Welcome to the Cali Rex Game Corners Pokémon DND campaign
featuring Cindy, a young Vagabond from the Hohen region
with pyromaniac tendencies, Gimli, a stocky Burley miner
from Sino looking for his lost son, Elody, an enthusiastic
foodie and Baker from Carlos, and Schmidt, an enigmatic man
from Johto with a duck. My name is Rich and I'm the game
Master and this is Dunsparse and Grandpa.
The residents of Loveridge town saved and the city mostly
unharmed. Our party is granted free stay
in the nicest empty room and board that is in Loveridge.
And there they spend their time trying to relax, trying to
recover from the intense events that they experienced from the
previous two days. How do they want to recoup?
Do they? Do they have any special
missions that they wish to get done amongst themselves with
their parties? They want to check in with any
people in town? What are they thinking?
What are they talking about? What are they doing?
I think Schmidt is just immediately going to talk to
either Cindy or or Sam and just be screaming what the fuck.
Cindy sends out solely from her pokey ball and she's caught.
She is also in her normal form, a regular form, and next to her
on the ground out of the pokeball drops a little book
sized Redstone. Neat.
I pull out the Atlas stone and like absorb the the red thing
into it. You do that without effort.
It happens. So she stole it now.
Well, that's curious. This is fine.
She is definitely like out. She's breathing, she's live, but
like she's fully exhausted. One might say in DNA terms that
she has a point of exhaustion. So.
We should. Probably discuss what that was.
What the? Yes, I I agree there.
I just I would like to just add a small little note of what the.
Right, so I relay to them. It's like, well, Sam mentioned
that I should pull out the Atlas stone and have solely touch it,
and she did and apparently was able to absorb the thing that we
got from the volcano. So how do you know about that?
Are are you inviting Sam to the conversation?
I am, yes, OK. Yeah, she was keeping to
herself. She was like writing a notebook
that looks like she was doing some work.
And she pokes her head up when she's addressed.
She says, well, you all saw the same videos I did, right?
Team Energy is clearly trying to use machinery and science to
extract some sort of, I don't know, some ambient natural power
within these artifacts and they're enhancing them.
And you saw what happened on the videos And Gimli, I think you,
when you first met your friend, Toidel is her name.
I believe she was undergoing some sort of effects like that.
So my logic was if Energy's trying to manipulate these and
increase them, and you all saw what happened in Marvel, the
strange bipedal floating creature wearing the armor.
I mean, I figured it was worth a shot.
We had a chance. I just want to see if we could
save the day with it. Can I roll inside to see if
she's fucking lying? Yeah.
OK, 17. 17 I mean, yeah, she's being honest.
It's clear that she might have done some thinking, some
premeditating about this, like she kind of knew that it would
work. But.
She kind of sat on it for a minute.
Yeah, what she's telling you is true.
She's not lying. I mean, that sounds reasonable.
I'm too dumb to realize that, but that's a reasonable
conclusion. I don't, I don't, I don't.
I feel like what? You passed the vibe check.
Yeah, and how the? Fuck do you pass the vibe check?
We've seen, we've seen this already.
You're right. So if this is the cause of it,
then we it's very clear now that it is so.
Yeah, that makes. The question though, are there
more plates? Maybe?
Is there more effects that can be added to Pokémon maybe?
It is like like, like getting back in the the like finding a
spot on the floor and just getting in the fetal position.
Yeah, very like mental breakdown.
Just like I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't
understand. I don't, I don't.
What's going on? Do you want to be tucked into a
bed? It's probably much more
comfortable than the floor. No.
I tucked solely into bed. Do you want a blanket?
I throw a blanket on him. I'm fine having a melt on here.
OK, do you resist the blanket or do you accept it?
If a blanket is put on him, he's not going to resist, but he's
not moving. Great.
Understandable. Blanket is.
Blanket is on. Yeah.
Add to inventory one blanket. Are we stealing this blanket
from the thing? I am kidding.
Bum bum, bum bum. They're called aspects, right?
Is that what you said? Yeah.
Do we know what like these things are like we.
I don't, I don't think we do. They look like plates that kind
of like books that we can't open.
So I guess the plates, but also like we.
I mean, we still don't know what these things are.
Right. It's it's far beyond me.
I don't I don't really know your.
Magic. What's there to understand,
Cindy? Straight faced Like, yeah, it
makes complete sense. It's just it's magic.
See where it is but also like what?
I mean it. Worked.
I did, but doubting that it's. Just in the corner, just
mumbling to himself like. What the fuck?
I don't understand. I don't know what's going on.
It's not magic bullshit. I don't know what's going on.
I can't look. But.
I don't is it a one shot video? Like is it of just a thing that
soldi can do now? Like, I don't know.
Well, I feel like we should probably wait to find out that.
On that one. I don't think yes.
Only needs a nap. I'm gently snoring.
Are we supposed to find more of these things?
I'd seen. We have. 2IN.
Two, do we know how many there are?
Well, we have a plant, one from pumpkin, yeah.
There's clearly a plant one and a fire one I can only assume.
Like. Well, clearly team energy is
also after them, and that's not good.
But that's part of why they wanted the Atlas stones.
They could put them all. Right.
In it is what I'm guessing at least.
