Welcome to the Cali Rex Game Corners Pokémon D&D campaign
featuring Rich as Kit, an awkward mechanist with her
Magnemite gizmo, Melissa as Tia, a fashionable tea shop owner
with her Sinistee Sippy, CJ as Red Robin, a bombastic wrestler
on his way to the top with his how Lucha Santo, and Jacob as
Triton, a man from the sea guided by a mysterious force
with his crabby the Deep One. My name is Grace and I'm the
game master. This is Dunsparce and Grandpa
Harmony. Last we left off aboard the
maiden voyage of the s s Deche Snatus, the charming Tia and her
Sinisti Sippy, the audacious Red Robin and his Hal Lucha Santo,
the cryptic Triton and his crabby the Deep One, and the
meticulous Kit and her magnetite Gizmo fought a rampant Dondozo,
saving a little girl in the process.
After discovering a cut circuit in the engine room, Kit enlisted
the others help to find an artifact from a shipment that
could help save the ship from certain disaster.
However, finding an ancient Lantern led to the release of
the legendary Pokémon Tornadoes, who brought a Tempest above the
ship. After enlisting the help of the
earlier defeated Dondozo, Tia and Triton were able to help
people find safety among the swells and storm.
However, Dondozo wasn't enough to keep them from the tides as
they were tossed out to sea. The sand is damp beneath you,
still clinging to your clothes from the tide that carried you
in. The waves crash softly now, as
though the sea has grown tired after its rage.
Salt hangs in the air, mixing with the faint smell of wet wood
and seaweed. A star shaped golden Pokémon
with a red gem at its center flops dramatically in the sand
nearby. Ahead, the forest looms, the
trees crowding close together as if guarding secrets of their
own. Thick roots twist out of the
sand and vanish into the undergrowth.
The canopy sways gently in the breeze, shadows shifting in ways
that make it difficult to see what might be moving within.
Behind you, the sea stretches endlessly Gray under the bruised
sky, but clearer for the moment. However far inland, a circle of
dark storm clouds churns ominously over the center of the
region. Their lightning flickers, faint
but unyielding. The small music box lies half
buried in the sand where the tide left it, it's surface worn
but intact. And nearby, a simple leather
backpack, damp but not ruined, sits.
It's flat open to reveal the glint of several unused
pokeballs. Wingo circle overhead, calling
out as if to announce your arrival.
For the first time since the storm began, you have a moment
to breathe. I hate sand.
It's. Coercing it gets everywhere.
I'm fine with it. Everywhere.
You get kind of used to it after
a while. You also, if you, I'm assuming
everybody recalled their Pokémon, Yeah.
So you're, yeah, didn't take any damage from the storm, but being
tossed around in the waves, each of the people will have taken 8
damage. Thanks, how does that I just
got? How does our like new Max HP
factor into that? Did you?
If I didn't get more HP like I I have 7 HP remaining so did it
increase when I got more? Yes, yes, yeah, it increased by
what your Max HP increased by. Got it.
Thank you. OK, yes, Kid wants to ensure
that she has two precious belongings on her, one being
Gizmo's pokeball and the other being a note that she received
prior to the voyage. Where did she store the notes?
In her hoodie pocket. In her hoodie pocket, it's still
there, but it's damp and a little bit harder to read.
OK, sigh of relief. How's Tia's bag with her little
teacup in the little pocket? Very loose, OK, the teacup, this
is probably like yeah, it it was holstered in there, but it it
probably got broken in in the rough, the pitching.
Teacup or sippy? Sippy has own teacup.
Well, no, no, no. Sippy came from like a a set,
like a thrift store. Sippy was the the Pokémon and
the the cup and pot were like not they're just.
I just had this vision of like is I was like, is that
cannibalism if Zippy drinks from a different teacup?
There's a lot of things in the Pokémon universe that could be
classified. Cool.
This is a very specific one. Think of a grass type.
Pokémon eats a salad Like what's up?
Yeah. What's going on with that?
Like, like, what's up with that? So true.
They have a lot of answer. Can Kit take a look at these
pokeballs and see if they're in working order?
Yeah, go ahead and roll an investigation.
While kids doing that, triton's going to be like well, time to
start life over again and then he's going to find 2 twigs and
start rubbing them together to make a fire.
Go ahead the. Survival.
Yep. Yeah.
Survivals. Yeah, yeah. 14 on the
investigation. OK.
Yeah, you were able to look through the bag and find 6
unused, still functioning book walls, as well as two healing
potions bag. 14 on that survival.
Yeah, you're, you're kind of working at it.
You're sure if you found some more materials you probably
could start a fire. But with just two twigs, there's
like a little bit of smoke, but it's not going to start an
actual like fire. Old man, you want you want fire
material. I'll get there eventually, and
then I'll keep rubbing the sticks together.
I'm going to go try to find Firebirds here.
Wait, before we even think about setting up camp, we.
Should can I play the music box? If you're going to inspect the
yeah, you find it's the kind with like a barrel and a crank
that you turn and like kind of plunks out the from.
Like if you put a sheet into it with holes in it, it would be
able to play whatever melody is on that sheet.
But currently there's no sheet within it.
So if you turn the crank, nothing happens.
Yeah, Rich, that would be the logical thing to do.
But I see old man tried to let start fire and I'm like I can
help with fire. Yeah, you can.
You can roll a survival to see if you can find materials near
there. Let's.
Go flat roll. That's an A.
Yeah, the beach is very sandy and it's kind of hard to
traverse a little bit. There's definitely like a forest
in front of you. You're sure you could find wood
there? Some, maybe some some driftwood
that's washed ashore. But a lot of it is really wet
right now since the storm just passed over.
Yes, this wood bed, it's all wet.
Do any of you know where we are? On the beach.
Where I am. You'll not see the beach.
I don't understand. Is there any like sign of life
besides the star you flopping in the sand?
It's like we're all right here. We're alive.
There's even mean. What else?
We're all here. Go ahead and make a perception
check. Kit got a 20.
Amazing natural. Yeah, Natural 20.
Oh, amazing. Yeah, you actually do see some
footprints in the sand leading into the forest.
There's no people about. There's definitely Pokémon
wingles, other bird Pokémon flapping around in the sky, fish
Pokémon you can hear going about in the water, but as far as
people goes, there doesn't seem to be anybody walking around
nearby. However, you can kind of see
between the tree line that there there is a bit of matted down
tall grass, as if this is a path that people have walked before.
Look, I I found a trail, stop building a fire and let's get
out of here. OK.
All right, before we go and Kit will give everyone a Pokeball,
she will say, I assume you're all trainers, you're all Pokémon
with you. So this trainer isn't using
these anymore, so we might as well take advantage of them.
I'll hold on to the extras for now and if we need them, we can
take them out of this bag. So if you if you have your own
inventories, you should add a Pokeball to it.
Yes, did that. There were six pokeballs.
Yeah. OK.
There's no way to divide them, so Kit's just going to hold on
to them because Kit doesn't trust you guys.
There, I'm very trustworthy. I don't know what you're talking
about. Triton is not intelligent enough
to notice the unfair division, so he will not comment on it.
Speaking of Kit will introduce herself.
She'll say if we're going to be stuck together.
My name's Kit. I'm trying to get to Andela
Town, or I guess Flotchesy Ranch.
But are any of you from Unova? Do you know where we are?
I'm in Carlos, I honest. We're all talking over each
other at the same time. I mean, that's like, yeah, it's
perfect. I'm from Carlos, me and my twin
sister have a tea shop a. Spooky.
I won a contest. No, not from here old man, you
from here. I don't remember.
OK. OK, great.
So not from here. Don't remember.
And from Carlos. Cool.
Well, let's get on this trail and see if we can find any sign
of settlement. Yes, adventure, you said there.
You said there were footprints in the sand.
Yes. What kind of footprints?
Men, Pokémon, How fresh? Role in.
Investigation understood. I think I'm bad at those.
Yep, that's intelligence. So.
Investigation. Investigation. 12.
Yeah, they're human footprints. They're pretty large.
They're going in towards the tree line from the beach.
Is it? Chad.
Is it Chad? How big were Chad's feet?
I you can roll a history as you remember.
I guess I don't know. The.
Size did you? Do you think you would have
checked out Chad's? Feet.
She's really in defeat. Erotically.
The first thing she noticed on Chad was his feet.
That's crazy. No.
Yeah. What was the score on
ratemyfeet.com? No, you have to buy into this as
Canon so that we can figure out this check.
Otherwise, we'll never know. Your foot finish bonus.
Tia Tia notices feet because of the implications anyway, not
the. Implications.
Yeah, I'll, I'll allow. What she remembers of Chad's
feet to the footprints for the sake of potentially identifying
the footprint holder. Yeah, we understand.
