In this episode, the Quacko Packo reviews a photograph which
our talented friend Paint Siegel illustrated for us.
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tree. Welcome to the Cali Rex Game
Corners Pokémon DND campaign featuring Cindy, a hot headed
teen with a penchant for arson. Gimli, an admirable father
seeking to reunite his family. Elody, a fun loving Baker with a
whimsical heart and Schmidt, a courageous young man searching
for his purpose with a duck. Together they make the Quacko
Paco and this is done, Sparse and Grandpa.
With Kyogre defeated, the Quacko Paco take a well deserved rest.
They return to the seaside resort with hospitality reserved
for heroes, which the Paco surely are at this point.
They rest the day away and awaken in the mid afternoon on
the day that the space shuttle was supposed to launch.
Who stirs first and what are their first courses of action?
Remember, you're in a luxurious penthouse suite.
You all have your own king size bed.
There's a huge buffet that was sprawled out for you the night
before that's probably been cleaned up by the two lining
butlers in this room. Additionally, there's like a
pleasant little fountain going on that's got magic carp in a
little pond. There's sculptures and like
small statues and beautiful floral arrangements and house
plants and an incredible view. And you could see all the way to
Sutapola City last night. And if you woke up and got out
of bed, you could probably do the same thing from the Bay
windows. Who does what first?
Hula Bee Gang. I mean, Cindy's got a lot to do,
so I can start doing. Oh.
When I wake up. Oh, Cindy has some plants.
Do you begin to stir a lot of plants?
Sure. The moment that Cindy begins
wriggling in a way that isn't kind of sleep oriented, the two
lining butlers quietly prance over and stand on their little
hind legs at attention and look at Cindy expectantly.
Do you have a command for them? What y'all got for breakfast?
They don't recognize your first couple words, but they recognize
the word breakfast. Their ears twitch and their eyes
light up and they stealthily prance back towards this
massive, luxurious kitchen and they begin cooking away
unbelievably fast. They are hospitality machines,
and almost out of nowhere, the smell of fresh eggs and
breakfast meats and fresh fruit begins to pour into all of the
rooms of the penthouse suite. Fabulous.
Surely by the time that you all get up and get out of bed, there
will be food ready basically. Guess I'll start moving since
canonically Cindy sleeps with all of her Pokémon out.
She'll probably return everybody.
Sure, are you? Take off her socks that she also
canonically sleeps in. That makes everybody so bad.
Very good. We haven't talked about this
before, but the pokeballs do in fact make a electronic sound
when you use them. Do you try to obscure this to
help your party members sleep more, or do you just kind of not
care at this point? I mean, if there's like a door
to like, if it's like a separate bedroom, I'll make sure the
door's shut, but otherwise, no. OK, you're yeah you're recalling
5 or 6 Pokémon Probably just roll me a self check just for
fun. 15. OK, very good.
Yeah, you close the door and you get the pokey balls, like fairly
close to the Pokémon as you're returning them.
So the kind of sound is a shorter and less drawn out, and
you can recall up to all of your Pokémon or the one out.
That is your choice. And I'm curious what you choose.
Recall everybody. OK, Everyone goes back in the
ball after a good night's sleep. Who's next?
I think I would stare to the smell of food getting cooked in
the morning. Yeah, of course.
The moment that you begin to roll around and prepare yourself
for getting out of bed, one of the lightning butlers runs to
your side in an expectant manner.
Do you ask anything of it? You guys got any coffee?
Need to wake up a bit. By by using the attack extreme
speed lining dashes out of the room, procures some fresh coffee
from a pot that had recently been started and brings it to
you directly sets it down your night stand and then looks at
you with a kind of like an expression that is anticipating
the classic follow up question that comes with a cup of coffee.
Oh, black is fine. Lining gives a nod and then
returns to help the other lining make breakfast.
Of course. Excellent.
Is there like a balcony? Yeah, there's like 3 companies
cuz you're like at the top of the building basically.
Oh hell yeah. So you can walk out in any
direction that you want. Oh yeah, we're gonna take in the
breeze. Cup of coffee in the morning.
Yeah, you do. So it's actually not quite
morning. It's probably about 3:00 PM
because you all went to bed at around 3 or 4.
But fair enough, you guys got a lot of sleep in just for fun.
Roaming perception. Classic Packo Perception.
And classic pack of fashion. I got an 8.
OK, that's fine. You're looking down at Moss Deep
City. You can see most of the town
from here. Things look relatively orderly.
You wouldn't have imagined that there was like a terrible
calamity that occurred last night if you didn't already know
about it. There it is, a little scuffed
around the Space Center, you will admit, but nothing other
than that seems particularly out of the ordinary there.
There's a lot of people here, milling about, doing various
things, walking around. Of course, no one seems to
notice you, but there's a fair amount of activity despite the
stuff, the horrors that happened last night.
Amazing. Human ingenuity.
Anything else for your morning routine that you want to
describe? I.
Don't think so yet. Yeah, let's see what everyone
else is doing, OK? LD Schmidt.
I can wake up next. OK, go for it.
Go for some food, baby. Sure, roll out of bed, get
straight to the lawn buffet table.
Oh yeah. OK, perfect.
Quite an assortment of breakfast delicacies.
There's of course various forms of eggs, breakfast meats,
pastries, breads, cheeses, fruits, fresh smoothies made
from locally sourced berries. What are you going to be
indulging in? I'll have one of everything.
OK. Hell yeah.
That's pretty sick. You're going to have to end up
with more or less 2 1/2 plates that you'll be balancing.
So I will be asking for ADC 11 Dexterity check please.
Oh yeah, baby, that's a nine. OK, Ellie's still a little worn
out, perhaps having some trouble balancing.
She drops one plate that is just loaded up with all sorts of
fruits, berries of different types.
One of the line Noon catches that Elodie is about to drop
this and Extreme speeds over to her side and balances the plate
on the tip of his nose, waiting for Elodie to pick it back up in
a more careful manner. Oh, thank you so much buddy.
The line Noon gives an understanding nod in returns to
preparing even more foodstuffs. Anything else?
Or are you just going to shout out do you have any plans with
your Pokémon? Etcetera.
Yeah, I'll share if my Pokémon want to eat anything, but other
than that, we're just eating. OK, there's plenty of space for
them. Maybe if bubble gum and grape
juice made an appearance it might get a little cramped, but
otherwise everyone can fit in quite nicely that Lee Schmidt.
Schmidt, do you have any particular descriptions,
flavors, etcetera for your morning routine after being
dubbed a hero of Moss Deep City? Schmidt is fighting off a
massive hangover. Yeah, definitely.
So he kind of like, rolls out of bed, literally, and like, lands
with like, a thud on the floor. And then he just kind of crawls
his way into the kitchen looking for something to fight this
hangover with. Perfect coffee, food, whatever's
there. Luckily, there is tons of
options. Do you acquire your foodstuffs
yourself, or do you enlist the help of a Butler, linoon, or
even quacko? Is it like a buffet like setup
or does it like do I have to place the order with the?
Yeah, it's, it's like a it's like a buffet set up and there's
two butlers and they're constantly working there.
There's like a giant kitchen island basically like the floor
plan is like completely open and like this kitchen is like larger
than like a living room more or less.
And then as it extends down, that's where like the crazy
magic carp koi fountain occurs and then giant Bay windows and
the big TV and stuff, etcetera. That is to say, yes, the island
in the kitchen is just buffet style and it loops around
clockwise. Yeah, Schmidt, like, grabs his
own plate. And then like every other item
he's sticking in his mouth. And then so he'll like, go up,
grab something, put it on his plate, grab the same thing, put
it in his mouth. Go over a little bit, grab
something, put it on his plate. Grab the same thing, put it in
his mouth. OK, so he's just kind of
hovering around the island, just eating stuff.
Chowing down. Yeah, well, he's like with the
intention of fixing himself a plate, but he's also eating the
same amount that he's putting on his plate.
Perfect. I'm assuming that Quacko is
accompanying and is probably not hungover, I'm guessing.
Yeah, I don't think Quacko drank.
The Paco is more or less assembling a gathering in the
kitchen for their morning breakfast.
Even though it's like two or three PMA, not too little green
round psychic type bird Pokémon flies up the elevator shaft
where a bronze on is usually stationed and is holding a
little note in its mouth. Who will receive this note from
not to? I can receive it.
OK, you do. So you open it up and you read
just a handwritten note. It says good morning, everyone.
Whenever you're ready, come meet us down by the gym.
We'd love to hang out and chat. And dad, it seems like you've
made a new friend that we could use definitely get a lot of good
information from. But again, take your time, rest
up. Everyone's very grateful for
everything that you've done. And it's signed by Jim Lee.
I will read it aloud to everybody.
OK, you do that. I need to send a note.
Very. Good.
Oh, to whom? The late Officer Delaney and
Brandon, I'm going to, like, find like a random piece of
paper. It could be a napkin.
It could be like the notepad paper that the hotel has.
I don't care. Sure.
Role Investigation. Oh, 16.
OK, that's pretty good. Yes, you remember that by your
night stand along with like a sinowin holy text that usually
comes in most hotel night stands.
There was also like a memo pad, which is like perfect for this
kind of thing. So you identify a pen and that
memo pad and you can write a note.
What do you write? Also if it's private you could
just tell me and not tell anyone else or you could tell everyone.
I I think everybody knows where this is going, but I'm going to
write like I need to talk to my parents at some point today.
Where can I find them? Like this is very important, it
involves the safety of the Holland region, legendary
Pokémon, yadda yadda. Very good.
Written like a typical 15 year old.
Like absolutely chaotic, poor punctuation, hand drawn emojis I
was. Going to ask, does does Cindy
use emoticons in her writing? Then I guess the answer is yes.
So yeah, she 1000% writes, like, emotes into the letter.
It's kind of chaotic, but hopefully they can get, like,
the gist of the message, like, I need to talk to my parents.
The safety of the region is at stake, yeah.
OK, you hand the note to, not to and not to.
