While Cindy, Gimley and Schmidt struggled to quell Kyogre's
wrath in Hoen, LED lost consciousness while snuck aboard
the rocket NRG hijacked from the Moss Deep City Space Center.
What can LED do to interrupt Neo Rocket Galactic's nefarious
plans on the moon LED? I'm going to start with
something funny. While you are in the situation
you were unconscious, I want you to make a deception check.
OK. More just so for the reason it
is more fun for you to roll dice than it is for me.
OK, let's see what we start out with this session.
Oh, I I remember I gained my proficiency and deception
because I kept lying about things.
That'll be a 15. Very good.
The last thing that you remember was that you found yourself
aboard the rocket ship. That was the point of contention
for this conflict. In Moss Deep City, you entered a
portal through the mysterious figure who had helped you in the
past, helped you escaped Rada on Cycling Road, and additionally
you saw them in Duford, but they didn't necessarily intervene at
all. And you found yourself in the
closet where you put on a spacesuit with Mr. Salt inside
and you were in the rocket that it seemed like you're running
out of time to get out. You saw Cabbage get loaded in
and you took a seat. The G forces were too intense
for your untrained body that you simply lost consciousness as all
the blood flowed out of your head.
Now you were started awake. You gradually, groggily awaken
it to the sound of voices that sound like they're over a radio
speaking into your helmet. What do you do?
Hello. You say hello out loud.
Yes, yes. OK, there's a voice that is
vaguely familiar. It's the same voice of the
scientist who addressed you when you first entered the rocket.
It is Chorus and they say, oh good, you're finally awake, come
help us. OK, what do you need help with?
Wow, you really got knocked out bad, Gary, didn't you?
We're making the bomb. Come assist us.
We're right outside. OK, you got it perfect.
Do my best wink impression. Give me, let's just say
perception check for now. OK, 13 OK, that is enough to
know that when you first sat down in the seats, your center
of gravity was parallel with the ground.
It is now perpendicular. You feel yourself sitting.
There is like a porthole window to the front and you can see
while it primarily just like a pitch black sky with some
twinkling stars in the distance. You also see the lunar surface
outside. You have somehow arrived at the
moon. I made it.
You do have Mr. Saltz the Carbink, the little rocky fairy
guy in your suit, and it seems that he is conscious, but also
admittedly a little groggy, a little disoriented.
You're currently strapped in. What is your first course of
action? I will strap out and stand up.
OK, please make a Dexterity save, OK?
14. Very good.
As you stand up, you do so with your normal facilities and
faculties and you realize that gravity is far different.
You find yourself overstepping and you somewhat like
accidentally launch yourself into the air a little bit and it
takes you a solid half a second to descend back to the ground of
the ship It is currently oriented in like I will guess in
quotes, a parked position where before you know the the the
blasty part was facing the ground and now it is facing like
horizontal to the horizon. So you look around, you gather
yourself, you see a bunch of controls that you don't
necessarily understand, that you're welcome to investigate
more if you wish, but you also see some form of like hatch
door. OK, I will take a quick look at
those controls. OK bro me investigation. 25.
Wow, That's incredibly high. Yeah.
This is the control panel that you saw before that is kind of
at the nose of the shuttle. It's got all sorts of readings
and radars and, well, not radars.
It has one singular like radar. It has a bunch of gauges that
measure different things. You're assuming that some of it
is like flight. It's like Yaw and pitch and
elevation and altitude and all sorts of things.
There is a just a series of like how how to put this climate
control, I guess. Also it's evident that there is
oxygen that is circulating through the shuttle and
additionally there is a spot where a key would go that is
currently missing. There's one light that is just
flashing on its own, just a small red light that is above
like where the key goes. Gotcha.
You would understand that the it's like the majority of these
controls is like for turning the thing on and moving it around.
Additionally, there's not like a steering wheel necessarily, but
there's like a mechanism that you can use your two of your
hands on to control the direction of the craft.
Got it. I will take note of that and
then I will head for the Hatch. OK, you do.
So there is like a a lever on the wall and seemingly no door
handle. Do you pull the lever?
OK? You do.
So. The the door opens and you are
greeted with yet another door. There is a big sign that says
close one door before opening the other.
Do you heed these instructions? Yes.
OK, you I. Get turned into space.
Soup. Very good.
You close the door that you came through and then there's a,
there's like a pressurization sound and you, there's an
element of your space suit that kind of kicks on and the air
that you are breathing feels kind of like recycled.
It doesn't feel like as it's a different, it's coming from a
different source than it was in the shuttle.
Now there's another lever that opens that allows you to open
the latter door. Do you flip the lever?
OK, very good you do. So it opens up and for a moment
it is shockingly bright as your eyes somewhat have to adjust.
I'm assuming you have your visor down so you're not going to be
blinded or anything, but this is quite the sight to see.
Never an LD's life necessarily, did she?
I mean, I don't want to speak for her, but did she ever think
that she would be on the moon? I don't know, but she is
currently arrived here and she is on the lunar surface,
protected by nothing other than a space suit that is too large.
Mr. Salt is taking in the sights as well.
What's your first order of business?
Do I see the other astronauts? Roll me a perception check
please. Got it 14. 14 is good enough,
Yes, you can see that they are probably about 50 or 60 yards
away. The first thing you notice is a
large like metal structure. You didn't necessarily even see
the components in the ship when you boarded, but it's like
they're assembling some sort of it resembles a ziggurat.
It's largely triangular in shape.
It's probably about 10 or so feet tall, not incredibly large,
and each piece of it is like a different height of cylinder
column. And it's all fully made of metal
that you can see lights kind of glowing around it.
There's some sort of energy being held into it.
And you see two people in space suits and you also see three
Pokémon that are outside and doing stuff.
You said you got a 14 on your perception check.
OK. Additionally, just over the
horizon, you can see like a a slight portion of the lunar
landscape where this is not necessarily a full moon.
Whatever phase it is, who knows, because you're currently on the
surface, you wouldn't be able to guess, but there's like a thick
line that is probably about 100 yards or so of where it just
transitions from light to dark and there's like hardly any
differentiation otherwise. Around that line.
You see two or three round pink Pokémon that look like they have
little fairy wings and they're watching you carefully from a
great distance. Interesting, I will start making
my way over to the other astronauts in their machine.
OK, you do so one perception check please and I just had you
roll one, but I need a new one for this perspective.
This one will be 13. OK, the first thing you notice
is the planet. You can see it.
It is large and beautiful and it's eerie to be so far away
from something that you look at. And everything that you've known
in your life and everyone else's life is all there and you are
gone. You are not there.
And it's kind of a calming but also terrifying thought.
The other thing that you see as you turn around the side of the
shuttle is one, it's quite large.
It's it's a pretty large shuttle.
Not like you have a lot to compare it with, but it's roomy.
There's lots of storage. You saw as you were inside, you
know, there was like sleeping bunks and there was like
restrooms and stuff. So it's, it's a pretty large
modern shuttle. It doesn't have the boosters
anymore seemingly perhaps because that was necessary for
it to achieve lift through the Earth's atmosphere.
You do notice that the side that you are turning on is like
unbelievably like scratched and scuffed and has burn marks all
over it. It doesn't look good.
It looks like something compared to the other side of the
shuttle. Something did not go correctly
on this. It is perhaps something, perhaps
it's OK, but you don't have enough information on it with
your perception check at this point to know what happened to
the shuttle. Gotcha.
Do you continue over to the Science Project?
Yeah, I'll do that. OK, you start bounding over LED.
You might find that is actually more efficient to like take
bounding leaps than it is to just walk normally.
You end up being able to move further much faster due to the
low gravity. It's a little freeing, but also
a little scary. You almost feel like that if you
jump too hard that you would escape the moon's gravity.
So you are careful to try and not to do that, even though it's
pretty unlikely that could happen.
After some time passes, you start bounding across the lunar
landscape. You approach this contraption
that's call rest and mysterious unnamed scientist are working
on. Additionally, now that you're
closer, you can see a few things.
One thing that you can see is that the three Pokémon that are
assisting one appears to be a a cooperation between three
different Pokémon. They also need to be metallic in
origin. They're like metal spheres with
little screw appendages and magnets on either side of them,
and it's a trio and they are picking up metal pieces and
arranging them appropriately around this contraption.
Additionally, you see a Pokémon that really just looks like a
series of gears that are suspended in the air and they
are twirling as they float around and they are additionally
using their powers to, you know, push crates along and open boxes
and put pieces into place. The last Pokémon you see looks
very much not like a normal earthen Pokémon.
It looks very strange. It's floats above the ground
with no legs, but besides that it has a vaguely humanoid body.