What am I rolling I? History.
That's history and television. History, You know, there's a
reason we all started on a boat out in the sea.
Not. Just I think from your
description, I will say I think you do reckon that these are
roughly the size of Chad's feet. Guys, I think Chad's here.
How do you know? Please explain.
What's a Chad? Please.
Go into excruciating details. How you know this?
Is yeah. Why do you know this based?
On the alignment of the moon and the stars, these footprints are
about the same size as Chad's feet.
Why do you know his footprints? Don't worry about it.
I'm very worried. Can I take stock of everyone's?
What? Yes.
Am I? Can I stop you from doing that?
Yes. Everybody, please just grab your
feet. Oh, they are like Tritons are
like gross and mangled and there's like some barnacles
stuck on them. They're like very like leathery
and like calloused. Kit is wearing what is the
Pokémon World version of Converse.
They're high top. The laces are mismatched.
One of one set is red and one set is blue.
What are those? Yeah, true.
I I have like the stereotypical wrestling boots with way too
many laces all the way up to like basically covering your
entire calf. Probably like size 14 ish.
Is that a big dude? OK.
Well, you have one size 14. Shoes look up size 14.
I wear a size. 14 size 14 feet are.
You Googling feet pick right? Now.
No. Not right now.
Stop all. Right, the Red Robin is 15.
What's kids approximate shoe size?
I don't know, probably like 6 or 7.
This is very size 14. Huh.
Click, click. Click.
Click, click. And Triton if if an applicable
shoe size could be applied even though he is barefoot
approximately. Oh fuck, I don't know.
I'd say he's got some some hoppers compared to like his
body. So maybe like a like a size 10?
Fabulous. Thank you so much.
Dude I don't knowing the implication.
Stop saying the implication. It's an adventure at sea.
There's gonna be things implied. Guys, it's just OK.
Well, what about? What about Tia?
Yeah. Yeah, let's share with the
class. I'm taking notes like we got a
note. Tia wears a size 7 1/2 depending
on the brand, occasionally a size 8.
OK, why don't we have everyone's shoe sizes?
Can we go on an adventure? I will be aside.
Anyone who is lost based on footprints and shoe slice it
will come up. This is why you spec into fun
fetish when you build your character.
Yeah. What are your, what are your
proficiencies, by the way? It's like, oh, you know, feet.
Investigation feet. Amazing.
Are you entering the forest? Yes, please.
Yes, can. Be out of here.
Right before he goes in the forest, he's gonna be like,
wait, I need to pack, and then he's gonna pick up like a
handful of sand and like tuck it somewhere in his robe 1.
Is everywhere my dude. I'm gonna add one pocket sand to
my inventory. And then I'm gonna look at it
and be like, wait, that's genius.
And then I will also pick up some pocket sand.
My brother and RC is pleased for the love of God.
I'll leave this later. But the session when I was like
you guys are so stupid. And then we said you're you
don't realize how stupid we can be.
Can we enter the spooky scary forest?
Please yes, yes, you're entering beautiful amazing 4 wonderful
people sand trailing behind them with various shoe sizes.
Enter this forest. So forest great to you with
warmth and color. The shafts of golden light peers
through the verdant canopy, scattering across patches of
ferns and grass. The air is sweet with the scent
of damp Moss and wildflowers. Bug types flit lazily through
the shafts of light, and the distant sound of a stream
trickles softly. Some leaves have already begun
to turn, painting the forest in a various shades of green and
orange. Who is leading the charge here
into the forest? OK.
Yeah, that's that's good. Why?
Not I'm gonna need you to make a survival check for me, please.
18. OK, roll AD 4. 2.
Amazing. As you 4 are traversing along
this somewhat beaten path, it's kind of been the force has kind
of grown in on it. It doesn't appear that it's used
that often, but it's enough that you're able to follow it well
enough through the trees here you begin to kind of hear
something in the distance. You're not quite able to make
out what it is until you get a little bit closer to a clearing
where there is a small little pond sparkling in the late
afternoon sunlight. And upon the pond on various
Lily pads are 4 cute little Pokémon with round tan colored
faces and little blue and black kind of lumps on either side of
their head, like headphones with little wagging tadpole tails.
They seem to be singing as each of them kind of play a little
note and then begin to serenade you with a cute little song
weaving together between trees. The notes are very soothing as
the temples as these are. I've just revealed what they are
float about on this little pond. And if you take a moment, would
you like to listen to their little song?
Yes, or. Hesitantly, hesitantly.
Yeah, I'm a little cautiously optimistic.
Kit is suspicious that they're like what sounds like a
beautiful song may actually be like calling for Big Mama to
come kick her ass or something. Yeah, I've died most of that.
Yeah, so. Kit, go ahead and roll a
Perception. 14. OK, as you're kind of shifting
about nervously looking around as you listen to this song, you
swear you feel like something is watching you.
And as you turn over your shoulder for a second, it looks
like something is shifting through the trees, but you're
not able to see what it is because it seems to just blend
in seamlessly with the rest of the forest before vanishing once
again. I don't like this.
Yes, I agree something is not right.
Is there like a way to navigate like carefully sidestepping in
the deep one like walk around the pond?
Yes, you are able to pass by the pond.
OK, maybe just while, like, keeping the face of enjoying the
song. Like, yeah, like it was a fake
smile, but it's like trying to navigate around cautiously.
Just kind of traipsing around. What is the rest of your Triton
and Tia? What is your reaction to the
little temple? Choir.
I like him a rock on I can't sign.
Yeah, Triton is more excited about seeing everyone getting
crab pose. He's like, oh, I know that one.
And then he starts doing like a, like a like a impeccable, like
crab impersonation, like clapping his hands together.
Amazing, how's you all make your way around this pond?
And Tim pulls smile at you all, and the music seems to have a
bit of an effect on you as the aches in your bodies that you
incurred from your time drifting at sea seem to fade a little
bit. Your breathing eases and the
heavyweight of the storm's aftermath feels just a little
lighter, and you can all regain AD 6 of HP.
Gizmo as well. Is he out?
No. Yeah, any anybody, any Pokémon
that are out if you want to take your Pokémon out or but if your
Pokémon I got all my. HP back.
I'll send Gizmo out now, but yeah.
I also that's fine, got a Max role which was not all of my HP
but. I did also get a Max.
Role if you'd like. To get all of your HP back,
because we didn't. Get any had a Max role.
I didn't get all. We took eight, we take eight.
I thought we took 8. We took 8. 8 What?
Did I do math? It was 8.
We took eight damage initially. Apollo cheese if that was not
clear, but yeah, it was 8. Oh ha ha ha ha.
I did math wrong. I thought I so I rolled A6, I
had nine, I rolled A6. My Max is 17.
I did the one the wrong way, the plus.
So I was like Oh yes, 10 + 6 is 16. 17 is the new total instead
of 15 because it's a not I was at 9.
Does that make sense? I got it.
Math if you would like to take your Pokémon out and have them
listen for a moment, they can heal the D6 as well.
Come on Gizmo, I I think it would have sent out Gizmo.
What's Kit got a little scared? Gizmo.
Something Hell yeah, another Max roll.
Zippy is back. Crazy.
Pull HP. So you guys are making your way
past the temples kit, How about you roll me a survival check?
Survival is wisdom. I believe so.
Yeah, it is. Yes, you guys are rolling high
today also. Roll me AD 4. 02 roll again.
Three. OK.
As you continue through the forest on this little path, the
force is a bit damp around you from the storm that had passed
through, but you hear a bit of rustling ahead as you once again
happen upon a small clearing. There is a circle of little
Pokémon dancing around in a circle of two varieties. 1 is
small with a bulbous head and leaves poking out from the top,
and the other is ovular in shape with green leaf whiskers and
fluff around its body and they are in varying stages of green
but turning orange as this is the early fall.
They appear to be spinning around and dancing, for the more
ovular ones are damp from the storm and their cotton around
them is kind of weighing them down a little bit, and they
appear to be kind of flinging their water about as they are
trying to become dry again. The other Pokémon helping them
in this little ritualistic dance.
Kit, would you also roll me? AD 2016?
OK, in the center of all this commotion, kind of looking
around confusedly, it seems like it's not quite sure how it got
there. There's another Pokémon kind of
looking around with an orange striped body and more brownish
leaves atop it with a little squirrel.
Seems to have kind of a pumpkin shaped body and appears to be
confused as to what is going on around it.
The dancing Pokémon stop for a moment and look at you all and
then open their little circle as if inviting you to join in in
their little dance. E forest is kind of weird.
Kit will hold out her hands cautiously and say no, no, I'm
not a good dancer, but this is great keep.