Kind of is looking at you curiously, questioningly
awaiting second from you. Can you bring this to Officer
Delaney or Officer Brandon of the Dewford Police, wherever
they are, if you know where they are?
OK, not to pretty expressionless will lock eyes with you and it's
eyes will glow pink and it will subject you to ADC 2 wisdom safe
that you know that people often generally elect to like fail, if
that makes sense. Like this is.
This is the thing that you most people are just like OK with do.
You. Oh, Cindy has the emptiest mind.
You've discussed this already. Empty Empty head allows it to to
see who I'm trying to send it to.
Perfect. Yeah, as you predicted, as you
have lived in home for a while, you know that sometimes, while
male birds are usually really, really good at identifying, if
they don't have a photo to work off of, they may, the psychic
ones may just gently probe the minds of the people sending
letters, of which this not true does identifies Delaney and
Brandon in your mind and flies down the elevator shaft.
Great job with the note received that you know when you're ready.
Eventually Jim Lee and friends would like to hang out with you
guys out in Moss Deep. Anything else that you want to
do up here in the penthouse, the VIP suite?
Is it frowned upon to swim in the koi pond?
You could, yes. Yes, it is.
Absolutely, yeah. Cindy trying to take a dip in
the mountain. I didn't know we got a pool in
here. Cindy has never stayed anywhere
so fancy. Yes, it is quite fancy.
It's easily got to be one of the fanciest places that most of
you, maybe all of you, have ever been.
So pretty fantastic is then. We're going to try to stop Cindy
from jumping in the pond or she's just going to jump in.
Yeah, anyone may. Make some it's going to
acknowledge that's going to acknowledge that they they
didn't do that, but he's not going to physically attempt
anything to stop her. OK, cool.
What is your diving method? Do you just cannonball?
Do you just jump in? Do you step in?
Do you dive in? Is it that deep?
No, not really. Like if it's not that deep, she
probably like just like little little hop, little hop in.
OK, yeah. Are you in your PJS still?
I did take my socks off. OK, that's the only one that
mattered, so. So not jump jumping in there
with socks on. Yeah, Cindy will jump into the
pond that is made for fish Pokémon.
There's a swarm. As she enters, a swarm of
Goldene and magic carp begin to encircle her, more curious than
anything, but a couple brave magic carp are looking right at
her eyes and holding their mouths open above the water,
going goo goo and they're expecting like to be fed or
something like their mouths are above the water because they're
used to getting pellets like this.
I'm. Just going to try to like pet
them. OK, roll Pokémon handling.
This is going to go so well 14. OK, magic carp are a little
scaly, a little rough, but the one that you pet seems to at
least not be disturbed by your petting.
If you went out to pet a Goldene, you would note they're
also a little scaly, but a lot like softer and kind of
frillier, and you are careful while you are putting them to
not touch their whole time because it seems kind of sharp.
There's a circling around you. Curiously, a couple of them look
a little annoyed by the intrusion, but also they're a
little cramped in here anyways so they don't super mind your
presence. Anyone else want to get into any
trouble? I I will make a note that you
have access currently to all of your old adventuring clothes,
all of your thematic ones. These fancy suites also have in
their closets like really really gaudy stereotypical like beach
vacation floral print shirts, shorts, sandals, straw hats,
etcetera. Or you could wear some of your
old clothes for this outing. It is up to you.
We're just saying you're. Is that what we're wearing for
the final boss guys? Fancy hotel clothes matching
fancy hotel clubs. They have overalls.
Unfortunately, that is not in the standard attire.
I will. I'll let you roll an
investigation just to see the next closest thing you can get.
I got a 15. 15's pretty good. Let me think.
And I think I also mean I'm doing a little bit of research,
yeah. Lion overalls question mark.
You know, what you find is apparently the last time that
someone had been conducting maintenance on the wiring that
is part of the fountain, someone like left their overalls because
they were a maintenance worker. So they're a little, they're a
little dusty and they're not particularly seasonal, but
they're just kind of like black electrician overalls if you.
Wish perfect black overalls I want the hotel Hawaiian print
shirt OK and my black overalls that I just found like perfect.
Who knows why the electrician took off their overalls?
Yeah, when? They finish their work.
And the they got a lot done. But they did, and now they are
yours. So yeah, nice job.
OK, I think. He's 1000% changing into
whatever. Like the the cargo shorts with
the button up shirt, Like the Hawaiian shirt shirt, straw hat,
the whole 9. Yeah, despite me being 411,
these overalls fit perfectly. Yeah, yeah.
I mean. You electric is just as you you
can. You can roll the you can cuff
the bottom. Yeah, like the the legs, you can
cuff them. It's in now I.
Don't care about being in. Cindy Rola, D20. 5.
OK. There is a Berry print on the
shirt of which you recognize the three berries chosen in this
pattern to be kustap, jaboka and roap berries forming a nice kind
of reddish yellow blue pattern. And then they're on like a solid
orangish yellow background. It's got a collar.
It's got short sleeves. It's very light and floaty, Very
good. I guess that just leaves Elodie
and Schmidt. Are you going to change it to
one of your old campaign outfits or are you going to put on these
this tacky kind of hotel clothes?
Above table I have an idea for Schmidt and game outfit that
I've already had art commissioned for.
Oh hell yeah, we'll make sure that happens.
Yeah, just on table. Normally, Schmidt would jump at
the chance to wear such a bougie clothes, but Schmidt has a
newfound love for body suits. So he's just going to put that
one back on. He's just.
Going to be very. Hard to get that could flight
dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's going to put his body suit back on.
He's going to be like, man, this feels good.
I just love having it like feel like my skin.
No, that's awesome. Yeah.
Schmidt will re equip the the dive suit and it's a great fit.
It's especially worn in now that he had a long night of very
stressful activity. It seems like pretty expertly
morphed to his muscles and he likes to wear it.
So congratulations. Funny to say congratulations
after changing your outfit, but that's a.
Great job but that one. You really did it dude.
That. Incredible how much character
development? It's like a little Jingle that
plays. Yeah.
Like the end of a Mario level or something.
Right, right, right. Yeah.
Except it's actually just Cindy splashing at the fountain.
That leaves Elody. Elody, you're going back to
cowboy days, going back to the original Baker outfit.
What are you doing? I'm sure we'll have time to
change before the like, final mission, right?
But for now, I'm definitely going tacky hotel clothing.
OK perfect, I guess I should have Elody and Finley.
Also roll D20 if you want the Berry flavor to know what
berries are on your shirts. I got an 11.
OK. I got a 14.
Oh OK so you all get different combos.
Congratulations. They were they were paired up
like every few numbers. Elody gets the delightful combo
of Pineapp Pomeg and Kelpsey berries.
Pineapple Berry. Yeah, very tropical.
Pineapple kind of looks like a pineapple, but as a Berry.
Pomeg Berry is kind of a reddish orange rotund looking Berry with
a green stem. And the Kelpsey Berry is like a
long snake like looking Berry that is blue.
Gimli gets the Grepa tomato and the corn Berry shirt.
Grepa is a round yellow Berry. Tomato is a reddish orange Berry
that kind of looks like a tomato, but spiky.
And the corn Berry is like a delicate looking grape like
Berry or series of berries. I suppose it has multiple
berries that is kind of shielded in a leaf that surrounds it
protectively. So very good if if you wanted to
have that visual what those berries were on the shirts.
Now that everyone's dressed. Cindy, are you still splashing
in the pond? Are you going to call it?
Dressed and like, get ready to go.
You could just stay there all day, I mean.
The the fish. No, we got business to attend
to. We just had to be a feral
gremlin first. Yeah, that is fair.
I guess you all assemble and I will ask if you descend the
elevator shaft or do you have a different means of returning to
the center of town? How high up are we on?
No, I'll take the elevator. I'm not jumping off the balcony.
OK, Yeah, you're pretty high up. It's at least a dozen floors and
you're at the top, so pretty high.
Maybe not quite like self Comaville high, but getting
there for sure. Everyone OK with the elevator?
Does anyone want to do something creative?
I didn't mean that in a condescending way.
Yeah, you want to do something, guys?
Like, come on. That's how it came out.
You guys squares or you guys? Cool.
Yeah, it sounds like a bunch of nerds taking the elevator.
OK, OK, yeah, I'm going to take the nerd away, OK.
That's totally fine. I didn't mean to come out like
that anyway. Yeah, you press the little
button that emits like a psychic resonance and bronze on who
controls the elevator with a little platform on top of its
head, rises up quickly to your floor, and you are welcome to
get on and descend to the lobby. You do.
So give me half. You know what half.
Quacko, give me a charisma check please.
Schmidt's going to say, you know, I love this elevator.
You never have to wait a long time.
Seemingly no response. This is bronze on is not the
same bronze on that you met in Respiro City.
However, maybe it's just the emphasis you put on the word,
the stress that went under your feet as you meant to emphasize
it. There's a slight little Dingle
dangle from the bell inside of bronze on just a little bit.
I am satisfied. It's like Charisma from Quacko.
Yeah. Which Quacko has a -?
1 in Charisma but I rolled the 16th so.
It's pretty good, yeah. You all exit the elevator, and
you all also catch some glances. Employees, tourists, people of
all kinds gathered in the lobby. People are checking in.
People are checking out. People are doing their jobs.
Everyone kind of notices you. Everyone kind of.
No one goes out of their way to, like, make a big scene of it,
but you can tell that everyone has a vague idea of who you are.
And it's an unusual feeling. Do you interact with them, say
anything to them? Or do you just make your way to
the center of town? They hate us because they hate
us. So true.
I'm once again Princess waving. OK, very good.
Once LD starts Princess waving a few a few people, maybe some
more like you know, innocent children and stuff.
Also like wave not quite princessy, but more like high
kind of wave shaking their hand around maybe extra like child.
I'm trying to. How am I trying to describe
Toad? I think Toad from Mario Party is
what I'm visualizing. He waves, right?
Yeah. There's just a bunch of Toads in
here. They're all waving.
No, Probably too much description for a really subtle
action. People respond to Elodie's wave,
is what I'm trying to say. OK, Very good.