But then what is the Atlas though this is?
Zoe gave it to me. I didn't ask questions.
Yeah, it seems pretty standard enough.
Well, she handed it to me and then died so.
It's pretty hard to ask a dead person questions, yeah.
Should we initiate a seance? Yes, 100%.
What does that look like? I don't know if I want to be
part of that. Channels.
They're a local medium. You can check do you want to.
Yeah. OK, are we?
Let's do this. I'm down 100% but not.
We're gonna ask Zoe some questions.
I disagree, no. Well.
You can stay in the fetal position and we'll go have a
seance. That's fine.
I'm not. Don't think we should be poking
around dead or. Just night.
Yeah, you go and talk to the dead.
I. I don't, I don't, I don't, I
don't think we just split the party over this, especially when
there's dead witches, ghosts, this is involved.
Not a witch, it was a zur ark. It was a witch.
If you're looking for a medium, there's no guarantees that
Loveridge has one. However, you are in a vacation
home, so there are often guests that come in.
So it's safe to assume that there should be some resources
to see to tell you what is in the town.
So if Cindy is investigating, I would like Cindy to investigate.
There's like a little bookshelf with like Loveridge your your
getaway and then there's like a shopping catalog for swimsuits
and like all that stuff. But somewhere in there there may
be some misco information. So roll me a dice.
So for investigation 15 plus 3 is 18. 18 That's pretty good.
Yeah. You see, at the southernmost end
of the residential district, there is in fact a Mystic.
It is the the Loveridge Seer, as they say.
There's a little icon and there is a strange like there's a like
clip art looking almost of a strange looking creature that
looks like it has a beard and funny eyes next to a woman and a
big crystal ball. And it is called Remy's House of
Visions. So it's just Elodie and Cindy.
Yep. I don't like splitting the
party. In town.
Just want to make my feelings now.
That's fine. I kind of you can go with them.
We'll be back. Elodie and Cindy walk outside.
It is a nice evening. It's like 4:00 PM the day after
the eruption. People are staring about.
Seems like the you can hear the clane of like hammers and drills
that are working on something downtown apparently.
And you identify Remy's House of Visions.
You see it, You knock on the door.
Yes. OK, it is very dim inside as the
door slowly creaks open and you see a very large face greets
you. It is defined snout on a
reptilian body. They have purely pink eyes with
yellow eyebrows and they have what looks like fluffy long hair
on their chin and on top of their head.
You don't see the rest of their body but they have an incredibly
long neck. They open the door and they say,
oh. We're looking for some services.
We have a friend who is no longer with us that we'd like to
ask some questions to. The Pokémon says it opens the
door fully. You enter a little chamber that
has a desk and there is an old woman, pretty stereotypically
almost sitting behind a crystal ball on a table.
There are lots of little purple lights around and it seems like
there's an effect in this room that makes it appear that there
are stars everywhere. It is a very dark and calming
but also so much eerie presence. You see the full length of this
Pokémon and they have a again a described huge neck and fluffy
forelimbs and a fluffy tail. They are very large Pokémon.
You estimate they're probably 9 feet long.
They take up the most of this little house.
The woman at the desk says come in, travellers come in.
I would like to speak with you are.
We I walk in. OK.
LED as well. Yes.
There are two chairs and it seems that Remy is gesturing
that you take a seat. Do you do so?
Yeah, yes. OK, she says.
What are the answers that you seek today?
We have some questions for a deceased friend of ours.
She says, oh, conferencing with the dead, that is very
challenging, but I can try my best.
That would be fantastic. She says very well, it's not my
specialty but allow me to try. Her hands are at her side but
seemingly out of nowhere 2 purple transparent hands appear
above the ball and they start waving around.
It looks like they are not her own however.
She looks at the ball and the eyes roll back into her head.
She is going to make a check. She says, tell me the name of
the spirit that you seek. Zoe.
She focuses and focuses and the crystal ball changes in color to
pure white. She hovers the the spooky hands
around for a moment and then the crystal ball returns to purple.
She says based on your connection and my abilities, I
was not able to conference with this Zoe.
However, I can't provide other services.
I'm a great palm reader. I'm down for palm reading, yeah.
That's fine. He says excellent, who goes
first? I can go first.
Great. Without her lifting her hands,
the floating purple hands come up behind you and lift your hand
onto the table. She moves her body over and she
stares intensely at your hands. 1 of this floating purple hands
strokes your palm gently. He says.
I see. Just for fun, I want you to roll
because rolling dice is fun for players.
Just roll AD 20. Got it.
I got A7. OK, yeah, she says.
Oh, I see. I can tell that you've
experienced a good upbringing, a lovely family.
You didn't anticipate going on an adventure like the one that
you're on, but when all is said and done, you'll be happy you
did it. One word comes to me about your
hands. Whimsy For your triumphs and
your trials with your friends. You will find comfort in
spontaneity and font, and that is the reading that she gives
you, the spooky hands. Return your hands to yourself.
That's crazy. She says next.
OK, same thing happens to you. Spectral floating hands from
seemingly out of nowhere. Drag your hand to the table and
she takes a look. You give me a roll. 5.
