.
Go ahead and roll your damage. Five damage, 5 ghosty damage.
As Sippy Vicinity will stick her little tongue out and waggle it
at this large Pokémon, it will be taken aback and it takes a
little bit of damage. It is now the creature's turn as
it will lock eyes on the Pokémon that just attacked it and spray
water at you. It is going to roll to hit.
That is quite good. That was a dirty 20.
I assume that will hit. What is the?
What was the to hit? Dirty 20.
Oh yeah, that's kind of hit. Just a wee bit.
So I could either how does like my ability?
So my ability is weak armor. When I get hit by a physical
attack, is it a physical attack? No, this is a special attack
that is. OK, but I can use, I can use
withdraw, which I can spend a reaction to increase my AC by.
Oh no, if I increase my AC by two, that will not fix it.
OK, then that's not worth using right now.
OK, that's fine. OK, we're getting hit.
We're getting it. It will spray you back, matching
your damage with five water type damage to Sippy the Sinisti as
the little girl cries from within.
Help me. And that will end the Dom Dozo's
turn. OK.
I was. Like how big we talking?
Have we determined whether or not the little girl has
commander? Let's find out.
Actually, hold up. Yeah.
Yeah, honestly. Little girl, you, commander.
Are you? Commander Ah Dondozo's massive.
This is this is on the smaller side of Dondozo.
He's he's taking up most, he's taking up most of the deck,
though. He's he's hit the deck pretty
hard and he's crushed. You know the the chairs
underneath him. Yeah, based on scale, it's
really interesting because he's like 40 feet almost, but only
485 lbs for 40 feet. That's light.
He's got a light diet. He only eats Tatsugiri's.
That's. True, it's all that space here,
Tatsugiri to be inside its mouth and make a home there.
Small apartment. It's my summer vacation home,
yeah. Exactly that will bring us to
kit with Red Robin the on deck. OK, Kit is going to turn to her
partner Gizmo and say Gizmo I think we need to kill this guy
and will issue Gizmo to use Thunder Shock on Dozo.
Is that a roll of hit or a damn? Sorry, nobody said it.
Said what? Oh the damn damn.
Yeah. Oh yeah?
Well, you know, Gizmo just kind of zaps and beeps.
How do I play this game? I fucking forgot it's been so
long. What the fuck is this game dude?
The DM in crisis. Yeah, like I've, I'm so out of
my element right now. OK, it's a roll of hit.
Amazing. Does an 18 hit.
Yes, I will hit. Wahoo rolling I'm assuming super
effective damage? Correct.
So we're. Going to double the dice.
Correct. OK, hopefully this doesn't
electrocute the kid, but we'll. See.
Well I would say if you want to not hit the kid, maybe roll a
dex. I don't know if that would even
help, Like can you control that? I don't, I don't know, I don't
know how skilled Gizmo is. They are level 1 so.
Gizmo's a little guy. Yeah, we'll Rolodex to see how
well you can aim this. That's a 19.
OK, yes, you are confident that this will not hurt the child if
you'd like to unroll your damage.
And that will be thirteen points of super effective electric type
damage. Amazing as Gizmo the Magnemite
zaps this Don Dozo. It does the characteristic
cartoonish thing where it gets outlined in yellow and you can
only see the bones for a moment and it will take a significant
amount of damage that will take us to Red Robin with Triton on
deck. All right, so me and my guy
Santo, I'm going to tell him we. Have to prep for our signature
mood to save this child. And then we'll have Santo do a
home clause to start to prepare that.
So he's going to just give himself a little Buffy buff.
And in the meantime, Red Robin's going to try to heroically save
this child from the mouth of Don Dozo.
Amazing. Yeah, so I'm going to rush up
there and try to pull the child out of his mouth.
OK. I would say that would probably
be an athletics or acrobatics. I think you're like athletics
kind of grappling the child in a way so.
That's a 17. OK.
I would say that you were easily able to grab the child, but you
are not yet out of like you're both kind of still in the
Dondozo's mouth, but you are able to to grab hands and locate
the child. Very good.
And she's like, save me, you gotta help me.
I'm going to get you out of your little child.
The cadence on that was so funny.
Little child. Does she?
Still have her her her dirge wand.
Yeah, I'll say she's still she's she's gripping it with her hand
that is not wrapped around Red Robin right now.
Amazing. OK, I.
Think that's it for me, Yeah. Cool.
That will take us to Triton with Tia on deck.
What am I saying? Everybody's on deck, ha ha ha.
Anyways, sorry. I've been holding off for like 3
moves to make that joke. So this person on deck, I'm
like, I'm already on a deck anyways.
Triton, seeing the severity of the situation, will rustle
within his cloak. He'll stick his hands in there
and he'll pull out a blue orb with a yellow, almost a
lightning stripe lines around it.
And he will say, I promise never to summon this demon again.
But it's desperate times. And then he'll begin to rub it
and he'll say, desperate time to help a little one.
But now it is time to free and run.
For now, you will meet the ocean, sun, a curse, a demon by
which you are outdone. With this orb, your end has
begun. I summon thee, the deep one.
And then the quick ball flies open, the animating laser comes
out, and it is the tiniest crabby you have ever seen in
your life. Oh yeah, that was amazing.
I'm giving you an inspiration for that, by the way.
Yeah, you are. That was amazing.
Hell yeah. Is that my whole action or does
the? Deep one, no action.
Yeah, the deep one can still move.
Yeah, what is he gonna do? Well, I got two options here.
So I think the deep one, he's a very grumpy crabby, just for
note for the listener. So he comes out and he's kind of
mad. He's like upset that he has to
be outside and he's not making any noise, but he's like
snapping his pincers and he's like ping, ping, ping, ping,
ping, ping, ping. You can tell he's mad he's out
here. And so he sees this whale making
all this ruckus and he's going to shoot bubbles at him, going
to make 3 consecutive ranged attacks.
We noted out that I have to call all three where they're going
before I roll, Yes. Am I rolling for one, then
rolling for damage? Or am I rolling to hit three
times then rolling? It doesn't matter.
It's up to you, OK, Whatever's easier for you.
It's. Probably faster to just roll to
see if each one hits and that just total the damage right?
Yeah, total the damage, yeah. Yeah, especially if you are all
know where they're going then doesn't matter.
Right. Yeah, they're all going to the
same one. Yeah.
So first one is holy shit's the highest I rolled all night 19.
Yep, that'll hit. Second one is dirty 21.
Yep. Third one is 15.
Yep, all three of those will hit.
Go ahead and roll your damage. All three connect OK.