It up how? Spooky.
Is this pumpkin? Does it seem like it would say
Boo to you? It's a bit of a spooky pumpkin.
It might say. Boo.
To you. Oh.
Pumpkin that says Boo. Wonder what it is?
Who could it be? Who could it be?
I will dance with the spooky pumpkin as a as a spooky bitch.
Trying to be like I don't remember any of the steps can
you teach me? Amazing.
Are you both joining in on the dancing?
Absolutely. Then both roll a performance
check. Let's fucking go.
I have proficiency in that which means I have a + 5.
So clean +5. So I have a + 1.
Not a natural one, right? You know what is a natural one,
really? Yeah.
What is it? 3022 Baby.
What is a natural one but a dirty tune, right?
Amazing. That is a crit failure, yes.
It's the thirtiest 2 you've ever seen.
Yeah, you are able to easily join the dancing circle and all
of the little Pokémon around seem to rejoice.
Even the one in the center that was a little spooky and a little
spooked seems to be delighted by the show that you are putting on
and begins to jump into the line behind you as well.
Even joining in on your dancing seems to really have taken a
liking to you. However, when Triton joins the
circle, he seems to have a little bit too much enthusiasm
and perhaps 2 left feet and his foot gets caught on a root that
has kind of arched out of the ground.
As he falls to the ground many of the pokemons scatter scared,
not understanding the the loud noise that just happened as
green and orange and red leaves fly into the air leaving only
what we all know I'm sure is a pumpkaboo and one of the pet a
little behind as well who seems to look at you curiously as you
have fallen on the ground. Please, please excuse this old
man. He he didn't mean any insult.
It it will be on our way. It's OK.
Well, you're going to help me up.
I don't pick you up, old man, I just lift up the old man.
I asked the pumpkaboo. Easy.
Yeah, easily enough. Red Robin.
You're able to return it Triton to the standing position and
roll AI think we'll we'll give you the choice between Pokémon
Handling and Persuasion. To you, could you repeat what
you said? I didn't catch it.
I said I want to ask if the Pumpkin Boo would like to join
us. OK.
My Pokémon handling is +0 but my persuasion is +5.
S 9 + 5 14. It seems a little hesitant, but
it looks around at all of the Pokémon that scattered away, and
it looks back at you and gives a little nod.
Hell yeah. Do I do the pokey Ball thing?
You can. Give it a try.
Yeah, you most certainly can. Hell yeah.
Are you going to try and capture it with a pokeball?
Sure. OK, I'll say this will be a
Pokémon handling check one more, but it the from your
conversation with it beforehand, the DC will be lowered.
Please, your wonderful performance.
That's an that's funny. OK, Yep you are yes, easily able
to capture the pokeball. It is a critical capture.
It goes into the Pokeball, ticks once, and then the satisfying
little noise. That wasn't a very good
impression of the noise, but you know the noise, the satisfying
little click that the Pokeball gives when you've captured
Pokémon. Congratulations, you have
captured A Pumpkaboo. I don't have a sheet at the
moment but I will get that to you before next session.
Wahoo. Hell yeah do.
You have a name. Not yet.
OK. I'll figure something out.
Is pet Watch is. Like standing there.
Like watching? Yeah, he's just like, he's kind
of like shuffled backwards a little bit.
He seems to like just be standing underneath the tree,
but he's like watching all of you, just like looking.
What is your response, Tia? And everyone's response to the
party's first capture. Oh, how'd you do that with the
orb, old man? Which is more than one.
You were just handed 1. You haven't even read the Orb.
Not computing. The little one with the glasses
give you red orb. And then he looks at the poker
ball, He was at it, and he's like, oh.
Yes, they they do that, yes. Lord Helix has certainly blessed
us with multiple. Oh, there, there are several.
They're very commercially available.
What is a commercial? Right.
You know you don't. You don't advertise.
No. Old man, how how long were you
at sea? I don't remember.
Right, that makes sense. All right, we'll we'll figure it
out. That's fine.
That was pretty nicely done, Tia.
You didn't even have to weaken it or anything.
And Kit will underhand toss one of the last two remaining
pokeballs to Tia to make up for the one that she just used.
Oh hell yeah. Thank you.
Anything else in this clearing? Make a bigger perception.
I'm 19, I'm going so high. What?
The hell guys are on fire today? Yeah, as you're looking around,
you can't see anything else in the clearing itself other than
the pedal that is kind of watching you from a distance.
There's some some stones, some trees, obviously a couple
flowers. It seems that the pedal lows
might have been attending to everything kind of damp from the
storm that passed by overhead. And once again you see in the
distance something shifting between the trees, and you catch
a glimpse of glowing pale red eyes before once again they
vanish. Oh God.
Smart to run. Where to next?
I don't know where Robin. We we should get out of here
before the pedal will go and get their big boss to come smash us
or something. Yes, there is danger in this
woods. I feel it.
Something is wrong are. You continuing on.
Yeah, forward. All right, this time, as you
continue on, you're pressing deeper into the forest.
The light is beginning to thin as the sun dips lower and long
shadows stretch across the forest floor.
The cheerful chatter of bird Pokémon has begun to quiet,
replaced by the occasional freak of branches swaying in the
breeze. A coolness seeps into the air,
carrying with it the earthy scent of wet bark.
You distant cries echo, faint yet sharp enough to send a
prickle down your spine. For this feels denser here, as
though the trees lean closer together, whispering secrets
just out of reach. Tia, How about you roll a
survival check? What is my survival step -2 So
that's a nine. All right, roll me AD 4/2.
OK, you guys are loving twos today.
Terrible, terrible twos. Oh no Tia, as you are traversing
the forest, first of all do you have sippy and or your new catch
out or are either or both of them in their balls?
The the pumpkin boost definitely in the ball.
I think after the Like healing song, I think Tia would have
recalled Sippy because Sippy is little.
Gotcha. OK, as you are traversing
through the forest here, kind of excited about your your little
catch here, the pumpkaboo that you just caught.
Perhaps you're you're looking at the ball, you're not really
looking where you're going. And unfortunately, your foot
catches on a tangled root and you crash into a branch,
knocking it over. The brutal sound of wood giving
way as cluster of twigs and reeds that was resting on the
branch falls away and a mess tumbles from below branches,
spilling several downy Pokémon in various sizes onto the soft
earth. Some of them are small with
yellow feathers, others a little bit larger, blue plumage, each
of them with beaks, and they squawk and flap clumsily and a
teetering over to the side as they're still quite young,
scattering an alarm. And before you can react, the
air splits with a shrill, furious cry as a large white
bird emerges from just beyond the trees, spreading its wings
wide, its feathers slick and gleaming from the recent rain.
She dives towards you, her pointed yellow beak beating her
massive wings. And I will give you 1 moment to
react before we will roll initiative.
I'm. Going to jump back and try to
catch the bird. What was the description of the
bird again? Just a bird A.
Yellow beak. White with a yellow.
Yellow beak. Gotcha.
I'm like Lugia. It's a Lugia.
Again, guys get. Ready.
There's Lugia's in this. Florist.
Is the nest completely destroyed or did onto the ground?
It's like spilling onto the ground.
It's like a little intact, but like all of the Pokémon that
were inside of it have spilled out onto the ground.
I think I'm just going to like grab the nest and try to start
scooping babies. Oh my God.
You feel like an old baby scoop. Oh, not to not to steal them,
but to retain. It I'm stealing babies, I'm
stealing. Babies.
I'm stealing babies. No, I'm putting up in the nest
to try to reset the nest and put it back up somewhere.
OK, an attempt to intercept this bird so.
Kit will back up. Kit doesn't like big.
Groups back just out of here. Yeah, out of here.
Yeah, I think he's gonna be like, I know these fuckers,
they're they're pick your eyes out and then so he is going to
get his his quick ball ready for the deep one.
OK, seeing Tia now touching her sweet little babies, the Pokémon
will in fact attack and we will roll initiative.
That is fun. I understand. 10 My initiatives
plus 3, so 13. 6 for kit. True to form Red Robin, you are
able to successfully intercept the bird as you are going first.
What are you doing? I'm well, I'm trying to catch
the bird and grapple it to the ground to.
Stop it from. Attack.
Yep. Oh, yeah.
Oh, we're me. Like grappling bird.
Go for wrestling, Yeah. All right, that's an opposed
athletics question mark. I would say so, yeah.
Charlotte Strong, 3020. 20 sorry I rolled AD 8.
I was like, what did I? Why did I roll that?
Yes, you are able to successfully grapple this bird
as it is squawking ferociously. Rock.