It's orangish in color and at the end of either of its hand
limbs, you could say are little like orbs that light up and has
an elongated skull. And it looks very much like a
classic alien, almost, and it is waving its hands in such a way
where it is lifting up pieces of metal and putting them into this
pile. And also so you notice that the
capsules of Infinity Energy, some of which you provided
through the right of learning, are being installed into this
contraption. Last but not least, you see that
in the middle of it, in a transparent case, is none other
than cabbage, the El creamy. And she seems to be either dazed
or unconscious, and she's pulsating with an incredible
gradient, pink and blue light. It is brighter than almost the
light of the lunar surface. What do you do?
Oh gosh, I will. Oh gosh.
What are the what are chorus and the other guy doing?
Are they just like also moving things?
Yeah, it seems like Chorus is he's looking at a contraption
that is on the exterior of his spacesuit, on his wrist, and
he's like punching in a keypad. He's doing something, something
scientific for sure. The other astronaut is
physically like picking up cases and finding Infinity energy
capsules and putting them into this contraption.
They don't seem to notice that you have arrived.
OK, I will. So he the the way that he talked
to me before seemed to be like through my helmet is there can I
figure out how to like speak through that?
Sure you can. Based on your last communication
with Cole Res. You didn't have to do anything
to speak with him. I will let you roll an
investigation for the inside of your suit if you would like to
get more specifics. Sure dude, that will be 17. 17
is quite good. You see that you do have like on
the inside, it's above your head because the suit is oversized
for you. But in the spacesuit you
acknowledge that there is like a microphone receiver, really
small one, just a little black mesh tip that is hanging out
near. It's like installed in the
helmet and on a cable that descends from it, there is a
little toggle. It is currently on, on and
there's a light on. And with your investigation
check, you could probably presume that if you wanted to
speak and have them not hear you, you would just switch it to
off. Gotcha.
Perfect. OK, then I will just say, all
right, I'm here. What do you need my help with?
OK, one more deception. I'm going to give you advantage
because you've already convinced them that you are, in fact,
Yuri. That will be I'm doing math 26.
OK, that is incredibly good caller, says Yuri.
Glad you made it. Looks like those G forces really
took a hard hit on you. The first thing you can do is
probably help out Magneton install some of these capsules.
We got the general construction finish, but we still need to
make sure that this Infinity energy is installed correctly.
We don't want anything to go wrong here.
Gotcha, and I will make my way over to those capsules.
Okay, very good. Again, as you get closer you can
see more detail. It is a roughly 10 foot pyramid
shaped contraption that is composed of stacks of cylinders
that are placed into like metal holders.
It has little feet that dig into the lunar soil, and you can see
that towards the bottom magneton is floating like kind of high
up. You've seen magneton before and
you kind of are familiar with the relative distance that they
float from the ground. This one is a lot further than
usual, so perhaps gravity's affecting them or they can't use
their magnetic abilities as well.
So the three eyes of the magneton look at you kind of
expectantly and also look at some canisters of Infinity
energy, and you can tell that there are clear slots on the
side of the ziggurat where these should be like screwed into.
Do you do such a task? Can I inspect the capsules to
see if there's a way to like open them and let the energy
out? Sure, roll on an investigation.
11. 11 yeah, you see that there is like a top.
You don't with your 11, you don't identify a mechanism to
open it. You would presume that brute
force might do the job. They do seem a little delicate
in the way that they're being handled by the other Pokémon
would suggest that they're delicate, but as far as like
opening it, you aren't quite sure.
Additionally, as you are closer to the ziggurat, you have a
pretty good look at cabbage if you want to take a.
Closer look, I will take a closer look at cabbage, yeah.
Cabbage is kind of suspended and being like tethered to two
different channels of energy coming from all around here.
Basically in like a chamber that is protected either by glass or
plastic. There is a door to it and there
is a clear like handle where you slide it.
Cabbage is aware, is awake, maybe not fully cognizant, maybe
a little disoriented and doesn't recognize you.
Oh. Got it.
So you said I have a visor, right?
Like just like like inside the helmet, right?
So like if I were to open it like I'm not like opening the
helmet, right? Correct.
There's like how, what's the best way to put it?
There's like it's glasses and sunglasses basically and the
sunglasses are. Removable, right, right, right.
Yes. Right.
If I were to lift said visor is is any is either of them like in
the in front of me where they would see my face if I were to
do that? Not the astronauts, but maybe
one of the Pokémon. OK, don't know if these Pokémon
are loyal. I always try and turn them on
the scientists if worse comes to worse, but I don't know how
loyal they are. I will.
I'm trying to figure out how I can get one of the Pokémon to
not be in front of me. So they're they're, they're
actively like putting the things onto the like pyramid.
Yes, it seems like one section of the pyramid is still like
being constructed like the back corner.
But this front part where you are, it's not just like a front.
I mean this face out of the four faces seems more or less
complete. It just needs Infinity energy
installed into like the receptacle areas where they are.
For what it's worth, there appears to be a like roughly 50
areas where to store Infinity Energy capsules, and roughly a
third of them are currently filled.
Gotcha, is it possible to like wait for a moment where one of
the where the Pokémon like their back is turned and I can flip up
my visor to cabbage? Sure, yeah, roll me, I guess.
Dex, I don't know, probably, yeah, just.
Probably see if I can get my timing 15. 15 Yeah.
The only Pokémon that's necessarily in range of seeing
you do this is Magneton and has three eyes, But it doesn't it if
you found an opportune moment where if you wanted to do some
sort of interaction with cabbage, you would be able to do
so. Perfect.
OK, I will lift up my visor quickly and kind of try to like
subtly wave to get her attention.
OK, you managed to do so. Cabbage recognizes you.
There's a glimpse of hope and excitement in Cabbage's eyes.
She alters between like happy and panicked and happy and
panicked. It's she.
It almost seems like she'd be making sounds, but if she is,
you cannot hear them. Additionally, you as you're
closer you notice that not only is she pulsating a great amount
of light, not only is she being suspended by like an electrical
energy, but there's also like a bubble around here that reminds
you of when she was a milserie. There's like a Milky bubble
surrounding her body. Interesting, she's got a Milky
bubble. I will, under the guise of
bringing one of these capsules forward, try and take a look at
So there, there. So you said there's a a door to
get into where she is? Yes, it's like just like maybe a
she's in like a three or four foot plastic box it seems like
and there's like a little door that there's only handle on the
outside that you can access the components in the box.
And is that door in view of the other scientists?
It certainly is it if, if they were to be paying attention,
they would definitely see it, but they aren't necessarily like
looking. That's not their focus
currently, but they are in fact in range of that.
You do over here. Did you turn on, Did you turn on
your mic or turn it off? What's the current status on?
It it's, it's on, Yeah. OK, there's some topics of
conversation going around just kind of Co res and have you you
have now learned the name of the other individual.
Their name is Cobalt. They're discussing, you know,
they're just kind of saying, put this here, put this there.
Cobalt expresses a couple concerns.
The first one, he says, Chorus, Are you sure that you can figure
out how to put us back? I mean, that that booster
explosion, that was pretty significant.
It felt like we weren't going to make it.
Chorus says, oh, yes, I'll just take some thoughts.
Let's finish up this part of the experiment.
And before we detonate, I'll have to run some calculations.
But I I have a good feeling that we can make it work.
It might just take, you know, a year or so.
Cobalt says a year. I don't have that long.
And what are we going to eat? We don't have that much food.
Chorus says. Oh, well, my magneton is trained
to put heartbeats into stasis, so we could just potentially put
ourselves into a coma until the timing is right and the orbit is
exactly where we need it. We'll do a couple laps around
the moon just to gain trajectory and velocity, and we will go
back to the planet just as normal.
Cobalt isn't impressed with this.
Another discussion that they have is that Chorus addresses
Cobalt. And it says that he is getting
concerned with the activity of the native Pokémon.
And as you look around, you see that there is more and more of
these little round fairy creatures that are just
gathering around and watching from a distance, and it looks
like they're almost socializing with each other.
I will jump into the conversation.
OK. And say booster explosion, I
was, I was knocked out. What happened?
Cobalt will worryingly just generally he seems to have less
confidence than Cole Res. Cobalt will say yeah, that that
dumb girl with that dragon kept blasting out the ship before we
took off and I I guess you did enough damage where before we
even left the atmosphere, one of the boosters exploded just right
on the side of the ship. We were really lucky that we
even made it this far. And we don't have any major
damage to the ship where we wouldn't survive.
And Culver said, well, you know, most deep they, they always
produce the best quality spacecraft.
We weren't ever, ever in any danger.
But Cobalt seems to feel otherwise.
He's still quite shaken up about it, and he still can't believe
that Chorus is going to find a way to get them home, even if it
takes a year and they have to go into a coma.