It's resisted too, right? Yes, this will be resisted as.
Teacher teachers resisted. I was about to say that.
Thank you. Yes.
I was wondering because it is a 1D four of damage so I don't
know how we would cleanly divide that unless you just want me to
flip 3 coins. I think you just total and then.
Yeah, we'll just do that. Total is 18, so that's.
Pretty significant damage still, as the Deep One unleashes these
three powerful bubbles that each pop onto Dondozo's skin hisses
and recoils a bit from this damage.
It hits this. Can I get?
Can I hear that? What's that sound like?
What is it? It's it's a catfish, right?
So it gets his. So that's like totally normal,
right? Exactly.
It's like that's normal. Oh, like a count you're?
Right. He's like.
Yeah, yeah, I I can picture it now.
Thank you. I actually don't know what
Dondozo's cry sounds like it's I'm blinking on it right now.
He's like. That's the yeah, that's what
he's he says. He sounds like that right now.
Yep. OK, it is Tia Stern now.
I'm sorry, is there anything else you wanted to do with your
turn? Right.
I think you covered both of your actions.
Province just kind of like yell out to everybody, be like, get
back, get back. I've unleashed the demon.
Yeah, people are definitely alarmed by this and and if any
people that are around, most, most people have have moved away
from the deck at this point and are gathered somewhere you
cannot see any more, probably inside the ship itself.
Amazing. Now I will bring us to Tia's
turn. We're gonna go for another
Astonish. So we're gonna roll two hit
again. So that's a 15 + 3 to hit, which
should hit, correct? Yes.
And because it's a natural 15 or more the target.
'S gonna flinch. Amazing.
And then that's one D 6 + 3 damage 4 plus the seven ghosty
damage and a flinch. A beautiful flinch with another
waggle of Sippy's tongue, and Dandozo with a flinch from this
having been barraged by all of these attacks against it.
And is that all for Tia's turn? I think so, yeah.
OK. Now that we are on Dandozo
itself's turn, having been flinched, it will now have a
disadvantage on any attack rolls, skill checks, or saving
throws it makes for the end of its next turn.
And then if it activates a move that requires a saving throw
during that time, the target will have advantage on the roll.
Which we will do right now as it opens its mouth wide, giving a
view to Red Robin and the child kind of half sticking out of its
mouth and let out a very large, a very high pitched screech.
And I will need everybody to make a wisdom saving throw.
But you have advantage. Everybody has advantage.
So it's a lot of dice to roll out my Apollo cheese.
But you will all have advantage because it's been twitched.
The DC for this will be 12. Cool.
Shit. Kit 13.
Gizmo 16. Dirty 20.
The Deep 113. TM fails because I rolled A2 and
her wisdom is -2. Did you roll the span?
Two, that is with advantage. Oh man, I am.
I'm. I'm very sorry to hear.
That sippy passes with The Dirty 20.
Red fails with double nines and Santo passes with an 8.
OK, all of the people in Pokémon who failed will be confused.
He is lost. You're lost.
You're just like, what is going on?
There's wiped out where's wiped out this confusion.
During it, you will lose the ability to take reactions.
And then before you make any action, you have to roll AD 20
and on a result of 10 or lower, you have to hurt yourself
instead, and 16 or higher, you will no longer be confused.
That will be all for Dondozo kit.
It is your turn. So our level 1 action economy is
still 2 actions or like 1. Yeah, Yeah, I think so, yeah.
OK. I would like Kit to make an
investigation check to see if something is agitating Dondozo
in particular. Sure, go for it.
That's a nine. Yeah.
You figure it might have been the ship, like kind of moving
slowly, might have agitated it, maybe these two large men or I
guess, I don't know, maybe if Triton is very large, but these
two men dropping into the ocean might have disturbed it.
You're not really quite sure what exactly has disturbed this
large fish. OK, fair enough.
It's like a flat deck, right? There's no like stairs or
anything nearby. It's just.
It is kind of A2 tiered deck. You right now are on the lower
portion, but towards the back towards like where the inside of
the ship is, there are stairs to an upper deck.
OK. Thank you for the description,
but I actually think it's going to say put and then.
Fair enough. Gizmo, We'll we'll hover in
place and loose another Thunder shock.
Amazing. Then that's a crit baby.
First one. Let's go.
OK, super effective crit. Let's go.
Do I need to roll another dex to not ZAP the child?
I'll say with an add 20 you got it.
OK cool, so the base damage for this attack is 12 and I'm
rolling on top of that 19. Amazing.
How would you like to knock out this Dondozo?
Yeah. I'm I'm explicitly picturing the
Nintendo 64 Magnum by animation where they like hover and
they're bouncing in the air and the magnets are twirling and
gizmos like screws are going in and out and just unleashes a
massive bolt of lightning that seems like far greater than what
gizmos little body can actually produce.
And zaps into Dondozo's body as it flails about.
And it does the cartoon thing where you see its bones, ideally
when it flops to the ground defeated.
Then it also has XS in its eyes and steam is rising from its
body like a cooked catfish. Amazing Yes, you can cook those.
We will drop them initiative and the fisherman will look at all
of you gratefully as he was watching nearby and say wow, it
looks like we got. Dinner for everyone, no
reaction. No reaction that yeah, that's
fair. He walks away to Jacket.
He's like, man, they really didn't like that.
I'm actually not very hungry, but thank you.
I don't eat fish that I've met that.
Really got me. You also get an inspiration that
was very good. That really got me.
Triton will be like, oh boy, catfish dinner can't wait.
And then he realizes that he has not returned to the deep one, to
his orb of ceiling, and so he'll be like, oh God, the demons too,
don't swear, is it? And then he feels a pinch on his
ass and I'll go, oh God, it's attacking and the crabby is just
latched on to his butt. He's kind of just like running
around in circles with like a a crabby attached to his ass.
Pete comedy. Chicken Chaser.
Pete Comedy. That's beautiful.
Do you need help with that? Nope, Nope, I got that.
I got that. I got that thing right here.
Here we go and then he'll he'll do the thing.
The re the de animating laser little red laser shoots out of
the pokeball and it'll be like this is a magical or it was
gifted by by Lord Helix. Sir, I believe that's a quick
ball. What the fuck is a quick ball?
You know, don't worry about it. I won't.
Bye. I like the energy that one's
giving off. And kids going to go to the
engine room. Amazing.
As you make your way down into the lower decks, you make your
way towards a stairwell marked Authorized Personnel only with a
heavy hatch that clicks open with magnetic locks easily
opened by you because you have access.
Inside, the air is dense and warm, tinged with the faint
ozone of electricity and metal dust.
