Welcome to the Cali Rex Game Corners Pokémon DND campaign
featuring Jacob as Schmidt with his far fetched quacko, Melissa
as Cindy with her Vulpix Soul Eater, Grace as Elodie with her
millsery cabbage, and CJ as Gimli with his rock and Rolla
Trevor. My name is Rich and I'm the game
Master and this is Dunsparse and Grandpa.
You find all four of yourselves outside of the Four Tree City
gym, excited, eager to take on the day.
What do you say to greet each other?
Hey guys, how did your how did your gym challenges go?
I was scared but successful for sure.
It was easy because literal 10 year olds do this all the time.
Soli finally won her first battle.
That's awesome. Congrats.
My new friend Torkel really, really pulled through.
Wait, you kept the torkel? Absolutely.
What did you name it? Toidel.
Toido. Torkel that tried to kill us.
Absolutely, it's misunderstood. He only wanted to kill us
because of the the vile. Exactly.
Pretty chill. You know what?
Fair. I would say not chill because
it's a fire type but OK. Not chill, not chill.
Speaking of not chill cookie has spicy bubbles.
It's a fire move I. Was like can you clarify spicy
for me please? I don't think I understand but
OK. With that being said, what's
next for the gang? I mean, we took a break from
these gym challenges, but I think we should figure out about
this whole file thing. I also want to find my grand.
Maybe we could go to the Weather Institute.
Well, that's on the way, isn't it?
Elodie does have a map. I was going to say I have a map.
Right. Can I look at my map and see if
it's on the way Melissa does? Not.
Yeah, yeah. What are you looking for
specifically on the map? The relation between two places.
Yeah, so like the Weather Institute in relation to her
grandparents Berry farm? Excellent.
Yeah. So as you look at the map, you
can tell that the next next route over Route 119 is the home
of the Weather Institute. If you go South from there, you
get to a junction in the the land, a junction in the
continent where if you went W, you would head to Marvel, which
is potentially where the next gym challenges if you that's
where you decide to go. Or you could go east and you
could go to the Berry farm. So it's not on the way.
It's you'll be heading in that direction as you.
It's the only way to go really, unless you want to go back to
Lily Cove, which you totally could do, but you'll get to a
point where you'd have to split up or just go in the opposite
direction. Take a detour, basically.
Since the Weather Institute is on the way out of here, we can
go there now and decide later what we're doing I.
Think that's a good idea? So you're all standing in front
of the Pokémon Center, and as we're about to March westward
onto Route 119, you hear the sound of glass being smashed up
in the residential area, followed by a large boom.
Should we go check that out? Yeah.
So we can only find out one way. As you approach the residential
area, which you haven't been to for about a day, you see that
the door to the witch's Hut has been torn off.
It is in the middle of the walkway and there seems to be
some commotion inside and as you're watching a window
shatters. I hope the old lady's OK.
Yeah, we should probably enter. Right, enter or try and
investigate and see if she's in there or what's in there or
what's happening. OK, who's in the front?
I think I'll take point. Role of perception.
That is A7, Yep. It's a little, it's a little
dark in there. The the lights aren't on as you
peer inside. You yourself.
You said you're like 411, right? Yeah.
You see a figure, humanoid for sure, and they are standing what
has to be like 8 feet tall. They're hunching over inside of
the witch's Hut, and it's hard to make out exactly what they're
doing, but they're standing at the corner of the room with the
bookshelf and they're clearly just tearing books off of the
shelf. That doesn't seem good.
I think we should stop this. Right.
I'm going to interview me. What are you doing?
This this figure ignores you and goes over to the shrine that Zoe
had set up with the picture of Casey and her partner and the
luxury ball that was placed on an altar and slams his first
down and shatters the whole stand.
Did they have any like Pokémon or anything or is that just two
guys? There is no Pokémon out.
You just see one person, one giant person, and oh, it's.
Just one guy. They seem to be dressed entirely
in metal, like if there was a knight in shining armor, but
like modern day they just head to toe are metal.
They're wearing black gloves, their ankles and knees and all
the joints their shoulders in their armor has.
You can see some black cloth because you can't really move if
you're entirely in case of metal, but they are basically a
metal person. It would probably make metal
really hot. What are?
You thinking you can swing on them?
Yeah, do you can swing on them. I would encourage that behavior.
I do choose violence so. I just hope solely can make a
hit solely. Try some Ember.
Roll it. A5.
Does not connect with this with this ominous figure occupying
the witch's home solely shoots out a little burst of flame and
it just smashes into the wall leaves as it leaves it a little
singed. This this 8 foot metal figure
turns to you and says don't intervene.
And he continues just smashing up the house.
He tears the refrigerator out of the wall, ears behind it leaves
the fridge on its side. Wow, sounds on a tear.
I am concerned with this but also feel like perhaps we should
investigate where Zoe is she? Gonna like to do tear up the
house. Well, I I don't agree with that,
but I don't know if we can stop him.
How charismatic do we think he is?
That very. Seems very yeah it.
Seems very stoic. Yeah, Patricia, who has been
sitting on my head like a hat the entire time, starts singing
a song. Like the move or just like?
The move Sing. In attempt to put him to sleep
or lull him to sleep. OK, sure.
This giant metal man is not fazed with this song.
He seems to hardly even take notice.
He just doesn't even care. He lifts up his big metal foot
and smashes it into the ground, opening up a hole into the
basement. Crap.
He gets on his knees and he peers inside.
He could get poison gassed, so I'll put Izzy out and just kind
of let Izzy get up in front so that way she's close enough to
poison him but not everybody else because it's a 15 foot
radius. Yep, and I need a con save.
It's a 13, notices the purple smoke billowing in and just
stands up and says I told you not to interfere.
He still takes damage, but is not poisoned.
OK, how much damage does he take?
One D 4 + 1. OK, that happens.
He's clearly on a mission, but he's a little annoyed.
He stands up and walks slowly towards the lot of you.
I need someone to make another perception check.
I'll do it since I'm in the room now.
Yeah, 12. You can see from the hole that
he stomped in the floor. As you peer inside you can see
dangling from hooks on the wall, really small rodent like
skeletons. I knew it.
I don't know what I knew, but I knew it.
A little more dastardly of this whole thing that we initially
thought. He's coming for us now.
Yeah, he's slowly marching forward, and in fact he he
reaches for a heavy ball on his belt and releases a Pokémon that
a few of you met earlier today. It's a much larger than you saw
Scar Marie, and it opens its wings in front of you in
shrieks. Yikes.
You guys have fun with that? Bye.
No, just kidding. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're we're
done. OK, at this moment you hear a
little chime coming from this person's body and he holds his
wrist up to his face and says what?
You hear a voice on the other side say TMFTMF, have you found
it? He says no.
Well, I think that's enough time.
Come regroup with us back at base as he sees that you're all
exiting. Are you going to stay put or are
you going to move out of his way?
No, no, no. We'll, we'll let him pass.
OK, Yeah, I'll, I'll let him. I'll let him pass.
Sorry. Yeah.
It's probably fine. You all step to this.
Pretty intimidating. Yeah, and he lets him pass, but
also, like, sticks her tongue out at him and like, he's
walking away, but like, doesn't actually make noise, but like,
makes a face in his direction as he's walking away when he can't
see her. This behemoth metal person walks
outside and in the daylight you can see that they are really
truly like 8 feet tall. They are very large.
His Scarmory flies up in the air.
He grabs onto Scarmory's talons and they fly off.
They fly off heading southeast. OK.
They were apparently looking for something, but they weren't able
to find it. Maybe we should try to look.
Yeah, I I think we should take a look around.
Or find the old lady. So she's a witch, and there's
some witch things going on in the basement.
I'm down to check it out. Yeah, I kind of want to
investigate the basement. Y'all go ahead first, I'll stand
guard. That's fine.
Yeah, that's cool. Yeah.
Guarding. That's what I'm doing, making
sure you're safe in case he comes back.
Thank you. Yeah.
All right, so this giant person,
very ominous, just left and this house is in a state of disarray.
Who is going to investigate? Are they?
