Welcome to the Cali Rex Game Corners Pokémon DND campaign
featuring Jacob as Schmidt with his far fetched quacko, Melissa
as Cindy with her Vulpix Soul Eater, Grace as Elodie with her
millsery cabbage, and CJ as Gimli with his rock and Rolla
Trevor. My name is Rich and I'm the game
Master and this is Dunsparse and Grandpa.
Where last we left off, you all made it to Cindy's grandparents
home, the Berry Farm on Route 123.
Upon arriving, you found a dwelling that was slightly
disturbed. Goji and Asai were nowhere to be
seen and piles of unopened mail, including Cindy's letter
addressed to her beloved guardians written the day prior
were identified. You found a displaced floorboard
that took you to a basement hallway of Cindy had previously
never known existed. You came across a large stone
door with runic engravings that was sealed by a lock open by
entering the date of Cindy's birth.
Behind this door you found a cavern underneath the main plot
of the Berry farm. The room is dark, damp, and
constantly writhing in uncontrollable vine growth
attempting to find purchase in the heels of our heroes.
The vines stretch all over the floor, all over the walls, and
up to the ceiling where they meet with the roots of dozens of
Berry trees above you all the vines originate from a single
point in the center of the far wall where a monster resides,
seemingly sewn into the structure of this underground
chamber. The monster bears a slight
resemblance to Pumpkin, a childhood friend of Cindy's.
However, the resemblance is exactly that, it's light.
It's a 12 foot yellow bulb featuring an upward facing
toothed mouth, complete with rows of circular teeth and a
constant ooze of purple sludge drooling out.
It addresses our eclectic party members in the dank darkness
with its immense sharp and thorny leaves that decorate its
mouth and the sides of its body. With every breath this verdant
behemoth takes, the entire room pulsates and breathes along with
it. Cindy and Schmidt have already
been pulled down and rendered prone by the wild vines that
cover every surface as Schmidt prepares to instruct Quacko to
make an attack. You may all roll initiative.
I will give you a bonus attack with Quacko at the start of this
turn. Because Quacko's out and you
initiated combat. This will not count as a sneak
attack, but you do just to do something before anything else
happens. Actually, I'm not rolling to hit
it. Cuz you're gonna.
Air release cuz I'm gonna air. Release.
That's five damage cuz my rolls are trash.
You doubled your rolls. Right.
Oh, I do double my. Rolls.
It's super effective. Add 4 to whatever I just said,
so 9. OK.
Yeah, good way to start it off. Quacko leaps into the air and
slashes at Pumpkin with his leak, and a little streak of
purple blood seems to ooze out a little bit.
Mcgimley gets to go first in the proper initiative here.
Does it have to be Cindy's turn for her to cry, or can she cry
as a reaction? I think we established it in
like the second session that you can cry whenever you want.
She she is crying the whole time.
Let me just start with She's already crying.
So I guess I'll bring because I don't know about Lebowski yet,
so I'll bring out Trevor and Toidel.
I want to sand attack with Trevor.
It passes Natural 19. Yawn into the victory bell.
Gimley's had good success with that in the past, so you can
keep it up. That move always connects.
Pumpkin will use a legendary resistance to shrug it off.
It is not affected by Yawn. Interesting.
OK, does Gimley want to do anything?
Am I in proximity of my compadres who are covered in
vines? Yes, yeah, you're all within
like a 20 foot row. And Cindy and Schmidt are
currently prone. They're kind of like.
OK I want to use my pickaxe to kind of like RIP apart the vines
like not so much like hammer into them because that would be
dangerous and acquired extract, but like more like hook under
and pull them to try to break them.
OK then. Yeah, then you're rolling
strength because you're trying to pull the vines.
Let's say 16. Yeah, who do?
Who are you freeing? I'll get Schmidt up.
OK. You do that.
Thank you. What are you doing, Cindy?
I'll have solely use Ember, we'll target pumpkin.
I'll just stay stuck in the vine to accept my fate.
OK, yes. Like it's still gonna get you
out. It's fine.
Well, that's a hit. It's I will tell you all in
advance. I keep saying pumpkin.
I shouldn't say pumpkin. This is not exactly pumpkin.
This is something else. It's implanted into the wall.
So it's not going to be that hard to hit for a boss, just so
you know. That's, that's fair.
That makes sense. 18 to hit. That definitely hits all your
damage. It's super effective.
So whatever your dice are, double them. 7.
A little gout of flame comes out of Soli's throat and singes the
leaves on this super messed up Victory Bell's body.
It lets out a little shriek. So can I have Jack come out as
well? Jack's out, he goes brown and
he's instantly quite scared, but he's also brave, so he's not
scared. He's like almost good but like
I'm too brave for this. Exactly, I'm gonna do the exact
same thing. Just another aerial lace.
Yep. OK, let's see it.
Oh oh how Max roll on one and five on the.
Other, and that's plus four, yeah, so 15 nice solid hit
Quacko pages to dig that leak right into the same spot where
he swiped at four. And this corrupted monstrous
victory build lets out another horrifying shriek and it's use a
bunch of poisoning sludge everywhere.
Have Quacko make a Dexterity save to not be drenched in
venom. +3 that's a 5. Quacko gets slightly drenched in
venom. Quacko takes 6 points of poison
damage. Oh.
That's not as bad as. This does not get the poison
condition, but took a little bit of a bounce back there.
Is Schmitz going to do anything himself?
Or I guess we'll try to pull the vines off Cindy.
You, yeah, describe how you're doing it.
Are you just like loosely pulling?
The am I not rolling for it? Or you are you?
But I'm trying to describe what, what, how, what your check is
OK, It's probably dex because you're just.
Yeah. I can't think of what a
dexterous way to do this. Like I almost want to say like
it's just a raw strength check because like, what else would I
do? Yeah, However you describe it is
what you're going to do. If you're just going to pull at
it, you just can just. Pull at it.
Yeah, I rolled a 19, but that's a -1 so it's still an 18, yeah.
That's still enough. That's still fine.
You managed to loose the vines off of Cindy's body and she is
now mobile. Nicely done, Elody.
What's up? Elody is going to try and get a
closer look at Pumpkin to see if there's any like sort of devices
or anything. On it, Sure.
Yeah, roll it. I suppose you're investing so or
sorry, investigating. Yeah, you're.
You're a stockbroker now I. Think I got a net 20 baby.
Cool. Yeah, Once again, you can see
that you can tell that this is a victory bill, but it's not just
like a regular victory bill. This thing is way bigger than
victory bills usually are. And it's has more features.
It is extra thorny, it is extra acity goopy.
It has way more vines coming out of it, and you can see that it's
more or less fused. It's back into a slot in the
wall behind it. And from this wall you can tell
that where all these vines, like they're almost geometric, like
on the part of the room that you are at your feet and on the
walls, the vines are sprawling everywhere.
From directly behind Pumpkin, they move out in sharp angles.
And underneath the vines you can see a series of markings in
stone that match the pattern. So there's like right behind
Pumpkin, there's all these sharp angled vines coming out all over
the place that the vines are going out of.
That's interesting to note. Which Pokémon did you bring with
you? Like you.
Have your water types. OK.
I I only have cabbage owl right? Now I have a few.
I think I'm going to leave the other two in in their in their
balls for now, OK? I don't know if it's feeling
like poison. It might not be a good time for
Gabbage either. You're right.
You don't want to give them a big kiss with all that ass.
I'll do I I guess I'll just sweet scent it right now.
Just the basic move description. You're not trying to like get an
effect or anything. I guess we could go for an
effect just sort of like a calming scent, OK, Maybe
something reminiscent of the Berry farm of that.
We're already in. Yeah, you know that's true.
I don't know. We're in the basement, though it
might not be a. Potent.
Yeah. Regardless, this creature passes
its Charisma check. It got a natural 16.
Doesn't have a nose. Yeah, it can't smell.
You know, that's kind of true. So much, so much charisma it
forgot how to smell. Wait real quick, can I have
cabbage use senspiration? It is a reaction.
Can I have her use it on like Cindy herself?
Absolutely. OK, I will do that.
Cool. Yeah, you can use inspiration a
number of times equal to cabbage's Prisma modifier, which
is either two or three, right? Yeah, it's 3, right?
Now OK, so you get 3 uses of that.
Pretty cool it. Is pretty cool.
So yeah, so say you get 1D6 that you can add to any role.
Including a damage role. Any role and you can do it after
it's rolled too. But you have to do it before I
declare what happens. It is now this creature's turn.
This creature has gotten waxed around by a duck with a sword
and is not having a good time. It's going to do 2 things this
turn. It's first order of business is
to scatter sports. I'm going to require each
Pokémon to make a Constitution saving throw, every Pokémon on
the field, and simultaneously it'll focus a point of green and
yellow light in front of its body.
Actually sweet veil on cabbage so nobody can sleep.
That's true. So wait, does cabbage or nobody?
It's what's the range on that? 15 feet.
Yeah, but that's basically all y'all.