The floor is graded metal and the ceiling is low, every inch
of space being taken up by a labyrinth of sleek pipes,
coolant tanks and humming core lines that pulls with soft blue
light. A pair of massive turbine
cylinders dominate the center, rotating in perfect rhythm, one
branded with the Lapras mechanical logo.
Thick power cables snake along the floor, converging toward a
glowing central console rimmed with diagnostic monitors.
Most of the LED status strips blink green, but a few flicker
yellow if examined closer. A low warning chime softly pings
once every minute, a diagnostic quirk according to the locks
above the turbines. A suspended catalog offers
access to the upper venting system and emergency shut off
valves. Would you like to inspect
closer? Yes, please, really take a look.
In the meantime, Kit will mutter to herself, like for the first
commercial voyage. And they wanted me to be the
engineer. This seems like a little
ridiculous, but I'll figure it out.
All right, go ahead and roll investigation.
Not good 7. The first thing that you notice
is that towards the back of the engine room, one of the large
pressure gauges is hissing as it seems there is a release valve
stuck slightly open. OK, I will instruct Gizmo to go
over and rotate the valve or displace it back to its normal
position using their incredible magnetic powers.
Amazing. I will ask him to make a very
easy slight of magnet to check. Excellent.
That's a 21 baby. Yeah, get her done, Gizmo.
Gizmo easily goes over to the valve and with little effort
turns it and the pressure slowly drops until the hiss abates and
one of the diagnostic chimes from the center console stops.
Nice job buddy. The ship continues to move along
slowly, it seems. There still might be some other
things wrong in the engine room. OK, they are still yellow LEDs.
Yes. OK.
Got to investigate the cause, got to see what's going on.
OK, go ahead and roll another investigation.
OK, hopefully better this time. Much better.
Another 21. OK, as you follow some of the
cable lines from the center console, you see a relay
junction box with one of the circuit Breakers tripped.
Maybe something from a pressure imbalance or a power spike
elsewhere in the system caused it to be tripped?
OK, I'm going to assume that Kit has the tools for the job on
hand in your toolbox and we'll get to work on making it happen.
Amazing. It's just like a switch that
needs to be flipped so you're easily able to.
No, Yeah, make sure. No, make sure.
Yeah, like jumper cables and yeah, why not?
Make her box in the house and it trips.
It's like, well, I guess I need my wrench.
Exactly. No.
OK, yeah, if it's a simple job, Kit can take care of that no
problem. Amazing, a few sparks will kind
of jump as you flip the breaker back on and it's another of the
diagnostic yellow lights goes to green is it?
The ship seems to pick up a little bit more as some power
seems to be returning to the ship, but there still seems to
be something wrong. Another thing.
There's another thing. Well, we got to go check it out.
What are we looking at? We'll roll another
investigation, one final investigation.
Yeah, perhaps. I don't know, maybe there's
more. 11. As you spend some time searching
through the engine room, it takes a little bit longer to
find what else could possibly be wrong, as all of the like the
the circuit breaker that you just fixed and the pressure
pressure gauges, the various devices and coolant tanks seem
to be just fine. As you we'll start to discover
what exactly caused all of these problems to be triggered.
We will go back to the others on deck who are presumably still
milling about after the Dondozo attack, as some other security
members from the crew of the ship are kind of rushing, having
taken a little bit longer to get to the scene of the attack.
One of them will turn towards the three of you and focus in on
Triton as he points at the Helix Fossil atop Triton's head and
say, wait a minute, did you steal that from the shipment of
artifacts below deck? Triton will just say a simple
like. Nope.
This has been attached to my head as long as I can remember.
Isn't that long? Go ahead and roll a persuasion.
10. In response, the security guard
will cross his arms and be like, yeah, likely story.
You should come with me. I want to make sure we get this
checked out and then he'll he'll look over and recognizing Red
Robin, be like you should come with us as well.
And then he he picks up his walkie-talkie and says we've got
a situation on the front lower deck.
Could you find a nice lady with the artifact shipment?
I think one of the other passengers stole from it.
All right, both of you come with me as he will start to make his
way below deck grabbing is. There a tiny man with that
little black box. Have you never seen a
walkie-talkie before? A.
Walkie what? All right, your, your games
aren't very fun. You're getting.
Come with me. So Sarah, I'm so sorry for my
uniform. It got destroyed due to my
muscles. And he seems to only just now
notice that you are no longer wearing your uniform.
And he's just like, yeah, and, and and and.
No worries, we'll grab another one for you while we're below
deck. Do you have a size bigger?
I don't want it to RIP again. I feel very responsible.
Yeah, we should have a few more sizes for you.
Wonderful. Can I get one too?
You don't work here, Sir. You could hire him.
He's very resilient. I'm not going to hire somebody
who stole from a shipment on board.
No, he said he always had it. Did you not hear him?
He's clearly lying. What?
Why would he lie? Because he doesn't want to get
caught for stealing that artifact.
Does he have no honor? Sir, do you have honor?
He will say to Triton. Triton will he'll put his hand
back on his his Helix fossil helmet and he'll say this is
Lord Helix. He is here to await the
alignment of the stars to waken and re establish his dominance
over all the earth. Is that a yes or?
I don't. I didn't hear an answer to my
question. Oh yeah, you did ask a question,
didn't you? Well, I forgot.
You were the strangest man. Man, forget.
This is what I'm saying. I don't think he's very
honorable, Sir. You are the strangest man I've
ever met. I take that as a compliment.
It is the top one that's pretty good.
As the three of you are making your way below the decks TR, are
you doing anything? I'm going to ask Chad if he's
seen my bow. OK.
Chad will be like, what does it look like?
I point to the one bow that's still attached to my space bun
and say it looks just like this one, but it was on my other bun.
I don't know where it went. Oh, that's awesome.
That's awesome dude. You know what?
I actually don't think I've seen that though.
I I can't get off this boat until I find my bow.
The outfit has to be on point. Dude that like totally sucks.
I can like help you look for it. Maybe it's like below deck or
something. You're willing to help me look?
Yeah, yeah, I could do that. Dude sure I can like totally
help you I. Could totally help you look for
that dude. Thank you, I really appreciate
it. Bats eyelashes.
Don't mention it, little dude. Little.
Dude, little dude zoned. Sorry, he says little dude.
He's not. Too bad in the little dude zone.
As he's suggesting we look below deck, I'll go to look below
deck. Amazing.