What are they going to investigate?
I think do Gimli and I want to go down to the basement first?
Yeah. We can go down.
Do you go through the hole in the ground or do you take the
proper? Stairs.
Are there stairs? There are stairs.
I'll go to the stairs. I'll jump through.
That OK, Gimli, roll a Dexterity check. 18. 18 Yeah, you're fine
yeah, you elegantly land on the basement floor I'm.
Going to collab. Yeah, LED meets meets Gimli down
in the basement. It's true, there is a freezer
down here, and hanging on the wall is a series of Pokémon
skeletons. They're all pretty small.
Yikes. There is also large barrels with
an herbal smell coming from them.
I open a barrel. Sure, you open the barrel and
it's full of tea. There's lots and lots of tea in
here. All the tea.
Interesting. Can I perhaps pocket a little
handful of it? Sure, go for it.
Yeah. Do I have any flasks or
anything? I can.
I'm gonna do that. Some tea.
Yeah, it's the same mix that was kept in the jar upstairs.
Tons of tea. It's just tea leaves and then
mixed berries. So are we in like a freezer or
is there a freezer in here? There is a freezer.
OK, OK. And I I assume it's sealed right
now. Mm hmm.
OK. Do we want attempt to crack that
open? Sure, go for it.
All right. Yeah, I'll give it a go.
I'll open it up. OK, doesn't require a check.
Cool. It's full of meat.
It's full of raw meat. You.
Know like roughly the size of this raw meat?
You could roll a check and see if you can figure out what it
is. OK, I guess this would be like a
perception type of thing. Investigation because you're
looking at it, trying to figure out about it. 12.
This is you're not sure exactly what, but this isn't like your
classic fair mill tank beef. This is gamey meat.
This is like, not stuff that is usually eaten by people.
Well, that might explain the skeleton somewhat, but I don't
really know why you would keep this skeletons, that seems
weird. What's Schmidt and Cindy doing
upstairs? Cindy is looking around upstairs
like she's probably a little freaked out by the basement.
So she's like, well, let me just look around upstairs.
So should I roll like perception just to see if there's anything
important? Upstairs.
Yeah, you're in. You're in the bedroom.
I got A7. OK, it seems like an old lady's
bedroom. The bed is all tucked very
neatly. And if when you run your hand
over just to like feel the fabric, feel if anything's
weird, it's very dusty. It's weird because if this is
her bedroom, wouldn't she sleep? Schmidt is terrified and in the
doorway. Give me a perception 17.
So you notice that the majority of the inside is broken or
disturbed or something. There's books all over the
place, the table is smashed in half, the bookshelf is off the
wall, there's a hole in the floor, the fridge got pulled off
the wall and it's slammed open and as you look inside you see
that there's no food. It is an empty fridge.
It seems like the only part of the house that was yet
undisturbed was the counter where the tea is stored.
So like, the tea was entirely untouched and that's the only
thing that was untouched. Pretty much the glass tea jar is
sitting on the counter where you last saw Zoe serve your tea
from. Suspicious tea.
I feel like Cindy would like peek her head over the hole into
the basement. Like, hey guys, the bed's dusty.
I don't think Zoe sleeps very much.
Or at. All what was?
That oh. OK, Mitt's gone.
She's a. Vampire guy Oh.
Boy, Schmitt's just like, Nope, I'm out.
Or at all. We're done in the basement.
We'll rejoin upstairs. Quick memory question.
We went to the house with Sam, right?
Yes. Did.
Sam Shay, she knew this person or I think Sam, Any recollection
of her? Of this person.
Yeah, like kind of like acquaintance.
More than not like personally, but like kind of like knew of
this old lady because we were like in going to investigate.
So like, she was there with us, I think.
That'd be a good person to ask a question.
OK, I would agree and I'm. Yelling this from outside the
house. I'm like, I'm like, it's four
tree city, right? So the house is like up on a
like a tree. Yep, you're like.
I like fully climb down the ladder and I'm like yelling from
the outside. OK, great.
We should pick the fridge back up though.
The empty fridge. Well.
I think we should probably. Leave it like the.
Crime scene for the police when they arrive.
Maybe, yeah, we should kind of report that this happened when
we get back. That's true.
And leave it as is. Yeah.
But the cold air? Was it plugged in like it had
nothing in it? So, Schmidt, you're like halfway
down the tree, right? I'm like fully down the tree,
yeah. OK, role of perception.
Eight, yeah. You don't notice anything.
OK, cool. I'm.
Worried guys. So I guess we can start working
our way out. Just right before we leave, did
anybody investigate like the remains of like her shrine, if
there was anything in there? Can I do that real quick?
Sure. Seven.
Yeah, there's all the little scrapbooks, photo albums.
They're all kind of strewn about.
There's a bunch of Polaroids that are scattered all over the
ground. The main photo that was framed
at the top of the the little shrine is on the ground.
The glass is shattered. You once again look at it and
you see that her partner, who was described as Casey the same
photo, gleefully holding up a little fox Pokémon.
The luxury ball that was on the stand is shattered.
As a novice trainer, you have an understanding that when this
Pokeball was broken, there was nothing in it.
OK, well that's all I wanted to do.
So we can we can leave the. Truth.
So do we stop at the police station before we go to the
Pokémon Center? Yeah, as we're all leaving the
the the scene of the crime, you notice people who are dressed in
police uniforms, they're running up to investigate.
Yeah. It seems like all the neighbors
are like peeking out their windows thinking like what's
going on? Yeah.
Nothing. Nothing to see here.
Right, we should explain the situation to them.
Yeah, probably. Or as a collective, we're
looking a little suspicious right now 'cause we were the
first. Yeah, maybe it's like
precariously dangling from the tree the the lot of you are like
walking out of the house that's been destroyed and the police
run up and they say, halt, what are you doing?
I'm leaving so if you all wouldn't mind.
You're not going anywhere and they have an arcanine step in
front of you. OK.
I guess to the police, yeah, there was a very tall person in
this house destroying everything.
We were just checking to see if there was anybody in there who
needed help or anything. Yeah.
Yeah, we just visited her earlier.
Was it today? No, that was yesterday, right?
For. Timeframe.
Just to check, just to check on timeframe, OK.
The police peek inside and they see the the wreckage.
They're like, who would have done that so quickly?
I don't. I don't believe you.
You. Should be I mean.
This is this is this is easy to explain.
This is easy to explain. We came into the house and there
was this giant metal man inside. And then so as we the man got a
phone call that said TMF and then he he got on a giant like
larger than normal Skarmory and then he flew away.
Roll up Persuasion 16. Yeah, they buy it.
It's pretty charismatic. And the police, they, they they
pull out a little notebook and they're like, yeah, all right,
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then there's a neighbor
that's out the window. And they're like, I saw it too.
They're OK. And they say thank you.
And then another neighbor pipes up and says, I know we should
never have trust her. We knew something like this was
going to happen. I'm point at that person and I'm
like my guy. Zoe is great, we like Zoe.
Do we though? She had good tea.
Makes good tea. The tea was very good.
I'm sauce of the tea now. I'm yeah, I'm kind of sauce of
the tea. I'm going to be honest.
The best kept secrets are told over tea, I feel.
Like that's going to be important.
The tea? Well, she's got barrels of it.
Don't tell the police this, but I did steal so it's OK to
investigate later. Yeah.
The The arcanine that cut off Schmidt stands down, and the
police say, well, you better get out of here before you implicate
yourselves. Absolutely.
Good idea. Thank you, Officer.
Yeah. Thank you.
I guess we don't think of the station.
Let's go check in with Sam. All right, Yeah.
You all waltz into the Pokémon Center and you see Sam, She's
sitting at a table in the lobby, and she's got a screwdriver out
and she's fiddling with some sort of device.
It looks like a communication device or something.
She's seems like she's whenever she's by herself, she's just
messing with technology. She says, oh hey, you're all
back. How?
How'd it go? You would not believe what you
smell. Some splainin to do.
We won the gym challenge. But Zoe's house is in shambles.