No rolls. I saved my crit for the next
roll I. Made no, no pocket crits, yeah.
So yeah, those are it's two actions that it gets this turn
and we're going to go back to Gimli.
We are going to try the maneuver.
Let's go. All right, we're loaded up,
Trevor into the shot. Toile's tuck it in.
We're ready to. Fire, I want to offer this to
you two different ways I've been thinking about this mechanic.
So you can either roll skill checks for each individual
thing, or you can roll 2D8 OK and the the face of each D8.
The closer they are to each other, the better results you'll
have. Oh, I like that.
OK but you could just do that like 1D8IS Trevor and 1D8IS
total. OK, I got A7 and A5.
OK. Yeah, that's pretty good.
It will work. OK, that's AI like that.
That's a cool way to do that. Yeah, yeah, 'cause it's like
combo tax. Yeah, they're.
Cooperating. They have to be In Sync.
Right, OK, We're, we're ready to fire.
We're gonna. So, so describe it and then
we'll figure out how you roll damage for this.
So Torkel's basically because Trevor's tucked in front of the
mouthhole where would fire basically the flame is building
up and then eventually it becomes too much pressure and
will launch Trevor. So basically it's like a
combination of Trevor becoming like kind of like a jet
propelled rock with like fire coming at it from behind, just
launching into the Victor Bell head on.
So it's kind of like a fire based headbutt.
Roll a regular headbutt and then an additional dive damage.
That's fire type. 3D12 and then the modifier and head butt,
yeah. The single modifier.
OK, so 27. I feel like you described that
pretty well, but everyone is amazed because I don't think
they unless they listen to the recent session, I don't think
they know exactly what we were talking about.
But it's true, Toidal loads up Rock'n'roll into one of the
slots in in her shell and charges up Steam and Flame
energy, and Trevor looks prepared as all heck for this.
And Toidal launches Trevor directly into the wall where
this crazy messed up Victory Bell is sewn in, and a just a
fiery ball of Trevor smacks into the side of Victory Bell for a
whopping 27 damage. Very nice.
Noticing that it's coming out of the wall, I think this might be
dig in time. OK, I'm going to attempt to dig,
not into the victory bell, but like, dig around it to see if I
can get to a like a hollow point, dislodge this thing from
the wall if I can get behind it. Yeah.
This so you can go for it. This is a dangerous maneuver.
If you fail, you will have consequences.
Absolutely. I got 12.
As you wield your pickaxe and go for the swing, Mutilated Pumpkin
can see out of the side of its eye what you're trying to do and
lashes at you with a fine whip. And Gimli's going to take eight
points of damage as a long, thorny lash of a vine smacks
into his side and draws blood. It hurts a lot.
It sucks. Cindy, it's you all.
Right, Jack is going to use Fire Fang.
New action from your new member. Yes, and it can cause pumpkin to
flinch or get burned. Both Nat. 20 Nat. 20 So that is
in fact. It does burn and flinch.
A critical hit. But super effective as well.
Yeah, you're going to roll a ton of damage for this.
For someone who was crying earlier, you're really murdering
this thing. And nine.
I'm so bad at math 29, nine and three.
Maybe 2993 is 41. OK.
This creature takes a huge hit as Cindy lets out a command and
Jack unleashes its first attack in this campaign, a critical
hit. It leaves it burnt and the beam
that it is charging is no longer charging.
It's smoldering a little bit and it is leaking sludge everywhere.
Jack did get up close and personal to the sludge.
Have it make a Constitution safe 3.
It's going to take 10 points of poison damage and is now
poisoned. Oh no, solely I guess we can
have her ember as well. 14 to hit.
Yeah, that hits. Or 10/11/11 damage.
OK, a really nice hit from solely there.
Cindy is able to do a thing if she pleases.
I I think she's just like, still in shock of everything that is
currently happening. Yeah.
Schmidt. The plan is simple, we are going
to aerialist, you know it is the same song and dance.
But like if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I mean it is broken but I'm not going to fix it plus 4/12.
Another slash from Quackos leak will draw even more purple
sludgy blood from this creature that splashes onto Quacko.
Make a con save. That's the 17 + 1.
Yeah, you only take two points of poison damage.
You're still taking OK. This creature is looking very
angry, it starts to breathe heavier and it lashes its vines
around the the whole room being covered in vines.
The vines writhe faster under your feet.
You can feel just constant squirming and writhing of plant
life and foliage all around you. Schmidt, what else you doing?
Hanging out, maybe getting like a White Claw or something, yeah.
There's no White Claws in here, but.
Cracks, cracks open White Claw that he just has.
He, you know, maybe he doesn't. Maybe he's just reflecting on
the Lacroix that he got from Mel and Key from earlier.
True, I do. The lime Lacroix, Yeah.
Yeah. Lime Lacroix.
Perfect. Moving on then.
Elodie, what are you doing? If I guess I can't really ask,
if I were to use Encore, what would happen?
I guess we'd have to find out. Yeah, I'm going to do it.
I'm going to take out Paplio, but I'm going to hold hold her
in my arms and instruct her to use Encore.
OK, that's very cute. What's the safe?
What's the DC? Wisdom, I believe, is an 11.
OK, this creature gets a natural 12 will not be affected by this
encore. But I'll tell you what, the rest
of the party is affected by it because it's really cute.
And it's a little bit of optimism in this very dark time
as as Elodie just sends out her new seal friend and instructs to
use Encore to just sits in her outstretched arms clapping its
fins and Borg. And it's just so cute.
It's just great. It doesn't affect this monster.
Is cabbage doing anything? I'm gonna go for a fake tears
this time. So that's another wisdom saving
through, but this time the DC is 12.
Okay, well this time they rolled in that 15.
Okay. Okay, Dang it.
Come in with the good rolls. Would like to continue these
good roles as it twirls its side, leaves and unleashes a
barrage of leaves to every creature on this field.
Every creature. Before this happens, did the
flinch affect any of this? Was that just to cancel the
solar beam? It just cancelled Solar beam.
Okay, I was just curious. A barrage of leaves will slice
into every single creature. Tell me who gets a 15 or higher.
Yes, I'm sorry, it's a deck save O which is good for show.
Crit as he always does OK on saving throws and Schmidt get a
19 are we? Creatures.
Yes, roll for yourselves. OK, Trevor got a 19.
OK, so he's fine, but Toidel and Gimli both got below so.
OK Paplio got a 16 but me me and cabbage got below.
OK OK so me and Soli failed and Jack passed.
OK, so every Pokémon that saved is going to take 11 points of
grass damage. Every Pokémon that made the save
that made the save. Wait, is it resisted if it's?
Yes, Quacko will resist it and and humans resisted as well.
The humans. How does resist with odd numbers
work? You round down, you take the
lower result down. If if the person failed, they're
going to take 10 points and if they saved they're going to take
5. Oh, I'm rolling for Sturdy by
the way. Let me see if I pass.
Oh wait, so. It's above half my elf cool.
Yeah, so a lot of math for something that can be described
very simply. A torrent of sharp leaves shoot
out of this Pokémon monstrosity, latch into the wall, and cut up
every single thing on the field here.
It will not take any other actions this turn, as that is an
expensive action for it. However, it lets out another
blood curling shriek. It is very upset.
It's Gimli's turn. So Trevor is going to try
Sanitat again. 12 Con DC. OK, they got it exactly a Nat 12
so they have extra con so they passed.
OK. And then as a bonus action, I'm
going to actually harden in preparation for combo move
again. Great, you do that, Trevor fires
off a little cloud of sand, doesn't seem to affect this
creature, and then hardens its carapace in anticipation for the
next attack. Then in the meantime, Toidal is
going to Ember does an 18 hit. Yeah, it does. 11 damage.
Another big hit into this messed up big true bell.
Do me a favor Gimli, just roll A roll AD 20 and I can tell you
for what, just roll 1. Not 20.
This hardened that you have instructed Trevor to do.
It's not like any hardened you've seen before.
He is looking so resilient and so firm.
Little bits of dirt and pebbles are rising up out of the ground
and attaching to his body as he's hardening.
It is a very, very good hardened.
Oh, Cindy all. Right, we're going to have Jack
use Fire Fang again. It's 1810 + 313 damage.
OK, actually let me add my Sunspiration also.
Sure get some extra damage in there.
That's two more damage, so 15. Hey, it's 15 damage.
Damage. Something in in these kind of
situations, we take that. Yeah.
Another bit of flame fires off matches on to pumpkin let's out
another scream and it's wiggling a lot.
It is riding quite a bit. The vines beneath you are going
crazy. Is Cindy doing anything else?
So Lee's going to use Emperor 16 to hit.
OK, Yep. 8-9. This thing is looking very, very
upset. Anything else with your turn,
Cindy? Cindy's going to like pull out
the rock again and see if there's any like effect because
it was glowing before. So like just to see if there
anything happens. Yeah, just roll AD 20 just
straight. 11. 11 Yeah, it's there's two diamonds on it.