You kind of are a little bit behind Red Robin, Triton and the
other security guard as they are making their way down the deck,
passing hallways with beautiful blue waves along them at the
wallpaper of the hallways, the air getting colder as you
descend into the cargo hold on the lowest deck of the ship,
lined with massive shipping containers and weathered crates
secured with thick belts. Some are wood, others reinforced
metal, and there is a shipment towards the back with different
stickers all over them, some of them with the Colosian flags on,
with the Univan flag, all labeled, shipped to Doctor
Sharona and Della Town, Univar Region.
And that is where the security guard will take you as you are
making your way. A young woman will start to make
her way into the cargo hold as well.
She has bushy brown hair and wears a white turtleneck with a
black hooded vest over it and leggings under her torn Jean
shorts with knee high hot pink boots.
And she says, I was summoned by somebody.
What do what do we have going on here?
As the security guard will point to Triton and say I think he he
stole from one of your shipments, ma'am.
Triton will just wave. Amazing.
And with that, we will return back to kit in the engine room
as I would like you to. Yes, sorry, go ahead.
Has the issue been identified or like the problem with the the
machinery that's acting up? Yes.
As you are able to finally identify what is most likely the
source of what is going on through the grated floor, you
see that a seared power conduit glows white hot.
A key circuit line beneath the left turbine has been cut
cleanly in half, as if sliced by an impossibly fine blade.
One end spits arcs of plasma lightning dancing chaotically
around it, and the other trembles with built up charge,
the pressure behind it like a held breath.
As you lean closer, you hear that a rapid clicking is
emitting it from a backup capacitor.
It's trying to route the power through alternate paths, but
this circuit is too critical. If the pressure isn't discharged
or the current completed in the next few minutes, the energy
will likely to stabilize. That means an arc burst strong
enough to rupture the turbine housing and likely take the rest
of the engine room and possibly the ship with it.
Oh jeez, what do you think Gizmo?
Do you think you could re channel that electricity through
the correct circuit or are you not ready for that yet?
Make a I'll say make an investigation rule for Gizmo
real quick. Kid didn't bring her PPE so
she's not ready for this quite yet, 15.
OK, Gizmo, we'll look over at you because he's been searching
the room as well and gesture down at something that he found
as well while he was searching. That is pretty close by to where
this cut power conduit is. You see a purple ribbon and
remember a very similar ribbon tied around one of the pink
haired teas buns that you just saw earlier.
As the scent of Galerian breakfast tea lingers in the
air, he will look at you and then point at the ribbon.
OK, we'll say how did this get here?
And Gizmo, how is this going to help with this problem?
Gizmo will kind of shrug his little magnet arms and then kind
of narrow his eye resolutely as he nods and starts to make his
way towards the charge to finish the circuit.
If you will let him. Yeah, Kit will throw her hoodie
on her head and pull it over her eyes to hopefully not get
blinded because again, she's missing her PPE and will trust
Gizmo to do the machinist thing I guess.
Cool. OK, Gizmo will slowly hover into
place to complete the circuit as the charge surges through him
and he spasms for a moment. Have him make a con.
Save more for me. I guess, but don't explode.
It would be so sad if you exploded.
He rolled A2. His. 2 So he got a four.
Gizmo No. OK, yeah, you will watch as he
spasms. Ultimately the power does seem
to be moving through him pretty quickly, but a flash of light
blinds through the room for a second.
You're able to still not be as astonished by it because of your
hoodie over your eyes as he is kind of spasming in place,
sparks jumping along his body, and the turbine will stabilize.
The warning lights will dim and turn green once again, and the
core seems to have been fixed. However, you will notice that
Magnemite Gizmo has taken a large amount of damage from this
particular event. He will take 15 damage from this
event. Can his sturdy activate?
Is that allowed? Yeah, I'll say.
It's still a random chance, but oh, he got it.
He gets to have the damage. So that rounds down, right?
Yes. Truncate.
It was 15, so instead it's going to be 7.
OK, that's huge. Way to go, guys.
What a nice job. Does it seem like Gizmo has to
stay there to complete the circuit or is it just like
repaired now? Yes, you will notice that he
seems to be holding that circuit complete and if you remove him
again it might cause the problem again.
OK, well, Gizmo, I guess this is where you're living until we can
make it to land. But I hope it actually like
feels energizing a little bit. Maybe it actually feels good.
How are you feeling? He seems to be a little rattled,
but he is resolutely holding in place but a.
You stay here buddy, and I got to give this bow back to whoever
it belongs to. The center console will beep and
if you check it, you will see that it will display a message
saying that the temporary reroute was successful.
However, the stabilization will only last for 10 minutes.
Oh God, does Kit know how much longer the the voyages?
Yeah, you probably figure you're about at least 1/2 hour out from
shore. Uh oh.
All right. While Kit is definitely a
skilled mechanist and tinkerer, she has no experience operating
on machines of this size and nature.
So along her journey to return the boat, she's also going to
try and find if there's any other engineer who works for
Lapras Mechanical who might be able to help the situation
because Gizmo can't do it for that long.
When Gizmo was slotted back into the Circuit of the ship in the
hole, these the cargo hole, you all felt the ship lurched
forward as it began to very quickly pick up speed again, and
the various wooden boxes around you slipped free from their
holds and a few crashed against the far wall as the ship surged
forward, spilling various artifacts across the floor.
You see some crystals and gems, you see ancient slabs of stone
with etchings arced into them, ancient weaponry, some Shields
and swords, some jewelry and intricate silver Locket, small
ring all spill across the floor as the ships are just forward
once again. Would I recognize any of the
writing on any of the slabs or any of the artifacts?
Go ahead and roll a history check has.
Has that language been revealed to me?
Can I make it an arcana? I was going to say yeah, let's
Arcana instead, yeah. I am proficient.
Oh that's awesome. And Arcana is based off int.
That's less awesome. That's actually way less
awesome. That made it an 8.
I'm a -2 in int. Yeah, as you look at these
stones, slabs and and things that are strewn across the
language is is garbled nonsense. It's just random symbols and
things that you really can't make sense of.
However, sometimes you kind of get an impulse from Lord Helix
about certain things, and a couple of the objects,
particularly the jewelry, seem to intrigue Lord Helix a little
bit, but you're not sure why. OK.
He's not going to make an action on it right now, but he is just
going to be eyeing that jewelry like like very slowly, like just
kind of making his way over there, like just very
nonchalantly like as everyone else is reacting, he's just kind
of. Fair enough.
As Tia and Chad make their way through the decks of the ship, I
will ask Tia to roll an investigation to see just how
how quickly you're able to move through the different always as
you look for your bow. What is?
Yeah, and I'll give you advantage because Chad is
helping you. OK with Advantage 19.