Sam is rightfully a little overwhelmed from the joyous news
that you won the gym challenge and then Zoe's house being in
shambles and then Schmidt saying you have some explaining to do.
She's like, OK, slow down, one thing at a time.
What? Well, first we won the gym
Challenge, but then some crazy stuff happened.
OK. Do you, just for the sake of
brevity, do you just explain to her what?
Yeah, explain her the update her on the situation and then
Schmidt can start Grillinger. She says wow, that sounds wild.
I'm glad you're all safe. You didn't figure out what that
guy's name was or anything? He wasn't very friendly, not
really a conversationalist. Definitely not talkative.
But he didn't hurt you though. No.
We're phone probably. Would have if he didn't get that
phone call. Anyways, what's your connection
to the Witch Lady? She looks over at you and she
says I don't know. I've just been through town a
couple times and I've heard about her.
My first time meeting her was with you guys if since there's a
lot of suspicion going around and I know that not a lot of us
have done a ton of DND. If you think someone is SUS,
there's a stat that you can use. It's called insight.
You can roll insight and you can get some information on about,
you know, just like a lie detector, more or less.
OK, I believe her. I'm just saying SUS.
OK, you're not going to make a check.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, she says.
All right, Yeah, I'm. I'm telling you the truth.
Are you going to go back and check it out or where we going
from here? I mean, I think we should take
the vial to the weather center, got to figure out what's
happening there or the institute either way.
The institute would be the right place to check out those tea
samples we got or somewhere else we should just hold on to them
wait. What do you mean tea samples?
We got if there was a lot of tea in the basement of Zoe's house,
so. You took things from the Witch's
house. Yeah.
Why would you do that? Throw it out now.
Could be, I don't know. It could be.
It's fine. It's not going to do anything to
us. It's.
Pretty good tea. Sam says, yeah, that tea is
really good. She Sam speaks up and says I'd
be happy to join you on on whatever you're doing here in
for tree, but I do have to ask. My mobility is a little impaired
and I got a call and my boss would like to see me back in
Mallville if we're going to head over that way.
If I may, please ask that you can escort me through Route 119
at least until we get to the river and I can probably make it
there myself. Sure.
Yeah. Yeah.
She says great, and then she packs up her stuff and she
hobbles along beside you and says where we going first?
None. Of us have like any Pokémon that
could like carry her, right? All of her stuff too, baby.
I mean, no, she I could, she can ride on Turkle probably It would
take a minute, but. Ride on a turtle.
Nice and slow. Yeah, yeah, The ride she, she
wants to ride on a turtle. She.
She's mobile, she just kind of hops along, you know?
Right. It's like what's faster, the
turtle or personal 1 like? She can definitely walk, she
just can't run. OK.
So that's why having other trainers around is a really
nice, nice thing, yeah. It's really useful.
We should probably. Where do we think?
Do we want to take the vile thing too?
Because that's the critical thing.
Do we want to go? We never been to the Weather
center. We've only been to the
Institute. The right of the.
Institute, Yeah, yeah. So we could take it there and
see because it had an effect on Torkel.
So like they might want to know about that information.
And the weather center was like more inclined to worry about
like the harsh sunlight and stuff that was happening.
That was because Circle Torkel was like supercharged, right?
At least I think so, like maybe the institute's better.
OK. I think we're probably going to
go to the institute then. The right of learning.
Yeah, the right of learning. OK, you hobble on back over the
the wooden walkways. Sam needs a little bit of help
going up and down the ladder, but besides that, she's fine.
There's a bunch of personnel running around doing
experiments. There's a Pokémon that is
literally a ball and is red on the top, white on the bottom,
and it is just shocking a pole. And you see Professor Hemlock
saying yes, yes, more voltage, incredible, yes, and this orb is
just going full Torb. It's just shocking, this pole.
Boy Professor. In the neighborhood.
He says not now, just a minute and Voltorb goes Voltorb and
keeps just shocking and shocking.
And then at the top of the pole a little light bulb goes Ding.
And he says wonderful, another successful experiment.
Now what can I help you with? So there was a.
We figured out what was causing the hot weather was a very large
Turkle that was being influenced in some way we guess by this
device. So we were hoping maybe, you
know, you might be able to check it out.
OK, Do you hand it over? He says.
Oh, very interesting, very interesting.
I've, I've seen these occasionally when they're
generally used as medical devices on very large Pokémon.
They're they're injectors, more or less.
If you see it like a needle and a syringe.
That's, that's exactly what's going on here.
It's very interesting though, because the pump that seems to
push the liquid into the specimen is locked.
It looks like it's, once it gets fully inserted, it can't get
pulled out. So that's very interesting.
And he flips it around and spins it around and he says, oh, NRG,
what do you think that means? We were hoping you right now.
He says yeah, never heard of it and hands it back over to you.
Would you like to look at the original specimen?
Cuz I just show him the torkle that was originally big.
Show him Toidel. He says I'm a little busy.
I have lots of important things going on, but let me take a
look. And he kneels down and he looks
at Torkle and he like moves its neck around.
He lifts up its foot. He says yes, yes, some good
quality Torkle if I say so myself.
And he says now back to work. And he says Voltorp, you're up.
And Voltorp goes Voltorb and keeps shocking this pole that
has the light bulb on it. OK.
Thank you for your talk, Professor.
Hopefully see you all soon. All right, guys.
So I think maybe the the weather center might know about the
energy thing, right? Maybe.
Yeah, let's go there maybe. At least we can sit there next,
yeah? At least we can get money for
the Pokémon that we call it too. Route 119 is also a pretty
tropical route. It rains most of the time, and
there's a very, very large river that runs through it, which is
something that Cindy's familiar with.
However, Cindy hasn't been here in a while, and she notices that
the riverbed is basically empty, much like it was on Route 120.
There's a small Creek starting to form in the river.
Because it's currently raining on this route, we all March
forward and head down the hill. Since the Four Tree City is atop
a very high elevation, I need Gimli to roll a perception.
That one. That one.
Yeah. OK, Yeah.
Gimli is just kind of thrown off by the rain and he stumbles.
He stumbles down into the dry Creek bed.
I need a Dexterity saving throw. 5.
Five. He tumbles right in to a stocky
red haired minor woman. She's holding a pickaxe and
Gimli takes AD 6 of damage as part of the fall.
He lands very awkwardly. 01 Perfect.
That's a good one. Yeah, good, good.
And who is it? None other than Alyssa, a fellow
miner that you remember from setup, she says.
Oi gimbley, you took quite the fall there.
Are you OK? Alyssa no, I'm fine.
Up, fine. I've taken worse, you know that.
She, she looks like she says Gimbley did.
Did you bring your pickaxe? Of course I bring it everywhere.
I got to show you something. This is incredible.
You're down in the dry. You're you're in the dry Creek
bed. And she takes you over to the
wall that you fell, that you careened down.
And you can see in the sediment there is strange rocky shapes.
She says, now look, this. No one usually accesses this
river ever. But because of the drought, that
seems like it's ending just now. And she holds out her hand and
it collects some water. She says, just for a little bit
longer, we can take a look at this now.
Now look. And she, she pulls out from her
pocket what seems to be a Pokémon fossil.
She says there's some rare ancient fossils down here.
If you brought your pickaxe, you should definitely give it a
swing and see if you can find anything.
Let's. Go.
Are you going to inform your party about what you've just
learned? Guys, I got to suck digging.
There's fossils down here. What?
What do we we have the.
I'm too dead. Because it takes the thing to
the. Not very good at digging.
It's time for me to dig. This is my thing.
Give me, I'd like grab Patricia from on top of my head and then
I like look at her and I'm like, Patricia, are you any good at
digging? And Patricia's like, uh, uh.
And then I put Patricia back on my head.
Gimli give me a dig. Give me like an advantage
athletics check with your pickaxe.
You take a strike into the the Creek sandy sediment bed and
over over eons it's been compacted into the sandstone.
Basically you hit it in just the right spot that a small cavern
opens up that you, at 4 foot 11 could barely crawl through.
Do you intend to go in it? Of course I do.
All right, let's let's move this to pull aside.