Yeah, it's white feathers and
it's blue plumage on its trust flying everywhere as it is still
very, very angry. But of course, in a moment,
being held back by Red Robin. We have to calm this bird.
I think that's all I have for it so.
OK, that's all for your turn. Yes, Santo is not out, so yes.
OK, that will bring us to the bird, which I will reveal if
anyone wants to guess before I reveal it because I don't want
to have to keep saying the bird, but does anybody?
Have to be. Swana.
It's Swana, Yeah. It is a SWANA, correct?
OK, OK. As the SWANA will attempt to get
free from the scrap which I believe is that another opposed
athletics right. It is, yeah.
Same role, 3020. OK, it is unable to break loose,
but I believe it can still attack, right?
I think to break loose costs it it's action.
It's action OK, understandable. I'm trying to double check just
in case. Yeah, so I would either rule it
that you can use your action to try and breakthrough or or
something else a disadvantage while you're grappled.
Understandable, haven't I say? OK, well I already said she was
going to try and break loose from the grapple, so we'll stick
with that. And that will be her whole turn,
which will take us to Triton with Tia on deck.
OK, Triton, while this bird was like squawking around getting
grabbed, he was already kind of like whispering his spell to
summon the deep one. And then he'll throw the deep
one out and he comes out very like the deep 1 has like a
almost like a permanent, like you know how like the eyes are
just kind of like like pointed in like it's just permanently
that's the deep one's face. And then just without a word,
it's just going to like launch three bubbles right at the bird.
OK, I will say it has half cover from being grappled by Red
Robin. I don't want to roll because it
might hit red. Robin, but you also get
advantage on all rolls while it's grappled.
Yes, you do have advantage. I'm rolling three separate roll
to hits. Yeah.
First one's a crit thanks advantage.
Second one's at 12. Third one is in 18.
OK, the first and the last will hit, so if you want to roll crit
damage for one hit and then normal damage for another.
This is resisted though, I believe.
So just normal damage on the first one and then resisted on
the next? I say just roll the crit damage
and we'll just half it. OK, so 4 + 3 + 3, which is 10
for the first hit, so that's 5. And then just regular hits the
second one is 1 + 3 four, so 9 total.
OK. No, no, no, no.
Has have the 47 total. OK, I'm just going to take your
word for it. As these bubbles onto the SWANA,
it continues to rise in Red Robin's arms but appears to have
taken a little bit of damage. Is that all for Triton and the
Deep One? All right, that will take us to
Tia with Kit on deck. We're scooping babies all.
Right, just still scooping babies.
Roll Pokémon Handling. 19. OK, yeah, you were able to
successfully scoop all of the fluffy little baby duclets back
into the nest and prop it up on the branch.
They seem to be fine. They seem to be chilling, but
Mama is still big, mad and still struggling to break out of Red
Robin's grasp. However, it keeps questioner.
On me do I have? I would say if you have like a
bonus action you can do you could do that and or like you
could. Talk to her.
Yeah, you could talk to her. What are you going to say?
I'm so sorry for knocking all your babies out of the nest.
They're all back in the nest. They're all safe.
I'm so sorry. As Red Robin is fucking
grappling. Yes, she.
Said she was sorry. Bubbles at the same thing.
Getting bubbles? Go ahead and roll a Pokémon
Handling or Persuasion with disadvantage.
OK. Just get 2 crits.
Yeah, just get 2 crits. So a 3 + 5 for my persuasion is
8. Yeah, Mama's mama's still big
mad. She she is very focused on
trying to get at you because her babies were taken.
No, they're back. I'm so sorry.
That's that's my turn. OK, that will take us to kit
with Red Robin on deck. OK, like it's going to shout out
to Red Robin. Hey, Red, keep your feet on the
ground, OK? All they're planted.
Gizmo blast them and Gizmo will use a Thunder shock on the
SWANA. OK, I feel like rule it however.
You wait. Yeah, I feel like the way the
Thunder shock works, like it's Red Robin is going to take
damage no matter what, but I think it will be like resisted
or double resisted because he's a human person.
Except the terms and conditions, said Robin.
I do accept the terms and conditions.
OK, then yeah, go ahead and rolled.
It should I roll for both of them or just like rolled a hit
just for one I. Think it's gonna hit SWAT at?
Yeah, I think it's, yeah, I think it's just gonna hit no
matter what. Yeah, it's conductive.
You do get advantage on the roll.
Yeah, that's a crit. Oh boy.
Oh, No 5 and then. I rolled 20 so.
OK. And it's still.
Perfected, but not on. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
So this is going to be fun math. I love math and doing it.
So base 12 on Swana and then and then eight more.
So that's just 20 damage on Swana.
How do you want to math that out for?
We had that half and we said we're quartering the damage
anyway because it's like normal damage, right?
And then and then I was prepped and human resisted.
So. So it's like 2.
I think 5, yeah. I've I don't take because it
was. I don't say no because the 20 is
from the Super effective. It is a crit though.
Yeah, but it's it's you getting 20 like the scale up is from I'm
not taking super effective. I'm even taking resisted.
OK, you already doubled it and I thought we were going.
So normal damage would OK, normal damage would be 10.
Right. That's what we were doing, I
thought. I thought we'd established that
we were because we prepped. Oh, OK.
And then resist again. Sure, OK.
And then OK, yeah, I just have resistant, I didn't do well.
It's an eighth of the damage, I think is what we're of, the
eighth of the damage, the Junta Swana is what you say.
So it'd be 3. So it'd be 3, yes.
That checks out. That's.
I love my hat, I. Was like, I was like, whoa,
fine, I'm I'm kind of flying like water type here.
Like, whoa. Relax.
Well, you know, you're flying from the the top rung.
Where are the ropes? Where?
Where is the turnbuckle? I am grounded.
As we previously established. My feet are on the ground.
Thanks for the grapple. Because it wouldn't have crit
otherwise, right? Yes, amazing synergy, beautiful
as a blinding shock comes from Gizmo the Magnemite and blasts
through this wanna doing a significant chunk of damage and
also a little bit of like static electricity like out to Red
Robin as well. But you are decently well
protected. OK, that will take us to Red
Robin. Lovely.
I have three options. I either pile drive it, I throw
pocket sand in its face while holding it because technically a
grapple only requires one hand so I can't throw pocket sand at
it even though like visually you would think I'm just like
holding it. It's a.
Picture like holding its neck or?
Something right? Rules.
Rules are rules. I only need one.
I have one hand free that I can do an action or which means I
can also pull out Santo or I can attempt to intimidate it.
Listen kids, vote Bird. Bird got hollow bones.
You can just smash that thing. Oh, shit.
Whoa, Let me think to you. Go for the the powerbomb.
The bird powerbomb. Yeah, I I don't feel like the
baddie. But I I feel like you had to get
involved too it. Has these.
It's a mother. I can, certainly.
I can go for the Intimidate for sure.
If you could get Santo out, what would he do?
Santo would just heard it, which is like whatever.
Yeah. Double pile driver.
Yeah, the team combo. Yeah, I would just do the team
combo. Yeah.
I don't think I want to kill it, though.
I think we'll save that for later.
Yeah, I'm going to attempt to intimidate, to calm this bird
down because clearly negotiating was not an option.
So. OK, yeah, roll your
intimidation. Relax motherbird, we will not
harm you even though we did already.
Right after getting blasted with Thunder show.
Yeah, right. Just relax next dude, let's.
Get a we got 13 + 3 is 16. OK, yeah, In response to this,
the bird stops flapping its wings as frocially as before,
but it still has quite a mean look at it in its eye.
It's not trying as hard to escape, but it definitely you
don't know what what would happen if you let it go right
now. I want to let you go, Bert, but
you are still mean mugging me. I don't like it.
Are we going to relax or I'm going to strangle you?
It is your choice. God damn.
It is up to them. I don't.
I don't think to lose. Red Robin doesn't lose.
Right, exactly. I will let you choose how you
lose this fight. Roll up Pokémon handling real
quick. Surely.
'Cause I just like Swana doesn't speak English, but like they can
kind of inherently understand. It's like but I'm Mora farming.
Right. Yeah, like they, they can kind
of understand what you're going for.
I just want to make sure like. Mora.
Farming is kind of catches your. Flat 10.
Flat 10, yeah, yeah, it, it, it kind of gets it, but it doesn't
quite get the gravity of the words that you're saying right
now. Yes.
But everybody else does for sure.
Yeah, that will take us to. I'm still, yeah.
I'm still holding them till next round.
Still holding him? Yep.
Yeah. Hope he.
Wants to get choked out? That's up to them.
Yeah, the it's going to attempt to poke at you with its beak
because it's still angry and it's still trying to get out, so
it's going to go for an attack I.