Five, she says. I can tell you had some conflict
in your early life, may have had an impact on how you perceive
yourself around your peers. Maybe thankfully someone cares
deeply for you. But I see some of those that
care deeply for you are also in great danger of I can't see, I
can't tell where, who she traces along your longest line on your
palm and she says, interesting. Somehow you've already avoided a
terrible predetermined fate. It seems it was thanks to your
friends. I wonder what it means.
That is all the information she can get out of your palm.
She says while palm reading is my specialty, I'm open to try
anything. That Mystic of nature.
You have any other idea for any services you may like?
You may ask me now. What were we going to ask Zoe?
I think we didn't really fully have a plan.
No, we didn't, did we? Well, I think it was.
It was gonna be about like the Atlas stone, just like,
basically like, I don't know. I wanted to know what we're
supposed to do with it, what we're supposed to do about the.
Show the the Mystic and be like, is there anything you can tell
us about this particular item and see if we can tell the
future with like of this? I like what US and this item.
Well I I mean that makes sure we can trust this random lady
before we start pulling out the Atlas stone.
But I am down for this plan in general.
Can I roll like just an insight check on this lady or something?
Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Awesome. OK, I got a 14.
OK, yeah, she's pretty cool. She doesn't seem like she's like
a phony or a fraud. She may be receiving the help
from creatures that aren't herself, but it she does have
some sort of clairvoyance, that much is clear.
Whether or not she'd be trusted, you can't really pick up.
Like she's just a kind of a kooky Mystic.
So like, if you give her a secret, is she going to keep it?
I don't know. Right.
I don't know. What do you think, Cindy?
But also, if she's a psychic, she probably knows that it's in
my backpack. That's true.
So I'm going to I'm going to say we have some questions about AM
sensitive special item that we have and we were wondering if
there's maybe anything you could glean from this item and us that
may be helpful. She says, oh excellent.
I love rare artifacts, especially magical ones.
Sure, hand it over. I put the Atlas on the table but
like make sure it stays within sight.
Like even though I'm putting it down, I'm not like throwing it
at her. Like take it, it's like.
OK, Yeah. Want to keep it close to me?
As a reminder, the Atlas stone in shape is larger than the
items that go inside of it for sure.
It is fairly heavy. And on the one of the corners
there's a a gemstone that glows when it's in proximity to to
other artifacts that you've observed.
And in the opposite corner diagonally, there's also a
gemstone of that nature and it has strange markings on it.
We've taken a look at it before, but they seem to not have any
particular shape or form. You place this rather heavy rock
on the table and she says wow this seems rather old, let me
see and she looks at it with her eyeballs as she does.
She doesn't really get any particular information out of
it. She says I think my friend will
have to help me get a little bit closer to this because I'm not
very strong. The floating purple hands that
were moving your hands around before lift up the Atlas stone
for her to see closer, and as that happens, 2 little spots on
the face of the Atlas zone illuminate and both of the
crystals light up in two different colors of purple.
She says. Oh, fascinating.
It seems to be doing something. Did we just give like
superpowers to something? She says.
I'm not sure. Henry put it down, and at that
moment the purple hands seem to be connected to a body.
It's a ghost with a big old tongue.
The body appears above the table, and this is the first
time you've seen anything besides just the hands, and it
sets it down gently. The two lights that had
illuminated on the face of the stone and the two gems in the
corners go dim. What kind of Pokémon is Henry?
She says, oh, Henry's my beloved Haunter.
He helps me with my my visions. He also helps me move things
around because I'm not particularly strong.
Henry the Haunter looks at Ality in like a flirty way.
She says, shall we do it again? Shall we see what we see?
Oh sure, just be careful because this artifact can be volatile
because we also don't know what stones were in it previously.
Yeah, Cindy, roll me perception. That's a four.
It's a four, OK, Remy says. This is very interesting.
I don't know how something so old could have such magic
properties, but I just I wonder what it all means.
Do you know how old it is? She says I, I have no clue.
I've never seen such a thing. It just seems like old stone.
It seems like the the type of mineral you would find deep in a
mountainside that wouldn't be on the surface.
He says. I'm sorry I cannot provide more
answers, but that is what I see. Is there anything else I can
help you with? I can't think of anything.
That's it. Yeah, Yeah.
So I take the Alice stone back and put it in my bag.
OK, she says it was great having you now that will be 50 pokey
dollars please and as she. Says.
OK, as she says that the big old 9 foot lawn necks creature
pokes, it's like head around between your guys's backs like
looking at you cautiously making sure that you pay.
But yes you you do pay the 50 pokey dollars so please deduct
that, she says. I hope you have a wonderful rest
of your night and feel free to come back maybe with some more
friends. Thank you for your help.
Of course and. Thank you so much.
The big lawn next dragon that looks strangely like an old man
opens the door for you all. Right, that was a trampa.
It was great. I was that Trampa.
Do you? Do you return to the the lodge?
Yeah, I'm ready to go back. Yeah.
OK, let's physically go back and we're going to spend some time
seeing what the guys did, What are the what are the lads doing
while this is happening? I.
Think Schmidt's just like calming down from his mental
breakdown? Possibly made himself some tea.
OK. He's just sitting on the corner,
blanket on top of himself, rocking back and forth.