This is really fun. Are you down?
Yeah. Absolutely gambling.
You crawl into the cavern and with the light filtering through
from the hole that you just blew through, you find yourself in a
very strange clearing in the rock.
It is about 10 feet tall. It's about 15 feet around and in
the center on a little elevated pedestal.
It's a circle of rocks, and in that circle of rocks is an Oval
shape. It is sitting on a bed of
ancient dried grasses and pebbles.
Whoa, OK, I guess I'll roll perception.
You have to take a better look around.
Sure. Yeah, yeah, they.
Definitely want to know about the circle thing.
I got a 10. You can't.
You can't detect much. This is like a small Chamber of
some sort. Seems very ancient, untouched
for a long time. And in the center of this room,
this is not a rock. You don't know what it is, but
it's not a mineral. Does it feel like attached to
anything? Like could I go try to get it?
You have to check. OK, OK.
I have to check like perception to see if it's like attached and
stuff. Is that what we're looking?
At no, you can just go and grab it.
OK, yeah, I'll like him to grab it.
OK, you pick it up. You can see now that it's closer
to your face. It is green in color, it's Oval
shaped, and it's strangely warm. OK, I guess I'll remove it and
take it with me because there's nothing else really.
It's just the ancient grass and like that thing basically on a
shrine, right? Pretty much.
OK, yeah, let's let's make moves.
OK. Do you head back out?
Absolutely. OK, let's move to the other
room. You all witness as Gimli steps
out of a hole in the side of the Creek bed and he's carrying a
about 1 foot, like 1 1/2 foot large Oval shape.
It is green colored. And Alyssa says, oy, what'd you
get there? I've no idea what this is, but
it looks amazing. She says that that doesn't look
like any fossil that I've ever seen.
No, never. Let's just bring it up to bring
it back up. I should get this.
Investigated. It's beautiful.
Look at you go. Does Sam know what this is?
Yeah, she could make a check, Sam says.
Whoa, you found that inside the rock?
In in that cave, Yes. Do you ever need to do this is?
She rolled OK, she said. Yeah, that's that's not a rock.
I think that's that's an egg, she says here and she pull goes
into her bag and she pulls out a little disc.
It's like a frisbee shaped thing.
She twists it counterclockwise and proof it expands.
She says here I I picked this up down in Malda the last time I
was there. This is an egg incubator.
Why don't you try to put it in there?
OK, places it inside. Great.
Roll AD 100. OK, let.
Me 46. With you feeling it again,
putting more pressure on it because you're being gentle,
putting it into the egg incubator, it still feels kind
of warm, Alyssa shouts down from the bottom of the river, and the
little trickle of water flowing down starts to become more of a
city stream. He says you came here just in
time. This place was going to fill
back up I. Sported out Alyssa.
I think we found an egg. She says, incredible, I'm going
to stay down here and get as many fossils as I can while it's
still dry and she just starts hanging in her way at the wall.
Yep, salute. Do what you can.
We all cross the bridge over to the Weather Institute.
You can tell us the Weather Institute because there's a big
sign that says Route 119 Weather Institute the 1st.
It's a two-story building and there's a ton of stuff on the
roof. It seems mostly covered in a
tarp, but it's large and bulbous and stuffs pointed out
everywhere. There's a little corner that
isn't fully covered and you can see like a satellite antenna
poking up towards the sky. Strangely, I have real
perception actually. That one, yeah, Look at that
tower. It's it's definitely a tower.
Cool. Look at that.
Tower, can I look at that Tower roll a perception check?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, 14. 14 yeah, it's it's about like one or 2:00
PM, so it's still early in the day, so they have to be open,
but all the lights on the 1st floor are off and all the lights
on the 2nd floor are on and the door is creaked open a little
bit. I guess so we should.
Go in, yeah. Your friend Sam is a little out
of breath and it's at this point where she turns to you all and
says, I think I'm going to wait out here while you guys get that
sorted out. The rain actually feels kind of
nice and she sends out her Pokeball and her friend
Frostbite joins her and they just stand outside.
You enter the weather Institute. The lights are off and it's
strangely quiet. It's dark and cold and it's full
of computers and machinery and all, all sorts of gadgets.
There are monitors against the wall that are turned off and you
hear some murmuring coming from upstairs.
You can't quite make out what's going on.
There is no people down here. There is a bed in the corner
with APC and just a bunch of working tables and computers.
That it's just a bed and APC. And the workstations, yes.
OK, sounds like a gamer lives here.
Did Schmidt say that? I don't know.
Yeah, Schmidt would say that. OK, looks like a gamer lives
here. Do we all March upstairs?
Do we check anything out? I mean, I'm good.
Yeah, I'm pretty gung ho. Turn on the lights.
Sure. You turn on the lights?
Yeah. Does that change anything?
I need another perception check. Dick 12. 12 Yeah, one of the
workstations is not like most of the tables have all their chairs
pushed in and all the stuff is off and tidy.
The one closest to the staircase.
The chair is pulled out and the keyboard is Askew.
That's probably the gamer. Yeah, let's go upstairs.
Who is the first one up the stairs?
I was like, I usually lead but maybe someone else wants to.
OK, Schmidt is. I guess we, Yep, I guess this is
what we're doing. We're we're on the quest to find
a gamer. We're on the gamer quest.
Schmidt, Speaking of gaming, has to make a charisma safe.
Charisma safe specifically. Yep.
OK, Nat 1, Nat one. Y'all our roles tonight.
We're on point you. Except that one crit that you
got when it came to digging. Hey, that crit mattered.
It was my time, dude. As you March up the stairs, gun
hoe ready to get this reward of sorts, you come face to face
with the maw of a shark floating in the air and it terrifies you.
Quite literally, you are terrified.
You cannot move towards this creature until you pass a wisdom
save because you got a critical failure.
You start to fall down the stairs.
Is anyone going to try and catch MIT?
Yeah, I'll, I'll catch him. OK, roll it.
Roll the decks. No, we just let him fall.
I was about to say, canonically, I think that would be funnier.
OK, I'll just let him fall. There OK, Schmidt falls, takes 4
damage hitting his head on the stairs.
Smith. Are you OK?
Smith's like that shark. You're all able to peer up the
staircase, and it's true. You see basically the
disembodied head of a shark in the shape of torpedo chomping
its fangs at you. You can hear shouting in the
other room and through the corner of your eye of your eye
you can see someone wearing a lab coat and a collared shirt
who is bound to a chair with tape over their mouth.
This is getting wild. Right.
Cool, Awesome. Somebody come and come get this
dog. Does Elodie say this out loud?
Yes. Amidst all the shouting in the
other room you there's silence and you hear a voice say what?
What was that? Someone here and a person walks
over to the staircase. They are holding a lure ball in
their hands and they say torpedo.
What did you find? They are dressed in skin tight
dark Gray clothing and over their eyes they are wearing a
visor, they say. Outfit.
They're lame. Did you say that?
Yeah. They say, all right, who's
messing around with us here? From the bottom of the stairs
it's like, I don't know who it is, but it sounds like they have
bad fashion sense. This.
Person. Who are you, actually?
Yeah. Do you ask that?
Yeah, give me a persuasion. Oh, Nat 20.
Nat 20. Geez.
This, this person stands at attention and they put their
hand to their forehead in a salute and they say, Grunt
Alexander Team energy reporting for duty.
And then he says, what? It's torpedo use.
Use Aquajet and our torpedo attempts to shoot a blast of
water down the stairs. You all need to make a Dexterity
saving through DC-15 to not be knocked over.
Schmidt's already fallen, so he can't really fall anymore, but a
blast of water shoots down the stairs.
Brace yourselves. I got a six so I'm failing.
I'll cushion your fault. Nice.
Is it? What check is this?
DC-15 Dexterity. No, I failed.
OK, so Cindy jumps up and plants her arms and legs into the
corridor that the stairs are, while a blast of water surges
below her and tumbles everyone else down the stairs.
You can peer inside of the other room and it seems like a very
tall figure wearing some sort of large coat turns around and she
faces forward and she says, Alexander, what are you doing?