Have disadvantage. It doesn't because I'm looking
because. Under the restraint under
restrained rules, it technically has disadvantage.
It says technicals against the creature have advantage and the
creature's attack rules have disadvantage.
Against the grapple. See.
Because. These.
The rules that I'm looking at, grapple only gives you the
grappled condition, doesn't give you the restrained condition and
grapple. All grapple does is make your
speed go to 0 is what I'm reading.
I don't know. I don't know what.
That that's part of the restraint condition.
It's both. Both grapple and restraint have
0 speed. Right, but it's not restrained,
it's just grappled. Right.
No, it says if you succeed for grapple condition, if you do the
grapple condition, if you succeed, both you and the
creature are restrained until the grapple.
It's actually because of that I'm considered restrained.
So actually the advantage and disadvantage of cancel each
other and it's normal, that's why it rules.
Gotcha. Gotcha.
OK. Understandable.
Have a nice day, yes? OK, now reading that I am also
restrained. Makes sense?
Will a 22 hit? Yeah, for sure.
OK. Always got to ask a.
Man. Now you do.
OK, this ferocious pack from Swana stings.
It will do 9 damage to you. Oh, that's, that's what, the
half. Yes, Oh my God, she's powerful.
She's a big Mama. She's a big Mama.
That hurt. I'm down to 5HP gang.
That will take us to Triton with Tia on deck.
Triton saying that it has now become a life or death situation
from the bird, is unsure whether he should take this bird's life
or not or whether we should collectively as a party.
So he would like to make some kind of arcana or inside check
and consult the Lord Helix on what he should do.
OK, yeah, make an Arcana check. Or religion if you prefer,
whichever. They do the same for you, are
they not? I'm proficient in Arcana.
Yeah, I guess technically your religion is just made-up by you,
so I guess I would. Yeah, it's not like an
established religion. Yeah.
Yeah, religion is like, oh, remembering this is what I
learned like in. Chad, I can't wait till like a
year to the campaign when we discover the Church of the Helix
fossil and he finds his people. That's.
Right. Oh my God.
It was a 16. I roll the 16 and the
proficiency and -2 in intelligence cancel each other
out. Oh great Lord Helix, what the
fuck do I do? I don't.
I'm just OK, brief aside, I'm picturing the, you know what I
mean? Where it's like you're at
McDonald's and the guess what you want and you pull out the
little thing and it's a picture of Michael Jackson.
It's like Mikey, what do I do? And then he's like, get, get the
meal. You'll need the energy in the
coming days. I'll find it.
I'll find it later. Mikey, what do I do?
I hope I did. The response that you get from
Lord Helix is less a message of words and more of an instinctual
feeling that it doesn't want you to kill this creature.
It understands if you need to subdue it in some way, but it
thinks it would have a harmful effect on like you and having to
reckon with what you have done if you contribute to killing the
bird. That's the vibe that you get
from Lord Helix. Do I have another action or was
that my only action? Also, you can do something else
if you'd like. I would like to, Ala Don Dozo
from last time, get real close to the Swan and just kind of
lock eyes with it and be like you need to calm down, we are
not here to harm you. OK, that'll be another Pokémon
handling then. Oh yeah, get that wisdom?
Yeah, get fucked up on that wisdom.
Oh, that was a dirty 23. Oh.
OK, as frightened the. Pokémon Whisper.
Yeah. Indeed, but these these water
types may be something about that.
Calmed by the messaging of Lord Felix approaches the large
infuriated bird and looks it in the eyes and connects with it
for a moment and it seems that all fight begins to leave the
swan's body as it it looks up round a little bit more and
realizes that it's babies, although previously tumble to
the ground, are now safe. And that if it means you no
harm, then you mean it no harm. I did say that correctly.
And it begins to calm its wings. Why is Joy's friend very good?
Are you going to let the bird go?
Go. I will release the birds, yes.
Yeah, OK. There you go, little one.
With that it will make its way to its babies and kind of COO
over them, checking it pack, packing them with between them
with its big beak, making sure they're OK, kind of turning them
over and then kind of looking over at you all and giving a
kind of understanding nod before going back to tending to its
little babies. Very good.
Hey. Hey, Emma.
How you say? Really hurt.
Kit wants to nervously apologize to Red Robin.
Like I I, you look like a tough guy, but I didn't think Gizmo
would hit so hard. I'm really sorry.
I hope you're OK. It's fine, the bird did more
damage. OK, I I have a potion but I
don't think it would do anything for you.
It's fine. Can I Can I do some tea healing?
I was about to say, do we have like a medicine?
Healing, healing, healing. It's healing.
Is my is my tea in my egg all soggy?
I feel like you would fit in like containers that aren't
water, like a. Waterproof like container like.
Tea contain like for seeing airtight?
Well, no, Just like that's how you keep tea from going bad.
It was tea water in the bag just made tea in the.
This is what I'm. This is what I'm I'm kind of
getting at. Here it's not tea water.
You do. OK.
But if you do have tea bags, how are you going to make tea now is
kind of what I'm getting at. It's like, you can't just, like,
eat these tea bags. Yeah.
Yeah, here, eat this like loose tea.
Yeah, it's loose tea. You can chew on some tea leaves
if you're really desperate. I don't know if it has healing
properties in the same way. Wouldn't hurt to try.
Your mouth is wet. You.
Can try. Yeah, let's run that back real
quick, 'cause everyone was going with, like, rational things and
then you said your mouth is wet. Yeah, just like Steve.
We can't. We don't really know how dry or
wet my mouth is. That's true.
Yeah. Yeah.
You gonna check that with my shoe size that you just did or
what are we doing? All right, let's investigate
your mouth wetness. Yeah, 'cause he just like gave
her all up in there and take a good look and see how how wet.
And what what that mouth do? Do it be wet.
Tia's got 1 cork today, We're good.
I'm crying like I'm actually. I I was just trying to flavor a
medicine check to try to provide some kind of feeling because Tia
has healing. And I love that.
Yeah, I think, yeah, I think that's awesome.
And I want to give this point A to point B.
Let's just let's decide after. Let's make the medicine check
1st and just see how. Let's just see how this goes
sound. Yeah, so true. 10.
I love it. Remarkably.
Average. That's crazy.
Most remarkably average. Yeah.
You, you have tea bags in your bag and you can take them out
and smell them and they smell really good and it's a really
calming effect, but unfortunately, they won't
actually heal. Red Robin's battered and injured
and slightly fried body. Tia Tia is a connoisseur of tea.
It is loose tea in like airtight containers.
Sorry. Bags.
Yes, you can take out a little tin of loose tea here.
Smell this. What flavors do you take out?
Some herbal shit that's like supposedly good for medicinal
use. If they're weed in it, yeah.
It's called dangerous. And they're shit in it.
I'll give you, I'll give you a bonus if it's CBD because at
that, that is healing at that point, I wouldn't.
Ask Tia to have It's like oh wait that's the wrong T that is
not T container full of weed. Here, smoke this, you'll feel
better. Like she's like going through
her T's. I'm not trying.
Can you roll a joint? There wasn't much else to do but
roll on the high seas. What are we doing?
First off, what's going on? We're not healing Red Robin.
He's probably gonna die. We should press 4.
OK, Triton. We'd like to.
I would like to make like a general like nature trick of the
area around me to see if there's like any like thing that I could
identify as like medicinal herbs or like a leaf long enough to
like make a bandage or something or.
Yeah, see. That sounds like a good idea.
Wow, I love it. Beautiful.
Amazing. It is a flat 16.
OK, you are able to successfully find a Bush of berries nearby.
Go ahead and roll AD3AD3. That's not a thing AD 4.
AD 3 doesn't. Just it's really weird.
There's a yeah. I got a 2.
Hyper shape. You are able to find one very
round blueberry and a yellow Berry with little circles on it,
and you aren't quite sure exactly what they are, but you
do know that they both can heal. I wouldn't know like the names
of them. That makes sense.
Yeah, I'll OfferUp the what I'm assuming is a bigger yellow
Berry to red and I'll be like here young one, eat up.
Well yes, I love these as a child.
Eat that up. Amazing.
Go ahead and heal 2 D 4 + 4 from this citrus Berry.
So that's 8. So I'm back up to 13.
It's good enough. I learned that one from Cat
Pidden Ahab when I was aboard his ship trying to find the
White Waylord. I think I read that in the book
when I was a wee lad. We're in that book, old man.
There is a book. Who'd they get to put me in the
movie? You know what movies are I?
We didn't know what TV was. Yes, it's an art form.
Ah, television is also an art form.
I love being on TVI want to be there someday.
Maybe we can get you on TV if we can find civilization.
Oh, true. That's what we're doing.
Yes. Sorry, I've lost a lot of blood.