OK, Yeah. You were able to move pretty
quickly through the different hallways.
It's a pretty small ship. It doesn't carry that many
people. And you have found no trace of
your bow as you are making your way as you finally emerge into
the storage hole, seemingly at the same time as the woman who
has in charge of the artifact storage.
And you come upon the scene of the ship surging forward and all
of the artifacts tumbling out. Oh no, this is a mess.
Just then, Kit will emerge from the engine room, which is sort
of adjacent to the entrance to the storage hole, which will
prompt the woman to turn around and say what was that?
The ship just moved forward really quickly.
Is everything OK? Now we've got a problem.
I've I've got it fixed for now, but is, is there a chief
engineer on board? I can't do this myself.
I think, yeah, I mean, there's, there's other engineers on
board. I think what's what's going on
with the with the engine? I don't know.
I I have a little bit of experience I might be able to
help. Can I just summarize role play
that can can eloquently? Yeah, absolutely, yes.
And finish off with uh and Magnemite's holding together,
but he can only do it for about 10 minutes and it's going to
take at least half an hour to make it to shore.
She will consider this for a moment and say, oh wow, yeah,
that, that does sound like an issue.
I, I think we can double check. I, I hope this will be able to
help, but I think there's something in my, my shipment
that might be able to help. There's a, an ancient artifact
from the time of the Kingdom of the veil that they used to use
to stabilize during storms. Something with the, the weather
that can conduct electricity. We, we might be able to use
that. Would you mind helping me look
for it? Absolutely whatever would help.
OK, let's get going and she'll make her way back to the
shipment and be like, this is such a mess.
Everything's all strewn about. But first Kit will warily lock
eyes with Tia and say I think this is yours and hand over the
bow that was found in the engine room.
My bow. She literally picks up kit and
does like a spin around hug. So cute.
Over her bow being found. Kit looks very uncomfortable
with this surprise contacts, but leans into it a little bit
because Kit is glad to have done a good deed.
Thank you so much, however, can I repay you?
Maybe you can help me and this kind of woman find this
artifact. Absolutely, Chad.
We need to find something else that like Snap.
Yeah, that's awesome. You got it.
Yeah. Yeah, I could totally do that.
Yes, yes, Everybody who is searching for the item roll and
investigation rolling, lots of investigation, we're just
investigating. We're crazy like that.
Or I will say. I'm in the room, right?
Are we all? Yes.
Yes, everybody is is in the cargo hold at this point, OK. 9,
14. What was this investigation?
Yes. For Ant Awesome, that brought it
down to a 12. Yeah, I guess I, I guess I'm
looking at an 8. All right, Yeah, Everybody is
scrambling through these artifacts and you find various
other things. You find a music box, the kind
of the handle that you can turn and feed in a piece of music
with the notes punched out to play that is intricate and
wooden. You find a wooden flute, find
some masks and and war horns and various things.
But you're unable to find exactly what the woman was
describing. The security guard who brought
you down here will look to her and say, Miss, do you recognize
the item atop this weird old man's head?
I think he stole it from this collection.
And the woman will look at it and be like, no, that that
didn't come from my shipment at all.
Thanks for checking, I guess. And after a couple minutes of
searching, the lights will flicker out, leaving you all in
darkness save for the very dim emergency red lights.
I would like everybody to make a perception check.
Oh. God.
Perception check. I guess I'll wait for the
perception. Check.
Is it wisdom? Wisdom, yeah. 3020 the -2 is 13.
04 I got a. Oh, this is perception.
I'm proficient 3023. OK, Triton.
As the lights go out, you see something dimly glowing a faint
green around the corner from one of the crates that none of you
were able to check yet. It might be a Lantern of some
sort I could help you see. OK, Triton will just go and grab
it. OK, as you pick up.
Like hey I found this thing, is this doing good?
As you pick it up, you find that it is in fact a Lantern of dark
bronze, swirling wind etching all over it.
And where a Wick might be in the center, instead you see a core
of cloudy crystal pulsing faintly with a pale green light,
like a storm cloud caught in glass.
And it gives off no heat as you lift it.
As you expect a Lantern wood, but the air around it smells
faintly of ozone and rain on stone.
On closer inspection, you do see a tiny sliding switch at the
bottom, currently set at the left most setting.
It's very dim, you can barely see 2 feet around you with it.
Can I make some sort of check to see if this has to deal with
something with the storms, the wearing crowns of cloud and
Thunder? Still work.
That's probably an Arcana check. I like that the rest of the
party has no fucking idea what I'm talking about.
Damn, I didn't really think this arcana thing through.
Efficiency and intelligence just cancel each other out flat. 10
It cancels each other out, at least with a flat 10 you're not
sure. Sick.
At the moment it seems to be something related to some sort
of storms, but it's just a Lantern.
OK, and remind me, what was the artifact that the lady had
mentioned earlier? She was kind of vague in her
description, but she described it as some sort of cylinder that
the ancient people of the Kingdom of the Veil used during
storms to help regulate the weather, and that it it seems to
have some sort of natural current.
So I think this is the thing. I woke up to the lady be like
was this the thing? As you are approaching she will
see the light from it and say, hey, could you turn up that
Lantern? I can barely see with that.
Yeah, sure thing. And he'll just start like poking
in trying to like, find some kind of knob or something to
turn. OK, as you slide the switch that
you found on its surface, an explosion will burst from the
center of this Lantern. As in a burst of green and
purple. A Pokémon will surge upward from
within a monstrous figure, blasting jagged holes clean
through the decks of the ship. A split second later, wind.
Didn't mean to do it. Wind howls through the gap as a
shadowed form rises into the air.
Wings like thunderheads unfurl, it's tail of Violet nothing more
than a streak in the sky, cool talents, flax raking the air.
Green feathers shimmer in the light of an encroaching storm as
a pair of glowing yellow eyes gleam from above, a twisting
white mustache staring down at you.
Above, the sky changes, storm clouds gathering at an unnatural
speed, spiraling into a vortex that wasn't there moments ago.
Thunder cracks like a gunshot as rain begins, sudden and heavy,
forming puddles in the ruptured hole.
More of the relics around you topple, and a heavy urn smashes
against the steel floor with a sound like a broken bell, a
fragmented banner on furls, it's faded emblem poking and
distorting, and the rising water.
Well, I guess we don't really need Gizmo to be doing this
anymore, so I'm going to go get him back.
Besides you. This is not very cash money.
The woman plants her feet against the rocking deck as her
vest flaps in the rising wind. She sends out a poker ball.