You can see on her face she is dressed similarly to to this
grunt Alexander who introduced themselves as such.
But instead of a visor, she has a single eye patch.
She marks us forward. As she does so, the the sound of
her boots clink on the linoleum tiles.
You can hear whimpering coming from the workers who are all
bound up. She says who's interfering with
us right now? Cindy makes raspberries in her
face as she's like squeezing herself in the wall.
I don't know what your definition of interfering is,
but we aren't. You at the bottom of the stairs
with me? Yeah, OK, I'm yelling this up.
In my mind, it's like we've. Schmidt was like a pile.
Broke her fall like she didn't take any damage because she
lighted up Schmidt. You hear the sound of a person
who is not one of these two thugs who you've just met, who
says help, please come help. And then they are silenced.
It's hard to battle. Aren't we all going to roll
initiative? Yes.
Absolutely. OK.
All. Right.
This authoritative looking woman who is wearing a long coat has
an eye patch. She says, Mariana, that's
enough, I need you over here. And a large black and Gray dog
marches over you. Notice that this woman with the
eye patch, her hair color, it's thick, WAVY and black and
there's a streak of silver down the side where the where the eye
patch is. She instructs Mariana to go for
a bite in Cindy's direction and gets a three.
A very large dark dog lunges towards Cindy in the staircase.
Cindy's able to just very, very barely jump out of the way of
the gnashing fangs of mighty Anna.
Elody, what are you doing? My action would probably be to
get up and and kind of get up the stairs a little bit.
OK, you can. You can send out your Pokémon
too, but you also have to move up the stairs.
Yeah, I'll send out cabbage. OK.
And then I guess. Cabbage was probably already
out. Sure, sure, sure you can take an
action of some sort. You probably can't get in melee
range of the shark or the dog, but you can do something you
can. Check I'm gonna I'm gonna use
can I use sweet scent? Sure.
OK, I'm gonna do that. You're targeting all unfriendly
creatures. Yes.
OK, so they have to make a charisma safe.
Yes. What's the DC?
12. They both get a 13.
Neither of them are affected by sweet scent.
Jerks. OK, Schmidt, what are you doing?
You're farthest down. You just bonked your head
against the stairs. Question.
Yes. So as I was walking up the
stairs, I had Patricia on my head.
Patricia. OK.
Yeah, yeah, Patricia's fine. Patricia nimbly jumped in the
air with her little fluffy little wings.
OK. I guess we just run up.
Yeah, it's still a little slippery.
Do you make ADC 5 dexterity check?
5 is what I have to hit. Yeah, so it won't be hard, but.
I rolled the seven. Almost fell again.
Yeah, yeah, the Briny. Well, I rolled the seven that
was before my modifier. OK, yeah, you're fine.
You're fine. You you managed to March up the
stairs. You've caught up with Cindy at
the height of the stairs leading to the second floor where all
the lights are on. Is there anything else you want
to do? Quack go draw your sword and
then quacker like pulls a leak out and like a like a sword
stance. Excellent Quacko draws a sword
gamely. Is any are there any Pokémon in
like like range? I guess like I'll I'll say it
range, but like the staircase dividing inside.
I don't know the ranges of like the shark, pedo or anything.
Sure. Yeah.
So the staircase that you're walking up is wide enough for
like 2 by 2, two by two regular sized creatures, whether they be
people or Pokémon. So basically like at the
furthest into the room there is this authoritative person will
call them Admin. There's Admin and Grunt, and
then there's a mighty Anna and a Sharpedo, and then there's Cindy
and Schmidt. I.
Didn't want to move too far though 'cause like I get 'cause
I get the movement, but I wanted to like throw a yawn at
Sharpedo. OK.
Yeah, total. Like.
What's the DC? No DC, just falsely next turn.
Oh yeah, that's the thing that happens.
OK, yeah. Sharpedo starts to get a little
drowsy. Grunt, Alexander, we'll say
Sharpedo. No.
Now is not the time to get tired.
What are you doing? Go for a bite.
And goes for a bite into Far Fetched for two hits.
All right. Quacko takes a Max roll.
Quacko takes 24 points of dark damage as Sharpedo gnashes its
veins into this poor little duck.
Cindy. Cookie, it's time for some spicy
bubbles. Spicy bubbles.
Let's see it. Who are you targeting?
That it doesn't matter. I got a 5A.
Five. OK, yeah.
Goomy shoots out some spicy bubbles.
They are sizzling. It's very interesting.
They are red in color and they are floating up the stairs.
Sharpita looks at them and just spits on them.
They're gone. All right, sad.
Bubbles. The admin turns back around.
He says. Mighty Anna, you know what to
do, And she marches back over to the individual in the far comb
of the room who is taped to a chair who she seems to be
interrogating. My Diana goes for a howl and
will request a Charisma saving throw from everyone, Pokémon and
people. The DC is 11.
Is this like intimidation? You know what?
We'll treat it as such because it's not exactly, but that is
kind of what's happening here. And Quacko's immune to
timidation because of inter focus.
Yes, yeah, we'll say that Quacko is not fazed by this.
OK is it just Pokémon rolling or people too?
People too. OK, shrimp rolled the two.
OK, Yeah. I also failed, but cabbage
passed. Oh man.
Yeah, both me and Total failed so.
That's crazy. OK, so I think everyone failed
except for Quacko, right? Yep, and cabbage.
And cabbage OK Everyone besides quacko and cabbage for two
rounds will have disadvantage when attacking Mightyena and you
cannot get closer than melee range to it for two rounds, OK.
So for like people that doesn't affect our Pokémon though?
Like can we still have our Pokémon?
Well, we have. Yeah, so like if you want to go
up and punch mighty Anna, you couldn't.
OK. Well, I wasn't planning on it,
so that's good to know. But.
Hey, like just in case. I don't know if that was.
Yeah, some other people might be.
So that's valid. Yeah, OK, that is admin's turn.
LED. What are you doing?
Cabbage managed to not be scared.
Good girl, amazing BLOB of milk goes for a draining kiss onto
the shark pedo. OK, roll it. 10 does not break
the armor class of the shark. The shark as Milsari's coming in
chops towards Milsari, scaring cabbage back to LLD side.
Anything else you want to do with your turn?
Can I, like me myself has disadvantage on anything I can
do, but I can still try and like, can I try and get like the
admins attention? Just be like, hey, like who are
you? Yeah, go for what are you doing?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to do that.
I won't give you disadvantage because you're not like
attacking, you're just kind of. Oh, OK.
Yeah, and it's to the admin. It's not to the mighty Anna,
right? Yeah, it's to the admin.
Yeah, who are you, Mighty Anna? Let's say it's persuasion.
Benefit of the doubt. Rules are becoming crab.
Oh wait, I forgot how good I am at at charisma things.
OK, so 12, so kind of. This large and in charge woman
turns around and says shut up and she goes back to facing
someone who wearing glasses and the lab coats in the chair.
And because you drew her attention, she's speaking a
little bit louder now and you can make out her inquiring you
need to tell us about what happened about Chimney right
now. And she is pointing at this
individual who has really small holes in their neck, little bits
of blood dripping out. The holes are in the same
configuration as body and his teeth.
Schmidt, it's your turn. Quacko's not afraid of this
mighty Anna, so Quacko's just going to get in there and start
messing them up. Going to give him a good old
aerial ace. Let's see it it doesn't miss
roll damage. 5. Quacko jumps in with his sword,
smacks mighty Anna right across the snoot, takes a little little
chunk of damage. Finally, let's add a little
growl and looks towards Quacko. OK, Gimley, what are you doing?
Question answer. Patricia was on my head.
Do we want to wreck combat or Patricia was not, since I'm just
battling with Quacko. Yeah, you can do whatever you
want. If you, like, don't want her to
be in combat, we can just say that you recalled her.
Yeah, Yeah, that's what I say. I recalled her.
That's totally fine. I'm.
Just going to rock to him Sharpedo.
So that's ADC 14. Strength Sharpedo's pretty
strong. They rolled A4 total.
Throws out some rocks from its shell.