But the problem is just that we don't have enough energy to get
back. Chorus says, yes, that's, that's
a big part of it's not all of the fuel was dispersed from the
booster into the shuttle. So being able to lift off, we
won't quite make it. We're going to end up stalling
out and falling into orbit. So we need some time to
calculate a proper velocity and again, get some gain some
momentum by orbiting the moon for a while.
And then after, well, maybe just nine months, who knows, I'll
have to run some calculations. We should be able to return to
Earth no problem. But we've all got all this
energy here. Why don't we just use this?
Chorus says we need every ounce of that Infinity energy if we
are to complete this mission. You of anyone should know that
theory. Right, of course.
Chorus also says also the conversion of Infinity energy to
jet fuel isn't necessarily 1 to one.
Of course, we could just throw those into the fuel cell, but
who knows if that would actually work if it or if it would just
blow up the ship in the process. Can I try and catch the vibe of
the little fairy Pokémon that are starting together?
Sure, grow me an insight check please.
OK, 5. Not particularly good.
It is enough for you to know that these are in fact Clefairy.
There are many of them. They're in like small little
pods. There's like a group of three
and then there's a group of two and then there's like one of
them. They're mostly just standing
around and watching. A couple of them are actually
sitting and another group of them are bounding around, just
jumping from crater to crater and looking over at what's going
on and then continuing to bound around.
There is one that is on the other side of the pyramid from
where you and the other astronauts are that is
approaching. It is bounding up towards the
group. I will wave at it.
OK, you do. So roll Charisma.
Give me. 24. OK, I was going to say give me
15. Yeah, it it acknowledges you and
it kind of lights up with a smile and it begins to bound
towards you. Let me roll for the other
astronauts for a moment. Yes, Chorus will notice and
he'll say those Clefairy are starting to bother me.
I I'm worried that they're going to interfere with our operation.
Would Yuri, could you go just chew them off, figure out what
they're up to, get rid of them? Yeah, of course.
I'm super intimidating. So do you approach this clefairy
and what do you do? Yes.
Don't think I can like talk to this thing because we're in
space. You can't.
You're anything in space.
I will kind of try to trying to make it look like maybe it's
like kind of coming at me and approaching me and I'm just kind
of backing up a little bit. Try to like bring it a little
closer to where cabbage is and kind of draw its attention to
cabbage. OK, that's a performance check.
Give me a 16 on that. Gotcha, will do.
Yeah, I rolled a 19 on the Doy, but I believe I have a
proficiency so that will bring me all the way to 24.
Incredible. Higher than that, I don't know.
I'm bad at math, really great or whatever.
It's in the 20s. Yeah, you successfully make it
seem like, I don't know, like maybe that you're under attack
or something or that, like, you know, not in a way that you're
fearing for your life, but the way that you backpedal seems
very natural. Like you aren't sure what to do
with the situation, and you're almost secretly guiding the
clefairy to see what's going on. Chorus doesn't.
It looks over, but doesn't necessarily say anything.
He just assumes that you're figuring it out.
Meanwhile, Cobalt and Chorus will continue to have a
conversation. Cobalt is basically asking, you
know, if this is a demolition mission, then why wasn't Radha
assigned to it, almost expecting you to answer.
And there's a bit of a silence. Do you answer?
Yeah, well, it requires the more delicate touch than Radha can
provide as well. OK, roll a deception.
Natural 20. Yeah, perfect.
They totally buy it, Cora says. Yuri's very trained in these
types of missions as well, used to doing solo admin work, and
additionally we understood from the boss that Rada was likely to
be assigned to something on the ground that was more important.
You have Clefairy kind of towards the front of the
ziggurat. You have Magneton and Cling.
Cling specifically eyeing this Clefairy very suspiciously, but
the other Pokémon, the BM, doesn't seem to mind.
It doesn't seem to care. Does the clefairy have any
reaction upon seeing cabbage? Yes, Clefairy, while you're the
only one to necessarily see its face, Magneton could, But it's
not paying discreet attention. It has a face of shock and
concern and it looks at you like asking, as if to ask What are
you going to do about it? How best to mine that I want to
try and get her out? Are the Are Chlorus and Cobalt
still watching us? They kind of are.
They're not like attentively watching just, you know, you're
all in the same general 40 feet of each other.
So they're observing, but they're more just trying to get
this work done. I will try the I'll begin with
the plan that I'm trying to convey to this Clefairy and then
I will describe how I'm trying to convey this plan.
Yes, but I want the Clefairy to do something to distract them
while I try and get cabbage out. And to convey that I'm going to
like point at the clefairy as if to be like, you do this.
And then I'm gonna like scream and like flail my arms around
like, oh, and then like scream like this thing is crazy.
And then mime kind of more discreetly myself, then opening
the door to get cabbage out. Sure, roll a Pokémon handling.
OK, that was not super great, but I am proficient 11. 11 is
good enough for the general vibe to be processed.
Maybe not the specifics, but Clefairy kind of gets what
you're getting at. Clefairy will stick up one of
its hands and wiggle a finger and then it looks around and
it's you can see that the other Clefairy are beginning to bound
in. And then this Clefairy, this
particular one jumps very swiftly despite the moon gravity
right into your chest. And it's it's kind of flailing
around. I will once again kind of like
scream with my microphone on, so to keep up the performance for
the other two and then I will kind of try to back into where
the door is. OK, Yeah, no necessarily.
No checks that you need to make here.
You already bought the performance.
This does trigger concern for the three Pokémon and the two
astronauts, they say. Yuri, what's going on?
Did did that Clefairy attack you?
What's happening? I've got the situation under
control. Roll a Deception.
OK, it'll be a dirty 20. OK, you continue to keep killing
it. They believe you as the highest
ranked member here that you are going to figure things out,
Chorus says. Well, just be careful about the
capsules. You know how volatile they are.
Of course, of course. And then I will try and I guess
sneak in the door. OK, give me ADC 10 Dexterity
please. Sleight of hand if you have it,
but I don't think you do. No, I do not.
OK. That is just 10.
OK, that meets it beats it. So very good.
Yeah. You managed to get the door open
and cabbage is within arm's reach.
You can see around you that the clefairy continued to bound in.
There's a horde of them, maybe 20 or 30, and there's this one
that is still like jumping around you and like very gently
smacking your body, trying to pretend to be a menace.
Perfect, perfect. OK, cool.
While that is happening, I will be trying to figure out how I
can. So now I'm like in the chamber
where Cabbage is, she's just kind of like floating in this
Milky bubble. Yeah, she's suspended in a
bubble. And also there's like beams of
energy that are like stabilizing her to be floating there, if
that makes sense. Right.
Do there appear to be like any like switches?
In here or anything. Role investigation 19 Oh very
good. There is delicate machinery at
the top and bottom of this crate that cabbage is suspended in.
You don't see any controls. It seems like that if this is
controlled, it is either on the exterior of this contraption or
does remote. Perhaps something that Chorus is
fiddling with on his wrist. Oh, gotcha.
Let's see you. Have an idea?
No, I'm thinking about. I was like, I I kind of want to
have the Clefairy try and get them to like attack the thing,
but also I know that it's a bomb and so if it does blow up,
that's really bad. What were you going to say?
I was going to say that Cobalt begins to express some concern
with all the Clefairy bounding in, he says.
I know these Pokémon are very strong, but you sure you got
this covered Yuri? Yes, yes, I I'm, I'm very
experienced with these types of Pokémon and handling these
situations. Very good.
No deception required there. Cobalt believes you.
It's true that they are gathering.
It doesn't necessarily seem that they have as much of an agenda
as this Clefairy prime that is interacting with you and
currently gently batting you around in a way that doesn't
seem to do any damage. But they have an angry face on,
and as they are attacking you, they occasionally give you a
wink just to make sure that you know that they are playing.
Mm Hmm. Perfect.
I love this little guy. OK.
An option if you want, if you don't want to make a decision
here, you can continue to wait it out if you want.
Just see what the clefairy you're trying to do.
Or you can take action and do a thing or make a roll, or you can
do a vibe check. Whatever you want.
Just throwing it out there. OK.
I think what I will do is I will return to the outside with this
clefairy OK and kind of try to gesture to its friends to come
over a little bit. OK.
If it can, if it can summon them in some way.
Sure. Are you asking the clefairy to
gesture to them, or are you gesturing to all the clefairy?
I will. I'll ask the clefairy too.
OK, through gestures and vibes and all that stuff.
Yeah, yeah. OK, our our connection.
OK, that will be another Pokémon handling please. 13. 13 yeah,
Clefairy is a pretty good idea of what you're trying to
establish here, but again, not necessarily the specifics, but
gives like a thoughtful nod as it continues to try and like
pummel you in a very gentle funny way.
And a group of Clefairy start gathering in the area where you
are and clean, clean and magneton begin to like look a
little. What's the word?