Yeah, with the attention, we'll throw up his hood, like to cover
himself and just go to meet Jim Lee and everyone else.
OK, so he's wearing his cloak with the wet suit.
Yeah. OK.
That's important for visual. OK very good.
Schmidt and Quacko will move forward a little bit.
Maybe Schmidt seeking a little bit of anonymity is going to
lead to the Packo in exiting the hotel to reunite, per the
message received from Gimli. You all exit the seaside
resorts. And again, people going about
the business, there's tourists, there's people who are checking
out the Space Center. And they're like, looking
around. They're like, oh, like what?
Like this is what happened here. Like there's some burn marks,
there's some sanitation crews that are cleaning what you can
only be assumed as some sort of biohazard in some areas because
there's like no caution tape And people wearing PPE mostly around
the Space Center. There's a few like puddly areas
where some water dripped in at some point, either surged in or
fell into the top of the telekine Dome.
And people, people are going about their days, but they're
also dressing this. And people, some, a lot of
people are just vacationing. Lots of people piled onto the
beach in chairs, children and Pokémon and are all running
about, and you all hear the familiar hoots and hollering
from the guy who jet skis following a Sharpedo.
You can hear the Sharpedo tearing circles around the
island, and you can hear the same guy going woo Hoo yeah that
you first heard when you first arrived in Masup City.
Any pit stops before you go to reunite with Jim Lee in front of
the gym? Do I hear anything from Brandon
or Delaney? You do not have a like a new
message from them and you don't see where they are.
The message hadn't been sent out too too long ago, but you can
probably assume that it was if they're around.
It was successfully delivered, it's just you haven't received a
response yet. The Packer will navigate to
where Jim Lee said that they would meet in front of the gym
and but lo and behold, there are some friends.
There is Gimli, Gimli Lodestone, Gimli son.
He is also dressed in some kind of vacationing kind of apparel.
Not quite as swanky as what you all decided to put on, but
something casual and comfortable.
He's joined by TMF, who is still donned in like full plate armor.
No one has really seen much of this guy's face, but he's just
hanging around. Champion Red is present as well,
talking to Gimli and TMF about something.
Hey and Liza are talking to citizens who are coming by.
They're clearly not running the gym right now, but they're
having some casual conversation. Nothing seems too heated.
Notably, Brandon, Delaney, Archie and Maxie are not
present. They were some folks who've been
hanging around in this area during the time of the of the
calamity, but they are not here. I think the last person in this
group who's of significance is Stephen Stone, who is just
hanging around. He is holding a handkerchief or
a cloth of some sort and he is wiping down his Metagross.
Jim Lee Will notice you all and break away from the conversation
with Red and TMF and we'll run up and approach you and he will
ask how you are all doing specifically more to his father.
He'll like check it. How are you doing, Dad?
Doing better son. Well rested, ready to go.
Very good. We, we, we couldn't wait to
catch up with and make sure you're all right.
Seems like you're all in good spirits.
That's good. Not to rush you or urge you in
anything but your, your buddy that you made yesterday, Uranus.
He he took off a little while ago.
He went to check in with our cop friends, but he was looking
forward to having a conversation with you all.
So if we hang around for just a little bit, maybe we'll come
back, or you're welcome to go down to the Mossy police station
yourself and see if you can catch him.
I have business there. OK, Jimmy, we can see if we can
catch him. Yeah, Jimmy will say very well,
yeah, go, go find him. Nothing's needed of you guys
right now. Please enjoy this day to just
rest and catch up and do what you need to do and enjoy Moss
Deep Owen's beautiful. Hope you have a great time and
let us know if you need anything with that.
I guess then the party's going to go to the the cops, huh?
Hell. Yeah.
Perfect. Such a good track record with.
It's tap time. Hey man, we have a confusing
track record. You have a confusing track
record with them. Yeah, that's fair.
That's, I think the rest of us, it's been pretty negative.
Yeah, there's a little Moss Deep kind of in the center of town.
There's a hub of some sort. It says MPD.
You could assume that's Moss Deep Police Department, a quaint
building, but not quite as quaint as Duford.
It's clearly got a bit more capacity to it.
There is our canine who is sitting around outside that is
leashed to a pole of some sort. Seems to be a waiting duty.
And you are welcome to enter. Do you all do so?
Yeah. OK, greeted Immediately.
You see Brandon and Delaney and they are having a hushed
conversation as they were looking through some plexiglass
and on the other side of the plexiglass is none other than
River and Beckett. They are in some sort of like
containment cell that isn't necessarily jail but like
they're waiting around before they are transferred to jail
perhaps. And there are individuals, Moss
Deep cops, who you have not met, who are having a conversation
with them through the glass. They are wearing really tashy
iconic prison wear, which is the black and white stripe
ensembles. It's quite funny.
Brandon and Delaney will see you come in and give you warm
greeting. Notably, Brandon is a little
shifty and avoiding eye contact with Elodie, but he has no
problem meeting the eyes of Gimli, Cindy or Schmidt or even
Quacko, because Quacko is also out and about.
Delaney will say glad you can make it.
How you all feeling? Excellent.
Delaney says that's great to hear.
Cindy, I did receive your note. What was it that you want to
address with us? So I am in possession of one of
my father's Pokémon. Delaney will say yes.
He's made that quite clear that it seems that his good for
nothing daughter has procured something that is rightfully
his. And.
His good for nothing. God.
Damn. OK.
On the topic of that, Cindy, it is in your possession now and it
puts you in a unique position. The Ultra Ball that you possess
that belonged to your father, we understand is in possession of
quite a powerful Pokémon. As far as like morality or
intended use, I think a Hoenn is in kind of a desperate situation
and we trust you and your friends.
You've done several heroic acts just for us alone, not to
mention the other residents of Hoenn.
However you see fit to use that creature, we will back you.
However, when it comes to more, let's say official elements of
that Pokémon belonging to your father's Pokeball to conduct a
legitimate transfer, they will have to will have to make a
decision in their case, which might be a little timely, might
take some time, unless you can somehow convince your father to
relinquish rights before then somehow, but based on his
temperament attitude, that seems unlikely.
Can I talk to him? You're more than welcome to
Delaney will hold a hand up as if asking to wait a moment, and
then she will close the door that leads to that chamber that
were the plexiglasses where they're talking to your parents
and then the cops will who are talking to them inside.
The mossy of cops will step outside and then Delaney will
invite you and anyone else who wants to come in to come in to
this chamber chambers. We describe it, this room that
is separated divided by a transparent glass that has one
of those classic circular like talk pieces in the middle of the
glass. Does everyone want to
participate in this conversation or do you want to keep it
private, Cindy? I mean, I'm not going to stop
anybody from joining me, but like, if they're like, yeah,
we'll hang out out here. Like that's also fine.
Okay, you can enter and anyone else can follow through, and
it's clear that Delaney will be staying in the room and Brandon
will be staying outside. Delaney will invite you and no
one will follow and Delaney will close the door.
It is just Delaney and Cindy in this room on this side of the
glass. And then River and Beckett are
on the other side of your parents.
They seem a little worn out. They seem a little distressed.
They seem a little apathetic. River is walking around, pacing.
She has a slight limp, and Beckett is sitting in what looks
to be a fairly uncomfortable kind of swiveling chair, almost
more of a stool, and he's just spinning around kind of
impatiently. It doesn't even seem that he's
recognized that you are here. Hello.
This will capture the attention of both River and Beckett.
River will look to the glass and kind of squint because you're
kind of far away and there's a glare on their side.
And then she'll just kind of shake her head and keep kind of
like pacing around and limping and Beckett will lean up close
to the glass and kind of sneer and he's like, Cindy, how nice
of you to pay us a visit. What is my adventurous,
charming, beautiful daughter doing here in Moss Deep?
Talking to me while I am detained.
Let me make one thing abundantly clear.
The only reason you're still alive is because I pulled your
ass out of the ocean out of the goodness of my heart.
Maybe your mom and I have gone on quite some expeditions in the
deep ocean. We probably would have washed up
shore would have been just fine river.
While she's pacing, she'll kind of tilt her head to the side as
she's like seems to be twitching and just a whole bunch of water
will just like dump out of her ear.
And then she'll go back upright and she'll keep fidgeting and
pacing around. Beckett will ask.
So did you come here just to just to scold me there to ask
for me to thank you for saving us?
What's your deal? As you are well aware, I have
Kayogre. Beckett will let out a sigh, and
he will say that you do. What's your plan for that beast
anyway? Well, you have two options.
You can trade him to me so he'll be officially mine, or I'm going
to release him back into the ocean while you guys rot in
jail. Roll Charisma, Intimidation
potentially. OK +3 Not too bad, Not too bad
8. OK, Beckett will kind of look at
you, consider what you said, spin around in his whirly chair
and gesture to his wife to kind of come here because we did.
And they need to have a conversation.
They're going to whisper to each other back and forth, and then
Beckett will spin around and River will stand and try and
look at you for the glass. And Beckett will say, go ahead
and release it. We'll just go catch it again.
Maybe I can to my great friend Archie.
He seems to have an affinity for a Kyogre.
Beckett will will laugh out loud.
He'll say that old Duff abandoned our whole mission ages
ago, years ago. He's not going to want anything
to do with that fish. He was out there trying to
wrestle him when you guys released him on the world.
River will say I didn't see him. That didn't happen.
I always know when Archie's around.
I didn't see AI, didn't see a single lick of them.
Yeah, you were a little preoccupied, weren't you?
You can, I want you to roll that but I don't know what it just
roll a deep money. Just roll a deep money.
OK, A2, let's go. You're so poorly.
No, it's fine. It's fine.
Your mom pulls something that it may be.
While there isn't a lot of love shared between your parents to
you, there is some sort of familial ensemble happening.
Because as you say that, she tugs on one of her cheeks to
roll down her eyelid a little bit, and she sticks out her
tongue at you in a very childlike Cindy fashion.
Is there like a paper slot through the the glass finger
now? Yeah.
You can send small small parcels through it.