Pin Sharpedo to the ground. Sharpedo was levitating.
Let's make it take extra damage because now it smashes in the
ground. It only takes two extra damage.
It is no longer levitating. Surrounded, one could say tombed
by rocks. How much damage does it take?
OK I rolled Max damage on both the eights so that is 16919.
Oh yeah, with the plus. Geez.
Yeah, And one switch to blow this this Total smashes this
Sharpedo into the floor. It's incredible.
I need Total to make a wisdom check.
OK, the wise total, let's see 11. 11 You can't tell why, but
Toidal is fired up. Toidal, the some of your, some
of the people around you, people in Pokémon are scared.
Toidal is still scared of mighty Etta, but Toidal's angry.
Let's move on to Alexander. Alexander's shark is covered in
rocks and falls asleep this turn, right?
Yeah, yeah, he's just asleep. He already had.
His he just gets. Crushed by rocks, it just took
over half its health and damage and is now snoozing.
Alexander's like, no, no, no, they'll never promote me at this
rate. And he just, he just can't do
anything. So, Cindy, what are you doing?
OK, so Cindy's about to pull out some BS.
OK, let's see it. She's shouting at the like admin
basically saying something's the effect of like, he doesn't know
what happened at Mount Chimney. You're talking to the wrong
people. Are are you like trying to
deceive her? Absolutely.
OK. Yeah, roll it.
To on top of my like charisma. Sure.
I will let you know this will be a hard check.
This is a professional criminal on a mission, on an assignment,
so it's gonna take a lot to convince them that they're not
doing what they're supposed to be doing.
OK, well I got an 18. OK, She turns around and looks
at the gain and she says you don't know what you're talking
about. And the the person who she is in
quizzing says no, no, it's true. We no longer have that data.
We had to give it over to the government. the Champions needed
it. I we don't have that on file
anymore. And she says you don't know what
you're talking about. And she grabs the worker by
their neck. The scientist who has the data
doesn't know what he's talking about.
She says give me the data. Now it is her turn.
Mariana's kind of act on its own now, right?
Yeah, Mariana is also a trained criminal and is pretty effective
at these sorts of things. Professional criminal, yeah.
Professional criminal. Yeah, we'll just have Mariana go
for another bite into Soli. Soli's out, right?
No, Goomi's out. Goomi's out.
Goomi's. Out.
Cookie is Cookie going to take a bite?
It got a crit fail. My gosh.
Let's. Go.
I guess Goomi's not taking a bite.
Goomi squishy. Mariana gallops towards Gumi at
the top of the stairs, but Cookie is just so gooey and the
floor is wet from Sharpedo that mighty Anna slips and is now
prone. Any frightening effects that it
cast on you are gone because this dog looks stupid.
So there is no no one is scared of his dog anymore.
It is sprawled out on its legs on the ground.
Stinky. Great job, Admin.
Great turn, Stinky. Yeah, I will go for joining KISS
into the torpedo again. OK.
Be some some warning with gameplay.
Be careful when it's sleeping. That gives it a chance to wake
up if you attack it. Right, I forgot about that.
Yeah, No, I'll go for the Mightyena.
Actually, no, you're. Right, OK, You get advantage for
on Mightyena because it is prone.
Cool. You'd have advantage on Sharpedo
too, so it doesn't really matter.
Yeah. No, I I think we'll do it,
Mightyena. Hit so true.
So apply your full damage twice. Hold on, am I doing this right?
We haven't gotten a super effective critical hit yet yes.
So that's automatically 21 and then you roll the damage again.
Holy. Crap, that's a lot.
Yeah, super effective, critical inside nasty.
So just normal damage then, right?
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's on top of the Kirkle
hit. So if I roll the five then that
would be the +3 again, so that would be 8 plus the 21. 12/8
right? No, it's super effective.
So. So you roll your damage twice.
Yeah. Oh, so that's 2D eights?
Yes, yes. So you automatically get 16 Oh
my God 16 flat and then you roll your 2D eights and add that as
well. OK.
So I just total rolled in 11, so 11 + 16, Yeah.
And then plus the three, yeah, for the move.
Yeah, yeah, Maidana's conked, which is done.
I've asked this before on draining KISS critical hits, but
do you have a way you want to describe it?
No, sorry, stop killing things with your deadly kiss.
Oh gosh, it's so hard to think of it.
Does anybody have any ideas before?
I don't know, I like to Crowdsource it.
It's like it does the smooch, but it's just like a really
furious smooch. What?
No, you get? OK, so yeah, I like the furious
smooch approach. But like Mighty Anna just fell.
It's embarrassed. And then Milsari just approaches
it. It's almost like an attract.
Almost. They go for the drain and kiss,
and the Mighty Anna, hearts in its eyes, just collapses over.
The embarrassed story knocked out with love.
That's excellent. OK, like love slash
embarrassment. You know, it's just so my name's
cheeks are so red right now. Yeah.
Can I like, can I yell over to like the admin like hey, you
might want to check on your dog. I like how you start with could
someone get this dog and then there was an actual dog, she
says. I don't have time for that right
now and she is just strangling this poor person who doesn't
have the data that she needs. Schmidt, what are?
You doing well? I'm not afraid of any of these
Pokémon anymore. And Sharpito is asleep and
covered in rocks also. Yeah, I think Quacko's just
going to go for the lady. OK, just give her a smack.
Yeah, give her a good little smacky smack.
Every Laurice doesn't miss, right?
So. Is that what I'm doing?
I was assuming I don't know what you want to do.
Yeah, I guess a good old aerial ice.
OK. 5 again, That's two minerals on aerial ice, by the way.
OK, yeah, Quacko leaps into the air, leaps out of the fray and
smacks the admin right on her back.
And she turns around and she says, what now?
And she notices that her dog is, in fact, knocked out.
Alexander, why are you doing your job?
What'd you say? I said what do you mean what
now? How about stop?
She, she, she looks over at Alexander and Alexander's just
panicking. He's like my shark's asleep and
covered in rocks and mighty Anna's down and I, I I don't
know what to do. And she, she goes.
Duck on the loose. I can't deal with you right now.
And she is also embarrassed because she got smacked by a
duck, so she brings her her wrist communication device, he
says. We're boarding mission, we're
returning to HQ. There's a voice on that said on
the other side that says understood?
These two characters start to retreat up a ladder leading to
the roof and Alexander recalls A Sharpedo.
Do you do anything to try and stop them?
Amber, burn the ladder please. It is a metal ladder, but yeah,
you can make it hot I guess. Yeah, that would make it hard
for them to grab. OK, yeah, try it can.
Cindy assist with solely's Amber.
I know it's not my turn, but. Yeah, Gimli, what did you roll?
I roll the six. OK.
Yeah, we can just combine the two hits if you're like doing a
target at embers. So roll to hit. 14. 20 total.
Yeah, jeez, the admin chewing up first the the metal ladder gets
really, really hot. She's and unfortunately she is
wearing leather gloves, so she's she's able to get to the to the
top of the ladder. She shouts out, She says,
Alexander, where are you? And he just is like, like, he's
putting his hand on the ladder. He's just too high.
He's like, I can't get up. I can't do it.
And she says, you're worthless.
And she, she, she marches up on the roof.
You can hear the sounds of her boots stomping on the ceiling.
And Alexander's just, like, stuck down here.
You're down here with two workers who are bound to chairs.
One of them is bleeding out of their neck.
And there is a grunt who is very startled, very scared.
His shark failed him. And he's just kind of shivering
on the ground. You're out of initiative.
What are you doing? How far away is the lady?
The admin? Yeah, she is up a hot ladder
that is 12 feet high and on the roof.
OK, so if I had Quacko fly 30 feet, Quacko could probably
reach her. Yeah, Potentially.
Yeah, let's do that. OK, he's just, he's going to
just fly up the ladder. Wild duck just chasing this
lady, yeah. OK, yeah, he flies up the
ladder. It did provoke an attack of
opportunity from the admin, but she missed.
Does does Quacko? Is Quacko just watching?
Does he have an instruction? Is he attacking her?
What is he doing? He's attacking her.