They're glowing a very rich green and the whole stone seems
to be trembling. No LED did this last turn but if
I bring out another Pokémon would I be able to act with both
of my Pokémon? Yes, but Schmidt wouldn't do
anything, OK? Like Schmidt's actually going to
be sending something out. I would like to send out
Jessica. Hello, Jessica.
And Jessica's gonna use helping
hand, OK? On Quacko.
Quacko's gonna hit him with a nice area Lace.
OK, cha cha. Cha so I'm curious that extra D6
doesn't get doubled. No, no, no.
Helping hand is. Just 3D 6 + 4.
Yep, Yep, Yep. 15. Yeah, that's still a great hit.
That's still amazing. Quacko is in melee range is
going to have to take a con save against the resulting poison
ooze. Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep, plus
1/12. Yeah, only taking three points
of poison damage from the resulting splash of poison.
You can see that after that area lace again, the vines are riding
like crazy, and especially the ones that are closest to this
creature. But it's also gradually starting
to loosen itself from the purchase.
It's found in this wall here. Elody.
I'm going to put Paplio back in her poker ball.
Yes. And with cabbage.
Can I try and use sweet scent to lure it away from the wall?
Like try and like do. Give it a very alluring time.
Yeah, uh huh. Christmas Eve 18.
OK, just not working out for cabbage today.
Cabbage. The scents just aren't cut in
it. This thing is so used to scents,
it doesn't care about these sweet scents at all.
Smelly, smelly, dank basement. Anything else you want to do?
I suppose it wouldn't hurt to give somebody a sense
inspiration. 1-2 Schmidt. What does it smell like?
It smells like that. It's.
Like a oh, OK, I was going to be like a, like a fancy like
Versace Cologne. Yes, exactly.
No, you're right, it is a Versace Cologne.
Yeah, it's so inspiring. For Schmidt, it's like, this is
my favorite do. You remember like the name of
the line that it is. Versace ARIFS is the one I'm
thinking of. ARIFS.
That's for. Sure.
Perfect. That's what we're looking for.
Yeah. You are very inspired.
It's awesome. Someone else is inspired on this
field, and it is this corrupt mutant victory bell.
It lets out the loudest shriek it's let out yet and it pulls.
It pulls. It pulls its body and it flops
out of the wall. It turns itself over and faces
you all. So it's like how do I describe
this? It almost looks like a
quadruped. There are vines coming out of
its body that stretch them to the ground and it looks like it
has like 8 legs now that are just vines that are coming out
of the ground and its mouth is facing towards you all.
It lets out a shriek and vines shoot up from all over.
Everyone and all of the people have to make a deck save.
All the people, not the Pokémon. All the people.
And you know what? Yeah, sure.
All the Pokémon too. All the ones that aren't flying
or have wings. Thanks.
For.
Watching What's the? DC it's.
Going to be 15 all. Right.
Cindy failed, solely failed passed and Jack failed.
What? Was the DC again?
15. Everybody except Jessica passed.
OK. So let's see who.
Was Jessica flying? No, Jessica was helping with the
hand. Oh, OK, never.
Mind. Yeah.
So Gimli passed. And Trevor?
Every creature who failed just gets immediately restrained by
vines, and this victory bell creature that is now looking
like an arachnid let's out another shriek and it runs
immediately up towards Jack and whips it with vines, dealing
only 8. Dams, Oh my God.
Damage after resistances. It rolls up to solely and also
deals 8 damage. It rolls up to Cindy.
Slaps Cindy across the face, dealing for damage.
Goes up to Jessica. Slaps with vines.
Deals 8 damage. Goes to Toidal.
Slaps it with vines across the face.
Deals for damage. Goes up to Trevor.
Trevor deflects the blow. Trevor isn't having this.
No. Trevor starts hardening harder
and is encompassed by a glowing white light, Super Harden.
It lightens up the dark chamber and the Victory belt shrieks in
recoil as its target refused to take damage.
Too firm. Trevor has evolved into a Boldor
and gets an extra action this turn.
I have sent you a character sheet for OH.
Trevor's huge. Trevor the Boldt.
How cool. That's right now.
All right. Face to face with an Oct pedal
victory bell whose mouth is gaping right in front of it,
dripping sludge and ooze, battered and burned.
What's Moldor gonna do? Oh my God, is it time for
finally to hit a rock blast? Let's see it.
Please hit it for. For sure.
Oh yeah, that's eighteen. Oh, we got four hit.
OK, we got all five hits. OK, roll the damage.
OK, roll the damage 17. Wow, pretty solid hit.
So you all just witnessed as Trevor the Little Rock and roll.
It load a bright white light after hardening very intensely
and is now about twice the size. It's nice and wide, it looks
very heavy and it has all of these particles of dirt and rock
that are floating around it as it seems to have increased its
mass. Almost like it has its own orbit
of dust particles. And you watch as it empties 5
large boulders straight down the gullet of this 8 legged victory
bell monster. Just boom boom boom boom boom
straight down the throat. And it tries to shriek but it
cannot. And it flops over on its back.
And it continues writhing. And the vines are going crazy.
You can notice that as this thing is more or less on its
back, right attached to its back is a rectangular object that is
glowing the same color as the stone that Cindy has.
We're back over to Gimli. Boulder can go again.
We just readied ourselves for our ability, let's see if we can
actually get this combo attacked out of boulders bigger.
Sure. Wait, didn't Boulder just use
rock Tim? Yeah, it was a bonus.
But it was a bonus action for evolving.
Bonus. OK.
Yeah. OK.
OK.
So we'll do the two DA.
How close are we 2:00 and 4:00. Yeah, it works.
Yeah, 'cause it's 'cause it's range, right?
That's how we're doing that. Yeah, OK, OK.
We're, we're readying it up, fire it up now it's time.
It's bigger. So yeah.
So your your head button damage should have increased right?
Oh yeah. Oh, that's much higher.
Yeah, So what is it now? So it's 2D plus 4.
So instead you're going to roll 5 D 8 + 4. 28, yeah.
Nice. Yeah, yeah.
Oracle charges up its body once again and slots in this time a
much larger rock into its shell and with a blast, a fire
explosion launches Trevor the Boldor towards this 8 legged
victory bill that's writhing around on the ground dealing a
massive, massive blow. It is not down for the count, it
is still very, very furious and it is going to send a vine whip
now, this time at cabbage dealing 12 damage.
OK, that's fine as cabbage gets raked across the face with a
sharp, thorny vine. Is it?
Is it rolled over right now? Yes.
Can can I attempt a hog tie it with rope?
You can try sure. Yeah, with Gimli, because I sold
my action so. This again.
It'll be hard and it'll be dangerous.
You can have to roll quite well. 20 Not that.
A dirty 20. 3020, yeah. OK, yeah, you manage.
While this thing is writhing around to strap down the front
part of its body where its mouth is to avoid your hand getting
bit. Give me a Dexterity save.
Oh, we got that one. And.
That one that's really bad, that's super bad.
Gimli is going to take eight points of poison damage and is
poisoned as while successfully in tying down part of this
victory, Bill gets chomped. Right on the arm is blood and
poison and it's awful and it hurts.
So what are the effects of having this thing tied down now?
It's partially tied down. It's it's partially restrained.
Yeah, I'm just like wondering for the rest of the party what
that entails. You know, it's gonna have a
harder time moving around, Cindy.
I'm gonna pull Jack, like return Jack because he's, he has one
HP. OK, so Jack's Jack's coming
back. Can I let out?
Yeah, that would be your, yeah. Cookie wouldn't be able to do
anything because you're doing a complete switch, right?
You can still solely do something though.
OK, so cookie will come out because cookie also resists
grass damage. So that's.
Actually remind me Cookie's ability, it's SAP zipper, right?
Yes, I believe you're immune to grass damage.
Yeah, that's what, yeah. Broken.
Yeah, it's kind of really good. Yeah, so Soli is going to Ember
18 to hit. That'll do it. 10 damage.
Trubell lets out another terrible scream and continues
writhing again in pain. The vines beneath your feet are
going crazy. They're almost pushing you
backwards. Another one stretches up out of
the ground and lashes out the wards.
Quacko dealing 10 points of grass damage.
So five points of damage to Quacko as he gets whipped across
the back by an unsuspecting vine behind him.
That's Cindy's full action. Schmidt, what are you doing?
How close is this thing to like dying?
You can roll to try and find out like investigation that would.
That would be Schmidt's thing. His Pokémon could still do
stuff. OK.
I'm fine with that. OK.
What kind of role is it? Investigation.
Yeah. Just give me a straight 20 and
we'll figure it out. Oh, just a straight 20.
I got a 12. Yeah, 12, yeah, this thing,
it's, it's curious like it's body is weak, right?
But it is. It has an unrelenting power
about it. It is just not ready to give up.
It is all singed and cut and bashed and its teeth are broken
and it's just oozing from all over the place and it wants to
retire, it really does, but it just can't yet.