Excellent. I have the photo of them OK in
my possession. Yes, you do.
From the locker, from the magma hideout.
From the locker, from the magma hideout, like, well, I've been
travelling across how and I came across this and I'll just slide
it in. Very good.
Yeah. Do you remember?
Do you have a description for that and like what it looks like
and what's going on in? The picture I just have in my
notes. Picture of parents.
Yeah. That's more or less what it is,
yeah. In their Aqua.
I'm assuming it's in their Aqua uniforms, correct?
It's just a photo of the two of them, yeah.
Yeah, they're just kind of in a gentle embrace and they're
taking a photo together. Beckett.
Both River and Beckett take a look at it.
And Beckett says is, is this some sort of blackmail?
Are you trying to leverage us with this picture?
We have copies of this. Blackmail.
I just thought you might like to have it since the person
probably took everything else you have on you.
Beckett will slide it back under the glass and he'll say, we got
plenty of these, you can keep it.
Something to remember us by. Why do I hate them?
I'm not persuasive. I'm not persuasive.
Chat help. Come on, chat.
Intimidate or violence? I can't completely threaten
violence with the police here. Oh no, you can't.
Grace has a suggestion. Yes, I mean it's not super
persuasive. I just feel like if you want to
you should RIP up the the picture like symbolically.
Like, oh you don't need it, then cool, tear it, tear it up.
OK. If that's what you do, you don't
need to make a role for that. I think they will have a quiet
troll for it though, as they are making a save currently.
OK, yeah, you do that. Beckett gives out like a sneer
and he chuckles like as if he never wanted it anyway.
You see a swipe, like a very slight tinge of sadness in your
mother's face, and then she turns around because she doesn't
dare to show you any sign of weakness.
Delaney will kind of check and be like, do you need anything?
Like do you need me to ask them something?
Is there any way I can help you? I think I'm good.
So Delaney, before we went in here, Delaney said that like
they can basically override my parents permission to give me
Kyogre or whatever, but it could take a couple days.
Basically, Long story short, you will have custody of the
Pokémon. I do literally do, and no one
has any problem with that. There is kind of a stirring,
like a little grassroots perhaps idea that there are some
citizens of Hoen who think it's wrong that Kyogre is captured.
But there's also like an opinion that it's like, well, if anyone
is going to have Kyogre, it should be someone who's here to
save us. You know, as far as like the
specifics of actually like controlling and using Kyogre.
Kyogre it it does like the way that pokeballs work is the word
I'm looking for. It doesn't arrive, but
contractually is Beckett's Pokémon.
That doesn't prevent you from using Kyogre, but it may be less
effective if it's. Not yeah, I saw the the notes.
So to make so to make that happen, it has to be conducted
like either it has, it has to be traded or like released,
relinquished via an official process that utilizes like a
Pokémon Center thing. And while your parents are
criminals and they are detained, it's one of the, the most like
respected legal practices of like consent in this process.
And if the individual can't be there, like, for example, like
for Vince Winstreet, then it's like the immediate family makes
that decision whether it is relinquished or traded.
And while criminals can often have their Pokémon taken away
from them, that is a very timely thing that can take weeks or
even months. OK, able to like lean into that
and like not lie, but like flub the the timeline a little bit.
OK, Like basically they say it's like, well if you don't trade
Kyogre to me now, that's fine because in a matter of time,
could be days, maybe a week, I'll be in custody of your
Pokémon anyway, legally through like the the police, except I
say it more eloquently. Yeah, no, you've made a great
point. Royal intimidation. 8.
Another 8. Another eight you like.
Rolling these eights again, they are seemingly not particularly
perturbed. River is not particularly
corresponding with you. And Beckett says, listen, you
threatened us before. I really don't care what you're
saying. Like we're just going to have to
be stuck in this prison system for a while and then eventually
they'll let us out and eventually we'll just get Kyogre
back. You're safer in prison than out
of prison. One more intimidation, please.
17. 17 way better Cindy accesses the fire that is distinct from
her parents aquatic tendencies and they feel it.
This is for the first time. They both look a little shook.
And Beckett is left speechless and his jaw is slightly agape
and he doesn't know how to respond.
And he takes a moment and he stammers and he says just get
out of here. It's clear you're not going to
do anything for us anyway. Just leave.
What would you have wanted me to do for you?
Nothing. You haven't been able to do
anything for us ever. There's a reason we left you
with your grandparents. I will burn everything you love
and I just walk out. Perfect.
You don't even need to roll intimidation for that.
That is a message that is well portrayed and well received.
Delaney will escort you out. The MPD will usher back in.
I guess I'll check in. In the meantime, some
simultaneous gaming Schmidt's Gimli Ality.
Standing around awkwardly with Brandon outside of the
interrogation room. Do you make any small talk?
You're just kind of hanging around.
What's going on? Brandon will do.
No, Brandon. I think Schmidt was like,
hospitalized. Good question for like that
whole. Thing right, he was getting his
arm. Replaced.
So I don't think Schmidt knows Brandon.
Yeah, he's. Going to make like awkward like
greetings is like, hey, my name is Schmidt and he's going to
like reach out for. Handshake.
Perfect. Yeah.
Which arm does Schmidt handshake with?
The non threatening 1. Was that his?
Which one is which? I always.
Forget that was his right one. OK, perfect.
Yeah, so the handshake does work in traditional sense.
Yeah. He'll reach out and give you a
nice, firm handshake. Let's roll for a handshake, as
we always do. He got a 12.
Should. We get a four.
OK, Yeah, no particular that's on this handshake.
He he was trying to gauge like how much of A grip that you
wanted to use in like is he that kind of tough guy who like needs
a relief from handshake and like, but he's a cop.
So he's surrounded by that mentality kind of.
So he goes a little too firm and he didn't realize that you were
just trying to give an earnest, genuine person, a person
handshake. And he feels a little
embarrassed by it, but he introduces himself.
He says I am Brandon. I'm from Dufer.
I don't think we met, but I've I've seen your your feets, I've
seen what you can do. Pretty cool stuff.
Thanks. Yeah, so glad you guys are all
OK. Just kind of awkwardly stand
around for a second. Perfect it is.
Awkward it is. Like so are you from around here
or? Yeah, he'll, he'll say.
Actually came from Duford. Delaney and I just came over
here because there's not really a whole lot going on in Duford
right now and. Duford yeah, right.
Yeah. Yeah.
Come here often, I. Heard about that he's.
He's creeping on my man. Sorry, come here often.
Yeah. Does anyone else join the
conversation or are we going to let Schmidt and Brandon continue
to small talk? Either it's kind of like after
every word that's said, there's just like an awkward silence
that hangs. Yeah, yeah, before like the next
person. Says something, so there's
plenty of time to butt it. Yeah, exactly.
Exactly. I will say to Brandon, I don't
know if you got my letter, but we really appreciate you taking
care of Deez Nuts. Oh.
God, I could not laugh. Yeah, sorry.
Is that your whole statement? Yeah, that's the whole
statement, OK. Roll.
I don't know. I guess Charisma like, I don't,
I don't really know. OK, give me a roll.
Schmidt's going to look at Gimli, like, kind of sensing the
tension and be like, do I need to, oh, yeah, do I?
Do I need to go? I think I'm just going to go.
And he'll like, excuse himself from that conversation.
That was a natural 2 to A7. Oh wow, it's.
So bad. No, it's you're.
Fine, don't worry, it's the charisma caster getting a A2.
Right, right. Any who, yeah, Brandon will just
kind of like shift awkwardly. He'd like pans do you a little
bit, but like he doesn't face his body to you like fully.
He's like cheating at the side. He says, Oh yeah, I got your
letter. Thank you.
Yeah, no problem. It's a nice boat.
Surprised that it didn't take much damage from the incident.
But you know, the when you guys came to town, it did took quite
a bit of damage. But it's it's in pretty good
shape. If you ever come back to do for
it, it's it'll be there for you. You guys own that boat, right?
That like all that damage that's not like on a.
Rent. No, we rented it.
We rented that boat, yeah.
Brandon will say, well, I mean, it still works, but it's it's
going to be a kind of, it's got some parts that don't quite
match anymore. So you might have to explain
that. Or maybe they just don't notice.
Maybe you get lucky, who knows? Or maybe you just tell them that
you are heroes and then they give you the hero discount.
You think we're heroes? Do we leave a deposit?
Do you think we'll get our deposit back?
Two questions, both of different weights from.
He's going to make a roll to see how he reacts.
Okay, yeah, Elodie asked that question.
He looks at Elodie. He turns beet red.
He is blushing. He, he looks around, he says,
well, you know, I came into the force because I wanted to make a
difference. And then I see adventures like
you guys and just remind me that, you know, you're never too
old to be an adventurer and you go and save the world multiple
times doing all the stuff. And I'm, it's just, it's really
impressive. That's all I have to say.
And he pans quickly, still embarrassed to answer Schmidt's
question. Schmidt.
Like stops him before he says anything.
He's starts slinking back. He's like, I'm, I'm not in this
conversation. I'm I'm out of here.
He. Will y'all y'all do what y'all
do? I'm gone, I'm gone.
Just ignore me, I'm not here. He is desperate to like, not
look at Ellie anymore, so he's just going to shout as you're
leaving, like you might get your deposit back if you ask really
nicely, and then he'll turn and look at Gimli and just give an
awkward wave. It just I just also like shipped
out like this is not not getting you out of this one, but.
OK. Hey, Gimel, you want to go check
out what's going on outside? I know there's something cold.
Outside. Of it, yeah.
Oh, no. So yeah, Brandon, shy and
embarrassed, not really looking at LED, just kind of tapping his
foot, waiting. He looks at his wrist where a
watch would be if he wore 1. And then he says, gosh, what do
you think they're talking about? When do you think they're going
to leave? Yeah, I mean, Cindy's probably
threatening them, but you know, they, they did some pretty
fucked up stuff to her so that I think, I think it's definitely
warranted. I don't know, she's usually
pretty quick about things that shouldn't be too long.