Yeah, OK. Just trying to stop her from
like leaving. With what attack?
I guess I realize since that's what we've been doing.
OK, seven. That's some damage you hear the
sound of, like a little object tumbles down the ladder and it
lands at your feet. She is still up for sure, but
she is annoyed and she seems to have dropped something you see
tumbling down the hot ladder is a cube they.
The energy cube. The Alexander who's on the
ground, he says Oh no, no, no, no, no.
And he tries and pockets the item.
He rolls an 11 that isn't quite good enough from his position.
Cindy tells Alexander that his life of crime was a bad decision
and that he should regret his life choices and stop.
Roll an intimidation. Yes, Cindy, So intimidating.
Well, with her charisma. Chica Virtual 14.
Alexander's like, what? What are you talking about?
I can't just quit. No, let let me out.
And he he tries and stands up and tries to walk past you.
Nope, tackle. I'm tackling him.
OK, roll your strength. It doesn't matter.
He's a coward. You're gonna pin him.
Like just roll. Not a one.
Roll anything but A1. Yeah, I did.
I roll. I roll the 12.
Great, you have him. Straight.
I was going to say, well, we have them restrained.
Do we have any way to cool off this ladder?
I mean, he has spicy bubbles. I cannot help.
Yeah. You have spicy bubbles and that.
Yeah, no, unless she wanted a sting at it, her smell at it.
Can Patricia safeguard me so I don't get burned while climbing
the ladder? That sounds awesome.
Roll like a some sort of check. Just roll AD 20 to see if she
does it correctly. Let's trail AD 20.
That's a 2, so yeah. Patricia does her.
Best. But it doesn't.
Quite whip at the ladder to cool it.
Down so we can only really reach like the first couple runs, but
you can cool those. Try and cool it down.
Yeah. Well, I rolled a 16 but for tail
width the target must make a wisdom saving thrill.
Yeah, it's a ladder. Yeah, you can cool you cool like
the the first two runs like they're nice and regular
temperature now. But that's not also not really
where the ember was targeted. It was targeted like in the
middle upper part. So it like doesn't really
matter. Imagine the ladder making wisdom
saving thrill. You can hear the sound of an
engine revving and a large shadow moves over the hole that
leads to the roof. It seems like a vehicle has
departed. Are you OK?
Yeah, well, all of this is happening.
Can I check on the worker? Which one?
The one that was tied up. They're both.
Tied up there's. 20 there's two, the one that was bleeding from
the neck, yeah. The one that was bleeding from
the neck. Sure.
Do you, Do you attempt to like help their wounds or do you want
to ask? Them something?
Yeah. OK Roll.
Yeah. Can I like, untie them and
address their wounds? Yeah.
Yeah, you untie them for sure. Roll in medicine to see if you
can help them cover up their wound.
OK. Is Quacko OK?
Quacko's fine. Richard Quacko flies back down.
He's fine. 18 OK, Yeah. The worker goes, there's,
there's there's bandages in that cabinet and points over in a
direction. You, you grab the bandages and
you seal up the little mighty in a bite marks around their neck.
And they say, yeah, thank you, Thank you for your help.
What, what, what? What were they asking you about
what? What do you know?
What? Anything.
The worker looks at you all and says I was, I was telling them
the truth. A few months ago we recorded a
surge in activity over at Mount Chimney and a few few days later
Mount Chimney went dormant. This is something that hasn't
happened for a long time. In fact, it hasn't happened
since Team Magma was meddling with Groudon in the volcano.
Now the residents of Loveridge are worried all of their
geothermal heating isn't working, and a lot of people who
aren't criminals are pestering me to figure out what's going on
since we do seismic and geothermal readings here.
When this first happened both times, both of Team Magma and
this mysterious new team energy, the Champions got involved.
May came straight to this office and requested to take all of the
data from our hard drives. So we literally don't know
what's going on. We do know that this
organization has some interest in the dormant Volcano, but I
couldn't tell them anything else.
Cindy would have tried to plug Alexander's ears because he has
not yet agreed to give up his life of crime.
OK. Yeah, she doesn't want him to
hear any of that. Sure, the researcher says.
I'm so glad you came. I don't know what they would
have done to us if no one intervened.
But what? What brings you here in the
first place? Boy, we were actually bringing
this another energy thing to ask you about this.
I was. Going to say can we take the the
boundings from the two people we freed and tie up the the other
guy? Absolutely.
You don't have to make a roll for that.
You, you just do that. Yeah, he's.
Already there, he's just scared and sad.
He's not even resisting, he's just kind of like, Yep, this is
what we get. This is it Deserve this, Yeah.
So you you'd show them the syringe?
Yeah. The lead researcher takes it and
says I haven't really seen anything like this.
It does have the energy Insignia on it.
Do you know anything about this group?
No, we were going to ask you since you seem to address them
by name. So.
Did you take the tape off of the other researchers mouth?
Yeah, I'll do that, Yeah. OK, you RIP the tape off and the
researcher says I, I, I heard rumors about this group.
I think I know what's going on. I've heard that 15 years ago
when Team Magma and Team Aqua failed their grand ambitions of
taking over the Hoenn region that what were their names?
Archie and Maxi I believe. Yeah, Maxi and Archie.
When when When Maxi and Archie retired, all of their goons had
nowhere to go, and I heard that a new organization sprung up and
hired them all for some sort of secret new project.
I That's pretty much all I know about it.
Cindy Mumbles under her breath. I swear to God if my parents are
involved in this I'm going to be so pissed.
Does anybody hear that? What was that?
I'm sorry, what? Can we can we discuss that real
quick? Didn't he?
I was raised by my grandparents because my parents are awful.
They're literally evil. And you're going to need to be
more specific. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They were both Team Aqua grids back in the day or whatever the.
Day or whatever and. Cindy's just super pissed about
the whole situation. What?
Cindy's SUS. Right.
We don't have to worry about you or anything, right?
No. I hate my parents, I don't even
know them, I just know they're the worst.
We have another set of like bondings and stuff, right?
I got some rope. You could.
Yeah, we're fiber. Fiber fires.
Like I'm literally mad that they could be involved in this.
The researcher hands back the crazy syringe thing.
She says. Well, I'm not sure what brought
you here in the 1st place besides that I, I don't know
what you, you're all our trainers and you're obviously
clearly skilled. The way that you wrangled that
Sharpedo was incredible. If you have any interest, I
would. And then she looks over to the
corner of the room where there was like a cash register and
it's been opened and emptied. And she says, nevermind, I was
going to ask if you ever found yourself over towards Loveridge
Town, that if you would check out Jagged Pass and see if
there's anything unusual happening there.
We understand that there used to be a Team Magma base there.
And ever since Team Magma disbanded, we just kind of, you
know, everyone in the region just treated it as just an empty
hole in the mountain. But we feel like it might have
been repurposed. And that could be what's leading
to Mount Chimney being dormant. We we don't know.
Already knee deep in this as it is.
Gimli Toidel is just right up next to Alexander and just
growling at him. I I'm just telling you, you
don't have to do anything. You can let him do that.
But just so you know, Toidel is angry, OK?
Can I check Alexander for like any communication device so he
can't be like yo I'm stuck or hey come help me or.
Anything like that? Yeah, imagine we would have on
that when we tied him up. Yeah, well, we'll still need a
check regardless. Make a check, yeah.
Yeah. What am I rolling?
Investigation. Dirty 20.
Dirty 20 Yeah, you don't find a communication device, you find
like a little gum wrapper. You find 2 pokey dollars just
like loose change. And you find a shipping label.
A shipping label for large cargo going from Slate Port to MA
Steep. Interesting.
There's no details on it about the contents.
There's no names, it just says Parcel and the two destinations.
So, Alexander, what'd you do to my girl?
She's quite upset with you. Alexander, with his mouth taped,
goes. Let me let me RIP this off real
quick. Hard RIP.
He says. I don't know, I've never seen
this turtle before. Get it off.
She's seen well, she's seen you before.
He says I have no idea. Am I gonna have to make you
talk? Cracks, knuckles.