LED remind me there was some kind of glowing thing like
lodged inside of it or? Like on its back end.
And it's back. It's now facing upwards because
it was flipped over. It's hard to tell with the
Victory bell what direction it is, but.
Use the leak as a crowbar to dislodge it.
Honestly, I'm trying to think like, how much force would it
take to get this thing out If I were to do that?
What kind of role would that be? How would you want to do?
It you know what before before we before we attempt to make the
role, I would like just cut a helping hand Quacko.
And then yeah, just the leak is a crowbar.
Leak is a crowbar. Yeah, give me.
It really could be both. I kind of want you to give me
both checks. Like I want you to give me a dex
and a strength. A dex to get the proper purchase
and a strength to see how far you can pull it.
Well, both roles are 19. Actually.
I'm going to save the helping hand.
Can I do that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can do
that. That's fine.
Yeah, both roles are 19. Yeah, Quacko.
Since he's using his leak, wouldn't it technically count as
a crit, right? Or is that only on attack rolls?
No, he's using his leak. Yeah, I think that's a crit.
I think that works as before. As a reaction, this creature is
going to go for a leaf blade as Quacko is doing this right into
Quacko. Does an 18 hit Quacko including
resistance that's going to go down to 12 points of grass
damage. Quacko on like his last leg
doing this. Yeah, Quacko basically out of
endurance flops, flops. Maybe he flops, I don't know.
He, he flutters, he flies over on top of this victory bell
monstrosity and pries in his leak under this, this slate,
this tablet, the stone that is etched into this monstrosity's
body. And he leverages it just
perfectly critically one might say.
And you can tell as he is sliding it in, the vines begin
to retreat very, very slowly all around you as he pries and he
pries and he pries in, it pops and you hear the sound of stone
hitting play. Sediment and streams of green
energy fly out from all around it as it gradually shrinks and
shrinks and shrinks in size. It's monstrosity
characteristics, it's extra leaves as extra teeth begin to
fade away. And before you you see a limp,
sad, mangled, normal sized victory bell is breathing
heavily on the ground. You are out of initiative.
What do you do, Pumpkin? Do you run up to Pumpkin?
Yes. OK.
Do you intend to do anything? You just want to embrace it?
You just want to. Yeah, give a give pumpkin a hug.
OK. We, we, we have a healer on our
team, right? That's me, yeah.
I was gonna say, I think I can run over and.
Wait, can we heal? I was like I.
Was like can I suck the poison out of my body already?
Speaking of poison, Cindy, you are hugging a poisonous
creature. You have to make a con save.
Oh. My.
Goodness. Well, I got a A5, what's the
role? It's a Constitution save.
That's the -1 so 4. And then this one is 10.
So you would take a certain amount of poison damage, but
this thing is in a very different state.
Yeah. You take one point of poison
damage. It kind of stings where you were
whipped, right As you have little, little cuts on your on
your body. It's you embrace pumpkin, and it
hurts, it burns, but you do it for the love.
Anyways, you you pull your head back a little bit and you can
see it's eyes. They're basically eye to eye
here, and it slipped out of the restraints that Gimli made
because it's shrunk in size about about three times.
And you look and you recognize pumpkins eyes.
The loving, friendly, sad pumpkin.
Other people are trying to do stuff, yes.
I'm trying to suck the poison on my body.
I got a 19 SO. OK, it's.
It's just applying so OK. I was just gonna like a.
Lot more hardcore than Schmidt. Schmidt's like an LDP.
But he's not like, right. I'm literally biting like, boy,
where I got hit on the hands. So I'm just gonna like literally
just hardcore suck it out. We'll, we'll do it.
That's. Yeah, I was.
I was like, well, I technically got 2325 with survival.
So like, we're doing it. Yeah.
Cindy has two HP and she's exhausted, yes, So she's
probably like laying on the floor now.
Yep. How do you heal people?
Can I like heal the people? Yeah, what?
What Describe how you would do it?
Like what? What's your intention here?
Apply bandages. Yeah, sure.
Yeah. Go to whoever you're you're
doing that to make a medicine check.
So I definitely Cindy and I guess Gimli took a lot of damage
from Poison Schmidt, did you take?
No, but quackos really hurt. OK I can do like the.
Quacko in my hands like out towards LED like Quacko, please.
I'll get to Quacko in a second. Let me roll this for the people
first. Wait, what am I rolling?
Medicine you, you have a passive too, I don't know if it's
applicable here. Aromatherapy.
What are the details on that? Again, just when you heal, it's
more effective, right? Yeah, just healing effects
administered by Elodin or Pokémon Level 3 and higher
recover an additional die of HP. OK, but these are just kind of
generic. OK, we'll give you a bonus.
Yeah, it it's it makes more sense on like potions and stuff,
but we're just kind of doing general doctor things, so you'll
do it better for sure. What did you roll for Quacko?
So I guess for Quacko I got a 13.
OK, yeah. So you managed to, at the very
least, stabilize Quacko. He is in a position where he's
not likely to fall below 1 HP. He's battered, he's hurt, but
he's doing all right. He has a little bandage wrapped
around one of his legs and his feathers are a little ruffled,
and you managed to mat them down a little bit.
And if anything, his confidence is doing fine.
That was never really threatened, honestly.
No, no, no. Can I heal like Gimli and Cindy
too? Yeah, it'll be individual
medicine checks. For Cindy I got a dirty 20 and
then for Gimli I got a 12. OK, for Cindy, you managed to,
you have some cloth of some sort.
Maybe it's a part of your apron that you've peeled, I don't
know. But you managed to mat out some
toxic ooze that managed to find its way into Cindy's cuts, and
she's doing a little bit better. Again, you're not really healing
here, but you're stabilizing their condition.
You try to help Gimli, but like, he's kind of on top of it.
He kind of, he kind of already helped himself in a ridiculous
way. You offer him some some
wrapping, but he's he's kind of fine.
I'm fine, thank you. So yeah, the vines are gradually
retreating. There's only a few left that
kind of dangle off of the far wall where Vitri Bell was
planted. You can still see the roots
above you from the Berry trees. They're just dangling down into
the room. And as the vines pull back,
exposed are a bunch of storage shelves and a figure who is
leaning up against the wall looks humanoid.
No. The the door is still closed.
No, the there was the door was open.
It's just covered in vines. The door is now.
The vines have retreated. So do.
We engage or do we just Nope out of here?
I mean, we made it, we did all this, might as well climb in the
hole. There's no hole, sorry.
Oh, I thought you were struggling.
Doorway. Metaphorical hole.
OK, no, there's no new doorway. It's the door you came into,
right? There's no doors in here.
There's a person who is slumped against the back corner of the
wall. Closest to.
Yeah. And there there's a victory bell
that is hurt. There's a Cindy that is just
kind of exhausted, crying, defeated.
I'm not really defeated because succeeded in this, but just
crushed mentally. And there is a rectangular rock
as well. Call out to the humanoid figure.
Hey, what are you? What are you doing down here?
There is no response. Uh oh.
I'm going to speak this. Yeah, I was going to say, can I
investigate? Someone.
Can, because maybe you should tend to pumpkin.
Yeah, I'll, I'll go tend to pumpkin.
You can go do that. We'll, we'll walk over.
I'll walk with you just in case. But like, we'll go, yeah.
Roll an investigation, yeah. I'm not very bright and
investigating so I'm just here to make sure you're OK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Much appreciated.
OK, 3020. Yeah, you see exactly what this
is. This is a person who is wearing
a uniform that you are not unfamiliar with.
It is the same looking uniform that Alexander, the Team Energy
grunt, was wearing at the Weather Institute.
They do not have a visor on their face, but they're wearing
the same kind of skin tight Gray clothing.
There's a little yellow Insignia on their chest.
Their skin is ghostly pale and you notice something incredibly
disturbing. Where their eyes are are no
eyes, but blooming flowers. No, he's so dead.
He's he's so dead. No.
All right, two dead bodies in a day.
Do you want to go bury him? We got to bury him.
You could think him outside. He's.
Underground, he's, yeah. He's already like becoming like
a, like a, like, like a pot for this plant that's growing out of
him. I think we can just leave.
He's literally a corpse flower. What do you mean?
Cindy calls out. Bury him by the berries.
It'll be good fertilizer. The.
Burial. What's the?
Petal, the burial? Oh no.
I hate it here. Are we OK?
We're going to have. We're going to request.
Gimli dragged the body out. Yeah, that's, that's fine.
I'm going. To Schmidt is not touching that
continue to investigate other things in the room.
Sure. I'll should I take this body
outside while you guys investigate that what I'm going
to do you? Want to check its pockets first
maybe? Oh my God, I'm sorry.
No, no, no. It's for like information for.
Information. I'm not a criminal quotes
evidence. I mean Cindy just like burning
the body saying he was good fertilizer.
Apparently everyone here is just a criminal.
We're all just. Evil.
Yeah, I guess. I guess we'll loot it first.
What the heck? I'll loot it.
I just. Added.