A massive flame collared Pokémon with a pig snout hits the deck
with a thunderous stop. I didn't think it was possible,
but I think you've just unleashed the legendary Pokémon
Tornadoes and Bore. Let's go and the two of them
will dash towards the upper deck.
Oh God. Yes you way fucking got counter
picked bro. Counter picked dude what the
fuck it's fucked. Hurricane.
Right, like not. Thinking about tight.
That's why we need Gizmo to beat, yeah.
I better go get. Yeah, Kit, you were able to make
your way back to the engine room and see that everything seems to
be pulsing with electromagnetic energy.
And you find Gizmo dislodged from the circuit, probably
pushed out from the storm beginning, and he looks up at
you warily. Just because he relies on
magnetism to float around and this is a chaotic situation, I'm
actually going to recall him into his homemade Pokeball and
then we'll regroup with the rest of the party as fast as I can,
OK? Well, all this chaos is going
on. Can I take a moment to
investigate the jewelry that Lord Helix was interested in
earlier? Yeah, why not go for it, yeah.
I gotta love intelligence roles. That's another flat 10.
OK, yeah. I mean, it's a.
Good kid to look for you, that's fine.
She's got nothing else going on at the moment.
Yeah, they're really pretty and cool and there's a Locket, there
is a ring, there's various things.
There's nothing like physically about them that's really drawing
you to them, other than them being pretty and possibly about
to tarnish in the water gathering in the storage hole
right now. But yeah, there's something
something about Lord Helix that's like pulling you towards
them. There's some sort of energy
about them that's just weird. Cool.
I guess I'll just say what he do and you tell me the role.
He's going to stash him under his helmet.
Is he doing that? He.
Just like swipe him, yeah. He doesn't want people to notice
that he's doing this. Yeah, it's best to probably
avoid it at the moment. OK, then, yeah, probably a
sleight of hand. Good old fashioned sleight of
hands. Oh thank God that that I'm not
minus in. That's a 15.
OK. Yeah, I don't think anybody's
passive perception is higher than a 15, and everybody's
pretty focused on the other things going on right now, so
you're easily able to stash them without notice.
Thick. What's everybody else up to?
Red Robin and Tia. What the fuck was that thing?
She Tia fixes her bow. Chad, do you have any Pokémon
that can fight whatever the fuck that is?
It's just me and crawdad dude, but crawdad and I can handle
this no problem at all. Hell yeah.
This is normal tornadoes, right? I.
Thought it was. I thought this was.
Therian. It's therian.
Yep. I just knew it was one of the
genies, that is all. I know it is a.
It's all you need. You that bird, do you challenge
me? The bird The bird is like high
above the ship at this. Point come down here.
I will take you myself. Oh my.
God. The bird will will call.
You do not scare me. My iron body is invincible.
Meet me here. I, I'm going to say I don't
think that there's much you can do to intimidate a bird that is
so far away, but I will have you roll in an intimidation just for
like general like how everybody else around you is feeling.
Cool, I have proficiency in it so that is a 19.
Yeah, everybody around you right now is like, a little bit in awe
of, like, your bravado at challenging this massive
legendary Pokémon, and a little bit invigorated as they, like
Chad and the security guard, start to rush their way back up
to the top of the deck with their Pokémon in tow.
Are you guys going to make your way back up on dock as well?
Upstairs. Yeah, it would think so.
Yeah. Yeah, Geez.
Okay, as you emerge onto the deck, chaos reigns.
Passengers scream and scatter as wind whips across the ship in
vicious, unpredictable bursts. Umbrellas tear free, spinning
off into the sky, and chairs slide across this looking duck,
crashing into reelings and Pokémon alike.
The band has long since to stopped playing, their
instruments abandoned as the musicians cling it to anything
bolted down. A young trader loses hold of
their piggy as it's yanked upward and a gust flapping
desperately before managing to stabilize and circling back,
searching for it's human in the swirling downpour.
Crew members shout over the wind, their voices barely
audible through the roar of the storm.
Portside. Get to the port side, we've got
to deploy the lifeboats. One such crew member, soaking
through and shivering with adrenaline, throws themselves
towards a lifeboat housing unit, grabbing a steel bar for balance
as the ship tilts sharply again. They claw at the fastening
straps with trembling hands, finally managing to RIP back the
lid of one of the emergency lifeboats.
But beneath the tarp, there's a glossy, unmistakable sphere.
Red top, white bottom. What the The Voltor begins to
tremble, its eyes narrowing into furious slits as crackling
yellow energy pulses across its surface.
The crew member's eyes widen as he throws himself backwards just
in time. As a Pokémon, let's have a
shriek of static and detonates in a flash of blinding white,
blasting splinters of wood and metal outward in a concussive
burst, the lifeboat is ripped apart from the inside, smoke
curling up through a gaping hole.
Now torn through the hole, the duck shutters beneath everyone's
feet as the ship seems to take on even more damage, the tilt of
the floor growing sharper, the rain now driving sideways.
Coughing and slightly scorched, the crew man staggers to his
feet and spins around, eyes wild with panic.
There's Voltwarps in the lifeboats.
Screams erupt anew as passengers push past each other in frantic
waves, toppling over luggage and crates in Pokémon, trying to
find their friends in their footing.
I'm A choke from security desperately holds a safety rally
in place as it tears loose from its bolts, and somewhere above,
lightning strikes as turning his 'cause his silhouette backlit by
cyclonic clouds. The wind seems to be laughing.
I laughed back at the wind. That's fucked up, yo.
This is not very cash money.
None of this has been cash money.
Can I tell Tornadoes this is very not cash money of him,
Yeah. Definitely you have.
To kind of. You have to scream it though.
Yeah, you do have to scream the. One's very loud.
Yeah, if you want to cash money of you, you want to like roll a
performance to see if you can get a projection enough so that
he can hear. I have proficiency in
performance 14 + 2 + 3, so 19. Yeah, he definitely hears you,
but he doesn't care because he is a bird.
Yeah, he doesn't. Care, He's a bird, dude.
I'm just a bird with this cash money.
What is that? Can you explain economics to me?
Yeah, this bird does not understand economics.
You cannot reason with him. The kid is stressing, she she
says to herself. Dad's never going to forgive me
for this one. Oh man, not Dad.
As you say this to yourself, you remember something else that
your dad told you as he talked about the schematics for this
new ship, which is that there is a reserve inflatable lifeboat in
the bridge for the captain's use in an emergency, locked behind a
panel. It's probably would not be able
to carry many people, but you know where it's location is.
And as you think of this, you do see the captain running around
on the deck of the ship trying to help people, screaming about
the situation with both orbs in the lifeboats trying to to
gather people to handle that somehow.