OK, sipping tea. What's Skimley doing?
So it's going to sound like considering all the hard work we
put in, we have more work to be done.
I want to go around town 1st and check if there's anything that I
can do to help with repairs or like mining out the Hot Springs
or like anything that needs removal so we can continue to
strengthen our bonds through the only way Gimli knows how, hard
work and digging holes. OK, sure.
So you're going to leave Schmidt alone?
I think so, yeah. OK.
As you get up to open the door to go outside and help out the
town, you are greeted by many small figures about to knock on
the door in front of you. You see over a dozen children
and they are all holding something in their hands and
they were just about to knock when you open the door and they
say hello. Is is is this where Schmidt is?
What the fuck? Did.
All the children. That he saved.
Yeah. Did did Schmidt hear that or?
You you, you heard your name. He can't hear past his own
mental block. Yeah, he's, he's in a he's in a
mood. All of these children are
holding something and there's about 15 or so of them.
And they look up at Gimli and they say we want to give Schmidt
something nice and someone in the backs like, yeah, we really
like Schmidt. Let me check and see if he's in.
I peep my head and be like, just like, Hey, Schmidt, are you
still here? And then just to pretend if he
is there isn't here. And then do you respond?
Does. Schmidt respond to this.
I don't. I don't think Schmidt's
particularly fond of children. But there was a there was a
crisis a moment ago. Sure, I'm here.
Oh, he's here, guys. OK.
The 15 or so children are like very nervous.
And some of them are like looking, like pacing back and
forth and they're like, can we come in, please?
I'll I'll leave it up to Schmidt since you're here to see him.
I swear to God. OK, Fuck yeah, sure, they can
come in. All right, let's go, guys.
Just continuing to like two hand is like whatever container he
has. This TN is continuing to rock
back and forth in the corner. Are you on the ground?
Yes, absolutely. OK.
Probably eye level with these children, if not below.
Great. The children again nervously
come in and they're all holding something in their hands and
they see Schmidt and they like, kind of smile but still look
really, really nervous. And one of them says, thank you
for, for helping us, that we thought that your cool big
fluffy dragon was, was really cool.
And a kid in the back says, yeah, we, we like them so much.
We, we wanted to give you something.
And they open up their hands, and inside you can see 15
homemade little cotton plushies. You're all Taria.
And they all take turns. And they set them by by your
side as you're sitting on the ground.
And as each one comes up, they say, thank you, Mr. Schmidt.
Thank you, Mr. Schmidt. I'm.
Actually crying. I'll, I'll, I'll bring out
Patricia and I'll let the kids have a time, OK?
That's good. You do that.
Patricia comes out and the kids are like, and they get very,
very excited and they, you know, they see a big fluffy dragon and
they want to play with it. So Patricia's probably just
sitting there. All the kids are like jumping on
her and pulling on her wings and probably being really annoying,
but the Dragon's really. Good.
I just, I just look at Patricia and I'm like, just endure.
Just endure. Gimley.
Gimley thinks of his son and wipes away a little tear.
Schmidt is not OK. There's one kid who is a little
bit older. He's probably like 6 or 7, and
he's a little bit braver. And he approaches Schmidt and he
says, I'm my family's really grateful for how you helped us.
So I, I wanted to give you something cool that I found.
And he holds out his hand. Do you receive it?
Sure. He hands you what looks to be
the severed beak of a fierce looking bird Pokémon and he
says, I found this on the ground.
I think it came from something that died, but it looks really
cool. I thought you might want to make
it into a necklace or something. I I don't know.
Cool. Thanks kid.
He says yeah, of course, Yeah, yeah.
And all the kids will play for probably like 10:00-ish minutes
unless you tell them not to. Yeah, I'm fine.
If Patricia starts looking too annoyed, I'll start like,
scowling at the kids. But was that sad now?
OK, this little encounter happens.
They they get tired out and the kids leave and you were there
with Patricia and 15 little homemade altarias and they're
all really cute. They all seem to different
places and they all have like fluffy cotton little wings on
them and their faces look really stupid and they're, they're
great. Cool.
Gimli, you're going to do your thing.
Yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to head over to the Hot Springs, I
think to see, because I know it's been, it was filled in with
lava and I know that that's pretty iconic.
So I want to see if if people are working on repairing it that
I kind of want to help out. OK, I'm sure.
Yeah, you do that. You head over to the Hot
Springs. They're connected to the Pokémon
Center. And the Pokémon Center, you can
tell is like kind of busy. There's a lot of systems.
And this seems to be a rendezvous point.
And they're like, what can we do?
Like we, we want to help out. We're we're all here to help.
And in the distance, you can hear the sound of like hammers
and like machine tools that are working on something in the Hot
Springs. It seems like people are
cleverly using the fire type Pokémon from the gym to re melt
the dark rock that was formed from the lava going into the
springs. And they're scooping it up with
buckets and then depositing it into like a big bucket that is
attached to a wagon that's being pulled by a Pokémon that seems
to be like a a work animal, so to speak, a working Pokémon and
they're taking it somewhere else.
Who knows? They see you and they say
Ginley, are are you here to help?
I am he's absolutely. They say great, grab a bucket,
we're scooping out all the rock and we're going to refill it
with. Water.