There's like a controlling device or something I.
Don't know. Yeah, I'll, I'll, I guess I'll
rummage through the pockets because like, Schmidt won't
touch him so. Give me a rummage.
What? What is a rummage investigation?
OK I don't have bonus on that. What is that int?
Dude I got AI, got a 2. You got a two?
Yeah, interestingly. And then any objects or
anything. His pockets are full of soil.
Oh, weird. All right, well, time to pick up
this dude. Strike check.
Here we go. No, you, you do it.
You do it. It's a dead wave and strong.
You do it. I I am big, strong.
Yeah. All right.
Well, I'll. I'll guess.
Go about the place. I'll take this outside.
It's got soil in his pockets. Go make good fertilizer.
Damn. I'm.
Worried about this? I yeah, that would definitely.
Disturb. I mean, I just bit my hand open
and sucked poison out of I think I said this.
Last week. Can we update this up here to
include the Schmidt pack ourselves?
Yeah. SUS list us ourselves.
This is so. This is so us guys.
That's going right under the stone.
Yeah, we're just going to bring this corpse upstairs so you guys
can investigate the room cleanly.
You do you. Cindy will grab the rock that
came out of pumpkin and put it with the other rock.
OK, I'm going to have you do a couple things here.
Just roll a straight D20 here. 16.
OK, as you lift up this rock from the ground, you can see
from directly under it a little patch of grass that immediately
Withers. As you remove the rock, do you
place it next to the glowing, trembling stone that you were
given by the silver fox? Yes.
OK. As you position it close by, a
glowing white slit opens up. It opens up on the side of the
rock that Zoe gave you. It seems to be kind of calling
towards this new green rock that you're holding.
Do you put them together? Yes.
OK, you put them together and this new green tablet just
sucked in and the diamond encrusted one that was gifted to
you by Zoe stops trembling. It gives a final satisfied green
glow and nothing happens. Stick it back in my backpack
and. Anyone else doing stuff?
Anyone else? I'm going to investigate the
next thing in the room. You said there was some sort of
stone, the rectangle thing. Yeah, Cindy already dealt with
it. Cindy put it inside the other
stone. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
Was there a third thing? There's like shells or something
or whatever. Yeah, they're, I won't have you
roll for them. They're pretty inconspicuous.
They have all sorts of stuff. If you like, want it for some
reason. There's like shears, there's a
rake, there's a hoe, there's like little pots and like all
sorts of stuff for storage. There's like racks, there's
glass bottles, whatever you'd want to look for for as a
gardener. Can I investigate like the
markings on the wall? You said there were markings
that the the vines slipped. Into did you tend to the wounds
of? No, I'll do that real quick.
I forgot about that. Yeah.
So I I'll roll a medicine 15. Yeah, Pumpkin is very hurt and
is also like, it's definitely crying.
And it's a combination of sad tears and happy tears.
It's really happy to see Cindy, but it's like really sad about
something else. You again, you managed to
stabilize it. You put in a position where it
isn't like suffering is definitely hurt.
It could probably use a potion, but it's alive and it's OK.
I'm gonna, while I'm investigating, I'm gonna have
like cabbage kind of like chill out with it and like, I don't
know, I guess try and like cheer it up a little bit.
Sure, yeah. Can I get a cabbage charisma
check? Yeah, Dirty 20.
Yeah, Pumpkin is really happy to hang out with this friend.
They're they're just vibing. Cabbage is just cooing and
Pumpkin's just like just suffering.
And Cabbage is just cooing cheerfully.
And it's it's helping. It's definitely helping.
Now can I like check out the markings?
Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This will be interesting. Roll me either religion or
arcana. Ticking with OK, I mean I think
they would be the same for me 14.
You recognize a script that you aren't particularly familiar
with, but it has characters that kind seem similar to the
language that you speak. I was going to say I would
suggest everyone go upstairs so we can get berries from the
Berry farm to just kind of yet everybody healed up and
recovered and not poisoned and just like have a little Berry
party and funeral. Berry party and funeral.
For the man that we do not know. Yeah.
We don't even know his name. We'll call him Berry.
Oh my God. God.
Berry Berry next to the Berry. You're in my hell, that.
Is there any like fermented Berry juice hanging around?
He's looking for wine fermented. Berry, you know, can you give me
some, give me some of that wine. Yeah, what's the next course of
action? Harry Pardy funeral.
Get drunk. Forget.
Everything. Do we Do we all wander upstairs?
Yeah, I'm already up here and. Yeah.
Are we going to stay indoors? Are we going to go outside to
the trees? We're going to bring Pumpkin
too, or Pumpkin will follow along.
Yeah, Pumpkin is able to just kind of like flop very gingerly
along. Are you you?
Are you in the house? Are you outside?
We're still in the house currently, right?
Yes. Unless you want to go to the
berries is what I'm asking. Telling everybody what the
berries are, what they do. Yeah, You all step outside, and
amidst all this chaos that you've had the past 24 hours, it
is very quiet. The sky is a dim Gray, and it's
raining very gently. And you all just take a moment,
and you just kind of exist in silence for a second.
In a moment of reprieve from all this turmoil, you just enjoy the
rain. Cindy takes you over to the
Berry farm. There's some berries and baskets
that already harvested and there's a lot that are still on
trees. It's just a really pleasant like
drizzle and it's like 5:00 AM. Cindy, furthermore, is still
very tired, but she's able to explain to you what berries do
what and what not. You enjoy having some berries.
Can I get some description of this funeral?
Well, somebody needs to dig a hole.
So I decided that every time I have to dig something, it's
going to appear as some kind of like I, I don't want to say it's
like a cutscene action, but you can definitely visualize it as
such. It's like dig and then I get
like kind of like steam engine coming out of my ears.
Like I'm prepping to dig. It's like, and it's like somehow
you hear a whistle, but it doesn't seem to come from
anywhere. And you're like.
Yeah, give me with that flavor, give me your your dig check.
Dig check 13. OK, yeah, it's sufficient.
You're a little bit more tired than you were when you dug up
the gravesite for. Like the enthusiasm for digging
never stops. And you're definitely less
enthusiastic than when you saw your Co worker Alyssa True.
Any descriptions for this service?
Any eulogies this time I'm. Just digging the hole guys, so.
Poor family man set to bury 2 dead bodies in this day.
Much worse have been buried in the minds, my friend.
Much worse. Everyone's too tired for any
emotional service. It's just.
We don't know him, yeah. Yeah, that's that's fair.
Battery was probably a bad man. He seems to be part of the bad
team. Put him in a hole.
At least we didn't decide to cremate him.
Not We have plenty of options, but we decided not to cremate
him. Yeah, I guess I'll just.
I mean, I don't know if I want to be gentle with this.
I just like drop them in like OK.
Yeah, I'm good with that man. Yeah, you seem like a bad guy
that we don't like, at least on the bad team.
You do that. Yep.
Speaking of a new day, I need Ginley to roll AD 100.
Oh yeah, 37. You check on your egg.
It's, it's warm, It's, it's hanging in there.
Despite all this action that you've been through, it seems to
be mostly undisturbed I. Mean I guess I'll wait on this.
I was like, I still have rope. Would it be possible to like
leave Toidel out and tie the egg to toidel for like as a
makeshift incubator? Yeah, Yeah, you could do that.
That'd be kind of crazy. You like a medicine or like a
guy verse like Dexterity? I don't know.
Do you have any justification or a skill that this would work
with? I mean, I really don't that's
the issue. It's like it's all like, I don't
know, instinctual thing. I'm like, well, like he will
probably like make this hatch faster.
So I think if I'd like taught this to a total OK to my heat
source, like maybe this will work.
I think it's almost a survivalistic thing, but it's
not. It's like, really?
Weird. It's not survival.
It's like almost medicinal in a way.
So I'll let you choose between Dexter wisdom.
I'll do wisdom. A 13.
You kind of MacGyver a little hyper egg incubator onto
Toidel's back. It's pretty funny looking, but
Toidel doesn't. Mind the motherly instinct kicks
in for Toidel. Yeah, well, like 6:00 AM.
Are we healing everybody with all the bears?
It's like for bed. Like for bed, I know you
probably want to go to bed. It's.
Like it's probably like 7:00 or 8:00 in the morning.
Yeah, like schedules for bed I. Do think it's?
It's long rest time. Are we, are we outside still or
did we end up going Yeah. I I'm assuming that you guys did
your burial, you got your berries and it's still kind of
drizzling, which is kind of nice because you're all sweaty and
awful feeling, but also like if you want to sleep, you got to go
inside. OK.
Let's go inside. OK, let's go inside.
Take a nap. OK.
Is it nap time? Is it long wrist or short wrist?
It's long rest time long. Rest.
Time. Cindy desperately needs some
some sleep without all the birds.
Can I investigate if there is alcohol in the facility?
Yeah, you can. Oh, is it a crit I can't see?
It's a it's a nightmare, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Not only do you find like bottles of what is clearly a
fermented alcoholic liquid, but you find like barrels with taps
in them that is full of what is basically just Barry moonshine.