Oh, yeah, I, you know, I'm really, I'm really big on
justice. If if if Cindy wanted to say
some things that got them in the right mindset to stop his life
of crime, then I'd be all for that.
I would be all for that. He is clearly feeling a little
awkward. If you don't have anything else
to say to him, we can usher Cindy exiting the the Inquisitor
chamber if you wish. I will say one more thing, OK,
which is that I think, you know, you and Delaney are kind of
heroes too, for stepping up and trying to help the people of
Moss Deep after what happened in Duford and and in Duford as
well. Honestly, you guys are, I think
you guys are paragons of justice and that's really cool.
Wow, roll a perception. A perception I need a new dice.
Make sure you tuck one one of your hairs behind your ear when
you say that. Look down a little bit and
point, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Got to put the moves on if you got. 12.
Perfect. I wanted 11.
You can hear Brandon heartbeat from where you're standing, from
what you you just call him the paragon of justice.
And that's like his whole fantasy.
So. And then immediately as he's
about to say something to you, Delaney opens the door and
Delaney and Cindy exits. And Cindy looks a little fumed
for sure with your perception. You also notice that there's
little scraps of photograph on the ground from where they are
coming out from. Cindy has joined the
conversation. Do you have anything to say,
Cindy? Hey you 2 should kiss.
Brandon's very like he's frozen in.
Fear. Yeah, dude.
Oh, hey, Cindy, we're checking out this cool thing outside.
Why don't you come outside with us?
And then Schmidt starts like pointing at clouds.
He's like, you think that cloud looks more like a vault or an
electrode. I.
Think after dropping that banger, Line said.
He's going to be like finger guns and like dip.
Very good I guess. That's so funny.
The question is in the players agency.
It's an Elodie's court. Do you want to kiss Brandon?
What I mean, what is he doing? What was his reaction?
Like he roll insight? 17.
Yeah, he he likes you, but he's nervous and shy about it, and
he's still a little distrusting because of the whole Sarah
thing. Right.
That's fair. I will if it seems like that's
OK with him. I will give him a kiss on the
cheek. Perfect.
Yes, there is consent there. Charisma with advantage.
Yippee my. God, you're rising him up.
I'm rising him up, baby. That's an 18.
Perfect. LD gives him a little smooch,
and as her lips connect, a visible little cartoon heart
emerges and whoop and just floats into the sky.
Just really briefly. And he is redder than ever
before. And he shifts and he realizes
that his boss, Delaney, is here. And he looks at her and and he
asks, how did it go? Is there anything I can do for
you? Do you any reports written?
And he is very appreciative. And you can tell in his eyes
that he thought that was a very sweet gesture.
OK. I will say see you later and
then I will leave. OK.
As you leave, Delaney will kind of give you a funny look and
then begin like issuing really basic report details to Brandon.
Very good. You go outside and you see
Schmidt and Cindy and Gimli looking at the sky.
What are they doing? They're we're not looking at the
sky at all. They all had their ears to the
door. Oh, OK, OK.
They're trying to eavesdrop on this conversation.
OK, in that case all three of you make me a deck safe please
DC12O. Fuck yeah Nat 20 baby.
She's been as stealthy as shit. I have 4:00 8.
OK, Schmidt with his honed reflexes from his dracon and
ancestors as the door begins to jostle whatsoever he like tucks
into a dive and his cloak goes over his head and he rolls and
dips and dashes away and he's gone.
He's like absolutely could be anywhere at the moment.
Cindy and Gimli just fall forward as the door swings open
inwards. They fall on their heads as as
Elodie opens the door. Elodie, are you going to help
them up? Yeah, I'll shake my heads with
them and then I'll help them up. OK, very good.
Schmidt. I just wanted to give you some
flavor for your crit. You can be wherever you want or
you can be in the shadow realm. That's fine.
They're like an awning above the door.
Yeah, there is. Like you'd be like hanging out
above the door. OK, perfect.
Yeah, It's like a split second. He managed to hoist his way up
on top of the awning that hangs over.
It's where the sign is that says MPD.
And no one notices you. Like no one knows you are there.
All anyone knows is that you've disappeared.
Do you do anything from this vantage point?
Hey. He'll spy for a minute and then
like he'll wait for a moment to chime in.
OK. I'll I'll be like, where'd
Schmidt go? I don't know, he was literally
just here. Weird, weird.
Probably something to do, you know?
Schmidt's head pops up from under the awning.
He's like, yeah, that's super weird.
My. God.
As this happens, who turns the corner to address the party?
None other than former Neo Rocket Galactic admin Uranus.
He spins around from the side of the building.
He sees Schmidt hanging from the top, and he says that's not
unusual. Hey Paco, how'd you all sleep?
Excellent. Yeah, pretty good.
Yeah, don't, don't mind. He will hold up his hand and
kind of an affirmation style way and he says, I know we talked
briefly yesterday during all the calamity, but I wanted to
reiterate that at this time and forever more, we are not
enemies. We have a common goal and I'm
here to help you however you see fit.
All that being said, I think it might be a good idea if we find
some place to sit down and have a chat.
What do you guys think? Schmidt jumps from off the roof
and his face is like Schmidt has gone from, like, joking,
playful, whatever. Like Schmidt is dead serious
now. He looks like.
Yeah, I think we do need to. Have a chat?
Very good. I just threatened my parents
with physical violence. We're all, we're all having a
very different day despite spending it all together.
Yuri will say very well, where would you like to go?
We could hang out on the rocky beach.
Unless you guys know like a good social place to hang out in mos
deep city. Or we could just hang around.
We could probably use the police station.
What do you think? There is.
Mr. Mimosas is bumping. Yeah, there is mimosas.
Yuri will be like, you know, I could probably go for Mimosa.
Sure, let's go. Let's go check it out.
Is everyone in on Mimosas Round 4?
Is it round? Four round four.
I think this is only the third time we've been to 1.
Might be free, might be 3. Oh yeah, Mr. Mimosa is.
Likely keeping this place open though.
No, it, it seems Mr. Mimosa's, despite being pretty close to
the Space Center, didn't sustain any serious damage.
And the mimes are in there, they're working it up.
They're they're they're Mimosa in a way.
Mimosa in a way. It is fairly busy.
It's just about as busy as it was the day before.
Despite much more people being in town.
You don't recognize any particular citizens who you saw
before when you were in here, and there's seems like a
perfectly set up table for the lot of you to sit and discuss.
Or you could all sit at a relatively open mimosa bar.
What is your selection? I feel like a table makes the
most sense since we're having a conversation.
Like a booth on the corner, yeah.
Yeah. OK, Yeah, sure.
Yeah, we can say there's a booth.
Mimosas is generally kind of pink and orange themed because
Mr. Mime is pink and mimosas are orange.
And so you find yourself in a booth that has those kind of
ridiculous, obscene colors that would be very clashing if it
there wasn't also so much white present in the theming, which
instead gives it kind of a candy pop kind of fun vibe.
You'll slide into the booth. This is a very important
question. There are five of you.
What is our seating arrangement? Yuri will always be on the
outside. How are we splitting up?
Three and two, four and one. What's the?
However, Yuri said Schmidt is directly opposite from them.
OK cool. Does anyone want the wall or I
guess window? I'll take the window seat.
OK, Cindy could take the other window seat, like across from
Melody. Perfect.
And then I guess that begs the question, Schmidt or Gimli,
which you guys could all get on the LED side or the Cindy side.
I just want the visual here. Yeah, I'll send the Cindy side.
OK, great, Schmidt. And you want to be across
mirrors or wherever he pops, right?
Yep, Yuri's more. Familiar.
I want to be looking him down. Like straight down.
Perfect. Yuri knows Gimli the best out of
you, which isn't saying much, but he was both obliterated by
Gimli and was the first person he talked to after, you know,
the incident. So he'll slide in next to Gimli,
and he will. And then Schmidt will sit next
to Elodie in the booth, and Mr. Mime will walk up and do a very
elaborate kind of miming of basically asking the question
with his fingers. How many mimosas would you like
to order? Schmidt like is still like, not
like his eyes never leave Yuri. Like he is staring this
motherfucker down and he'll just say like just water for me.
Oh. God damn.
Serious. Cindy attempts to order a
mimosa. Oh my God.
Yeah, roll me a. Deception.
She can. She can have a mimosa as a
treat. Well, she's.
Still deception, you say? Yes, it's.
A point Mint normally would say no, but he is too focused to
stop. What did you get?
If I'm counting correctly at 26. Oh geez, yeah, Mr. Mime doesn't
question it at all. Ellie Gimli.
Yeah, I'll have limo set and in order, in order of those
Oracorio pancakes as well, please.
Of course he doesn't say that, but he nots.
Oh, pancakes. Oh, great.
OK, yeah, Oracorio pancakes. I'll just have a water though.
Mr. Mime will collect all this information, he will mind that
he's writing it down in a notebook that he does not
actually have, and then he will strut away and hopefully bring
those mouse as soon. They have disco fries, sorry.
Probably. Would you like to order some?
Hell yeah. Yeah, Mr. Mime will collect the
order of unique Koenian poutine style fries, and we'll bring
those out in a moment. But before then, Yuri will sit
down. He notices the relentless gaze
from Schmidt. But he will kind of try and
address everyone equally. He will say, I've talked to
Gimli a little bit already. But the long, the short of it
is, I can help you all. I have lots of energy, insider
information. I have a feeling pretty clear
idea of what they're going to be doing for their final ambition,
and I want to help you all prepare for that.
And in exchange, Gimli mentioned that he would do my best to help
me get my vascular legion back, just as a sign of trust.
And before we could dive into any conversations, I want to
know, does anyone have any kind of immediate questions for me
about myself or about energy that I can use to prove my
loyalty to you all? Tell me everything you know
about Artemis. And Schmidt will like, flash his
gun a little bit too. He'll be like choose your next
words carefully. Holy shit.
Oh no. Use intimidation please.
Oh my God, Schmidt has a 0 modifier in charisma but he
rolled in 18. OK, that sounds about right for
the Canon. Yeah, Yuri was not.