All right is is there anything that also needs to be broken
down? I got some pretty hefty gang
here that can help out with any of that.
They say broken down, broken down, I don't know, and then
you. Might be able to use the fire
that I can provide for you. You can get total out here.
They say sure, absolutely. Yeah, please, if you have fire
types, help us out. OK, I'll send Total out to help
out with that for sure. Sure.
As you do that, you are approached from behind, coming
from the eastern part of town, and you see a guy in a
construction hat and he looks like he's been working for a
while. He says, is that Gimli?
Do I recognize Gimli there? You don't know him, but he.
He saw you from the media interview.
No, no, Sorry. Sorry.
Yeah, a lot of these people know
your names because. Yeah, because of the interview.
Yeah, yeah. He says.
Gimli, I, I was speaking with Connor and we've come to a
conclusion. I thought you might want to hear
about it. Sure.
We live in this town of Lava Ridge and wow, this is probably
the worst eruption we've had in, in centuries.
It's, it's something we need to expect here if we're going to
live at the foot of the volcano. And we, we saw your, your master
work with your Pokémon trying to save the town.
And Connor and I decided, well damn, we might as well just keep
these walls. We're going to keep where
they're placed. We're going to build them up,
make them look real nice. And Loveridge is going to have a
great little barrier protecting it from future eruptions.
What do you think about that? I I think that's really
important. It pretty, it did a lot of good
work despite being like, you know, a little makeshift, but it
was, it was pretty good. I I think it'll help you guys
out, yeah. Yeah, Foreman Henderson says no,
I think it was flawless. I know you did it in the spur of
the moment, but we're going to keep these walls exactly where
they are. And maybe someday you can come
visit when they're all done. And who knows?
It's just a little testament to how you helped save our people.
Ask. For black on the wall.
Is there any way I could like I mean?
Like a lot of money. If I, if I come back and I like
sawed it or something, I'm just sort of like, I'm kind of proud
of it, you know? Yeah, roll, roll a Charisma.
Charisma +2. 14 He slaps you on your shoulder.
Forman Henderson does, and he says why, of course, Absolutely.
In fact, tell you what, if you'd like, while you're here, before
you take off or whatever other journey you have, I love to get
any design ideas from you, any shapes, any colors, whatever you
want. You're the hero.
Yeah. No, I can definitely figure
something out, Yeah. He says excellent, really
appreciate you. And he goes back to some sort of
construction work while the Hot Springs folks are digging out
the Hot Springs. Are you going to do that for a
while? Yeah, time to go to work.
OK, give me. Just a minute.
Yeah, I'm going to bring Bean with me as well because I want
to give him some like just like encouragement strike training.
See if you can help us out with this lifting.
OK, yeah, I could see him like smacking the top of this off and
rock to kind of like to to make it easier to scoop up and.
Stuff, I mean, he's got the club so.
Yeah, yeah, he can just smash it.
I like that. Give me AD 20 check for each of
you. We'll just make it a strength.
Make it a strength. Would that be for me Toidal end?
No, I think, I think Toidal. 'S just doing the thing, right?
Yeah. Just you and me.
So me I got 15 and then for bean, bean didn't do so hot.
Let's see what is Bean's bonus. Bean got an 11.
OK, Yeah, so you do that. You have a pretty productive
time trying to clear up the Hot Springs.
It's probably like halfway empty with like, the the lava rocks
that were in there. It's a funny strategy to remelt
them, but it's just it's their best bet.
It's already in a pool, so it's not like it's particularly
dangerous. Right?
And everyone's doing well. Everyone's having a good time.
Nice. Unless Schmidt wants to do
anything after getting the leaves to Schmidt to do anything
besides just recover with his new 15 plushy friends.
No, I like to imagine they're like just all like in a circle
on the ground, like staring at him.
Yeah, I think that's exactly. Like a little.
Dialogue with him. He's like, what the fuck do you
think is going on here guys? I don't understand.
The another episode of Schmidt Delirium.
He probably has like names for them all too.
Roll. I can't come up with 15 names
right now, but. Roll a perception, Schmidt, I
want you to roll low. This is 6 low enough for you.
Yeah, it's pretty low. Yeah, Schmidt is kind of out of
it. He's been stressed.
There's been a lot going on. And he's just kind of staring at
these plushies and, like, having a mental dialogue with them.
And he swears he hears one of them say, Schmidt, you're the
best. And then another one's like,
Schmidt, thank you, you saved us.
But like, he's not sure if he's hallucinating or not.
OK, so now Schmidt has gone further into the corner with his
back to the plushies now that he thinks that they're talking to
them. Great.
And now he's just like, I can't believe.
Are they fucking real, kid? It is at this point that Cindy
and Elodie return. Nice, I.
I busted and say we talked to Zoe.
OK. Oh God.
Well. We didn't actually talk to Zoe.
Are you OK, Schmidt? OK, he starts covering the ears
of like all the individual plushies that are around him.
He's like. I think they can hear us.
Oh, cute plushies, where'd they come from?
Can I pick one up? All of those.
There were children here and they were laughing and they were
playing, and now there's all of these and I think they can hear
me. They're very cute.