There is so much of it. Yeah, Trimet's going to hit that
a little hard, Yeah. Yeah, I think it's time to hit
that a little hard. I'm definitely going.
To end up, roll a concheck on safe.
Contact. Yeah, I got you.
Cindy, everybody who's drinking. Yeah, yeah, if you guys are too,
yeah. 3020. OK.
I'm a beast. Plus Con +20 Yeah, also 3020.
OK, I got 15. OK.
Cindy, are you? You probably, I don't know what
you're going to do. Cindy is not drinking.
Cindy wants to sleep. That is totally.
There, Cindy is underage. Cindy.
Is underage, yeah. Not that I know what the
drinking age in Owen is, but. I guess you're right.
Have like a. Little gosh, you've been through
a lot today and the three of you are just sitting around sipping
on some really, really delicious fermented Berry juice before you
go to bed. While you're drinking what?
What do you guys like talk about?
What do you do? I never expected to be on this
kind of adventure, but kind of glad it's with you guys.
Honestly, it's been a serious a different time than I expected,
but it's what a heck of a ton. A heck of a vacation, I'll say.
Later in the night, Schmidt tries to start a drinking game.
Have you guys ever seen Shanghai Noon?
Yeah, no. OK, the I'm going to drop it in
voice text, but they do the drinking game for that or
they're just like yelling at each other in like a weird
language and then after every shot.
So it's like Uno Moss. And we're just like in bathtubs
too, right? Yeah.
Clearly I'll be bathtub. Actually.
Bathtub. So like, well, here's The thing
is that like Cindy's grandparents are like kind of
old and they're also kind of wealthy.
So they have like a pretty nice tub like.
A Jacuzzi? Yeah, I keep.
Envisioning that we were like in a shack but I forgot that we're
like on like a a ranch house tour on a.
Plantation basically like it's. It's like a plantation home,
Yeah. And the the tub comfortably
would fit the three of you if you so chose to do so.
Cindy is asleep. Yeah, in her bed, in her
childhood. Why not I'm?
Going to be so well rested. Yeah, there's, yeah, it's decked
out. There's plenty of robes, there's
plenty of towels. There's like, man, it's so good.
It's got, it's got little jets in it.
There's a window that overlooks the the farm.
It's still drizzling. Anything else you guys want to
RP here before you just take this lumber?
I guess RP being hungover, role-playing the next.
Day. Oh, yeah.
You want? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But anything the night of. No.
OK. Laundress would insinuate that
you all sleep 8 hours, and we'll suggest that Cindy sleeps 10
because she's extra tired, and she also went to bed right away.
Does that seem fair for everyone?
Yes. Yeah.
OK. Sounds
good. It's like 4 PM 5:00 PM.
You're all starting to stir. I guess Schmidt might be
hungover. Schmidt's longer, I am probably
not, but I guess we can check for that, right?
Did you con? If you want to, yeah.
Yeah, I wasn't going to. You've been through a lot, so I
don't want to make you suffer. But if you want to bring it upon
yourself, you are more than welcome.
I'm on it. OK, let's go.
Oh, I got a 15. I'm good.
Yeah, you're fine. I got a 10.
Maybe I'm a little hungover. You're a little queasy.
You're a little nauseous. I guess I should roll too.
The roll at disadvantage because you said you were drinking more.
Yeah, yeah, you're OK, but you're not feeling great.
Schmidt, you got it. Too.
Yeah, dude, you're like barfing. Wow.
I appropriate across the board, yeah.
Yeah, you're straight up and not having a good time.
You definitely. Wise old man doesn't get fucked
over, this is. Probably a little a little bit
stronger alcohol than he's used to in the city.
Yeah. Cindy makes everybody a very
nutritious Berry based breakfast 'cause she can see that they're
all not doing great. 1 Berry. Pancakes.
Yay. Yep, I was.
Just thinking like oh smoothies. I'm baked.
Whatever, I'll. Make pancakes.
Or Berry pancake. We do straight up have a Baker
with us so. Yeah, we do actually.
OK, Cindy, harvest the berries for breakfast.
You can know we can both make them some pancakes.
They were the ropes. Making pancakes, Can I can I get
a can I get a charisma from Melody?
Sure. It's a baking check.
Yeah, baking. Check baking check.
I got 2. What?
Was it 18? Everyone in the party gets a + 2
to Charisma checks for the next day.
I feel so good. Pancake Charisma bonus.
It's not much, but it's something, you know that's good.
+2. Cool, so you have your your 5:00
PM breakfast and once again the sun is already starting to set.
Honestly, we've been through so much I forget where we're going.
Mauville. I think we're going to Mauville.
I mean, we got to meet back up with Sam.
I think. Don't we have to like,
investigate what happened to your grandparents?
Yeah. I mean, they're not here.
We can investigate more. We haven't investigated the
mansion. We investigated the basement.
Yeah, I'd say as we're everyone else better than Schmidt, but as
we're stirring through the day and the evening, because we're
getting up at like 4:00 or 5:00 PM, right, Right.
Like I think we just spend the evening like just walking
through the mansion, just investigating.
Yeah, I think mansion might be a little generous, but it's like a
it's an upper class house. I wouldn't say mansion.
It's not like sprawling, but it's just it's a nice ass home
basically. Yeah, I guess if you're
investigating, give me checks, I suppose.
Yeah, those of you who are doing that.
I might as well like I'm not very good at this but all.
Right. I'll have Cindy investigate to
see if like anything's out specifically out of the
ordinary. Sure, sure, sure.
OK, I got a 18. OK.
I got A7. OK.
Yeah, I love that proficiency in investigation. 18.
That you run around the house, you're looking for things,
you're checking with Cindy like, is this normal?
Is this normal? Is like, is this supposed to be
here? And for the most part,
everything is fine. There's a couple of places,
especially by the front door, that seem to have been disturbed
in a way that Goji NSI would not do so.
But there aren't any clues as to where they would be going soon.
Like there's nothing on the calendar, there's nothing on the
on the counter, there's nothing on the table in their bedroom
besides information about the 50th annual Lily Cove City
Summer Festival. There's nothing that would
suggest that they've been back since then, and there's nothing
that would suggest that you know they're going to go anywhere
else. Besides that, you also managed
to find some supplies. You managed to find a bunch of
materials that were used to take care of the farmhand Pokémon.
You come across 5 super potions. You come across 2 revives.
You come across. Oh yeah, interestingly enough,
you come across what is typically used as like a
pesticide, but you have it. You have two super repels.
Well, but as far as leads to where your grandparents might
be, there really isn't anything. So it's 5 super potions, 2
revives, 2 repels pesticide, Yeah.
I think the repels are pesticide.
It's like the same thing. They have the same function
really. Oh, OK.
They're super repels. Exactly.
Super repels. Should we divide up the stuff?
I mean, I, I think you should hold on to medicine oriented
things. So all of.
It are all of the potions at least.
Should I take the revives too or?
How would we want to do this? I mean, I assume we each want to
carry a potion. Then you get the most.
That's what, yeah, that's what I was gonna say is everybody gets
one and then I'll just get 2. And then you just take the
revives. Sure.
And we'll give Schmidt the repels 'cause he hates like bug
stuff. That's.
Good question for the DM, Does Moo Moo milk expire?
Yeah, it's pasteurized pretty well.
Are you concerned about your stash?
Yeah. It's fine.
The cows that this Moo Moo milk comes from are the best cows in
the world, the best milk tanks, and they're like super
pasteurized and you don't have to worry about it spoiling for a
while. Fantasy milk.
There's multiple of that in this
campaign. Is the moon milk?
And then there's also just the existence of cabbage.
Yeah. True, you're right.
So now, you know, we're just kind of what's the word
montaging. It's once again like 8:00 PM.
It's night time. You guys are vibing in this
place. I mean, it's basically your
stronghold at this point. Like this is this is like a base
of operations for you now. Neat.
Mark it on the mat. I will do that.
Home. And then plenty of room.
There's basically infinite food, although it could get boring as
Cindy is aware of. You can get sick of it pretty
quickly. It's in a nice central location
in the region. There's no one else that's here
that it seems like. We stay here.
From night or I vote we spend one more night here and then
and. Then go to Marvel, Yeah.
OK, cool. Without.
Do any of you? You're feeling much better.
You're all rested up. You're dealing with like, you
know, the scene of all the stuff that happened yesterday from
like, a mighty Anna biting an innocent person on the neck,
from dealing with Zoe's burial and all these crazy cryptic
information. You're dealing with the night of
getting restless sleep in a house full of Wingles.
You're dealing with the fact that Pumpkin became a monster
and tried to kill you and apparently did kill someone
earlier in the day. You, you, this is the first time
in a while where like your head is not cloudy and you could just
kind of like do stuff. Do any of you this?
So this is what we call in DND free time.
Do you want to do anything with yourself or with your Pokémon or
like maybe do some research or like, you know, run around in
the library or do you? I just want to like rest up.