Intimidation. Yeah, sure.
Who's the evil ones now? I don't know.
Mysteriously. Listen, my my girl's angry.
What do you want me to do 17? 17 He goes, OK, OK.
I don't, I don't actually know anything about the turtle.
I don't know who would have heard it or whatever they did.
I'm not that sort of grunt. But I know that a few months ago
there was one of our bases and they were doing experiments on
local Hoe and Pokémon, and I guess this turtle could have
been a part of that. I'm so sorry.
I'm not involved in that. Please don't hurt me.
No problem, just want to find out.
He didn't seem very talkative until gave you a little knuckle
crack. So no, no harm, just need to
know. He lets out a little exhale and
he says, are are you guys going to let me go?
Total back off please. Cindy tries to convince him to
leave his life of crime because she knows what kind of
destruction and havoc it could wreak on someone's life.
Are you going to persuade that? I'm going to try to OK, not very
good at perception or persuasion.
Persuasion. That's it'll be can I like help
her out with that like. Yeah, you can give her
advantage, basically. Yeah, I also have like personal
experience. Oh, no.
OK, I rolled A5 plus 2A7. Give advantage, advantage.
OK, That was the better rule. OK, yeah.
He's like, I'm too far deep. I'm not gonna stop doing this.
They gave me a Sharpedo. I mean, that's awesome.
Could we take him to the? Torpedo's doing really good
right now, and then I look at it while it's asleep under a pile
of rocks. Yeah, he's he.
He sheds a tear. But yeah, should we like take
him back to the police in in forgery?
Yeah, guess so. A good idea, Yeah.
Or you can give up your life a crime.
Just saying. Yeah, he doesn't respond.
He just kind of looks to the side and goes OK.
To the police it is. We were already under suspicion
from the police. Why don't we just make a phone
call and leave them tied up here?
You're like, that's more suspicious.
Yeah, what the heck, We're not vigilantes like the.
The head researcher says, hold on, are you guys already in
trouble with the police? You helped me out.
I don't mind doing you a favor. I can just call them in and you
guys can skedaddle. Let's do that.
Sure. Yeah, that's fine.
We'll take that. Up, the researcher says.
Well, I'm sure you didn't just come here to show me the
syringe, right? What?
What are you doing here? Oh we saw there was like a sign,
this is such a bad time to bring this up, but there was a sign
proclaiming that Pokémon caught on route.
What was it 1/21/21 or something there the compensation for those
Pokémon? No pressure or anything, just
thought I'd bring it up. Yeah, the mini researcher stands
up and they're like, well, no, no, we're interested.
Yeah, we we can take a look. Another day at the office.
OK, it's. Going to take a look at them,
like we're not like trading them in or anything, right?
Nope. Then they're not going to take
your Pokémon from. You when they say compensation
for like Pokémon caught, I'm like confused if it's like a
turn in kind of thing or if it's like because that's where I was
like confused by the whole concept of compensation when we
were talking about it before I was like, well, I guess we'll
find out when we. Get there.
Yeah, fair. OK.
The lead, the the research lead takes look at your Pokémon.
Her assistant stretching out their body a little bit is
taking some notes and they say what did they display any
erratic behavior? She is looking at Salandit
Toidal and the two swab Blues. Well, to be fair, the Toidal
Toidal had the syringe in her. The researcher goes, oh, so team
energy was involved and she hops over to her computer and types
some stuff in and she asks, when did you catch this turtle it?
Would have been this morning before you fought the gym
battle. It wasn't this morning.
It was the day before. Oh it.
Was the. Same as the gym challenge day.
Well, you obtained ownership in the morning, but even the met
at. 4 is when we captured it. Yeah, OK, right.
So we met at 2 days ago, OK and? The researcher says, wow, that
falls perfectly in line with when the storm clouds came back.
She turns around and says, well, thank you.
I think we got a lot of good data from this.
The admin who was just here took all of our money.
But tell you what, you're all trainers.
Since the embargo started and and the travel restrictions, our
communications with our partner research facility on Mount
Tokulani in the Alola region, We're not really in touch with
them anymore. And they gave us an assignment
that is now put on hold. If.
I mean, this isn't really payment, but if you could do us
a favor, we were supposed to conduct some research on some
Pokémon and we aren't. Since we can't send them back
anytime soon, we can't really do anything with them.
Would you be interested in taking them with you?
Oh, sure, what are they? She stands up and goes over to a
a very large box. It's on a table.
She says, well, why don't you find out and whoever's
interested can roll AD 20. Yeah, I think we're all
interested, but can we only bring like 3 Pokémon with us at
a time? Is that it's going on?
We'll find out. Well, I think depending on your
level though. Yeah, it depends on your level
how many you can hand. This is pretty sick.
So it's basically just this, this big cardboard box.
Who's who grabs the box? Who grabs inside the box first?
I'll go first, OK. Elodie reaches into a big
cardboard box. She feels warm, short hair and
some blubber. What she pulls out-of-the-box is
a little blue seal with a collar and a little nose.
And it goes and, and the researcher says we were supposed
to study how this paplio interacted with the local
waters. If you wouldn't mind taking it
with you on your journeys, that would be a huge help to us.
I would love nothing more than doing that.
OK. Paplio yay.
Do you put it in a premier ball or a four tree ball?
Oh, put it in a premier ball. OK, you do not have to make a
roll. This thing is eager to have
friends. You've caught yourself, Apoplio.
Very cool. Who's who's next?
I will reach in next. OK.
Gimli reaches into the large cardboard box.
A Pokémon that is somewhat familiar to him, something that
he's seen in the mines quite often, but a little bit
different. The researcher says.
That that rocky fella, that's a Geodude, but it behaves
differently from the Geodudes that we know here in Hoen.
It seems to have magnetic properties.
We're not really sure, but if you wouldn't mind taking it with
you, we would greatly appreciate it.
Absolutely. You have an Alolan Geodude, What
ball do you put it in? I will put it in the forgery
ball so I can tell the difference.
Cool, you do that. Very cool.
Alolan Geodude, Who's next? Cindy can go next.
Cindy reaches her hands into the mysterious box, and what does
she pull out? None other than, well, she hears
it before she touches it, because she hears a little.
Well, there's a little black and red tiger cat.
The researcher says that there's a Litten.
We were studying how it interacts with the hot ho and
sun. We were hoping to take it over
to the Dorman Mount chimney and see how it behaved there.
If you would do that for us, that'd be amazing.
Spicy Kitty let's. Go spot the old and best
friends. Let's go.
Schmidt, are you reaching to the box?
Yep. OK, you reach into the box and
you pick up something that is rather light, rather small, very
unusual. You pull out a very simple
looking brown bird with a curved beak.
The researcher says this one's really interesting and I was
really hoping to get a lot of good data on this, so if you're
willing to help us out with that, that'd be amazing.
This Pokémon is known as Orichorio, and it assumes
different forms depending on the island that it's from.
We had it shipped over from a Lola, and it's just a plain
bird. It has no special properties.
If they're known for their dancing, this one doesn't know
any dance moves. We we're thinking that depending
on the places you take it to or depending on how you train it,
it might adopt some new properties.
Would you be willing to check out this Oracoreo for us?
Yes, wow. So you are free to capture a
plane oracoreo it is a pure flying type.
What ball are you going to put it?
In Premier ball for aesthetic. OK, you do that, Cindy.
All four of your pokey balls begin to shake.
What do you do? I don't know, try and figure out
what's going on or ask what might be going on of the
researchers. They say why are my balls
shaking? They say, well, how many badges
do you have? 1.
They say yeah, you're you're at your limit.
You'll have to send one back to the PC.
This is a tough decision. Probably Izzy for now.
OK, you touch Izzy's Pokey Ball and it just vanishes in thin air
upwards. It's just gone and all the balls
stop shaking. You're all set.
So the researchers say, I'm really sorry we couldn't offer
cash prizes like the bulletin promised, but we really
appreciate you taking care of these Pokémon, and hopefully
they do a little something for you along the way as well.
If you have no further questions to ask or nothing else to do,
that's where we'll call the session.
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