Is there perhaps a psychiatrist in like our our guide to to the
Lava Ridge? There's just General Medical
services, but there's no listing of anything about a particular
mental health specialist. OK, good to know.
Just checking. Cindy's right, these plushies
are very cute and some of them do look a good man like
Patricia. So basically, we learned
nothing. Oh.
OK, so I don't have to cover their ears, OK.
It's that all, Yeah. We really didn't learn anything.
I avoided a near death experience through the help of
my friends. That's that's what we learned.
OK. Then I try to convince Schmidt
to like, go to a bed and sleep. OK, you guys can do contested
Charisma checks if you don't want to do that, Schmidt.
Tested Charisma checks. Yeah, I think Schmidt's just
like blanket, like over his head, like in a corner, OK.
Is Patricia still out? That's a good question, but
she's like looking kind of concerned.
Patricia, do you want to help me get Schmidt into like, an actual
bed? Roll Persuasion, Cindy.
Yeah, yeah, my persuasion. A9.
Patricia is concerned about Schmidt, but Patricia also loves
Schmidt and doesn't want Schmidt to do things that Schmidt
doesn't want to do. So Schmidt just kind of looks at
you and does a bird shrug. OK, great.
Because Cindy can't move Schmidt on her own.
You could try. That's not going to go well.
OK. Let me, let me roll a strength.
OK, Yeah, do it. Crit Get a crit.
I got a 17 on the dice. OK, so -116.
Does Schmidt resist? That requires an opposing
strength check. Potentially, yeah.
OK, this is opposing Schmidt hold the 2.
So it doesn't matter that he also has -1 in strength.
I think that's fair. The mental of not wanting to go
to a bed is there, but he's also just limp.
He's weak and Cindy's able to drag him a small distance.
You said you wanted to go to a bed.
Yeah. It's a little too far.
You can go to the couch though. OK, the couch.
It is cool. Tuck them in.
OK, if I'm being forced to move somewhere, I'm going to round up
Patricia, and then I'm going to have Patricia at one end of the
couch and Patricia is just going to be a big fluffy pillow.
Yeah, Patricia is a huge fluffy pillow.
It is awesome. You just sink right into it.
It's the most comfortable pillow you've ever had.
Put all the stuffed animals along like the headboard of the
OR the back of the couch. Oh, all of them.
Oh yes, so they're watching Schmidt.
Watching him as he. Yeah, whenever Schmidt wakes up,
that'll get a walk and I have a it's.
It's a great idea he clearly wants.
Them. Yeah, you're gonna be like, this
is great. These are his trophies.
He earned them. This is so nice.
They're so cute, they're so cuddly and comforting.
Right. You know, he's like literally
schizophrenic over the. Yeah, I like surround.
Like, put them all on the couch with Schmidt.
LED give me perception. Cool, got it.
I don't like this. I don't like this.
I don't like this. 11.
OK, yeah, you don't need much of reception, but the depth of what
you see is important to your role.
You notice that Sam is not here. Sam must have stepped out.
So auspicious. Yeah, that's a, that's a thing
we should probably should have been keeping track of.
I suppose you could add an insight to it if you want to
think it's suspicious, but she's not here.
Her things are still there. It's not like she, it doesn't
seem like she just dipped, but she went to go do something
apparently. Yeah.
Can I add an insight to that? That's some reality would do,
sure. Especially since Elodie still
thinks Sam is team energy. Yeah.
Maybe yes I got a 12. A12.
Yes. OK, yeah, you were pretty
suspicious before and her leaving doesn't really sway you
one way or another. You do see her close notebook on
the table that is there. Oh, that's so tempting.
Oh. I'm better than that though I
can't do it. Are you are?
Gimli's being the devil on my shoulder right now.
I'm not even like to think. Schmidt's actually like in the.
Room just being like, do it yeah, Gimli's just hard at work
what on his brows and he. Peeks over the couch and he's
just like. Do it.
Are you better? Schmidt is full on Emperor
Palpatine. Do it.
Do it.
Did the ulterior plushies start saying do it as well?
Turn. Around on the couch of their own
accord, just like I'm like. Do it, do it.
Do it. Do it.
This is now a horror film. Yeah, we just did this whole
this makes me relaxing. So I'm, I'm chilling.
I'm just sweat on my brow hard at work.
All of that, what happened is what's happening in Schmidt.
But really, he's just peeking over the couch of the sides,
just going do it. Do it.
All right, all right, I will, as
stealthily as I can. Going to do it.
I have. To take a peek.
Oh damn. Oh no, it's a trava.
You take a peek. It's the evil you are doing.
The compass is tilting. You're.
Going to make 2 consecutive roles.
Ality, you're going to roll Stealth, and then you're going
to roll Investigation. The first one was the stealth,
right? OK.
I got a 22 on that. Yeah.
And then what was the second one, Investigation.
I got a 12 on that one. Schmidt doesn't even notice that
you sneak over to go peer inside the notebook.
Mentally, you're thinking, I don't have much time.
I don't like, I don't know when she's coming back, so I don't
want to Snoop too much. But you turn to the first page
where the pen was, where where she was writing or doing
something, and you see a sketch. You see a sketch of something
that you were just looking at. It is the face of the Atlas
stone. It has been sketched very well
and it's something that's slightly different about it.