You could do like a training regimen, you could talk amongst
yourselves, whatever you want. Can you describe like the area
that we're in? Because I might want to go out
with my new Mons and train. Especially because like Trevor,
like evolved. So we're going to like practice
maneuvers and stuff. OK, sure.
You're because I'm like, starting to like, you know what?
I'm starting to get into this battle thing.
I see why my son likes it. I've got to invest a little
more. OK, Yeah, you are on Route 123.
It's there isn't a whole lot going on here.
There isn't like a a particularly paved Rd.
It's still just like a dirt Rd. People tend to walk this path if
they are heading to on the ferry, like to Mount Pyre that
and then takes you to Lily Cove City.
It's really popular for people. It's the quickest way to go from
Marvel to Lily Cove. So that's the main reason that
people walk up and down this path.
It is wooded to the South. There's a riverbank that where
Sam crossed the bridge to go to Marvel that's to the West.
There's there's there's light traffic.
There's a good amount of wooded area Pokémon.
It's right on the skirts outskirts of the jungle.
It's. More.
Rural than it is urban. So I'm thinking that similar to
like almost like sitting under waterfall training that I take
my rock and fire Pokémon and then bring them down to the
river. And I'm like, all right, guys,
we'll do something weird. And I'm going to sit there like
we have to tank this and see how you can build up your tolerance
to taking this damage. Oh.
That is, that is cool. It seems to make sense to me.
So we're like, OK, everyone's coming out, even our new our new
friend Lebowski. Do you go to the river, like to
the West where you left with Sam, or do you go to the part of
the river that's South of the plantation home?
South of Plantation, OK. Cool.
Yeah, it's a little. There's way less traffic here,
and at the river's a little bit more calmer and you subject your
rock and fire types to the river in the rain.
Well, I'm going to be enthusiastic about it.
It's like it's time to train. And they're going to be like,
yes, like I get excited. We get excited.
Yeah, like. Give them all contacts.
For Trevor got a 18, Lydell also got an 18, and Murkowski, still
still getting his his little non existent feet wet, got a 10.
You plop them down to like, you know, I guess the what would be
their ankles or so in the river and they get battered around a
little bit. For the most part, they do
pretty well. They kind of hate it, but they
understand it's for training purposes and it's not really
hurting them. It's just not really what
they're used to. Yeah, I could describe that
they're taking damage, but this is also like before you go to
sleep, so it really doesn't have a rest.
And yeah. They're doing with them in
solidarity too, so I'll load my own con.
OK, yeah, your your check isn't quite as bad.
My check was so much better. Dirty 23.
Yeah, you're trying to demonstrate to them.
It's like, look, guys, it's just like this and like you're not a
rock. So they don't really like get it
and. It's pulled or.
You don't see any specific improvements from your Pokémon,
but you can tell that they got something out of it.
Yeah, we did that. Who has?
Team building. Patricia still has a mystery
move, right? Yeah, it's like built into PEC.
Built into PEC. OK, I had it in other notes.
It's like I don't want to just say mystery move is a PEC, but
like I guess I shouldn't put it that way.
I just like PEC is just like your basic lame ass move, right?
So this mystery move would just go in place of it.
OK. Could we spend time
investigating what this move is? Sure how like.
Training with it, trying to figure it out.
Yeah, what is your method? So there was like a library
built in, maybe like going to the library and trying to find
something, and if there's not something there, just doing it
over and over again until we figure it out.
Yeah, what kind of books are you looking for?
I. Don't know books on Pokémon?
You could go so like you could do biology, you could do
geography of like Alola. You could do like maybe Alola,
yeah. This is for Patricia.
Oops. I'm not investigating.
We've been talking about different Pokémon.
My bad. It's not built into PEC.
The one for Patricia is just, like, out there.
OK, my bad. This mystery move.
Yeah, you could look it for a biology book.
I suppose you could roll an investigation. 3021.
Yeah, wow. You find a like a written
Pokedex on the Pokémon of the Hohen region and you find swap
Blues page and it describes really cool aspects about Swablu
of how they enjoy being hats for people.
They are generally very kind hearted in nature, but they can
have a destructive side. You can turn the page and see on
the next page is the Pokémon Altaria, the evolved form of
Swablu and it describes it as a dragon type Pokémon who is known
to be very pleasant around people, but have a destructive
side when provoked. It is known for its signature
move of dragon dance, and that's the information that you get out
of it. I'm guessing that this move is
dragon dance? Or is that all I'm getting out
of it with that Earl? That's what you get out of the
book. OK, Could we like practice the
move? Sure.
Like just to see if it is actually dragon dance.
Yeah, give me a, give me just a straight D20.
That's crit, yeah. OK, you see this in the book,
and you're like, huh, I wonder. And you call out Patricia and
you just say, you know, I think I have a better idea of what
this is. And you give it a try and
Patricia just nails it. Patricia no longer has a mystery
move and Patricia just has dragon dance as a move.
Goodbye safeguard. Cindy's free time and Elodie's
free time. Cindy is hanging out with her
Pokémon like not exactly training, but just kind of like
hanging out, having some hot cocoa, getting everybody to know
Pumpkin, like solely knows pumpkin but nobody else does.
So having a very chill day, but like, so with the intent of
like, OK, we're going to continue doing gym battles and
stuff like that. OK, like visualizing winning,
but like not actually physically training?
Yeah. Mental, mental care.
You have a good, nice relaxing time with your Pokémon and your
friend Pumpkin as you're speaking with Pumpkin Roll AD
20. 16. How do I want to do this?
I could pull aside this, but I don't think I'm going to.
You're hanging out with with Pumpkin, and Pumpkin is just so
happy you're here. Pumpkin loves you very much.
Pumpkin gives you a very loving look and it taps a vine in the
back of your head very gently and you're granted a little
vision. You see Pumpkin hanging out in
the house, having a normal day. Nothing too crazy is going on.
Goji and SI are not anywhere to be seen.
And then all of a sudden, people, scary people in uniform,
charged into the house. There's about four or five
ordinary looking people. And then there is one person, a
man. And he is big.
He's not quite as big as like the metal bird guy, but he is
much wider. He's probably like 6 foot 5.
And he's built like a linebacker.
And they are searching fervently for something.
Pumpkin finds a place to hide and sees as they remove the rug
from the from the living room and pull up the floorboard and
descend into the basement that you were in.
Pumpkin gets very scared and has a sense of duty and goes out
into the into the Berry farm and digs its way into the ground and
sees that they are attempting to break into this room where this
artifact is kept. This green rock is kept.
Pumpkin implants itself into the wall in or in attempts to
protect this artifact and a couple of these grunts tried to
break in and you witness a recreation of vision of when
Pumpkin had to defend himself from a grunt who tried to take
this artifact and ended up killing him.
Eventually upon seeing this the the group retreats.
They all leave from the home and Pumpkin is there under the Berry
farm waiting in service. That's the vision that you get.
Oh. Pumpkin.
Pumpkin cries a little bit. What?
What the heck? It's a psychic type, if you
will. Whatever.
Pumpkin experience trauma, OK. You just seem to accept.
About you. Yeah.
Vision. Vision with psychic type maybe?
Yeah, but that the issue is not that pumpkin, just like, oh, you
got it, cool, cool. It just jabs a ride into your
head and injected a vision into your mind and you're like,
that's fine. Cindy's been through so much.
This is normal now. She got the Swink vision, she
got like. I was woken up in the.
Middle of the night myself, you know.
About the Swink vision, Was that ever communicated to us?
Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think we.
I think at the beginning of the second session Cindy described
it. Described it.
Yeah, OK. Is Cindy going to describe this
vision to us, or are you keeping it to yourself?
It's up to. Her Cindy will tell everybody
about the vision like there were more than just the 1 grunt and
they ran away after the guy died.
Well, good job pumpkin, I guess. Do you say that?
Good job. I mean you gave us a run for
money, but good job defending it.
Pumpkin gives you like a assuring nod.
OK, you Cindy got the sense that Pumpkin wasn't really in full
control when you confronted him. It was more whatever that stone
was that's now part of our big stone.
Ality, we are going to have a little joint baking and karaoke
session me and. Oh wow.
Karaoke. That's kinda awesome.
Wait, Schmidt wants to get in on that?
OK, you can you can even join. But yeah, I imagine like Paplio
is has a very beautiful voice and like Mudkip has has uproar.
So like, she's loud, but she doesn't sound very good.
And. And cabbage is just beatboxing
for them. Oh, did.
I bake and LED's baking. That's so sick, man.
I love the cabbage's beat boxes. I I like, I don't even want to
like make you roll like that's just so cool.
Like I don't want to. I don't want to ruin it with a
roll. Yeah, imagine if the show gets
messed. Up Yeah, that that is so sick.
How do I? It's actually super.
Cold Schmidt would like to roll for how well he sings.
OK. Please, damn it, I crit.
OK, Yeah, you. It's awesome to be abysmal, but
OK. All right, did you come alone?