They're, they're trying to present themselves in an
intimidating way as to discourage the clefairy.
And it works for some of them. Some of them don't want to get
too close, but a couple of foolish ones, perhaps 3 or so in
addition to the one that you have bound up close to you.
And this main clefairy at like looks at you as if you have
another order to give. And the other three clefairy are
just getting up close to like the compartment where cabbage is
where that you have opened. So my plan was to try and direct
them to attack coal arrest, but with these steel types are
around now I don't want to because I don't want them to get
hurt. I will kind of try and loop
around the pyramid just to double check if they're the
controlling mechanism for this is in fact on the outside.
OK, you may do so. As you do so, I want you to make
2 roles. I want you to make a perception
check, and I want you to make a Dexterity save.
Yeah, either order is fine. OK, so my perception was a
natural one. OK.
And my, this was a dexterity. Goodness me, it was a nine.
OK, yes, so not great rules for either of those.
First of all, as you turn about to navigate to this side of the
contraption, the way that the clefairy is bounding into you,
it actually does it maybe a little bit too hard.
And you fall, and your fall takes a long time because you're
on the moon, so it's not going to hurt at all, but it's just
going to take a while for you to reorient yourself.
Cobalt asks if you're OK and Culver says yes, Yuri's fine,
it's just a clefairy. And unfortunately you do not see
what happens when a couple seconds after you write yourself
up, Cobalt and Chorus go wait, where's the AL Creamy?
What happened? And apparently they cannot find
cabbage. My boys, Oh gosh darn it, that
thing I will say through the microphone.
OK, Chorus says. Did did the clefairy take the AL
creamy? Go get them.
Go track them down, Yuri. We don't have time for this
nonsense. And then Cobalt says, I thought
you would said we have like a year.
Are you going to heed Cobalt's order and track down where they
took cabbage? Yes, absolutely.
OK, first of all, you do a scan around and you do see like all
the very bounding to that point in the distance where the light
side of the moon becomes the dark side of the moon.
You don't see cabbage at all. But perhaps now that they're all
bundled together, there's like 20 or so of them in a pack.
Maybe cabbage is in there, but there's only one way to find out
I guess. Yeah, I'll go over there.
OK, you bound over there as quickly as you can.
Again, moon gravity makes it a little funny and your one
partner, Clefairy is staying by your side and all the other
Clefairy are bounding forward surprisingly fast, almost as if
they live here and they're used to the gravity.
There becomes a point where as you're entering that threshold
where the light side becomes the dark side.
One, it becomes pretty cold and two, it becomes pretty hard to
see. And three, because it's so dark,
you actually see the cosmos brilliantly.
It is beautiful, not just as of the black sky, but off, you
know, light years away. You see nebulae and stars that
you've never seen before, and you can see Saturn's rings and
all its beauty way, way, way off in the distance.
But because of the lack of atmosphere, it is just one of
the most beautiful sights that you have ever seen in your life.
As you're gazing upon this and you cross that threshold and it
becomes ever so dark that you lost track of all the Clefairy
they all seem to be missing. And your partner Clefairy that's
been by your side is poking at your leg and moving in a
specific direction so that you're able to keep up.
Do you follow this Clefairy? Yes, absolutely.
OK, you see, as you are fully out of the light side of the
moon at this point, the clefairy bounds into a crater, never to
be seen again. It just disappears into
blackness. What do you do?
I jump in baby. OK.
For the second time in one day, Ality jumping into areas unknown
just for the heck of it, Elodie leaps into the crater and she
begins to fall and fall and fall and fall for seeming what's
maybe minutes, a very long time of descent at a super slow
gradual pace like a feather. Eventually she is bombarded with
just gentle lights, gentle pink lights that surround her from
every area as these glowing orbs on either side of this like
relatively person sized hole that seems to have been dug into
the center of this crater begins to illuminate.
And eventually she finds herself at the threshold of what seems
to be like a dwelling or a house.
There is in fact a door that has a handle and you can see that
there are lights of various colors going on inside and your
partner Clefairy is standing by the door and is beckoning you.
You can see them clearly now with all the lights.
What do you do? I will open the door.
OK, you walk forward to where the partner, Clefairy was
waiting for you and enter this threshold.
What you see is a strange sight indeed.
You appear to have entered this inside of a crater dwelling of a
variety of Pokémon. You see first and foremost a
large round pink Pokémon that greatly resembles Clefair.
You can deduce that this is a Clefable, however it it seems to
have a different quality about it.
It seems to be decorated in a variety of space rocks that give
us gives us somewhat of like a regal elegant look as if it's of
some form of nobility or something.
You see many Clefairy in here there.
It seems that all the ones from the outside have gathered to
this point. You see additionally a Pokémon
that reminds you of Delaney's Gotha Tell, but smaller.
It looks that little out of place, but not uncomfortable.
It seems to be existing just fine.
In this space, you see a Pokey, a group of Pokémon that seems
familiar to you from Meteor Falls.
There is a Meteorites Pokémon mini or that is floating around.
It does not have its rocky shell on, and it's got a pink like :)
a little gem Pokémon as it soars around.
Last but not least, sitting on what appears to be like a couch
made out of rock, there is a small white Pokémon that looks
like almost as if it's wearing a yellow hat, couldn't be more
than a foot tall, and has strange green pieces of paper
affixed to its body, and it looks like it's sleeping.
However, it has a strange eye in the center of its chest that is
wide open. The Clefable looks over at you
and gives you a big friendly wave.
What do you do and what do you think?
Oh my gosh, this is crazy. It's almost like a little party.
All these little guys are just kind of hanging around and
having a good time. I'm not going back, I'm just
going to stay here. No, I will wave back at the club
Fable. Very good roll at Crispa.
OK, Natural 20. Yeah, this cliffable thinks
you're all right. It gestures at you to be like,
it puts hands on you, let's get short little stubby hands on
either side of its face. And it like makes them mime
something like hard and forceful and then lifts up.
It's asking you to do something. You know, stranger things have
happened. I will.
I will tentatively take off my helmet.
OK, you do so tentatively, and what you realize as you take off
your helmet, your blood does not boil and you don't suffer any
ill consequences. And in fact you were able to
breathe perfectly fine in this room.
There is a strange property underway here.
As you take off the helmet, you can also see things more
clearly. You see that on one wall there
is like a shimmering surface, almost a glassy sea like
property to it that has like, dancing lights and figures and
just very vague of like, amorphous shapes dancing around
and illuminating around. And a variety of clefairy are
just watching it like it's television or something.
And they're eating little snacks.
There's like little pebbles in their tiny little hands and
they're shoving them into their mouths.
You also see that in front of this big clefable there is a
table made out of moon rock that there are a variety of cups on
that have a liquid in them and the clefairy seem to be drinking
from them. And there's also a strange
series of patterns on the table, and there are also cube shaped
rocks with indentations on them, and they are being thrown around
like they're playing a game. Yo gambling Clefairy, let's go.
Cliffable is delighted that you took off your helmet and it
makes eye contact and it looks just like it's very happy to see
you, as if you're like long time friends or something.
It is very pleased with you and it gestures over to the table
where it is sat with two clefairy and a gatharita and it
asks you to take a seat on a rock.
I will do that. OK, you do exactly that.
Clefable also produces seemingly out of nothing.
It lays it's hand on a table and then poof, there's a little
coaster and there's a little teacup and there's a swirling
purple liquid inside that looks like a Galaxy and it ushers to
you as if it wants you to drink it.
Do you do so? Yeah, that looks delicious.
I'll have a sip. OK, you have a sip of the
Strange Clefable tea and it's pretty delicious, pretty
refreshing. It has a warm quality to it, not
like scalding hot tea, but it's like warmer than you know, the
surface of the moon for sure. And it is slightly herbal, but
also very sweet. And it it's a little thick as
well. It almost it's like leaning into
like a yogurt smoothie viscosity, but with a different
flavor and a different feel to it.
It makes you feel pretty good. You like how it tastes?
Yummy. The Clefable, additionally
trying to be a good guest, shoves a couple of six sided
rocks cube rocks with various indentations on them.
With a quick observation, you can see that each face of the
rock has a different number of scratches of tallies in it.
It seems that it wants you to participate in a game.
Do you do so? Absolutely.
OK, after you collected these two rocks, the clefable will
gesture to two different symbols that are on the table.
I'm going to send them to you, but I'm also going to describe
them for the podcast. But I will just do this first
because it's hard to do both at once.
There are two symbols like at the center of the table, and
they are side by side. They are both vaguely star
shaped. One of them very distinctly
looks to be a star with seven points if you were to count
them. And then the other one, vaguely
looking like a clock, also spiky and star shaped, has 12 points.