But he doesn't appear to be making his way towards the
bridge for access to it. Yes, the shopping cart.
This is a bit of an alignment decision.
Yeah, this is definitely the shopping cart theory in practice
right now, yeah. Kit weighs her options and
considers like how clearly fucked she is whether she
survives or not, because you know, the engineering was her
responsibility and she couldn't fix it.
She realizes that tornadoes isn't her fault, but she still
feels guilty about it. Does she remember like how many
people the raft would hold? Yes, it will hold four people.
Wow, that's going to be. People of their businesses, but
no more than that, even when we get some.
Exactly that's. So weird.
Wow. We'll pull an ethically,
ethically Gray move, and we'll muster some confidence and
gather the attention of these trainers, Red Robin, Tia and
Triton. And we'll say, I think I've got
a plan to come with me if you want to live.
And she realizes that that statement sounds a little
dramatic and didn't really mean it, but she will grimace and
turn around and head over to where she thinks that the raft
is. OK.
And we'll follow you to the ends of the earth, little one.
How is Don Dozo still on the deck?
He's fried catfish. Right.
He is a fried catfish. He is.
He is fainted at this point. He's fainted, but.
He's massive. And yeah, you want to get inside
the donoso? That's crazy.
I'll say if I wake. Him up and convince him to give
some people a ride to safety. I will say he is fish, yeah,
he's a big fish. He is on the deck still it he
however with the kilting and everything, he's like very close
to falling off and back into the.
Water. All right, let's, let's help
this fish. All right, Yes, I'm.
Gonna try to wake this fish up. OK, as you make your way over to
the fish, I need you to make a deck's saving throw to see if
you can keep your footing on this slick deck in the storm.
Holy shit that's a 19. So is it 3021?
Amazing. As you make your way towards the
Dondozo, you seem to almost stumble up for a moment, but you
catch yourself and you are able to dexterously and make your way
to the Dondoso guy. You're trying to slap him awake
or or how are you trying to wake him up?
I was thinking of medicine check since I'm proficient in
medicine. Sure.
Yeah, go ahead. Do that.
Just trying to get him like even if he stabilized it like 1 HP,
just trying to get him up and like locked in to listen to me
because I'm about to lecture this fish.
Yeah, go ahead and lecture the fish.
I got to make the medicine check first.
Well, yes, yes. What is medicine based on?
Sorry, I don't. Have a wisdom, Correct me if I'm
wrong. I think it might be intelligence
actually, but. I don't know.
It is wisdom. I was correct.
I'm crazy like that. That's a straight 15 because my
-2 and my +2 for proficiency cancel each other out.
Yeah, I'll say that's good. And I think maybe you might have
like snuck some extra from your breakfast into your pocket and
you're able to kind of force feed it to him or or something
like that and are able to look at a tea.
Yeah, wake him. Wake him back up and give him a
hit point or two. All.
Right. You listen here, you big fish,
there are people about to drown. You're going to carry as many as
you can to that port over there. Go ahead and roll a Pokémon
Handling. What is that based on?
Is that? Risk wisdom.
Where is it? It's wisdom.
Fuck another one that cancels out because I don't have any
wisdom 12. OK, I will say the Dondozo is
not particularly receptive to this piece of information.
However, he will begrudgingly nod after a moment of
consideration. All right.
He's going to do it. He will do it.
OK, I was going to try to convince the same thing, but can
I still let people? Oh, I was going to say, can I
still like just say what I was going to say?
We're like Triton, like kind of locks eyes with Dondozo and he
says Lord Helix commands you save the people on the ship.
Yeah, yeah, definitely. If you yeah put one handling
check please. I love rolling stats that are
not intelligence 18. Yeah, yeah.
Before you could tell, like he was like going to probably, like
he was definitely looking out for number 1.
He was going to probably take a couple people in dip.
But with Triton's conviction, he seems a little afraid at the
notion that Lord Helix will smite him and looks determined
to take more people aboard. I let people know, like climb
aboard the Dondozo. This is the closest thing we
have to a lifeboat. People will look a little
confused but not willing to question too much seeing as
their lives are on the line and weirder things have happened
probably, and will begin to climb aboard the Dondozo.
Another explosion Will Rock the ship a little bit as another
Voltorb seemingly has blown up a lifeboat.
Quickly, Donald. Go, go, Donald.
Who is Donald? Donald.
Trident. Is going to follow Tia's advice
and also jump in Dondozo's mouth.
Go for it. It's.
Just gonna be like another day back at sea and then just jump
in there. Amazing, we must go.
Quickly and pop. Up but OK.
Donald Bozo. As you both are doing this kit
and Red Robin, have you followed them or are you making your way
to the bridge for the lifeboat? Kit delivered the cringy line
and just never looked back. So kits just go into.
Gotcha and Red Robin. Oh, I'm also climbing in the
mouth of the fish. Oh, OK.
Yeah, go for it. OK.
Helping people board the fish. OK, beautiful.
We must make case Donald Bozo. Kit, you are easily able to make
your way. Well, actually I'll have you
roll Roll a dex check 1st to see if you can keep your footing as
you make your way to the bridge. 6.
OK, you seem to stumble for a moment and hit the deck, sliding
a little bit further away from your destination than you would
like. The second Voltorb explosion
seems to Rock You for a little bit as you take me roll to
damage, hitting the deck a little bit, but you are able to
pick yourself up and make your way to the bridge, easily able
to locate the location of the inflatable lifeboat.
OK, I'll send out Gizmo and have him open the case.
Are you just doing that like in the bridge or did you take it
back to the deck? Yeah, didn't you say it was a
magnetic lock? Oh like the the boat itself has
a lock on it, not. Like no, like so the so there's
two different types of lifeboats.
The ones outside were more like rigid and kind of like connected
to the side of the boat. This one is just inflatable.
So like it isn't a case, but like you have to open it up and
it's going to be. Inflated.
It does have a pump, but it does need to be inflated.
OK, I Kit gets the feeling that if she inflates it in here, she
won't be able to get it out. So she's going to carry it out
and realize that no one followed her and then rush back to where
everyone else is. OK.
And you're taking it with you. Yes, yes, yes.
Amazing. Yeah, you meet back up with
everybody and you have an inflatable lifeboat with you as
people are hurriedly climbing aboard Dondozzo.
OK, we'll see that and think, you know, fuck me I guess.
I guess we need this throws down, no?
No, Yeah, yeah, she's going to hold on to it.
But like, there's a little bit of relief thinking that her
decision wasn't so ethically Gray because these smart people
found a way to help people out. People can Dondozo hold?