Good luck, I've been looking for civilization for decades and I
haven't found it. You were just on the ship that
was kind of civilization. Well, I kind of got fished up
that wasn't it didn't count. We don't, we don't count that.
All right, of course, of course. All right.
We should venture onward. We have to be getting close.
We've been following this trail. Right I I really was tempted to
4th wall break but I chose not to.
We have to be close right? There are only so many rolls
left. Wow, that's crazy.
Who would have thought? We've all done some kind of
check. Except for one person.
That's crazy. Right.
There is one person left who has not noticed anything, so we must
be close. I will actually have Tia roll a
perception check for me real quick.
OK, perception is based on wisdom -2 so 7 - 2 is 5.
OK, you are starting to also get the feeling that Kit has been
having creeping up on her, that something in the woods is
watching you similarly, unable to catch solid glimpse of it,
but there's definitely something you can't shake the feeling.
Vibes Roth fam. Yes.
But now. Legitimately like as close to
his family at this point because we've known each other for just
hours at this so it's not very long.
We are all family under the guise of Lord Helix.
Cool, are we in the cult? Oh no, I didn't sign up for
this. This is why we need to find a
town. Correct.
Yes, I agree. By now, as you are weaving
through trees like they're almost growing closer together,
closing in around you, the sun has almost completely set now,
shadows stretching long between the trunks, twisting across the
ground like reaching fingers. Really quiet at this point.
Almost too quiet as the cries of vocal man have faded almost
completely, leaving only crunch of leaves beneath your various
shoe sizes and sounds of your own breaths.
You keep turning over your shoulder, expecting to see
something, but when you do, there's nothing there.
You pass by a tree, an old oak tree with its bark torn with
deep ragged scratch marks that cut all the way down to the
trunk, gouging through the thick wood.
Triton, please rule me a survival truck.
Revival. That is a 12.
OK, rule me AD 4. That's a three.
OK, as you make your way through the forest, it feels like you're
almost going in circles, feels like you're barely making any
progress at all, as at one point you realize that you have passed
the large oak tree with the gouges in it once again, and you
realize that it is true. Perhaps you have been going in
circles for a short while, and for a moment I.
Was gonna say I will communicate and be like fam I think we're
going in circles. The old man learned what fam
means. Like a just dude right now did.
I say the vibes are off, fam. Did I say that?
Yeah. Yeah, you did say that.
I believe you. That's where you got it from.
Yeah, that's where. You got it.
That's why Kit questioned our relationship as family, right?
Yeah, yeah. I don't expect kit to use slag
and I am just big Russian guys, so I'm not going to say the the
vibes are all fab and. That's why that's when you all
learned that you were in a cult now.
Yes. The entire forest.
For a moment it had been quieting less cries and cues
from shunken bird type Pokémon, but after a moment you realize
that it is silent. Oh no, that's what has to.
Come out. Sorry, no, it's OK.
As a shadow flickers high above the canopy as you see a blur of
a sweep of enormous silent black wings and a curved beak that
glints in the very dim light, wings rimmed with red.
You're only able to catch a glimpse of it, but against the
forest around you, the figure is terrifying, with long claws
before it vanishes, but the feeling that you had when you
saw it lingers. And I need everybody to make a
wisdom save. No.
Is this a eldritch is fine? No, just Kit's reaction to large
creatures is bad. Well, honestly, 17 pretty good.
Yeah, 16 actually. I was pleasantly surprised.
Wisdom save is a 16 as well. Everybody except for Tia is
rattled, but you know, a little jumpy but able to kind of shake
it off after a moment as you're more determined than ever to
find whatever civilization may be at the end of or within this
forest. But Tia, the sensation lingers,
and you will have disadvantage on perception checks for the
rest of the day due to your jumpiness.
In the silence that lingers after, whatever that was wrapped
by feels almost oppressive in the forest, like there's a dark
mist lingering around you, and after a moment a creaking of a
branch breaks through the silence, followed immediately by
what sounds like a child crying as you turn around to see a
small Pokémon behind you. It's pale red eyes glowing in
the dark, it's face seemingly made of wood with two branches
poking out of either side, it's body a black wisp, and hanging
from either of its branches are two other little Pokémon, on one
side a red worm, and on the other side a green Caterpillar.
That kit you are easily able to identify as a Marple and a
Caterpie at the top its head. Another kind of pokes over the
side of its little wooden head. A little dark brown buggy
Pokémon with a round face and a little bucktooth.
But Tia, you are easily able to identify as a Scatterbug, as
this Pokémon has its little stubby black hands to its face
and appears to be crying. Frighten.
I'm not recognizing that this is a Pokémon is going to say,
What's the matter, smell boy? It looks up at you, stops
crying, and begins to make its way closer to your group,
tilting its head. It is going to shy away from the
bugs and say you got some cool bugs there kid, that's really
nice. You could.
You could stay over there. He likes spooky shit.
I think Tia's also going to like lean into the like, not
pretending like pretending it's not a Pokémon and is a child
even though she knows it's a Pokémon.
Yeah. Does that make sense?
Like she'll just lean into it and be like, hey little guy,
like Dory and Fang Nemo, Hey little buddy little guy.
Are you reaching out to it at all or just kind of talking at
it? Not talking at it.
OK. Still maintaining like a little
like I'm not trying to get all up on it, but like maintain like
a respectful distance just in case, but.
Brighton's trying to get all up on it.
Yeah, he's just. Like, Oh no, but what's the
matter, small child? Now my guard is definitely up
for sure. It kind of looks around at all
of you wearily and then gives one of the little buggies on its
branches a little pat and then paces forwards.
I think Tia will send out Sippy because Sippy is a ghost.
It's a fellow ghost. Maybe there's some like ghost
communication? As soon as you send out Sippy,
there's a moment where the two of them look at each other, and
then you just see a grin spread across Sippy's face and a
matching one on this Pokémon's face as Sippy zips towards it
and clinks against it, grabbing it with her little ghosty purple
hand and it's little grubby little fingerless hands.
And they had a dance around each other for a moment as the
earlier cries that you heard from this Pokémon turn into
tears of joy as the two of them dance together.
That's lovely. Anyone think this spooky kid
knows the way out of the forest? This spooky kid will look at you
and nod. Well, take us away, Scout
Leader. Oh, for the spooky vibes, T is
also going to send out a Pumpkibu who is named Latte.
What a. Nice latte.
Spiced Latte I. Mean.
Oh yeah, there's multiple sizes. Oh shoot, we gotta roll.
We'll roll for it we'll roll for it.
How many sizes are there? There's 4 sizes, so go ahead and
roll AD 41. It's.
Tiny little guy. Honestly, that fits.
It's just a little pumpkin spice latte.
It did. A whoop up.
Goodbye, I think. This pumpkin.
And biggest ones are the best IMO.
But. I agree.
Yeah, I hate average people or sizes.
Fuck them, I'm going into this little ghost thing.
Roll AD 20 for me and then I'll I'll add a bonus for that.
That's a 2 on the die. OK, Yeah, Latte is a little bit
more standoffish than the other two.
Roll an insight for me real quick.
Insight Plus Zero 16. OK, yeah, you can definitely
tell that there is a much stronger connection between
Sippy and this other Pokémon than with Latte the Pumpkaboo.
But Latte the Pumpkaboo is also a little awkward.
They're definitely, they're ghosty guys.
They're still going to all hang out together, but it's like as
as they're walking along, Sippy are not walking.
They're kind of floating eerily along the forest floor Sippy is
holding. Does anyone want to guess what
the Pokémon is? I think you all know.
Phantom, Phantom. Phantom Sippy is holding the
Phantom's hand in her little purple ghostly hand, and they're
kind of like swinging back and forth as they go, and then
Latte's kind of trailing behind them a little bit.
That's adorable. Do you all follow the Phantom as
it leads you through the darkening forest?
Yes. Where can go wrong?
Absolutely nothing. Tia would let me know or not Tia
Sippy would let me know if this wasn't a trustworthy phantom.
Yeah, exactly. Just for fun, can we get a a
Gizmo Insight role just to practice that proficiency?
Oh sure, Yeah, go for it. And just for flavor, the deep
one was never returned. So it is a we got a pincher
latched onto Triton's butt and Triton's just been kind of
dragging it behind him. That's amazing.
That's a flavored up, yeah. Gizmo, with his relatively
comparatively soulless but very inquisitive eye rolls A4 on the
inside. Check.
Yeah, Gizmo does not fully understand ghost type Pokémon.
Yeah, that checks out. As much as it does machines,
yeah, but he can tell that they're having a good time.
That's all that matters, really. Yeah.
My guard's still up, so I'm bringing Santo out here.