Clefable looks at your eyes as if to ask, Do you understand?
I think so I have to roll either A7 or A12.
OK. Do you like say this to the
Clefable? Yeah, I'll clarify with the
clefable. OK, as you speak, you realize
that not only are you in a room that has oxygen that you can
breathe, but also that you are actually able to speak and that
there is a medium for which sound can travel.
These all these Pokémon in here are like really quiet, you've
noticed. But as Clefable nods, there's a
ruffling of kind of it's fairy feathers that like the fur on
its body that you can pretty distinctly hear.
And you also hear the sounds of these dice rocks being rolled on
this table. They bounce really
significantly, like far and long, and they don't roll as
much as they would on Earth. But it seems like Arthrita to
Clefairies and Clefable are all taking their shots at rolling
some dice. Why don't you do the same?
OK cool, so I roll 2D sixes right?
Or is it? Everyone else seems to be
rolling 26 sided rocks. I shall roll.
It's just so funny because I was just watching Xandria Unlimited
time all where they were playing this game in that campaign.
So I'm like, I know the rules, OK?
I rolled a total of 6. OK, everyone else reveals their
roles. You notice at this point that
these two Clefairy are playing together.
They're each rolling one rock, and then Gotharito is rolling 2
with their mind and Clefable is rolling 2 seemingly also with
their mind. But they do gestate to to roll
like they wave their hand in front of them.
And then the the rocks clatter. The Clefable rolls A5 and A4,
the Clefairy pair rolls A3 and A1, and the Gotharito rolls A3
and A2. They all look a little
disappointed and they all begin to roll again.
Do you do so as well? Yep, MY2 dice.
That was a 2. OK, you got 2 ones.
Yes I got 2 ones. Snake eyes.
So the Clefable gets A5 and A1,
the Clefairy pair gets a six and a six, and they got three
tickets, A3 and A5. They all kind of smile and smirk
at each other and they all like the suspense is rising, right?
Like they they want someone to to to get something here.
They all begin to roll again. Do you roll again as well?
Yes. OK, as you do so, you notice
that the sleepy Pokémon sitting on the couch made out of space
rock. Let's have a little snore and it
turns around a little bit. Seems like it's a very deep
sleep, but again, there's an eye in its chest that seems to be
wide open. What are your results this time?
A. Three and a one.
OK, La Fable has A1 and A2, the Clefairy pair has a six and a
three, and Gatharita has a four and a one.
No progress being made. They are very excited for
something to happen. As the suspense is building, the
the little orbs, the pink orbs that are surrounding like the
corners and the walls and the ceilings of this crater room all
begin to illuminate a little bit and it seems that they are
matching this Clefables excitement and suspense about
the game. Everyone picks up their dice to
roll again. Do you do so as well?
Yes. OK.
We're going to get it. That is a six and a six.
Oh very good, that is a 12 clefable rolls A4 and A5.
The Clefairy pair rolls a six and a three and got three to
rolls A3 and A1. They all the Clefairy pair and
Gotharita seem disappointed. One of the Clefairies in the
pair like sheds a tear. Gotharita just looks a little
like sassy like like I could have won perhaps if I did
better. And Clefable is overjoyed again.
All of the lights in this room just like pulse a brilliant pink
glow and like Clefable begins to let out a laugh.
It is almost scarily human sounding, but it's definitely
not human. It's it's definitely a monster.
But there's a sense of like, intelligence and understanding
to this. The Clefable applauds, and then
gathers up the dice and serves you some more tea.
It looks at you in the face, making direct eye contact to
this big like, ominous if it weren't so friendly.
Clefable is looking you like right in the eyes, as if to ask
you something. OK, can I divine what it is
asking? Sure, Roland Insight. 12. 12
it's asking about you. You don't know what
specifically, but it it wants to know something about Elodie.
OK. I will say hi.
I'm Elody. Very good.
Cliffable will nod and then let out a bow and it will make a
chirpy, chimy kind of sound that sounds like bells ringing in the
distance. But it comes out of its mouth
and then it, you know, sits back down and it puts its hands on
its legs. It's very short, stubby legs, as
if expectantly and looks at you again.
I will say I'm looking for my owl creamy cabbage.
Cliffable looks surprised and also vaguely excited.
Cliffable will stand up and then lift one of its feet off the
ground and it begins to very elegantly hover over to the wall
where the dancing lights are on display at this like lunar
television. It will touch it.
It will touch the screen and swivel some things around.
And like, you can see that this whole wall of craterous rock is
like it, almost as if they're scrolling horizontally on TikTok
or something. But the videos are all just like
abstract lights, Like you can't interpret it at all.
Cliff Fable is scrolling through and scrolling through it and
then stops and points and then wiggles a finger.
As it wiggles a finger, a hidden door that is behind the couch
where the mysterious star shaped Pokémon is sleeping opens up and
you can hear the sound of what sounds to be like a lunar rave
happening. There's a steady beat that
sounds almost like an EDM beat, but there's percussion that is
clearly being made by rocks and there's jingles and like bass
tones that are coming out of what you could presume to be
fairy Pokémon. And there's also a flashing
lights show happening. Cliffable points in there and
suggest that that is where you might find what you're looking
for. Do you enter?
Yes, I will join the rave. Cool you do so you enter the
other side of the room and the cliffable gives you a wave and
then kind of quickly close the closes the door in like a hurry.
Can you roll an insight on why the door might be hurriedly
closed? I want an 11 or higher.
OK, You intuits that Cliffable wants the store closed because
it is right next to the couch where the sleepy Pokémon is and
they don't want to wake up the sleepy Pokémon.
He's sleepy. He's sleepy.
You enter this chamber and there's like a little stage
area. There's an elevated platform of
again, all craters rock, but the floor in this room is entirely
multi colored squares and they all illuminate in different
colors and rapid succession along with the beats of the
music. It's very hard to explain.
It's like a whimsical lunar house music almost.
There are clefairies that are just like throwing rocks,
sometimes with their arms, sometimes with their minds
against different shapes in the wall that make different
rhythmic sounds, and they are doing so consistently as if they
are musicians. Additionally, you see just in
the corner a smiling but scared looking cabbage who is glowing
incredibly and is providing a majority of the light show in
this room. She is glowing pink and blue and
rhythm to the music. It doesn't seem that she has
noticed you yet. I am going to run over to her
and give her a hug. OK, you do.
So the moment that you start moving, Cabbage recognizes you
and lets out a joyful little squeal and jumps into your arms
and you embrace as you are once again reunited.
If you didn't, you probably kept your sheet for her.
But the investigation. You got it.
That's a 24. Very good.
While holding cabbage and looking at her and just like,
you know, observing her from what you are not normally
familiar with, she's experiencing some sort of like
overload of energy. It's not hurting her, but she is
particularly much different than before.
She's channelling some sort of greater force that she's never
experienced before. She's like the the energy is
different, but physically like she doesn't look different.
She does not look any different at all.
She's glowing incredibly and again, she has somewhat of a
bubble of milk around here. As you embrace her, it like
sticks, like it parts way for your arms to hold cabbage, but
the bubble remains. Interesting.
Can I so the energy is the same from when she was in the pyramid
thing? Seemingly so it isn't missing
like the electrical beams that were suspending her, but more or
less it is the same if not stronger.
She is glowing even brighter. Or perhaps it is just that you
are in a dim little rave room compared to the bright lunar
surface. Right.
I will be very, very joyful to return to being with Cabbage.
But I will, we'll, we'll, we'll dance around a little bit.
We'll, we'll enjoy this moment just for a a second.
OK, sure. The Clefairies and In the Moon
rave. Yeah.
Give me a performance with advantage.
Okay, awesome. Nice down.
That will be 29. That is super good, super
incredible. You join the dance party, you're
grooving and smoothing and Clefairies are making music by
throwing rocks at the wall. It is truly incredible the
sounds that they can make. There are only three Clefairy
who are quote UN quote musicians, and all the other
Pokémon in here are dancing. Additionally, there are some new
floating Pokémon that are familiar but you haven't seen on
the moon yet that there's a pair of Luna Tone that you recognize
not only from Meteor Falls but also from Tate and Liza's.
They're just kind of cruising around and they're dipping and
bobbing a little bit, but it's hard for them to dance because
they don't have limbs. Your dancing is very impressive
and everyone is a big fan. All the Clefairies and Luna Tone
in here are very, very impressed.
The music stops for a moment and the Clefable enters just kind of
phasing into the wall from the elevated place where the quote
UN quote stage is. It's stops the music and it
addresses all the inhabitants in the room with a series of chirps
and bell like sounds that you cannot interpret.
Al Creamy looks at you for guidance as all the clefairy in
the room get very excited and start jumping up and down and
look at you. Do you say or do anything?