Let's find out how many like he. Like we said, he's pretty light,
but. Well, he's a small dondozo.
Right. He's a, he is a small Dondozo,
but he still took up like a majority of the deck.
I'm just trying to decide how big the deck was and then how
big Dondozo was. I think 30 feet is reasonable.
30 yeah 39.4 is like the what it says on the Bulbapedia so. 30 I
would say smaller. 1. Yeah, I would say I'm trying to
like logically work this out. How many people can a giant fish
hold? Like 40 to 50 people?
Some people. Did some people did climb inside
the mouth? I yeah, I would say people go
right on top, yeah. There is.
There's both going on right now. I would say like 50 ish people
are aboard this dondozo right now.
Excellent. Kit, have you inflated the it's
got it's like own pump situation, but have you inflated
the inflatable raft? Sure, why not?
OK. Are you climbing on board or are
you joining the Dozo project? Well, my question is how we get
into the water? You imagine that you could
probably like the railings are mostly gone, having been ripped
off by the wind. You can probably just scooch it
off the side of the deck. OK, Kit is honestly afraid of
Don Dozo and we'll be taking the raft and we'll express to Red
Robin, Tia and Triton that there's another option that is
less fishy. Excellent, we can attach your
lifeboat to the fish to pull us to shore.
It gives like a begrudging thumbs up.
Like, yeah, that sounds like a great idea.
Is that like a nice long string from the the raft?
Yeah, I'll say, I'll say there's probably there's like something
you could attach it with if you'd like to.
He ties one of his catfish whiskers.
Like, yeah. I don't know, on the side and
bashing into him non-stop if you're on the side, right?
Yeah, you've got to be on the Dondoso loves that guys.
No, I'm not going to tie it to the fish.
Oh, you're just. Going to hold it.
I guess that was thought probably not strong enough to do
that in the ocean. Yeah, there's a pretty big storm
going on. I don't know if you noticed.
If only there was somebody strong do you want?
Me to push it. No, Hold the rope.
Fine, I'll hold the rope. I mean those, those mouth, you
got to put it inside the mouth. All right, is there anything
else anyone is doing before Dondozo and RAF to shove off
into the churning waters? Triton will address the group of
people and say, everyone, I have a message from Lord Helix.
I received the message this morning and I will say Lord
Helix says fear not their Tempest.
The tide will take you, but it will also return.
You carry on and it's going to crawl back inside Dozo.
Rolla. Elbow did that since this
morning. There's a lot more to it, that's
just the part that seemed relevant at the moment.
Roll a performance check real quick.
I'm so glad I chose to play like a straight character.
You're all still fucking crazy, dude.
Someone kids negative charisma is going to come in handy so
much. Since like these fucking idiots.
That's 13. OK, Yeah, people are are
generally confused by what you just said there.
There is some small amount of comfort in what you said.
There is like a you know what if.
The crazy old man will say we'll make it.
I think we'll. Make it.
Yeah. It's like if the crazy old man
thinks we're going to make it, like maybe we'll be OK.
You know, we we are in the Sondos mouth and or on top of
him. There's nothing else to do.
There's no other option. And with that resume, you all
shove off into the ocean, dropping in with a splash.
As the churning waves continue to royal throughout the ocean,
Nandos are making his best effort to swim towards the
shores. As the storm continues to help
you with driving rain, and it appears now hail as well as more
Thunder wracks the sky. You can kind of hear some
murmuring among the people of the ship.
The woman with the shipment that you saw earlier kind of murmurs
to some people around here. Like at least it's only
tornadoes. Thunderous was here too.
They would start fighting and it would be a whole thing.
And, and then where would we be? And shortly after she says that,
another silhouette appears in the distance as another Pokémon
rapidly approaches, bringing a much larger amount of strikes of
lightning with it. A creature with white clouds
around its claws and blue skin, a deep blue worn atop its head,
similar white mustache, cruel look in its yellow eyes, and a
long barbed tail winding from behind it as the storm continues
to pick up Triton in all this chaos, you looked to the horizon
and just as lightning flashes, you see something very far away.
Besides the two flying creatures.
It's a silhouette of a massive Pokémon rising over the water.
It doesn't appear to be swimming or flying, it just is anchored
to nothing but stretching all the way from the clouds to the
sea, Anywhere from 60 to 100 feet tall.
You aren't able to tell from this distance, but it has a
bulbous crown like head and an uncountable number of tentacles
thrashing around it. Sheer enough to let what little
light there is through, but thick and long.
It's red eyes Pierce through the dark, seemingly gazing directly
at you. Your mind is immediately filled
with thread. Throw from your own instinct or
the influence of Lord Helix. You're unsure, and with the next
flash of lightning, it's gone. I'm sure that's fine.
That's totally normal, yes. There's nothing that succeed.
Stuff like that before. That's a problem for tomorrow me
to do all. Right.
As you make your way towards shore aboard this lifeboat and
Dondozo, you're safer than you would have been if you were
swimming, but they're not enough to shield you completely from
The Tempest that grows around you over the course of the
storm. Each of you are thrown from it
into the water and aren't able to hold on for long before
everything goes black. The sound of lapping waves and
cawing wingles slowly wakes each of you as you regain
consciousness. Your bodies are pressed against
sand, and as you look around, you find each other.
Kit, Red Robin, Frighton, and Tia on an unmarked beach with a
looming forest in front of you. Beside you, a small music box
has washed up along the shore and a backpack spills pokey
balls onto the beach. Over the trees and the far
distance, you can see dark clouds brewing and gathering in
the sky above the center of the region.
The rest of the sky has cleared, but this storm is dark and
foreboding, and that's where we'll pick it up next time.
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Episode 2. You really refer to someone
younger than you as mommy though.
I could. But.
Yeah, you could. It was really important that we
got that out of the way before we.
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Important. It was going to haunt me the
entire time I was going to. Roll.
We had the milk. Do we need to roll a MILF?
Check. Oh yes please please roll a MILF
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I got a 22. I got. 10/22 That means Taylor
Swift is on board. You Peppa.
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milk, I, I, I I heard a new term today.
OK. OK.
So cuz the the the horse girl racing game is still popping
off. For sure, yeah.
I saw somebody in Alpharet's chat used the term hilf.
What is so that's? No.
So that's interesting. No, don't make me make a Legally
Blonde reference. Around the ankles, Legally
Blonde reference. You got the best cricket shoes.
OK. I'm sorry.
Continue. Sir, Do you have honor?
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real quick. That's an awesome conveyance.
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Google What is honor? What is honor?