He was expecting some hostility, but maybe not, like, the threat
of of his life in this way. And he will start to, like, put
his hands up a little cautiously off the table.
But then he realizes he's in public.
He doesn't need to do that. So he clears his throat and he
says, OK, yeah, Artemis, Big boss, where do we start?
Well, I was recruited from Galactic back when Galactic was
Galactic, before we sought our initial ambition and our leader,
Cyrus was brought to another universe.
Theoretically, I believe in many other former Galactic operatives
believe that the universe that he arrived in has been created
to become the perfect universe. And the goal of NRG now is using
the resources from Team Rocket to make that universe the same
as the one that we exist in. There's no way to prove this
because clearly we don't get in touch with Cyrus.
We don't know what's going on with Cyrus.
Anyways, I bring that up because shortly after Cyrus was lost to
this other universe, a young girl by the name of Artemis
started coming around and hang out with our boss.
Our boss at the time was none other than Giovanni, the
original head honcho of Team Rocket.
Apparently, before Cyrus had committed his mission, Cyrus and
Giovanni had some talks and they decided that regardless of what
happened that they would work together to see Cyrus's plan to
fruition. Using Giovanni's immense
resources from Canto, Giovanni would take Artemis around, I
guess as of some sort of parenting.
I understand that he wasn't her real father, but that rather he
adopted her. And Giovanni had a boy too, but
he was a little more unruly. He didn't.
He was more rebellious and a little bit older.
I don't believe that they were actually related.
I believe that the boy was his child and Artemis was his
adopted child, but that doesn't really make a difference in the
context here. Giovanni would take Artemis
around. She seemed pretty innocent.
She'd like to talk to the Pokémon that we're being
experimented on. Seems that like she brought some
spirits, some good spirits to the scientific work that was
happening. That was frankly, in hindsight,
in retrospect, pretty evil, pretty disastrous, pretty
demented. And for a while she just kind of
grew up in that environment. Later on, eventually later down
the line when she became working age, Giovanni helped her get
some pretty good jobs. I understand she was working for
Selfco for a while and they arranged this secret deal where
Selfco would provide technology support and hardware to Rocket
and then in exchange to Neo Rocket Galactic.
A lot of cheap funding for equipment in manufacturing came
from Selfco, and that was partially because of Artemis's
job position that she obtained with Giovanni's help.
She worked an honest job at the time.
She wasn't involved in Neo Rocket Galactic when she was
working at Selfco at all, but she did keep a Pokémon with her.
No one knew any specifics about it.
Maybe you guys know more. There was a Pokémon that she had
abducted from the laboratory, the NRG laboratory.
She received some sort of scolding from Giovanni about it,
but at the end of the day, he decided to let her keep it,
which was a little unusual. Anyways, moving on from there,
unfortunately, one day, Giovanni passed.
There's a lot of rumors about what caused this.
Some fanatics and energy. Some of the lower grunts believe
that he was assassinated, some believe that one of his children
did it. I don't have any particular
leads on that, but what I do know happened is that in his
will, he elected his adopted daughter Artemis to become the
new commander. She became so only a matter of
months ago, and since then she's been running Neo Rocket
Galactic. I'm not sure what else to say
about that. She's a pretty good leader.
Some people don't fully trust her judgement, some people think
that she has some ulterior motives.
Honestly, she can't just let the admins like do our job.
She never interfered much, she's a little dodgy sometimes she can
be like hard to sit down with. But for all I know she respects
Giovanni's ambitions and the jobs are happening so can't
really report on anything else other than that.
You have specific questions for me regarding Commander Artemis.
When is the last time you've heard from her?
He will think and he will say the last time I heard from her
was during the mission to siege Masti.
Clearly, the last time I saw her in person was probably, gosh, a
month ago. I've been receiving missives and
notes from her and we've been talking over digital
communications, but I don't think I've seen her in person in
quite a while. Artemis Sumatra.
Yeah. Yeah, honey, keep.
Yeah. I'm asking that as Cindy because
Cindy would be finally putting this together.
What, like just like was really? In character, though, all of us
just like yes. Yeah.
Obviously, as everyone affirms Cindy's revelation, Mr. Mime
comes by with all the mimosas and the waters and the fries and
the pancakes for everyone who ordered them.
It will interrupt the conversation for sure.
Thankfully, Yuri was like at a cadence.
But no one will speak unless you guys want to when the mime is
dropping stuff off. Because what Yuri's discussing
is a little private, a little confidential.
Does anyone say anything to the MIME?
Thank you. Thank you.
OK. Don Swartz and Drampa and the
Quacko Packo do not support underage drinking.
Please abide by the laws in the country.
Very good. Thank you.
That's very important. Very good, Very good.
Good disclaimer. Yes, guy, accept.
The camera and. He.
Says that hey, who do you want to play a character?
While I play a character who is 15, I am an adult.
It's true. What do they do?
What are they talking about? Who are they talking to?
So Uranus has been like looking around while he tells everything
he knows about Artemis to everyone at the table, but as he
ends he looks at Schmidt and he's like asks is that is there
anything else I can provide for you regarding Artemis?
Schmidt say he would kind of just turn back to to his friends
and be like, so we know nothing more about her.
We still don't know if she's alive.
We've seen Cass. I mean, we saw.
That vision from Mewtwo and she was alive in that vision.
Was she? We saw it from her perspective,
right? And the message that we heard
yesterday. Should we explain to Yuri that
she got shot in the face? Yeah, yeah.
So who you know as Artemis we knew as Symetra and she was with
us in Meteor Falls when Deoxys came down and she got her
fucking ass blasted by him. Well, it was her face.
It was her face. Face but.
Same, yes. This is news to Yuri.
He was like kind of listening. Like he understood, OK, she had
a code name, sure, whatever. He keeps listening.
And the thing that really gets him is Deoxys, he says.
What about Deoxys? He doesn't even care about
Sumetra at this point, he says. You we should probably.
Not have said that we fucking beat Deoxys.
It's fine. You don't have to worry about
it, we're told. To tell nobody about this, and
we've probably told so many people.
Yeah, just like the the the the rock I keep in my backpack.
We've told everybody. We're not telling Yuri about
that now. Oh my God.
I. Think he already knows, I think.
I think he already knows. Do you know about?
By rock. Oh God, I think.
That's why I hate. So much for Yuri to respond to
here. Yuri will be a little taken
aback about Deoxys, but he'll try to move past it.
He'll say. I had no idea that Artemis was
injured. That surprises me.
It seems like she's been commanding perfectly fine for
quite some time, ever since she took over.
Nothing seems to have particularly changed except I
haven't seen much of her, but maybe that has something to do
with what you've described is that she's sustained a
significant injury. Right.
Where are you? Where are you getting orders
from exactly? Yuri will say, well, sometimes
we get missives in a digital format, like I'd like a e-mail
communication. Sometimes we receive a call.
We have communication pagers that we all wore on while we
were on our work sites and at the mothership.
And but now that you say, yeah, I haven't seen her face in a
while. Do they know that you have
turncoat? Did.
Yuri will take a sip of a mimosa and he'll lean back a bit.
He'll kind of sink into the booth a bit and he'll say it's
probably pretty clear. I mean, they expected me on the
shuttle. I didn't go on.
So I, you know, I think they understand that I've abandoned
my post. I have a feeling.
Actually I'll have your pager. Yuri will say I do, and he'll
pull it out of his pocket. It's like a little like
something that's supposed to be strapped onto like your wrist or
your arm or something. And he puts on the table and he
says unfortunately in the calamity of what happened last
night, it's been damaged and you can see that it seems to be non
functioning. God, Rick, I was going to start
trolling. Well.
Try to get information first but.
Fair. Oh no, trolling is the right
approach to this situation. He's going to do a little.
Did Yuri get my letter? Oh God, we're sorry about that.
I'm not. Yuri says.
You'd actually be surprised how much kind of to use your word
troll mail that our team has received it get.
It didn't go straight to me. It gets gets filtered to like a
male, a male like, you know, it has to sort through to see if
there's any like weapons or bombs or other things being sent
to us. And so I think someone probably
picked it up and most things get read before I even received
them. So I got a note that I got a
nasty piece of mail, but I didn't hear anything else about
that. So thank you for telling me that
was you I guess. Damn.
It to answer your other question, yes, we are fully
aware of your possession of the Atlas Stone and we knew that
Artemis was also keenly aware of it as well we would be asking
For more information such as you know what's our next plan of
action to obtain this we've had several attempts and they
haven't succeeded why are we being so stealthy about it and
Artemis always would just give the directive that she had a
plan and that she knew what was happening so we never challenged
it we never questioned it she. Was using it behind our backs.
Is that so? I guess I would explain where we
got all of our random Intel from her.
All of a sudden, she seemed to know the location of every
artifact that we needed. So what are you using those
plates for? Yuri will think for a second,
he'll clear his throat, he'll take another sip of Mimosa, and
he'll say, well, the back. When Cyrus initially attempted
this ambition to create a new perfect universe, we use the
ancient histories, legends, mythical beings of Sino to
create a portal to another world, another universe of which
Cyrus entered and never came back.
To do so, we had to use some ancient powerful artifacts.
We did so, and we created this tool known as the Red Chain
using the lake spirits of Sino. We sent Cyrus to the other world
and we have been unable to get him back.
Our historians and theologians have been researching endlessly
to find another way to retrieve Master Cyrus.
And what they discovered was utilizing these rare artifacts
known as plates, The assembly of them or you know, we were aiming
to to physically obtain all of them.
But our scientists, namely Cloris, have discovered ways to,
what's the word, artificially create their power.
So we, so I keep saying we, I'm not with Neo Rocky Galactic
anymore. By the time I have left Neo
Rocky Galactic, everyone in the team was confident that's with
the tools that we currently have, that we would be able to
once again access this other universe.
And the goal would be to retrieve Cyrus and create this
universe to be the same as the one that Cyrus has created in
his world. I'm not going to lie, can I?