Each of your Pokémon with you. Yeah, I have a Pokémon with me.
All of them. All three of them.
Yeah, sure. What's the what's the genre of
the karaoke That's? A.
Good question. I feel like we should go like
Broadway, like I don't, although I guess the beatboxing.
So Hamilton. Hamilton Yeah, we're definitely
doing like Pokémon Hamilton. Oh, Schmidt would definitely
create doing Hamilton. Yeah, that's true.
OK. So like, so like musicals?
Yes. OK.
Roll Schmidt. Roll another D20.
Just a straight D20. That's a. 15 Jessica is
Schmoven. She loves the music.
She's having such a good time. And you you notice that she's
she's doing like Broadway style dance moves.
It's pretty cool for the sick performance.
I do have to, I have to reward LED somehow.
So I think I'm just going to give ADA of inspiration the LED
use, however. Oh, to me.
Oh boy, let's go. Yeah, I just, I kind of clapped
my hands in support of we were watching this show.
Great. You all did a little bit of
stuff it. Some of it turned out good for
you. Some of it turned out
informative for you. It's the next morning.
It's like you guys slept in D100.
Yeah, do it. Do I get anything cuz I have an
incubator? Let's give you.
Yeah, we'll give you a + 25. OK, 87. 87 Wow.
Yeah, the incubator is clearly working.
Oh my God. Oh no, 87 plus the 25.
I just rolled natural 87. OK, so that's like over 100.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This thing is wobbling.
It's not ready to hatch, but like, man, it's never been so
cared for. And I don't know how long,
hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of years.
This is crazy. But it doesn't hatch.
But it's it's so close. It's it's doing it.
Good, good job. Toyed all.
I see it moving now. What's What's the plan for the
day? I think we got a, we got.
A heading to mobile, right? OK.
Are we gonna talk to Tiny Gang? Or I guess maybe fate will bring
us back to them someday. Yes, someday.
I I guess we don't know if they're still there.
Could we write them a letter? Yeah, we're in the Marvel, OK.
Yeah, let's just go to Marvel. Yeah, when we get to Marvel, we
can check if we. I guess we don't know where they
live also, but I don't know. Let's just go to Marvel.
OK, that's fine. You guys March westward to
Marvel. It's like 9:00 PM or sorry, 9:00
AM or 10:00 AM and you walk over to the junction where Sam
dropped you off and you can see, yes.
Pumpkin coming with or no? Pumpkin feels the duty to stay
behind and protect the place. OK, Cindy, you can try and talk
him out of it, but as per your last kind of emotional
discussion in air quotes because you can't really speak to each
other, that's what you picked up.
Yeah, I think pumpkin should stay because then they pumpkin
will probably keep the place up kept so that way it won't get
like super dirty while my grandparents aren't there and
while we're not there. So we.
Still have like a place to stay, yeah.
Exactly. Mr. Mudd.
That's what Pumpkin wants, and it's very happy that you agree
that it's good for that. You can see to the West across
the river are the rustling metropolitan skyscrapers of
Maville City. It is a very industrious,
cosmopolitan area. You're at the river where Sam
dropped you off. But something is different.
The bridge that Sam crossed to get there has been slashed in
half. There is a riverbank that is
about 20 feet across that you'd have to cross to get there.
I think I can cross it, Gandhi. 'S.
Going to. Investigate the the bridge.
OK, roll it. That one.
You are taking a look at this bridge and you're like, I, I
don't know what this is. I, I, you know, I can't tell.
That bridge is sure broken seen. A bridge before.
Well, that's a bridge. I don't know.
And then, and then there's a bit of the sound of very heavy feet
landing in the sand behind you. It's none other than the tall
metal guy. Oh my God, this.
Guy, he looks at you all and he says you have something that I
want. No, we don't.
Oh God, oh God. He says.
I don't want to fight, I just want to see it.
See what? I'm just going to try and
deceive him and just be like straight up like, I have no idea
what you're talking about. OK, give it a shot.
I rolled A2. OK, you're doing with my
modifier. That's a six.
He says. I know that the witch gave it to
you. I don't want it for myself.
I just need to look at it for a moment.
Can I like do like a an like an insight or something to see if
he's? Being honest, he totally can.
Nat 20. Yeah, you can tell this guy,
he's so stoic, he probably cannot lie.
I mean. I guess can we make sure there's
no one else around that's going to like go and get from us while
he's like? Yeah, it's, it's pretty quiet,
like only on the other side of the river is there any activity.
But where you're at is very rural.
There's not really anything going on.
I mean, I think ultimately it's your decision, Cindy, but I'm
fine with with showing it to him, but.
He can't touch it. Like I feel like if I'm if I'm
holding it like just to make sure that he doesn't take it or
anything. Can somebody like try and like
what I'm trying to say here? Yeah, I was like.
I'm just saying words. Well, that's the condition,
right? If somebody can like protect it
or something, I. Don't know.
Lucky. No.
Touchy. Schmidt commands Quacko to draw
a sword, and Quacko will protect Cindy.
He says I don't need to touch it, but I do request that my
partner touches it. I just need to look upon it and
that is all that I need. Your partner.
He says yes, and he taps one of his heavy balls and before you,
you see a large Raven Pokémon that is completely covered in
metal. He says if you're having trouble
here, I would not mind granting you passage across this waterway
in exchange or any other favor you might need.
He seems pretty desperate, right?
Do you know anything about what this rock does?
Would if we let you see it, would you tell us what it does?
He says if it behaves in the way that I believe that it does,
yes. OK, well, that's information
like I'm, I'm satisfied, I'm told like solo.
Ultimately, it is up to. Cindy pulls that of her bag but
keeps like a really tight grip on it.
This giant man doesn't have to move at all to get a good look.
Again. He's like 8 feet tall.
His large metal bird beside him, which is like close to 6 feet
tall. It is very, very large.
It is larger than most people. It out stretches a wing and it
taps its feather onto this rock with the diamonds on it.
The diamonds glow in color, but they glow in two different
colors. One of them let's off a lustrous
Gray hue, and the other one is kind of a airy cloudy blue.
The man appears down at the stone from above, and he says
perfect. And he recalls Corbinite.
And he says, I must leave now. That artifact that you have is a
locator. It is a key or a codex, as one
might describe. It allows you to find objects of
incredible power and one that I've been seeking my entire
life. And he says, would any of you
like a ride across this river? Sure.
He he throws out his Korvanite and discovery and they
effortlessly carry you across the other side and he says if
that is all. We tell him about the the grunt
that died. OK, what if he has a family?
I don't think this guy's part of the team or anything.
I don't think he would know. OK, he seems like not part of.
Yeah. Can I just ask like what are
what are you looking for? He says I'm looking for
something that was removed from my family generations ago and to
restore honor I must bring it back.
Bam. Or I type Gotcha.
He grabs on to the Talon of Scarmory and takes off to the
north. Unless you stop him, we won't.
OK. Yeah, I think we're good.
He does that. I yell at him as he goes and I'm
like goodbye bird friend. He let me see.
I'm going to roll for this. He's pretty stoic, yeah.
He gives you like a very slight wave.
He just kind of like lifts up his other hand and waves it to
you. New 8 foot tall friend.
So with that, you all marching too Marvel City, some immediate
points of interest stand out to you.
Besides the hordes and hordes of people and traffic and Pokémon
and vehicles and bird Pokémon flying around everywhere you
each are, notice some important looking buildings.
There's a Pokémon gym very, very clearly couldn't be anything
else. There's skyscrapers, commercial
districts that are full of offices, businesses, all that
jazz. There's so much activity here.
There is a Cultural Center with a large performing arts
building. It says MPAC, the Model
Performing Arts Center. There is a building that stands
up from the rest because it is not made from steel and glass.
It is made from marble and stone.
And it seems to be a place of worship.
And it is unlike all the other buildings there.
And in the center of town, at a gazebo, is a statue of a woman.
She is in a ceremonial outfit of some sort, and she stands very
tall. This is a very large, pretty
modern statue. And there's a plaque on the
front that reads Champion May, Hero of the Hoenn region.
And without getting too far into it, if there's anything you'd
like to do. Performing Arts Center later,
Yeah. Casinos and or clubs.
There is in fact a casino and you there's definitely some
nightlife around here for sure. OK, it's a little early in the
day to go to a club, but there's one that you can see the just
the part of the district that is closest to your attention, the
noisy chat tot name of a club that you can see.
Noisy chat tot OK. And I think with that is where
we will call the session tonight.
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See you all next week. The current scent where you are
is very dank and not like that. It's dank like it's like musty.
There's a weed down here. No one was there and then you
bought us there. I know.
Well, I'm sure there's a. Farm.
We don't know what else they're farming the real.
Cash crop, you know what I'm saying?
They say yeah. What were your grandparents
farming over here? They're just really good at
berries. Pictureville's eyes are
bloodshot for a reason, guys. Richie.
It's literally bleeding.
Yeah.