It's going to sit on my head. OK.
Double cowled up. As you carry on your way through
the forest, the faint scent of smoke begins to make its way to
your nostrils, and at first it's disorienting, out of place in
these damp woods. But then you see a thin plume
rising between the branches in the distance against a dimming
light, and as you push on, the trees begin to thin, and through
the breaks in the canopy you see the first warm lights of
lanterns flickering in the distance, and the outlines of
rooftops emerges, clustered against the tree line, and
beyond them, thin smokestacks curling Gray ribbons into the
twilight. As you begin to find your first
signs of civilizations, civilizations, civilizations
singular, you make your way to the edge of the tree line and
you push through the last of the trees, giving away from the
quiet forest into the edge of a small town.
The air smells faintly of brine and pine as you take in a strip
of small shops, painted signs rocking gently in the breeze.
And in the distance, further beyond, you can see homes built
right into the bases of massive trunks of ancient trees with
round doors and carved balconies blending human craft with the
natural roots of the forest. You see scattered throughout the
town, wooden carvings of Pokémon, finned Pokémon from the
sea. You see large imposing Pokémon
standing on 2 legs, growling faces.
And you see a sign that says Alasco Town where the river
meets the roots. And right as you're taking it
all in, the sound of hurried footsteps crunches against the
dirt patch as a wild eyed older man burst force, very hair
tangled, A patched fisherman's coat flapping at his knees as he
thrusts A Pokeball forward-looking at all of you.
A stay back. Don't think you can fool me.
I know what walks these woods. They look just like Deerling at
first glance. Sweet eyes, gentle steps.
But their shadows don't fall right.
Their hooves don't leave. Prince, they ain't Pokémon at
all. Don't tell me you're one of
them, Twisted Deerling. I'm literally just a girl.
Listen, there's only enough room for one crazy ass old man in
this town, yeah? Amazing.
Both of you can roll a persuasion.
That 20 I'm not even. Gonna bother to roll.
This OK that is that a 25, but do you?
Yeah. Yes, that's beautiful.
Crazy. Yeah.
Persuasion, Charisma. I got a four if anyone cares.
OK, yeah, he pays you no mind, but to Tia he says, oh, I
thought you had to say, oh come on in, come on in.
Welcome to Velasco Town. What are you what we all doing
out in the forest is? There some place.
We washed up on. There.
Oh, yeah, OK. Washed up on all right.
Oh yeah, there's definitely. We got the old lodge in town.
We'll get you hooked right up with that.
Come with me, come with me and he'll lead you to the strip of
little shops along the main way here.
I. Don't know if I want to leave
the little tree guy behind. As you'll notice he he is
following after you. Oh.
Excellent. That's fine then, with all of
his bugs. Yes, all of his bugs are still
on him as well I feel. Bad catching him without all
like I can't catch all the bugs. Everyone in the party needs to
catch a bug. I'm kidding.
I'm kidding for now. As he will lead you to a lodge,
a sort of taller building towards the edge of the strip
mall. It's very ambiguous.
The sign on front just says lodge and he will say yeah, you
can just rent A room in their showers and there and stuff.
And yeah a young woman will step out of the lodge.
She's got dark hair and she turns and takes all of you in
and she says to the old man, hold skin, eyes.
You got to stop scaring travelers that come in here with
your nonsense about the deer living.
Skin eyes. Oh and the dearly are the skin
Walker. Oh man, Oh my God, that's pretty
good. I'm determined.
We're in Texas, by the way. We're in Texas.
Yeah. She will then turn to all of you
and say come on, come on and argue.
You said you need a place to stay for the night.
What kind of beat up do you need help healing or anything?
We're exhausted, we need help. Do you have a map?
Oh yeah, we got plenty of maps. Come on, come on in.
And you enter, it's very cozy, a little wooden cabin type lodge.
And at the front desk you see a Pokémon with frilly pink and
beige ears, little loops picking from its ears.
It's got a little like whipped cream shaped tail with pink
patterns all over its body. And she will say, oh, do you
know, help these guys out? Give them give their Pokémon
some healing while I show them some maps for around here.
She takes over to one of those like, you know, when you go to a
hotel on vacation and they have the like, like the magazine
standees and they have all the little like brochures and stuff
in them. Yeah.
Concierge. Stuff.
Yeah, the like concierge stuff. Yeah.
She, she takes you over to one of those and she takes one of
them and is like, yeah, here, here there's a kind of a, a
general map of Univa and this one.
And then she points to the middle southeastern side, right
north of Nekrine City in the Pinwheel Forest area.
And she says, yeah, we're right in the middle of Pinwheel
Forest. Nobody ever really comes by.
We don't have a Pokémon Center or anything.
We're in the middle of the woods, kind of out of the way.
And we got a crazy old dude for a gym leader.
So nobody ever really makes their way out here.
But it's like a town. Yeah, yeah.
He, he is a he is our gym leader.
He's pretty tough. Don't let his craziness fool
you. But he is crazy.
That's sick as hell. I'm going to fight him in in the
gym, in the gym, in the gym. I'm.
Going to fight him right now. Put him up, old man.
No. We need to heal, He needs to
sleep. It is night.
I'll fight you. Gym sounds kind of tough.
Well, I if you want to fight me, yeah, you need to get tough
then. I'll work on that right away,
Mr. Skins. You bet.
You better get tough. You better get tough.
All right, so Kit will like fuse over the map and be like Ella's
here and it's like we're here in the forest.
OK, so that's, you know, just just a few days.
So just a bit of a walk we can get there.
Is there somewhere you guys needed to be?
Kind of came out of the forest. Yeah, on a.
Boat on our way to Andala Bay and then we got shipwrecked,
Then we ended up on that beach and now we're here.
Oh, yeah, that that huge storm that passed through that was
pretty crazy. People are still preparing roofs
and stuff out in the town. You guys were out in a
bookstorm. Oh, what do you mean genies?
No, for this nation. Genies.
Genies, Genies. Triton's just going to nod his
head like, Yep, genies. There were some really big
Pokémon and they didn't seem to get along and we ended up
shipwrecked. It's big monsters in the ocean.
Woosh, woosh. They blew everything away.
Giant storm. It was horrible.
Oh yeah, that that sounds pretty horrible.
Well, you guys have been through a lot then.
It's been tough, but I'm glad that we found civilization.
That's all that matters. Yeah.
Well, we, I mean, I like I said, we really don't get anybody
through here a lot. So we're happy to have any
visitors at all, really. If you guys want to stay the
night here at the lodge, I could hook you up with A room.
Sure beats the woods. Yes, that would be lovely.
Thank you. Old man, you want to sleep in
bed? It's good time.
What is a bed? Right, you will find out today.
I assumed you didn't know. I'm through questioning if you
know things. You know about cinema, but you
don't know about. Bed, right?
He knows about the movies but doesn't know about the bed.
I am, I am lost. It's fine.
That's just kind of get jungled up in there.
In where and then he. Just he knocks.
He knocks on the show. Oh yeah, he knocks on the show.
Ah. Yes.
Yeah, she'll say. Yeah.
I mean, I feel really bad for all that you guys went through,
I think for all of you, for rooms for the night.
I think just 10 pokey dollars you can spare it, yeah.
For all of us or for each of us all together, OK.
Wait, what is the pokey dollar? That's fine.
I will pay. Here you go.
Here's $10. It's a little bit crinkly.
It was wet and dry. It sees a lot.
Yeah, that's. Fine.
If we were to ship it, what can you do is money.
It's money. Money is money.
Money is money, right? You you get it.
Well, I mean, I don't know if you guys want to tuck in for the
night. There's plenty of to do in town.
There's Freddy's, has great pizza.
There's the weird Z tech guy who's set up his little
institute in town, but I'm not really sure what he does.
Could check out, there's a couple stores or you could tuck
in for the night. It's up to you.
They have a you said. Do you have a gym?
Yeah, I just told you, old skin eyes runs.
The Oh no, no, no, no, not Pokémon Gym, the the Muscle Gym.
Yeah, I think we have a gym. I don't think I've ever been
there, but I could show you where it is.
Right, we've been in the woods. I need to continue training.
It's very important. Right away.
We just got here. You're going to go to work out.
Right. Yes.
Battered and bruised. Yes, how else would I wrestle
bird if I not exercise? Have you heard of a rest day
mate? Dude.
No. What is that?
What was the the second thing you mentioned?
There was pizza and then there was something else.
What was that? Yeah, there's AZ Tech Institute
in town. They're like this big, like tech
company, they study Pokémon and how they, I don't know, he's got
like a what's that big pink round Pokémon?
It's like purple too. They're like something about
like dreams or something. He's collecting from the town.