Oh gosh, this is a lot of pressure.
Am I able to tell at all like what they're trying to expect of
me? Yeah, you can roll an insight.
OK, we'll try just to see 14. 14 You can't get the specifics of
it, but they are very happy and very excited and it has
something to do with you. OK.
The fable gestures to like almost an alter like elevation
that is at the stage and then looks at you in cabbage and then
gestures you to do something about it.
I will take cabbage and go up there.
OK. You stand up on the stage and
the room full of Clefairy look at you expectantly.
The floor, all the squares on the floor that illuminate in
different colors are no longer doing so.
The room is just a steady dim pink with a couple of those
glowing pink orbs in each corner of the room providing some
ambient light. There is a hushed silence as all
of the Clefairy and Lunatone and Clefable in the room look at you
expectantly. I will say thank you for
returning me to my wonderful partner Cabbage.
Roll a Charisma. Okay, speech, speech, speech.
Just straight charisma. Yeah, okay, 8.
There's like kind of a gentle, quiet cheer, a couple of the
Clefairy like, and, you know, there's some hushed applause,
like a golf clap. There is a Clefairy that bounds
up near you that you recognize. It is the Clefairy that led you
on this adventure in the 1st place.
It's been by your side since you've been at the moon.
Yeah, it's your guy Clefairy. He kind of taps on the top of
the table that you are standing in front of and looks at you
expectantly. The the table.
Yes. So you're like at an altar May
Sorry if I didn't describe that well.
So basically there's a dance floor and then there's a slight
elevation that would be quote UN quote a stage where all the
musician clefairies are. And then there's like an
elevation that is roughly 3 feet high and like 2 feet long that
is just waiting for something to be placed on top of it
basically. I will place cabbage on top of
it. OK, have cabbage roll a
performance please. OK, she's good at that.
Oh nice, she's amazing 22. 22 Incredible.
You place her on top of it, and you are a little surprised, a
little taken aback, as when her body touches the platform, she
begins to change rapidly. All of her cream.
Just. Rapidly expands and hardens and
she becomes like she stays herself, but all of the area
around her in the bottom of her feet just disappear as they are
completely engulfed in cake and cream.
She becomes excessively creamy, excessively cakey, and also
excessively cabbage. You can roll an arcana on this.
Mm hmm. I don't think I have any arcana.
No I do not. That's A7.
Aren't entirely sure what's going on, but you understand
that all the fairy Pokémon are very excited about it, so you
don't question it too much. As the cake falls and forms
around here, all the glowing power that's been surrounding
her this whole time that you've been on the moon kind of
manifests and forms itself into like a horizontal table that she
stands in front of with two little columns on either side
that that erupt into like a candle with a sparkling light on
it, casting dazzling gleam all throughout the room.
And it starts producing music and sounds and smells and you
swear tastes in your mouth that just fills this entire cavity as
it lights up super brightly. And all the fairies in here
start like screaming with joy. And the music, it's incredibly
loud. And Cabbage assumes a new form
that you've never seen before. I've just sent it to you.
Yes, let's go. Oh my gosh, she's beautiful.
So cabbage is more or less conducting a rave at this
moment, yeah. This is awesome.
Oh I, I almost forgot, I will take Mr. Salt out of my suit so
that he can enjoy the party as well.
Perfect. Yes, he is delighted to be a
part of this. Also, please have cabbage roll a
performance check with advantage.
Oh boy was it. That's awesome.
Let's go Natural 20. Yeah.
That's perfect. I love it that the narrative
does that. Yeah, this, like the whole
chamber, this whole intercrater area that you are in begins to
rumble and vibrate, almost as if there's like a really intense
earthquake. But it's bounding in rhythm to
the music. And everyone is like floating up
and down in the moon's gravity and dancing and moving and
enjoying the sights and sounds and smells that Cabbage is
somehow able to create. Cabbage looks at you like with
confusion, but also with confidence as somehow cabbage is
the catalyst to this performance.
Is there anything that you would like to do that isn't just
partying? So like the little table that
was there became that table that's like part of her now.
It's hard to tell because it's all cake cabbage.
Cabbage has expanded into just like a BLOB of cake where her
familiar torso and head are present and they are expanded
upon. They're familiar.
Her pink and blue colors have become exaggerated, and the
curly like creamy bits atop her head have become also more
exaggerated. And there's just this incredible
energy that is pulsing from her body.
So she's more or less cabbage, but she just assumes a different
form. OK, because I was going to see
if I could try and investigate that table to see if this is
somehow like the fairy plate or something and this is her alpha
form. Sure, go ahead and roll
investigation. OK Oh my God I'm crazy.
That was another natural 20. That's crazy how that works, how
that happens. That's crazy, yeah.
Yeah, you get the feeling that maybe not the whole alter slash
platform was essentially the Pixie plate, but upon like
getting close and like looking at cabin to see what's going on,
you know without a shadow of a doubt that this is in fact the
location of the Pixie plate and that cabbage is being influenced
by its powers at the moment. Gotcha, so maybe not all of the
Pixie plate but like she is being influenced by it in some
way? Yes, absolutely.
Based on with her 20 on your investigation, I have no problem
telling you that the moon as a whole has some sort of powerful
influence over fairy types, disproportionately affecting
Cabot, sure, but as she has come into contact with this after,
you know, seeing Bud and seeing solely, you're pretty confident
that this is alpha transformation and aspects
transformation. Interesting.
OK, gotcha. You're happy to make as many
rules as you'd like in the situation, but when you are
finished, I will proceed. But for now, you are partying,
and so I want you to be able to enjoy that party for as long as
you like. Yeah, I mean, you know what?
I'll take out everybody that I've got with me and we'll all
party together. Okay, well, you.
Listen a little bit. There's cabbage and Mr. Salt and
who else? Yes, we will have bubble gum,
the Perm Arena join us, as well as Grape Juice, the Swampert and
Blueberry. The Altaria will see the light
of day. That's awesome.
Yeah. They all like, are initially
confused for like half a second. They don't know where they are
and what's going on, and then all of a sudden they are just
feeling the vibe. Even Blueberry, who is not
necessarily Lunar, not even strictly a Fairy type at all,
but is certainly getting down with the vibes.
You are welcome to fully restore everyone's HP and PP, and
additionally, every one of your Pokémon except for Cabbage gets
two points of inspiration that they can use whenever they want.
So you said everybody except for cabbage?
Yes, except for cabbage, because cabbage is giving this
inspiration. Oh yippee, and I can heal too.
Yes, everyone and everything in this room is going to return to
full capacities and more. Amazing.
Are there any other checks you want to make?
No, I think, I think we're just partying.
OK, you do so for a pretty long time and you lose track of time.
Honestly, as far as how much does best.
After some time of which you do not know the clefable in lapse
in the music that is being generated, this big mighty
clefable goes forward and gives a bow to Cabbage, who is in the
strange form, and then gives a look to you, and then gestures
you, placing your hands on something and picking it up.
What do you do? I what?
What does she want me to place my hands on?
On cabbage. You can roll insight on the
specifics of that gesture, but Cliffable took both of their
hands and then like place them around an invisible object and
then lifted. OK, if you want insight you can
get more specifics. OK, I rolled A4 on the inside,
so I don't think I don't think I figured it out.
You may have to take a guess or do nothing.
Well, the the only thing on stage is cabbage, right?
OK, I'll, I'll try to lift cabbage up I guess.
OK, you lift cabbage up the moments that you pull like a
little more than 6 inches. All of the cake that is produced
by this form just kind of poofs in glitter and Stardust, and
then you're holding normal, ordinary cabbage, who seems to
be having a good time, gives you a smile.
Clefable bounce forward and then karate chops this altar that you
had placed cabbage onto and it shatters into a bunch of
different pieces. Clefable move some debris aside
and then picks up one really nice, perfectly rectangular
Shard and hands it towards you. Do you receive it?
Yes, I will receive it. OK, Elodie, you can add the
Pixie plate to your inventory. Cliffable will open the door
looking kind of tired, looking kind of sweaty, and is going to
prepare itself another cup of that Galaxy tea.
As it flicks its fingers towards that table where you were
originally playing that game, it produces another one for you.
Do you take a drink from it? Yes, I'll have a sib.
Okay, very good. It's refreshing, it's
restorative, it feels good. You can't help but feel like
perhaps while you're having a great time, there's maybe a
greater need to be addressed. And Clefable gives you a look of
recognition like it. It knows what you're saying and
then holds up a finger as if 01 more thing.
I have a thought as if to say that it goes over to the sleepy
front on the couch and it points at it and then it points at you
and then it points directly at the top most little green piece
of paper on its head and it looks at you expectantly.
You can roll insight or you can just go vibes.
I'm thinking it wants me to take that piece of paper.