There have been two small markings made.
That is what Elodie sees. Does Cindy notice Elodie looking
at the The Journal? No, because she killed her
stealth. OK.
If she hadn't have killed her stealth, you might have, but you
had no idea that she even did it.
OK, because I would have offered to like watch the door, but.
Too late. Yep.
Thankfully Sam does not arrive. Both Schmidt and Cindy didn't
see because the stealth was too good, so LD just managed to
sneakily just get a peek at something who knows what, and
none of you know in RP world. Speaking of RP World, I'm
prepared to move events along, but again, this is like a
downtime thing so I really want to make sure everyone does
everything they want to do. If that means psychosis for
Schmidt, then that's fine, but I want to make sure that's it.
Yeah, I think Cindy would want to.
Sorry, I think Cindy would want to let like everybody out.
I know that solely sleeping would just kind of like let
everybody out, let everybody get a breather, get some like
exercise. Let's sit in a circle and do
stretches. Cool, you do that.
Can you describe everybody? Who's everybody?
Everybody is well, solely sleeping.
So we have Jack the Torah cat. We have Gumi, Cookie the gumi
and Izzy the slandit. Slandit finally makes a
reappearance. Love to see it.
Yeah, you do. That I I think I leave troubish
in the the ball that I acquired. Sure.
Yeah. Troubish's ball isn't like,
registered to you, so you shouldn't have any problem.
Just like holding on to it. You do that.
So you do some stretches, you hang out.
Very cool. Yeah.
Slowly. Still out.
Slowly is in fact exhausted. Slowly sleeping.
OK, so the night passes, it becomes 9 PM, 10:00 PM.
Somewhere in the middle there, Sam comes back.
She seems a little tired, just as all of you are, but you know,
she's, she's chilling. She's ready to get a good nights
of rest for once and at some point with Gimli.
I return after that, yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Everyone starts wrapping up because it's late and they all
realize how tired they are because they just had a really
stressful few hours or a few. It's been over a day, but it's
still just been like a really tense time.
And you all return to the lodge to go to sleep.
I do want two each, so total of four D100 rolls from Cindy and
Elodie. I got a 54 for one OK.
I got 75 and 79. And a 5010A5 and A10 that.
Would make a 60. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's confusing, but that's how it works.
OK. As you're both winding down, you
take your little egg incubators and you start to just chill.
You start to relax for a bit and you set them on the ground and
you're kind of surprised that they're still intact, they're
still doing good. Simultaneously, they both begin
to wiggle and shake the exact same moment.
Do you turn around to investigate them?
This this action that seems to be happening?
Absolutely. Yes, the first egg is about to
hatch, the one that was in the Elodie's possession.
It has bits of purple and tan and like a little bit of black
and the top of it cracks open and what pops out but none other
than a purple sinister Kitty cat and it locks eyes with LED and
it goes well. What does LED do with this
information? Immediately pet it.
You do that in the Pokémon world is not strange for cats to come
from eggs, I will say. And petting it, it's like it's
fully haired, right? It has all of its fur and it's
also kind of goopy cause of the egg juice.
But but it it enjoys being pets. And to Ellie, this is not
strange. I'm describing this because this
is strange to us, but this is simply how these creatures are
born. Yeah.
You are in possession of a purloin.
Congratulations. Let's go.
Cindy's egg wibbles and a wobbles.
It is the egg that was mostly white, splashes of red and brown
and black and a little bit of blue on it.
The top of it forms a large crack and the top part of the
shell flies off and there's a blast of light.
You feel a little bit of heat as well.
Nothing comes out of the egg, but there is something in there
you hear like some like squirming.
Hello, I pick up the egg. OK.
Do you just like hold it up right?
Do you like tip it? What do you do?
I I hold it upright and try to look in side of it where it the
top had popped off. OK the first thing you see is
brilliant to blue eyes that are slightly shrouded in like a
whitish hair. Surrounding it are little
tendrils of flesh made flame and it has 6 little legs and a silly
little brown body. It looks kind of like a worm.
Is it a scolipede? Said it had white surrounding it
or. Yeah, it has.
A It's a larvesta. Larvesta, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, it looks. That's what I it's what I
thought it was. It looks pretty similar to
Connor's Vulcarona, but like a little bit of.
It's evolved, formed as useless. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that's. Actually a pretty dope hash.
That is super dope. Isn't it?
But Volcarona was useless, that was.
Connor's Vulcarona's useless. Oh, it's perfect.
Cindy is the proud owner of our Larvesta.
Congratulations. I snuggled this bug.
You do that, snuggling the bug on the rug gently.
It seems despite being a little critter a bit, a little worm, it
doesn't happen to display some affection.
And since you're the first person that ever saw it seems to
like you a little bit. It's like about 10:00 PM and
there's a knock on the door. It seems like a gentle knock
right after these eggs hatch. Sam looks at the party and is
like, are you going to get it? She's closest to the door and
she's willing to open it, but she wants to make sure.
When Sam come back. She came back like around the
time the Ginley came back a little bit before, OK.
Yeah, I just don't remember if that was established, or maybe I
was. Yeah, OK, maybe I was having my
own psychosis. Yeah, we can open it all.