That's really stupid. Can I, can I ask the DM if I
need to make an insight check that that is fair?
Yeah, that's absolutely fair. Was that your mistake saying I'm
not with Neil or Arctic Galactic anymore?
Or is that something I need to insight with Schmidt?
You could insight it. I was trying to role play for
Yuri. You're welcome to insight it.
That would be a great thing to insight.
If that's what Yuri said honestly, then that is.
I definitely want to insight that.
OK, I want to see if this is a triple triple agent situation
with the modifier that is 16. 16's pretty good.
Based on everything that Yuri's been telling you, all this
intelligence that he's been sharing, it's pretty clear that
he is like he does not work for near Rocket Galactic and he
doesn't have the intention of working for them in the future.
Like his allegiances have been cut.
His focus is his fish. His best Allegiant has been
taken from him despite to the promise that it wouldn't be, and
that upsets him. So that is why he's aiding you
at this point. I just need to discuss them out
for myself. We're good.
That's fair. Yuri will catch Schmidt's
discerning gaze and say, Listen, it's a hard habit to break.
I was with Neo Rocket Galactic the whole time, then I was with
Galactic another 10 years before that, so I understand if you're
a little concerned. I really just want my fish back.
All right, all right, all right. Yuri will say.
I know that's not all the details.
I've been giving you quite a bit information, but do you have any
more specific questions? I can help answer some things
for you before we get really into battle strategy.
Well, did you guys know that if you needed all the plates to
generate whatever you were trying to generate?
Yuri says, well, originally that was the aim, that was the goal.
And then, you know, a little bit into our operation, once team
near Rocky Galactic became public, it became observed that
one, some of these plates are being guarded by, we don't have
words for them, but Guardian Pokémon that are particularly
difficult to defeat. And two, apparently some
vigilantes that we came to know as the Quacko Packo began to
collect them for themselves. In fact, they infiltrated our
most primary mission after the siege of Lily Cove to obtain the
Atlas Stone from an old witch, which was critical to the whole
outline of the mission, which we immediately failed but Artemis
insisted was fine, so we continued on.
I was given the Atlas Stone. We didn't take it from anybody.
Yuri Seza, I will take note of that.
I'm trustworthy, the witch. Trust me, a child over you.
Standard Pokémon stuff, honestly.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, if I was going to trust anybody, it
would. Standard RPG stuff.
True. Does Cindy be unhinged and ask
about her parents? I mean we got most of the
information, but I think I just want to do it just for fun.
I think, yeah, that that that arc has already ended.
You can. It's up to you, Cindy.
Do what you want. I'll just see what Yuri knows,
because maybe, I mean maybe his interactions weren't there, were
different than other people's. Sure you will say.
Oh yeah, River and Beckett. Yeah, they they must have been
like the top three agents that we had the most write ups for.
They were always breaking dress code.
They were always going off on their own missions.
We would put them on assignment and they disappear for days.
They were no strangers to the NRG discipline system.
Maybe the most worthless recruits that NRG ever saw.
Yeah, why didn't you guys keep them?
Doesn't make. Sense there was a strange
loophole with acquiring the Magma and Aqua grunts.
There was some sort of condition made.
I wasn't part of that deal, unfortunately, but when Archie
and Maxi dissolved their teams, Galactic kind of swooped in and
made some arrangements. And I guess part of the deal was
that if any former Aqua or Magma grunts really wanted to be
included, then that we would offer them work.
That was really what it came down to.
Yeah, they are pretty useless, huh?
Yuri nods. I told them I would burn
everything they love. Did they have anything they
love? Didn't.
That you know of, that I might not know of.
Yuri will say, well, they certainly loved each other and
they loved Kyogre and I think that was about it and.
You're gonna have a tough time burning.
Kyogre I think no. I think you know what you need
to do, Cindy. Burn them again.
Yes. Probably.
I mean, I did tell them they were safer.
Yeah, I did tell them they were safer in jail than out of jail.
So I think they they understood. Yuri will ask any other
questions about any NRG Intel that you feel like might help
you in stopping them once and for all.
What are the weak points on the blimps?
Here will say honestly, they don't really have them.
If they're in the air and you can't get on board, there's
they're very difficult to take down.
If they are stationed, if they are parked or if you're able to
get inside somehow, there's definitely some vulnerabilities.
Really just the classic engineering room.
Just get to the engines, blow them up, blah, blah, blah.
Be careful about who's inside. Certainly there are captives on
all of them, but the most high security captives are on the
main mothership, which is the Renegade.
Blowing up engines is easy. Yuri says yeah, surprisingly so
as he continues to drink his mimosa.
This is a general game plan. Let's not blow engines up until
we get our PO WS out of there, you know?
Why? Good idea.
Don't just say fine, your grandparents are one of those
people. You believe the wife is in
there. Right.
We got some more people on there like.
I agreed. I yeah, like like a child would
agree with Hoff. She is a child, so.
I know, but you think she would grow up a little bit at this
point with all this shit she's been exposed to, especially with
her grandparents involved? That's crazy.
Yeah. Don't my grandparents on this
blimp, Well, they're old anyway. Like, what?
What are we doing? They've.
Reached the end of that much longer anyways.
Yeah, they were. They were.
We've got to check it out so. Yuri will ask one more time if
any specific Intel before he dives into the most critical
parts of the final encounter. Do we have any more loose ends
with NRG? This is Jacob asking the group.
What's Radha's book club book this month?
Sydney would know that. Give me a moment.
It's gotta be one of those. OK, no, he's got it.
He's got it, Yuri will say. What's funny is that I actually
get those digital newsletters, but I don't actually participate
in the club. Radha loves it.
The one for this month is a story about two ruined maniacs
who fall in love. It's called unsafety goggles.
Oh, I'm going to write that down.
Check out at the library later, I think.
I know, I know. Schmidt I don't think has told
the party about this, but just as a reminder to Jacob about
Nick being in NRG, if he wants more to tell about that I.
Don't give a fuck about that guy.
OK, fair enough. We also do have that notebook
from the dead guy in the Reggie Rock.
Oh, does it have any other stuff in it?
There was, yeah, there was some notes that we didn't decode, I
believe, but I'm trying to find it.
Oh, here it is. Oh, we could just like, pull out
the notebook. Right, right, right, right.
Right. Maybe I'm wrong.
Artemis Pro. Maybe.
Artemis Protocol might have been the only thing actually an Abra.
Abra. Did we ever find out what that
stands for? I don't think so do.
You want to review the notebook with Yuri.
Yeah, yeah. OK, he will take a look and
he'll look at each item 1 by 1. Some of the things are a little
mundane. There's that To Do List, which
again says train up Niketa, send secret love letter to Callisto
and Yuri will comment, Oh yeah, all the grunts just fall in love
with her. It's ridiculous.
Something about the eye patch. Figure out how to involve
Niketa, get some malasadas from Lola Mart, etcetera.
He will continue reading and he'll say, Oh yeah, the desert
ruins mission. I was really glad that I wasn't
put in charge of that one. It seemed people kept
disappearing. Seemed pretty mysterious.
Didn't want any part of that. He'll keep reading.
New uniform voting. Yeah.
We decided to keep the classic uniforms.
I think it was a mistake. I think there's some pretty cool
looking options with a little bit more color.
But, you know, team NRG grunts. B Team NRG grunts.
I suppose you will continue reading.
He'll say, oh, yeah, this describes you.
You probably caught that. But redhead, teenage girl, cocky
d'otone man, etcetera. That's Quacko Paco.
There were misses on you guys. There was debriefs talking about
if if you weren't assigned to confront the Quacko Paco, then
you shouldn't. And I think for the most part
everyone respected that. But yeah, you guys riled up
quite a bit of grunts. They really wanted to take you
down as like a sign of their competence and wanted to get a
promotion. Let's see, reported sightings,
Abra. Yeah.
So energy employs these super powerful, like Chorus has
designed the these fascinating experiments, which all harness
this phenomenon known as Infinity energy, which is, in
fact, critical to energy's entire mission.
And a lot of people believe that's how Cyrus and Giovanni
even came up with the moniker NRG because it was a pun for
energy. Infinity Energy is kind of what
it comes down to. The Red Chain and the Atlas
Stone and everything surrounds everything revolves around
Infinity energy. All of these psycho type
reconnaissance Pokémon were loaned from Giovanni from long
time ago. Even pregalactic Giovanni had
come into contact with the Psychic Plate.
Psychic Plate was pretty significant in the research and
creation of MU Two in the first place.
It was first in being held by the Gym leader.
Sabrina and Giovanni stole it. So we've all of our initial
research about Infinity energy started with psychic types.
So for the longest time we've had mostly psychic types at our
disposal. That being said, Abras,
Cadabras, and Alakazam's were particularly assigned to
reconnaissance. So we had those Pokémon
conducting just, you know, teleporting around, tracking our
enemies, namely the Quacko Packo.
Sometimes they're not incredibly distinct, sometimes the
teleport. And as they trigger their
psychic abilities to record what they're watching, their eyes
will glow red. And unfortunately, that's been
something that, you know, the older models, we will say the
earlier experiments of those Pokémon was something that that
wasn't able to be filtered out. That was just a feature of those
Pokémon. So that gives away the
reconnaissance a bit. But if you ever felt like you're
being watched or followed, it's probably an abra or a Cadabra.
Motherfucker, that's probably. Every single failed perception
check. Yeah, I think Schmidt actually
caught a glimpse of, didn't you say, like a yellow weird cat
figure at Mimosas? Yeah.
Yeah, I feel like that's happened a couple times.
My God. Wow, he'll.
Hell yeah. Continue reading and he'll see
that Artemis protocol in the notebook is like scribbled and
underlined in circle over and over again.
And he says, yeah, Artemis protocol given by Artemis.
The instruction was to, regardless of mission
assignments, procure as many ghost types as possible.
This was a missive from Artemis that apparently came from coal
risk. Coal risk is our head scientist
who's conducting all of our Infinity energy research.