You can go for it if that's what you believe.
I will do it. OK.
Yeah, I'll just, I'll go for it. OK, roll a Dexterity please.
Sleight of hand, but you don't have it.
That was a natural one. Very good you.
In some we lose some. Yeah, it's fine.
You just had like two or three, not 20s, so it's fine.
Yeah. You go to reach for it, and then
it like there's an invisible gust or like a lift, and it like
floats like upwards for a little bit.
And the clefable shakes its head and it balls its tiny fingers
somehow into what looks like a fist in one hand.
And it puts it in the open palm of its other hand.
And then it points at you as if it wants you to try one more
time. Yeah, I'll try again.
OK after roll again. Yes, go for it.
Yeah, Oh my God, it's a 2 on the die for five.
Five OK, 5 is like somewhat better.
You go to take a RIP of it, and as you pull on it, it tears in
half. But you do have a piece of this
piece of paper that was residing on this Pokémon's head.
It begins to regenerate a little bit and then Glofable looks at
you and kind of shrugs and looks at you as if asking, as if a
host asking if they can do anything else for you.
I'll. Just be like, oh, oh, sorry
about that. And then I will say, is there
anything I can do for you all that seems like those guys up
top are going to be here for a while.
Yeah, the Clefable will think and then look around to all of
its friends, including the sleepy white and yellow star
Pokémon who you just tore a piece of paper from.
The Clefairy, the Gotharita, the Mini, or they'll all kind of
like look at Clefable. And then they will.
Clefable will shake its head, close its eyes.
It will look at you and it will point at you and it'll point a
cabbage and it'll let out a cheerful chirp, and then it will
not. You can roll inside if you want.
Yeah. I'm going to roll inside for
that. Let's find out.
I can't read this freaking die 13. 13 is good enough.
You can tell based off of Clefable's gestures, which is
mostly how it has been speaking to you, that it believes that
you and Cabbage and the specific gift that it gave you, not the
one from Jirachi but the one from the rave room, will get you
out of this predicament. It is confident in that.
OK, interesting. The predicament of like being
here or like the guys on the surface.
Oh, maybe I misunderstood your question.
Cliffable is speaking to the guys on the surface, but you're
saying like getting out of this chamber?
Oh yeah. I mean more so that I mean, I, I
was just trying to interpret what it was saying so that that
clarifies it. If it meant more the just the
guys on the surface, that makes more.
Sense yes, it means the problem, it doesn't.
Yeah, specifically. Right, right, right.
OK, interesting. OK.
So it's saying like we can get rid of them or sure?
You can ask. You can verbally ask out loud
what it. Means yeah, I'll say that.
Do you want us to get rid of them?
Cliffable will look around and gesture like at its constituents
being all the fairies and the other non fairies that happen to
live here, and it will look at you and give you a shrug and
you're welcome to roll inside. These guys do a lot of gesturing
up here. Yeah, they sure do.
They're not psychic types, but one of them is well.
Yeah, 14. 14 is pretty good. The vibe that you're picking up
from here is that the Clefable and all of its friends, they
like to be here and they like to stick around.
But there is some sort of like magical Fae property to this
Clefable that exceeds from a Pokémon and it's like it fully
believes in you. But if you would like some
additional assistance, it is willing to arrange that for you
if that's specific enough for that 14 insight.
Got you. OK, so, OK, so it seems like
yeah, they want us to get rid of the bomb.
It seems like, based on your 14 insight, that they're not even
really concerned about it, that they feel like that you and
Cabbage are going to take care of it.
Right, take care of the bomb. Yes, that is the impression, but
then Clefable also followed up with the gestures that if you
feel like you need help, Clefable will help.
OK. I will, I will look around for
my buddy Clefairy. OK, roll A, but you don't need
to roll, buddy. Clefairy is like right behind
you, right at your ankle. I will Crouch down and I will
take out an ultra ball and I will ask if they want to come
with me. Oh wow.
Yeah, roll. Either Persuasion or definitely
Persuasion. Frailty.
Yeah, roll, roll. Persuasion.
OK. With advantage.
Oh nice. Oh, with advantage, even better.
Possibly it was the same rule twice.
Persuasion. That'll bring me to 27.
OK, yeah, this little guy would be thrilled to come with you as
it seems to have already formed a bond with you if you wish to
capture this clefairy. Yes, I will do that.
OK. I guess I should describe that
you you hold the ultra ball to the clefairy and it gives a
little tap on the button and it gets absorbed and there isn't
even hardly a wiggle. There's just a satisfied clink
as the ultra ball clinks shut and you've caught yourself a
clefairy. Congratulations.
Amazing. OK, additionally, I'm going to
send you a description for an item that you've received.
It is called. Oh, perfect it.
Is called the ripped Jirachi's wish tag, and there's some
information on it without going too deep or complex for the
listeners. It is basically the five E spell
of Wish, but with some limitations, so you don't have
to read it all right now if you don't want to.
Oh wow. Oh my.
I guess you're reading it right now.
That's fine. Yeah, I was like, I'm just I'm
skimming it. OK, OK, gotcha, gotcha.
OK, perfect. I will say thank you so much to
the Cliff able and to everybody here.
I want I want to be like, I hope we meet again, but like that
would be very strange circumstances.
But I will definitely thank them for their hospitality.
And then I'll take, I'll take the Cliff area out of its pokey
ball so that it can come with outside and then we'll make our
way out outside back to the surface.
OK, just to confirm, do you restore your astronaut helmet
before you do so? Oh yes, yes, of course I don't
want to die. Yeah, a little important.
OK, very good. Yeah, you do.
So all of the Pokémon in here give you a wave.
Even the Luna tones that are in the rave room kind of peek their
heads out and they nod at you. They were all pleased to have
you as a guest. And they begin to return to
their seats and Clefable. The pair of Clefairy and
Gatharita continue playing their silly game.
You will open the door to go back outside.
There's definitely like immediately once you close the
door, you just feel like, oh, this is back on.
Like the desolate lunar surface. This feels very different.
And from the very, very deep hole that you jump down, you see
like a sparkling dust that is flitting upwards.
Clefairy is beckoning you to go walk over there.
Do you do so? Yes, I will do that.
OK, I will go on. For the time being, I will also
keep cabbage inside my suit. OK.
Oh, that's very fun. So cabbage and Mr. Salt are in
there. If they can both fit, yeah.
They can both fit. Mr. Salt might have to occupy
the entire area that's like above your head because that's
just the easiest place for them to fit with cabbage bean in
there as well. So like you can still see a
little bit out of the visor. But if anyone like if you, if
this, if the shade is up, people would see Mr. Salt's face, not
yours. Just so you know, maybe that's
good. Maybe that's intentional.
That's funny. Yeah.
No, that's funny. OK.
Yeah, they can both comfortably fit in there pretty well.
Cabbage that like once once you step outside, you notice it's
very clear that she's still like pulsing and glowing with a pink
and blue energy that you've only seen on the moon.
And additionally, her little bubble of milk that sounds her
body is also beginning to encompass you and Mr. Salt.
It's got kind of like a warming sensation to it that's very
calming and relaxing. Do you?
So you are moving over to where the Clefair is indicated.
Yes. OK, yeah, You step into this
like deep, like pillar like tunnel that you descended, and
you immediately begin to levitate.
This swirling, flittering like glowing powder that sits at the
bottom here is beating to raise you up, and you ascend much
faster than you descended out of this port.
You find yourself back on that threshold of where the lunar day
leads the meets the lunar night and you can see way off in the
distance. No particular details, but you
do see the three Pokémon and the two astronauts still working on
the project with the shuttle nearby.
What you do? I will cautiously approach I
suppose. OK, you come back to the
project, you can see that the cobalt has been kind of like
dismissed over like far past the where the project is.
And he's like searching around. He's doing something.
He's looking around for you all. The whole group split up really.
BEM and Magneton and Cling Clang are all scattered and Coal Rest
is still at the project, still looking, but also still like
messing with buttons and touching the panel on his wrist.
And he does notice you approach, he says.
Yuri, I'm glad you're OK. Did did you find the out creamy?
Man those those clefairy are crazy.
I I don't know what happened to her.
Roll a deception please. OK, not my best but a 13.
OK, good enough still, Colra says.
Damn, I was hoping it wasn't going to come to this.
Yuri, I'm going to need you to go scour the surface of the moon
and find the most powerful fairy type that you can find.
We need to continue this mission.
Cobalt, get back here. And Cobalt says on my way.
And you see off of the distance someone bounding over Culver
says this mission can't continue if we don't have a proper
catalyst for the Infinity energy.
And without that powerful or creamy, I don't know if any of
these clefairy are going to cut it, but we have no other choice
but to try. Right, right, right.