Let's see what it is. OK, you open the door and it's
Connor. The gym.
Leader and one of the. Leaders of the town and he says
sorry to bother you. I I know it's late, but we had a
really busy day. I just, I wanted to say thank
you to you all and I got something for you.
He holds up a bag. Do you take it?
Yeah, cool. Inside the bag is several dozen
lava rich special lava cookies as well as a piece of paper
that's in the envelope. And it says for LED and then a
small little journal with the symbol of the Loveridge Heat
badge that says for Cindy. Then there's an envelope, one
final envelope and has some weight to it.
And then and it's labeled to the Quacko Paco.
He says, I'll just drop this off real quick.
I don't want to bother you. But he is going to make a
perception check. Yeah, he does happen to see the
new babies that are being embraced by Ellie and Cindy.
And he says no way. Larvesta, when did you get that
egg? Before the volcano erupted, we
founded the Hot Springs. He said the Hot Springs.
No way that little Larvesta is kind of like the sibling or or
cousin of my Volcarona. Congratulations.
Oh, that's awesome. He says hopefully it's pretty
powerful, but. I I hope so.
He says, I'll, I'll leave you to it.
I don't want to bother you. Thank you again so much for all
of your help and get some rest, OK?
Nice. Thank you, Connor.
Thank you just. Have a good night.
And he leaves. Open our stuff.
Open the envelope. OK, which one the Quacko Paco
this LED or the Cindy? The Quacko Paco.
OK, let's start with that one. Cool the quacko Paco everyone
give me AD 20. Even Schmidt.
OK. 19 OK, yeah, every pipe. A5.
I got a 15. And what did Gimli get?
1212 OK, that's pretty good. Inside the envelope there's a
little note and it says, hey, it's not much, but we thought at
the census of Loveridge that it was the least we could do.
And then behind the note is 3500 pokey dollars.
Hi. It's it says for saving the
town. But I guess split this up, no, I
said. 500 / 4. 5 Sam was there. Divided by 5 if we're giving
money to Sam. We are giving money to Sam.
We wouldn't be able to put the lava out without Sam, so.
The reluctance, I love it. We'll offer it to Sam, but like
she denied some other stuff that we've gotten, so we'll see what
she. Says And you were part of this,
Sam, do you want some rule money?
She says of course it's money. Thank you, I would love it.
I pick it too. Money.
Yeah, it's funny. Like, what the heck, Like, OK,
so 35, yeah, we'll just divide it evenly.
Cool. That's what, 700 each 7. 100
each, yeah. Let's go.
So nice little payout. Pretty good.
Yeah, Money. Schmidt money under Schmidt
while he's sleeping, yeah. I was going to say, sounded like
Schmidt was disappointed. Give it to ulterior for safety.
Yeah, I'll tell you. I'll Terry, yes, the safely
tucks it in her wings. Yes.
Absolutely she doesn't. Of course, of course.
There is something for Elody, and there's a little like it's
larger than envelope. It's like a book.
Yeah, it's for Cindy. Cindy opens the book.
Inside she sees some cool like
artwork. It seems very traditional in
style and it says on the top in a text that you can read.
It says leverage techniques and it shows 2 pictures of people
assuming to be trainers and they're practicing some sort of
like martial arts and each of them are next to a different
fire type Pokémon. They are labeled, one says
Mystical Fire, one says Fire Punch.
It seems to suggest that this is like a book given to gym
trainers to teach their Pokémon moves, and they're synchronized
with dances that the trainers are doing.
So you essentially have access to the TMS of Mystical Fire and
Fire Punch. That's really.
That's pretty sick. I don't want to do anything with
it yet, but that's super sick and she puts that in her bag.
Very cool elodies, last but not least.
Let's go. Elodie's envelope.
She opens it. It's pretty unassuming, but in a
really delicate old fashioned cursive handwriting is a recipe
for lava cookies. Yeah.
Let's go. Yeah.
At the bottom it says has great medicinal effects for Pokémon
and very delicious for humans. Awesome.
It's now night time, you're welcome to go to bed if there's
any other kind of RP stuff you want to do.
Cindy sleeps in a giant cuddle puddle.
Classic. With all of all of her Pokémon.
Yeah yeah yeah. Love it.
Including Larva Star. Larva Star, is that their name?
Is that not how you say it? I'm.
Teasing you. It's Larvesta like like a.
Larva like. Larva and then esta.
Yeah, but you can nickname them Larva Star.
That'd be sick. I I will think about it was.
Iconic. Larva *.
It's like larva. Tar.
I just don't know how to say. It's a tricky 1 to say.
Schmidt is snoring louder than you've ever heard Schmidt snort
before. He's getting some good rest.
He's getting some good ZS. Yeah, I definitely.
Still doesn't know that he's surrounded by stuffed animals,
but as far as he knows, moved themselves.
And they started for a long day of work and like actually
doesn't make it to the bed, just kind of like peels over and just
falls asleep on the floor. Excellent.
Elodie is sleeping in a bed with her Pokémon for sure.
Like a normal person. Like a normal person, yeah.
The old one of the group. Well, Cindy's in a bed, I assume
She climbed to the same bed as solely and then just everybody
piled in. Yep, that's exactly what
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