Apparently it's imperative to this final mission to reunite
with Cyrus. I'm not certain of the
specifics. You'd have to ask Horace about
that, but I'm sure none of you know how to get a hold of him,
do you? Do we?
Above table Jacob was looking at Grace.
Well, he is on the moon. You're gonna say, oh, he's still
there. The the original plan was to
just to harvest the artifact and then return to.
Harvest the artifact. Yeah, harvest the artifact.
Yeah, the the the favorite. I believe is right.
There's the right. Mythological name.
That's what we have. Oh, sick.
Day. Yuri will say how?
How did you do that? I went to space in your stead
and I acquired it, and I may have left without them.
And the ship may be so damaged that they may need to stay there
for a year in order to get enough fuel to come back.
Yuri will take this information in.
He'll say, wow, I had no idea. I'm just so glad I didn't end up
on that rocket. I guess that the good news then
is that if you have the artefact, maybe they will not
demolition it. I mean, we'll see.
Their first plan was to make the bomb.
Did they successfully do that? The bomb may have been destroyed
by a roaming gang of Clefairies. Yuri will say, ah, now that I'm
not in Neo Rocket Galactic, I think that's actually the better
outcome, so good work. I agree there was a bomb on the
rocket. I believe so, yes.
Yuri will clarify. Not like a physical bomb that's
ready to blow immediately. It was more of Chorus's mad
research that discovered that capsulated Infinity energy can
be channeled through a mechanism that can turn it into an
incredibly explosive bomb. So rather than thinking we had
all one bomb on the the ship itself, if you had successfully
exploded the whole ship, it wouldn't have detonated the
bomb, so to speak, because the Infinity energy wasn't channeled
through the machine, but the machine was to be built on the
surface of the moon and then use the Infinity energy to
demolition it. However, we don't have to worry
about that, so that's great. Can we use like Mission Control
here in Moss Deep to communicate with the spaceship?
Why would we need to? Well, if we if we need an info
from Cole Rest, I guess he probably wouldn't be very
forthcoming about it. You're takes us that, he says if
you somehow sabotage his means of returning to the planet in
time for the final mission, he will not give you any
information. That might have been me.
That's fair enough. Yeah, it was definitely mostly
Cindy's fault. I used a lot of fire.
It was definitely, almost certainly probably Cindy's fault
that the ship ended up that way. I used.
A lot of fire. Yep, Cindy's fault.
Absolutely. Listen, I'll load.
I'll load up to my fire problem, my pyromaniac tendencies.
Yeah, OK. I mean that.
That's all I have, I think. He will say before we dive into
it, one more thing I thought I'd mention.
I don't know if any of you would happen to know about this.
There's a rumor going around NRG ranks that the day of this
mission, artist Artemis's mother would be present, that she would
come to Moss Deep to watch the launch.
A little strange because as far as we understood that Artemis
and her mother were fully estranged and that her mother
had a complete breakdown when Cyrus disappeared, and that we
just aren't really sure of any of that activity.
Or that we would, you know. Anyways, she's not associated
with anything, just we heard that perhaps her mother would be
present. And did anyone happen to see
anyone who might have resembled Artemis?
Did we keep the photo of the red haired woman well?
Photo. We found a photo like on the
battlefield. Gimli.
Oh, I have that. We didn't put that in Group
inventory. I don't have it in my own
inventory. You were the only one.
Who? No, it's not there.
You picked it up. Oh, I picked that one OK.
Do you want to? Take a look.
I think that was the most recent episode that just went out
today. Yeah, I think so.
Do you want to take a look? It was torn.
Do you want to take a look at the photo?
Yeah, we can pull it out. Cool.
Oh. Oh oh.
You'll say, yeah, I mean, that looks like her.
Yeah. Did you see that woman?
No, I just have this photo. I want Schmitt is that.
Mars, bro. I want.
Schmitt. To roll a.
History check with advantage is. She also Calvin's mom.
No shot. Mom is Mars bro.
Damn, I was. About to be like, yo, Cyrus
slept with Mars, but they were pretty close in age because
Cyrus is 27, Yeah. He was to create the one true
perfect universe is a lot like it does a lot to you dude.
That's all. Yeah, it like Hobie looks 45.
Like I was just convinced he was 45.
I'm doing math, I'm sorry. I just need a 10.
March. I got a nine on the die.
I'm proficient and my intelligence is a + 2.
OK, Schmidt, you did. About that seventh thing.
Yes, that's plenty. You had a brief interaction with
this woman. She she looked a little bit
older, notably older, 15 years or so older.
You were. It was kind of in the midst of
all the hubbub and chaos. She was standing during the
fight outside of the gym, and she was like looking at the
shuttle and she was looking at, like, the blimps.
And she said, NRG, that's a fucking stupid name, don't you
think? And you responded like, yeah, or
something. What the dude?
Dude, that was Mars. That's sick.
Fuck so hard. That's so sick bro.
That's a stupid fucking name. You're so right, Mars.
It really like whizzed by NRP. It was like, not like anything
notable, but that did in. Fact.
So sick. And yeah, Yuri will say, yeah,
that looks like her. So she could still be here.
Yuri will say, I guess, yeah. I mean it was just rumors that
she even came in the 1st place, but you said you saw her maybe.
We're going on a manhunt. We.
Have to fuck Sam's mom. I'm just kidding.
I'm. Just oh God.
All of us. We all.
Have all of them. God, you guys.
Are insane. I I said nothing.
Yuri will say OK, OK, before the manhunt, let's just get to the
important key points in review. I'm helping you out because I
don't have vascular lesion. Vascular lesion was taken to me
per Artemis protocol. I was promised that wouldn't
happen. My fish is gone.
You're going to help me get my fish back.
NRG has identified a location in Hoenn with a strong connection
between worlds. Originally that was suspected to
only be Mount Coronet. It is too much shame that I will
say, Gimli, that your wife was instrumental in identifying this
new location, which happens to be Evergrand City.
There's a phenomenon called Alpha Resonance that allows
worlds to communicate between each other, and we believe that
the Alpha Resonance present in the mountain of Evergreen City
will connect us to Cyrus. That is the final ambition.
Their intention is to bring Cyrus back from this reverse
world and fulfill Team Galactic's original dream of
remaking the universe to make it perfect in Cyrus's eyes that was
without conflict or emotion. Ghost types were needed to
fabricate the Spooky Plate as it is called using the Artemis
Protocol, as well as call power from the reverse World itself to
create the connection using ambient alpha resonance that is
present in Evergrande City. The Archaeus plates are needed
to perform this ritual. The artifacts that you've been
collecting and that NRG has been trying to obtain.
NRG has been experimenting with Infinity Energy enough to
fabricate plates that they don't currently have, which is why
they are confident that they can launch this mission without all
of them. Here is the most critical
instruction. NRG is incredibly well fortified
as you know, and this will be their last stand.
They will have all of their resources at their disposal and
even in the brief time that I have been removed from NRG, I
fear that their numbers and power will increase even
further. It is your job, and I will
assist you in any way that I can to gather your allies from all
the people that you've saved in Hoen through all of your heroic
acts, to backtrack and ask for their help and then obtain any
boons that you can, any assistance.
Because God knows, Archaeus knows that we will need all the
help that we can get. So double edged sword of this
is, if you take too long, energy might have acquired enough
resources to be truly unstoppable.
Use your wisdom, use your abilities, make sure that you
have everything you need to challenge them, but don't dilly
dally. Don't take too much time.
I know that among your ranks here are Archie, Maxie and
Stephen Stone, let alone some gym leaders.
The powerful man, I don't know his name from the Sino Ironclan.
You have many powerful trainers in your social circle.
I would request, beg even, that you call upon them and gather
them to assist in this final struggle to prevent our
universes from colliding. With Yuri laying out the plans
to prepare for the final assault at Evergrand City, to stop NRG
from destroying maybe the universe.
That's where we will end the session.
Hello and thank you so much for listening to Dunsparce and
Grandpa. What you've just listened to is
the final regular episode of the campaign.
One O 8 will be a series of vignettes featuring the Paco
fast traveling around Hoen, trying to recruit as many allies
as they can for their final encounter with Neo Rocket
Galactic. You'll be recording the finale,
One O 9 live and in person together at a real table before
the end of this month, which we are all very excited about, and
we hope that you will enjoy the dynamic of a role play outside
of the Discord call. With only a couple of episodes
left in the campaign, I'd like to wholeheartedly thank everyone
for listening to our irreverent adventure, and we hope that
you'll join us for Ally recruitment vignettes on May
6th. Do ducks get drunk?
I'm trying to hang on. I got.
Something I got to add to my Google search history.
Duck drunk? Do ducks get drunk?
Monkeys. Do they get drunk off of a
fermented fruit? Yeah, monkeys are like.
They make wine for cats. But that's like catnip water,
right? I guess.
Google AI says no. What is a?
But Reddit says yes, wait, no, no, this is.
Crazy cuz I also looked it up. I also looked it up and Google
AI told me yes. So what does that say about?
Society. Fuck, it says exactly what we
already knew. When they're in writing, that's
what it's called, right? Emoticons.
Am I? Am I an old man?
Is that? I mean that was like the
original term, but like. Well, that was like doing colon
close parenthesis, right? That's an emoticon, right?
I don't know. Who knows?
I even have some I made made-up myself.
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, that's what we had when we
were young, when we would ride our dinosaurs to school.
Yeah, exactly. Oh God, could you imagine living
in a world that didn't have an emoji keyboard?
Couldn't have been me. Well, my favorite was doing this
little walrus guy anyway. Before you do, you have to tell
me what disco fries are. OK, disco fries are French fries
with gravy and mozzarella cheese.
It's like New Jersey. Poutine.
OK, yeah, that's definitely what that is, putting these nuts in
your mouth. Am I right?
I. Have a flashbacks there.
I had to. I had to run it back because of
when when squids did it to me. I don't honestly mean that.
I apologize. God I open voice text.
It was just a fucking toad. And I was like, I was like, huh,
that's Sam's mother. It's like, wow, that's crazy.
The whole touch is tired like that.
Racist. What is this?
Mom. That's funny.