I'll go look over there. Maybe it's hiding behind the
spaceship and I will point towards the spaceship.
OK, please roll a stealth. I know it sounds funny but roll
a stealth OK? 5.
OK, as you turn the corner and give this command that chorus
agrees with that, you might as well look over there.
Chorus says hey, you got that Clefairy following you, perhaps
that's the proper one to try this on.
And he begins to move towards this Clefairy.
Do you do anything? I don't know.
That thing seems pretty weak. I was able to defeat it.
I mean, it's pretty, you know, subservient to me now.
That Rola, Rola deception. This one's going to be hard.
It's an. 18 OK, all right, OK Oh, OK 22.
Colris says. Wow, yes Yuri, I miscalculated
your your abilities as a diplomat.
This is quite impressive that you've already managed to
conquer one of the natives of this world.
Very well, continue on your search and he dismisses you and
the clefairy, OK. I think I'm going to try and get
back on the ship. OK, you can do so you are
looking around checking stuff out, do you?
What? What do you do in particular?
Oh, sorry. Just to clarify, you are
intending to enter the first door, close that door, let it
pressurize, OK? We don't have to go through the
whole worker. Role this time.
But you will do that. OK, Yeah, you find yourself back
in the shuttle and you have already taken a peek at the
control panel. What are your thoughts?
What are you trying to do? I don't know, I'm trying to
figure out how they meant me to figure the situation out.
Maybe I should have spent longer with them trying to figure it
out. You can roll for cabbage.
Yeah, maybe cabbage knows. Yeah, just roll a thing for
cabbage. I don't know something for
cabbage. It's just straight D20 or
something. 16 on the die. That's what you got.
That's pretty freaking good. I didn't expect that.
Cabbage kind of like hops on the control panel and like looks at
stuff and he's evaluating it the same way that you did and
somehow can identify something that seems pretty important to
cabbage. It looks at a little gauge and
it looks at you like questioningly and you can tell
that this is like a fuel gauge. The reading of it is like at the
bottom it, it seems like it is almost fully empty.
And Cabbage looks at you with concern, and then looks back at
the planets off in the distance through the window.
Right, so is she looking towards the pyramid thing?
No, she's looking passages directly back at Earth have have
LED roll an insight. Natural 20 got really on the
insight, OK. Cabbage wants to try in the
combination of just her natural lunar synergy that is making her
go crazy and light up and stuff. In combination with the Pixie
plate, she feels like she can figure something out.
OK, I trust her. OK, you wouldn't have gotten
something so succinct without a 20 there, so.
That's that's pretty good, yeah. So that's yeah.
And so you have your little Do you have a name for Clefairy
yet? Are you still rocking with
Clefairy? No, I, I I haven't come up with
1 yet. OK, take your time.
There's no rush. OK, so cabbage, Mr. Salt, and
Clefairy all kind of like look at you expectantly and also look
a little like eager to not be on the shuttle.
OK, so they all don't want to be on the shuttle, but Cabbage has
an idea. Yes.
OK, all right, then I will ask Cabbage where she wants to go.
Oh OK, have cabbage roll D20. That was a 19 on the die.
You're rolling so good this is. Crazy.
I know, right? Today's crazy.
I guess except for the wish tag, but that's fine.
It's fine. Yeah, cabbage kind of is.
What does she do? She like holds onto your hand
and like is guiding you like a toddler back outside of the
ship. OK, yeah, then we'll just go
outside. OK, you put on your helmet, you
go through the song and dance of get the depressurization and
stuff, etcetera, etcetera. As you step outside, you hear a
calm from Cobalt asking Jerry, did you figure it out?
Did you find something a good replacement catalyst?
I'm still looking, just give me a little bit.
Cobalt will buy it and Chorus will say, well, come on, we we
have to induce the coma soon. We're going to run out of
oxygen. So we got to hurry up.
OK. So cabbage is going to take you
over to somewhere I'm going to need stealth from Elody.
Not renowned for my stealth, but that'll be a 15. 15 is good
enough. Cabbage finds like a relatively
deep crater pretty close by. It is closer in the direction of
the contraption than it is in the shuttle and cabbage kind of
pops down in the middle of it and again, like more so in the
center of this crater that is illuminated, it's on the light
side of the moon. Her like glowing energy shield
that is around her is really intense and also her milk bubble
is like really really significant.
She also seems to be having no issue surviving on the lunar
surface without air, which is curious.
Interesting, interesting. Also neither is Clefairy or
Carbank so it's there's like no issue for them at all.
Yeah, they're fairy types. They're fine.
I will start to hand her the Pixie plate.
OK, you do that. She absorbs it into her Carabus
and once again begins to transform into the aspect of
play. She begins to just create
incredible amounts of cake from her body to the point where it
is less becoming similar to like a DJ at a table and more similar
to if anyone is familiar, the Giganta Max form of Al Krembe
where she just becomes a towering a massive cake.
And it seems clear that there's like an area where you could
reside or hold onto. As she becomes 10:20, 30-40, now
upwards of 60 feet tall, it's just a mountain of cake erupts.
There is screaming and confusion coming from chorus and cobalt.
So they're saying what's going on?
Is that the creamy? And they are startled and
shocked. Do you say anything to them?
Oh. Gosh, they'll be fine.
Chorus is smart. If they're stuck here for a
year, they'll be fine. They'll figure it out.
I will just yell back. I don't know.
Something's happening. Very good.
The monstrosity of cabbage is still forming and expanding on
the moon as incredible amounts of cake are being dispersed
across the surface. You can see as the shuttle gets
like gently lifted and carried back back towards the dark side
almost. And also the contraption that is
the ziggurat of Infinity energy is becoming slightly displaced.
Additionally, if you turn and see, please roll in an
investigation, please. Yes, I do like doing those 20.
525 is great. You can see that along with the
cake, all of the Clefairy have returned.
There's a horde of now more of them, probably 40 or 50 of them,
and they are are all beginning to circle around this giant cake
tower that is forming on the moon.
And they're all rushing towards the ziggurat.
And you can see a handful of them beginning to unscrew the
Infinity Energy Capsules and dart off with them at incredible
speeds, faster than any of the people or Pokémon can otherwise
do. Yeah.
Cabbage still has her little cabbagey face up at the top of
this tower, and you're holding on probably about 10 feet away.
Mr. Salt has dug his rocky body into the cake so he will not
slip, and your partner Clefairy is holding on right behind you.
OK. Cabbage turns around with like
sparkling blue and pink eyes and then gives you a look as if
asking for permission for something.
I will say let her RIP cabbage. Very good.
Cabbage gives you a nod. And then in a moment like all
this cake that's been generated, just like sucks up into the area
where Cabbage's torso resides and just completely file like
flies in there. And she becomes very engorged,
very enlarged. Then there's like a moment of,
well, it's already silence because it's the moon, but
there's just like no activity, like nothing stirs.
And then all of a sudden it begins blasting cake out of the
back like a rocket, and you find yourself escaping the moon's
gravity in quick speed and hurtling back towards the
planet. You see the trail of stars and
cake and glitter and just sparkly dust behind you as
Cabbage has transformed into some sort of fairy comet and is
hurtling back towards Earth. I will need you to roll.
First an investigation and then after some consideration, I'll
have you make another roll, OK. Investigation 15 or sorry No 13.
1313 still pretty good. You are moving at incredible
speeds and you can feel some G force, but there's a bubble of
milk around you and around Mister Salt and around Clefairy,
and it seems like somehow you are made immune to some of the
forces of just hurtling through space.
The planet is still quite far away, but with your
investigation and based on the time of day that happens to be
on the planet, you can see a few things.
The first thing that catches your eye is your home country of
Kalos. You recognize the shape because
you studied in school. Additionally, you see the shapes
of Sino, Kanto, and Hoen. It is going to be up to you to
guide Cabbage correctly to where you want to go.
So my first question is, with all these countries in your
vision and you still being many, many, many miles away, how will
you aim cabbage to return to the planet?
Man, we're just going home. I don't screw these guys.
Like, no, I'm just kidding. Yeah, We'll, we'll shoot for
Hoen, OK? I don't think there's anywhere
else that I would want to. Is there?
Is there anything that we needed to do anywhere else?
I don't think so. I think we're just going to try
and go back to Moss Deep. OK, help our friends very good
with you locking in ho in and like giving this instruction
either empathically or somehow so cabbage understands that that
is your target. Is that spot on the globe I will
need you to roll AD 24 accuracy. You will not flub any more than
ho in, but you may end up not going to Moss deep.
Understandable. Let's find out where we're
going, baby. That's seven on the dice.
OK, where Elodie is exactly going to land, we will have to
wait for the Quacko Paco to find out as a group because as she is
hurtling back towards the planet and begins to break the
atmosphere after several several minutes, that is where we will
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