I don't, I don't really know the whole deal with it.
You'd have to go ask him what it is.
But yeah, they they study Pokémon, Pokémon battling
techniques, stuff like that. I think they're all over the
region, but somehow we got one in our little town.
Wait. That's not the battling.
Yeah. Excellent.
They probably have gym. And regarding the pizza place,
how long does someone typically spend there?
I live long enough to eat the pizza, like an hour.
I don't know. Yeah.
I just figured it would be, you know, Five Nights at Freddy's.
I'm actually quitting the campaign.
Yeah, that wasn't on purpose. It's just Freddy's pizza.
I'll. Make I'll make no comment.
OK. I will neither confirm nor deny.
Well, thank you for all the information.
I, I, yeah, very tired. Thank you.
Yeah, my, my name's Anna if you need anything.
And this is my my buddy Audino. She can help heal, heal your
Pokémon up if you ever need. Since we don't really have a
Pokémon Center in town, usually we just kind of do it.
Thank you Ozil's pleasure. Is this is this little guy with
you? And she'll point to the phantom
that's been following you around.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's, he's with us.
For now. Oh, cool.
Yeah. People always say that they kind
of see him on the outskirts of town.
He's just kind of always there, but he never actually really
gets close to anybody. I'm surprised to to see that.
But that's that's cool. Good for you.
Oh. He's like BFFS with my my CST
sippy. Oh, cool, cool, cool, nice.
You know, my pal Gizmo is pretty beat up here.
Do you think Adino can do some healing or do you have like a
circuit box that you aren't worried about outages or
anything? I'll say, I'll say Gizmo can be
healed by traditional means. So you know, we'll, we'll heal
him up and you'll get you'll get a full, full heal from from
that. And anybody else who wants to
heal your Pokémon, you're welcome to.
PP as well. Does that include PP?
Yes, yeah, Include PP. OK, hell I am.
She's got supplies, she's spraying you with ethers and
elixirs. Are we gonna go on the town
after we got shipwrecked and lost in the woods?
That sounds crazy. No, no, go on to bed pretty bud.
Fire for the night the. Rest and then early morning
workout. Who wants to join me?
Anybody. I'm.
Joining No Great. If you rise a dawn, old man,
when is dawn? What time is it?
Anna will look at a big old clock in the wall and be like,
looks like it's around 10:00 PM probably.
Perfect old man, right to bed full 8 hours.
All right, well. Intelligent enough to question
it. Yeah, here's some keys for you
guys. Hope you enjoy your stay.
I'll see you in the morning. Bring ice, ghosts and bugs up to
the room. Yeah, you're welcome to.
Yeah, you can bring them all up. You're fucking posse.
Make your way up to some some cozy quarters.
You're each able to have your own bed and separate.
Probably a sweet situation situation.
So you have separate rooms. Yeah.
This is bad old man. You can sleep on this.
He's comfortable. Try it out.
Hannah reminds me of a a bundle of seaweed.
Right, it's a very comfortable bundle of seaweed.
You can do a with blanket. If you're cold you could just
sleep on top of it. It's good.
Triton will crawl on top of it, and the second he's in a
horizontal position, he's out like a light.
Excellent. Amazing.
Very good, efficient. Efficient.
Very good.
I would like to note that the deep 1, the crabby is still
firmly attached to his ass. He's is he is he sleeping on his
stomach then? And crab, He's just on his butt.
He's just there. Yeah, yeah.
He's sleeping like ass up. He, he, he's like full.
Like. Butterfly.
Yeah, like butterfly. Like arms out, legs out.
Yeah, crab attached to his ass. Crab attached to.
As as you should. Yeah.
Weird question, how big were the gym leader and the girl's feet?
I forgot to ask when we met. We.
Got to know we we paid the cannon guys.
This is the real thing now. OK, he had to.
I think this is how you. Might the lore, yeah.
I think the the gym leader old skin eyes has small feet for his
size I think. I think that's funny and
interesting. So I don't know like size 8 feet
and the girl also is normal sized feet, probably like a size
7 or 8. So there you go.
Thank you. It will come.
I'm sure it'll come up because we had to follow footprints.
It will absolutely come. Up.
Sure it will come up. It definitely will for sure.
Kit wants to like act respectful of Phantom in the bugs, which
she honestly is very creeped out by, but she will choose
whichever room is furthest from Tia's.
OK, any other nighttime rituals? I imagine that, like, you know,
some people like, keep a bottle of water, a cup of water on
their night stand, Sippy, just like sleeps on the night stand.
OK. That's like a normal routine.
That could be different tonight because of the addition of new
friends. But Tia's like, absolutely.
You guys just hang out, like, leaves them all out.
We're just vibing. Oh, and Gizmo places a horseshoe
magnet up against an outlet and closes their eye.
Beautiful. I love it.
I'm curious. Anything from Red Robin I.
Mean he sleeps relatively normal, I guess it's like it's
definitely like back stiff pose like ready to rise like
immediately as soon as like the sun rises.
Santo just sleeps right above him on like on top of his head
for his pillow like right there. We're always ready to go and
yeah, just like in optimal position to immediately rise up.
No, no bed sheet. We're just like flat on the bed
out like a light efficiently. It's like, Yup, sleep.
All about efficiency for Red Robin.
Eek, how else am I going to get my gains?
Yeah, it's awesome. Amazing as you all drift off to
sleep after a very long day. Understandably very very tired.
Tia. You find it more difficult to
sleep than the others. Perhaps it's the excitement of
your two new ghosty friends. Perhaps it's there's my failed
wisdom. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that got.
Yeah, perhaps it's your failed wisdom safe from earlier.
Who knows if mechanics have an influence on that at all.
As you're settling down, it happens once again as the
forest. The chirping bug Pokémon quiet
completely, and the air is thick with a sharp, almost metallic
scent, and you begin to hear a slow, deliberate scraping, like
claws against the ground, and the sound circles around you to
measure, to be random and too intentional to be natural.
You can almost feel an oppressive fog around you as
whatever this is seemingly is making its way through the town.
And then more that scraping, this time claws against bark,
and then it's gone. Love that.
Cash money. I need you to make we want to
make it this time another another Wisdom saving throw.
My wisdom is -2 So that is an 11.
OK, fortunately you are able to fall asleep.
But as that sort of oppressive feeling grows around you, you
can almost hear laughter sinkling like bells.
But it's not coming from outside.
See, It feels like it's coming from the back of your mind,
inside your head, until it drifts away and you are able to
fall asleep. I hate that, Thank you.
That's the worst. Thank you.
Yeah, that's the worst. It's awful.
The next morning when you all wake up and gather, seeing the
town in daylight for the first time.
There's a weird chill in the air, you can almost see dark
mist vanishing behind corners of buildings, like the shadows are
extending farther than they should.
As last night, the town was rather quiet.
Most people were tidying up, going to bed, dealing with
damage from the storm on their roofs and what not, but mostly
quiet. There's a murmuring among the
people as they've gathered towards the back of town in the
town square, as there is a large stone statue of a man with a
massive bird Pokémon behind him. The man is wearing a crown and
his face has been entirely scraped off by claw marks.
And that's where we'll pick it up next time.
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Yeah, I've been playing with the table with new players and they
get super pissed when you ask them about a very obvious thing
that you'd hit is going to hit. It's so big.
You gotta get. Used to.
It that's just. The how does the 23 hit?
Of course it does. You know it does.
Why did you ask? You've got to get that happened
because it's going to get to a point where it's 23.
Exactly, exactly going. Down yet so they're all paranoid
about dying, like losing all their HP because he hasn't told
them about what the down conditions are yet because it
hasn't happened. So it's just really funny.
I'm like, yeah, I'm like, Oh yeah, it hits no problem.
Then I'm like, Oh my God, I got hit like and.
Then are you going to sorry that was the bird that wasn't just me
squawking for no reason? Well now, well now I think it
was you squawking. I I knew it was the bird.
And then when you explained it wasn't, I was like, oh, never
mind that. Was just suspicious birds.
Guys. That was the bird, I promise.
Guys, Bird it's. Fine, I'm already in a cult IRL.
It's fun. Oh, fun, not cute.
Quirky you? No, like it's super normal.
It's fine. I was just asking because
there's been time we were in a campaign that we were trying to
explain what bunk beds were to like in AD and D campaign to
somebody that didn't know bunk beds.
Oh what interesting in AD and D campaign.
Well, Trey doesn't even. Know what beds are.
Right. We can't.
Yeah, that's. What I'm thinking?
Like can we just start the man with beds?
He might actually have a heart attack if we show them that you
could stack them. Oh God, there's two of.
Them right, that's what. Satan can't do that.
Lord, he'll accept me.